A Piracy Problem (OP Vandelhelm Dominion)

[Hevana Martin]

Hevana followed Siobhan's charge, hitting the ground running in her camo painted scout trooper armor. Sure it was old and outdated, but it was her armor damn it and she damn well planned on using it. Even if it did have a kickass Omega Pyre symbol painted on the shoulder armor now. The uniqueness of her armor seemed to attract the attention of the enemy, but they seemed more interested in taking cover when they saw her bring the missile launcher down onto her shoulder and took aim.

The first missile struck between a group of three, leaving only bits of pirate behind as it exploded. Two more that had been trying for cover were caught in the blast wave and failed to get up when they hit the ground. An E-Web was starting to track her way, but a second missile removed that threat from the combat environment. Seeing no more choice targets, Hevana collapsed the launcher and swung it back onto her back before pulling out a light repeater. Moving it up to her shoulder in a ready stance, she began making her way forward swiftly.

"Just like old times," she murmured.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

East Base was a maze of tunnels and passages built into the mesa, and from which the pirates had long maintained their constant interference with the local miners and inhabitants. Now though the Omega forces were pushing into a terrible, claustrophobic battleground where their enemies could be around every corner.
"Colonel, we're taking heavy losses from traps and ambushes in the tunnels!" one report came back.
"Pull the troops out for now. I have a better idea." Tegaea picked up her communicator. "@[member="Allaina Mare"], change of plans. I'm sending you new target coordinates. We're going to seal the pirates up inside this hill by bombing their entrances. If anyone can do this, I know it'll be you," she said.

The best way to deal with the pirates hiding inside the mesa was to simply seal them off and forget about them.

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Cira"], @[member="Hevana Martin"]

"We gotta swap war stories sometime," Siobhan called out to Hevana with an amused smirk as the former Imperial blasted her way through with missiles. Her blue lightsabre hummed and almost moved faster than the eye could follow, blazing bright as she charged, scarcely aware of the sound of explosions or the chaotic fusillade of blaster bolts. A pirate seeking cover behind the wreckage of a turret opened up a salvoe, he cried out in pain when one of his own bolts was shot back into his arm and shoulder, then with a leap she was upon him and slashed him in the neck.

Spying a pirate wielding a light repeater coming in from the flank, Siobhan activated an E-web with a tug from the Force and set it loose on him, blowing apart his cover and mowing him down. This had scarcely been accomplished when Siobhan, distracted by more incoming blasterfire, was suddenly charged by a Trandoshan pirate wielding an axe who launched himself against her, using his considerable body armour as a battering ram. The lightsabre fell out of her hand and she was knocked back, as she recovered the pirate charged and though she dodged as he brought his axe down he scored a cut against her jaw and her lower lip.

Oh, this just be might be fun, Siobhan thought when blood dripped down her lip. The lizard lunged at her, one hand striking with his axe, the other intending on fastening itself to her neck. Siobhan thrust out her droid hand and slammed it into his weapon, piercing his defences to punch him in the face. Her lightsabre flew into her hand but instead of bringing it to bear she decided to play for a while, twirling out of reach of her opponent and parrying his flurry of angry strikes and punches. With her temporarily distracted by the need to deflect a stray blaster bolt, he managed closed up with her he viciously struck at her, but then Siobhan grabbed the arm that held the axe in mid-motion, painfully wrenching it backwards.

The lizard struggled in her hard grip and thrust out his free hand to punch her, but then screamed when her lightsabre hacked it off and she suddenly pulled the hand holding his axe down with great speed, embedding it into his leg. Swinging her sabre, she took off his head and let him tumble down to the ground.

She surged forward, engaging further opponents. Blaster bolts peppered a wall behind her and she ducked to avoid a vibroblade strike, stabbing her opponent in the chest, then whirling around to block another strike. The pirate came at her again she broke the contact, dodging a kick she threw at him and attempting to corner her at the wall. She parried and spun out of the way, scoring a cut into his shoulder, then with a tug from the Force her lighter came flying out of her pocket and she levitated it in front of him. The perplexed pirate had just enough time to realise before she activated it and he was set on fire, screaming. Cloving her blade into his forehead, she put him out of his misery.

Two more pirates were caught in a force push and thrown into a fire caused by the walker's shelling. The unfortunate scum screamed and was ignited, their attempts to put out the fire futile. The group of pirates that held the camp was decimated, now there was just the bunker left to take. "Take the bunker, last of the scum's in there. Watch out for booby traps and ambushes," Siobhan affixed a charge of dynamite to the bunker's door, gesturing to the mercenaries to take cover before retreating herself and then activating the detonator...

 

[Qae Shena]

@[member="Tegaea Alcori"]

"Aye, ma'am. Changing course. Crew, prepare for new targeting profiles. How's that bomblet dispenser, gunnery?"

"Systems are hot and we've got standard munitions loaded up. Ready to drop."

"Good. Time to target, nav?"

"Four-oh seconds."

Fourty seconds wasn't much in an engagement like this. Certainly tense. Certainly not an easy wait. Allaina kept her gloved hands on the controls, watching her vectors, watching the terrain rush under her beloved ship. This was the first real combat test of the Inimica-class and she was loving it. Live-fire conditions were more of an adrenaline rush than dropping some bombs on a target out in the middle of nowhere.

It was a sudden voice in Allaina's headset that brought her out of the reverie that was revelling in the chaos of destruction. "Ground sites have sensor lock."

"Going evasive!" The big bomber heeled up, then performed a sudden dive, trying to get low and under the quad laser cannon that had decided that Allaina's ship was a very juicy target. Crimson blasts rocked the sky as the bomber flew right on past the emplacement without firing a single shot - but it didn't need to.

"Turret missiles launching!" cried the turret gunner as two concussion missiles sped out of the portside launcher, cracking the turret to pieces, leaving the door open for Allaina and her crew to drop the heavy end of the hammer on the mesa's tunnel entrance. She smiled under her helmet. Good. This would be painful.

"Ten seconds to drop, crew," intoned the weapons officer, poised to strike. "Dropping!" The second the Inimica flew over the drop point, a stream of small bombs dropped out of the ship's underside and exploded seconds later, collapsing dust and stone and durasteel in a cacophony of angry detonations.

"Next target?" asked Allaina to Tegaea, rather plainly. One down.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

[they're your NPC's, so kill them as you see fit]

Sarge saw red blossom from the bodyguards and began the arduous process of disentangling himself from his hiding spot. He wasn't sticking around to figure out if all the aggressors were dead. He knew the bodyguards were, and the big one was likely bleeding out too.

Ya never really knew anymore.

"Baseplate [@[member="Tegaea Alcori"]] this is Silencer. Mission Accomplished. Orders?"

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

The bombs struck, and the ground shook and trembled beneath Tegaea's feet as the bombers swept over. Dust rose in plumes from the shattered hillside. So powerful was the onslaught that part of the mesa's side had collapsed in a broken landslide of rock. Screams could be faintly heard, but the struggle was mostly won.
"Secure the exits and terminate any pirates who leave. I'm going down to the city to check on the situation there. @[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"], what is your status at West Camp?"

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Cira"], @[member="Hevana Martin"], @[member="Tegaea Alcori"]

The bunker door was shaken by a loud explosion and the ground trembled as the door was blown apart. Clouds of smoke arose from the detonation site as the door was torn to shreds and some agonised cries could be heard from inside, along with some bellowed commands. Evidently a few pirates had been standing too close and been caught in the shockwave.

Rocks came tumbling down from the hill, but the path into the bunker was clear. Siobhan gestured to the mercenaries to move in when her comm beeped. "Outer camp secure, all resistance terminated. Moving into the bunker to complete the sweep," Siobhan responded to Tegs' message.

 

[Jak Sandrow]

Well, that was easier than expected.
Two dark holes opened in each guards' head and chest, at the same time of a report from a modified assault rifle.
By now Jak's blaster was level & steady. Karroj had just finished turning.
"Karroj!" Jak shouted. "Omega Pyre pays better than you."
Letting that sink in for a fraction of a second, he squeezed the trigger twice, and two glowing pulses shot from the end of the pistol.
*thud*

Looking down at the body as he passed it on the way to his ship, he saw the shocked, frozen stare of Karroj. Heading to the ship, he activated the warm-up sequences from his wrist-comm.
"Thanks, Potteiger.
"@[member="Tegaea Alcori"], friendly freighter taking off from bay 72. Don't shoot, repeat, DON'T SHOOT. Will be landing at ground command base, once coordinates are sent. Sandrow out."

 

[Lenavina Martin]

"All Omega units, we are go for launch. Good hunting!"

Lenavina didn't more than that, joining Tegaea's transport as per the previously decided teams. Just as soon as the gunship met the ground, Lena armed her blaster rifle and exited at the first chance she got, firing at the first sight of pirates in her way, going for direct hits where able. The more she found, the more she moved in their direction, separating from the group for a short while. Which was when she heard @[member="Tegaea Alcori"] call out to her and quickly responded into her comlink. "Aye aye, boss. I'm on the ground. Will regroup in eighty seconds," the female responded jumped down, avoiding a few blasts that came her way before she jumped to her feet agian and fired at the enemies that fired at her.

When she finally rejoined her superior, Lenavina entered the tunel with her. Quickly, she saw why this was a bad idea. Just as her superior was handing in an order through her communicator, Lenavina caught sight of a pirate and fired,hitting him in the shoulder when he ducked for cover. "Drats," she muttered to herself and looked at the CEO. "What do you need me to do, boss?" Lenavina asked, her piercing blue gaze on the cover where the pirate had hid, waiting for him to resurface.

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Hevana Martin"], @[member="Cira"]

With the door blown to shreds the mercenary force penetrated the bunker, passing through the thick smoke. A good deal of the entrance had been wrecked by the explosion, they came across corpses of pirates. Warily they passed through a corridor, seemingly only coming across light resistance, but Siobhan was wary. The whole thing seemed fishy.

As they marched down a corridor after overcoming some scattered pirates, the team came to a halt when their point man signalled them. Siobhan walked onward, linking up with the mercenaries up front. It was all quiet, no turrets, no sign of booby traps, not even poorly aimed pirate blaster fire. In other words, something had to happen now.

The mercenaries levelled their blasters when suddenly they heard movement coming from an adjacent corridor, but instead of pirates bent on suicide by Omega the only being that emerged was a terrified looking miner wearing a thick vest. She looked looked frightened and held up her hands. "Please, don't hurt me. I'm not with them!" she exclaimed, breathing heavily. "They've...you must help me." Things would be much simpler if she just spat it out, but the rules of drama were in effect

"Major, we got a friendlie here," One Omega mercenary, the point man who had been looking for booby traps, perhaps feeling unusually noble of heroic, took a few steps closer to the frightened woman, levelling his gun.

Siobhan looked suspicious and tried to scan the area, seeking to reach out with the Force. "Stay where you are. Where's the rest of the pirates?" she demanded from the miner.

"They're down in the main control room. You gotta help me. They wired me with..." it was then that Siobhan heared the timer counting down and beheld the explosive belt. Immediately she produced a blaster pistol and shot the woman in the head, in the same motion she unleashed the Force to grip mercenaries standing ahead of her and fling them backwards so that they might be out of the blast radius.

Nonetheless, as the miner tumbled down dead the explosives she had been wired with detonated and a shockwave tore through the hall. While several mercenaries had been flung back through the Force in the nick of time, the cries of wounded soldiers were still heard. The wall behind the woman was ripped apart as a large hole was torn into it, evidently the damage could have been much worse. Siobhan, being slower to react due to her other focus, was caught in the shockwave and though the Force wrapped itself aorund her she was knocked and landed in the wall, then fell into the ground head-first.

Sharp shards and pieces of shrapnel released by the explosion flew through the air, hitting some of the soldiers. Kerrigan gritted her teeth at the pain after a large shard struck her face. "Shit, get up and kill those arseholes." She had scarcely said these words and pulled herself up when suddenly pirates started swarming them from the front and corridor to the right. The lights had been blasted out by the explosion. Admittedly the mercenaries had night vision googles and Siobhan had one cyborg eye, so it was overcome, but for a short moment it might be disorientating.

Siobhan heard hostiles coming in from an adjourning corridor and fired immediately with her blaster pistol at two figures, gunning them down. With a pull from the Force she pulled a damaged piece of wall plaiting free and tossed it at gunmen storming towards them, silencing the fire coming from that quarter. The mercenaries sought cover of their own and returned salvoes, then the pirates started lobbing grenades. Siobhan managed to drag a mercenary behind the cover of some bricks and wreckage. A grenade landed next to her and with lightning reflexes she tossed it back to the enemy, but then was knocked back when a blaster bolt grazed her shoulder and a stun bolt hit her in the stomach. Blaster shots and explosions resounded throughout the room and pure chaos descended on them she pulled herself up.

She spun her blade, deflecting shots from pirates who had used the mercenaries' distraction to emerge from cover and storm towards them. They were coming under fire from the pirates up ahead and those from the right corridor. Scanning as rounds bounced off her blade and she sought to evade grenades, she noticed that the left wall had been quite weakened by the explosion, with a hole in it. "Keep those arseholes busy and then advance, I'll take a group and come in from the left. We'll blow 'em to hell," she called out to Hevana.

More pirates emerged and assaulted them. One got his legs blown off when Siobhan reflected his bolts back and then fell to a buckshot round from a merc. Another heavily armoured one launched himself at her and slammed his repeater into her face, causing damage in her cyborg eye and struck a kick into her stomach. She up her blade to shore his gun in half and hit back with a bone-crunching punch from her droid arm into one of his ribs, making him stagger, then stabbed him.

Using the smoke and general confusion she emerged out, gesturing to Cira some mercs to follow her for the breakthrough Stray blaster bolts whizzed past her and with all the smoke it was difficult to deflect them, forcing her to just run. Releasing a grenade, she hurled it at the vulnerable piece of wall, guiding it with the Force. While this happened the mercs still in cover kept up a continuous volley of blasterfire and tossed in grenades to keep their enemies busy, making mayhem to cover them.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

@[member="Lenavina Martin"]

"Lena, just in time!" Tegs said, tapping her on the shoulder. "The pirates are on the run. I need you to take a squad of our troops and investigate the nearest mine. Any enemies, terminate them; any hostages or miners, save them. If you need backup, call me and I'll dispatch reinforcements."

Meanwhile Tegaea busied herself setting guards over the ruined mesa. She saw @[member="Jak Sandrow"] pass overhead and got on her comm. "Understood Sandrow. All Omega forces, friendly transport heading into space, hold fire. Dock with the flagship, Sandrow for your safety."

 

[Jak Sandrow]

"Roger that, heading to flagship to commence docking."
Jak was in the air, now, under almost no fire. The pirates thought he was one of theirs, and the OP had just gotten the no-fire order. So it was a clear path to the flagship that opened up for Jak.
(OOC: I am done here, unless someone needs me as support, in which case they may mention me.)

 

[Cira]

@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] @[member="Hevana Martin"]

Debris fell down over head as the wall came crashing down, blown to bits by the grenade that Siobhan had launched at it. All the while, Cira provided a measure of cover fire, but the haze of smoke, dust, and debris was making it difficult to remain... accurate. Another grenade soon followed Siobhan's suit to ensure any pursuers would meet a rather grim fate.

A dive to the left provided a measure of cover, her back slamming tight against a small duracrete barrier. A grunt fell from her lips as she ejected the used powercell of her blaster rifle, jerking another one from her hip and slamming home. That's when she heard a faint hissing sound. Jerking her head up, she gave a frown as a small green gas began emitting from an overhead vent.

"GAS!" she shouted, as they could not be sure what sort of gas it could be. Needless to say, it was either a security measure... or perhaps the pirates were dabbling in more than just petty piracy.

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Cira"]

Gas was suddenly sprayed out of the overhead vent. Whether this was just a security measure or the corsairs dabbling in more than just piracy Siobhan could not tell, not that she cared right now.

"Gas masks on and take the bastards down," she called out, starting to cough as smoke and gas invaded her lungs. Tears appeared in her flesh eye and they started to pain. Her vision grew hazy, though dimly she could make out pirates advancing as she stumbled after being hit by a fume of gas. Stray blaster bolts shot through the air, it was her luck that she was not hit.

Siobhan was not wearing the new Omega combat armour, which made gas somewhat less effective but had been late in production due to red tape and thus only handed out to a selected number of troops, mostly those in the first wave. Unsurprisingly, every galactic organisation was plagued by its share of bureaucratic nonsense.

She drew on the Force as blaster bolts came shooting towards them, stilling her breathing. Some force-users could use their powers to neutralise or at ameliorate the effects of toxins. Siobhan was not one of them, but it could keep her going a bit. Grimly she advanced forward, her cyborg eye flashed menacingly.

A pirate came around the corner, wearing a gas mask and wielding an archaic shotgun. He fired, hitting an already damaged pillar behind her with a load of buckshot, then shot again, but Siobhan sidestepped, running. Not flinching she dodged his next shot, then when he had the aimed at her face she kicked it out of his hands so that the shot hit the ceiling and broke his arm, bringing him down with a slash to the throat.

Grabbing the shotgun she threw it through the air at a corsair who emerged out of the smoke, watching it sail and hit into his face with a resounding crack. She could hear sounds of battle coming from where Hevana and the other mercenaries had been left. The group Siobhan was leading moved towards where the main mob of pirates was hiding. The battle was on.

 

[Hevana Martin]

As gas began to spilled out into the corridors, Hevana and the mercs she had brought with her continued on unimpeded. THey were dressed in the new Omega combat armor that automatically filtered contaminants, and her scout armor did the same. Which did not make the visibility factor much better, but that was what infrared was for.

Switching to it, she saw a pair of pirates trying to flee a room with the gas as cover. Two bursts from her repeater brought them down, and one of her men moved into the vacated room to check for more.

"Clear."

"Alight, begin clearing rooms one at a time, don't take chances." Following her own orders she and the privates with her began breaching the rooms, firing on any pirates they found. Then she reached a particularly impressive door, which implied something important inside. Activating the doors, she tossed in a flashbang. Rushing through she swept the room taking down four stunned pirates who had been waiting to ambush anyone that entered. Once they were down she looked around and realized she was in a security room.

"I got something here, found their camera room."

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Hevana Martin"], @[member="Tegaea Alcori"], @[member="Cira"]

Siobhan hewed her way through the pirates that got into her way, deflecting bolts or just outright stabbing them. Behind the mercenaries the hallway was packed with corpses. The smell of ozone, charred flesh and smoke was in the air.

Two pirates were taken out when she tossed a phosphorus grenade and set alight. The shockwave knocked another down and when he twitched and tried to grab his pistol Siobhan kicked him into the fire. As he writhed and tried to extinguish the fire, rolling on the ground, she swung her sabre and mercifully took him out with a cut to the neck.

The last pirate she encountered turned tail and ran when the mercenary force came at him, a futile task given that Hevana and her troopers were coming in from the other side. Realising he was cornered he let loose a salvoe with his rifle, then plucked a grenade from his belt, holding it up threateningly. A force push slammed him into the pull just as he pulled the pin, subsequent to the hard slam he was blown apart.

Siobhan entered the security room, giving a nod. "Good work, Corporal." One of the monitors had been blown up by the mercenaries' entrance, but the rest still worked.

She examined the camera feedings, then pointed at one monitor. It showed a small group of pirates, led by an armoured man with a goatee and crew-cut dark hair, race down a corridor towards the tunnels. She recognised him from a holo-image at the briefing as their captain. The pirates had a few miners in their grips, their faces were obscured by plastic bags over their faces.

"Let's go. Try and avoid collateral damage if possible, but don't let any scum escape," she grunted towards the mercenaries, heading out. She cut open a door with her lightsabre and then raced down. Activating her comm, she contacted Tegaea to fill her in. "Bunker clear, last pirates are running to the tunnel with prisoners. Pursuing."

 

[Cira]

@Cira @[member="Hevana Martin"] @[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

With her mask already on, she didn't have to worry too much about the gas. With the filter, she didn't get a good whiff of the ozone, charred flesh and smoke, but she knew it would be there. Coming to stand just slightly to the right, she caught sight of the camera feedings. There he was. The crew cut hair and the goatee along that scarred visage. The pirate Captain.

With the path carved open by the Major's saber, Cira followed pursuit, blaster rifle at the ready. The sound of footsteps and yells were up ahead, just off to the right. "Contact right!" she yelled out as the group of pirates came into sight. Several of them held hostages, the Captain she'd seen earlier on Siobhan's feed holding a a little girl with a blaster held to her temple.
"Come no futher, ey." came the steely voice. "Or she be getting it."

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Cira"], @[member="Hevana Martin"]

It was a bit of cross-universal irony that somewhere in another universe another Siobhan Kerrigan was facing this exact situation as well. Scum trying to escape, using hostages as human shields. Said Kerrigan made this one look nice, cuddly and stable. Well, this one generally didn't kneecap or torture people!

They shared a rather violent attitude to practical problem-solving though. Regardless Siobhan stepped forward, taking a sharp turn to the right when she heard Cira's voice. The mercenaries levelled their blasters at the pirates, many of whom were holding frightened hostages in their grips.

Outwardly no emotion crossed her grim, scarred features as she quickly scanned the area, her eyes affixing on the Captain holding the little girl at gunpoint.

"Come no futher, ey." came the steely voice. "Or she be getting it."

"And then you die" she said matter-of-factly, wrapping herself in the Force. She gave Cira and Hevana a barely there nod. Some pirates looked uneasy, they outnumbered.

"One step more...we sh..."

Suddenly Siobhan struck out with her telekinesis and surprised pirates looked on as their guns were ripped out of their hands. "I shoot first." The Pirate Captain quickly pulled out a knife but then he was levitated slightly into the air before hitting the ground with a thud. Temporarily freed frightened hostages started to run and seek cover on the ground as the mercenaries engaged the pirates and opened fire.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

Tegaea meanwhile had taken to the air again to get a better overview of the situation. So far it seemed good, and if Siobhan's report was accurate (and she believed it was), they were soon going to have the western side sewn up nicely.

However, it was at this point that one of the pirates contacted them. "Hello, Omega Pigs. You may have won this round, but you're not going to be around to gloat over your victory. My men discovered something very interesting not so long ago. Enjoy."
Tegaea was turning to her tech specialist to see where the call was coming from when there was a distant, dull, boom. Out in the desert far away there was an explosion. At first Tegaea wondered what the point of blowing up a cliff ten miles away was. But then she saw it, a line streaking across the sand towards the valley between Tegaea and @Siobhan and @[member="Cira"]. Something was coming, and suddenly it burst from the sands.

Tegaea had never seen anything like it before in her life. "Take us in closer, ready weapons!" she said. But then the monster turned and from its gigantic maw came a blast of...something...which stuck to the gunship and ate through it like it was paper.
"I'm are hit and going down! Repeat, I am going down into the desert!" She braced as the gunship had just enough thrust left to skim across the sand and slide to a halt in a bone juddering crush of metal and plastic.

Dimly, the world came back to her and she forced her way out of the broken gunship and onto the hard sand. Towering over her was the monster, and suddenly her blaster pistols felt like pea shooters against a death star.
"I...could use some help here," she said, staggering slightly as she tried to keep the massive sand wurm in sight. It was looking pretty hostile....

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

Some pirates turned tail and tried to run away, they were quickly gunned down. Others held up their hands in meek surrender, their position futile.

The desert was shaken by a loud explosion, such that it was even heard in the tunnels where the Omega strike force had accosted the remaining pirates. Then the earth shook when the giant worm burst out of the ground and slithered across the valley.

Siobhan stormed out of the tunnel, where the end had almost been reached, into the valley, having yelled a quick order to round up the freed miners and ordered @[member="Cira"] and @[member="Hevana Martin"] to follow. With the pirates disarmed, the mercenaries could deal with them just fine. Right now she had bigger problems to think about.

Bigger problems of the giant sandworm that apparently shot acid that burnt through the thick armour plating of state-of-the-art gunships variety, she reflected when she beheld the giant beast. They could use air support like right about now, a smarter person might have withdrawn, but Siobhan was not that sort.

She scrambled across a rock spire, moving as quickly as she could as she exerted herself in the Force to get closer to Tegaea. Her lightsabre was a formidable weapon, but it would do little good if the creature burnt her with acid or ripped her to shreds. With beads of sweat dripping her forehead, she thrust out her hand and called upon a mighty rock from the cliff and sent it shooting towards the head of the worm like a thunderbolt.

At the very least it would distract the beast for a bit. For Siobhan to think of...something more permanent like chop its head off. Or perhaps to get an air strike. The creature was struck and let out a terrible roar of pain. "That's right, I'm so very tasty!" Turning to face Siobhan, it sent a blast of whatever had eaten through the starship. Siobhan managed to jump out of reach, but then cried out in pain when some acid struck her leg, it burnt right through her uniform. The creature towered over and bared its razor sharp fangs, shooting out acid as Siobhan.

Trying to move out of reach, Siobhan grabbed her last frag grenade and hurled it at the beast when it opened the gaping maw that seemed to be the equivalent to its mouth. It landed and the creature roared in pain when the it was blasted from within. But the horrific damage just seemed to make the worm angrier.

Siobhan moved sideways, hoping to somehow jump onto the creature as it slithered towards her. But then suddenly it simply dug back into the ground. Siobhan stopped, scanning the area, then just at the last moment a tug from the Force made her take a sharp turn to the right, just in time to see the worm burst out of the ground.

With astounding speed the beast slithered towards her. Siobhan hurled a mass of rocks at it with telekinesis and even threw her lightsabre once, scoring a cut in its head, but not enough to kill it. Finally the creature slammed into her and she was sent flying towards the wreckage of the destroyed gunship, landing with a hard thud. Her vision became hazy, blood dripped down her face.

Dimly the world came back to her and she managed to emerge from Morpheus' realm, by then the worm was almost upon her. She dove sideways to evade its strike and then came at it with her lightsabre, hacking and slashing at it. She tore bloody wounds into it, but cried out at being struck by its claws. She fell, managing to bring up her lightsabre just about quickly enough to block a strike when the beast came down on her and struck with its fangs. It screeched in pain when she stabbed into one of its many beady eyes.

"Our day wouldn't be complete without a big beastie popping up, huh, Tegs?" she called out sarcastically as she leapt away from the creature's gigantic jaws, swinging her blade to slash into it. With the Force she levitated a large piece of the broken gunship and hurled towards the worm. She certainly could not complain about not having the beast's attention now!