Ashes of a Score

[Jaster Awaud]

Ashes of a Score​

Planet: Dagobah
Time: Mid-Day
Location: Hell if I know

A man in slick black coat and a Metalic face chopped into the beach of a tree with a Vibroblades. His red eyes glowed brighter as he scanned the area, looking for something. Following him were three droids, painted in a blue and white coloring with the words police writer on them in black. A few things he picked up on his last.... Score. The man, Tydus was an Arms Dealer and Info Broker, he was told of a powerful weapon hidden on the planet, somewhere in this area. The info wasn't cheap so he hoped it wouldn't be a waste of his time. The planet was a God for sakes hellhole, and he already lost 5 droids to the damn humid weather and creatures on this planet. If this thing was too big he's have to being in the ship he stol... Borrowed for this job.

He continued to hack at the foliage blocking him. The internal scanners in his faceplate Was practically useless. There were a Kark ton of living creatures moving around here blinding his sensors, even his thermals were useless. This was becoming more and more of a hassle, he almost gave up. But then the idea of a score of a life time kept him goin. He continued to hack at the brush ahead of him.

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

"Goo..." The soon-to-be elderly hermit muttered under the orange light of one of the many lamps scattered within the structure of an ancient dirt hut. Before her laid a slithering droid that managed to get a glimpse of artificial sunlight and begin to power on again. Kiara locked a magnet onto the middle of it and watched it curl up around it, unable to do more than slither around the rusted sphere. Now she had to wait for it to power off again. ​

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Her form quickly turned around and powered on a droid with an interesting set of features. It had a lion's head with lapin ears, a buff muscled humanoid body, two legs, a long tail with a missing joint at the end, and a set of normal arms that held several tools within. A single blaster unit hung from it's forearm, having not been able to be fixed yet. Before it could fully power on, Kiara threw a cape over it to hide the nudity of the body it possessed, then waved her hand in front of it's blue and green shining eyes. ​

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"Scavenge." The hermit's gravely voice sounded before she opened the door to her hut, allowing the creature to dash out in a speedy motion, leaving it's power cords behind on the wall. Her hut was strange, and in a strange location. About thirty meters from the nearest murky lake she had taken it upon herself to plant and cover a small hill with foliage, then build from the outside in. The only real way to find it was to smack right in front of it, see the glimpse of light from the wooden door, or have ways of seeing better than the normal eye, including the ways of the Force.​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Kiara"]

Damn jungle, with its Damn being alive and crap, the whole thing was beginning to be a waste of his time. The cybernetic limbs were beginning to show signs of glitching under the Humidity. He looked over his diagnostic data and it looked like some water found it way into his joints and something was making it difficult to move around it. The Auto Aim capability went a little haywire as it tried to lock onto a bird that flew by. He decided to turn that off as well just to keep himself from becoming dizzy.

He reached into his coat and brought out at Flare Gun, looks like the mission was a total Baltha Bull. As he aimed it into the sky, he hear the sound of a door open, and some kind of robotic motors and hydraulics speed up to a brisk run. He pulled the gun back under his coat and went low, his droids did the same. It was only for a quick second, but he saw some sort of man made light in the distance just off his left corner of his eye. He pulled up his data pad and issued stand by orders to the droids. He would need to check this out for himself, they were just too loud.

He wondered around for a bit, but he just couldn't find the original point of origin of that darn light. Maybe the jungle was getting to him, or maybe he was just hoping to find something. He still low walked around the area to look for the darn thing, if anything Tydus was strong headed.

 

[Kiara]

Kiara watched the droid as it darted out of her home, then made sure the door was shut before she went back to being quiet. Working in the quiet. A small flame tool was whipped into her hand, and near instantly she went to work on a few cybernetic limbs that served most painful to make with her limited resources. An old beatup square droid powered the pump station, where it helped melt down ores and scrap metal for fresh use, and several others went to work on making sure things were picked up and put into their place, or powering other things down. It was all... quiet. No loud running motors, no loud generators for the lights.​

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This hermit was a specialist at what she did, and what she did was hide and create. Several of her droids were pieced together, not from original design, but from what made them work better. Everything else, if they did not have parts, or they did not have function, laid on the ceilings or walls, powered off and waiting.​

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Monitors shined a soft blue light. It seemed several cameras were placed around her home set for the last few kilometers, though some were damaged and never got repaired throughout the years. She didn't pay mind to them. It was too long since her last visitor to pay mind to much, anyways.​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Kiara"]

"That it, I've had it!" He thought to himself, he stood up, there wasn't any sign of life around here. He decided to turn on his thermal vision, (a lot that was good for before). This time he hopped it would at least see where the light was coming from. He didn't even have to turn his head, he was staring right at it. The thermals flickered in and out of little crack that looked like a window and another in what looked like a crack of a door. He now new someone was out here, in the coordinates he was given of a powerful weapon. We're these some kind of guards or something? Maybe a rival opponent looking for the same thing he was.

He pulled out the Data Pad, issuing orders to the droids to circle around and cut off any escape that was open. As little that would do, he just needed the 3 droids to be close, but not interfere.

He walked up to the door, turned off his thermals and did his best to sneak in, the door squeaking didn't help.

 

[Kiara]

Kiara didn't bother to turn back toward the figure as he came in, like she knew he was approaching, as if she knew he was holding a weapon in due time. She just continued to work on fixing her limbs of her droid parts. After a small moment of a few seconds, she tossed one to the side, letting it land in a pile with others that seemed in better or worse conditions. "What do you want?" She suddenly asked. Her voice was gravely, as if she was getting old, or simply did not care for her public appearance. ​

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"Don't expect me to be nice to you when you didn't knock. Rude is what that is." She said matter-of-fact-ly.​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Kiara"]

A voice spoke to Tydus, yes it was more aggravated then surprised, or angered. He looked at the door, "This is your fault." He thought to himself, he stood upright, and put his pistol away in his holster. He didn't put his hands up cuz she was just speaking not really being aggressive. She wasn't exactly kind either, but kinder then he expected.

He looked around himself and the little shack he was in, this person had some sensitive senses, almost Jedi level stuff. "I do apologies ma'am, I was told something powerful was held around these parts, seeing a light source out here made me a bit paranoid in these parts."

He kept his droids on stand by outside, he didn't plan on dying today.

 

[Kiara]

"Well, don't know if you were looking for something else, but the only thing I know is powerful is this thing." Kiara whipped her hand to the side, then pointed to herself before she turned and locked her electric blue eyes onto the droid person. Her red hair was dirtied and gently scattered on her face. "So tell me what you need, and why you're really bothering me." ​

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The hermit was obviously a little full of herself, but then again maybe there was a reason for that. Maybe she just thought highly.​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Kiara"]

Interesting, a huminoid super weapon. Of course this wouldn't help him, as he wasn't in the slave trade. Too much free will and stuff, weapons didn't have a will of their own, so they were a lot easier to handle. People, they always wanted something, he should know, he always wanted someone. He still tilted his head a bit, she didn't seem so strong, but he's seen stranger looking thing be stronger then they looked. He wasn't about to test this theory of his, in the event of it was too many questions to risk his life over it.

He decided to just speak plainly with the women, "The names Tydus Wyreen, Intergalactic Arms Dealer and Info Broker, I was hoping to find a stash of weapons around here to sell for a profit, have some mercenaries looking for some firepower that most can't provide, you.... We're not what I was expecting."

 

[Kiara]

"Real disappointing, isn't it? Don't trust every story you hear, kid." Kiara mumbled as she scooted past the limbs and turned on a probe droid with a bonk of it's head with her metal staff, then another to the side. Both powered on and began to fly around the new creature that was in the house, all while Kiara tried turning on more of the droids that were laid about and finished.​

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"I'm not interested in money, or guns, despite having plenty of those. Unless you need some magical witch doo-hickey poo, then I suggest you leave. I'm nothing but stories." ​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Kiara"]

Tydus walked over to the droids, fascinating, "How are these droids in such fine shape?" He was about to connect to the droid, but then realized that would be even more rude. He decided to just grab droid and give it a once over instead. They were still a bit old, and even more so rusted, yet here it was, working.

He looked around, she was working on cybernetic and droid parts. "Is she some kind of mechanic?" He thought to himself.

 

[Kiara]

"They're in fine shape because I wash them in the oil and blood of annoying people who don't leave me alone." Kiara said finely out loud. She flipped a small switch on the ceiling, allowing three assassin droids to unfold and drop from what appeared to once be a fine strong pipe. "So, if you don't have anything else to add..." Kiara motioned to the droids around her, while a select few began to prime weapons from each weapon's hidden spot.​

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The lion headed droid stopped near the hut with it's back sack full of misc. items. It cranked it's head loudly, viewing out for the stranger electronics. With the ones in the hut activated, it was taking longer than usual, and it was beginning to send unnoticed warnings to the holoscreens on one of the walls. ​

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"I'm obviously not going to give myself to you, interested or not. My droids are also not for sale."​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Kiara"]

Assasin Droids, been a while sense he's faced off with one of them, but three, sounds like a good time. He still held onto the droid in front of him. Oil! Why didn't he think of that? Would have saved him a couple thousand of credits worth of droids back in the jungle. He turned on his Auto-Aim to get a passive lock on the droids, they were still well maintained so he would need every edge he could get for this fight.

"I'd put the droids away ma'am, I already apologiesed about the breaking in, now can't we be civil about this, I like your handy work, maybe we could find something that can benefit the both of us?"

He peeped his countermeasures within his Cybernetic limbs and started the checklist for a boost with his legs.

 

[Kiara]

"Suppose we could be civil. Starting with your departure. Leave my homestead or face off the battle that will result in your death." Kiara said with a small warn in her tone, but otherwise it seemed to stay the same. People skills, was something she did not have. Especially when that person was a droid with an advanced artificial intelligence. ​

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Kiara's eyes finally took a split second to view the holoscreen, then locked back onto Tydus for whatever his action was. She had built this place by hand and in several years re-done it over, and over, and over again. Surely just by the nature of her home she could beat him, much less her personal skills and droids.​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Kiara"]

Tydus sighed, he couldn't let the chance of a fine mechanic such as this get away. If she could take care of these droids, she'd be able to fix any droid with time. Tydus took a deep breath, he liked this droid in front of him, such a shame. He exhaled, and cleared his mind. "If that's the way you wana play it ma'am, greed control all men."

He leaped back kicking the droid he was holding into the nearest assisin droid, hoping to off balance it for a split second. This sent him into the wall next to the door. "Confined space, strategy updated." He thought to himself. A little tougher but not impossible. He pulled the blaster pistols out from his holders and began to lock onto target of the assassin droids furthest from him, once it locked on he fired two bolts, hopping they hit. Without even waiting to see if the bolts hit or not, he dropped his blasters and ran forward at the Hermit women. As he ran forward his coat came off revealing his combat vest and Plasteel armor under it, as well as his Vibroblades. He took one blade out of its clasp and tried to skim past the women to get behind her.

All this happened in the blink of an eyes, the first move was his, but he wasn't quick enough to catch her off guard. She had time to react.

 

[Kiara]

"Knees." ​

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The hermit spoke the word in a simple tone, before the last word could escape Tydus' voice box. Every single one of the droids who possessed a weapon shot when they needed to, careful to avoid anything that was around valuables to Kiara, including the droids themselves. They fired before, and after he got to a safe spot to shoot, and perhaps some shots hit the intruder as it began doing strange movements. Every droid knew one another. That's the way she fixed the place. Knees right now was the assigned spot.​

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Through her lightning fast movements, the hermit whipped her metal staff around in the nick of time to block the vibroblade. Though it was of a weaker material, it seemed stronger than what you'd find in a support ship beam. Strange energy held it together. ​

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"Elbows."​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

Tydus caught the staff of [member="Kiara"], she was quicker then he expected of an old hermit in the woods. The droids that fired at him missed for the most part. When a systems awareness came over his HUB, "Warning, Durasteel durability at 53%, left kneecap."

He didn't take a second to look over the damage. He didn't feel pain in his limbs so he has a slight advantage of fighting on. Thank the Master for cybernetic limbs, he'd be in unbelievable pain if it wasn't for that. He decided she wasn't too much of a thread, but since his blaster bolts didn't hit their mark, his blade would have to. He ripped off the blade from the staff and went after the Assasin droid closest to him. Moving like a snake he moved his shoulders to attack one way, making the droid react, to then slide his right shoulder under the point the blade at the droids lower limbs as to its Defence stance pointing up. As he was about to make contact his right arm was hit by a bolt, only slightly taking him off course, but still on the mark. The Assasin droid was now without a right leg, still capable of fighting.

Being in close combat he hopped to have the droid between him and the second Assasin droid. He would still have the Hermit to his back.

 

[Kiara]

Kiara quickly saw that there was no chance for the droid man, and helped herself to force her staff straight into her bed, pressing the big, red button hidden in the flames. The hut quickly began to move downward - only the floor. Several of the hovering bots now had the upper hand, and some of her own on ground were stumbling and firing with a slight missed accuracy to the stranger's elbow.​

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The walls became a clean white, but still dim lit as it went down quickly, deep into Dagobah's system to another room. Kiara darted forward with her staff, twirling it before she stabbed forward and began to use a defensive fighting maneuver, trying to hit and circle the man where she wanted it. To where her droids could finish it off to a pile of junk so she wouldn't have to do any true dirty work.​

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"Head." She said, though the command didn't go to the hovering bots who made their way downward.​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"] ​

 

[Jaster Awaud]

Tydus moved quickly, the flouting bots were a slight problem, but of no real concern to penetrate his Durasteel Cybernetic Limbs. It was the Assassin Droids he needed to take care of. Their blaster were powerful enough to at least wound him, and that was not good. As he went to finish off the first droid he attacked, the floor shook with a powerful jolt, almost knocking him to the ground. He regained his footing and shoved his blade into the eye sensors of the droid, decommissioning it. Now however the Floater Droids were a problem, they had a height advantage and a clear shot to his head, he didn't have a choice, he needed to take out the last droid who could penetrate his armor. He lunged at the next Droid, locking his vibroblade with the weapon of the droid. distracting him, Tydus pulled a second blade from his back and brought it down on the droids arm while still pushing down on the droids weapon.

With a loud yell he put all his force into the thrust of the blade and sliced into the head of the droid, incapacitating it. Two down and-

Tydus was shot in the head, one of the flouting droid got a lucky shot, or Tydus was feeling too cocky. Either way, Tydus's HUB was now useless, forcing him to take off his face-plate, reveling his Human face. Pulling the mask off as he continued to rush [member="Kiara"], the Silver eyes of the tanned color face stared at her eyes as he charged her, blade drawn.

 

[Kiara]

The ground suddenly slammed down into what appeared to be a giant metallic hanger, filled with ships. Ships that had been re-built and pieced together. They laid among the 20 meter high ceiling, going down into similar walls. The entire thing looked like it could belong to a Star Destroyer. Kiara darted back. She had trained this way, she had trained so much, and still so much could be learned.
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The metal staff swung and clashed against the blade. Now that they were in a more open area with locked ships and the same droids still firing at the metal-mans head and elbows, she got into a position for Form V, now taking matters into her own hands while the ground of her hut laid in the middle of the floor like nothingness.


"Stand down and allow yourself to become scrap! Perhaps I will allow you to escape at your surrender. You don't know what you're dealing with."​

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[member="Tydus Wryeens"]​