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Introduction: This chapter was originally going to be longer and actually have the mission, but I decided to cut it down, it is already longer than the previous two chapters.
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Chapter 3: The Renegade
Jaster Mereel walked to the bridge of the Mandalorian Command ship Huntress in what seemed to be a hurry. He entered the room and a small man with red hair and brown eyes walked up to him. "Commander, we've got a mission." The red haired man said with a fearful expression on his face.
Jaster, still calm replied with "I don't remember authorizing anyone to find us work Lieutenant."
"Well... Someone did... Sir..." The red haired man responded.
"Who? There is no reason to be scared Lieutenant."
"He said if I talked he'd kill me!"
Jaster quickly grabbed the scared man and looked at him with a look in his eyes showing he was furious. "If you don't tell me; I'll kill you."
Jaster released the red haired fellow; he walked back a bit and cleared his throat then spoke. "Montross, sir."
"That's what I thought." Jaster said still furious.
He started walking out of the room when the red haired man spoke again. "You're not going to yell at him about it are you sir!? He'll know that I told you!"
Jaster just cocked his head to the side facing the red haired man "Trust me, he has done many stupid things, but he is not stupid enough to murder a comrade in cold blood." With that Jaster left the bridge. The red haired man returned to his station.
Jango, now up and walking was unpacking the things that the Mandalore's were able to find at his old home and placing them in storage areas around his new room. After placing some shirts in a closet he closed the door then walked over to his bed and fell backwards upon it. He has been moving in for a week now, he was up and walking about nine days ago. A few minutes passed when the room door opened up and a man, about 5'9" with light brown hair and green eyes walked into the room. "Geris, what brings you here?" Jango said while sitting up facing the visitor.
"You may be seeing us in action sooner than we thought, one of our best men seemed to have signed us up for a mission without consulting Commander Mereel." Geris said in a disapproving tone.
"Really? Who?" Jango said with excitement in his voice.
Geris, seeing Jango's excitement replied with "Don't get any ideas Jango, you're just observing this time. You are way too young to go on killing sprees. Anyway, it doesn't matter who did it now does it? The Commander is sorting him out as we speak." Shortly after he mumbles "Like that will help..." Then he walks out of the room.
Jango looks at the now closed door in confusion and decides to get back to unpacking, now eagerly awaiting the assignment that the clan has been signed up for.
A tall man, about 6'0" with natural white hair was sitting down in his room polishing medals when the door opened. The man turned around and sayid in a deep voice "Why Commander Mereel, what brings you to my room?"
"You know very well what brings me to your room, Montross." Jaster says in an angry voice.
"No, I am afraid I do not."
"Don't play innocent with me Montross. You signed us up for a mission without consulting me first-" then Jaster raised his voice "Again!"
"Now Commander, it's a simple covert mission for a Governor. Nothing to over react about."
Jaster still with a raised voice shouted "You don't seem to be listening to me, you never do anything you are ordered to, instead you do the exact opposite! You act like you're the Commander of this clan!"
Montross, with this, raised his voice and gave a threatening look "Now you listen to me, Jaster Mereel, I should be the Commander of this clan! I am a far better warrior than you! You haven't even been paying attention to the morale of your men! You've been spending more time with that farmboy!"
Jaster, in a more calm voice said "You leave Jango out of this, he has had a hard time getting over the grief of his parents deaths."
Montross stood up and walked over to Jaster and in his face spoke in a calm and threatening voice "I could care less about him, you know as well as I do we need money to keep our stockpile's at an acceptable level. I'm not about to sit around while my comrade's start to starve to death."
Jaster now using a threatening and calm voice countered back "Tell me Montross, since when did you care about your comrades lives? We lost many good men down there at Concorde Dawn because of your tactics. Someone as old as you should know discipline by now, shame that even Jango knows how to listen loyally, and he is only ten. If you added yourself to the mission roster, you shall be removed at once. When you learn to respect your Commander's orders you will be permitted to leave this ship." With that Jaster stormed out of the room. Montross looked at his rack of vibro-axes on the wall and in a fit of rage knocked them off their posts.
Jaster, now wearing his black armor walked onto the bridge with Jango beside him in simple clothing. "Was Montross removed from the mission roster?" Jaster asked the Captain.
"Yes sir, we replaced him with Geris." The Captain responded.
Shortly after the Captain finished his sentence the brown armored Geris walked onto the bridge. "Commander." Geris said while giving a Mandalorian salute.
Jaster returned the gesture and replied "This is a simple assassination mission Yamov, we have to rely more on stealth here than firepower."
"Of course, sir."
"Jango, this mission may be a dangerous mission. Are you sure you want to come?"
"I'm not afraid of a little laserfire." Jango answered.
"A 'little'?" Jaster gives a chuckle. "Our mission is to assassinate a Governor's enemy who is well guarded, there may be more than a 'little' laserfire." He finished.
"I'm not afraid."
"Well then, you have changed a lot since we found you haven't you?" Geris said with laughter in his voice.
Jango shot back a threatening look. "All right you two, the sooner we get this over with the better. We've got to hurry and get to traffic control at Coruscant before the air traffic is murder."
"We're going to Coruscant!?" Jango asked excited.
"Yeah, that is where the Governor and his target are. All right, we already have the coordinates of a good landing site in our transport. Let's get this show on the road." As soon as Jaster finished the trio left the bridge.
A few minutes later the three Mandalores were at the cockpit of a small transport. "All systems on line Yamov?"
"All systems on line Commander." Geris responded.
With that the transport rose off of the hangar floor and flew between the opened doors of the bay. In a few minutes the transport arrived at the traffic control station. "Identify yourselves transport."
Jaster answered with "Simple merchant transport."
"All right, you are free to land."
As the transport entered the city Jango spoke "Why did you just lie to those people?"
"You've got a lot to learn about mercenary work Jango, if we said we were Mandalore's we would have probally been driven off." Jaster replied.
"I thought you guys said you were not that brutal?" Jango countered with another question.
"..." Jaster remained silent while piloting the transport.
"Listen kid... Don't disturb the Commander when he is piloting a transport through Coruscant. It requires concentration." Geris said.
"All right, this is the landing zone. The sooner we get this over with and receive our payment the better." Jaster said while landing the transport.
After the transport landed the rear door opened and the two armored Mandalore's and the unarmored boy stepped out. "We don't want to draw much attention, so don't fire unless you absolutely need to." Jaster said while turning around to face his partners.
"Won't firing at our target make a lot of noise?" Jango asked curious.
"Jango, my boy, there are more ways to kill a man than to blast him into oblivion." Jaster said then continued with "Okay, let's go."
Another transport landed on a landing pad directly parallel to the other. A figure stepped out covered in a blanket of darkness and watched as the group travelled torwards their destination.
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Introduction: This chapter was originally going to be longer and actually have the mission, but I decided to cut it down, it is already longer than the previous two chapters.
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Chapter 3: The Renegade
Jaster Mereel walked to the bridge of the Mandalorian Command ship Huntress in what seemed to be a hurry. He entered the room and a small man with red hair and brown eyes walked up to him. "Commander, we've got a mission." The red haired man said with a fearful expression on his face.
Jaster, still calm replied with "I don't remember authorizing anyone to find us work Lieutenant."
"Well... Someone did... Sir..." The red haired man responded.
"Who? There is no reason to be scared Lieutenant."
"He said if I talked he'd kill me!"
Jaster quickly grabbed the scared man and looked at him with a look in his eyes showing he was furious. "If you don't tell me; I'll kill you."
Jaster released the red haired fellow; he walked back a bit and cleared his throat then spoke. "Montross, sir."
"That's what I thought." Jaster said still furious.
He started walking out of the room when the red haired man spoke again. "You're not going to yell at him about it are you sir!? He'll know that I told you!"
Jaster just cocked his head to the side facing the red haired man "Trust me, he has done many stupid things, but he is not stupid enough to murder a comrade in cold blood." With that Jaster left the bridge. The red haired man returned to his station.
Jango, now up and walking was unpacking the things that the Mandalore's were able to find at his old home and placing them in storage areas around his new room. After placing some shirts in a closet he closed the door then walked over to his bed and fell backwards upon it. He has been moving in for a week now, he was up and walking about nine days ago. A few minutes passed when the room door opened up and a man, about 5'9" with light brown hair and green eyes walked into the room. "Geris, what brings you here?" Jango said while sitting up facing the visitor.
"You may be seeing us in action sooner than we thought, one of our best men seemed to have signed us up for a mission without consulting Commander Mereel." Geris said in a disapproving tone.
"Really? Who?" Jango said with excitement in his voice.
Geris, seeing Jango's excitement replied with "Don't get any ideas Jango, you're just observing this time. You are way too young to go on killing sprees. Anyway, it doesn't matter who did it now does it? The Commander is sorting him out as we speak." Shortly after he mumbles "Like that will help..." Then he walks out of the room.
Jango looks at the now closed door in confusion and decides to get back to unpacking, now eagerly awaiting the assignment that the clan has been signed up for.
A tall man, about 6'0" with natural white hair was sitting down in his room polishing medals when the door opened. The man turned around and sayid in a deep voice "Why Commander Mereel, what brings you to my room?"
"You know very well what brings me to your room, Montross." Jaster says in an angry voice.
"No, I am afraid I do not."
"Don't play innocent with me Montross. You signed us up for a mission without consulting me first-" then Jaster raised his voice "Again!"
"Now Commander, it's a simple covert mission for a Governor. Nothing to over react about."
Jaster still with a raised voice shouted "You don't seem to be listening to me, you never do anything you are ordered to, instead you do the exact opposite! You act like you're the Commander of this clan!"
Montross, with this, raised his voice and gave a threatening look "Now you listen to me, Jaster Mereel, I should be the Commander of this clan! I am a far better warrior than you! You haven't even been paying attention to the morale of your men! You've been spending more time with that farmboy!"
Jaster, in a more calm voice said "You leave Jango out of this, he has had a hard time getting over the grief of his parents deaths."
Montross stood up and walked over to Jaster and in his face spoke in a calm and threatening voice "I could care less about him, you know as well as I do we need money to keep our stockpile's at an acceptable level. I'm not about to sit around while my comrade's start to starve to death."
Jaster now using a threatening and calm voice countered back "Tell me Montross, since when did you care about your comrades lives? We lost many good men down there at Concorde Dawn because of your tactics. Someone as old as you should know discipline by now, shame that even Jango knows how to listen loyally, and he is only ten. If you added yourself to the mission roster, you shall be removed at once. When you learn to respect your Commander's orders you will be permitted to leave this ship." With that Jaster stormed out of the room. Montross looked at his rack of vibro-axes on the wall and in a fit of rage knocked them off their posts.
Jaster, now wearing his black armor walked onto the bridge with Jango beside him in simple clothing. "Was Montross removed from the mission roster?" Jaster asked the Captain.
"Yes sir, we replaced him with Geris." The Captain responded.
Shortly after the Captain finished his sentence the brown armored Geris walked onto the bridge. "Commander." Geris said while giving a Mandalorian salute.
Jaster returned the gesture and replied "This is a simple assassination mission Yamov, we have to rely more on stealth here than firepower."
"Of course, sir."
"Jango, this mission may be a dangerous mission. Are you sure you want to come?"
"I'm not afraid of a little laserfire." Jango answered.
"A 'little'?" Jaster gives a chuckle. "Our mission is to assassinate a Governor's enemy who is well guarded, there may be more than a 'little' laserfire." He finished.
"I'm not afraid."
"Well then, you have changed a lot since we found you haven't you?" Geris said with laughter in his voice.
Jango shot back a threatening look. "All right you two, the sooner we get this over with the better. We've got to hurry and get to traffic control at Coruscant before the air traffic is murder."
"We're going to Coruscant!?" Jango asked excited.
"Yeah, that is where the Governor and his target are. All right, we already have the coordinates of a good landing site in our transport. Let's get this show on the road." As soon as Jaster finished the trio left the bridge.
A few minutes later the three Mandalores were at the cockpit of a small transport. "All systems on line Yamov?"
"All systems on line Commander." Geris responded.
With that the transport rose off of the hangar floor and flew between the opened doors of the bay. In a few minutes the transport arrived at the traffic control station. "Identify yourselves transport."
Jaster answered with "Simple merchant transport."
"All right, you are free to land."
As the transport entered the city Jango spoke "Why did you just lie to those people?"
"You've got a lot to learn about mercenary work Jango, if we said we were Mandalore's we would have probally been driven off." Jaster replied.
"I thought you guys said you were not that brutal?" Jango countered with another question.
"..." Jaster remained silent while piloting the transport.
"Listen kid... Don't disturb the Commander when he is piloting a transport through Coruscant. It requires concentration." Geris said.
"All right, this is the landing zone. The sooner we get this over with and receive our payment the better." Jaster said while landing the transport.
After the transport landed the rear door opened and the two armored Mandalore's and the unarmored boy stepped out. "We don't want to draw much attention, so don't fire unless you absolutely need to." Jaster said while turning around to face his partners.
"Won't firing at our target make a lot of noise?" Jango asked curious.
"Jango, my boy, there are more ways to kill a man than to blast him into oblivion." Jaster said then continued with "Okay, let's go."
Another transport landed on a landing pad directly parallel to the other. A figure stepped out covered in a blanket of darkness and watched as the group travelled torwards their destination.
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