Getting Sidetracked

[Nyriss Oedon]

Old Town Factoryville - The Old Part of Town
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This place hadn't been doing too well in the modern galactic age, that much Nyriss could tell as she looked around the area, seeing aging metal and chemical stained walls at times as she wore her goggles over her eyes, to shield them from the light. The Umbaran woman was looking for something here, something invaluable to her, but definitely of value to the accord.

"Maybe here?....no, nothing here." Nyriss said as she walked up to a suspicious wall, seeing if there was any sort of hidden mechanisms among the stuff and walking away with a sigh and a huff, trying her best to keep in high spirits. This place kinda sucked, and it was a little creepy, but there weren;t a lot of leads for her to go on, when digging for clues on the Huntsmen Militia.

Industrial worlds like this had been popular with the militia for hiding in, and conducting their purges of criminals in secret. The underground vigilante group literally stayed underground most times. Which was what had prompted her too come to the lower level of the industrial sector, the massive pipes overhead groaning on occasion.

Still, for every potential lead, there was often a big chance that her leads were going to end in dead ends, given the map she had to go on was years old, and probably out of date. She looked ot the person who'd come with her with a sigh.

"Im sorry this is going so slowly. Stuff usually happens by now, I swear." Nyriss said, looking to the fellow adventuerer who had come to help her on this particular journey, a bit of a blush on her face as she admitted such.

@Rae Anne Jarrus

 

[Ashlynn Rys]

To Ashlynn, she believed that she had never been on this world before, but took it for what it was, an industrial factory planet. She never liked these types of planets for their hiding spaces and such, but that also made things a tiny bit more interesting. Smoke raised everywhere as Ash was stuck in her little world for a little while as all could be heard was the machines above churning and working nonstop.

Her and another woman named Nyriss were on a special hunt for something the Accord wanted. It wasn't their first rodeo, but it was for a simple object like this. It meant nothing to the two girls walking through the dirty planet, but then at the same time it meant something to them because if something came out while they were searching for it, they were risking their lives to get the object and get the heck out.

As they both searched up and down, side to side for the object, they only found nothing. Nyriss was maybe two steps ahead of her as Ashlynn would be double checking and looking for extra spaces Nyriss may have missed as she went. When her partner started apologizing for the lack of action, Ash gave a sympathetic look for a second and gave a small shake of her head.

"No worries. It's not like you're the one holding off the action. Just wish they would have given us a little bit more exact coordinates to that object. I have the feeling something will happen soon enough though."

She responded. This was the way things usually went. Sometimes the action would hold off if an enemy was planning to make a move and was watching their prey awfully closely. And that's the feeling Ashlynn was receiving.

 

[Nyriss Oedon]

Nyriss's blush intensified as she looked away, fidgeting a bit as she spoke well, "Technically...it's kinda my fault. The huntsmen map isn't very clear. It lists out bases, but not whether they were used or not. So its kinda...a wild bantha chase sometimes?" She said, phrasing it as a bit of a question as she looked over to another wall, one that had a bunch of graffiti on it, but also seemed a bit ajar to the rest of the wall around it.

"Maybe...this one?" Nyriss said as she went over towards the wall, feeling the seams of the wall as she felt a handhold, pulling with all her might as the walls panel came loose, nyriss's face lighting up with a smile as she looked into the now open hole. "Hey! Finally, here we go!" She said, looking inside the opening to see what looked like a tunnel that had been carved out into the walls, and at some places plasma cut open, as she looked down the dark path as if it were clear as day.

"It's a bit crude for the huntsmen, but maybe they were in a rush." She said, looking back to Ashlynn and pulled off the googles to show her white colors eyes, "Lets see where this lead. Maybe we'll find a whole armory!" She said with a huge smile.

@Rae Anne Jarrus

 

[Ashlynn Rys]

Ashlynn looked to Nyriss as she apologized to her for what was happening. She gave a small smile as she started thinking. She was pulled from her thoughts though once there was once more a silence between them.

"Well, you didn't make the map did you?"

she asked. Ashlynn had known those times where when she was trying to find something that took forever to find, but nothing happened in between until they got very very close to their item of interest. She just hoped it was and wasn't one of those times.

She then watched as Nyriss walked over to an indent in the wall and then yanking on it with all her strength. Ashlynn came over and looked through the same dark hole she was. It was definitely a relief to find something like this and they seemed to both be pretty happy about it. She guessed it was big enough for the both of them to fit through. After all, they were both pretty tiny. They could probably fit beside each other with just a little bit of moving room.

As Nyriss spoke up again, they shared a smile with each other.

"Possibly. We probably just hit the jackpot. And maybe we will. C'mon, let's go."

Ashlynn responded as she jumped into the tunnel and looked around, taking a few steps before looking back to Nyriss, making sure she was coming.

 

[Nyriss Oedon]

Nyriss made her way deeper into the tunnel, looking around for an elevator, or ornate archeway, or sentries, or something. But there was nothing, just more raw metal walls and tight fits as she looked around with a frown. "Somethings not right about this whole thing..." Nyriss said as she kept going, seeing the end of the tunnel as she made her way towards it.

Nyriss finally got her way through, her shoulders pinching a bit but getting through after a bit of reangleing. She looked around the place they had wound up, seeing what looked like a store room as she scratched her head and made room for her partner to come in. "Where the heck are we?" She asked, just as the door opened and a person wearing a skull like helmet entered, nyriss recognizing the mask and light armor as belonging to the blue scar buccaneers, the pirate looking up from his datapad to look between the two.

"What The-!?" He exclaimed, going down to reach for his gun as nyriss sprang into action. She ran forward and shoulder-tackled the man, knocking the wind out of him and sending him into the recently closed doors with a thud.

@Rae Anne Jarrus

 

[Ashlynn Rys]

As Ashlynn and Nyriss made their way through the seemingly endless tunnel, something was definitely not right and Nyriss said the words before she herself could. As Nyriss found the end of the tunnel, Ash could see it too and continued on, sensing more and more trouble.

Once Nyriss was through the tiny hole, Ashlynn, with a slightly tinier frame, slipped through and stepped to the opposite side of the tunnel's opening. Something was coming and she had a feeling that it would end up being more than just one little problem or person.. Ashlynn was pulled from her thoughts when Nyriss was asking where they were.

"I'm not su-"

She was cut off when a man in light armor with a skull helmet carelessly came through the door engrossed in his holopad until he looked up to see both of the girls. He gasped, shocked to see them as Nyriss then jumped into action, taking him out.

"Remind me to never tick you off.."

she muttered under her breath as she came up to her friend's side and used the force to pull off his mask, making it a little easier on Nyriss's knuckles if she punched him.

 

[Nyriss Oedon]

Nyriss delivered a knock out punch as she looked down at the man, blinking as she stared at him. "Wait...I know that uniform..." She said as she looked at the skull like helmet, the insignia on the armor, and realized who the man worked for at least, "This is the Blue Scar Buccaneers logo. They're a bunch of raiders who like to prey on rim worlds." She said as she looked towards the door he'd come from. She bit her lip as she decided what to do, turning to Ashlynn as she beckoned her to follow her.

"Let's see what this guys doing all the way out on this world." She said as she went through the door. The hallway appeared to be a bit rundown, but kept in good order, with working lights and a non-dusty floor, even if the walls had paint chipping off in places. Following along the hallway, she kept close to the wall as she began to look for anything to indicate where they were. As she did though, she finally came to an open doorway, carefully going through it as she kept her gratia pistol drawn and at the ready.

The place they came out into appeared to be an abandonded factory of sorts. Long decomissioned machines for manufacturing what looked like ship parts were present, and a lot of space had been cleared out. More importantly though, at the center of the assembly lines was what appeared to be a massive structure that had been built up here. Scafolding that reached the ceiling, and continued past it upwards through a hole that had been cut.

"What in the world?" Nyriss asked aloud as suddenly, a loud and resounding boom was heard. The sound of a low rumble passed through before suddenly something fell through the hole and landed at the center of the factory floor, making a massive crash. Nyriss jumped back a bit as she heard the noise, looking to see what looked like a rectangle of duracrete and metal at the center of the small crater that had formed. She saw what looked like a massive locked door, circular shape, and slowly realized what that was.

"Thats a bank vault..." She said, looking to her companion and back in disbelief, "Did we...is this a...did we walk in on a damn bank heist?"

@Rae Anne Jarrus

 

[Ashlynn Rys]

She watched as Nyriss punched the man, knocking him out cold. She seemed to then stop for a second, examining the man. When she said that he was part of the Blue Scar Buccaneers, Ashlynn had already had the feeling that she knew who they were.

"Yeah, I've run into them a few times in the past years. They can get pretty intense."

she responded. Ashlynn remembered fighting them many times and had even been captured by them once when she was in hiding while her niece was in trouble. She outsmarted them though and got way with a few scars.

When Nyriss motioned for her to follow, she followed her, as they walked through the hallway. There was a feeling in her gut that she had and she couldn't just let it go. She knew something was going to happen. She just didn't know exactly when. She kept her hands near her sabers, so she would be able to draw quickly if need be.

When they finally arrived to an opening, they came into a wide open space of what looked like an old factory. It was possible that the Buccaneers had been using the old factory as a base. Ashlynn had noticed a hole in the ceiling before they both then heard a loud and deep rumbling coming from the hole. Quickly, she dodged to the opposite side of the hole.

"Watch out!"

she said in shock. About a second later, a metal box came crashing down. Ashlynn shielded her face with her arm for a second before then looking to see the dust clearing to reveal a metal box. Looking up to Nyriss at the same time, she shrugged.

"I'm not sure.. maybe we should open it.. it may have what we are looking for."

she responded.

 

[Nyriss Oedon]

Nyriss looked curiously down at the container, seeing the heavy lock in front of it and shaking her head, "we'd need to cut through it, and even then unless you got a lightsaber, that's gonna take hours. More importantly however, is who just dropped it? And what are they going to do when they get back..." She said as she looked up towards the ceiling, and the massive scaffolding that helped lead to the roof.

The Blue Skull Buccaneers were committing a crime here. So, perhaps it wouldn't be too bad if they got a bit of karma for their efforts. Her eyes looked towards the scaffolding as she smirked to herself, "Say...how much do you know about structural integrity?" She asked as she pulled out her gratia pistol, its vibroblade activating as she pressed it into one of the screws. cutting through its head as the bolt stayed in place, barely, by the even pressure above. "Let's weaken this enough to bring it down when someone steps on it. Give the blue skulls a real surprise."

@Rae Anne Jarrus

 

[Ashlynn Rys]

Ashlynn gave a smirk as Nyriss told her that the lock would be tough to get through. She grabbed one of her lightsabers from her belt and looked to Nyriss real quick hearing what she said and shrugged.

"Not sure. I'll open this real quick to see what's in it and then we'll see who's in the area."

she suggested as she ignited her saber and cut off the lock. Ashlynn then attempted to lift the door up, but it wasn't working. The door had to be just as heavy, if not heavier than the box itself. She then stopped once she heard Nyriss speak up again and mentioned structual integrity. This definitely came to Ashlynn's interests.

"I know quite a bit and I see where you're going with that."

she responded as she would soon start doing the same with her lightsaber, weakening the area they were aiming for. Ashlynn was always up for giving the enemy surprises. Especially the fun kind of giving them a taste of karma. It was always more fun with a friend and she was lucky to have Nyriss with her to be able to do her usual. After they would finish, she then decided she wasn't going to use her hands to open the box, so she used the force and forced the box open, revealing it's contents if any.

 

[Nyriss Oedon]

Cold, hard, metal money poured out of the safe, spilling into the hole as it safe lay out at an odd angle. Nyriss looked at the amount of golden colored ingots spilling out and had to really, really, fight the urge to try and scoop up some of it. It was a ton of money, literally given the weight and dimensions of the safe. She looked to Ashlynn as she spoke, "I really hope it wasn't a mistake to open that." She said, moving back as she motioned for her to follow her back as well.

It took a minute, at most, for things to hit the fan hard as the blue skulls came back to their hideout. There were about 3 of them on, and nyriss was nervous as the scaffolding seemed to hold, and then it groaned, and then it began to fall. The three on it found themselves buried and pinned by the metal they used to build their platform up.

"What the hell just happened!?" Came a shout from above as the other skulls looked down, having a top-down view and then spotting the two, "Hey! There's someone down there!" They shouted, it would seem a fight was going to be on their hands.

However, the sound of approaching sirens cut into the air, as well as the sound of footsteps, a lot of footsteps, coming this way.

 

[Ashlynn Rys]

Ashlynn's jaw dropped as money poured from the safe and onto the floor, the metallic clinking sound echoing through the halls. She looked over to Nyriss a surprised look still provided on her face. Ashlynn cursed to herself in her mind for her curious nature. She needed the money, but then she remembered, she wasn't in hiding anymore.

"It probably was, knowing me. But I possibly brought us a little more fun."

she responded. She then looked between the treasure and Nyriss, before then noticing Nyriss motioning for Ashlynn to follow her, which she did quickly. She then turned around upon hearing the groaning sound coming from the little contraption they had just made in the scaffolding. She then saw it collapse as three of the Blue skull buccaneers were stuck underneath all of the metal. As one of them noticed the girls though, Ashlynn's breath caught in her throat.

"Crap.. we're in trouble.."

She said to Nyriss.

 

[Nyriss Oedon]

"This is bad. I hope you can use that saber of yours for bouncing back shots." She said nervously as she looked up towards the blue skull buccaneers, fully expecting their reinforcements to come as she held her pistol at the ready. What she didn't expect was what happened next, as the people in uniforms and accompanying droids armed with blasters as well. From above, the sound of steps on the ceiling could be heard as well, dust falling as someones voice finally cut through.

"Freeze! Eriadu Security! Put your hands on your head and drop your weapons!" The man, now revealed as a police officer, shouted as Nyriss looked around, her eyes wide. This wasn't good, this definitely wasn't good. They needed to come up with a cover, and they needed it fast. Nyriss thought for a moment, and then an idea came to her.

"It's about time you got here. Nydine Oda, Jedi..." She said as she pointed towards the skulls, "Me and my...Master just got done busting these lowlives. Isn't that right, master?" She asked as she looked to Ashlynn, hoping she caught on to the deception and played along.

 

[Ashlynn Rys]

"More than able to.."

she responded calmly. Ashlynn could sense that Nyriss was super nervous as the buccaneers closed in.. until Ash realized that they were actually security officers. Ashlyyn knew they were going to get out without being shot or captured.. the odds in her mind just told her differently. Ashlynn was about to take it a completely different way until she heard Nyriss speak up, using a nam de plume. She caught on rather quickly and backed up her "padawan".

"Yes, Nydine. Jedi Master Ashley Ryn. It appears that there had been a few men on a bank heist. They tried attacking us, but we took care of them without a problem."

Ashlynn was no Jedi anymore, but if it'd save their ass, she could live with it for a few minutes.

 

[Nyriss Oedon]

The officer looked at the two cautiously, looking like he was about ot say sometihng when one of the other officers spoke up, "These guys are the blue skulls alright. If they safe hadn't been opened, they might have made away with millions." He said, the other officer looking towards the now collapsed strucutre as it was cleared, revealing the opened safe as he looked back to the two of them.

"You both did a good thing here. The blue skulls have been cracking banks here for a while now. Each robbery more ballsy then the last..." He said, not looking quite sure how to thank them, "Never really thanked a jedi before...." He said.

"We're just normal folks, like any other. But if you really want to help us out, well, the jedi have some friends in the security business called the accord. They could help keep the blue skullls out of places like this. Take my word as a jedi in training..." She explained, selling eriadu on the accord to help keep their planet safe, and hoping that they actually bought it all.

When all was said and done, the news feeds on the holonet for eriadu read, "Bank Heist Spree Foiled by Jedi Help." But in the small print below, at the end, it simply said, "when asked for what brought the two jedi here, they merely said they were doing a favor for a as yet unknown organization known as the Accord. Would you like to know more?"

/end thread.