Spoils of Sound Diplomacy and Industrial Espionage

[Aleksandr]

Jerek continued patrolling the ground level of the CEC HQ. So far it seemed everything was going as usual. But he nonetheless had everyone on high alert, also as usual.

 

[Alisha Dawnstrider]

Up to that point, Alisha didn't even realise the amount of security around until then. Now that she was kitted out and was heading out to the transport hub with Tory not far behind, however, she had a chance to take a good look at her surroundings. This at the moment, wasn't particularly intimidating to her, although she wasn't strutting around like she owned the place either. Cautious was her middle name. She was used to blending in the crowds, and that's exactly what she did. Would have been difficult even for the others to spot her, her short stature helping out as it always had. However, she did spot Captain Eli and the others with the corner of her eye, talking to a CorSec officier. Tory seemed to have slowed down and was trying to figure out what was happening, but Alisha figured they would be ok, the three of them, and decided it was better not to arouse further suspicion if they weren't entirely convincing, so just kept walking inside the transport hub. Public transport would be the best option for her, given that she was low in the ranks.

She stopped and looked around, looking up at a holo screen with shuttle times, and after spotting shuttle times for Coronet city's CEC, she turned in time to see Tory walking towards her, his expression blank. Alisha looked around to see groups of CorSec guards patrolling the place. They knew. They had to, why all this security otherwise? Biting her lower lip, Alisha waits until Tory gets close, and speaks softly, so not to have anyone else hear.

"They know..be on guard.." she says, and after a brief pause in which Tory gave her a nod in response, Alisha points at the holoscreens on one of the pillars of the hub.

"We're going to get that shuttle. I'll get us tickets"

Alisha went and came back with two tickets a short while, handing one to Tory. Alisha hoped that at least for them too, getting to the place wasn't going to be too difficult. But almost immediately after thinking that, heading towards the shuttle, they were stopped by three CorSec security officers, that were checking people's tickets at random. Alisha did not think this was too strange. After all, it looked like the place was in high alert. After some quick thinking, Alisha walked to the officers, gesturing behind her back for Tory to follow. Alisha didn't see the rather puzzled look on Tory's face. He was probably thinking something along the lines of "What the hell is she doing..", but Alisha knew that if they tried to avoid them, it would be much much worse.

"Officers" Alisha greeted them with a polite tone and a small smile, trying not to be too obviously friendly, nor passive aggressive.

"Are you checking tickets? We got ours just now. We are headed to Coronet City."

As Alisha handed in her ticket, and took out her ID from her belt pouch, the officers were puzzled at first, but then seemed glad they were cooperating. They looked at the tickets and gave it back to Alisha, then took the ID from her hand. The officer took a good look at it, gazing from the ID to her, back and forth, while another officer checked Tory out. After a few minutes, and scanning the ID, the officer gave it back to Alisha and nodded.

"All good here madam, have a good day." The other officer handed his ticket and ID back to Tory, and moved on.

With a sigh of relief, her and Tory proceeded to the waiting area for the shuttle.

"Good job" said Tory. Alisha nodded but remained serious. When she looked back at the officers, they were on holo with someone that seemed important....

"Don't celebrate too soon..I think they may have warned people about us...Keep your wits about you " Tory nodded this time, as their shuttle arrived and they both stepped in it. Alisha was starting to get a bad feeling from the whole situation. Mentally, she was preparing for things to go wrong..

 

[Richie B.]

(OOC: Sorry my post was a bit rushed but I will be posting regularly for now on.)

Jaleer followed the captain though at times the sage wanted to jump out an stop the captain from doing especially when he tried to walk up to the C-sec officer, it was only by the grace of the force that it worked. If it hadn't this would have gotten a lot uglier real quickly but thankfully it seemed to be working, looking around the sage had began to charge up the force within him just in case something happens but also keeping a cloak on, it was a difficult task but sensing no force users didn't mean there weren't any and kept up the cloak. But when they finally got onto a speeder, the sage dropped the cloak seeing as that the fact they were moving so quickly would make it difficult for anyone to feel were they where, Jaleer watched as the fight started. Thinking quickly the sage used the force to mentally invade the young C-sec officer and take control though it was something the sage knew was wrong it was the best thing he could do at the time, taking control and making the man drive the speeder steadily the young Jedi knew that this would get tiring real quick.

"Listen guys I would suggest we don't do something like this again, just trying to keep this guy steady is hard enough. Now once we land I will going to need to tie him up or he could sound the alarm, I will be too tired to ease his memory once we get there. Kade do you have training with mind trick or any mental force based powers? If so they will come in handy right now." Jaleer asked the strain of mentally dominating someone is something the sage wasn't used to and knew he would need some time before he could use the force again.

But Jaleer would be able to keep the man steady and fly them to their desired destination, once they landed Jaleer would knock out the pilot and take a moment to meditate, seeing as he was drained. Jaleer knew that speed was important but if he was unable to use his force powers than he would be useless mostly for this mission unless it came to a fight, after a moment to meditate and get some energy back the sage extended his senses and would sense around the facility. It kind of hit him seeing how difficult it would be to try and force our way out an how much security their was.

"So looks like a fortress manned like its protecting the Empress. So little change of success and a great change me might all die, what are we waiting for." Jaleer said a bit nervous but wanting to not bring down the moral of the group the sage knew this would be hard and was ready for it even if so far it was proving to be tough.

 

[Krajin]

Kade watched as things went south really quick, their cover almost blown straight off the bat and Jaleer using the force first to hide himself then to full on take control of another individuals mind. Kade wasn't a subtle individual by a long shot, mental abilities were a bit outside his area unless it involved animals. "I have sedatives instead." He'd say, digging out from a pouch a small dart and when they had pulled over and Jaleer knocked the fellow out. Kade delivered the small injection into the neck so the officer would sleep. Kade would disembark the speeder behind the complex, the poor thing breathing a sigh of relief from the Kushari getting off it. He'd grab the officer and head for the waste disposal units and hid the poor sod between them out of sight. He was safe from being eaten or harmed, just.. hidden. If there had been an exterior lavatory or closet there'd be some solid snake shenanigans going on.

Kade looked to the rest after covering the fellow up and making sure he was fine "This place is a fortress. We need to change our game plan a bit. Or its going to get messy real quick."

 

[Elijah Hardin]

Eli scratched the top of his head where the officer had clipped him. Kade sedated the officer and Eli shuffled over, grabbing the control yoke as they worked to shift the body from the pilots seat. Slowing down when they neared the HQ, he breathed a sigh of relief as they made it there without further incident. Skillfully and careful to avoid the patrols, he set her down around the delivery bays and loading dock of the large building. When the speeder landed, the Morellian hopped out and helped cade move the unconscious man. When they regrouped, Eli was smiling and clapped his hands

"Well, that worked pretty well, I'd say. However, It seems we have another problem. CorSec isn't guarding the building, the imps are. We're going to have to figure something out. These uniforms are pretty useless if the locals have been assign-"

He stopped short of finishing his sentence. It was as if the force was laughing at Eli. Out of the corner of his eye he saw two stormtroopers, seemingly disgruntled, probably frustrated with guard duty at a factory, rounding the far corner and talking to one another. Eli smiled and motioned for the two to take cover as he did the same. After removing the collapsed vibrosabre in his boot, made simple hand signals communicating to the two Jedi. Only two of them. The morellian tugged on his shirt bottom. That means only two uniforms. He pointed one finger at Kade and brought his hands from wide fish-catching action, slowly together in a clapping motion then mimicked a rifle firing and put both hands next to his cheek. Wait for them to get close then knock them out.

 

[Aleksandr]

So far nothing appeared to be going wrong. Jerek remained vigilant, though.

 

[Alisha Dawnstrider]

(Sorry for the long post guys :P)

Alisha knew the plan wasn't going to work any time soon when, as soon as she and Tory stepped out of the shuttle that lead them to the entrance of the HQ building. They were expecting CorSec guards. None of them around.

"Great..bucketheads..." Alisha frowned as she whispered to Tory, stepping down and looking around at the rather numerous amount of stormtroopers present. She decided to adopt Eli's terminology, it was funny and quite an accurate description. However, their situation now, not so funny. They would need to find a way into the building without alerting any of the imps. Which meant, their false id was now just about useless. However, their mechanic uniform would still fool anyone inside if they did their job properly. One problem at a time, Alisha thought in her head.

"We need to sneak in now. Not easy, considering these morons are all over the place..."

Alisha gave a discontented sigh, but wasn't really that surprised. When she heard that Eli got his info from a politician, she almost excepted this to happen. She wasn't sure why Eli decided to trust the information from a politician in the first place.. But no time for that now. She might not have been surprised, but she sure wasn't happy about it. Tory looked around with the same kind of frown, clearly not prepared for this much attention, sort of grunting.

Alisha and Tory then started making their way in, hiding among the crowd and workers. Alisha's stature, as always, helped her stay out of sight from most guards around, and Tory wasn't too much taller. As they approached the building, Alisha was about to point out that it might have been best to split and make themselves scarce, when she saw a group of bucketheads approaching the shuttle arrival area from the HQ. Her face tensed, as she also saw what appeared to be an official leading them. It seemed that they were patrolling.

"Officer.." Alisha whispered, although Tory already saw him also. "Split, wait, rejoin" Alisha continued in a fast whisper. Tory nodded and walked briskly away.

Alisha moved away from the central area and stuck to the sides, separating from Tory and weaving through people, hiding behind them and finally finding some crates to hide behind, she waited there. Looking over, Tory seemed to have find a similar hiding spot on the other side of the room. Staying as crouched as she possibly could, Alisha watched as the patrol marched straight to the shuttle arrival, and then stopped, seemingly waiting for someone. Shortly after, they were joined by a couple more bucketheads, that seemed to have told them something. Alisha tried hard not to panic. Her instincts were telling her that the guards back at the transport center warned them of Tory and her. The officer did not blink at what he heard, but it looked like he knew what to do....Nodding, he and the patrol turned, and started searching the entire area. He was looking at people...Alisha knew then they must be looking for them.

She leaned back against the crates, and rubbed her forehead, trying to think what to do, her heartbeat starting to raise. Her gaze casually fell on a grate nearby. Alisha then had an idea. It was an air vent. Those would be found everywhere in the building, and there were many leading to the power supply, remembering from the holoprojection of the place on the datapad the day before. Alisha breathed a bit easier, although that didn't last long, as after another very brief look through the crates, she noticed the patrols were getting closer to where she was. She needed to act now. Unfortunately, the grate that lead to the entrance of the vents was only partially hidden....She needed to be quick, as they were bound to spot her...

Crouching again for one last time, Alisha took a deep breath. From this moment, Tory would have needed to find his own way in...she wasn't entirely sure he'd fit in those vents, although he wasn't huge either. Setting those thoughts aside for later, Alisha got near the grate, making sure her body was still hidden, crouching and bending as much as her slender body would allow, and tried to get the grate open. It wasn't opening. Looking over, the patrol was getting closer. Alisha could feel her brow getting a little sweaty. Quickly, she got her hydrospanner from her pouch, and started opening up the joints with it, making sure to catch the bolts in her hands as not to make noise. The place was crowded, and there were people around, but the patrols were close, and would likely hear it. As the last bolt came undone, it fell out of her hand, running along the side of the wall far beyond the cover from the crates, making a smal metalling sound as it run along a while, then stopped. Alisha's eyes widened, and just about saw the group of bucketheads, stopping, and looking around...

Alisha had no more time to think. Putting the grate aside, she climbed inside. It was a very tight squeeze, and was almost sure none of the bucketheads would fit at least..but if she didn't reach a corner soon she'd have been toast. Even they couldn't miss from that distance. So leaving her hydrospanner behind in the rush, she managed to fit her hole body and and almost reached a corner when she heard shouting behind her, and the distinct sound of men readying their weapons.

"Shit, shit, shit..." She said quietly. She was sweating, it was hot in there, and it was a huge effort to crawl along hurriedly. Finally though, just as she heard the officer barking some orders, Alisha managed to reach a corner. Just in time, as shots were fired, and the tunnels were briefly illuminated for a few seconds. She didn't stop though, nor did she look back and continued to crawl, in a direction that would roughly lead her near enough the power supply, at least from what she remembered. She wasn't fussed at this point, and was hoping Tory would manage, in the chaos, to enter the HQ in a more conventional manner...She also feared alarms would sound throughout the building anytime now...

 

[Krajin]

Kade would nod and crouch and press against the nearest tall pillar that would cover him from sight. The Storm troopers would walk their way down, talking about one thing or another and Kade would peek his furry head around the corner and would watch them as the neared. The sight of the speeder caught their attention and they'd walk on over and inspect it. He counted to three as they neared, Eli would watch as his fingers went from Three...Two...One... and then the large Kushari would rush out with surprising speed for his large size and weight, with thought taking over movement before movement would occur he had an advantage for reactions and the Kushari grabbed the two by the head and slammed them together with some significant force that'd make any man cringe from. They dropped to the ground like sacks of bricks with either a severe concussion and unconsciousness. He'd quickly crouch down and grab the lights out bodies and drag them back and toward the two humans. Their uniforms were -tiny- for the Kushari so it was the humans that were to sport them.

"Here, put these on." He'd comment as he would pull off the helmet and start rooting around the comms equipment they had on them. His goal was to tap into their communications network through the unit within a stormtroopers armour, get their codes and you can be the little fly they wouldn't even realize was in there. It wouldn't give him access to their battle network if they had one, which from Kade's past experiences the Imperials lacked it. He'd finally get a commlink and run a scan with his on board computer, he'd find their frequency and set up a listener whilst the others may change into their storm trooper uniforms. He'd frown at what he'd hear.

"....She disappeared into the ventilation systems. Sound the Alert! We have an intruder in the building." Kade's ears flattened at that as he set the troopers helmet down and went to dig out of his bag his own helmet and went to stick it on "They're alerted to an intruder. Hopefully its not one of us. Though my gut tells me otherwise." He would comment.

 

[Elijah Hardin]

A lump formed in Eli's throat as he heard the comm chatter when he put the helmet on. He hurriedly put the white armor on over his CorSec officers uniform. It was uncomfortable, but they were strapped for time. He removed his sword from his boot as he switched footwear and magnetized it to the stormtrooper belt and assembled the .48 and put it in an easily accessible place on the top of everything in his duffel, threw the duffel over his shoulder so it would cover the sword. It wasn't much of a concealment but again, there was little time. Eli's mind was racing as he was working to fit the uniform tightly enough as to not restrict movement. He preferred leathers to plasteel. Picking up the Stormtroopers E-11 variant, he switched it to full-auto. Turning to Jaleer, knowing of his obvious affections for Alisha he said, "I won't have you distracted as we make for the R&D department. We need Alisha to be successful or we've lost the initiative. Find her and Torie, ensure they complete their mission at all costs. Kade and I will make as much of a distraction on our way to the hard copy."

His gazed narrowed on the other side of the helmet and if the Kushari had learned anything from the duel it would be Eli acted cooly under pressure but with a ferocity of determination that was a rarity in these times. He motioned for them to walk to the nearest entrance from which the concussed troopers had come. They made their way quickly and the guard at the door raised his weapon at first sight of the Kushari, Eli had his weapon trained on Kade as he walked him up to the checkpoint.

"Found this one rooting outside attempting to gunk up a communications hub."

"There's no communication hub on your route trooper."

This was not going well and Eli was getting impatient with competent security. He relaxed his body and focused his mind, time had slowed down as he bladed his body and his free hand shot out with blinding speed. Forcefully driving the barrel trained on Kade up, removing Kade from the barrel's line-of-site, The Morellian drove his helmet into the guard's. The guards head rattling around and Eli's doing likewise, except Eli had prepared for the sensation. The Captain yanked hard pulling the weapon from the trooper. He staggered back and with precision, Eli dropped the troopers weapon, replacing it with his sword as it came uncollapsed from his belt and found its target, piercing through the trooper's rebounding helmet, damaging its com unit through the speaker at the "mouth" and subsequently severing the troopers brain-stem. After Eli violently tore his weapon from the brain matter, plasteel, and viscera and performed an impatient chiburi once his weapon was free, the fencer collapsed his blade and set it back under his duffel bag. He slung the borrowed E-11, removed his datapad and consulted it.

Klaxons wailed overhead and Eli knew all cover had been blown, but they were in. Now for the hard part. He removed his helmet and pulled out the com unit and synced it to his datapad and put an earpiece in and tucked a microphone under the chestplate. Placing the datapad back in his duffel and pulling the straps as tight as they could get, he gave hand signals to Jaleer to go the opposite direction to find Alisha and for Kade to follow him he began running as fast as he could to the R&D department, his blaster cross-strapped and hanging just above his duffel. A squad of stormtroopers rounded a corner and Eli kicked his legs out from under himself sliding towards them in a Limmie style slide, his legs in front of him and his shoulders back. The skilled enforcer was dumping blaster bolts at them through the entire process some landing, some going high. Still, there were too many.

 

[Aleksandr]

Jerek literally jumped out of his seat in the main lobby when the intruder alarm went off. I knew it! I knew they'd attempt to break in! He quickly turned to the squad of ten black-armored shadow stormtroopers that were assigned to him.

"Alright, men, it's obvious they are going to attempt to steal the corvette schematics from the computer banks, or the hard copy on the data chip," he said. "In any case, since the intruder is in the vents, we can anticipate where he will come out based on that fact. There are only a couple of ventilation shafts leading into the development wing, so we will go there and wait for someone to show, either through the vents or through the traditional passages."

Before they left, he turned to two of the troopers. "You two, head to the main power generator and wait there. Sabotaging the base's power seems like the logical thing to do for infiltrators. Prepare any intruders a surprise, make sure no one touches the main power generator."

The two men nodded and ran off towards their objective, while Jerek and his group of eleven shadow stormtroopers moved quickly to where the schematics were all kept in the development wing of the CEC HQ. Other troopers and officers were scrambling all over the place, and he could hear blasterfire in the distance. Sounds like the fighting has already began in some places. He took out his K-9 heavy blaster pistol from his holster and made sure the safety was off.

 

[Alisha Dawnstrider]

Alisha started to feel something of a panic attack. As the intruder alarm sounded, Alisha knew that the mission was at risk. And mostly because of her. With a heavy gulp, and trying to fight the guild that was building within her, she continued to crawl down the vents. It was getting harder and harder to breathe, and uncomfortably hot even for her. Her hair was starting to stick to her forehead. She needed to get out soon. With a huge effort, she reached an interception. She knew, from remembering the holo of the area, that the one direction was going to take her closer to the power generation area. But at that point, she also knew that there were bound to be men waiting for her...The other vent was going to take her away from the power generation, so she would have to use the corridors to get closer...Alisha wasn't sure which of these would be the least dangerous. At the power generation, they were going to be waiting for her. Lots of men, she presumed. But were there going to be less men at the other side? And then it would be super difficult for her to reach where she needed to without at least a few fire fights... Alisha started to feel her breathing getting harder..if only she didn't lose Tory...She really hoped he was ok. With fear rising, she made the decision not to go towards the power generation yet. She needed Tory.

Slowly crawling further down the chosen vent, Alisha was breathing hard, and struggling to breathe even more now, so she tried to pick up her pace. That almost made breathing even more difficult, so slowed down again to try and regain it. She stopped, when she heard shots fired...there was a fire fight near by. Trying to keep her terror under control, she finally reached an exit. The blaster fire was getting louder, and seemed very close. She heard the muffled voice of a man in pain and a loud thud. She didn't recognise the voice, so it must have been a stormtrooper. Finally reaching an exit, Alisha peaked through the grate. The fight was in a nearby corridor, and she could see flashes from the blaster fire, but seemingly no one was in sight. Using the blaster fire as cover, Alisha struggled to get her body so her feet were towards the grate, and with a massive effort, kicked the grate.

The blaster fire continued, and it seemed another imperial fell. Alisha was slightly relieved. She didn't hear voices shouting on their side, however, so assumed it was Tory. With another kick, the grate was open and fell to the floor. Unfortunately, it was during a pause in the battle. She heard one man ordering another to check it out. Alisha had no time to think. With her hard racing, she jumped off the tunnel, taking a big breath of fresh air in her lungs. She very quickly took out her blaster. All that training with the captain, and the practice she did, were paying off. As soon as a storm trooper appeared at the end of the corridor, Alisha was ready, aimed and fire a short blast of shots. The man had no chance, and fell to the floor, dead. She heard the other storm trooper around the corner swear, then another blaster shot, and nothing.... Alisha run to the corner, just in case...When her head peaked around, she was relieved to see Tory approaching, and calling her.

"Oh thank the Force!!" Alisha said, massively relieved to see him doing well. He didn't seem to be injured, which was a bonus. There were two bucketheads on the ground, dead.

"Alisha! You're alright, are..are you alright?" Tory asked, seeing her all sweaty and red in the face and clearly still breathing heavily.

"Yea..." Alisha said, trying to regain her breath. "Went through the vents, but..I am sorry, someone spotted me so the alarms went off..." She shook her head and looked down, ashamed. "They knew we were coming but it's my fault they are in high alert..."

Tory quickly dismissed that thought and put a hand on her shoulders.

"Alisha, no time to worry about now, we need to go to the power generation. Are you ok to fight?"

Alisha looked up again. He was right. No time to cry over spilled milk. She nodded and raised her weapon.

"Yes, we do need to make our way to the power generator. Most likely we'll have to force our way in. I'm guessing someone will have had men to the R&D too. If they knew we were here, they knew what we came for..." Alisha sighed, but then determination showed in her face. This was going to be difficult, but if she didn't lose her head, then maybe they could still make something out of it.

Tory nodded, and the two of them started to head towards the direction of the power generator, looking around every corner.

 

[Richie B.]

Jaleer didn't need to be told twice when he knew that Alisha was in trouble he tried to extend his senses with the force to figure out where his girlfriend was, after getting a good lock on her location the sage just used the force to speed himself towards her. Taking out his lightsaber, the sage hated his cloths as it wasn't really well suited for a Jedi's style of fighting, but it mattered little the sage began to build up the force within him disregarding the force cloak he put on. Quickly ripping open a door with the force the sage rushed in his lightsaber at the ready, which was good since three stormtroopers were just behind the door that Jaleer broke down. Quickly using the lightsaber to redirect the shots the sage soon found himself alone again but now within the hive the young Jedi had to be careful, no telling what might happen.

"Damn were are you Alisha." Jaleer said as he ran though the building fighting and running away from any stormtroopers he meet though it seems that the Imperium were heading to another direction.

As the sage ran off he did have slight memory of the location he was but it was all to much for the young padawan running and following the path of that he thought would lead him to Alisha eventually after getting worried he turned the corner and would slam right into her following backward, knocking the air out of him. THough the sage was happy he was in a bit of pain but that didn't deter the smile that grow on his face.

"Found you." Was all he said with a genuine smile and a voice that showed how happy he was.

 

[Krajin]

Kade would walk to the door, hands behind his head and he watched as their conversation went down hill rather quickly. Communications Hub? Not what I would of picked.. He thought and took a breath as he focused inward as he felt the ebb of the force change here. Going from an alert state to that of violence changed the very nature of the current here, giving him a certain preternatural warning of what was to come. Then came the headbutt and the shiv. The poor fellow in front of them got quite the mouthful from Eli's blade. Kade would immediately have a small black hilted lightsaber and in moments there'd be a snap hiss of the weapon, a glowing blood red blade could be seen as the Kushari, grinning wickedly under that helmet would rush in. Already employing the basic tenants of Vaapad, revel in the desire to win. The thrill of the fight. Empowering himself with the force, focusing his speed and strength Kade would rocket into the Hall as Eli would go diving down the hallway firing at everything with his rifle in a manner that was quite a drag.

Every footstep was loud, loud thuds that would almost sound like Hell's anthem as the three quarter tonne giant of steel and fur flew around the corner flicking the blade into a reverse grip, Kade leapt at the squad of troopers with the Lightsaber coming down and bisecting one from the shoulder to the hip with a sizzling hiss. The Kushari would pirouette as a follow through with an M88 in his left hand coming to bear on the squad as they dived to take cover. It'd sound like a cannon was being fired in the narrow halls even with the Klaxxon alarms blaring, the recoil though fired from this gun was enough to snap the wrist of a normal human or similar alien. The armour penetrating bullets would fly, some skimming the stormtrooper helmets whilst two would find their way through the eye lenses and subsequently eye sockets of two separate storm troopers. Creating a rather unpleasant mess in the hallway. Across the communications of the Imperials, one of the two remaining Imperials would broadcast out "Lightsaber! Jedi! Bloody beast is in Powered Armour! Its bloody red! They're heading for the Res-" the communique cut off with a single gunshot punctuating its statement. "Lets go. We need to move. Most likely they have the R&D section covered by thick blast doors. I can get those open. We need to move before we get swarmed!" He would say, expecting Eli to keep moving after their mop up. Though he would grab as many Imperial Thermal Detonators as he could along the way. Sticking tiny charge units to them. "Preparing an insurance policy. Its going to get messy." He would say. Reaching out though with the force to touch Jaleers mind Kade would tell him "Prepping an insurance policy incase its needed. Stick together and when you are done, get out ASAP. It's going to be a hell of a bang."

 

[Elijah Hardin]

Just as the Morellian expected, the Kushari had anticipated his moves and augmented them perfectly. Eli liked fighting with the man. After the first squad of stormtroopers were brutally dispatched Dan came trotting in like nothing had happened. "AND WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!?" Eli demanded.

"Hiding the Speeder."

"Oh."

He checked the power cell of the blaster carbine and tossed it away pulling his Morellian .48 and it's belt out of his pack and wrapped it around his waist and properly sheathed his songsteel sword as Kade collected explosives. Kade remarked about the R&D department being blast shielded, Eli trotted along with the gargantuan consulting his datapad. "This way." Eli continued ahead as Kade began planting thermal detonators and warned the team of them. Coming to a halt in front of a turbolift He pulled his datapad and consulted it again and held it to the contact on the turbolift. No response. "Kriff it all." He looked to the Jedi, then Dan and decided better than to ask for help, after all he didn't need it for something as rudimentary as this.

"Sir, I can..."

"Stow it terminator! I got this."

The Morellian drew his pistol and sword simultaneously. Holding the tip of his weapon steady between the tiny crack in the sealed doors he bashed the controls shorting them out. As it sparked the turbolift doors twitched just long enough for Eli to get his blade vertically between the doors. He twisted his blade giving him an inch of room to work. Holstering his pistol, he gripped the door opposite his blade and forced them open with a grit of his teeth and the force of his back. He looked out over the edge then up. holding them open and looking back at the two he said, "Two levels up, a foyer, the doors and then the entire level is devoted to R&D, it's gonna be hell."

He braced the door with his feet and used his sword to slash the hydraulics of the door. The pressure slacked and he easily pushed them open. No doubt the Jedi could have done that much simpler but Eli wasn't in the mood to ask for a favor. Besides, the Jedi was off planting bombs, he had enough to worry about. Positive the Jedi could follow with a few simple jumps, Eli ascertained which cable was the counter weight, slashed it, ascended rapidly and counted...one...two and swung off the cable and snagging a hydraulics pipe two levels up from where he was. He slashed it too and the pressure holding the doors shut escaped. Looking down he noticed a horrifying image. Dan had magnetized his feet and was walking up the shaft as if it were normal ground. Eli shuddered and repeated the maneuver with the sword only to find an empty foyer. The seasoned Enforcer had expected an ambush at the turbolift door. He knew he had just fallen into it, except this one was clearly, a different kind of trap. He drew his .48 and held it patiently at his side. His other hand gripping his sword. He scanned the foyer, noticed a tiny desk with a stupid looking droid behind it almost at exactly the same time the shunk, shunk, shunk, shunk of Dan's magnetized feet rounded the open shaft door. Eli shook his head, took a deep breath and really hoped Kade was going to be right behind them. Dan slowly raised his blaster carbine training it on the droid. Eli spoke quietly to himself, "I have a bad feeling about this."

 

[Aleksandr]

The six troopers took up positions near the door of the stairwell that led up to the development wing. Jerek could hear some commotion going on a couple levels down, and realized that the infiltrators were on their way. Opposite of the door, the desks in the room had been laid onto the floor to serve as barricades, about seven meters away. These stairs were the only way up now, so they had their guns trained on the door. Crouching behind one of the desks, Jerek gripped his K-9 heavy blaster pistol and aimed it at the same place. Everything was still.

The navy man decided to take the opportunity to contact the soldiers he sent to the energy generator. "Have you got any trouble?"

"Negative."

"Well, keep me informed."

"Roger."

He put away his commlink and turned his attention back to the door.

 

[Alisha Dawnstrider]

Alisha almost shot her weapon when she crashed against Jaleer, almost falling to the ground but managing to gain balance quickly again, thanks to her very quick reflexes. He seemed to be in a good mood, for whatever reason. As relieved she was also to see him ok, this wasn't the time for feeling. Tory stops in his tracks and raises his weapon briefly, but lowers it again seeing who it was.

"Dam Jaleer, I could have bloody shot you!!!" She yells angrily, stress clear in her tone. Last thing she wanted in all this confusion is to hurt him.

"Ehm..I mean..." She blushed as she stood straight again "Sorry, bit stressed"

Tory almost gave a chuckle at the scene. Alisha glared at him and he stopped immediately, though with a left over grin on his face. Alisha turns to Jaleer again. Her hair were still sticky and her face red and puffy, but at this moment her main concern was the mission. She spoke to him, really fast.

"Glad you're here...We need to reach into the power generator but they knew we were here and why...I think we run into a trap. Lots of bucket heads everywhere and..." She sighed... "The alarms went off earlier because of me. I tried getting in through the vents but I almost choke, so that's a no...they will be looking at vents now..So we will have to fight our way in...You ok with that?

Jaleer had little time to answer, as a group of storm troopers appeared at the end of the corridor.

"The intruders!! Don't let them through!" One of them shouted.

Alisha immediately raised her weapon and shot one of them right in the middle, dropping him to the ground, then both she and Tory took cover behind the corner, as the five remaining troopers started shooting at them.

"Jaleer!! A hand please, we'll cover!!" Alisha yelled.

 

[Richie B.]

(OOC: So sorry guys ;m; I promise to post more often)

Jaleer though on the floor an accidently ran into Alisha, he was happy to just see her an that she was not injured, so when the sage stood up he only had a big goofy grin. Though she was yelling the sage still had the silly grin on understand that right now wasn't really the time but its not like Jaleer was going to stop grinning. Even when Alisha started blaming herself for the alarm going off the sage just shrugged it off as right now as long as he was next to her the sage promised to protect her.

"Nah I'm sorry anyway not your-" Jaleer said just before a loud shout came from behind him, turning around and activated his lightsaber deflecting any shots coming his way and ran with Alisha in the cover.

"Thanks just keep them distracted." Jaleer said sitting down in a cross legged position, though the others most likely though he lost it, in fact the sage was simply gathering his energy and focusing on one of the stormtroopers grenades.

Activating one of them didn't take much effort just precision once it went off the stormtroopers would be on the floor dead, though the idea disturb Jaleer a lot more than he was willing to admit the sage began to sweet his good mood gone with the feeling of several man dead.

"Alright lets go before anymore show up." Jaleer said getting up slowly his lightsaber still activated, ready for the good to move.

@Krajin

 

[Krajin]

Kade had spent his time moving about, tossing these Thermals into spots on the walls or hidden corners most wouldn't even look as a surprise for the Imperials. He doubted they'd look at all for bombs or anything, especially this surprise as he went toward the Turblift. Engaging his magnetic boots the Kushari walked the sides of the lift, noting the cut cables he grinned a bit and tossed a charge or two into the little corners of the support beams in the lift. Insurance. Nothing more. As he made his way up the side of the lift Kade paused as the facility shook from the detonations of not one but five thermal detonators. His ears pinned back in his helmet and he realized who caused it through the ebbing of the Force. "Jaleer watch you don't level your section with those things. Thermal Dets have a Kill and Vaporize radius of Twenty Feet, be careful as they will vape you and everything else if you're to close." He would send the Human over the use of telepathy and continued up.

Eventually unlike their intrepid leader with his swashbuckling shenanigans and finesse, Kade the walking tank eventually crawled out of the tube and onto the floor the others had gotten to. An innocent receptionist droid sat there, staring at them from behind the desk. He moved his bulky butt upright and drew the Peacemaker as he moved towards the large double blast doors. He had loaded a plasma Grenade into the tube of the Underslung Launcher and examined the doors as he did.

"Interesting.. duranium door, capitalship grade. Magnetic seals and interlocks. I don't have breachers for this. I will be opening this door and it will be a choke point. Cover me." He would say, with one hand he activated the cover force shield on his left vambrace, an energy shield capable of taking a couple of shots before failing. He reached out a hand over the shimmering barrier between him and the door and focused kinetic energy around the door, its gears and mechanisms and the two parts of the door itself. It began to shake and vibrate violently. The loud screeches of grinding gears as several different forces worked against each other. The doors began to split and part, sparking allot. He drew his hand back and then forward, the steel bending with his motions in a manner that was most terrifying. With a sudden, violent thrust Kade literally tore the doors were torn apart and flung into the room at high speed. Kade would dive off to the left to try and avoid any incoming blaster fire from anyone who decided to pour it on in.

 

[Elijah Hardin]

Dan followed hurriedly after Kade and stood just a moment past the opening to take the initial shots on his carapace as Eli clamored in after him firing all four of his .48's shots over Dans shoulder to then dive out from behind him into cover. Dan dove immediately after Eli to take up behind the same shield, a computer console that would no doubt overload at any moment from the oncoming blaster fire. Eli reloaded quickly as Dan snapshotted a stormtrooper after a quick peek out from cover, his carapace sizzling as his chassis saw to his damage as best it could. Eli flicked his wrist and snapped the cylinder back into the body of his pistol and crouch-walked to the other end of the console and began peeking his head around and was met with a flurry of red bolted energy. He tucked back down quickly. They were pinned. The Morellian made a few quick hand signals to Dan and the droid nodded. Eli holstered his weapon. They were quickly being flanked on Eli's side. Dan popped up taking a grazing blaster bolt to the head and a few to the torso. The droid raised his arms to reveal the under mounted grenade-launchers that were standard on combat-YVH models. He loosed the grenades at the opposite flank driving the initial squad of stormtroopers in to the other already encroaching around Eli's side.

Amidst the confusion Eli shoulder rolled out from cover to the approaching squad of troopers and upon reaching his mark, rose from the roll drawing his blade. It gleamed in his hand briefly before it became doused in the blood of the first unlucky recipient. The lead trooper was felled with an upward slice across the torso. Eli rounded his side as he fell and came down on the next one about the arm and severed it sending the next troopers appendage and weapon clattering on the floor. The trained fencer's next strike came straight across the throat of the next trooper. These three had not been expecting a close quarters engagement, they had been expecting a gun battle. The remaining troopers caught on swiftly and amidst the cries of their eviscerated allies they backed off quickly to reassess and reengage Eli. The Morellian being well-trained in fighting an enemy of superior numbers broke off his attack, tossing his sword back to his next cluster of cover, drawing his pistol and fanning the hammer through all four rounds as he leapt backward hard onto his back behind the cover. As far as he could tell, two more troopers had fallen to the slugs and the rest were receding to their own cover encouraged by Dan's, now flanking, cover fire.

They were in.

 

[Aleksandr]

Hearing the blaster fire coming from below, Jerek thought that that it was their stormtrooper squads making short work of whoever the intruders were, but as the firing ended and he only heard a couple sets of footsteps rather than the many that the troopers would have made, he became worried. He gestured to the shadow troopers to activate their cloaking armor, and the four of them did so, remaining behind the desks they used as cover but becoming invisible to the eye. Jerek himself continued to crouch where he was, aiming his blaster pistol at the door in front of them. The Corellian officer couldn't imagine how the enemies managed to get through all of those guards, but whoever it was, they shall not pass.