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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 2295375" data-attributes="member: 93">Onward, Browncoats![spoiler]Zoe is mighty pissed.  The crew is in big trouble.  They make their way to Mr. Universe's broadcast center, knowing they've got Reavers chasing them on the ground to deal with.  Little do they know, the Operative has beat them there, and Mr. Universe was dead before they hit atmo.  He killed Mr. Universe using his neato paralyzing nerve trick, and then letting him fall on his sword (The Operative carries a katana).  He doesn't junk bot-girl; a critical error as it turns out.The crew finds a good spot to stage a last stand of sorts.  Narrow hall, blast doors, etc.  Mal goes on to Mr. Universe, only to find him dead, and his distribution network destroyed.Turns out Mr. Universe recorded the event, via bot-girl.  She's set to playback off a proximity trigger of some kind, and starts talking as soon as Mal enters the room."Mal, he killed me.  With a sword," Mr. Universe's voice coming out of the (very doll-like) bot-girl is kinda weird.The recording goes on to explain that there is a back up distribution system in the sub-basement.  Mal goes down there to do what needs doing.Meanwhile the Reavers are rippin the Alliance to shreds.  The Operative has to abandon ship, and crashes down near Mr. Universes complex.The crew is fighting for their lives against the reavers, and starting to lose ground.  They've been pushed back past the Blast Doors.  Zoe is hit after getting a little suicidal, getting her spine sliced open.  Simon manages to patch her up using some nifty shaving-gel-like stuff.  Then Simon gets hit, bad.  He goes down.  The Reavers are winning.River bends down over Simon."You always took care of me..." she whispers."My turn."River charges into the midst of the Reavers.  Just as the Blast Doors close, cutting her off from the Crew, and from retreat.The Reavers don't stand a chance.Back to Mal.  He's found the back up system.  But there's a problem.The Operative just found bot-girl, and her proximity sensor goes off."Mal, he killed me.  With a sword." The Operative shows up just as Mal finds the backup system.  They fight, with Mal taking the brunt of the beating.  The Operative is highly trained.  Mal knows how to take a beating, though.  He gets the sword through his gut, but stays on his feet.  Don't ask me how.  Finally, the Operative does his neato nerve thingy again, and Mal is paralyzed.The Operative moves in for the kill.  Basically he holds his sword out, and waits for his victim to topple over onto it.  Mal snaps out of it, much to his opponents surprise, and beats the Operative like a red-headed stepchild. "Those nerve centers got severed in the war," Mal explains.He then leaves him, alive, tied to the rail in the system, in front of a monitor."Now, I'm going to give you your fondest wish," Mal says.  "A world without conflict."(This refers back to an earlier conversation between them).He then inserts the recording, and broadcasts it.  Everyewhere.The Blast Doors open.  All is silent.  Joss gives us River in a nice "Buffy-Reveal" pose.  Blood dripping off the axe she took off one of the Reavers.Mal and crew make their way out, as the broadcast plays.  We get som nice shots of the Operative as he is forced to watch it.  Then the Alliance troops arrive, and get ready to blow the crew away.  They've got the drop on our guys, and await orders, presumably from the Operative.  After a long, tense, minute, they start to decide just to kill them, but the Operative calls them off.  Mal has broken him, by showing him what his superiors were truly up to on Miranda.This is basically the end.  There's a nice wrapup, with the Operative telling Mal that he's probably bought himself some serious wiggle room, but that the Alliance, damaged by these revelations, is not dead.  Mal and Zoe have a conversation about the condition of Serenity that doubles via subtext as a conversation about how Zoe is doing."It'll be a rough ride," Zoe says."Always is," Mal responds.Mal sets himself down in the pilots chair to get ready to fly the ship off-world, and finds River sitting in the co-pilot chair.Mal expresses his concern over whether River knows what she's doing.  River hits about thirty switches, and punches it.Mal gives a nice wrapup speech, that I can't remember at all, except for the part where he asks River if he should even bother, since she knows what he's going to say anyway."I like to hear you say it," she replies.And they zoom off into space.  The End.[/spoiler]Thoughts?  Concerns?  I have a few very specific ones that I'm figuring can be fixed in editing or with limited work.</blockquote>

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