Planet: Hermes Location: Corona Valley


She had always loved the color blue. Not the pale sickly blue, but the rich and vibrant blue. She used to have a dress that color, but that was gone and had been replaced by a form fitting blue top. Draped around her was a dark brown coat that had been given to her by an old friend of hers and her gun…where was her gun?

She felt an arid wind blow across her face as she looked down at her hand and as it clutching her gun. Why was that?

"Riv?" a voice nudged

"Riv?" a said quietly

"River!" A voice snapped as she suddenly came back down from the black. She turned and saw a few black crates with a New Alliance seal on it. To her right with his gun drawn stood a tall man. His skin was a dusky brown with a hint of bronze and he had a pale white scar going diagonally over his left eye. His muscles were evident through his rust colored shirt, a few buttons at the top loose. He wiped sweat of his brow with the sleeve of a black jacket he had on.

"Now would not be time for one of your space out's Riv." Said Darin Riser, her second-in-command as he returned his focus back to what his gun was pointed out.

Around both of them was a small semicircle of men, they're coats grey and tarnished badges on their lapels. These were the Enforcers of the Outer Rim. Sent by the New Alliance to try and help out the more primitive colonies. Within the first week most of them had either been killed or started using their position for they're own gain. They frequently kept the good supplies to themselves. So what were few crates of equipment stolen?

Judging by the rifles levered at them, it was a lot.

"You are in possession of stolen goods of the New Alliance you are bound by law to stand down!" said the bald headed guy in the center of the pack of them. "Let's all just be calm about this girlie

River then re-leveled her gun at the group and fired a warning shot at the group said "Last time I got called girlie it didn't end so didn't end so well for those involved."

"I was there…girls got a nasty temper." Darin said smirking "I got the scars to prove it."

The group shifted themselves uncomfortably for a moment and River used that time as softly she whispered into the micro com in her ear.

"A.J, where the hell are you, we need a pick up…"


Flying a Firefly class ship with its hatch open was not a very advisable flying arrangement. If the pilot made the slightest error in movement, then it could send everything in the cargo hold flying out the hatch or worse send the craft into a crash spiral.

And with alarms blaring warnings in the cockpit the pilot was very prone to error. However Adjani Jayne Catchernum, better known as A.J was not worried. Incense being held up by a plastic stegosaurus wafted the smell of lilacs all around her. She tugged her short reddish hair for a moment and then continued to mute the outside sound. Her concentration was broken momentarily when her Captains voice came over the speaker

She let out a small growl and grabbed the com saying "I'd have been here sooner, if you'd actually hire an actual goram mechanic for Serenity."

She was fast approaching the pickup point "Your live in 5….4…3…2…1...go!"


A.J voice came back into both River and Darin's coms

"I'd be here sooner, if you'd actually hire an actual goram mechanic for Serenity."

"Actual mechanic, I'm kind of offended." Darin said

"Why? your mechanical skills are essentially 'keep screwing around with the engine until something works." River shot back casually as if they weren't being held at gunpoint.

"Well then we have a lot in common Riv, because replace the engine with the plan and we have your leadership philosophy." Darin shot back

The bald headed lawman shouted "What are you two gabbin about?"

In the ear com AJ's voice could be heard "You're live in 5…4…"

Darin turned to River and angled his head and said "Kind of chídùn de for a lawman ain't he?"

"3…2"

River nodded "Wánquán de..."

"1…Go!"

With that their feet left the groud as they lept upward and launched themselves backward dropped as Serenity came flying low and to the ground. The hatch acting like a shovel, picking up a bunch of sand, rocks, and dirt along with the crates and the two of them.

The pair slid back into the cargo hold as Serenity took off. River struggled against the gravity as she got to the hatch controls and hit the glowing orange button. The hatch shut itself as A.J banked Serenity up into the sky amidst the rifle fire from the stunned Lawmen.

"Catch the cargos in place, let's burn us the hell out of there." River said


In the cockpit A.J whooped loudly and then pulled up on the controls hard as they took to the sky. A few minutes later they were in the black of space. Serenity engines glowed as they went to maximum burn and left the dust ball planet behind.