A Hefty Price In The End

[Bee-Den Iosis]

"The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice."

"Good Evening, Mister Yall. I have just downloaded the credits from your last job. But, I'm guessing you're wondering about Judan Lillid, the 22 Year Old who had gunned down Titus Wane's son. Titus, the local kingpin in this area, has offered a hefty check for Judan's death. All leads to Judan and Wane's enemies are nowhere to be found. I'm assuming this was an accidental death."
Dinn looked over the side of the skyscraper he stood upon, looking at his datapad. "Thanks, VI-22, My leads are taking me to Nar Shadda's West Hado Market Place." The Bounty Hunter zip lined to the alleyway across from the market place. Checking his weapons, he strolled into the area and used his Suspect-Targeting System to identify the kill. People gasped as he walked by. They knew this man, the assassin who hasn't shown himself in over a year. Lately, He has done jobs away from society, but now he's decided to start back up. After looking through a couple people, One man said he had seen Judan in the apartments in the middle of the Market Place a hour ago. He had his kill in grasp distance now.

 

[LaPurple]

Ten years ago Zar Verek went missing from his force of bounty hunters known as Team Deltro. In his absence his fellow leader and long time friend tried to look for him but with a bounty on most of their own heads they started getting picked off like flies. The survivors agreed to part ways even though Dinn Yall urged them to help find Verek.

The Nautolan would be forgotten for nine years through the galaxies many hardships and the fall of the Galactic Alliance. Zar found himself aboard an Imperial destroyer where he remained captive and was tortured until a fortune turn of events where he escaped while the ship was docked on Coruscant as part of a clean up mission to establish presence on the fallen planet.

Now missing a hand and having an eyes damaged to a point if dismemberment, Zar Verek was a shell of his former self. Finding his way off the planet in a forgotten ship from a decade ago, his first move was to try to find his long lost friend. Sitting in the cockpit of his decade old ship, he called out to the ship of Dinn. "This is Zar Verek. Dinn do you read me?" he said through a staticky weak trasmission. All he could hope that his friend would get the message and soon.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Since his ship was damn near destroyed, VI-22 intercepts all messages, "Hello, Mr. Verek, This is VI-22, I'm sorry but Dinn is in Nar Shadda, finishing a mission and does not want to be destroyed, from all records, you are a friend therefore i'll tell you he's in the West Hado Marketplace, heading to the apartments. Thank you for your cooperation."

Dinn walked towards the apartment taking his time.

 

[LaPurple]

It took quite some time but Zar made his way as quickly as possible to Nar Shaddaa without a word. It was hard for him to fly after all these years especially with the loss of his hand. Eventually the Nautolan made his way to the planet. He needed to find his partner. It was the only place he had to turn.

No family and no real friends. The galaxy was a lonely place. He was now in his 30's and half way dead looking like some youngling's nightmare. As he climbed out of the cockpit of the ship he began heading towards his destination. He had no weapons, no money, and no life. Dinn Yall was his only hope.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn kicked in Judan's door, and strolled in. Judan stumbled on the ground, yelling at the Bounty Hunter. Another man ran into Dinn and started to throw punchs into the Merc's side. Dinn kicked this attacker's knee out of place, then slammed his skull into the wall. Judan struggled to find a weapon to no avail. Dinn sprinted at the target, then tackled him into the window, throwing them both into the market place below, and knocking Dinn's sword in Judan's reach.

 

[LaPurple]

The once great Zar Verek stumbled into the market where he was told he would meet his long lost companion. Immediately there was a brawl in the street. His saw Dinn back at at his usual behavior but some help couldn't hurt he felt. Running at the opposer, Zar grabbed a knife from a fruit stand. Anger from his captivity all seemed to fuel his rage.

With his one hand grasping the knife hard in his hand, he yelled out "Dinn!" Then with much force he kept into the air at the man who meant his old friend harm, but his new enemy pulled the weapon up in defense blocking the Nautolan's strike. They began rolling around in a tight hold with fire in their eyes. He was not the bounty hunter he used to be and now he knew that. A sudden feeling of regret flashed through all of his life choices. Why had he become what he was today? There was no one to blame but himself.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

"Z.....Zar" Dinn didn't know what to think. It's been ten years but Dinn knew his Best Friend anywhere. Watching Zar struggle with the man, he knew he wouldn't get answers from a dead man. He ran at Judan and kicked him in the head. He grabbed his target by the head and took off his helmet and stared face to face with this scum. As the young man struggled excuses, Dinn hushed him, "May You find peace after this." Then one snap and silence. Then he turned around to the man he thought was Zar, and pointed his gun at him. "You. Explain."

 

[LaPurple]

"The damn Imperials happened!" Zar shouted as he stood up showing his old ally his numb of a hand. "They did this.." then pointing to his bad eye with his one good hand "and this! I have been in their custody for the lady ten years!" he shouted in a weak voice. He has long been weakened and tired from his strife as a prisoner to the dastardly Imperial forces.

He noticed Dinn was alone. "Were is the team? Where is Deltro?" he questioned as confusion set in. They had once thrived as successful bounty hunter group...no a family. "Where are they...Kygo?" Kygo was his pilot and close ally. "Do you know where he is at least?"

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn closed his eyes, "When we thought you died...we lost hope. Gulac, the man who was hunting us took that advantage. He rushed us. The rest are either dead or enslaved. Gulac chased me and Kygo, the last two left, here and brutally beat me then chained up Kygo and dragged him away, and right when he had a gun to my head, he then....started laughing...said i got to live with what he did." Dinn kicked the corpse of his target. "He got away! And now? he's living up in a High Rise in Coruscant! Full Security!" Dinn sat down, "And now? I live here with all my team's death on my mind."

 

[LaPurple]

"Coruscant?" Zar asked in disbelief. "That place is nothing but ruins. I've heard more than my fair share of Inperial chatter in the last decade to know that much. I want to help find him but look at me." he explained in a sad tone. "I just need some money. I need a place to waste my days away from this life...from myself."

The old Zar cared about more than money. He enjoyed hunting down wrongdoers and giving them his own form of justice. A quick buck? That was hardly like the co leader of Team Deltro. "What do you say we get ahold of some goods and pawn 'em off?" he sounded like he was pitching a product on his old friend.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

He looked disgusted at Zar, "Our brothers and sisters were killed trying to fight this man and you......you're gonna sit there and give up on their fight? Kygo fought with me for the chance to find you! and now he could be dead...and you arent gonna do the same. You disgust me" Dinn sheathed his blade and ripped a necklace from the corpse as a sign of completion. Before walking away he looked back at Zar, "I've made enough cash here, i can help somehow with that arm, so if you wanna finish this man, head to this address." He tossed a note with his home number on it.

 

[LaPurple]

It was a few months that passed while. Zar moved from bar to bar not having enough money to even keep himself well fed. Guilt consumed his ragged body while he drank his pain away. All of his friends were missing or dead Dinn told him. There was no family any longer and the Nautolan learned the true meaning of loneliness.

One nigh on Nar. Shaddaa as.Verek sat in the night with the sound of drunken laughter and screams surrounding him, the old bounty hunter knew what he had to do. Reaching to his wrist communicator, Zar reached out to Dinn Yall.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn was working out when he spotted a call being made, from Zar. "Patch it to the Room Comm, VI-22. So you finally called, i knew you would, head on over. I've made something for that hand of yours.... Dinn decided to stop working out and cleaned himself up.

 

[LaPurple]

"Whatever Dinn. maybe this scum will be loaded." Zar snorted as he stood now dressed in some familiar attire back from the good old days. The Nautolan had visited his old home in the time that he killed before coming here. It had been ransacked. Everything was either stolen or destroyed. It must have happened back when he was captured because the skeletons of his slain pets were found in the ruins. Pure rage grew from this. Most of his stock of weapons was gone but a few pieces remained in secret locations; enough to fight with at least.

"So what's the move? You must have had time to devise a plan this whole time I've been away." Verek said anxiously awaiting this new hand Dinn was talking about. Anyone who knew Zar from ten years ago would said that he would rather die than be the man he now was, but prison and years of torture will do that to the best of men.

In the short time Zar has become free, he had waisted every chance he had to turn his life around. In fact in a scum hangout on Nal Hutta, the Nautolan had an interesting conversation with a Quarren slaver. There was a good chance that once his business was done here with Dinn, he would be getting back in touch with this new contact.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn grew serious, then brought up schemes to Gulac's Fortress. "While you were gone, I managed to look up more on Gulac and his squad, they live here in this almost impenetrable Fortress. I was trying to find sewer routes in but...there is none. Then it hit me, this is the same fortress that was on coruscant, and its been photographed on many other planets, Zar....this things a freaking ship! That means any secret routes aren't available. We'd either be walking through the front door, or landing on the top. Suggestions?" Dinn stood there trying to find a route in but to no avail.

 

[LaPurple]

A thought quickly grew in Zar's clouded mind. "Yes. Yes I do. Alright so we keep tabs on a coue guys in his squad. Watch them, study them. When we have learned their lives inside and out, we make clean kills and assume their lives. We will have their key cards that get them into this place you are talking about and their clothes." the Nautolan contemplated his plan for a brief moment.

"Or we walk in as weapons dealers who thought they might be interested he said much more simply as he's at down in one of Dinn's chairs to get comfortable. Waiting for a response he surveyed the room. Both the and were still good in the ex-bounty hunter's eyes but then again one of his eyes were very bad and so was his mind.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn smiled and brought up two men onto the screen, "Mr.Kiyan and Mr.Garths, two best friends live in this high rise on Nar Shadda, on leave for 2 weeks. heavily guarded but its best if we go that route, they use full suits of armor so they wont tell its not them, Best route to get to em, is a full attack all the way up to em. Shouldn't be hard, these guards are very idiotic and newbies, easy kills."
Dinn walked towards his armory, "Apart from my armor and gear, I kept one of your old Armor types that Kygo gave me before I left, and I've repaired and upgraded it. Now designed with a grappling hook, flamethrower, rocket boost, and taser. Also after I saw you a few months back, Ive made a fully robotic arm to go with the suit, and a wiring you can plug in to your headset, it'll help your senses and give you fully repaired eyes and ears. Just know whenever you are out of the suit, your back to your handless, eyeless self. Well take a look"

 

[LaPurple]

Shaking his head, Zar explained "Don't want it. Don't need it. This is who I am now." the old bounty hunter said in a cold voice. He gestured with his hand for Din to allow him towards his old armor however. The tired man did not feel the way he used to back ten years ago.

Each challenge his old partner explained to him made him feel more and more exhausted. His friend's reasons for doing the mission were good, but maybe it was time to cut their losses and call it quits. To be honest, all the. Nautolan could picture is sitting back on a grassy hill watching a herd of Nurf grazing in the distance.

Missing his home on old home on Naboo, this dream seemed to be the only thing on his mind. Walking along with Yall the Nautolan asked "What is it you have been actually doin other than plot your evil revenge?" he asked with a chuckle not expecting much.

He turned his good eye closer to the bounty hunter to get a better look at him while he replied.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

"Well...after awhile i left for the sands of Tatooine, met a beautiful girl...Karliah. She worked with her parents to keep a farm going. I thought i could help them, then one day i peaked her interest. She peaked mine, we stayed together for a year...soon she was carrying my child inside her. All seemed good." Dinn paused and looked out his high rise window, barely touching the glass. "One day, a couple kids came and tried to steal from my father in law....i shot one down...they came back with more. Killed Karliah's parents...i blamed myself. I realized if i stayed i could harm my beautiful love, or my soon to be child. So i left, joined the game again. I send her money everyweek. My baby girl is 8 now, and wants to see me....but it can never be." Dinn stared through the window, then shook it off and wrapped his arm around Zar. "But this is more important right now, get dressed we meet on my ship in 15.

 

[LaPurple]

"You let some kids chase you off Tatooine? You're a better fighter than that the amphibian said disappointedly. "And another thing, you sound like a sap." he scoffed looking over the armor with all of it's new modifications. Grabbing the essentials, he left all of the fancy high-tech gear. The bounty hunter was not one for unnecessary weight.

He thought the gear would be better fit for a Mandalorian. The green humanoid laughed at the thought remembering the genocide of those people. They always were stealing his bounties or fighting to destroy the Galactic Alliance. A criminal Verek may be but he was not a fan of the Imperium by any means.

Dressing quickly in his gear there was not much time wasted. Quickly Zar met up with Sinn at his ship . "I'm ready whenever."