Eu, Sir! On the Explosives Crate! Mandalorian Empire/Clans of Mandalore Dominion of Euceron

[Taozi Fuyuan]

As Taozi stood to inject the ne'er-do-well [member="Mig Gred"] so graciously gave her, she turned her head to where [member="Beth Cadera"] had crashed. "Beth?!" She moved to run to the other medic, but watched as [member="Adenn Kyramud"] applied basic first aid. Good, he wasn't a complete idiot. She heard the carnage [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] was causing, and decided he could handle Beth while she handled the man dangling near her, thankful she was well out of range of the attack [member="Yasha Cadera"] launched against the enemy.

Taozi pried down enough of his suit to get to a vein, and grinned wickedly as she very NOT gently stuck the syringe in the largest vein she could see. Injecting the sedative, she waited for it to take full effect. As it traveled through his bloodstream, his muscles would go lax, and he would lose all will to fight as the sedative calmed him down. Once he would stop struggling Taozi would turn back to Mig. "You can release him now, he won't be able to get up any time soon.

"Now, as for you, child, what are you and your friends doing here, hm?" Taozi roughly gripped the man's head, and made him face her.

[member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Kanta Tukka"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"]

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"]
Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth, [member="Kanta Tukka"]

Beth opened her eyes to a foggy version of life. She tried to focus but the world just kept… Spinning. She felt herself being moved… And the sharp pains shooting through each wounded part of her body. “Adenn?” She muttered weakly. Her mind fluttered between conscious and not for a few moments as she tried to ‘fix’ her mind to no avail. All she knew was that she hurt… Everywhere. The pain was tremendous.

Once the helmet had been removed, it would show a very black and blue left eye (along with most of the left side of her face), with pieces of glass scattered across her face with small cuts.

She inhaled – and it hurt, badly. Cracked ribs. The beskar’gam inertia compensators worked – kind of. There was no fully broken bone on her body, as any scan would show. However, several fractures riddled the bones in her body, especially the left side where her impact was worst. Likely the force of the impact that - the vibration of the suit and her body. Something had to give - and the many dents in her 'gam showed the armor did as much as it could.

Of course, that meant her body would have be bruised all over, too. Not a pretty sight when you turn half-Chiss from a bad fall.

“Your back… Okay?” She croaked out as she tried to adjust her body slightly. Weak, bruised emerald eyes looked up to him although it was clear she couldn’t quite focus. Everything hurt. But, suddenly she felt like she was breathing a lot better. More air seemed to get inside her lungs. Either the bacta shot or perhaps the mask. Maybe both. At least the spray slowly got to work on her face. The cells began to repair themselves, it still would take time before any noticeable improvement though. Plus, there was glass that was still nestled into her skin needed to be wiped off/removed.

 

[Jade Solus Skirae]

Location - caverns
Objective 1
Allies - [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"]
Enemies - @Kanta Tuka and crew

She followed [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] but in more of a charge forward ahead of her with her blade drawn slashing and piercing and breaking the enemies infront of her, Even the ones taht were burning she practically mutilated a couple of them with her blade. Right know her mood was to kill and break bones as her firrereo genes showed themselves in full bloom today after her injuries not talking in more then rage fueled growls and grunts as she kicked a mercenary with enough force that when they impacted the wall every bone in there body would be powder leaving them a bloody mess, She kept leaping around despite the burns causing her pain all that did was keep and fuel her adrenaline to continue fighting. It would probably take some very strong tranquilizers to calm this iwld child by the time the mercenaries are killed before her wild instincts make her pick a different and possibly friendly target

 

[Sterling Kinslayer]

• Location: Cave
• Objective 1: Fix Beth. Kill other?

20 meters. That was the warning that appeared on Sterling's augmented version of reality, as he unloaded the two shells into (now) corpse 1 and corpse 2. He knew he couldn't move fast enough to avoid it completely, there was simply no way for the lizard man to move quickly, and he had pushed through the group itself. But he had thoughts on how to survive, an idea. Without much effort, he pulled a man between himself and the impact zone, and braced himself.

The shock was intense.

HE almost felt like he'd moved, perhaps a hundredth of a meter at most, as the electricity shook through the body he'd used as cover. Naturally he had let go, which caused the most severe damage to hit the body rather than him. He wasn't free of it, the electric charge was doing all kinds of havoc to his systems as he tried to use his under-left-wrist datapad to try and shut down non-vitals. It probably helped that he was at the edge when this happened, and felt a bit relieved when the charge passed and he still had temperature control online. He glanced up, activating his AR visor again, to see two figures in the distance.

Hw growled, snarled even, and did his best to quickly reload the shotgun, this time with longer-range slug rounds. At this distance he would be lucky to hit but... he couldn't help but need to try. With the thick slug rounds in place, he lifted the weapon up, and hurled one single word out, almost drowning out the massive fireball as he released a two slugs, aiming for the figure's legs.

"COWARDS!"

The sheer venom in his words, such an insult was by far the worst he could even conceive. To turn your tail and flee from a fight you instigated? Such cowardly behavior was unsuited even to prey, he would waste no more time hunting the two. Instead he would let the others tend to it, as he made his way towards Beth. "Am medic..." He mumbled, almost hurt that Star had forgotten this. His tail was drooped quite disappointed in this, especially as he noted the damage to Beth's face as he approached.

He put a hand on Adenn's shoulder, or would try to, and gently push him back so he could get to work.

His AR vision outlined Beth's face against the glass, letting him see which could be wiped clear and which could not. Setting to work, the man moved his clawed fingers quickly, pinching piece after piece and removing them with practiced haste. This was far easier than the shrapnel in Azure, it was all surface really. Even if it had punctured relatively firmly, it still extended out into the surface, and could be plucked with the proper technique. By the time the bacta would be heal her facial cuts and scrapes, he had pulled free most if not all of the glass, and wiped away the rest.

Considering his suit looked like what might be the face of death, it had to be quite the sight watching him delicately operate on what he could.

When the glass was handled, he moved onto testing the rest of her body. With a delicate touch he would slowly try to locate each fracture, and note the severity mentally. At this point her face would be handled, it was a simple procedure, and his only concern was knowing how dangerous a state she was in. Particularly her chest, he was gently trying to remove her armor to test if the chest was soft, two or more broken ribs like that could be particularly dangerous to handle.

[member="Taozi Fuyuan"] :|: [member="Mig Gred"] :|: [member="Laandur Solus"] :|: [member="Valdus Bral"] :|: [member="Beth Cadera"] :|: [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] :|: [member="Adenn Kyramud"] :|: [member="Yasha Cadera"]

 

[Valdus Bral]

Valdus was still a good bit dazed from the earlier explosions. As of right now he was mostly ducking behind his shield, closing distance, while his back-mounted rotary droids rained down blaster bolts on their enemies. One could say that Valdus had it easy and that he wasn't actually fighting - however, he would respond to that person with a gloved smack to the dome. After the sounds of explosives and firearms were subsiding Valdus peered out over his shield and took stock over what was going on. It seemed there were only a few injuries, no reported death's yet on their side, overall it was not as bad as it could have been.

Speaking over his internal comlink to his clan that were waiting aboard the Te Kar'ta be Tracyn bal Beskar [The Heart of Fire and Iron] " We've been attacked, there's a few wounded - land as close to my beacon as possible - kill whoever attempts to fire upon you." There was a voice that came through amidst a momentary static that responded, " Ru'suvarir, Alor. [Understood, Chief.]" Satisfied with his aliit's response Valdus dropped his right hand to his belt packs and twisted the top of a oblong cylinder that was clipped to the belt. When he twisted the Jur'kad Beacon it started to blink with a faint blue-ish white light at the very top as a trio of lights arranged in a triangle activated. He then activated his mission wide comlink to speak to the others, " My ship will arrive soon. Pack what you need, I will not wait for the enemy to come back with reinforcements. There is more moss just over here." Lifting his free hand towards the patch of moss amount one meter squared that he had 'saved' from the collapsing rocks. As far as Valdus was concerned, Moss was not worth the life of Mandalorians nor the Mand'alor. As if on cue the extremely loud rumbling of Valdus' forge ship rocketed into the atmosphere and towards their location like a meteor descending. The ship would not be in view for the next several minutes, but it would eventually land at the mouth of the cave - firing all weapons at whoever tried to obstruct its path.


[member="Taozi Fuyuan"] | [member="Mig Gred"] | [member="Laandur Solus"] | [member="Beth Cadera"] | [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] | [member="Adenn Kyramud"] | [member="Yasha Cadera"] | [member="Sterling Kinslayer"]

 

[Kanta Tukka]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Enemies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]
Allies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth

Goob fought the panic of being manhandled by the Mandalorian and the pink haired medic, until the pain of Taozi’s needle ripped into his neck.

“RRghh!” Muscles flared. He bucked and yanked until the sedative began to float along his musculature. “Nnngh… never… never ev…”

He swayed in his place, head gripped and somehow he didn’t mind. Didn’t have that advantage of minding, when a weird looking beauty glared at him and demanded he open his soul like a walnut. The Euceron blinked wide black eyes.

“Raska wants his spot. Ruler 6 promised him secession, but he’s taking too long to die. If we blast him… if Ruler 6’s position needs to be filled, his deputy will fill it. By the time the investigators find traces, the Mandalorian’s bid for Euceron joining the Empire will burn with these caves.

Ruler 6… has a loft in Eusebus’ commerce district. Or… he won’t have it much longer, when it hits the ground.” Goob grinned sloppily, body limp in Taozi’s hands. “Eusebus go Boom… Mandos get nothing.”

The remains of the Mandalorian attack clustered together in a last ditch attempt to stay breathing. They didn’t last long, with [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Mig Gred"] and [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"].

Raska and Praska, the two aides to Ruler 6 of the Ruling Power, however, had a worse fate.

They got yelled at by the most aggressive, battle hungry, monstrous lizard in the galaxy. [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] roared, almost louder than the twin bangs from his enormous shotgun.

“AUUGH!” Raska hit the cave floor, sobs of shock and pain rousing him to crawl through the debris toward the one swoop bike still operational. They could still finish this! He could be a hero! Raska the Hero for taking down the evil Mandalorians, who clearly didn’t like his former boss-now-corpse Ruler 6.

“Nuuuuu!” Praska flumped down, clutching where his left leg used to be. He grit his teeth and wailed, as Raska inched toward the speeder. His vision narrowed.

He could make it… He could call on the bomb!

That was... until the shadow of a coconut clad miniature warrior scurried ever closer.

 

[Yasha Cadera]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]
Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth, [member="Kanta Tukka"]

“Taozi, we need that place and target!” The battle was on the wane inside the Great Dordon Caves, but they would be meaningless if the Mandalorians didn’t get to Eusebus before the next bombs went off. Tuulu reached her, firing his repeater into another of the limping wounded.

The battlefield stilled, all opponents being finished off by the Mandalorians who were mobile, or wounded less majorly than her own ad.

Then, Goob spoke, and Yasha bristled.

“Why are people always framing us for blowing things up!?” She slung her hammer on its’ back-plate and held her hand out. The Longinus Spear flung to her hand.

“Did I move Sterling an inch?” Yasha’s voice fluctuated in her private channel with her personal Guards. Tuulu snorted and nodded.

“Good hit though. Didn’t jumble him too much. Hey, I’ll work with Vano and Quez to collect the rest of the moss. Promise.” Tuulu turned from the charred remains of the battle, and trotted back to the scientific equipment further in.

Inwardly, the Mand’alor was smiling, yet outwardly her beskar’kandar was grim-set and on the move. Taozi’s prisoner was talking, and the culprit seemed to think he could take a shotgun shell to the tibia and live.

“Anyone not wounded enough to need triage and evac, we move to Eusebus. We have to diffuse that bomb before Ruler 6 bites it. He’s the one that invited the Mandalorians to Euceron in the first place! Sound off! Bral, I take it we can use your ship?”

No words for Beth, yet. Nothing could shift her from the good of the Mandalorian Peoples, and Yasha had the utmost trust that the medics present would rescue her daughter. While that faith might have seemed cold, or distant the Infernal was in charge of everyone's life, not only Beth's. As much as her motherly instincts were screaming that she go to her adopted oldest child, Yasha had to turn away.

"Let's finish this."

 

[Adenn Kyramud]

While applying the bacta, [member="Beth Cadera"] stirred and spoke a bit. From what he could see, she was very hurt. She couldn't breath easily after the fall, thankfully the breath mask seemed to help. No matter what happened though, she'd have one massive nasty bruise. When she asked about his back, Adenn chuckled lightly while starting to take out some of the glass in her body.
"I'm fine compared to you. Don't worry, your face will be fine with some bacta. Valdus won't even notice anything bad happened." He said with a chuckle.

It was at that moment that a shout of "COWARDS!" was heard. Looking up, Adenn spotted [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] blast two fleeing people. Somehow the two survived, and kept trying to escape, that was until some coconut warriors appeared. Shaking his head slightly in amusement, Adenn was about to get back to work when Sterling was suddenly next to him. When Sterling put his hand on Adenns shoulder, and gently pushed him away, Adenn nearly fell backwards. It wasn't a hard push, just it all hit him suddenly.

Thinking back on it all, Adenn fell back on his rump and tried to relax. He'd let the real medic heal Beth up. He heard [member="Valdus Bral"] mention that his ship would be coming soon to pick up the wounded. Nodding to himself, Adenn thought that he'd join that, especially if most everyone would be leaving. That was until [member="Yasha Cadera"] said that those not wounded enough for evac, would be headed to Eusebus. Grumbling slightly to himself, Adenn slowly stood up and stretched, his back was still taught and hurt, but it was nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Adenn patted Sterlings shoulder in passing, then turned towards the merc on the ground(Bickner). Calling it in via comms,
"This is Adenn, I'm relatively fine. Combat ready at the least. I have another prisoner. Beth took him down, he's out for the count but still alive."

With that said, Adenn turned around observing everyone there, while getting himself ready to march on Eusebus.

[member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Kanta Tukka"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Location - Great Dordon Caves
Objective - 1
Allies - [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]

The last of her foe fell, cut down by a blade to the neck. She took a rag out and cleaned her blade off before placing it within its sheath. A sigh escaped her lips as she turned and moved to the mand'alor as she stood by her side and nodded her head

Battlemaster Skirae, ready to follow

She looked back, seeing sterling looking disappointed she realized her mistake and spoke

sorry friend heat of the moment, take care of her gonna go save people

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"]@ Laandur Solus [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]
Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth

Beth could feel her consciousness coming back. It was good, the bacta was doing its job… But also very, very bad as she became more acutely aware of the pain that was shooting through her body. Each breath felt as though a knife was stabbing into her chest. Her bones ached and she was pretty sure she could feel her injuries pulsating each second.

She opened her eyes as she looked at Adenn with a scowl. His back wasn’t fine, “Need to see me. Or… Taozi,” she whispered. “Valdus? Still okay?” She croaked out with a cough that clearly hurt, “Buir?” As [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] pushed Adenn back, she tried her best to sit up – but the pain from the three broken ribs caused a small scream from her lips. Maybe she could do what those other people do. Get a clone body without the Eldorai in her and just… Live a happy, pain free life.

The next thing she knew, Sterling had taken her armor off and was pressing on her chest. She shot one arm up to grab his hands as in a ‘please stop.’ Conscious enough to feel with not only the Force, but her own medical knowledge. “3 ribs, two on my right, 1 on left. Several fractures on my left arm, hip, and leg. Organ bruising, but no... No penetration,” she said as she felt her body. She was lucky - she could tell what was missing, wrong, or incomplete. She bit her lip to the point that blood pooled out of it. The pain was still… Unbearable. She was in very bad shape? Yes. But, now that she was gaining some consciousness, her training kicked in. The pain wouldn’t stop and was tremendously painful – more so than what any of them would likely have felt… But she damn well could handle it.

She heard Yasha's call through her buy'ce, which lay cracked and shattered next to her along with her dented upper beskar'gam. “Eusebus?” She whispered towards Sterling as she glanced towards the fighting. “Get us,” she inhaled as she closed her eyes for a moment, “To Valdus’ ship.” They and the other Mandalorians had a trip to make and they needed to be on that ship ASAP. She wasn't sure if she could even remotely walk, but hopefully Sterling and the rest could get on the ship and towards the city. Assuming, that was their way out, anyway. Beth wasn't really sure in her state of kind of conscious but not completely.

 

[Sterling Kinslayer]

• Location: Cave
• Objective 1: Move Beth. Kill. Save day.

Two. A flail chest, that meant there needed to be measures taken to stabilize her while she breathed, not good. He dug in the medic pouch, and pulled out an assortment of labeled vials and drugs. By the First... which one was what? He struggled to read any of the words, looking from one to another before settling on one. All he could read was 'painkiller', or something to that effect. He loaded a syringe with the liquid, and rather unceremoniously injected it into the most suitable artery/vein he could find. Which probably hurt like hell, before feeling much much better.

That handled, he did a relatively simple procedure, obtaining bindings from within. Shortly after, he collected leathers wrapped in soft cloth from the dead soldiers, using what parts of their uniforms he could to create a sort of crappy pillow. This he placed firmly and with pressure to the flailed chest, and began to bind this 'pillow' to it. He even used Beth's arm to help keep it still and stable, so it wouldn't expand outward away from where it was meant to.

A simple procedure but, painful for her. He gave her another look over, making sure she was safe to transport, before getting a backboard conveniently from one of the other medics, who saw Sterling doing rudimentary first aid. He secured her in place, so her head and body wouldn't move, and transported her onto the ship. This way nothing could break further... he'd hope.

Once there, he barely managed to convey the field diagnosis he could give, and moved to find Mand'alor, and gave the same bow from a while ago to her. Hand over his heart, and pulled away to the side as he bowed. "Beth Stable. Bad chest. Flail chest. Painful but live. Save day now, yes?" He was eager to move onto the part where he could make sure the people who hurt Beth and the others failed completely and utterly.

[member="Taozi Fuyuan"] :|: [member="Mig Gred"] :|: [member="Laandur Solus"] :|: [member="Valdus Bral"] :|: [member="Beth Cadera"] :|: [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] :|: [member="Adenn Kyramud"] :|: [member="Yasha Cadera"]

 

[Mig Gred]

Mig smiled a bit as [member="Taozi Fuyuan"] sedated the man. He then helped to mop up the last of the enemies there with [member="Valdus Bral"] , [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"], and [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] before turning to where [member="Beth Cadera"] was. She was hurt, and [member="Adenn Kyramud"] and [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] were doing their best for her. The alor walked up, smiling at his friend before speaking. "Ya did good stopping him, Beth. Helping us too. Now go let some medics help you while we finish this."

He then heard [member="Yasha Cadera"] 's command. They move now. They were going to finish this. The Mando'ad'jetii ignited his Trayc'kad yet again today to show that he was ready and will. "Elek Mand'alor (Yes Mand'alor). I'm with you."

 

[Laandur Solus]

Laandur finished up his last vict... target before hearing Yasha speak. He sighed a bit before walking up.

"Well, not sure how useful my skills will be with bomb location."

 

[Valdus Bral]

Valdus watched as his large ship descended to the mouth of the cave, repulsor lift engines firing off to slow the descent of the ship. Loud mechanical sounds began as the landing gears deployed in the form of several pillar-like legs. The front of the ship opened and out came a slowly deploying ramp to the ground. Valdus began walking towards his ship as fast as he could, responding quickly to @Yasha Caldera " The ship isn't designed for speed or precision assaults. It has two ARC-170r heavy fighters in the hangar. It can be auto-piloted by droid brain, so don't worry about piloting it. They can fit three in each - that should be plenty. That will keep the Tracyn ship stable for the wounded and get the rest to the bomb as fast as possible. I'll have my vod bring them out." He then switched coms to his ship, " Deploy the ARC's to the Mand'alor's position - empty." A short delay before the loud sounds of hangar doors began. Then out came two roaring ARC-170r's who made a large circle that double backed towards the Mand'alor. They stopped and slowly descended to the ground as doors opened for a rear gunner, co-pilot, and pilot position in each. The fighters were spacious enough to accommodate even Valdus, there would be no issues getting large and heavily armored Mandalorians into the seating.

As Valdus closed the distance to the loading ramp he finally responded to [member="Beth Cadera"] , not knowing if she was still conscious or not. " I'm fine. We'll get you patched up." He said confidently, though he really didn't know. His crew had medical supplies such as bacta, splints, slings, and other sorts of basic first-aid, but there was nothing besides scalpels and saws for more intense procedures. He then clanked up the metal ramp and then into the holding room where [member="Beth Cadera"] would be taken either by [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] or by Valdus' clansmen. In that room two of the crew with field medical knowledge would assist Beth as much as they could, though she would need to talk them through it if there were anything too severe. If fractures and broken bones were all, his crew would begin to lift her into position to begin to set her bones if needed before splinting her limbs.

[member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]

Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth, [member="Kanta Tukka"]

Beth tried to focus on [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] and while it was becoming easier to do so, she wasn’t quite there yet. The fact she was becoming more conscious, and less in shock, was becoming more of a curse as the pain she took in really became aware. Every breath felt like a stab. Every movement ached in pain. Her lip bled slightly from where she bit too hard.

A hoarse scream escaped her lips as Sterling stabbed her with a needle full of medicine. She whimpered in pain at the burn, the sensation. She moved her head slightly as she felt the drugs kicked in. What… What did he give her? She squinted her eyes towards Sterling as he made a binding for her chest. A weird pillow was placed on her chest and… More sounds of agony escaped her lips. Every touch hurt – not only due to the bones being broken and fractured, but for the extensive bruising her skin had all over her body. Each touch seemed to ripple to the next, causing shock waves of pain.

But the drugs began to kick in as she was secured onto the backboard. And the pain suddenly became a lot less. Or it felt very sudden. Was it sudden? Beth squinted at Sterling as she slurred slightly, “You’re a very goooooooood medic,” she muttered out as she slightly wiggled in her strappings. “Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu,” she said as Sterling made off the ship and back to the Mand’alor.

[member="Mig Gred"] popped up next. How did he move so quietly? Beth took a breath – okay, that still hurt. “Ha, medics… Yeah, I don’t know, um… What in the Gods did Sterling give me,” she muttered as the entire ship began to spin in a million directions. Wait… Was that the likely concussion she had or the medicin- oh. Painkillers. That made sense. “Migggg, do your Forcey thingies and pew pew pew, you are so awesome,” she said as she leaned slightly forward, winced, and mostly due to the strappings, landed back down.

The medics on [member="Valdus Bral"]’s ship were pretty good – at least from what she could tell. They were slapping bacta patches on her just as she saw him walk into the room? Was this a room? Beth squinted as she tried to peer at something other than the ceiling. She glanced to the medics as she used her less injured arm to point exactly where she needed the bacta shots for her lungs and ribs to heal faster. “Hhhere, and here. I’m slurring, yes, but… Trust me,” she whispered. The pain medication may have taken effect, but that didn’t stop her from her passion – medicine.

With that done, her attention kind of turned to Valdus. She reached over to him with one of her hands. Wow, this really wasn’t attractive for him to see but at the moment, Beth couldn't really help it, could she? “You areeee… Very pretty, Alor Bral, aaand your lips are… Mmm,” she muttered to him as she closed her eyes and looked back towards the ceiling.

Spinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnning.

 

[Taozi Fuyuan]

Taozi listened as her captor spoke, and hummed. She'd be nigh useless in a bomb scenario. Humming in thought as she gently placed poor Goob on the ground, and pat his shoulder. "Thank you for your cooperation. Your service is no longer needed, you can sleep if you wish." Taozi stood and brushed off her clothing, before turning to the others, and observed calmly. The fighting in caves was near over, and [member="Valdus Bral"] had called in his ships. Weighing her options, Taozi joined [member="Beth Cadera"] on the Tracyn ship. While the Bral medics were field medics, Beth needed a proper doctor, and possibly a proper hospital. Digging out a medical pad, Taozi made notes of Beth's injuries from the information she had overheard, and been told of by the Bral medics.

"Beth, this is Taozi. I'll be taking over for the Bral medics. You said you had multiple fractures, organ bruising, and three broken ribs... Am I missing anything?"

[member="Mig Gred"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Adenn Kyramud"]

 

[Mig Gred]

Mig gave [member="Beth Cadera"] an odd look as he turned to [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] . "What the heck did you give her, Sterling? She sounds like Ilik when he's had too much to drink." Mig just face-palmed as he thought about. He then heard [member="Valdus Bral"]. The alor smiled, looking for the fighters to approach. "I'll go with to help find the bomb. Not a pilot, but I'm decent on a turret."

 

[Laandur Solus]

Laandur leaned against a wall, eyeing everyone. "Not sure how much I can help, but if there's room, I'll come. If not, I want to speak with Kanta more."

 

[Laandur Solus]

Oops.

 

[Yasha Cadera]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]
Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth, [member="Kanta Tukka"]

“Report to me immediately with every change in [member="Beth Cadera"]’s condition.” The comedy of medically sedated Bethany was one Yasha hoped to laugh about in future. Wait until Kai-… no. Her father was… distant. Little did Valdus Bral know Yasha’s most hidden and overwhelming fear: freefall and flying in small ships. The ARC’s doubled back to her, and she stilled.

Maybe there was a swoop bike… no. If the dissidents were going to destroy Ruler Six and take control of the Ruling Power, time and speed…

“Mig… take gunner.” A hoarse quality to Yasha’s booming voice. The use of his first name… Tuulu punched Yasha’s shoulder and hopped up to the ARC.

“I’ll pilot so Mand’alor can coordinate with the others and warn the Ruling Power.” Faithful to the nth, Tuulu offered Yasha his hand. She took it, and climbed in to the Co-Pilot’s position. Tuulu immediately flicked switches and programmed in commands, and once Mig was on board, would take off.

“Star, Jade, whoever’s coming follow if you can… and Laandur Solus… keep the coconut. I want to know where he’s been.” The ARC shut in tandem with Yasha’s eyelids. As Tuulu took off, Yasha’s stomach roiled.

Mia Monroe flying in her bes’uliik… anger. If Yash’ika kicked hard off her Uncle’s Chestplate and jumped, she’d reach and stab Monroe in the heart…

… she missed.

“YAASHHAAAA!!!” The blood curdling scream of a Mandalorian, who watched in horror as Yash’ika’s 8 year old body fell, struck by the off spray of an explosion. Freefall was terrifying, not the freedom Yasha’d imagined.

Silas caught her. Clutched his niece to his chest, as they tumbled through damaged floors of MandalMotors, until her mind went black. Blank with pain. Then, like a miracle, her deceased mother’s voice.

“Emergency Protocol Activated… aw sweetie pie. I must be dead… No tears, now! We Fitz-Kierke girls don’t cry in our electronics. Look at Silas for me, honey pie… Yasha I’m going to talk you through cauterizing his amputation…”

The smell. Cauterized flesh as her uncle screamed… all because she flew.

Every time she went up was the same. Every time she fell. Glad for the anonymity of helms, Yasha gripped both arms of her co-pilot chair and held herself as tightly to it as possible. To many it looked imposing. As Tuulu hit the throttle, Yasha gasped for a mouthful of air.

“Eusebus is a good ten minutes out… when we get there, what’s the play?” Tuulu tried to keep Yasha talking, distract her without letting [member="Mig Gred"] know how terrified their fellow passenger was.

“Nibsani’s on the ground in Eusebus, locating Ruler Six. Those two runners, their faces were recognized in Nibsani’s software. They were Ruler Six’s attache’s. By the time we get there, Nibsani should be with Ruler Six and the other Ruling Power to push past the diplomatic papers… that leaves us to the bombers… Mig… you… you know explosions… what sort of bomb material can w-”

“Sorry!" Tuulu fired the engines as fast as they'd go.

"Nibsani, how goes the negotiations with the Ruling Power?" Yasha called hoarsely, waiting to hear her spymaster's voice.

"We've got the Ruling Power together but for Six. The HUD cams are uploading, now in the council chamber. I'm still trying to find Six... a hurry would be nice."