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Post by Ice on Mar 24, 2007 8:42:43 GMT -5
Ice was impressed. Everyone's getting into this, she grinned. Showing no sign of astonishment at Zarah's quick movement, she moved farther out into the fray. She had no weapons on her, so she knew there would be no visible evidence of trouble. Glaring at the nearest biker, she gave him a taste of her ice, freezing him in place. ((Huzzah for the ability to freeze things!))
"One more left - who wants to take care of him (or her)? I'd do it, but I don't want to deny any of you the privilege," she grinned. "Oh, and Zarah, don't bother if you want to kill this guy, okay? Court can take care of him, then you can pay him a visit and do your thing."
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Post by zhunter on Mar 24, 2007 10:07:13 GMT -5
X ducked his head again as he heard a couple of gun shots pumped into the crates he was behind. He peeked out warily & saw that some of the beings he had seen earlier were now shouting & drawing weapons at the bikers. More gunshots from the bikers & maybe one of the tavern beings & he ducked behind the crates once more. "Hey! There are civilians around! Get them out of here before you start shooting. Get them out!!!"
He rolled out behind the crates & grabbed a young girl as he went to position from our in the open. He gave her to a man & both of them went running down the hall into cover. He dodged another plasma blast, incinerating a plant on contact, & holstered both guns. I can't do this here. There are innocents around & this isn't my fight. The bikers just want to cause trouble.
He saw that the security drones had arrived & were surrounding the gang of riders. "Please come quietly. We do not wish to harm anyone." There were about seven or eight red & blue drones and X had no worry that they could deal with this. But his ship was on the opposite side of where he was now.
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Post by Shadaras on Mar 24, 2007 10:21:39 GMT -5
Before the biker could say anything, eight security drones arrived. "Please come quietly. We do not wish to harm anyone." Hades lowered his arm, glad he hadn't had to hurt anyone. Looking around, he could see that some people, probably his companions, had killed all the other bikers.
Walking backwards towards the cantina entrance, he noticed the man who had interrupted Amneiger, fixing the droid. Wonder if the bikers were after him, or if they just wanted to cause trouble... But that didn't matter. He reached the cantina door, where everyone else was. "That was certainly interesting," he said, still facing the biker.
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Post by zarikrahia on Mar 24, 2007 14:40:49 GMT -5
Zari blinked, her canines shrinking back to normal size. 'Come quietly. Hmmmm.' she frowned. She knew Zaha had stopped one of the bikers for long enough to get stopped, and she herself had only stunned one. 'She muttered. 'we're gonna need to hold our case, me reckons. Idiots, only think about themselves, yes I'm referring to the bikers.'
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Post by Tirilia on Mar 24, 2007 17:26:05 GMT -5
Zarah flashes Ice a half smile, I think I could learn to like that girl and she seems about to reply when the security drones arrive. Zarah snorts as they surround the two of five bikers still moving. The bikers however simply laugh and zoom over the top of of the droids, knocking one over with the speeder's sharp tailfins. What a joke Zarah growls in her thoughts, watching the droids take 4 seconds to register what just happened and then turn around and zoom after the bikes, repeating uselessly over and over "Please come quietly. We do not wish to harm anyone.".
Zarah watches them go and shakes her head. Dozens of cleaning and medic droids literally fill the area, going about their jobs and still blocking X's way.
"Pathetic" she growls "Civilians around? If you want to call yourself any sort of Warrior then I should hope you are capable of firing a short range weapon with enough accuracy to miss them."
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Post by zhunter on Mar 24, 2007 19:22:29 GMT -5
Standing up & brushing himself off, he looked over at the security drones leaving. He sighed & flicked a look over at Zarah who was staring at him. "It seems you don't care about anyone but yourself, meaning you don't consider the consequences of what you do." X said as he walked through the mess to her, "What are you...A mercenary? I thought mercenaries only killed for pay, not for fun."
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Post by Tirilia on Mar 24, 2007 19:54:10 GMT -5
This doesnt seem to bother her in the slightest. Instead she just laughs at him "Oh, so you were waiting for someone to come along and pay you before you helped the civilians getting injured, while you sat around and watched?"
She closes the distance between them, her face less than two inches from his, staring him in the eye and growling fiercely "I dont wait to be paid before I help. Next time perhaps you will keep your judgments to yourself..." Her voice adopts a commanding tone "Now make yourself useful and help the medic droids with the injured civilians you pretend to care so much about. I believe you may just owe it to them for not acting when you had the chance."
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Post by Shadaras on Mar 24, 2007 19:59:32 GMT -5
"What are you...A mercenary? I thought mercenaries only killed for pay, not for fun," X said, walking towards the group.
"And sometimes, even pay isn't enough." Hades glanced at X, slightly suspicious of the human. "I don't think you ever told us your name, though you probably heard all of ours."
"Now make yourself useful and help the medic droids with the injured civilians you pretend to care so much about. I believe you may just owe it to them for not acting when you had the chance." Zarah's tone irritated Hades. After all, she was judging the man who she had just told to not judge her. "Zarah, he was being shot at. A human's instinct is to preserve his life, if possible. And he did fight back after they stopped shooting him."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2007 20:05:42 GMT -5
"Now now, people..."
Leoness' soothing, calm voice filled the air.
"Let's not fight over this. Instead... have some of these cookies that I just made"
She held out a large plate, full of warm, chocolate chip cookies.
"Now... I'm sure there's some other way of solving this little problem you're having. So tell me about your problem? Why is it a problem? And shouldn't you be focused on something... else?"
She winked, sat down... awaiting the outcome of this turn of events.
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Post by zhunter on Mar 24, 2007 20:07:10 GMT -5
He gave an equally determined & challenging look at Zarah as she stood less than two inches away from him now. "I was helping them by getting them out of the way of your incessant fighting. Someone couldv'e gotten hurt because of your stupidity." As the man next to them started defending & refuting X's claims he kept a steady & cool gaze at the woman in front of him.
"I'm X...I'm a new pilot." He broke off the stare at Zarah's comment about him helping out & looked over at Hades. "What's your names? I didn't catch them before I was being shot at."
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Post by Tirilia on Mar 24, 2007 20:08:08 GMT -5
Zarah casts a brief glare towards hades "So he is a coward too? Live to flee another day? What an exciting life he must lead." She smirks and waves a hand dismissively, turning away from them both and crossing to the medic droids. "Being under fire never stopped me" she mutters over her shoulder as she helps an injured man to his feet.
Leoness approaches with the cookies and Zarah raises an eyebrow "I uh... " for once she is lost for words "... thank you" she says, her voice utterly confused. Yet she takes one of the cookies, she gives it to a child waiting for his carer's injuries to be treated.
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Post by Shadaras on Mar 24, 2007 20:21:49 GMT -5
"Hades. Hades Scythiar, if you want a last name. Illyshian merc, probably here to stay. And Zarah," he stared at her, right eye as hard as the left. "Perhaps you have heard of Zatar Daman? The Illyshian who stood and fought 'till the very end of every battle, where he would either need to flee or die?" His voice grew even harder. "I am he. never call me a coward."
Leoness's approach and the smell of fresh cookies destroyed the mutual irritation that was building between him, Zarah, and X. "What other problem should we focus on, ma'am?"
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Post by Tirilia on Mar 24, 2007 20:27:56 GMT -5
She turns and smiles pleasantly at Hades "My dear cyborg, it was not you I called a coward" she throws a wink to the pilot who introduced himself as X. Her mood seems to have changed abruptly back to the playful oddness that is characteristic of her species. Resting her hand on the head of the child, she glances back to Leoness, wondering what she meant.
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Post by zhunter on Mar 24, 2007 20:32:56 GMT -5
Ignoring Leoness's actions he gathered himself & walked away from the three, through the workers & scrap metal. He headed to his ship & opened the bay, not starting up the engines & pre-flight diagnostics but just grabbing his slight bag. It matched his suit & it was contained his ID, credits, & his very few personal belongings. Slinging it on his shoulder he closed the hatch again & headed down the ramp to the admissions office, grabbing a room key from the clerk who handed him one.
He went to his assigned room (1065) & opened the locked door, pushing the door open & closing it behind himself. He fell dow non the bed & huffed out a sigh of exhaustion. His encounter with the bikers & that attitude problem of a young woman was enough to make him sleep for days. He put the the pillow over his head & tried to sleep in the middle of the day.
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Post by Shadaras on Mar 24, 2007 20:37:14 GMT -5
"It seemed like it." The cat-like merc was very strange, Hades decided. Just a moment ago, she had been threatening X, and now she was as calm and playful as before the fight had started. In his perifrial vision, Hades saw X walking away. Stranger and stranger, he thought. What had he gotten himself in to?
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