Private Iron Lucia

[Isabeau]

Fortunately, the larger building was not very large. Zephyr would probably join her soon, only needing to finish of the two guards on the ground and make his way up to the roof. Still she pushed on ahead. Landing relatively silently as she hopped down from the hatch, Isabeau quickly looked around to see if any enemies were there. Unfortunately, she began looking from the wrong direction which gave a large Rodian the chance to hurl himself at her. Although this one was quite a bit smaller than Zephyr, he still had all four limbs free and had managed to catch her by surprise.

Finding herself pinned underneath the tuba-faced alien and receiving a punch to her unarmoured side, Isabeau let out a pained but short-lived whimper. Frustratingly enough, the Rodian severely overestimated himself and underestimated Isabeau as he focused almost completely on the offense, thinking that he could catch her if she reached for a weapon and beat her if she decided to trade blows with him. What he did not count on was the hidden blade she had in her vambrace. The weapon shot out from underneath her wrist as she lunged it at him, poking a deep hole in his torso. Pausing, the Rodian gasped and while he could probably have thrown another punch at her, he did not. With that, she pushed him over and got back up.

It was not long before another emerged by the door on the opposite side, first throwing a kitchen knife and then pulling out her blaster pistol to fire wildly at the intruders. Finding herself in an exposed position and being relatively poorly armoured by Mandalorian standards, Isabeau scurried into the room from which the large Rodian had appeared from. Just in time too, as she could hear the footsteps of another entering the corridor too.

Glancing out through the window, Isabeau could see the Operative leaving the smaller house and sprinting towards the freighter. Figuring that Zephyr was probably still up by the hatch, seeing as the corridor she was in got filled by blaster fire right after she had dealt with the Rodian, Isabeau spoke over the comms "The operative, she's making a run for it" she said with an urgent voice before continuing "Go, I'll deal with these two" With that, she brought out her rifle and slowly prepared to meet the two hostiles inside the house.

Zephyr Kumaara

 

[Zephyr Krayt]

By the time he had joined Isabeau inside, she had already dispatched one guard but was soon having to contend with two more. He was about to help her but when she urged him to chase the operative, he leapt into action and exited through the hatch, using his jetpack and once outside he began firing towards the escaping woman, though at that distance it was difficult so he flew towards her but now alerted of his presence, the woman returned fire, hoping she had done enough damage to buy herself time to escape.

One bolt hit Zephyr in the thigh pad which knocked him back in the air a few feet so he descended to the ground. He shot whipcord out at the woman's arm but in one swift movement the woman brought a blade through the whipcord that bound them together and continued running, though she had lost time in doing so. Now with her back to him, Zephyr aimed for her with his blaster but someone emerged from the trees ahead which drew his attention so he fired at the new foe instead. However, he was soon replaced by another and another.

The Mandalorian fired at both new enemies, his attention off of the Operative for a moment but if he was distracted for any longer then it would be too late. With two of the men down, it was him, a guard and the Operative left. The Operative had used the commotion to board the freighter and as the loading bay doors began to slowly lift, Zephyr knew it was now or never. He was close enough for a clean shot so he took out a proton grenade, armed it and threw it into the ship, moments before the door sealed, containing the explosion. If she had managed to survive that then the ship wouldn't be functional anyway.

The final guard, now with seemingly nothing left to protect, turned his attention on calling for reinforcements, to alert the authorities of a Mandalorian presence. He pulled out a device that would hone in on their location and make it near impossible to leave the planet. Zephyr slowly placed his blasters on the ground, feigning surrender in the hopes of stalling the guard, but while getting back to his feet he shot a poison dart from his vambrace, causing the guard to fall to the floor in moments.

Isabeau

 

[Isabeau]

Zephyr was quick to move out which was fortunate, seeing as their goal here was to prevent the operative from spreading the the knowledge they had acquired and if at all possible; take it for themselves. With Zephyr away to deal with her, Isabeau remained in the larger house, approaching the door to the corridor from a crouched position. Carefully, she started rounding the corner, knowing that whoever was the fastest on reacting when seeing their foes would probably emerge the victor. But one thing was to her detriment: They were two. Even if she got one of them before either of them had fired of their weapons, the other was likely to get her. But then, the armour she carried would protect her upper body to an extent.

Soon enough, both foes became visible as they, roughly, stood in a line. Firing off a shot, Isabeau quicky ducked back in behind cover. It was unknown to her whether she had managed to take one of them down or not but at least she had not been hit herself. With that, she quickly ran back a few steps to grab a chair. Lunging it out into the corridor, it quickly got hit by a number of blaster bolts. Using it as a distraction, she immediately followed, leaning out just enough to see them and point her arm at them. One of them was still standing while the other had been shot in the foot and fired at the chair from the ground. It wouldn't matter, however - before either of them had managed to retrain their aim at her, she ignited her flamethrower, resulting in a fiery baath for both of them. Both foes were now screaming in pain and horror. Seeing it as unnecessary, the young Mandalorian fired off two bolts at them, resulting in a quick and less painful death.

Slipping past them and out of the building, Isabeau then witnessed Zephyr blow the freighter into pieces and preventing the guard from calling backup. Two tasks remained before leaving. Checking on if the Operative was still alive and checking for if she had left the information somewhere. Deciding not to entrust Zephyr with checking any computer systems, Isabeau started running towards the smaller house whilst speaking over the comms "Good job. Checking for data copies." Moving in the same way the Operative had left the building, Isabeau quickly started looking for information. Finding three datapads, she started checking them one by one until she found their information on the second one. She had, however, not missed that the first one contained information which could be of value too and finally decided to bring all three datapads. As a final safety measure, she ignited her flamethrower again, setting fire to various spots of the building to ensure that it would burn down, just in case information had been hidden somewhere she did not look. "I've got the data. I'm ready to move out if you are" she said, prepared to leave as soon as he was.

Zephyr Kumaara

 

[Zephyr Krayt]

Zephyr picked his blasters back up and slipped into the gap in the freighter door that had been blown open by the force of the grenade. It was quiet inside except for the crackling of a small fire caused by the explosion but he walked slowly to the cockpit, as the fire didn't seem much of a threat, and he was cautious that the operative might still be alive and attack him. Once inside, he found her slumped over the controls with visible injuries but unconvinced by this alone, he reached for her wrist but immediately jumped back when she swung at him with a vibroknife in her other hand.

The limited space made the situation more difficult as there was nowhere for either to run to and the woman had the sense to aim for the gaps in Zephyr's armour which made it difficult to grab her wrist when she was aiming for his. After a brief struggle, he caught her by the wrist and shot her. All that was left to do was escape the planet before the Sith Empire realised what had happened. ::I've taken care of her. Let's go.:: He told Isabeau through the comlink as he left the freighter. Now they had suspicions about the pollen, they knew what to expect on the return journey and would need to find a way around it.

The experience made him glad he offered Isabeau to accompany him as the situation had been a handful and he didn't think he would've managed it alone. Despite their rocky start and Zephyr's preference for working alone, he had begun to warm up to her.

Isabeau