Once a Slave, Always a Slave

[Gar Tanaris]

(Oh well lol)
@[member="Alachei Mnemenos"]
Damn. Seems to be locals fighting again. I'll make sure none get too close.

With that, Gar walked up to the top of the hill he had been waiting on, and pulled his blaster rifle over his shoulder and into his hands. He also reached into the black trench coat to pull out macrobinoculars. He scanned the town, seeing flames coming from the cantina, and occasional bits of light from blaster discharges. There was definitely fighting going on. He was tempted to try and help the law officials, but he had a job to do. He had to keep the exit point secure.

 

[Onrai]

@[member="Lyra Uporg"] @Tricia Kalamack @[member="Alachei Mnemenos"]

"I'd rather just take her from you, Alachei. Let's not forget that I still want to deal with you..." She spoke mentally to the woman, a soft smile on her face. 'She won't be a slave if she's with me. I find the practice detestable and will make sure she enjoys her new life as a friend of mine.'

Then came Tricia. Remembered quite well from the Lords of Shadows, corrupted to the Dark Side by the robes she was wearing. Circe wished she had such robes, but until that happened, she would be drawing from her lover's darkness instead. Kaine's.

"Tricia, I've come to get her on behalf of @[member="Kaine Zambrano"]. He wishes for her to join his servants. You will release her from your custody and allow me to transport her to Thule. If you choose to interfere in this transaction, I will have no choice but to report your insubordination to the Sith order. I can only wonder what torments they'll have for a fallen Jedi like yourself. Now please, I'll ask nicely once more. Hand her over to me."

 

[Atlas Kane]

The sight of the cantina was one of death and destruction, so Yasuo picked up his pace and ran even faster. Then the entrance was only 20 meters away from him. He opened the door with the force, only to see a woman holding on to the arm of another woman, who had looked like some empress he had heard about. The latter was carrying an unconscious teenager who looked like she was about 18 years old. Behind them he saw someone with a lightsaber and some people with blasters. He was right there were force users involved, now he would have to find out if they were on his side, or not.

Now he was only 10 meters away from the entrance. The golden blade of his lightsaber lit up and he was ready to stop the fight.

 

[Tricia Kalamack]

Tricia looked at Circe and raised an eyebrow at that. "And child?" She remained where she was and smiled pushing the force into the room like a wall. Each ripple of it distorting the area's around her hands into balls. "If you were with Kaine you would have realized and known full well that I am no longer in the empire. The Lady of the Fringe asked for us to choose and I chose to go with her and the commander. As much as Lord Kaine is fun to be around I am not a sith nor a harlot like you who clings to those stronger then her." The smile remained on her face while she let more energy build. "Now hand her over to me children or I am afraid I will have to take her while bringing this place down upon you."

 

[Onrai]

"If Kaine's authority won't get you to stop..." A distinctly darker taint began to fill Circe, one that was exceptionally unnatural for her. There was one person who emitted such a festering and corrupted Dark Force aura. One person @Tricia Kalamack would respect, bow to, and accept the authority of. "Hauntruss commands it. And you will obey the Mistress of Shadows, or suffer."

Hopefully, the Sith Master would know to chill and release the girl into her custody. "The last warning, Tricia. Let her go."

 

[Vuplesia]

"Cur. You can try..." Alachei retorted, turning towards the door and swatting away the saber like a fly with a huge, technical blitz frm her own. By then the stranger with the yellow blade would have free reign to enter.
Let none leave in tact, but don't hit the girl. The unit should be here any minute. You'll be imbursed well for this. she noted to Gar.
"Whoever is against this girl's capture or corruption. Stand by me and stop this attrocity. Or fall by the wayside to a legion of men. Choose your side." She said with such charisma yet so calm.

 

[Tricia Kalamack]

Hauntress was a threat, circe was not. Unless the woman was going to be Hauntress it was foolish to invoke such a name. Her humor turned to boredom as she flicked her eyes back and forth then flexed her own aura letting the weight of ages lived and trained wash out. "Invoking a name when you have not the teeth to back it up is not smart child. Your every bit as foolish as you always seemed. Now it is time for you to run along little girl and try to scare small children with your darkness." Her face remained stoic and almost a sneer while she expanded the distorted orbs in her hands to indent on the floor and smirk. She could and was ready to bring it all down on them and telekinesis was a fun thing. She could cover and hold for herself and the girl while letting plants and this thing go squish. Her eyes fell to the other one talking as she tilted her head and let the saber remain in the air. "I think perhaps you should stand aside because like the other children here I am too old for games. I will not hesitate to snuff you from this room girl and I am taking her with me back to the Fringe. Where she will have a choice in the matter."

 

[Atlas Kane]

Yasuo was surprised to see the blade get pulled aside, but he didn't pay much attention to that. He had to stop the fight and that meant stopping the blaster fire.

When he reached the door he nodded at the woman who had taken the blade out of his way, to signalize that he was greateful, and proceeded to run through the room to the back, where a couple of bandits were using some flipped tables as cover. His goal was to disarm them, but if he had to he would kill them.

The bandits were too occupied with the others to notice him. Yasuo used this element of surprise and jumped behind the bandits. Some of them turned around, but before they were able to shoot him he had already cut through their blasters. ''Give up, you don't stand a chance!''

 

[Onrai]

Circe merely said nothing, her illusion smirking and stepping forward towards Tricia as the real Circe, immersed in the Force, moved towards her back. "I did warn you. Hauntress desires your support of Kaine, and that of the Lords' as well. You will obey her, or be destroyed."

When she was in position, a nice blast of Force energy would blast Tricia across the room long enough for her to acquire Kyla and make a break for it.

@Tricia Kalamack @[member="Alachei Mnemenos"]

 

[Nyxie]

"You're going to die here sooner than take that girl, fool. Do not say I did not offer you a chance at life." Alachei casually said as she walked out the door, now unblocked.
She lifted her right hand in the air, iridescent saber still in hand, signaling the modern-retrofitted MAAT where she was. Repulsorlift engines gave a pulsating hum throughout the air as it came to a near-still hover over the cantina of this strange, neutral planet.
"Do not deploy yet; stay on holding pattern over the building. There's a girl in there, and it is imperative she is not critically harmed. Is that understood?" she said via comm.
Yes, my lady! the commanding corpsman firmly replied.
The carrier cruiser itself remained somewhere safely above the cantina out in the rim of the outer atmosphere. With it was one of the SEWACs frigates for sensor networking and concealment. The High Queen never left the Domonion's systems without it, and they likely wouldn't have let her get far out of sight anyway. They were only a system away from the border.
~Don't let anyone leave with the girl.~
"This is your final chance. Release the girl, or be faced with lethal force. I will not ask twice, and I do not negotiate with your kind." she said via bellow so that it would echo through the cantina in light of the fact that she was now outside of it. All the while, the MAAT ran interval circles around the structure like a helicopter gunship.

(((The site is being a 'tard again and keeps switching my account to my writer, denying me from posting or editing, so be reasonable!)))​

@[member="Circe Savan"] @[member="Yasuo"] @[member="Tricia Kalamack"] @[member="Gar Tanaris"] @[member="Lyra Uporg"]​

 

[Tricia Kalamack]

[with permission]
Tricia went through the air and stopped herself, problem with fighting a force user who could one fly, two bring a roof down on people and if she really went for it throw small small craft was... They didn't get flung from cheap shots of petty children and now of them both. Only one had broken the rules, they didn't attack each other or that was how it would have been. Didn't mean as Tricia floated there and saw another man attacking people she would. Her eyes flicked up to the room again as she touched the ground and still held the distorted balls of energy. Her grin coming back. "Tsk tsk tsk, such a child, and now well." Tricia threw the ball of force energy into the roof, a good sized ball of kinetic energy was great for flattening bunker this one only had to go through the roof as she reached pulling Lyra to her. The former jedi master held her as the bits of dust came and winked shooting up into the air.

She had one advantage of the others, flight and building up her abilities instead of just trying to use them. Everything good comes from patience. She held Lyra to her chest and shot up bringing the force into a barrier in front of her to keep it from her eyes. Her former area leaving an impact crater while she moved into the sky above. "Child you need to wake up." @[member="Lyra Uporg"] Tricia remained stiff while moving and letting her arms hold her close but not smother. "You need to awaken and stay awake a blow to the head is not a good thing. She carefully divided her attention between flying and working to rouse from unconsciousness the girl. She even welcomed the idea of someone giving chase.

 

[Gar Tanaris]

@[member="Alachei Mnemenos"]

Well feth. Now there was an unknown craft hovering around the cantina. Gar decided that it was time to get into the town. He walked over to some scrub and dragged out a two person speeder. He started it up, then climbed onto it, starting toward the town and his employer.
I'm on my way over ma'am. This situation just keeps escalating.

 

[Lyra Uporg]

Lyra woke up to a woman calling to her. " hmm" She yawned and looked around. " Mistress please I am sorry, I will pull my own weight from now on. , I will please you, I promise" She said as she tried not to freak out despite every part of her wanting to. She decided to make sure her new mistress knew things. " I have a device that I am surprised idn't blow us up in me, mistress, unless you bought me than I am very sorry for pointing out the obvious and will punish my self if needed. I am a obedient and loyal and loving slave. "

 

[Onrai]

"Gee. Seems Tricia has forgotten about the slave explosive." A sigh ran through Circe's lips as she moved to the slave owners hand. The device was more than likely still active, meaning that she would explode, likely if a button was pressed or the device broke connection with the controller. "Excuse me, I need this." She took the device from the slave owner and pressed the red button, which would detonate the device. She didn't want to blow @[member="Lyra Uporg"]...

But if it would eliminate @Tricia Kalamack too, oh well.

 

[Nyxie]

Alachei's target made off with the woman who stole them from her care. And they were now... flying? With a crash, the figure seemed to fly out into the air while the roof of the cantina crumbled under them. This really twisted Alachei's head, as she didn't think it possible before. Even if what she saw before her very eyes was the truth, and not a Dark Side illusion, no one could get far that way being a mere mortal. They weren't leaving the planet without either Alachei sensing them out, or the cruiser and its sensory escort vessel picking them up. They could've spotted anything on one whole side of the globe and easily break into two individual unit to cover most of the other side. If needed, fighters could be called in for recon support.
"What in Masana...." she sighed, "Deploy the fighters in flights. Have some ground troops land and secure the exits to this town and let nothing leave this planet's airspace without my personal IFF clearance. You are cleared to use lethal force if escort or capture is not an option. Be subtle; we do not want to invoke conflict with the locals. Have the Astra Nyx ready as soon as possible for me, if you may." Alachei stated firmly over the holocomm, through an encrypted and reserved channel.
"Captain," she said to one of the corpsmen whom she turned her attention to, "Please get me back on my ship. I wish to meditate and mustn't be disturbed." she said disdainfully.
"Yes, ma'am!" he saluted and kneeled.
In truth, Alachei planned to simply meditate high above the planet while her carrier's forces did their duty. Hopefully, she decided, the altitude combined with the blood and tears crystal would help her detect the strange, powerful woman if they left began to leave the planet... or at least sniff out the innocent girl. With any luck, the marines would just find them if they tried leaving the planet in a craft, or anything metal. At least it bought her time, as the SEWAC covered a roughly 5k kilometer radius over the town, and flights of heavy fighters could travel almost indefinitely in shifts around the entirety of the globe.
Now, Alachei simply had to wait for her hireling, Gar, to arrive so she could discuss the situation further and invite him onto the Crown. Nothing was ever simple, was it? A small blast seemed to occur inside the already sabotaged cantina where Alachei slipped out the small explosive device.
"Well, there goes that," she murmured, inwardly laughing at the comical idea that someone really decided to press it after all that transpired. They'd blow themselves up.

@[member="Circe Savan"] @[member="Lyra Uporg"] @[member="Gar Tanaris"] @[member=" Tricia Kalamack"]​

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(((In all seriousness I am very much looking forward to seeing how you plot to escape this situation :>)))​

 

[Tricia Kalamack]

Tricia held Lyra tighter and smirked.... The incision the woman had made on hr side and pulled the explosive out while she was on the floor was covered with a small patch of force energy. She looked at the girl. "The one woman cut it out of you, something crude but it is effective. Let it explode it won't kill you now. You won't be hurt any more." Tricia stopped for a moment and raised her eyebrow while she just hovered there going into the shadow of one of the buildings. There was much one could do and she looked down making sure they wouldn't be hit by speeders. She wondere if someone was going to press the button to blow up the device and in that case... blow the room up they were in. Ah well the curse of being less perceptive then a ropo.

 

[Atlas Kane]

The other bandits then turned around and he cut through their blasters as well. Now that they were defensless they surrendered, because they knew they had no chance against a Jedi, well he wasn't a full Jedi yet but he didn't want them to know that.

After the Bandits had been dealt with he approached the woman that had helped him earlier and said ''Hello and thanks for your help earlier. Who are you, you look kind of familiar.'' Then he turned to all the others in the room ''And who are all you guys?''

@[member="Alachei Mnemenos"] @[member="Circe Savan"] @[member="Regor Laxvan"] @[member="Yusan Fenn"] @[member="Judas"]

 

[Onrai]

Circe growled as over in some corner of the room, an explosion was heard. Stupid device. "Alright. Bring in the Detrituses." Overhead a squadron of twelve Detritus bombers entered the area, each loaded with sixty-four concussion missiles capable or tracking a target as small as a deployable turret. So around man-sized. And they were converging on the target's position...

"This is Alpha wing, switching scanners to very fine tuning, objects producing a man-sized signature. We're following the target and are coming within missile range. When we do, missiles will be fired and the target will be destroyed. If the girl's still alive, she'll be brought up for treatment."

@Tricia Kalamack @[member="Lyra Uporg"]

 

[Gar Tanaris]

@[member="Alachei Mnemenos"]

Gar raced through the streets, swerving through the small groups of people and vehicles still out. A law official yelled at him to stop but he ignored her. He raced toward the cantina and stopped a few blocks short. He ditched the speeder, which he had rented under a false name and ID, and took a deep breath. Focusing, he reached out to the Force and used it to enhance his muscles, allowing him to jump up onto the roof of a small store. From there he ran across rooftops, hidden from the police cordon, and dropped into the roof of the ruined cantina, landing with a soft thud. His heavy blaster pistol out, he walked toward the Force signature of his employer.

He walked into the room where she was, careful to not startle her, as he saw her hand clenched around something. Possibly a blaster or weapon of some sort. He didn't want her to accidentally shoot him. The hospitals around here were garbage. "Ma'am, I'm here. Where is the target?"

 

[Vuplesia]

"Ma'am, there is a flight of bomber sized craft en route from elsewhere on the planet. Odei Squadron is tracking them and prepared to intercept. Your orders?"
"Run a fly by and have an equally large flight follow them. We cannot afford to be responsible for aggrssion." Alachei replied.
The Mnenchei matriarch was ready to board the gunship at an moment when she felt strange and brief flashes in he Force. It was indistinct, and woud be hard to trace even for an adept, but Alachei had patience, dedication and the catalyst of inncence. With enough care, surely the Force would lead her right, as it did all shaman.
"Gar?" she turned, mildly surprised but expcting. "Something is afoul. I sense great danger. The girl... I have been informed that unidentified bombers are en route. She ma be caught in the crossfire. Come with me!" Alachei notioned.
The queen began pacing down the streets in search of this odd feeling. Hesitant to leave the queen alone, one squad gave chase, carefulpy but hastily scanning their vectors as they went. The rest styed inaide the MAAT as it took off again to oversee her.
"Ma'am, beind the building two blocks down on your left side, our gunner says we have a visual. Moving to investigate.... Positive on an unknown figure with an injured girl! We are en route to location."
Alachei was both surprised and relieved. Without wasting a word, she ran to the reported last sighting. She ran through the buiding, hoping to intercept one or both of them.
"You!" she shouted after bashing open a nearby window. "If you will not listen to force then listen to reason. You are outnumbered while my loyal men scour the city. My fihters fill the sky and a ship sees all that pass through the airspace on this continent. NoW bombers of unknown allegiance come. Your path will only lead you to death... and the death of this innocent life. I give you my word, as High Queen of the Doinion of the Mnenchei and the Unknown! That I will let you free and give this girl the attention she is in dire need of, if you release her to me. She is injred, for Ri'ess sake. I sense some good left in you. Do not be a statistic." Alachei delared firmly and ended lovingly. She did not wan to see this end poorly... but it only elsewise could. The words echoes telepthically should the woman be open to detecting it, in case she fled in surprise, andwas intentionally spoken over an active comm.active She took in ne last deep breath afer a sigh, tensing her chest for wha was likely to ensue. The gunship reared up behind the duo, and bombers being wined by Solace fighters clouded the skies.

It began to rain heavily.

(((I beleve Circe agreed to redact the carrier that appeared mid-thread after negotiation.)))