Let's Blow This Popsicle Stand

[Barrett Haskins]

@[member="Azza Mirim Xarax"]

The Dantooine jail wasn’t exactly the most comfortable thing Barrett had experienced in his life, the beds were crap to sleep on and the only thing crappier was the food they served every day at the same times. It was not even his fault he was in jail! (okay it was but who actually admits that?!)

He had been drinking at the local bar after dropping off some cargo at the spaceport when he was approached by a bounty hunter who had heard he was wanted by the Imperials for smuggling, after exchanging pleasentries, Barrett quickly punched him in the face and kicked him in the stomach before running out of the bar and back for his ship.

Little did he know but his crew was already there and they overpowered him and took him into custody in the jail he was currently located until his paperwork went through and he was taken back and his bounty cashed in. That was how Barrett had lost his patience with the aforementioned crappy service. He had quickly become snide and rude with the guards who taunted him constantly for their own amusment.

“Here’s your food, Haskins, enjoy!” The guard spat before sliding the tray through to the inmate, and walking away laughing. There was a giant fingernail in his eggs, Barrett didn’t find the same humor in it that he did.
“Stop flirting and ask me out already!” Barrett yelled back at the guard, throwing the plate of food at the wall. The guard didn’t take very kindly to that and doubled back to the cell, opening the door and extending a baton he had strapped to his waist.

“You think you’re so funny?” He asked before taking the baton and smacking Barrett around a couple times, kicking him in the stomach, and then spitting on him before leaving. The smuggler had no other choice but to crawl into bed and sleep off the pain, blood seeping from his nose, too much for just some toilet paper to get. He’d die before he went to the Empire, this was a fast track it seemed.

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When the guards brought his newest roommate in around noon they would have walked in on a bloodied Barrett sleeping on the bottom bunk, pillow and wardrobe bloody, trailing from his mouth and nose. There was still uneaten eggs and hash on the floor. It was quite the pitiful sight.

The slamming of the cell door jolted Barrett awake, soon he would meet his new cellmate.

 

[Azza Mirim Xarax]

Azza Mirim Xarax was wanted on multiple charges of computer hacking, had numerous aliases, and was arrested when s/he got caught hacking the imperial mil-net, from a holo-net booth in the local spaceport. The guard looked at Barrett and said smarmy "Hey Haskins, your date is here." and then laughed manaicly as they walked off, giggling all the way down the hall.

Rolling over, Barrett would be greeted by the sight of a giant white bug, a mantoid-like Vratix to be specific. Azza watched as the guards left, made sure they were gone, and then took to poking at the cell-mate. poke-poke. "Bzzzt,(click)...Yu Ded ?" To Xarax, he kinda stank.... Then again, most people tended to smell funny to her. Monkey smell. Humanoid smell. S/he didn't really like it, but what was s/he gonna do, forcibly bathe every last human she laid her thousand-eyes on? Hardly.

That's when she spied a metal panel on the wall, opposite the door. Xarax Slow-turned to fully stare at the panel, clacking her mandibles in mild excitement. Bingo ! Mistake number One; never put a hacker bug in a cell with a terminal box, even if it was covered by a plate.

 

[Barrett Haskins]

“What in the great deep nebula?!” He swore as he rolled out of bed when the bug touched him, he had never seen such a thing and he wasn’t sure if it was going to live with him or eat him alive. “Are you going to kill me? Did the guard send you?” His eyes were wide with questioning, he had no idea what was going on. He was still shaken up from the beating he just got.

 

[Azza Mirim Xarax]

The cell-mate proved to be quite animated and very not-dead. It also proved very talkative as it let loose a string of words s/he didn't quite understand.... something about deep nebulas and killing the guards..... Weird people. "Bzzzz ?" xarax said, turning back to look at the cellmate. Obviously, they stuck her with a crazy one....Either that or high on nuke, or whatever drug-recipe was popular around here.

Now to find out if it (he? she?) was gonna make trouble for her, even if it was worked over abit by the guards, as seen to by the blood (red blood? ewwww.) Xarax tried to say 'Don't make trouble or ill bend you' in basic, but it came out as whistles, clicks and buzzes.

S/he then went to work trying to get the panel off, fiddling with the knobs, trying to find a pry-point.

 

[Barrett Haskins]

"Oh lord, I'm not sure what's going on." He then saw the giant bug playing around witht he panel by the door, obviously trying to tell the guards that it was about to kill Barrett. This wasn't going to be good. "Uh, I'm really not sure what's going on here. Are you a prisoner?" He asked, speaking slowly as to try to establish some sort of communication with it, if it was sentient enough to make it on Tattooine it had to have some idea about culture and language.

 

[Azza Mirim Xarax]

With a Snikt, the panel came loose. Success !

Azza chirped out a happy noise and then laid the panel cover on a shelf. S/he then went to the toilet, reached around, and began to pull what looked like a turd on a string out of ..... Herself. ( ewwwww !) S/he ignored the (to her opinions) obviously stoned, clueless Barrett, keeping an eye or 2 on him only to see if he would play the neidiermeyer and summon the guards to bust her and him get a cookie for his spineless tattling.

Unwrapping it revealed a cute little yellow comlink-computer, with several wire taps on one edge. Ditching the wrapping in the toilet and cleaning herself up, the big white bug then went back to the panel (now exposed wires) and began to cut and splice wires into the commlinky.

 

[Barrett Haskins]

The smuggler chose the simplest option in return to his new roomate's actions, he simply rolled over and decided to try to go back to sleep, his day was crappy enough as it was. He had no time to deal with a crazy bug that was pulling things out of her.

"I hate Dantooine..." He mumbled under his breath. If only he knew what the insect was actually doing.

 

[Azza Mirim Xarax]

@[member="Barrett Haskins"]
After several minutes of fiddling with the commlinky, ALL of the cellblock doors clicked open, and not long after that, the alarm sounded. Every last level of hell broke loose. Xarax unhooked the commlinky from the wires, and poked at Barrett again "bzzt, hei...." Hopefully he was with-it enough to recognize freedom when he saw it.

S/he tried to show him that the cell door had slid open, and likewise the entire rest of the cellblock (indeed the entire prison ?) had gone ABSOLUTELY NUTS making a run for it out of every possible doorway, with the guards struggling to keep some semblance of containment and order. By the looks of it, one bug had instigated the largest prison break this place had seen since .... forever ?