The Sereni-Tree, the Ocean Cloud, and Escape From Boros
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Friday, February 24, 2006 17:35
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Boros:
Safe crawls over to the bin and puts his back against it, pushing with his legs, to stop it from moving any further. He draws his gun, puts it under the bin and starts firing blindly.
Safe allows himself a small grin when screams of surprise and pain echo from the other side. The grin is quickly replaced by a grimace of pain as he draws his other gun with his left arm.
Not being able to hold the gun higher that his hip, Safe fires at the guards at the other end of the alley, trying to take some of the heat off Bride6. Each recoil causes another grimace as he struggles to hold the gun steady.
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Bride7:
"Say, do you he-men think you could be troubled to help? Or do you like to think of yourself as spectators?"
Jack sneers and stands, seemingly oblivious to the flying bullets, draws his machine gun pistols and unleashes a hail of bullets, pinning down the guards at the gate. This gives Bride7 the opportunity she was looking for. Running in a crouch, she slides in beside Bride6 popping off a few shots at the guards at the end of the alley brave enough to try to show their heads. Grabbing Bride6 by the back of the shirt, Bride7 drags her back to the alcove near the tunnels hatch.
“There, I saved your sorry butt again.”
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Bride7 gets to her feet, tosses a smoke grenade ahead of her, and charges the open end of the alley, randomly firing off her shotgun as she goes.
The commotion allows Citizen the opening to scoot over next to Safe
“Where’s “Stan”?” Safe says between grimaces.
Citizen shrugs, drawing his gun “Spelunking… Said sumptin’ ‘bout flanking”. He pulls out the phosphorous grenade, pops the pin and nonchalantly chucks it over the bin.
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On Boros:
SR shoves up a storm grill at pokes his head clear to see that he is on a street that the alley opens into. Around the alley's mouth are concentrated a squad of troopers all firing in. SR quickly lobs a tear gas grenade in the direction at the troopers and ducks back down as he comes under fire from somewhere off to his 10 o'clock.
"Well it's not a counter ambush, but it's better than nothing. Wish we had communications." He mutters to himself.
He tosses his last two smoke grenades out of the hole and scrambles out as they pop off.
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Boros:
As a barrage of bullets rain down on Safe and his crew, another group have gotten caught up in the action.
“I need confirmation on that.” Needy calls into the communicator. “Is it them?”
On the second floor of a dilapidated apartment building, facing the action, Amy watches through a pair of binoculars. Versereader stands anxiously by her side. “Yeah it’s them” Amy confirms “It seems they’re pretty much pinned down”
Standing close to the outside wall of the building, Needy and Flechette hide in the shadows.
“It’s as we feared” Needy turns to Flechette.
Flechette nods and replies “I told ya it was them.”
The loud gunfire and cries of their allies were what had drew their attention, so much so that Flechette had insisted on checking it out. Needy would have preferred to carry on towards their destination, but he knew that she was right.
“And what good is getting to the hangar if they never show up due to being riddled with holes” she had argued, and he knew he couldn’t make a reply
“Alright, are you ready for this then?” He asks his troublesome objector.
“You betcha” Flechette eagerly replies, cocking her shotgun
“Because I’m not he thinks about replying
“After you” Flechette offers, pointing the way with her gun
Needy flinches at the weapon being aimed at him, before gulping and whispers “No, after you”
“Fair enough”
As Flechette moves into the open, Needy calls back into the communicator “Get back downstairs to the entrance I told you about. We need to be ready to move”
“Copy” Amy replies, sharing nervous looks with Versereader
*BANG*
The loud shot causes Needy to jump as Flechette fires off her first round, hitting an officer in his head, blood exploding out of the other side of his head
That was his cue. Needy ran to Flechette’s position, a gun in each hand, shooting off at various targets.
Needy was not a soldier and as a result, he was confused as hell about the situation. He was not shooting with intent, but out of panic.
Suddenly an officer pops up from behind a group of metal bins.
He shoots at the companion and the cook, a bullet piercing the latter’s shoulder, sending her spinning to the floor.
His eyes closed, Needy points the gun up towards the general direction and shoots.
As the shooter ducks for cover, the bullet unsurprisingly misses, ricocheting off of the bin and hitting a dead body on the floor.
Needy opens his eyes to see the officer pop back up, take aim and fire.
In shock, the boy whore stands are stares. Then, he feels a sharp pain in his chest.
Looking down, he watches as blood seeps through his top, and begins to drizzle down.
Needy drops to the floor
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Boros:
Suddenly an officer pops up from behind a group of metal bins.
He shoots at the companion and the cook, a bullet piercing the latter’s shoulder, sending her spinning to the floor.
His eyes closed, Needy points the gun up towards the general direction and shoots.
As the shooter ducks for cover, the bullet unsurprisingly misses, ricocheting off of the bin and hitting a dead body on the floor.
Needy opens his eyes to see the officer pop back up, take aim and fire.
In shock, the boy whore stands are stares. Then, he feels a sharp pain in his chest.
Looking down, he watches as blood seeps through his top, and begins to drizzle down.
Needy drops to the floor
The officer begins to laugh with sadistic gleam in his eye when his head explodes like a meat melon. SR dashes across the street to where Needy lies bleeding. He quickly drags him under cover.
"Son that was the bravest act of stupidity I've seen in the last thirty years." SR says as he cuts Needy's shirt open with a tanto dagger. SR grimaces at the all the blood. He quickly reaches into a pocket and produces another bandanna and a flask of whisky. He douses the wound with the whisky, wads it up the bandanna and forces it on the wound and begins taping it down with duct tape.
"Needy are you there," the com unit asks.
Flechette takes it up with her good arm and clicks to talk.
"Needy's hurt bad, I'm hit too." Flechette drops the com unit and musters the strength to turn her head and look at this stranger.
"So who the hell are you?"
"Stan, Stan Bye Passenger. Let's see that shoulder."
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Originally posted by mai:
Did you do all this? It's amazing!
/me leans forward, yawns, rubs his eyes, then grins at mai
what do you want to eat?
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Boros:
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As Flechette moves into the open, Needy calls back into the communicator “Get back downstairs to the entrance I told you about. We need to be ready to move”
“Copy” Amy replies, sharing nervous looks with Versereader
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It was a battle nobody wanted to fight, they just wanted to get out of there. Get to safety. This was as true for Safe and his crew, as it was for Amy, Versereader and Needy – though for some reason Flechette seemed eager to do some killin’
Amy was one who would have backed Needy if he had decided not to follow the gunfire, but when she thought about the others, she realised that if she was caught up in a firefight, she’d need all the help she could get.
Unfortunately, she now had found herself in that firefight out of her own volition. True she wasn’t actually doing any shooting, not at the minute at least, but she was hardly free from the action.
She and Versereader had been told to run to an upper room in the building, and seek out a location from where they could get a good view of the fight. That they had done on orders, and now as Needy had given them further orders to make for the exit, they were going to do that too. But still, something didn’t seem right.
Amy kept telling herself that she didn’t want to be involved, but at the same time, she felt like she wasn’t doing a thing to help
The sound of more gunfire erupting confirmed to Amy that Needy and Flechette had now joined the fight, doing all that they could to help. As she ran alongside Versereader, down the dirty stairs to the front entrance of the building, she couldn’t shake the feeling that she was being a coward. Fleeing when she should be fighting. She could be he…
Suddenly, a crackle on the communicator interrupts her thoughts.
There is no voice, but the sound of interference, as if the device had been damaged somehow whilst still being able to transmit
Amy stops running and pauses to listen out for a word, a command, anything.
At this point, Versereader, hearing that she was running alone, stops and turns to face her peer, mere feet away from the door they had been sent to.
Hesitating for a moment, Amy grabs hold of the comm. and speaks in to it, “Needy… are you there”
Nothing.
The silence seems to last forever and whilst Versereader stares at Amy for a reaction, Amy only looks down, her worries now having consumed her every thought.
Then, the comm. responds, as a voice crackles through.
It is unclear, but the voice belongs to Flechette, that much is certain.
Versereader breathes a sigh of relief as does Amy, that is until she recalls that there is no reason why Flechette would be answering Needy’s comm., unless…
The call confirms Amy’s fear. Although the reception isn’t the clearest, there’s no denying the message that comes through
“Needy’s hurt bad. I’m hurt too” Flechette gags.
Then the line goes dead
Without saying a word, Amy turns and runs back, past the stairs and for the side entrance – the one they had used to gain entry to the building.
Versereader calls back to her, but she isn’t listening.
She herself is torn between what to do. Follow through with the plan, or go back to help their guide.
Amy is out of sight by the time she has made up her mind, already having head for the door to the alley – the place they had last seen Flechette and Needy.
Versereader hesitates, before making her mind up, following the path Amy had taken.
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Boros:
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Needy opens his eyes to see the officer pop back up, take aim and fire.
In shock, the boy whore stands are stares. Then, he feels a sharp pain in his chest.
Looking down, he watches as blood seeps through his top, and begins to drizzle down.
Needy drops to the floor
Falling to the floor, Needy’s head hits the dusty ground hard.
His world goes black.
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"... bravest act of stupidity I've seen in..."
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"Needy are you there,"
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"...hurt bad, I'm hit..."
Needy slipped in and out of consciousness. He tried to focus his mind on getting to his feet, but it was too much of a struggle to keep his eyes open.
The bullet wound would have been bad enough, but the blood that flooded the ground around his head was proof enough that his fall took as much a toll on the body as the hole in his chest.
A figure stood over him. It was a man, a man he had not seen before.
The man had his hands close to the companions chest, and he could feel him putting pressure on his wound.
Then Needy saw a more familiar face – Flechette, who crouched over him with an expression that told him that there was a good chance he wasn’t doing so good.
Needy tried to form words, maybe to ask for a hand up, or to ask if Flechette was alright – that flesh wound to her shoulder didn’t look pretty. But he couldn’t form words. He manages to make a sound using his lips, but that’s all it is – a sound, a groan, a gasp for air.
He coughs, spurting up blood in the process, blood that covers his chin and begins to run down his neck
“Hold on” Flechette encourages, as gunfire continues to blast around them.
“I…” he starts, before gagging on the blood in his throat
“Dammit, stay…” Flechette orders, but Needy doesn’t hear the end of it, as he loses consciousness once more
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Earlier:
“Stay where you are” Needy had ordered
The store owner looked on in fear as the companion held a gun pointed towards him.
Behind him stood Flechette, Amy and Versereader, though none of them were armed
“What are you doing?” Williams, the owner pleaded. He knew Needy was a male companion – a hold-up didn’t seem to be in his character
“Sorry to do this, but we got no time. I’m gonna need some of your weapons. What have you got?”
Needy was as calm and respectful as one could be whilst holstering a weapon, but Williams seemed to be taking it for granted as he scoffed and replied “Depends how much money you’ve got”
Needy looked back at the group before turning back to Williams astonished “I’m holding a gun here. This is me pointing a gun at you. Could you please cut the smart replies and comply with me here. I’m being very reasonable.
“Sure you are” he mocked
“Flechette” Needy called to the woman behind him. “You see something you like, take it. Same goes for you two” he added, referring to the other women
“Would you mind telling me what you are going to be doing with all these weapons you’re, ahem, borrowing” Williams asked, whilst looking at Flechette taking an interest in and grabbing an antique shotgun.
“Do you not hear the firefight going on out there?” Needy nodded towards the street “People we know are caught up in that”
“No, them alliance officers. You cross them, you’re gonna get in some serious trouble… that is, if you don’t end up dead”
“I didn’t ask for your opinion, I asked for your compliance” Needy stated plainly
“Fine, take what you can carry. Anyone else I’d shoot you dead, it’s not like I haven’t got the weapons but you… Well I’ll tell you something Needy, I like you. You’ve done some fine work, helped my baby find her feet, but I’m telling you now, you go out there, weapon or not, the next time I see you, you’ll be in a bodybag”
“Thanks” Needy replied, not really paying attention to his words but Flechette as she grabs various weaponry and passes it around. Amy and Versereader take a handgun each, but only after being forced to. They slip the weapons into the waistline of their trousers.
“I’m te
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Having prepared snacks (including the manly speciality of opening jars with out resorting to the knife trick!) and selected films, he returns to the bay to pick up the rabbits, wondering if he should turn back now, but deciding not too.
On reaching the bay he sees Rat and Jadehand talking together near the shipment, no sign of Roberts thank god..
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To Ath over comm: Set course for Earth-That-Still-Wears-Digital-Watches.
Oh! Are we changing course? Ain't we heading to Boros to pick those guys up? I mean, I get the feeling theres some bad crap going on down there.
*they stare at him*
Uh, well, just saying. I'm off to pick up the bunnies, Serenity got some stuff for them.
*ducks into the room with the hammock, and the rabbits jump at him immedietly* ha ha, bored were we? Or did you sense the chance of food?
*leaves, deliberetly ignoring the envelope marked 'Seryn' and goes back to Rat and JH, who are still staring*
Oh, I was thinking of naming the fighter. What do you think of Nandi? Beautiful, dangerous, and hopefully.. my kinda stupid.
*JH stares, Rat manages to twitch slightly*
Well, I thought it was cool... see you guys later, the girls and I are watching movies if you're interested.
*walks off*
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The grenade cooked off amongst the soldiers on the other side of the bin. The pounding on the bin ceased as the phosphorous cloud pushed the soldiers back coughing.
Citizen unclipped a couple more grenades, removed the pins and wedged them under the bins wheels.
"Little trick I learnt at school." He said beaming. "Well, I haven't had this much fun since the war, now on your feet soldier, you don't want to be around when these go off, should be a good show."
Citizen dragged Safe to his feet and over to the far side of the alley keeping as low as possible as random rounds impacted the ground around them. He lifted his briefcase and glanced at safe.
“All in one Guerrilla warfare kit.” He hit a release button on the handle and the sides fell away leaving a compact assault rifle. On one of the discarded sides there were a number of spare clips a pistol and a knife, on the other was various types of explosives and unidentifiable tubes. Citizen pocketed the weapons and spare clips. “These should help with gaining entry.” He said indicating the explosives as he checked chamber on the rifle.
The bin shifted and a moment later the two grenades exploded lifting it spinning into the air.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
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On Boros:
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Amy is out of sight by the time she has made up her mind, already having head for the door to the alley – the place they had last seen Flechette and Needy.
Versereader hesitates, before making her mind up, following the path Amy had taken.
"Let's see that shoulder. You're not so bad."
SR employs yet another bandannna bandage on Flechette. Amy and Verse reader appear in the alley. SR notices them and recognises them for guerillas or civillians. He motions that they be quiet and join them under cover which they do quickly.
"Your friend is in a world of hurt you need to get him out of here and to a doctor right away, prefferably one off planet. When I start firing get him over to that truck and get him out of here."
"That's a alliance militia truck."
"Yeah it means that it will have the keys in it, a full tank of fuel and if your driving it fast enough no alliance will stop you."
SR then breaks cover to engage the the troopers. He zigs and zags his way back towards the alley. laying down heavy fire on any that stands in his way.
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