"Let's see." He switched it on.
"-lled in his home on Corellia minutes ago. Authorities are reporting that this may be the work of the infamous Hawk, who has been operating since...."
Kin missed the rest. He had gone to Emma's room.
"Hey, your friend's on the news again."
((OOC-Hey guys i had an idea for this RP, Instead of just doing one long RP i was thinking about doing a series of 'episodes' Instead. I.e this is the first one we will follow this to untill this 'job' comes to its logical conclusion and end the 'episode', I'll write a short paragraph ending it. Then we'll go on to the second episode (which i already have planned) then we will go on to episode 3 Which i will let one of you front think up the job and control the plot and end it when it comes to an end. Then we will go on to episode 4 controled by someone else and so on. This will allow us to develop the characters and relationship much more easily as well as put them in differant situations every episode
Do you think this is a good idea?))
((Yeah. I suggest we do it after me and jokemaster find the jedi in the barrel))
"Who's this Hawk character?" Said Niomi as she sat on the edge of the bed.
"Hawk's an assassin," Emma told Niomi. "Making quite a reputation for herself too."
"And a friend of hers." Said Kin.
"No way I'm I piloting this ship to Kashyyyk." Graothar told Jacen. "I've been branded "madclaw" by my village and all of the planet. I really don't want to talk about the details." Graothar returned to his room and turned on the holotv. "I can't forget the past, but I can ignore it." he thought as he watched dualing.
Woah.. being exiled from a village. Never been used before has it? No offence ExtreamJedi12 but that story has been used quite a few times.
"How do you know her Emma?"
"Oh, our paths in life seem to be somehow crossed," Emma sighed. "For one thing, she keeps getting blamed for things that happen in my family... my uncle was killed and Hawk was blamed for it. Hawk proved her own innocence and found the real killer. She was blamed for a stunt I attempted and later made me help her do the same thing." She shrugged. "Other run-ins of the like."
She shook her head. "So I guess you can't really say I know her... just that fate keeps running us into each other." She gestured to the broadcast. "And it seems it's happening again."
"You're not wrong. The murder happened close to here..." Said Kin.
"Just so long as she doesn't try to get away on this ship," Emma said with a frown. "Rumor has it she has no ship of her own... so she either steals one and flies away or she sneaks aboard a ship and gets away that way. They suspect she comes to a system in the same way or aboard the public transit system."
Scuzzy finished tightening down the last bolt. "Well, that'll do her Lawrence. Did ya check the hyperdrive for me?" Scuzzy asked.
"Ya, I checked it. Its in pretty bad shape, but it should keep ya folks movin' around for another 10-20 jumps, well, as long as you're the one maintaining it. Otherwise, I'll give it about 5-7 jumps before it blows that thermal converter again. I know you don't want my advise, but I'll give it to ya as a friend, anyways: replace the whole d*** unit. That hyperdrive is in almost as bad of shape as those engines we just pulled. Heck, if I had a spare one, I'd just about give it to ya."
"Alright, Lawrence, I've already got the picture about a half a parsec from here. I'll make sure the Captain's aware of it, but for some reason, I don't picture him wanting to replace that one as well. It just about came to an arm and a leg to convince him the engines needed replacin'.
Anyways, it was good to work with ya again. Its just been way too long."
"Heh, same thing on this end," Lawrence replied as they shook hands. "Don't make yourself a stranger now, ya hear?"
"Aye, not a problem, ol' man. Take care, and say 'Hello' to Yeria for me," Scuzzy stated. With that, the two men embraced, and Lawrence left as Scuzzy finished gathering his tools.
After a quick wash, Scuzzy grabbed the intercom mic. "Alright Jace, the Phoenix is ready to go. She's all yours."
Well, Emma, i suggest that we dont have you cross paths again, or else this whole crew will most likely end up dead if not tortued beaten then burned and then killed, but thats just me, oh and guys, i fixed the sim so we can go upto 1,000 ships killed. I dont think anyone will ever get that much but i could be wrong.
They heard Scuzzy over the intercom
Alright, lets get going, i wanna get paid so i can get some more luxuries for this ship, and its a very high price we are getting paid, maybe some cameras, a new turret a sim, and a whole new makeover.
((Yeah. I suggest we do it after me and jokemaster find the jedi in the barrel))
"Who's this Hawk character?" Said Niomi as she sat on the edge of the bed.
((OCC- The crate won't get opened for a while yet and we're all present when it happens, also thats not the end of this story.))
"O.k Graothar let's get this bird in the air, Plot a cource then jump."
'In other news a jedi knight has been kid....' Niomi changed the channel to music.
"Dont care. Im going to check out the other channels. Maybe they have something decent on"
Graothar heard Jacen and walked to the cockpit. "Time to see what this baby can do." He thought as he warmed up the engines. When they got up to space, he plotted a cource for Nar Shaadda. "Strap yourselves in." Graothar said into the intercomm. "This is going to be one bumpy ride." Graothar loved the sounds of the spaceship. The humming of the engine. The sound of the hyperdrive turning on. The sound of a turret fireing. Graothar made the calculations and they made the jump to hyperspace.
Jacen walked up behind his newly employed wookie pilot "Nice take off, i see your as good as you made out you were." Jacen yawned and looked at his watch "I havent slept in over 27 hours. I think i'll hit my bunk."
Jacen turned and walked out of the cockpit through the corridore and down to his room, He pressed his thumb against the print I.D panel to unlock his door and walked in. the door autolocked behind him as he removed his jacket and slung it over his chair. He proceeded to sit at the end of his bunk and removed his shoes and socks, He then pulled off his shirt and through it in the auto-clenser.
Jacen had been asleep for little over an hour before he began thrashing around in his bed he was dreaming of times past, Times he'd rather forget.
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Jacen was back at the battle of malachor two days before he left the republic army. He was in a trench aiming and blasting at charging mandalorians.
"We're being overrun." One soldier shouted
"There are too many of..." Another screamed before being sniped.
All but 6 including him of his unit had been wiped oujt when They finally began to pull back. 3 more were takien out before they met up with the 207th platoon who managed to give them just enougth backup to hold off the oncoming mandalorians, What seemed like hours of laser fire, granades being thrown and the screams of falling republic troops passed before the coms office informed us that we had 10 minets to evac before the republic initiated it's final contingancy plan. Jacen was one of the last who managed to get on a shuttle before it happened. Jacen could only watch when the mass shadow generator was activated, He watched as the republic troops died along with everylast mandalorian on the planet.
This dream was not uncommon he had it many times over the past 3 years but then somthing differant happened he found himself In a room in the middle was two women one with a green lightsabre one with a red sabre. They were fighting slashing at each other until suddenly the fighting stopped and jacen was face to face with the jedi moments passed with nothing but silence, then the jedi spoke.
"Release me."
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Jacen jumped up breathing heavily and drenched in sweat.
"What the hell." He said to himself as he got up and rushed out of his room only wearing the trousers he slept in. He began to bang on the door of Niomi's room hoping she would be in there.
Niomi was sleeping when she was suddenly awaken by the bang on her door. She threw back the covers and sat up. She rubbed her eyes and then stood up. "Be there in a second". She stubbled towards her closet and open it. In it where many clothes but they were all similar. She tood a dressing from the closet door and put it on.
"Whats up?" She asked as she opened the door
"I think i'm in need of medical attention." Jacen said walking towards the infirmary and signaling to niomi to follow.
Kin was sleeping peacefully in his own bunk.
"Okay. Just give me a minute to get changed into some clothes" She shut the door and threw down her dressing gown and opened her closet again. She took some clothes out and got changed into them.
"So what's wrong?"asked Niomi as Jacen sat down in the medical chair.
"There's somthing wrong, I was having this dream which was strange. It was like someone reached into my skull and implanted it there. I think i need one of those brain scans."
"For f*** sake Jacen. It's just a bad deam!" She shouted at him. She calmed back down "There has been alot of bad dreams going around these past few days. It's all started with than those stupid creates arrived. What happened in your dream?"
Graothar yawned as he woke up. "What the?" he groaned. He looked at the starchart. They were getting close to Nar Shaadda. "Better find Jacen when I'm awake." he thought. He slumped out of bed, walked out to the cockpit, and exited hyperspace. "Hope the exit didn't wake anyone up." he yawned. When he passed Niomi's room and seen Jacen and Niomi, he said "Doh!"
Kin was woken up by Niomi's shouting. Already dressed he went to the infirmary.
"What's going on guys?"
Jacen looked at niomi with an obviously annoyed expression "Look this was more than just a bad dream and if you are suggesting that theres somthing weird about those crates..."
Suddenly the entire ship was filled with a siren and flashing red lights. He turned and looked at graothar.
"The proximity alarm... lets get to the cockpit."
Jacen ran to the cockpit and took his seat.
"It's a sith intradictor. All crew battle stations"
Kin quickly ran up to his turret. As he passed by he knocked on John and Emma's door.
"Let's go! We've got company."
He got in his turret and put his headset on.
"Gunner 2 in position, Cap!"
"All right." Graothar said when he heard the news. "Action." He ran to the cockpit, took his seat, and turned on the intercomm. "Attention crew of the Phoenix, attention, Sith fighters are attacking. I repeat, Sith fighters are attacking. This is not a sim." Graothar turned off the autopilot and took control. "HANG ON!" Graothar shouted.
The comms console began to beep, Jacen hit the button and saw the image of a sith officer.
"Mercenary freighter please Slow down and prepare to be boarded or i will order my fighters to open fire." Jacen switched it off and turned to his pilot
"Theres a large debris field 2 klicks off our port, do you think you can manouever in it. if so do it." He hit the intercom "Gunners lock and load we are about to have heavy incoming."
"Roger that." Kin spotted the fighters, and set his sights on the lead one. He waited for it to come into range.
"Say the word, I've got the leader in my sights, coming into range now."
"Will do, Captain." Graothar said. He piloted his way into the debris field. "A debris field. The perfect place for our graveyard if they hit our airlock." Graothar joked. He scanned the ships. "Don't shoot the one on the far left. He's my bounty."
The sith fighters began to fire on the Phoenix.
"Emma, Jin, John return the favor!.. Scuzzy i want you to prep the mag locks on the landing gears." Jacen shouted into the intocom and then turned to Graothar. "Once we are out of the intradictors sensor range, All the fighters are down and Scuzzy has finished his prep find the biggest bit of debris you can."
"Leader in range, I'm taking the shot!" Said Kin, and he opened fire on the leader. The ship exploded, and the ones behind it split up. He quickly changed his sights to another ship, blasting it, then another, then another. He was no longer thinking, pure instincts controlled his shots, and his instincts were by now pitch-perfect. He continued going through this process, wondering what was taking Emma and John so long.
"OK." Graothar remarked. Shoots fired at the Phoenix, but Graothar dodges them with ease. "Does this thing have an ion cannon?" Graothar asked.
Emma was sitting at the controls of her turret, watching Kin's blasts destroying fighters. Then, she called, "Have I given you enough of a head start, Kin?"
With that, she opened fire, taking out the fighter in Kin's sights.
((k guys i think we should leave it for stringerhs and killwithhonor before we go anyfurther So only do a couple more posts each.))
While Jacen was redistributing power a console sparked and burnt his arm
"Ј@*&%... Niomi get down here now."
"You're just using that as an excuse 'cause you're a heavy sleeper." Replied Kin.
Niomi, following the sound of Jacen's calling and swear, found jacen. She bent down, looked at his injuries and dapped it with contin wall "Dont worry. I'm putting this medicine with a long name on your burn. It should sting for a bit but it'll cut down on the pain afterwards and stop any infection." Niomi helped Jacen to his feet, "we need to get to the infintary so I can proberly treat you"
"I don't really have the Time it will have to wait untill after we're in mortal danger." he Hoped up and got back in his seat. "You may want to strap yourself in once we're in that debris field we're going to be tossed around like crepit chips in a pazzack den."
"Fine but as soon as we're out of there sights I want you in my infrintary!"Niomi ordered "You've allready p***ed me off once today. Dont make it a second time" Niomi was usually a kind,happy person but she didnt like being awaked unless there was an emerancy and she also didnt like people neglecting medical attention when they needed it.
"Heavy sleeper?" Emma laughed. "I wasn't sleeping, nerf-brain! I just thought you'd like a head start... after all, I'm keeping track of how many of these guys I've shot down."
"Figured ya would. I of course don't feel the need to inflate my ego so I'm just shooting them as they come." Said Kin, perfectly aware that odds were, she'd get more ships than he would.
"Oh, come now," Emma laughed. "Chances are you've got more than I have... currently. After all, I just started."
John was still snoozing through everything, then all of a sudden he woke up....
"Im hungry"
He walked to the kitchen and had made a sandwich, he was in a subconcious state of mind, noticed the red lights flashing, took a bite of his sandwich and ran to his station,
WTF is going on?
Emma replied "Well John we are blasting away at ships while you were in your deep sleep"
John did nothing but chuckle, He then jumped onto his turret put on his helmet and started to blast away, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 hahahah im on a roll
((What Emma really said:))
"Nice of you to join us, John... What kept you so deep that you couldn't hear the alarms?" She shook her head. "On second thought, I don't wanna know... must've been something I'd consider strange anyway..."
She continued blasting ships.
"We can argue about Jacen's injuries AFTER we get away from the Sith." Groathar shouted. "Otherwise, injuries will be the least of our problem if they shoot us in the airlock." The ship made it into debris field.
"I know." Replied Kin. "But I'll admit it, you're better at this than I am." He shot down 2 in a row.
The phoenix entered the debris field and groathar was doing a good job avoiding the various hazards, Three small bits of debris hit the side of the hull.
"Can you please try to avoid scratching my ship."
"Sorry, I'm doing the best I can." Graothar told Jacen. He seen his bounty get shot and destroyed. "I told you people not to shoot the one on the far left. Who shot him?"