Ask [Taanab] What The Hound?! (Part 2)

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Tizun listened to the noises, he spent some time assessing the scene without saying much, once Draco spoke up. Tizun looked at his partner, "I don't view this as a game, Ranger Virtus." He spoke pointedly without a change in his tone of voice. He considered the plan.

Slip though the cracks and hope they go unnoticed. He could do it, he understood the idea but there was significant risk and they'd be putting the weight on a single rock toss. Night was ideal, an easy check.

"Mmhmm. Makes sense, if I move through and well timed, they will not cause too many issues. But what am I going to do? Can't expect a single Ranger to affect an arrest on a group of people. What are you going to do while I'm inside and how do you suspect to get in undetected?"

He listened to his partner, but he had no questions.

With a nod he slipped away in the dark and approached as planned, he just did it quick and climbed over the fenced wall. He casually placed himself upon some crates. As expected, the crew followed as planned. Tizun communicated with his partner he needed to change the plan or risk it all, "Stand down. Hold ground and I'll update."

He moved with ease and into a small shack. The hounds were barking outside as the keepers dealt with them.

"Shrill, take the next two over." A zebrak shouted out.

"You got it!" Someone in the distance shouted in response.

A crate was tossed near-by the cathar, the Ranger tensed in response as the corpse of a hound peeked out. The hound showing a variety of lacerations and bites. He remembered his partner, reminding him to keep it together.

He shook his head clear and slid into the nearby building and located a terminal. The crooks were not as clever and left it exposed. Arah wanted nothing more than to take the whole operation down, but this was the heart of the operation and two Rangers would not bode well against the large group here. They were law enforcers, not special forces in a military. All he could do is take note of the coordinates and move on.

He accessed their files and noted that the shipments were coming from a group on Dantooine. He noted that a new shipment had been dispatched and would arrive in 2 days time - he might not be able to deal with it here, but they could stop the next inbound shipment and harvest. A few more files, he noted they'd be shipping a group out within the next day or two, he noted the delivery instructions - they could stop the next outgoing one as well. The information was transferred to his datapad before he left the room and back over the perimeter to return to his partner. "Coming out."

A few more moments and he was with Draco. He did his best to maintain his composure, as if nothing happened. "Shipment coming in from Dantooine in 2 or 3 days time. We can notify the rangers, second shipment leaving in a day or two, I've got the shipping notification. Thirdly, they're transporting a couple just up the road… " He paused a moment, nostrils flaring, he may have been a sentient species but he couldn't help but to feel like a animal himself, "They're fighting the pups and adults to piss them off. Saw a dead one as I was down there. We can't deal with this camp but maybe we can deal with their 'training area' maybe make a dent. Stop the others and stop it, we need more than two of us to deal with that place down there."

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Draco Virtus perked an eyebrow at the Cathars response in to this being a game. It seemed his species were very straight forward and never knew common galactic slang. Sure enough Draco kept silent in his response as trying to explain this would probably take the entire night. Listening to his concerns he would glance out towards the camp and back to them. "I'm hoping you can do some snoopin', see if they got any secrets layin' round' in there." he leveled his magnifier to the camp and looked back to his ranger partner.

"As for me, If anything goes wrong or they seem to be getting alerted I'm going to start sending bolts towards them and take off. That'll take their focus off you and put it on me. They might think its another gang firing at them." he was going to be a huge thorn in their side and have them focus on the main gates. It was as best of the plan they could muster since the two rangers were greatly outnumbered and the odds weren't in their favour.

Soon as Ranger Tizun moved off Ranger Virtus would lay in wait and then toss the rock as he did it would smack dead on on the wires and the light began to blink and rapidly. Ranger Tizun forgot that Draco was a gunslinger, his aim was as solid as his hand holdin' his first glass of whiskey in a Tatooine cantina..Strong.

The lookouts along the wall would walk over and begin to check the wiring as they noticed it was hanging loosely off the light. They began to tamper with it and set the wires back in as it was perfect timing. Ranger Tizun was already scaling the wall with no issue and gave the order for Draco to stand down and wait. With that he did and sat quietly.

Finally the Cathar came back as Draco was still in his position and scanning the wall. It appeared he never needed Draco to do anything crazy at all and came back with some solid information. Damn Ranger Tizun was a swift cat..literally. Hearing him quietly and telling Draco what he seen with anger in his voice. Draco nodded in agreement. "Yeah partner, we'll be useless here with just two of us..But if you got the grids for that trainin' ground, we should see if we can be a thorn in their side."



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Tizun nodded, it was good that his partner was on the same page as him. His partner agreed that taking on the camp would probably be a horrible idea that would end in massacre of the two rangers, and so far, Arah Tizun enjoyed this thing called living – it was good to know that his partner likely felt the same way.

“It’s a couple clicks north. Hidden.” Tizun rose to his feet and lead Draco to their land transport and quickly took off without hesitation, they still have the cover of darkness and people didn’t seem to pay much mind to vehicles traversing the plains. It wouldn’t take them long to arrive, once again, Tizun parked a distance away from the coordinates he had obtained from the camp behind them. They had beaten the next delivery of ‘candidates.’

Tizun pointed in the distance, there was a few homesteads on the horizon, not enough to qualify as a village or town but more like a couple of neighbors. “Down there.” Tizun pointed out, “According to the documents I obtained, they’re using one of the homesteads as a shelter and cover from being exposed; an open pit would go notice. They keep them either in the back or in the basement dug underneath. There will be absolutely no sneaking in I imagine; unless we break into the residence.” It was a safe assumption. The time for covert operations might have passed by now and they’d just have to take the direct route – approach and knock on the door announcing their presence. Another option, breach the door, either by force or slice. Finally, they could attempt to sneak in, but from this vantage point Tizun could not see a possible way to do that.

“Whatever route we take to gain entry, I suspect resistance – light to moderate if I had to classify it. This point in time, all we can do is enter arrest the people inside and secure their cargo… but we don’t know what we’ll find inside there, the Kath Hounds could be aggressive, if they are, we may have to terminate them. Hopefully, all cargo will be kept locked up and we may not need to terminate any of them – but there is no telling what they’ve done. Abuse or twisted them. We also don’t know if they’ll be strong enough to break through their restraints.” Tizun took a moment to allow the information to be relayed to his partner before he continued, “Needless to say… a lot of unknown variables and I am not comfortable with that, I can’t lie.”

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Draco Virtus would watch as he came back and filled him in on what he discovered. Turns out their plan worked and was of good use as he nodded in confirmation. Following him and jumping in the transport as they headed out towards their next target. His blaster rifle tight to his chest as his eyes scanned ahead and eventually they came to a stop a little ways from the area to scout it abit. Stepping out and finding a good spot he would use his helemts magnifier to look out and start surveying the are as best he could.

Watching the area and listening intently to what Ranger Tizun was saying and waiting until he finished before adding his two cents into the plan being devised. "I think we ain't got no option other than going loud, but if we do we got to be quick or their buddies from that last place will be showin' up." thinking for a bit at how to do this as he would glance back to his partner and add. "If got any kath hounds approaching us that are hostile I do have one of my oathbringers set to stun but I can terminate them if needed.".

Glancing back over to the area as he continued. "I think we should go in hard and fast, kick that door in and start hitting them with everything we got. I can stun bolt a few but not all, it'll be hard but any that we can cuff, we'll have someone pull security and keep them tied up, other rushes to this transport vehicle and bring it down to the door and load them up. It needs to be like clockwork or we're going to be stuck inside there with their reinforcements outside waiting for us..". He would wait to see what his partner thought.






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Arah Tizun nodded, “Acknowledged. Gather your gear and let’s make it happen.”

The Cathar descended from their vantage point and carefully approached the homestead, being mindful of the location the windows and any potential watch guards. As they approached the door the cathar inspected it closely, he looked to his partner and drew his blaster pistol to confirm it was on stun. The chances of cuffing everyone inside was unlikely and he couldn’t go into melee range with a variety of people at once. They’d have to just stun who they can and move in – hopefully it’ll be acceptable number of people. It was a night operation after all, what were the chances they had a bunch of rustlers inside?

Positioned he was ready; he would wait for his partner to make first entry and he would follow close behind. He didn’t know what would be waiting for them inside, but as Draco said it was now or never and needed to happen fast and furious.

Once Draco was inside, Tizun would quickly follow and deliver a few stun bolts to any remaining habitants inside the homestead. He quickly looked around the area and noted another door, Tizun pointed at his partner “We need in there, something tells me… it might be the fact that there’s a control panel on the door... that we need to get in there.” Tizun smirked a little bit, he made a very weak attempt at a joke. “They’ll only be down for a bit and if there’s anyone else in this building, they would have heard that entry – no time to waste!”

Tizun would give Draco a chance to access the panel or try and breach it himself, if Draco didn’t get through, he would simply blast the door panel to move on.

Once through the door, Tizun took point and descended the staircase, he could hear a couple people yelling and the sound of kath hounds barking and crying out; there was zero time to lose and there was no time to be sympathetic. Tizun moved with purpose and entered a new room at the foot of the stairs. He reacted quickly and shoved one thug into what appeared to be an arena or combat space where there was an awfully mean kath hound looking to satisfy its need to dish out pain. Tizun shifted gears and tackled a second participant down with a leg sweep, grappling with the thug he attempted to get the upper hand and apply a set of cuffs on his perp.

He looked around the room quick to see where his partner was and if there were any more imminent threats.

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Draco Virtus would bring out one of his oathbringers that was set to stun and level it to his waist as he focused down at the area they were moving into. Following behind Ranger Tizun as Draco side stepped carefully and followed the same path his ranger partner did so they wouldn't be spotted before they even had a chance to engage the area. Draco would stack up on the door with his oathbringer in hand and nod to Ranger Tizun to be ready.

With his shoulder Draco would open the door slowly before hitting it with his shoulder with speed. A loud bang as the door swung open and Draco levelled his oathbringer shot a few stun bolts into some gangsters that were standing wide open and never seen anything coming. It all happened in one fell swoop as the bodies hit the floor stunned and completely down for the count as Ranger Tizun got any remaining in the room.

Draco would proceed to move over to the knocked out bodies and put some cuffs on them to make sure they were secure before hearing Ranger Tizun attempt a joke at the situation. Draco smirked and perked an eyebrow as he moved to the door and took out his other oathbringer and aimed it at the panel. With another nod he would fire a bolt into the panel as sparks flew and the door opened right up.

Letting Ranger Tizun take point, Draco would be behind as they went up a set of stairs and suddenly Ranger Tizun was engaging threats. Kath hounds were barking as two other culprits attempted to come bounding over only for Draco sending two stun bolts into their legs as they toppled over like lawn chairs. Checking to see if Ranger Tizun was good, Draco would cuff the culprits he hit and speak with a fast tone. "We need to get movin' partner."




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"You are correct... but I cannot see anywhere else to go. The hounds, they're scattered, they're retrievable - scared, shuddering, some might be okay. We need to radio into some authorities and round up these wranglers and get these kath hounds the proper medical care they deserve - maybe return them to Dantooine or get them to a sanctuary for further care; I think we can take a couple. Take a look around, weakest ones we should take - the others can wait. We may need to hold this area, but I don't think it'll be necessary.

"We gotta go. Find the weaklings, the runts and lets go. We can't hold out against an entire attack force."


Tizun began checking around for any further information, something to help identify these people or some sort of track record. There were a couple datapads scattered here and there and a console; Tizun was no slicer so he basically just picked up each pad and checked if they were locked or not. Most were not and he quickly scanned through it, none spoke out to him just personal information, some access to adult rated streams, but one pad provided keen results. It looked like a manifest, and it stated a new shipment was on the way.

He approached Draco and held out the pad, "New shipment coming in. Directly from Dantooine, they might follow an obvious path, we should notify HQ and maybe have Rangers dispatched to intercept the shipment?" Once Draco took the pad he began looking over the hounds, most were okay, most were afraid, he was looking for the weak ones and the runts - a topic that was extremely close to his being since he could sympathize - although he was sentient and they were not.

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Draco Virtus would nod to him as he looked around the area before looking back to Ranger Tizun. "Aye, Round up the runts, I'll load the culprits we got here." He began to lift up a body before Ranger Tizun mentioned a shipment coming in. Walking over to it he would take the pad and began to read the shipment log on it. "Ye, Lets send the info to HQ. They can cut the Shipment off. Once we leave here, we'll leak this place to the local authorities and it will stop at least this area from doin' anymore harm."

Draco would link the datapad to his own and begin to send the coordinates off via his own datapad as it took only a few minutes to repeat the grids and send them off. Setting the datapad down he would turn to look at the hounds. There was a particular one that was all white with soft eyes. It kept whimpering as Draco approached it and slowly unlocked the cage as it stayed in it. Draco reached his hand out in hoping to let it know it was okay.

It took a moment but the white kath hound came out and pushed against his hand softly. Smirking he would turn to Ranger Tizun. "Start grabbing the runts, and weak ones. I'm going to load the culprits. We need to get out of here." with that he would turn and make his way over to one of the cuffed gangsters and began to drag them out to the door they busted through. The white kath hound would be on Draco's heels like it was his father and never once strayed away from him.






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