Sereni-Tree: Boros cliffhanger, engaging paramours

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UPDATED: Monday, March 6, 2006 11:36
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KELLYOFLUTHIEN

Saturday, March 4, 2006 11:25 PM

*KellyofLuthien races to the cockpit, carrying her bow, quiver and a slender, graceful sword.*

"Are you OK? Serenity's right, you know. If they're looking for a winged girl, you'll stand out a bit."

Ath lets out a stream of chinese that probably shouldn't be written down. Kelly tucks her hair behind her ears before strapping on her quiver. She holds the sword out to Ath.

"Do you know how to use a sword? You may use mine if you wish. Its name is Nardol, "fiery head," which was my nickname as a child, before I received the ring. I will use the ring to protect you if I must, and your sister too. I seem to owe you one lifesaving already."

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I love my Captain

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SERYN

Saturday, March 4, 2006 11:52 PM

A small, flat, shuttle breaks away from the Alliance cruiser, swerving and dipping to avoid the other objects whirling around the space between it and the Tree.
It flys low under the nose of the Tree, its surface reflecting no light, deftly avoiding streams of cannon fire. Coming up behind the gun turrets it attatches itself to the ship.
A few moments later a figure crawls out of a small hatch, clinging to the Tree, and worming its way round to detatch several objects from the shuttle. It crawls over the metal, until it finds a panel with the markings it wants, and quickly removes the plate, crawling in and emerging several minutes later.

Inside the Tree, a small beep starts up, telling anyone listening that the atmosphere generator are reporting a fault, On a screen in engineering a messege warning of a foreign chemical in the system flashes.

Mere minutes later, the first Tree-er affected feels the dull ache start between her shoulder blades, a strange crunching and stretching sensation.

Mai sits back, alarmed. I know this sensation... As the wings grow and unfold, she watches astounded as not only the humans are affected, but the animals too.
Each one grunts and shifts, some alarmed by the new sensations, others stretching the new appendages and shifting with excitement, and it takes all of his ability for LMD to keep them calm, even as his own wings grow.

'Oh my!'

Ath, pulling himself momentarily away from Kelly, checks the source of the highly annoying beeping. Swearing long and eloquently once again, he pulls up a diagnostic, then kills the main life support, switching to auxillary. But too late, almost all the water from the Sea of Wings is inside the ship, and making its way to everyone on board.

This is Ath, something got into, well, was put into the atmosphere generators, is everyone ok? ....anyone?

CMS, as the only one not staring in awe at their brand new feathery bits, answers him -

Uh, kinda...

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whoo hoo! that should give you the upper hand when the cruiser trys to board!
hmmmm, I wonder what kind of wings the yetis have?
Ok, If anyone didn't want wings and now hates me, sorry!

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. O.W.

CALLMESERENITY

Sunday, March 5, 2006 3:56 AM

Huh. Well, I guess I can take this off now.

*removes nametag*

Thank goodness. Those shoes were so ugly!

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
President of the Juggled Gosling Chatroom

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SCORPIONREGENT

Sunday, March 5, 2006 7:51 AM

In the infirmary SR sits up in the bed, unhooks his IV and washes down a few pain killers with last water from his canteen. Unbenounced to him the Regent's recipe magma sauce is inhibiting the growth of any wings. He gathers up his weapons and gear and hoofs it slow but sure up to the top tier of the balconies surrounding the common area. From there he takes a snipers position and prepares to target any unwelcome guests.

Scorpion Regent

SAFEAT2ND

Sunday, March 5, 2006 10:15 PM

Boros:

Both Safe and Jack stand mouths open in shock. The squad leader, however, looks unimpressed, his hands still clasped behind his back. “That was most… unexpected and a little disappointing.”

Out of the corner of his eye Safe sees Bride7 advancing, a nasty grin on her face and a live grenade clutched in each hand.

“Whoa!! Hold, Bride7!!” Safe turns making a calming motion with his hands. “Let’s see what the man has to say now.”

Safe turn back to the squad leader “Seems the tables are turned now.”

“On the contrary Mr. “Safe”, the deck, as you would say, is still stacked in my favour. You don’t honestly think I would come undermanned when breaking the back of the underground, and capturing an Alliance traitor, do you?” The man waves a blue hand at the shadows. Eight more soldiers appear, two holding Versa and slumping Flechette. The one holding Flechette sported a rapidly expanding bruise on his cheek and a bloody nose.

“There is another squad approaching as we speak, so you see, your running is over.”

“How many of you are there??” Safe gasps.

The adrenaline drained away, leaving in its place a gnawing void created by blood loss, overexertion and the crushing weight of guilt. He couldn’t see how they were going to get out of this. Yet more people were going to die because of his actions.

Safe left arm sagged, the gun falling from his numb fingers. Why were these people willing to die? He had lead a squad of soldiers that would have, and eventually did, die for him. But that was born from a bond built on the battlefield. With the exception of Jack, he had known these people too briefly to build that bond. “Why?” Safe whispered as his shoulders sagged in defeat.

“Safe! You’re not going to let this go se win are you? We’re so close.”

Gunshots and shouting outside and Jack’s momentary distraction was all opportunity the soldier holding Flechette needed. With Safe’s one gun hand wavering and Jack no longer looking at their leader, the soldier fired on the only remaining threat, Needy.

At this point, everything seemed to happen at once.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

SAFEAT2ND

Sunday, March 5, 2006 10:38 PM

Boros:

Needy looked around in shock at the sound, trying to assess who was hit. Needy looked at the leader and saw his grin of triumph fade to a look of confusion. The man was staring at him.

Needy looked down and saw a stain of blood slowly expanding on the high right side of his chest. He fully expected to pass-out; as he had done before, when it occurred to him that there was no pain. In fact the blood flow had slowed.
*
Flechette had apparently been playing possum. When her captor had raised his gun and fired, she had reacted instinctively. Her right arm flew up and backwards, the back of her elbow catching her captor right at the base of his nose. There was a snap and a spray of blood and the guard dropped, dead before he hit the floor.
*
Bride6 had watched the tension build. When Versa and Flechette had appeared, she had altered her aim. Something she had seen had convinced her that Flechette wasn’t out of the picture, so she had targeted the soldier holding Versa.

Bride6’s reaction had been almost instantaneous, breathing in deep to block her pain, she could swear that she saw her own breath as she exhaled and fired. Her gunshot echoing Flechettes captors’ gunshot, Versa’s captor dropped, a neat hole in his forehead.
*
Citizen had been watching through the backdoor. Troops were advancing on their position. If Safe doesn’t get a move on, I’m not going to be able to talk our way out of this one, he thought.

Citizen turned to see what was happening when a weight forced the door closed. Citizen turned back shocked, yanking his hand away leaving skin still attached to the door knob. “What the..?” Frost crept up the metal door.
*
Jack’s focus changes as the remaining six soldiers start to recover from the surprise. Jack’s sub-machine pistols blare, spraying death. Two soldiers are thrown backwards.

The return fire from the soldiers is cut off almost before it can begin as Bride7’s two hand grenades bounce into their midst. The men drop their weapons in their haste to flee. They head for the hole in the side door caused by the truck. Bride6 and Citizen manage to drop two more before they make it out. The remaining two soldiers don’t’ make it far when a weird thing happens, A wall of ice seals the breach in the door, trapping the bluehand, Safe and his crew in and the approaching squad of soldiers out. It also sealed the fleeing soldiers, mid-stride, in the wall of ice.
*
The blue hand fumbles in his pocket for the tool of his trade. He finally frees the pen shaped object when a gunshot shatters his hand and sends the “weapon” spinning across the hanger. The bluehand looks up, fear showing for the first time on his face, and stares down the barrel of Safe’s gun.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

JADEHAND

Monday, March 6, 2006 12:15 AM

Boros:
* a small droplet of water joins the small pool now surrounding the two egg shaped objects that rest against the fuel reserve in the back of the transport........Drip, drip, drip. Smaller drops are flung at the inside of the truck as the spoons break free of their icy prisons. Seconds tick away, and then the firery wrath, once contained within the grenades, burst free, gushing through the tanks of gasoline igniting everything in its path *

Just outside the truck:
* Soldiers who once stood, mouths agape, staring forward as a wall of ice retarded their progress, are thrust forward towards that wall by the concusive force of a large explosion. *

JadeHand: "Lights!"

*Still standing, a man with blue surgical gloves shouts orders at the soldiers flailing on the ground* "Get up! Get up and get inside! And find whatever is causing these......delays!"

JadeHand: "Camera!"

*Soldiers struggle to their feet. Some holding their ears, all unsteady on their feet. The lead soldier begins to protest. "But sir, the ice is more than a fo.." He's cut off as the hands of blue grasp him by the shirt and fling him backwards towards the ice..."Get me in there NOW!" *

JadeHand: "Action!"

*Jadehand stands and leaps up towards the top of the shipping container the three have been concealed behind. His now steely hands grasp the top and pull him up with such force that he is airborne as he passes over the container towards the group of soldiers. A smile crosses his face as he hears the sounds of two sabers blazing to life behind him. MonkeyTail and TheRealMe ready to join the fray. *

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MAI

Monday, March 6, 2006 2:39 AM

*feels a shooting pain race through her back*

Owwwwwwwwww!

Oh how fun, I've got my pretty fairy wings again.
*flies around the park*

How can this be happening? I thought the only way to get wings was to drink from the pirate ocean water?

Mai, Secretary of Unmentionables.
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JAKE7

Monday, March 6, 2006 6:31 AM

**A strange odor wafts through the gun turret where jake7 is sitting. Suddenly, she is thrust foward into the gun and sets off a barrage of gunfire and missiles, blasting several holes into the hull of the encroaching Alliance ship -- unknowingly wreaking all sorts of havoc on the cruiser. As she peels herself off the gun controls, she sees the destruction done by the blasts and grins. She then realizes she's grown her wings back...**

What the...? How'd *these* come back?

**She shifts her wings to fold them more comfortably against her scratched up back (gives a quick smile in rememberance of her "kidnapping") and sits back -- a bit more gingerly -- in her chair. She turns to see Duece and Jazaf looking rather stunned at the fact that they have now sprouted wings for no apparent reason. She tries to reassure them.**

I'm not sure how these came back, but the last time we all grew wings, we were exposed to the water where we met up with that pirate ship where we picked up KOL. Hey! Speaking of which, where'd she go?

Anyway, you'll get used to them. They're pretty cool, once you figure out how to use them!

**To herself she thinks**
Not sure how these wings are going to come into play, but I sure hope they don't turn into a liability!

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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.
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"They just float out there, sending out raver breeding parties..."

THEREALME

Monday, March 6, 2006 11:36 AM

New thread:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=18568

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