Ask Corellia For me? It was Tuesday.

Crix Aran

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For some people, being in the middle of an attack on a spaceport by an organized group of terrorists and mercenaries was the most important experience of their lives. It would shape how they viewed the Galaxy, and themselves, for the rest of their lives. Moments during this struggle would see people realize they were brave, while others realized how cowardly they really were. But without a shadow of a doubt, a bloody, violent, taking of a small spaceport on the backside of Corellia would be a formative point in their lives.

But for Crix it was Tuesday.

Oh sure, he didn't like the fact that the spaceport he had come to was currently being attacked by a local terrorist cell but he wasn't going to make too much of a big deal out of it. He had snuck into the spaceport specifically to see if he could steal some non-vital components from parked ships after all because this particular spaceport was kind of shady and he figured stealing from smugglers' ships wasn't too bad as far as crimes went.

Sure, people who were just poor parked up here too but their ships were kind of easy to tell apart.

So while there was blaster fire coming from the main terminal just a hundred meters of so away from him, Crix was busy with his multi-tool trying to pull off a cooling unit from the side of an old freighter's engine. He needed one for his ship and this ship looked hella suspicious - he'd have gone after the ship the terrorists had arrived in if it hadn't been guarded but this old smuggler's ride would do.


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It had been a whirlwind of a week. He had been chased out of his home on Andara and had to flee the planet. Corellia wouldn't have been his choice destination but he had no credits and this old smuggler had let them tag along in exchange for work on his ship.

He wasn't sure what he had expected leaving Andara, but he had assumed it would be more...grand than this. When they finally did wind up in Corellia, he had left one shitshow into an entirely different, and larger one. It had only been a few hours since they had landed when the attack had started.

Currently, they were hunkering down, hoping planetary defense forces would quell whoever was behind the attack. An alarm sounded in the cockpit where Ben was sitting with the old smuggler. "Someone is messing with the ship. Go out and check it out." the old man commanded. "Me? But..." Ben started to protest. "Look, Kid. You wanted a free ride, you got a ride. Now go check it out." the old man said, leaning back in his chair.

Ben starred for several more seconds before turning to leave. It was chaos outside the landing pad. Maybe it was nothing. The ship wasn't in much better condition than his ship back on Andara was.

As he exited the ship, there was the sound of blaster fire...a lot of blaster fire nearby. He looked around, spotting the Zabrak cutting something from the ship. "Hey! Stop! What are you doing!" Ben yelled, pulling his blaster.

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Oh for the love of the Force...

Crix leaned back around the side of the engine he was pulling something free from, peering around the side to catch sight of a young human. He grinned at the other teenager and gave a short little wave even as the component he was looking for came loose and he stumbled back a few steps, having been using his bodyweight to pull at it. Tossing it up in the air slightly, he caught it back in his hand.

"Hey!"
he greeted the other teen, "I was just taking this."

Because honesty was always the best policy.

"Scuse me for saying but you don' look like the kinda scumbag who would own this hunka junk."
he tossed the component up in the air again and caught it again, "So what's say we don' bother fighting over it? You say I was already gone and get back on the ship to be safe and I get what I came for and run?"

He grimaced as screaming started to pick up in the building beside them. Crix really didn't want to get involved in any of this but... but his conscience was nagging at him. It was the HQ all over again, except these people didn't train for this kind of thing. He was already thinking about helping but he didn't want to go home empty handed.

"Deal?"
he asked, "It's a decent deal."


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He hesitated.

He hated that he hesitated but he was new to this sort of thing. He shouldn't let some scumbag walk all over him, even if it wasn't his ship. Ben had agreed to take on the job, seemed the right thing to do follow through it.

He started to raise his blaster and insist he had over the part when there was blaster fire behind him, a shot scoring the hull a few feet away from him. He ducked down, looking around to see where it had come from. Whoever was attacking this place had cut off the only obvious exit out of the place.

Ben looked towards the loading ramp of the ship that rapidly was withdrawn. His mind didn't even process the fact that he was being left behind until the engines began flaring to life, next to his head. He jumped out of the way just in time as the engines surged to life and the ship started to climb.

The blaster shots continued as the ship disappeared and Ben was left alone with the thief and murderers. He shot Crix a confused look as he froze out in the open with their attackers quickly approaching.


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Oh feck!

Not the shots - they weren't aimed at him and hit the ship harmlessly at the front so he really wasn't bothered at all - but the ship itself. Crix had been edging around the back of the engines slightly to try and keep the ship between him and the new kid so he might have a chance at actually escaping even if he had taken a shot. Trouble was that the owner of said ship decided that this place was too hot for him and fired up the engines.

Hence, feck.

Rolling backward, he was buffeted by the energy of the engines but he had managed to get enough distance that it was closer to hugging a radiator than it was to being burned by the damned things. It was hella uncomfortable but it beat the hell out of being fried or burned even slightly.

Groaning on the ground, he spotted their attackers approaching both himself and the new kid. He looked at them for a moment before deciding it would probably be for the best if they didn't get shot up. Which meant it was time to look very much the part of the runaway teenager he was.

He held his hands up as he slowly approached the other teen, the terrorist pointing blasters at him.

"It's alright - we're ready to be taken to the other hostages you've got. We won't be any trouble."
he eyes the kid to his side, "Right dude? We're gonna go nice and quiet..."

The terrorists look at them for a long few seconds before one of them steps forward to disarm them. He takes their blasters, any knives they have and Crix's stun baton as well. The man leaves the multi-tool and Crix is very happy about that even as the terrorists urge them onward to follow one of their number while another trails behind them, keeping an eye on them.

As they are led back into the building, Crix speaks.

"So what's your name, mate?"
he asks the human, "Mine's Crix. Sorry about the whole 'stealing from your asshole friend' thing."


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Abandoned and Surrounded, he had no choice to drop his blaster on the ground and raise his hands along with the other guy. He nodded as Crix said they would go along quietly as one of the terrorists shoved him towards the exit.

"Ben," he said quietly as they were led away further into the spaceport. He shrugged his shoulders. "Guess he deserved it," Ben said before getting shoved hard again. "Keep quiet and moving." one of the thugs said. Ben lowered his head, they hadn't been killed outright which had to be a good thing, but he didn't think testing this guy would be a good idea.

They were led into what looked to be a cargo holding area, the center lined with a series of cages. "Get in." the man said coldly as he pulled open one of the cages. "Wait a sec..." Ben started to protest but was cut off when they used Crix's stun baton against him. His muscles froze up, pain overloading his mind until he slumped to the ground.
 

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Ben huh? Well he was cute enough that he didn't need some exotic name to attract attention so Crix wasn't going to comment on it. Crix likely would have had a bit of a flirt with the young man if the situation had been any less stab-happy, if only to try and make conversation. Probably said something about his circle of friends that flirting was considered the best way of breaking up any length of awkward silence.

Tossing a scowl over his shoulder at the man who was very insistent on them not talking to each other, Crix had to bite back the instinct to shout at the guy for being such an arse. Of course he didn't do anything because he didn't want to get himself shot - this was not the kind of hill he was willing to die on.

"Cages?"


Seeing Ben's similar outburst got him a stun baton strike for his trouble, Crix decided he was going to play it smart... so he tackled the man to the ground and started punching him in the kidney. The other guards started laying into his side with kicks, causing Crix to let go of the first man with a yelp of pain as he curled up into a ball to try and minimize the damage.

After a solid few minutes of being stomped on and kicked, Crix was thrown into the cage alongside Ben. Groaning in pain, Crix ever so slowly uncurled himself... and dropped the small vibroknife by Ben's feet.

"Kark I'm going to be peeing red for a week for that..."



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