TRANQUILITY [ Part 10 ]
POSTED BY: SHADOWcaptain
UPDATED: Friday, June 19, 2009 23:11
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(Oreo follows Shiny to the engine rooms)
Oreo- What is going on? Whats wrong with the ruttin ship?!
shiny- We've been knocked off course by a solar flare, engine's are on the fritz.
Oreo- So we might die?
Shiny- Well, it's always a possiblity. Long as we don't get jit by another flare, i should be able to stablize tranquility, gettin us back on course is between o2 and the ship.
(Confused, Oreo just nobs. Shiny, notices that everything she said has gone over his head)
Shiny- we'll be fine, i promise.
(A look of satifaction slates over Oreo's face)
Shiny- can you go find Michael and tell him to come down here.
Oreo- Who?
Shiny- Michael? The New Guy?
Oreo(A hint of jealously)- Oh, alright.
(Oreo turns and walks out. Shiny whispers to herself)
Shiny(Chuckles)- He's jealous, maybe he's somewhat human after all.
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
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"Ai Ya! Hwai Leh! Thot felt loik we'ze been hit with daxiang baozhashi de laduzi!"
Michael is still yelling at the top of his lungs up the stairs when Oreo appears suddenly, right in his face. Oreo glares menacingly. His baritone voice makes Michael startle:
"Well? Git up there and do sommat about it. Can't you here Shiny calling for you?"
"Oi, ye skeered the bleedin' piss outta me. Enjoy bein' the big, frightnin beasty, don' ya?" he squeezes carefully past, trying not to bump into Oreo, and returns to tapping away at his Cortex reader on the way up the stairs.
Shiny is back in the engine room checking levels and fine-tuning Tranquility into more thrust. Michael's too busy staring at his screen to notice Shiny's feminine form covered in engine grime. Oreo, staring over Michael's shoulder certainly doesn't.
"Shiny lass, ye called me? Mah reader lost connection, last Stellar Positioning System update had us enroute to Mir'anda, passing 'er star. We lost?"
Oreo huffs sarcastically, and drops into the jumpseat next to the door of the engine room.
"All your fancy technology and all you've come up with is the same gorram thing everyone else knew since the thump on the hull."
He kicks his booted feet up into a relaxed position and looks over at Shiny.
"Don't fret Shiny, you'll fix her up"
Suddenly, too late really, Michael realizes the situation happening around him between Oreo and Shiny. He's embarrassed by his oblivion and doesn't know where to go from here. He turns to leave, thinks better of it, turns back to Shiny and Oreo, then hiccups nervously.
(fellow VFF'ers, my apologies for my absence. I was away on a work trip with little time or network access. If it occurs in the future, which it might, please continue without me. Sorry!)
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Shiny's startled by Michaels hiccup she spins around fast and faces him. Seeing he's embarrassed Shiny smiles....
"hey Michael, would you mind handing me that wrench."
Michael looks in the direction shiny is pointing
he grabs the wrench and hands it her.
Shiny looks at the wrench then puts it in her pocket.
Oreo watching shiny has a funny look on his face.
Shiny, "in case I need it later."
Shiny leans over engine frustrated that she can't get the thrusters to kick in full force,
Shiny,"Ta ma de, TA MA DA"!
Shiny starts muttering to herself, forgetting Michael and Oreo can hear her.
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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When words fail Michael, he turns to technology. This situation seemed to call for it. Seeing a Universal Data Connection port on the engine diagnostic panel, Michael fishes out a cable and plugs in his Cortex Reader. It takes a while for the information to transfer, and once its up on the screen, Michael realizes he did not pay enough attention in basic engine maintenance in school.
"Uh, lassie, yer engine's talkin' to meh, boit Oi'm afriad Oi don't speak 'is langwich. Mighten ye shoild take a loik?"
Then it strikes Michael. Didn't Shiny call him up here? Why, just to hand her a wrench? No...
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Shiny straitens up and stands next to Michael
their staring at the screen. After a moment shiny looks at Michael....
"huh" she says then walks
back over to the engine she starts inspecting the wires.
Shiny whispers to herself,"unbelievable."
She then disconnects two wires and reconnects them in the reverse order.
As soon as she does the engine kicks in full force.
Shiny so Happy closes the engines hood and walks over to Michael and gives him a hug.
Shiny," Tranquility is back in action."
Smiling a big smile Shiny looks at Oreo.
Oreo not looking as happy as shiny thought he would. "Yeah, Well I knew you would fix it all along."
the captain coms the engine room,
"Shiny, good job,but our communications are still down. 02's still working on it.
ends com.
Shiny looks at both Oreo and Michael.
"well I suppose I'm off to the Bridge to help 02."
shiny looks at Michael, If you think that thing can help us then come to the bridge with me."
Then Shiny looks at Oreo who's still sitting in the jump seat." You just gonna sit there all day?"
Oreo annoyed with Shiny,"whats its to you if I do?"
Shiny laughs, "Oreo I'm only joking."
Shiny heads for the Bridge.
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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Ojin monitors the screens in the main control room back on the Aquila Capital, Tengoku.
Suddenly an alert flashes on one of the screens.
Operator:
"Tranquility has just gone off the grid sir."
Ojin:
"Try to get a fix on her."
Operator:
"Yes sir."
Ojin heads back to his office and sends a message to his old student Elbarto.
Encrypted packet to 'Reflector':
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000ELBARTO:11SMALL11ALLIANCE11SHUTTLE1100000000000
000LANDING11NEAR11'THE11WORM'1100000000000000000000
000COMMANDEER11SHUTTLE11AND11FLY11TO11MIRANDA000
00011COORDINATES11WILL11FOLLOW11WHEN1111YOU11000
0CONFIRM11SHUTTLE11ACQUISITION11TO1111SMALL1100000
000MONITORING11STATION11NEAR11THE11G-23PAXNODE000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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in the engine room, SHINYFRYE gets TRANQUILITY back on her feet.
on the bridge, O2 and the captain talk.
O2:
"i can probably land her cap.,
but the ships communications are fried.
we're also probably 'dark' to anyone that's lookin'
for us."
SHADOW:
"that can be a good thing too. we're close to reaver space now. reavers could be hungry...or worse.
maybe that solar flare was a blessing in disguise."
TRANQUILITY continues to limp towards MIRANDA, and alongside a large floating belt of scrap.
O2:
"'kay cap, MIRANDA'S coming up."
SHADOW:
We still 'dark'?"
O2:
"should be."
SHADOW:
"don't like the sound of that 1st word.
alright, land us just ouside the city where the
SERENITY crew landed."
O2:
"do my best."
suddenly a reaver ship, hidden in the scrapbelt,
launches a harpoon at TRANQUILITY.
it finds its mark with a loud ***BANG*** on TRANQUILITYS port side engine,
causing her to spin out of control. as the ship spins toward MIRANDAS atmo',
it begins to shake heavily.
SHADOW 'coms the crew:
"everyone strap in, it's gonna get bumpy."
O2 regains partial control.
O2:
"won't be comin' down anywhere near where you wanted cap. looks like it's gonna be on the other side of the planet."
O2 continues to struggle with navigating the ship to a safe landing area, away from the oceans.
O2:
"maybe... that green continent. there.
i think we're landin' in that green, jungley,
tree covered, non-flat, jaggedy, area that doesn't have anything close to a flat landing pad."
just then, O2 sees a light on the ground, flash slowly, like a beacon, off to his left.
*he thinks*
maybe there's a reason for that light to be there.
lets hope its flat.
O2 does his best to get the ship near the beacon.
"hang on travelers!"
TRANQUILITY hits the treeline hard, causing her to spin sideways.
the starboard engine tears off as the ship spins into a large tree.
TRANQUILITY comes down hard in the middle of a jungle with a broken wing, and a large reaver spear in the other.
the crew are all momentarily knocked out from the impact.
SHADOW, on the edge of consciousness, hears that voice in his head again.
* At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God's name.
It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us through! *
SHADOW wakes up and 'coms the crew:
"report..."
as the captain waits for the crew to check in, O2 checks the controls.
O2:
"cap', i'm gettin' some strange readings from this place. coms still down but i'm gettin' what looks like weak transponder codes from at least one other ship... or maybe it's something else.
'hard to tell, system took a lot of damage. it'll take a while to suss it all out."
SHADOW:
"you get to work on that, i'll check on the crew, maybe have a look outside-see what the damage is."
the captain heads to see how the crew is.
a loud creaking sound comes from outside the ship.
then a loud howl in the distance, making SHADOW remember a few more lines from the poem that keeps haunting him, like a voice in his head:
`The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.'
then more...
'And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen :
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken--
The ice was all between.
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around :
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound !'
*thinks*
'yup... this is gonna go just great...
and what the heck is a swound?'
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SHADOW meets SHINY on her way to the bridge.
SHADOW:
"nice work on the engine by the way. you ok?"
SHINY:
"yup, i strapped in when you said to but i had to get up to see how bad she is. so... how bad off is she?"
SHADOW:
"don't know yet, but..."
SHINY:
"i know, we landed real hard."
SHADOW:
"how's the others?"
SHINY:
"i was just gonna go check."
SHADOW:
"you go do that, i'll check outside."
SHADOW leaves the ship to assess the damage, gun drawn.
it's major.
a bright light slowly washes over him and fades off
into the distance.
*thinks*
landed hard? THATS a fact.
he comes back inside to address the crew.
he sees OREO as his enters the ship.
OREO:
"what's the situation cap?"
SHADOW:
"she's real bad. we won't be goin' anywhere soon.
it's getting dark. i think you and i should go out at first light and scout the area. but first,
let's check on the others."
OREO nods.
a bright light illuminates the windows of the ship, then fades into the distance.
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Michael was heading down the stairs in the cargo bay when the ship is hit. As usual, he's not looking where he's going, he's reading his PCR. The physical jolt slams him into the handrail, and he reels.
Just as he's certain he's going to fall, his foot catches on some old dangling cables, and with a lurch he's swung out over the cargo bay area, 12 feet above the deck.
"Well, then. How W'rin Bu Lai, Whai W'rin Bu Jwo.!"
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shiny in search of the rest of the crew walks into the cargo bay. She hears Michaels voice. she's looking all around then she looks up.
"Michael! You Ok?! Shiny trying not to chuckle at
the situation, comments.
"Your right, Things never seem to go smooth. Not on this ship anyways."
Shiny is following the wires with her eyes.
She trying to figure how to get him down safely.
"Michael. Hang tight, (shiny chuckles) Where gonna need Oreo. He's the only one strong enough to help get you down."
Shiny walks away and coms Oreo, To come and help.
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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