Steal My Sunshine

[Lucian Volante]

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Stealing from the Cartel?

Well, was it really stealing if the group you were stealing from didn't deserve it in the first place? Technically? Yes. Yes it was. But when you were taking something from someone who had stolen it in the first place, there had to be some kind of balancing of karma right?

If not it didn't matter.

One Lorda or another was moving a mass of credits and precious metals from one of their holdings to a more secure holding. Unfortunately for them - the barge needed refuelling at a fuel depot space station and that was the perfect time for two Jedi to get aboard the thing, call in their exit freighter, un-steal the stolen goods and then escape.

If worst came to worst he supposed they could just take the barge themselves but... Lucian really didn't want to fly it.

It was probably filthier on the inside and it would likely handle in such a way as to make fuel tankers seem nimble. But it was time for them to get aboard. Dressed in his armour underneath another poncho, Lucian hummed a little bit as he glanced at Azar.

"Think we can take it?"

Haha... knowing their luck? It would probably be invested by zombie head-crabs.

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

Azar kept skimming over the datapad in his hands as the ship came in to dock. The manifest was absurd. Of course it was up for debate whether all the things on the manifest were accurate or real, but if even half of it was real, this Lorda was shipping a stupid amount of wealth around. He found it annoying him that the criminal Lorda was literally rolling in cash because every one of those credits was from selling people, selling drugs, or other equally unsavory things. It was unjust, and that got under Azar's skin.

He slipped the datapad back into his belt and looked up as the ship clamped into place at the docks. Crew began to slowly disembark and Azar watched them silently. What could go wrong? he said wryly. Of course there were many things that could go wrong, but hopefully the two would manage to overcome. We should wait until more of them are gone, he said. No doubt after having been in space for quite some time, they would want to eat, enjoy being on semi-real ground, and generally stretch their legs in an area that wasn't a stuffy spaceship.

A ship that size probably had anywhere from five to twenty crew on board, but he only saw four come strolling out. So there could have been anywhere from one to sixteen people still on board. He didn't fancy slugging it out with them all, even if it was in enclosed space. We need to draw them off the ship somehow. Maybe track down the four who left first, he offered. @Nefieslab

 

[Lucian Volante]

Ah what a day what a day.

This was going to be fun though he could already tell - raiding the Cartel last time had been rather entertaining too. Now though? Well now was the time for him to get his game face on and Lucian wasn't about to disappoint. He breathed in deeply for a moment as he controlled his breathing and, through his breathing, controlled his emotions. Running a hand through his hair, he paused when Azar asked what could go wrong.

He just stared at the other Jedi Knight for a moment before tutting.

"You are awful."

He didn't really mean it but tempting fate was a big no-no for the Chandrillian. Watching the members disembark, he sighed a little bit as he noticed that only four people came off. While the ship could function with four people - he didn't think that this whole barge was going to have just four people on it.

If nothing else that would mean they'd left the ship empty if it was just them and that was just irresponsible.

"Let's follow the four who left." he agreed with a frown, "That way we can isolate them, take them down and question them about the others."

Following after the four members of the crew who had disembarked, Lucian made sure to stay well enough back that it didn't look like he was following them at all. As they were following them, the group of four split up and two carried onward while two ducked out to the bathroom.

Lucian didn't falter in step as he followed the two who had gone to the bathroom, grabbing an 'out of order' sign from a nearby janitor trolly and hanging it on the door as he entered. Regardless of whether or not Azar followed him, Lucian would follow the pair into the bathroom. As they were rather focused on their needs, neither of them noticed as Lucian drew his stun-capable pistol and walked right up to them. He fired point blank into the unarmoured back of one of them and was able to stun the other with two shots to the side as they panicked at seeing their friend downed.

"Alright... that was rather easy."

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

It seemed the Force was going to be merciful to the pair of Jedi. He fell into step with Lucian as they subtly followed the four crew members. When the two broke off for the bathroom, it only made sense to follow them. Lucian thought quickly and put a sign on the door that would prevent anyone from coming in and Azar glanced behind him before stepping inside. He saw maintenance droids and other travelers moving around, but no sign of anyone being suspicious. He was about to step inside when a man came racing over as if his bladder were about to burst.

I'm sorry, the fresher is closed, Azar said, though the man's face was contorted and he looked upset.

You don't look like a maintenance worker! he objected, flexing his legs and dancing about in an antsy fashion. I need to get into this restroom, he continued to whine, his voice now carrying a tone of superiority and arrogance to it.

Azar was concerned it was going to create a scene, and didn't want to waste anymore time, especially not as he heard the crack of a stun weapon inside. The man seemed to have heard it too, and his eyes went wide. You want to find another fresher. This one is out of service, he stated quickly with a wave of his hand and a growing suggestion in the man's mind. His eyes seemed to take on a glazed look and he nodded as he began to walk away, muttering about finding another refresher. Azar rolled his eyes and stepped inside, seeing the men on the ground and unconscious.

Well, that was going to make interrogating them more difficult. I guess we should search them, he said, bending down to the pockets of one. There was nothing, but he hadn't really expected anything of value. Some chew, a comlink, and a datapad that was locked. He grabbed the comlink and hooked it into his own stream, but otherwise had no information about how many crew members there were.

We need to move quickly. They'll be expecting these two back, he said, making his way quickly toward the exit. He came out the other side and left the door to the bathroom with the sign over it. The bodies would be discovered eventually, but hopefully not before they'd done their mission.

He continued his way down the concourse, heading in the direction the men had disappeared to, spotting them in line at a cheap Alderaanian cuisine "restaurant." It was in the open and public, which meant they were going to have a hard time with their little takedown unless they baited the men away somehow. @Nefieslab

 

[Lucian Volante]

As Azar arrived and suggested that they search them, Lucian realised something rather important - he had succeeded to nabbing both men but he had stunned them both into unconsciousness. Sometimes there was such a thing as being two efficient it seemed. He searched down one as Azar searched the other but he didn't even come away with the com link like Azar did.

The guy he searched was altogether rather boring.

"Alright... the other two shall be our last chance before we have to engage the ship blind."

He REALLY didn't want to engage the ship blind considering just how large it was. With a ship that large, they could be dealing with dozens of Cartel enforcers and that would just get things really messed up for them now wouldn't it? As they approached the two, Lucian had an idea.

"Hey! Hey!" he called out to them as he approached openly, "You two came with those two guys who went to the bathroom right? Well I saw some guys go in after them and then there was blaster fire!"

One of the crew members just looked annoyed at him but the other looked genuinely concerned.

"Gods damn it Pepsi and Max..." He muttered before turning to Lucian, "Which way? You sure it was them?"

Lucian nodded and hurried the man away, leaving Azar to keep the other one busy as he sprinted back to the bathroom with the crewmember. As they stepped inside the bathroom, Lucian acted quickly, pinning the man to the bathroom wall with the Force and raising his blaster to point at him.

"Don't scream." he advised the other man, "Tell me about the crew and defences of your ship."

The man stared at him hatefully for a moment before scowling.

"Kark you, Jedi scum."

And then the guy went crazy - biting down on his own tongue and freaking swallowing it, causing him to start choking! By the time the surprise wore off, the man had choked himself into unconsciousness and even Lucian clearing his airway didn't do anything more than that.

The guy was out cold.

"... really?!"

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

Meanwhile, Azar was left with the guy who looked like he was taking hangry to another level. He grabbed his food and angrily threw credits down for his partner's food as well before he turned to Azar.

What're you looking at? Shouldn't you be scurrying off with your little friend? he asked with a scowl. Azar could sense in the Force that the man's suspicions seemed to be growing and he began to slowly back off, diverting attention away from the somewhat suspicious situation they were in.

Hey, take it easy. My friend and I are just trying to help out. We know how it can be. Spacers have to stick together, he said. He wondered how long he could keep this up for, and he was already beginning to doubt he could do it for long. If you don't want me around, I'll just go check on your friend, but it seems like you should probably go look after him, he said with a shrug. That's what I'd do, he said, turning and walking away. As he said the words, he let the Force flow out of him, making his argument seem all the more appealing and sensical to the Enforcer.

Fine, the man practically growled, tossing his friend's food in the garbage and scarfing his own down as he walked. They're in the freshers? he asked, beginning a mumbling and cursing tirade about how he was going to kill them if they weren't dead already.

They came to the door of the infamous refresher and the man entered with a bowl of noodles in one hand and his other hand resting on his blaster pistol. Even Azar was shocked by the scene in front of them. Lucian was bent over a man who had blood and drool seeping out of his mouth with a finger down his throat trying to clear out... was that a tongue on the floor next to him!

Azar moved like a flash as the man was trying to draw his pistol and his bowl of noodles fell to the floor. A vicious left hook hit the man in the temple and he staggered back, throwing a wild punch that smashed into Azar's armored torso. He gripped the man's head and brought it down on the counter with a loud cracking sound. Blood poured from a 5cm laceration to his forehead and covered the white counter.

The man was dazed, barely even conscious now, and then... well, there it was again. By the time Azar got him sitting upright blood and drool were pouring from his mouth and Azar stepped back with a shocked and repulsed look on his face. He had bitten his tongue off, too? What was wrong with these people?!

Azar's foot lashed out, kicking the man in the face so hard that his head bounced off the wall behind him and he drooped down unconscious. You're clearing his tongue, he said. You're finger's already bloody anyway, he said, rolling both men on their sides so that they wouldn't drown on their own blood. We should call... someone about this. Do they have medics here? he asked, assuming they must have had some sort of infirmary on board.

They had no information about the ship, but at this point, he was afraid to wake the other two stunned men lest they bite their tongues off as well. Was this a regular ocurrence or was the first guy a fanatic and the second one thought it was a good idea because he already had a concussion? Azar didn't know, and he wasn't sure he wanted to find out.

 

[Lucian Volante]

Oh... oh for the love of the Living Force!

What the hell were these people on?! Not only had Azar managed to get another person to follow them but this one had bitten his tongue off as well? Growling in annoying, Lucian seized the man's jaw with the Force so he couldn't bite down on his fingers as the Jedi scooped out the severed tongue to make sure the cartel man couldn't choke to death on the damn thing. He checked to make sure that the man wasn't dying on them before just releasing the man and shaking his head.

What the... what the kark was this even?

Moving over to the sinks, Lucian washed his blood stained hands in the sink, annoyed at how they shook for a moment before he dried them off,

"There's medical staff here but we can't be discovered with them - otherwise our attack on the ship is compromised."

He grimaced.

"We need to either risk waking the first two up or going in blind."

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

Azar kept watching as Lucian dug out another tongue - yes, Azar was now going to refer to him as the Master of Tongues - but the man wasn't dead. Anonymous call to medical staff it is, then, he said, nodding in agreement that they couldn't be associated with it. Or just take the sign off the door and let someone walk into the horror. Yes, let's go with that idea.

He shook his head with a shudder as the Master of Tongues mentioned waking the other two up. I don't think I want to risk it, he said, not knowing what they would be seeing if they did. More tongue biting, he feared. I think we'll need to go in blind. Maybe bait a few out? he offered, trying to think of ways to draw them off their ship.

We should get away from this scene first, though, he stated, glancing at the bodies before stepping out into the hallway and removing the sign from the door.

He wandered out to look at the ship, picking a vantage point that didn't make them too obvious. What do you think the odds are that they leave without them vs. send people looking for them if they don't come back? he asked, but he knew the reality was that time wasn't on the Jedi side. He didn't think that would work. He didn't think they could just storm in with only the two of them. Sabotage the fuel line? he suggested. @Nefieslab

 

[Lucian Volante]

Oh it was going to be hell trying to explain this to a therapist if he ended up having reoccurring nightmares about this sort of thing. In the end though, he just grabbed up one of the com links and called for an emergency medical member of staff to come on down to the fresher.

Let them deal with this mess.

"Blind it is." he agreed with a sigh, "You watch - it'll turn out that the only reason these four had been sent off the ship was because they were the only ones who still had tongues to talk with and the rest of the crew already bit theirs off for some strange, cult-like, reason."

Stepping out of the fresher gratefully, he dropped the com link so that the medical personnel wouldn't have any means of trying to track them down. He thought about it for a moment before nodding in agreement,

"Sabotage the fuel line and the water line."

Ships that spent a lot of time in the void needed a lot of water to keep them going after all. He took a deep breath before nodding to Azar,

"Let's hit the fuel line first."

As they approached where the fuel was being loaded into the ship, they noticed that there was only one guard on duty and although he looked rather attentive... he was just one guard.

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

Azar gave a nod as he mentioned the water lines as well as the fuel lines. It was a good decision, and one he hadn't thought of. he didn't claim to be even close to an expert on space travel. He could make due in a cockpit if he had to, but he was by no means an expert fighter pilot or the like.

They came around the corner to find one many pumping fuel into the ship. That was what he would have expected, it was at most a two person job, and there was no signs of his partner. I'll distract him, you sneak up on him, he suggested, taking advantage of having two people to his one.

He gave a nod and set off away from Lucian, hoping to keep his attention away from the Master of Tongues to leave the guard open to attack.

I need a little help, do you dock here often? he asked the man, feigning a confused face and a slight wave. The fuel access lines are locked up, but there aren't any service crews out here... he began, hoping Lucian would move quickly so that he didn't have to keep this up for long. @Nefieslab

 

[Lucian Volante]

Lucian liked space.

But he knew well enough that without fuel and water, a ship this size wasn't going anywhere. He was just going to have to make sure that the sabotage looked like it was something deliberate but also something that wasn't meant to lure them out. That way they would think they were getting the drop on the saboteurs and not the other way around.

Deception atop of deception.

Nodding to Azar's suggestion, Lucian skirted around the edge of the area, staying out of sight and moving around to the back of the fuelling attendant. When Azar had his attention, Lucian skulked up behind the man before pressing his blaster pistol against the back of the man's skull and pulling the trigger - immediately stunning the man and knocking him out painlessly.

Now to work.

"Let's shut it down."

Turning to the console, Lucian was thankful that he knew how to work this type of console. Otherwise he might have had to do something stupid.

"Alright - the fuel is now stopped and locked down." he told Azar before adding, "I say we just shoot a hole in the water line - scatters civilians, convinces the crew there's some kind of sabotage going on."

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

Azar was thankful when his partner snuck up behind the man and promptly "executed" him with a stun pistol. That was good because he wasn't sure how much longer he could have kept that up before the man would have either gotten angry or seen through the ruse.

In short order, they had switched off the fuel and Azar grabbed a pistol off of the downed guard and fired into the water line, once, twice, three times. Water began to pour out of the pipe and onto the side of the ship and the floor of the hangar. He shrugged and tossed the pistol on the ground, scrambling behind several crates and only slightly poking his head out the side for a good view.

Civilians were beginning to look concerned and the nearest people began running away to look for cover after hearing the gunfire. He was initially concerned that the ship might just take off and leave them behind, but without fuel or water, they wouldn't be going anywhere.

And so, two men appeared at the top of the ramp and with the ruckus outside, they were ready for whatever they would find. Both had blaster rifles in hand and they were sticking together. There was no indication of the two men splitting up as they made their way toward the water pump, heads on a swivel and not letting anyone sneak up on them. @Nefieslab

 

[Lucian Volante]

Alright so they had two men come off the ship? That was alright. He still had... damn it, he hadn't kept count of how many stun rounds he had left and it was too late to reload without looking very obvious and likely getting shot at before he was ready to deal with, you know, being shot at. Whipping out his lightsaber was also not really an option considering it was something he was actively trying to avoid.

Being mobbed wasn't the man here.

Which meant that it was time to be a bit more creative.

Rather than attacking with his lightsaber or his blaster, Lucian attacked in a more traditional way; he approached them as if he was a random passerby, before lashing out with a backhand to the face of one of them, sending him tumbling to the ground, before using the Force to slam the other hand into a wall, timing it to coincide with a kick to the man's gut so it didn't looked super obvious that he was a Jedi.

Grabbing the man who he had punched, he locked his jaw in place with the Force and dragged him to a corner. He smirked at Azar,

"Learned my lesson. You want to ask?"

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

Azar watched as Lucian quickly dispatched the pair of men. He stood guard as Lucian covered up the fact that he was a Jedi with some pointed blasts of the Force disguised as heavyweight level punches and kicks. He wasn't sure anyone was watching, but then, it didn't hurt to cover your bases just in case. A moment later, they had dragged the man off and shoved him against a wall, waiting for an interrogation.

No, he grumbled and let out a sigh as he turned to the man. Any moment he was sure the man would be biting off and swallowing his own tongue. It was... not a fun thing to watch.

Much to Azar's relief, this guy was much more conventionally resistant to questioning. There wasn't swallowing of the tongue - yet - but there was an attempt to spit at the pair of Jedi. There was cursing and a general unwillingness to help or answer. Azar knew that Jedi were supposed to be patient, but these tongue-swallowing, treasure-smuggling criminals were starting to get on his nerves.

As he told all sorts of unpleasant things to Azar, he tried a different approach to things. Something more aggressive and direct. He poured the energies of the Force into the man's mind. How many more people are on the ship? he asked, but the man was surprisingly resistant.

Six... more people... on board... he groaned as if each word was painful for him to say. Azar didn't want to keep it up much longer in case it began to leave permanent damage to his mind. He released his grip on the mind and stepped back, bringing a gauntleted fist around and striking him in the temple, sending him slumping to the floor.

Six more, he said, glancing up at the ship. If we rush in we can probably get some before they can react, he said, thinking about what they would be up against. They would be in a closed area, which gave the Jedi a huge advantage, and he felt confident about their odds with somewhat of the element of surprise. Just rush them? he asked. @Nefieslab

 

[Lucian Volante]

Yeah well, Azar might not want to ask but he was going to. Lucian had caught the damn guys so it was Azar who got the lucky job of asking them questions and trying to keep their tongues attached.

It was a job he would have hated as well it had to be said.

In the end though, one of them was in the right state to talk and Azar was able to get him to give up some info. Enough to tell them exactly how many more of these buggers there were. As he was listening he swapped his pistol out for his RJF sidearm - lethal rounds only - and prepared himself.

Going in the front door to enemy territory was often a bad idea.

But bad ideas only won out when there weren't any good options. Holding his lightsaber in his right hand and his blaster in his left, he nodded in agreement.

"Let's go introduce ourselves..." he paused before adding, "And then we steal the ship as a getaway?"

It was a terrible ship but... waste not want not. Either way, Lucian marched forwards with Azar and entered the ship, stepping into the cargo hold to see two men chatting away. They glanced at them before pausing.

"Hello."

Lucian fired three times at the duo, managing to hit one man in the throat to kill him and send the other falling backwards with a hole in his chest armour but otherwise being fine.

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

Azar followed up after his partner and lit his saber, bringing it up to deflect the gunshots from the enemies within. Lucian began firing, sending one man to the ground dead and another wounded. Much to his surprise, he felt his back impacted... hard. It felt like he'd been roundhouse kicked in the back and he stumbled forward. His back was singed and he could feel pain radiating across his skin. And this was why you should always check behind you. It was a rookie mistake that the Jedi would be kicking himself for later.

He pushed off the pain, trying to ignore it as he turned and lunged forward. He trusted Lucian would have the other direction as he leapt at the man, darting to the side before plunging his saber through the man's heart. Azar didn't enjoy killing or go out of his way to do it, but when his saber came out, there was no longer room for questioning. He would keep his saber away as long as possible, but once that line was crossed, there was no going back.

He pulled his saber free and gripped the man's pistol, ripping it free and spinning around. He wasn't an expert marksman, but the Force seemed to be guiding his hand and he squeezed the trigger. The smell of fried ozone filled the air as a bolt flung across the open space and pounded directly into the hole that Lucian had made in the man's armor. Azar darted into the cockpit, ensuring it was empty before turning back toward the men deeper into the ship.

The two Jedi had felled three of the men but the other two slammed the blast doors shut in the rear of the ship, sealing themselves in the cargo bay. It was a moment of reprieve for the two and Azar considered their next move. Of course they could slam through the blast doors with saber drawn, but Azar didn't want this to end in more bloodshed. He was a duelist and a user of Form III, but he was also an advocate of Form Zero.

I have an idea, he said. Make sure they don't try to charge out, he advised as he made his way back up to the cockpit. He could already begin to feel the burns on his back healing, but even so he groaned slightly as he rummaged through the cockpit controls. Finally, he found a speaker and decided to give something a try.

We've already eliminated the rest of your crew. There's no reason for further bloodshed. Surrender and you'll be spared, he said into the overheard, looking over to Lucian and giving a shrug. You have two minutes to decide, he said.

He set the speaker down and walked down to Lucian. I guess we'll see how that goes over. He'd barely gotten the words out of his mouth when the door hissed and opened. His saber came up and he was ready to defend, but all three came out with their hands in the air. Azar was... surprised. He'd not thought that was going to work.

You want to check them for weapons or shall I? he asked quietly as he saw them coming out. He didn't want this to be some sort of trap or find out they were rigged with explosives. No thank you. @Nefieslab

 

[Lucian Volante]

What the...?!

They were behind them too? Well that just wasn't fair! Lucian was happy that he hadn't been hit himself but it appeared to have been a case of good luck on his part and bad luck for Azar. His ally took the hit fully on and it made Lucian wince to even look at it. Gods be damned but it seemed that throwing themselves at the enemy blind had come to bite at least one of them. As Azar pushed forwards, Lucian turned back to engage with the enemies who had come up behind them to take a shot at his ally.

He would be ready to both defend with his lightsaber and lash out with his pistol - he wanted to make sure that both he and Azar lived so he wasn't going to be taking any quarter.

His lightsaber was a blur as he blocked and slashed blaster bolts back where they came from or to the sides of the cargo hold, covering Azar as he made his way into the cockpit. Thankfully he didn't have to do that for very long. Instead, Azar cut them off and all Lucian had to do was blast in their general direction to keep them from coming back on out.

Upon hearing Azar's announcement, Lucian readied himself for combat again.

"It'll never work..."

And then?

It did.

Blinking a few times, Lucian shook his head a little bit before nodding in agreement and moving closer to the pirates. He made sure to keep them in his sights at all times, but they really were just surrendering themselves... it was more than a little bit odd he would say. But he knew better than to question these things. Instead he just disarmed the pirates and tied their arms behind their backs with some rope that was handy.

Moving back over to Azar, Lucian paused for a long moment before shaking his head,

"This mission has been... so weird. Surrendering pirates and men biting their own tongues off? Who the hells is this Lorda?"

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

Azar had to admit, he was a bit surprised that thing had worked out so well for the pair. And it had been a strange mission indeed. He couldn't deny that tongue biting and easy surrenders were a first for him... especially the tongue biting part.

As Lucian cleared each of the Enforcers, Azar bound them up with whatever makeshift items he could find, that was to say, mostly cords around the hands and feet. He cleaned out one of the cargo holds and placed the men inside where they would be alone and not causing any more trouble. With nothing to cut free and the door promptly barred, it gave the two Jedi a few moments to catch their breath. He wasn't planning to go back through the station and arrest each individual, but the two needed to take off before the authorities tracked things back to this ship.

We need to move out before security is dispatched, he said. They had some time, and ultimately were doing the right thing, but that didn't mean he wanted to stick around and explain it to hours on end to the locals. There were a great many people who didn't fancy the Jedi with the war that had been going on for the last century and their "mystic voodoo."

Azar quickly made his way up to the cockpit, slipping into the passenger's seat for the large freighter and letting Lucian take the pilot's seat. His eyes ran over the consoles with their various displays before he realized they had a problem. We sabotaged the fuel and water, he grumbled and let out an exasperated sigh. They had done a marvelous job of making it difficult for the pilot of this ship.

I hope they loaded up enough water beforehand because that line's been shot up. Fuel just needs to be turned back on, he said. He had a nagging feeling in the back of his mind that as soon as they stepped off the ship, the locals were going to be showing up.

He made his way down the ramp and flipped the fuel line back on, listening to the machine pumping away when... oh yes, there they were. A trio of rent-a-cops stomped their way through the hangar, evidently having discovered which ship the tongueless men flew in on. Time to get clever. A mind trick on a big group likely wouldn't work, but then, if one of the officers could be convinced to leave, that might work. He wasn't going to stab a security guard, so that was out. Or he supposed he could simply try to explain the situation... for several hours... or days. @Nefieslab

 

[Lucian Volante]

Okay so in hindsight? Ruining the ship's restocking had been a bad idea as they were looking to now flee the scene inside said ship. Well, that was something that they could look into. Grimacing a little bit, Lucian looked over the readouts for the water supply... that wasn't good at all and, as Azar said, security would be getting a bit angry at them at this point he was certain. They had been docked here for far longer than they typically would have been and that was, without a doubt, catching some attention.

Gods be damned.

"We did."

They had made a horrible error in judgement it seemed.

Sighing a little bit, Lucian made sure to lock the captured pirates into a side room so that they weren't able to actually stop them from doing anything to the Cartel ship. Also he was getting sick of them just sitting there glaring at him. Nodding to Azar, Lucian left the ship to get themselves another water link.

They needed the water and, as had been touched upon before, their current line for the water was beyond ruined. But that was fine! They just needed a new one was all... jogging past the rent-a-cops as they seemed focused on Azar for now. Grabbing a new water pipe from the area, he hurried over to where he could connect it to the ship before the security realised what he was going.

... they didn't have time for this.

Lucian shot Azar a look before he turned to face the security guards and used the Force to brace himself... before turning the pipe on, slamming all three security guards with high powered water, not unlike a riot water cannon, before he shut it off again and attached it to the ship before slamming it into high power.

He stared at Azar.

"... they were probably dirty cops anyway."

@Phoenix

 

[Azar Torsin]

No, we don't work for the Cartel. We're Jedi, he stated again for the fourth time, starting to grow impatient as he was accused of spice smuggling for the third time. We're the ones stopping them from... he didn't get to finish his sentence as a massive wave of water sprayed and spewed all over the men, sending water spraying on him as well as a byproduct.

Azar glared at Lucian as the guards began trying to recover. He didn't know what to do next. He wasn't going to start beating up guards and he wasn't about to let them both be shot or arrested because Lucian water assaulted the guards!

He moved quickly and did what he could, gripping restraints from one of the guards and slapping them on the man. He swung his hand around and touched the other man's body with the Force, letting his inner ear swirl wildly. The man wasn't able to stand and stumbled over, vomiting a moment later from his severe dizziness. Lucian was going to have to deal with the third man and get the water hooked up while Azar tackled the vomiting man, shoving his face down to avoid being covered in vomit. He grabbed another set of restraints and slapped them on the man.

He was still grouchy that Lucian had covered the area in water - which was now covering the entire hangar floor - and he hoped this thing pumped quickly. If it didn't, they may be under fire from local law enforcement and Azar wasn't going to shoot back.

We need to get out of here ASAP, he said, darting over to see if any other locals were coming. The hangar was mostly empty now, but there was no sign yet of others coming. They had another small window to escape, and if they didn't, they might have to take off with less than an ideal amount of water. @Nefieslab