Open Nal Hutta What Do They Eat When They Can't Get Hobbit?

[Talak Rand]

Dressed once again as a Kage warrior, Talak found himself wandering around Nal Hutta. If he had thought that Nar Shaddaa was bad, then Nal Hutta was exponentially worse. It was all the bad things about the crimes of Nar Shaddaa combined with extra Hutts and lots of swamps.

He was going to be meeting Ender here, and was thankful that his entire body was covered except for his eyes. It kept the bugs away as he waited in the edges of the swamp, finding some of the only solid ground available to him.

He was glad to have assistance on this job again, and had warned Ender to be more discreet than appearing blatantly Sith Eternal. With any luck at all, the two of them would be able to get in and out without too many issues, but that never seemed to be how these things went.

The buzzing of insects surrounded him on every single side, and the noise was enough to drive him mad while he waited. He tried to focus on the Force and on his target: the palace in front of him. It belonged to a minor Hutt, and had been the location Talak tracked his target of interest to: an old grimoire of the Sith that had been collected by one of the members of Crimson Dawn before being sold into the Hutt's collection. @Orbit

 

[Darth Invictus]

It had been a while since Ender had seen Talak but he asked for assistance and he didn't hesitate to answer the call. He had never visited Nal Hutta himself but heard many stories about the planet. There have been times when he thought about it during his drifter life but didn't have the reputation to be walking around there without getting into something with the local Hutts on the planet. He wore the same outfit as Talak, a full Kage warrior outfit that covered everything except his eyes. It did keep the bugs out but it made it terribly hot in the damp swamp.

Both of his weapons were attached to his waist, his lightsaber, and vibro-blade. The lightsaber was hidden underneath his clothing while the vibro-blade was out in the open to sell the appearance of a kage warrior. Receiving coordinates from Talak, Ender navigated through the swamp carefully to arrive at the meeting location. When he arrived at the meeting point, Talak would hear the soft thud of someone landing right behind on the solid ground.

"I assume what we're searching for is deep in the palace and guarded to all hell." This would certainly be a challenge, especially with them pretty much stealing from a Hutt. But it would be an exciting challenge and Ender was looking forward to it. He grabbed onto one of the nearby branches before swinging to the other side of solid land and crouching down, inspecting the palace from his position to find a few ways in. "Have you already scouted the place or should we do that now?" Ender had just arrived but already he could see multiple patrols of guards along the perimeter of the palace. Thankfully, the two were out of the way enough that they wouldn't be disturbed by them.

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak snorted quietly as Ender assessed their situation. It was completely accurate to what was going on, and Talak had to admit it was nice to work with someone else who was not only competent, but might even be considered a friend.

You know me so well, he said with a slight smile. They had their work cut out for them, but for some reason, he found himself more excited than nervous for this one. It was going to be a good test of skill, and if they took out a few thugs along the way he wouldn't lose any sleep or shed any tears over it.

Yeah, there are guards at each entrance, but no one along the hills. A handful of guards rove the swamp as well... presumably to keep unfriendly wildlife at bay? he guessed. It could have been to search for intruders, but that would be some crazy dedication if that were the case. The front entrance had a large number of guards gathered there doing an assortment of recreational activities from sports to gambling, which meant that wasn't their best bet.

I'm thinking there, he said, pointing to the mountainous area on the far side. Come in high and get to the base of the main building. Find our way - or cut our way - in from there, he said. While he didn't want to swing a lightsaber around in the open, cutting into a building wasn't as blatant. Plasma cutters and other infiltration tools weren't uncommon for thieves, and if there wasn't any people with lightsaber burns, it pointed to something other than Sith Eternal who had infiltrated.

Unless Ender objected, Talak would start making his way across. Unfortunately, when he'd picked the rendezvous point, he wasn't anticipating needing to get to the other side of the building. Picking their way through the swamp was slow and delicate, but they weren't making terrible time.

 

[Darth Invictus]

Ender listened as Talak filled him in on the situation they were about to step in. The place was heavily guarded and that wasn't a shock, it was a palace after all and it had to live up to its name. There were guards in the swamp for either wildlife or intruders and they could avoid them in an ideal scenario. The front would was a complete no go, too many guards and too many hopped up on the drugs that would shoot at the pair first chance they could get. The mountains sounded like the correct path to go and Ender stood up and followed Talak off the solid land and into the swamp.

They didn't get far into it before suddenly they would hear the sound of blaster shots echo through the swamp. However, there was no alarm and no general urgency that could be heard from the front door. There were a few moments of silence before another couple of blaster shots could be heard deeper in the swamp. Ender glanced over to where the shots came from and then to Talak, "Wildlife." He murmured as they could hear a roar from a creature.

He pulled out his vibro-sword, twirling it in his hand for a second before offering a suggestion to Talak, "It seems the local creatures want to knock on the palace doors. Why don't we help them get in? Certainly would provide a distraction and save us some time." There was another round of shots as they could hear more snarls and roars in the distance, the guards certainly poking the swamp and tempting Mother Nature to give her best. If it worked, the guards would deal with the animals while the two could easily sneak in through other means.

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak and Ender continued through the swamp, leaping over the wettest parts and jumping form dry land to dry land. It wasn't quick going, but it was faster than if they weren't Force users. The sounds of blaster fire in the distance kept him in a perpetual state of discomfort and unease, and the knowledge that creatures could be lurking in the water below them.

They were just making it to the mountains when Talak paused to listen to Ender's suggestion and his eyebrows went up. It was... actually a pretty good idea and Talak nodded. They were in position, so there was no time like the present.

Let's do it, he said, glancing around to their surroundings to make sure they were at least partially in the clear. When he was satisfied, he dropped to his knees and closed his eyes. Convincing multiple creatures from all over the swamp was no small task, and it would take full concentration from both of them to accomplish it.

He reached out with his mind, and sensed everything around him. He could see the guards in his mind and the creatures lurking in the swamp. Long, eel-like monsters with massive jaws and sharpened teeth were perhaps the most terrifying, but one of only many types. He started tugging at their minds, pulling on their predatory instincts and inciting them to follow through with fervor on the violence they already intended.

Slowly, the creatures began to emerge, first killing the guards around the edge of the swamps who were patrolling, and then moving inward. Screams started to fill the swamp, but most of the guards out front didn't seem to notice anything. They would soon, though, as animals started to emerge and stamped into their territory. Blasterfire started ringing out and intermixed with roars and screams of the dying.

 

[Darth Invictus]

Talak approved of the plan and Ender gave him a nod before taking a step back to give them both space. When he dropped to his knees, so did Ender, placing his hands into the damp earth as he spread out his fingers and let the grass flow between his fingers. Closing his fingers and concentrating on the force, he reached and could sense the life that was teeming in the swamp, always hungry and searching for their next meal. With a little nudge from the two of them, it would almost drive the animals into an unnatural frenzy, driving them like a herd towards the palace.

When it was finished, Ender drew his hands back and rested on his heels, tilting his head into the sky as they could hear the screams of guards and the sounds of blaster fire. "Well, it seems it's working for now." Standing up, Ender turned around to face towards the palace instead of the mountains, "Better move now before the animals see us as lunch as well." They would tread back the way they came, instead of taking a detour at the end and a straight line to the palace as the sound of screeching and screams grew louder and louder. An alarm started to ring out, alerting perimeter defenses to deal with the problem. "There's our distraction."

When they exited from the swamp, they could see multiple bodies simply torn to shreds with their weapons strewn about. Some of the creatures remained, chewing on the corpses of guards or of other creatures. One of the creatures turned their head to spot the two Sith, a sort of feline creature with moss and other gunk hanging from its fur. It thought about going after them but instead returned to feasting on the meals around it. Ender glanced around and found a service door in the wall of the palace, the door repeatedly opening and closing as body laid directly in between it. Claw marks and blood lined the wall and meant that some of the animals have reached inside. "Our entrance." He pointed before started to head over to it.

He took a wide-angle around the predators to make sure he didn't disturb them. When they reached the service door, Ender used the force to drag the body out of the way and caught the door with his hand. He shoved it back into the wall roughly before turning towards Talak, "Care to go first into the belly of the beast?" There's always time for a little comedy.

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak was glad he wasn't among the men being torn to shreds by the wildlife. He tended to have an overly black-and-white view of things, but he couldn't find himself mustering up a lot of pity for most of them. They were criminals, thugs, and murderers. If they got their just desserts at his hands, was the galaxy any worse off?

He followed Ender's gaze to the opening and nodded. Despite their close call with the feline creature, everything else went off without any difficulty.

He snorted as Ender mentioned the belly of the beast. Yeah, let's hope not, he grumbled, squeezing through the narrow opening as the door began stuck once again in the gore of the dead man. He grimaced but pushed on, scowling at the smells of this place. Wild animals, blood, and... stale alcohol? Lovely combination.

He took a knee inside, glancing at the carnage that had filled the palace. They certainly had unleashed something terrible on this place, and the sound of gunfire continued to fill the distance.

We need to get the artifact first... and the detention level, too, he said, casting a sideways glance at Ender. That hadn't really been on their initial list, but Talak was turning into part time slave liberator as well. What could he say? He wanted to wipe the slave data from the system and help them get out. So shoot him... actually, someone almost certainly would try to shoot him, but hopefully it wouldn't be Ender.

 

[Darth Invictus]

After Talak slipped in, so did Ender, the door sliding shut behind them and preventing the animals from outside to circle back around and attack them from the back. While most of the guards were dead or even fighting for their life still, the pair's pain was both a blessing and a curse. The animals managed to serve quite a good distraction but they were just that, animals and that meant they were completely unpredictable. Ender drew out his vibro-sword and kept it on hand in case anything decided it wanted to make them their lunch.

Talak was right, the smell was absolutely terrible and a slight clue of what the carnage was like. They were potentially about to greet head-on unless they could find a more efficient way through the palace. There wasn't any conflict with the first part of the plan but when the detention level was added at the end, Ender stopped in his tracks and turned towards Talak. "And why the hell would we go to the detention level?" There was already an unknown factor with the wildlife involved and now they were supposed to add helping slaves to the list? "Do you not see what's happening right now?"

As the two were discussing, they could hear the sound of something raking against the floor. Ender slowly turned his head down the hall and saw one of the reptilian creatures they summoned with only two legs and one tail, it almost scorpion-like as it hovered above its body and had a mind of its own. The creature was dragging a body but once it spotted the two sith, it released its jaws from the corpse before turning to face the two. It let a loud hiss that shook its entire body, the scorpion tail rattling like a snake. Ender readied his blade but that's when more tails started to slither around the corner and more hisses erupted in the shadows. Each tail had a pincer more than half a foot long and now it seemed there was a pack. "We should go."

Ender didn't hesitate, he immediately turned down a hall and dashed down it, hoping that Talak would follow as the reptilian creatures would start charging down the hallway. If Talak was side by side with Ender while they ran, he would glance over to him to say one thing, "If we die because of these slaves, I will search for you in hell." It was half jest but also had some severity laced in it, not intending for his final moments to be chewed on for dinner on Nal Hutta.

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak could tell Ender was slightly annoyed with him changing up the plan, but at least not so much that he outright refused. Count your blessings, he thought to himself. Behind his mask, he had to suppress part of a smile when Ender asked why they would go to the detention level.

Come on, where's your sense of adventure? he asked. He knew that Ender would likely still be grumpy about it, but it was good practice for them both.

Consider it field training, he said. This was a prime time to practice their combat skills and against thugs and criminals who Talak didn't really feel bad for killing.

When Ender turned to run, Talak didn't hesitate to join him. It was better to live on to fight and accomplish their mission. At Ender's "threat" Talak snickered.

If we let anything in here kill us, we deserve what we have coming, he quipped in return. He ran up a set of steps and into a back hallway with numerous stairs leading in all directions. Unfortunately, neither of them really had any idea where they were going, which meant they needed a victim.

We need to try to find one of the guards and capture him alive, he said, reaching out to the Force for any indication of where they might find someone.

This way, he said as he took one of the stairs down to find a man whose leg was missing. He was whimpering and a long trail of blood streaked the ground where he had dragged himself away from a dead predator.

You want the mental tricks or guard duty? he asked. They would have to do some very violent digging through the man's mind to find the location of the detention facility and the vault.

 

[Darth Invictus]

"Fair point but I'll still direct my anger towards you." Ender followed him up the stairs, taking steps two at a time with him. When they reached a new hallway, he spun around and slashed at the nearby door panel with his vibro-blade to shut the door behind them and prevent it from opening. Screeching and hisses could be heard behind the door, a few of them ramming themselves into the door as a tiny dent formed. It would hold for the moment but not the entire time. "I concur," Ender commented back as he watched the door for a few moments still be battered against.

When Talak found what they were looking for, he bolted with him and went down the stairs. When they reached the bottom, they found a bloody mess with a man's leg clearly having been bitten off by something. The man was still alive but they had a few minutes at best before he would finally bleed out. Ender hopped over the railing before walking over to the guard and glanced toward Talak after a few moments, "Guard duty, I don't even trust my own head yet." With his mind still fuzzy and not having a lot of time to spare in this situation, he would defer to his fellow Sith on searching through the guard's mind.

Ender walked over to a nearby hallway, standing there while Talak would begin getting to work on the guard. He reached out with the force, intending to see if anything had any intent on dropping in on them. There was nothing there at first but then he felt something coming in a fast, a sort of primal hunger that couldn't be sated.

One of those feline creatures jumping onto the wall before hopping off and landing in the middle of the hallway. It smelt the blood that was still leaking from the guard and it smelled delicious. The Nexu like cat hissed before launching itself at Ender with its claws stretched for his throat. Using the force, it flowed between his fingers and he had it wrap around the predator before slamming it up into the ceiling as it let out a howl of pain. With the force still wrapped around the creature, Ender slammed down onto the ground before stepping to it and slamming his blade right into the crown of its head.

He placed his boot against the head of the creature before yanking the blade out and wiping the blood off on its fur. Ender called out instead of reaching out with the force, not wanting to interfere with the process mentally, "Are we a go?"

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak nodded soberly as Ender picked guard duty. He knew what he had to do, and while it wasn't the most despicable use of the dark side - not even by a long shot - he knew it was a brutal one. And you feel bad for this criminal? he asked himself. No. How many people has he killed and enslaved, he thought, his mind flashing back to bodies hanging from a tree. They were Hutt Cartel too. A steely resolve flowed through him, and the pity he felt was gone.

He reached out to feel the man's mind. Black and red, he thought. The violence and fear that accompanied what was happening here. He sensed cracks in that resolve, though. The man was weakened and fearful of the end. Where normally Talak would have pressed lightly to manipulate the mind, he had no time for that. Like a sledgehammer, his will pounded through the cracks in the man's mind and it shattered.

Even from down the hall, Ender would be able to hear screams of absolute and pure agony. The man writhed in a pain that dwarfed the loss of his leg. Every fiber of his being was being shredded down under the assault, and then there was silence.

Talak's eyes opened again, and the arm he had extended toward the man's head seemed to go limp. It was draining in its own way to do such a thing, but he knew he would be able to keep going in a moment.

Ender returned and asked if they were ready to go, and Talak nodded.

Yeah, I've got it. Let's go, he said, heading in the direction of the detention first. Of course, the vault was in the upper floors and the detention facility was in the lower floors. He picked the detention facility first because it would provide additional distraction once the animals were cleared out. Talak felt a twinge of guilt at using the slaves as a distraction, but there was no other option. Getting them out without a fight wasn't possible, and better to let them fight than force them to remain in servitude until they were worked to death... or worse.

They took a set of stairs down, and as they were nearly reaching the main detention hub, a hand reached out of a cell to grab Ender as he walked by. If he looked, he would see a young woman in her mid twenties with two children who couldn't have been more than seven years old.

Please, you have to help us. Please! she pleaded with him. It was clear that tears had streaked her face for days, mourning the inevitable fates of she and her children.

 

[Darth Invictus]

Ender stepped back into the room and found the remains of the man that Talak had "interrogated", pain etched across his face as the Sith had rummaged through his head. It was a gnarly process and one that Ender has avoided because of his own mental state. Thankfully, Talak found what they came for and both of them departed from the scene, heading to the very bottom of the palace and he assumed it was the very detention center that the Sith had brought up in the beginning. With the animals here, there was very little chance of these slaves actually making it out alive and Talak knew that.

As they went down a hallway, a hand reached out and grabbed onto Enders, instantly making him snap towards that direction with his blade out and aimed to whatever latched onto him. It was a woman and two children with her as she was distraught and tugged on his arm to pull him closer. Ender stayed where he was but he lowered the blade, he stared at her for a few moments, letting her continue to hold onto his arm before he gave her hand a gentle squeeze. After that, he slowly pulled his hand away before continuing on with Talak. "Wait! Where are you going! Please! I have children! Take them!" He ignored her pleas with a tightened jaw.

When they were out of listening range for her, Ender spoke in a hushed tone, "They'll die anyway. The kids will slow her down." They were too malnourished to put up a fight against the beasts that the swamps birthed. When they reached the control room of the detention hub, the door opened to find one of those lizard things chewing on the warden's remains as it pulled his intestines out. It flicked it's head towards their direction, letting out a screech but Ender used the force to retrieve the warden's blaster on the ground and called it to his hand. He fired a couple of bolts right into the creature's head, killing it instantly as it collapsed.

There was nothing else in the room and Ender stepped inside, tossing the blaster on the ground as he glanced around. When he saw the control panel that powered the cells, he nodded towards it, "You wanted to release them. You get the honors." They may have a fighting chance but it was practically very slim to none.

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak bristled slightly as Ender said that there was no chance that she or her children would survive. He wanted to go back and help her, but he also knew that the two of them weren't enough to kill everyone in this building. The animals would help finish off many of them, and the guards would in turn kill the animals. The slaves had a chance, and if even one or two of them escaped, then it was better than that they all died in captivity.

The Warden was... mangled, and Talak found himself pawing through the remains to find the security cards. With a grimace, he finally pulled it away and plugged it into the data terminal. He quickly purged the slave logs and then opened the cells in one quick motion.

Dozens on dozens of people emerged, and Talak watched as some moved to grab weapons while others ran for the exits and a few others simply remained in their cells.

Some of them will make it, he said, looking at Ender. It may not have been many, but it was better than none he told himself again.

He kept the Warden's security card, anticipating it might come in handy in the future, and headed toward the upper levels. For once, things seemed like they were going to go off relatively without a hitch. They made it to the upper floors using the security card and Talak started carving into the vault, plunging it up to the hilt to cover the color.

Thieves! a voice said in Huttese behind them. A massive Hutt and a pair of very dangerous looking guards - one a combat droid and the other a humanoid stood with him. It was pretty obvious that neither of them would be easy to kill.

 

[Darth Invictus]

Once Talak plugged the security card into the console and flipped the switch, they could hear multiple buzzers sounding off at the same time before all of the cell doors opened. He tilted his head to stare out the open door at the slaves, rummaging through whatever near them for weapons. Well, I guess Talak was right they had a chance and he wondered who would make it out. "We'll see." Ender pushed off the wall and followed him out of the room and to the upper levels.

The card made the trip much shorter and they eventually reached what had to be the vault door. No time was wasted as Talak's lightsaber was plunged through the metal and buried the burning blade to the hilt. Ender turned around, intending to take watch but that's when he found a Hutt standing with two guards who were multiple paygrades above the rest. "Shit." Of course, the Hutt couldn't have been eaten when they brought in the animals. He glanced back toward Talak, "Either keep cutting or get ready to fight."

The humanoid launched himself in the air with his jetpack and Ender immediately launched a blast of force in his direction, causing him to tilt the opposite way and fly straight towards the wall. The man had to deactivate his jetpack to simply slam into the wall instead of shattering his skull. The droid rushed right towards Ender and fired a blaster bolt from his arm and he had to dodge out of the way as he rolled along the ground. A flamethrower contraption came out of the droid's other arm, aiming it at him before igniting a stream of bright flames. He continued to roll away from the flames and when there was a moment of space, Ender shot his hand out and held the flamethrower in place.

The droid continued to try and push its arm, the metal straining audibly as Ender stood up quickly when he suddenly heard the sound of jetpack behind him. He stepped to his right, now directing the arm of the droid that held the flamethrower and aiming it for the man that flew straight for Ender, the flames illuminating the entire room in bright orange. Before he could be caught by intense heat, he tilted his body backward to stop himself and fly back a few feet. With space, he raised his rifle and fired bolts through the flames, trying to hit anything as the light practically blinded him.

The flamethrower finally ran out of fuel and the droid released the arm from the force, speaking some garble before spinning its torso unnatural fast and slamming a metal fist right into Ender's stomach. It sent him through the air and into nearby furniture that shattered under its weight. The droid ran towards Ender to finish him off while the humanoid guard flew straight at Talak with his rifle raised.

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak tried to keep carving through the door of the vault. It was heavy, serious metal, which meant it took more time. He kept glancing over his shoulder to make sure that Ender was holding his own and no one was shooting him from behind.

When the jetpacker started coming toward him, Talak hit the switch to turn off the lightsaber immediately and slipped it away as he pulled the vibrosword out. What kind of a comical farce was this that he put away the strongest weapon he had when the fighting actually started. So stupid, he thought to himself.

A burst of gunfire flew through the air and slapped against the metal behind him. It pushed in the round portion of the vault that Talak had cut through, and Talak found himself cursing how small this room was. He grabbed the jetpacking man and flung him toward the ground, but he wouldn't fall for the same move twice. This time, the soldier swung around mid air and activated the jetpack as a counter-thrust. It was an impressive move, even by Talak's standards.

It did buy him a moment to send another blast across the room to slam into the droid, sending it stumbling into the wall long enough for Ender to get up. With any luck, it might even give Ender his chance to land a hit of his own.

 

[Darth Invictus]

Ender flung himself back onto his feet, the large droid charging right at him with his aimed and ready to fire. Unfortunately for the droid, it was pushed during its run and instead collided harshly into the wall. Some of the metal pieces flew off and he wasn't going to waste his opportunity to attack. The droid tried to fire on the Sith once more but the entangled itself with one of its legs, sharply pulling it out from under it, making it collapse onto the floor. Ender rushed over immediately, jamming the vibro-sword between the exposed plates and deep into the wires.

Sparks flew from out of its shoulder and it let out another garbled tone, its torso spinning unnaturally fast once again as a defense mechanism. It sent Ender off of the droid and into the nearby wall before falling to the ground afterward as he shook his head to clear it. The droid launched one of its metal fists right towards his face and forcing the sith to dodge to the left. Ender glanced around and found his sword on the ground and slipped his foot underneath it and kicked it up towards his hand. He spun towards the arm that was still stuck in the wall and slammed his blade through the top of it, it piercing through cleanly and sinking through even the floor, entrapping the droid's arm there.

The droid aimed its other arm before firing a blaster shot a few feet away from Ender's head, it made him slide down the wall and practically onto his back as dust and pebbles of the wall dropped onto him. He bent the force to his will before shooting out both his hands, another blast of force erupting from them as it struck the droid in the torso, even the metal denting from the power behind it as it flew upwards and into the ceiling. The sword was still attached to the arm and instead of ripping it out of the ground, it ripped off the machine's arm as it collided into the light fixture above the ceiling. The sudden heavyweight knocked out the lights completely, plunging the room in darkness as everyone could hear what sounded like a ton drop to the floor. Sparks flew out of the droid's body, illuminating the room for only a few moments before plunging it into darkness again.

Ender was against the wall when the room was first lit but the second time he was gone, already on the move and searching for the Hutt. He decided to interrupt them when he could have just left things be but now they would have to kill him too.

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak had to spin back toward the jetpacking man as he swung around for another pass. This time, Talak had had enough. The Force grabbed the jetpack and began to crush just after a blaster shot tore through the air at him. Fuel sprayed across the man and the ground and Talak's other hand stuck out to spew orange flame at him.

It caught to the jetfuel and the man's fate was sealed in screaming agony. Ender was running after the Hutt (who hadn't gotten far) and Talak ducked into the vault to avoid the flames. His eyes quickly darted around the inside of the vault before settling on what he was looking for: a memory crystal.

He scooped it up in his hand and slipped it carefully into a small pouch before turning to head toward the door. That was when he stopped. Another artifact caught his eye that seemed vaguely familiar: a mask. He wasn't so fortunate that it would be the Eternal mask, but it was from the Jedi Order with old markings all across it.

He took it with him, finding a strap to tie it to himself, and made his way outside. Ender was just finishing killing the Hutt - or so Talak assumed - and he stopped to check if he was good to go.

 

[Darth Invictus]

The Hutt was slithering down the hallway, moving surprisingly fast for his size. He was panting with exertion, this most likely being the most effort he had ever used in years. The elevator was in view and his slimy fingers were nearly close enough to press the button. But before he could reach it, however, a figure dropped from above and landed right in front of him. Ender stood up to his full height, the Hutt halting in his tracks as he let out a weird and childish sort of scream. "You heathens! You both will pay for this! My family will hunt you down un-"

There was a squelching sound before the words were cut off, the handle of a vibro-sword sticking out from the Hutt's throat as the rest of the blade went clean through. The slug kept on talking and that was the first thing that had to go. "Looking forward to it." With the force, the blade was recalled back into the Sith's hand and he plunged it into slug's stomach, dragged it a foot down its stomach as the intestines and other organs spilled out. Ender immediately got out of the way before using the force to push the body over and the guts away from the middle of the hallway. He reached out with the force to Talak, "Elevator on me."

When Talak stepped out into the hallway, he would see Ender standing by the open elevator that would take them to a nearby and immediate exit. It was the Hutt's personal elevator so it could possibly lead to a speeder. "Mind the mess." He commented before entering the elevator and heading down. They arrived in a sort of garage and took the closest speeder, exiting with the Hutt's credentials and making a clean getaway with the loot they stole from the vault.

 

[Talak Rand]

Talak scrunched up his face at the hideous blob of... guts that were left behind. Lovely, he muttered as he stepped around the pooling innards and blood. It was one more Hutt to add to his list of Hutticides. He was really on a roll with three of them already. This could end up being a problem...

That was a problem for later, though.

He followed Ender as they headed for the exit. The smell followed them out of the building, and although most of the animals seemed to be dead now, the bodies that had been left in their wake were grizzly.

We shouldn't stick around, he said. He wouldn't be sad to leave this planet. It was disgusting, and they would likely soon be hunted. Back to the grind, he thought, and headed off toward his ship.

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