Lordess Chronicles

# 4

Coruscant nightmare

" " = Talking

' ' = Thinking

(" ") = Talking in different language

(' ') = Thinking in different language

1 month, 1 week after the end of the Sith rebellion

Horuck and Sarli Falco looked at the small shelf full of baby toys. Horuck grabbed a small, purple dog like creature smiling with big, blue eyes, and then he let Sarli hold unto it. "It's so cute!" Sarli said, hugging it, and then looked up at Horuck "If we weren't here to buy toys for the baby, I would buy this for myself!" Horuck grabbed another doll that looked exactly like it, and then said, "Here you go." Sarli chuckled, and then kissed Horuck on the lips. "Thanks Horuck, but I think we should save our money for the baby."

Horuck placed the doll back, and then, after picking up another two dolls, went up to the front desk. The cashier was a male human with wavy, blonde hair in his mid-twenties "Is that all for today?" Sarli nodded as Horuck put the dolls down. "So, boy or girl?" "It's a boy." "How much longer until you give birth?" "About four months." Once Sarli and Horuck finished paying for the dolls, the man wished them luck with the baby, and the couple exited the shop, the three dolls in hand.

"Excuse me, Master Jedi's." Horuck and Sarli looked at a woman with short, wavy black hair, and are very beautiful. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't help but notice you're pregnant, and I just wanted to wish you luck." The girl placed her hand over her stomach, saying, "After all, I know what you're going through." Horuck and Sarli smiled brightly. "Thank you, and I do wish you luck as well." Sarli said, placing both her hands over her stomach, and then she and her husband left the woman alone.

Fiona watched as Horuck and Sarli walked away, and then waited until they were out of ear sight. She then started laughing. Linora, dressed in a black dress with black velvet over her face, walked up to her, and then whispered with a harsh tone of voice, "Fiona! What do you think you're doing? Horuck Falco is the most likely Jedi to become Galactic Guardian, and you talked with him even though we're the galaxy's most wanted? What is wrong with you?"

Fiona stopped laughing, and then wiped a tear from her eyes. "Oh lord, I can't believe they fell for it! They actually thought I was pregnant! Man, am I glad no one knows what I actually looks like or else we could be in trouble!" Linora dragged Fiona into an alley way, and then said in a normal tone of voice, "I still don't understand why you think it's such a good idea to come to Coruscant anyway? What is there to gain here?" Fiona chuckled, and then pulled out a holo communicator "Easy, we're here to find out why we're being hunted down, and don't give me that bullshit about finding it somewhere else because I don't trust any other source other than the original source."

Linora looked at both ends of the alley way, uncomfortable. "I don't like this as well. We're wanted here, and we are only a few miles away from the Jedi Temple, where hundreds of Jedi are, and there are many Jedi there that are much stronger than me! Hell, the biggest and strongest Republic Fleet is above this planet, and if they find out we're here then there is no way off this planet without being blown to smithereens!"

Fiona then slapped Linora hard across the face. Linora looked shocked as she looked at Fiona. "What? I had to get you to shut up somehow, and don't worry about a thing. I have a contact that can help me get in contact with Dex the Hutt. He's more of a scientist than a thug, but he has a spy or two working as a guard in the senate, so if anyone knows what's going on, then Dex will know." "Hold on a second, I thought you said that you only trust information if it's from the original source, but yet you're willing to trust a Hutt, who is not the original source?"

Fiona made a fake, loud laugh. "What, you think I'm stupid enough to actually go INTO the Senate's building? I'm crazy, yes, but not that crazy. Also, don't let Dex know you're a Jedi. He's a little… obsessive." Linora looked at Fiona with a quizzical look. "What do you mean obsessive?" Fiona tried to think about a way to tell Linora this, but then just went with, "Hopefully you won't find out."

Garen growled as he watched a few Republic troopers walk in front of the cockpit. "I hate this whole business of staying low, but trying to make a big impression on Coruscant isn't a good idea, either, but I rather not be on Coruscant. Fiona ought to have a good reason why we're here or else I'm gonna be pissed." Korvas said as he crossed his arms. "Although some good news is that Cyan is out buying supplies that can help in upgrading the blood angel. At least we're using a fake transponder code to make the Republic think this ship is called the Excelsior, and due to our new paint job it will make it tougher to identify us."

F4-T6 was deactivated so then they won't be able to detect him, but even with all of this they can still be identified, and what is worse is that they had to land in one of the busiest spaceports there is, including one of the most heavily guarded spaceports on Coruscant. 'I swear, our leader is going to get us killed before our time.'

Korvas looked at the control panel in front of him, worried about how their caption can pull this off. As long as she doesn't trust that slimy hutt Dex they should be fine.

Linora wasn't sure how much longer she can stand the smell of this place. Dex seemed like a trustworthy hutt, yes, but his palace was the dirtiest, smelliest place Linora has ever seen, and she's been to swamp planets before.

Dex was a normal sized hutt, but was missing his right eye. Fiona was in her standard outfit, which she changed into when she came into the underground base hidden underneath the Sarlaac pit bar. ("Fiona Solusar, a pleasure to meet you in person at last. I have heard of your predicament, and I am quite enraged. Why, Groex should be ashamed of himself!")

Fiona looked shocked at the mention of Groex's name. "Groex! What does he have to do with this? He hired us to do the job, not put the bounty on our head! He would gain nothing from this!" Dex chuckled at these words. ("Let me guess. On the planet's surface was a Jedi, am I correct?") Linora wondered where Dex was going with this, or how he knew that. "Yes, my old master, Abraxis Carlon, was there, but what does he have to…" She stopped speaking as realization struck her. "Do you mean my old master has something to do with all this? But what?"

Dex chuckled, and then took a small, frog-like creature from a bowl filled with light yellow liquid next to him. Dex then threw it into its mouth, and then licked licked his lips. ("Your master, Abraxis, has some very interesting ideas for allies for a Jedi. Groex Gal, the leader of the Crimson Blades, has promised him safety in exchange of important information like where the Republic fleet will be patrolling, where they will most likely expect smugglers or pirates or any other illegal activity to travel through, but safety is not the only thing that he wants.")

A female wookie with two Gamorreans close behind her walked up to Dex. The wookie gave Dex a datapad, and then left while Dex quickly read the datapad. When he was done, Dex handed the datapad over to a Rodian, who quickly rushed inside a small room off to the side. ("Abraxis wants a safe location to train his new student, a human by the name of Bree Alder.") Dex pressed a button, and a holo projector above him showed an image of a girl in her late teens with her hood up and holding an un active Lightsaber at her side, a few dead bodies around her feet.

("This is an image that I got after she nearly crippled my operations on Kerthyf, which I am still trying to breathe life into, but so far is a losing battle. We believe Abraxis has a very special plan for her, and to tell you the truth, I don't know what it is, Jedi.")

Linora was shocked. She tried to hide her being a Jedi by hiding her Lightsaber in a new boot she was wearing, and has even left her old disguise in a trash can and had even used temporary green dye to changer her hair color and is wearing a sleeveless shirt with black jogging pants with dark red gloves on, but then realized how Dex realized she was a Jedi. 'Yes, my old master, Abraxis Carlon, was there, but what does that have to…' She cursed herself. She said that without realizing it due to her curiosity at what Dex knew of her old master. Well, now she is going to see Dex's obsession with the force is like.

The door behind Fiona and Linora opened up, and three mandalorians stepped in with old E-11 blaster rifles, and all the pirates, smugglers, and bounty hunter's pulled out their guns, all thirty of them.( "Now, this can be peaceful, or we can do this the hard way. Choose your choice.")

Linora and Fiona looked at each other, and then turned towards the door behind them. Linora's lightsaber flew out of her boot and activated in her hand, a blue blade popping out, and Fiona pulled out a DF-67 Blaster pistol. Fiona shot the three mandalorians with three quick shots while Linora deflected the first round of blaster rifle shot. Fiona rolled out while Linora back flipped out of the room. Fiona closed the door, and brought her hand back as Linora plunged her Lightsaber into the door controls, and then plunged it into a bottom corner of a door, and then the other three, melting the door together to the wall.

"Well, Dex is now officially on my top ten list of who to kill once we're done here." Linora and Fiona then started jogging down the hall, Linora replying, "At least we found out why Abraxis was on Halm, but Dex didn't explain to us why they're after us." Fiona shot a Rodian with a ER-32 blaster rifle that came out from behind a corner that lead to another hallway, his smoldering body falling to the ground. "Well, We need to know why the Republic is after us, right?" Fiona stopped jogging in front of a door, and then opened the door. Linora looked inside the room to see a single terminal inside.

"Hopefully this terminal will have some answers." Fiona said as she walked inside the room towards the terminal. Linora entered the room, and then closed the door After pressing in the right sequence of buttons, the door locking. "What are you doing Fiona?" Linora looked behind her, and saw Fiona accessing the terminal. "If my hunch is right, and they usually are, then this computer should have the information I need." She looked back at Linora, saying, "By the way, that door has a ray shield installed in there. You may want to activate it."

Linora activated the ray shield, a blue energy shield appearing over the door. "This room is meant to be a bunker, if I'm reading this right. It has all the information that Dex has, it will take hours, maybe even days, to look through it all." Pulling out a small chip, Fiona inserted it into the terminal, and then started downloading. "This should take only a few minutes, so let's activate a few defenses." Pressing a few buttons, Linora heard something appear on the outside of the door. "Those should be two turrets on the outside of the door activating. That will definitely buy us some time."

Once the download was done, Fiona grabbed the chip, pulled it out, and then deleted all information on it. "That should teach Dex to try and trick me." Fiona then pressed a few more buttons, and a small passageway on the wall opened, a passageway that Linora never noticed before. Fiona and Linora took one step forward, but stopped when the sound of an explosion on the outside of the door, and multiple footsteps coming towards the door.

"Let's move, Jedi!" Fiona said as she started to run towards the passageway. Linora started running, Fiona entering the passageway after Linora took two steps forward. Linora found herself so close to the passageway, could almost feel the fresh air, but her heart sank when the passageway closed, and the sound of the terminal shutting down.

A holo image of Dex appeared, slime and all. ("Well, well. What a shame. I would have loved to have unmasked your lesbian pirate, but I guess you will do just fine.") Six turrets appeared around the room, pointing at her, and then the ray shield on the door disappeared. The door opened up, twenty men of multiple races charging in, multiple types of gun's raised.

("Jedi, throw down you weapons.") Said a very muscular Duros with a FQ-3 heavy repeating rifle. Linora, seeing no way out of here with violence, threw her lightsaber on the ground, letting it roll away from her and towards a turret near the corner. Dex chuckled as he clapped his hands, excited about his new toy. ("Men, take her to my secret chambers. I will deal with her later.") Dex's hologram disappeared once his order came through, leaving Linora alone with the twenty thugs. Two of them, a human and an Ishi Tib, walked forward. The Ishi Tib cuffed Linora's wrist behind her back while the human put the barrel of a JU-80 shotgun into her back.

Linora was forced out of the room, an additional three men following her. She could only hear the sound of their footsteps, so she couldn't tell what species they were, or what they looked like, but she continued to march towards Dex's secret chambers, fear coursing through her body. Were they going to turn her in once they were done with her? Will they torment her? Dissect her? Whatever they are about to do, Linora prepared herself for the worst.

Korvas was shocked when Fiona returned alone, and was even more shocked to see her face. She had to return to the ship in a disguise, meaning that she had to take the wrapping hiding her face had to go, but she was now in the process of putting the wrapping back on. She was really beautiful, but Korvas only had a single glance at her before Garen grabbed his pants, and threw him out of the cockpit.

Korvas soon saw Fiona and Garen leave the cockpit, Fiona yelling for everyone to meet in the meeting room. Hell, even F4-T6 was active, so whatever is going on, it must be good if they're risking the Republic picking up F4-T6's power core. Once everyone was in the meeting room, Fiona told them what happened at Dex's secret base.

"So, we know that Linora's old master made a treaty with the Crimson Blades, and they are working together, but that's not all." Fiona pulled out a small chip, saying, "This is what I downloaded from Dex's terminal, and while I was running back here I decided to hide in an alleyway and read some of it. I found out quite a bit of information, like good hiding places and many secret hyperspace routes to planets with great resources, but I also found out why we're being chased."

Cyan Dysar, who returned from his shopping for space parts just ten minutes ago, stopped messing with a small Hyperspace part, and looked up at her. "Groex Gal, the leader of the Crimson Blades, contacted the Republic and told them that Linora had joined us, and were planning on betraying the Republic, and Dex said that the reason why is because Abraxis contacted Groex, and forced him to contact the Republic. For some reason, we both think that he didn't have to use much persuasion to make Groex make the call."

Korvas kicked the wall, swearing in Twi'lek with words that no one there understood, but then started saying words that they could understand. ("THAT GOD DAMN TRAITOR! AFTER ALL THE TROUBLE WE WENT THROUGH FOR HIM, HE BETRAYED US FOR NO GOOD REASON! HOW FUCKING DARE HE!") Fiona walked over to F4-T6, trying to ignore Korvas's tamper tantrum. She bent down, and then inserted the chip into F4. "F four, download everything on this chip and then delete everything on it once you're done."

Fiona inserted the chip, and once F4 was done downloading and deleted the contents on the chip, she took it out, and then put it in her pocket. Standing up, she looked back at her crew, seeing, and more importantly hearing, Korvas's tamper tantrum gone. "Alright everyone, if we hope to ever get out of this mess, we will need Linora's assistance, and with Dex's base being a fortress to keep people out, we will need to find a way in. Since they don't know what I look like, I will scout the place out. Cyan, I want you to scout with me, but we will do this differently. We have a stealth field generator, so you can cloak yourself and while we leave the ship at once, we will head off in two different directions. If I go left, you go right. If I go straight, you go left, right, backwards, or… Well, you understand."

Fiona looked over at Korvas, continuing. "Korvas will keep the ships defense systems ready for combat and lift off. Garen, you guard the boarding ramp. If anyone tries to enter, and if it's not a crew member, shoot them." Garen growled approvingly, and then Fiona grinned under her wrappings. They had a plan, and they are going to go through with it. One way or another, they will bring Linora out of there.

Linora struggled against her bonds, her now blue hair swaying back and forth. They took the green dye out of her hair and have stripped her of all of her clothes except for her underwear. Her arms and legs were bound to a circular object, and with the laser grid technology, had her arms and ankles tied to it(Kinda like what Obi-wan was captured in Episode 2 on Geonosis). Her Lightsaber wasn't nearby, and she had two guards outside her cell. One was a Toydarion and the other was a Noghri, both equipped with JU-80 Shotgun's. Of course, they were outside her cell. She was most worried about the two inside her cell.

Dex the Hutt, the slimeball that has ordered her capture, and a medical droid that is called IE-3. ("The Mighty Jedi Exile, Linora Lordess, is finally in my grasp. Oh, I wonder if you would survive longer than any other subjects I've had.") Dex crawled towards Linora, IE-3 following closely behind him. Dex stopped crawling next to a tray full of multiple tools that had purpose's she did not know, but by judging the quantity of blood on them, she was scared to find out. ("Now, normally a fully trained Scientist would do something like this, but since I didn't get my degree, I can be as messy as I want.")

Linora bared her teeth at him like a wild dog would, and then said, "I don't know why you're doing this, but understand this. I will never give you any information." Dex laughed out loud at this. ("I don't want any information, Jedi. Even though I lost a lot of information when Fiona deleted all the information in that terminal, I still have enough information to go by. Now tell me, Jedi,") Dex smiled wickedly, and then put on a lareg surgeon's mask big enough for a Hutt's mouth.

("Where should I begin to dissect your pretty little body?")

To Be Continued In Lordess Chronicles # 5 Rescue, unknown allies, and… love?