From Savvy To Shiny
Yes, not only another Jack and Elizabeth story but a crossover to. Other couples included will be Zoe and Wash, Mal and Inara, Simon and Kaylee. Sorry River and Jayne fans but Jayne will have Vera...and Ana-Maria
Summery: They were immortal, in sense, and not until three-hundred and fifty years after earth that was, were the remaining crew of the legendary Black Pearl caught and put into cryogenic-sleep for crimes of pirating.
One-hundred and fifty years later the crew of Serenity has been contracted to transport cargo under the nose of the Alliance to a private collector. However when the cargo comes back to the living as it were they decide to make up for lost time and the crew of Serenity find themselves in a lot more trouble then they can handle.
Captain Tight- pants of Serenity meet Captain Sparrow of the Black Pearl.
From Savvy to Shiny
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Location: Leaving Incubus Prime.
The crew minus the busy Inara who had been dropped off at another central planet for business, Shepard Book who was conducting a sermon on a near by backwater planet and Jayne because he was not a thinker in general had worked diligently on plan after plan after plan till there was no way in hell anything could go wrong with the heist.
In fact nothing went wrong. Not because of the hard planning the crew had put in but because the Alliance apparently saw no need to have a paid watch over iced prisoners in storage.
That information could have been used earlier so Mal could have avoided the many fights that had occurred and left him in a foul mood.
Mal, Zoe and Jayne retrieved the cargo with no mishap and Jayne was upset that he did not have a chance to use his grenades.
"I don't know Sir, it just seems off." Zoe sated as the secured the carso.
"I agree with lamby toes Mal. This Job was too easy." Wash inserted his opinion as he sat on a large crate doing nothing.
"For the first time since," Mal trailed off trying to count in his head when things went right, "ever," he continued, "things went down nice and sweet like and you all are whining about it?" Mal asked dubiously.
"Well Captain," Kaylee began watching for Mal's reaction, "it's just these guys were convicted bad guys."
Mal kept his growing anger in check since it was his little Kaylee talking to him, "Convicted, no doubt by an Alliance trail which means for crimes most likely or the same things we do daily."
"Regardless of pass crimes they are healthy, all their vitals and stats are fine. I will say though that the Alliance is becoming sloppy in their computer filing." Simon Tam said blandly as he read over the cryo-crates built in computer.
"What are ya getting at doc?" Mal questioned irritably. His calm with the crew was severely being damaged.
"The dates they were imprisoned was over two hundred years ago, no brain could function that long under," Mal cut the young doctor off.
"Real nice doc but no one cares." Before Kaylee could rush to Simon's rescue Mal turned to his lounging pilot who was playing kat's cradle with his shoe lace. "Let's just pick up Inara and Book and get us Isis!" Mal ordered and then stalked up the steps to sulk in his bunk.
"Sometimes I wish Inara and Mal would just declare their undying love for each other so we could all feel the warm fuzzes." Wash said opening a new topic for discussion, his loving wife just smiled at him.
Before Inara had left the ship she and mal once again had gotten in a fight. The fight had been about his stupidity of his plan and lack of morality and he in turned once gain called her a hypocrite about morality when she was a whore. So Mal had been on everyone's case since.
The crew knows one day Inara was not going to come back.
River had been asleep for a long while. The drug regiment her brother had placed her on was working some what only it left her weak and sleepy, she was glad the last dosage was the last of this particular treatment.
Sitting up in her bunk she shook her head a little to rid the last shreds of drowsiness from her mind. Looking at her surroundings clearly for the first time in days she see Simon was sleeping in his bunk, covers drawn up to his neck, a look of concentration etched into his face. Even in sleep he is still saving lives.
Her stomach rumbled loudly.
A reaction caused by muscle spasms to indicate hunger or irritable bowels. River's brain automatically called upon the fact.
Knowing that the spasm was not caused by her need to go to the bathroom but her stomach, River quietly got out of her bunk. She did not feel it was necessary to wake her brother for such a simple request as food.
No one was awake as River made her way to the kitchenette area of the ship. Wash was the only one up but currently sleeping in the cockpit, his snores the only company River had.
She made her way to the storage area and looked for something that would satisfy her hunger with out being to much work to make. She found a can of pineapple, the last can of pineapple no less, and picked it from the self.
River then placed the can on the counter looking for an opener when she felt them.
She grabbed her head in confusion as waves of emotions hit her and none of them were from the crew.
Pain...
Anger...
Sadness...
Aching...
Love...It hurt.
River felt tears spring to her eyes and her breathing become erratic and she could not recall as to why tears and hypertension happen to a body.
River forced herself to calm down and follow the myriad of emotions striking at him mind and heart. She may have been insane but the genius that still lived in her (figuratively) had to know why the feelings were so intense.
In the cargo area, River made her way to the bottom floor clutching her head the entire way. The feelings grew stronger as she approached the four crates that were aligned in a row.
She realized she had one been in a carte like them before when Simon had first rescued her from the two by two hands of blue. She shuddered involuntarily before her attention was focused on the crates in front of her. Then she realized what was wrong, letting go of her head and the letting the tears fall from her eyes she spoke for the first time in days.
"Birds this bright should not be caged." Wiping at her tears she quickly went to each crate hacking the computer locks on them.
River cried in joy as each crate hissed opened, a smoky mist filling the cargo area.
The four people inside the crates had not yet awakened but still lay in a fetal position much like River had when she had been placed in the crate. She studied each one intently...
The first crate held the body of a man an old man with the same shade of gray hair of Shepard Book but not as long and much smoother. He was also a bit overweight and he snored quite loudly. His skin was a dusty tan and his face had the look of beaten but well loved leather to it.
The second carte she passed by was a woman. A dark skinned beauty whose skin looked like silk, with black hair that went passed her shoulders. She did not look much older then twenty-five. She had the presence of a sleeping tiger and River made a metal note to be far from this particular crate should the woman wake up.
The next crate held another woman only she was had a tan completion from years spent in the sun of some planet. She was very slender with a proud look about her not to mention long thick honey locks that went passed her waist. She had strong emotions rolling about her. One primarily was worry another longing.
The last crate held the most interesting person. A man who was not very tall, at least not taller then Mal. He to was very tan much for the same reason as the woman next to him, but he had a small smile on his face as if he knew something highly amusing that no one else did. He had many gold teeth and his hair was deadlocked in some places and fine in others. Not to mention collection of bead, coins, and other trinkets braided and woven into his thick dark brown hair.
River went to touch the coin dangling at the end of a beaded strand but stopped as one of the women woke up.
"Jack!" She yelled her long honey hair dripping with condensation, her eyes wide and frantic; she looked like a frightened animal. She looked at River and moved away frantically getting out of the crate and falling to the hard floor of the cargo area; she attempted to cover her body with her hands.
"Miss Swann, don't be scared." River said quite tone so as not to scare the woman any more and approached.
"Gorram It!" Mall Yelled. His yell was so loud not only did it wake the crew of Serenity it woke up the rest of the frozen convicts.