The Great Freight Robbery (Open)

[Joshua Haimes]

Joshua couldn't agree more with his sister. It was definitely going to be a race and that's why he moved towards the cargo hold at a steady jog. The freighter's aft gun continued to fire back as the ships shields slowly drained but it seemed the freighter's luck ran out. A lucky blow managed to pass through the shields and hit the lightly armoured fuel link to the engines. With their hyperdrive disabled and the engines barely functioning, the metal hull was looking more like a casket rather than a starship.

The twins were only a few meters away from the cargo hold when already the assailants managed to board. The sound of blaster fire could be heard from where he was standing, the faint tunes from his headphones strapped around his neck were drowned out completely as the ship and it screw were being blown to pieces.

With an entire conflict going on, Joshua couldn't help but become immediately frustrated with the situation... "They shouldn't underestimate us." Strapping the rifle around his shoulder he took out a few sonic grenades, the weapons could disorient just about any organic in the galaxy and if you're close enough to the initial explosion it could even rupture your internal organs, break your eardrums, and pop the blood vessels in the brain. Rushing up to the doorway he hit the switch and the sliding door began to open. The sound of fighting exploded into an orchestra of gunshots, screams, and snapping bones.

There was no hesitation in his actions, priming the grenade he tossed the two of the devices into the room -- one right after the other. Those who were paying attention could probably dive out of the way and avoid the nastier affects of the sonic blast and those who weren't would regret it. Turning away from the doorway, the devices exploded with a brief flash and sent a sonic wave which bounced off the walls. He almost felt bad for the few of the men on their side who were still trapped in that room.

[member="Elliot Haimes"] | [member="Tiali Orazio"] | [member="Jaster of clan Awaud"] | [member="Cadan Tazi"] | [member="Thraxis"] | [member="Ka-Aver"]

 

[Xandrek Crognus]

A fighter hopped out of hyperspace and snuck around to the back of the freighter. Inside Xandrek sat, locking his helmet into place. He entered the ship to the sound of two grenades going off. Xandrek sprinted down the hallway and spotted two kids. Their names showed up on the HUD as [member="Elliot Haimes"] and [member="Joshua Haimes"]. Xandrek slammed his back into the wall taking cover and asked "You kids need some help?"

[member="Ka-Aver"]
[member="Tiali Orazio"]
[member="Thraxis"]
[member="Jaster of clan Awaud"]
[member="Cadan Tazi"]
[member="Elliot Haimes"]
[member="Joshua Haimes"]

 

[Elliot Haimes]

Just about to dash out and fire at anyone in sight, the voice from behind caused Elliot to pause. She pushed herself up against the wall, remaining in cover - Her eyes escaping to the new arrival. Her voice was rich and fruity. "Feel free to lend a hand, we might be able to help each other out." And with that she moved out, running for some cover a bit further into the cargo hold. Hopefully the two people behind her as well as the devastating granades would grant her a safe passage.

During the entire scene, her ears were still ringing weakly from the sheer levels of noise those blasted granades of Joshua's made. Some stray bullets graced the wall near hear from an unidentified source, and once in cover the young mercenary tried to get a better feel of the situation. She would still be ready to lay out some suppressive fire or even take a pop shot or two should the oppurtunity or need arise.

[member="Xandrek Crognus"]
Ka-Aver
Tiali Orazio
Thraxis
Jaster of clan Awaud
Cadan Tazi
Joshua Haimes

 

[Xandrek Crognus]

Xandrek watched the girl sprint ahead. To her brother he muttered "brave one isn't she" then immediately leaped into the fray. Xandrek drew his pistols and with his right he squeezed off four shots at a duo of pirates trying to flank around [member="Elliot Haimes"]. Xandrek leaped behind cover, drew his sniper rifle, and blasted away at pirate heads, after all, they're armor would make a good price on the black market.

 

[Ka-Aver]

Ka-Aver saw the grenades arching their way through the air toward them. He let out warning pheromones straight away and jumped to cover.

The shockwave of the explossion still tore at his desert robes and for a moment he was dazed, unsure what just happened. There was smoke. Men screaming, blasters firing. Whatever this ship was carrying it seemed worth paying for this sort of security. They had just killed the ship security team, had they not?

Rising tio his feet he tried to get a bearing. there through the smog he saw more guards arriving. A human femal followed by two larger males. Ka-Aver rolled behind two crates on his right side and pushed himself past then only rising as he had reached the other end. His intent was to use the chaotic situation to flank the two men at the back while hopefully [member="Thraxis"] and [member="Cadan Tazi"] with their jackal pirates would keep the three occupied enough not to notice him until it was to late and he was in close combat range..

[member="Xandrek Crognus"]
[member="Elliot Haimes"]
[member="Joshua Haimes"]
[member="Cadan Tazi"]
[member="Tiali Orazio"]
[member="Thraxis"]
[member="Jaster of clan Awaud"]

 

[Xandrek Crognus]

Xandrek squeezed off yet another shot at a Jackal, putting a hole in his head. Xandrek saw a huge hulking brute in desert robes flanking them. Xandrek had the brute's head in his sights when all of a sudden, a Jackal dove in his way and was blown apart. Cursing under his breath,Xandrek sheathed his Sniper and drew his pistols. "Ah, finally, a man that does not cower like a bag of slime.Tell me, who is this honorable challenger?" Xandrek shouted over the ruckus to the brute. Another pirate tried to help [member="Ka-Aver"] and was as a result, you guessed it, blown to karking bits.

 

[Jaster Awaud]

[member="Joshua Haimes"] [member="Elliot Haimes"]

Jaster and his men had made it to the cargo area, slid by most of the conflict of the ship and made it to their destination. Two men watched the door as Jaster and another scanned the creates. They were mostly filled with stolen weapons, Jaster though that this may have been the wrong freighter the stole from him. The weapons were not his, but could fetch a nice price from the Hutts if they bought them. They continued to scan until one of the marines shouted.

"Sir, three created belonging to us." He waved over to Jaster.

Jaster rushed over, dodging creates that fell after the engines blew. Jaster made it but was out of breath as he was trying to keep himself level after so many hits to the ships armor. The gunners on the attacking vessel either really sucked at shooting, or was having too much fun. Jaster opened the create, there it was, three creates of Umbrella Spices and Dust, sold for great prices on the black market.

"Kark the guns, we need-"

Jaster was interrupted by a shot from the cargo door.

 

[Cadan Tazi]

Cadan just managed to avoid the sonic grenade, using one of the pirate bodies to shield himself. As ever Cadan wore his Red Raven Shot Caller Armor and he held his Red Raven Gauss Rifle equipt with an Augmented Shooting Tool.

Cadan look over this man talking in the middle of a fire fight? Quickly Cadan shot at the man, although Cadan was still dazed by the grenade so the shot would be more to remind this brainless fool that people did have guns.

Cadan would take cover and open a comm to his ship. "I want anything leave or entering this blasted ship blown to bits, unless I say otherwise!" There was a muffled sound of agreement from both of the Corvette's temporary captains. Almost as a warning, one of the escape pods of from the freighter was launched and blown to bits by one of the Corvettes.

[member="Jaster of clan Awaud"] [member="Xandrek Crognus"] [member="Ka-Aver"] [member="Elliot Haimes"] [member="Joshua Haimes"] [member="Thraxis"] @Anyone I missed!

 

[Ka-Aver]

There it was again. They kept asking for names. Ka-Aver had lived long enough among non-weequay to understand their need to name each individual in their tribes, yet as adrenaline coursed through his body and combat was all around him he reacted as a weequay and let out his own unique pheromones only hissing a:

"Iz am Weequay..."

he then thwirled his staff with remarkable speed in front of him landing in a martial art like pose with the edge of the glaive pointing toward [member="Xandrek Crognus"] - Ka-Aver recognised that this would be tricky, them mans armor would problably take alot of beating but he had hammered down armoured men before, he did not hesitate.
At the same as time Cadan opened fire at the man Ka-Aver seized the opportunity rolling forth ending with a leg-sweep of his staff meant to put the Xandrek on his back, if succesful followed by an attempt to hammer down the head of his vibroglaive on his chest.



[member="Cadan Tazi"]
[member="Jaster of clan Awaud"]
[member="Elliot Haimes"]
[member="Thraxis"]
[member="Tiali Orazio"]

 

[Tiali Orazio]

Tiali enters the cargo bay to the side of the twins, Pistols at the ready he immediately takes cover Behind some crates staying hidden staying in the flanking position to get the advantage on the twins and Xandrek.

He pulls his arms above the crates, only enough sight to view what he was shooting at, he got view of Xandrek and the Twins, though when he saw the Arsenal he was carrying, he pulled his aim over towards him, aiming his LL-30's at his chest (The largest Target available).

He listened for a few moments only to hear the Jackals begin to fire their mixture of lasers and sonic down the thin hallway, taking his opportunity he started to pull his fingers back in a locomotive like way, when one would dispense a laser another would follow flying towards Xandrek, Knowing he is distracted.

Tiali remained cautious of the twins.

[member="Ka-Aver"] [member="Cadan Tazi"] [member="Jaster of clan Awaud"] [member="Xandrek Crognus"] [member="Elliot Haimes"] [member="Joshua Haimes"]

 

[Thraxis]

[OOC Note]
We are not yet in the Cargo bay, we are in a narrow corridor progressing towards the Cargo bay. Don't really know the geography.

Thraxis would progress through the corridor, after seeing the first of his men shot, "Fire at will!" he would command, though as soon as the men started to release a hailstorm of lasers and sonic, they were thrown to the ground from the sound of the Sonic Grenades thrown by [member="Joshua Haimes"], Thraxis fell to the ground as quickly as he could, covering his ears from the oncoming noise, though this provided minimal protection it at least kept him from being knocked out. After the ringing had passed, Thraxis looked around seeing the people who took the blunt of the force, there ears had been ruptured, heavily bleeding, though the rest quickly rose and continued the charge walking over and ignoring the cries of their comrades, Thraxis drew his pistols, starting to release a stream of lasers from his Twin Heavy Blasters, his eyes blurry, he presumed the rest of his men had suffered the same.
[member="Cadan Tazi"]
[member="Elliot Haimes"]
[member="Tiali Orazio"]
[member="Ka-Aver"]
[member="Xandrek Crognus"]
[member="Jaster of clan Awaud"]

 

[Xandrek Crognus]

When [member="Ka-Aver"] swung his staff Xandrek jumped back but as a result was hit by both [member="Tiali Orazio"] and [member="Cadan Tazi"]. This knocked him off balance and [member="Ka-Aver"]'s leg sweep didn't really help. However Xandrek rolled out of the way when the VibroGlaive and fired about four shots at [member="Ka-Aver"]. He shouted to the twins"Take the others!". This was then followed by Xandrek rocketing off the ground and lunging at [member="Ka-Aver"]. Sure, not the smartest move, but hey, what is he gonna do, die on a freight he didn't even know about, or try to take some pirates down with him.

 

[Tiali Orazio]

Unsure how But somehow Tiali's blaster seemed to be infective to Xandrek even knowing the blaster would have defiantly injured him.

Tiali notices his novice moves of charging towards [member="Ka-Aver"] At that moment Tiali Drops his pistols to the ground, Flicking both hands out to his sides effectively unleashing His two Vibro blades from the top of his forearms.

Tiali immediately Lunches forward Activating his jet-pack to intercept [member="Xandrek Crognus"] mid air, aiming to stab him in the unarmored sides under his arms.

[member="Thraxis"]
[member="Ka-Aver"]
[member="Cadan Tazi"]

 

[Joshua Haimes]

Joshua didn't have time to ask questions and besides that his sister seemed fine with their mysterious helper. He wasn't about to complain; being outnumbered was bad enough as it was, at least with three of them they stood some sort of a chance.

"We need to find another way out! There's no way that we'll get to the escape pod." He then turned his attention to Xandrek who was engaged in some kind of firefight. "You got a ship?" Before his companion could answer him, Joshua aimed his assault rifle around the corner and fired a barrage of blaster bolts. Truly he didn't care if there were 'friendlies' still in the room. The twins weren't specifically hired to work with the ship crew -- just to protect the cargo. Alas it didn't seem that was worth the 2,000 credits anymore. It was life or money, not both.

After he pulled back into cover he looked over to his sister, Elliot. "I need you to double back. No point in having all three of us pinned down -- you gotta lock down this entire area. Hopefully that will give us something to negotiate with." He turned to fire a few shots at the man who had pinned down Xandrek but unlike before, this time they were hurtling towards them with a jetpack... Not good.

[member="Xandrek Crognus"] | [member="Ka-Aver"] | [member="Elliot Haimes"] | [member="Thraxis"] | [member="Cadan Tazi"] | [member="Tiali Orazio"]

 

[Ballen-Ist]

Standing silently upon the hidden bridge of his newly commandeered Wyyrlok-Class Star Destroyer , the young Sith pureblood would hardly avert his attention from the many monitors that gave him a clear view of the immediate surrounding space. It was dark and expansive, stretching further than the eye could possible see. Or so some believed. It wouldn't surprised the youth if there were someone powerful enough to search through the star systems with the force alone. Of course, he did not possess such a technique, for Ballen-Ist was used to fairly straightforward combat.

He didn't like sneaking around and surveying the area, but now that he was an Assassin for the One Sith he had little choice. Why not practice a bit? Knowing he had little to no experience with stealth tactics, the Knight could not help but figure he needed to try his hand. The space above the trio of spacecrafts would begin to warp and distort, as the Sith's cruiser came out of hyperspace promptly. It loomed over the pirate's ships, casting an ominous shadow as it appeared to simply watch in amusement.

The distress call that two individuals had sent out had reached the red skinned youth's location, piquing his interest somewhat as he plotted a course for their destination. Two corvettes had attacked another craft, and by the looks of it they had already boarded. Turning from the bridge, Ballen-Ist would depart, speaking before the doors closed. "Prepare the ion cannons," he ordered, as he continued to walk away. After a few minutes he had found his way to a nearby hangar, walking aboard an Imperial shuttle and giving the pilot his commands.

Soon the Knight would have boarded the craft, quickly making his way down the corridors of the starship, intent on approaching the ensuing battle. It was the reason he was here, for apparently the Jackals were somewhat of a nuisance. Stepping onto the scene, the cloaked Sith would look around, examining the group that was apparently assaulting another further down the hallway. He was unclear as to which group was which, but he would decide that soon enough. For now he stood silent, his hands obscured by the expansive cloak he wore around his physique.
[member="Tiali Orazio"] [member="Joshua Haimes"] [member="Xandrek Crognus"] [member="Ka-Aver"] [member="Elliot Haimes"] [member="Thraxis"] [member="Cadan Tazi"]

 

[Elliot Haimes]

A smile went over her lips as she reached for a small bundle of grenades by her belt. The stranger who had lend them his help seemed to survive the first onslaught, which for some reason was focused on him. Elliot herself had kept some of the bastards at bay but there were too many at the moment and they were being assaulted.

The situation could get more sticky. A click activated the grenades in her hand, and first she threw a smoke grenade to cover her route and another to cause confusion amongst the already ensuring chaos, then a single adhesive grenade was flung right over to the far end of the room, somewhere near [member="Tiali Orazio"] and a few other pirates. As she ran through the smoke she connected to the ships internal system, and turned on the speakers in the cargo bay - pumping her brother's type of music at full blast into the room. That'd make it harder to send out orders - not that she would not hate the sound - nor would her brother let this go unnoticed. Another day's problem for another day's Elliot.

A small burst was directed at her, even as she ran through the smoke, and she started sliding. From the wall near her the sounds of the impact was barely heard through the cover of the music. But alas, here she was. The control interface. Half taking cover behind the half wall and looking out for people approaching, she hammered away at the controls and the doors sprung to life; beginning to close. Once fully shut, these doors could not be opened from the inside, but only from the bridge or at the hands of a skilled hacker.

 

[Flannigan Mcnash]

The cursory shake and automated grunt filled the cabin of one of the pirate's corvettes, a routine scratching sound broke the silence in the crusader class corvette, it was the pronged feet of the pirate leader, it's mechanical talon raking across the floor leaving etched grooves and lines permitting imperfections wherever he walked. "What class is the cruiser."

"I don't know, I ain't ever seen anything like this, wait we're seeing another ship on the radar, a Imperial shuttle and its just boarded with the target." the near human said, he was absent-mindedly scratching his chin the debri and build up of filth and food flaking down and off it like garbage snowflakes.

"Prepare hyperdrive." he'd radio the boarding party, the voice was gruff but had an almost crooning sound to it, the occasional sound of a scratch or near silent mechanised part moving as he spoke. "[member="Thraxis"], [member="Cadan Tazi"]. We've got company, Sith make and it's big. I don't know if they're after us but I'm moving the ships back for a jump, find a way off the ship we don't have too much time, take a pod and I'll have one of our disguised freighters pick you up."

With a flick of the mechanical wrist the cabin room was plunged into eerie silence as they attempted to make contact with [member="Ballen-Ist"] vessel. "Come in unknown ship, you are interfering with galactic justice, these criminals are under arrest." he tempered his voice in the forge of his mind, giving it enough want and feeling to grasp at the opposing ends curiosity, he was really fishing for time to make his jump and subsequent escape.

 

[Ka-Aver]

Ka-Aver grinned as the first shot from [member="Xandrek Crognus"] hissed past, inches from his left cheek. He was ready when the second shot came and managed to Dodge it. The third shot hit him the left shoulder and Ka-Aver dropped shi glaive letting out a painful roar. The fourth shot barely touched his left Eye, leaving him blind on it. Staggering he ended with his back to the far wall. He was dissoriented. and barely noticed the barrage of fire that was sent toward [member="Xandrek Crognus"]. Then the man suddenly leaped forth using his jetpack to shoot himself straight toward Ka-Aver. He pressed his back toward the wall managing to avoid the bulk of the hit but Xandreks right shoulder hit him in the chest and Ka-Aver was slammed toward the wall again, Xandrek more or less clinging to him. With a roar Ka-Aver used all the strength he had left, pulled fre his vibro-dagger from his waist with his free arm, spinning it around mid air and trying to press it downward through Xandreks back. It was not a precise stab, but very powerful, with any luck he would hit a weak Point in the armor.

Right afterward [member="Tiali Orazio"] came propelling forth using his own jet-pack aiming to stab at Xandrek, Things appeared to get messy.

[member="Elliot Haimes"]
[member="Thraxis"]
[member="Flannigan Mcnash"]
[member="Joshua Haimes"]
[member="Cadan Tazi"]
[member="Jaster of clan Awaud"]

 

[Xandrek Crognus]

[member="Ka-Aver"]'s vibroknife luckily buried itself into Xandrek's jet pack. Something Xandrek liked a lot. Xandrek struggled to free [member="Ka-Aver"]'s grip but managed to slither out of it. He then rolled over to [member="Joshua Haimes"] and said "I've got a ship. She looks like she'll break down but a lot of my foes underestimate her". He then fired yet more shots at [member="Ka-Aver"], hoping to cripple his legs.

 

[Xandrek Crognus]

As for [member="Tiali Orazio"], he went sailing past Xandrek, but when Xandrek returned to his allies, the wounds from Tiali and Cadan made him sluggish and weak eyed. Luckily Xandrek had a burst of energy. He said to Joshua "The girl will go first to the ship, you will follow her,and I will bring up the rear. He then saw @Ballen-Ist. "If you're here to help the men we are fighting are the Jackals."