A dropped weapon.

[Dave Cassidy]

Dave rushed into the Cargo bay, his eyes franticly searching left and right for the sign of his Rifle. He started to wander around looking for it before he saw it lying in a corner between a couple of large crates, walking over to it he picked it up and cleared it, looking out he saw a young man running towards the ship.

[james]

James came rushing full speed into the cargo bay, stopping and bending forward he threw his hands on his knees and tried to catch his breath. James looked up to see a man standing in the cargo bay with a rifle, he looked at him and tried to speak, even without having all of his breath. "The... Captain... Mr. Reynolds... was... taken." He managed to get it at least partially sounding like a sentence. As his breath returned, "where is the rest of the crew? He needs your help."

[Dave Cassidy]

Dave looked at the newcomer and without thinking he unholstered his pistol and threw it to the man, he said " im going to get the crew, you wait here for a minute."
Saying that, he ran off towards the catwalk, clambering up it with his Rifle in one hand. he almost dived through the kitchen hatch.

[out - Kitchen & common room]
[[im going to post the exact same post in each, because there kinda connected]]

[Dave Cassidy]

Dave came crashing across the catwalk and jumped down ontot he floor of the cargo bay, roilling on the floor as he landed to try and absorbe the shock, it didnt work very well and he hurt his ankle. Wincing as he stood up, he turned to the man and said "Im Dave, you?"

[james]

James Caught the pistol, and started examining it, and nodded when he heard him say he was leaving. Continuing to examine the pistol he heard a crash, he looked at the man as he got up, and now he knew his name. He looked at him, James was now even more suspicious of everyone. "The names James..." He didn't want to seem rude tho, so he put his hand out. "you ok?"

[justin667]

Running into the cargo bay, Jayne saw a new guy. "Who the hell...?" He left it there and turned to the other guy, Dave. "Hey, Mal's gone."

[vincentmccloud]

Vincent soared in over the catwalk. He landed reasonably well, after all, in his life he's had to do it many times. Before he even stood back up he whipped out twin Smith & Wesson .45 magnums and pointed one at Dave and one at the new guy. "Now then. Dave, you wait there. Jayne, good to see you. You, new guy. Speak, what happened?" Vincent's usual calm, almost playful mannor of speach changed to a deeper and much more serious tone.

[Dave Cassidy]

Staring at the .45 magnum pointing in his face, Dave looked slightly concerned before placing the rifle on his back and placing his hands behind his head before saying "Now theres no need to do anything that you wil be regreting later."

[james]

James always kept his cool, even when his instructors threatened to beat him, or the Generals threatened to kill him, but something about what had happened or about the man pointing the gun in his face had been different, either way, it threw James off of his normal cool. James Immediately dropped the pistol he was holding. "Its MY fault, if i was paying attention I would have never been used as a hostage. I let my guard slip and now that man has Mal." James didn't know what to do, "From the looks of it he was waiting there for the right time. If I wasn't there, I don't think it would have gone down the way it did... I know how to use a gun, if I can be of any help, please count me in." James tried to regain his cool, but all he could do is think about how much he had screwed up.

[justin667]

Jayne looked around and nodded to Vincent. Well, these must be the bad guys. Throwing the holster on the floor, it slid. "Found it. Behind some box on there-abouts." Putting a hand to his own gun, he grabbed and cocked the pistol he had handy for just a wlak around. Jayne was getting old and couldn't carry all the weapons he used to unless it was a job. "That theres Mal's."

[vincentmccloud]

Vincent walked over to the new guy and got right into his face and stared deep into his eyes. He lowered the gun he held on him "Good, I believe you. Cause I think you know I will kill you if I find out your lying. And as for you." Turning his attention back to Dave. "First off, I don't need some punk kid telling me what I can or can't do. Secondly, right now your only concern should be as to whether or not I believe that you had nothing to do with this."

[Dave Cassidy]

Looking over at the old man that had just come in, he said "You mind telling him that ive been here this whole time?" with a slight jerk of the head towards vincent, then to the new guy "This person that you said took Mal, did he say anything about working with anyone else?". at this point, he was quite exasperated, the last time someone had pointed a gun on his face, he had shot the man, but he knew that this wasnt one of those times. "This is just a serious case of misunderstanding."

[james]

James had a sigh of relief, "I know..." He looked at Jayne, then to Dave, "For all I know he was working alone. He was dressed as a Tourist, he had a cigar and a large automatic pistol, it was a nice one too, probably costed a lot." James took another good look at everyone in the room. "Ok, I'm almost positive that no one in this room was working with him. I am a good judge of people, well, at least I normally am." James looked down, "I guess I messed up." With this, James picked up the gun he had dropped, "but I know how to fix my mistake." and he put the gun in his back pocket.

[justin667]

Jayne looked confused a moment. "When I left here, he was being taken by Simon to his bunk. From there, I came back and he was back here." Jayne lowered his hand from his gun, finding no reason to shoot. "After we're done here I should go see if anyone is gonna help us find him or not."

[vincentmccloud]

Reluctantly, Vincent lowered his gun. With more pressing matters at hand, he couldn't waste his time with such trivial matters. "Alright then, but you just watch yourself." He walked over to his bike to get ready to gear up. In his head, Vincent began to ponder the potential origins and intentions of the man that took Mal. He looked back to the group, "OK, here's the plan. We go to the spot where Mal was nicked. I track them down. And we save Mal. Any questions?"