Otto knelt by the door just inside the office as Kuroishi interrogated the New Republic officer and the firefight raged in the hallway. Debris from the few security droids that had tried to get into the office lay scattered on the floor just inside the door to Otto's left. He sat waiting for his chance to join his comrades in battle in the hallway. He had opened himself to the Force in order to antiicipate a break in the Republic forces advancement, but so far it seemed as if the troops were relentless, trying like hell to save their beloved officer. He could sense more life being snuffed out at the enterance to the building and finally ancitipated his chance to enter the hallway.

He pushed himself up from the wall and spun to his left. Pushing off his left foot, he launched himself, head first and arms raised, into the hallway. Just as his vision was unobscured by the doorway he could see more Republic toops coming in through the enterance. He quickly squeezed his fists together, triggering his wrist lasers and fired a burst of blaster fire into the oncoming troopers. The four troopers dropped onto the pile of their fallen comrades as Otto landed on the ground and summersaulted behind the same pile of crates that Lukas had taken cover behind.
      "Nice of you to join us!" Lukas yelled over the commotion of blaster fire.

Otto smirked under the cover of his white helmet and jumped back up to fire more shots into the enemy. At this point he really wished that he had his BlackJack Riot Supression Rifle, because the job would be so much easier. Instead he had to rely on his Force aided reflexes and the accuracy of his squadmates.
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Gunnery Sergeant Otto Vox
Dark Jedi Knight
Wraiths
Vast Empire Army
TRP/GSGT Otto Vox/4SQD/1PLT/COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE(LM)(ES)(SoS)(RCoD)(SoY)
CM/DJK Otto Vox/Lion 1-4/Krath/VEDJ/VE
Give into the inferno that is the Dark Side of the Force - Otto Vox
"The earth it shall burn right into our eyes on this very night"
"We shall destroy the earth, rebuild it, and none shall inherit it."
"Blood turned into fire, made to drink like wine"

[OOC:  Fun times!  /OOC]

Kuroishi heard the weapons fire.  He was running out of time.

"Where is Fury?"  Kuroishi spat at the officer.

"Go to hell imperial scum."  The Officer spat back.

"Compared to what I'm going to do to you hell will be a welcome reprieve.  I see I'm going to have to take more drastic measures."  Kuroishi said as he back handed the Officer.

Kuroishi stared into the Officer's eyes.  What he would like to do would take too long.  Time was of the essence.

Drawing his Vibro Katanat Kuroishi stepped into a position to decapitate the Officer.

"You can't kill me, that would be a war crime!"  The Officer said obviously not knowing who he was facing.

"You silly rebel.  I am already a war criminal for I am the Black Death Leader of the Fallen, the Chief Instigator of Pain and Terror.  I devour men's souls.  I am the sixty billion credit man."  Kuroishi said as he swung and perposefully missed.

"Oh crap you really are the one aren't you?  Then I'm dead anyway."  The Officer shrank into his chair.

"Only those that serve no purpose in my designs die.  If you tell me what I want to know then I have a purpose that your surviving may yet fulfill."  Kuroishi countered.

"The command post is in Warehouse 15.  You should find what you are after there."  The Officer choked out.

"Wise decision."  Kuroishi said as he placed a demolition charge on the wall.

Tossing the bound officer out of the area of effect Kuroishi blasted a hole in the wall.

"Wraith squad out this way now."  Kuroishi barked.

Turning toward the Officer huddled on the ground Kuroishi brought forth all the malice and hate he could muster.

"What are you going to do to me?"  The Officer said barely maintaining his compsure.

"The worst thing that I can under the time constraints."  Kuroishi said as he proceded to shatter the Officer's jaw.

Reaching to his belt Kuroishi pulled the pin from a frag grenade and stuck it under the Officer in such a way that if he moved or was desturbed improperly it would detonate.

"Yes you will suit my purposes quite well.  Worst of all it will be your own men that kill you.  Oh can't forget your comm."  Kuroishi said as he pocketed the Officer's comm link and headed out his self made door.
 
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Kuroishi Wraith VEA
Daishi Raptor VEN
Assistant Writer Why Project Copyright Infringment
Described as Psychoticly Depraved
Ich bin hessliche amerikaner.
Nehmen mir zu dein frauen von vernunftig preis tugendhafte.
"And the sound of many heads hitting many solid objects was heard throughout the land." me
Avatar by scientist computer graphics subdivision of Clan Wombat.
"It's not what I'm on it's what I'm NOT on."-far as I know me
"Now equiped with Swiss Army Lightsaber!"

Slick raised an eyebrow as he watched what Kuroishi did to the officer.  He was watching the doorway, and would let loose a shot when the chance presented itself.  When the squad leader called the order to break contact Slick yelled to his comrades in the thick of battle.

"Lukas!" Slick yelled to the ASL.  Lukas glanced back for a moment, but a moment was all he needed.

"Get down, and back!"

The Wraiths that were in the thick of battle hit the ground, and began to high crawl towards their escape route.  As they did so Slick layed down a heavy amount of covor fire.  The barrell of his E-11/L began to glow red hot from the rate of fire.  As the Wraiths passed him he threw the now useless rifle down, and drew his blaster pistol.  The young trooper began to back towards the door still firing.  A stray blaster bolt caught the edge of the wall causing debris to fly.  A shard caught Slick in the shoulder causing him to cry out momentarily.  He continued to fire until he was past the entrance.  Once he was past Kuroishi threw a grenade towards the oncoming NR forces.  With that done Wraith squad rushed down the hall.  Time to find Warehouse 15 Slick thought to himself.
 
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TRP/PFC Slick/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA[LoR]

"Someday we will all be alone.  All alone in a combat zone, but the Corps going to bring us home."

"Hey Gaspar, come on over and let's finish this sabacc game," Fury yelled at the figure in the window.  The blasterfire was getting closer and it was only a matter of time before he either was rescued or rushed off to some other planet. 

The bounter hunter turned and scowled.  "This shouldn't be happening.  These morons should have been able to hold the line.

"Oh c'mon, its not like you didn't know my people were good.  Even on the other side of the galaxy they aren't chumps.  The problem here is that you are worried about your payday, buddy."

"There are wheels within wheels here you are not aware of."

Fury laughed and took another drink of brandy.  They let him bring his own stash from the Kodama when they snagged him out of hyperspace.  He hoped his ship was okay.  He was gassed and rudely tossed into this bounty hunter's hold before he could assess how damaged his ship was from the gravity mines that were the means of his capture. In any case, he'd been caught fair and square and treated well since.  If he ever figured out where he was, he might attempt an escape but they'd covered their tracks good on that.

All he knew is that the New Republic army was slack and lax on this rock, which meant he was way behind enemy lines. No joy there.

"Look, I realize there's some big picture you know all about that you can lord over me.  But seriously, other than not making it to the beach, you've given me a vacation. 

"Seriously, I'm not some freaking war criminal or planet-killer.  You haven't shown an interest in harming me.  Even half of New Republic intelligence couldn't identify me without a cheat sheet.  Besides, they've still got their hands full with Thrawn.  Why pick a new fight?  We're just picking at the fringes and pissing off blue boy as much as we are you apparently.

"So really, sit down and finish this game you are losing or try to manhandle me into whatever ship you plan on running off in.  I honestly don't care."

The bounty hunter stared a little longer before turning back to the window.

"By the way, the tabacc here sucks.  Get me some good cigars.  Make that craphead New Republic lieutenant do it."
 
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PRF/HG Fury/VEA/TADATH/VE [SCP][PoC][SotE:HC][SotE:VEA][IOC]
Prefect - Stormtrooper Corps
Administrator - Imperial Center

He'd been hanging from the ceiling for over an hour now, just in case anyone barged in.  For the first 30 minutes he'd tried to persuade Fury to escape with him.  While the bodies were hidden, there were three not-entirely-mopped-up blood trails in the hallway that were all the evidence of his arrival.

Fury murmured to the open air, looking straight ahead. "Look Bob, it's not that I don't appreciate all you've done to break me out, but I have a couple problems.  One, I don't even know why I got captured.  And two, no one is trying to kill me yet.  And at a distant three, if I show up with you in front of the regular troopers, it will kill the morale of my rescuers."

Bob commenced to stare him down.

"Now don't be like that.  You mean well.  Besides, I've got an interrogation scheduled in ten minutes.  Hang around if you like."

Bob had nothing to add, which probably added to Fury's life expectancy.

Presently, his door burst open and three Republic guards rushed in with blasters at the ready.  Fury continued sipping his tea and finishing a smoke.  "Troubles gentlemen?"

The soldiers merely scowled and made way for the two officers who had been constantly pestering him with questions he'd either never give the answer to or just outright didn't know anything about.

Cpt. Meeks was the intel weenie that apparently saw conspiracy everywhere.  Lt. Berik, on the other hand, was the young commander of this outpost.  Much trust was in the hands of a low ranking officer, though it was in backwater of Republic space. 

It was Berik that got to the point.  "What happened here?"

Fury never liked lying to the man. He was a good officer, if just on the wrong side of things.  "One of my people tried to get me out early.  I believe he stashed your trio of guards in a closet down the hall."

"And why are you still here?"

"Honestly? You make a good brullaki.  That, and I see no need to risk my neck running into a firefight when I can just let it come to me.  Besides, I've yet to get any answers out of you on why you even tried to capture me in the first place."

Berik grunted.  "Fair enough.  Where is your man now?"

Fury laughed.  "Come on. I don't make things that easy."

Meeks snapped into rage, pulled his blaster and began raising the pistol. "You will answer the question or die!" he screamed.  Seeing as this was the first violent move made towards him since his capture, Fury took exception, excercised a little stavka move to get past the line of fire and took out Meeks with a series of blows to the sternum and throat.

As the body fell to the floor, he kicked the fallen blaster to Berik, who was pulling his blaster.  "Calm down.  I just never liked that guy."

Berik's hand remained on his pistol, as well as the guards who had their rifles raised and pointed at Fury's chest.  "That was a poor bit of judgement on your part.  I'm not sure how to handle this."

"He was in the wrong.  You want to vape me now, you'll have that on your conscience. Now put that blaster back in the holster before you get hurt."

Berik took a second to register the comment.  "Before I get hurt? Who the hell do you think you are?"

"Hell, I'm nobody, but Bob likes to hurt people."  At the mention of his name, Bob dropped from the ceiling, a shortened Force pike bashing one guard in the face and a vibroaxe decapitating yet another.  The third guard cushioned Bob's fall and promptly died when Bob rolled the guard up in front of him to catch the three blaster bolts Berik aimed at him.

Fury sighed and pulled the knife Bob had given him from behind the small of his back and ran to the young officer while he was distracted.  Two slashes to the general kidney area slowed him down, as did additional jabs to his leg tendons. The last series to his shooting arm and joints made him drop the pistol.

"I warned you, didn't I?" he yelled.  "But you had to go and back that idiot's move" he said, while pointing to Meeks. Berik made a move to the pistol while Fury stood up and paced.  Bob pinned his arm to the floor with the pike and Fury sliced the lieutenant's shooting hand off at the wrist.

"Alright Bob.  Hide the bodies and get the live one in a healing trance and take him with you.  Grab the datapads off of him and Meeks and see if you can pass some intel on to our guys.  Then make yourself scarce.  Yes, I'm staying.  No one should bug me for awhile and with at least some part of the command structure here dead, I should be okay."  Bob looked unconvinced.

"I mean it.  Get out of here."
 
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PRF/HG Fury/VEA/TADATH/VE [SCP][PoC][SotE:HC][SotE:VEA][IOC]
Prefect - Stormtrooper Corps
Administrator - Imperial Center

Kuroishi, Lukas, Otto, Slick, Anubis, and Snipes flooded into the room where General Fury had been held, dead bodies lie on the floor in a pool of blood.

"Looks like you where busy, General Fury...", Lukas grinned as he saluted General Fury.

Lukas told Snipes and Slick to keep guard on General Fury along with helping Kuroishi, while Lukas and Anubis stood guard outside of the room.

Anubis and Lukas made there way outside of the room and closed to door behind them. Anubis kept an eye on the stairs leading down to the containment cell,while Lukas kept watch on the stairs leading up to the room.

Either way, the New Republic forces would have to get past them in order to get to General Fury. Even if the New Republic forces did manage to get past of them, they would be greeted by three more Wraith's.

The only thing Lukas had cover was an old overturned table near the top of the stairs, while Anubis had two crates stacked ontop of each other. Numerous footsteps could be heard outside towards the warehouse.

"Looks like we've got unexpected company, Anubis...", Lukas said in a voice just above whisper.

Lukas quickly got up, threw open the door, and informed Kuroishi that they would be getting New Republic forces anytime soon.

He closed the door and went back behind cover, his blaster trained on the stairway, expecting New Republic troops to pour in anytime.
 
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Name: Lukas Yuy
Rank: Sergeant
Position: Assistant Squad Leader
AS-4/TRP/SGT Lukas Yuy/4SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE/Tadath
Occupation: Sniper/Special Forces/Slicer
Wraith Squad

Snipes stepped carefully into the new room, they had fought of the NR in the halls and now they were taking the fight to them, securing the rest of the warehouse, they where preparing to hold out as long as the officers felt was necessary.

Snipes aimed down the barrel of his E-11/M, carefully pulling the trigger, he released a well time burst of three bolts, each finding a target, sending the NR troopers tumbling over themselves in an almost comical fashion, Snipes even chuckled a little. of course he had time to swing his rifle around and catch another trooper in the throat, which was far less amusing, as the man held his throat and fell the the ground, Snipes thought it might have been better if he could have heard the gurgling sounds, that would have amused him. sighing, he brought his gun down from his face and looked are the others, behind and to the side of him, except Lukas, who at the moment was in front. it was a difficult task, keeping these rebel idiots at bay; alright, so maybe this time they weren't complete idiots, they had managed a few interesting maneuvers, but for the most part Snipes found them easy prey to his E-11/M and was quick becoming bored, he knew this wasn't an attitude one should have towards ones work, but never the less, the rebel uniforms were becoming quite monotonous.


"Lukas, if i ever get an evil army, please remind me not to give them boring Grey uniforms that look like i got them at the local Credit store" Snipes noted that even his voice sounded bored, without enthusiasm or excitement.


"yeah, whatever Snipes" Even Lukas sounded bored, although it was more likely that he just thought Snipes joke was dumb; Snipes was inclined to agree.

Snipes looked around the main area of the warehouse, like every other warehouse Snipes had ever been in, this one contained a large, large area, big enough to fit a couple YT-1300s, that was meant to be full of stuff, however this one was almost barren, the only things in it where barricades set up by idiot NR forces, all of whom where quite dead at the moment. although these guys reminded him of the thugs in a bad holovid, expendable and dumb, he knew there would be more coming around a corner sometime soon, and since Fury or Kuroishi, Snipes didn't know which, had, for a reason Snipes hadn't heard yet, ordered them to hold this area, there would be no evading them, which wasn't new at all.

Snipes fallowed Lukas Direction to a corner near the door, behind some boxes that had tumbled over before Snipes arrival. It was here that Snipes readied himself, Lukas would find himself a similar place, their skills had a similar focus. and the third member of the Wraith force to hold this storage area was Slick, these three had to try to stop the NR from advancing through this section, as it would be their most likely area of attack,at first any way, but with the large doors meant to allow cargo crafts in and out the NR had viable entrance, the others to this room were being checked, and if necessary sealed up by Slick, to make the enemy enter through the proper gates and not come out behind them, wich would irk Snipes, it would irk him alot; he might have to kill them, and wouldnt that be a tragedy.
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TRP/SSG Sniping101/4SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]

He looked around past the fires and smoldering buildings.  Bumming a light from Kuroishi, he lit up a fresh cigar as he proceeded to pitch the borrowed New Republic armor off the side of the speeder.

Exhaling some smoke, he noted to no one in particular, "Well that was anti-climatic.  I only got to kill one guy and that was more a favor to the galaxy than anything."

"Beats being in a box though, huh Boss?" remarked Merrick.

"Well sure, but it seems like so trivial a matter to go to all the trouble for, for both our sides.  I need some damn answers."

Kuroishi passed him a flask, "What you need is a drink."

Search and destroy ops had covered the base and probe droids were identifying holdout units and eliminating the odd soldier on the run.  This mission was over.  Fury grabbed the flask thankfully and took a slug of whatever rotgut vintage the (not-)clone was fond of.

Good stuff.
 
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PRF/HG Fury/VEA/TADATH/VE [SCP][PoC][SotE:HC][SotE:VEA][IOC]
Prefect - Stormtrooper Corps
Administrator - Imperial Center