Cross and Charlotte go to Hutt Castle

[Cross Ikon]

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

"A high... heat... signature?"

I heard an odd clicking noise, and on a hunch I threw my hat straight behind me. A loud yell and a thump could be heard.

"So, Barko, resorting to crappy maneuvers like that? What the hell is the heat signature? What are you keeping here?"

<Enough to keep Black Sun off my back for a long, long time. Now, goodbye, Admiral Ikon>

And something came screaming through the air to attack me.

 

[Charlotte Homura]

The Echani looking woman rushed at the HRD.

"Very high heat signature coming this way... and towards me..." The HRD said now oddly frightened by the Echani's high heat signature.

Charlotte gasped as the Echani then kicked the head off the HRD and sent it at Barko's face

[member="Cross Ikon"]

 

[Cross Ikon]

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

The assailant leapt away from me, and revealed itself to be.... The Nautolan from the hallway.

"Why are you attacking me? I'm freeing you!"

"Because I'm not able to resist, Admiral."

She pointed at her neck, and pulled down her collar to reveal a shock collar.

"Pshaw. Why didn't you say so? Hold still, lovely!"

<NO!>

And I cleanly shot the side of the collar off. The other pieces cracked and fell away.

"I'd say it's time to go, ladies!"

The Nautolan pointed at the Hutt, who had pulled some kind of assault walker from somewhere.

He turned the gun at the women in the center of the room...

And fired.

(Echani babe, don't fail me now.)

 

[Charlotte Homura]

The Echani woman then rushed towards the Hutt in the assault walker and used the Force to somehow strangle him with a loose wire Jabba the Hutt style

Charlotte then smiled as the echani worked, and the HRD fell, sadly dead... the Echani would have some explaining to do

(I assume the HRD would take the laser or something... cause idk how to block that)

[member="Cross Ikon"]

 

[Cross Ikon]

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

There were still more people in this room.

"Ogen, shoot to kill!"

I turned to the NAutolan lady.

"What's your name?"

"Kelli"

"You any good with a gun, Kelli?"

"I lived in a Hutt palace for ten years."

"Good enough for me."

I handed her my vorpal pistol, and aimed my cuff-mounted slugthrower at the nearest goon. Boom! Dead guy.

Ogen yelled across the room.

"Cross, we got heavy droids, here!"

"Alright. Shoot 'em up."

 

[Charlotte Homura]

The Echani woman then used some form of The Force/Witchcraft to take control of the assault walker as it's loose wires choked out Barko. Then the woman jumped onto the walker and started to puppeteer it.

Charlotte was amazed at the Echani's dark art usage. Prea was unimpressed and Melissa was scared... again...

[member="Cross Ikon"]

 

[Cross Ikon]

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

I walked back to where Kelli was sitting. I sat down next to her and watched the Echani woman wreak havoc with the machine.

"Hey, Kelli, you okay?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Cos we just killed everybody you've known for the last ten years."

"About that..."

She kissed me on the cheek. I gaped intelligently.

"Wow... You didn't like being here at all, did you?"

"Well, duh."

"When we leave here, we're gonna do something fun. I need the time out, and you need the freedom."

"Awesome. I'll stay on your ship. I've never seen a Hapan ship before."

"Sounds like a deal. C'mon, let's go see what's up now."

 

[Charlotte Homura]

[member="Cross Ikon"]

Aletra (the echani woman) simply laughed evilly as she utterly destroyed Barko's domain

Charlotte was shocked at this show of darkness, as was Melissa and Prea didn't care

 

[Cross Ikon]

[member="Charlotte Homura"]

I shouted towards the girl with the flower.

"Hey, should we stop her? She's freaking out a bit."

Kelli shouted in pain as a slab of duracrete landed on her lower leg and broke it. I picked her up in my arms and walked towards the three women still standing there.

"Um... Think she'll attack me if I try to stun her?"

 

[Charlotte Homura]

[member="Cross Ikon"]

(Sorry, can we just end this as this variant of Aletra attacks Barko's palace? I can't keep her as powerful as she was.)