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Chapter 7: Hidden Bek Base
Mona, Mission and Carth ran panting into the Hidden Bek base.
"What happened?" Zaerdra demanded as they tried to catch their breath.
"I need to talk to Gadon," Mona said.
"You can't he's locked down for safety reasons," Zaerdra said, "We here's that the Vulkars hired a mercenary to kill him."
The base was empty save for Zaerdra, "I know," Mona said.
She pulled her Vibroblade out from Zaerdra's gut, "I'm the mercenary."
She found a pass card on Zaerdra's body and used it to open the locked elevator door.
"You two stay here and keep the other Beks from coming after me," Mona said.
She entered the elevator and took it down. When the doors opened she was met by Gadon and an older woman.
"Why are you down here!" the woman demanded.
"Now Kaeira," Gadon said, "Mona is a friend. Now what news do you bring?"
"Bad I'm afraid," Mona said raising her blaster at Kaeira, "For you at least."
Before either of them could react Mona had buried a blaster bolt in Kaeira's face. Gadon swung at her with his vibroblade but Mona quickly raised her own to block him.
"Why did you betray us?" Gadon asked.
"Because I got a better offer from Vulkars," Mona said.
Gadon took another might swing at her but Mona blocked it easily and delivered a kick to Gadon sending him to the ground.
"So that's it?" Gadon said, "You just break our agreement and kill me?"
Mona pointed her pistol at Gadon head, "Yeah, that's more or less it."
Before Gadon could reply Mona had blasted a hole clean through his head. She calmly holstered her blaster and stepped back onto the elevator. Mission and Carth were awaiting her.
"Let's go," Mona said.
"That was quick," Carth commented.
"Usually is when you have the drop on someone," Mona replied coldly.
There was no more conversation as they walked back to the Black Vulkar base. Kandon was standing outside waiting for them.
"Well?" he asked simply.
"The jobs done," Mona said, "Now about my reward."
"Here are the credits as I promised." Kandon said handing over a cred stick, "However, getting you your friend will be more difficult. I can't exactly hand her over to you."
Mona quickly counted the credits before pocketing them, "What do you mean?"
"Brejik has her locked up and she is to be the prize in the up coming swoop race. So if you wish to rescue her, you'll need to win the race." Kandon said, "Fortunately with the prototype accelerator you should be able to easily win the race."
Mona's handed rubbed against the hilt of vibroblade, "You'd better hope I do," she said, "Or I might come back to cut every last one of you down so I can take her myself."
"Not exactly the way you want to treat an ally," Kandon said smoothly.
"You're not an ally," Mona said, "Because at any moment you could turn me over to the Sith if you wanted."
"I don't think you understand," Kandon said, "I'm helping you because I know you'll help me."
It slowly dawned on Mona, "You mean Brejik," she said, "You want me to help you get rid of Brejik."
A smirk slowly appeared on Mona's face, "You're a tricky bastard Kandon," she said, "Clever one too."
"I don't think Brejik will hand over your friend over to you when you win the swoop race," Kandon said, "If you kill him then, I'll turn her over to you and the gang will be mine."
Mona nodded, "Alright," she fingered her blaster, "You'd better hope this works though."