Double Trouble? Make It Triple

[SolareMoneta]

Solare and Lilac ran in step through the backstreets of Sarkhai. A strange combination of terror and exhilaration was shooting through Solare's veins, she supposed this was what people called adrenaline. It was brilliant, whatever it was, she reflected as she dodged a pillar and hooked a sharp right down a splitoff ally -

- and ran full speed into a wall of cops. Solare and Lilac stood back to back, chests heaving as they tried to catch their breath, looking for a way out. They had about five seconds before they were handcuffed and thrown into the back of the silverbug - prisoner transport, whatever you cared to call it.

And so there they were, in the back of a silverbug, exchanging sheepish looks and looking around. It had been a while since Solare had been in one of these, and they seemed to have gotten an upgrade. They used to be made of flimsiplast, or something to akin to it it might as well have been, but these were sturdier.

Lilac noticed the other prisoner before Solare, who was busy checking out the new restraints. She nudged the other woman and nodded towards the shape.

"Hey." Solare called out. "So what'd you do to get picked up?"

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[Doctor Azure]

Thryk looked over at the two women, whuffing slightly with laughter. He pulled off the helmet to his beskar'gam, revealing his furry face and head. Grinning, he simply replied, "Shot a mobster, who turned out to also be the local bank manager. Didn't even get paid for my trouble. But I won't be here for long."

With a quiet snap, and a crack, the crappy handcuffs on Thryk's wrists broke off, and he grinned even wider at the two women.

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Solare sat in stunned silence for a second before bursting out laughing. Lilac was shaking with silent laughter, and Solare shook her head. "Ayeesh. They managed to arrest a Mandalorian Wookiee. How did they think this was going to go well?" She asked aloud, glancing at Lilac, who shrugged and made a buzzing, strangled noise in her throat. Solare shrugged. "Eh, perhaps. Still. Not the brightest idea they ever had." Lilac shrugged and began to work her handcuffs out underneath her feet and around to her front.

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[Doctor Azure]

Thryk began to laugh, too, and then stopped as he suddenly saw a flaw in his brilliant escape plan. His eyes widened, and he looked at the Sarkan woman with the red hair, "We're not in the air, right? We're still on the ground?"

It only mattered because of the quality of Thryk's jetpack. That is to say, very, very low. It could propel him for short bursts, but if he possibly had to carry these two, the huge amount of weight could cause the jetpack to be much less reliable. As in, sudden drops in altitude before the rockets would kick back in.

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"Still on the ground." Solare reassured him, then hesitated. "Why?" She asked warily. Lilac's throat buzz-hummed and Solare glanced at her. "Hey, better the devil you know, right?" Lilac hum-buzzed with a hint of a warble and Solare waved her handcuffed hands in front of her. "Whatever! You get my point."

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[Doctor Azure]

Thryk's serious expression broke out onto a canine-toothed grin. He pulled out a short besk'ad and began to cut away at the chains holding the two women. The knife cut through one link, then another, and then finally the cuffs themselves broke under my brute strength. I whuffed with laughter again, and winked at the women and chuckled, "I just needed to know how far we'd have to fly. Dropping out of a moving ground vehicle is far easier than an airspeeder."

Grabbing both women around their waists, Thryk began to blast away at the door. Grimacing when the slugthrower didn't prove to be enough, he looked at the redhead, and said, "I suggest you hold on tight, beautiful, or this is gonna get real messy." As he said this, he began to smash the locks and seals on the door with blasts of energy.

Almost as an afterthought, he identified himself, "I'm Thryykarr, by the way."

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It took all of Solare's self control not to flip out and hit the walking carpet when he grabbed her around the waist. "Next time a little warning, please!" She managed, voice sounding strained and much higher pitched than normal. When he told the two of them to hold on, her fingers curled into claws, fingernails that had been chewed ragged digging into the wookiee's fur. Lilac opted for a different approach, holding tight to the wookiee's upper arm.

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[Doctor Azure]

Blasting the last bit of sealant off the inside of the door, Thryk kicked it open. At the feeling of the girl clawing my shoulder, he relaxed a bit, and closed my eyes for a second, visualizing what he was going to do, next. The jetpack, then off the street, then back to my ship. Then getting the hell off Sarkhai.

He finally just laughed, and replied to the redhead, "You'll thank me later, Red."

And the roar of the jetpack obscured his laughter, and the two women's screams. They went in a long arc of fire, and then suddenly... the fire was gone. The jetpack sputtered, and Thryk's eyes widened. The boosters kept on sparking, but the fire didn't catch... And they were falling... falling... falling...

Until, suddenly the spark did catch, and his metal-clad head punched through something that felt like duracrete... He felt himself land on his back, the two women clutched against his chest, and then, not even taking off his helmet, Thryk closed his eyes and fell asleep.

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[SolareMoneta]

Solare's first thought: Ow...
Solare's second thought: Stang.

Distangling herself from the unconscious wookiee's grip, Solare pulled Lilac to her feet and looked at the wookiee who's helmeted head had made a substantial dent in the duracrete. Then they looked in the direction of the oncoming sirens.

"We can't move him." Solare stated. Lilac nodded.

"We also can't really leave him." Solare continued. Lilac nodded again.

"We are so dead." Solare finished. Lilac nodded for a third time.

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[Doctor Azure]

A voice echoed through Thryk's helmet, shouting, "WAKE UP!" This wonderful message was from Bekker, who did this whenever his big friend was unconscious. The volume, and sudden delivery, of the message caused Thryk to throw off his helmet, and sit up. He looked around the room, and at the two women in front of him, totally bewildered. Then he remembered crashing through the wall. Ouch. Something heavy knocked on the door into the room, and he drew his blaster pistol again.

Thryk looked over his shoulder at the two women, and sighed, "We might have to jump out that window. I can't fight a huge group of them."

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Solare glanced at Lilac and nodded, both women edging towards the window in preparation of a quick exit being required. Lilac hummed something, and Solare translated. "Lilac thinks we could just run now and not have to worry about how many there are because the objective here to get the feth away not kill all the law enforcement on Sarkhai." She pointed out. Lilac glared at her and buzz-hummed something else. "Oh, be quiet. Every change I made was an improvement."

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[Doctor Azure]

Thryk just shrugged, and holstered his guns again. Putting his helmet back on, he checked the fuel on his jetpack. He looked up at the redhead, and said, "The good news is, we're pretty close to my ship. The bad news is, I might not have enough fuel to make it there."

Grabbing the two women again, he flew the three of them out the window again. It was a straight line to Thryk's shuttle. As long as the jetpack held out, they would be in the clear soon.

Of course, it didn't hold out. A quarter of a mile away from the landing pad, the jetpack sputtered and died. No more fuel. Thryk flipped again, in an attempt to use the beskar to protect the three of them again. They landed, and slid four meters, leaving a shallow crater in the ground.

Thryk looked at the two women, and drew his guns again, saying, "We're either gonna have to run to my ship, or steal a speeder. Preferably something I don't have to hotwire."

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Solare nodded. She and Lilac peeled off in opposite directions, Lilac went left and Solare went right, both of them searching for a speeder. Lilac found a good one first, but couldn't get it working. Solare found two in quick succession, but one had a busted ignition and the other was too small to fit both girls and a wookiee. Lilac found the next one, and fired it up. "Lilac found one." Solare announced, rather unnecessarily.

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[Doctor Azure]

Thryk nodded approvingly, realizing that Lilac was probably the blonde. He took the controls quickly, opening the throttle all the way. Driving it like a madman (or mad-Wookiee), he peeled around the last set of streets, and pointed out his personal shuttle. They just had to get up there. No real problem.

He looked at the blonde and the redhead, making sure they were both strapped in. Thryk chuckled, "I do hope you don't mind me charging through crowds of people. I've decided I don't like Sarkhai very much."

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Solare shrugged. "Raising no objections." She declared. Both women held on just a little tighter to the speeder, however.

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[Doctor Azure]

The lack of objection was good, because the speeder took off like a bullet in Thryk's gun. The speeder smashed through a window being carried by a pair of droids, who squawked angrily. It smashed through a cart full of some revolting fruit that looked like it had died a month ago. It finally came to a stop, buzzing angrily as it ran out of power barely ten feet from Thryk's ship.

He waved a hand as the ramp lowered, and said, "Ladies first."

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Lilac let out a gargled shriek as they smashed through the window, and by the time the speeder stopped Solare had bitten her lip bloody. Both women bolted for the ship as the ramp lowered, Lilac glancing back once before Solare pulled her further into the ship, muttering something too low for anyone else to hear. Lilac nods and Solare glanced out again before the two moved into the two least conspicuous corners they could find.

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[Doctor Azure]

Thryk simply grinned at the incoming crowd of civilians and officers, and then hopped onto the now-rising ramp. Waving, he cried out, "And that's all, ladies and gentlemen! We bid you adieu."

He strode through the ship, to the controls, and made for space before the Sarkans could send a proper reply. He spun his chair around, and smiled at the two women. He made an expansive gesture, and said, "That was the best day I've had in a while. Thank you for providing me with the opportunity, ladies. Anyway, make yourselves at home. There's probably food on this crate, somewhere."

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