Jal watched as all of the assassins slowly made their way one by one back into the main room dissolving in the shadowy depths with each pace.
Not too bad, he thought to himself.
The assassins formed a group in one of the more shadowy corners of the room and started to talk about their findings.
"Alright... Xenos, looks like you've stumbled upon Fal'Quey. Whatever is in that room should be checked out... And he should be killed. Reg, you and Cond should go back and open up that hangar bay door. I'll make my way up to Jardo. Once he's dead, I want you, Reg, to blow those barracks sky high and open that door. Cond, you better be ready to make your way to a ship in the docking bay. Cond, I'm counting on you and Reg to secure our escape to get out of there. And Xenos, if that is a security room you stumbled upon, it probably controls those guns outside-which could make our escape very short if they are online...I let you people tag along so I could make money without dying, don't dissapoint me."
Jal left the small group and made his way to the upstairs area where the Hutt lay. His mind concentrated on the KP-44 blaster he had in his vest. This mission would be different.
Xenos knew this next part of the mission was going to be hard, especially for him. He could only hope that his small DD6 blaster pistol would be enough.
Again, he set off on the hall to the left, still carrying the stolen ID card. He swiftly swiped the card through the slot and hurried through the corridor. Again from his vantage point he saw the two guards, but something else caught his eye. A security camera was placed above the doorway that lead to the security headquarters. He knew he would have to take that camera out.
Xenos took out his blaster and hesitantly leaned on the wall. He strafed as far as he could to the left, without being seen. He easily sniped away the camera, but as he thought the guards came after him. The guards must not have seen action for a long time, because it wasn't hard for him to pick them off one by one.
No alarms were set off, so far so good. Xenos then proceeded to enter the headquarters.
Once he entered, Xenos saw nothing but security systems and computers. He looked some of them over from the doorway. Xenos was not that familiar with computers, but he was able to recognize some of them. "Wow." He thought to himself, "This place controls the lifts, the alarms, the hangars, and automated guns. And that's just what I can see from here."
He stepped inside to get a better look, and perhaps shut off the automated guns, but he felt a blaster nozzle on the back of his head.
"Freeze, don't move a muscle!" said the Weequay.
"Fal'Quey!" muttered Xenos
Fal'Quey replied, "I saw you sneaking around before, I knew you would come here."
Xenos cut his sentence short, "So you scum, are you gonna shoot me or what?" Before he could answer, Xenos thrusted the palm of his hand into Fal'Queys stomach, making him gasp for air, dropping his gun, and losing the advantage he had over Xenos.
Xenos took advantage of the moment by knocking him to the floor and silently shooting his head. He then proceeded to the console. He de-activated the guns surrounding the hangar and managed to open a few blast doors.
That was too easy, Xenos thought, while walking back to the main corridor. He breathed a sigh of relief knowing that his part of the job was finished. He would now follow Jal to find the notorious crime lord, whom they were supposed to kill, Jardo the Hutt.
Jal heard the booming laughter of Jardo echo throughout the room only 10 steps ahead. "What does he find so funny?" wondered Jal. "He's been laughing all day."
Jal reached the top of the stairs and stood in silent wonder at the room before him. It was a cavernous dome shaped room lined with windows, display screens, holo-pads, and there was Jardo sitting right in front of Jal-his body laying on a plush slab tailored for his sluggish body.
Before Jardo stood a dancer-chained up to a little leash on his wrist.
That disgusted Jal, but he wasn't ready to fight yet.
A dark colored droid stood next to Jardo. It's cone shaped head had two red eyes that stared directly at Jal. The droid appeared quite harmless. 10 Gammorrean guards stood around the room with their blast carbines at hand but didn't pay Jal much attention.
Jardo spoke first in his sloppy native language.
The droid translated, "What do you have to say to the illustrious Jardo?"
Jal heard footsteps behind him and turned around to see Xenos walking up behind him.
"Not much" Jal declared.
His hand dived into his vest and pulled out his KP-44 blaster-a rather handy weapon-and then fired off his first shot. The blaster bolt slammed through the Hutt's head and sent his body tumbling forward off of the couch. He flopped down to the floor in a developing pool of his blood.
Xenos followed suit and removed his blaster to start shooting at the Gamorrean guards who were slowly turning around to witness the racket.
Jal noticed one extremely odd thing-the droid had just spawned 2 blaster cannons on its arms and was looking right at him. Jal pulled a grenade from his side and heaved it at the robot.
The munition exploded in a brilliant display of death sending Jardo's body, 2 Gammorreans, and pieces of furniture to every possible angle.
Jal backed away from the carnage and ducked down only to hear a blaster bolt sizzle past his head. He swiveled to the direction of the shot at fired a bolt into the last Gammorrean guard. Jal then nodded to Xenos and motioned to go down the stairs.
Now, all Jal needed was for Reg to blow up the barracks, a small skirmish to clean out the main room, and then they would be running to the hangar bay. Jal's heart was pumping.
After Falco had recieved her instructions, she had made her way back down to the hallway where she had been before. Grinning to herself, she pulled out an explosive and fixed it to the door.
Then she made her way back to the main room, reaching into her pocket for the thermal detanator she had stored there. The guards, druggies, and other people paid her no mind. Falco waited and fingered the DL-44 in her pocket.
Suddenly alarms began to blare, and she pulled her left hand out of her pocket, revealing the thermal detanator, dead man's switch activated, /i she thought, iXenos didn't get to the alarms in time. That must mean that Jardo is dead, though./i "NOBODY MOVE!" she shouted, striding into the center of the crowd.
Everyone froze, including the guards, but additional alarms began to blare, and she heard the far blast door open. She smiled and glanced back down the corridor towards the blast doors. Suddenly the second one began to open, and Falco triggered the explosive fixed on the doors, killing the first few beings that were waiting on the other side.
Without a second thought, she triggered the barracks explosives, and the floor itself trembled, almost knocking her to the floor. She ran towards the hangar corridor, and turned around, shooting the guards, whose hands were reaching for their blasters.
She ran down the corridor, through the ruined blast door, slapped open the next one, and hit the controls that locked the main door and opened the hangar bay door. Then she turned and ran for the hangar, dispatching more guards as she went.
As she ran for the hangar, she reached for her comm, she yelled into it, "Get ready to start an internal resonance on this thing!" Then she was at the hangar. She stopped, and the guards caught sight of her. In the split second that they took to grab their blasters, Falco's hands closed over the hard metal of her lightsaber, and she reflected for a brief instant how hard it had been to learn how to use it without the force.
Then the guards began firing, and the blade was humming like a wild thing, reflecting most of the bolts that got close. Falco wondered in the back of her mind where Cond was. then she had her answer, as Cond opened up on the guards, and they were forced to divert some of their attention from Falco.
Condyloma had trailed behind Falco to cover her back so she could take care of the hangar door. After a moment she ran past him and gave a warning he didn't quite catch. He decided his first priority was to get to the ship.
He came to the two blast doors. Opening and closing them wasn¦t a problem. Opening the hangar door would take some time, the controls seemed to be locked. After reconfiguring the wires he managed to bypass the security.
Before he could open the hangar door, Cond heard alarms, and then the blast doors opened. iDid I do that?/i he wondered.
Someone was opening the hangar doors on the other side, cond ducked and drew his weapon. While he was taking aim at two guards, he felt the blast of an explosion knocking him into the wall. Luckily he was behind cover, the guards however, were not. Past their shredded bodies and the smoke, Cond could see the hangar doors closing again.
He stumbled through into the hangar, partly concealed by the dissipating smoke. He thought the alarms had quit, but they had just been replaced by the ringing in his ears. Now he pieced together what Falco warned him about.
There was enough confusion in the hangar that making it to the YT-1300 wasn¦t difficult. Cond had just lowered the ramp to the freighter when he heard blaster fire behind him, past the blast doors. He ran up into the cockpit and engaged the engines. While he could hear the whine of the drive system he saw Falco running through the hangar door, light saber blazing.
iFalco, a Jedi?/i thought Cond .
He hopped in a turret and opened fire. Some of the guards turned towards him and the ship and opened fire.
Jal and Xenos descended down the stairway into the main room.
The room was in chaos. Dancers were running around, spice users were stumbling about from their seats, and the guards were crashing onto their sabacc games as newly formed corpses.
As Jal and Xenos walked across the room spreading blaster bolts in every direction, Regina was blasting away in the hanger bay.
After the main room was lined with 20+ corpses, Jal and Xenos started running to the hangar bay.
This part was easy as the path was littered with more dead guards, their blood leaving a residue on the walls around them.
Jal ran into the hangar bay with Xenos right behind him and slipped to a halt as he noticed the battle before him.
Regina was using a lightsaber...
Jal took a few more shots and then started sprinting towards the YT-2400 light transport that Cond had picked.
Jal could see mission success very close, but that all stopped the second he heard the loud thump of a droid stalking about behind him. Jal turned around to see the droid who he thought he had destroyed earlier, now standing in the doorway of the hangar bay.
Jal sighed and pulled out his blaster as fast as he could-but the sound of a quad turret blasting away behind him was louder. Four blaster bolts raced on over Jal and hit the droid squarely in the middle.
The droid blew up immediately, and this time Jal saw its head roll about on the ground.
He turned back to the YT-2400 and jumped into into it by the access ramp that was levitating a meter off of the surface of the hangar bay floor.
"Thank you Cond" said Jal.
With a proton torpedo, the hangar bay door shattered and allowed the assassin group a wide berth to escape through. With a few proton torpedoes launched at the building's generator, the dark night sky outlined the flaming wreck of the former Hutt's fortress.
.............
Jal sat around in the back of the passenger hold tapping away at a few buttons on his PSD.
"Well everyone, looks like you'll all be recieving 162,500 credits as payment for this little assignment."
He got up out of his seat and into the cockpit. "Ok Cond, just drop me down near the city."
He walked back out of the cockpit and sat down in one of the seats. Removing a cloth and a power cell, Jal started maintenancing his blaster.
MISSION COMPLETE
Not too bad, he thought to himself.
The assassins formed a group in one of the more shadowy corners of the room and started to talk about their findings.
"Alright... Xenos, looks like you've stumbled upon Fal'Quey. Whatever is in that room should be checked out... And he should be killed. Reg, you and Cond should go back and open up that hangar bay door. I'll make my way up to Jardo. Once he's dead, I want you, Reg, to blow those barracks sky high and open that door. Cond, you better be ready to make your way to a ship in the docking bay. Cond, I'm counting on you and Reg to secure our escape to get out of there. And Xenos, if that is a security room you stumbled upon, it probably controls those guns outside-which could make our escape very short if they are online...I let you people tag along so I could make money without dying, don't dissapoint me."
Jal left the small group and made his way to the upstairs area where the Hutt lay. His mind concentrated on the KP-44 blaster he had in his vest. This mission would be different.
Xenos knew this next part of the mission was going to be hard, especially for him. He could only hope that his small DD6 blaster pistol would be enough.
Again, he set off on the hall to the left, still carrying the stolen ID card. He swiftly swiped the card through the slot and hurried through the corridor. Again from his vantage point he saw the two guards, but something else caught his eye. A security camera was placed above the doorway that lead to the security headquarters. He knew he would have to take that camera out.
Xenos took out his blaster and hesitantly leaned on the wall. He strafed as far as he could to the left, without being seen. He easily sniped away the camera, but as he thought the guards came after him. The guards must not have seen action for a long time, because it wasn't hard for him to pick them off one by one.
No alarms were set off, so far so good. Xenos then proceeded to enter the headquarters.
Once he entered, Xenos saw nothing but security systems and computers. He looked some of them over from the doorway. Xenos was not that familiar with computers, but he was able to recognize some of them. "Wow." He thought to himself, "This place controls the lifts, the alarms, the hangars, and automated guns. And that's just what I can see from here."
He stepped inside to get a better look, and perhaps shut off the automated guns, but he felt a blaster nozzle on the back of his head.
"Freeze, don't move a muscle!" said the Weequay.
"Fal'Quey!" muttered Xenos
Fal'Quey replied, "I saw you sneaking around before, I knew you would come here."
Xenos cut his sentence short, "So you scum, are you gonna shoot me or what?" Before he could answer, Xenos thrusted the palm of his hand into Fal'Queys stomach, making him gasp for air, dropping his gun, and losing the advantage he had over Xenos.
Xenos took advantage of the moment by knocking him to the floor and silently shooting his head. He then proceeded to the console. He de-activated the guns surrounding the hangar and managed to open a few blast doors.
That was too easy, Xenos thought, while walking back to the main corridor. He breathed a sigh of relief knowing that his part of the job was finished. He would now follow Jal to find the notorious crime lord, whom they were supposed to kill, Jardo the Hutt.
Jal heard the booming laughter of Jardo echo throughout the room only 10 steps ahead. "What does he find so funny?" wondered Jal. "He's been laughing all day."
Jal reached the top of the stairs and stood in silent wonder at the room before him. It was a cavernous dome shaped room lined with windows, display screens, holo-pads, and there was Jardo sitting right in front of Jal-his body laying on a plush slab tailored for his sluggish body.
Before Jardo stood a dancer-chained up to a little leash on his wrist.
That disgusted Jal, but he wasn't ready to fight yet.
A dark colored droid stood next to Jardo. It's cone shaped head had two red eyes that stared directly at Jal. The droid appeared quite harmless. 10 Gammorrean guards stood around the room with their blast carbines at hand but didn't pay Jal much attention.
Jardo spoke first in his sloppy native language.
The droid translated, "What do you have to say to the illustrious Jardo?"
Jal heard footsteps behind him and turned around to see Xenos walking up behind him.
"Not much" Jal declared.
His hand dived into his vest and pulled out his KP-44 blaster-a rather handy weapon-and then fired off his first shot. The blaster bolt slammed through the Hutt's head and sent his body tumbling forward off of the couch. He flopped down to the floor in a developing pool of his blood.
Xenos followed suit and removed his blaster to start shooting at the Gamorrean guards who were slowly turning around to witness the racket.
Jal noticed one extremely odd thing-the droid had just spawned 2 blaster cannons on its arms and was looking right at him. Jal pulled a grenade from his side and heaved it at the robot.
The munition exploded in a brilliant display of death sending Jardo's body, 2 Gammorreans, and pieces of furniture to every possible angle.
Jal backed away from the carnage and ducked down only to hear a blaster bolt sizzle past his head. He swiveled to the direction of the shot at fired a bolt into the last Gammorrean guard. Jal then nodded to Xenos and motioned to go down the stairs.
Now, all Jal needed was for Reg to blow up the barracks, a small skirmish to clean out the main room, and then they would be running to the hangar bay. Jal's heart was pumping.
After Falco had recieved her instructions, she had made her way back down to the hallway where she had been before. Grinning to herself, she pulled out an explosive and fixed it to the door.
Then she made her way back to the main room, reaching into her pocket for the thermal detanator she had stored there. The guards, druggies, and other people paid her no mind. Falco waited and fingered the DL-44 in her pocket.
Suddenly alarms began to blare, and she pulled her left hand out of her pocket, revealing the thermal detanator, dead man's switch activated, /i she thought, iXenos didn't get to the alarms in time. That must mean that Jardo is dead, though./i "NOBODY MOVE!" she shouted, striding into the center of the crowd.
Everyone froze, including the guards, but additional alarms began to blare, and she heard the far blast door open. She smiled and glanced back down the corridor towards the blast doors. Suddenly the second one began to open, and Falco triggered the explosive fixed on the doors, killing the first few beings that were waiting on the other side.
Without a second thought, she triggered the barracks explosives, and the floor itself trembled, almost knocking her to the floor. She ran towards the hangar corridor, and turned around, shooting the guards, whose hands were reaching for their blasters.
She ran down the corridor, through the ruined blast door, slapped open the next one, and hit the controls that locked the main door and opened the hangar bay door. Then she turned and ran for the hangar, dispatching more guards as she went.
As she ran for the hangar, she reached for her comm, she yelled into it, "Get ready to start an internal resonance on this thing!" Then she was at the hangar. She stopped, and the guards caught sight of her. In the split second that they took to grab their blasters, Falco's hands closed over the hard metal of her lightsaber, and she reflected for a brief instant how hard it had been to learn how to use it without the force.
Then the guards began firing, and the blade was humming like a wild thing, reflecting most of the bolts that got close. Falco wondered in the back of her mind where Cond was. then she had her answer, as Cond opened up on the guards, and they were forced to divert some of their attention from Falco.
Condyloma had trailed behind Falco to cover her back so she could take care of the hangar door. After a moment she ran past him and gave a warning he didn't quite catch. He decided his first priority was to get to the ship.
He came to the two blast doors. Opening and closing them wasn¦t a problem. Opening the hangar door would take some time, the controls seemed to be locked. After reconfiguring the wires he managed to bypass the security.
Before he could open the hangar door, Cond heard alarms, and then the blast doors opened. iDid I do that?/i he wondered.
Someone was opening the hangar doors on the other side, cond ducked and drew his weapon. While he was taking aim at two guards, he felt the blast of an explosion knocking him into the wall. Luckily he was behind cover, the guards however, were not. Past their shredded bodies and the smoke, Cond could see the hangar doors closing again.
He stumbled through into the hangar, partly concealed by the dissipating smoke. He thought the alarms had quit, but they had just been replaced by the ringing in his ears. Now he pieced together what Falco warned him about.
There was enough confusion in the hangar that making it to the YT-1300 wasn¦t difficult. Cond had just lowered the ramp to the freighter when he heard blaster fire behind him, past the blast doors. He ran up into the cockpit and engaged the engines. While he could hear the whine of the drive system he saw Falco running through the hangar door, light saber blazing.
iFalco, a Jedi?/i thought Cond .
He hopped in a turret and opened fire. Some of the guards turned towards him and the ship and opened fire.
Jal and Xenos descended down the stairway into the main room.
The room was in chaos. Dancers were running around, spice users were stumbling about from their seats, and the guards were crashing onto their sabacc games as newly formed corpses.
As Jal and Xenos walked across the room spreading blaster bolts in every direction, Regina was blasting away in the hanger bay.
After the main room was lined with 20+ corpses, Jal and Xenos started running to the hangar bay.
This part was easy as the path was littered with more dead guards, their blood leaving a residue on the walls around them.
Jal ran into the hangar bay with Xenos right behind him and slipped to a halt as he noticed the battle before him.
Regina was using a lightsaber...
Jal took a few more shots and then started sprinting towards the YT-2400 light transport that Cond had picked.
Jal could see mission success very close, but that all stopped the second he heard the loud thump of a droid stalking about behind him. Jal turned around to see the droid who he thought he had destroyed earlier, now standing in the doorway of the hangar bay.
Jal sighed and pulled out his blaster as fast as he could-but the sound of a quad turret blasting away behind him was louder. Four blaster bolts raced on over Jal and hit the droid squarely in the middle.
The droid blew up immediately, and this time Jal saw its head roll about on the ground.
He turned back to the YT-2400 and jumped into into it by the access ramp that was levitating a meter off of the surface of the hangar bay floor.
"Thank you Cond" said Jal.
With a proton torpedo, the hangar bay door shattered and allowed the assassin group a wide berth to escape through. With a few proton torpedoes launched at the building's generator, the dark night sky outlined the flaming wreck of the former Hutt's fortress.
.............
Jal sat around in the back of the passenger hold tapping away at a few buttons on his PSD.
"Well everyone, looks like you'll all be recieving 162,500 credits as payment for this little assignment."
He got up out of his seat and into the cockpit. "Ok Cond, just drop me down near the city."
He walked back out of the cockpit and sat down in one of the seats. Removing a cloth and a power cell, Jal started maintenancing his blaster.
MISSION COMPLETE