The reactor started to suffer fluctuations, forcing the Engineering staff to take a closer look, occupying their time while Nathan and Kinea snuck away, grabbing specific electronics and spare parts before sneaking out on another level of the vessel going up a makeshift staircase. Nathan Force Stunned a lone sentry and they both went past him, Kinea lifting a key card from his belt.
Nathan spotted a repair bay and signalled Kinea to disable the lock. She sent a purple stream of energy into the keypad and the door unlocked for a little bit allowing them to pull open the door and start working.
"You've done this before." Kinea whispered.
"I've been outnumbered before..." he whispered back as he worked. "No more talking unless it's necessary. Or until we take over this place."
"What are you making?" she asked.
"An ICE Breaker." Nathan answered. "I'm going to plug it into the central computer. This camp is too well organized to leave it running. It's almost as big of a threat as that fortress might be. What are you making?"
"Stun Grenades." she replied.
"Good."
Nathan finished building his crude take on the device, and Kinea finished her own crude projects and the pair soon snuck out, Nathan following the very directions painted on the walls that lead right to communications. He found three people working controls, adjust frequencies.
Nathan concentrated on the one in the middle as he snuck in, stunning him with the Force, teleporting to the man on the right, smacking him out cold with the Force Pike, teleporting to the man on the left just as he got up and jamming the prod into him also. Then he looped the pike around the comms officer's neck as the Force Stun effect wore off.
"The Map. To the transmitter boosters. Now." Nathan ordered.
The Officer pointed to a datapad on the terminal next to him.
"Where's your commander?" Nathan hissed.
"He's at the excavation site."
"Call the Mortar teams to here. Tell them to report back. If you sound nervous while giving the orders
it will go badly for you."
The comms officer nodded, and then gave the call.
"Overlord 7 to Nerf 1, come in."
"Nerf 1, responding."
"I need you to withdraw your position back to camp. Immediately."
"What the hell
for?! They're gonna breach our main encampment!"
"Commander's orders..." the Officer replied.
"Chit...fine! We'll head out. Over."
"Confirmed." The officer replied, shutting off the transmission.
"Call the teams in the South West and the North. Tell them to report back here. Don't go into details."
The Officer nodded and switched communications, giving the curt, abrupt orders to return to base.
"Where's the security section, and how long do you estimate before the arrival of all three groups?" Nathan asked, tightening his grip.
"Thirty minutes at most. Security is located in what's left of the bridge..." The Officer answered with clear fear.
"
Rot in Hell..." Nathan replied, jamming the stun prod into him, removing the ice breaker, and connecting it to the system, which rapidly sliced into the mainframe.
"You
have done this before..." Kinea observed again idly.
"I need you to hold down comms." Nathan said as the ICE breaker disabled key sensors and security turrets, giving him full control of the system.. "I'll take out bridge security. Jam all of their transmissions."
Kinea nodded and Nathan handed her the key cards and crept out of the Comms room taking her stun Grenades, while Kinea tended to the unconscious prisoners...
Ten minutes later...
The shadows served him well as he snuck or teleported past the guards, getting closer and closer to the bridge. At this point, he began removing targets of opportunity, knocking them out and hiding them in the shadows. As he reached the bridge section he readied his Force Pike and spied four on the run down bridge, one calling for someone to check on Engineering.
Nathan acted, teleporting in their midst, a controlled swing taking out the commander, sending him into la-la land than deliberately dropping the pike, teleporting it above the head of the second, the stun prod hitting the scalp even as he used Force Stun on the third, teleporting to the fourth and lifting him by the neck, teleporting the Pike above the Force Stunned slaver and letting the Pike's stun nodule hit him also, knocking him out too.
The Slaver he gripped by the neck slowly lost consciousness and Nathan dropped him when he was out cold, teleporting his pike back to his hand. He then locked down and disabled the rest of the camp security, and closed and locked the door to the bridge, taking one of their rangefinders. Seven minutes before the arrival of the two other teams. Scans showed their signal transponders moving closer to the crashed ship on the computer screen.
Nathan glanced up through a gap in the Hull and teleported through it, landing on the hull, where he crept down quietly through the sandstorm, spied all three groups. The two teams that had been manning the gun nests carried heavy repeaters--
these, to be specific. They were closest to the camp...
Nathan crept up quietly on the fourteen strong group moving tactically through the ship ruins. He readied his stun pistol and concentrated, teleporting to the nearby top of an old Lambda Class Shuttle half buried in the sand, overlooking their slow approach through the canyon of wreckage.
He readied an Acid Arrow from his quiver as he spied a hatch upon which a lot of junk and debris rested. He fired the acid arrow at one of its joints, and the acid eventually melted the joint, causing its position to become unstable and drop, sending junk and debris tumbling down, forcing them back as he loaded a Stun Spore Arrow and fired into a cluster of three. Grouped so close together, the spores managed to catch all three, and while their coughing and nausea caught the attention of the others. He teleported down and smacked into two brutally with the Pike, knocking them out while the others were focused on the men coughing and collapsing, teleporting back to his observing point above and quickly loaded another acid arrow, firing at another structure instability, a set of pylons holding more junk and it collapsed, startling the remainder. He teleported behind another one, pike ready, and Force Stunned the one in front of him, knocking the one out next to him, then the one he had stunned. He used the fierce sandstorm to obscure his movements and mask his noise as he Force Stunned two this time (A feat that drained him more than normal). He jammed the stun prod into both.
One wheeled around, and began to raise his blaster, but Nathan was quicker, using Force Speed to close the distance and knock him out wheeling on the others, who spotted him. Nathan teleported behind each, smacking them on the head to be sure, or Force Stunning them when he thought they were gonna fire, hurling his pike into the last one. He dragged each of their unconscious bodies out of the wind storm and into shelter, tying them up securely in the wrecks of the nearby ships, before Force Leaping to a rafter above and began moving east to take down the mortar teams.
He eventually caught site of them, now in spitting distance of the crashed Hammerhead. He was lucky. Nine people, three for each team. They'd disassembled their mortars, one person in each team carrying it on their backs, another carrying the shell supply, the third carrying a rifle.
Nathan teleported behind them as they moved through wreckage. The wreckage would absorb most of the sound.
He pulled the pin on one of Kinea's makeshift stun grenades and teleported it in front of them. The stun blast knocked out the three closest but disoriented the rest and Nathan was merciless in his usage of Force Speed, knocking each out with nice long taps of the stun nodule.
He then ran quickly back to the South West route, and frowned when he saw two teams of six people, each escorting a crowd of Kitonak they had captured.
Nathan got out three stun arrows, but instead of trying to load any on his bow. He dropped them, teleporting each above the heads of the rifleman, the stun spore arrows bursting open on impact and covering them in stun spores and coughing fits, while the other team members grew startled, immediately grabbing for their comlinks.
His stun pistol was out, only firing when the howl of the wind was at its highest to drown out the noise of his pistol being fired, trusting the Force to guide his aim as he fired and teleported at the same time, knocking each out.
The Kitonak prisoners were frightened as he approached. But then he took out his Lightsaber and some of the natives recognized it. They helped him tie up their captors.
"Follow me." Nathan ordered coldly before walking away, leading them.
He reached the camp, and found Kinea standing in the middle, with knocked out slavers neatly tied up.
"You took out all three teams?" Kinea spoke, deeply surprised. "Were you some kinda fethin' shadow or something?"
"Or something..." Nathan replied, not bothering to elaborate. "I presume you took out everyone in the Hammerhead?"
"Everyone left standing. All alive. I gotta admit...I've met Knight's, even some Masters, who probably would have taken at least
one of these bastard's hands..."
"Doing it as cleanly and bloodlessly as possible serves the Public Trust...and prevents
us from drawing attention from our superiors we don't want." Nathan replied. "We need to get a signal to league military. A secondary camp separate from the main one has been taken care of. Did you find out what those key cards opened?"
"Red one opened up the medical bay, yellow one opened up their brig...full of dead prisoners. Tortured Kitonak. Green one opened up the armory... found
this..."
She handed him a grenade with a transparent casing and orange gel inside with gray specks of particulates...
He was all too familiar with this design.
"Incendiary. Five second fuse. Mixture of Napalm and Thermite...used by guerillas..." Nathan said. "Careful with it..."
Kinea nodded and they both headed back inside, Kinea sending an encrypted transmission to league ships in orbit, revealing the location of the secondary camp and the location of all subdued hostiles. Relevant ships would transmit the info to
Veino Garn
, who was nearby...
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