Next chapter posted! Guest starring Salacious B. crumb, the annoying Kowakian Monkey-lizard!
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Latts and Dengar chased the creepy man into the depths of Jabba's Palace. For a guy who was older than them and didn't look even half as athletic as them, he was staying pretty far ahead of them.
"Who the heck is this guy?" Latts asked, panting.
"I have no clue." Dengar stated. Latts decided to try a new tactic.
"Stop! Hey, you, STOP!" She yelled.
"Not on your life sweetheart!" The man yelled from up ahead. He didn't even sound out of breath.
They continued chasing him for another couple of minutes. They didn't know how much longer they could keep this up. Soon, though their luck changed and they came to a dead end. The man looked around, furiously trying to find any way of escape.
"End of the line, buster." Dengar stated, sounding out of breath as he leveled his gun at the man.
"Heh, that's what you'd like to think, pretty boy." The man chuckled.
"Put any weapons you have on the ground and put your hands, and any other limbs, where we can see them." Latts ordered, looking down the barrel of her gun at the man.
"Now why would I do a stupid thing like that?" The man laughed, starting to walk closer the bounty hunters.
"Stop where you are." Dengar stated. The man continued striding towards them. Latts fired a warning shot that grazed the side of the man's head, singeing his hair.
"What's wrong, girlie? Can't shoot straight?" He mocked, pulling out his blaster. Dengar mentally decided that this guy had no intention of surrender, so he dropped to the ground, sweeping the man's legs out from under him. The man tried to crawl to where he dropped his blaster on the ground. Latts kicked it away from him.
Dengar stood up and pointed his blaster back down at the guy. Latts joined him after picking up the man's blaster.
"There is no point in trying to resist now." Latts growled.
"Oh, yes there is!" The man said jumping up. He tackled Latts to the ground, causing her to drop both blasters. Dengar didn't know if he should shoot the guy or not because it could accidentally hit Latts. Finally Latts got the upper hand , pinning the man to the ground.
"What were you trying to do?" Latts asked.
"Not everyone likes Jabba the Hutt. I was hired to get rid of him." The man laughed. Latts was annoyed by this guy's cockiness even though he had already lost.
"Looks like we don't need you anymore, then." Dengar stated, shooting the man. Latts jumped back, surprised. She hadn't expected him to try to shoot the guy while she was still on top of him, pinning him down.
"What was that for?" Latts asked.
"Sorry, I didn't really want to put up with any more crap, though." Dengar said helping her up.
"Well, we better go tell Jabba."
Sugi growled as the crowd started to get more like that of an under level club on Coruscant. There was plenty of drinking, girls in skimpy outfits, and other monstrosities that she dared not think of. She had been to Jabba's palace before, so it's not like it was a surprise or anything. She rolled her eyes as a drunken Nautolan staggered up to her.
"Hey there babe. You got plans tonight?" He slurred.
"Not with you." Sugi muttered, giving him a push with her pointer finger, causing him to fall over.
"Nice." Embo said, coming up beside her.
"What do you mean?" Sugi asked, smirking.
"You didn't go all angry-knife-Sugi on the guy." Embo chuckled.
"Eh, didn't think Jabba would've appreciated it." She shrugged. Embo shook his head.
Just then, Latts and Dengar walked into the room, dragging something after them. They made their way over to Jabba, the room quieting down.
"What is it, bounty hunters?" Jabba boomed.
"We found the assassin. And killed him." Dengar said.
"Did you get any information out of him before you killed him?" Jabba asked, eyes narrowing. Latts gulped, realizing they were walking the line between life and death.
"We tried, but he wouldn't say." Dengar said.
"Well, at least you got rid of him." Jabba laughed loudly. Salacious Crumb, Jabba's pet Kowakian monkey-lizard, broke out into fits of highly annoying laughter. Latts was tempted to shoot the thing, had she not been standing over the trap door for the Rancor pit.
Bib Fortuna took the assassin from them to investigate further. Latts and Dengar walked over to where Sugi and Embo were standing.
"Looks like you two had some fun." Sugi smirked.
"If you call hours of Dengar's bad joke-athon fun." Latts laughed.
"Did you guys have any trouble up here?" Dengar asked.
"Other than drunks trying to seduce Sugi, no." Embo said with a small laugh. Sugi jokingly elbowed him.
"What happened?" Latts asked, cocking an eyebrow at her friend.
"Nothing out of the ordinary for a female in Jabba's palace." Sugi stated.
"So you said you wanted to have a talk with Bib?" Embo asked his partner.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot." She said.
After asking Jabba's protocol droid where he was, they went off to go find Bib Fortuna.
They walked down a long flight of stairs, led by the orange glow of torches along the way. Once at the bottom, they looked around. There were various tables with hand cuff attached to the top. The room looked like it was primarily used for torture and other strange hobbies. At one table, they saw Bib standing over the body they had just given him. They walked over and discovered what he was doing.
"You're taking his stuff?" Latts asked.
"To see if there are any clues along with them. Besides, he's dead, he won't be needing them anymore." Bib said giving the group a toothy smile. "Which brings me to the question of what are YOU all doing down here?"
"We came to ask you about our job." Sugi said.
"And what, my dear Sugi, would you like to know?" Bib asked, looking up at her from is work with a sketchy smile.
"We want to quit." She stated.
"WHAT!?" He yelled, surprised.
"I just said-"
"I know what you just said." Bib huffed. "You can't quit. Not now."
"Why not?" Latts asked, placing her hands on her hips.
"Jabba has a new 'mission', if you will, for you all." Bib explained.
"What is it?" Dengar asked.
"Guarding the Hutt council at their next meeting on Nal Hutta." Bib smiled.
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