Ask Sweep the Leg

[Sahren]

Sweep the Leg​

Spoiler

One of the Materiaalaankopen's Directors is coming to Sleheyron to handle a transfer of the organizations slaves directly to the local slave market, kill his entourage and bring him in for Reconditioning.. we'll have plans for him in the future.(Self DM 2-3 participants.)

Finally, a mission for the Pykes he got to take point on, it was about time. After all the skulls he cracked for them, more the just a few credits would finally be flowing his way. This was a pretty serious job, pinning him directly against a powerful slave syndicate, the Materiaalaankopen to be exact... He still couldn't figure out how to pronounce that name. Regardless, this was how he found himself on the planet Sleheyron, a first time for everything.

The surface of the planet was volcanic, and what did remain of it's nature was uninhabitable. The mercenary found himself at the docking bay of the small town there. The place was extremely humid, especially for a man in full armor walking down the street. From what he understood, there was suppose to be another syndicate muscle lending a hand on the mission. Rafe was typically his only partner, but every now and then he would be surprised by someone new.

Their target was suppose to be a slave master by the name of Vazz Harnox. The man was an expert at smuggling them, and could do a good job if he switched sides. Of course, that would take some convincing, and that was not his specialty. The goal here would be to take the man alive. Sahren would spot the slave market some distance away. Using his jetpack, he would ascend to the roof of a small home before pulling out a set of macrobinoculars. "Let's see what we have here."

 

[Julius Arvo]

Sahren, had arrived Jules knew it had to be him there were just not that many walking tanks that could fly. Jules had been given the location and a holo vid of the target. With instructions to bring him back alive and whole. Since the Pykes had sent Sahren they must anticipate that a lot of bodies would need to hit the ground.

Jules had recently been on a slave raid with Rafe and was kind of hoping to double dip on this one. Take both Vazz Harnox as well as his slaves. Taking out Harnox's enforcers would be easy with Sahren along. The question is how fast Sahren would want to move.

Jules had been here two days and had managed to mark each of the enforcers with a Radio Frequency Identification spray whose Frequency he was certain Sahren could detect with that helmet of his. Jules had stayed away from Harnox so far. Jules had not been able to access the slave pens but knew where they were and had watched Harnox lead a group of 72 of them in just this morning.

Jules moved to intercept Sahren and would contact him when he came came to rest.

 

[Sahren]

Just as the armored mercenary had finished scouting out the area, he would notice Julius arrive on the scene. It had been some time since they did a job together, but last time it went pretty smoothly. From what he could tell, Harnox surrounded himself with several enforcers, each of which were physically strong and imposing. Few of them wore much in the way of armor however, and that could potentially be their undoing.

Hopping down from the roof, he would land a couple meters away from Julius. "Good to see I got some reinforcements for this one. I saw that little trick you did with the radio frequencies, cleaver." He would turn back toward the large open air market, getting another good look at the place. Clearing out all those enforcers would be tough work, his rotary blaster would be a little too messy if they needed to take someone in alive. This lead to the mercenary bringing along his BM-664 Heavy Blaster Rifle instead.

"Their market consists of multiple buildings and tents. Most of the slaves are bound, but guards are plentiful. Going in guns blazing is my specialty, but if you'd like to do some infiltration before I start making a commotion... Be my guest." The mercenary would make a welcoming hand gesture to the market, wondering what Julius would chose.

@Wayrider

 

[Julius Arvo]

"Give me a 5 minute head start to get close to this him." Said Jules. As an afterthought Jules added, " And this time make sure it is actually 5 minutes, because I ain't going to let you blame it on Rafe this time. "

Chuckling to himself Jules then turned and headed to the building he knew Harnox was in. Jules knew that it wasn't much of a building. Mostly just a large box with doors opening to canvas covered slave pens. The door guard actually stopped Jules thinking to take his weapons. Not surprised by this it happens frequently all people see is a 16 year old kid, not a 76 year old Morellian.

The dead look Jules gave the guard was enough of a warning that the guard did not even try to use its size advantage. Harnox was talking with two other slave trainers. The guard stayed between them and Jules. Carefully reaching inside his camouflage fatigues Jules withdrew a sack. Shaking it twice was enough to stop everything in the room.

The sound of credits slithering across themselves inside a bag is unmistakable. "Let the, a slight hesitation as he searched for a pro noun, "man in," boomed Harnox. The guard pointed to Jules weapons, But was overrode with a look. Stepping aside with a sigh the guard let Jules by. Jules liked that the guy was trying to do his job and decided right then and there that he would leave the guard alive if he could.

Recalling from earlier in the day when they brought in the slaves Jules simply said, " human, female, young, red hair." "AHH, that one will cost you a fair bit, " replied Harnox. "Let's see her up close and I'll tell you if she's worth 50 credits or 5." Acting injured Harnox exclaimed, " 50 credits!" But a slight tilt of his head and darting eyes sent the two trainers scurrying through the back door. "Now see here I only have the best product and this lass is worth a good deal more than that." Harnox continued sliding into his best used speeder salesman pitch.

 

[Sahren]

So Julius did his thing as usual, asking for a whole five minutes to get in some good infiltration. The armored mercenary would give a sigh, remembering their fight against the tuskens, "Alright, alright... Have your five minutes, but if I hear blaster shots, I'm coming your way."

Taking a backseat to the action, Sahren would ascend back to the rooftops with his jetpack. He would once again grip his macrobinoculars, and zoom in on the morellian as he approached the delipidated building. To his surprise, the guards let the infiltrator pass by without so much as a simple search!? Maybe Julius was some sort of professional intimidator...

While his partner was busy speaking to the big boss, Sahren would notice several guards in the area all checking their comlinks. Most of the slave security forces looked to be of varying humanoid races, and all wore dark leather jackets with durasteel plates underneath. Fighting a horde of them would be a really bad idea, but he could do some infiltration of his own...

While not the most stealthy individual alive, he could easily pose as a customer. Armory would make his way down a rocky hill and stroll into the market as if he was any other customer. He would quickly find himself greeted by a pair of guards, but he would calm the pair down saying "Hey, come on now. I'm just here to shop fellas. How about you two look the other way for 25 credits?"

The pair would look at each other with a grin, before greedily pocketing the money.

@Wayrider

 

[Julius Arvo]

Jules had taken slaves in the past but had never trained one and most definitely had never purchased one. When the trainers returned with the the woman Jules estimated that she was around 20 years old but other than that he had no idea. Walking around her slowly and when he got back in front of her he made a show looking in her ears, and up her nose. He then told her to open her mouth and found it amusing the look of defiance that crossed her face.

Her eyes cut left and her sudden look of passivity told Jules that one of the trainers must have delivered some sort of non verbal threat. Jules then ordered the woman, "get on your knees." The momentary look of defiance flashed fleetingly across her face, and then was gone as she slowly lowered herself to her knees.
What he was doing must have seemed normal to Harnox because he just looked on with a leer and said nothing.
Jules internal clock told him that Armory would move any moment. The moment that the woman was out of his line of fire both of his peacemakers flashed from their holsters sped up by the Force. His left hand pistol was set to stun first Harnox then the guard fell as if pole axed the heavy stunning effect of the pistol evident. The two trainers were another matter completely his right hand pistol was on kill and at this close range the heavy blasters simply turned their heads into canoes.

Pausing only a moment he said to th woman "stay down. " flipping his left hand pistols selector to kill he positioned himself so he could cover both doors.

 

[Sahren]

As Sahren was about to enter the market, he could hear a commotion going on up ahead. Julius must have been getting the party started early, but the mercenary was always fashionably late. Deciding it was best to take care of the door guards sooner than later, the walking suit of armor would pull out his micro-missile gun and start walking back toward their direction. "Hey fellas, I think something's wrong with my blaster, mind having a look at it for me?"

He would then proceed to shoot each guard at point blank range in the eye. Both niktos would drop dead without most other people knowing. The micro missile gun was known for being very quiet after all. If Julius was busy dealing with the boss man, then it was his own job to take out what other guards remained.

Taking the strap off his blaster rifle, Armory would begin an open season against the other guards of the slave market. He would walk the streets firing multiple blaster shots toward the slave handlers. "This is for the pykes scum bags!"

 

[Julius Arvo]

Two slave trainers came running in the rear door from the slave pens and a guard charged in the front door. All three died their bodies creating partial barriers in their respective doors. Jules watched as the woman picked up the dead guards blaster and pointed it at the rear door.

Humph Jules thought to himself. Well at least she has guts. Two more came through the front door and died effectively blocking the door to the waist. At nearly the same time he heard the woman's blaster go off and another guard or possibly a trainer fell littering the rear door. Not having shot him himself and not knowing the effectiveness of the woman's shot Jules simply fired his heavy blaster into the top of its head removing any doubt.

He could hear Armory blasting away out front so he turned his attention to the rear door.

@Sahren

 

[Sahren]

The sound of combat quickly drew the surrounding guards toward the main building. Due to his heavy suit of armor, the most obvious fighter on the battle field was in fact 'the armory'. Sahren continued firing blast after blast, killing all who approached him. It wouldn't be long before blaster bolts started flying his way. The mercenary would dive to the ground behind a pile of boxes, avoiding several rounds that would have hit him.

The jacket-wearing guards would begin shouting to one another about the other guy inside the building. They must have been talking about Julius! "Ah kriff... I need to make a distraction..." The mercenary would stand back up, still under suppressive fire. Not too far away would be the main area of the slave market, the central building. It was time to make an entrance! The mercenary would bend his entire body forward, allowing the missile attached to his jetpack to launch.

In a single moment, the rocket would collide with the side of the main building, blowing a huge hole in the facility. The entire area would shake, and most would fall to the ground from the shock. Seeing this as an opening, the zabrak would jump out from around the corner to continue firing at any targets he could see.

"Julius knock the boss man out and take cover! This place is about to be filled with blaster bolts!"

 

[Julius Arvo]

Slapping binders on Harnox, Jules then stepped to the back door and peered out not a single enforcer or trainer anywhere to be seen. Turning back toward the front door he heard Armory's
message using the Force lunged across the room scooping up the woman as he went.

Several things happened at once, he was just setting down the woman in what appeared to be the best cover, Armory crashed through the wall blasting wood, stone,and duracrete all over, and one of the guards from out front had fired a bolt from his heavy rifle at Jules unprotected head.

Out of position and other options Jules had simply let his pistol fall from his left hand. His mind calling upon the Force even as his hand flashed even faster than the blaster bolt.
His left hand intercepting the bolt and causing it because of the angle of his hand bounce back out of the doorway into the distance.

@Sahren

 

[Sahren]

Sahren would peer over to see Harnox getting arrested proper. That was the mission after all, take Harnox in alive by any means necessary. With that done, they really needed to get the kriff out of dodge, and quickly at that. The mercenary would shield his helmet with one arm, firing off shots from his mirco-missile gun with his left hand as he darted into the hole he had just made.

The zabrak would quickly take cover behind a wall there before grabbing hold of his blaster rifle once again. He would fire out several more shots before looking back to Julius. "Good work. We've got Harnox. There are too many of these thugs to take on without back up... We'll need to make an escape."

The mercenary would then reach his arm around the corner of the wall, launching off a wrist-rocket toward a group of slavers. An audible boom would be heard some distance away, but the shouting of thugs would still remain.

@Wayrider

 

[Julius Arvo]

"Take Harnox and fly for the ship, I will cover you." Called Jules. "I will contact you and let you know weather to take off or send the crew." Finished Jules. Reaching out with the Force he could feel two guards trying to sneak up to the door.
Leaning just barely through the door Jules shot both of them in the throat. The heavy blasters all but beheading the unfortunate fools. "You are clear to go," shouted Jules. He then snapped two shots at a guard that was trying to move to better cover pinning him in place.

@Sahren

 

[Sahren]

Sahren would give a quick nod as Julius gave him instruction, and figured his force sensitive friend's plan would be better than none. As the blaster fire slowed down and the morellian shot down two more thugs, the Zabrak would make a break for the other side of the building. His jetpack would burst on, and propel him outside at an extreme speed, grabbing Harnox just as he exited. The ship wasn't too far away. As such, he wouldn't have much trouble reaching his KS-9910 Kathol-Class Light Courier.

The freighter wasn't in the best condition, but it had gotten the job done so far. As he reached the ramp of the ship, he would commlink over to Julius. "I'm at the ship and Harnox is here in cuffs. I can tie him up inside and come back or you can retreat to my position. It's your call."

@Wayrider

 

[Julius Arvo]

It was if seeing Armory blasting off carrying their boss broke their will to fight and after a few desultory shots there was quiet. Jules saw several of guards falling back then running away at top speed. He allowed them to disengage. When the others saw it they followed suite.

Turning on his com link Jules called to Armory, "send me 5 crew to pick up the rest of this merchandise. The area is clear." Then turning to the little red head, he said by way of introduction, "I'm Jules. " When the crew arrived one of the crew moved towards the young woman. But stopped dead in his tracks when Jules barked," she ain't no kriffn slave. " pointing out the back door.

The young woman finally said, " Tilly I'm Tilly without looking up from the pistol in her lap. "Am I really free or are you just keeping me for yourself?" She asked. " You saved my life," began Jules. " As such I owe you a life in return." " You need only ask and it will be yours even if it costs me my life, "he finished. Removing the holster and gun belt from the dead guard Jules gently removed the pistol from Tilly's hand. After sheathing the pistol he offered Tilly his hand and said. "Let's go."

There were 93 slaves brought back to the ship by the crew. They would also be turned over along with Harnox this should also earn them a nice bonus.

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@Sahren