Broken Bar (Open)

[Kixi Rajki]

Both Kixi and Braj'tec had caught on of what was happening. A crime boss for sure. And a slaver. Braj'tec had transferred the data from his implant into Kixi's. The trandoshan held innocent slaves prisoners. She had to intervene as a Jedi. Her methods were not exactly very orthodox however. Her elite team comprised of the sort that the Jedi temple would never approve. One of them just for the record, Kes En'jusek a woman only a few years older than her, was a trained cold blooded assassin. Given the chance she would kill anyone she hated or disliked, Mako Zaneca who was Kiki's soulmate included.

Braj'tec walked around the Trandoshan and his men and towards Kixi. He ignored them and pretended to go by his own business. He was good at what he did and his tricks. Although the Trandoshan suspected something, he wasn't certain as it looked like Braj'tec was conducting other business completely irrelevant to that of the Trandoshan's. Speaking to Kixi only in Züncålidiom, Braj'tec spoke calmly to her and right where the Trandoshan and his 6 men could hear not caring as they would never undertand a word anyway.

"Kixi we can't take the fight in here, there are people and innocents everywhere, however it appears they are going to bail and make a run for it".

"Not to worry Braj'tec, we'll get them outside after they walk out".

Kixi spoke into her implant.

"Zasalamel, Kes, there are 7 men who are about make a run for it. Take up strategic postions and prepare to ambush them once they are clear of the door. I suggest you turn on your body shields now. Braj'tec and I will follow them out a few seconds later".

She got the acknowledgement and they moved into their respective tactical positions. While she was at it, she also contacted Mako to ready her Firespray which was in the nearby vicinity. There was always the possibilty that Kixi and her crew could be overrun and she needed a plan B for escape. She looked at the Trandoshan who clearly had grabbed her attention.

"Oh hello there, I'm just trying to organise a get together with friends for a special occasion. They're all hopeless trying to get them in the one place".

She raised her hands in a gesture and smiled. Then signalled the bartender for another drink as she continued her charade. Looking at Braj'tec,

"Ready your body shield, mine is ready, as soon as they walk out, wait until they are out the door, by then Zasalamel and Kes would have surprised ambushed them. We then run out, have your weapon in hand and I'll have my lightsabre in hand".

She put her drink down and moved her upper body to the ryhthm of the music. She looked again at the Trandoshan smiling as she looked like she was dancing on her seat. Hopefully he had no idea of what was about to happen.

[member="Vinskk Revamp"]

 

[Vinskk Revamp]

Well, that was easy enough.

Vinskk clicked at Darkgear again, this time in Dosha, with a knowing glare.

"Another one. A 'get togther'. She's ordering an ambush. Call the rest of the men."

Liam cocked an eyebrow in incredulity.

"Um, sir? All of them?"

The Trandoshan nodded slowly. The seasoned soldier shrugged and called it in.

Ring, ring...

"Yes, Mr. Darkgear?"

It was Free-Eyes who answered the call on the earpiece, Vinskk's Gran first mate and close friend, who virtually worshipped the Trandoshan Cartel Boss. Liam spoke in Granese, the language of Free-Eyes and a much less common tongue than Basic or Huttesse.

"Mr. Eyes. Do me a favor and send all the boys over to our location. Captain's orders."

The Gran slicer scratched the back of his head skeptically.

"Uh, sure. I mean, that's a lot of guys..."

Darkgear ended the call, nodding to his boss.

Meanwhile, on the Black Talon...

All 34 of the other soldiers and slavers began to gear up, putting light armor underneath heavy cloaks and concealed blasters. They left as a mass, splitting up into various groups to seem less suspicious. Free-Eyes himself led a group, cloak covering various weapons and gizmos and hood covering his three eyes.

The Trandoshan and his motley collection stayed put in the restaurant. It was a matter of time before his entourage came to pick him up.

Ok, less of an entourage and more like an army, but you get the point.

[member="Kixi Rajki"]

 

[Kixi Rajki]

Braj'tec was no fool. He was too experienced as a militant to accept anything easy. He hadn't just transmitted the intel he had copied from the Trandoshan's datapad to Kixi's implant, but also to their ship, the MXS Morihei Ueshiba. By now their intelligence officers on board had decoded much information. Jhes Je'kesik, the head of intelligence onboard the Ueshiba had relayed something back to Braj'tec of matter of urgency. They spoke like always only in Züncålidiom.

"Braj'tec, the ship, the Black Talon is their ship and is within striking range of us. Yet they do not know we are, let us say their enemy".

"Copy that Jhes, I've just partially intercepted part of a conversation they just had now. You appear to be correct regarding the Black Talon. Worse still, he is assembling an army to meet us on the ground, we will be overrun if they land their soldiers. Hold one moment"

Braj'tec had been able to decode part of the conversation being spoken in Gran with his inplanted universal translator. Gran was still a language native to this galaxy and thus his translator was programmed to decript very much all languages native to it. He turned to Kixi who was also getting the feed from the ship.

"We either retreat or we stop those men of his from landing. Otherwise we lose the fight I'm afraid".

"Jhess, this is your captian Kixi, we have a dire situation here. If those troops land and get to our location, we will be heavily outnumbered. Given first officer Mako is not onboard, you are in command of the ship. Intercept the Black Talon and engage. Do not destroy the ship, I repeat do not destroy it. Only disable it. The slaves are onboard. To destroy it will defeat the purpose. You have the element on surprise. Strike hard before they realise what is happening and then get the hell out of there. Our ship model is unknown to them, the less they see of it, the harder it will be for them to identify us later".

"Copy that, moving into intercept course now, please standby".

All Kixi and Braj'tec could do now is wait and hope. The MXS Morihei Ueshiba indeed did catch the Black Talon off guard. The ambush was quick, and as the crew on the Black Talon were not expecting it and were very much preparing a ground strike team, the Ueshiba managed to disable the ship, scan it to confirm the slaves were indeed onboard, and then quickly make a run for it. Hopefully it would stall them for a while as surely there would be no chance of such an easy ambush on the Black Talon a second time.

"Kixi, it is done, however I suggest you hurry up with your business because I think I've just peed off a lot of people big time".

"Affirmative, we'll do our best down here but we may require your services again. Don't go to far".

Kixi looked at Braj'tec hiding the fact that she was extremely worried. The situation didn't look all that bright if those soldiers from that Black Talon got to them eventually. Kes and Zasalamel were still outside. She needed the Trandoshan and his 6 men outside of the bar. As long as it was them 7 versus the 4 of them, they could easily win the fight. Zasalamel alone couild probably take out most of the Trandoshan's men. He afterall had tought Kixi most of what she had known about fighting and combat and was almost 2 metres tall and a huge man.

She spoke in Basic again so that the Trandoshan could understand her, pretending to look all frustrated at the lack of organisation.

"This is hopeless Braj'tec, I rock up here and those 2 are stuck in their offices with clients. I mean why now. When we should be all here celebrating and drinking".

She sighed or rather pretended to in her pretense act of frustration. She was hopeful that maybe now he and his thugs would leave the bar so she could take him down and into custody.

[member="Vinskk Revamp"]

 

[Vinskk Revamp]

Vinskk nodded to his entourage inside, standing up.

"Let's go."

The 7 men stood and crossed the restaurant, reaching the exit. The cloaked slavers huddled around Revamp, forming a protective formation.

They left then, the party outside the bar and grill. The group waited there for the rest of the group to show up from the streets, unaware of the attack on the Black Talon...

[member="Kixi Rajki"]

 

[Kixi Rajki]

Kixi and Braj'tec pretended to pay little attention as the Trandoshan and his men left the bar. Kixi spoke through her inplant to both Zasalamel and Kes.

They're coming. His men are protecting him. Engage them once they are out. Eliminate all but the Transoshan and his head man who is standing to the right of the Trandoshan.

They achnowledged her and as they did, both Kixi and Braj'tec made a run for the door, with lightsabre ignited and blaster in hand respetively, and to the sudden unexpecting attention to the rest of the patrons in the bar.

As the 7 men walked out, they were quickly and swiftly ambushed. First a 2 metre tall dark hooded man came at them at mega lightening speed. With a scythe almost as long as the man himself, he instantly diced two of the front men. And then before anyone else could react, a much smaller woman, also quick was able to jump to the side of one of the other men, put a strangling cord behind his neck, bring him to the ground and choke him to death in mere seconds. The Trandoshan and the remaing 3 men were about to obviously pull out their own blasters when one of them also went down courtesy of a blaster bolt from Braj'tec's own blaster rifle, and a second a moment after that fell headless as Kixi severed it with her lightsabre. This left only the Trandoshan and his main man Darkgear left standing. Kixi by this stage had ordered her men to stop. The four of them surrounded the two, weapons fully trained on them.

"Well, well, well, look what we have here. An ugly green lizard scumbag. Now what shall we do with him hey?"

Kixi spoke with a huge smile on her face feeling all good about herself that she had suckered the Trandoshan in believing she was just a harmless woman at the bar.

"You can start by dropping your weapons, both of you. You lizard man have something I want. Aboard that ship of yours the Black Talon. The slaves, hand them over now! Oh and speaking of your ship, I've had my ship disable it, so that little army you were preparing for me and my buddies here I'm afraid isn't gonna show up. Lastly in the name of the Republic, I am placing you both under arrest".

Both lowered and then dropped their weapons, or at least the ones that Kixi and her men could see. The Trandoshan starred directly into Kixi's eyes, he hissed and gave her a death stare. And then it hit her like a herd of banthas. She had for well over a year now been seeing visions of events that had felt like she had experienced them, had been there, but had never happened. Or she believed it to be the case. She had seeked help from the best Jedi masters, yet they too were only at best able to remedy the problem. No one including Kixi understood why, but in the centre of all these visions was a Trandoshan. The name came to her. "Vinskk!". Kixi's face suddenly went pale, she felt sickened, very sickened. The Trandoshan had guttered Mako and had been ready to kill her before she managed to change everything in a nick of time. The memory had come back.

"You are Vinskk, Vinskk Revamp, would I be correct"?

She turned off her lightsabre to the surprise reaction of her other 3 companions.

"Have you lost your mind, what in the name of the Force are you doing Kixi"

Braj'tec snapped his words at Kixi but didn't dare take his eyes off both the Trandoshan and his one remaining man.

"Vinskk we were once friends, and then you turned on me, however I doubt that you would remember".

Kixi who was shaking inside due to her revelation, and Vinskk starred at one another for several seconds, silently as Mako's Firespray came in hovering and remained there. Braj'tec had called Mako in, as he knew Kixi all too well enough to have realised that all of a sudden, something wasn't quite right with her.

[member="Vinskk Revamp"]

 

[Vinskk Revamp]

"Karking hell...Kixi?"

The sudden familiarity, hitting him harder than the swift deaths of his men had, was like a sucker punch to the gut of the Trandoshan. All those dreams he had, dreams of the Jeedai, him killing a woman while another screamed in horror...this one was in it, and her name was Kixi Rajki.

"Yes, that's my name. And you're Kixi Rajki. I...I don't know you, but at the same time..."

What the hell was going on? Just being near this woman was giving him a splitting headache. Darkgear was silent, quietly mourning the deaths of the men who served with him on Revamp's crew.

Vinskk wasn't in fear, but he was definitely perturbed by this. What did it mean? How did he know her?

[member="Kixi Rajki"]

 

[Kixi Rajki]

Kixi began walking closer to the Trandoshan but then stopped short. She wasn't afraid. Even with her lightsabre now switched off, she still had the Force and her 3 top warriors surrounding both Vinskk and Darkgear with their weapons trained on them. She suddenly got a massive headache as she had neared the Trandoshan. She put one hand on her forehead and closed the eye next to where her hand was momentarily to try and ease the pain. Her right hand warrior, Braj'tec and her advisor and bodyguard Zasalamel were on extremely high alert by this stage. They didn't quite approve of what Kixi was doing. Kes the assassin woman yelled out to her.

"Just kill them already, or I'll gladly do it if you are too soft or have no flamming guts".

"Quiet!"

Kixi snapped back at her.

"So Vinskk, you remember me, or a bit at least.......good".

Kixi took in a deep breath. Inside she was shaking. She did her best not to show it, although her 2 male warriors could see it as they knew her all too well and were ready to pounce again if everything were to suddently go haywire again.

"You owed me a life debt, we were on a mission to get something at the Jedi temple, an artifact. I retreived it. We had encounted a Botham spy, he wouldn't talk so I threatened to kill his family and then you turned against me. I was consumed by the dark side of the Force back then and had decided to chase you and even unleash some kind of biological weapon on your home word. One that I wouldn't be able to replicate now, as for one I don't have your species sample anymore to modify the Genghis virus, and two I have changed. I, I, I wouldn't do such horrible things anymore".

She looked around at the slain bodies of the Trandoshan's men not too sure about the last part she had just said and continued.

"Well not kill unless it is necessary that is. I had failed my mission and was captured by the Sith. You were carrying out the executions. You killed Mako first and were about to kill me, but I was able to use that artifact which I had replicated in my own body using some kind of replicating technology and change everything. For the good".

She half smiled at him slowly.

"Yes for the good indeed. And now we are here. You although have not changed a bit. I want to cut a deal with you. I was going to arrest you, but after this revelation, I don't want you anywhere near me. All I want is what I came here for. The slaves. Hand them over and you and your buddy there will be free to go. Contact your ship, the Talon and have the slaves loaded onto a shuttle. Have one of your pilots fly it to my ship, the Morihei Ueshiba in which I can arrange the co-ordinates for, and then once the drop off is complete, your pilot can fly back. My men and I will then board that Flyspray hovering just above us and you will be free to go".

She took a few paces back and crossed both her arms and gave the Trandoshan her unmistakenly evil smile of what would happen if he were to double cross her.

"Of course any funny business and you're both dead. This means no special forces are to go on that shuttle, just the slaves and the pilot flying the ship. No bombs, no hidden bombs on the slaves, and yes we can scan for all that with our advanced sensors before your shuttle would get to my ship, and no sending any re-enfocements to our position here".

She pointed her arm and finger at him and then crossed her arms again and gave him what was clearly a fake smile.

"So the choice is yours. What is it going to be. If you ask me it is a great deal given your current predicament. You lose the slaves, but get to live and walk free, and on top of all that, fight another day doing all the dispicable crimes that you clearly do best".

She waited for the Trandoshan to decide. Hopefully he had no other tricks up his sleeve. Her head felt like it was going to explode. All she wanted now, was to leave with the slaves and finish the primary part of her Jedi mission.

[member="Vinskk Revamp"]