Sereni-Tree: Boros cliffhanger, engaging paramours
POSTED BY: cozen
UPDATED: Monday, March 6, 2006 11:36
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Boros... sort of:
“Not exactly.” The being replies
“I… I don’t understand”
“You said it yourself, you know it in your heart. This isn’t real… that is you’re not physically here”
“So I’m dreaming?”
“It’s a bit more complicated than that” She replies with a smile
“Then… what? What’s going on?” Needy asks, seemingly starting to panic
She continues to smile as she hesitates to answer
“Serenity?” He begs for a response
“I’m not her. Not really.”
Needy’s face has turned from anxious to puzzled again.
She continues “I’ve taken this form because it’s one you recognise, a person you are comfortable with, a person you trust. That is also why I have brought you here, to this place, this home of yours”
“But you say you’re not her… this isn’t real. Why should that make me trust you, trust any of this. This could be a dream, no matter what you say. Or worse, this could be somebody’s sick experiment”
“It doesn’t matter that you know I’m not her, psychologically you are more at ease with me than you would be with anyone else”
“Well I don’t feel at ease!” Needy shouts back, putting his feet on the floor and standing up to her.
“You must realise I’m here to help you” She replies softly, unperturbed by his harsh reply.
“What are you talking about?” Needy asks, getting more agitated by the minute
“Well, if you’ll remember you’re not in the best condition” Her eyes focus upon his chest.
Following her gaze down to his own body he remembers his injury. His chest is covered in blood – mostly dry now – whilst there is an unmistakable hole in his body where the bullet had burrowed its way in.
“You do understand that it is a fatal wound”
“No… it’s… I can pull through… I…” Needy slows as he begins to feel tired – his body all of a sudden feeling drained of energy.
His legs give way and he falls, only to be caught by the form of Serenity.
Needy begins to gag as he coughs up blood
“I can help you” she offers
Needy fixes his gaze into her eyes as his coughing briefly desists.
“I can help you… if you’ll let me”
Speechless, Needy can merely blink in acknowledgment.
“You cannot give up now, there is much for you to do”
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Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny
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Quote:*While somehow on the dancefloor with Piffle, PR poses for a photo with her, in which PR looks incredibly drunk but is actually 100% sober;*
Originally posted by cozen:
*Escorts Piffle to the dance floor. Introduces her to PsychicRiver, cuz he's worthy.*
Meanwhile, at the foot of the Sereni-Tree's tree...
*PR stirs and awakes to find Ororo licking his face. He giggles.* Stop that silly. *He opens his eyes.* Ororo!!
*PR grabs the pony and hugs her head.* Thank you for coming! Oh it's so good to see you. *He stands up and pats her proudly.* Oh you clever girl.
*Ororo "neighs": Patronising little twirp. Honestly, what would he do without me?*
*PR 'hears' the commotion back on the Sereni-Tree.* Oh my! Alliance? The cloud? Blown up!? And Seryn! What's she up to? Up to?!
*PR panics...* Oh dear...
PsychicRiver
"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."
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Ooooh! Nice picture!
Quote:
Originally posted by Jadehand:
Ok, so I'm more than just a bit curious about what's going on here. The platinum is where? and the mole is Who? How would they find a way around the SEP? Could be tech scanners..but the people watching the screens, shouldn't notice. I have an idea for mods but we'll worry about that later.
Maybe that Baby is the mole?
Well, needless to say I've more questions than there's like to be time for answers. But betrayal makes me more than just a little vengeful.
*JadeHand pulls out his nametags and begins scribbling names on several tags and placing them in various pockets.*
There's going to blood. Lots of it. Hope you guys weren't interested in making friends with the alliance.
Oh, how much can you shink stuff with that shrinking tech? Can you fit a shrunken Alliance crusier on the Tree? 'Cause I'm real close to getting us one. It just involves everyone on that one being very dead.
TheRealMe leans back in the copilot seat of the Napoleon Bonaparte, sipping his drink.
"Oh, Jade, do not concern yourself with the platinum. It's safe. You see, when I heard that the Alliance has a mole and didn't need to do any work to get it aboard, it got me thinking. You used the persona of Heinz the scar guy to get the platinum. This is the same Heinz that is causing trouble for Serenity. I thought that it was possible that there was a bug on the platinum, so I just dumped it in one of our cargo bays. I really didn't want an enemy to overhear that we were moving to the Bonaparte. As to the rest, like who the mole is or why the Somebody Else's Problem field did not work, I have no clue. Unless... somehow they found a way to make us THEIR problem. That would completely bypass the field."
"As far as eliminating everyone on the cruiser, I really don't think that is necessary. Most of them are just doing their jobs. You would have to talk to Rat about the shrinking tech, but I know that in the past, he has carried ships around in his pocket. He first installed in on the General Lee, but the Bonaparte was created from the Lee as a duplicate. I wanted to use the Bonaparte since it is new enough that it would not show up on our ship registry."
Suddenly, TheRealMe looks concerned. He realizes that not only did he not say goodbye to Washie, but he also did not mention to anyone that the ghost of Riverclone was aboard the Sereni-Tree. Ath, especially, should have been informed.
Oh, well. He would take care of that later... hopefully.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Quote:(I'm just too classy!)
Originally posted by TheRealMe:
Ooooh! Nice picture!
PsychicRiver
"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."
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But, I went over the platinum 5 times...oh bugger, the cases. We'll have to go over the cases when we get back, and check the status of the 
baby bot 3000.
Making us THEIR problem eh? What would cause that? The Heinz thing? or something else that's going on. Exactly how many Tree folk are in hiding from the Alliance?
Well, Sounds like the shrinking would work on the Cruiser. Maybe I should go remove all the personnel? I don't have to eliminate them, could just put em on a nice remote moon somewhere, make them have to learn to survive like those they keep under their heel. I mean, I don't have to let the Reavers know where they are.
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"He's seen too much of life And there's no going back.
The loneliness calls him, And the edge which must be sharpened,
He's losing it. And he knows.
But there's a fighter in his mind and his body's tough
The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion
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*Having sobered up, mt teleports himself onto the Bonaparte, lightsaber in hand*
"TRM, I know I haven't been overly helpfull or even around much in the past, but I want to help. What can I do?"
- Judge for yourself its believability, and then try to tell yourself, wherever you may be, it couldn't happen here. - Carl Kolchak
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On Boros:
SR hears the voices from the street. Alliance troops are outside and soon they will either saturate the store front with enough fire and grenades to render him unrecognisable from ground meat or they will gas him such that a quadrapelegic would consider him a pushover. Even if they didn't know where he was it would only be a matter of a few excruciating hours before he would be dead. He know's there is only one more option besides eating his gun.
He closes his eye and clears his mind of all thought, all his senses are ignored and a his entire world is only the sound of his heart beating.
Scorpion Regent
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Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
Flying the Nandi out as soon as she can clear it, she see's the tiniest speck of gold, almost lost on the curve of the planet, as the shuttle breaks the atmosphere. Turning towards the cruiser, She sends a last message to the bridge.
'I'm stealing your Fighter, sorry!
*On the bridge of the Alliance cruiser Tripoli, the man smiles. It is the first time he has done so since he boarded the ship, and it sends a chill down the spine of many of the men. The man is not remarkable in any way; there are no scars, his face gives no sign of great evil, in fact, he had an almost grandfatherly air to him. Despite this, and although no one could actually put their finger on the moment it happened, every man on that crew came to fear him.
The man now turns to the Commander.*
"Good job, Commander. An excellent performance. Once we have Miss Seryn aboard, I want you to bring us in close to the Sereni-Tree."
*The commander nods his head, but the man has already turned to the young officer standing in front of the weapons controls.*
"Excellent shooting, Lieutenant Else. Once we are within range of the Tree, I want you to fire upon their engines. I do not want you to damage any other part of the ship. Am I making myself clear?"
*The man does not raise his voice, and yet it is perfectly clear to 1st Lieutenant Somebody Else that is he fails, the consequences will be most grim.*
"Yes sir, very clear sir."
"Very good, Lieutenant," says the man, putting his hand on the weapon officer's shoulder and giving it a grandfatherly pat. It's all the young lieutenant can do not to scream as the man's blue hand touches his shoulder.
"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"
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Somewhere not Boros:
SR opens his eyes though the tiny room he now occupies has very little light accept that which leeaks around the seams of the door at his left elbow. He can hear voices close by.
"How come the Tripoli gets to destroy the Tree outright Sarge? I was hopin' to do some intensive interrogatin' on one thems female rebels."
"Orders, just be grateful you aren't bagging all those dumb boots that got waxed today dirtside, bet's twenty to you. Besides you never got any intel out of any woman you ever interrogated. So's why should you be thinkin' we would give you the chance, beside's thinkin's officers work."
SR now has a good idea where he is.
"Alliance marines," he thinks to himself "tied with Reavers for second lowest form of life in the 'Verse. Lawyers as allways taking first place."
With slow specific motions SR extracts several pieces of equipment sets to a task. The job is made very diffcult by his injury, the darkness and the cramped space.
Scorpion Regent
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Soul runs onto the bridge to finds both Ath and TWG there. Ath is sitting at the controls, while TWG is...taking an order?
"Would you like sauce with your chicken strips?" she asks. There is no reply from the other ship. "Aw", TWG says. "I was just starting to have fun. If only they were closer, I might be able to confuse them."
Soul looks out the viewscreen and stares across at the Alliance ship, watching as it turns back towards the SereniTREE.
"Well," Ath says, "You might get your wish soon enough."
Something clicks in Soul's mind. He turns to TWG. "If I could get you on board that ship, could you confuse enough of them for it to make a difference?"
She shrugs. "I suppose. How are we going to get over there, though? We can't take a shuttle. You saw what they did to the Ocean Cloud. TRM is still too weak to open up a big enough portal. There's no way over."
Soul turns back towards the viewscreen. As he stares at the approaching ship, his body shudders and shifts ever so quickly, phasing out of this plane of reality and then back in. "Leave that to me," he says.
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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.
Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."
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