The Searchers

[Haven Tam]

Haven sighed as she reloaded the gun and fired out the window next to him. “I’m fine Daniel. Now just go about your business to prove to Bella that you actually have some balls.” She needed to humor to lighten up the mood right now. Looking at her mother, she shook her head. “Mom, you should have stayed behind.”

With Haven’s vision, she saw a man move about over across the way. “Excuse me.” Moving swiftly, she moved behind the crates and towards the allies. Going to the warehouse, the guy must have felt he hadn’t been seen. Tapping his shoulder, Haven clicked the gun. “If you’re a Fed, you better pray for mercy.“ From the looks of the man, he was far from a Fed, but someone who has lived here awhile. “But form the looks of you, you aren’t. That being said, you better get the Hell out of here before it gets worse.”

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Kaylee responded to Simon. “yeah, I’m fine. Wondering why I came, but fine.” Kaylee was unsure about being here as she watched Vincent pretty much suicide bomb into the whole thing. “Ok, please don’t make me do that.” Watching her daughter disappear, she was afraid of her daughter getting hurt. “Haven wait!” but the girl was gone.

“Daniel, can you go after her?” She wanted someone with Haven. It wasn’t good to go out alone with the captain already gone.

[james]

James rolled over, and looked at his pistol. The barrel was still smoking, he could tell it couldn't handle another shot like that, and who knows how much gunpowder and flash powder had been packed into this round. It was always a surprise. The rounds where nothing but a big bang, and even tho they were fun, they normally over heated the barrel, sometimes cracking them. Once he had even blown his barrel because of the "Big Bang Surprise". James pulled the slide back and the other bang shell flew out, and James grabbed it in mid-air. James looked for the lens flare, so hopefully he had been able to do something, but right now it was hard to tell, all he could hear is a loud ringing. James started to realize how stupid his jumpin back into combat was, and his way was the stupidest way he could have handled it, he could have just as easily flanked him, but no, he had to be all "Mr. macho". James was sitting about 10 feet away from Vincent, and about 15 feet from Haven or at least he thought they where, from where he last saw them, and right now, he couldn't help anyone, so he decided that he had better not look. "damn..." Thats all James knew, or could even think, "That was fun... but I hate the going deaf part..." James leaned back, and closed his eyes.

[Dave Cassidy]

Dave looked at James rolling over in the open and sprinted out to him, grabbing him by the collar and draging him behind a crate before shouting "You ok there?" between taking shots at the window, the brickword around it was full od large holes by now, but he just reloaded and switched for a mag full of purple tipped rounds, he shot one of, for it to leave a winding smokey trail as it made its way to the Sniper before exploding inside the warehouse with a dull hump and blowing out all the windows on that floor. "Nice rounds mate, pity they arent that effective, what is it? a special propellant?" he asked James, before shouting out to Vincent "That soulda taken care of him, that was a Seeker, wouldve gone after the warmest, man-sized object in there." Dave just slid down, back to the crate and let the adrenaline flow through him, this was the part that beat any drugs...

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Simon

"Good"Simon said to Kaylee just as he saw Haven run off "Wait here." he said and dashed off after Haven, drawing his pistol just incase, he stopped just as he saw her and the other man, and racked the slide and raised the pistol, aiming for the man "Haven, honey, whats going on?"

[danieltam]

Daniel was shocked by the bluntness of his sister's comment, "Aw sis. That was just cruel." Daniel fired a couple more shots off. When he hid again, he noticed that Haven was gone. Daniel frantically looked round for her until he noticed her disappear down an ally. At his mother's instruction, Daniel sped off after her. He caught up only to find his sister and his father holding their guns up to a strange man. He joined them without hesitation, "Who are you?"

[genehunt]

Gene felt a tap on his shoulder. He pulled his gun out and turned to confront them. To his surprise, it was the young girl who got shot at just moments ago. He just smiled and put his piece away, "Well, well, well, look at what we have hear. After what happened Id've had you pegged for running home and making sure ya hair didn't get messed up. Now, why don't you put that down before you break a nail or something." Gene was far from intimidated by the young girl, he was actually amused that she was trying to threaten him. When the man and the boy arrived, he just stared them down. They didn't look the type to shoot people. "Ah, I'm glad your hear, listen. Take the lady to the shops, you know, buy her something pretty like..." Gene heard the explosion from inside. He pulled his gun back out, "...and I'll do my job." He made his way inside.

[vincentmccloud]

Vincent waited for the sniper to show his face again. One clear shot thats all he needed. Just moments before Dave fired his shot off, the sniper came back up and tokk his position again, "Gottcha," Vincent mumbled to himself. He pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. The gun had jammed. He tried it a couple more times but again, it didn't work. He looked at his gun, "Gorram it." Vincent looked up and saw the sniper now taking aim at him, "Oh bugger," Vincent darted for the nearest cover while the sniper took a few shots at him. When he was safe, he felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder. The sniper had got him. He had been shot many times before, this was nothing serious. Vincent heard the explosion and Dave shouting up to him. With relief, he took out his communicator, "Doctor, Haven. The situation is now under control. With that said I could use some assistance from one of you right now."

[james]

James looked at Dave as he grabbed Jame's collar. James couldn't hear what Dave was saying, and even had a harder time controlling the volume of his voice, "I can hardly hear you! Why are you asking me about my boots?" James normally had a problem with someone grabbing his collar, normally it would've meant a fight was gonna happen, but one James wasn't in the condition to fight, and from what he could tell, Dave wasn't tryin to fight. Jame's Hearing started to come back, and he heard that Vincent needed assistance. "Dave, I think I'll be fine, go help Vincent! I just need a moment..." James looked around for Haven or the others, and they had all left. "now... for the exciting part..." James got up, and started to walk toward some of the other warehouses.

[Haven Tam]

“I dunno, we haven’t gotten that far.” Haven stepped forward. She was nervous, but her fear was washed away by her courage. “Now, we would like to get up there if you don’t mind and try to find our dear captain. You know, after I go shopping.” Haven added that last part sarcastically. Doing this had made her rather brave and she was ready to charge in there.

Hearing her communicator, it sounding like something happened to Vincent. “Dad, you may want to go help him while me and Daniel take care of this. I’m only in training so your better for this right now.” Haven knew she was the stupid one playing hero now. “Now you can either move and let us through or go with us and there will be no harm done, unless you try to kill us and then we’d have to kill you.” Haven wasn’t fond of these dances. She’d rather just go in there now. “Vincent may say it’s under control, but we should go up and double check.”

Suddenly the door flew open and a man came out. She didn’t know if he was the sniper or not. Being thrown back because she was on the other side of the door, she rubbed her head before looking around. Not really aiming, Haven pointed it in the mans direction and hit his foot. The explosion sounded somewhere moments before and Haven wondered if the feds would come along or not.

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Kaylee found herself alone now. “Well I didn’t mean for everyone to go.” Not wanting to follow suit, she saw Vincent go down. Covering her head with the explosion, if that didn’t draw the feds, she didn’t know what would. Moving out, she pulled Vincent back behind the crates, just in case. “You ok Vincent?” Seeing Simon’s medicine bag, she didn’t know what exactly to give him until the bullet was taken out, so she grabbed some bandages and pressed them to help stop the flow of blood.

[danieltam]

Daniel was mortified at the things this man was saying. He couldn't believe that such a person existed in the world. He put his gun right up to his face, "How dare you talk to my sister like that." Daniel was just has suprised as to how well Haven was taking this. He had never seen her behave like this before. Right now he was thinking 'Who are you and what have you done with my sister?' Daniel was startled when the door swung open in his face. He composed himself and aimed his gun at the man running away, "Stay where you are," Daniel heard a shot ring out and saw the man go to the ground. He look round and saw that his sister took the shot, Daniel was somewhat impressed. "Nice shot sis." Daniel went over to the man, "Now tell me, who you workin' for and where can we find them?"

[genehunt]

Gene was actually a little impressed at the young girl. Not many people were prepared to stand up to him and even less were prepared to threaten him with death. But even with that, he wasn't prepared to back down, "You've got balls sweetheart, I'll give you that. But know this," Gene got right into her face, "your too mouthy for your own good. You never know what kind of dangerous nutter you might enrage with that lip of yours." He turned to re-enter the building when he got smacked in the face by the opening door. His face was red with anger. He went after the man, picked him up by the throat and slammed him against a wall, "Your in big trouble now mate."

[vincentmccloud]

With Kaylee tending to his wound, Vincent tried his best to laugh it off in order to keep her reassured that he was alright, "Well, aside from the wacking, great, big hole in the back of my shoulder, I'm doing ok actually." He laughed a little before wincing in pain again. "Its a shame really. If my gun hadn't of jammed I would of had him." This was why Vincent always carried so many guns with him, incase one suddenly decided to stop working in the midst of a shootout. "So, how you doing? Your not hurt are you?"

[james]

James was walking off, and with what little he could hear, he heard a shot ring out, and he took off toward the shot. He had no idea who fired, or if anyone was hurt, but he needed to know. He slid around the corner gun drawn and he saw Haven, and Daniel guns ready, Simon was there too, another new guy who looked to be a bit older, along with the man who was being held against the wall with a round in his foot. James didn't lower his pistol, even tho he knew that another shot could be the last this pistol would ever see, it could even be the last he would ever see. He switched his target back and forth from the large new guy, and the guy held against the wall. "Um, What is goin on? Who are you?" James looked at Haven and Daniel, "You two ok?"

[Haven Tam]

Haven shook her head and then tilted it. “I guess I should aim less huh?” Ignoring the man she had mouthed off to, Haven went beside him. Looking at the man pinned to the wall, he was young, a little older then her. While she was in this for family, out here, he was probably in it for money and protection more then anything. “Hey man, you have to be delicate with him.” Haven elbowed the guy between the legs. “Sorry ‘bout that.” Going down his leg, she grabbed his spare gun strapped to him and threw it to James who had just appeared.

“We’re fine. Just sweeping him.” Going back up his legs, Haven found a pocketknife on his belt. Throwing that to Daniel, she stood back. “We have no clue who this guy is. He just appeared here and is helping. But we need to find Mal.” She looked between them, wondering why her father hadn’t left yet. “Daniel and James, you want to sweep and see if Mal is in the building?”

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Kaylee shook her head, swearing as to why her husband or Haven wasn’t here yet. “I’m fine, as long as those feds don’t show up. Is the bullet still in you?” If it was, Simon and Haven would have to take him back to Serenity. They could move from there and be fine. But she hoped it wasn’t, seeing as the longer it was in, the more chance of infection, thanks to two disappeared medics.

Shaking her head, she discarded the bloody gauze and moved to a new set, noticing the bleeding had slowed. Smiling she laughed. “I’d give you something for the pain, but I don’t want to make it worse.”

[danieltam]

Daniel cringed when Haven hit the young man, "Ouch, thats gotta hurt," he mumbled to himself. He barely managed to keep hold of the pocket knife when Haven chucked it at him. He barely had time to look at it when his sister 'suggested' that he go inside to see if Mal was there. It had finally officially happened. Haven just went from sweet and innocent, to intimidating and actually a little scary. He spoke very quickly with a slight sense of panic, "Yeah. Sure. No problem. Me. James. Look. Now." With that he rushed inside.

[genehunt]

As much as it would pain him to admit, this young girl was actually starting to impress him. She was assertive, manipulative, sick sense of humor and wasn't afraid to hit someone where it hurt the most. He looked over and actually started to check her out a little, such a shame she wasn't a little older as she would be exactly the type he'd go for. He over heard someone ask who he was and he directed his response to the man he had against the wall who was now in agony from the girl's low shot, "Who am I? I'm the man you DON'T want to mess with," he head butted him in the face and let him drop to the floor. He turned back to the girl, "It would appear that we are alot alike sweetheart. You got a name?"