Day One - Nathan, meet Nathan.

[xiong_shashou]

Who: Zoe Washburne, Malcolm Reynolds, Charlie McGee, Captain Hammer (open).
Where: The Dorms.
When: Morning, Day One.
Rating: PG-13 for possible violence and crude language due to the mass confusion.
Status: Closed/Finished.
Summary: Mal and Zoe head out to have a look around at precisely the same moment that Charlie and Captain Hammer head in to

Comments

[cpthammertime]

"All right," she agreed once she had some measure of composure restore.

---------------------

"Let's go then."

Hammer smiled and once again offered her his arm, mirroring his actions on the first beach they'd met on today.

[shiny_captain]

Mal opened the door, blinking in the sunlight. It wasn't nearly as bright as it had been in Malahsa, but it was a fair comparison. He might have been more shocked about his new environment had he not been distracted by the couple he practically walked into.

"Huh," was all he could come up with.

[ashes_like_sand]

She actually didn't take his arm, and was about to offer an explanation involving something about keeping her breasts covered without actually using the words, when the door opened. She jumped a little, gasping ...

... and then she stared.

She looked at the new people, and at the Captain, and back to the new people. Maybe it was just the fall, or the sun, or this was one crazy dream, but ... the guys looked like they could almost be twins.

Maybe a little more than almost. "What the hell?" she exclaimed, hugging herself tighter. She'd honestly hoped to make it up to her room without encountering anyone else, but this was beyond words.

[xiong_shashou]

Zoe blinked hard and stared down at their new companions - some little ta shi who was barely covered up and a man in an utterly ridiculous outfit who looked like he could be... related to Mal? No, more like he could be Mal's ruttin' twin. Or perhaps a clone?

"Sir?" she asked, glancing back to her captain, looking uttering bewildered.

[cpthammertime]

Captain Hammer stopped and stared, his eyes widening, arm still proffered up for Sarah to taken, frozen in mid air.

"Who--" he began, his voice weak in his throat. What the fuck else was this crazy hell of a place going to think up next?

[shiny_captain]

"I ain't got no ruttin' idea, Zo'" Mal muttered, staring fixedly at the man in front of him.

He'd hardly taken a look at the man's companion. It was like lookin' in a gorramn mirror, only....different somehow. There was somethin' off about his apparent doppelganger.

[ashes_like_sand]

After getting over the shock of the twins, she was pretty sure she recognized Zoe. Maybe that person was the 'Mal' that she'd caught an oh-so-brief glimpse of when she'd been "caught" at Bella's tree.

But that didn't explain, at all, how they looked alike.

And Charlie had no idea how to handle anything from here. Because this was just bizarre. She glanced up to Zoe to see if there was any recognition at all (maybe she'd actually met Zoe's twin, or something?) before she let her eyes flick back and forth between the guys.

She almost asked if they were from the oasis too, but she really didn't want to open her mouth for fear of what might actually come out.

[cpthammertime]

Hammer cleared his throat. The man's voice even sounded like his, just with a tinge of a strange accent. This whole day had been like one of those bizarre, uncomfortable dreams that left you feeling like you were missing out on something terribly important the next day, but you couldn't for the life of you remember what. He certainly hoped he was going to wake up next to Penny soon, because even Sarah's perfect tits weren't worth having a clone about.

Finding his voice, he finished his question, "Who the hell are you?"

[shiny_captain]

"I'm Captain Malcolm Reynolds," Mal countered, now more than just a little pissed, "Who in the ruttin' hell 'r you?"

Who was he? What kind of lame brained comment was that? Mal's brow furrowed in indignation.

[xiong_shashou]

Zoe looked back down at the pair of them as Mal spoke and did a double-take internally, recognizing the girl despite her current disheveled appearance.

"Sarah?"

At this point, her hand was firmly planted atop the handle of her sawed-off and she'd subtly undone the strap that held it in place. She didn't know if Mal #2 meant trouble, but she certainly wasn't taking any chances.

[ashes_like_sand]

"I ... yeah. Hi," she offered weakly. She almost asked Zoe what was going on, but she was clearly as confused as Charlie was. "We ..." she gestured to Captain Hammer. "We just fell through. From the oasis. We ... got sucked in, actually, and ... we had a note," she offered, unwrapping one arm as if to hand it up toward her before changing her mind and recrossing her arm over her chest. "This happened. When we fell. I don't ... dress like this," she felt compelled to explain.

[cpthammertime]

"Captain...?!" Hammer regained his manly air all at once, balling his big black fists and looking huffy, "Foul play! I'm Captain Hammer, the only Captain around here!"

Never mind that he didn't know where "here" was, this was obviously some kind of trick or sick joke; someone had clearly cloned him and dressed him up in some god-awful suspenders as an added insult.

[shiny_captain]

Mal snorted derisively, hand resting almost too casually on his gun.

"Clearly," he said hardly, "You're not."

What kind of a go tsao de idiot went around with a hammer plastered all over his shirt anyhow? It seemed entirely too Alliance-like for his liking. And the gloves? How could anyone take him seriously with those ridiculous gloves?

[xiong_shashou]

Zoe raised a skeptical eyebrow, wondering how exactly it was that Sarah's clothing had gotten all burned up when his - Captain... Hammer's? - clothes seemed to be in mint condition. Poor girl seemed mighty flustered though.

"Would you like to borrow my vest?" she offered, eyes once again trailing between the two Captains, and more specifically, between Mal's pistol and the other man's fists. Both men seemed itching with indignation and she really didn't want a conflict just now, the stairwell wasn't the place for it. Too cramped; no way would it end well. She cast Mal a significant glance that hopefully conveyed as much.

[ashes_like_sand]

"We were. We've got. There're rooms," she nodded toward the stairs, aware she wasn't exactly conveying what she needed to. She wanted to ask if they'd fallen in as well - clearly, they must have - but this didn't seem like the time or place for it.

She wondered what the odds were of getting the two Captains separated without any bloodshed, and found she honestly didn't know. "Come on," she encouraged Captain Hammer. "Let's go find the rooms. So we can have something to eat."

Maybe if she could get them separated, they could meet up later and try to discuss this rationally. She almost laughed at that thought; Hammer didn't seem like the completely rational sort.

[shiny_captain]

Mal removed his hand from his gun, reading the warning in Zoe's eyes. Seemed logical, not to go round shootin' everyone on sight. Plus, he had to admit, despite the man's clear ignorance, he was actually incredibly attractive.

"So, what are you Captain of?" he raised an eyebrow pointedly in Hammer's direction, and although his tone was mocking, he was actually morbidly curious.