Chapter 6 – An In and Out Job

Mission gave the console a few last masterful strokes as the pink force field disappeared. She then headed down the now open path with Carth and Zaalbar close behind.

"Be quiet around here" Mission said in a serious tone "There's supposed to be a Rancor beast around here"

Upon hearing this Zaalbar let out a piteous moan. "Zaalbar shush!" Mission ordered through her teeth, she was serious!

They came to an opening into a large room where sure enough was a Rancor turned towards a large metal door. They pulled back. Carth was out of his league here. "What do we do now?"

Mission was oddly calm for the situation. She pulled a short thin vial from her pants pocket. She held it up before Zaalbar and Carth who just looked at her. Mission sighed, "This contains a chemical which is designed to smell like a Rancor's favourite food. All we do is put it with a grenade in that pile of bones over there, Rancor smells it, eats it and boom, no more Rancor."

Carth was impressed "I'm glad I brought you Mission."

Mission smiled but said nothing. She tied the vial to a heavy plasma grenade and snuck over and put it in the pile of bones across from them. Sure enough the Rancor turned and went over to the pile a few moments later. It took one bite into the pile and ten seconds later a compressed explosion was heard from inside its mouth. The Rancor fell flat front-down – dead.


Mission easily hacked the security gate and within two minutes they were sneaking about the Vulkars home base. Being the person with the most training Carth decided their best chance of survival would be to find a Vulkar uniform and just sneak into the garage and take it. Carth decided to take the mission solo as the other two would probably be recognised as Bek's before they got to the other end of the corridor. They stole across the corridor they were standing in to a storage cupboard where there was an array of uniforms kept. Carth took a large jacket and pants and slipped into them.

"See at the entrance in three" Carth said as he headed down the corridor and Mission and Zaalbar left through the entrance again.

Carth was alone. He walked around the base looking into every room for the garage or directions. Asking for it would be too much of a giveaway.

Carth looked into the third room and say nothing but a table and two stools.

Suddenly a voice behind him called "You!"

Carth's blood ran cold and he turned slowly "Yeah?"

he answered attempting to sound casual. It seemed to pay off, as the woman he was facing didn't appear surprised.

"What are you looking for?" she asked in a slightly accusing tone.

Carth decided to play innocent "Sorry Ma'am" he started "I'm new here do you know where the lifts are?" he asked innocently.

The woman sneered "Ha! Ma'am, it's been since I heard that one boy. If you must know the lifts are in the lobby. You must really be new to be lost here."

She let out a snigger and walked off. Carth found the lift at a wall to the side of what looked to be the main lobby on this floor of the Vulkar base. He called it up to him and entered casually. He pressed the button labelled "Garage" and waited. Carth breath in deep "Please don't let anyone come to the lift, please don't let anyone come…" he thought as he looked out into the landing nervously. No one came and the doors shut as the lift began to descend.


The doors opened again and Carth left the lift. He was standing in a large room with two long tables running down near the centre of it. They were covered in various different vehicle parts and Carth began looking through them. Carth then realised he had no idea what exactly he was looking for. As a pilot he had experience with the inner working of fighters and other vehicles but his experience with swoop parts was limited to what he saw flying out off the track when his son on Telos. His son had always loved swoop racing…Carth snapped back to reality. He thought for a moment and figured that the accelerator would look something like a fuel injector off a star fighter or… he thought looking to the end of the room to see a swoop bike there with a back panel open and what appeared, or Carth hoped to appear, to be the accelerator on a small stool ready to be installed. Carth was suspicious, why is the garage empty and the accelerator left out in the open before the big race after all the trouble the Vulkars went to steal it. "Must be luck," Carth thought as he lifted the accelerator. Just then an alarm blared into existence and Carth dashed back to the lift. Two security druids came to life at each of both of the sidewalls of the garage. Carth was just at the lift when they let out a volley of blaster shots that Carth had to quickly duck to avoid and started to hop towards him as the lift arrived. "Just in time" Carth thought as he dived in and pressed the button to bring him to level 1 where he could get out of here! Carth got up and armed a grenade as he clung up to the side of the lift.

The double doors of the lift began to open and as soon as they did Carth rolled out the grenade and clung to the side of the lift as he heard the explosion and grabbed his blaster as he entered the lobby. The corpses were strewn across the room as Carth made his dash down the corridor to the back entrance. He was half way down when the woman he had previously had his encounter with appeared out of the room nearest the exit.

"You!" she shouted again as she pulled out a blaster pistol and took a shot at Carth!

Carth dived into room to his left he previously opened. Thankfully he had forgot to close it. The woman's shot flew into the space Carth had been standing only a moment ago and continued down the corridor.

"I knew you weren't a Vulkar" she called down the hall. Carth looked out around the doorframe and took a shot at where the woman was sticking out at the doorframe of her room. She ducked back in as Carth's shot missed her by inches.

"You'll have to better than that Bek!" she jeered "and soon my people will be here, even if I don't get you they will."

Carth then realised he would have to make a run for it before reinforcements arrived. It was now or never. He grabbed his blaster and began shooting at where the woman was as he made a desperate dash down the corridor. She took a quick shot at Carth, which caused him to hop sideways which wasn't easy for him carrying an accelerator in one arm and shooting with a blaster in the other! He shot again and he made with contact with her hand. She dropped the blaster and recoiled her hand in shock and pain. Carth ran past her and pulled the door open and was out again.

Mission seemed to know exactly what was happening. She approached the door and shot the opening mechanism with her blaster. The door was now jammed shut.

"Good thinking Mission" Carth said through heaving panting.

"Did you get it?" Mission asked.

"Yes, its here" said Carth jerking his head to the accelerator. He then noticed three bodies lying at the far opening. They were Sith soldiers.

"Oh yeah, we had a little company, luckily they weren't expecting me and Big Z to be standing guard here" she said cheerily "and they hit the ground before they knew what had happened."

She then held up four syringes, which were filled with a bluish substance. "Found these on them as well!"

"The Rakghoul serum!" Carth was pleasantly surprised.

"Come, its time to get back to Gadon. We'll give some of these to the settlement along with the journals but keep one; I want to give it to the good doctor Zelka. He'll make a cure for the people there!"

Mission smiled and Zaalbar let out a hungry moan "Couldn't agree more" she said.


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