A Slight Detour...

[Lenix Ornil]

It's as busy as it usually is on the busy spaceports of Coruscant; traders, ships and crowds of people fill the air with chatter, engine noise and droidspeak. Next a large junky Corellian ship docked in one of the freighter bays; a red-furred Squib bickers with his red astromech as they move on supplies~ a hologram flashing up displaying "Transit available along Corellian Run". As they hope to take on a big job for a decent payout. The Squib continues to argue with his Astromech as they load up the last of their cargo.

R5 bloops a string of condescending droidspeak at Lenix

"I know it is risky but we need the credits! Or the Hutts will take our ship you bet!"


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[Iratann'Dira]

While the droid and the Squib crossed words with each other, a hooded girl passed next to them. Overhearing the conversation, she turned her gaze to the couple, and then to the holographic display. "Transit available through the Corellian Run..." The young woman said, in a whisper. "Perhaps..." She thought. "Perhaps, they could take me out of this planet... out of the reach of the people following me..." Getting closer, she looked around, to make sure no one was following her, and stood in front of the red Squib.

"F-Forgive... f-forgive m-me... b-but..." She started, shyily. "B-But... h-how m-much the r-ride c-costs?" The girl asked, fearful.

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[The Void Hunter]

He had been watching a hooded figure run for hours now... She was being followed, he had no business in the matter, but he wanted to help the girl, not just anyone gets hunted. he stepped out of the shadows, a cloaked, masked man, and grabbed one of the men following her wit the force. "Why are you following that girl." he demanded, getting no answer he activated one of his orange sabers and eliminated the stalker, The girl would have seen, but it was for her safety.

walking up to the transit marker, he saw the girl, and walking up to the owner, he calmly stated that he would pay for the girl's travels, whatever the cost, and he would be traveling with her. he turned to the girl, "Why are those men following you?" he asked, watching three hooded figures hiding in the shadows.
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[Lenix Ornil]

The squib and droid turned to her and Lenix put on a wide smile

"Oh hello miss! Where to? We have stop offs on Corellia and Tatooine, which would be 100 credits, any other planets would be extra, for fuel and stuff" he continued, excited at the prospect of business.

While they talked, R5's 3 small cameras scanned for any ID that would tell him if she was wanted or not~ but nothing came up~ to which he bleeped to Lenix

"Interested?" he looked up with that squib smile that always meant you were nearing a rip-off



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[Iratann'Dira]

Hearing the price, Ira froze. "1-100 c-credits?" She said, surprised, and looked down. As she was about to turn down the offer, a man came and told Lenix about how he would pay for the travel, and would go with her. Looking up to the man, she raised an eyebrow in confusion. The human then asked her about the men following her.

"W-What?" She started to move her head from side to side, trying to find the ones following her.

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[The Void Hunter]

"Four men, well three now." he told the girl, "They've been following you for hours," he said angrily,"What did you do to have four armed thugs chasing after you?" he asked, looking back at the men, "I'm about to make it no men following you..." he muttered, activating his sabers again. "You may want to look away." he said, and started to walk towards the stalkers.

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[Lenix Ornil]

"Oooh boy..."

Lenix handed the credits to R5 who stored them inside his cylindrical body and blooped excitedly. As the Imperial dock-guards spotted the lightsabers they joined in the shooting too.

"Go tell Peetee to take off and hurry!"

R5 blooped in the positive and zipped away up the boarding ramp.

Lenix tugged on the girls robes to get her attention

"Let's get you inside the ship miss! He can handle himself you bet!"

He proceeded to herd the girl up the ramp and into the rustbucket of a ship

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[The Void Hunter]

He deflected a few blaster bolts from the thugs, force choked one of them, and pushed the other two off a ledge. "Alright lets get out of here." he said and deactivated his saber, lifting one of the guards and pushing him back a few feet.

He started to back into the ship, pushing guards rifles away, lifting them and dropping them a few feet, and deflecting a bolt or two.

"Can we leave anytime soon?" he yelled, and jumped onto the ship.

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[Lenix Ornil]

Lenix helps him up the ramp and the engines kick into gear

"How does now sound?" he smirked as the ramp raised up~ the huge corellian freighter backing out of the hangar and pointing to the sky~ roaing with thrust and propelling the ship skywards~ imperial guard turrets sending green bolts after them as they raced away through the traffic, and leaving the city planet behind.

Lenix directs Void to the living quarters, where there's a corner sofa with a Holochess table, a few extra sofas and a whole wall full of droid parts and small projects the Squib had going.

"Now we'll be out of here soon Mr Jedi, you bet!" he smirked "Fastest ship she is! Matches imperial Star Destroyers you bet!"

He then skipped into the cockpit where a battered protocol droid pilots the ship

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[The Void Hunter]

He sat on the sofa and motioned the girl to sit and chat, "I wont push it, but why were those thugs chasing you?" he asked her.

"I'm not a jedi." he muttered, and clipped his sabers to his belt.

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[Lenix Ornil]

(I'll let [member="Funkifan"] post next to keep an order, otherwise someone gets left out of the story for too long [member="The Void Hunter"] )

 

[Iratann'Dira]

Everything had happened too fast, leaving Iratann somewhat dizzy. However, she was now on a relatively safe place, under the wing of the red Squib, and the human jedi... and for now that was enough for her, although she still felt a little scared and nervous, having barely met the two people that where with her. Well, the two people, and the droids. In any case, she took a deep breath, and examined the room where the human and she were.

As the mercenary sat on the sofa, she invited the Twi'lek to accompany him. Ira sat at a side, and took off her hood, revealing a really beautiful face. The young woman had a smooth, aquamarine skin, with two green eyes, which were looking all over the place. In her lekku, which reached her lower back, she had darker green spots all over them, and the human could see freckles over her cheeks.

Turning her head to meet the human's gaze, she silently observed the features of the jedi for a moment, thinking about what to do. Finally, recalling that the mercenary had tried to help her, she started speaking, albeit shyly, and slowly. "I-I... I-I... I a-am... I-I w-was a-a-a s-slave..." The last word, she said it with a very sad tone, and her eyes got watery. "...I-I e-escaped... a-and... t-those m-men w-where f-following m-me. T-Thank y-you f-for the help, s-sir"

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[The Void Hunter]

He pulled off his mask and instantly started to cough, after a moment he looked at the twi'lek, "bloody slavers..." he muttered softly, he hadn't gotten his voice back yet, breathing modified air was different than normal air. He coughed a few more times and finally decided that, she would see eventually, so why not now, and moved his hand away from his destroyed eye, it had a deep scar running across it and was bleeding slowly, "Don't mention it, glad I could help."

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[Lenix Ornil]

The ship juddered a little before the engines geared up for hyperspace and the craft shot off~ next stop: Corellia.

The red squib walked back in~ accompanied by R5 who handed the squib the credits from earlier back~ who pocketed them into one of his belt bags. He took a seat across from the other two~ the meter tall creature sitting on his knees to be at eye level to the other two passengers.

"I do apologise for the rushed exit, but the Empire don't like the sort of Mr Jedi here." he nodded to him~ obviously ignoring his earlier protests

"I never did give my name did I? My name is Lenix Ornil~and this is ArFive" he banged the droid's head with his palm to which he blooped in greeting "And yourselves?"

(If you follow the thread you shouldn't need to mention the names at the end [member="The Void Hunter"] [member="Funkifan"] )

 

[The Void Hunter]

"I'm not a jedi..." he muttered and instantly started to cough, deep chest rattling coughs that were full of pain.

He still wasn't used to this air...

A moment later he decided to answer the creature, "Hunter. You may call me hunter."

He turned watched the droid beeping and spinning around.

(followed, i've just been too lazy to do it )

 

[Lenix Ornil]

He tilted his head and pointed to his light sabers

"You have Jedi swords though" he said confused~ being wary of having let a sith on his ship

the cockpit door opened and a battered old RA7 protocol droid walked in, not having seen the guessed he bowed slightly "Would you like any drinks sirs?" he asked in a grated metallic voice

 

[The Void Hunter]

"Doesn't mean Im a bloody jedi..." he muttered

He looked at the droids for a moment, "Get something for the girl, nothing for me."

 

[Lenix Ornil]

The droid nodded politely and sauntered off to the kitchen

"Did you kill a Jedi for them?" he raised his eyebrows "Only Jedi can build them"

Being a Squib, his race had big respect for Jedi

 

[The Void Hunter]

"I used to be a jedi, not any more." he told the squib

"How far does this ride go?" he asked a moment later.

 

[Lenix Ornil]

Lenix nodded at the comment~ realising many went into exile "Corellia and Tatooine, though Corellia is heavy Empire control so it may be an idea for you guys to hide in the smuggling compartments whilst I restock" he advised "I don't want my ship to be taken by Empire junkers, and I can mask the ship ID so they don't recognise it's callsign" he said proudly