Tyken led them through the crowd to a table in a darkened corner, there sat a rather large fury alien that Jiri had never seen before. It looked rather fearsome and Jiri couldn't help but stare. Suddenly the alien roared at him and Jiri jumped back. 'Whats the matter? Never seen a wookie before?', the voice came from beside the wookie, a very attractive girl. She was gorgeous, long blonde hair tied in a pony tail, thick lips, and a very attractive figure. Jiri couldn't remember the last time he saw a woman who was this pretty, when suddenly he was hit with a wave of anxiety, he could sense he was blushing 'err… hi' Jiri managed to stutter out. The girl looked at Jiri, then at Tyken 'He's with you? The kid is green, a liability'. Tyken spoke 'Indeed he is with me, but please, understand that we are not interested in drawing attention to ourselves, so if you would please let us get to business'. Jiri took a seat, he was entranced, he had to snap himself out of it quick so he could follow the conversation.

The girl spoke 'hey, look we'd love to help out from the goodness of our heart, we really would. But unfortunately for you guys the goodness in our hearts has all but spent by the universe at large, so Roruk and I need something a little more… money, payment, upfront'.

Tyken replied 'neither of us have credits on our person, we will give payment once we reach our destination'.

'Your destination right… where was that again?'

'Planet Spirious'

Jiri's eyebrows raised at this, they had not discussed where they were going after reaching space port Livingstone. Why does Tyken want to go there?

The girl spoke again, 'Do you take me for an idiot? Planet Spirios is a wasteland, would you have me believe that you have money buried there or something?'

Tyken replied 'You will have to trust us'

'Trust is for fools and dead people, since I am neither of those things you will simply have to find yourself another sucker, Roruk and I have bigger fish to fry, and flying people around the galaxy for charity isn't part of what we do'

Jiri's curiosity piqued 'so what do you do?'.

The whole table looked at him disbelievingly. The girl faced Tyken again, 'you hear what that kid of yours just asked me? He's going to get you killed, you'd be better off ditching him'.

Jiri glanced over at Tyken and caught his reaction, his face hung low, swallowed with remorse. 'I owe him my life, and… so much more. I cannot abandon him'.

Jiri noticed Tyken's expression change to a more serious one. He saw Tyken locking eyes with the woman, he leaned forward keeping his eye contact, he begun to speak slowly, gesturing with his hand as he did so 'you will take us to planet Spirios'. The girl stared at Tyken for a few moments, she didn't move. Without warning, she pulled her pistol out as her wookie companion did the same, Suddenly Tyken and Jiri were looking down the barrel of a pistol and bow-caster.

'Did… did you just try to Jedi mind trick me? That… felt weird' she raised the pistol towards Tyken's head, her face had a deathly serious look on it. 'I've shot people for less than that', Jiri gulped, being shot dead in a dive at a backwater spaceport was not how he saw himself getting killed, and he was sure that he and his partner were dead, but before anyone could react further, they were interrupted by a bellowing voice.

'Everyone, your attention please!' a massive fat human climbed on top of a table as his voice boomed across the canteena, silencing everyone. 'We do not wish to take up too much of your time', Jiri noticed as he said this that there were troopers gathering behind the man, scanning the bar's patrons. 'We have been told that a pair of fugitives that arrived at this space port recently had been seen here, give yourselves up now and come quietly and no one will be harmed'. Jiri sunk into his seat, hoping to not be seen. Tyken pulled his robe over his head.

Suddenly the mans huge fat fist pointed towards their table – 'A ha! There you both are!'. Jiri felt his heart sink, there were too many of them to take on, they had been caught. But before he could react, the female stood, the wookie did the same, 'Hi Greggus, you finally caught up with us huh? How's the wife and kids?'.

The man boomed back 'Plex and Roruk! The price I will get for you two will be massive! You have a death sentence on eleven systems!'

Plex retorted 'twelve actually. Counting never was your best skill, so how can you be so sure that the reward will be massive if you can't count that high?'.

Greggus bellowed back 'this is one fight your sharp tongue isn't going to get you out of! Boys, get em!'

As the troopers opened fire with laser rifles, the bars patrons begun to scatter, running in all directions. Roruk flipped the table they were on to create some cover as Plex leaped behind it. Jiri wanted to put as much distance between himself and this fight as possible so jumped into an adjacent booth, Tyken followed closely, vaulting over the leather seats.

They watched as the pair were pinned under heavy laser fire, Jiri knew it was only a matter of time before they were flanked, he thought quickly, and realized that this was something they could take advantage of. He called out 'if you want our help fighting these guys, agree to take us to the planet'. 'What?' the girl called out in disbelief, 'your kidding me! there's no way I'm giving you a ride for free!'. A laser ricochet hit the table right near her head, causing her to flinch. She tried to get up to return fire, but there was too much incoming laser fire. Roruk was also pinned, he roared in anger.

'It isn't free, your hiring us as muscle, in return you take us to the planet as payment, sounds like a fair trade to me' Jiri added, 'of course you could die here in this canteena and we could find another ride'.

Plex looked angrily towards Jiri, but the angry expression turned to a defeated one as she realized that she had little choice. She conceded 'fine, your hired, now make yourselves useful and get some of this fire off us'.

Jiri snapped a clip into his rifle as Tyken took the light-saber from his belt. Jiri remarked 'I hope you know how to use that thing dude'. Tyken replied 'I shall rush directly at their flank, this will draw a lot of their fire, provide cover for me'. Without waiting for a response, Tyken rushed from his cover spot and drew his light-saber, running at the troopers flank with blinding speed. The troopers were startled, but quickly turned to fire at the rapidly incoming Tyken. Jiri emerged from his cover and set his rifle up on the seat in front of him, sights lined up on the nearest target. He opened fire, the trooper was flung backwards as the explosive shot hit him square in the chest. Plex and Roruk were quick to notice the suppressing fire subside, they emerged from their cover and begun to open fire. Plex's initial shot hitting one of the troopers directly in the head, he toppled to the floor instantly. Greggus anger turned to confusion, he begun to sweat and his shouting became desperate, 'kill them! Kill them all!' as he pulled out a laser pistol of his own and fired. Jiri was struck in the arm by one of these shots, 'ahh!' he shouted as the sting of pain jolted him, it burned like fire, his face wrenched into a grimace of agony. He tried to pick up his gun, but he couldn't, his arm was useless for the moment, only his left hand, his weak hand, was available. If he had a pistol he might be able to continue the fight, but his rifle was too large to handle with one arm.

Tyken reached the first trooper, light-saber drawn, it flashed through the air and through the chest of the trooper, cutting him down as his body fell lifelessly to the ground. Greggus's voice boomed through the air again 'A light-saber! Kill this guy now! Get the girl, stop being so damn useless you scum!'. Perhaps out of fear of their boss, several of the troopers rushed to the position of Plex and Roruk, guns firing all the while. Plex and Roruk kept their heads down to avoid the fire, but then the troopers were on them, they jumped the table and started throwing punches and kicks. Jiri quickly jumped his seat to join the melee. Bodies smashed together as a flurry of kicks and punches flew in all directions, it was difficult to tell who was striking who. Suddenly with a mighty roar, Roruk burst forth with his wookie strength and sent troopers flying into tables and walls.

Plex recovered quickly, clearly this wasn't the first time she and her companion had been in a fist fight. She saw Tyken strike down another trooper with a skillful swing of his light-saber but a trooper was poised to shoot him in the back. She didn't hesitate, her pistol shot was fast and accurate, the trooper fell to the floor. That was the last of them, they had all been taken out, aside from Greggus himself. Greggus turned white, he stumbled as he ran for the doorway out of the canteena. Just as he neared the door it swung closed in his face. Greggus turned to see Tyken's outstretched hand using his force abilities.

Plex and Roruk strided towards Greggus, Roruk grabbed him by the throat, lifting him high into the air against the closed door. Jiri was totally amazed by this, he had heard about the strength of wookies, but this Greggus was a very fat man, and Roruk seemed to have no problems lifting him. Plex begun to speak, 'this just isn't your day is it Greggus?'. She begun to rifle through the fat man's pockets, she took her hand out with a fat wad of credits. 'Knock him out Roruk, and seriously Greggus, if we catch you trying to collect our bounty again I'll let Roruk rip your arms off, it's been a while for him and he's dying to do it to someone'. Roruk took away one of his hands, wound up and delivered a punch that landed so hard that it sent Greggus flying through the door, shattering it into splinters and sending the big man crashing to the ground. He skidded across the smooth ground for a few feet before coming to a stop.

Plex smiled 'Nice punch! I guess all that practice paid off huh?', Roruk gave a friendly growl. At least it seemed friendly to Jiri, he couldn't understand the wookie, but Plex and Roruk seemed to be able to read each other so well, it was almost uncanny.

Suddenly alarms sounded, lights were flashing and an announcer begun to speak over the system, 'attention residents of Livingston station, a fight has broken out at the station canteena, several known fugitives are there and must be brought forth before station security, if you encounter these individuals you are to bar their way or terminate them if necessary, repeat, attention residents-'.

Plex looked around confused, 'Oh this isn't good, what is going on? It was a bar fight, it happens here all the time! This is more heat than we…' she stopped mid sentence and looked at Jiri and Tyken, realization seemed to dawn on her face, 'so you don't want to draw attention to yourselves huh?'.

Jiri stepped forward, 'your ship, we need to get to it as fast as possible, the longer we wait, the harder it will be to get off the station'.

Plex hesitated, it seemed she was considering if she should take her two new acquaintances with her or not. She suddenly called out 'Follow me' as she bolted down the corridor. Jiri and Tyken followed as best as they could, but this girl was fast, Jiri wasn't sure he'd be able to keep this kind of pace going for very long. Fortunately for him, they reached the hanger that housed her ship. It wasn't a very impressive ship to Jiri It looked like a cargo freighter of some kind, but if it had a hyper-drive it was better than what they had before.

Plex rushed onto the ship calling behind her as she climbed the ramp, 'Roruk, prep hyper-drive, you two get on board and grab onto something, I might need to get creative here'. Jiri, Tyken and Roruk followed Plex up the ramp as troopers and security staff begun to fill the hanger. The PA system flooded the hanger with noise, 'Stand down immediately, you do not have clearance for take off – we will open fire if you do not comply, stand down!'.

The hanger doors begun to close as Plex jumped into the drivers seat, she grabbed the coms of the ship to send a message to the passengers 'hold on folks, this is going to be a very quick take off'. The ships entry ramp hadn't even finished closing before the ship took to the air. As soon as the helm of the ship lined up with the exit, Plex hit full impulse, the sudden speed pushing her back into her seat. The ship flew towards the rapidly closing hanger doors, were they going to make it? The ship just made it out before the hanger door fully closed, the back of the ship skimming the door on the way out. Plex heard and roar over the coms, her co-pilot had made the adjustments for hyper-drive. 'Thanks Roruk, we're punching it now ladies, hold onto something!'.

Plex pushed a lever, the stars on the windshield became streaks in the sky, and the ship's almost instantaneous boost of speed sending it far and away into space, beyond the reach of all. For the moment...