Private Iron Resolve

[Yael Kandar]

IRON RESOLVE

A Brave New World - Chapter 1

EQUIPMENTS: In Bio
OBJECTIVE: Kill Vren Rook
TAG: Vren Rook

Spoiler: THEME

TATOOINE

Vren Rook. That’s a name she hadn’t heard for a long time. How long was it, three years? Yael hadn’t been in contact with him since her disappearance. He might have visited her when she was still unconscious in Kamino. He might have not. Doesn’t matter now. He might have heard of it from Meshur, Emam, or Gailen. Doesn’t matter. All that matter is that she is going to put a bullet through his head.

It has to be her. Ave Jathassa had put a bounty out; Dead or Alive, for busting one of her spice shipment. If it’s not her, then another bounty hunter would go after him, and bring him in alive. She wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Not her godfather, the one who found and rescue her. The one who help her adoptive dad raise her. The one she let down when she rallied the Enclave on a crusade that left their home unguarded.

The Black Sun Assassin wouldn’t dare get at Vren in his home. Their home. It’s too close to her heart, too many things left unsaid, too many loose ends. She instead decided to intercepts him in Tatooine. His second home. Her birthplace. Where it all began.

It wasn’t hard to track him down, Yael knows her godfather like the other side of her palm. It was his usual spot. She waited for him to start his day, right before dawn, her eyes ever focused through the slug sniper’s scope. He emerged, her fingers brushed the trigger. She has to do it. If it’s not her, someone else would, and it will be worse for everyone. Just one bullet and his soul will return to Manda.

Tears streaming down from her eyes. Vren doesn’t deserve this. If anything it’s him that has the bragging rights to put a lead through her brain. Enclave, his life, his joy, she destroyed it. She ruined it, for him, for Meshur, for Emam, for Mevia and Elise, for Gailen, for everyone. Her finger pushed the trigger, but her hesitation already did the damage. Her hand shuddered, shoulders uneven, and her slug sniper shook.

A single sniper bullet hissed through the air, launching at speed at Vren… and it hits the ground beside him.

She fucking missed.

And now she has to live with the consequences.​

 

[Vren Rook]

VETERAN
RANCH | TATOOINE
TAG: Yael Kandar

IN DARKNESS HE CAME​

A break.

Vren had needed it. With Siv Dragr back finally, he could get one at last. Naturally, he came to his refuge. To the peace and quiet of his little bantha ranch. George had been ecstatic when he had touched down. The massiff nearly bowled him over in his happiness.

Now, the next morning, the reptilian hound was snoozing in the twin suns on the porch as Vren stepped out in the arid morning air, caf in hand. Nag was also catching some sun in the yard, chassis collapsed as she regarded the dusty landscape. For the first time in years, the former Guildmaster could breathe a bit easier.

He breathed in a deep breath before taking a sip of his caf. This was the retirement he wanted. What he needed. But something always interceded. Last time, it had been Kranak Vizsla to have pulled him from here. And what a mess that had been right up to this moment. Vren rubbed his face before finishing his caf.
"I'm gonna go check on the herd, Boy. You comin' or stayin' here?" he asked George.
The massiff only cracked one eye and lazily wagged his tail before closing it again.
Vren chuckled. "All right. See you in a bit." he said before stepping off the porch.

He'd barely taken a step before a slug slammed into the sand next to him, sending up a plume of dust. Nag was unfolded even before his head snapped up toward the ridge where the shot had come from.
"Get 'em, Girl! I'll follow!" he ordered the droid as his jetpack howled to life.

In another howl, Nag shot into the air and was at the ridge in almost an instant. She was just about ready to release a salvo of laser-fire when her IFF told her who it was.
With a predatory growl, the basilisk planted a claw on Yael and pinned her to the ground, thrusting her turret into the girl's face.
://: WHY? ://: she roared.

At that moment, Vren touched down too, pistols drawn...and then he froze.

"Yael?"