Chapter Nine
Complications.
Ezra's POV.
"Who knew you could kiss like that?" I ask still surprised at the fact that she would make out with me at all let alone in the middle of the mission. And that she was good at it.
"Out of the people in this room. No one." Sabine says smirking while checking to see if the windows will open up enough for us to get out. "Well look's like we are going to need to cut the glass."
"I got that covered." I say patting my lightsabre.
"Good. You cut the glass and I'll grab the grappling hooks. We want to spend as little time as possible in there." Sabine says putting her helmet on.
"Okay." I say igniting the my blade and cutting a large circle in the glass overlooking the hospital. I finish the circle and use the force to pull the glass in and set it down. Gently to prevent it from breaking.
"Alright grappling hooks?" I ask looking down.
"Yup." Sabine says holding one out for me. I take it and we both fire the hooks latching them on to the roof.
"Good?" I ask while tugging on my line.
"Yup let's do this." Sabine says before jumping up kicking her legs forward and swinging across the gap. I smile before copying her. She crashes through the window landing gracefully as I flying in beside here. I land stumbling forward. I crash into a random cart banging my head and landing beside it.
"Ow." I grumble under my breath rubbing the growing bump on it.
"You okay?" Sabine asks looking down the hallway seeing no one.
"I'm fine." I say getting up and grabbing my lightsabre off of the floor. Sabine looks at the doors.
"Alright we're on the nineteenth floor. We need to find an inventory list or a data pad."
A door opens.
"What the hell?" A voice yells out.
"Don't move." Sabine says pointing a blaster at a the startled nurse coming out of a room.
"I-who are you?" She asks looking scared.
"We need some meds for some friends of ours and we thought the Empire would be kind enough to give them to us. Now you wouldn't happen to know where an inventory list is?" I ask trying to smile nicely.
"Rebels." She says frowning.
"Smart one she is. Now that list please. We would rather not hurt you." Sabine says walking closer to the nurse.
"I-I can't give it to you. They'll put me in prison for it." The nurse says nervously.
"Well you can't give it to us but you can tell us where to get it." I say grabbing my lightsabre.
"I-Why do you need the meds?" She asks backing into the room she had just came out of.
"Like we said our friends need these meds and since the Empire was the one to cause those injuries we will need the Empire's meds to treat them." I say frowning and following her into the room.
"Maybe if you just accepted that the Empire is in power then your friends wouldn't be injured." The nurse says backing further into the room.
"Living a life of slavery is no life at all. We would rather fight then watch the Empire trample over everyone who doesn't completely go along with them." Sabine says waiting at the door.
"Well maybe the Empire isn't perfect but that's no reason to rebel. The Republic didn't cater to everyone either." The nurse says grabbing a scalpel from a table.
"I might have believed that at one time but I watched the Empire slaughter thousands for no reason other then they wanted to strip the planet for resources the race living there didn't want them to." Sabine says practically growling at her.
"I watched the Empire take my parents away just for speaking out and left a seven year old boy to live on the streets. They didn't even bother to take me to an imperial orphanage." I say angrily.
"Oh and what did they do to get arrested?" The nurse asks fearfully.
"They disagreed with the Empire taking farmland from farmers who didn't want to sell and arresting them." I say glaring at the nurse who is now backed against the wall.
"I-The data is three doors down to the left and on the right side of the hallway." The nurse says looking down.
"Stun her that way they can't do anything to her." Sabine says still standing at the doorway weapons lowered.
"Wait I thought if I co-operated you wouldn't hurt me?" She asks scared.
"We aren't going to hurt you. Just stun you. You'll wake up in a few hours." I say shooting her with my stunner. She jerks and falls to the ground against the wall slumping down unconscious.
"Hope she told the truth." I say still frowning as we exit and seal the room.
"Some people just won't open their eyes to the horrible things that the Empire has done until someone lays it out in front of them." Sabine says blasters in her hands.
"Three doors." I say standing in front of it.
"Let's move." Sabine says getting serious. I open the door to reveal a room full of stormtroopers relaxing. They all look up and freeze.
"What the hell?" A trooper asks.
"Shoot them!" I say shooting two troopers and watching the rest scramble to a weapons locker. Sabine opens fire and we both hide around the edge of the door. Sabine shoots two and they fall short of the weapons of the locker.
"Get those weapons out! NOW!" A trooper with an orange pauldron.
"I got him." Sabine says before lining up with the trooper's head and landing a perfect head shot. He hits the floor hard. Two trooper's reach the weapon's locker and open it grabbing blasters. I stun them both before they can use them.
"Three left." Sabine says smile evident in her voice.
"Now two." She says finishing off one more.
"I got them." I say smirking.
I jump through the door stun one hiding behind a couch and then jump up next to the last one hesitating between running or grabbing a weapon.
"Hi." I say before force pushing him into the wall knocking the last trooper out.
"Show off." Sabine says smirk evident in her voice. I give her a lopsided grin before looking around for the data.
"There." I say spying a console next to the weapons cache.
"Glad she could mention the fact that the room would be full of stormtroopers too." Sabine says looking around at the room full of unconscious troopers. "I'm surprised that we didn't set off any alarms. Is the data there?"
I type for a few moments going through the data. "Yes." I say bringing up an inventory list and location.
"Nice most of the stuff that we need is near the roof but the Bacta is stored on the third level. Get that last?" I ask looking to her.
"Yup let's get the rest first." Sabine says heading for the door.
"Got the location. Up one level on the stairs. Too risky with the elevators." I say closing the terminal and following her.
"Agreed." Sabine says as we head to the staircase watching for any signs of more stormtroopers. But we find none while heading to the supply room.
"This is it." Sabine says as we make our what down a hallway Sabine going forward while I watch our back.
"Locked. Give me a few seconds." I say slipping my lockpick out of sleeve. I work around the various components of the lock and smile as it clicks and the door opens.
"Got it." I say slipping my pick back into my sleeve. Sabine opens the door and we go in. I close the door behind us and look around.
"List?" Sabine asks holding her hand out. I slip the data pad out of my suit and hand it to her.
"Alright let's get this stuff ready." I say opening up a crate.
"Alright we need bandages. As much as we can grab." Sabine says as I grab all of the packages out off of a table. "We also need any pain medication we can find."
"I got a small crate marked morphine over here. That's a pain killer right?" I ask looking at Sabine.
She nods.
"And I got a package of ready to go anesthetic needles." Sabine says setting them into the crate gently as I put in the morphine.
"What else?" I ask looking at her.
"Hmm… anything else we can grab before the bacta and getting out here." Sabine says. We fill the rest of the crate with various medications that might be of use to the medical staff of the Rebellion.
"Alright let's get the Bacta and get out of here." I say closing the crate.
"I'll radio Rex to get on his way here." Sabine says tapping her wrist comm. "Spectre Five to Phantom."
"Phantom here ready for us?" Rex asks.
"Affirmative head to the roof and wait for us there." Sabine says before closing the line. I open the door and we make our way to the staircase. After walking down an unholy amount of stair and avoiding three nurses narrowally.
"What's the door number?" Sabine asks quietly as we move from room to room trying to be stealthy as possible. It is far more busy on the lower levels than the top ones even at night.
"Three more doors." I say recalling the map.
"Then let's move." Sabine says ducking out of the room after seeing that the hallway is empty. We reach the room and open the door. We duck in and see a doctor looking at us confused.
"You can't be here. Please go back to the waiting room…" He trails off after looking at us closer. "Thieves?" He asks curiously.
"Rebels." I say shrugging.
"Rebels?" He asks surprised.
"Yup so we are going to need you to point out the Bacta please?" I ask smiling.
"I-Why do you need it?" He asks looking at us frowning.
"Some of friends are hurt bad. They need Bacta if they are going to live." Sabine says but I can tell by her tone she's not wanting to continue this conversation.
"Please as a doctor it's your duty to help people who are injured." I say smiling.
He considers this before responding.
"There should be enough in this crate here. I don't want to work for the Empire but I have to to keep my family safe. Save your friends." He says pointing to crate behind him.
"Doc do you mind if I ask you something?" I ask watching the man carefully.
"What is it?" He asks nervously.
"What's your name?" I ask watching the man fidget for a moment.
"I'm Doctor Michael Detrics. Trauma unit nurse. And in training to be a trauma unit surgeon." He says showing his id card.
"Did they threaten your family if you didn't work for them?" I ask gauging his reaction.
"Yes. Threatened to send them off to Kessel. I can't risk that." Michael says frowning.
"Thank you. Would you be willing to help us again in the future?"
He frowns.
"If you can guarantee that my family will be safe then yes. But if you can't guarantee that I can't help you." He says grabbing something from his pocket. "This is my personal comm link number. If anyone but you or your girlfriend over there calls I hang up and destroy it. If you call you had better make sure that my family can be kept safe and that you can't be traced by the Empire. If you do call me, call me when you're desperate."
"Thank you." I say taking the card from him.
"I'll stun you to make sure they don't suspect you." I say before stunning him and grabbing the crate.
"Why didn't we just start with that?" Sabine asks moving to the door while I grab the crate of Bacta.
"Because not everyone who works for the Empire wants to work for them." I say frowning.
"Yeah but this could have exposed us." Sabine says opening the door and moving towards the elevator.
"Not everything has to be a fight." I say pushing crate forward.
"But negotiating all of the time first is going to get us killed eventually." Sabine argues back.
"But not trying peacefully will get us killed." I argue back as we reach the elevator.
"Opening." She says hitting the call button. The doors open up and we stun the two stormtroopers inside.
"We need to hurry before someone sets off the alarms." I say pushing the crate in and closing the doors.
"Agreed they are going to notice that these guys are disappearing eventually." Sabine says hitting the button for our previous floor. "I'll grab the crate you watch the elevator."
"Got it. Be careful Spectre Five." I say watching the elevator rise quickly.
"I will. You be careful too Spectre Six." Sabine says as the doors open.
"I will." I say as she moves off down the hall. I watch the halls and my comm unit beeps.
"Spectre Six here." I say answering the call.
"Phantom in position. ETA?" Rex asks sternly.
I see Sabine coming down the hall with the crate.
"Three to five minutes." I say before closing the comm link. "Good?"
"Good." She says as we both get into the elevator.
"Caution Elevator overweight." The panel flashes.
"Oh Karabast." I say frowning.
"Danm have to take the stairs." Sabine says getting out.
"Spectre Six to Phantom. Come in Commander." I say activating my comm unit.
"What's wrong?" Rex asks sighing.
"Elevators to heavy with us in it. Sending the cargo to the roof now grab it and we'll meet you in a few minutes via the stairs." I explain hitting the roof button and stepping out of the elevator.
"Alright be careful." Rex says before closing the line. Sabine and I wordlessly move to the stairs. We enter and make our way up. We start to hear bits of blaster fire and pick up our pace. We burst through the door to the roof and see the Clones plus Valerie fighting a mess of stormtroopers pouring out of two Lamanda class T-4 transports.
"I got the one on the right." I say smiling as I ignite my lightsabre.
"I got your back Spectre Five."
"No get the supplies to the Phantom I want to get out of here fast." I say before leaping at the first trooper in my way cutting his head off then throwing two more off the roof. I glance at the rest of the troopers and smile. I deflect bolts heading for Sabine away managing to direct two back at other troopers. I jump at two more deactivating my blade grabbing one troopers wrist and throwing him into the other one before reigniting my blade, ending both of them with a stab through the chest. I spy Rex, Echo and Valerie hiding behind a set of air conditioning units beside the Phantom covering Sabine as she grabs the cargo. Deflecting a bolt into the sky I glance back at the others and see Sabine place the last crate on the Phantom.
"I got the supplies Spectre Six let's move." Sabine yells shooting a trooper from behind me.
"One moment." I say running forward right before the large group of stormtroopers I crouch focusing in the force I jump on to one of the shuttles and run my blade through the wing. I jump off as the shuttle shudders and falls to the ground. Landing on the roof rolling with my momentum and igniting my blade. I deflect more shots making my way back to Sabine.
"Phantom GO!" I yell as two TIE's fly over head blasting beside the shuttle.
"See you two back at the fleet." Rex yells back as they back into the shuttle. The troopers move forward more determined to kill us. They converge on the Phantom attempting to cut off our escape. Echo grabs two thermal detonators and primes them. Without hesitation he tosses them into the group troopers closest to them. The blow taking out a dozen troopers and destroys the unit he was hiding behind.
"ECHO!" Valerie yells as he takes a blaster bolt to the leg. Without hesitation Valerie holsters her blaster and grabs Echo dragging him to the shuttle.
"Damn it!" I say closing my eyes and focusing in the force. I take deep breath and launch a force push toward the troopers plaguing the Phantom. The closest three go flying off the roof while the rest are knocked off their feet.
"MOVE!" I yell as Sabine stops looking at me shocked. Valerie gets Echo on to the Phantom and Rex steps onto the Phantom looking our way before nodding. I nod back as Sabine reaches the door to the stairs. The Phantom closes and takes off blowing a TIE out of the sky before disappearing.
"We need to go." I say as the stormtroopers turn to focus on us.
"I agree." Sabine says opening the door and starting down the stairs. I use my lightsabre to block their shots and Sabine closes the door. I jab my blade through the controls ruining them and sealing the door.
"Back to our hotel room?" I ask smiling.
"Back to our hotel room." Sabine says and we race down the stairs. We make it down the stairs and into the hall.
"How exactly are we getting across?" Sabine asks hesitating at the jump.
"Like this. Ready?" I ask. She looks at me with a confused look. I smile and grab her with the force and then throw her across the gap. She lands rolling into a crouching stance.
"Haha. Awesome." I say smiling. I back up and start running towards the gap. I jump clear across the gap rolling and slamming into the wall.
"Ow." I say landing upside down.
"Well serves you right." Sabine says taking her helmet off and frowning at me.
"What?" I ask smiling at her nervously.
"You threw me." She says still frowning.
"Well to be fair I did warn you." I say righting myself.
"You said ready. Not hey I'm gonna use magic to throw you across a jump at a height that could easily kill me!" Sabine says growing more and more angry.
"Okay I should have actually warned you but I did get us across and more importantly we need to go before those bucketheads figure out where we went." I say while backing up against the wall away from her.
She moves in close glaring at me.
"I-"
She interrupts me with a kiss on the cheek.
"What was that for?" I ask confused.
"Good job out there. You did your best to protect everyone and made sure that we got away clean." Sabine says putting her helmet back on and grabbing our suitcase.
"I got our stuff, The Phantom's already on it's way back to the base and we have our exit ready to go."
"I didn't do everything right." I say flashing back to Echo getting shot.
"You did everything you could." Sabine says clearly frowning.
"If I did everything I could then Echo wouldn't have gotten shot." I say frowning.
"You took down a shuttle. And a bunch of bucketheads." Sabine says heading for the door.
"So you're not going to change out of your armor?" I ask following her.
"Not if we are going to be going out in the open. I'd rather not get into a fight without it." Sabine says presumably smiling.
"Agreed. Be like going into a fight without my lightsabre." I say patting my belt where it should be.
It's not there.
"I'll be right back." I say turning back to where I landed.
"There you are." I say grabbing my lightsabre off of the floor. It had fallen just underneath a small side table.
"Forget your lightsabre?" Sabine asks humor laced in her voice.
"I didn't." I say smiling while reattaching it to my side. "Just misplaced it from the fall."
"Sure you did. Just wait until Kanan hears about this." Sabine says clearly smirking behind her helmet.
"You wouldn't." I say faking a glare at her.
She simply turns and swings her hips as she walks away leaving me slack jawed.
"Stop staring and let's go." Sabine says not looking back.
"Can you blame me?" I mumble under my breath pouting and following her.
"No." Sabine says holding the suitcase out to me.
I take it and sigh.
"Let's go check out." I say as we reach the elevator. Sabine hits the call button and turns to me.
"Nah we're just going to leave stealthily." I shrug.
"Sounds good to me." The elevator opens revealing it to be empty and we get in. Sabine hits the ground floor button. We wait silently as it smoothly makes it's way down. It dings and the doors slide open to reveal a crowded lobby.
"C'mon let's get out of here." Sabine says ignoring the stares we're getting while heading to the front door. I follow watching the people watch us.
"Excuse me but how did you get in here?" The man from the counter earlier asks stopping us from leaving.
"We checked in earlier. We wanted to go for a walk around the city." I say smiling.
"Room?" He asks glaring at Sabine.
"517." I say glaring at him.
"The newlyweds?" He asks surprised.
"Yes. We came here to relax now can you please get out of our way?" Sabine says clearly unhappy.
"I, apologize. Of course have a good evening." He says stepping out of the way. We walk out the front doors and disappear into the crowds. We walk towards the exit of the city avoiding any troopers we see.
"ATTENTION ALL CITIZENS OF LOTHAL! Rebel presence has been detected in this city and until further notice it is under a complete lockdown. All residents return to your homes immediately and be prepared to have them searched." A loud monotone voice rings out through the speakers.
"Well that's not good." I say looking around to see people scramble to get home and close their doors.
"Agreed. How are we going to get out now?" Sabine asks looking around as the streets empty.
"I might be able to get us out through a passageway but I can't guarantee it." I say heading to the nearest entrance.
"Well it's better than getting shot." Sabine says following me.
I duck into a side passage avoiding a group of troopers.
"Well?" Sabine asks while we wait for them to pass.
"Almost there." I say quietly peeking out to see that they are past. I motion for her to follow and we silently make our way through the shadows. We make our way into another hidden alleyway. I walk to the end of the passage and to the small mark on the back of it.
The mark of the Zann Consortium.
"I really hope that this is still abandoned." I say quietly as I reach over to the wall beside us and open up a small panel.
"Ezra?" Sabine asks watching the entrance. I reach into the back and push a button.
"Troopers." Sabine says turning to me while brandishing her blasters.
"C'mon." I say as a door opens in the wall.
Sabine follows me in and I shut the door behind us. I look around and see it empty.
"Good. We're in luck." I say smiling slightly.
"Where are we?" Sabine asks looking around.
"Old Zann warehouse." I say walking into it further.
"And you knew it was here because?" Sabine asks following me in.
"Made a delivery here once." I say frowning.
"I see." Sabine says.
I walk into the back start to search the back wall.
"Gotta be here somewhere…" I say feeling along the wall searching for the hidden switch.
"What are you looking for?" Sabine asks watching me search.
"Hidden switch. Favorite of the Zann Consortium." I say continuing my search.
"And you know it's here because?"
"I made my exit through it."
"You sure seem to know a lot about them." Sabine says suspiciously.
"I worked for them. They gave me credits for food. I continued to work for them. It was useful to remember where secret passages and hidden store rooms were." I say shrugging.
Sabine stays silent.
A hatch opens in the floor and two men hop out with packs on their backs and backs to us. Sabine points her blasters at them.
"Well thanks for opening that." I say smiling as I grab my hybrid.
The two men turn around slowly.
"What the? Bridger?" One of the two men say confused.
"Yup." I say stunning them.
"They recognized you." Sabine stats holstering her blasters.
"Yup." I say searching them and finding credits. I look in the packs and find various types of tech.
"Nice." I say taking the tech and putting it all into one pack.
"What are you doing?" Sabine asks watching me.
I open the suitcase and move our nice clothes into the other pack. I sling both packs over my shoulder.
"Getting us some valuable tech and credits while lightening the amount of stuff I have to carry." I say walking over the hatch in the floor. "I should be able to get us out without running into anyone else."
"Alright let's go. Silence?" Sabine asks walking over to the hole.
"Probably the best." I say jumping down and landing heavily on the floor due to the increased weight from the tech. Sabine lands behind me. I look around and recalling the map of the passages I learned.
"Which way?" Sabine asks waiting for me to go. I motion for her to follow me down a darkened passage. We make our way down various utility and sewer tunnels towards the outer edge of the city.
Or so I thought.
"I thought I told you never to come back here Bridger?" The man sitting at the table in the middle of the large room filled with Zann Consortium members.
"To be fair I thought that I was going out of the city." I say rubbing the back of my neck the other hand moving to my blaster while Sabine has her hands resting on hers.
"Doesn't matter to me. You were warned. Now you'll die." The man says flipping his table over and hiding behind it while the rest of the members dive for cover or grab for weapons.
"Stun or kill?" Sabine asks wounding two members.
"Doesn't matter to me." I say stunning a member.
"Then let's make this quick." Sabine says grabbing one of her signature thermal detonator.
"I love the way you think." I say smiling as we duck behind pipes.
Sabine tosses the grenade in the middle of the room. It detonates taking out most of them.
"Well that was effective." I say smiling.
I pop out stunning another member.
Sabine shots two more.
"So what do you want to do now?" Sabine asks as the last members fall easily.
"I think we should get out of here before someone else finds us." I say walking over the leader of the group. I smile as I grab the large pack of credits.
"More looting?" Sabine asks following me.
"Nope, I was just grabbing the credits we paid him." I say tossing them in with our clothes.
"Let's go I know how to get us out of here from here." I say walking to the back.
"Well I hope you do. The last place you lead us lead to some very dangerous people." Sabine says admiring her explosive work. I roll my eyes and continue through the labyrinth of passage ways. We make our way to the exit and I smile when reach the exit hole.
"Finally." I say picking the lock on the sewer bars.
"Agreed." Sabine says opening the bars. I jump down and lands bending my knees to take the extra weight.
"C'mon let's go. It's a decent walk back to our ride." Sabine says landing beside me. I nod as we walk through the tall grass making our way away from the crowded Imperial controlled city. Stopping occasionally to hide from searching TIE's. We walk back to our fighters undetected. We walk up to our fighters and smile.
"Well done S2 let's get back home." I say smiling. I toss the bags into a small storage compartment and close it while Sabine checks over her fighter for anything out of order.
"All good?" I ask.
"Yup should be good." Sabine says climbing into her fighter.
I climb into my own fighter and check over the systems. Finding nothing wrong Sabine and I start up our fighters.
I flip open a channel to Sabine.
"Good to go?" I ask.
"Good to go. Let's get out of here." Sabine says taking off.
I close the channel and follow her. We both activate our stealth systems and fly towards the fleet now swarming with activity. Large groups of TIE's are pouring out of the larger ships while the smaller ones are splitting up and moving around to cover more space.
"That's not good." I say aloud to myself. Sabine and I fly slowly towards the outer edge of the fleet hoping to avoid any confrontation.
The TIE's start to group up before going out in all directions in their standard five fighter formations. As a group TIE's near Sabine and I we quickly shut down our engines hoping to go unnoticed. The lead TIE flies right above me while the rest go right beside Sabine.
I hold my breath as they continue on forwards.
I let out my breath and sigh happily. After a minute Sabine fires up her engines and I follow suit. We continue to make our way to the best spot to make the jump to hyperspace. Sabine and I reach the edge of the ships and prepare to make the jump. I flip several switches and watch as the prepared flight trajectory readies itself to be used.
That is before an Acclamator class cruiser appears in front of us out of hyperspace. After a second TIE's start to pour out of it's hangar bays on both sides.
Three squadrons total.
And they all start towards me.
"Karabast!"
They start firing at me as the ship itself starts firing at Sabine. I push forward and send my ship into a dive avoiding the deadly lines of green plasma. I pull up and to the side avoiding a TIE flying right at me.
Two more fall in behind me firing. I pull to the right just in time to see Sabine headed straight to me with a TIE behind her.
I line up the shot and fire. The bolts fly right past Sabine and destroy the wing of the TIE causing it to fly out of control into another one.
I smile before a burst of green flies right in front of me causing me to bank hard to the left. A TIE flies into the path of Sabine and is destroyed. The ship starts to flies closer blasting at us without care for their own pilots. I dodge around the larger blasts and see Sabine making a run around the ship.
I open up a comm link to her.
"S2 got your back." I say pulling a barrel roll and destroying a TIE closing in on her.
"Almost there. You ready?" Sabine asks while dodging a blast from the starship.
"I'll be right behind you!" I say dodging a TIE.
"You had better be." She says menacingly as she clears the ship and makes the jump to hyperspace.
I dodge another blast from the ship and fly straight into the line of a TIE.
It blasts away my shields and hits the top right wing. The blast causes a reaction and blows apart the communication panel in the cockpit hitting my in the arm and side of the head.
"Damn!" I yell losing control of the fighter causing it to roll towards the bridge of the Acclamator cruiser.
I grab the controls and barely manage to brush the shields of the ship. I see clear space in front of me. I hit the hyperdrive and the stars around me blur into streaks of bright light.
I slump back into the seat and sigh.
"Haaa." A warm liquid runs down my left arm.
"Huh?" I wonder out loud. I reach over without looking and touch it. I bring my hand up and look at it to see red.
"Damn." I mutter and look down at my arm.
It's bleeding badly from a long and decently deep cut on my upper arm. I start to feel light headed.
"That's probably not good." I reach down with my uninjured arm and grab the small first aid kit stored underneath my seat. I open it up and grab the needle and package of thread. I tear open the thread with my teeth. Gingerly I lift my other arm now in searing pain as the adrenaline wears off and the pain sets in. After a few failed tries the needle and thread are ready to go. I grab a roll of bandages and stick it in my mouth. Biting down I grab the small piece of shrapnel pull it out. Tossing it to the side and grabbing my sleeve and roll it up revealing the cut. I clench my teeth trying to ignore the pain. I grab a sanitizing wrap and clean the cut gently. The blood gone I can clearly see that the cut is about eight inches long running down my arm. It appears to be about an inch deep.
Of course. Survive three dozen troopers and two shuttles just to be taken down by shrapnel.
I grab the needle and thread. I start at the top of the cut and agonizingly work my way down the cut. Finishing I put it all away and lean back falling asleep.
"How worse could it get?" I wonder out loud sleepily.
A/N So who wants to guess what's going to happen to him next? I'm not sure yet. Idea's are welcome and will be given credit for if I use them. The heist is over and successful. Thanks once again to DWITD0421. Please let me know what I did right and what I did wrong. Sorry about the whole no update for the long while. Lots of stuff came up in my life causing my free time to go down to about zero. I will never abandon my stories! That's a promise. Go Sezra! And Nali! And Hiccstrid!