From TRANQUILITY To SERENITY [ Part 9 ]
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As Shinys walking towards to med Facility
she passes the Capt on his way to meet with Michael.
Capt, "Shiny what are you doing out of your room?"
Shiny, "I...um...."
Shiny shrugs her shoulders
Capt looks at shiny and shakes his head,
"Shiny you need to be careful and do what the doctors say."
Shiny, "yeah I know, I just git tired of staying
in the bed. "I feel fine Capt Really."
Shiny looks at the ground, "Hows Oreo?
He had everyone freaking out, Is he OK?
Capt, "yup he's fine, shot him up with some morphine. The Doctors are treating him well.
Shiny, Smiles in relief, "good."
Capt starts walking towards Serenity
Capt, "I'm gonna chat with our new passenger
Shiny?
Shiny stops and turns around. "Yeah?"
Captain. "If you don't wanna be confined to a bed
I suggest you stay away from the med facility. Besides You don't need to worry about Oreo. Once he's fine He'll be back with us. I think having some time away from him will help clear your head a little.
Shiny, I'm fine capt, Don't worry about me."
Captain, "Shiny you keep telling me that, but
I think you need some worrying." I need you to attend to serenity's engine.
Shiny with a irritated look, "fine."
Shiny walks past the captain obviously upset.
Capt, "Shiny,I have your best interest."
Shiny inside the cargo bay turns around and looks at the Captain. "know one knows whats my best interest but me. shiny walks away mad.
Shiny walks to her bunk and shuts her door.
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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Once the door is shut shiny grabs the folder she
took from the Doctors sits on her bed opens it
and starts reading the medical terms frustrated
that she doesn't understand medical jive. she flips through the papers looking for something that makes sense to her she gets to the last page
and its the Doctors note.
Shiny starts reading it quietly out loud....
Her tests doesn't seem to make sense.
When we ran the routine CBC test all tests came back fine Except her white blood cell count was high so we ran more tests. We found nothing. She appears to be in over all very good health.
We are puzzled since we've never seen this before. I want to keep her for more observation.
Shiny close's the folder.
She stares at the wall in shock, fear runs through her body She shivers.
Shiny thinking, (whats wrong with me? how is this possible it doesn't make since.
Shiny thinks back to her and Oreo.
she starts wondering if it has something to do
with it.
Shiny thinking,(did Oreo do this to me? would he do something like that on purpose? But I'm not sick it says in in good health.)
Shiny gets up and puts the folder under her bed.
Shiny thinking,( If Pathfinder was only here he would know what to do.)
Shiny leaves the room and and walks to the galley in search of a drink. She see's Micheal sitting at the table with one already in hand.
Shiny opens the fridge grabs a cold one and sits at the table, she opens the beer and takes a swig.
She puts it down and looks at Micheal and asks.
Shiny, "you wouldn't know how to read a medical chart and blood test's, would ya?"
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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Captain shoves the bottle over to Michael. Out of courtesy, and habit, Michael grabbed the bottle and poured a glass, eyes never leaving the captain until he walks out. Michael's thoughts drift out through the black and back several years.
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Michael had just gotten off a transport from Ariel, back home after two very long years. He didn't know how to face his family, his townsfolk that had all put so much hope in him. So instead, he walked into the nearest saloon he could find, docked himself at the bar and ordered the cheapest intoxicant the establishment offered.
His trip to Ariel hadn't been that different than life here on Persephone- work, dirt in your food, and crass talk over a few drinks. But once planetside on Ariel, Michael's eyes had been opened up to the wide possibilities open to him on a core world. Thoughts of attending school evaporated from his mind.
There, everything was clean, beautiful, and rich. He instantly fell in with a few other off-planet kids. They went to fancy restaurants, visited the finest Companions they could afford, and in a week and a half, Michael had burned through two years worth of tutition money.
It didn't even occur to him how much he'd spent until he couldn't pay for a meal, and the manager had called security and thrown him in debtor's prison for a few days of hard work to repay the cost of the meal. When they found out he didn't even have money for a ticket offplanet, they left him in debtor's prison until he'd earned enough for transit. Two years later, security marched him to a transport, and stayed until they were sure he going anywhere but staying on Ariel.
Here he sat, spending his last coin on some cheap whiskey and hating himself. He was considering where he might find a gun, a cliff or a speeding train that might do him a favor one last time. So he didn't hear the first time someone called his name.
"Michael!"
He blinked away the whiskey fog.
"Michael, you're back!"
"Moi name's not Michael, you're mistaken sir."
"No, I'm not, you're Michael ah... O'Shea right? Sent off for schoolin' to Ariel."
Michael rose unsteadily to his feet. "No sir, you're roight mistaken. Oi'm not 'oo you say. Piss off."
The old man was not discouraged, he started waving over his buddies, pointing Michael out and ordering drinks. He wrapped his arm around Michael and explained to the growing crowd how this young man had braved the core planets to go to school and become a real doctor. How this here young gentleman was going to care for all our sick and raise up the whole town. Michael could hear no more:
"Gorram it! Git off'en moi shoulder! Yer an old dotterin fool an' have mistaken me for someone 'oo gives a rats arse aboot this mudhole town!"
At this, he shoved the man off of him, and made an attempt to lurch out of the saloon. But the crowd kept him in place, obliviously cheering his expected return. His hand brushed a handle at the old man's belt, a knife. He pulled it out, and screamed at the crowd, swinging the knife about.
"It's not me! Oi'm no doctor! I'm no one at all. Juss leave me be!"
But the crowd was too uproarious and drunk now to notice the knife. And the old man stumbled forward, right into the point of the knife. His yell of pain, and gurgled death as he slid to the floor sobered up Michael and the crowd. Cries of murder went up, and someone called for the sheriff. Michael vaulted the bar, dashed up the stairs and out the back entrance of the saloon. He was on the run for 3 months, until he managed to steal enough for a fake ident card, and start doing odd jobs for a crew in Eavesdown Docks.
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On the Serenity, Michael sat for several minutes with the glass in hand, unmoving as the memory thundered through his head again. He didn't notice Shiny entering until she spoke:
Shiny, "you wouldn't know how to read a medical chart and blood test's, would ya?"
Michael blinked, looked at the glass with disgust and pushed it away. He looked up at Shiny, her eyes searching and desperate for help. Help he couldn't provide.
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Shiny smiles at Michael,
"I didn't expect ya to, just thought I'd ask."
Shiny takes another sip from the bottle then slides it next to Michael's.
"not much of a drinker are ya? Me neither last time
I had a drink was... never mind, it's been a long time."
Shiny feeling uncomfortable with the silence keeps rambling.
Shiny,"I'm the ships mechanic."
Michael looks at shiny.
Shiny, "that's right, I fix the engine, real good to. But the problem is I think I can fix People.
and well, I don't get fixed And now, I guess I'm broken."
Shiny laughs an uncomfortable laugh.
Shiny thinking, (why do I keep Talking).
Shiny picks up the bottles and Michaels glass
and put them in the sink.
Shiny, "so how long you gonna stay with us?
Not that you can't stay as long as you like
Us crew, were like family and well, we always have room for more."
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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(Doctor continue talking, Oreo quietly lays on the operating table still asleep. Two of the doctors have separated themselves from the others and are arguing, while waiting for Dr.Hokowa)
Dr.1(whispering to other Dr): This is madness.If Hokowa thinks he can reverse this schmucks condition, he's insane. He's to far along and has put this entire facility in danger by keeping him here.
Dr.2: The patient is sedated. He's not going anywhere. Besides, Hokowa has receieved the data on Oreo.
Dr.1: So what! we cut him up and find out there's nothing we can do! we stitch him back up, send him on his way. That makes us no better then the Gorramn Alliance!
(Dr.2 grabs Dr.1 by the arm and moves him into a other room)
Dr.2: Keep your voice down Dr. Get a hold of yourself. Who cares if we can't help him, our job is to move forward with progress and find a way to stop this. But along the way towards any great discovery, there will always be...sacrifices.
Dr.1: His crew will not be happy if his dies.
(Dr.2 begins exiting backing into the operating room)
Dr.2(chuckling: That's the business were in.
(Dr.1 watches as the Dr.2 re-enters and joins the rest of the medical staff. He can't help but think everything about this situation is...wrong. He sides his white surgical coat off and lies it on the back of a chair. He places both his hands and his head. Thinking. Think. Thinking. Think. Finally, the Dr. reaches a decision.)
Dr.1: This is going to happen. I can't Let this happen.
(A decision has been made within the Doctors mind. The decision to not become a monster, just so medical science can move on. The Doctor reaches for a com. Taking deep breathes, he begins)
Dr.1: Attention all staff! This Dr... Mitsui, we have a medical emergency in B Level! I Repeat! Medical Emergency in B Level! All Personal report to B Level.
(Instantly the staff occupying the operating clear out and begin heading towards the false emergency. Once the last staff member had exited and the door shuts behind her. Dr.1 quickly re-enters the room. He opens a drawer and pulls out a syringe. Taking pointer finger, he taps the syringe and injects it into Oreo arm. a sudden reaction of convulsions sweeps over Oreo body. It's not long before the convulsions subside and Oreo slowly sits up.)
Oreo(Groggy): Who the hell are you?
Dr.1: I'm Dr. Vidal and I'll be saving your life today. Come We must Hurry, before everyone comes back.
Oreo(Groggy): Come Back? From Where?
Doctor Vidal: No time to explain! We must go now and find your friends!
(Doctor Vidal helps Oreo Off of the Operating table, placing arm around another they make their way out into the hall and quickly make their way out of the operating ward)
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
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SHADOW leaves SHINY and MICHAEL O'SNEARY [M.O.] in the galley on SERENITY and, again, checks on TRANQUILITY.
he makes sure that all data from SERENITY is 'cloned' onto TRANQUILITYS computer. he then checks the backup disk
he made of the medical data that PATHFINDER rescued from ARIEL and recently sent to AQUILA for OREO.
SHADOW: * THINKING *
these files are not all medical data!
some of these are sound files. i've heard rumors of neuro-sonic treatments for similar cases but those were highly experimental.
i hope this type of treatment will help OREO, even if just a little... that coyote has been poked with enough needles to make his own haystack.
SHADOW turns to look for his old friend, and leader of AQUILA, SENSEI OJIN, to ask if he was informed about the neuro-sonic treatment.
as SHADOW exits TRANQUILITY, a warrant comes across the cortex...
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Someone tries to kill you... you try to kill'em right back.
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(Out in the desert)
(El is standing next to his broken down dune buggy, waiting for the Alliance transport to come by. His brother Lao is standing next to him. They are both sporting long tan trenchcoats)
El: Here they come bro.
Lao: The team is in place were good to go.
( A couple of minutes later the convoy stops in front of the damaged buggy)
Driver: Get off the road.
El: I'm sorry my friend it broke down right here.
Driver: Not your day huh?
El: Nope, and not yours either.
(El and Lao pull out two pistols each as twenty other men who were hidden in the sand pop up and take aim and the Alliance people.)
(Four minutes later the convoy heads for the REFLECTOR base. The drivers and crew tied up in the desert.)
El: Bro, do you know whats in these containers?
Lao: No clue.
When you can't run you crawl. When you can't do that...well...you know the rest.
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Sensei Daisuke Ojin sits at his desk with ShadowCaptain talking about the treatment for Oreo.
A signal comes in from Dust Planet, it's Elbarto, Ojins old student.
Elbarto:
"Phase 1 complete."
Ojin smiles.
"They'll never know what hit them."
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(The captains voice chimes in over the com on the ship)
Alright crew, Listen up. Theres activity going on in the med facility.
(Shiny rushes over to her com)
Is it Oreo?
(Captain coms back)
Could be Oreo, could be something else, could be nothing. Just meet me in the cargo bay.
(Shiny coms Back)
Xie-Xie captian.
(Shiny grabs a bag and heads to the cargo bay. There she finds The Captain, Michael, o2 and Kat waiting.)
Shiny- Do we know whats going on?
Kat- Captain just recieved a private wave from one of the doctors in there. He's holed up with Oreo.
Shiny- He didn't? Not Again!
Captain- Now before you go jumpin off the end there shiny, it's not Oreo this time. Seems a few of the doctors wanted to do more then cure our coyote.
Shiny- Coyote?
Captain- ah, nothing. Nevermind. the landscape of things are as followed. we get in. find Oreo and get back here without running in trouble.
o2- thats the landscape of things?
(Captain looks at o2 with a smile on his face)
Captain- thats the beauty of landscapes. They constantly change.
(the crew makes there way into the med facility. not a far venture from the hangar. a short walk through a couple of corridors, an elevator ride up three levels and four flights of stairs. the crew step onto the facilities white tiled floors. only a nurse sitting behind her desk shuffling through papers, three doctors and a guard remained.)
Shiny- wheres everybody at? its almost like a ghost town in here.
o2- yeah. you know know i didnt think a hospital could get any creeper, what with the sick...dying people and all.now nobody? oh god, maybe its an airbourne virus. look at me, do i look sick or dying to you?
(captain snickers)
captain- the only thats "sick" is your brain and i'm "dying" to know where you get some of your notions from.
(o2 looks down at the floor thinking and return his gaze back towards the captain)
o2- i read alot. sci-fi and books on animals.
(the captain leans towards kats)
captain- sorry i asked...
kat- and hes the pilot.
(An aggitated doctor carrying a clipboard breaks up the conversation)
Doctor- Can i help you with something?
captain- ah, no, just came to check up on a crew member.
doctor- and who is this crew member?
captain- names...
Shiny- oreo or skye
(the doctors looks at his clip board)
doctor- oh, him, the half reaver, half human...thing. room 666. he's disappeared.
captain- i'm sorry what?
doctor- disappeared. vanished. poof! gone. is there anything else i can help you with?
captain- no, you've been more then...no, thanks.
(the doctors turns around and leaves)
captain- okay, this can't be good. alright, we split, find oreo and that doctor hes with, meet back in the hangar in an hour. no complications! shiny you're with me. kat take o2.
michael- and what of me?
captain- oh, you're with me i guess. keep up.
michael- i'll try me best.
(the two parties split up and begin there search)
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
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Michael tails the captain down a hallway. Along one wall, he spots a localnet screen. He pulls out a handheld Cortex-reader, detaches a small piggyback sensor, and sticks it inconspiciously to the bottom of the screen. He never hesitates a single step, following the captain with his eyes on the reader.
"Cap'n, Oi got basic access on the facilities localnet. Voice-comm, unclass data, and emergency wave frequencies. Noit through da encryption on their security net. But Oi will in a moment."
"Loits of random chatter on the voice-comm. Oreo's goit they attention, to be shore."
"Satan's dirty knickers! Eight gigabit encryption's a bit moich for a gorram hospital."
Michael taps furiously at his reader as he, Shiny, and the Captain barrel around a corner and into the diagnostics center.
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