FAIR WARNNING, EXPECT SOME LANGUAGE. BUT, HEY, IT'S THE FIREFLY 'VERSE, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
Alt. 'Verse Two: Serenity P1
DTC: I was listening to my music files last night, and I heard Firefly's opening theme. *hums a few bars* Take my love, take my land, take me where I can't stand.Ya know it? Well, I heard it, and I thought of a brilliant idea. Digimon and Firefly 'verses as one.
SHADDOW_ _ _| VALLEY OF SERENITY_ _ _|
Gun fire razes the sky. The Independents and Allied forces war for the foothold the valley possesses.
Henry Wong ducks under the overhang of the small fortress as the Alliance DropShip races through the sky, picking off any Independents it can spot. "Rika! I need a status report on that covver fire!"
The red haired female shakes her head. "Command says that it's too hot with that gun ship."
"Well then." Henry smirks. "Let's go take it down!"
Rika hands the command phone to a nearby solider. "Tell them to move in as soon as that ship's down!"
Henry prays lightly to his cross necklace, and Rika finishes re-loading her gun.
With that finished, the Sargent and his subordinate leave the shelter, and race towards where the Alliance Rail Gun is.
Henry and Rika duck into a bush next to said rail gun. Henry aims his gun at the Alliance solider in command of the rail gun.
*BANG!*
The solider falls, and Henry takes the controls. "Cover me!"
"Got it, sir!" Rika nods, and takes a cover position.
Henry aims the rail gun towards the Alliance DropShip, now charging at his position. "Momentai, would ya?" He smirks and presses the trigger.
*RAIL GUN FIRES!!!!!!!*
The ship seems undamaged as it comes into attack it's own rail gun, except...
*BANG!!!*
The left wing explodes, and the ship starts into a nose dive spin.
Henry smirks, laughing, until he notices that it's coming right at him. "RIKA!" He runs, with his subordinate following his every step.
Seconds later...
*KABLAM!!!!*
...The gunship impacts, and the two officers dive for cover.
As the smoke settles, Henry laughs.
Rika slaps him in the arm.
"What...?" Henry asks, laughing still.
The two re-enter the small base. Henry looks around, finding only a few of the remaining solders alive.
"Tai!" Henry races over towards the goggle wearing boy. "tai? You okay?"
The young boy doesn't reply.
Rika calls up command.
"Tai...?" Henry tries again.
"We're gonna die." The young solider mutters.
"No. No we're not." Henry smiles. "We're just so pretty. Too pretty to die!" He lightly slaps Tai's face, knocking some sense into the boy. "Any minute down, our angels are gonna come and rain down justice on those alliance goons!"
At that moment, the thursters of space ship engines enter the air.
"Hear that? The alliance said they'd march through Serenity Valley! And we choked them on those words!" Henry turns towards Rika. "Rika, Tell Command..."
"They're not comming." She looks up. "Command says it's too hot. They're pulling out."
"Then...?" Henry and Tai stand up to look out the small window. Henry's mouth drops open slightly at the sight.
Alliance cruisers dropping down through Atmo, raining hell down onto the Resistance and their own troops.
A gun shot rings out, barely registered in Henry's mind as Tai falls.
An explosive lands some distance away, and a rush of heat reaches Henry's skin.
SIX YEARS LATER_ _ _| SOMEWHERE IN THE BLACK_ _ _|
Henry's warm breath falls back on his face as he breaths inside his helmet. "Takeru. Give me the sticky." He orders.
A few feet over, in another space suit is Takeru Takaishi, The hired mercenary of Henry's ship, he kicks forward enough to launch a Soccer ball several miles, yet he only moves forward a few inches towards his boss. He hands him what looks like a caulk gun.
Henry takes it, and drops a steady line around a door handel of the cargo bay of the wrecked ship.
He pushes off, as Rika, to his left, triggers the explosive device.
The hot glue looking substance grows hot as the wire inside it heats up.
Our view pans away, revealing the wrecked cargo liner, and the Firefly class ship hiding in the rubble.
Inside the firefly, named Serenity...
"It all looks good here." Takato states. "Yes very good." He continues, as he makes his Stegomon plastic toy talk. "This is a fertile land...and we shall call it...This land!"
He makes his Allomon turn towards the Stegomon, he heightens the pitch of his voice. "I think we should call it Your Grave!"
Back to Stegomon. "Ah! Curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal!"
"RAR AH Ah AH! Mine is an ebil laugh!" And with that the Allomon attacks Stegomon.
"AH! Oh Kami-sama! Oh dear lord and haven!"
A proximity alarm cuts him off. Takato glances at the controls. "Oh..." He lets off a random string of Chinese.
Back at the wreck, the part of the door explodes away in a bout of oxygen.
"hull pressure." Rika sates. "Looks good."
Henry and Takeru pull the door open.
"Goods are good." The now Captain smirks.
"CAPTAIN!"comes Takato's voice over the radio. "Incomming Alliance cruiser!"
"We're humped." Takeru groans.
"Have they scaned for us?" Henry asks.
"No. Not yet."
"Good." He smirks. "Go dark."
Back on the ship...
"ZOE!" Takato yells out through the ship. "We're going dark!"
Back in the engine room of the ship, A blond haired mechanic runs over, and messes with a few panels, before climbing up onto the engine, and pulling a lever, the lights go out. "Now I can't get down..." She sighs.
Farther away from the wreck and the firefly, is the Alliance cruiser.
On board...
"What do we have?" Commander Jp asks the subordinate, Lt. Katelin.
"A cargo carrier." the woman replies. "Lost all hands a few months ago. Didn't matter anyways, skeleton crew."
"Okay." Jp frowns. "Run a scan."
"Why?" Katelin asks.
"Call it a hunch." The commander replies.
Back on Serenity...
Takato curses in Chinese. "Captain. We're humped!"
Henry, Rika, and Takeru grab the cargo from the ship. "Hon, we're loading up." Rika states.
On the Alliance cruiser.
"Ah...I'm picking up some residual heat." katelin blinks. "Looks like a Firefly. Do they even still make those?"
"They're lowlife, scavengers, picking off the remains of others less unfortunate." Jp states. "Send out the birds."
Small, intercept type, fighters launch from the bottom of the the alliance cruiser.
"Cry baby cry." The captain states over the radio, as he spots the birds.
"Make your mother sigh!" Takato finishes the rhime as he presses a button.
Far out into the Black, a small barrel labeled "cry baby" and carrying a transponder lights up.
"Sir..." Lt. katelin starts. "I'm picking up a new signal." She pauses as she listens in. "Sounds like a personnel carrier."
The commander raises an eyebrow.
"She's big, and she's without power."
*cue random western guitar solo*
In the air lock of Serenity, The three crew members of the firefly touch bottom as the room re-pressurizes.
"We're on." Henry states.
The firefly detaches from the hull of the wrecked ship, and lights up fully.
"Let's moon 'em!" Takeru smirks.
The back end of the firefly glows, showing it's clear namesake isn't just for names, and Serenity launches through space as fast as possable.
"Sir, they're running." katelin states. "Should we continue deploying?"
"No." Jp sighs. "The bird's never make it back on time. Alright. Let's got help these people." He turns to leave. "Oh. And put up a bullitin on the Cortex. Rogue Firefly with possible stolen goods."
"Yeeesss Siiir!" Katelin answers.
BACK ON SERENITY_ _ _|
"Ahha!' Takeru laughs as they re-enter the cargo bay of the ship. "I wish I could've seen the look on their faces!"
Henry ignores this comment as he pries open one of the crates, finding the food stuffs he'd been told that would be there. Henry takes a bar and turns it over, only to slap it back down, same side down.
"What's with the frown?" Rika asks, noting her CO's grim expression.
"Yeah. We won, didn't we?" takeru asks.
"Yeah. We win." Henry closes the crate.
*cue opening theme*
Take my love...
Take my land...
Take me where I can't stand.
I don't care, I'm still free,
you can't take the sky from me.
Take me out,
to the black,
tell them I ain't comming back.
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
. . .
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
You can't take the sky from me.
NEARING PRESEPHONE_ _ _|
"How are we on fuel?" Henry asks Takato.
"Well...We're doing okay, need to refuel though, or not if we don't get paid. We did get paid, right?" Takato asks.
"Not untill we land." The captain laughs as he goes down to help Takeru and Zoe hide the cargo. "now, make sure we get that well hidden! We don't want anyone trippin' over it."
"We're takin' on passengers?" Takeru asks.
"On Presephone." Henry answers. "We need the coin."
"Shiny! I just love passengers!" Zoe smiles. "They've all got such interesting stories and past experiences!"
"Cap'n, can you make her shut up?" Takeru asks.
"Not a power in the 'verse that can keep Zoe down!" Henry answers in response as he closes the grate in the wall once the last crate is stowed.
"I love my captain!" Zoe gives Henry a kiss on the cheek.
He sighs as he turns back to His subordinate and her husband. "Any word from the ambassador?"
"Just the usual." Takato replies.
"Re-rendezvous at The Eves Down Docks." Rika quotes. "That's all."
Henry sighs. "Well, so-long as someone on this boat makes a honest living!"
SERENITY'S SHUTTLE ONE_ _ _|
Siting on the couch and the chair are the companion and her current client of the day. Having just finished doing all sorts of things I can't describe because of the rating going up if I did.
"So..." The alliance solider, Ken Ichijouji, asks. "Why are you out so far from home?"
Jeri Kato, in her mind, looks away, but answers... "I wanted to see the stars. Visit new worlds."
"Ah..." Ken blushes somewhat. "Would you...Uh...My dad's very influential and...uh..."
A few moments later, Ken leaves the shuttle.
Jeri gets up, tightening her robe around her as she enters the cockpit, blocked off via a large curtain. "Serenity, this is shuttle one. What's your ETA?"
"Ah! Kato-san!" comes Takato's voice. "We're touching down in a few. Meet you there?"
"Of course." Jeri smiles.
"We've missed you out here!"
The companion's smile widens. "I've missed you guys too. Shuttle one, out."
"Serenity, out."
With that said, Jeri revs up the engine, and the shuttle lifts off.
PRESEPHONE_ _ _| EVES DOWN DOCKS_ _ _|
Serenity cuts through the Atmosphere like an experienced bird, landing gracefully at the registered docking port.
The ramp lowers, and the crew exits, Henry, Rika, and Takeru grouping off to go towards their meet.
"Zoe." Henry orders. "Stay here and refuel, get some passengers, and then prep her for take off." He turns to Takato. "You, go and get the supplies we need."
"Ay ay sir!" Takato bows ungracefully, but retaining his ballence.
Rika looks at him and smiles. "Be careful."she says in chinese.
"You too!" Takato replies, with a smile of his own.
"I will." Rika smiles again.
"Anyways." Henry cuts them off. "Let's get to Kazu's. You know how he gets when we're late!"
"Yeah." takeru rolls his eyes. "We don't get paid."
And with that, they leave, Takato races into the ship, then drives out with the MULE, to gather supplies.
Zoe smiles as she glances up the nose of Serenity. "Jus' you an' me, Girl. Jus' you an' me."
The ship seems to nod in agreeance.
ELSEWHERE_ _ _|
Shepperd Iori Hida, or Cody as he prefers to go by, walks around the docks, pulling his same height luggage behind him towards no seeming destination.
"Yo! Kid!" Comes an annoying voice.
The Shepperd tilts his head as a fourteen year old boy towers over him by some degree.
"Come with us! Our ship's the best! No mater where in the 'verse you need to go! We'll take you there! The RizeGreymon! We're clean! We're cheap! So, where 'ya goin' kid?" The pilot, Marcus Damon, asks, energetically while pointing towards a large transport vessel.
"I'm not a kid." cody states as he continues to walk off. It was a genetic experiment gone wrong with some potatoes when he was nine. All ageing halted. And all he had wanted were potatoes for his family, some disaster in the growth process in the one potato he had eaten. Yes, that was all some eighty years ago, and he still looked and felt like he was nine, could remember it all too, better than his own brother currently could.
AT THE BACK OF A BAR CALLED "KAZU'S"_ _ _|
Henry, Takeru, and Rika walk into Kazu's back room, where he deals with his business transactions.
The visor wearing teen was currently checking the teeth of a small, six year old, girl, brown hair, big pink eyes, three small bumps on her forhead in a triangle pattern, and, oddly enough, long rabbit like ears, same color as her hair. Henry sighs, another Alliance genetic experiment gone wrong.
The girl tries to bite Kazu's finger.
"hey!" he exclaims in a slightly British accent. "You little brat!"
She sticks out her tongue. "You wike my keeth so vewwy vewwy much."
Rika coughs. "How... adorable?"
Kazu turns, smiles, and gestures for the guards to put the girl from wherever she came from (the guards open a door, revealing a small blond haired boy with green rabbit ears and only one bump on his head like the girl, before pushing the rabbit girl in, and closing the door). "Ah! Captain Wrong and his renegade crew!"
"It's Wong." henry corrects. "But does it matter? What's one letter between friends?"
"Yeah...well...You're late." Kazu's smile turns to a frown.
"Really, now?" Henry looks around the room, his gaze catching a poster with a woman with angel wings having her back to them halfway torn away via something akin to a tornado, possibally the small bunny girl from a few minutes ago, before spotting the clock. "You know we're much earlier than we planned."
"Well." Kazu sits at his desk and starts to peel an apple. "You're later than I'd like." He finishes pealing and takes a bit before tossing a cortex bulletin to Takeru. "Firefly class transport performing illegal salvage on a Derelict Transport." Kazu recites from memory. "Not only were you spotted, and marked, but the ship happened to be alliance. Meaning that every molecule of that cargo is marked." Henry grimaces. "Noticed that, did you?"
Henry shakes his head. "You're not going to pay us?"
Kazu feigns thinking for a moment. "Nope."
Takeru pulls his gun, with the name 'Emma' etched on the side, and aims it at Kazu's head.
Suddenly, guns from all of Kazu's guards are drawn.
"Put the gun away." The captain orders.
"He's not payin' us, Henry!" Takeru growls.
"Well, we're not gettin' paid at all if you get us all shot." Rika exclaims.
"Grrr..." takeru sighs before putting his gun away. "Fine."
"Now then. I suggest you take your business elsewhere." kazu smirks. "I've got rabbits to breed." At the glare from Rika that'd make a grown alliance solider wet his pants, he corrects with a gulp. "Er...Feed. Yes! I have rabbits I have got to feed! That's it exactly!"
"Let's go." Henry turns to leave.
OUTSIDE SERENITY_ _ _|
Cody walks by, glancing up at the firefly class ship. He pauses.
"You're gonna come with us." Zoe states from her seat in her lawn chair in the airlock.
"Excuse me?" Cody looks up.
"You're not lookin' at the destinations." Zoe smiles, siting up. "Just the ships. Say..." She continues before he can get a word in otherwise. "Have you ever been on a firefly before?"
"Once." Cody replies. "It didn't have the stabilizers though." he pointed to said thrusters. "It tended to shake."
"Ah." Zoe nods. "So...where ya commin' from?"
"That's a long story." Cody comes closer to the docking ramp. "During the first migration, I ate a mutated potato. Froze my age at nine forever."
Zoe blinks. "Then you're...?"
"Shepperd Iori Hida. You can call me Cody though." He holds out a hand to shake.
"Wow...Never met a Shepperd before." Zoe smiles, agreeing to the hand shake. "I'm Zoe. The mechanic for Serenity here!"
"And I've never met a mechanic so young before." Cody replies with a smile in return. "Anyways. I'm coming from the local Abby, I decided to take a little tour around the 'verse, spread the word of God to those who need it."
"What've ya got there?" Zoe asks. "Not to sound greedy, but we haven't had the best of luck money wise and..."
The Shepperd nods. "I understand. In these hard times, who doesn't need some cash every now and then?" He sighs. "I'm afraid I don't have any money though. All of what I have with me is mostly clothes and food from my garden." He grabs a small box from somewhere at the top, and hands it to the mechanic. "I do, however, have these."
Zoe opens the box, and whistles. "Woah...Kid..."
"I'm not a kid." Cody lets the comment pass, as the shock of the items inside the box do deserve some credit for forgetting something such as age.
ON THE WAY BACK TO SERENITY_ _ _|
"Why didn't you let me get our money?" takeru asks.
"Kazu wouldn't have given it to us even in death." Henry replies. "And besides, his goons would've killed us on the spot."
"I didn't sign on for a sight seeing tour of the 'verse ya know!" Takeru answers, annoyed. "I get a good fair portion of the haul, and know what part of nothin' is? Let me do the math!" He counts off. "A nothin'. Nothing. Carry the nothin'."
"I know why you signed on Takeru." Henry states. "And we're gettin' paid!"
"By who sir?" Rika asks.
"I'm thinkin' Mimi." Henry answers.
"Didn't she shoot you?" Takeru asks.
"Ah! It's all in the past! You know that!" Henry shrugs. "'Sides, she owns...what?...Half of that moon now?"
"Last I heard." Rika nods.
"Then, all formalitys aside, Mimi's our only choice!" Henry explains.
"Your grave." Takeru grumbles.
BACK AT THE SHIP_ _ _|
The threesome soon arrive back at the ship, surprised at the fair amount of passengers.
Okay...So it's just three people, a fancy dressed up boy about the age of Zoe, a small boy no older than nine (or so it seems) and a random passerby.
Takato brings up a large silver box into the ship on the ramp.
"Careful with that!" The fancy boy states at the crate's josseling on going over the ramp.
"Ah! Cap'n!" Zoe smiles. "This here's Takuya Kanbara! He's a doctor!"
The doctor frowns upon spoting him. "You're a captain?"
"Got a problem with that?" Henry asks.
"no. I was just expecting someone a bit shorter." Takuya shrugs and enters the ship.
"Anyways..." Zoe blushes somewhat, before turning to Cody. "Despite his looks, Cody here's a Shepperd!"
"Iori Hida." Cody bows. "Call me Cody, though."
"Shepperd, huh?" Rika shakes her head as she enters the ship.
"Nice to meet ya." Henry smiles, noting the incoming Shuttle from the north. "Ah, and there's the Ambassador!"
"Royalty?" Cody blinks.
"Registered Companion." takeru fills in, cutting by.
"Ah." Cody nods.
"Well then..." Henry turns towards the random passerby. "I'm..."
"Captain Wong." The blue haired man replies. "Pleasure to meet you! I'm Kouji Minamoto." he holds out his hand in greeting.
The captain shakes it. "Nah, I'm just doing my job."
IN THE DINING ROOM_ _ _| A FEW MINUTES LATER_ _ _|
Zoe spreads out the small grouping of ingredients that the small Shepherd had collected, opening up the box he had used as payment first, and sneaking one of the small items inside out into her sight.
It was a Strawberry. Big. Bright. Red. And oh-so delicious looking.
She takes a bite slowly, and her eyes roll back into her head in delight.
BACK TO THE BAY_ _ _|
The passengers finish tieing up their cargo.
"Make sure you have what you need." Henry comments. "Only crew are allowed in the bay once we take off. Don't want anybody being sucked out into the black now, do we?"
Takeru laughs. "Yeah, what a shame that'd be."
Kouji stares at him.
Takuya laughs. "Don't worry about me. Last time I was on a transport like this, a Rivenclass, my traveling compainon went down to the bay without suppervision. We lost all our food, and had to make an emergency landing."
Henry laughs. "Well, dinner's in a few hours! Don't be late!"
IN THE DINING HALL AT DINNER TIME_ _ _|
The crew and it's passengers eat their dinner. All of them listen to Takuya's story.
"Seriously! Ah...The kid was just way too fidgety! No matter what me or his mom said to calm him down, he still insisted 'but Timmy says dat doctors steal kids souls and sell them to the easter bunny so he can make toys for Santa!' It was..." Takuya finds himself having a hard time from not laughing. "...It was the silliest thing I'd ever heard!"
Takato, sitting next to Rika, can't help but smile as he ponders. "And I wonder what Timmy's mom said to him when she heard what that kid's mom said her son had heard from her son?"
Scilence for a few moments, before everyone breaks out in laughter again.
"So...Got any funny stories from yer shepherdin' days, Preach?" Zoe asks the Shepperd.
"Ah. Many." Cody thinks back. "But, most are rather...Un-becoming of my profession."
"Is that so now?" Henry asks innocently. "I thought that things like that didn't happen."
Jeri shrugs. "Now, Henry. You should know better by now. Looks can be deceiving."
Henry stares at her. "You would know all about that wouldn't you."
"Ah..." takeru coughs, fake-ly. "Get a room you two."
Rika glances at the hired gun. "Takeru, I think you should leave now before you end up in the infirmary with the nice Doc here sowing up your..."
"Hey! It's not against the gorram law to speak my mind, ya know!" Takeru cuts her off.
"Listen to the red head for once, would ya?" Henry asks, growling. "And I don't pay you to talk pretty, now. Nor..."
"Fine. I'm leavin'!" Takeru grabs his plate off the table, and spoons a nice even helping of everything onto it, before leaving. "No need to get your tongue all tied up tryin' to talk yourself out of the truth!"
Takuya blinks. "Huh..."
"What?" Rika asks.
"I was just wondering what you do pay him for." Takuya replies in the direction of the captain.
Without missing a beat, Henry replies "Public relations." before taking a bite out of his still warm dinner roll.
SOME TIME LATER_ _ _| BRIDGE_ _ _|
Henry walks up onto the bridge, seemingly mad at something. "Has Mimi waved us yet?"
Takato looks up. "Ah...No. Not yet."
Henry growls. "Well, let me know when she does."
"Didn't she shoot you once?" Takato asks.
"Is everyone going to bring that up!?"
Before the pilot can reply, a buzzer sounds off.
Henry and Takato race over to the wave alert panel on the opposite side of the cockpit.
Takato lets out curse of Chinese as he presses a few buttons. "not good."
"What's not good?" Henry asks, concern overcoming his face.
"Someone just sent out a wave to the nearest Alliance Cruiser." Takato pales.
"Tell me you scrambled it!" Henry also deadpans.
"Yeah, I did." The pilot readjusts the goggles on his forehead. "But I don't know how much got out. They could just know our position, or..." He sighs. "Wong, we've got a mole on board."
"And I think I know who." Henry growls as he races down to the...
...CARGO BAY_ _ _|
Takuya stands up from checking the lit up blue display on the side of his mysterious grey canister, as he turns around....
"Hi." *SMACK!!!*
...The captain smashes his fist into the Doctor's face.
"WHA?! Are you demented?!" the doctor asks as he recoils.
"How much did you tell them before Takato scrambled your call?" Henry asks.
"Huh?!" Takuya truly seems surprised.
"You're a gorram Fed!" Henry accuses.
"No...What?!" takuya seems even more shocked.
"Sorry to say." Comes a third voice. "But I'm afraid you've got the wrong man."
Henry and Takuya turn to see Cody, standing by the airlock doors, glaring at the bulkheads above them.
"Buh?" Henry turns around again, to see...
"Hand's where I can see them." Kouji holding a gun, a sterling silver Alliance Issue McKadish revolver. "Drop the gun, Captain."
"Okay now..." Henry undos his holster, and puts it to the ground. "No need to be jumpy now, I'm sure we can all sort this out in the..."
"Takuya Kanbara. You're under arrest." Kouji growls out.
The doctor sighs.
"Wha?" Henry blinks, relaxing. "The doc? Well now...Is there a reward?"
Kouji spins towards Henry. "Hey! I can bring you up on charges on aiding and transporting a criminal! Have this junk heap towed in too, for all the warrants on them!"
"Now, son, This is nearing madness." Cody starts.
Kouji whirls. "You don't think I'd shoot a Shepperd?!"
"Now, come on! That's just low!" The Captain states.
Kouji whirls towards him.
"Look, can't we just talk this out?" Cody asks.
Kouji whirls again.
"Hey, what's going---*BANG!!!*---Ahahhhh...." Zoe entered the bay, and Kouji shot her, in the stomach.
The next few seconds go by in slow-motion for the Firefly's inhabitants, as Jeri, Rika, and Takeru, right behind the mechanic, race to help the girl. Cody, somehow, springs into action and disarms Kouji, while the Captain and the Doctor go to check on the Mechanic as well.
"ZOE!" Henry shouts.
Takeru leaves his position by the injured mechanic, and goes to tie up the Fed, with Rika right behind him.
"Let's get her to the infirmary!" takuya orders after viewing the shot, the bullet hadn't gone clean through. "Zoe? Zoe? Can you move your feet?"
"Are you asking me to dance?" Zoe asks, woozily.
"She's going into shock." Henry states.
"Cap'n!" Takato's voice echos over the intercom. "Incoming alliance cruiser. Asking for us to hold course and prepare for boarding."
"Run." Takuya backs away from Zoe. "We have to run."
"What?" Henry grimaces.
"Run. Or I won't help her!" Takuya states.
"You wouldn't dare." Henry frowns.
"I would."
"Why's everyon' so ang'y for?" zoe asks.
"Do you know what a stomach wound does to a person?" Takuya asks.
"I surely do." Henry frowns.
"Then you know how critical the next few minutes are." Takuya states.
As if on cue, Zoe lets out a strangeled cry of pain. "Wong!" Jeri pleads.
"Rika. We run." Henry states, near whisper quality.
"Goggles! We're running!" Rika orders over the intercom, seconds later, the ship jolts as it launches forward through the black.
SEVERAL HOURS LATER_ _ _|
"She's stable." Takuya states as he emerges from the operation. "But, the next few hours will tell if she'll make it or not."
"Good then." henry smirks as he races towards takuya's box.
"Wait...NO!" The Doctor follows him towards it, only to be restrained by Takeru and Takato.
Henry pulls the box out, and un-do-s the latches, the lid pops up. "Let's see what that fed's willing to kill for!"
"WAIT!"
With a mighty kick, the lid flies into the wall, and smoke escapes from the grey canister.
Jeri walks forward a fearfull step.
Rika grimaces before cocking her shotgun.
Takuya's jaw hangs open in shock at the captain's rash behavior.
Cody tilts his head oddly at the sight....
As the smoke clears, the distinct form of a young girl, no younger than a year or two behind the doctor, with a long blue dragon tail, similar matching ears, a row of short blue spikes down her spine, shoulder length brown hair, several odd markings tattooed allover her skin, oh, and the final detail as to why several of those things were visible, she wore no clothes.
...And all the captain can say is...
"Huh..."
TO BE CONTINUED TO PART TWO_ _ _|