Ask Corellia One in the hand....going for two in the bush.

[Aska Ryun]

As the fight began, Aska hung back in the common area towards the cockpit with the initial thought of covering both Klied and Poffo should any of the intruders prove capable enough to make their way inside the ship but as the bodies began to fall, the opposing gang members soon began to fall back into the open air of the hangar bay. No doubt the gangsters had come to the realization that if they were to succeed, they would need to draw their prey out of the ship if they wanted any chance of accomplishing their mission. Despite their forthcoming personality clashes, Aska couldn't help but admire the eruption of blood as Poffo eviscerated the first man's throat with his knuckle dusters and as he pulled them free from his target, the blood continued to spill across the boarding ramp as the body laid down gasping for air that wouldn't come.

"Now that's more like it!' Aska laughed as she started to make her way closer to the entrance hatch. This time, Klied took the initiative and began firing on the opposition as they tried making their way back inside before one lost half his leg from a shot of Klied's Westar before the hunter squeezed the trigger again, burning a gaping hole in another man's chest.

"You boys wanna try that again? Second time's the charm!"

Now positioned beside the doorway, her SE-45 in her right hand, Aska pulled one of the vibrodaggers from her belt and held it tight to her chest in her left hand. Waiting for the taunt to take effect, blaster fire from the ship's turret finally rang out as Kayto started laying suppression fire on the invaders forcing them to stay back. Taking a deep breathe, Aska spun out and walked down the ramp as she fired on the first man to come into view, off to her right. He was pinned down as hellfire rained around him from both Kayto and Aska but before long, the last man came to the realization that his friend's survival required him to act. Jumping out from his cover, the man took aim at the woman as she knelt down on the blood soaked ramp and fired. Fortunately, instinct took over and allowed Aska to move her head back slightly as the blaster bolt whizzed past her face. Feeling the heat from the energy, she knew it was a close call but quickly turned her attention back towards her attacker, taking aim and firing a single shot that hit the man directly below the neck, causing him to stumble backwards.

Now, the last man remaining as he was getting peppered by Kayto in the ships cannon, Aska could hear his whimpers of fear. He knew his time was coming to an end and she had every intention to be the mistress of his death. Shooting up from her kneeling position, Aska ran down to the edge of the ramp and spotted the Nikto as he cowered behind a cargo crate... When the turret ceased fire.

"The gun's overheated!" Kayto cried out from within the freighter and loudly enough for the Nikto to hear. Aska could see the man's relief as he stood and spotted Aska. Suddenly, a look of determination crossed his lips and it was clear that while he would be unable to eliminate the entire group as Mil Ro clearly ordered, he could at least kill the girl. Both Aska and the man raised their weapons simultaneously. Both fired nearly at the same time. Unfortunately, the Nikto's shot rang first and as the red energy soared towards Aska, it blasted the SE-45 from her grasp and sent the pistol flying back towards the interior of the ship.

"Ha!" the Nikto declared with pride, but it was premature. Quickly, Aska tossed the vibrodagger to her right hand and drew it back while taking a pull off the cigarra in her mouth. Then, she snapped her hand forward and the blade soared through the air before slamming into the Nikto's skull blade first, blood spurting out from around the edges of the gaping wound.

"Ha! Aska laughed back at the dead man but as she moved to recover her weapon from his corpse, another flurry of blaster fire peppered the area around her. "Shit!" she exclaimed as she dove back under the cargo ramp. "Missed one! Damnit!" she exclaimed from her cover.

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[Poffo Sauvage]

Aska and the droid started to cut through these gangsters like a hot knife through butter. The bearded brawler lifted his brow and shrugged at Klied who was on the opposite side of the doorway. "I'll say this, Hunter, the broad has style, yeah. Can't doubt that even a teensy-little bit." The gangsters continued to fall, humiliating death after humiliating death. Poffo watched the "cigarra to the mouth, flicked throwing blade" routine result in another dead body. "If she or the droid kill more than either of us, the bet's off, ya dig?" Poffo laughed at this until it became evident that one of them was still alive and Aska barely got under the ramp for cover with her own skin. Strangely, Poffo was relieved that she survived the barrage of blaster fire. Not long before, he would have been perfectly satisfied if she had not.

Poffo, determined to keep up with the kill count for betting purposes needed to get that last man. Of course, he had his blurgg to go at it with, but he was woefully inadequate as a shooter. This was going to require a really audacious plan. Stupid, but audacious all the same. Poffo, not being particularly mechanically minded looked into the one of the mechanical panels opened by the Sullustan preparing the ship for inspection. There was an electric ball bearing, about fist-sized with electric nodules on it. "Ooooh, yeeee-ahhh, I'm a man full of ideas today, yeah. A gene-rile, bona-fide man of genius!" Poffo said. The Coruscanti backhanded the ball, knocking it out of it's connections causing sparks and hisses to leave the electrical box. He hoped it wasn't important. Hopefully it was just connected to the ramp mechanics or something like that. He reached in and grabbed the ball before looking at Klied. "Here's a story you're going to tell at bars for decades, yeah....Assuming we live that long." Sauvage rolled his neck and popped it. The last gunman continued to lay down suppression fire, no doubt in hopes of keeping them in the ship until more help arrived.

Sauvage noted the gangster's cover- a broken down speeder on blocks to be worked on. Sitting up about seven inches off the ground, it was raised perfectly for a man to kneel and fire off accurate shots on a location. Sauvage tossed the ball and yelled, "Take this thermal detonator up your hole, yeeeeee-aahhh!" It was uncanny the size and shape...very much resembled a thermal detonator and Poffo threw it perfectly. It landed roughly five meters in front of the speeder and was set to roll underneath it. The gangster realized it too and he, now it was clear that the gangster was a Zygerrian, bailed from behind the speeder with a loud scream and put himself in a fetal position to survive the blast.

Only, the blast never happened, of course, because it wasn't a thermal detonator. It was some ball bearing that Poffo hoped wasn't important. Maybe the droid would know. Poffo sprinted to the feline sentient, surprising him with a running and leaping flying elbow right on the back on the neck. The thug cried out in pain, but Poffo didn't relent. He grabbed him by his red, furry ears and used them as handles as he pounded his face into the concrete surface again and again until he was pounding his pointy snout into a pool of blood. Barely breathing, Poffo turned him around to see his bloody, matted fur and his swollen face. His eyes barely could open. He spit out some blood. "The detonator didn't go off." He coughed and tried to open his eyes wider to see who the bearer of his demise was. "Why didn't it blow?"

Sauvage slowly turned his head in the direction of the ball and the Zygerrian did the same, now realizing it wasn't a thermal detonator at all. "Kark me...." the feline gangster said.

Sauvage nodded as he looked back at him. He spoke in a soft, gravelly voice. "I agree, yeah. Yeah, I do....Kark you." With one savage punch with his spiked knucks, the Zygerrian's skull was crushed. Poffo heard feet running, and he once more thought that it was a group of gangsters coming out to exchange fire with the bounty hunters. But instead, it was Mil Ro who had been watching like a coward from cover of his own and was sprinting toward a Kazellis-class Light Freighter, a ship that Poffo had to assume was going to be his getaway ride. He wondered if they would ever get a scent of Mil Ro again if he got into that ship and it got off the ground. While he was running toward the ship, he was hollering for assistance, "Undercover agents! Undercover agents! Get 'em! Get 'em!"

Many of the gangsters did not want anything to do with undercover agents, whether they were Corellian in nature or Sector Rangers or whatever else, didn't matter to them. They took off and tried to save their own skin. Some, however, would fight as if there was some honor in it. Poffo looked back at Klied and Aska and yelled, "Target's on the moved, yeah! He tucked tailed!"

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[Kliedden Raxx]

After Klied and Poffo had cleared the ramp and put their assailants on the backfoot, Aska pressed the attack, moving down the ramp to clean up what was left with the assistance of her droid. The hunter hung back with the brawler, watching the display with amused satisfaction. It seemed his hunch about the trio working well together had been correct after all. They were cutting through these thugs like nobody's business.

"I'll say this, Hunter, the broad has style, yeah. Can't doubt that even a teensy-little bit." Poffo remarked, just drawing a smirk from Klied in response. The fighting seemed to be wrapping up, but it appeared Aska was getting pinned down by their last remaining foe. The brawler leapt into action, improvising a distraction with a ball bearing torn out of the ship and then charging in to finish things up close and personal. As he beat the Zygerrian straggler bloody Klied stepped down the ramp casually, raising and eyebrow in bemusement at Poffo's brutality before glancing at Aska.

"See, this is why I keep him around." He remarked lightheartedly to his fellow bounty hunter. "Makes me look less crazy by comparison." Then he looked back again as Poffo shouted his warning that Ro was making a break for it, trying to disappear into a throng of gangsters. Rather than waste time wading through them Klied quickly ran back up the ramp and leapt into the air, grabbing onto the side of Aska's freighter and pulling himself up. As he climbed atop the ship he holstered his Westar and unslung his cycler rifle, hurriedly walking over to the edge of the ship and taking aim. With a clear shot over the crowd he fired off a single shot, the slug tearing through their Natuolan quarry's leg.

Ro cried out and collapsed on the ground. He stewed a moment, wailing as he clutched his thigh before trying to get up. He staggered to his feet, fell again, got up once more and kept limping away desperately. He wasn't going anywhere fast, which meant the bounty hunters had more time to deal with the small number of morons who had yet to get the message they weren't to be trifled with. Klied maintained his position atop the freighter, pulling back the bolt on his cycler rifle and letting the shell of his last shot fly before starting to put down suppressing fire on the remainder of the gangsters, leading them to scatter and take cover. "Go for Ro!" The Onderonian shouted to his partners. "I've got these guys!"

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[Aska Ryun]

With every punch Poffo placed on the Zygerrian's face, Aska watched gleefully until the thug was nearly unrecognizable. Smirking at the display of over the top violence, she stepped out of her cover from under the cargo ramp then proceeded to pull the cigarra from her lips and flicking it into the distance as the brawler laid the final blow that would bring a messy yet satisfying end to the threat. As she turned to locate her blaster, Klied descended the ramp and turned his attention to her.

"See, this is why I keep him around. Makes me look less crazy by comparison," Aska couldn't stop a slight chuckle from escaping as she turned back to watch Poffo rise from the bloody corpse. For better or worse, the trio had proven that they were more than a match for any standard gangsters. Maybe this arrangement wasn't such a bad thing after all.

"I can't say I've grown to like the guy, but I am warming up to him," Aska responded as she blew the part of her bangs that had covered her right eye after falling loose in the violence. Still needing to locate her blaster as well as retrieve her knife from the Nikto's face, Aska began to survey the area again before her attention was forced back to the hangar bay at large. As Poffo called out that Mil Ro, who had evidently been present the entire time after all, was now making his way to a small freighter on the opposite side of the landing pad. Had it been there all along? Did it just arrive? She didn't remember and it didn't matter. It was there now and it was a very real problem.

Soon after, sniper fire from the top side of her own space craft rang out and the Nautolan man hit the ground hard before picking himself up and continuing to hobble to his escape ride but before Aska could find her weapon, she was forced to duck down once again as blaster fire began to rain around them. While most of the thugs that had appeared out of thin air began to vanish once more, a brave few formed a firing line between the trio and their target which effectively cut them off from directly chasing after Ro.

"Go for Ro! I've got these guys!" Klied called out but all that warranted from Aska was a heavy eye roll.

"Yea, thanks for the advice pal," she joked but as she surveyed the situation, there were few options the pair had. The firing line continued to grow, seven men at her count, and they were all well sheltered behind cargo crates and the like as they turned their attention to the sniper. Gritting her teeth, Aska watched as Ro continued to hobble away. She needed a plan. Looking to Poffo, she realized that he and her had one opportunity that no one would expect. "Hey big guy!" Aska called out. "Think you can get me behind those dipshits?" At first, the brawler looked confused by her request but it didn't take long for him to put the pieces together. Soon, a bright smile grew behind his beard as he cracked his neck once again.

"Oh, I can do that. Yeah, yeah I can,"

With a flourish of his fingers, Poffo soon motioned for Aska to make her move as her interlocked his grip and bent low, waiting for her move. With a deep breathe, she soon began to run towards her partner as she pulled the second vibrodagger from her belt. She could hear her heart beat in her ears with every step she took and quite possibly, the sound of blaster fire following behind her from a thug that didn't know how to lead his target. Finally, it seemed, all the training on Coruscant was truly coming in useful. Placing her left foot down into the interlocked fingers of Poffo, Aska pushed off as the brawler simultaneously lifted up with all his might, sending her soaring into the air with her back turned to the enemies. Spinning herself, she looked down and saw a young human man watching in awe as she cleared the firing line. It was short lived wonder, however, as she whipped the knife downward and and the point dug deep into his pectoral, just above his armor plating.

Coming down to the surface a few meters beyond the firing line, Aska tucked into a roll though she still suffered a few friction burns on her shoulders as she managed to pop back up to her feet. She could worry about that later when she was back on the ship where she had a few cylinders of bacta spray. For now, her focus was Ro. Under normal circumstances, the lightsaber she had stashed in her belt was a last resort as it drew far too much attention. Fortunately, the blaster fire had scared away any civilians with prying eyes and any thug that was still here wouldn't be alive much longer. This was the last resort she was waiting for. Pulling the hilt from her waistline, the young clone aimed it downward as she ignited the crimson blade as she chased after the Nautolan. His injured state made the pursuit simple and as she caught up with him, Aska slipped the blade ahead of him and held it inches away from his throat before reaching down and pulling the Westar from his hand.

"Aw, you aren't leaving already, are ya?" Aska taunted as she pushed the man to the ground with the hand that held the Westar before bringing the tip of the blade to the back of his head. Pointing the blaster at the opposing firing line, Aska soon called out to the threat. "Game over, kids! Drop the blasters and get on your knees before I turn your little boss here into a fish filet!'

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[Poffo Sauvage]

"Game over, kids! Drop the blasters and get on your knees before I turn your little boss here into a fish filet!" Aska threatened the those gunmen were had the cojones to stick around. One by one, the gangsters dropped their weapons. Ro was a moneymaker for the owner of this establishment, and nobody seemed to want to be the reason that the Nautolin's head turned into a canoe.

Poffo refused to look at the thugs as he powerwalked to Mil Ro. His eyes were boring right through the target. One of thugs was carefully watching Aska and Ro and was in Poffo's line of traffic. Poffo never broke stride and blasted him with an elbow to the back of the head, dropping the man to the floor. Ro saw the the brawler coming and started laughing nervously. "Ha...ha...haha, Poffo! Old Budd..."

Sauvage grabbed his jaw and with his massive hand and clinched it shut. "This would be a great time to shut that fish face of yours up, yeah, and just answer my questions. You thought it would be a reeeeeeaaal good idea to send men into that ship to kill me."

"What? Me?" the Nautolan protested. "I wouldn..."

Poffo slapped him hard with his free hand. "That wasn't a question, dummy. Now, we're going to go get on that damn ship. The hunter is going to bind you up real nice and tight...and theeeeeeeee-yen, you're going to tell us exactly where we can find Tyllon. Yeah, that's exactly what we're going to do."

"Actually, that's exactly what we're not going to do." A well-dressed Corellian man, chocolate-skinned and brimming with confidence had entered the main yard from the administration offices. He was followed by five very well armed men who walked with the same confidence as the Corellian. They had every look of paramilitary, mercenaries...Bottom line, they were professionals and they looked the part. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Hezi Luclan." He looked around and made a whirling motion with his fingers. "What you see here is mine. Everything in it is mine." His eyes shot over to Ro. "Even that one." He looked back at Poffo and Aska. "Now, I'm not a genius, but it's pretty obvious that a man of Ro's...talents...is likely to have a bounty. And, by the looks of it, I'd say you have his puck. I don't need to see it. So, you've put me at a crossroads. Even if I manage to kill you guys and bury your bodies where not even the worms would find you...well, if Ro keeps working here, I'll just have more bounty hunters coming every week. I'll have to kill them too. I'll get no work done. On the other hand, it would be very poor business to let bounty hunters rough up my employees right here in the yard and take them off to certain death or prolonged imprisonment."

Hezi clucked his tongue and sighed as if he was perplexed by this. It was all a show. "Best I can do to save face here is, let Ro get to his ship. Allow you to get to your ship. You take your little game of tag somewhere off my yard." He looked back at his mercenaries and they raised their guns. "Fair, huh, he asked Poffo as he turned back to address him."

Negotiations were never really a strong suit for Sauvage. He looked at Aska and then over his shoulder to Klied's last known location- the freighter. He didn't know much about Aska, but between Klied and Poffo, Klied was the brains of the outfit, and Poffo was smart enough to realize that. Hopefully, he had an ace up his sleeve.

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[Kliedden Raxx]

Klied lowered his rifle and watched with surprise as Aska charged the gangsters straight on, using Poffo's help to jump right over them while taking one down in the process, and then go on to bag Ro. "Oh..." He remarked absently, slowly starting to sling his weapon over his shoulder once more. With the gangsters dropping their weapons and Poffo making his way over for the interrogation, it seemed they had the situation sorted.

That's when he caught notice of Luclan and his goons approaching. Having the high ground, Klied saw them coming before anyone else, and could tell at once they were trouble. Taking advantage of his stealth training he slipped off the freighter and moved around the side of the docking bay, making sure to stay out of sight of the others. When Poffo looked over his shoulder it would have seemed like the Onderonian had simply vanished into thin air.

Making his way around so he would be able to come at the mercs from behind, the hunter took cover beside Ro's ship. As the men talked he drew his Westar in one hand and his knife in the other, preparing to charge in. He figured he could drop two of the bodyguards before they knew what was happening. Poffo could grapple another, and Aska should be able to take down the remaining two with that lightsaber of hers. That would leave just Luclan himself. He struck Klied more as the brains then brawn, but it was unhealthy to make assumptions. However as he overheard what the man was saying he started to get another idea. After all, why make enemies when you didn't need to? The bounty hunter would look back at Ro's ship, a smirk slowly crossing his face as he holstered his weapons and reached into his pocket...

As the standoff continued Klied would suddenly appear again out of nowhere, coming up behind two of Luclan's mercs and putting his an arm cordially around each one's shoulder as he stood between them, clearly leaving them shocked. "Sounds good to me." He said with a smile, and the mercs immediately turned all their attention to him, raising their weapons in warning. Klied simply raised his bare hands and chuckled. "Easy there. I come in peace..."

With the weapons still on him Klied walked over to their boss without fear. "I know how it goes." He explained to Luclan. "You're just trying to run a business here. And quite frankly I think it's very generous of you to make such an offer. Especially considering you're not gonna see Ro again." He turned his attention to the Nautolan, who instinctively flinched. Klied just crouched down in front of the alien, looking him over with an ominous gleam in his eye.

"See we like a good chase." He said, more for Ro's benefit to hear than to explain things to Luclan. "I like it when my quarry gives me a challenge. Makes me feel alive. You've disappointed me twice now Ro. Those goons of yours weren't even enough to work up a sweat. I'm gonna let you go this one last time. You give me a good chase this time, get my blood pumping..." He drew his knife slowly and put the point between the Nautolan's eyes. "Or else I'm going to need to find another way to get my fix when I catch up to you... understand?" The Nautolan just swallowed and nodded. Klied sheathed his knife and stood up, winking to his companions before turning back to face Luclan. He gave the man a wide smile like nothing had happened and offered a hand. "We have a deal then?" He asked cordially.

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[Aska Ryun]

As Poffo approached Aska with their bounty in her tow, she retracted the crimson blade before placing the hilt back on her belt. It was clear to her that they had the upper hand and as Sauvage grabbed Ro by his jaw, the clone turned her attention to the quivering thugs before nodding for them to get out of here. Wasting no time, the remaining men clambered over one another in desperation to vacate the area before they came to any more harm, the man who had taken a vicious elbow from Poffo pulling up the rear in a daze. Watching as the largest member of the trio berated Ro for his deception, Aska crossed her arms with a smug grin. Seemed everything was falling into place.

"Actually, that's exactly what we're not going to do."

'Seems I'm getting ahead of myself,' Aska thought to herself as the Corellian approached, five military-like figures in tow. Instinctively, Aska reached for the last weapon she had but as she wrapped her fingers around the hilt on her belt, she pulled back. While he was prepared for a violent outcome, his words pointed towards him wanting a peaceful transaction. Still, his desire was for them to forgo their bounty and she wasn't prepared for that. No, they went through enough getting their hands on this sack of shit.

"You've got to be kid-"

Suddenly, cutting off her interjection, Klied appeared from the opposite side of the hangar where she had last seen him. Looking back to her freighter, Aska soon found herself to be puzzled. How the hell did Klied get over there without anyone even noticing?

'Sneaky bugger...' As Klied spoke, Aska moved in beside Poffo before elbowing him in his giant arm. Giving the man a baffled look, she held both of her hands up in a 'what the hell is he doing' sort of fashion. They had him here and now, so why let him run? She didn't get it.

"You know him better than I do," she whispered to Poffo. "You think this is a good idea? Ro'll just run back to Tyllon and then we're screwed. It's going to make our job far more complicated than if we just burn these bantha humpers and get on our way,"

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[Poffo Sauvage]

Sauvage still had Ro by the jaw when Luclan and his mercs came on the scene. He didn't let go, even as Luclan laid down his threats. He held it firm when Klied had somehow wound up behind the enemy and threw his arms around a couple of them acting all chummy-like. As Klied addressed Ro, Sauvage physically forced the Nautolan's head to look at the bounty hunter. He wouldn't answer, however, because Poffo was squeezing his jaw shut.

"You know him better than I do," Aska asked Poffo in a whisper. "You think this is a good idea? Ro'll just run back to Tyllon and then we're screwed. It's going to make our job far more complicated than if we just burn these bantha humpers and get on our way."

A sort of growling grunt came out of Poffo's chest. "Know the bounty hunter, I do, yeah." The brawler nodded up and down and then shook his head thinking it over. "Tell Brag we're on the way, Ro definitely will, yeah. No doubt about that." Poffo let go of Ro's jaw before bitch-slapping with the back of his hand and sending him flying toward Luclan. The mercenaries behind Luclan raised their carbines quickly and in sync, but Luclan held up a hand and sort of chuckled. Poffo held out his arms, inviting them to bring it.

"Easy..." The Corellian said. "I like this guy's fire." He looked over Aska approvingly and then back to Klied. He nodded with a smirk. "I like all of them, actually. Too bad they already have steady work." He looked at Poffo, "You do have steady work, I assume?"

Poffo didn't dignify that with a response. The Corellian nodded for Ro to make his way to his ship. He gave all three bounty hunters a look and said, "As soon as Ro gets to his ship, you all are free to leave and give chase. I hope this gesture of good will means that this little operation I have here...stays between us?"

Again, Poffo didn't dignify that with an answer. As Luclan turned to Klied for an answer, Poffo turned to Aska and whispered to her the full answer to her question. "Klied don't lose easy, no way. He's got something up his sleeve. He'd rather bleed out than lose a hunt, yeah. Assuming this chopper keeps his word, I think Ro gets got; yeah, I do."

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[Kliedden Raxx]

"I hope this gesture of good will means that this little operation I have here...stays between us?" Luclan asked. Klied just shrugged in response.

"No bounty on your head that we know of. You've got nothing to worry about my friend." He assured the Corellian. "And who knows? Perhaps once our business elsewhere has been completed we might be able to do something for you?" Luclan smiled, clearly interested in the prospect, and with a wave called off his men. While they casually departed, and Ro ran for his life, the Onderonian turned back to his companions.

"No need to rush," He informed them. "I put a tracker on his ship before joining the party. We can follow him at our own pace." He then turned his attention to Aska, who seemed skeptical to his plan. "In my experience you never walk into a gundark's nest if you can help it." He tried to explain his reasoning using his past experience as a hunter. "You smoke him out into the open. Tyllon is a clever bastard and I have no doubt wherever he's hiding is already rigged like a death trap. If we were to try going in it'd likely be a mess." He smirked as he looked between the two. "But, he's got a reputation to keep as well, and he's sworn on his honor to put Poffo and me in the ground for humiliating him back on Coruscant. So all we need to do is follow Ro to wherever he's hiding then kick back and relax. Let him stew in there for a few days, maybe even a week or two, listening to Ro blubber like the coward he is about how we're coming for all of them. Maybe we let them catch a glimpse of us staking the place out. People will start to wonder why big bad Brag Tyllon is sitting in his laurels with enemies on his doorstep. Maybe he's afraid of something? Maybe he needs to prove he's still the infamous hitman he says he is by coming outside and taking care of us himself yeah?"

The hunter spread his hands wide as he looked between his companions for some kind of reaction. From what he had gotten of Tyllon's personality it seemed the most likely outcome to him. And worst comes to worst? Well... there was more than one way to skin a Loth-cat. They were a smart bunch. They'd figure something out.

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[Aska Ryun]

As Ro hustled away to his ship with the limp Klied had given him, Aska turned her attention to the hunter, raising her arms to signify she had absolutely zero idea what it was he was trying to do. Poffo seemed certain in following his partner's decision, but she still wasn't sold. The tracker, she admitted, was a nice little detail that he had kept to himself. At least they knew that they'd be able to find him again, but not having the element of surprise still bothered her a great deal.

"Okay, first off," Aska began as she waved a single finger ahead of herself with an exasperated chuckle to pair it with. "If it's a mess we find, then that's what I signed on for, okay?" Turning to watch Ro's ship begin to disappear into the sky, the clone hung her head with a sigh and turned back to the two men. "I'm not exactly the patient type, if ya catch my drift. Not that we have any kriffin' choice at this point!" Shaking her head, the woman began to pat around in search of her cigarras but soon remembered that they were still in her jacket aboard her ship. But alas, this was no time to start a divide and despite not agreeing with Klied's point of view, she did trust the man and he had more than proven himself on both occasions they've been in the cross fire together. Poffo, well... she was getting there and he wasn't as bad as she originally thought. Still a pig, but a respectable one. Deciding to crack a coy smirk, Aska rubbed her temples with her thumb and index finger before looking back to the Onderonian. "Ah, screw it. Whatever man. This is your guys' vendetta and I'm just the hired gun on this one. But if we end up dead, Klied..." Aska pointed a finger in his face, though she still managed to keep her hand a respectable distance from the man. "I'm gonna kriffin' kill you,"

Turning to Poffo, Aska slapped the giant Coruscanti on the chest as she started back towards the ship but came to a halt. "You and me? Big guy, we're getting loaded on the trip," Extending her hand, the woman looked up to meet his steely gaze. "I hope we've gotten to a point where we can put that bad blood behind us? At least, maybe for a day or two. We kill them today then we can kill each other tomorrow. Deal?" As she spoke, a sarcastic smile crossed her face. For better or worse...

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[Poffo Sauvage]

And so, that was that. The plan to nab Ro and have him take the trio to Brag with the element of surprise was no longer an option. Ro was a slippery one, so his finding a way to weasel out of being caught here was not entirely surprising. But still, this disappointed Poffo. In fact, it worried him. No doubt he would either alert Brag that he was coming and being chased by the duo that took them down in Coruscant plus a broad that relished in violence herself or show up unannounced and beg for protection. Brag would be prepared for them by the time they arrived, and that increased the danger for the bounty hunters tenfold.

Klied was putting a good face on this thing, but Poffo was steadily shaking his head slowly. There was no choice here, and Klied did exactly the right thing because it was the only thing. Still, this situation sucked. Maybe Klied was playing the motivational leader and trying to pump up the troops with how all of this going to go right, but this was no bueno. Then again, Klied to seem to relish in a challenge whereas Poffo relished in winning. Klied may actually be looking forward to the added level of difficulty. That was good, Poffo thought. Someone needed to have a positive attitude.

Aska had the very same concerns that Sauvage did, and Sauvage nodded along with her rant. She slapped him on the chest, and the bearded brawler lifted a brow at her. "You and me? Big guy, we're getting loaded on the trip," she said to him while offering a handshake truce. "I hope we've gotten to a point where we can put that bad blood behind us? At least, maybe for a day or two. We kill them today then we can kill each other tomorrow. Deal?"

Poffo waited a moment for dramatic effect before taking her hand inside his massive paw and shaking it harder than necessary. "I hate to admit it, I do, I do, but you got my respect. If you back out now, we would understand. This is personal for the hunter and me and not for you. Not your fight, no it's not. Other than a bounty, you got no reason to put your life on the line, yeah." He paused and narrowed his eyes at her. "Buuuuuuut," he sort of bent at the knees and made a little finger flourish with both hands about ear high, "like ya, don't like ya, don't matter. You can kick some ass, yeah, yeah, you can. If you want to stay in this thing and take down these thugs, I'd be more than willing to kill some bad, bad dudes right beside you, yeah."

He nodded toward the ship, ready to start the cat and mouse with Ro. He gave one look over his shoulder to make sure Luclan and the chop shop gang weren't going double-cross them. It wouldn't do them any good to do so. Ro meant nothing to them and he couldn't come back. All they would get by opening fire on the bounty hunter was an unnecessary headache. Poffo, feeling comfortable that all was well, yelled, "Now, let's go get loaded, yeeeeeeaaah!"

Walking into a home base of a Corellian gang base and walking out with one piece and the ship in tact? Well, that was the easy part. The hard part was coming up.

/end thread unless Reyn has something to add

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