[GMT:1] Fraternizing With The Enemy

[Lief]

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Ramatesh was close.

He could feel the hum of lives pulsating through the undergrowth, and wondered if he hadn't made the meeting point a little too close to the Capital... After all, these were Sith they were dealing with and Druja had heard many tales of the types of powers they held. Not just dark, but mind blowing. If it was true that their kind could sense the very presence of other lifeforms, then perhaps his cover was blown already. Then again, he was one body in a rather large pond.

But he had no clue who the others were. Just their numbers.

Four had come to the aid of the Mandalorians, whether they were from within their borders or not was a question he couldn't answer but they were definitely not from his squad nor any that he knew of. Which meant he could claim ignorance of the whole affair should things go frightfully wrong.

They approached from the South, these four strangers who would act on his behalf, and he could only pray that they knew what they were doing. Mercenaries could be rather unpredictable, and he hadn't had a chance to see them in action - there wasn't time for such luxuries - but at the end of the day they were expendable. If they did a poor job they'd end up dead, and you couldn't pay dead folk.

Thankfully, if his sources were correct, the Sith being harboured were just acolytes. Those who hadn't quite completed their trials before Dromund Kaas had fallen, but he'd wager a fair amount on the fact that their unpredictability would be this groups undoing. Raw, untrained, angry foes with Space Magic? Kinda made Druja glad he couldn't be part of the assault.

Once they reached him, the Mandalorian turned and with hushed tone, and a datapad map of the area to assist him, began to explain the situation in a little more detail.

"Sources say they're holed up in the Eastern Sector, not too far from the alcazar, but they could be wrong... Keep your eyes peeled, this world is mostly inhabited by Thisspiasians - they look like giant snakes - so I'd hedge my bets that they may stick out like a sore thumb if they choose to wander the streets. Smoke'em out, but make sure there's evidence of their activity here left behind in some regard if you cut'em down."

He circled the Eastern Sector on the datapad before passing it over to one of the four he'd hired. Truth be told he was wondering how well this would go down, but even if the four of them were killed here at least there'd be evidence of some suspicious behaviour if nothing else.

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[member='Ria Misrani'] | [member='Ijaat Mereel'] | [member='Zhainah Icecore'] | [member='Dagon Mor']

 

[Zhainah Icecore]

((I will wait for the others since I am new too here and I want this too be a good thread))

 

[Zhainah Icecore]

[member="Ria Misrani"] [member="Ijaat Mereel"] [member="Dagon Mor"]

 

[Ria Misrani]

Sure as kark picked a fine time to fight somethin' big, Ria. The young blonde thought to herself, as she adjusted the brim of her hat, her hands went to her duster she approached from the South of the region. Her boots crushed the ground beneath them she looked up to see Mandalorians on the horizon. She'd found noise of the mission through a terminal of sorts, something that she thought some of her Outback friends would've liked to have done. Though, it seemed they were busy with the Outback itself and as she got closer something in the pit of her stomach flipped. Shake the nerves, shake'em. She'd tell herself looking up she took a deep breath.

They were rather close, weren't they? Well. Not that it would matter, she reckoned a lot of things were going to die today and if she played it smart, she wouldn't be one of them. Sith-hunting, are you out of your karkin' mind? Ria swore she could hear old man Tylo's voice. I don't care what kinda payday you think yer gonna get, cause yew ain't gettin' one if yer dead, girlie... Good thing, she was taught to be a good shot. A good shot with things that were human and not whatever in the blue abyss was down on Demonsgate and their ilk that seemed to spawn throughout the Outback.

Having reached her contact, a mando named Druja she looked to her peers, three others had joined her for this job and she half wondered if they should call for back up of sorts. Druja wasted no time in tell'em what they were up against. Snake-folk? She popped her head up over the undergrowth and looked around, she shrugged figurin' she'd see'em when she'd see'em, and then listened to Druja some more.

It was gonna be more than a shoot'em up then. Ria took out her own datachip and downloaded the blueprints before popping them into her own holorecorder. She studied the layout and zoomed in on a particular part of the blueprint. "Looks like a shaft of sorts, I can probably squeeze in and slice my way through to their mainframe. Should give me access to everything they got and any sort of evidence of their 'activities.'" Although what Sith actually got up was beyond her, but she wasn't here to guess about that she was here to finish'em. She needed more information, like have the Snake-folk and Sith been getting along, could they use one as bait to lure some of the Sith out? Were the Sith actively recruiting could they maybe sneak in that way? Or you know they could just go right through the front door. "I don't think it'll take me long to find a way to 'smoke' them out, but we'll need another way in just in case..."

[member="Ijaat Mereel"], [member="Dagon Mor"], [member="Zhainah Icecore"]

 

[Ria Misrani]

There was little else to go on, and with no one else speaking up Ria decided to head out. The thick patches of grass would only visually disguise her from view if she stayed low enough to the ground. Pathways toward this compound were far and few between and as she gathered from poking her head out at least once, patrolled. Erratically so there was no point in sitting around waiting for the perfect time to sneak past that way. The Mando was right about one thing, the natives were quite easy to spot and givin' just how many of them seemed to mob around... It made the journey that much more excruciating. Her heart pounded so hard against her chest, she could not afford to be detected at all.

One false move and she'd be gone, Goddess, Ria why did you have to do this? She could hear Lona's voice in her mind but she had been motivated purely by greed. A new revolver! A shiny new revolver! It wasn't often she was afforded the chance to do something like this. So of course when the opportunity came to take a break from the Outback, Ria took it. Although she wasn't sure if hunting down actual Sith was actually taking a break from fighting Sithspawn, still. The journey here had been pleasant enough.

She stopped in the grass and checked her holorecorder again. Making sure she was heading in the right direction, sighing with relief she continued her journey forward. On occasion, she'd take a look back to see if anyone was following her. Only to be met with an air of disappointment. If her companions were moving toward the compound, she didn't see them.

"What was that?" A guard asked, "over there in the grass."

"Let's go check it out." Another answered.

Kark...

 

[Ria Misrani]

Sith were tricky things, and so were their guards. This wasn't Nar Shaddaa or Demonsgate - or any place she'd been before. Ria was completely out of her element, but she laid prone to the ground. Watching the movement in the grass as the guards came her way. She shifted around moving gingerly as she did so. "Coulda swore I saw something out here." The guard said to his friend coming within a few meters of Ria herself.

"Maybe one of the natives?"

"Or those Mandos, think they're back?" The guard questioned.

There was a bit of silence and then, "yeah c'mon, let's see if something's pokin' around down here."

Ria waited for what felt like hours, but in reality had only been minutes. She breathed with, a sigh of relief, getting up from her prone position. The young slicer had no idea that she'd provoke an attack from one of the said natives who attempted to strike her but missed completely. Ria grabbed her stun baton on instinct and went to strike but she too missed. A second native approached from behind catching her off guard, he struck her but thankfully she managed to evade his secondary attack.

She went full on against him with her baton striking him hard, the second native went down but the first leapt up to strike her again. Ria went in for a grapple and missed that as well but decides to move behind him, he flipped around to strike again and this time fumbled into the dirt. The blonde whacked him right on the skull, and when she peered over the grass to see the guards, they had long faded heading right for the Mandolarion outpost.

A third native lunged toward her, taking a five-foot step to the side she quickly withdrew her blaster pistol in a move that would've made Tylo proud. Blasting him right in the side sending the snake-folk down to the ground near his compatriots. Ria checked the natives over, taking some of their gear which included a type of poison, a key or two (to what she didn't know). Credits, and a couple of bolas that she wasn't entirely sure she'd know what to do with but figured to take them anyway. None of them had spikes on them but she supposed that if she ran into more guards along the way that they might.

There was a path up ahead that split, one anchored toward the main entrance and another went around the back. She supposed she could go up around the back. Putting everything into either spare bandoleer pockets or into her satchel she gave the compound a look over. Just as she had seen on the holo there was a loose ventilation shaft. There, there is where she would enter and if she was lucky she could get into the mainframe's room without being noticed... Or so she hoped.

[member="Dagon Mor"], [member="Ijaat Mereel"], [member="Zhainah Icecore"]

 

[Ria Misrani]

The compound seemed to be in a more city like part of the area, once she'd left the grass that was. Casually she adjusts the brim of her hat and looks down to where the guards had taken off. She could see them in the distance, looks like they had stopped. She whisked away out of sight heading around the back of the building. She had been looking up to a ventilation shaft as her way in but the closer she approached the more it looked like that it would not be feasible for her to get in that way.

Instead, she found a garbage chute. Exhaling she flipped her hat up so it'd be easier to see, and began the climb in. Thankfully she was small enough and it was big enough that extending all four limbs on either side made it easier to climb. Of course, there was the occasional small tumbling amount of garbage. At least at two points she did have to flush her body to one side to allow for bigger pieces of garbage to tumble down beside her. Eventually, she popped the chute open and jumped down into the corridor of the building.

She spotted a terminal to her left and crept along the edge of the corridor toward it. She wondered if the Sith's precognition or whatever would give her away. Or at least, how she smelled - that would definitely give her away. Exhaling she checked herself over and remembered she didn't have a spike. Ria didn't have time to go hunt for one so she looked around the terminal and found a datacard slot. Kark. She thought to herself, she'd have to get at least a keycard. Looking down the hall she spotted a set of guards heading her way. Licking her lips she put her fingers to the terminal and started working her way in, this was gonna take longer without a spike or a keycard.

Taking one of her blank datacards she shoved it into the slot and began to download everything she could download. While it was busy doing that she tucked back down the corridor and slipped back into the garbage chute. She laid there, hearing the guards get closer and closer. Her hand went to her stun baton, slowly she pushed open the chute's door and looked to her left. She could see their reflection and then she could hear them.

"Say, didju leave dis thing on?" One guard says to the other, "'cos'm not gettin' into trouble fer yew again."

The other guard scoffs, "what do yew mean, again? And no, I didn't leave the blinkin' terminal on."

"Ye, again I got me back ripped fer yew after the last time you left yourself logged in." Guard says to his buddy.

His buddy smacks him, plasteel hits plasteel as he turns to the terminal, logging in so he could prove his point. "Didn't leave me self-logged in, 'ere look, see check'em."

"Right..." His friend's voice trails off and then he sniffs. "Ugh, mate t'at yew? Yew need a shower mate."

"No! But yew know, a shower sounds good 'bout now, let's go then."

Ria watched as they disappeared back down the corridor as she slipped out of the chute and crept back down along the corridor. She peered at the terminal with her tongue locked into the bottom row of her teeth. Oh, oh, a grin as she realized one of the guards didn't sign back out after showing his friend the logs. Oh, this was good - Ria popped out one datacard, and popped in another to download more information. Meanwhile, she went to the camera feeds - one by one, she began to muck up each room.

Once the second card was full, she knew she didn't have much time. So she did an ol' fashion fire alarm drill. Grabbing the second card she put it with the first card into her satchel. Alarms began to ring about, water valves opened and she was going back down the corridor. Until she hit something, she hit something that was soft and hard, squishy. Kark, kark, kark... Ria swallowed hard and looked up to see a Sith acolyte.

As the water spewed she used her stun baton to strike him first, and maybe he thought he had sidestepped. He looked to have side stepped her but she swung around and caught the edge of his robe with her foot. Surprised he turned to grab his lightsabre but as he moved his cloak threw itself open exposing his metallic armor. Ria struck the stun portion of her baton into his armor combined with the water he was left sizzling on the floor while she dove out the garbage chute.

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She didn't even bother checking who or what was behind her, because if she had she might've stopped running. Some might just call this luck, others called it terrible luck on the part of the Sith and their guards. She sheathed her baton and quickly drew out her blaster. As she turned the corner she got a look at some of the guards and those within thirty feet she was definitely taking out. Recalling where the snakes had been, she jumps and rolls down into the tall grass. She took the time to catch her breath just as the Sith and their guards flooded toward the grass. To this end, some of the Mando scouts could see them and began firing, shouting things that Ria couldn't even begin to try and understand.

All the little slicer cared about as getting out of there alive, and the rush of Mando's stampeding toward the Siths. Along with hearing the blaster fire was enough for her to crawl forward just enough to start running again, up and on her feet she went. Flailing for the guy she met when she first came here. Ria jumped over a barricade and landed behind it, unfortunately, she probably sprained an ankle on the way there. Fortunately, it would be fixed up rather fast, as she tried to catch her breath.

"Here." She told him, handing him two datacards full of information. "Your evidence."