Cassian looked up concerned when he realised that whatever it was they were looking for had rapidly become even more stressful. Cursing to himself when he realised that it looked as if the stakes had just risen exponentially. Cassian found that he could not be sure of what he had stumbled into. His head rotated further round while he tried to work out how he could be expected to handle the next few hours, sneaking a glance at Dacia he knew that he was ready to back up Dacia's play. Even if the woman did not look as if she knew what she was supposed to do next.

Cassian looked down when he felt something nudge his hand. Realising belatedly that he had been so busy lost in his thoughts, that he had stopped looking around, he glanced at Jyn. Taking the small mouthpiece from the woman, Cassian slid it carefully into his pocket. He could not garner clues from peering at the woman. Swivelling his head to look at Dacia he could see the woman begin to look more and more stressed. Trying to sigh at the woman's face, Cassian wondered if he had ever found anything more amusing to him than watching the woman. Sure, it might have started with distrust, but he frequently found that there little he found more fascinating.

Cassian knew that he was about to walk across a very high tightrope, he felt as if the only thing he could be sure of was that a misstep could mean something incredibly bad for him. For them all. Cassian sighed to himself and rubbed at his temples, trying to soothe a tension headache he could feel building. Watching as the woman silently gulped, he could see a change of calm transforming her features. It would always amaze him to watch the emotions play across Dacia's face when she came to a decision.

WHOOSH

Dacia found herself faced with a strange sensation, one that she had not felt in a great amount of time. One where she sensed that there was another user of the Force within proximity. Her tongue twitched slightly inside her mouth, as she tried to savour some of the deliciousness of being near to someone else who was either a Force user or Force adept. Shaking her head sharply as she tried to remind herself that she should not get distracted by the first potential sighting of a pool of water in a hot and desert.

Dacia had long ago resigned herself to the fact that she might never meet another user of the Force. She had briefly wondered whether or not Designation: Scarlet Witch used (or had access) to the Force, but she had felt dismayed when she was around the woman. Dacia had not liked the way whatever it was that the woman wrapped around her was dark, and both tasted and stunk like a poison cloaking her and her wicked intentions. Dacia had always come away with an intense headache, feeling as if she been poisoned or whacked around the head by something large and heavy.

Shaking her head once again as she tried to draw her attention back to the matter at hand. She was sure that she was going to be able to find whoever it was that had drawn her attention momentarily. She tried not to audibly grumble when she looked up to realise that it was some emergency services. Growling to herself and startling a look from Cassian, she ruefully thought that she must have been even louder than she thought, she realised that the stakes had climbed even higher.

Dacia was well aware now that if the stakes were a physical thing, then they might be as high as Mount Everest or at the least Mount Kilimanjaro. This might become tricky, especially if they were faced with pesky questions about their intentions. Cursing to herself silently when she realised that she would have preferred to be able to skate under the radar a little while longer.

Dacia realised that it was so typical that they had been threatened with exposure right when another potential threat had followed them here. She wondered if this was a firm indication that whoever it was, were they indeed Dark Side? Or was she approaching this with a firm notion in her mind of the potential intentions of whoever their newest foe was? Dacia smirked to herself when she thought of how much Mace Windu could be shaking his head at the woman; he had always lectured on entering something with preconceived notions. Yoda for one might be starting to scream at her if he knew where Dacia's thoughts were heading.

"Cassian, Jyn, you know what to do, we do not want to attract any undue attention. I know that some of our most recent actions might hint that it would be nigh on impossible to completely avoid attention. But I do not need to stress how much I would like to avoid paparazzi, especially when we are so close to nearing the end." Dacia hissed at the other two.

She needed to know that the other two were ready to play their parts, for she knew that now she needed to turn all of her attention to hunting down the scourge which now plagued her. Dacia felt the stirrings of unease deep in her body, she hoped (and prayed) that she could indeed trust her friends at her back, certainly when she knew that she would be faced with self-doubt.

"We do, but use the lightsabre if you need too, but here take this," Jyn whispered back at the other two with some surety in her voice.

Dacia looked down at what Jyn was attempting to pass her. When she had the small weight in her hand, she finally looked down, her eyes lighting up in recognition when she saw what Jyn had pressed into her hand. It was one of the small communication devices, briefly looking up and peering deep into the woman's eyes, Dacia slowly nodded her head. Raising one hand to slide the small device into her ear carefully, Dacia briefly shut her eyes when she was assaulted with the sharp sound of the device settling in.

WHOOSH

Cassian flicked his tongue against his teeth when he had slid the device in, peering at his friends, he wanted to be sure that the two would be able to hear him. Dacia nodded him and carefully flicked her tongue against her own lower teeth when Cassian hear the soft rustling sound he nodded. Now they would be able to hear one another speak to each other, though Dacia privately wondered how they hoped she would be able to speak if she was deep within the drink below.

Nodding at the two, Dacia reached into her pocket and carefully withdrew three small dots; she was ready to give them to her friends. Briefly clearing her throat before she began to speak, she surveyed her friends again, before handing over two of the small dots with a heavy sigh.

"Okay, here are our trackers and cameras, just in case we should each wear them in case we get separated from one another during this mess. It might prove to be imperative that we should be able to contact one another and see what we can each see." Dacia handed them over carefully.

WHOOSH

Jyn took a moment to look at Dacia before carefully affixing the dot to the right breast of her scarf. Tapping at the dot once, she looked up in time to see Cassian take note of the small dot to begin to look almost immediately like a button. When she had attached the small dot, she fished back into the bag at her side for her small phone type device. Smirking to herself when she was able to see Cassian standing in front of her, she nodded to herself and slid the small phone back into her pocket.

Dacia started to breathe in great, heaving breaths, before nodding at the other two and making her way over to the riverside. Jyn exchanged a cautious look with Cassian and the two of them separated. Cassian found himself a quiet corner to stand in, he felt it was important that he should be able to see the surrounding area, but he did not want to be disturbed unnecessarily. What he was about to do, was very important, and for the first part at least it was important that he should have no further distractions.

Jyn meanwhile started to walk over to one to the cars that had squealed onto the scene. Trying not to raise an eyebrow when she noted that it looked like the man was the type to take charge at a scene. That should make her job a little bit easier. Hopefully, the man was not too much of an idiot to try her patience. As she walked, she reached into her pocket and grabbed out some identification; she was aware that it was not strictly legitimate, but she needed the man to trust her. She did not want to think about what could happen if she found her orders questioned.

Dacia had stepped closer to the river edge, and her eyes scanned over it carefully, her breath hitched a little when she spotted what she had been looking for. Flicking her tongue against her teeth, she whispered;

"Cassian we are in the right place, I can see parts of the spaceship where it may have come down. I am going in here to make sure that I can contain whatever threat lies for us in there. Be ready to back up Jyn should she need it."

Her eyes scanning over the murky water beneath her, Dacia tried to make a game plan in her head, she wanted to be sure what she would do before she dived in and potentially made things a lot worse. She did not particularly relish the opportunity of being caught without any real idea she wanted to head to next. Knowing that it was not likely to show any proof, she growled to herself and fought against the small urge telling her to look over her shoulder.

It was probably even more important that she should trust her friends to carry out what they were supposed to be doing. Dacia knew that she would not be able to keep her eyes on all of the moving parts of this plan, this would be testing the limits of her trust, though she would assure anyone listening that she could trust. If there were times when she struggled with it, then that was neither here nor there!

Shaking her head as she came to a plan, Dacia fingered the small oblong device, and half popped it into her mouth, she was ready to see this plan through to the very end. Now it looked like it was ready to end, Dacia's mind whirled through all of the potential snags they could. Sucking in a deep lungful of oxygen, and screwing her nose up a little when she caught yet another whiff of the river below her. She raised up on her tip-toes and launched herself from the large imposing sidewalk.

Shuddering to herself when she was suddenly assaulted with the cold water against her skin, Dacia tried to shake the thought from her head and tapped the end of the breathing apparatus. Satisfied when she felt more than saw the dome growing around her face, Dacia sank below the water, wanting to get this part of her job over with.

WHOOSH

Jyn could not work out if it were best that she allow the man to speak before she opened her mouth. Taking stock of the man, she knew how important it could be that she knew which way to tread at this particular juncture. It would not do for her to get distracted and waylaid, especially if she started to spout nonsense, for now, though she had to be careful in how she worded things.

Eyeing the man carefully, she tried to work out how best she should handle this next part. She thought that the man looked like he was used to getting his way, used to having his orders followed without question. Jyn thought that normally this would be a good thing, he was, after all, a battalion chief (whatever that was) and a firefighter, but she could only hope that now he did not become another thorn in her side. She did not need any distractions, certainly not while she was in the home straight so to speak. Shaking the thoughts from her head, she concluded that she would be better served if she allowed the man to speak first. Mostly because she had no clue how to handle the guy if push came to shove, not that she was particularly eager to find out what would happen if they were pushed to beyond a point of no return.

Feeling a stirring in her gut, as she tried to work out if it would look better if she began speaking, she decided for herself, and before the man could begin to work up a good head of steam, she cut him off at the pass;

"Hi there, my name is Jyn Erso, where we come from does not matter, I am going to be a liaison for you. May I know who I am speaking to?" Jyn politely asked the man figuring it would be better if she remained reasonably polite.

"My name is Chief Boden, do you have anything by way of identification with you to prove who you are?" the tall man held out a single hand, as his eyes roved around the scene that he now found himself presiding over.

"Certainly, but I must ask that you loop us in on any actions that you are about to undertake, some of the things that you are going to see here were not meant to be seen by anyone." Jyn simply told the man as she passed the man a letter.

WHOOSH

Watching in amusement on his small phone just around the corner, Cassian wondered if he had ever found himself floundering with words so easily? He could see from Jyn's movements (the screen told no lies) and hear from her voice that she felt stressed. Cassian thought that it was probable that he had at one point felt stressed, but he could not remember when. It was highly unlikely, nay inconceivable that he had never felt stressed about what he was doing. Such a thing was commonplace when you were a spy after all – he could never expect to skate through life without feeling any stress. Not when you were constantly putting your life on the line. Shaking his head to try and draw his attention back to the matter at hand, Cassian focused on the screen which he had already split into two separate views. He might want to keep an eye on how Jyn was dong, but he also felt it was important that he keep an eye on Dacia's progress, just in case the woman should need his attention.

Cassian knew that it was unlikely that the woman should want his help, but casting a wary eye around him at all of the civilians milling around them, made him shudder to think what could happen if one of them should get caught in the crossfire. Cassian was comfortable enough with his knowledge of Dacia's unique personality quirks to know that the woman might take it very hard if someone should get hurt on her behalf. Now, that they knew they were essentially after a man from their Home Universe, it might make the already bitter pill into toxic sludge if anything should go wrong.

Shaking his head, while he tried to focus his attention back onto the matter at hand, Cassian watched with wry amusement as he took in the sight of the Battalion Chief looking like he was about to puff up ready to argue. Smirking to himself when he wondered if the Battalion Chief had any idea who he was attempting to intimidate. It would be a cold day in hell if anyone should manage to intimidate the girl nay the woman that Baze had managed to have a small hand in bringing up. Cassian himself thought that it was more likely that he would be luckier in attempting to get blood from a stone that he would in managing to intimidate her.

WHOOSH

"That looks like it checks out. Do you know though what to do here though?" Battalion Chief 25 Boden asked, his moustache bristling slightly as he spoke.

"I can assure you that we can handle the immediate problem. You need to focus your people on rescuing the civilians. For now, they are not our most immediate problem; we can handle the guy in there, allow us to handle this guy." Jyn calmly told the man.

"WE CAN NOT LET YOU DO THIS! THIS IS OUR CITY DAMN IT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN PROTECT ALL OF THE CITIZENS OF THIS CITY THE BEST WE CAN. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN DO THIS JOB? WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE REMOTELY QUALIFIED TO EVEN WORK AT THIS." Battalion Chief Boden roared.

"Sir, I understand that you feel a need to protect everyone but with all due respect the person who caused this? He is under our unique jurisdiction and sir with all due respect you are not ready to handle this threat. You need us and right now? Our interests run aligned. So, make sure that you can get this threat handled, I do not need to point out that it is more important that you look after what you can and allow us to look after what we can look after." Jyn calmly told the man trying to defuse the situation before it started to get out of hand again.

Battalion Chief 25 Boden looked tremendously pissed at the woman, before turning away from the woman with a snort. Jyn refused to move; she would not roll over, not in front of these people. She watched in satisfaction as the man turned around and began to roar at some of his men.

"SEVERIDE CHECK THE BOAT, CASEY CONTAIN THE DAMN FIRES."

Jyn watched in satisfaction as the two men jumped to follow their orders, both of them were shouting out their orders. She did not feel a need to listen to them, for now, she had a vastly more important task to undertake. Namely keep an eye on Dacia, wandering away from Battalion Chief Boden. She made sure to stand far apart enough from him, where she would be able to hear him if he started to shout for her, but far enough away that it would mean that she still had enough privacy to keep an eye on the tablet in front of her.

WHOOSH

Cassian briefly checked his watch; it looked as if time was marching on and would not want to wait long for them. He clenched his shaky hands into fists, and only extended his hands out again when he felt confident that he could handle the tremors. Hissing to himself, Cassian wondered if he had known what was going to happen to him, all those years ago, would he still have opted to come on this adventure? Those thoughts would simply take up too much time for him to parse through, so he blinked his eyes once then twice before refocusing.

For now, though, he knew that he did not have enough time to keep more than an eye on Dacia's progress, he would have to trust that the woman knew enough to be careful. He needed to keep an even closer eye on Jyn, not because he did not trust the woman to be able to handle herself, but because he was not sure whether or not he could trust the other man. Cassian could be accused of not trusting easily, but he would argue that with a life lived in the same way he had, would only lead to further trust issues later in life.

Jyn might have been brought up (in part) by the fearsome Baze, but she still had to many moving parts to keep her eyes on to keep an eye on her immediate surroundings. Cassian had heard enough rumours about how harsh and unforgiving the exiled rebel leader could be; he did not want to think about could happen if Jyn Erso's paranoia was triggered. He would probably always remember the sight of those he had come across that crossed the man and dearly hoped that Jyn was not like the man in that regard.

Smirking to himself when he realised that Jyn's actions were proceeding exactly how he could expect them too, he shifted his attention back to Dacia's corner of the screen, tapping a few times to enlarge again once again. Keeping a wary eye on Jyn for now, Cassian watched as Dacia carefully made her way into a large underwater cave. Hissing to himself when he realised that Dacia had entered into a greater obstacle than they could have imagined when this adventure was still in its planning infancy.

He could only hope than Jyn could remember how to control herself and her reactions, he had never seen the woman blow up when she was stressed, but as he ruefully thought, there was a first time for everything! Focusing tighter on Dacia's actions, he watched as the woman crept along the side of the large cave. He could well understand the woman's think that drove her to tightly hug at the walls, for now, though he wished that he could be down there with her. Something told him that his friend might need someone there to keep an eye on her back!

WHOOSH

While this was going on, Jyn tried to hide a curse when she realised that Boden must have recognised that someone else had gone into the water behind them and had not emerged. Ordinarily, she knew that the man's professionalism would impress her, but now that it might be holding them back? Well, now it just pissed her off. She would have to watch her words and movements here closely; she thought as she glanced around the humans working near Boden.

Jyn should have realised that it was not going to be an easy thing for her to make sure that Dacia's actions were kept hidden. She understood now exactly how little effort it could take for this whole thing to go belly up, it might be a lot of pressure for her, but she was sure that she was up to it. At the very least, she was very much aware that she could be trusted, because as always she was able to console herself with the knowledge that Dacia trusted her – if that was not a ringing endorsement she was honestly not sure what was!

Tapping at the screen again, Jyn felt the nerves in her ratchet again. She took a deep breath in and closed her eyes briefly to settle her nerves. There was very little she found that could be so settling as simply stopping and breathing. Sadly, though she had to open her eyes and keep her focus on the tablet in front of her. She did not want to be the one who had to tell Dacia that the whole reason the mission fell through, was simply because she lost her nerves.

WHOOSH

Dacia was briefly missing all of this; she had all of her attention focused on the job at hand. Namely, silently making her way across the bed of the river. Dacia smirked to herself when she realised that it worked in her favour that the bed of the river had a lot of fallen sediment. She did not particularly fancy getting closer and examining them; she thought with a wrinkled nose that goodness only knew what had washed up down here after being trapped down here for so long. There were some things that she did not feel the need to investigate further, only thanking time for making her job that much more disgusting.

Groaning to herself when she spotted some kind of floating rat, she could not even be sure whether or not it was dead.

Silencing herself again, Dacia swept her eyes over the part of the riverbed that she was approaching. Stepping carefully as she made sure to keep her eyes open, it would not do for her to miss a step and give away her position before she was ready. Carefully, Dacia peered around one of the large column type structures on the river bed, carefully putting the thoughts of wondering what the column was, once upon a time.

Pulling her head back in alarm when she saw the sharp, vivid green shooting towards her out of the gloom. Cursing in her head, she gave a beat before attempting to edge around the corner again. Her ears were carefully attuned to the minute noises that she could pick up, even if she ruefully reflected that it was more likely to be the vibrations that she could pick up on down here.

Placing her feet one in front of the other, as she crept carefully over the murky riverbed, Dacia's eyes darting around as she tried to pick up on any signs of disturbed water. Once again she cursed herself in her head as she thought to herself that it might be too tricky for her to find anything. Silently praying for any luck, she did not want to be taken off guard down here, not when she was not sure what enemy lay around the corner for her.

Feeling relieved when she felt as if her luck was beginning to change over for her when she spotted a sudden displacement in the current at the corner of her eye. Clutching at her lightsabre and trying to remind herself that maybe their luck was about to change, she carefully crept the long way around to the spot where she reckoned she had spotted the small water disturbance.

Keeping an eye on the changes around her, she approached the spot from the back and smirked to herself when she thought that she could spot a lone figure standing crouched near one of the walls. Dacia might not be able to make out the figure completely on her own in this gloom, but she did not for one second think that she recognised the figure. Trying not to allow herself to freak out, when she reminded herself that it had been a long time since she had been home. If the threat had come from her home Universe, then any number of changes could have so easily followed her, changes that she would not be aware of, certainly not until too late at any rate.

Not wanting to take the chance to allow the guy to get away, Dacia steeled her resolve and crept towards the figure as quietly as she could. She could not work out whether or not the guy was attempting to lure her out, because she figured that the figure could not have made it more obvious where they were standing unless they had a flashing neon sign announcing their presence.

THRUM

Wincing slightly as the lightsabre made a small noise as she pressed the button allowing it come out of its a small tube. Once again she found herself hoping that the figure's underwater hearing was that great. Her mind briefly whirled through a few of the underwater creatures that she could remember and struggled to remember whether or not any of them were likely to hear her. Putting the thought out of her mind while she tried to wake up the muscles of her body, while she prepared herself to launch herself through the water in a hopping type motion. It would do her well; if she was able to trap her foe with whatever surprise she could muster, she did not particularly want to draw out this fight if she could help it. Better to be ready to go in with a quick motion and take what she could get as quick as possible.

Thankfully, she was able to surprise the creature and thanked herself for her foresight in making her earlier get her lightsabre ready. She did not want to think about the potential nastiness of any infections should she manage to catch her flesh with either end of the double-sided lightsabre. Whoever this creature was, they were remarkably confident in handling their Zweihänder type sword; she shuddered to herself while she blocked the blows.

Looking into the face of her foe, she was relieved to spot the small snarl on their face; maybe this fight was also getting to her foe? Not having enough time to slow down, Dacia traded and parried blows. Her arms were starting to tire as she struggled to hold up her lightsabre, she cursed herself for ever feeling confident enough not to push herself into training every day. Even when she had struggled with reaching the Force for so long, she should not have simply ignored that part of her training regimen, even if she had not been able to understand that need until very recently.

Kicking her feet up and watching in satisfaction as her rapidly tiring opponent found themselves become momentarily flustered when the water swirled at their heels faster. Wanting to press her advantage even further, not least, because she wanted to finish this quickly before she should lose her already a slim advantage. Cutting a long gouge in the rough wall behind them, Dacia felt a brief surge of relief when she was able to lunge forward and wrap a large pair of silver cuffs around the beings' wrists.

Not wanting to take the chance she eyed up her opponent and used a small nerve pinch on her opponent, wanting to make sure that the next portion would be kept relatively simple. She made sure to wrap an arm around the unconscious lump of her opponent, and made her way from the water.

It was now time for her to get some answers. Maybe now if they were able to understand some of who was following behind them, they would be able to plan their next few moves.