Ongoing Path - Firefly Verse
By Stargatesg1fan1
Disclaimer: I own nothing of any recognized characters or universes within.
AN:
Harry's Mates-
Kaywinnit Lee "Kaylee" Frye is played by Jewel Staite
Inara Serra is played by Morena Baccarin
Saffron is played by Christina Hendricks
River Tam is played by Summer Glau
Zoe Alleyne Washburne is played by Gina Torres
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The crew was fairly easy to convince. Rose didn't seem to mind Jayne's eagerness at helping out a house full of prostitutes. The resident telepathic mage picked upon the fact that Jayne's girlfriend was bisexual and wouldn't be opposed to sharing her man with another woman.
When Serenity touched down on the desert moon where Nandi ran her whorehouse the first thing the crew noticed was that the house was covered in reflective solar material. Jayne didn't recognize the material.
"Why is that place so shiny?" The hero of Canton queried.
"That's solar sheeting Jayne. It provides a cheap form of power," Kaylee provided the answer as the crew walked towards the structure.
When the group entered the shiny structure Nandi and Inara greeted each other with warm hugs.
"You look as fabulous as ever," Nandi complemented Inara.
"Serenity has been good to me," the brunette replied. "And so has Mal. Nandi I'd like you to meet my significant other, Captain Malcolm Reynolds."
"It's nice to meet you Captain. I really appreciate your coming to help us," Nandi greeted while shaking Mal's hand.
"Anything to help Inara," Mal declared. "You have good company in friends. This is my first mate Zoe and our resident genius doctor, Harry. We'll introduce you to the rest of the crew later but I heard you could use the Doctor's services."
"Yes, Petaline is heavily with child," Nandi clarified as the young brunette in question walked out of a back room.
While the others were talking, Rose guided her man over to a blonde prostitute sitting at the bar in the room. As Harry followed several of the locals into a back room to examine Petaline he overheard several of the house's women approach Shepherd Book about reading some scripture. It was clear that Book was a bit uncomfortable in the whorehouse. Meanwhile Nandi was briefing Mal, Inara, and Zoe on the situation with Rance Burgess. The immortal Potter was listening into the conversation through his connection with Mal.
"What do you think will happen if the blood test comes back showing the child is his?" Inara probed from her friend, referring to a sample of blood Burgess recently forcefully took from Petaline's child.
"It's a fifty-fifty chance the kid is Burgess' but no matter what that man isn't fit to raise any child. He'll come by force and take the kid. He even threatened to cut it out of Petaline. Now you tell me…any person that threatens to do that…should they be allowed to raise a child?" Nandi queried.
"Most definitely not," Zoe replied.
"Burgess has the money to change this place but chooses not to so he can play at being a cowboy with the best toys," Nandi explained. "Burgess intends to burn me out."
"Alright…Harry will tell us how to fortify this place to make sure Burgess doesn't get his way," Mal declared.
"Sounds like a plan," Nandi agreed.
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Kaylee and River began working on upgrading the water well systems in Nandi's house using materials their mate conjured. The warrior warlock was busy lining the interior walls of the house with a thin, flexible, but super strong armor material that was similar to the body armor he and his crewmates wore at all times. The armor was enchanted in addition to being physically strong due to the atomic structure of the material. Petaline's baby chose that evening to come into the world.
"I think my water just broke," Petaline announced as she sat on the couch in the main living room where everyone in the house was relaxing after a hard day's labor.
"Stay calm," the immortal Potter's soothing tone instructed the pregnant woman as he scooped her up and carried her into a back bedroom.
"River and Kaylee, would you be so kind as to assist me?" The warlock requested of the two beauties.
"Of course," Kaylee agreed before following her man into the bedroom.
Later Petaline wouldn't be able to recall what happened to her in that bedroom or how long the delivery of her child took. All the brunette would be able to recall was that her first child was birthed with very little pain on her part. In reality Petaline's child was out of her within a half an hour thanks to the magic of the skilled sorcerer. Harry had delivered many a child over his long life and therefore knew exactly what he was doing. The mechanic, the wizard, and the witch made it seem like the birth took a little bit longer, closer to normal birthing times, via enchantments on the room.
Meanwhile Nandi and Inara were wasting no time in showing Malcolm Reynolds how much they appreciated his assistance. The two former Companions were using all of their talents to make sure the Captain had the best night of his lives. Harry was enjoying the sensations as well and giving Mal a little magical assistance throughout the carnal session. The enchanter had been working on expanding his mental capacities and abilities since forming the link with Mal. Now the sorcerer could somewhat split his consciousness to work at multiple tasks at once. While delivering Petaline's baby the handsome doctor was also joined with Mal to make love to the two beautiful women.
River caught one of the prostitutes trying to sneak out and warn Burgess of the welcome waiting for him at Nandi's place but the brunette witch ensured the message was never delivered. The nark was asleep in her bed for the rest of the night thanks to the enchantress' magic. River had been receiving quite a bit of training in telepathy from her favorite wizard and put that ability to good use while the attractive young prostitute named Chari slept. Due to River's mental manipulations Chari would never betray her friends willingly again.
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"He's amazing isn't he," Inara whispered from her place on the right of the Captain as she noticed Nandi wake with a smile on her lips.
"I've never experienced the like," Nandi agreed. "You're a lucky woman Inara."
"You could be just as lucky Nandi. There's plenty of room in Mal's heart for you. I have always cared greatly for you. Come with us," suggested Inara.
"I can't abandon my girls," the redhead pointed out.
"You don't have to," Inara assured. "They could come with us after we deal with Burgess."
"But what would they do? Most of them don't have a useful trade other than what we are doing now," argued Nandi.
"There are plenty of virile men on Serenity. From what Kaylee and River tell me Harry is just as remarkable as Mal in bed. Just think about it," urged the brunette.
"Of course I'll think about it," Nandi agreed. "Now we have time to wake him up in the best way possible," the fire haired beauty proposed.
Inara could tell her man was already awake but still helped her friend wake the gorgeous Captain up using their well honed oral talents.
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Serenity would be used as a backup should the fight turn south for the defenders but the Firefly's crew had every confidence in the invention and skills of the genius doctor. Kaylee and Wash would be sitting tight in the well secured and concealed Serenity just in case. Petaline and her newborn were also secure in the heavily fortified spaceship. Mal got everyone into place while Harry took a position on the house's roof with one of his personal firearms. The warrior of many battles didn't expect this fight to last long.
"Zoe, Jayne…are you guys seeing this?" Mal probed after inspecting the approaching attackers via high powered binoculars.
The power of the binoculars was such that the attackers were still over a mile out.
"I count over thirty men on horseback," Jayne declared.
"Plus that mounted gun on that hovercraft," Zoe piped up.
Just then a loud retort was heard from the top of the house, the sound of a sonic boom, and the approaching group was hit with an explosion that tore apart everything within several hundred feet starting with Burgess piloting the hovercraft. The shockwave sent out a hail of dust and debris.
"What the hell was that?" Mal demanded having been unaware of his sorceress friend's intentions up on the roof.
"That would be my gun," the immortal wizard as he hopped off the roof and landed on his feet with barely any effort, having absorbed the inertia of his impact with his powers.
"I've never heard of a gun like that," Jayne declared a moment later as he came rushing out of the front of the house, eager to see such a weapon.
"That's because I made it myself and will never release the design for public knowledge," the ancient engineer pointed out. "This baby is a variable ejection speed rail gun."
"How could you possibly survive the kickback from that holding it," Zoe probed.
While it was true that the Alliance had been able to overcome the conventional problems that had plagued rail guns during the initial development of the technology there had never been a rail gun made so small and portable.
"I've refined inertial dampening technology and miniaturized it. This has no more kickback than a conventional gun," assured the sorcerer.
"I want one," a practically salivating Jayne purred while staring intently at the ultimate high powered gun.
"Down boy," Rose chided. "They'll be time to talk about that later."
"I think we will take you up on your earlier offer Inara. With somebody so smart around life certainly won't be boring," Nandi suggested while eyeing the green eyed immortal like a tasty morsel.
"You won't regret your decision," the brunette former Companion assured her red haired friend.
"I have no problem with that," Mal agreed.
"Alright girls…let's get ready to load up and leave this rock," Nandi barked out to her charges.
The redhead had already had brief words with each of her charges that morning to gauge their opinion on the idea of leaving the desolate moon. All of the women had agreed to the idea after the trouble with Burgess. The men on Serenity being so handsome hadn't hurt the matter of choosing for the experienced women one small bit.
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Serenity sat in the void of space while Harry made some upgrades to the vessel's systems. One of the upgrades was a cloaking field generator. The cloak was of a similar design to the one hiding the Phoenix but an older version. The immortal mage had no intention of giving out the latest versions of his toys. Even the ion cannon the warlock had installed on Serenity was nothing when compared to the weapons array on the Potter male's ship. It was while stopped to make these upgrades that the warrior's vessel alerted him to the arrival of a foreign vessel employing the latest Alliance stealth systems.
The bounty hunter piloting the newly arrived vessel, a cruel man named Jubal Early, could not hope to sneak up on Harry Potter using Alliance technology. The skilled sorcerer waited until Jubal was preparing to jump onto Serenity's hull before apparating invisibly onto the hull of the Firefly. The warlock's many enchantments on his person kept him from feeling any discomfort while in the harsh environment of space. Even over the distance that separated Jubal's vessel from Serenity the telepathic magician had been able to read Jubal's mind. The bounty hunter enjoyed inflicting pain upon other living beings. Early was insane. When Jubal pushed off of his spacecraft towards Serenity the Potter male allowed himself to become visible.
Jubal expressed surprise for a moment upon spotting the suddenly appearing man who didn't appear to need a spacesuit. With a casual flick of his hand the telekinetic immortal caused Jubal to hurtle into the depths of space. Mentally directing the Phoenix into position, one of the massive craft's cargo bays was in place to accept Jubal's craft. The bounty hunter's ship disappeared from visual sight. The sorcerer contacted his house elf friends to have them disable the traps Jubal had rigged the small vessel with should anyone actually try to fly it without authorization. The knowledge of all the traps was taken from Jubal's mind. With his task of cleaning up the trash completed the green eyed wizard disappeared back into Serenity to continue his upgrades, confident in the knowledge that no bounty hunter would get near River with him watching out for her.
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Several months later…
The crew of Serenity had been busy over the previous several months. But it was not pulling their usual type of job that kept the resourceful crew busy but something of a vacation that took up their time. Inara was visiting a Companion academy to formally end her affiliation with the guild. The process of ending her affiliation without there being bad blood was a long and ritualistic path for the brunette. Nandi had gone along for support. The guild could not detect the redhead's presence due to a personal cloaking field generator the resident wizard of Serenity had provided. The crew of the Firefly had long since given up on being surprised by the amazing feats of technology the green eyed genius revealed.
Nandi's charges were busy helping with the food production business aboard the converted Alliance cruiser. Shepherd Book was taking some vacation time to minster to a small mining colony on the moon designated Haven. Harry had been working with River to slowly unravel the memories and mental programming the brunette witch had acquired during her stay with the Alliance. The telepathic sorcerer had sealed off that portion of his mate's mind after healing her because there was simply too much pain for her to handle at once. Slowly the skilled mage helped his lover work through those memories. One piece of information the duo had uncovered was concerning a planet named Miranda.
Harry didn't really know much about the planet Miranda because he hadn't really made the time to investigate with how busy he was with everything but he knew he would get around to it soon enough. The warlock did know Miranda had a heavy emotional significance tied to it in River.
"Mal I think we need to talk to Mr. Universe to find out how close the Alliance is to finding Harry and River. I've been considering this for awhile now," Wash suggested over dinner one evening.
"Alright, that's a good idea Wash," Mal agreed.
Mr. Universe was a high level hacker that lived in isolation on a world surrounded by an ion storm. Universe's only companion was his love bot.
"So has there been any Alliance advancement in tracking the Tam's?" Mal queried without revealing that Harry and River were onboard Serenity.
"Are you looking to collect on the bounty Mal?" Mr. Universe queried.
"No…I have history with their father and was looking to see if I could help out," the Brown Coat lied.
"Well the only thing the Alliance has been doing is sending out a subliminal message signal over the last few weeks. The coding is high level military," Universe explained. "I don't really see what that has to do with the Tam siblings."
Mal understood though. The subliminal message might have been a trigger for River's mental programming. Luckily that trigger couldn't be used anymore thanks to the programming being suppressed and slowly unraveled.
"We've got a skilled engineer onboard. Perhaps you can transmit a copy of that signal to us for him to analyze," suggested the Captain.
"Alright, I can do that," Mr. Universe agreed for the man who had done him several favors in the past.
"Keep us apprised of any developments in the hunt for the Tams if you could," Mal requested before signing off.
"We'll be at Haven in a few hours," Wash informed his Captain and wife as the trio contemplated the information provided by Mr. Universe.
"I'll go see what Harry makes of that signal," Mal replied.
Harry's analysis of the signal showed that it was indeed a trigger for the now defunct mental programming. The Alliance was growing bolder in its pursuit of River.
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Haven…
"You look well Shepherd," Harry observed as Zoe hugged the white haired man. "Planet life seems to agree with you."
"Yes, well I do miss the hum of Serenity's engines," Book replied.
The Serenity crew was greeted like the old friends they were by the people of the mining colony. Harry took the opportunity while he was on the surface to check the wards he had laid over the colony. The warlock wasn't about to leave one of his friends anywhere without some form of protection.
Mal received a message from Inara and Nandi only a day after Serenity arrived at Haven requesting pickup. From the way the two former companions behaved the Captain and resident warlock knew something wasn't right. After checking the enchantments protecting Inara and the two warriors discovered a heavy Alliance presence near the two women. Malcolm's lovers were in no real trouble given the power of the devices protecting them but Serenity didn't dawdle in taking off for the academy where the brunette and redhead were staying.
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"Hello, my lovely ladies," Mal greeted as he entered Inara and Nandi's quarters after dropping his personal cloaking field.
"Mal…why did you have to come," Inara practically growled.
"You knew he wouldn't leave us in the hands of the Alliance," Nandi pointed out.
"He still shouldn't have walked into a trap," the brunette woman declared.
"I've got tricks up my sleeve," the Captain assured his mates.
"You can't handle this man," Inara insisted just as the doors to the room opened once more to reveal an athletic looking black man.
From his position piggybacking Mal's consciousness as the Captain stood between the two women near an altar to Buddha, Harry was growing alarmed at what he observed of the new arrival.
"I have to say Captain Reynolds that I am surprised that you would come for these two yourself," the Alliance operative declared.
Just as the cloaked Wash moved to shoot the operative in the back Harry felt his mind explode with knowledge and his being explode with power. The distraction of Harry merging with his Ascended and divine counterpart was all the opportunity the operative needed. Wash hadn't been as stealthy as he should have been. The operative had heard the pilot moving and turned with reflexes enhanced through Alliance technology to skewer the blonde man with a sword made of the hardest alloys sharpened to an atomic level. The body armor Wash was wearing made it so the operative's strike for the heart was deflected a little bit but the pilot was still in a bad way.
"No," the newly arrived god growled and with exceptional speed crossed the distance between himself and the operative.
Harry's swipe sent the black man hurtling through the outer wall to tumble down the slope the academy was situated on. The warlock caught Wash before the pilot could fall. Turning to see his two new mates staring at him in amazement the reality traveler strode over to them.
"Grab my arms," ordered the enchanter.
Doing as instructed Nandi began to question, "How…"
Before the redhead could finish her question she found herself in Serenity's infirmary. Zoe and the doctor were already there. Zoe had been in her quarters worried about Wash after her husband had been insistent on joining Mal on the rescue mission when the doctor suddenly appeared out of thin air. Just as suddenly the attractive dark skinned woman found herself in the infirmary to be greeted with the sight of her favorite man skewered by a wicked looking sword.
"Wash," Zoe cried in alarm as she rushed to his side.
"This is bad," Mal declared after the god had mostly retreated from his mind.
"Can you save him Harry?" Zoe demanded as blood pooled everywhere.
"I can. But the best way to save him will mean a change you might not be prepared for," Harry replied while locking eyes with Mal.
The reality traveling deity had already analyzed the soulstar his counterpart had created in the Brown Coat and found the construct incredibly interesting. The soulstar allowed Mal and the wizard to have a relationship much like that of a Tokra symbiote and its host. Harry would of course heal Wash using other means if Zoe declined but he would much rather take the opportunity to make Wash immortal. The immortal sex god dove into Wash's mind and conveyed the details of the proposed arrangement to the bleeding mortal's consciousness. Wash quickly agreed because he wasn't stupid.
"Anything…just save him," Zoe urged.
The god grasped the sword with his right hand and vanished the blade before laying his left hand on the wound and channeling healing energy into the tear. A white glow suffused the mortal man's chest as the tissue knit itself back together. The cut ribs also mended themselves under the awesome power wielded by the god. A glowing piece of soul appeared above Wash's chest and descended into the pilot, generated by Harry's will. Unlike the Potter native to this universe the reality traveler didn't need to use a sex ritual to generate the necessary power to create soul energy nor did he feel even remotely tired by the task. Wash sat up almost immediately.
"I feel like I just got hit by a shuttle," the newly enhanced blonde declared. A crying Zoe was all over her man, raining kisses upon his face in relief. "If this is the reception I get now I feel I should get stabbed more often."
"You two have some things to discuss," the enchanter declared before snapping his fingers for effect and sending the husband and wife back to their chambers.
Wash would have to learn to access his patron's abilities at a later time.
"And I need to explain some things to you," Mal added to Inara and Nandi as the women stared at the doctor and their man with no small amount of shock.
The Captain took his mate's hands and vanished with them to their shared quarters. The doctor turned his attention on Wash and entered into the Tokra like state as he experienced the world through the pilot's mind. Zoe hadn't wanted to talk. The relieved woman had simply started to tear her man's clothes off so that she could feel for herself that he was alive and fine.
Smut Scene Here (See hpfanficarchive or ficsite for erotic version)
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As soon as the crew was onboard Serenity River had piloted the Firefly towards Haven. When the ship came upon the mining colony it was to gaze at destruction and fire. The colony had been attacked.
"This doesn't look like an attack from Reavers," Jayne declared as he, Zoe, Mal, and Harry exited the ship with weapons drawn.
"That's because this wasn't a Reaver attack. It was an Alliance attack," Mal announced.
"Where are all the bodies?" Jayne queried.
"Right here," Harry replied while tapping a sequence out on a device mounted on his wrist.
In a flash of blue light the residents of the colony appeared in front of Serenity.
"What happened?" Book questioned with obvious confusion.
"Harry did something to save you all," Zoe surmised.
"I had protections around this place," the immortal engineer assured the Shepherd.
Book approached the god and grasped the green eyed male's forearm.
"Thank you Harry. We can never repay you," an emotional and relieved Shepherd declared.
Similar sentiments were expressed by the rest of the colony's residents. The people of the colony were confident enough in their safety to rebuild after Harry assured them his protections would keep any Alliance affiliated groups from harming them again. The wards had laid a curse upon the pilot of the fighter craft who had attacked the colony. The enchantments had also generated the illusion of people being present so the pilot thought his attack had been successful. The pilot would soon die as if by accident, crashing his ship fatally on his next mission thanks to the curse.
"Why didn't the Alliance wait around to ambush us if they knew we were coming here?" Jayne questioned.
"They didn't know we were coming. They hit everyone who has ever provided shelter," explained Harry, causing Wash to run towards Serenity to message any of the aforementioned people.
Mal looked at the resident deity, imploring the green eyed immortal to help. Harry had already dispatched replicats to aid the targeted individuals. The replicats would employ temporal rescue techniques if necessary and fake their charges' deaths. The fey let this knowledge become available to the Captain and Wash through their link.
"These are some really good quality illusions," Mal whispered to the god who was invisible to all but the Captain a short while later while the pair stood in the bridge examining the feed being broadcast by the Alliance from the locations of the people who had previously sheltered Serenity. The scenes showed death and destruction. "I'm really glad you showed up on my ship Harry."
Mal grew silent and acted distraught as the deity warned him about an incoming transmission from a certain assassin. The targeted emotion wasn't hard to simulate given how many of the Captain's friends had come close to dying that day.
"If your prey goes to ground…burn away any ground they could possibly go to," the monster masquerading as a human being declared. "If you had just given me River and Simon Tam none of this would have happened."
"You murdered children," Mal felt the need to point out. "You're insane. I'm not going to waste time arguing with you because I can see you believe completely in your cause."
Mal killed the signal before a trace could be formed.
"You played that well. Let's go see what is on this planet Miranda," suggested Harry while resisting the urge to reach out with his senses and see what Serenity would be heading into or looking deep into River's mind, neither task would be difficult for the god.
Once the crew of the Firefly was back onboard Wash set a course for the planet Miranda. None of the crew asked for the destination. Most of the people onboard Serenity were in the know about the reality traveler's divine nature. The few that were not trusted in the genius engineer and the Captain to see them through whatever came. With the cloak fully engaged Serenity coasted on through the Reaver infested space separating Haven from Miranda. Miranda itself sported a huge contingent of the insane goblin descendents in orbit.
"Every reading coming through says Miranda is normal," Zoe announced as Serenity entered the atmosphere of her destination. "There are oceans present, land masses present, no radiation, and no tectonic instability."
"There is very little power as well. I'm picking up some electromagnetic energy but it is pretty weak. I'm taking us to that location," Wash informed the crew on the bridge.
Soon the ship had touched down and the crew was disembarking in spacesuits just in case.
"There's nothing harmful to us in the atmosphere," Harry declared after checking his handheld scanner before removing his helmet.
The others followed suit.
"This place is a lot bigger than the Alliance let on," Inara pointed out.
"That doesn't surprise me," Mal muttered.
"The signal I picked up is this way," Wash added while indicating the direction in front of him.
The crew stowed their space gear back on the ship before heading towards the signal. A few automated systems came back on after sensing the moving humans. The flesh was almost completely gone on the first corpse the group came across.
"No visible signs of death. Poison maybe," Zoe suggested.
"He's not the first one we're going to see. Brace yourself…I'm picking up thousands upon thousands dead," the warrior warlock informed his companions while waving his scanner around for effect.
The group came upon a sealed building that gave a clear picture of what the death of the local population was like.
"There are gases that kill painlessly, right Doc?" Mal questioned as he noticed the lack of any signs of a painful death and no physical trauma.
"Yes, but not this slowly and not like this. Plus I would have detected a trace of that in the air. Those gases are pervasive," the wizard answered.
"The entire planet is like this. The Alliance parliament knew about everything that went on here and covered it up. I got that much from their minds," River declared, unable to focus on the exact information but knowing she was right instinctually.
Harry didn't want his wife to gain access to all the horrors burrowed in her subconscious from the time with the Alliance so he was having Aristotle filter the content.
"We'll get our answers when we reach the source of that electromagnetic radiation. It's this way," Harry informed his friends before leading the way. The group zeroed in on a research vessel crashed into the side of a building. "The signal is in here."
River immediately walked over and slotted a data disc into its player. A hologram was activated.
"These are just a few of the images we've recorded on Miranda," a holographic woman began as images of the dead on the planet were displayed. "The catastrophe is nothing like what we thought it was. There was no attack and no terraforming destabilization. It's the PAX…the G23 Paxillon Hydrochloride that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population and weed out aggression. The PAX works for that purpose…too well. The population stopped fighting but they also stopped working, breeding, talking, and eating. Thirty million people let themselves waste away and die," explained the Alliance scientist just before a crash came out of view of the holo recorder and a familiar cry was heard. "I don't have much time. About a tenth of a percent of the population on Miranda had a completely opposite reaction to the introduction of the PAX. Their response is beyond madness. They're monsters. Most of my research team is dead. They've done terrible things."
"Reavers," Wash whispered, catching onto the true horror of the Alliance's manipulations. "The Alliance made Reavers."
"I won't live to report this but people have to know. We meant it for the best, to make people safer," the holographic woman managed to get out before getting off a round at the Reavers that had just broken into the room she was in.
The woman screamed and meant to shoot herself but the Reavers got to her first. Harry immediately shut off the device.
"Well that explains a lot," the Potter male whispered into the silence. "Those dumb sons of bitches had no idea what they were messing with."
"Doctor, you have an idea where the Alliance went wrong other than trying to control human will?" Rose prompted.
Harry shared a glance with those in the know about his true nature before deciding the time for secrecy was over.
"Goblins…the tenth of a percent of the population that went mad had goblin DNA. One of the most violent magical races I've ever come across didn't react well to being pacified by the Alliance. Their goblin DNA rebelled against the attempt and went mad. Now we have Reavers," explained the deity.
"I ain't never heard of any goblins," Jayne declared.
"You wouldn't have," the sorcerer replied before snapping his fingers and causing the living beings to transport to their ship. "Let's get off this rock and make the Alliance pay for what they've done."
"What just happened?" Rose questioned in a bit of shock.
"I'll explain it to you," Nandi volunteered as Wash got Serenity underway.
"Take us to the edge of the Reaver cluster under cloak Wash," Mal instructed.
Several minutes later Wash inquired, "Now what?"
"This," Mal responded while activating the weapons array firing sequence.
Several of the Reaver vessels exploded into their constituent atom as the ion cannon did its job.
"Is our reception going to be there?" Mal queried of the resident god.
"Yep, I made sure they could track the dummy probe heading towards our destination," Harry assured as Jayne and his two girlfriends came back onto the bridge.
As the now uncloaked Serenity jumped into FTL mode Jayne demanded, "You mean to tell me we've had a genuine god onboard and we're still flying around in this piece of junk!"
There was silence for a moment before Wash felt the need to point out, "Jayne…Harry designed this piece of junk."
"And he can make your pecker shrivel up and fall off," Kaylee added with a grin.
To prove his mate's point the fey caused Jayne's bits to slowly shrink.
"Alright, alright…Serenity is a wonderful ship," Jayne managed to get out.
"Much better," Harry grumbled before restoring Jayne to his rightful size.
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Orbiting Earth-That-Was…
"Sir the target is rapidly approaching," a sensor technician informed the assassin who was resting in a mobile regeneration tank.
"Why are you coming here Malcolm," the dark skinned mercenary mused. "You'll regret running from me."
When Serenity dropped back into normal space in view of the desolated Earth Harry grinned.
"Deactivating the sensor distortion field now," the reality traveler crowed which caused his crew mates to grin.
Moments later the Reaver fleet dropped into normal propulsion.
"I bet those Alliance boys all just shit their pants," Jayne suggested.
"I bet you're right," Mal agreed before Wash reactivated the cloak.
The perceptive deity used his senses to observe the assassin giving orders to target the Reaver fleet to the Alliance fleet soldiers who were mostly paralyzed in fear. As Serenity put on a burst of speed and slipped from between the two forces the two enemy fleets opened fire on each other. The battle was devastating. It wasn't clear who was going to win for some time. Even the mightiest Alliance cruiser was taken down by the Reavers but eventually the Alliance prevailed. But the number of remaining ships was paltry compared to the original force the Alliance had started out with. The assassin had not survived the conflict, having been unable to get to escape pod due to being stuck in a mobile regeneration tank.
"What now?" Rose questioned.
"Now we let the human population of the verse know how the Reavers came to be," Harry declared while Aristotle brought a newly deployed satellite network online. One of the cloaked satellites was orbiting every inhabited world in the verse. The fey explained this to his crewmates. "I've already started broadcasting the hologram we obtained to all inhabited worlds along with the hidden records Parliament would rather die than reveal to the public. I have backdoors in all of the Alliance systems."
Replicats had retrieved the files from non-networked facilities to include in the mass broadcast.
"I don't think the Alliance is going to survive this," Mal declared.
"We'll keep an eye on things," the mage assured. "Let's throw another wildcard into the fray," the Potter male suggested while gazing intently at Earth.
Suddenly the planet seemed to blink out of existence for a moment before being replaced with an obviously healthier version of itself.
"What did you just do?" Zoe queried in amazement.
"You replaced Earth with a version of itself from the past didn't you," the genius River deduced quickly.
"Indeed," the sorcerer agreed.
"Earth-that-was is once again Earth-that-was," Inara pointed out with awe at such a display of power.
"O-ho…how intriguing," the dark haired enchanter suddenly muttered.
"What is it?" Nandi inquired.
"I just detected several settlements of magicals throughout the system. The colonies are on nearby moons under heavy enchantments. I knew some of them had to have survived," Harry explained.
"Let's go visit one," Kaylee suggested.
"I'll take us to the closest one," the deity announced before the group vanished from the ship and reappeared inside of a massive domed complex on the surface of Earth's moon.
Alarms were going off due to the detection of an unusual type of interdimensional travel. Several dozen heavily armed women suddenly apparated in around the group who stood in the square of what appeared one of the several towns within the dome.
"Umm…I think we've arrived at Harry's town," the hero of Canton declared as he pointed up to a truly massive statue that looked to be supporting the center of the dome.
The statue was one Harry Potter. The group of women holding up wands at the new arrivals immediately became less threatening when they inspected the resident god.
"He has returned. Harry Potter has returned," one of the women declared.
The one who appeared to be the leader of the group ordered, "Lower your wands ladies." Approaching the group the blonde haired beauty said, "I am Lillian. I'm the leader of the Veela Village. Are you Harry Potter?"
"I am," the fey confirmed calmly, having already scanned the leader's mind without her ever knowing it. "I've been away for a few years," joked the heir of the Marauders. "What happened to wizard and witch kind? When I returned from one of my journeys there was no trace left," the sorcerer queried for the sake of his crew mates.
"After you disappeared a prophecy was made by one of the strongest seers of the age. The prophecy predicted that Earth would perish and so too would our kind unless we followed your example. By that time you had already left Earth but investigations showed that you had traveled into space. You had developed a following by then my Lord," Lillian explained with a small smile. "A completely female following," the beauty added. "Before Earth died we managed to build colonies on the moons in our system. It wasn't easy but our sect persevered."
"But with no men how have you survived?" Rose questioned.
"Our kind live longer than humans," pointed out Lillian. "Beyond that we've found ways to further slow our aging. Our children are actually clones of ourselves who we raise. You might see some familiar faces around my Lord," the blonde told the deity.
"If it's alright with you Lillian my friends and I would like to stay for some time and explore," the sex god suggested.
"You are most welcome to stay forever my Lord," Lillian replied, her eyes imploring the gorgeous immortal to remain with the modern day equivalent of the ancient amazons. "There are many women of our colony and among the other colonies that would love to thank you for saving our kind from extinction."
"We'll see what happens in the coming days," the deity declared with a warm smile while triggering one of his powers at the word coming.
Every living being on the moon climaxed violently at the god's command.
"Show off," River declared as she barely managed to stay standing.
Some of the other women weren't as restrained.
"I think this is going to be the beginning of a new golden age for the beings who originated on Earth," Malcolm declared, words that proved to be prophetic.
Lillian's initial tour proved to be quite revealing. The women of the colony proved to be quite welcoming to their idol and his companions. The Serenity crew agreed to move their cruiser and growing operations to Earth's moon. The Alliance began to dissolve soon after the revelation of the Parliament's actions on Miranda. Harry oversaw the resettlement of Earth, acting in the role of Governor of that fabled world. The peoples of humanity spread throughout the galaxy were ruled by their individual planetary government like the original Brown Coat movement had desired instead of one huge government. Humanity quickly figured out that its greatest asset was the genius known throughout the verse as Harry Potter, the Governor of Earth. A new age of scientific advancement swept throughout the galaxy under the god's direction. The advances raised the quality of life for all.
The several dozen thousand magical people located on several moons throughout the solar system never did reveal their presence to the rest of humanity, following the example of their ancestors. Earth's Governor often spent a significant portion of his time on these enchanting moons with the female population. The Potter male eventually revealed his divine nature to the women and subsequently developed quite the following. Aphrodite and Harry's other divine Ascended wives had been working with their favorite male to develop his ability to split his essence in order to exist in multiple places at once. This was a more advanced form of his ability to control multiple bodies. Theoretically an Ascended god or goddess could exist in as many places as they wanted at one time so long as they had the mental focus and power to maintain all of their forms.
Through much diligent practice Harry learned how to utilize this technique in order to be with all of the witches that worshipped him as much as any man can know a woman on a daily basis. The experience was much more pleasurable than the prostration the Ori put their followers through. Throughout it all the upgraded and refurbished Serenity still routinely sought out adventures aiding the people of the galaxy and they always had at least part of the green eyed god's essence traveling with them. Serenity's adventures would never end for the immortal and close crew.
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