Light Infestation

[Louis Daele]

This was quite a task, to get this one 'pirate shipyards' as the briefing for this mission said, for Blackwell Technologies to expand it's interests. This is different from the normal sort of corporate espionage work he normally does, but this is fine. This will be like one of his bounty hunter outings, have to track and capture they prey, only they are doing it with a building instead of a body.

Speaking of bounty hunting, it looks like the company has also contracted out to Sunverkh Jhess, one of his usual bounty hunting partners.

It look a bit to get to here. At the helm of a VT-110 Freighter as transportation, he would fly towards the space station's hangar, being a considerable distance still. The station as he heard is less of a space station and more akin to a den of decedance, he's unsure if the station even has outside defenses, but they will soon find out, then they will have to kill all the pirates inside the place to secure it. Louis has no qualms about gunning down low-lives in there, so he is just one.

Louis has his He would have a XC7 Carbine sat at the dash and two spare powerpacks as well on him. Louis would also be wearing Combat Engineer Armor as well plus four frag grenades.

"Getting close to the station Sun, you ready?" he said to the Trandoshan on the comms. Louis doesn't fly all that much but he knows the basics, he would take a deep breath, hopefully outside resistance won't be too harsh.

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[Sunverkh Jhess]

This was the first time the Trandoshan had been hired to clear out a whole pirate shipyard, but not the first time he had a job as pest controls, he doubted he would have much trouble, fighting one skilled warrior had more merit than facing off against many rubbish ones. Then again, some of the bounties he had taken didn't fight on their own and had grunts that complemented their skills, so he wasn't too intimidated. But, that didn't mean he would underestimate them, it was better to overkill than underperform.

Also, be it destiny, be it chance, Sunverkh would be working with Louis Adele once more, the Trandoshan did know that he was a member of the BIT, but it was still a coincidence that he was tasked to tag along and help. Now like Sunverkh complained, the young man was probably one of the most capable people he had tagged along with in a long time, there wasn't much that they couldn't defeat together.

"Ready as always Louis" Sunverkh responded, wearing his bounty hunter armor and bringing his vibroblade, blasters and concussion grenades with him, waiting patiently on his seat while Louis was taking care of the ship.

@Faster Than Light

 

[Louis Daele]

He'd nod towards the Trandoshan. Louis is ready to get this show on the road as the ship approaches the pirate station, closing in further and further.

Once they coast closer towards the pirate shipyard station, it would be apparent that the station has no outside defenses to speak of, allowing them to make their approach to the hangar with no obstructions (Rousing success). The report was accurate, it's not even a shipyard really, just something a thing floating in space happens to be infested with pirates. There were also no patrols out as well, so no enemy fighters to try and shoot them out space either.

"We're all clear, coming in" Galahad said to his bounty hunting partner, he'd take the ship inside the hangar, he sees a few starfighters inside, a freighter, and a clear spot for a ship his size as well. With that, the ship would pass through the hangar bay's rayshield, Louis would open up the landing gear, and then the ship would sit her down. "Alright, lets do this" Louis would get from his seat, open the landing bay doors, and then take his carbine from the ship's dash. Louis would then head towards the cargo bay doors.

At the far end of the hangar, a patrol of four men wearing armor and toting blaster rifles would come through the doors, they would be alarmed with the unwelcome ship that just came in. There was crates around and about for cover and the pirates would be on the move to engage the BIT employee + contractor duo.

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[Sunverkh Jhess]

The Trandoshan stood behind the ship's exit door while they were landing, blasters on each hand and ready to fight, quickly getting out of it before the four pirates were totally prepared to fight. The Trandoshan quickly aimed while they were taking cover, aiming at two guards, one would be shot right in the head with his blaster pìstol, the other, however, would just be hit in the arm with one of the bolts from the quickdraw pistol, moving out of the way just in time.

After that, the other pirates started shooting at Sunverkh, forcing him to use his jumpboots to quickly move behind cover, the two remaining pirates shooting at him, while the other was still recovering from the blaster bolt hitting his arm, "Galahad, their eyes are focusing on me, now it's your chance" The Trandoshan said through the communicator, letting him know that, while Sunverkh was now providing a small distraction, it also meant that he didn't have a chance to get out of cover and shoot them down without getting shot himself.

@Faster Than Light

 

[Louis Daele]

And the firefight begins, the pirates were coming in like they were coming in a hornets nest in such short order. Almost immediately they concentrated on Sunverkh as he was the first one out, he had to use his jump boots to get out of dodge. Yikes.

This did provide a positive though, Galahad heeded Sun's advice on using that to his advantage "Got it" he calmly said, he'd position himself at cover on a crate with full view of the pirates. Firing his blaster four times, he'd aim two shots towards one each, scoring good chest hits, knocking two down. All that was left was the one in cover. "Two down, one to go" he relayed to his bounty hunting partner.

Louis would glance at his environment as there was a break in the fire as the last pirate in the room is behind cover, no more enemies coming in... good. Louis would still be leveling his carbine towards the pirate, as the BIT slicer is not under fire and is confident he can outshoot the pirate if he attempts to shot him

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[Sunverkh Jhess]

Louis took down another two pirates, just as Sunverkh expected of him, the only one left was behind cover and now focusing more on Louis, a single target who would be easy to overwhelm. So, the Trandoshan did exactly that, jumping on his cover and then leaping towards the pirate, the pirate didn't even get to point the gun at him before Sunverkh used his whip-cord and wrapped it around his arms, binding him and then pulling with great strength to get him closer, so close, in fact, that the Trandoshan dashed forwards and met his face with a powerful punch that threw him to the ground so hard the pirate would probably die from the head trauma and internal bleeding after a couple minutes.

"Lets proceed" Sunverkh said, pulling the whip-cord back into his gauntlet as he walked forward and to the next room, blasters still ready. Before crossing the door, however, he heard steps from the other side, more people were coming, he was sure of that, not only could he hear them, but he could even smell them with his reptilian senses, the fact that the pirates most likely didn't shower was also a factor, of course. The Trandoshan stood behind the door and next to its controls, waiting for Louis to come, once he was ready, the lizard would open the door and they would ambush the three men coming from the other side of it.

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[Louis Daele]

After firing his weapon at the pirates before, his carbine then suddenly started sparking, jamming. As his lizard partner killed that last pirate guard, "My weapon is jammed up" Louis tried get it working and then gave up on it frustrated, then discarding it before picking up a blaster rifle from the guard closest to him. That and some spare ammo.

Now after loading a fresh powerpack inside and checking it to make sure it's all good. He'd be ready to move out, but he'd be late to the party.

Louis was late to the ambush. When the guards came through before planned, Louis opened some quick blaster shots, at two of the three, with one each coming their way, landing. Although they likely won't be dead, they would be knocked down from the impact. But Louis due to a bit of bad luck does take a blaster bolt to the chest in the exchange of fire. With that he would backtrack around cover, and then put his hand against blaster wound, tending to it. Louis has been fired at but he never took a direct blaster hit. Well, armor helps but still it burns... "I'm hit" he said on the comms with a pained voice. He'll be fine though. Or should be fine.

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[Sunverkh Jhess]

While the door was opened and his partner was shot, Sunverkh was ready when they came through the door, and with all the eyes on his human companion, he would certainly catch them off guard. Quickly he hit the closest pirate to him with his blaster pistol, making him fall to the ground, the other one, before being able to aim and shoot at Sunverkh, would be hit by a heavy blaster right in the head, falling to the floor dead, the one on the ground would be knocked out for real after being shot in the chest twice with the quickdraw blaster.

The third one his partner took care of, knocked unconscious, but not for long before the Trandoshan stepped on his neck. After that, Sunverkh approached Louis, putting one of his hands on the young man's chest to determine how bad the injury was "You can keep on fighting Galahad, but be careful, the second bolt is the one that leaves an ugly scar, I would know" Sunverkh said, talking from experience, he was shot twice in a row once where Louis had been just hit, it did not only hurt and almost killed him, but it also marked his body for the rest of his life "Let's keep on moving" Sunverkh started walking again towards the next and, hopefully, last room, with seven pirates dead, there shouldn't be much more to fight there.

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[Louis Daele]

Louis would nod at his partner's advice. He's a seasoned fighter and would know way better. As the bounty hunting duo moves forward, they would be coming up on the observation deck. There haven't been any other pirates between there and their destination, so looks like the place wasn't all that infested as the briefing suggested. Oh well.

After slicing through a lock on the obersvation deck's door and the door openning up, they would see at the viewport gazing into the stars a besalisk that is clearly locked and loaded. Having Brutus Assault Armor sans helmet, two double bladed swords in his upper set of arms and two blaster pistols in his lower set of arms. Louis has seen this species before, but the's never seen anyone this heavily armed. There were some tables and crates for cover.

The Besalisk would turn around upon the bounty hunter's entry. "You think you can defeat me? No way. You may kill my group but I'll always can always replace them" the besalisk was then charging towards Louis as he went to cover diagonally forward to the left, eager to rip apart someone with his blades close up. Louis would pop up and fire shots with his blaster rifle, but the Besalisk openned fire with his blasters at him, firing four shots total. Dashing to the side real quick in response, he'd be able to dodge some of the shots, not all of them as a blaster shot hit his left arm and a second one grazed it. The blaster shots burned there, the pain is real, but at least the arm was armored the grazing from the second connected shot wasn't too bad. Still... that's going to make aiming a rifle more difficult...

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[Sunverkh Jhess]

This was the final push, the last room, the last enemy, and probably the most dangerous of them all, this wasn't the first time the Trandoshan had fought Besalisk before, they were nasty enemies to fight against, and this one seemed to be very well armed and trained, he was a real threat, Sunverkh could determine that much after he injured Louis. "Don't forget about me, because I'll end you" The Trandoshan didn't usually trash talk people when fighting, but the pirate seemed like the kind of man that was easily irritated, insulting him meant getting him off Louis' back. Sunverkh pulled both triggers against the Besalisk as he moved forward, moving from cover to cover with great agility for a man in heavy armor and dodging many of his bolts.

However, the Trandoshan could see a pattern now, the way he moved. Sunverkh put his heavy blaster away to have one of his hands free, the hand that had his grappling hook attached to it. He shot at the Besalisk once again, forcing him to get behind a table as cover, but what he didn't expect to happen was the grappling hook being attached to the table so Sunverkh could move it away from him, making him an almost easy target for his quickdraw blaster pistol. Two medium bolts would hit the four armed pirate, the first one hitting him right in the shoulder, while the second one got him in the right, upper hand, making him drop one of the blasters. The Trandoshan would finally get to cover after all, being shot by the Besalisk now that he got his attention, his grappling hook being used, he got a nice couple of hits in, but the same trick wouldn't work twice.

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[Louis Daele]

The Besalisk pirate lord got hit good, with in combination with it's armor and the pirate's being a tough customer is still standing although it lost a blaster in the process. Louis would use this chance to pop up again and get some good shots at the pirate lord now that he's distracted, but Louis was feeling pain in his arm when raising his rifle so his actions weren't very graceful.

Unfortunately for the BIT slicer the Besalisk didn't have a memory of a gold fish. He made it this far because he's smarter than his goons and the pirate captain isn't going down easily. The Besalisk would rotate his body, aim his pistol at Louis and fire two shots. Louis would be unable to dodge but at least the Besalisk's shots were not well aimed as he's under pressure. One shot would miss, but one shot would hit home on Louis chest plate. At least it hit a different part of it than what was struck earlier before coming in the room. Louis would be knocked off his feet and into cover, hurt and having a hard time stirring up as he's feeling searing burns in the hole created in his chest plate.

"Well kark"

He muttered. Today is just not Louis' day. Well, still more interesting than repairing someone's computer. Hopefully Sunverkh can finish that guy.

@Versok

 

[Sunverkh Jhess]

Well, there was a reason this Besalisk was the leader of the pirates, he was one focused, veteran fighter that wasn't distracted easily, he also was a very tough man, managing to still fight with two blaster bolt injuries like nothing. However, even if he took down Louis, Sunverkh was still uninjured, not only that, but the time the besalisk took to shoot at Louis, Sunverkh used to quickly flank him using his jumpboots.

Pulling the trigger twice, four blaster bolts hit the pirate after the Trandoshan jumped, standing roughly five meters away from him. However, his eyes widened in shock as he realized that the besalisk was still alive, all of the shots hitting his other blaster-wielding arm that was now just charred meat and bones, yet the Besalisk decided to charge at him with the two blades in his hands, Sunverkh aimed his blaster once again, pulled the trigger and...realized he was out of ammo, putting the gun away and grabbing his vibroblade, there was only one way this was ending. The Besalisk tried to stab him from two different directions, one of the blades he blocked with his own and he managed to grab his other arm before he managed to get his neck. While the besalisk once had the four arm advantage, it dissappeared after being injuried, and the Trandoshan was a stronger fighter.

As the Besalisk realized that he wouldn't be able to push further with the arm that was being grabbed, he started to slam his vibroblade again and again against Sunverkh's, who was holding it in a high guard, trying to overpower him hit by hit, instead, however, Sunverkh waited just after the blades collided to headbutt the Besalisk. Blood coming from all of his facial orifices, the hit stunning him from a moment, enough time for the Trandoshan to push his vibroblade inside the Besalisk's stomach and then moving it downward, gutting him in a brutal manner, the pirate let out a loud gasp and tried to hold his intestines inside his body with his hands before quickly losing conciousness because of the blood loss.

The battle was finished, but his job was still not done, no, now the Trandoshan had to take care of Louis. Sunverkh approached the BIT employee, carefully grabbing him and getting him on his feet, letting the young man use Sunverkh as a support to walk, or even carrying him if it was needed. "You did well enough, Louis" Just a few words, that was all that Sunverkh said him, he didn't say anything else as he carried him to the ship they landed on, it wasn't necessary, for the main mission was complete.

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