Chapter Six – Oh God the Sea Is Boiling

So then the people were distracted again, and River was sent out to find the keys in the office where the superiors worked.

Author's note: This chapter has a lot of River and not so much Mal. Sorry about that!

So then the people were distracted again, and River was sent out to find the keys in the office where the superiors worked.

She followed a few of the people who were being distracted so that they wouldn't kill everyone on the ship, and they led her to where the superiors worked because River was super clever and figured they would know that sort of thing.

She kicked down the door, which exploded, and walked over to the supervisor, who was drinking a can of soda at his desk. SPACE soda. SPACE WESTERN soda. But he was Italian, so it was Space Spaghetti Western Soda.

"I need the key to Serenity the ship you impounded!" She announced.

He stared at her for a second, and started smoking a cigar, even though it was bad for his health. "Do you have authorization to take the ship?" He picked up his fedora and put it on his head, too.

"Yes. I have authorization."

He nodded. "Good, then I guess you can have the keys." He handed her the keys, and they didn't even explode or anything.

River escaped the base, even though everyone was trying to kill her because they knew she was breaking in. She had to punch a few people, and when she punched them they caught on fire and started melting.

River Song was the last person on the way out of the base, and River Tam knew this was going to be a difficult enemy to face. For one thing, River Song was not only a body of water but also a form of expression involving sound, and that was more than River Tam who was a body of water and a fancy sort of hat for Scottish people.

Instead of fighting, River Tam thought that she could outsmart River Song. So River jumped and River watched and River tried to Dodge when River kicked but River ended up kicking River's shoulder, and River fell over and then River started to melt, but it was all mind over matter so River stopped melting and went back to normal and in the confusion over names, River Tam got away.

When she got back to the ship, River's foot still sort of hurt from being punched by River. She shook it off, though, and waved the keys around to show off that she had found them.

Mal, who was a concerned adult figure, wanted to make sure she was okay. "You're not hurt, are you? Did they hurt you?"

River shrugged. "The guy in charge of HR shot at me, and I had to be really sneaky to get into the office and steal the keys while the supervisor wasn't looking, but other than that I am fine."

Which was true because it just happened.

-end chapter 6.

Authors Note: Next Chapter will be about Mal!