Jin Wan So'bal turns in his chair to see Yoda trying to apologize to a six-
foot creature with huge muscles all over his body. Looking more like and
oversized bulldog wearing a tanned brown jacket and skin tight black pants,
the giant being looks down at the Padwan and raises his fist to strike him.
"I'm going to pound you into the floor you little wimp!" He says angrily to Yoda.
"I did not mean...sorry I am!" Yoda replies in a frightened tone.
As the young boy quivers in panic, Tinara gets out of her chair and walks over in time to stop the dog-like creature from hitting the small Padwan. The bully looks over at her and growls.
"This little one isn't worth your let me by you a drink."
"You can do so afterwards sweetie...as soon as I make this one my new boot!"
Jin Wan hadn't moved from his seat, instead, he turned around and finished Tinara's drink for her. He was as calm as can be and certainly didn't looked worried. So too did Mort, he was still too busy thinking about the overly generous offer they agreed on. Tinara on the other hand, she looked at the large male creature and saw his hand touch her shoulder. Grabbing his large hand with her small one, she surprisingly had the strength to twist his wrist and flipped him into the air with a body throw. Yoda was even surprised that she could even lift the being, let alone hurt it with a simple twist on the wrist. The creature screamed as it landed over on the next table beside it and shattered it into pieces. The dog-like man groaned in pain and saw her come over slowly to stand over him. Cracking her knuckles, she looked at him with an evil eye and gave a smug smile at him.
"Should have taken the drink friend. Now then...you going to be a good boy? Or do I have to really start getting rough with you? Hm?"
The bully's eyes gave a frightened look and soon he shook his head with a 'no' response, his hands came up as if he was surrendering to her and gave a forced friendly smile.
"That's better. This is a place for drinking and telling tall tales...not for showing off. Am I right everyone?!" Tinara screams to the entire establishment.
"YEAH!" The bar hollers back joyfully.
The music starts up again and everyone returns to their social drinking. Yoda's mouth was wide in disbelief and looked at the black female pilot as she returned to her table and sat back down.
"Here..." Jin Wan says as he passes his only Republic credit to her. "That's to give you a fresh refill. You always did work up a thirst after pulverizing someone."
She laughs at him and takes his money.
"A girl like me needs to be satisfied So'bal...first with pain then with pleasure...of a good drink that is." Tinara winks at him.
Mort just sighs at the suggestive comments the two are sharing and taps the table with his large dark clawed fingers. She looks over at her furry co- pilot and pats him on the shoulder.
"Oh alright you big lug...I guess we should get these two to a ship and get us that reward."
Jin Wan smirks at her lighthearted humor and sees young Yoda come up beside him as he sits with a curious eye. The Jedi Master wraps his arm around the small Padwan and looks at him.
"I'll bet you don't know what to make of any of this do you Yoda?"
"Puzzling this has all been, Master. But trust in you, do I." The small green boy says.
As they continue to sit at the table, Jin Wan and Tinara exchange a glance at each other, a silent meeting of the eyes as if there was something unspoken between the two. Yoda eyed them both carefully and something within his mind gave him insight as to what the two are thinking. Something that he would certainly ask this Jedi Master later on when they were alone.
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Warping out of hyperspace, a small but golden ship comes streaking out and heads into the system where Jin Wan and Yoda have gone. The craft is detailed in elegant designs and full of gold and silver plating. There are no wings to the flying vehicle, but seeing how it's made mainly for space, wings are not necessary for interplanetary flight. Looking more like a narrow stubby sword, the ship glides inward. Inside the highly detailed craft sits the bounty hunter Darth Bane employed. The armored creature studies the viewer ahead of him and looks at the graphics displaying the planet Jin Wan has gone too. A red line on the viewer shows the Cu'Nathal's path to the world and one small blue line heading down to the planet the red line stops at. The creature hisses in delight and pushes a green button beside his leather and gold command chair.
"I've found them. They've stopped on a small outpost in this sector." The bounty hunter says out loud.
"Excellent." Bane's voice now replies back to him. "Proceed with caution...the Jedi will be alerted to your presence if you come too close."
"I fear no Jedi." Kelborne growls back.
"That may very well be my friend...but never-the-less, do as I command you...or else I shall not give you the payment as agreed."
The bounty hunter shifts in his seat with discomfort after hearing that, soon he grips the golden steering handle switches on the console and hisses again as if he's sighing.
"Very well...I shall do what you ask. For now."
The ship increases in speed and continues on towards the distant planet ahead.
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Walking through the dark and dreary streets of the city, Jin Wan, Yoda, Mort and Tinara walk briskly as they head into the landing paddock that has all the ships sitting there like a parking lot. As they walk through the archway and scan all the various vessels, Yoda looks around and points to one impressive ship that looks promising.
"Her ship that must be Master. Fast and sturdy it seems."
Jin Wan looks over and eyes it. The ship is relatively big in size and almost round in shape; the large back engines give the impression that this is a very fast vessel that could hyper-jump in a split second. But as they continue to walk over to the ship, both Jedi notice that they are not stopping at that one they believe it to be. As they pass it fairly quickly, the soon see a very run down, smaller ship that looks like it couldn't out run a Republic cruise carrier. Mort continues to walk towards it as Tinara turns around and smiles at them both.
"There it is boys...the Razorclaw."
Yoda's mouth drops as he realizes that is their craft for the rest of the voyage home. Jin Wan also looks at it with disgust and gives her a rather questionable gaze.
"Piece of junk, this is!" Yoda couldn't help but say.
Tinara took offense to that and stared at him.
"Hey! Padwan...you wanna walk home in space? Then be my guest. I'll happily open the airlock for you when we're up there."
Yoda recoiled from her sharp voice snapping back at him. So'bal held his hand out to silence his Padwan from making such comments and looked at Tinara with raised eyebrows.
"This will do fine." He calmly says to her. "Remember he's young and still needs to learn how to speak in a more...diplomatic manner."
Tinara turns around satisfied by his answer and walks towards the small ship's open ramp on the side of the vessel. Just as Yoda and So'bal are about to climb up the narrow step ramp, the young Padwan suddenly stopped in his tracks and slowly turned around with a great concern on his face.
"Feel something, I do..."
"What?" The Jedi Master asks the boy with curiosity. "What did you say?"
Yoda continues too look out past the ship.
"Sense of danger I feel..."
A small twinge of his eye soon gave So'bal reason to reach out with his mind as well.
"I sense it as well..." He says to the small boy as he too creates a deadpan look on his face.
"Master..." Yoda softly speaks to the Jedi Master.
So'bal turns to look out across the shipyard and takes out his lightsaber with caution. He takes small steps beyond the ship and looks back at Yoda with a serious stare.
"Get on board...NOW!!"
Before the Padwan could protest, a blaze of laser fire comes streaking out from across the yard; Jin Wan's sword activates the minute the fist strike comes close to him. With great skill and speed, he successfully deflects each shot fired at him. Yoda still hesitating to board and is left wondering if he should help his friend as before or board the ship as he instructed. Jin Wan looked back briefly to see his young apprentice still gawking at him and yelled at him again.
"I said get aboard!! Tell them to start immediately!"
Out from the hidden shadows of the other ships sitting beyond, the golden suited Kelborne comes running out and firing his weapon at the Jedi master. Jin Wan sees the strange being charging at him and decides to meet him head on. Running at a steady pace, So'bal continues to use his lightsaber to block the shots that don't even really phase his concentration. Yoda quickly runs aboard the ship and screams at Tinara to start the ship.
"Begin we must!"
Tinara and Mort are sitting in their pilot chairs as Yoda comes running in and activating every switch as he enters.
"We know! We know! Strap yourself in junior...we're gonna blast off and high tail it out of here." She says to the panicking green child.
The cockpit of the ship is small and very cramped; switches, lights and every odd-looking dial or knob is all around the two pilots as they hurry. The sound of the engines warming up is heard clear across the shipyard and even as the two combatants battle beyond it. So'bal and Kelborne continue to rush closer and closer, the bounty hunter knows a clash with the Jedi is coming up and presses a red glowing button on the side of his large golden weapon. Suddenly the laser blasts disappear and a large shockwave blast sent hurling out of it and hits the Jedi master dead on. Hurling across the air, Jin Wan tries to use the force to guide his feet back to the ground safely. But before he can even touch the ground, the bounty hunter strikes another blast wave at him again and knocks him out to the ground.
Yoda looks at the small monitors as they watch inside the ship and screams out to his friend.
"MASTER SO'BAL!!"
The bounty hunter looks at the fallen Jedi with great pride and sees that he's not moving, pressing another button on his massive gun, the golden armored alien steps rapidly to his victim and prepares to finish the job he was paid to do.
"Jedi..." He hisses with a slight chortle. "Not so tough to beat. This will be the easiest job I ever had."
He lowers the gun at So'bal's unconscious head and slowly arcs his finger to fire the weapon.
"I'm going to pound you into the floor you little wimp!" He says angrily to Yoda.
"I did not mean...sorry I am!" Yoda replies in a frightened tone.
As the young boy quivers in panic, Tinara gets out of her chair and walks over in time to stop the dog-like creature from hitting the small Padwan. The bully looks over at her and growls.
"This little one isn't worth your let me by you a drink."
"You can do so afterwards sweetie...as soon as I make this one my new boot!"
Jin Wan hadn't moved from his seat, instead, he turned around and finished Tinara's drink for her. He was as calm as can be and certainly didn't looked worried. So too did Mort, he was still too busy thinking about the overly generous offer they agreed on. Tinara on the other hand, she looked at the large male creature and saw his hand touch her shoulder. Grabbing his large hand with her small one, she surprisingly had the strength to twist his wrist and flipped him into the air with a body throw. Yoda was even surprised that she could even lift the being, let alone hurt it with a simple twist on the wrist. The creature screamed as it landed over on the next table beside it and shattered it into pieces. The dog-like man groaned in pain and saw her come over slowly to stand over him. Cracking her knuckles, she looked at him with an evil eye and gave a smug smile at him.
"Should have taken the drink friend. Now then...you going to be a good boy? Or do I have to really start getting rough with you? Hm?"
The bully's eyes gave a frightened look and soon he shook his head with a 'no' response, his hands came up as if he was surrendering to her and gave a forced friendly smile.
"That's better. This is a place for drinking and telling tall tales...not for showing off. Am I right everyone?!" Tinara screams to the entire establishment.
"YEAH!" The bar hollers back joyfully.
The music starts up again and everyone returns to their social drinking. Yoda's mouth was wide in disbelief and looked at the black female pilot as she returned to her table and sat back down.
"Here..." Jin Wan says as he passes his only Republic credit to her. "That's to give you a fresh refill. You always did work up a thirst after pulverizing someone."
She laughs at him and takes his money.
"A girl like me needs to be satisfied So'bal...first with pain then with pleasure...of a good drink that is." Tinara winks at him.
Mort just sighs at the suggestive comments the two are sharing and taps the table with his large dark clawed fingers. She looks over at her furry co- pilot and pats him on the shoulder.
"Oh alright you big lug...I guess we should get these two to a ship and get us that reward."
Jin Wan smirks at her lighthearted humor and sees young Yoda come up beside him as he sits with a curious eye. The Jedi Master wraps his arm around the small Padwan and looks at him.
"I'll bet you don't know what to make of any of this do you Yoda?"
"Puzzling this has all been, Master. But trust in you, do I." The small green boy says.
As they continue to sit at the table, Jin Wan and Tinara exchange a glance at each other, a silent meeting of the eyes as if there was something unspoken between the two. Yoda eyed them both carefully and something within his mind gave him insight as to what the two are thinking. Something that he would certainly ask this Jedi Master later on when they were alone.
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Warping out of hyperspace, a small but golden ship comes streaking out and heads into the system where Jin Wan and Yoda have gone. The craft is detailed in elegant designs and full of gold and silver plating. There are no wings to the flying vehicle, but seeing how it's made mainly for space, wings are not necessary for interplanetary flight. Looking more like a narrow stubby sword, the ship glides inward. Inside the highly detailed craft sits the bounty hunter Darth Bane employed. The armored creature studies the viewer ahead of him and looks at the graphics displaying the planet Jin Wan has gone too. A red line on the viewer shows the Cu'Nathal's path to the world and one small blue line heading down to the planet the red line stops at. The creature hisses in delight and pushes a green button beside his leather and gold command chair.
"I've found them. They've stopped on a small outpost in this sector." The bounty hunter says out loud.
"Excellent." Bane's voice now replies back to him. "Proceed with caution...the Jedi will be alerted to your presence if you come too close."
"I fear no Jedi." Kelborne growls back.
"That may very well be my friend...but never-the-less, do as I command you...or else I shall not give you the payment as agreed."
The bounty hunter shifts in his seat with discomfort after hearing that, soon he grips the golden steering handle switches on the console and hisses again as if he's sighing.
"Very well...I shall do what you ask. For now."
The ship increases in speed and continues on towards the distant planet ahead.
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Walking through the dark and dreary streets of the city, Jin Wan, Yoda, Mort and Tinara walk briskly as they head into the landing paddock that has all the ships sitting there like a parking lot. As they walk through the archway and scan all the various vessels, Yoda looks around and points to one impressive ship that looks promising.
"Her ship that must be Master. Fast and sturdy it seems."
Jin Wan looks over and eyes it. The ship is relatively big in size and almost round in shape; the large back engines give the impression that this is a very fast vessel that could hyper-jump in a split second. But as they continue to walk over to the ship, both Jedi notice that they are not stopping at that one they believe it to be. As they pass it fairly quickly, the soon see a very run down, smaller ship that looks like it couldn't out run a Republic cruise carrier. Mort continues to walk towards it as Tinara turns around and smiles at them both.
"There it is boys...the Razorclaw."
Yoda's mouth drops as he realizes that is their craft for the rest of the voyage home. Jin Wan also looks at it with disgust and gives her a rather questionable gaze.
"Piece of junk, this is!" Yoda couldn't help but say.
Tinara took offense to that and stared at him.
"Hey! Padwan...you wanna walk home in space? Then be my guest. I'll happily open the airlock for you when we're up there."
Yoda recoiled from her sharp voice snapping back at him. So'bal held his hand out to silence his Padwan from making such comments and looked at Tinara with raised eyebrows.
"This will do fine." He calmly says to her. "Remember he's young and still needs to learn how to speak in a more...diplomatic manner."
Tinara turns around satisfied by his answer and walks towards the small ship's open ramp on the side of the vessel. Just as Yoda and So'bal are about to climb up the narrow step ramp, the young Padwan suddenly stopped in his tracks and slowly turned around with a great concern on his face.
"Feel something, I do..."
"What?" The Jedi Master asks the boy with curiosity. "What did you say?"
Yoda continues too look out past the ship.
"Sense of danger I feel..."
A small twinge of his eye soon gave So'bal reason to reach out with his mind as well.
"I sense it as well..." He says to the small boy as he too creates a deadpan look on his face.
"Master..." Yoda softly speaks to the Jedi Master.
So'bal turns to look out across the shipyard and takes out his lightsaber with caution. He takes small steps beyond the ship and looks back at Yoda with a serious stare.
"Get on board...NOW!!"
Before the Padwan could protest, a blaze of laser fire comes streaking out from across the yard; Jin Wan's sword activates the minute the fist strike comes close to him. With great skill and speed, he successfully deflects each shot fired at him. Yoda still hesitating to board and is left wondering if he should help his friend as before or board the ship as he instructed. Jin Wan looked back briefly to see his young apprentice still gawking at him and yelled at him again.
"I said get aboard!! Tell them to start immediately!"
Out from the hidden shadows of the other ships sitting beyond, the golden suited Kelborne comes running out and firing his weapon at the Jedi master. Jin Wan sees the strange being charging at him and decides to meet him head on. Running at a steady pace, So'bal continues to use his lightsaber to block the shots that don't even really phase his concentration. Yoda quickly runs aboard the ship and screams at Tinara to start the ship.
"Begin we must!"
Tinara and Mort are sitting in their pilot chairs as Yoda comes running in and activating every switch as he enters.
"We know! We know! Strap yourself in junior...we're gonna blast off and high tail it out of here." She says to the panicking green child.
The cockpit of the ship is small and very cramped; switches, lights and every odd-looking dial or knob is all around the two pilots as they hurry. The sound of the engines warming up is heard clear across the shipyard and even as the two combatants battle beyond it. So'bal and Kelborne continue to rush closer and closer, the bounty hunter knows a clash with the Jedi is coming up and presses a red glowing button on the side of his large golden weapon. Suddenly the laser blasts disappear and a large shockwave blast sent hurling out of it and hits the Jedi master dead on. Hurling across the air, Jin Wan tries to use the force to guide his feet back to the ground safely. But before he can even touch the ground, the bounty hunter strikes another blast wave at him again and knocks him out to the ground.
Yoda looks at the small monitors as they watch inside the ship and screams out to his friend.
"MASTER SO'BAL!!"
The bounty hunter looks at the fallen Jedi with great pride and sees that he's not moving, pressing another button on his massive gun, the golden armored alien steps rapidly to his victim and prepares to finish the job he was paid to do.
"Jedi..." He hisses with a slight chortle. "Not so tough to beat. This will be the easiest job I ever had."
He lowers the gun at So'bal's unconscious head and slowly arcs his finger to fire the weapon.