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Captain Jorus Quentin Merrill of ODF, General Merrill of the Rebel Alliance, Cap'n Jor of the Gypsymoth, the Lord of the Hyperlanes, was pretty fething done talking. The CryoBan exploded harmlessly a good distance above them, showering him in frost and bitter wind. He'd been braced for that, though. He wasn't
that far from the Andolith. As the blast faded, he heard a limp hoof dragging on the ground. Muffled, to be sure, but photokinetic cloaking was worthless for sound, leaving the Andolith with only his innate physical skills -- and when one of your legs would be unusable for days, and you had just gotten a nice new body without those years of stealther muscle memory, against someone like Jorus that wasn't quite good enough.
Well, that, and the chill in the air from two misfired CryoBans and the darkness made a warm body contrast
more, not less, with a centaur's massive body heat to IR sensors like the ones in Jorus' eyes. He might be using the Force to hide that heat, but between the false assumption, the difference between hiding a humanoid and a much bulkier, warmer being, and the slight edge of ultraviolet that Jorus' eyes could see, he had a pretty decent idea of where the blue stealthtaur was.
He did his best not to give that away as the telepathically blaring critter circled around and came at him from the side, just reloading the spent shell, holstering his riot gun and taking
his long knife in its place. Rather than find a way to block the ankle-sweep from the tail, he just went with it. The strike was primarily with the tail, not the blade; it slammed and bit into the tough leather of his boot, but less than it would have if he wasn't in the process of tumbling sideways, away from Zaiden. He came up long-knife first, left side still toward Zaiden, shotgun pointed across his body toward Zaiden as well. The impact of the tailblade rang against his Force-enhanced grip and the sturdy cortosis-alloy crossguard. The sword snaked past his knife guard and tried for the distant hand on the shotgun; Jorus was already pointing the shotgun in that direction. The blade grated down the length of the beskar gun and took a slice off the top of his right index knuckle.
So far, so good on Zaiden's part. But grabbing Jorus' chest, which was sideways to Zaiden? With a knife right there, a shotgun pointed right at the arm, and a lifetime's experience in grappling against a burst of lightning and an alien species with a weak upper body?
Jorus took the hit, his knife hand ricocheting up off the tail strike. Lightning streamed through him -- just he got the knife up behind Zaiden's left elbow, right where it connected to the stealthtaur's upper arm. The convulsions jammed the knife back against the arm; maybe it would cut, maybe it wouldn't, but between the monstrous bulk of Zaiden's body, the weakness of the arm, the powerful pull just above the elbow, and the hand planted against Jorus' chest, that arm was thoroughly trapped for the moment.
At which point the shotgun, currently pointed at Zaiden underneath Jorus' knife hand and Zaiden's left arm, took the full brunt of the lightning coursing through Jorus' body. The shells cooked off instantly, point blank, the gun too heavy and firmly held to get shoved away by some desperate movement of Zaiden's distant, weak right arm. He hadn't loaded for this moment, but both barrels fired at once, and the combination was...interesting.
Incendiary and concussion. Simultaneously. Body-rending shockwave, highly reactive flaming chemical payload.