TRANQUILITY [ Part 10 ]
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(Even with the chaos unfolding around the crew, oreo manages to keep his glazed over eyes trained on shiny. Debris is flying everywhere. A faint ringing begins to sound in Oreo's ear. a death toll. The end was almost near. Oreo always knew he wasn't ever gonna be a happy ending. Just like on silas 5. Supposed to sacrifice himself to save the crew. Instead he was picked up by ruttin reavers. Beatin within inches of his life. and even still he had to be rescused. Now this. shoot, bleeding and bodyparts missing. The one person who captured his feelings is holding a gun towards him. No, no happy ending at all. It had to end sooner or later. Guess all the different ways to die had been explored. This way the last one. Simple. painful. Death. The nightmares comes real and you realized you ain't been much in the weak pathetic existance offered to you as a life. Robbin. Murderin. hidin. experiments. What kinda life is that. Ain't never done no good for anyone. A sudden realization came over oreo. this time, it was for real. The reaver syndrome, the half breed will finally be at rest and the verse will have one less alliance toy plaguing them. it over. the clock is winding down. Shadows close in and the lights fade to black. and the last image is of the girl who captured a heart of an alliance weapon, holding a gun towards it. i'm part of the verse now. forever.)
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
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Shiny's still in shock, but the faint sound of her name brings her out of it.
She looks around her and realizes all the chaos, her heart starts beating fast,
she wipes her eyes and looks for Oreo.
She see's him laying on the ground of the cage, She runs over to him calling his name. "Oreo....Oreo!"
Shiny runs inside the open cage and drops to the ground beside Oreo. "Oreo can you hear me! Oreo!"
Shiny starts wiping his face with her hands. Panic stricken she Tries to get Oreo up but He's too heavy for her small frame.
Shiny, "Oreo, I'm so sorry... I'm so sorry".
shiny Starts crying.
She leans in real close
but she cant tell if he's breathing.
Shiny repeats over and over...
"I'm sorry, Please don't leave me".
She sits there with Oreos head in her lap she leans over him and kisses him,
her tears fall onto his face.
In a whisper she keeps repeating,
"Please, Don't leave me." .
She doesn't care about whats happening around her.
Shiny hears someone calling her again,
She looks up and she see's Michael.
He's standing at the opening of the cage,
looking at her and Oreo.
Michael runs over and looks at Oreo,
He kneels on the ground next to shiny and lays his head on Oreo's chest.
Michael, "I think he's gone."
Michael looks at Shiny,
Then puts his hand on her shoulder.
Michael, "I'm sorry."
Shiny looks down at Oreo and starts sobbing.
Michael," We need to go."
Shiny shakes her head no.
Michael, "Shiny Your going to get yourself killed."
Shiny, "I don't care anymore."
Michael looks at Shiny Knowing full well she means it.
He Quickly Picks her up
and Throws her over his shoulder and starts running for cover.
Shiny, Sobbing and upset starts yelling at him.
Michael doesn't pay attention.
Shiny starts yelling Oreo's Name over and Over.
She watching him as they get further away,
Still calling him.
And for a split second,
Shiny thought she saw him move.
Shiny in a panic starts yelling at Michael,
"He moved, Oreo Moved!
Once Michael feels he's at a safe distance for the moment,
He puts shiny down onto the ground,
He looks her in the eyes
and in a serious tone says...
"Shiny, Oreo is gone you need to accept it.
It will do You and US no good if you carry on like this.
We are in a serious situation and You need to compose yourself.
I know you don't care what happens to you at the moment, but you need to think of the rest of the crew."
Shiny looks at Michael, she knows he's right.
Still sobbing Shiny nods her head
She starts wiping her eyes trying her best to compose herself, and in a low, defeated voice she says.
"were is the Captain and Do we have a plan?"
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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SHADOW sees a very bright flash of light through the jungle trees. then, a second later, the sound of a huge explosion throws him backwards.
shrapnel rains down all around him, sounding like bullets hitting all the trees around him from some giant machine gun.
SHADOW wakes up on his back.
he opens his eyes.
he tries to stand up but he is stopped by a sharp pain in his chest.
he sees a piece of debris lodged in his chest.
he begins to pass out from blood loss.
he wakes up moments later to the sensation of being carried by 2 people.
again, he passes out.
he wakes up once more.
he's on his back, in a small boat on the ocean.
the sea is unusually calm.
SHADOW can see the sun, but it looks red and distorted.
he hears the voices of the 2 people that carried him off - faintly... indistinguishable.
again, the words of the 'earth that was' poem echo in his head:
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O no
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.
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Shiny and Michael crouched down behind some bushes peer over the top trying to assess the situation.
Shiny whispers, "I don't see the captain, Do you?"
Michael looking around whispers back, "No, But I think the explosion might have been the electro-static incapacitates something must of short circuited them".
Shiny whispering, "You think?, If that's true then we should make our way back to the ship."
Shiny and michael hear a voice calling out for Shiny, out of instinct michael and shiny duck back behind the bushes then slowly peer back over.
Michael being sarcastic, "Seems that your friend Jaykins is looking for you."
Shiny,"so It seems."
Shiny stands up and walks towards jaykins.
Jaykins now has his back turned and is looking down at Oreo's body.
Shiny is about ten feet away from jaykins. He doesn't turn around.
Jaykins," So you decided to come to me after all."
Shiny stops walking and looks at Oreo then back at Jaykins.
Jaykins turns around and see's shiny pointing a gun at him.
Jaykins, "Shiny would you really shoot me? Isn't one loss enough.
Shiny,"it's your fault, you did this to Oreo and now your gonna pay."
Jaykins, "No. I think you have it backwards shiny, It's your fault. It's you I wanted Not that thing. Jaykins pointing to Oreo.
Shiny stands there with the gun pointed, Jaykins starts walking slowly towards Shiny.
Shiny yells, "stop Or i'm gonna shoot you!"
Jaykins getting closer to shiny, "It's not in you shiny, Your to proper for that."
Jaykins starts picking up his pace almost reaching shiny.
Shiny shouts, "stop"
all of a sudden Jaykins stops looks at his chest then at shiny and drops to the ground.
Shiny stands stunned and looks at her gun.
then back at Jaykins.
Michael is standing over him.
Michael, "Shiny my be to proper, But I'm not."
Michael reaches down and pulls his knife from jaykins chest.
Jaykins in pain, lets out a yell.
Michael, we should go before any of his friends show up.
Shiny and michael head back into the forest. just before they enter, they both turn around and take one last look at Oreo then jaykins (who is yelling in pain) then they both enter the forest.
Shiny, "michael do you know the way back to the ship? Or are we the blind leading the blind.
Shiny smiles then lets out a much need laugh.
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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SHADOW wakes up again, on the floor of the boat.
he hears the 2 men talking.
man #1:
"HUNTER, what do you propose that we do with him?"
man#2:
"he must have been on this island for a while, he'll have info on a way to get off this rock...
or at least know where we can get help."
HUNTER goes back to navigating the boat, then turns back to his mate:
"KEEPER, watch the horizon, the savages in black were learning how to build a boat last time we saw them."
SHADOW mumbles:
"not savages... reavers."
HUNTER:
"what?"
SHADOW tries to get up but drops back down on his back.
he reaches out, but his arm falls back to his chest in weakness.
he feels for the chain with the cross pendant around his neck.
all he feels is a rope.
he passes back out.
And some in dreams assuréd were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.
And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
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(Elbarto, Lao, and Claire walking through the forest)
Claire: According to the coordinates we got from the shuttle, there should be some survivors in a bunker after this next rise.
Lao: bout time.
El: Why are you in a hurry? those reavers stripped our ship. we need to find another ship to get off this rock.
Lao: All I meant was that we could have been here sooner if someone hadn't left the rock climbing gear on the shuttle.
Claire: Hey, it was a good workout.
El: yeah it --
(Suddenly the trio hears gun fire in the distance followed by an explosion.)
claire: What was that?!
Lao: Maybe the reavers found someone else.
El: Either way it's not our problem. We'll check out this bunker then we'll swing that way to see what happened. Ok, move out.
When you can't run you crawl. When you can't do that...well...you know the rest.
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Mikhail stood over one of his instructors, a makeshift blade of broken steel in his hand. The instructor attempted to cry for help, but a foul-smelling foam erupted from his mouth instead.
"That, sir, would be your lung tissue dissolving from the toxic hydraulic fluid I put on the blade. You have approximately 90 seconds of life left. I hope you manage to absolve yourself in that time, before the devil take you."
Two more instructors arrived just after Mikhail climbed up into a ventilation shaft. The turned to one another.
"He's coming along quite nicely. It will be time to put him in the blue suit soon."
"Agreed. He will make a fine addition to the Hands of Blue."
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Jaykins stopped screaming and started vomiting blood. It was a very short, very painful last 90 seconds of his life.
Michael turns to Shiny.
"Miss, you olroight? Larfing don' seem much loike yer usual response to two men you knew well springin' the mortal coil. But yes, Oi know the way back to the ship. An' then Oi think we..."
Michael fell like a stone, to the ground, laying flat on his back. For a few seconds he was still, but then he began flailing and crying out in pain. Before Shiny could kneel down next to him, he sat bolt upright and turned to Shiny with a greedy, leering expression.
"Well, hay thar sweeet thang. Ain't you just the picture of perfection. Mah name's Mikey, let me biy you a drank."
He extends a hand, Shiny (startled) attempts to take his hand and shake it, but he suddenly reaches past and pinches her on the butt. Reflexively, Shiny decks him with the butt of her pistol, and he sinks to the ground.
"Oh gods! What is going on?" Shiny is nearly in tears, realizing how vulnerable she is alone in the woods with a pschyco. "Where in fay-fay duh pee-yen is the Captain?"
Michael groans, and cracks one eye open and mutters:
"Shiny Lass, Oi 'ad the oddest dream whot you knocked me in moi 'eadbone with yur gun. An' now, moi 'ead really 'urts like it were true."
He struggles to his feet, with an arm out for support from Shiny, who quickly steps away from him.
"Mike...ael... Ah, you were being all weird and crazy again." she cocks her gun and points it at him. "Trust me, I'll only shoot you if you do something stupid or dangerous. Can you get us back to the ship or not?"
Michael stares, astonished at the gun and the hard look on Shiny's face. "Lass, you've 'ad a 'ard day, ain't ye? Aye, Oi trust you. Guess Oi'll lead an' you follow."
They slowly make it back to the airlock door of the ship.
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Back at TQ, Michael becomes a frenzy of effort. Within a few moments, he has the working shuttle humming and ready for takeoff. He sticks his head out into the cargo bay and yells:
"Hey, Shiny Lass! Let's get goin'! It be you an' Oi 'gainst the world fulla folk what hate us, it seems. Oi figger the best way what we can foind the Cap'n is from the air. An so long as Oi don't hafta kill no one, Oi ought to manage to stay not-crazy."
Shiny is immobilized by her anger, fear, and mourning. She's not sure she can trust Michael, but doesn't really know what else to do.
Then O2 walks back on board.
"You guys could have waited for me back there. What's that crazy Irishman doing in our shuttle?" He runs up the stairs to the shuttle. "Hey, why don't you let me fly."
Shiny wanders up slowly to the hatch. "Guys, I'm going to stay here. Someone needs to look after the twins, and try to get TQ flying again."
At this sudden change of plans, Michael blanches and looks uncertainly between 02 and Shiny. "Oi don' know. Oi'd feel better if Shiny an' Oi went lookin' for the Cap'n..."
Shiny's voice goes from distant to hard and cold. "No, Michael. You're in no shape for flying, and I'm not leaving you here alone with the twins either." She unholsters her gun and hands it to 02. "Be safe. Find our captain. Come back before sunset."
02, though taken aback by her sudden command authority, takes the pistol and holsters it, and gives her a squeeze on the shoulder. "Before sunset."
As Shiny turns and walks away, Michael sinks into the shuttle passenger seat, abashed. The shuttle rises up and 02 begins a spiral search flightpath.
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Shiny watches the shuttle lift off from the hatch that she just opened. She just needed a little fresh air. As she watches the shuttle disappear out of sight, She walks over to a crate and sits on it, lost in her thoughts.
Storm, "Shiny, I sense sadness."
Shiny startled looks next to her, "Storm I didn't know you were here?"
Storm, "I don't think you have noticed a lot lately."
Shiny not being in the mood snaps at him, "Storm I don't know what your talking about, And I don't think I want to."
Shiny jumps of the crate and pushes it hard against the wall. then turns and looks at storm and in an angry tone, " I just want to be left alone, Go find your sister.
Storm, "shiny don't let your hurt affect the ones around you, Things will turn around for you." You will be happy.
Shiny Yells, "HAPPY?!, What do you know about my happiness, Your just a child. PLEASE go find your sister!"
Storm looks at shiny, surprised at her anger turns and leaves.
Shiny stands on the ramp of the open hatch and looks up at the sky, She turns around walks up the ramp and hits the button and as hatch closes, Images of Oreo runs through her mind.
Shiny turn and walks to the galley grabs a drink from the fridge, she opens it and sits down. She stares long and hard wondering about Michael.
She takes sip thinking, "there more to him than meets the eye."
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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shadow wakes up with a terrible thirst.
he hears the sound of a shuttle fly overhead,
and sees a glint of metal in the sky.
[echoing]
There passed a weary time. Each throat
Was parched, and glazed each eye.
A weary time ! a weary time !
How glazed each weary eye,
When looking westward, I beheld
A something in the sky.
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