Glad you all liked my first 007 themed chapter. When I first started putting this story up, I never considered this coming until the idea was given to me from 1049. I am glad that all of you really helped me out.
I have seen the trailer for Detective Pikachu, and I have to say it looks very funny.
Now its time to answer some reviews.
1049, thanks for the support.
Mpowers45, I liked that Sean Connery impersonation you left in your review. Might use that later in the arc, maybe at the end.
Spartan-626, glad you liked the chapter. However, as for Tarkin losing an arm or leg that won't be happening. The Rattrap line was the first thing that came into my mind when writing. Please don't use Gigady, it reminds me of that pervert Quagmire from Family Guy, and I hate that guy, along with the rest of the characters of Seth Macfarlands work. As for the private dance, I'm not sure about that. The whole Belly dancer thing was to allow Robert and his friends to blow off some steam from all the battles and recon.
Moger, glad you liked the last chapter, but could you leave a little more in your reviews. I want to know what you think about my work.
Time to begin. Disclaimers are the same as before, enjoy.
Chapter 20: Hunters moon
December 10th, 2019 20BBY
Canto Bight, Cantonica
0300 hours
Normal point of view
Tossing and turning in his sleep, Robert awoke sweating uncontrollably panting like crazy. "Nightmares again. First visions and now this. What's going on with me and why is it everytime I see myself dying." Robert asked himself as he filled up the sink in the refresher and splashed his face.
"What's going on with me?" he wondered quietly before returning to bed. He then glanced to Ahsoka who was sleeping peacefully. Stroking her lekku carefully, he smiled before returning to sleep, but his mind was still plagued by the nightmares and visions. What did they mean?
By the time he woke up, Robert found himself smelling the sweat smell of buttermilk pancakes. "Somethings cooking." He said, startling the cooks who happened to be Ahsoka and Rally. "Guess you're a good cook as well Ahsoka." He yawned, putting on one of the pairs of sweatpants he had packed for the mission.
"I learned a few things from your Aunts and Uncles. Always thought it would help if I was on a lengthy assignment after the war. Guess I didn't see it happening sooner." The Togruta said sadly, flipping up the pancake she had in the skillet and having it land on the plate the others were stacked on.
"If it makes you feel any better, I pin the blame on the whole situation on Mace and several other council members for breaking your trust in them. Seriously, they never even tried to stand up for you. All they did was just sit by and watch while you were almost executed for something you didn't do, not to mention they wanted you to forget about the feelings we have for each other. They really are so attached to the code. Hell, the Jedi Order before them allowed attachments and Jedi to fall in love, that's proff that love isn't a tool of the darkside." Robert stated.
"If you ask me," Rally said as she put down a plate of pancakes. "The only ones who stood by you were Obi-Wan, Yoda, Plo-Koon and Shaak Ti. They belived you since you had a great teacher. Skywalker really taught you well." She added, spreading a bit of butter on her stack of hot-cakes as the others came into the room.
"I knew I smelled something good." Marie said, pulling up a chair and joining the others. "Oh, I love pancakes." She added, smearing a good amount of butter on her own stack before pouring syrup on her stack and was about to cut her stack when Robert noticed that Kasumi wasn't with them. "Isn't Kasumi up yet? If she doesn't get up soon, she'll miss breakfast." Robert asked.
"She's probably still checking out that code cylinder she picked up yesterday. She seems to think it's the location of the weapons cache or a clue to what the separatists are up too." Hitomi answered.
"I know, when she gets wrapped up in something she never gives up. Still, she has been gone for a while now and I'm starting to get worried." Rally said worriedly.
Her concern grew larger and larger as the day went on. By the time dusk came, Kasumi still hadn't returned, and it was starting to put everyone on edge, Rally and Robert especially. "She should have been back by now. No one's seen her since we woke up and she hasn't answered her commlink. I've got a bad feeling about this." Rally said pacing back and forth for the last thrity minutes.
"Not even Lux and Steela have seen her. It's not like her to just disappear without letting anyone of us know first." Ahsoka added.
"I think I know why," Hitomi said with alarm as she entered the room. "The code cylinder she found, it contained the coordinates and codes to a facility out in the northern desert. She must have thought that she could get more done on her own and left before we got up." She added.
"Damn. I told her that if any of us find anything to tell the others. Going it alone is a good way to get themselves killed. Alright, Rally, Ahsoka and I will go and find Kasumi. The rest of you stay here. If all of us are seen leaving it may cause Tarkin and the resort guards to realize we're not who we say we are." Robert instructed.
"If you're going out into the desert, you're going to have to be incognito. Stealth gear is the go-to equipment for this mission. Silenced weapons are needed as well and you're going to need this." Honoka said, brining up two of the suitcases from the ship opening them and revealing a compound bow, crossbow and over twenty-five arrows. "I modified these old boys to work only to our signature. Anyone else tries to use them, they get zapped with a lot of electricity." The Salmon haired Japanese girl said.
"Nice." Robert said and entered the refresher to change into his stealth gear. Minutes later he exited the refresher and found Ahsoka wearing the same gear she wore on Onderon. The only difference was that she was now wearing a balaclava and a forehead protector over her mask, covering her Lekku.
They were soon joined by Rally who was wearing a white-and-black shinobi-shozoku with a gold pattern, a skin-tight white jumpsuit with mirror underneath her shozoku, black armor boots, a metal headband, hood and mask over her face. (A/N Lisa Hamiltons getup from Dead or alive combined with Ryu Hayabusa's outfit.)
The moonlight shined on them as the two earth natives loaded up their weapons. Rally had her usual CZ-75's but also opted for the ACC Honey Badger assault rifle, which she equipped with a longer barrel, red dot sight a forty-five-round magazine and chambered to fire .300 AAC Blackout rounds.
For Robert, the P99 he brought was secured in his shoulder holster attached with a silencer. Slung over his shoulder was an AK-12 5.45mm assault rifle equipped with an ACOG scope, silencer and sixty-round-magazine. In his hands was the compound bow Honoka had made.
For Ahsoka, she finished equipping her AK-9 with a forty-round-magazine which already was modified with a suppressor and reflex sight. Slung over her back was a Daewoo K7 submachine gun with a holographic sight. She then picked up the crossbow and handed it to Rally.
"Big moon tonight. When my mom and where in Italy, I saw a moon that big. You know what they call a moon that big?" Robert asked Ahsoka. His girlfriend shook her head. "La Luna Del Cacciatore. Hunters Moon. Tonights is going to be a night for hunters." He added.
A while later, the three were in a speeder they rented and headed for the last known location of Rally's girlfriend.
Rally's Point of View
It's not like Kasumi to just leave without an explanation. I know her all to well. If it were something important, she would have told the rest of us, but what if it was so important that it couldn't wait until morning then I could understand not telling the others, but she should have told me. After all, I am her girldfriend.
Still, I trusted her but that doesn't mean I'm not concerned about her.
The open desert proved a problem for our scanners. In the five minutes we were here, Kasumi's last known location kept fading in and out with each passing second and to make matters worse, a sandstorm was coming in fast. I figure about three minutes or less.
"We'll find her. I know it." Ahsoka assured me.
"I know, but that doesn't mean I'm worried about her." I reminded the Togruta.
"Her gauntlets singal is strong. She's nearby." Robert shouted, stopping the speeder and vaulted out. He then found Kasumi's gauntlet. "She was here alright. This is her gauntlet, but where is she?" her asked aloud.
"Hey, does that look like a jungle to you guys?" I asked, pointing to a massive jungle in the distance. "It's a jungle alright, looks like these guys are trying to get rid of the desert and turn this place into more of a tourist desitantion." Robert hypothesized.
"Getting rid of the desert or not, it looks like there are some tracks heading into the jungle. Might be Kasumi." Ahsoka suggested. "I got to agree with Ahsoka, we better go check it out." I said in agreement and hopped into the speeder. The others followed and in just a few seconds, the jungle came closer and closer.
"Jungle's to dense. We'll have to go in on foot. Don't use your guns unless necessary. Blades and arrows only." Robert ordered. Ahsoka and I nodded, and we holstered our guns and took our knives and the crossbow. Both the crossbow and standard were modified to fire improved arrows which can penetrate light and medium body armor, in theory. Aside from the fact they could only be used by those who signatures were imprinted into the weapons computer. Honoka even mentioned that she was working on making special kind of arrows to be used against droids and for non-lethal take downs.
These weapons along with gadgets she made really surprised us. I knew she was a fan of spy movies, but I didn't think she would be able to build such equipment no one thought to be useful in real life. Then again, the technology in this galaxy was like something out of Star Trek, Mass Effect or even RWBY. I don't anyone would believe us unless we have proof.
Still, I doubt anyone would take us seriously. Earth was in quite a mess, countries all over the world were reducing the size of their militaries and cutting funding on other infustructures. Medical, transportation, education and other parts. Most of the countries around earth were making cutbacks on these departments. The only countries that weren't following this trend were England, France, Germany, Canada and Japan.
As if that wasn't bad enough, terrorism was at an all time high with the recent attacks with the compound known as the Green Poison which killed hundreds of innocent people who just wanted to live normal lives. Many of the recent bounties I took involved going after people who managed to get their hands on the chemical weapon and were planning on selling it to terrorist cells in the states. Lucky for me I stopped them before they could even sell the weapon and turned the chemical over to the government. Even still, no one could identify the compounds of the weapon and its origin was a complete mystery to everyone. Not even the top chemical engineers and scientists in the world could identify it.
Something about the whole thing just didn't add up. No way terrorists could get their hands on such a powerful weapon without the help of a middle man. But that would have to wait, as of now Kasumi was the priority.
We must have gone several feet into the jungle before it started to rain. While it rains very little in the desert, it looked like the whole place was getting watered from a very impressive aqua system that was built. As the rain poured down, Robert held up his hand and we stopped in our tracks. He then motioned for us to take cover behind a pair of boulders. "What's up?" I asked my friend before he held up his finger to my lips.
"So, then I said, 'tail-heads make for a good time. But the really tasty treat are the striped horns.' I tell you, all those babes in the camp are so hot. I can barely keep my pants on with all those hotties." A voice said from behind the boulder.
"You say that about every hot alien girl you say. Personally, those non-humans are fit for pleasing us humans as pleasurable company or are useful as slaves. You wouldn't catch me having fun with a bug girl." Another voice said.
The voices became louder as a pair of Canto Bight police officers walked past us. These guys were armed with heavier firepower, in this case DC-15s blaster carbines. Sounds like they were talking about their preference when it comes what kind of alien women they would want to play with in bed and their hatred of non-humans. That stuff makes me sick.
I was about to move in and take them down when Robert beat me to it. Taking the bow, he pulled the string back and let his first arrow loose. The arrow pierced the officer's chest plate killing him instantly and caused the second officer to scan the tree tops with fear before he rushed in, disarmed the enemy and grabbed him by the the throat.
"What's all this about a camp and non-human's?" he asked with a dangerous tone.
"I'm not telling you anything." The officer spat, spitting right into Roberts masked face.
Robert looked towards me and grinned. I knew what he had in store. I took over the interrogation and broke the officer's hand. The guard screamed in pain, but the pouring rain hid the scream. "Not going to ask again asshole. Tell us about the camp or I will break your other hand and then your legs." I threatened.
"I won't tell you anything. You might as well just kill me and get it over with." The officer spat to me. I grinned and broke the officers left leg. The officer screamed again. "We can do this all night, got plenty of limbs left." I reminded the officer.
"Or you can give us what we want, and you can live." Robert added.
"Alright. The jungle is being used as cover for a massive camp holding countless non-humans to be sold to the separatists. They need a work force to complete a massive project they have been working on since the war began. I don't know what it is." The guard said in pain.
"Anything else?" I asked.
"Yeah. We caught a girl snopping around the place last night. Didn't recognize her and she wasn't armed either, but she was good looking. Gotta say, she would definatly be good company in bed." The guard said.
That pissed me off. Without a second thought, I grabbed the guys jewels and squeezed them hard. "Is that all you can think about? How hot a girl is and what you can do in the bed with them? Get a hobby bastard." I growled and squeezed harder.
The guards face nearly turned tomato red and so wanted to rip his manhood off, but Robert stopped me. "Tell us where the camp is, and we'll let you live. I give you my word." He assured the guard and getting me to loosen my grip on the bastards ballsack.
"The camps three clicks from here by foot. We keep it camoflauged, so no one get suspicious. That's all I know." The guard said, clutching his jewels with his unbroken hand in pain.
"You've given us what we want, get off world and never comeback here again. You seem like a nice guy despite your fetish. Live your life to the fullest and make something of yourself." Robert said, helping the guard to his feet and wrapping the guards broken arm.
The guard didn't look back and ran out of the jungle as fast as he could. "We should have killed him. He may not know who we are, but he could tell the rest of the guards about a couple of intruders." I asked.
"I could sense he was only saying those things because of he wanted to fit in with the rest of these bastards. Besides, he kept thinking of his mother." Robert stated with a chuckle.
I held the urge to facepalm myself and turned back to my friends who were moving the dead body into a well-hidden place. "It might be a while before the other officers find the body. We need to move quickly, more of them may be on our way." Robert reminded and leapt into the trees with Ahsoka, pulling me up with the Force.
For the two lovers, it was easy for them to jump from branch to branch with the Force. For me, I had to keep firing my grappling gun each time I landed on the next branch. Thanfully, Robert and Ahsoka waited for me when ever they got ahead.
As we leapt from branch to branch, we evaded patrol after patrol of battle droids and Canto officers. Each one more armed then the last. Looked like they were searching for intruders and were given shoot to kill orders. Good thing they couldn't track their fellow guards, right?
"There's the camp." Robert said snapping my thoughts back to reality. When I saw the camp, I felt like I was staring at a Nazi POW camp. The whole place was guarded by razor wire fences which looked like were rigged with an electrical system designed to shock anyone who tried to escape, probably designed to kill the enemy.
Security towers lined up the sides of the camp, each one sporting two double-barreled repeating blaster turrets to eliminate anyone who tried to attack the camp or kill the prisoners if they rebelled. The interior of the camp was dotted with several small hobbles where the prisoners were kept. The main thing that stood out, was the large command center in the rear of the camp, no doubt the where the guards and the man in charge of the camp stayed durning the night.
I took out my binoculars and scanned the camp. The guard's intel was good, the whole camp was filled with non-human species. Twi'lek's, Togruta's, Rodian's and Gran's were among them. Even near-human species like Pantoran's, Mirialans and Chiss were among the captives.
Scanning the camp with my binoculars I soon caught sight of Kasumi. She was battered, beaten and being led inside the command center by two guards who had devious grins on their faces. My blood began to boil, and I was prepared to rush the camp single handedly but Ahsoka stopped me, putting a hand on my shoulder. "If we move in now then she and the other captives will be slaughtered. I know you're concerned about her, but we need to approach this with a calm head." She said assuringly.
As much as I wanted to protest, I knew Ahsoka was right. If we didn't come up with a plan then everyone would die, Kasumi included.
"Let's circle around the camp. Might be a back entrance we can use to slip by them." Robert said putting away his binoculars and jumped up into the tree's again. Ahsoka quickly followed him and I followed suit as well with my grappling gun.
Normal point of view
As Robert thought, the back area of the camp was lightly guarded by a few guards and a couple of security droids. "I knew there would be less guards at the rear of the camp. They always have less guards in the rear." The Lone Wolf said with relief.
"So, you were right. Doesn't matter, lets take em." Rally quipped and snapped her Honey Badger to her shoulder and was about to pull the trigger until Ahsoka pushed her rifle down.
"If you take out one of those guards the others will be put on full alert. Even with suppressors we can't just rush in like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. We need to think about this." The Togruta reminded the Indian-American girl.
"I can't just stand by and wait. That's my girlfriend in there." Rally reminded Ahsoka.
"I have to agree with Rally. We have to get Kasumi out of there, but at the same time Ahsoka is right. Unless we have a plan the captives and our friend will be killed. You don't want all that blood on your hands now, do you Rally?" Robert asked.
Rally then lowered her rifle and hunkered down before turning back to face her friend. "Then what do you purpose we do?" she asked back.
"I say we pull a Rambo on them. I take out the guards in your way silently and clear a path. From there, we can get inside the camp, free both Kasumi, the prisoners and find out what the separatists want with all these people." Robert said.
Ahsoka and Rally nodded in agreement and moved into position while Robert pulled out a personal commlink and contacted Satine. While Mandalore was undergoing a long restoration after the brief Civil War, Satine was more than willing to help out those that were affected by the war. Even the Nite Owls supported Satine's decision in assisting the Dragoons in certain matters so long as it wasn't directly involved in the war.
Once the call had been sent, Robert moved behind a thin wall of branches as a small squad of guards were returning from patrol. Letting the first couple of guards pass him, he grabbed the last guard and choked him, knocking him out instead of killing the poor guy.
Moving quickly to another tree, he spotted a guard on sniper duty in one of the nearby trees. Taking a single arrow, he pulled back the string, lined up the shot and fired. A single arrow pierced the guard's body and caused him to fall to ground. He then reached out with the force, caught the body and lowered it silently in one of the nearby bushes.
With Ahsoka and Rally close behind him, Robert moved quickly forward and took out two more guards before backing himself into a nearby wall of mud. He waited until a guard came over to his location no doubt looking for his comrades that failed to return. In a second, Robert shot out of the mud and stabbed the guard with his knife before moving towards the rear entrance.
Taking out one of the electro arrows he had, Robert lined up a shot and launched a single arrow towards the center of a group of droids. Once the arrow hit the ground, a small electromagnetic shockwave erupted from the arrow, disabling both the droids and any surveillance camera's in the area.
"Clear, let's go." Robert said silently and motioned the other two towards him.
Hugging the wall behind the camp, the two girls waited as Robert climbed up the wall grabbed a guard standing above them and pulled said guard down and over the side, killing him. They climbed up after him and activated their stealth generators and moved along the perimeter of the camp, taking down any guards they came across with either lethal or non-lethal takedowns.
By the time they regrouped and got down to ground level, they then headed for the command center. When they were close enough, Rally heard Kasumi screaming in pain and the sound of electricity crackling. "The bastards torturing her." She cursed and broke cover.
"Free the prisoners, I'll go after Rally. Nite Owls will be here soon to get these folks out of here." Robert said turning to his girlfriend who nodded and went to work freeing the prisoners.
Heading after his friend, Robert entered the command center and finding a few bodies og guards and droids riddled with bullet holes and spent casings of .300AAC rounds on the floor. Following the trail of bodies, Robert found Rally beating the head guard senseless in a cell that Kasumi was in. His other friend battered, beaten, semi-naked and secured to a pole in the middle of the cell.
"I think he's had enough." Robert said to Rally. But Rally just ignored her and continued to beat the guard senseless, knocking a few teeth out and causing the guard to bleed. "I SAID THAT'S ENOUGH!" Robert shouted, grabbed Rally by the shoulder and slamed her against the wall.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? Sure, your girl was injuried but does beating this bastard make up for it.?" Robert asked.
"That bastard deserves to die. He just admitted that this wasn't the first group of people he sold to some slave owning motherfuckers and this is all sanctioned by that horn headed bastard." Rally spat. Robert tighted his grip on Rally's shoulder.
"They will get whats coming and this isn't the way. But we have no choice now." Robert said and let go of his friends' shoulder. He went over to Kasumi, undid her binders and grabbed nearby blanket which he gave to Kasumi as Rally put a bullet in the guard's head. "Think before you consider this kind of action again. I don't want you getting killed and neither does your girlfriend." Robert added.
Rally was about to answer when a droid appeared from behind and nearly raised the alarm before Robert downed the droid with a burst 5.45mm rounds into the droid. More droids followed by a pair of guards and they to were gunned down by Roberts AK12.
He used an entire magazine and just walked over to Ahsoka who had joined them after she confirmed that the prisoners were free and communications were severed. Sadly, a large force of guards that were on patrol had just returned and were demanding they be let into the camp.
What they got was a surprise. When they tried again to get a response, they were treated to a barrage of .300AAC, 5.45x39mm and 9x39mm rifle fire killing the entire patrol just as Nite-Owl ships arrived and began to load the former prisoners onto the transports.
In total, nearly three hundred people were rescued from the camp, but data from the terminal's in the camp indicated that about five hundred other non-humans were already sold off to slavery and their location was unknown.
Nevertheless, the camp was put out of commission and much to Rally's pleasure destroyed along with the remains of the guards and droids when she overloaded the camps generator and threw a few grenades given to her by one of the Nite-Owls.
By the time they were heading back to the city, Kasumi explained that she didn't tell anyone where she was going because she wanted to minimize the possibility of the prisoners being killed if they were detected. Unfortunately, she was caught after she finshed taking a leak and the guards tortured her to find out who she was working for. Thankfully, she didn't say anything so the groups cover was still intact.
Once they returned to the city, Kasumi took a quick shower and had Hitomi look over her wounds. Thankfully, they weren't life threatening and she would recover. So, she was ordered to get some much-needed rest until she was fully healed.
As the others crawled into bed, Robert and Ahsoka sat at the table. "Seems the separatists need a lot manpower for some kind of project. Question is what is it they are building and what does it mean?" Robert asked.
"I don't know. But it must be a very big project if they are willing to go into slave dealing. I thought they finished with that after Zygerria." Ahsoka added.
"Well what ever it is, the Republic will be alerted once we send them this intel." Robert replied before he yawned.
"Ah, don't tell me my hunter is ready to fall asleep?" Ahsoka asked in a teasing manner.
Robert smirked and the two made love as the moon shown bright on them.
I am sorry for the long wait on this chapter. I went back to working on my Mobile Suit RWBY story before I came back to this and was a little caught up in playing The Division 2 and other games like Red Dead Redemption 2.
Hopefully my next chapter won't be so short or take as long to upload. If you have an idea for the next chapter, leave your idea in your review and I will see what I can do. Until next time please read, review and as always, may the Force be with you.
HOW MANY OF YOU ARE CONSIDERING SEEING DETECTIVE PIKACHU!? IT LOOKS SO FUNNY!