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"River?" Simon called quietly. They were doing a job, stealing Alliance cargo out of a warehouse, on Persphone. River had stopped in the middle of them getting away. They were almost out. "What is it?" Simon asked, seeing the look on his sister face. As if she knew a secret.
River looked at the door they had to go through to get out. "Someone awaits us." River told them calmly.
Mal looked at her then back at the door. Zoe and Kaylee kept pushing the carts, while Jayne and Mal lifted their guns to the door. "Alliance?" Mal asked, looking at her.
River stared at the door. "One. Against many." River muttered out loud. "But that one will prevail." River stated out loud.
Jayne chuckled. "One against us?" He asked, looking at the little assassin. "Well go kick the GO SE outta of 'em." Jayne told her.
"No." Simon told his sister. "River come over and give Kaylee a hand."
They pushed their cargo off to the side of the room. Kaylee, Simon and River knelt down behind it. They all had at least one gun. Mal and Zoe were on the opposite side, Mal pressed the button beside the door and the doors opened. Mal and Jayne looked around, and both were surprised to see a lone girl standing there. She was about the same age as Kaylee. She stood there with her feet apart, and her hands to her side. What caught their attention was her eyes they were blood red. She appeared to be weaponless. Mal looked back at his first mate. Zoe looked over the Capt'n and raise her eyebrows at Mal. Then River came and stood in the doorway. She tilted her head to the side, at the girl, sizing her up.
"Two by two, hands of blue." River told the girl. Mal and Jayne who were covering for her. Were shocked when the strangers' eyes flickered from red to blue, then back to red in a blink of and eye. River noticed and smiled sadly. "Not alone."
"River Tam, Alliance meddled where they shouldn't have. Simon Tam Rivers' brother rescued River from the Alliance. Warrant for arrest." The girl told River calmly.
Rivers eyes flickered from confusion to anger. "You will not take me or my brother."
River told her. Raising her leg so fast. Mal was amazed the other girl could react in time. The
stranger blocked all of punches and kicks River sent at her, then threw a punch of her own at
River. River was knocked against the wall, the red eyed girl advanced on her. Jayne ran up to her
and drew his gun over head, ready to hit her over the back of the head. In one fluid motion. The
girl grabbed Jayne but the throat, knocked the weapon out of his hand and threw him down to the
ground. While she was distracted River got up and kicked her back against the opposite wall. Mal
came to help Jayne off the ground as the two women started fighting again. Simon and Kaylee stood
up and stood beside Zoe watching the fight. River kicked the other girl in the side of the head,
and she fell against the wall. Her eyes closed and she layed there a moment. She opened her eyes
again and her eyes were blue when she opened them. She stood up and looked at River. Then the
others. She heard the doors open behind her and Alliance agents came into the room. Two rows one
kneeling, the other standing behind them. All had guns raised. The stranger looked at the agents,
then turned back to the crew of Serenity.
"All of you are under arrest!" Shouted the man in the first row at the very end, on the left. "Put your hands up in the air. If any fail to do so, you will be shot." He told them.
Simon stepped forward to get his sister out of the way. A shot rang out, and Kaylee pushed Simon out of the way. The others watched in horror as the bullet was about to hit Kaylee. Before it reached her clothes it stopped dead in the air. Kaylee looked down at it in shock. Zoe moved her out of the way of the bullet quickly. The Alliance agents looked up at the girl, who was concentrating on the bullet floating in the air. She glared back at them, and the bullet dropped harmlessly to the ground. Mal carefully kicked it out of the way. So no one stepped on it by accident.
The same agent spoke to the girl. "Stand down!" He commanded her.
She glared at them, then grinned. She looked at River, before entering their minds. "Get ready to leave." She told them, without opening her mouth. She turned on the agents and they all flew back, hitting the wall. They were all unconscience in a matter of moments, except the one who told her to stand down. She walked over to him, and picked up the gun that Jayne tried to hit her with. She brought it down and hit him on the back of the head. He fell to the ground. "Get out of here." She told them. "Take the cargo if you want. Just get out of here."
River stared at her, looking at the unconscience men. She smirked. "Even this little assassin can't do that!" She stated. "Try to get into her mind, but all I see is darkness." River said out loud, still staring at the girl. "Keep knocking, but no one is home to answer. She does not want to let people see her thoughts. Yet she can speak to us in her mind, let others read her thoughts when needed." She muttered as the others got the cargo out the last door.
"River!" Simon called, as he helped Zoey. "Come on."
"Capt'n!" Kaylee said. "We can't leave her here. She saved me, and knocked out a whole group of Alliance feds." Kaylee told Mal, as they pushed the cargo to their waiting mule.
Mal looked at her, then back the girl who stood just inside the door, watching them. "What if she goes all killer on us little Kaylee?" Mal asked her. "Can't have an unpredictable killer on Serenity." Mal informed her.
"You already have one." River spoke up. Mal looked at her. "Can you read her mind? Is she good?" Mal asked her.
"Keep knocking now one is home. Mind empty." River told him. "She seems harmless as long as eyes are blue." River said out loud to no one really.
Mal looked at the girl still watching them. "You want out of here?" Mal asked her. She looked at him a moment. "If you want to come with us. Give us a hand then." Mal told her.
"Great another crazy." Jayne muttered as they lifted the crates on to the trailer of the mule. Zoey drove, with Mal and Kaylee sitting on the wheel covers. River was back to back with Zoe, while Jayne, Simon and the stranger sat with the cargo. Simon sat on top of the crates. Jayne and the girl sat on either side. They drove up the ramp and Book lifted the ramp, and then closed the airlock doors. "River get us moving, the rest of us lets get everything secured." Mal told everyone. He looked at the girl. "You gotta name?" He asked her.
The girl looked at him. "Number 12." She told him.
"No a real name." Kaylee said to her. "My name is Kaylee, and this is Captain Malcom Reynolds. The big guys Jayne." Kaylee told her, pointing. "Thats Simon the doctor, and Zoey." Kaylee told her.
The girl looked down at the floor for a moment. "Her name is lost." River said from the catwalk. "They took that too. Like me, she was taken from home and they played with her brain." River told them. "But she forgot, and I remember." River stated, confused by that.
"She's another Alliance experiment?" Jayne asked. "Why in gorram do we need another crazy woman?" Jayne asked.
"Be nice Jayne. She saved my life." Kaylee told him, sweetly.
"Book make up a room for her in the passenger dorm all right." Mal told the shepard.
"Of course. Please I'll show you to your room." Book told the strange girl. He went down the corridor, she followed.
"Little Albratross." Mal said looking up at River. "How about you get Serenity up in the air." Mal told her. "Feds will be on us soon." Mal explained as he and Jayne carried one of the two crates and slid them into their secret crawlspace.
"Mal." Jayne growled. "I ain't knowin' what's goin' in that head of yours but why do we 'ave another girl wanted by the Alliance on board?" Jayne asked.
"She saved Kaylee's life. Not to mention what would happen to us it the Alliance Feds got us." Mal told him, as they carried the other crate over. "Also what might happen to River and Simon if had been arrested."
"Still don't see why she's with us." Jayne muttered as Mal put the cover back over the hole.
"She is so live with it Jayne." Mal told him, getting tired of this conversation. He walked up to the bridge. "No problems River?" Mal asked her.
"All is good. Captain." River told him.
Mal left the bridge and went to see how the girl was getting along with Book. He found Book and her talking about religion. Mal smirked. 'Just what they needed another believer on the ship.' Mal thought. He knocked, Inara would be surprised. "You settling in okay?" Mal asked her.
The girl looked at him. "You knocked." The girl told him. She looked at Book. "Who's Inara?" She asked.
"She the ex-Campanion, who rents out the shuttle. I'm sure you'll meet her at dinner time." Book explained to her. She nodded.
"I'm good Thank you for asking sir." She told the captain.
"Well thats good. Now there is a problem with you not having a name. Well a good one, cause I don't think case number 12 is all that great. Unless you like that name." Mal told her.
"Don't like it. I don't remember my name."
"Well would you care if one of us thought one up for you?" Mal asked her.
She gave him a small smile. "I won't mind." She told him.
Mal nodded. "Very Good."
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chapter one. Tell me what yeah think!