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"Bring it on bastards!" Blake shouted and he pulled both the blasters. Suu's and his.

He aimed at the creature in front of him and pulled the triggers of the blasters. A rain of bullets left the barrels of the guns and crashed into the creature's chest. It screamed from pain and Blake kept on firing until the creature would die.

Finally it dropped to the ground and Blake quickly turned around to see what was going on with the rest of the group.

"Draw your weapons!" He shouted. "Engage and kill those bastards!"

The other mercenaries pulled there own rifles, guns, pistols, repeaters and whatever weapons they were carrying and fought against the creatures. The sky was filled with blood and projectiles and screams could be heard.

Some mercenaries were killed by the creatures, but others managed to stand their ground.

Then Blake was stricken from behind and he fell to the ground. The creature he had shot was not dead. It raised its claw and struck Blake and so The Gambler got wounded. His left hip bleeded and he lay on the ground. He managed to turn around and shouted: "Take this one out!"

The other mercs aimed their guns and all began to fire at the creature. Blake fired his guns as well. Finally it really died.

Blake tried to stand up, but it pained him. "Damn it!" he cursed.
 

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Ares watched in slight horror as the Drexl decended to the ground, as if attacking. He was still too far to actually see anything, but it appeared that those inside the downed craft had left its saftey. He quickly turned to Shawn.

" Hop on the lower turret controls. Shoot as many of em as you can. And if you see people, try to avoid hittin em." He said as he set the rest of the turret controls on auto fire, targeting all Drexl's as enemies. Ares made the nav computer aim for the drexl closest to the ground, considering that they were the ones most likely attacking people.
 

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"Right, on it."Shawn said jumping down into the turret seat and opening fire danger close on the people below, targeting the Drexls that were just landing and not to close to the people. His vision was blurring and he didn't want to risk hitting anyone.

Shawn mowed down at least four of them on there first strafing run around the downed ship.
 

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The Drexl were powerful- it would take far more then one man to take a single one of them down and they continued the assault. Arial attacks ensued as some dove and swept at the Mercs like predatory birds.

Evie fell to the ground with bone crushing consequences. She had blind fired and rather then killing the beast had only succeeded it making it lose its grip on her. She struggled on a strained back bone to stand but could not- the shock of the fall paralyzed her- amazingly enough nothing was broken but nothing was in working order either. She was stranded. The sudden sound of ship engines filled the sky adding to the creature’s calls.

The Precious pride….

Ares…” The Zabrak purred to herself in disbelief. She smiled cynically and felt her trigger arm begin to quake with twice the fury as the first time. She looked at it with acceptance and got to a sitting position with much labor. She panted and reached to sooth her trembling arm as pain shot up like needles through her blood stream.

Ashes had already beaten her to it. The Little Twi’lek held to her arm with concern and Evie sighed, her heart warm with affection.

“Oh you stupid girl…” she said endearingly, “ I told you to -” she was wiping her overcome eyes when she saw blood soaking her hands in thick streams. They bled, red tears streaking her cheeks. Her arm subsided in its movements.


Shots from the ships turret tore through near by predators and Evie lifted her slug in a vain attempt to finish one off.



Help had arrived, just in time.

"Come and get me boys..." she said with a smirk.
 

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Blake looked up into the sky and was surprised to see a ship, but he was grateful.

"I dunno who those people are, but they've come just in time!" Blake shouted and he fired more shots at the creatures roaming the air.

Help had arrived.

But what if these men had killed off all the creatures? Would they help Blake and his comrades? He looked over to Evie, figuring they were coming for her.
 

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After fireing another salvo into the mass of blood thirsty animals that dottedthey sky. Ares landed his ship in a clearing not very far from all the fighting. He hopped out of the ship before the main access ramp was even down all the way. The turrets on his ship where ordered to fire on anything that strayed to close to his ship, as well as the area of sky around and above it.

Ares didnt look to see if Shawn was following him, he knew the sickness that was infecting everyone would and probably already was hampering his ability to fight. He burst through the tree line and into the carnage before him with his assualt rifle already up to bear. Bodies of men torn asunder by the crazed predators littered the ground, as well as many bodies of the Drexls themselves.

Through the blood and chaos, he found Stasha, sitting on the ground with a young twi'lek beside her. He over ot her, crouching beside her.

" Thought you could use a hand." Ares said as he looked back up towards the sky to see if any Drexl would attack them.

" Can you walk?"
 

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Shawn got up out of the turret as soon as the ship landed even with his vision impaired, he saw Ares hurry out to help Stasha. "Yep that girl did something to get boss to like her like a favorite thing, ok Shawn time to go save a few helpless people." Shawn said before falling on his face from losing his balance. "I am going to kill what ever animal or mad person concocted this diseases." Shawn said with a cough before passing out.
 
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Evie Wiped her cheeks and pushed back her hair, forcing a smile at Ares visor’d view.

“ I could use a Dorian Quill…” She said weakly. She reached for the Twi’lek and pushed her to the ground in an attempt to stand.

“Sorry, kid!” she said, and turned on her hands and knees, rising shakily.

“How do I look?” she asked, throwing her hair behind her shoulders and taking her rifle From Ashes who shouldered it.

The Little Girl looked from one bounty hunter to the other and mused to her master:

“Ish Ka’re?”

“My thoughts exactly kid…” Evie jested.

“But that’s no way for a lady to speak!”


Some Drexl Fled at the ships coasting while others attacked it head on. Many fell dead but some still focused on their humanoid targets.
 

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Blake managed to stand up and he stumbled over to Evie and the strange man. "Hey!" he said. "Thanks, mate. You saved our lives."

He then looked around the area and saw some of his own men wounded on the ground. Luckily none were dead.

"Can you-" he fell to the ground. The pain became unbareable. "Damn it!" he cursed. "Can... can you help us?" he asked.
 

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" Heh..." Ares laughed a little to Stasha's attitude, it didnt match their surroundings at all. All the shrieks of dieing men and the large predators that rained down just didnt fit. The bloody tears that now streaked her face almost looked like war paint.

" You look like any bounty hunter would after such an ordeal. I'm prouda you Stasha. Not many people can say they traveled through the Onderonian outback and survived" He said as he placed a hand on her shoulder. Ares realized that the childish little recruit he had trained only months ago wasnt the person standing before him, Stasha had changed. Even if it was subtle it was still there. Her actions on that mission spoke for her when she would not.

" Lets get this messed cleaned up so we can get you home." Looking down at the young twi'lek as he spoke.

" We can bring your little friend too."

Ares suddenly whirrled around, drawn from his current conversation by a downed man yelling from a distance.

" Sure thing, what yah need? " He said as he walked over to the man on the ground. Ares offered the man a hand to bring him back up to his feet.
 
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Evie looked touched, she shrugged her and smiled like a school girl acknowledge by a crush. She gentle touched Ares hand on her shoulder until her attention was stolen by the downed man

“Blake!” She came to his side.

“We have to get out of here, Ares” she said looking grave.

“By the time all these things are dead and gone so will be half his crew!”

That is, if they weren’t already. Looking over her shoulder she saw the full scale of what was transpiring. Medicine and men alike had been destroyed in the clash. She ran to one body on unsteady knees and shouldered a partially undamaged crop of the elixir, relieving the fresh corpse of its burden.

Ashes pick up what she could and followed.

“Everyone!” Evie shouted like a war cry.

"If you're alive and wanna stay that way get to the ship!”
 
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Blake took Ares' hand and with the help of this strange bounty hunter he managed to stand up. "Thank you." He said.

He looked around and saw his men. Some were unharmed while others were wounded. All those who could walk helped their comrades on their feet and carried them all the way to the ship.

Blake walked towards the ship, but he had a hard time doing so. He had lost Suu's blaster and he could not find it, but he still had his own. Then he saw Zin, the old Devaronian on the ground. He was heavily wounded and he had a gaping hole in his abdomen.

"My God!" Blake shouted. He walked over to Zin while the others were moving to the ship.

In pain Blake managed to kneel down beside Zin. The old Devaronian looked up at him and said: "Blake. Get to the ship."

"But... You... You'll die you bastard! C'mon, I'll help you get on your feet, we can make it."

"No, Blake. Leave me. I will distract them as much as I can."

Blake shook his head. "Zin, you bastard!" he shouted.

"Go!" Zin shouted back and suddenly one of the creatures came towards the couple. Blake looked up and then stood up. "I'm sorry, my friend." he said and he quickly turned around and moved as fast as he could towards the ship.

Zin raised his gun and fired projectiles at the creature to distract him, but the creature picked Zin up with his claws and ripped him apart.

Blake had not seen that happen, but he knew it had happened. Finally, he and his men had reached the ship and one by one they climbed inside. Blake waited until all of his men were in and then he stumbled up the ramp himself.
 

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Ares followed behind the large parade of injured and distraught men as they filed onto his ship. A part of him was somewhat reluctant ot have such a large group of total strangers on what for the most part was his home. He pushed the thought out of his head, these people needed his help, and he was more than willing to give it.

Once everyone was on board, Ares walked up and into the cockpit, sitting in the pilots chair and fireing back up the engines. He activated the mini intercom system that he had installed when he felt chatty with his bounties. Speaking slowly and clearly for those to shell shocked to understand quick speech. He waited till the ship was in flight before speaking.

" Welcome aboard. If anyone needs any medical treatment, and I know the majority of you do. The medbay is the door to the right directly right from the cargo hold." Ares paused for a moment, thinknig of what else to add.

" Oh! And if you see a red haired man lying around somewhere, would you be so kind as to give him the medicine for this odd disease thats been going around?"
 

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Shawn layed there a little dillusonal, do to the blood lose and the sickness takeing a heavy effect on his body, and watched as so many people piled on board. "Oh look at all the people comeing we haveing a party or something."

"Don't worry sir I think theres plenty of peanuts to go around for the flight, I'm sure I can ask a sturatis to bring you some. This place isn't so bad except for how blurry it is, and how moist and sticky the floor is I like it." Shawn let out befor passing out one more time.
 

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“Red Head…” Evie thought to herself.

“Shawn is here?” she asked incredulously. He didn’t seem to be in sight. She did however see Blake- she had seen him on the field and her heart was heavy for him. Ashes regarded her surroundings with a nervous whimper.

Looking down Evie saw a familure pile of rags in a puddle of his own fluids, her boot resting on his hand.



" Shawn- oh god!" She exclaimed. Bending down to pull him to his feet she fell from the weight to her bottom, laughing.

"Are you alrig-alive?" she asked pulling his face from the red stew beneath
 
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Blake stumbled through the hallway and he saw the man Ares was referring to lying on the floor. He knelt down beside him and he opened up his pack. He still had the medicine he retrieved from Suu with him and he took it out of the pack.

He grabbed a clean needle and prepared it. He then grabbed the arm of the man and he pulled up his sleeve and he stinged the needle into the arm.

He injected the substance and after he did he put the medicine back into his pack. "Well, this should do the trick." Blake said dry. "Could somebody help me carry this guy over to the medbay?" He shouted to his men.

One of his men quickly walked over to him and Shawn and they carried him to the medbay and put him on a bed.

"Alright then." Blake said. "I'm gonna look for some stuff to clean my wound."
 

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"Stasha oh good your not dead you'll excuse me if I don't do my usual smart mouth anticks I aint feeling to hot, and I cant really see."

Shawn felt dizzy when Stasha sat him up and didn't even feel the needle go into his arm he was so out of it from the sickness that he didn't even know what was going on when he was droped off in the med bay. "This is officially the secound worst day of my life."
 
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As the Precious Pride reached the village, Ares set it down halfway in the river and halfway on dry land. His ship was made to be able to land on water, so he just landed the nose on dry land to allow a dry exiting of his ship.

" Ok everybody." Ares said into the intercom again. " Everyone pile out." With that said Ares pressed the access ramp relase button, causeing said ramp to lower and allow those on board to exit.

Ares waited for most of his temporary passengers pile out before he started maing his way to the ramp. He sloweed his walking when he ran ito Stasha.

" Your infected arent you? Why havent you treated yourself yet?"
 

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“Because she needs my help.” A waiting Zabrak male called. He looked pleased and summoned a group of associates to treat the mercenaries responsible for his shipment.

Scroll extended his hand towards his quarters.

“come.” He said to Evie.

“I intend to keep up my end of our deal- you look a sight!”

Evie came forward with Ashes at her side, hugging her thigh. She turned to Ares and mouthed for him to wait.

They entered the home and found themselves in the dome shaped front with several armed men encircling the room.

Scroll sat and picked up the double needled syringe from a table before him- lifting it and directing his fellow Zabrak to do the same. She took a seat and peeled the body glove to her stomach laying the exposed pale arm flesh of her wrist on the arm of his chair, the sleeve-gloves of her jumper hanging like unfastened suspenders at her side.

From the corner of her eyes she saw Ashes shrink back as another man came to the Girl’s side offering her medicine as well.

“That won’t be necessary.” Evie interject with a wave.

“She’s been taken care of already.”

Scroll looked up briefly then administered the remedy.

“You did well, Miss Evie.” He said as he pulled away.

“I trust it wasn’t an easy task…Know that I have the utmost respect for what you have done for my people.”

Stasha dressed and nodded.

“I must be on my way.” she said shortly, glaring in his direction.

Suddenly the door burst open with a panicky human man making his way to Scroll with urgency. He came to his side with a bow and spoke in rushed foreign tongue sending a wave of gloom over the Zabrak’s face as he received it.

He looked at Evie gravely, then at Ashes.

Evie turned to the Twi’lek and beckoned her with her fingers.

When the messenger left scroll was quiet a long time, he hung his head and brought his hands to his face, massaging it and breathing deeply.

“I’m afraid…It wasn’t enough.” he said.

Evie’s eyes shifted from one face to another, all the men seemed to mirror his concern.

“Wasn’t enough?” she asked.

“There isn’t enough medicine- We failed. It was hardly enough for half the village.”

Evie Stood, She pushed the slave behind her and regarded Scroll with narrowed eyes.

The men began to close in. When Scroll looked up his eyes were glowering portals to a dark musing.

“You may go.” he said.

Evie turned skeptically before he called again.

“Stasha.”

She faced him and caught a small bundle in her arms.

“What is this?” she asked, looking over the unsolicited credit chips.

“What I owe you.” he said with a stony look.

“That should cover the slave.”

“No.” Evie spat, she threw the money back to him with spite and pulled the girl to her hip.

“ She’s not for sale.”

Ashes looked up at her in confusion.

“I’m sorry but you’ll have to find another way….”

“Its in her blood stream!” Scroll’s voice raised without warning “ We need to supply the rest of my people or its all for naught!”

“Your people?” Evie hissed. She forced a cruel smile. “It’ll take more blood then she has in her veins to make them all well! What are you planning to on doing, draining her? She’s a child!”

“She’s a slave and I’m more then willing to pay you double what she’s worth!” Scroll pleaded. The Twi’lek was expendable, she was property, an item to him and he would not let his family and friends suffer and die by such a trivial mean.

“You’re disgusting…” Evie said with contempt. She turned her cheek but kept her eyes on him, narrow and accusing.

The men drew their weapons and aimed them at the lone bounty hunter. Evie was still, her small but plump lips wrinkled in a scowl. Ashes clung to her tightly.

“Hiko…” she whimpered.

Evie raised her hand, sending a wave of muttering amongst the gunmen.

“The credits…” she said, her eyebrows raising with sadness.

Scroll nodded. He again tossed the small sack of money and she caught it against her chest soundlessly.

Kneeling to the girl’s level she met eyes with the slave.

“I’m sorry, Ashes…” she said affectionately running a hand over the girl’s face and Lekku.

She brought a hand to her heart and reached into the under dressings of her chest.

“I’ll make this quick and….” she said softly.

With a flick of her wrist she exposed a hidden vibro knife.

“and painless!” she snarled, slicing the gun hand off the closest man.

The rest panicked and shot blindly.

Evie hurled the credits into the face of her captor, seized the child and fled.
 
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Blake heard gunshots and grabbed his blaster immediately. He called his men and they all took their guns as well. A few moments later Evie ran out of the building along with Ashes.
Blake raised an eyebrow and wondered what was going on.

"Help her!" he commanded and his men aimed their guns at the door to cover Evie. "Don't shoot unless necessary!" He commanded. "Evie! Get over here!"
 
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