Chapter 2

The Freighter

Mark left the duct and immediately ran into a maze of boxes. He jumped up on top of a box. On the other side, two Stormtroopers were chatting. "So, what's new?" asked one of them.

"Not much." Answered the other.

"Why do we have to guard this Primus anyways?"

"Yeah, this stuff is stupid. Who's going to infiltrate a freighter anyways?"

Mark snickered.

"Did you hear that?" asked one of them.

"Yeah, it sounded, human!"

"I know you're out there."

Mark jumped down on them drawing his saber as he came down. "I'm here!" He yelled. He flailed wildly and sliced up one before he could draw his blaster. The other one had already taken out his gun. Mark sliced it away before the trooper could fire it. Using the force, Mark gripped the trooper by the neck and held him against the wall. Calmly he asked: "Okay what are these people doing with this Primus?"

"I don't-cough-know, I'm just taking orders."

"Forget you." Mark released his grip on the trooper and dropped him. "Leave. If you- ahh what the hell, I'll just kill you here."

He did just that. Mark then deactivated his Lightsaber and began to walk around. With further exploration Mark found that there were too many guards to just walk around, he would have to use stealth. He pushed open a grate to the air duct that ran around the room.

Carefully setting the grate in place, he crawled through the duct. While he was moving through the duct, he saw some "esteemed" type people enter a conference room. He went into the room from the duct.

From his vantage point he could see that there were a bunch of Rodians and only five humans. One took the head of the table and immediately began speaking. "Thank you for coming here to complete the deal. I apologize for the state of ship and the lack of comfortable quarters, but, business is business."

One near the entrance yelled "Just get to the freakin point."

The chairman said to a strong looking fellow "Silence him, Oom."

Oom walked up to the Rodian, grabbed him by the back of his neck and pulled him outside. Mark followed him the best he could. Looking down through the grate, he saw Oom draw a Lightsaber and killed the Rodian. He took him to the end of the hall and sent the body down a chute that said "Refuse". Then he walked calmly back to the room. Mark was so astonished on how merciless the killing was that he almost forgot to reenter the conference room.

They were making boring small talk until a Stormtrooper entered the room. He whispered something in the chairs ear. He answered back "Oom, go investigate what the trooper says, and take the long way, I don't want you sucked into the fan, just like what accidentally happened to a trooper."

Oom answered, "Okay, right."

He walked out.

Suddenly mark felt a pull on him. He was pulled through the grate and onto the table. "YOU DARE EAVESDROP ON EUR!" Yelled the chairman. All but one Rodian pulled out some nasty looking weapon. The remaining one ran to the wall closest to Eur. He entered a code to a keypad and a door opened. Eur walked to the door and entered it and with the Rodian closed the door. There was the sound of an elevator whirring.

All the remaining Rodians began firing their weapons at Mark. He leapt forward and sliced most of them with his Lightsaber. One of them was trying to escape. Mark thought Sorry…and sliced him. I've got to get back to my ship! That guy Eur sent Oom after Greebo! Mark suddenly exclaimed "Greebo!" He called him using the comlink, "Greebo, GREEBO!" Shit, they got him. Mark ran towards the door and headed for his ship