Deathwish

[Commander Lusk]

[member="Vosstanie Pozhaluysta"] [member="Ebony Blackheart"]

Well now they were dealing with magicians that simply spawned into existence at a given location. Now lusk wasn't the type of person who enjoyed working with non clones, he in fact hated it. From birth he was taught to accomplish the mission and be on point at all times, no social talks on the comms crowding up a signal, no chastising your teammates, and keep your words to yourself. The fact that the woman kept running her mouth only proved to lusk how incapable she was at doing her job. Lusk didn't need to respond back to her, he didn't need to prove how big and tough he was to the woman he knew he could break. All he needed to do was make sure this kid got her job done of killing this Darth.

So with his HUD he tracked the distance between here and the most logical spot where the Darth would cross the street to meet his mark, one thousand five hundred meters. That was an easy shot for any trained sniper and while Lusk could take out the target with his own rifle he knew it was important that chatter be kept to a minimum when deciding who the shooter should be. Again you never knew who was listening, and when you spouted the words republic multiple times it wasn't a very good thing here on coruscant. There were probe droids everywhere and he didn't need that sort of attention.

"One point five km, no wind resistance, radio and op silence recommended. Fire when ready and prepare to evac to your extraction point" Lusk said as he tucked at his leather poncho.

"Or if I'm firing I do it with my rifle, tank rifle ballistic can be traced back to you." He said quietly but firmly.

 

[Saff]

Ebony had to give him props, he knew what he was doing and she could see it, but she knew he wasn't entirely right, "When dealing with sith, any shot can be traced, the idea with the anti tank rifle, is that if, or rather when the sith senses the shot. There is next to zero room to dodge because that shot isn't going to miss just simply on account for its size" Ebony commented. She knew the clone would care little for her input, after all, she was incompetent in his eyes. However there was a matter of opinion to argue on there. If incompetence was based upon her ability to carry out a task, then there was none. The fact that the clone was a hard case was where he would be the somewhat out of place one. They were dealing with a girl, not a hardened fighter like the two of them, so Ebony had decided upon the moreso warm and calm approach rather than the shove a gun in the poor thing's chest.

"Sith are a thing i have a lot of experience in, the sith security something even moreso. So yes drones are everywhere, but to have them throwing droids through an abandoned undercity casino. You have to learn one thing my tank bred commando, they aren't that smart, the garrisons on these core worlds, although authoritarian and abusive. Are lazy, corrupt and tired. Our little chatter here, will never be heard. Have some faith my friend, because our methods and tactics differ, doesn't mean that i'm wrong and you're right. It just means different things have worked for us, now are we gonna have this lil ol' bout of verbal fisticuffs or are you gonna at least acknowledge the fact that i'm not some dead beat hacked up from the outer rim?" Ebony asked, a cock to her brow. The force proved a wonderful thing, she could at her level pick up tidbits of information from one's brain waves and interpret them into what they're thinking, but she was only up to singular words at this stage. So she had to admit, the clone had hit a nerve, she wasn't a fan of being frowned upon for her tactics, she was trained by a mandalorian and a rogue jedi and she was proud of that.

[member="Commander Lusk"] [member="Vosstanie Pozhaluysta"]

 

[Shaddi]

Suddenly a small static was heard in his comlink in bedded in his helmet and a squimish voice sounded out. "U-uh my lord?" The mere sound of the voice sounded annoyingly pathetic but with a heavy sigh he answered. "Just speak to me as you would an officer, I'm not going to punish you for doing your job private." He said as he was going over some plans and retrieving some holocrons to be copied to his private library. "R-right sir, there has been a small blip on the radio coms in what seems to be an abandoned casino on the lower levels, uh level 6089 i think. we also have had a report from one of the homeless there saying that there was an armed duo there when he got out of there." The private said nervously at first and then seemed to get some confidence into him as he continued to speak.
"Is the information reliable?" Erebos asked simply as he walked to a guard of his and asked him to finish what he had come to do and then left the temple on a speeder. "It is sir at least from this particular source, never failed me yet. " The private replied after a few moments of silence. "Then I take it you went over the area once you had your source tell you about it to verify the com chatter there?" He asked once more and in the same simple tone. "I did sir and as per our agreement I contacted you immediately after verification." The private then said once more and sounding more than a little proud of himself for the achievement.
The speeder stopped at one of the security turbolifts that doted the planet for private sith lord usage and quit insertion of troops in case of an emergency, such as invasion or riots. "Good report to turbo lift CX-99 and brief me on the way." Erebos then said as he walked towards the main security hub and was greeted by the private once he was at the elevator. It was a skinny young man, probably a fresh cadet sent to coruscant on researched assignment at least he looked like that. His hair brown and styled in the military manner, wearing a light armor over his body and holding a blaster rifle in one hand and a datapad in the other.
In contrast Erebos was taller but not bulkier, his body seemed to be more of the athletic build than anything else but the armor he wore and the mask that deepened and distorted his voice gave him quite the intimidating look. "I promised you a job aboard my private ship if you caught anything like the rebels tried a few months ago and it seems you have done so indeed." He said, his tone calm yet had a hint of amusement in it as he read through the datapad. He had, had several of the other sith lords on Coruscant followed and Darth Byznus was the least savory of the lot but the coincidence of were he frequented and were the rebel cell was, couldn't quite be ignored.
'So going after that bloated pig are they... might as well get to them after they end him, after all the sith are better off without him.' He thought as he cued his comlink and ordered a few of the com specialists and slicers aboard his ship to begin taking up most of Darth Byznus's holdings and possessions and transferring them to the military, charity food drives around the city and a solid one fourth to himself.
The doors slid open and Darth Erebos walked out and looked around, his eyes were in the force, his armor kept him without notice from other force users, noticing a blank space in the force on the side of one of the buildings to his right he grimaced. Ysalamiri were among the most hated species in his mind, mostly because of what they did to his sight. "Report to the Doppelgangers Lament Private and make sure that the survailance of the planet doens't lax again by making a report on the com you found being ignored by your immediate superior as useless which caused the possible death of Darth Byznus, if I decide to save his worthless hide that is." He then said and waved the private away who simply smiled wryly and then took the elevator up again.
He observed the building but made sure he was out of sight of the window they might be shooting from as well as way from any open areas, once his recon was done he moved in to go into the back of the casino from were they were and silently cut a hole into the wall and used to force to make sure the wall piece didn't make a sound as it was placed gently down on the ground.

[member="Vosstanie Pozhaluysta"] [member="Ebony Blackheart"] [member="Commander Lusk"]

 

[Beowoof]

In reality, the choice of the anti-tank weapon was not due to any potential for dodging. Even a Force user's attempts to avoid a surprise round traveling faster than the speed of sound would only be in vain. No, the true reason for using such massive firepower was to make sure that Lord Byznus got dead and stayed dead. "They won't be tracing anyone if the gun doesn't exist," Tanie retorted to the clone, removing a canister of agent cardinam from her utility belt. If this Resistance operation was going to be set back by poor decision-making, at least they would be properly equipped to handle the issues.

"So I guess I'm shooting." The blonde lowered herself to a nearly prone position, maneuvered the barrel of the heavy rifle through a gap in the window's boards, and focused her eyes down the scope in anticipation of her moment. she immediately began measuring her breaths and influencing her heartbeats as they had taught her in what paltry training counted for 'boot camp'. Tanie had no mastery on these skills, but she was good enough. "Someone spot me."

[member="Darth Erebos"], [member="Ebony Blackheart"], [member="Commander Lusk"]

 

[Commander Lusk]

[member="Vosstanie Pozhaluysta"] [member="Darth Erebos"] [member="Ebony Blackheart"]


"Shut" Lusk said with a pause.

"Up" That was all he had to say to the woman.

You only talked when you needed to, this wasn't smoking and joking shooting the crap with your buddies hour, this was an operation to kill a Sith Lord. An operation that would do actual good and help the people of Coruscant by ridding it of one more Sith who abused women and probably killed the innocent. The Sith could paint him as some loving family man and make him out to be this messiah, but the cold hard reality was that people would benefit from this. So lusk lifted up a pair of binoculars strapped to his side and locked on target to the man who was about to make his deal.

Darth Byznus or whatever his name was, was a older gentleman. Balding, pudgy, and looked as if you fry an egg on his head with how red it was. It was him alright by the way he was dressed in his black robe that screamed Sith. Walking across the street Lusk read the information whispering it to the shooter.

"One point three km, no wind resistance, chance of civilian casualties minimal, on my mark." He said taking a pause to let the woman adjust.

"Fire....Fire..." he paused slightly for the last fire.

"...Fire"

 

[Akio Diachi]

Akio pulled himself up the side of the building and swung in. The grapple line behind him would we waiting obediently out the window for his ex-filtration in a few short minutes. The Chiss briskly walked across to one of Sabacc tables in the abandoned casino. As he hooked the datapad to the console and it gently began to hum for the extraction process, his eyes flitted across the floor, his paranoia knew no bounds. Broken gaming tables, turned over chairs, and a seedy, raided wet bar all provided places for cover or an enemy to attempt to get at him. He had swiped data from every level to this one, a gruesomely long process.
Frankly, Akio had no reason to care why he had been sent here, what this gambler from Bespin waned, or planned to gain from this mad-hatter job. All that mattered was the credits were good and enough for him to put a second coat of stealth paint on his armor.

Then his ears pricked. Someone was on the roof, he knew it. Probably just some homeless men, he thought.
But that was dispelled by the words, "Fire.... Fire.... Fire."
Akio drew one of his DC-17 pistols and began circling to see who was on the ceiling. And the day had such a simple beginning, he thought.

 

[Saff]

"if ya say so mister clone" Ebony commented before standing straight and walking to the next window, she peered out it and looked out over the shooting range, a new reed between her teeth. She pulled herself out of the window and hooked her cables from her belt into the wall. She was done with her arguing, so she's go do something else, the arrogance of the clone aggravating her. Then the lapse in her psychic floor sweep picked up something, something she did not like. She felt another sith and he knew about them, she instantly came back in the window and sprinted across the floor to the second little disturbance she felt, thumbing a button on her thigh to release her pistol from her pocket and launching it into her right hand. Then as she came out onto the main casino floor, she saw the man, a chiss and without warning she launched herself across the room and stood three meters away from him, her pistol level with his head. "Name, affiliation and why the hell youre here?" Ebony stated more than asked.

 

[Akio Diachi]

It took everything in Akio to maintain his poker face. He hadn't seen anyone move that fast or find him like that. Am I getting sloppy? Or is there something special about this one?Perhaps I should have been less rushed.

Akio brushed the thought away and looked at the weapon aimed at him. It was clear this was no squatter, and judging by the way she reacted, even he probably couldn't pull one past her. He felt his paranoia rapidly reaching untold levels before. Never give the client away, and always stay alive no matter the cost. A quick exit strategy flowed through his mind. Akio holstered his weapon and gave an attempt at a smile. He had never been good at those.

"My name is Akio, I'm just another slicer trying to find some extra credits," he lied. "Don't you know these machines keep a butt-load of bank numbers and credit serial numbers on them? What are you doing there then?"

 

[Saff]

Ebony returned the smile, the force gave her all the aid she needed to spot a liar. On the surface he was bloody good, but underneath he showed his true colours. "I'm here to kill sith, and since you're no sith agent, and you're far too equipped to be any regular slicer, I don't need your employer, I too was a bounty hunter so just tell me the what and we can walk out happy" ebony said ether blankly. Her weapon not moving.

 

[Shaddi]

"She's here to give me information." He said as he walked up slowly but silently behind [member="Ebony Blackheart"] and raised an arm up to the middle of his chests height. Both Ebony and [member="Akio Diachi "]would feel invisible fingers grip their necks and raise them up into the air. He was slow and methodical, allowing them just enough room to breathe a little but not enough to even speak. The hand came down and he slammed them down upon the ground. "I know you're here to kill Darth Byznus and frankly I don't much care if you kill him. However while the other two up there.... along with that Thing." He paused, the word thing was dripping with venom as he spoke about the ysalamiri that was around [member="Commander Lusk"] and [member="Vosstanie Pozhaluysta"], a being he hated more than anything.
"You are going to tell me about how you got on this planet and if there was going to be another mission." He said, his tone grim and lethal as he spoke while he stood over her, his mask not giving anything away. His hand moved towards her. "Now I'm going to let this grip on your throat lower just enough to let you breathe and to answer my questions." He looked towards Akio and cocked his head to the side as he moved his hand to were his mouth should be in a show of silencing him. His gesture towards Ebony was then for her to speak in a very low voice.

 

[Akio Diachi]

Akio pulled back slowly towards his slicing datapad. He indulged in a moment of satisfaction that both of these threats had worked themselves out almost seemlessly. Patience is a virtue that pays off in the long run, by far. Always allow the feuds of others to be used to your advantage. But its not time to let your guard down yet.
The creeds he had learned as a young child had never done him wrong, and now they would continue to help him out.
He struggled with the fact that this strange woman knew he was lying. Stay focused. Keep your eyes on the prize. The time to move is now, while they are distracted.
With a flick of his wrist, Akio tossed a handful of marble-sized thermal charges from his wrist gauntlet into the air as he flipped over the Sabacc table, datapad in the other hand.

 

[Beowoof]

There was an unhealthy amount of commotion that arose as soon as 'Mummabear' had descended to the main floor below, and both Tanie and the clone would be feeling a huge amount of 'I told you so'. The mission was in danger. They had been outed thanks to some carelessness on the part of their catsuited pal. "Sithspit," the teen cursed, hesitating upon the crescendo of activity upon the arrival of yet another party. Did people typically just hang out around abandoned casinos these days? When Tanie was in her hanging out days, she had always gone to the mall.

But it was no time to back out now. No matter what was going on down there, she still had this opportunity. They might never get such a clear shot again. Her finger tensed against the trigger and she released one last breath. The gun was to her shoulder. Her left hand was on top of the upper receiver, sweating inside the gloves that would mask her fingerprints should she be unable to incinerate the weapon in time.

A loud crash echoed about the great hall of the casino, and Tanie's heart nearly skipped two beats. Time to get this over with. Come on, Darth...

Her spotter gave the word. "Fire," she whispered hoarsely.

The round was a big round, and it required a big rifle, and they made a big bang when both were combined. The ATRS-50 kicked back like a bucking bronco, slamming into her clavicle with the force of a reek charging some poor guy tied to a post in a Geonosian arena. And it sounded as if an entire freight train had just crashed into the building and rocked the entire foundation of Coruscant's artificial earth. Tanie's ears might have begun to leak brains for all she could tell. Her ears were ringing as if someone were taking a buzzsaw to her lobes and just having a good time of it.

Quickly springing to her feet, Tanie peered out between the gap in the boards and saw the result of her work. There was half of a body--cut vertically--sprawled on the street, and an arm laying a couple dozen meters behind it. She could have sworn there was a head rolling too, but she had no interest in watching that. All that mattered was that Byznus was dead--dead as a doornail. She gave the thumbs-up to her Republic comrade and then unclipped the canister of cardinam and set it next to the ATRS-50. "Are you ready, sir?" she asked, readying her personal automatic rifle. It was time to jet.

[member="Commander Lusk"], [member="Akio Diachi "], [member="Darth Erebos"], [member="Ebony Blackheart"]

 

[Commander Lusk]

[member="Vosstanie Pozhaluysta"] [member="Akio Diachi "][member="Darth Erebos"] [member="Ebony Blackheart"]


"Good kill sock puppet." Lusk said as he placed his binoculars back.

But sadly things had turned out exactly the way he said they would, behind and bellow them he could hear the voices of other people who had entered the establishment. But the one that concerned him the most was the one talking about the man they had just killed, which meant that he was a Sith. So Lusk knew it was time to go, where there was smoke there was fire. So that meant the Sith obviously would of brought back up with them, back up with lots of guns and speeders to track them down. And now the Sith had honed in on them which meant he had to stick with the girl otherwise she could be subjected to mental attacks.

"Turn and burn." Lusk said as he took the woman's grenade and pulled the pin on it. Tossing it down the hallway he had roughly four seconds to get ready for his next move.

Priming his sky strike jump pack he left his sniper behind to compensate for the added weight that was going to be his new friend. Kicking open the boarded up windows he grabbed the girl as the grenade behind them exploded into 2800 kelvins worth of fire to begin to engulf the building as he jumped from window and plummeted down towards the dark abyss that was the underworld.

If there was any chance of getting the Darth's biometrics it was too late, the Sith knew they were there and knew that they had just killed the man. So logically they were going to seize all of his assets and classify him as KIA in the system. They had done good, but while they had to leave a man behind they did the most they could. Now all that was left to do was get away.

 

[Saff]

Ebony stood where she was dropped fazed by the explosions about her, she cared not for them for they did nothing to her shields, she simply stood there, watching the sith. She had met a lot of force users in her lifetime and every single one she could sense form a mile away, the better ones could mask it long enough to get about a hundred meters from her, but to not only mask himself long enough to enter the building but to also be within three meters of her before she even felt him touch her with the force. This man was not only good, he was damn well legendary.

"since all my buddies have ditched me, would it be best we left this burning establishment and continue the conversation outside?" Ebony commented, the annoyance in her voice was rich. She had no intention of running, she knew he'd catch her, and the longer she stalled him, the less pressure there would be on her previous party.

[member="Commander Lusk"] [member="Vosstanie Pozhaluysta"] [member="Darth Erebos"]

 

[Shaddi]

Erebos moved his other hand towards [member="Akio Diachi "]and made him feel a grip on his chest, a tight one. "Neither of you will be leaving this place until I get answers." He spoke menace and a cold sort of rage in his voice as his gross-guard lightsaber moved to his hand and he turned it on, pointing it towards [member="Ebony Blackheart"]. "Especially you." With a slight gesture of his hand he ordered her to head towards the door, but he'd stop them from leaving fully instead he'd make them stand up against one of the tables near the exit. "If your wondering about my lack of fear towards the flames then that is a very simple answer, I have a... relationship with them." He said with a light chuckle at the end before he pointed his hand towards both of them. "Now tell me why you are here, how you got here and what the exit strategy is?" He asked then but under his mask his teeth were clenched over the loss of [member="Commander Lusk"] and [member="Vosstanie Pozhaluysta"] after they had gotten away.
As the flames began to spread slowly out from the rifles location they had already reached the very top of the stairs of that floor, more than enough time for Erebos to get what he wanted out of them both.

 

[Akio Diachi]

This time it was impossible for Akio to hide his expression of shock. Are these some sort of witches that they pull things from thin air?
Either way, it was clear this man meant business and would let them all burn for answers he wanted. Akio glanced at Ebony, hoping to form a lose but quick alliance through fire--quite literally. If nothing else than to survive.
"My name is Akio Daichi, I was sent here to gather information for a gambler," Akio began, "The type of information that makes you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams. If you let me go I can give you viable information on several assassin rings. I am sure that is some use to you, yes?"
He hoped that his distraction would be long enough for Ebony to do something like she had done to him. Something fantastic that would get the both out of here alive.


Darth Erebos Ebony Blackheart

 

[Saff]

Ebony put her palm to her forehead, not a single bead of sweat even threatening to form on her beautiful face as the fire raged. "My name is Ebony blackheart, ex bounty hunter, ex slave, current member of the galactic alliance and the underground. Came here for that sith that's not really there anymore and that's all. If there's another mission that they're gonna go on, I know nothing about it. And it'd be best if you let us go, I'm not very threatening most likely but my boyfriend, a sith, the way I got here, won't be happy about this lil interrogation" Ebony said, her face blank, not portraying a single ounce of the utter terror she felt.

[member="Vaulkhar"]

 

[Shaddi]

Erebos simply stood there watching then before he snapped his fingers and pointed the hand he snapped towards the flames creeping down the stairs. The flames roiled and suddenly four flame tongues jumped from the flames, spinning a little in the air and then coming down on either side of Erebos, forming four Tuk'ata made of the flames. "I'm not scared of you or your so called boyfriend." He said with a tone that was dripping with venom towards [member="Ebony Blackheart"], the Tuk'ata snarled at them both, one moving towards [member="Akio Diachi "]as if he was a giant stake on a plate.
"Now you." Erebos then said as he pointed his saber towards Ebony. "Will answer me if you know were those two are going and if that information does pan out I will.. think on letting you go." He said as all four Tuk'ata suddenly began to growl at the two of them.

 

[Akio Diachi]

With the sight of the fire behind Darth Erebos, Akio felt a surge of nightmare-like memories from his childhood rise up again. His trainers' preferred weapon of choice for interrogation had been fire. He had seen them ravage entire villages with it. He had scars across most of his body to prove the agony it could bring. And it was forever imprinted on his mind. He was sure the memories let more than just a flickering expression across his face.
He blinked twice. I must remain focused. I must not break. Even if I am tortured for something I have no knowledge of. Its best to offer a trade.

With a deep breath Akio confessed, "I do not know. But I would be willing to help you find them, perhaps?" Akio paused for effect, to let the idea sink in, "If I am dead, then I cannot help you, I am sure there is something you want that I could do for you."

 

[Saff]

Ebony sighed, stood upright and looked at the sith before her, "I'll be honest with you, it's a neat trick, but it's nothing special" she commented, she closed her eyes and when she opened them a wall of energy blasted from her, dissipating the flaming forms before her and her companion for the moment.

"I'm being calm with you mister Sith, and i feel like you might as well be with us, because you can't quite loosen springs in me for information if they're not there. If i did know where they were going, i'd have no issue in sitting here and saying i won't tell you or point you in the wrong direction. But you're not going to get anything out of me, my boyfriend also is a bit protective, goes by @Vaulkhar" Ebony stated, her finger dancing across a button on her leg as a long katana shaped vibroblade dropped into her outstretched hand from the back of her harness, expanding as it fell hilt first to her palm.

She raised the blade up and slashed it aside, leaving it angled down towards the floor, "Now, would you rather we simply talk like two civilised creatures, or we fight and i end up running and no one ends up any the wiser to what they aimed for" Ebony mused "Or". Her eyes narrowed and her movements were like lightning and in a mere instant, her tip of her blade was at the neck of the sith "someone dies" Her tone was dark and her expression lethal, she was afraid, but fear had a time and place to be represented.

[member="Akio Diachi "][member="Darth Erebos"]