Crusaders of the Stars 2
After his first ever battle, Finn heard what sounded like a rock falling. He decided to check it out. Maybe it was the Padawans or maybe it was just more shadows trying to lure him into some kind of trap. If it was the former, he would be grateful to get one part of his assignment over with. It was the latter he would have to fight again and increase his chances of dying a horrible death. The young Jedi made his way to a rock formation that looked like it could shelter people except for one thing, there has a huge rock blocking the entrance to the make shift cave. Finn gulped and put his palm forward. He successfully managed to move the rock out of the way and onto a patch of grass. Three Padawans came out of the "cave".
"Oh thank The Maker," The first one exclaimed, "We thought we'd die in there!"
"Worry no more Padawans," Finn said, although he himself was a Padawan.
"Great, but how are we going to get out of here," The second Padawan asked.
"I have a device that can call a medical shuttle," Finn said and pulled out his device.
"But haven't you already cleared a path," The third Padawan asked, "Can't we just go now and not risk those shadows finding us again?"
The Padawans Finn had rescued jumped onto this idea and clung to it.
"Patience is a virtue that a Jedi must learn to exercise," Finn said, "I would suggest you wait here for a medical shuttle to arrive. It is the only way to be certain that you make it to the other Jedi safely."
"I can see where you're coming from," The second Padawan said, "We shall wait here."
Finn called the medical shuttle and let the Padawans be, he was sure they could hold out until it arrived. He soon came across a flower giving off a strange glow. He instantly recognized this as the flower he needed to bring back to the Jedi Master. As he crotched down to pick the flower the ground rumbled behind him. All of a sudden a gigantic shadow shaped like a worm burst out of the ground and roared. Finn was stunned. He'd have to fight again. There was no way he was going to survive this time.
Chris started the over muscular man in the eyes. There was two ways to come out of this situation, dead or victorious. Chris smiled and after the hulk like man roared and charged. He ran as fast as he could before beginning to open fire. The bullets whizzed forward and hit the hulk a few times but the mass of flesh seemed to easily walk it off. The man took out what looked like a rocket launcher and fired it at Chris. Fortunately for Chris, the rocket was slow enough that he easily ducked under the attack and fired several shots at "The hulk" and caused the man to cringe. This gave Chris enough time to fire another round into the hulk's flesh. The hulk gave out another roar before tossing his rocket launcher aside.
"I will crush you now," The man exclaimed and lunged at Chris. The next thing the solider knew, he was lying on the ground and receiving several brutal punches to the face. He was punched again. He felt blood drip from his face. He tried his best to stay awake. Things kept getting darker and darker. The punches began to sound more melodic. Chris grabbed a knife that he kept on his person and dug into the man's next. Tearing out the hulk's vocal chords and causing more blood to fall on his face. After enough blood loss, Chris kicked the hulk off of him and looked up. The door had opened just in time for him to see his squad mates take out the last of the thugs. They looked at him. He gave the thumbs up before hitting the ground.
"Get Chris a medic, ASAP," He heard one of his squad mates exclaim.
"So where are we headed," Aaron asked Mako.
"The Vertican Casino, It is Tyro the Hutt's base of operations," Mako, a female cyborg, said as they pulled up to a mess of bright lights, "All you need to do is go in and make an impression."
Aaron nodded and hopped out of the taxi they had taken to the casino. Aaron wasn't one to turn away from easy credits though; he proceeded to make a few bets, "One thousand five hundred credits," The bounty hunter laughed, "If making credits were this easy I wouldn't have to be a bounty hunter!"
"Keep your mind on the mission," Mako said.
Aaron shrugged as a Trandoshan came up to him, "Tyro the Hutt has personally requested your presence. I suggest you follow me."
"How about no," Aaron said and shot the lizardman in the face; He got up and headed for what looked like where Tyro would be. Unfortunately a green pig man was standing in his way.
"No one sees the boss without Ruas' approval," The pig man said and took out an axe.
"I don't need his approval to get through," Aaron remarked.
"Then you will die," The pig man exclaimed and charged at the bounty hunter, who sighed and fired a missile, blowing the pig man's head off. Aaron laughed and walked in. In front of him was an extremely overweight slug.
"Ah, you must be Aaron, the man who killed two of my best bodyguards," The Hutt said.
"And you must be Tyro," Aaron responded.
"Indeed I am," The Hutt said, "I know you bounty hunters are always looking for credits, how about you do a few jobs for me. I can pay you an extravagant amount of money."
Aaron smiled, "You know how to speak my language!"
The Hutt laughed and continued, "You see, there is a man from the Exchange named Vol Aramand, he has been adamant about not working with me as a business partner. He even killed my best diplomat."
"It is always hard to lose someone," Aaron said.
"Indeed, that man was getting me more credits that half of my businesses combined!"
I forgot, Aaron thought to himself, Hutts only care about money, "Do you wish for me to exterminate him?"
The Hutt nodded, "Yes, go and bring me his head or any body part you decide not to blow up."
"Yes sir," Aaron smiled.
"Good, now go to the Corellian Sector, that is where this man is being holed up," The Hutt said before Aaron was right at the door, "And don't come back unless you have killed him!"
Finn was frozen in terror. How could he hope to stand up against this shadowy worm that wanted to rip him limb from limb. He took a few calming breaths as the worm surged toward him. The Jedi consular barely managed to jump of the way of the worm. Unfortunately, the lower portion of his brown robe was ripped up by the worm's teeth. The worm turned around and head for Finn again. This time, The Miraluka stood his ground and threw a boulder at the worm. Success! The boulder hit the worm and scrambled its brains for a few precious seconds. Finn decided to act and hit the worm on the head with his training saber before trying to stab it. The worm's brain unscrambled itself and made the worm smack Finn into a tree. The Padawan had to act fast because the worm was now darting towards him at top speed. Smash! Finn barely managed to get out of the tree before the worm burrowed through it. The worm turned around and attempted to attack its target again. This time though, its prey was prepared. Finn sent another boulder at the worm, stunning it, before driving his training saber through the worm's head then twisted the weapon to make sure the wound would be fatal. As he pulled the training saber loose, the worm's brain spilled out on the ground. The Padawan almost threw up. He hastily plucked the flower and headed back to where he had first encounter the Jedi Masters, his only hope was that he would be there in time to save the Padawans who were succumbing to a fate worse than death.
Chris woke up in an infirmary with a needle piercing his black, muscular arm. He took a deep breath as he realized that he was still alive. His squad mates were eagerly standing near his hospital bed. Some were playing a game of Sabakk while another one was checking his rifle. The fifth one was looking at the reconstruction of Corellia.
"Hey guys," Chris said weakly, "Miss me?"
The squad mates looked at Chris for a few seconds before breaking out in cheers and dancing. A doctor walked in and looked at Chris, "I see you're feeling better."
"Yeah," Chris said, "Not sure if I can go back to patrolling anytime soon, but yes, I'm good."
"Actually, General Hizen ordered me to administer several shots of Kolto into you," The doctor said.
"He must really need me on the job," Chris said as he felt the medicine taking effect. The doctor took out the needle and Chris started at himself in the mirror. A twenty year old human could have been in worse shape after that battle, but not Chris. He checked his eyes to see if anything had happened to them. But they were a perfectly normal brown. After some more inspection, he put on his uniform and grabbed his rifle, "The General probably needs us to do something, let's move out team," Chris ordered as he left the room. His squad mates followed until they met a human with small horns and strange marking on his face.
"Sergeant Chris reporting for duty, sir," Chris exclaimed with a salute.
"At ease," The man said, "As the doctor probably told you I had you injected with a good amount of Kolto."
"Yes, the doctor told me that, sir," Chris said.
"Good, you see, those thugs that had taken over the warehouse have struck the Solonian tunnels. I need you and your team to go in there and remove their presence," The man said.
"We can do that General Hizen, sir," Chris said and saluted, "In fact just give us the coordinates and we will move out!"
"A man of action," The horned man smiled, "I like that, and here are the coordinates for the Solonian Tunnels."
Chris took a small device from the man and nodded, "We'll double-time it sir."
"Dismissed Sergeant," The man said. Chris and his squad took off for the next objective. They weren't going to let the General down no way, no how.
Aaron stepped out of the Taxi that led to the Corellian sector and began to walk around. There wasn't much except for a few cyborgs from the criminal organization, known as The Exchange, were giving him looks. Aaron had always felt comfortable around fellow cyborgs. Of course that didn't change the fact that he had a job to do and that he had to go to any lengths to get it done, even if that meant killing a few cyborgs. When the bounty hunter came to a small intersection, a man with grey hair and a cybernetic arm approached him.
"I've never seen you around here before, do you work with The Exchange," The man asked.
"I'm a freelance bounty hunter," Aaron said, "That is all you need to know."
"Very well, I may have a job for one such as you, but I'm going to need you to come with me. You're going to need superior fire power if you want to get the job done right," The man said and began to walk away. Aaron began to follow him, "The name is Vol Aramand, and you may know me because I'm one of the primary targets of Tyro the Hutt."
"Oh really, I've never heard of you before," Aaron lied.
"Interesting, not many bounty hunters can say they've never heard of me," The old man said as the two came to an armory, "I will pay you a large sum of credits if you take out Tyro, what do you say?"
"Let me think on it," The bounty hunter said and began to look at some of the weapons in the armory, "Can this pistol blast through a Hutt?"
"Indeed it can, heck that one was even used by a great bounty hunter, it is said that he killed a Hutt with that blaster," The old man said and leaned on an armory rack next to a crate.
"Perfect," Aaron laughed a fired a wrist rocket at the crate. The crate exploded and blew off the old man's left side; "Looks like you're alright," Aaron laughed manically and took the man's right half. All of a sudden things in the armory began to explode, "Damn it," The bounty hunter cursed before taking a few weapons and leaving the armory in a blazing mess.
"I got a few new weapons and I got paid," The bounty hunter laughed, "Boy this day keeps getting better and better!"