Eu, Sir! On the Explosives Crate! Mandalorian Empire/Clans of Mandalore Dominion of Euceron

[Adenn Kyramud]

When Beth took off his helmet, Adenn gave a half smile half grimace to her. Then she placed the breathing mask on his face. It covered his half smile, and let him breath easily, but Adenns eyes still stung a bit from the smoke. Shutting his eyes to that, Adenn listened closely to his surroundings. He heard blaster fire, and what could’ve been speeders; and here he was, lying on the ground not doing much of anything.

Sighing to himself, Adenn steeled himself to do something when the pain fully hit him. Even though Beth had used some anesthetics and bacta to try and keep the pain at bay, it was hard to fully suppress having basically your entire back burned. So, Adenn grit his teeth and let Beth get to work with the Force. While Adenn didn’t like it, he did begin to feel his skin being healed. However, that brought its own set of pain, that pain was Adenn feeling his skin grow back together.

Adenn couldn’t help himself, he let out a grunt of pain as Beth kept working. He listened as she spoke about his injury, almost done so soon. Adenn couldn’t have that, scars make character as they say, so when Beth looked away, Adenn took stock of the situation. His helmet was right next to him, as was his armor plating. There was shooting going on in the surrounding area, the moss was ok(which was good), and someone else had been hurt. That someone showed up a few moments later, turning out to be Mig.

At the sight of Mig, Adenn let out a light chuckle before wincing in pain again. His skin was tight across his back, and already most of it had healed, just like Beth had said. However, she had also said it’d take some 15-20 minutes before he’d be ready. Too long, thought Adenn to himself. Groaning in annoyance, Adenn prepared himself for more pain. He didn’t want to wait around to be healed up, he wanted to go and inflict more pain on the enemy.

However, he knew that he wasn't in any shape to fight just yet. So, he stayed still for another 5 or so minutes before making his move. Adenn growled in annoyance before putting his arms under himself. There, he pushed himself up and back onto his knees, ignoring whatever protests that may come from Beth. He sat up on his knees, and breathed in deeply before looking around for his helmet and armor. It was where he had last seen them, but the world was spinning a bit for Adenn. Shaking his head to clear it away, Adenn looked at Beth.
“Thanks for the help doc, but,” letting out a short grunt as he re-positioned himself, “I’ll be good for now. I think you should see to Mig there.”

With his part said, Adenn grabbed his armor pieces that had been taken off. They were still letting off some steam, but not much. Gingerly, Adenn placed the armor pieces back over his body. Wincing slightly as the pieces touched either his skin, or his bodysuit. For the most part, his skin had been healed, and the burns were almost gone. They were still there though. Ignoring that, Adenn took off the breath mask and laid it down next to himself; at the same time, he grabbed his helmet and put it back on.

Adenn smiled grimly to himself before placing his hand on Beths shoulder. He used it to drag himself to his feet before patting it in thanks. Then he turned to look at the carnage behind him, just barely catching Sterling hitting the man on the speeder. Adenn looked around before grabbing the westar carbine from the small of his back and readying it.

Adenn smirked to himself upon seeing a small squad appear out of the brush, they were looking to gun down any Mandos still down, so Adenn decided to ruin their days, permanently. He took several painful steps away from Beth and Mig before aiming his carbine at the squad.

They noticed him aiming at them, and quickly opened fire, at the exact same time that Adenn shot at them. Whereas his shots had been aimed to kill them, their shots hadn’t all gone straight for him. Some were aimed at Beth. Adenn quickly stepped in the way, taking all of the hits, while killing the squad before they could get another volley off.

Adenn sighed before looking down at his armor, he winced in pain. While he hadn’t been hit by the explosion there, he still had been slightly injured.
“Man, I just don’t get a break.” He muttered somewhat loudly to himself.

Then he turned slightly to Beth and Mig there. He nodded to them.
“Thanks for the help doc. Get well soon Mig.” Adenn then turned back to the little battlefield in front of him.

Only to get hit several more times by separate sources. He was knocked back, and only managed to stay upright because he reached a hand out to steady himself on either Beth or the rock. Adenn growled at that.
“You’ve doomed yourselves now fools!” He shouted at the attackers. Then, running forward, Adenn used his jetpack to jump towards a group of soldiers, firing as he went.

[member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Kanta Tukka"]

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"]
Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth, [member="Kanta Tukka"]

Beth let out an audible sigh of relief when she heard [member="Valdus Bral"]’s voice through her comms. No casualties. And he wasn’t hurt, just… Stuck. That was better than hurt. Alongside, he dutifully admitted he had saved some of the moss. [member="Yasha Cadera"] would be most pleased with his performance. Beth chuckled, her voice somewhat distorted by static through the comms. “I really need to show you what taking time off means, if this is what you think it is,” she teased playfully.

Nonetheless, Beth continued most of her attention on Adenn’s badly burnt back. The most dangerous burns were healed, and coming up was the second degree burns. Thankfully, it would get easier to heal going forward. The skin was much more complicated the further ‘deep’ it was. She caught in her eye [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] throw rocks off [member="Mig Gred"] and something about his leg being broken from [member="Taozi Fuyuan"].

This was a good trap, whoever set it up. Whether it was mercs or officials from the government, they were caught by surprise. “Lovely splint,” Beth complimented as Mig was placed next to her and Sterling went off to kill things in a rather gruesome but appropriate way. “Give me a moment to finish with Adenn, it’s very delicate,” she whispered as the beads of water continued to drop and evaporate in her buy’ce. It was easy to mend a bone, it was not easy to give life to dead, burnt skin.

She was almost done with what could best be described as second degree burns when Adenn got up. Beth quickly shook her head, “What are you doing? I need another 10 minutes, maybe 15. Adenn!” She hissed as he throw his armor back on. What in the worlds was he doing… He gripped onto her shoulder as he steadied himself. “Your back is still in bad shape! When this is over you need to see me…! ASAP! Insane...” She called after him as he took the bullets then shot off with his rocket. Ugh, stupid. Good grief, going to get himself killed. Beth, nonetheless, turned her attention to Mig.

“Alright, broken leg…” Beth hovered her hands over Mig’s leg as she began to let the Force flow from her and into the bone. Taozi was right – it was a perfect break. “Taozi, have you ever had a break this clean? Wow…” She said as the bone began to meld back together. It took only a few minutes to finish Mig’s bone before she took the splint off. With the clean break, it was literally just mentally applying Force glue and done.

Nonetheless, Beth was fairly taxed from Adenn’s injury. She pulled her blaster out of its holster, "Time to have some fun, I guess,” she muttered towards Mig. She peered over the rock and shot a couple blasts towards the coconut things.

 

[Jade Solus Skirae]

Objective: 1 - Protect President Moss.
Allies: [member="Mig Gred"] | @Laandur Solus | @Sterling Kinslayer | [member="Yasha Cadera"] | @Stardust Solus Skirae | @Beth Cadera | @Taozi Fuyuan [member="Valdus Bral"]
Enemies: @Kanta Tukka
Post: 1



Well they always say being around mandalorians it will never be a dull moment even just exploring and looking at the botony life which personally she thought was the most boring thing ever turned into running around the cave being attacked by coconuts....She had wierder opponents but this will have to do, The explosion that kicked off in the cave initially before the blaster fire and such sent her into one of the cave walls even in the armor her arm got singed pretty good. This immediately set her off as she was not happy and despite the burn already healing from her rapid healing it still hurt alot, She stood up and without any hesitation at all despite her injuries she charged forward at one of the speeders using her armors pyrokinesis ability her right arm ignited to flame as she went to land on the speeder and quite literally rip it to pieces before jumping off whats left of the speeder and went to charge into the enemy to continue her onslaught, Her Firrereo instincts kicked in and thats what she was listening too and letting her fuel her adrenaline along with the force body ability on her armor to keep her adrenaline going as she at the moment used nothing but the sharp talons of her gauntlets and her physical prowess.

 

[Kanta Tukka]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Enemies: ME [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"]
Allies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth

“Aiiieeeeee! Coconuts! Metal coconuts!!!” Kanta yelped as Laandur grabbed him by the scruff of his coconut armour. The little Noasian kicked and thrust his legs about, searching for ground to run on! But how could this be?!

He found his people!!

The metal coconuts were coconuts just like him! They both wore armour and celebrated the song of Manda!

“Aiee metal coconut! Vod! Vod our Kanta down! Down downity dow-wown! Kanta run from big baddie-bads! Try pew pew Kanta! Right in the coconut!” Still hanging from Laandur’s grasp, Kanta went limp. Then, with a twist and a shimmy and the rattling of what sounded oddly of maracas, the little Akalenedat’ike popped out of his coconut armour, and landed on the ground with a flourish. The creature was knee high to a standard human, covered in bright orange fur which shortened near his long snout, and limbs. Each bottom limb had articulated claws, while the others had three fingers each, dexterous and knuckled. Bright brown eyes peered up with joviality and mischief from between two flippity floppity ears.

“Tadaaaaaaaa!” Kanta chuffed a laugh and scampered between Laandur’s legs, hopping up onto a stone beside some of the slightly scorched but precious moss. “Oooooo! Snack!”

Kanta yanked a bit of moss up, chomped down on it, and the face which filled with joy turned to the most tragic, melancholy face any had seen in these corners of the galaxy.

“Eeeeuuuuuuuuuuch!” Kanta spat the moss out...

.... and on contact with the ground, it exploded in vivid blue and purple pops of plasmic light.

“AAAAAHHHH!!!” Kanta dove behind Laandur’s leg, grasping it with both his arms. “Save fellow coconut! Big baddy-bads want kaboom! Kaboom caves and no talkity-talk Coconuts and Euceronios!”

The roaring sound of swoop bikes shattered Kanta’s voice. A trio became six, as behind the swoop bike assault a collection of Euceronian foot soldiers wearing a badge of purple poured into the caves.

Soldiers and mercenaries poured into the caves, as the swoop bikes broke into two and chased down Stardust and Yasha, the others making for Beth’s position, firing wildly at the Mandalorians camped there. Further down the line of cave, Raska attempted to break line and send a message...

 

[Yasha Cadera]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"]
Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth, [member="Kanta Tukka"]

“No, Beth! Not unless they saw our ships swoop in. A xenobiologist at the university knew I was interested in his research, frick what was his name?Those explosions looked hardwired to the cave walls! Premeditation pisses me off.” The Infernal held out her hand and a nine foot long spear flung from the cave side into her grasp. Her other hand held her pistol, which she aimed and fired into the usurping gaggle of mercenary and Euceronian troops.

But why would the Euceron ruling power fire at them? The Mandalorians received both permission and welcome in the main city. So what was this?

“The heck is an Akalenedat’ike doing on Euceron?! Grab him! He’ll know everything he’s ever heard, all his kind do!” Her hud showed little Kanta Tukka get caught by Laandur. “Wait, no don’t eat the...”

Boom! The ground shook, rock burning to scalded char under the agitated and expectorated moss.

“Told you to protect that moss! Contact with water fills the fibres and releases the stored energy! It’s explosive!” Why else would a botanically obsessed Mand’alor take so many people to investigate a form of Euceronian cave moss?

When [member="Mig Gred"] called in, Yasha had originally turned to help the man... but Sterling made that help redundant. [member="Taozi Fuyuan"] got to the man, it bought time.

“Okay I am really glad you came along, Sterling! Let’s wreck these mooks!” Sterling already canned a pilot, but the speeder zoomed toward Beth and the moss. Yasha thrust her spear at the swoop bike, and the gravity shifted. The swoop bike crumpled as it fell, landing between the wounded and the onslaught in a tangled pile.

“Cadera, heard! Check your shoulder pouch, if you get tired.” Ultimately a mother, Yasha packed a small shoulder pouch on Beth’s Beskar’gam with her adopted daughter’s favourite pastille. Packed with flavour, the floral hard candy also helped spike energy for a limited period of time. Perfect for studying or long sessions on the battlefield.

The battle flowed. Yasha heard chatter between medics and their charges, counting the signatures of armour on the move in her HUD.

“These swoops are mine. Keep one alive. Only one.” The Infernal raised her spear into the air, and triggered the dovin basal at its tip. She vaulted into the air, floating by luxury of her weapon. Tracking the swoop bikes attacking Beth and the wounded, Mand’alor the Infernal threw the spear. Her body began to descend, as the spear ran one of the bikes and its rider through. Landing on the back of another swoop bike, Yasha thrust her elbow down repeatedly into the pilot’s neck, beskar spikes on her armour puncturing tissue and sending the man falling off the machine. Useless at the controls of any flying craft, the Infernal rode out the trajectory, holding out her hand for the spear.

It flew through the air, making its way into Yasha’s hand with barely enough time to throw a field up to cushion the landing blow.

Rolling into a crouch, Yasha reached her hand out toward a collection of foot soldiers, and raucous blue lightning surged from her gauntlet. They fell, charred and writhing, to the ground.

 

[Jahan Lionheart]

Honor Cleaver!​

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The precipice edge!​

Bathed in acidic glory.​

Who would dare approach.​

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My Honor Cleaver.​

Reverberate, feel tremors!​

Gouge thy eyes forward.​

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Insignificant.​

Kneel with ruptured fate.​

Breathe death, toxic air.​

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Iron carapace.​

Withered and decayed within.​

Liquefy, soften.​

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Xenoboric mists​

How is your carapace now?​

Your utter defeat.​

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- Jahan the Lion​

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Objective one
Allies - mandalorians
Enemies - swoop bikes and mercs


Dishonorable fools. Stardust was growing irritated with firing at them and then moving at the last second to dodge them, ducking under one she put her blasters up and drew her sword nova feeling that fire within her veins strengthen as she let a cry put and thrusted it up slicing through the metal with ease before pulling it back and using the force to toss it into the other one

must've been amateur hour when they hired! I'm barely breaking a sweat! Sterling! Weve got troops moving in! I believe they need to be introduced to that slug thrower of yours yeah? Jade! Jade! Are you alright?! With me time to tear some ferfeks a new one

With that stardust started advancing, pulling one westar out to start firing into the group of purple badges as she took cover behind a rock and ducked her head as she removed her helmet and let a breath out waiting for her back up before lighting them up
[member="Jahan the Lion"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Kanta Tukka"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Adenn Kyramud"]

 

[Valdus Bral]

Valdus' head leaned up off the rocky wall cave wall covered in moss that he had been using for a pillow. When he did he saw Sterling and then his helmeted head leaned back against the ground. He could hear the sounds of battle, but he had known previously that his rest would not last. Once the heaviest of the boulders were removed Valdus bent his legs and moved his torso forward. This caused a cascade of dinner plate and smaller rocks to rolls down the pile of rocks; which was significantly smaller now due to the help from Sterling.

As he got up some of his motors flung sparks from their durasteel frames. He could move rather well, but he knew that the durasteel had been minorly to moderately deformed in the cave-in, which caused the servomotors to grind internally. This put him on a clock and Valdus knew that he did not have all day to waste inside this cave. " Vor,e, vod. [Thanks, brother.]" His gruff voice sounded over the helmet's output speaker. As Valdus came to a stand, throwing particles of glowing hot metal like a sparkler from his joints, he uncovered a square meter of perseved, though mostly flattened, moss. The moss near his neck was had been saved and totally fine besides covered in a thin layer of dust with some pebbles nestled among the glowing tuffs.

He heard Beth's voice ring out then, smirking a little, " I look forward to it." There was a crash and a sound of familiar motors. "Swoops." He growled lowly, fangs baring behind his helmet. While Valdus enjoyed his oversized swoop bike on occasion, he despised the subculture around them. Pompous miscreants that were less ambitious than standard thugs, but more dangerous and brazen due to their mode of transportation. Valdus began walking, though maybe he was attempting to jog, towards the sounds of engines until he saw the mercenaries. The rotary blaster droids on his back spun up, locking onto a group of them for a brief two to three seconds while they spun up. There was a click as the recoil mechanism was engaged on both back-mounted droids before the doubled up sound of rotary blasters started - sending a hail of high powered bolts at the mercenaries who just entered the cave. As his droids began their firing Valdus raised his massive shield in front of him, creating a Beskar bulwark that covered all but the slim profiles of the B-3 droids that were peaking out over his shoulder and around the upper cutouts of his shield corners.

Spoiler

[member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Jahan the Lion"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Kanta Tukka"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]

 

[Mig Gred]

Mig looked up at [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] , grumbling a bit as his head was patted.

"Hey! I'm not an Adiik (child) Sterling!" The Alor then looked over at [member="Beth Cadera"] , who complimented his splint. He chuckled a bit, nodding. "Thanks. Really helps keep me straight. Literally." The lightly armored Mandalorian then watched as [member="Adenn Kyramud"] ran off half healed and taking shots. What the heck was that knucklehead thinking!? He was still burnt and injured! He couldn't understand what Adenn was thinking! At least it gave Beth a chance to look at his leg.

The doctor seemed a bit surprised that his leg had broken so cleanly, even pointing it out to [member="Taozi Fuyuan"] . Dang, he kinda felt special now, even if it was for a broken leg. Even so, he was happier when it was fixed. Mig noticed Beth seemed really tired now. All that healing really took it out of her, but she was still ready to fight. The Gred smiled igniting the lightsabers of his Trayc'kad. "Yeah. Let's do this!" Once Mig said this, he sprinted forward, slicing the front of one of the swoops.

[member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Kanta Tukka"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"]b

 

[Laandur Solus]

Lanndur heard [member="Yasha Cadera"] , nodding before speaking.

"Already have him." He then looked at and heard [member="Kanta Tukka"] . So this guy had perfect memory, eh? Maybe he could be useful later. No. Info now. Possible recruitment later. He looks at the Akalenedat’ike, who had shown himself and spoke Mando'a? Was this coconut rat a vod? And then he ate the moss!

Boom!!!!

Not again! Dang! That was some moss. Well Laandur found his use for this stuff now. He then looked at Kanta.

"Ok... Kanta? Who are they specifically? And what are they doing here?"

 

[Sterling Kinslayer]

"Sitting on job. Child." Sterling laughed loudly at Mig, pulling his claws free from the convulsing body of the man he'd, lets be real, just viciously killed. Star was calling for his weapon, but why would he take it out if they were coming to him? Another swoop seemed focused on him, one of the few not focused on Chieftain Mand'alor. He couldn't help but laugh as this time he simply clotheslineed him with his arm, falling down and driving his elbow into their neck. Another dead, as he slowly pushed himself up to his feet, still ignoring everyone shooting at him. They weren't really hurting him, and were also distracted with Valdus, Adenn, and Mig.

The circle was breaking to charge, that seemed mostly right. But there were still some less, resilient Mandalorians that had been knocked over, nameless mooks among godslayers. He growled a bit and moved to be a physical wall between a dangerous bolt, and the unprotected back of the medics, namely Taozi who seemed uninterested in joining the fight itself. The impact actually was strong enough to make his head shift from the force, much to his annoyance, and elicited an angry roar as he quite literally ripped the arm off the nearest mercenary corpse, walked through the fighting, grabbed one of the foot soldiers, and beat him to death with the severed limb.

Ah that was, better. He wiped his mask with the back of the limb's hand, before giving the bludgeoned corpse one more smack and changing to the shotgun. If he was already this close, might as well. He tried to imagine the feeling of terror the first man must have felt as he watched the behemoth slowly free his slugthrower from the magnetic clamp on his back, checked his shells, and leveled the weapon. He couldn't comprehend how it must have felt, between Mand'alor, the lizard demon, and Valdus in the back spraying everything down. He couldn't picture it.

He was too busy admiring the fireball as his gun tore the air apart, like a clap of thunder, and the man simply... ceased.

[member="Laandur Solus"] :|: [member="Mig Gred"] :|: [member="Valdus Bral"] :|: [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] :|: [member="Jahan the Lion"] :|: [member="Yasha Cadera"] :|: [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] :|: [member="Beth Cadera"] :|: [member="Adenn Kyramud"] :|: [member="Taozi Fuyuan"]

 

[Taozi Fuyuan]

Objective: 1
Allies: [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"]

Taozi watched the chaos unfold in front of her calmly, deeply regretting not bringing a weapon to defend herself with. Watching as Sterling expertly braced Mig's leg, she followed closer to where Beth was. Force Healing was always something Taozi found useful, especially on the battlefield where recovery must be quick. "Only once, when one of the local Taanab children broke their arm."

Taozi crouched behind cover, opening up her medical bag. "I think I have something we can use to get one of them to talk... Let's see, where was it?" Digging through the bag, rather calmly, Taozi pulled out a sterile syringe and a bottle. "Ten ccs of this should be enough to get one to stop fighting."

As Taozi opened the syringe packaging and began filling it, she saw Sterling beat a man with a severed arm out of the corner of her eye. Unorthodox, but if it works, it works. After filling the syringe with the correct amount, Taozi looked up and around the battlefield. "If someone could restrain one of these foolish children for me, that would be wonderful."

 

[Kanta Tukka]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Enemies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"]
Allies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth

Shook by Laandur and the battle around him, Kanta’s snout wobbled as he folded his hands together. Wriggling his legs together, the Akalenedat’ike took in a biiiiig breath.

“Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin and Pinthresth fighty mercenary men! Dedric keeps Kanta in a cage on ship, feeds Kanta, Kanta watch and listen. Bring many songs back to the big wibbley wobbley to my voooode.” The creature contorted again, producing from his fur a tiny set of finger cymbals.

What followed next was a beautifully sung war-ditty outlining conversations Raska, Praska and Goob had with Dedric the Despicable, about blowing the caves, and a place called Eusebus, framing Mandalorians, and something about Raska becoming a member of a Ruling Power. There were verses about lunch orders, filthy words spoken of lewd women, who walked by, and the grunty-groany noises of Raska getting punched. Every detail swept through the song, until with a deep inhale, Kanta deflated and the finger cymbals went back into his fur.

Where in Eusebus the others were planning to commit their act of arson and unscheduled demolition Kanta didn’t seem to know. How many, or which of the Ruling Power was responsible was unknown aside from the words ‘Raska’, ‘Ruler’ and the number 6. Were there six guys? Or six bombs, or was it Ruler 6 in danger? None of that was known to the animal, which gave accurate dissertations without context.

“Rebels! Raidy-rebels wanting to pew pew and kaboom! Put Kanta down. Give Kanta beskad, Kanta warrior!” He said, in Mando’a.

Fireball after fireball shrunk the mercenary and rebellious Euceron troops, as the Mandalorians fired back. Fighters with personal shields began to take form up front, as orders barked from a powerful voice filled the other side of the cave.

“Git yourselves in form! Shields in front! Shooters in mid! Bickner, go! We’ll cover your escape! Get to the ship and call them reinforcements! Heavy gunners take the rear, we only got till reinforcements arrive, boyos!” Dedric the Despicable gave a hearty guffaw, standing in the distance far away from the others. He held Raska by the scruff of his neck, muttering, “You ain’t getting out of paying me double that easy, Rask-me-lad.”

As the Mandalorians continued forward, the mercenaries and troops began to split down the middle. Bickner rushed off, making for a swoop bike, that if he got where he needed to go, would make trouble for the Mandalorians and Eucerons alike.

 

[Gaia Sunaris Cadera]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"]
Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth, [member="Kanta Tukka"]

Mig seemed prepped and ready after his leg healed. Beth worried for Adenn, though. His back still needed more time to heal. The bacta shot would at least continue to heal the rest – albeit a bit slower. So long as she managed to catch him afterwards, he’d be fine. Beth didn’t really have time to worry about her burnt fry, and so she mostly focused on getting her blaster undone and prepared to meet in with the crowd.

Hearing Yasha mention that no one should have known infuriated Beth. She wasn’t a fan of premeditation either. On the plus, she had a yummy candy that she didn’t realize she had! Beth felt her shoulder as she grabbed a piece of the candy. It was one of her favorites! She quickly opened her helmet, popped it into her mouth as she (quickly) savored the taste, and closed the helmet piece back. She felt a lot of the lost energy she had come rushing back. Wouldn’t last long, so she needed to make it count. The sudden explosions rocked Beth again, though. The moss… Was explosive! “That would’ve been great information earlier, mom,” she muttered.

Beth saw where most of the battle was occurring – and then seeing Sterling kill a man with… A severed arm. That was just gross. But he did save Taozi, Mig and Valdus. But, sheeeesh, that was a little extra. He had a nice shotgun – even Beth could hear it and she wasn’t close to him.

Beth navigated through the side of the cavern walls as she carefully aimed and shot at the mercenaries? Bounty hunters? Who were they? She noticed one, Bickner, leaving the group and snatching one of the swoop bikes. She wasn’t sure what he was doing. Reinforcements? Some attempt to escape? Whatever reason, she was aiming for him. A couple blaster fires later, but the speeder started up and starting flying – fast. Talk about 0 to 60 in seconds...

Beth shot but her blasts either ricocheted off or did little damage. With a grunt, she ran up one of the rocks – likely which had fallen from the ceiling. And jumped! She grabbed onto the back of the swoop bike as it began to veer like a drunk driver. The others continued shooting at Beth, but luckily her beskar’gam reflected the bullets perfectly. Beth tried to pull herself up, but the little stupid coconut thing kept swerving it all over the place. Granted, it wasn’t exactly made for a 140-pound woman. She glanced down and noted the ground was getting farther and farther away.

Using her right hand, she let go and grabbed her blaster and shot at the man, realizing his armor was blocking the blaster fairly well, she took a shot at the engines. Left hand held onto the bike tightly before she dropped the gun and used both hands again. Success! Kind of, at least. Smoke, flames, erupted from the engines as it began to veer towards the cave wall, where it began to crash into eliciting smaller, weaker explosions before slinging back towards the middle. Beth lost her grip and fell towards the ground – as the speeder followed a similar fate, but in front of her.

Her HUD was screaming warnings as she fell and despite her attempt to get her body into a landing position, she still smashed into the caves ground with the force of free falling. Buy’ce reinforced glass crack and broke - leaving scattered glass and an alarm sounding off inside Beth's ears. The only saving grace for Beth was that her beskar’gam, despite being severely dented, handled the kinetic force of the impact well, stopping the worst damage from happening. How much damage that was done to her body, she wasn't even sure.

The last thing Beth saw was an exploding speeder and a man laying motionless. Or was he trying to get up? “Got him… I-I think,” she muttered somewhat incoherently. She couldn’t quite tell before life became very, very black.

 

[Mig Gred]

Mig saw the wall of shields that had formed with gunners standing behind this, and [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] beating a merc to death with... and arm? This'll be fun interesting. The Mando'ad'jetii quickly ran up to the group, blocking the shots coming to him and sparks already forming in his hands. Then another idea hit him. He quickly yelled out to everyone. "Don't get close!" He then began to drew in air and any debris around him. As he did, Mig began to run up to the group shields. Once he got close, the Mandalorian released a neutral Force Burst which sent a blasting into the shields and anyone unfortunate enough to be too close.

He then heard [member="Taozi Fuyuan"] 's request, and used the Force to fling and hold one of the stupid fighters and flinging him towards her before holding him there. "Hope he'll do."

Mig then turned to see what [member="Beth Cadera"] had done, and saw her lying there. "Osik! Beth's down!"

[member="Kanta Tukka"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Jahan the Lion"] [member="Yasha Cadera"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] [member="Adenn Kyramud"]

 

[Adenn Kyramud]

Adenn nodded his head in acknowledgement of what [member="Beth Cadera"] said before continuing on. He'd see her later, and she'd be able to heal him up for the most part then. It was rather amusing though, he was really and truly insane by any definition of the word, only he hid it very well. Then Adenn saw [member="Jade Solus Skirae"] break a person on a speeder. It was funny to see how the lady got "mad." Adenn looked around and spotted [member="Laandur Solus"] interrogating a coconut([member="Kanta Tukka"]) of all things.

Hey, whatever keeps his vod amused, thought Adenn to himself. After that thought, Adenn ducked dropped down and took cover behind a tree. Looking around once more, he spotted [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] beat a man to death with an arm, something that Adenn did find amusing, and heard [member="Yasha Cadera"] the Mand'alor call for a prisoner to be had. Nodding his head in agreement, Adenn prepared to go and get one when he saw a merc(Bickner) making a run for a speeder. He started to give chase at the same time that [member="Beth Cadera"] did.

Using his jetpack, Adenn followed behind the pair. He couldn't join Beth on the speeder, but he sure could deal with those shooting at her, and he did so very quickly, and very efficiently. Soon enough they were lying dead on the ground, or shooting at him. Shrugging the bolts off, Adenn continued to follow the two before they suddenly crashed. He didn't see what happened fully, only that the speeder veered into the wall. Both Beth and the speeder driver were flung off, and both hit the ground, hard.

It seemed like the man was trying to get up, but that was rectified shortly. Adenn switched his blaster to stun, and put a dozen bolts into the mans back before hitting him full force in the back of the helmet, knocking him out cold. Turning his back on him, Adenn ran to Beth and knelt down beside her. He started examining her while calling it in to all Mandos.
"I need a medic on my position, now! Beths' been hurt, badly. Fell off a speeder and took part of an explosion to her. I'll do what I can, but I'm no medic."

Looking up, Adenn realized they were still being shot at, though he hardly felt the blaster shots. Leaning over Beth so as to protect her, Adenn pulled out a personal bubble shield and set it up. It sprang up in seconds, setting up a nice bubble that absorbed the shots coming at them. After a few seconds of fire, it died down as the mercs moved on to attack someone else. Some stayed behind though to keep shooting at Adenn and Beth. Along with them though, was the mercenary(Bickner). He was within the bubble shield as well, though more by random luck than anything. Ignoring that though, Adenn pulled out some bacta stim packs and other medical supplies from Beths pouch and his own.

Not knowing what to make of it all, Adenn looked over Beth again before sighing. He wasn't a medic, and he couldn't heal her the way she had healed him. Rather than try to do anything with the equipment, Adenn moved her around a bit so that she'd be semi comfortable. He didn't do much to the body, fearing the possibility of wounds being irritated there, but the limbs and head he moved so that they were comfortable. Adenn then slowly took off Beths helmet, it was damaged, severely. Glass was shattered, the helmet was dented. It'd have to be fixed, or replaced.

Once the helmet was off, Adenn put the same breathing mask onto Beth that she had used on him, after cleaning it a bit of course. Then he sprayed some bacta on her wherever there was damaged skin. IT wasn't much, but it'd have to do until a medic got there.

 

[Laandur Solus]

Laandur listened to [member="Kanta Tukka"] carefully, he then quickly got on the comms again.

"Vod! We have a problem! From what my new friend Kanta has told me, this is bigger then some moss in a cave." The recon specialist then quickly put Kanta's coconut down, and decided to take advantage of where he was. Skillfully avoiding the main battle, the Mandalorian revealed his wrist blade, and stealthily began to grab troops and slash their necks. It wasn't pretty, but it was effective.

 

[Sterling Kinslayer]

• Location: Cave
• Objective 1: Have fun. Find Beth. Fix Beth. More fun.

The second shot was no less eye catching, as another mercenary's head simply ceased to exist. Two shots, he needed to reload. He opened the break-action shotgun, the two shells flying back at him, which he caught and shoved down the nearest mercenary's throat, causing him to choke on the burning, hot, just used shells while he slowly reached to the compartment on his leg, and placed two more custom made shells into the weapon. The man's throat had swollen from the shells, he was going to asphyxiate no matter how hard he struggled.

He clicked the weapon back shut, and watched the line of shields. How quaint.

He decided he would end this engagement quickly. He leveled the shotgun, and fully depressed the trigger. Instantly both shells were fired, pushing back the shield carrying grunt he aimed it at. The weapon was called the Fist for a reason. He dropped the Phrik weapon, so he could reach into the gap and grab onto the two who's flanks were revealed. And by grab, that meant by the throat, and using both his strength and crushgauntlets meant neither would have to worry about a slow death.

"Frail line. Break easy. Like glass." He laughed happily, his tail flicking from side to side as he grabbed one of the riflemen by the legs, pulling them out from under him and fully lifting him up and swinging him overhead. Onto the ground. Sterling then spun, grabbing the leg with both hands, and hit another with enough force to crack the first (now very dead) mercenary's visor. Which meant the new mercenary was at the least doubling over in pain, until Sterling gave their head a fully twist around.

He was only now realizing he completely outclassed these people, and he was very, very clearly enjoying himself as he picked up his shotgun, again breaking it open to reload calmly.

One of the soldiers in front of him actually recoiled away as Sterling pushed him onto the ground, screaming as the mountain of a man calmly began to walk through him. Namely, on his knees, shattering them under the immense weight of his 'gam, first one, then the other, then his shoulder and neck. These people were blocking his way to Beth Cadera, and he would not stand for it. He'd only stepped off the man as the second shell slid into place, and he roared. If they were smart they'd part ways, so the man could make it to Beth.

Naturally they were hitting his armor, but the thick plates were absorbing the blasts. Sure they hurt, and he was probably pushing it, but it wasn't like they all were aiming at him. They did have other threats besides him. So he could probably get through if even just a couple panicked...

[member="Taozi Fuyuan"] :|: [member="Mig Gred"] :|: [member="Laandur Solus"] :|: [member="Valdus Bral"] :|: [member="Beth Cadera"] :|: [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] :|: [member="Adenn Kyramud"] :|: [member="Yasha Cadera"]

 

[Yasha Cadera]

Location: Great Dordon Cave
Objective: 1
Allies: ME [member="Adenn Kyramud"] [member="Beth Cadera"] [member="Stardust Solus Skirae"] [member="Mig Gred"] [member="Valdus Bral"] [member="Laandur Solus"] [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] [member="Jade Solus Skirae"]
Enemies: Dedric the Despicable, Bickner Abbotshubbin, Raska, Praska, Goob, Pinthresth, [member="Kanta Tukka"]

“It was a theory, before the boom! Didn’t want to freak you out, ad'ika!” Yasha yanked her spear from the belly of another mercenary, and slashed through the shoulder-meat of another, until his body hit the ground in chunks. “Heard, [member="Laandur Solus"]! Interrogate the live ones, until we find out where they’re trying to hit.”

She switched her grip and threw the spear into a shield generator being lifted in, and grabbed the weapon on her back. Her hammer, the Rekr-Karyatesa.

“This can’t be it, they must have figured the explosions would trigger the moss and blow us up!” Yasha couldn’t help the grin in her voice, or the laugh which struck next. [member="Sterling Kinslayer"] was a hoot. There seemed to be a rich inner dialogue going on in the reptilian man’s head, and try as she might Yasha just allowed herself to go on for the ride.

The moment Sterling beat a man to death with the limb of his co-conspirator, then suffocated another with a shotgun shell, Yasha whistled... and reminded herself to always bring Sterling Kinslayer along to a battle. “Yeah, we’re going to be juuuust fine.”

Then [member="Beth Cadera"] took damage, and her mother clenched as Tuulu growled in a grim line.

“Enough of these flies.” A running leap was all it took for Mand’alor the Infernal to vault over the enemy line, wielding her mighty war hammer aloft.

The war cry of the Infernal broke upon the ears of all within the caves, echoing outward as warnings burst in all functional buy’ce’s to keep a distance of 20m from their Mand’alor.

Why?

The Rekr-Karyatesa struck the ground in the middle of the mercenary force, where the soldiers were the thickest. A caustic zap cackled from the weapon, as the ground was decimated into churned rock and fine dust. Bodies near Yasha vaporized, others to a span of 20 metres’ radius round her charred, shook, weapons and generators exploding.

Three second recharge countdown… 3… The Infernal stood and walked to Dedric the Despicable’s position.

2… She readied the massive war hammer in her hand, and threw.

… 1. The warhammer vaulted through the air, and upon impact with a hastily created bulkhead of scrap and rock, let loose another electric charge.

Judgement came to Euceron, and found it reprobate and wanting. Yasha held out her hand and the Rekr-Karyatesa returned to her grasp. Weapons firing grew quiet, but for the few stragglers who survived. The Mandalorians present would no doubt make short work of the handful left.

“How are the wounded?” Yasha asked along the comm, her back to the others and gaze to any possible dangers in front. Further ahead… did she make out the corners of a ship? The heat signatures of two figures running?

 

[Stardust Solus Skirae]

Location - caverns!
Objective 1
Allies - mandalorians
Eneines - ferfeks shooting at vod

With a mighty exhale flamed reached out towards her enemies licking and even sticking to their armor burning away the body suits and reaching into the flesh below. Closing her mouth she watched as the red, orange, and white flames curled around the mercenaries as they cried out in pain and scattered rolling around on the rocks and running out from the cavern as she grinned

hahaha! Burn! Burn and run away cowards!

With that taken care of, star turned her attention to the speeders, one came gunning for her firing its guns at her rapidly. She ducked and side jumped as she curled her hand into a fust and punched qs the ride passed her put her hand into its chest and pulled back qs she used the force to direct the speeder back towards the enemies like a missile

blast, shouldn't of punched him that hard I got I think...no wait just blood

She chuckled, then her head turn listening to her comm as she cursed and ran for Beth as she roared out righr behind sterling

heading your way adenn! Sterling! Oh...yeah keep doing that sterling make a hole for a medic to get here!

Her sword was drawn and quickly through a enemy, her hud lit up with a warning as she looked to yasha and moved enough out of the way to watch the spectacle

hahaha alright clean up time!