Disks In The Databank

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

Spoiler: OOC

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[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

Nar Shaddaa was a place where criminals and thugs and slumlords all had a habit of stabbing people in the back. Kae'Leigh apparently was no exception to this. She'd been hired to infiltrate an old residence of hers by someone....well by someone she didn't even really know. She'd met him the night before and he'd informed her that Kae'Leigh's old crew had gotten their hands on some sensitive information from a local businessman. This bounty hunter, Jett Nova was his name, picked up the task to find the stolen disks. Kae'Leigh was his way in.

And she walked him through the front door. The runner outside didn't even panic when he saw his good blue friend coming down the dark street just off the main road. He'd even greeted her and they did their gang's little complicated handshake. He'd asked who the guy was behind her and she brushed it off. "Not a threat," she'd said to the boy and kissed him on the cheek to smooth over the deal. They then walked past and up to the heavy metal door and walked in.

There were two of them inside. Jett shot the first one before Kae'Leigh knew he'd drawn his gun. On stun of course. The boy who was only a few years younger than Kae'Leigh was when she first joined up went to reach for a gun. She whistled and drew her own to get his attention before he could pick it up.

"Uh-uh-uhh. No no kiddo. Hands up. Mr. Nova's got a few words for you."

The teen backed up and held his hands up. Kae'Leigh motioned her head to Jett toward the boy and then set her weapon back in its holster. He'd do the talking. She'd find the goods. Moving further into the small complex she went up to the back wall where the computer and tech stuff was covered by a thick cloth. She pulled it aside and shrieked. Not in fright, but in excitement.

"Johnnie!!!!"

Plugged into the central terminal was a KLT droid that was a little banged up. It had a black frame with gold trimmings, but the gold was so faded it was practically gone. Kae'Leigh unplugged the droid and booted it up. It beeped at her and danced a little, as only droids could do. It seemed very pleased to see her too.

Patting its dome she'd say, "Oh I've missed you little dude!" Kae'Leigh smiled and knelt down next to it. "Say, how'd you like to come back with us? I could really use your help, little man." It would return her question by asking about its actual owner. "Hey don't worry about Challa. He says it's cool. Now, why don't you log in and see about downloading some files for me?"

Again it would beep some response to her which she nodded and happily cheered. She attached a different cable to the droid and then to the terminal and instructed what files to take. Kae'Leigh didn't expect the Skull Kids to have stored anything they found on the terminal; they hadn't been touched probably since she was last here a year ago. But she wanted to also take some of their own financial transactions and coding and things she'd had back when she worked for them. Once Johnnie was all set up, she then set about rummaging through the junk the gang had found to see if the disks Jett was after was lost in there.

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

Jett was still strolling around in the same clothing he was in just a day or so ago when he ran into the young blue skinned slicer. The two of them shared a little show and tell about a local group and low level, and low aged, thugs who made the mistake of taking some money and sensitive information from a white collar thug much higher on the food chain then these fools. Rather then get his hands dirty, he gave the job to Jett. In turn Jett hired the girl.

Now here he was strolling into what seemed to be a safe house of these so called "Skull Kids". As promised, Kae'Leigh got the two of them into the door with little more then a wink and a smile. The former imperial payed the kid back for his mistake by taking him by the collar as he walk past. Flinging the kid backward, head first into the metal door. Then booted him the head for good measure. The kid would need a few new teeth but he would live.

Jett then quickly followed after his partner inside, R5 in hand. Soon as Kae'Leigh unwittingly stepped out of the way the would be hunter put a bolt through the kid before the teen knew what hit him. His partner has assumed, without even looking closely, that it was a stun shot. But the old R5's didn't have a stun feature. The kid slumped to the floor without another sound. Jett was about to do the same to the other teen in the room but the merc's new blue friend managed to pull her pistol first.

Kae'Leigh then left the kid in Jett's hands and she moved on to where ever it was they stashed the loot around this dump. Feeling as though the point was made with the first second kid, Jett put his pistol way. Deciding it was time for a more personal touch, he pulled the Vibroblade from it's sheath on his right.

"Ok kid, I could careless about you. I just want..." Kae'Leigh let out a sound that cut off Jett from his intimidation. Not knowing what happened Jett quickly pulled his pistol with his left hand, putting two bolts center mass of the thug teen's chest and then moving down the hallway to his partner. Leaving the kid to drop next to his friend.

Gun still in hand, Jett made his way to the sound. Only to walk into the room to find his new partner fondling a droid as if it were a long lost pet. "Do us both a favor, don't make that noise again while we're working together."

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

"Do us both a favor, don't make that noise again while we're working together."

Kae'Leigh turned to see Jett standing in the door. She was oblivious to his annoyance at her and the fact he seemed troubled about her safety. Here, she felt no threats. She was so caught up in returning to her former base that she didn't think otherwise about Jett. If only she had, she'd realize he'd killed all of her old friends...

"Jett, I'd like to introduce you to Johnnie. We're going to be taking him back with us." She smiled and smacked her lips as she decided where to start looking next. Then she turned her attention back to Jett. "Did you finish talking with the other kid in there? I'm sure he had some information for us...About the guy they stole from?...No?"

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

Jett looked toward the beat up astromech and then back to Kae'Leigh and then back to the droid and finally back to his partner. The look on his face was confusion that would soon morph into something that could be irritation."So your not in trouble, So that noise waaaas ? You know what, I don't wanna know." He replied to her and then sighed and continued, " So about your old crew. I hope you're and good as you think you are because you "Friends" had nothing useful to say. Or anything at all to say really,"

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

Her partner seemed rather upset with her. Why? She had done nothing wrong. Wait...was he worried about her? She'd told him that there was nothing to fear here. Maybe he just didn't believe her. She wouldn't either if the roles had been reversed. Well that was his problem. He'd then go on to explain that her old buddies didn't have any information. That was typical. Whatever cache they'd stumbled upon was simply a bad coincidence. Oh well. They could be mad at her later. If only she knew they would never be waking up again.

"Nah it's chill. I'll have whatever data that have stored away will be mine in a matter of minutes. It's just going to take me a few to get it all sorted out. Go and watch the door or something."

Kae'Leigh shooed him away with her hand and went back to looking through the piles of stolen data cards to see if Jett's missing disks were present. It would take her a little longer than she had promised, so a good ten minutes later she'd emerge once more with the three stolen cards in hand.

"So give these a look see and tell me if they're shiny. I don't want to leave with the wrong stuff."

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

The entire job was going sideways from anything that the former soldier had expected. What should of been only a couple of hours felt like it was taking weeks. This was supposed to be easy money but more like a poodoo show. He dismissed himself from the situation and let his "partner" do what she needed to do to get the job done and get the disks they, or rather he, were looking for.

With nearly everyone dead or bleeding out Jett stepped out Jett walked passed the dead and dying and went back out the door of the house that they came in from. Holstering his weapons he pulled a cigar from a pouch of his utility belt and lit it. Taking a drag and allowing the smoke to roll around in his mouth before blowing it out from his nose. It calmed him some.

Soon his new friend as at his side with a palm load of disks, asking him to look them over. Jett looked them over, none of them looked like the disk he was sent for. He didn't have a clue what these were but they were not what he needed.

"These aren't what I'm looking for." He told her with some irritation in his voice, and then toss the worthless disks away.

Then looked up to find add the night going from bad to nightmare. Six well armed imperial security droids were heading their way with blaster rifles draw.

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

"What do you mean these aren't what you're looking for!?" she groaned and pleaded. "If these aren't them then I don't have a clue in the verse where they'd be because I searched their horde up and down. These have to be them. Look again."

He'd then toss them aside, clearly done with that task. She groaned again in frustration and then tugged on her lekku as a human might pull on their hair. "Ugggg!!! Well fine then. I'll go look again. You stay here and be Mr Grumpy Pants."

Without another word she stomped back into the room and stopped. She curiously looked down at the boy Jett had shot for no reason. She could see a little smoke coming up from his clothes still where he'd been burned. That didn't look like a stun blast. Kae'Leigh crept over and crouched down next to the boy and pulled away his shirt where the blaster bolt singed into it. He wasn't moving; he wasn't breathing. Kae'Leigh straightened up quick with her hand on her blaster (still holstered, but ready to be drawn).

"Uh....Jett?" she'd start and turn around to face him. "Do you want to explain why your gun isn't set to stun?"

 

[Jett Nova (old)]

"Where are...." Jett started to ask just before the droids lifted their weapons. "Halt. surrender or be fired a pawn." commanded the leader droid. Jett answered the droid by emptying his pistol toward the droid. The six metal men would return fire, forcing duck back into the doorway of the hide out.

"I'm a little busy at the moment girly, how about you explain to me how you missed the six armed droids stomping down the ally." He spat into the comm. Then leaned out from the wall he was hiding behind and returned fire, firing two shots at one droid and two at another. Striking both center mass before tucking back into the doorway and thus behind the wall.

"Let me put that a little differently, GET YOUR LITTLE BLUE ASS BACK HERE!."

 

[Kae'Leigh Tameris]

From behind her Jett would shout something about six armed droids coming for them. She had a puzzled look on her face more than before. Then she heard the blaster fire. He hand now drew the pistol and flipped the safety off. She moved to the corner of the room away from where Jett was hiding in case they came into the building. This way they wouldn't see her.

"Jett?" she'd call over the noise. "Who's shooting at us? Why are there droids in this part of town?"

He'd then reply to her question by shouting back to her a rather rude instruction about a body part he had no say in ordering around. Kae'Leigh was a little offended at the statement. Who was he to tell her what to do? She was only trying to help him. Sure he would pay her for the trouble...but this wasn't what she signed up for. And plus...he'd killed one of her ex-gang's members. She might not have known this particular kid's name, but that didn't give Jett any right to kill him when violence was not necessary.

All in all, today was not ending up how she had planned. Kae'Leigh did not want to die in a fire fight over something as simple as a stolen disk. Especially when she had no idea who it was that was coming after them. She began looking around for something she could use to get them out of this situation. If she had armor or better guns she might stay and fight. Kae'Leigh had neither. As she looked she hoped to find something that could explode. As sure she found plenty of wires and parts she could make a bomb out of, Kae'Leigh lacked the time to make something. Sadly the spare container of fuel the Skull Kids kept hidden away was empty. No gas to light a fire.

Kae'Leigh shouted out loud, "Kriff!" Thinking for a moment she'd then call over to Jett again. She was sure he was still stubbornly trying to shoot his way out. "Jett! There's a get-a-way door in the back. We can escape that way. I'm taking it."

Whether or not he was coming she'd head for the back where the computers were and push aside a wooden screen one might use as a barrier to change clothes behind. It covered a large hole in the wall perfect for someone to crawl through. She looked back to see her droid rolling over to her. Kae'Leigh gently nudged him back.

"You can't go this way, Johnny. Head out the front. Meet us in hanger bay C-19. Good luck!"

Putting the gun back in its holster she then jumped feet first into the hole and fell to a smaller passage way between the walls of the other building. She'd have to crouch to go the rest of the way, but the droids wouldn't be able to follow her. She only hoped her partner would be smart enough to escape.

~END THREAD~
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