Chapter 3: The Fight in the Hangar

Keth grabbed Brak, and jumped into the air with his jetpack. He flew over to the far corner of the room, and set Brak down next to a door.
"I want you to shoot all pirates that come out of these doors up here," said Keth. "I'll have my hands full down there, so wish me luck and cover me!" Keth then jumped down towards the pirates, his twin pistols in his hands, and opened fire on the pirates. He swerved and dodged swings from vibro-axes and shots from blasters. He downed man after man, pirate after pirate, and used his reflexes in extraordinary ways. The whole time he was thinking back to his training in the Jedi Temple. Dodge, shoot, dodge, jump, shoot, shoot, shoot, dodge... Keth thought to himself, then acting it out.
Above him, Brak had been attacked. He used his blaster pistol, shooting at door panels and pipes and pirates. He shot a pipe and it began leaking gases...flammable gases. He shot the same pipe again and it exploded, hurling a few pirates over the edge of the railing or into walls. Brak himself had been knocked down momentarily, and a large pirate was towering over him. He was about to swing down a large axe, but Brak shot him. The pirate toppled over and slumped against the wall, his axe landing with a ching! in the floor next to Brak's head.
Brak did not see the Nikto with a sniper rifle heading to the edge of the railing, shouting orders to the pirates. The Nikto was now aiming at Keth as Brak fought against the overwhelming odds, and Keth punched and shot pirates. The Nikto opened fire, and a laser flew from the barrel. The laser hit it's mark, and landed with a flash in Keth's chest. Keth was knocked back and landed on the ground. Brak stared in fear and amazement, and picked up another pistol.
"NOOOO!!!" he shouted, blasting numerous holes in the oncoming pirates. They all toppled over, and began charging towards the Nikto. "You shot him! You stupid pirate!"
"What the..." gasped the Nikto, who turned and made a wild shot with his sniper rifle. The shot went wide, and instead hit a pirate behind Brak. The young bounty hunter began shooting at the Nikto, but missed and hit a large box-shaped panel on the underside of the walkway. The shots had gone through the weak floor of the walkway, and now the box sparked and fizzled. The walkway began to move, and swung to the other side of the hangar, connecting with another walkway. Pirates began marching over from the opposite walkway. I won't let this stop me! thought Brak, and began shooting at the Nikto again. The Nikto was hit, and Brak fire again and again and again until the Nikto was a smoking pile of ashes. He then turned his attention back to the other pirates around him.
The Nikto he had just vaporized was on Val'Tala's bounty list: Doc- Far, the Nikto hit man. Brak had eliminated him, and now the bounty payment would be raised if Tifoke were to be eliminated.
Meanwhile, Keth began to stand. His thick Kidarian battle armor had saved his life. There was now a big smoking pockmark his chest, and a little bit of stinging pain, but nothing seriously painful. Around him were a number of pirates. Closest to him was a man in black robes, and red hair.
"Mon Tifoke..." Keth muttered. "So we meet."
"Yes, that's my name, don't wear it out," said the Dark Jedi, smiling menacingly.
"I have a bounty on your head, for one million credits. You stole equipment and money from a depot on Nar Shaddaa. Not very wise, if you ask me," explained Keth, his voice more menacing than Tifoke's smile since it was coming through the helmet's synthesizers.
"I didn't ask you, did I?" countered Mon. "Plus, I don't think you'll manage to get that bounty. You'll be dead momentarily..." Mon brought his lightsaber out, and ignited it. The yellow blade shown brilliantly in the dim lighting of the hangar. He swung it around in a form of solute. Keth dodged, and quickly rolled a thermal detonator onto the ground silently. Tifoke noticed it, and used the Force to jump to a walkway overhead. Keth powered up his jetpack and followed him. The pirates that had surrounded them were incinerated in a large blast that came from the thermal detonator. The explosion even destroyed the platform the walkway out in front of the hangar.
Brak noticed his father was still alive, and still fighting as swift as ever. Brak was being overwhelmed though, and soon he was stunned by a stun gun. A Gotal pirate lifted a smoking stun gun to his mouth and blew off the smoke. Brak fell with a clatter and they dragged him away in stun cuffs.
"Brak? Brak!" Keth called to his son, seeing him be shot, though he did not know it was only a stun gun. He's dead...Tifoke's about to pay. He then flattened himself on the ground and rolled over as Tifoke slashed through the floor, breaking numerous pipes and wires. Mon Tifoke was fighting very well, almost too well. Keth continued to dodge, and when he opened fire, Mon just deflected them. Finally, Keth holstered his blaster rifle and blaster pistols and picked up a vibro-ax. He jumped over Mon Tifoke, avoiding numerous spinning slashes, and delivered a powerful blow. Mon Tifoke's hand was severed, and dropped to the floor, still holding the yellow-bladed lightsaber. Keth called it to his hand, recalling how to pull on things with the Force momentarily.
"Ow, you nerfherding punk!" screeched Tifoke, grabbing his stub of a hand. "You don't even know how to use a lightsaber, so mine will do you little good!" Mon Tifoke pulled a disruptor rifle off of the ground and charged it up. "Let's see if you can deflect this!" he shouted maniacally, and fired.
Keth swung hard, and miraculously deflected the shot. The green disruptor laser, with a fizzling sound, hit Tifoke in the stomach. Tifoke only had a second to shudder in pain, and then disappeared in a flash of greenish-orange light. The disruptor had been charged up by Tifoke, and when a charged shot hits its mark, the victim is instantly vaporized and vanishes.
Keth looked at the lightsaber in amazement, and then looked at pirates surrounding him. I'm gonna need this, thought the bounty hunter, and slashed at one before dropping another thermal detonator. Using his jetpack he jetted out of the hangar as another explosion rocked him and threw pirates and debris from the hangar. He then jetted up as far as he could go to the Wraith Hunter, and stopped on a walkway nearby. He entered the landing bay, and a few seconds later, the Hunter ripped out of there. Keth put the ship on full throttle, and flew to the hangar. He stopped outside, where a number of pirates were still recovering from the explosions. Two pirates, a Wookiee and a man in battle armor like Keth's, pointed to the ship. The battle armored pirate grabbed the Wookiee, who growled, and jetted away with rockets on his boots.
"Say your prayers, pirates!" hollered Keth, who had opened the cockpit window. He targeted the hangar, and began launching all of his enhanced proton torpedoes inside. There was a bright glow of blue light in the hangar, and then a massive explosion. Flames and warped metal spouted from the hangar, and everything inside was incinerated in the blast.
Brak, though Keth thought him dead, was safely stored inside a prison cell. The thick doors and walls protected him from the incinerating explosions of Keth's torps, but the pirates on the outside of the thick walls and doors were knocked head over heels by the force of the blast.
"See ya later suckers! There's my revenge and my bounty!" Keth called to the pirates, though he knew they could not hear him over the deafening blast or if they were dead.