The Rebel Faction

Lavality wasn't sure how long she was out, only that when she awakened she knew she wasn't in space anymore. "Ow...." she said and felt her head, man did she have a headache, but that was moat considering how COLD she was. "Brrrrr..." she said and pulled her jacket closer to her and made every attempt to keep herself warm

"Whats wrong Admiral?" A guard said

Lavality shivered. "Why is it so COLD?"

"Cold? It's actually a bit nice in here...." the guard said but Lavality shook her head. "It is COLD!" she complained

Somewhere.. out there...

Maskis raised his Tom-Tom which stopped. He gestured for the rest to stop as well and took his binocs and survayed the area. "Yep... this is the place.." he said and watched as a smugglers vessel blasted out and into space. "There's a lot of guards though, looks like this is a prime area for smugglers." he said and handed the Binocs to Trazu. "Any idea's you two?"

Maskis nodded and looked toward the double doors that lead into the base. This'll be interesting... he said

There Tom-Toms continued toward the base and then into the heart of it, they rode around until they got the assembly area. Maskis noted that two the ships he had just sighted where of Serendivus design. Damn... I'm beginning to wonder if these guys ARE pirates... he said after spotting the ship, he was getting rather worried now

When they stopped he was about to dismount, at least until someone said his name.

"I knew you would be here... Maskis...." he heard a trandoshan's voice boom over all the others and he turned. He waited for a second before the trandoshan walked out from the blackness

"How...." Maskis said before shaking his head.

"That shuttle was actually from Naboo, if we had KNOWN there where Seren's on board we would've sent a much larger recovery team." The trandoshan said and looked at the other three. "I really hope you didn't kill the four I had sent out." he shook his head. "That would be understandable if you did." he said and turned to the others in the bay, who hadn't even touched there weapons

Maskis got down. "But why the hell are you guys here?!" he said and grabbed the trandoshan by the collar, it was obvious the two knew each other now. "This.. was owned by pirates a few weeks ago but we came and 'liberated' them after the Seren's told us what was going on in kashyyyk.. we set this up so we could smuggle supplies in and out in the event TNO took interest." The trandoshan said before Maskis released him. "Bastard...." he said and walked over to his Tom-Tom. "Still.. how'd you know it was US?"

"Lets see... height difference mean a thing? Plus those guys weren't suppose to report back for another thirty minutes, you arriving early kind of set off some warning bells." he smiled at his friend. "Lighten up." the trandoshan said and patted his friend on the back. "I'll have a ship ready for you in a few minutes, right now, you should go in." he said not even knowing about Asri

Back at the crashed shuttle

Lavality continue to shiver even after she was under two layers of clothings, the guards just couldn't understand why she was so cold. Lavality sat there on the deck and covered herself up, "cold... cold... cold... cold...." she said to herself as she tried any means to warm up

The trandoshan wined slightly. "You... how..." he blinked a few times before looking at Maskis. "Er... any friend of Lavality... is... a friend of mine." he said relunctantly. He knew for a fact that if he harmed a Seren, it would bring hell down on his faction, and that Seren's paid him very good money to smuggle things in and out of troublesome spots

"Let it be known that she is allowed on base." He said and turned around. "Sorry Maskis... but.... old trandition and cultures die hard." he said and left

Maskis shook his head and looked the guard. "The mess mall is this way, the ship will be ready in about ten minutes." he said and guided the group to the mess hall.

Along the way Maskis could see the stares and hostile glances that where made, naturally, at Asri

When they got the mess hall the 'hall' suddenly fell silent. "Disturbing..." was all Maskis said before everyone went back to eating

Lavality was just restnig there when a shock wave permiated the ground and caused the ship to shake apart. One of the guards looked out the jagged edge to find a droid fast approuching the crash site, "what the hell is THAT thing?!" he said as the droid suddenly opened fire on the crash site

Bolt of red energy pierced the downed shuttle and struck one of the guards in the chest, blowing a hole the size of a fist and throwing his dead body across the cabin. Lavality ducked and covered her head before another guard grabbed her by the collar and tossed her out of the shuttle, she landed in the snow and rolled down the side for several feet before coming to a stop, she was exthremely cold right now and watched as the droid stopped in front of the shuttle and scanned it, not finding anything in side it began to walk away

That was, of course, until Lavality slipped and her foot went through a frozen ice bed. She could feel the cold surge run up her spine as she pulled her leg out and began to run, the droid was moving fast across the snow using threads that where under it's legs

She was finding it very difficult to get oriented though, and this worried her. I'm in full cold weather gear and yet I'm still freezing my ass off! she said before slipping and hitting the snow. She turned to find the droid still following her

A laser shot pierced the sky and connected with the droids right leg, she looked to find a snow speeder flying over head, the marking's on the side showed that it came from the pirate base. The speeder came about and fired again, this time hitting the droids head, but causing very little damage

She noticed that the droid did apperently have trouble here, it wasn't moving as fast as it had been, and to make matters even better, it apperently couldn't see her before it moving in all sorts of directions. Finally after two minutes the droid stopped and fell to peices, literally, on the snow, blood began to stain the snow but soon froze due to the cold

Lavality heard someone and reconized it as the guard who had thrown her out of the shuttle. She smiled as she ran over to her and knelt down, his blaster at the ready, "I guess that thing can't stand the cold he said and Lavality just smiled

Some distance away

Four speeder appeared on the horizon

"Trouble?" Maskis asked before one of the speeders sent him a coded text message. He kicked in the shuttles extra booster and, within three minutes, arrived at the shuttle's crash site. "Well.. frag...." he said and scanned the region

He looked around before sighting a signal flare in the distance then moved over toward it. "Found her!" he said to the others on board and landed the shuttle, the back ramp opened up and the gaurd, who was now carrying Lavality, climbed on board and walked over to a bed and placed her on it. "Someone want to explain why she can't stand the cold? Even in full cold weather gear she said it felt like she was naked or something, she passed out a few seconds ago so hopefully she'll wake up." he said and walked away

As if he had willed it, Lavality did indeed wake up. She was glad to be on a shuttle that wasn't as cold as that place she had just been on. "That... was... close..." she said and covered herself up

Maskis stayed in the cockpit. Her actions, her weakness to the cold, something tells me that she isn't all she appears to be. he said to himself as he closed the ramp and guided the shuttle into orbit, where he planned on staying for at least a few hours until the group was ready to leave for another location

Of course, he failed to realize that something was lurking nearby, an object that wasn't there for good intentions

Maskis was sitting in the cockpit just minding his own bussiness when one of the guards that was still alive came in. "I think it's best we get going, Lord Trazu thinks there's somewhere here."

"Possibly, I would go if I could but...." Maskis gestured to the hyper-drive controls. The guard blinked when he saw text scrolling and something that said

-Interdictor Field Detected, unable to plot course-

The guard shook his head. "Well.... so what do we do?" he said before the cockpit got bathed in a red light. Maskis jumped to the controls and checked the sensors, "Ten enemy fighters on an intercept course!" he yelled through the internal comm. system

He shunted power into the engines and brought them to life and then sped off, he couldn't see any place to hide so instead he activated the shuttles turrets which came about and opened fire on the fighters. "We need to buy some time until we get far enough away from that interdictor!" Maskis said and continued to menuver the shuttle. "Although if those fighters manage to get a shot on us, it'll be over before we even know it."

"Huh? Why's that?" The guard asked

Maskis shook his head. "Because these shuttles weren't made for combat you idiot, they are pure speed and menuverability." he said and checked his scanners once more. "Although if THOSE get near us we ARE screwed." he gestued to two very fast approuching corvette's.