VFF Tranquility Part 14 ( The Phoenix Complex )
POSTED BY: SHADOWcaptain
UPDATED: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:58
VIEWED: 72646
PAGE 5 of 16
Tranquility's on-board computer sensors pick up a new life form aboard:
SMALL FEMALE
HUMANOID
ACCELERATED HEART RATE
SCANNING...
Mid-bulk Transport Standard Radion Accelerator Core. 03-K64-FFF-00
Online - Tuesday, March 25, 2517 - 19:50
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
(Oreo awakens to the feeling of being watched. he sits up and see's storm and summer starring at him.)
Oreo- What do you to brats want?
Summer- Someone is aboard the ship.
(Oreo confused)
Oreo- Ah, yeah. The crew. get outta here fer i beat you two.
(Storm moves over to oreo cautiously)
Storm- No! someone new. someone not part of the crew. the ship feels her too.
Oreo- the...ship...feels her? So it's a her?
Summer and storm- yes.
Oreo- I'll tell you what, you go and play and i'll get up and go check it out. okay?
(senesing the sarcasim in oreo's voice the siblings do as they're told and disappear out of the infirmary. Oreo lies back down.)
Oreo- Ha! those kids are something else.
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
The Tavern ressembled a cave of wood and mist. Low ceilings were shrouded by plumes of cigarette and pipe smoked. The full depth of the place was also invisible in the gloom. The tables were lit by bowls of wax that had once been classified as candles but had been mutated through years of placing new candles into the remains of the last. The bar filled one wall about 10 feet into the mist and faired no better with illumination, A single bedraggled man tended the bar with very little visible enthusiasm. His hair was balding without restraint and what hair he had hadnt been washed in some time and mingled freely with his beard. Most of the patrons could be described by very similar means and none of them could be described as looking friendly. Some sat around small tables playing cards, other hung to the shadows talking in hushed tones.
The group entered and were un-noticed by most as they made their way to the bar.
"Morning" Wisp Called to the bartender "I was wondering if you remembered a gunfight in here about a month back"
The bartender looked distantly through Wisp. "lotta gunfights in here"
"Bystander got shot in this one. Walked away from a kill shot"
"hmm yea. I remember. Awful Queer"
"I was wondering If it was this guy?" Wisp slid across the glossy photo of Needy
The bartender didnt even look down at the picture but pushed it back towards Wisp "my memorys not that great im 'fraid"
"are ya sure?" Wisp slipped it back with a pile of notes underneath.
"oh well maybe I could remember" It was at that moment that the man who had been who had been follwing them walked into the bar.
Shadow tapped Wisp on the shoulder "our friends joined us"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Shadow gives Wash and Shinyfrye a 'look', then looks towards the 'follower' who is near the back of the room.
Wash and Shiny, who were trailing Shadow and Wisp (as to not look as if they were together)
move slowly towards the back of the room unnoticed.
Shadow turns back to Wisp at the bar:
"So who's this Needy?"
http://www.chatzy.com/421594713298 - TRANQUILITYS LEVEL 5 [SECURE CHANNEL]
Crew Ident Cards:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=21&t=36030
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
after sitting there a while she is sure the crew is not coming back soon and wants to take a look around her hopefully new home for awhile if she could find a way to get food with out the crew noticeing.
After serching thorugh most of the ship Cammy finds the med bay she looks inside and sees a man and woman sleeping stopping dead in her tracks she slowly walks backwords trying her best not to wake them she slowly heads back to her panel to hide.
Cammy sighs in relief she gotten away without wakeing them still she had to go back in the crampped hidding place but she was alive, no telling what people whould do to a stow away. she remembers the last time she was caught the scar across her left cheek was reminder enough.(Cammy settles in her panel and falls asleep)
-Cammy Was Here
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Shiny and wash try to blend with the locals,
keeping and eye on the capt and wisp at all times.
she and wash find a spot at the back of the room.
wash looking around nervous and Shiny glancing at the follower making sure she has a clear to the Capt and wisp if necessary. Shiny wraps her fingers around the butt of her gun that's tucked into the front of her pants. She whispers to herself. I'm ready and waiting.
without her noticing Wash hears her and whispers to himself, I'm gonna die.
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
(Oreo slowly wakes to soft sorta low buzzing sound. sound he'd never heard before.)
(yawning) Oreo- what is that?
(Oreo looks around. wondering. trying to figure out what was making the noise.)
Oreo- what is that? Lights? no. montiors? no.
(Oreo closes his eyes. and tries to concentrate)
Oreo- it...it sounds like...snoring?
(Oreo opens his eyes and looks over at his sister kat, who is fast asleep still)
Oreo- ain't you. Probably storm and summer, but it can't be. those two hardly ever sleep and when they do, i know they don't snore. they sure as hell talk in their sleep though. then who the hell is that and where is it coming from?
(Oreo sits himself up, kicks his feet over the sides and lowers himself down to the ground. he begins to walk out of the infirmary. he makes his way towards the bunks, while checking rooms, the brigde and the galley along the way. he reaches the captain's bunk. he hollers down.)
Oreo- hey cap, you down there?
(Oreo pauses for a minute to wait for an answer, but none is given. he continue to the other bunks only to wind up with the same conclusion.)
Oreo- this don't make no sense. ain't nobody even on board, even the twins are gone.
(suddenly, oreo realizes that the only place left to check, was the cargo hold.as quick as he can, he makes his way down to the belly of tranquility. after about an hour of searching, oreo, plops down onto an old crate.)
Oreo- i've searched everywhere. i know i ain't hearin things. there's someone on this gorram ship.
(Out of breathe, oreo lays back and stares into the distance.)
Oreo- gonna need to get in contact with drake here soon. worn out from walkin around, guess that means the o'body is startin to give. i gotta find a way to stop this or cure it. I need to vent off some of this frustration. damn, kids got me worked up over nothin. damn alliance. damn...THE VENTS!!! ITS GOTTA BE COMING FROM THE VENTS!
Oreo- jumps off and hurries back to the infirmary to wake Kat.
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
“Needy’s an ex-Companion, used to service some pretty high up ladies. Then he got caught up in the resistance passing across pillow talk and the like. Anyway a reporter got wind of what he was up to and exposed him so he went to ground as a more tooth and nail resistance fighter. In a fire fight he took a direct hit and from what I've been told...died. Here’s where the weird starts. Don't ask me how but he got revived. He tried to explain it once about some ethereal being who looked like an old friend of his but I never really understood. Anyway so after he came back he’s literally bullet proof. I've seen him get smacked around by 4 guys with crowbars and not get scratched. This is when I met him, first he was a little wacky but he soon turned into full blown mayor of crazy town, ranging from violent psychopath to catatonic coma patient. My theory is its some kind of parasite that’s doing this to him but I really can’t say. Anyway from what I heard about the bystander it sounds like him and if he’s here i might be able to help him and get in contact with the rest of my team. I'm pretty sure they're underground with the resistance but they won’t tell me jack.” It was at this point the bartender returned holding a printed glossy from a security camera. The image was grainy but It did resemble Needy.
“This is the guy. Was here about a week before he got shot then disappeared. I hear that he’s wanted for strangling some girl as well. Is that why you guys are here?”
“Something like that. Thanks for the help” Wisp turned away from the bar as the bartender wandered away to serve someone. “Well it’s not a lot to go on but at least he was here. I’ll try and contact the local resistance see if they know something. I wonder who the tail is working for? He’s a little obvious, makes me smell trouble”
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
(oreo enters the infirmary and makes his way over to kat who is still fast asleep. he grabs her and vigorously shakes her awake.)
Kat- what the hell is wrong with you? why'd you wake me?
(Oreo shush's her)
Oreo- someone's aboard the ship. searched this whole gorram ship from top ta bottom. think they're hiding in the ventalation shafts.
(Kat rolls her eyes)
Kat- you're crazy. ain't nobody aboard, cept you me and the twins.
(Oreo stops to think for a seconds.)
Oreo- come to think of it, i ain't seen those brats around at all.
(kat yawns)
Kat- maybe they're outside the ship playing.
Oreo- ain't no way. ships closed tighter then a crabs buttocks.
(Kat sits up, wide awake now)
Kat- im pretty sure there fine. just hidin. they are children you know. you remember being a kid dont you?
(Oreo flashes an "annoyed" looked towards kat)
Kat- alright. alright. lets go find them. i didn't know you cared about them so much.
(an embarresed look sweeps over oreos face)
Oreo-...i don't. but, they are kids you know. they might need protectin or somethin'.
Kat- the only thing that needs protectin around here is me from your wild ass imagination. not, everyone is out to kill us or abduct us.
(Kat stops, realizing what she just said)
Kat- I'm sorry...i didn't mean...
Oreo- it's fine. lets just go find them kids.
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Shadow looks at the photo and turns to Wisp:
"If that's all we have to go on, then that's all we have to go on."
The two get up from the bar.
The dark figure following them also rises from his seat - unnoticed by the 2.
Shiny and Wash do the same, quietly.
Shiny keeps one hand on her weapon.
Wash keeps praying quietly.
Back on Tranquility a strange game of 'Cat and Mouse' is underway.
http://www.chatzy.com/421594713298 - TRANQUILITYS LEVEL 5 [SECURE CHANNEL]
Crew Ident Cards:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=21&t=36030
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME