Coruscant/Kenobi(Karrax) Residence/ 2200 hours/ 7 years ago/ Coruscant after dark.

The whole place wreaked of smoke; and blood, it was palpable, almost suffocating. He was having trouble staying up. He shouldn't of rushed in like he did. Why can't you just listen once and a while,. Then again, he was a stubborn.

Even though his whole body ached from the explosion, the HE had set off; Ryan still pressed forward. It wasn't like he was just going to give up, if he did, she would die. Then again, if there were another of those traps she could already be dead. No she's not, I know it.

He was starting to think about grabbing his Katarn armor from his room, but time was against him, the armor was replaceable his mom wasn't.

“GET OUT OF THERE YOU STUPID---!!” A voice called from outside; it was distant, but still loud, if his ears weren't still ringing he probably would have replied, but he didn't want even attempt it.

Ryan rounded the corner, the closer he got to his parents room the louder small cries could be heard. Hang on mom. He walked a little more forward. Taking careful steps, the metal was weakening under his feet. As soon as he took the final step to get into his parents room.; Two loud explosions went off.

-_-_-_-_-_-Outside the apartment Complex-_-_-_-

The sergeant of the Fire team was getting annoyed. If it wasn't enough he had a teenager that had rushed into the apartment, now bombs were being set off, and he wasn't going to send any of his Firefighters in there, specially since they didn't have the equipment to disarm a bomb.

“Corporal, update.” Sergeant Net'lo, asked as he heard another loud bang and heard the faint sound of debris falling inside.

“Various explosions going off, put tin door ways mostly, my guess is this job was done while the family was away, but I'm not police officer.” The Corporal said.

which reminds me where are those damn law enforcers. as soon as the sergeant thought it,he heard sirens. Two flashing lights came up on there position and landed next to them. A Demolitions squad was already out of the armored speeder and on the move, heading towards the building, kits held along, lights turned on. wow,  they move fast

“Nice to see you sergeant, what's the status?” A man came up behind him and was breathing heavy. His head was shimmering in the light.

“Nice to see you to Lieutenant. Alright where should I start, there is at least one person trapped inside. Just a little bit ago a teen who lived hear came rushing in and started screaming. He slipped out of our grip and headed into the house. And explosion went off as he disappeared into the house. Since then three more explosions, my guess, he's dead, but who knows. Its a good thing you got here when you did. Oh, you might want to tell your team about the bombs.”  the sergeant said looking over at Joe.

“Already done, by the way you should write a book 'Just another day on the job.'” He gave a half hearted laugh and patted the sergeant on the back. Heading off to keep tabs on his squad.
-_-_-Inside the Kenobi(Karrax) Apartment-_-_-_-_-

Ryan forced as much debris out of the way as he could. His hands were bleeding and the explosions were making it worse. They weren't big enough to kill him, but it was a surprise he hadn't been killed by debris. His mouth tasted like he had just sucked on copper.

Di'kute, I will kill you whoever did this. He pried some more metal but cut his hand again, very severely. He winced. As he looked up a light was looking above him. He tried to speak, but the smoke was starting to get to him, he was passing out and his mind was starting to slip him.

The man above him picked him up and threw him over his shoulder. That was the last thing he remembered.

-_-_-Outside the Apartment-_-_-

“Sir, we've located the kid, he's unconscious, but breathing, probably from to much smoke inhalation, were bringing him out. Me and Inko are going to being him out the rest of the team are going to try and get past the debris blocking the rest of the way.” Karlan said over the commlink. Joe let out a sigh of relief. He was glad one was alive, that feeling left him in a matter of seconds. That's when he realized, he should have been more panicked, this wasn't a normal  situation it wasn't like fire was inside the building. It was just a matter of taking your time.

He could see Karlan walking out of the apartment with Inko close behind. They were carrying the boy, who looked about 16-17. He was bleeding and bruised all over, but it didn't look like anythign serious. Some People have all the luck

“Lieutenant, we got past the debris and the news isn't good. There's a dead body on this side. The last explosion must have killed her, we can't find anything else, were heading out.”

Sometimes, people lived sometimes people died. Though he hated to see that part of his job. He still had to tell the family. Even if they weren't going to be able to take it. Life sucked, that's all there was to it.

Coruscant/5 years ago/Local Speeder Track/ 0500 hours

It was a bright sunny day, not a cloud filled the sky of the metallic city below. RK stood on a podium, his hands shaking form excitement. What had brought him here was a mystery , still he had made a promise, or what seemed like a promise, to his mother years before; Now if she was only here to see it.

The podium slowly rose up, RK had to grab onto the railing. Fierfek. He thought. It was to late to back out, right now his dad was checking over the Koro-2 Exo Drive speeder that RK was going to race. One mis-calibration and RK could take a unpleasant dive, it was just one of the dangers that came along with being a racer.

As the podium continued to rise, something possessed him to look over ths side of the platform. It scared him that only the railing and a pole was keeping them from tumbling to a bloody death below. 

“Listen up, as soon as this thing stops the crowd will quiet, that’s when we will do all the announcements and stuff. Then we’ll introduce you two, the rookies.” The announcer told them. He really didn’t need to say anything, after all RK knew just to stand there and wave; How hard was that. He looked over at his fellow rookie. He was a Echani, the mandalorians nemesis, he stood about the same height as RK. His hair looked light-blue, in reality it was a silver color. His eyes were silver as well, and every time he would look at RK something sent chills down his spine. He has  been introduced to RK as Dax Tyro.

They finally stopped, and just as the announcer had said, the crowd got quiet. It was odd standing in font of a bunch of people, he had probably gotten it from his dad. RK sat down, his heart was pounding, it was only a matter of minutes before he climbed into that speeder and sped around a track where death met him at every corner. As he continued to go through all the possibilities of what could happen.

“Welcome to the 25th annual Coruscant Classic.” The crowd cheered, the announcer let them go, no point in trying to calm them down;RK wondered if they were as excited as he was, then again most of what he was feeling was probably adrenaline. “For years we have been entertaining the Coucanti people, as well as other worlds with high octane speeder racing, now we are going to do it again for the 25th time” The announcer paused again and more cheer rang, then he looked back at Ryan and Dax.  “Right now however I would like to announce the arrival of two new racers, Ryan Karrax and Dax Tyro!” The announcer stepped back and let RK and Dax step up in the limelight.

Ryan stood up and waved, smiling the whole time. Dax had a gruffer look, he had his arms crossed and kept a straight face the whole time. Ryan didn’t know why, but he was starting to get a bad feeling about this. As he continued to wave the podium slowly declined. It was race time.

Coruscant/3 years ago/ Coruscant Classic/0589 hours
“Alright, you’ve never done anything like this before, so just stay calm. It’s just like a normal drive around town, only going a lot faster.” Kal Karrax, Ryan's dad, told Ryan numerous times as they drove to the track. Ryan was already nervous, this wasn’t helping.

“I understand, besides I have a passenger.” Ryan said. A little bit of optimism in his voice. His dad instantly knew what he was talking about.

“good luck, your going to need it.” Kal walked away, leaving Ryan to wonder what was going to happen.

Stay calm, it’s easier than your making it out to be. He tried to calm himself down, but nothing was working. He didn’t know what the outcome of the race was going to be, but he just hoped he would be able to live through it.

He slid behind the controls of the Kor-2 Exo Drive. They were basic controls; steering sticks, engine turn on/off, acceleration, break. As well as that he also had his basic gauges; coolant gauge, fuel gauge, speed gauge, heat gauge, damge gauge, and some other’s that he had added including radar. He had upgraded so it could wither be raced or just flown around in the coruscant skies.

He slid his helmet on and checked the system maintenance panel, he turned on every switch that needed it, then went through the start up sequence. Checking every detail to make sure nothing was out of order. When he heard the satisfying humm of the engine come to life; he got an adrenaline rush. He couldn’t wait to get started.

“We are aobut to get started here at the 25th annual coruscant classic, the racer’s have already started there engines, they are just waiting for the go signal. While we wait let’s go through the starting line up. In first we have Dax Tyro, one of the rookies. However, he shows a lot of potential. In second we have the reigning champion Ben h’kil. Third is occupied by Yogurt. Fourth is taken by Go’k Tan. Fifth we have the other rookie, Ryan Karrax, driving the only Koro-2 on the track….” The announcer continued to ramble off the line up. Not that anyone was listening.

Time seemed to go by slowly as Ryan sat in his speeder. Even though only a few seconds had passed. The announcer had stopped talking nonsense and the red light appeared above them. “Gentlemen, get ready, set… GO!!” 

Ryan hit the accelerator and he was off; so was everyone else. I think I’m going to be sick.