The Rebel Faction

Ruse snarled as he limped to a nearby alleyway, his eyes hurt from the mud being flung into it. "Looks like I under-estimated that brat" he rubbed his eye's a few more time's before finally being able to see clearly. "That brat can use the FORCE!" he roared. "Blast those jedi!"

He walked around the alleyway, and toward the Academy. "Errrrr.... Couldn't hit Asri, nor Silonik.. guess I have no choice BUT to go for Lavality...." he snarled a bit more, that brat got a glimpse of him and he knew he would have problem's getting into the academy now. What type of a hunter was he without his blasted Jetpack though?

He thought about this failure, this wasn't helping him at all, first Asri, now Silonik.. what next? Lavality? No.. he was SURE he would get her since she couldn't control the force just yet

He dropped his dagger though, in the rush of all thing's he dropped his dagger back there how he prayed that they wouldn't find it, cause if they did he wouldn't be able to pay for the bounty's, all the information related to his mission was in the hilt of the dagger. "Blast .. how could I be so clumsy," he said and began to walk out, however he walked right into the sight of the car that Maskis and Asri where in

***

Maskis was just looking out when he saw Ruse, his blood boiled. "There he is.. thats who tried to attack you Asri," he said in a calm manner, the calmest he could manage despit the attempt on the friends of lavality's live's

(ooc: Asri vs Ruse! Round One! FIGHT! )

Trazu found Silonik at the entrance where he was supposed to be. The young Trandoshan was sitting just inside, his arms wrapped around his knees. He tried to make himself even smaller when he saw the expression on his father’s face: he knew he had done wrong.

With a patient sigh Trazu knelt down so he was closer to eye level with him. “Silonik.” He said calmly, yet sternly. “What did we agree upon before I went to send my message?”

“That we were going to meet in the cafeteria….” Silonik replied quietly.

“And what did Master Ian say was going on before that?”

“That there was a bad guy running around that hurt a Jedi and wanted to hurt others.”

“Ok, then why did you go outside, knowing both those things?”

Silonik simply whimpered and buried his face in his arms: he had no excuse. Gently Trazu coaxed his head up and looked into his eyes. “I could have lost you today.” He said softly. “And losing you would have been more painful to me then it was when I lost your mother. You and your siblings are all I have left of her. You have your whole lifetime to play in the rain my son, but only one life to live: you need to be mindful of the dangers that are around us. So what did you learn from this?”

Silonik was quiet as he thought it over. “That there are bad guys that want to hurt me and I shouldn’t do things that give them the chance to hurt me….an…and that I should do as I am told and not let myself get distracted.”

Trazu smiled, picked Silonik up into his arms and hugged him. “Very good. You were lucky today Silonik.” He said. “The Force enabled you to not only sense the danger, but to repeal it as well: for that I am proud of you. That won’t always be the case though, so you must keep your senses alert, especially in this day and age. Do you understand?” A nod. “Good. Let us get you in dry clothes and get ourselves something to eat.”

“What about you daddy?” Silonik piped up. “You’re wet too.”

“Well…this is all I have right now and I am not sure Lady Asri was able to get any clothes for me due to what happened out there. Maybe I can find a loner set until these dry.”

***

Asri caught sight of the wookiee, directed by Maskis, just before Dolash had swerved to avoid him and crashed. Some how she managed to stay in the vehicle despite the crash and she climbed out of the wreck, well, more like spilled out, clumsily. She was a bit dazed due to a minor concussion, but besides that and some minor cuts and bruises she was relatively uninjured.

The nanos in her body worked overtime to reorient her senses as she managed to raise herself onto all fours. Though it seemed like forever, her confusion and awareness returned to her quickly (thanks to the nanos) and she remembered why they had crashed. That wookiee, the one that tried to kill her, was close by and her instincts switched to hunting mode.

Staying on all fours to keep her profile low, she scanned her surroundings through the pouring rain. While it reduced her vision and dampened her other senses, the heavy down pour also helped to conceal her: her pale scales blending in with the misty gloom the rain caused. The wookiee didn’t have such an advantage and she quickly spotted his shape in the gloom. With a low growl she started stalking him like a feline on a hunt, her long forearms enabling her move on all fours as easily and comfortably as any quadruped.

Asri didn’t move toward him directly, instead she circled around him a bit, determining which way he was facing and what his reaction was to the crash. He didn’t seem to realize that one of his targets had been in that vehicle and was more interested in melting back into the crowd. She wasn’t going to let him.

Once she had his back to her, she charged. She hit him right at knee level, making him start to crumple over her back. Her forward motion carried her out from underneath him as he crashed to the wet street and she stopped a few feet away.

“Lets see how well you fight without your gun coward!” She challenged as she sprang at him, bloodlust in her dark blue eyes.

The blaster bolts sizzled past her, vaporizing any rain drops they came in contact with as they flew. One did graze her arm, but she ignored the pain as she pounced upon the wookiee, sending back to the ground.

“Coward am I?” Asri snarled as she ripped the gun out of his hands and tossed it away. “You’re the one using a gun.”

Suddenly the world flipped upside-down as the wookiee used his legs to flip her off him. She landed on her back and the impact knocked the wind out of her. The wookiee took the advantage to attempt to choke her. She wanted to scratch his face with her long claws, but she had no leverage to do any real damage, so instead she dove those sharp claws into an upper arm, easily bypassing his thick fur. There was a satisfying scream of pain as she apparently had hit the part of that arm that was broken and used her feet to kick him off her.

Now back up on her feet, she pressed her advantage, landing a few strong blows on her opponent. The wookiee managed to land a couple of good counter blows on her, but they did not deter her at all. Finally Asri managed to slip behind him again and bite down on his shoulder with her jaws, only to nearly let go again due to the pure vileness of the taste. What a way to be reminded that wookiees never bathed….

Somehow the wookiee was able to grab her and throw her to the ground, however her tight grip on his shoulder cost him a sizeable patch of fur there. Again knocking the wind out of her lungs. but apparently the wookiee had had enough of the fight and took the opportunity to retreat, disappearing into the rain and gathering crowd.

“Who’s the coward now!?” Asri screamed after him as she forced herself to her feet. She wondered why she was so tired now as it hadn’t been that hard of a fight. Then it dawned on her: she hadn’t had a meal since before she took her nap on the way to the planet. She needed to eat soon, else the nanos would start using pieces of her own body as fuel instead.

Thus far it had been easy hide her somewhat odd eating habits, but on a planet she barely knew and in a city she had no map of, she was going to have to rely on what the city itself offered. However, she doubted any restaurants here would be willing to give her blood or raw liver to consume and she wasn’t sure how deep into the city she was in.

Her stomach already rumbling, she walked back to the crash sight to see how the other’s fared. She was no medic, but it looked like they would both live, however they still needed medical attention from the looks of it. Asri looked around at the coward of gawkers and felt her temper rise.

“Don’t just stand there staring!” She snapped at them. “Go summon an ambulance!”

Consider the fight they just witnessed, a couple of bystanders ran off to do just that: the last thing they wanted was to have the white Trandoshan’s rage turned on them. Satisfied that help was on the way, Asri took a set next to Maskis and kept watch while she waited for help to arrive, lest that Wookiee decided to return….

Ruse made it to another alley, his right arm was completely useless, although he could check in into a hospital, he knew that the hospital would ask around and try to find out what happened; the best he could do was tight a nuse around it and wait out the pain, and without medical attention, he also knew the infection would most likely kill him, so he decided to move up his plans. "Fine then," he said with a snarl

He walked through the alleyway, and into a grassy field on the outskirts of the city, he decided to keep low for the time being, if he didn't show himself for a few days, or hell, maybe even a few hours, then perhaps they'd forget he was there. Wait. Wrong thinking, with an assassin on the loss, a bounty hunter no less, they'd never forget and he knew Naboo's police force would be on the hunt as well

He found himself a small cave, to suit his pleasures, he had money from the fleets bank account and the fleet themselves didn't know what happened; so he would use that money for his own good, the fleet was able to transport certain items quickly to there agents and seeing how they didn't know he was a Bounty Hunter, they'd just figure Lavality needed the extra weapons

He did just that, and inputted a request for a certain rifle, the request went to a prowler in orbit

"Sir, request received from High Guard Ruse," The communications officer said

The captain looked at the request, he found it a little suspious that Lavality would request a plasma rifle, she couldn't CARRY it for starters and Maskis doesn't need it since he use's titanium claws as a weapon. She that left a gut feeling, "Tell him we authorize the request... but get a message off to the Jedi Temple, ask them if Maskis is there and if so, if we may talk to him

***

Maskis felt light headed, seeing how what just happened that wasn't a doubt. He looked around and saw he was in a room, the after life perhaps? No.... the air was cool, and the smell of rain permiated the room, he looked around and saw someone there, a medic? A doctor? A nurse? He couldn't make out who it was due to his vision being blurred out like it was. "I have a headache...." is all he said

Dolash nodded as he absorbed all of this information. "What we need" he said "Is security. I request that you all stay securely indoors until this assassin is captured - wookie or not, he won't go far injured. A task such as this calls for Jubaz, and I shall seek him out to hunt down the offender. The cafeteria is meant to serve countless different species, so I'm sure there will be something to your liking found therin, but the most important thing is to stay in the larger, more public areas of the temple - the library, the common area, the cafeteria, anywhere were there will be Jedi to keep an eye on you all."

Dolash paused, and added "I best see to it that there is all the necessary security around Lavality as well, considering the assassin traveled here with her." and with that left to make arrangements.

Dolash met with the Rodian Jedi Jubaz in the halls towards where Lavality could be found, and called him over. The Rodian was gaunt by the standards of his race, and his robes were worn short to allow for mobility in battle. A race of bounty-hunters, glory-seekers, and warriors, Jubaz still carried the hints of those traits under his Jedi training.

"Jubaz" said Dolash "I have a mission for you. A wookie by the name of Ruse - heavily wounded - has been attempting assassinations throughout the day. He has failed so far, but if a wookie wants someone dead and isn't stopped he will eventually succeed. I request that you seek him out now and keep him from striking again, he was last seen outside the temple."

Wordlessly, the Rodian nodded, and made haste for the doors while Dolash made haste to speak to the Jedi Masters.

Elsewhere, Fwar was seeing to the injured Trandoshan Maskis, and passed him a comlink. "I apologize on the intrusion, but it appears your superior officer desires to speak to you - it sounds urgent, about a rifle requested by your fellow 'bodyguard'."