Mercenary Crew: Age of the Rebellion

[JasraLantill]

Raze held up her hand between Zam and Travis, lest their war of words became something more physical. "Everybody in my crew has a job on this ship," she reminded Zam. "And no one is getting left behind. No one. Just do what you do best and get us to our destination."

 

She looked at Travis. "I take it the files you need are for that translator you're making?" She stepped out of the way and motioned for Travis to proceed to the console. "Download away," she said to him. "The quicker we can understand our 'guest' the less 'misunderstandings' we're likely to have."

 

She sidled past Travis to the doorway. "I'm going to go and tell Rita that we have a passenger, although I can just bet she's not going to like the idea of taking on Otaktay as a passenger." She turned to go, then paused. "Just ignore any shouting, or banging, or thumping you might hear. You know how she is."

[steven]

"Don't worry about the blaster, merly a safety percuasion. Plus there's no need to worry if it goes off and you getting shot, it'll only stun you. However the second shot will kill you. Third vapours your body." John warned.

 

Otak spoke a little, after doing so, John smiled and let out a small laugh, knowing he was busted "Sorry, but 50,000 is alot. Anyway, let's go find you a room. We have two spare, each one has there own bed, desk and wardrobe . That's basically it. However if you want I can add in a few shelfs or carpit, just ask me." John walked between two doors "Which one? The left one or the right one?"

[ForceFightWMe12]

Travis laughed at that. "Have fun with Rita, Raze. Just don't interrupt her if she's using the sim -- she broke it last time that happened. I fixed it but I think there's still an indent from Zam's head in it."

 

He moved over and plugged the hardware into the ship's mainframe and began sifting through several programs until he found the files he wanted.

[Master_Archon]

Otak shrugged and pointed to the left. He really didn't care, he just needed to be alone, and have time to rest.

 

"[Even if it is worth that much, it's still rude to sell a gift...]" he said in his own language to himself. He waited to follow John to the room he had indicated.

[JasraLantill]

Raze headed down the corridor (the opposite one from the one John and Otak were in), passing her quarters and down to Rita's room. She tapped twice on the door, then waited.

 

After a short delay she heard Rita's muffled voice. "Yeah? What is it?"

 

"It's Raze. Can I come in? I've got something to tell you."

 

There was again silence for a moment. "Can't it wait? I'm sort of in the middle of something."

 

Raze shook her head. Rita was using the flight sim again. "You can destroy the Empire later," Raze said through the door. "I need to talk to you. Now, open the door."

 

Again a pause. "Is that an order?"

 

"Just open the door."

 

"You didn't answer my question."

 

Raze let out an exasperated sigh. "Why do you always find it necessary to question everything! Open the kriffin' door!"

 

There was again a long pause, and then, finally, the door opened and Raze went inside, closing the door behind her.

 

A few moments of silence passed, then there was a lot of muffled shouting, followed by a few thumps, a couple of bangs, a crash, and then the ship's corridor lights dimmed briefly.

 

The door opened and Raze walked out, brushing herself off a bit. "Well, that went over well...." She headed for her cabin, making a mental note to ask John to see if he could fix Rita's computer console when he was finished with Otak.

[steven]

John pressed a buttem and the door slid open. "There you go, your own cold, empty quater. Make yourself... at home. By the way, I didn't catch your name."

[Master_Archon]

Otak looked in the room for a short second, then turned back to John.

 

"My, name, is, o-ta-k-tay, now please, I, need, some, rest." At this he turned and entered the room, it took awhile, but he figured out how to close it. It was dark, and he couldn't really tell much, though he had much better vision in the dark than humans did, he still couldn't distinguish much. He fumbled around a bit until he found the bed, he sat down on it's edge, giving out a deep, almost growl sounding sigh.

 

After awhile he heard distant yelling in the ship, and quite a bit of banging, but it stopped after awhile and left him to the peace he wanted. He didn't attempt to find the light switch because he didn't know where it was, and wished to rest his eyes in the dark. Dark places often calmed his nerves; but something was wrong, he smelt something, but he wasn't sure what? 'Whatever it is, it's masked by something...oh well, I'll find out what it is later.'

 

At this Otak relaxed every bit of his body, his head sliding down on his chest. He didn't feel like sleeping at the immediate moment, so he didn't lay down just yet...he just breathed, and thought on his day.

[Dark_Lady]

Flick had nothing to do and nowhere to go on Nar Shaddaa, so she stayed on the ship and slept curled up in her bunk. For once it was decently quiet, anyway. A few hours later, she awoke to hear Rita and Raze arguing and slamming things around. Opening her eyes, she noticed a tall alien sitting on the edge of her bed.

 

Ulim? She blinked and looked him over carefully. No, definitely not Ulim. Whoever he was, he didn't seem to have noticed her. She started uncurling slowly and quietly, keeping her eyes fixed on the intruder.

[Master_Archon]

Otak, definately smelt something, it had grown strong, like...human pheremones and...and? Te-dqi? It couldn't be, could it? Otak rose slowly, he felt danger, a crawling, nervous danger, one that he hadn't felt since he last had a ritual hunt. A Kiande Amedha!

 

If it was in there with him, then he knew what to do. First he scanned the room, his eyes fully adjusted to the darkness; he saw the desk, and the wardrobe, and from what he could tell, the room was small, and there was no major area to hide...other than the, bed.

 

After he'd scanned the room with normal sight he switched to Tech Vision, one of his four vision modes. In this mode he could easily see technology, wires, anything electric, including Kiande Amedha. He slipped his hand over to his Combi Stick, the best weapon for fighting Kiande Amedha, it being blunt, and that was good, because, if he used something that would cause blood spray, then he could get harmed from the acidic blood of the creature.

 

He pulled it out, and decompressed it, this caused it to detelescope, it's crescent ends unfurling. He turned slowly, he knew it was somewhere behind him. Then he saw it plain as day, uncurling itself on the bed, though he only saw it from the corner of his eye, not that it helped to be partially blind there.

 

He twisted around with the speed and agility bestowed upon his race, but something in him held back, knawing at his conciense. It told him that this was not prey to be killed, so instead of impaling it like he would have, he held the end of his stick near it's throut.

 

Though everything in him said, kill it, he didn't, besides, he had to admire this specimen, it had been so stealthy, that it avoided detection of even his audio enhancers. He let out a low clicking growl, showing his anxiousness, waiting to see what this bug would do.

[Dark_Lady]

Since she was still half-asleep, Flick's reflexes were somewhat dulled, and the strange alien had his weapon at her throat almost before she could react. Ah, but the key word was almost. If he had his peculiar staff at her throat, she had her tail at his. And a stalemate was better than a loss.

 

Well, what now? she thought. The alien made a clicking sort of growl as he watched her. Ah, well, so you're not going to kill me yet...

 

Flick's lips curled slowly back over her teeth in a snarl as she hissed at the intruder. "Who the frakking hell are you?"

[Master_Archon]

Otak practically fell over backwards he was so stunned! This Kiande Amedha could talk!! Heck, it just used proffanity! This was absolutely shocking beyond words.

 

Otak was so dumbfounded he almost forgot about holding his weapon steady, almost. He quickly regained composure though, he could type with his mandibles if he wished to speak basic to it, but that took time, and by how angry it sounded, it would probably impale his neck before he was through.

 

Otak didn't know what to do, he couldn't call out, no one understood him, and would probably think he was doing something private, or freaky in the room. He couldn't talk to it in his language, he knew that not even a basic speaking Kiande Amedha would understand him unless it'd been around Yautja before. He didn't want to let down his weapon for fear of the cold, heartless creature that a Kiande Amedha was, would kill him heedlessly.

 

He knew that any movement might end in either death, or ligamental displacement. But he also knew he had to do something, and fast, or else the angry creature as it were, would do what he'd said, impale his neck, though he knew he'd live long enough to do likewise.

 

Then he realized something, Kiande Amedha hate the cold, so he slowly reached towards his sack of cryoba grenades. He was lucky, the creature was to concentrated on his ugly mug to take heed to the slow movement of his hand, at least he hoped. After time, he had one out, and with speed he held down the suicide button, and held the grenade up towards the creature so it could see clearly what type of grenade it was so it could comprehend what this meant.

 

If it killed him, at any moment, he'd not only impale it's neck, but when his body fell, and his grip went limp, the grenade would go off, destroying any chance of survival for it. Or on the off hand, it gave him the extra advantage, he could let go of the button any moment, and it'd only partially freeze them both, leaving him decently well off, because he could handle the cold, but the creature wouldn't be so lucky, it'd get a dose of what it hates almost as much as fire.

 

He let out a quiet bark, and knodded downward to it's tail, indicating for her to pull it away, then he nodded at his Combi Stick, to indicate he'd lower that if she lowered her tail. This was the best communication he could do within a quick amount of time. But he waited with a ready hand on his stick, incase this creature decided the hard way was the best.

[Dark_Lady]

Oh lovely, Flick thought as the alien showed her the grenade. This is just getting better and better. The alien started nodding, first to her tail, and then to his own peculiar weapon. Alright, fine, she thought resignedly, drawing her tail away slowly.

 

"Happy now?"

[Rexraptor2000]

Ulim thought for a moment after Sage left with John. There weren't any extra rooms on this ship besides the crews quarters. Then he got the strange feeling that they were forgetting something.

 

Everybody is on the ship, the cargo is here, and- wait... Where's Flack? ((Remember, he's still revitively new to the crew compared to the others.)) He hadn't seen her since they'd landed. Probably sleeping... I wonder if she going to make Gizak soup anytime soon. Ulim thought to himself. He loved her Gizak soup. Or just about anything else with Gizak in it she made.

 

Then he decided to check up on Sage since he still looked pretty confused about things and then Flack to see what she was going to be making next.

[Master_Archon]

Otak nodded at the comment as he pulled his weapon away. He looked over at the grenade in his hand...now what was he going to do with this, he thought.

 

He turned back to the creature at present, he decided, since he had the slight advantage, that he'd take it upon himself to show he wished for no conflict, though that wasn't true, he would have rather torn it's head off. He was curious enough to want to make peace with it.

 

Otak sat down on the bed, sitting as close as possible to the creature, without putting himself in any great threat of being pounced upon. But as a precautionary measure he ejected his wrist blades, because this creature had natural weapons, while he had rather sharp formidable claws, he'd have his hand burn off if he resorted to using his claws, so he thought the blades were only fair.

 

He couldn't type at the moment, his hands full, and he didn't know how long or short a fuse this creature had, so he couldn't use his mandibles. This was probably going to hurt in the morning, but he attempted to use his own vocal organs to talk basic.

 

"Haaapee, new" he repeated the best he could. He sighed, this only brought distracting thoughts of disgrace to his mind. He put his Combi Stick down, and started motioning with his left hand at his throut to indicate that he couldn't talk basic well, and to indicate he had no immediate way of communicating with it.

[Dark_Lady]

Flick relaxed slightly as the intruder drew back his weapon and sat down, then stiffened and drew her tail back as his wrist blades shot out. Still, he didn't make any overtly threatening moves. She would have yelled for someone by then, but she had no idea how he would react, and as long as she wasn't in any immediate danger, best not to add tension to the situation.

 

"Haaapee, new," he droned.

 

"Not particularly," she replied, her voice losing the hiss but gaining a sarcastic edge. Well, how am I supposed to be happy? A random eight foot tall alien just barged in and tried to kill me. At least they were getting on a little better now.

 

The alien put his stafflike weapon down and waved his hand towards his throat.

 

"What?" she said. "Can't talk Basic?" Or maybe he had a hard time saying anything. This is going to make things harder.

[ForceFightWMe12]

Travis quickly found Bif, shut him down momentarily, plugged his device into the back of the android and downloaded whatever files he had that looked promising. This was all a guess on his part, but it seemed that it would be their best bet to understand this thing. He activated the small thing with a flick of a switch, and smiled in satisfaction as he felt it thrum beneath his fingers.

 

Quickly locating the alien's room, he poked his head in.

 

"Hey, Buggy-boy, catch." he called, and tossed the translator to it. "Voila, translator. It won't be perfect -- I can't be sure of the dialect, but it should pick up your language the more you speak it."

[Rexraptor2000]

Ulim heard Travis talking about a translator and walked over to where he had Flacks room, knocking on the half opened door and asked "What is going on in here?"

[Master_Archon]

Otak shunned the light as it streamed into the room, holding his hand up to block it.

 

The moment he heard the Travis's voice he growled, raising his blades threateningly, but holding back the urge to rip out his prostate and shove it down his throut. He deftly caught the simple object thrown at him. He decided to turn his attention away from Travis, so as not to get too angry.

 

He looked over at the talking Kiande Amedha and deactivated his Tech Vision. When he did so he got quite a fright from what he saw; a humanoid figure lay partially curled up on the bed next to him, it was human in basis, and he could tell immediately it was female due to the femanine figure, though Kiande Amedha already looked rather feminine, almost anerexic, like those fashion models you see on the holovid, you could definately see the difference. It had modest clothes on ((I'm hoping to God)) , and it had a very human face, with hair very much reminding him of Yautja hair, only unbraided.

 

It only took a few seconds to take all that in, and in that time, he jumped off the bed in shock, and turned to face it, stumbling a little backwards as he did so, his fingure releasing from the suicide button, and the cryoban grenade going off in his hand.

 

When he shook himself back to reality, he found his right arm and everything from his upper stomach down, frozen. He looked to Travis who he knew wouldn't waste a minute to laugh at his predicament. At that moment Ulim popped in, and asked what was going on.

 

"[i'm about to kill Travis is what's going on,]" he said gruffly, the translater in his left hand translating. "I'm about to kill Travis is what's going on," it quickly repeated.

 

'It works...great, something else to make him cocky,' he thought to himself. He started struggling to reach his Combi Stick on the bed, but to little avail. He sighed, and looked over at the Kiande Amedha hybrid on the bed, he cocked his head as he was caught up in studying it, it was shocking, but amazing! He kept looking at it, shifting his head, his dread lock braids clattering around very lightly as he did so. He looked back at his stick, then sighed, but rather shakily as he began to feel the cold effects of the ice, he shivered where he stood, unable to do anything but be disgraced infront of everyone.

[ForceFightWMe12]

Travis couldn't help himself -- he burst out laughing.

 

"Smooth one, bug boy." he said, smirking. "Though I think you're having a bit too much fun with our cook here -- try not to 'charge up her loading ramp' too quickly, shall we?"

 

The alien wanted to kill him. Big surprise. It wasn't anything new to be completely honest, and it didn't scare him in the least. The guy was big, but hell, the bigger they were the harder they fell.

[Dark_Lady]

After catching the translator, the intruder looked back at Flick. The eyes on his mask flashed yellow for a moment, and he jumped up startled, letting the cryoban grenade go off in his hand. Flick yanked the bedclothes up around her with a shiver.

 

"I'm going to kill Travis is what's going on," the alien answered Ulim, then started trying to reach his weapon, but couldn't due to his frozen condition.

 

"...try not to 'charge up her loading ramp' too quickly, shall we?" Travis said, laughing. Flick rolled her eyes.

 

"Shut up, Ace," she said offhand, standing up and looking at the intruder curiously. Well, everybody seemed to know him except her.

 

"You going to be alright?" she asked tentatively. If anything like that ever happened to her, she would throw a fit.

[Master_Archon]

Otak was thrown into a fit of rage at Travis's lude comments. He struggled against the ice, it could be heard grinding, and cracking as he did so.

 

But then the hybrid got up, and asked him, "You going to be alright?"

 

It was odd, it was like a wall had suddenly come up in front of him, and smacked him in the face, almost immediately stopping him. He looked over at the hybrid, and cocked his head, staring at her, his head shaking lightly as he shivered. "I...I'll live....but you can help me by either killing him," indicating Travis, "or getting my weapon off the bed so I can chip away this ice." Otak said, the translater working efficiently.

[Dark_Lady]

"Well, ah can't kill him," Flick said, picking up his weapon, "because then ah'd have a hell of a lot of explaining to do." She handed it to him and sat down on the edge of the bed, glaring at Travis. "Although the idea is... tempting."

[Master_Archon]

Otak took his weapon, and immediately started chipping away at his right arm. After a short time the ice was cracked and weakened enough that he could use his strength to break the ice from within. He busted his arm out, then grabbing his combi stick in both hand he jammed it deep into ice inbetween his legs, then used it with great leverage to press on the ice. After a short time he had weakened that ice as well, and he did the same thing, busting out from the inside.

 

He slumped to the floor, the day's events had already weakened him, he still had decent bloodloss which added to his weakness, he had been sedated when opporated on, that didn't help much either; so the ice had finished the job in fatiguing him, because normally he would have been able to bust out without a weapon, and would have been able to handle the coldness of the ice.

 

Otak groaned, then looked up and glared at Travis, the least he could do is leave, out of some curtousy. Otak used his combi stick to pull himself up onto the bed, he sat next to the hybrid; though he could care less at the moment, he'd rather she end his misserable, disgraceful life then and there, than go through life having no respect.

 

He looked to the hybrid next to him, then Travis, then Ulim, then said, "thanks for your help," this came out rather sarcastically, but weakly. At this Otak lay back on the bed and and almost literally passed out, though it was still more or less going to sleep.

[Dark_Lady]

Flick shrugged. Well, what did he expect her to do? Scratch away the ice with her claws? She stood up and pushed his legs onto the bed, then picked up the covers from the floor and spread them over him. Poor guy must be frozen. She started walking towards the door.

 

"Alright, out," she said, picking up a chunk of ice and throwing it at Travis on the way.

[starmark2k]

"Ok Everyone we have been cleared for take off and will be heading towards the galactic capital, So if any of you want to meet our beloved emporer today is your lucky day." Zam said obviously being sarcastic into the comm unit. "It's a three day journey so if you need a bathroom break i'd suggest you take it now... or just use the one onboard ship if you want to risk disentry. Anyway we are heavy cargo and a passenger and on the basis the cargo don't explode and our passenger dosen't go psycho and gut us all we'll be getting paid."

 

Zam placed the comm back into its port above his head and began to lift off of the landing and take the ship up through the atmosphere. A few moments later the ship had left the planets gravity well and entered hyperspace.