Life After Zann (Completed)

[Madame Cognito]

-Three Months Ago-
Klaxxons blared throughout OPULENCE as the ship crashed down hard against the planet of Denon. Arisa had done all she could before abandoning ship to steer the vessel into a rural forest outside of a major populated area. The vessel broke into several chunks as it impacted the temperate forest. An unconscious Arya lay in the back half of the burning wreckage. She'd barricaded herself in her private quarters. Arya went into the attack knowing that if this were to happen to her vessel that she fight until she could no longer hold the vessel and would ultimately make the choice to go down with the ship.

Repulsorlift fire brigade vessels from the nearby city soared through the afternoon sky as they rushed into action. They tackled the blaze swiftly as to avoid the flames taking out the surrounding vegetation. The fire brigade's battle against the flames took hours. It was well into the night when rescue and salvage crews had been able to search the ship for potential survivors. They broke through doors using their laser cutting torches and scrutinized every inch of the vessels for any signs of life.

They made their way into Arya's suite. Her body had been cut up and bruised to hell from the impact. She was unconscious with her legs and torso smashed beneath her upturned bed and desk. A rescue team member had detected faint life signs and rapidly worked with others to remove the desk and bed from atop Arya;s body. They carefully moved her body from the ground and placed it on a repulsorlift stretcher. They began to administer fluids to the rescued crew member as they removed her from the wreckage. Quickly, they rushed Arya to the city's main medical center to proceed with diagnosis, body repair and the inevitable extensive rehabilitation.

 

[Madame Cognito]

Glimpses of a greenish blue bubbles flowed upward in a tubular metal tank as the body of Arya Cognito remained suspended in animation. These glimpses were short lived as Arya drifted in and out of consciousness. In the times out of consciousness, Arya's mind was still active mentally. The same scene played out in Arya's head. Arya enters her office to find her younger self staring back at her from her chair with a laser pistol in one hand and a blood stained wallet in the other. The younger Arya would state coyly, "You miss this, don't you? Darling Arya, you were always meant to be bad. Why not embrace it? Leave those idiots aside and return to doing what we both love. The seduction, the steal and the kill....ooooh the rush of it all." Current age Arya would smile a wicked smile at this fact and realize that her psyche was trying to tell her something. She kept repeating that same scene. Mentally, Arya couldn't figure out how to get to the next part of the scene.

She kept waking up and drifting back to the dream until one morning, Arya's eyes shot open and her motor functions played toward her confusion as to her surroundings. Her surroundings were a tube with heavy duty glass surrounding all 360 degrees of her. She could not see where she was because the exterior of the glass of the tube was reinforced with a solid metal casing. Her arms and legs were connected to four tubes that were connected to her vital arteries and veins. These tubes were also suspending her in the middle of the tube. Arya was breathing in the bacta with a face mask breather that kept her from drowning in the medicinal fluid.

Time was still ticking with regards to her healing. Arya felt well enough that she felt her need for healing would end soon.

[member="Tylan Toarinar"]

 

[Madame Cognito]

The metal shielding around the tank was shed which signaled her healing in the tank was complete. An evil smirk crossed her lips as the medical droids drained the fluid and the bacta tank's implanted tubes that held her in place retracted from her skin and the breather mask was removed by the tank's functions. The glass retracted downward into the frame of the tank. A naked Arya fell to a kneeling position with her head down. She was still smirking. The droids came towards her to help lift her off the ground. Arya grabbed their cold metallic arms and yanked the droids downward to a point that they clanked their heads against one another. She found her two blaster pistols in a nearby personables storage. After grabbing all of her items and placing them in a bag, Arya slung the bag over her right shoulder. Then, she spun around fired two shots square in the heads of the droids. Sparks emanated from the blasted holes in their metallic skulls. Arya cackled as she left the rehabilitation room whilst putting on a white medical lab coat. She ripped the sleeve of the coat and used it as a bandana for the lower half of her face. She ripped the other medical coat's sleeve off and used it to tie the robe closed to sheath her nude frame underneath.

As she walked slowly through the facility into the lobby of the facility, Arya shot and killed any witnesses and anyone in her way. Quickening her pace, Arya sprinted outside and shot a local as they began to enter their repulsorlift vehicle. The local went lifeless as it slammed against the side of the car providing a blood splatter trail down the side. She kicked him off the vehicle, grabbed the ignition card and took the vehicle flying down the city streets.

Reaching the spaceport, Arya jumped out of the vehicle as it still moved at a high speed. She rolled against the ground multiple times, the impact ended up scuffing up her freshly healed frame. She rose to her feet and watched as the repulsorlift vehicle careened into other vehicles and was forced into the wall of a building where it exploded upon impact. The local security forces had begun to speed across the city from above and began their descent towards the spaceport. Arya smiled placed her two pistols at the ready as she sprinted across the spaceport's plaza and into the building. She was met by spaceport security forces that she quickly dispatched as they returned fire.

Arya ducked into the cantina of the spaceport and found that it was filled with people. They looked to the door alarmed by the sounds of laser fire emanating from the exterior halls of the spaceport. Arya ran down the employee's hall being chased by employees of the establishment. She saw that two were brandishing vibroweapons and the third was brandishing a blaster pistol of their own. Arya stepped forward with her hands in the air as if to surrender. The two vibroweapon holding employees went in for the grab when she lowered her fists against their heads and knocked their heads against one another. The third began to fire and struck Arya in the right shoulder. Arya winced in pain for a second before she grabbed one of the unconscious guards and used him for a human shield to the pistoleer's attacks. She moved forward and tossed the unconscious guy onto the pistoleer, shot the third guy, then the other two. Arya ran back further down the employee's only hallway and found the manager's office door. She entered cautiously, her weapons at the ready. Arya saw the office was not clear and the female black haired manager rose with a weapon of her own. The door closed behind her. She thought this woman would work perfectly for her currently improvised plans.

"Stop this right now or I will end you!" The office manager shouted to Arya from behind her desk brandishing a laser crossbow. Arya wasted no time in shooting the manager in the head as she spoke. "Idiots...when will they learn to shoot first and talk second?" Arya pushed the body off the desk from it's forward fall. She stole her wallet in the process of moving her to the floor behind the desk. Quickly, Arya changed into sleek, black leather pants and black turtle neck. She clicked the utility belt with two holsters across her hips. Arya swiftly stripped the manager of her clothes, tossed them under her desk. Then, she put the medical lab coat sleeve on the lower half of the dead manager's face and put the white medical robe on the naked body of the office manager. She assumed position behind the desk standing up with her arms folded, blaster pistols in each hand and looking impatient. Security personnel barged in with their weapons trained on Arya.


Arya exasperatedly exclaimed, "Would you buffoons lower your weapons! Look over here!" Arya pointed to the body next to her. Continuing her verbal berating of the personnel, "What the kark took you so long?! 'queen nearly killed me...She killed my staff?! What the hell am I supposed to do when my staff is dead and I have a cantina full of pat--"

"Ma'am, the fighting pretty much cleared out your cantina." One of the personnel interrupted.

"Oh! Well that's just karkING great! Not only am I staffless, I am now patronless. Get out of my office and take this damn body with you!" Arya exclaimed tossing her guns guns on the desk so she wouldn't be tempted to shoot the security squad.

"We're terribly sorry, ma'am. We'll make this quick." Another one of the personnel stated proceeding towards the body.

"See that you do." Arya stated turning away from them and eying the holo-monitors behind her.

[member="Tylan Toarinar"]

 

[Madame Cognito]

Arya turned her attention away from the monitors as the body was removed by the security personnel. It wouldn't be long before the personnel traced the body back to the hospital and discovered that their victim wasn't the killer. It also wouldn't be long before the unconscious staff members were revived and confirmed their suspicions. Arya grabbed her bag, pulled a charge out of the pack and set up a timed explosive on the underside of the desk. 20 minutes was the set time. Arya quickly slung her bag over her shoulder and exited the vacant cantina. She peeked around a corner and slunk down a hallway taking care to look inconspicuous. She passed by without issue a contingent of multiple security personnel on heightened patrol of the area.

In the main hangar area, Arya spotted a small personal ship with it's engines prepping. The captain was heading up the underside of the ship by way of the ramp. Arya stepped into the well lit hangar area and over to the vessel. A warning klaxxon started to light up and blare as she entered the ship. The captain, startled by the klaxxon, started toward the ramp to check out the commotion. He looked down at the foot of the ramp from his point at the top of it. Arya was standing there with her dual blaster pistols drawn. Without uttering a sound, Arya pulled the triggers and blasted the captain to oblivion. She raced aboard, initiated the ramp closure button and entered the cockpit that wasn't far from the ramp. This personal vessel had been in the process of it's departure as signaled by the hangar doors horizontally off in the distance of the ship. Arya gained the controls and swiftly took the ship off the metal hangar floor. She pushed the ship swiftly through the hangar as the security personnel had began the hangar bay door closure too late. Arya easily took the vessel out of the hangar and up into the atmosphere where she was greeted by the personnel in their own vessels starting their approach to the hangar.

Arya smirked at their attempt at surrounding the way. She pulled the navigation wheel back swiftly and angled her ship downwards. Rapidly, the personal vessel, a poorly designed CorDoru Shipping vessel, shot downwards underneath the line-up of vessels. She sailed through the air with the vessels turning quickly to pursue. Knowing they wouldn't risk killing her because they would want to bring her in to pay for her crimes, Arya was able to make it out of the atmosphere with only minor damage to her newly acquired vessel.

Arya tapped her knowledge of galactic trade routes and found that she could head to the nearby Hydian Way intersection with the Corellian Run trade route and take the Corellian Run route all the way up to Corellia. Once on Corellia, Arya knew she could hide out, find Arisa and possibly find out what happened to Nixara and Corruck Zann.