Hunting Job for Hurri the Hutt

[Skeang]

Skeang knew guards were coming close behind him and he knew he would need to meet with Lents sooner or later he came to a fork in a hallway the first door he tried was locked and he had an idea. He broke down the first door after several slashes and bashes against it and attempted to barricade the room with the objects inside and the proceeded down the 2nd part of the fork in the hallway. He hoped Lents would realize how uncharacteristic it would be for him to hide that Lents would go down the correct hallway and at the same time the pirates would waste time attempting to break into the blocked room.

[Eth Erzin]

Lents hurried down one hall after another, following Skeang's force trail that curved away from him. As he ran through a door into a hallway that ran to his left and his right, he heard footsteps and shouting coming from another hallway connected to the one he was in.
All of a sudden a small group of about five stormtroopers, or pirates dressed as stormtroopers, rushed into the hall and froze as they saw Lents. Lents froze. One pulled out a blaster and pointed it at Lents. "Who are you?"
Lents didn't know whether to run or fight. When he remained silent, the other four pulled out blasters as well, and that's when Lents bolted down the hallway away from them, fueled by the force and fear. Lents ducked and wove around to keep himself from being an easy target, and blaster bolt after blaster bolt was launched into the walls and ceiling and floor. However, even with the power of the force on his side, Lents' stamina began to wear thin. Stamina was always his weakest aspect. Lents pulled out his lightsaber and ignited the bright yellow blade to cries of surprise through the mechanical stormtrooper voice filter. His eyes widened as he suddenly sensed a blaster bolt hurtling through the air in a direct course to his head, and knew that he would not be able to get out of the way.
lents jumped in the air and spun around as he brought his lightsaber down in a diagonal cut that rammed into the blaster bolt and caused it to go careening into the ground right near a stormtrooper's foot who tried to jump out of the way but tripped and fell and caused two others to fall over him. With the last two stormtroopers right on him, Lents remembered the Ossus master's training from just over a week ago and punched his palm out as he envisioned the space around the stormtroopers stretching forward and wrapping around them as it pulled back. As he opened his eyes, he saw that the two had been thrown back with Lents' first ever successful force push.
Not taking any time to revel in victory or see if the other three had untangled yet from their clunky and slow stormtrooper armor, Lents turned and sprinted down the hallway again, locking on to Skeang's signal once more.
Coming to a fork in the hall, he noticed Skeang's signal came from directly in the center. Forced with a decision, Lents palmed both doors open, but the one on the left was barricaded shut.
"Skeang! Let me in! They're right on my tail!" Lents shouted through the door, then realized something that made him feel quite stupid. Skeang would never hide. He could barely be injured as it is. And his bloodlust would never let him cower like a Neimoidian, so Lents turned and took the right door, leaving the other one blocked to trick the stormtroopers.

[Skeang]

Skeang heard commotion down the hall. He turned and began to sense something he ran back just a little and saw Lents running down the hallway. He yelled "so hows your little trip been?" he began to run just a little in front of Lents

[Eth Erzin]

"Oh, hey. Nice to see you're still alive. Becoming more and more tired, Lents' breath started coming in hard ragged breaths, but he just focused on the force and was filled with energy once again. "So which way do we go?" He wondered. Stopping for a brief second to view a computer terminal, he opened up a map of the ship. "Lucky these pirates were lax on their security." He commented as he memorized the route. "Okay, I got it. This way. He pointed to a door just down the hallway and ran towards it.

[Skeang]

"Lax isnt the word id use but dumb would work" Skeang said as he kicked a locked door in he continued running with lents for a while facing minimal resistance until he said "we must be getting close to the bridge by now right?"

[Eth Erzin]

"Yeah it's just around this bend. Ready" Lents asked as they turned the last corner and approached a door that said 'bridge' above the entryway. Lents didn't even wait for a response. He palmed the keypad and the door opened.
"I want those two intruders found and brought to me immediately! Keep them alive if you can. I want to know who they are and what the color of their insides is!"
Lents didn't know how to approach the situation. He and Skeang could see various people taking different control positions, each one armed but not looking at the door which had opened silently. It seemed from the viewscreens that with Lents and Skeang on the ship, the cargo ship has been taken with little resistance, which meant that if they couldn't capture the bridge, then their mission had failed.
Immediately following the pause, Lents took a surprising initiative and activated his lightsaber with a crackling hiss as he bounded forward and jump kicked the commander to the ground. All eyes turned with shock to Lents and in no less than a second at least fifteen different blasters were being pointed at him from every angle. A few had seen Skeang in the door and pointed blasters at him, and there was a silence in the room broken only by the hum of Lents' lightsaber as he held it in a Form II stance downwards angle, pointed directly at the commander's neck.
"Drop your weapons! You kill me, and my blade falls, killing your leader."

[Skeang]

Skeang was surprised by Lents boldness in his actions he crept in killing a guard who was focused on Lents then with his most fearsome voice he said "the kid has a point although with a handsome monster like me ready to kill all of you I dont think the obvious stalemate there is the big issue is it" The guards without haste began to shoot at him the leader cried out for assistance but the guardes continued to fire upon Skeang who dodged blocked and absorbed every hit killing 7 guards and knocking 3 out before the remaining ran for help Skeang fell on 1 knee and said "hey Lents good move out there but imma need to tap out here think you can handle things for a few minutes while these dents i took heal up? there will obviously be a few more guards coming"

[Eth Erzin]

Shaken up, Lents managed to sputter "Yeah, j-just make sure this one d-doesn't go anyw-where. Oh and don't forget, the name's Eth now."
The commander on the ground under Lents' lightsaber laughed. "You're still new at bounty hunting aren't you. Imagine, captured by just a puppy."
Lents let out one nervous laugh. "It was enough to capture you, though, wasn't it? I think Hurri will be pleased with our work he--woah!" Lents shouted in surprise as the commander swiftly shifted himself on the ground and scissor-kicked Lents over. The commander stood up and kicked Lents in the stomach as he pulled back his jacket to reveal the he, too, carried a lightsaber.
Lents rolled and stood up quickly but cautiously, holding his own blade that had luckily not impaled him when he fell to the ground.
"Come on rookie, let's see what you're made of. I saw what you did in the hallway." The commander paced back and forth, eyes boring into Lents and paying no heed to Skeang, as he knew Skeang's injuries would keep him out of the fight for a while. "You're just a little Jedi-in-training. Unless you became disillusioned with their snobbish philosophy of life. The story of my life. The Jedi are blind to what's important. Enough of the kriff about becoming one with the force, you need to survive in this bantha hole we call a galaxy. You think with your hatchling Jedi powers you can take me on? Let's find out. I've seen the true color of the galaxy, and it's red, like your blood!"
Fed up with his heretical monologue, Lents leapt forward, yellow lightsaber glowing brightly, as the commander also charged, igniting his own orange blade with that familiar snap-hiss. The blades collided and sparks flew out as Lents and the commander both pushed, in a pure battle strength. Lents was quickly overpowered, and leapt back. He suspected that this pirate was a form V user, so Lents' form II would be of little help, remembering the fateful duel between Anakin Skywalker and Darth Tyrannus. Lents fell into his more comfortable form IV and leapt up and to the right as he slashed three times at the commander's head. The commander brought his lightsaber down in a powerful overhead-sweeping arc down to where Lents had been, then shifted his weight and swung with wild fury horizontally, meeting Lent's three slashes. The commander cut diagonally upwards and Lents Brought his own blade down and used his and the commander's combined strength, along with his force focus, to leap up and over the commander, stomping on the top of the commander's head at the peak of his jump. He leapt off and spun around to meet a ferocious horizontal swipe that knocked the blade from Lents' hand as he tried to block. Grinning sadistically, the cmmander advanced on Lents, holding his orange lightsaber down so that the point poked up towards Lents' chin. Remembering his and Skeang's battle on Ossus, Lents clenched his eyes shut and focused on his lightsaber being pushed through the folds of space as it came back towards them. It hurtled towards the commander, and he had just enough time to take a quick hop-step back to knock it out of the way again with ease, laughing at Lents' still-weak control of telekinesis. Lents felt his lightsaber with the force again and it came spinning through the air, humming loudly. A quick flash of annoyance crossed the commander's face as he brought his orange blade in an upwards-diagonal swing to get Lents' lightsaber out of the way, but Lents pushed all his force energy reserves into the movement of the blade, and quickly angled it down, then up as it moved in a semicircle around the commander's body, slashing him in the back, opening a deep wound, and then up, down, and left to comfuse the commander as it then shot down and right, spinning horizontally and slicing the pirate's shins. Then as Lents lost control, the blade deactivated and fell to the ground.
Lents and the commander both fell to their knees, lents from exhaustion, the commander, caught by surprise at the power of the attack and his near-lethal wounds. Lents fought to stay awake as he tried to telekinetically bring his lightsaber back to him, but the deactivated handle just rolled along the ground halfway, and Lents fell over, unconscious.

[Skeang]

Skeang had missed what had happened while he was healing. He got up to see the seemingly unscathed body of Lents and the body of the leader who had been quite torn up. He heard more guards coming he took his longer red lightsaber out and lifted the leader above his head with 1 hand. The guards were surprised to see there leader so ravaged and the ones who were there earlier and escaped began to yell that it was the same creature they had shot several times before. Skeang told them to submit and.... "dealt" with the 2 or 3 who did not reminding them that any hut would be far more merciful then him. He gave anyone who didnt want to turn them self in 2 hours to leave the ship and when everyone was unarmed and ready he attempted to bring the ship down to the planet's surface. After the rather bumpy landing he gathered up the bodies and waited for lents to wake.

[Eth Erzin]

Lents woke up to the Star Destroyer crashing to the surface of the planet. "Well that's not going to be good." He mumbled groggily. Then shot awake. "Skeang what happened?! What was that crashing? What about all the pirates? What happened to them? What's going on? What happened to the ship?" Lents panicked because he had fallen unconscious before he could see Skeang take out the rest of the guards and was afraid he would wake up dead.

[Skeang]

(how do you wake up dead?)

Skeang looked through what remained of the ship and saw Lents had awaken he walked over and said "wow Lee... Eth you had quite the battle back there after what you did to our little friend over there" He offered him a hand up he said "We should just take back the leader but leaving this ship full of stolen goods seems to be such a waste doesnt it?

[Eth Erzin]

Lents nodded. Normally he didn't agree with thievery but in this case it was justified. He walked through the countless corridors stopping by rooms and picking up potential valuables and came back to the bridge with a large pile of blasters and trinkets and power cells and countless other things, including enough credits to buy him a new ship to replace the Y-wing... a half-decent ship for the first time. It was a shame the Star Destroyer had crashed, otherwise he could have just taken it and crashed it into the Emperor's palace on Coruscant, as it normally took a couple thousand people for a crew. After assimilating all that was valuable onto a hovercart, he left the ship, pulling it behind, and followed Skeang to the surface of Ylesia, too tired to think much for himself, but knowing they would have to get off-planet somehow.

[Skeang]

Skeang took what little he saw interesting and said "so shall we find you a craft for the time being? strange enough my ship got out of there with very little damage. So we can spend it all so you dont have to fly such a rust bucket around"

[Skeang]

"Think we have enough? If we need to do more hunting theres someone id like to look for around these planets" said Skeang remembering his experience with the bizarre jedi

[Eth Erzin]

"No, it's ok." Lents said. "I think we have enough, plus whatever Hurri wants to give us. Has your Headhunter been modified? I know most Headhunters can only carry one person. If that's true, how would I get back to Nal Hutta? Instantly realizing the folly of his question, Lents turned and ran back to the huge crater of wreckage. Running through the halls that hadn't been blocked off by debris, Lents found his way to the hangar. Several ships were scattered about, including his old Y-wing, which he ran over and grabbed the old battery from Hoth from. He was lucky he remembered, he didn't know if he'd be able to find another battery with the same output port. He didn't care for flying in the Y-wing again, though, to he searched around for another working vessel. Finding what he wanted, He jumped up and pulled on the flat wing of the Tri-fighter to right it, then climbed into the cockpit, suited up, and punched the engines. All systems reported working capabilities, except a slight loss in maneuverability due the the rough landing of the Destroyer. Lents lifted the ship a meter off the ground and pointed it at the hanger doors. Firing blast after blast, the doors came apart after a long while. Lents zoomed out of the barely wide enough space and headed back over to where Skeang was. He landed and opened the hatch. "Ok I got a temporary ride, but I wouldn't want to stay in one of these, their shielding and weapons systems are... less than desirable. you can carry all the spoils in your Headhunter, right? This Tri has no room. Other than that, ready to go when you are. And Lents closed the bubble-like hatch and lifted off the ground a few meters, waiting for Skeang.

[Skeang]

Skeang placed the stuff in his headhunter and took off soon after lents he told him "So back to nal hutta i guess where do you think we will be able to get a hold of the ship you want and such?"

[Eth Erzin]

Lents shrugged even though he knew Skeang couldn't see it. "Our first try will be Nal Hutta, I guess." then punched in the hyperspace coordinates for the modified Tri Fighter and blasted off of the lush world behind him and into hyperspace.