Calling Them Out - Part 2

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn raced into the landing port of the "Ruder". He left his Ship racing to his Uncle's Apartment. As he made it he kicked open the door and was met with a punch to the face.



Gulac looked at his screen. His teammate ran up to him. "Sir, Kygo and Zar are on Naboo. No Family." Gulac smiled. "Send in the drones" Sonn Drone fighters started flooding Naboo locating Zar.

 

[LaPurple]

Zar was headed towards the capital to pick up supplies for his home namely more materials for building his fences and new roof. The ship landed and the Nautolan headed into town. Buying some materials he asked a few of the store workers to help bring them to his ship.

Meanwhile Kygo was sitting in the ship playing a game to pass the time.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn woke up only seeing out of one eye, the other being bruised horribly. "What the he..." Another punch, this time to his stomach, shut Dinn up.

Gulac was the man behind the hit. "Hello Dinn." Gulac took a drink of the achohol on the table, near him. "Who are you?" Dinn asked before Gulac whistled and a guard kicked Dinn in the gut. "I clean up the streets from scum like you." Gulac smiled. "I do like a little punishment for you though". Gulac snapped, a guard pulled out his blaster and blew a hole through Dinn's knee. Dinn screamed out in pain. Gulac yelled at the nearby guard. "Bring out the old man." Out of the door came Uncle Tyler beaten. Dinn was screaming as Gulac spoke. "Now old man, watch your nephew die" Gulac pulled out his knife and went for Dinn's throat. However, Tyler pushed the guard away, after grabbing his rifle. Tyler blew the guard's head off and shot for Gulac. Gulac dodged the blast but fired back into Tyler's stomach. Tyler knocked over a couch for Dinn and him to use as cover, before stumbling over.

Blaster fire came down as, Dinn and Uncle Tyler hid behind the narrow couch. Uncle Tyler pointed to the door near them on the right, "Go Dinn, get your team" Uncle Tyler hugged his nephew, hell, his son, knowing this was the end. "Change this". With his final words, Tyler pushed Dinn into the door and shot the panel slamming the door shut, and sealing his fate.

As Dinn hit the ground on the other side of the door, He picked himself up and started to beat on the door. "NOOO!" He heard a few more shots then silence. Dinn turned and limped to his ship, grasping his knee.

He got in a messaged his team. "This is Dinn! We are under attack! I..." Men started to shoot his ship. Dinn quickly jumped in his turret and started to take them down.

 

[Silver Cutlass]

"It's Linaki! The boss says he's wanted, dead or alive, and I vote dead!" Blaster shots rang out all around Nero. "I sure have a way of making friends, don't I?" Nero asked himself, running about, dodging the blaster fire. Running the length of the walkway, Nero was running out of time. It had been about 2 weeks since Nydo went missing, and Nero had searched Denon, Ryloth, and even Taris for his old mentor and father figure. His search eventually brought him here, to Coronet City, Corellia, where he was battling what seemed to be mercenaries who were hired to capture Nydo.

Looking down beneath the walkway, a big HoverTrain, going about 60 kilometers per hour, just zoomed by, its large amount of cars trailing behind. This is it. The old smuggler managed to 'procure' information from a local crime boss that these mercs were planning on getting old Nydo out of the city via the Coronet SkyRail, the HoverTrain Nero was facing. Turning his head to his left, several mercenaries were closing on him, and were still firing off pot shots at him. Looking back down at the train, Nero sighed, then ran forward, and vaulted over the wall, and into the air.

Landing with a thud, Nero landed not-so-safely on the roof of one of the back car. Standing but staying low to the ground, Nero walked over toward the front of the car, and climbed down the ladder between the two cars. Skipping over the gap between cars, Nero entered the car infront of him, a storage car, filled with large boxes of stuff being shipped somewhere. That's when he got the message from Dinn. Getting on his own comm, he linked it to the Black Flame's hyper-comm system, and bounced the link to Dinn. "Dinn, this is Nero. You two? I've got a bunch of mercs on my ass on Corellia, where are you." Nero asked as he started to make his way forward.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn ran back on comm. "Im injured but my ship is headed to the Rodian's Truth, a secret space base, I'll send you corridantes." Dinn shot another man as his ship began to lift and fly away. Dinn stumbled into his pilot seat. A trooper shot a rocket at Dinn's ship, ripping a hunk of the wing off. However, he managed to get away and to The Rodian's Truth.

 

[Wolf231]

Arisa wasn't expecting the comm at all. It had been a while since she had last heard from the others, a lot had happened in a short while for her. So it came as a surprise when she returned to her light freighter after a day full of relaxing, only to find that there were messages waiting. Her ship had automatically recorded the messages that had been sent through the comm line. She sat in the pilot's seat and rose quickly into space, setting her ship to orbit the planet she had been visiting, Coruscant. Looking down at the city lights, she considered her options. She could just leave, pretend she hadn't heard it - she didn't seem to have anyone after her just yet, anyways. She had heard Nero's voice on the comm, however, and he had always been nice to her. It wouldn't be nice to turn her back on him, at least.

She checked the coordinates for the Rodian's Truth, setting a bit of a meandering course around some planets so she could detect and lose anyone who might be following her. Not seeing anyone at the end of her runs, she set her final course for the space station, coming in to dock. She strapped her saber to her waist on her way out of her freighter, just in case. She always felt better when she had it.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

When Dinn landed in the space port, he passed out. Luckily, Dinn was almost king here, and so a medic group was sent to him and he was rush to aud. He had suffered head trauma, a bullet wound to the knee and arm, broken ribs, and stabbed in the hip. He was hooked up to tubes when he awoke.

Gulac managed to escape when Uncle Tyler started shooting up the place. Gulac messaged his team of snipers. "What is your status?" The team retorted with, "We have Nero in our sights. Fire?" Gulac gave it a go and the team began.

 

[Jason Webb]

(sorry for the delay guys)

Tristan receives the distress call immediately. We were set up.

The mercenary quickly kicks the chair into place and punches up the drives on his ship; exiting the gravity well of an abandon mining asteroid he had been using as temporary resting point. Rodian's Truth, here we come. After the technical aspects of the trip were out of the way, Tristan sat up quickly and stomped towards the crew compartment. "Set up, I can't believe it! This is going down hill quickly." He reaches out and starts organizing gear across the bed. "Whoever did this, I will find you." Tristan picks up a large vibro blade, the blade bigger than his forearm "And I will gut you."

-time passes-

The automated voice of the flight controls alerted his arrival. "Approaching Rodian's Truth, estimated time, five minutes."

Let's do this. Tristan strapped his weapons onto his newly acquired armor suit. His original armor having been essentially a piece of durasteel strapped to his chest. The young warrior placed his helmet on the other chair and guided the Firespray in for a landing. As the ship set down he left it in the hands of the flight computer and walked to the rear of the ship, helmet under one arm casually.

Tristan exits his ship. Dinn's ship is already there, as is Arisa's.

 

[Silver Cutlass]

Nero sighed. "I'll get there when I can, but right now I'm tied. I'll keep the line active, give me a call if anything happens." With that, Nero put the comm in one of his jacket pockets and continued into the next few cars. The civilians sitting in some of the passenger cards were curious as to the new man going through cars, but paid him little more concern than that. After passing through about five more cars, Nero entered one of the cars, and was greeted with a punch to his gut that knocked the air out of him. Looking up, he saw a big man in an outfit like that of the mercenaries who were following him, and observed as the guy drew his blaster from his holster. Before the man could raise the blaster to use it, Nero grabbed it, and quickly raised his knee to hit the man in the crotch. As he fell on his knees in paid, Nero incapacitated him with a kick to the face, sending him backwards onto his back. Looking out into the room, Nero saw his old man, Nydo Bolera, strung up to a chair. "Well, you sure took your precious time!" He said, with a stern look on his face.

Nero returned his sour look with a sly smile. "Sorry, I would have came sooner, but I'd prefer to rescue you without being riddled with blaster-holes." Approaching him, Nero pulled out his vibroknife and cut his mentor free from the chair. Nydo got up from his little prison, and stretched. "It's good to be free." At that moment, Nydo looked to Nero's right and apparently noticed something. "Get down!" Nydo stated as he tackled Nero, both of them falling to the ground. As he was falling, Nero heard the distinct sound of a Sniper Rifle, and when Nydo got off of him so he could look around the cabin, he noticed a viewport was shot out, glass was laying everywhere, and a blaster burn was in the floor, a few feet from where he was standing.

Crawling towards the back of the car, Nero slowly stood up and looked around him, taking notice of the large control panel on the wall. Pulling it open, there was one lever with the words 'EMERGENCY BRAKE' written in Aurebesh over it. Grabbing it, Nero jerked it down, and the SkyRail begin to slow down dramatically. When it was stopped, Nero looked out one of the viewports, and saw they had happened to stop at the next SkyRail Station. Hurrying his mentor up, both Nydo and Nero exited the train, and headed back to the spaceport where Nero left the Black Flame.

A Day Later...

Nero maneuvered the Black Flame into the docking bay of the Rodian's Truth, and put the ship on standby, in case they were attacked yet again. Exiting his ship, Nero noticed Dinn's ship, Arisa's ship, and Tristan's ship already there amongst the others here. Approaching Dinn's ship, Nero hung around for a bit until he was fairly sure the bounty hunter wasn't in his ship. After a while of searching and interrogating crew members, Nero managed to find Dinn in the med bay on the space station. Seeing him attached to a bunch of tubes made Nero a little concerned, but from what he knew Dinn was tough. "Damn, they did a number on you. What's your status?" Nero asked as he took a seat in one of the chairs to the side of Dinn's bed.

 

[Wolf231]

Arisa let the Force guide her through the space station, sensing her way through the station. It took her a while to get to Dinn's room. She didn't enter, however, choosing instead to check the perimeter first. She wasn't sure she liked what she found. Not nearly enough security and the rooms all seemed to have large windows. She made her way up to the roof, then over to the side of the building Dinn's room was on. She felt the Force warning her of something, her eyes scanning the buildings across from herself but not seeing anything yet. She palmed her lightsaber, ready to ignite it if she needed to.

She frowned and left, moving back down to Dinn's room. She entered quietly, using the force to speed her actions as she sped into the corner. If anyone was watching the window, hopefully they wouldn't have seen her. Her lightsaber was still in hand, ready to fend off any blaster bolts fired through the window. Her senses extended, eyes moving to Nero for a moment, then back to the window. "Something doesn't feel right. Are we all that are here?" She wasn't sure who else had received the message, or who wouldn't answer it. She figured in a crew of bounty hunters, there might even be one or two who would sell them out to whoever was after them. "There's an... Ominous feeling to the Force, today." It put her on edge. If anyone shot through the window, her saber wod be there to intercept it.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn looked up to Nero and Arisa. "Ugh...Well look who's here" Dinn held his ribs as he sat up. Dinn grabbed his cigarette as he watched Arisa talk. "We should be fine, plans anyone?" Dinn took off the tubes and ofered a nurse in. "Tell Jot, thanks for the help I'm out" Dinn started to leave.

 

[Silver Cutlass]

Nero stroked his chin in thought, pondering what to do. "We find the schutas that did all this to us, and take them down. First things first, though: we need to find our where they're based." Moving a little bit, Nero got comfy in his chair before continuing on. "The mercs attacked me in Coronet on Corellia, so that may be as good as place as any to start, though after that little bout I'd rather take a long vacation from Corellia." The old smuggler stated.

 

[Jason Webb]

Tristan navigates the hanger, keeping a steady pace as he seemingly randomly walks between ships and equipment. He spots Arisa entering a door down one of the hallways. He picks up slight speed and follows, about thirty seconds behind. A quick glance behind confirmed no one was following and sensors weren't picking anything up either. Doesn't hurt to be careful though he thinks while tuning an anti security blade to block voice and visual recording for over 30 meters.

He pushes the blade back into his pocket and reaches the door, leaning against the doorway casually. "Man you took a beating." Tristan nods to the others, glancing around the room quickly. "I like Nero's idea. It gives us a starting point." Tristan steps out of the doorway, allowing the others to leave if they want.

 

[Wolf231]

Arisa glanced towards the door as it was opened, nodding towards Tristan as he came to stand in it. "Seems as good a place to start as any. Seems odd that they went after you but didn't come after me. Perhaps because I've been on the move?" Or maybe it had something to do with her being on the Jedi flagship, but she said nothing about it. "Did they go after you two directly, or attack someone you know?" Something didn't add up here. How did this enemy seem to know where to find them? They would have to be well connected - but anyone that well connected should also be able to figure out that they hadn't bred the casino. Unless someone in their group actually had. Perhaps one of the ones who hadn't answered the call. She frowned, her thoughts taking her down a dark path. She shook her head as if to shake them away, deciding not to dwell on it before they had more answers.

"Did they come after you as well, Tristan?"

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

"I say we go two to Corellia, and two to Coruscant." Dinn started to put his gear, then looked around. "Any one heard from Zar? Or Tera?" Dinn grabbed his weapons.

 

[Silver Cutlass]

Nero nodded to Dinn. "I'll take the Coruscanr route, thank you. As for Zar and Tera, I've not heard from them since we split." The old smuggler stroked his beard, losing himself somewhat in thought. Had the two been captured? Nero's mentor had been captured by these mercs, had they gotten themselves caught as well? It was food for thought, but he knew Zar could handle himself after that ordeal on Lianna.

 

[Jason Webb]

Tristan nodded to Arisa. "I went straight to the outer rim then doubled back several times, while I'm pretty sure they tried to find me I never had any trouble. Though I have spent quite a bit of time in hyperspace or on a random asteroid."

He listened to what the other's had to say, wondering what had become of their other comrades. Zar would be at Naboo, Tera was last on Coruscant. Zar could easily hold his own, he's on his own turf and has Kygo and who knows how many others. "I could care less where I go so Dinn, Arisa, where are you all going?" Tristan was confident that he could handle whatever the merc's could throw at him and unconsciously messed with his gauntlets. It was disturbing to be the one hunted now. After all the time he had spent tirelessly hunting and killing others it felt weird to have the tables turned so rapidly. This is no longer the hunter being hunted, but two predators stalking each other.

There is no question, this will end in blood.

 

[Bee-Den Iosis]

Dinn grabbed his pack an stopped by the door. "Tristian and I will go to Coreila, Nero and Arisa go to Coruscant." Dinn went to his ship an started to load it. While he was out, engineers made repairs to the ship. Dinn waited for a second to smoke.

 

[Wolf231]

"Alright then." She nodded to Dinn, returning her lightsaber to her belt as she turned to make the trek back to their ships. "I suppose I'll meet you on Coruscant, then. Where about were you attacked? It's kind of a big planet." With all kinds of people on it, so finding one who knew anything might be an issue. Depends if they could find one well connected enough, and then make him talk. She had found that a lightsaber could be an effective tool in making people more talkative, at least.

She paused in the spaceport, looking around slowly to be sure that everything felt right. She'd had an uneasy feeling earlier but nothing had come of it. Her training still told her to trust her instincts, and not to let her guard down. After a few moments of scrutiny, she would make her way to her ship and spend a few minutes inspecting the exterior, just in case. She didn't find anything, so she boarded and fired up her engines.

 

[Silver Cutlass]

Nero nodded, and once Dinn left, so did he. The old smuggler made his way back to the Black Flame, and set a course for Coruscant. Considering it would be quite a long trip, Nero pulled up a holo-terminal, and made contact with Dinn again. "Dinn, its Nero. You didn't happen to get a good look at any of your captors, did you?" The man asked.