VFF Tranquility Part 14 ( The Phoenix Complex )
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Shadow walks back to the ship from his meeting with his old friend Sensei Ojin, when he hears crashing and screaming coming from inside the ship.
He 'coms the crew:
"What in the sphincter of hell is goin' on?"
He starts looking around as he waits for someone to report.
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Wisp awoke nearly twelve hours later with his face still pointing into the bed and his feet over the side. After a brief moment of disorientation he managed to pull himself into a sitting position. He began to survey the blank walls and mentally began placing his belongings. The shelving at the bottom of his bunk would make an excellent gun cabinet with a few minor alterations. He already had the portable welding gear and he had parts of his old gun cabinet to convert. The desk would make a good workstation for his inventions. He had to get his computer set up and then arrange his micro fine gear into one of the desks. There was space in the corner for his bioreactor, there was no way he was gonna risk his sensitive equipment on a firefly’s internal power server. The Energy spikes literally made him shudder in a wave of geekdom. He’d have to route down a cortex feed from the bridge but that was second nature to him. He’d practically rewired the whole of the Epsilon twice a year to adapt in new pieces of equipment he incorporated and invented.
After his room was done he could start working on the ships sensors and counter-surveillance package. By the time he’d finished with this bird Alliance cruisers would have to be within spitting distance to see it on scans.
“Right then, Time to unpack”
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Shadow heads to the new guys room to see what he's up to.
"Hey wisp, we should be taking off soon. Ojin has replaced the Alliance shuttle that Elbarto came in on
with another shuttle from a firefly in his collection so we'll have the full compliment.
His workers have just finished the repairs and are about to refuel us.
Help me round up the others when you get a chance."
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As Wisp surveyed his new room he felt much more at home than he had done for a while. The Epsilon hadn’t really been built for the applying of home comforts and such. It was strange how this room on a ship of other people seemed to be more private that living half heartedly through your own ship. Although the downside is he couldn’t pilot in his underwear anymore, unless...
It was at this junction that the Captain called Wisp and asked him to track down the crew on the planet. Wisp grabbed a 12mm and holster from his newly constructed weapons cabinet and fitted them to his belt as he made his way out of the ship. As soon as he got outside a wave of humidity hit him causing him to rethink his jacket option and head round town in just his t-shirt. Aquila (from the Latin Eagle) had been terra-formed much more than most moons its size due to the soil quality it already possessed. A lot of core moons had been turned into huge farmlands but this far out it wouldn’t have paid off to have a food planet. So it was decided it would become a great forest world, providing high quality lumber for the core and also serving as an oxygen refinery. The planet was divided into the poor who worked on the wood and the rich towns that sold fresh oxygen. The town they had landed in was on the poor side of the world.
“Now where will everybody be?” As Wisp spoke to himself he saw Kat running out of a bar as the sounds of crashing tables and broken glass erupted from behind her. Wisp drew his weapon and headed towards the ruckus. “That’s here they’ll be”
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(Kat passes Wisp, not realizing he was part of the crew.)
Kat- I gotta find the captain. Oreo is going to tear the whole place down. and the people...
(inside the bar, oreo rages on. people scatter and cower beneath tables and in corners. Oreo, jumps up onto the bar beathing heavily, when he notices a local standing in the middle of the room starring at him)
Local- HEY! YOU! WHY DONT YOU TRY ME OUT! THINK YOU CAN COME IN HERE AND CAUSE TROUBLE!
(the local pulls a pistol from his waist holster and before he can aim it, oreo, is nose to nose with him)
Local- what the hell...
(Oreo grabs him by the throat and lifts him off his feet. Slowly he begins to tight his grip around the locals throat. the local instantly drops his gun and begins trying to pry himself from Oreo grip.)
Local- let...go...you...son...of...
(Oreo tights his grip again and the locals words turn to desperate gasps for air.)
Oreo- diiiiiiiie...
(Suddenly a gunshots wrings out. Oreo slightly tilts his head in the direction of the shoot and locks eyes with wisp)
Wisp- Put...Him...Down!
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
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Shadow walks in behind Wisp and sees all the action.
"Ahhh, just like old times. Happy birthday to us."
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Oreo complies with Wisp request that he put the man down by throwing him lengthways at him and the Captain causing them both to dive in opposite directions as the mans body careers into the air where they once stood.
“That whatever the maker you turned up Captain I was just about to comm for you” Wisp had taken cover behind an over turned table whilst the captain was crouched behind a group of chairs.
“Does he do this often? What are we supposed to do? Theres no way we can take him on in melee and I don’t really wanna kill the psychotic bastard” Wisp shouted across the defenceless void to the Captain.
Wisp peaked over his defence just as a chair soared above his head. If he could get someone on the ship to grab his stun rifle this could be over quickly but there was no way he and the Captain could get out without being crushed by flying furniture/ patrons. They had to do something quick as Wisp was sure as soon as Oreo ran out of makeshift missile’s he was gonna get much more up close and personal than he cared for.
“Whats the plan?
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Just then Kat, Oreo's sister, and one time 1st Mate of Tranquility, steps into the room and speaks a trigger phrase that only she and Oreo know:
"Go n-eírí an bóthar leat."
At once Oreo stops and looks around.
His eyes still seemingly glowing, stands down.
Kat speaks again.
"We need to get back to Tranquility."
Wisp and Shadow speak in unison:
"Great idea!"
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“We better get out of here sharpish” Said Wisp taking one arm of the unconscious Oreo as the Captain took the other side. With Kat in front trying to shield the slumped body from view the group took a casual but swift trot through town to the cargo doors. As soon as they were in the captain began closing the doors and called PilotWash on the bridge.
“Wash I want this bird in the air before I get up there” He didn’t pause for a reply instead finished carrying the lifeless man into the medical bay.
“What the hell happened back there?” asked Wisp as he began to attach a monitor to Oreo “Does this happen often? Should I sedate him or something?”
Before the Captain could answer a rumble from outside the hull indicated the ship was beginning to leave orbit. “Ill Answer your questions in a bit first I gotta make sure the feds aren’t following us.” He shot a glare to Kat who stood quietly in the corner as he left.
“Im gonna get to the engine room and see if Shiny needs help. If you need a hand with him gimme a shout. Oh Im Wisp by the way”
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"Kat knows how to sedate him and how to handle him when he wakes up. Kat, stay here. I'll be on the bridge."
Shadow tells Wash to set a course for Silver Hold.
The repaired and refueled Tranquility leaves orbit with her new shuttle attached in place of the stolen Alliance one.
Wash:
"Hang on travelers."
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