Oh great. Nick thought.

‘’Projectile weapon.. Wouldn’t that be a bit risky in such a huge crowd?’’ Nick asked.

‘’Guess our targets are willing for mass-murder.’’ Alan suggested.

The word ‘mass-murder’ did not sound so welll. Hopefully, the major problems on their mission would be taken care of with ease and a bit of luck.
The duo moved through the stands, they tried to keep a low profile. The podracing fans would only think they were some kind of security.

‘’Look..’’ Alan whispered to Nick.

He turned, and saw a man with a blaster holstered onto his side. It was barely visible, but Alans sharp eyes were capable to see it.

‘’What should we do ?’’ Nick wondered.

‘’Lets bring him into a more secluded area. If we are lucky, he will be willing to cooperate.’’ Alan ordered.

‘’Alright sir.’’

Nick approached him, rifle in his hand. Alan followed.

‘’Excuse me, sir. We would like to speak with you for a brief moment.’’ Alan said to the man.

He looked nervous.

‘’don’t worry, we just need some assistance.’’ Nick added.

The man agreed, and began to follow the two. Alan and Nick moved away from the large crowds to the back of the podracing arena. Alan began to inform the others on the comlink.

Requiem, was a Paladin member the day the Team left. Requiem Than Checked his ComLink for any messages he had missed and overheard Lucky's briefing on the next mission:

" This mission will be somewhat different boys and girls. For one because we'll be leaving at 0100 hours, it is now 1130 as you can probably tell. We'll be headed to Ando prime. Grab your gear and make sure to pack some extra warm clothes.  We have to be at the shuttle by half past midnight. That gives you one hour, now let's move people!"

Requiem was astounded at the group's effectiveness the day after they had left. All trace of their whereabouts were gone except for the mission's briefing that Requiem had replayed 3 times over just to remember the key information inside of the Message.

Requiem didn't hesitate at the message, he walked towards his armory in his room and than opened it up. He had built it himself from spare parts he had, he began to rummage through it and than slowly suited up himself into his Stormtrooper armor, He had than grabbed his both of his FSK-7 Combat Knives. He had than  grabbed a belt from off the shelf and tied it around his waist. He grabbed 2 of his IVP-18 S-Fox Machine Pistol's and than tied them to his waist and grabbed one M-590 Assault Rifle and just for good measure his STA-52 Slar (Sniper_Light Assault Rifle) and enough ammo to last him the entire mission and any extra's for anyone else.

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Requiem had landed on Ando Prime, he had wandered the Ice planet until he had heard news of the Pod-races and began to investigate. Requiem had noticed that once he was their, he saw a number of Troopers surveying the area and causing havoc in the stands but looking as if they were of ashamed of it themselves one even raising his weapon to a Pod Racer's technical problem.

Requiem than laughed and said I think I just found them. . . Requiem than slowly kept his wits about him. He followed the trooper's with his scope as he saw 2 Paladin members go into a secluded alley with 1 man. Requiem than looked to see 2 other's behind them with their guns poised into the Squad member's. Requiem than slowly went to an abandoned spot high in the stands to make sure the sound would not be heard and grabbed his STA-52 Slar (Sniper_Light Assault Rifle). He than slowly raised his weapon and than slowly Took it off safety and aimed down into the alley while placing his gun down on the ledge to keep it steady, the 2 paladin members began to fight back with a strong force.

Requiem found the best time when they had knocked out 1 of the men, but one had risen up in a ploy to at least take one of them with him or at least given him an injury, he had pulled out a knife and than aimed down to the Right trooper who Requiem somehow felt like he knew. Requiem looked down into his scope and turned on the scope and than slowly placed his finger on the trigger with enough speed to send the Bullet into the man's back as he swung and fell back onto the ground in a clatter. The 1st man cowered from his henchmen falling to the floor and placed his hands on his head.

Requiem had somehow heard him yelling " I give up, I give up " but Requiem was far enough away to not hear a lot of it. Requiem smiled and than placed his weapon back onto his back as he than turned back around and continued to watch the races now in full effect and waiting for the 2 paladin members to come back up So that he could meet them their.

The man trembled at the sight of his allies demise. Alan and Nick were glad to have gotten out of that situation alive, but there was one question they were not sure of.

‘’What just happened there?’’ Alan wondered.


‘’Well sir, looks like one of these guys fainted, or he was shot.’’ Nick said, laughing.

Neither of them were sure what to do. Nick looked up towards the entrance of the podraces, where he figured the shot had come from. He was pretty good at his calculations with weapons.

‘’Over there.’’ Nick said.

He pointed towards the distance, seeing a man in snowtrooper armor coming towards them. Some sort of trick? Nick thought.

‘’Ready for duty, sir.’’  The trooper said.

Alan raised an eyebrow. ‘’Identify yourself.’’

‘’Private First-class Requiem, Reporting for duty. Just graduated from the academy.’’

A thought ran through Nicks mind. He had recruited requiem into the Corps not too long ago. He was glad to see that he was in Paladin squad. Requiem was a quick learner, and he would be a great member of the squad.

‘’Ah. Names Alan, your Assistant Squad leader. And this is Lance Corporal Nick draxen.’’  Alan greeted.

‘’Oh. Didn’t notice, with the helmet and all.’’ Requiem said.

‘’Yeah well, it keeps the cold away. Back to the mission.’’ Nick said, pointing the DC-17 at the mans head.

Alan contacted the others on the comnet, reporting in to what has just occurred. They needed to find the rest of these guys, and Nick had a feeling the worse was yet to come. He hated these feelings, it made him want to blast everyone to bits. 

‘’Enough playing, tell us everything you know.’’ Nick demanded in a rough tone.

‘’Okay, don’t hurt me. Most of us are in the highest stands of the arena. I was never told what they were intending on doing, if anything at all. Just please don’t hurt me.’’

‘’You should have thought about that earlier.’’ Alan said.

The man made a desperate attempt to attack them. Nick quickly pulled the trigger of his Interchangeable combat system, and the man was dead. Nick didnt notice the rest of the squad had arrived

''Let's move somewhere out of the sight of the public where we can make a plan." Lucky said moving toward an alley.

‘’Cooperate and you will be safe.’’ Nick guaranteed.

The men were all a bit nervous. They knew they were caught and there was a small chance of escape. Nick just hoped they wouldn’t be stupid, especially around all of these people. Nick was sure they could be controlled, as Lucky and the others caught up with them once again.

‘’Great, almost lost you guys there.’’ Zeshaun said.

‘’Good thing they stopped.’’ Lucky said with a friendly tone.

She then turned towards the hijackers.
‘’What exactly are you planning on doing?’’  Lucky demanded.

One of them turned towards her. This guy didn’t seem intimidated. He was probably their leader.

‘’I don’t talk, to stormtrooper scum.’’ He snapped.

Nick and Zeshaun quickly raised their weapons at his head.

‘’Perhaps youd like to talk to these rifles?’’ Alan asked. 

Things weren’t looking too well for them. They were pinned down and there was no way the Paladins were going to let them go without a fight. At least, Nick probably wouldn’t. He wanted this mission to be over with as quick as possible. The cold was getting on his nerves. 

‘’Now. What were you guys planning on doing ?’’ She repeated.

‘’It doesn’t matter, the explosions will start soon.’’ He said.

‘’Explosions ?’’ Nick thought.

The paladins clearly heard the noises erupting from the podracers. Nick remembered the malfunctioning earlier when he was with Alan. It was disgusting, what people planned on doing at times. Nick approached the man, skirmishing at hitting him with his mechno-arm.

‘’Honestly, we should silence you right here.’’ Nick said.

‘’Calm down. Where is the detonation button?’’ Lucky demanded.

The man pointed shook his head. Nick looked around the area, towards a tower with a gleaming light ontop of it.

''Think i found it.''

Zeshaun muttered a string of curses under his breath as he looked to see the detonator on top of the tower. He was very tempted to just let the pod's explode. This icy planet is not worth my time Zeshaun thought but he knew that his conscience would get to him. they split into teams again, but only two teams this time. One to get the detonator on top of the tower and the other to get to the podracers.

"Me, Nick, and Requiem will go to the tower." Lucky said "Alan, Zeshaun, Nova, and Drakar will try to get the bombs out of the pods in an orderly fashion."

Zeshaun rolled his eyes, there was no way that they could stop the race and explain to the crowd in an orderly fashion. Lucky and her team rushed toward the tower trying to find a good way up.

"So let's begin doing this in an orderly fashion shall we?" Zeshaun said with a grin.

Zeshaun pulled out his shotgun and before Alan could stop him he yelled. "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" and shot three shots from his shotgun into the air.

The crowd was silent for a moment but then they started to run away from Zeshaun, some screaming and yelling could be heard but it wasn't total chaos.

"Well this was far from fashionable." Alan said.

Zeshaun could feel Alan glaring at him through his helmet. "It worked didn't it."

They rushed down to the race track. Drakar spoke up,

"We should see if they have some kind of security speeder we could use to catch up with them from the other side and stop them from finishing the race." Drakar said.

Zeshaun remembered the security officers that he had bothered earlier and nodded, he found a booth near the very front of the tracks that had security on it and kicked down the door.

"We need speeders, preferably, ridiculously fast ones." Zeshaun said with a grin.

Zeshaun's shotgun helped them make a quick decision and they tossed him some keys. He heard Alan groan which made him smile even wider. They got opened up a garage that opened up to the tracks and he saw two ancient BARC speeders.

"I didn't even know they made these things anymore." Zeshaun said letting out a gasp. He had always wanted to take one for a test drive. "Let's go two to a bike." Zeshaun said hopping up onto one.

Alan got on behind Zeshaun and whispered in his ear. "If I get a scratch because of your crazy driving I'll make sure that you are killed."

Zeshaun grinned and gunned the engine and sped off down the track the wrong way hoping to intercept the pod racers.

Requiem, followed back towards the Tower With Lucky and Nick leading the way to the top. They climbed up to the detonator and began cradling it slowly enough. Requiem than looked down to the track below and saw Zeshaun and Alan aboard an ancient BARC Speeder. where the hell did they get that ? Requiem slowly shook his head as he saw the Pod racer's slowly move towards the finish line with Alan and Zeshaun trailing behind them slowly bashing into the Pilot chairs, trying to get their attention. They were cautious enough to remember the Speeder was Old and it could of broken easily.

Requiem saw all of the racer's and the BARC Speeder, zoom down the track after them in a desperate attempt to stop the Pod racer's, Requiem began to think and than ponder something through the freezing air at the top of the tower. Requiem opened his ComLink and than began to speak to Alan.

" Alan, if i can call you that. . ."Requiem asked him first before anything else.

" Talk fast, this is important. . . what do you need ? "Alan began to hesitate as the BARC Speeder loomed forward with a larger speed with Zeshaun at the Controls.

" I think I have an Idea but, we need to get the Pod's incapacitated. I think it can work but I need you to get out of the way when it happens. "Requiem slowly began to continue as Alan's face slowly went blank when he heard that he had to make sure he watched himself for the next point of the mission

" Fine just make sure it work's, its our lives on the line and the racer's as well. " Alan slowly tapped Zeshaun's shoulder and began to tell him to get ready if anything happens.

" Okay here Goes. . . .Get Ready " Requiem slowly reached to his back for his STA-52 SLAR (Sniper_Light Assasult Rifle). Hope this works. . . . Requiem began to aim for the Pod Racer in front of the pack He aimed for the left steelton cable attached to the one-pilot cockpit connected to the engine and followed it down towards the engine. Requiem Lined up his shot and fired at the lead racer's engine.

The fire hit into the main accelerator as the Pilot racer had seen a spark and a whistle from the gas flowing out. Requiem than re-aimed his weapon and fired on to the Steelton Cable on the same Racer, the Cable Snapped on their next right turn and the pod racer flew to the middle of the track from Requiems shot the Pod was long enough to block the other racer's and the Pilot was far enough to be safe from harm when the shot was fired and the pilot's chair unable to handle it self flung from the racer., they halted to a sudden stop and began to exit their racer's in aggravation at the sudden end of the Race. Requiem saw the BARC Speeder halt as Alan and Zeshaun stopped their Speeder.

Zeshaun's face twisted in horror when he was told to trust his life in the hands of a rookie but did was Alan said. He slowly slowed the speeder and then was hit by a wave of heat and a chunk of an engine nearly missed his head as an explosion occurred at the front of the pack. Zeshaun slammed on the brakes and put the brakes on reverse. This was the bright idea, to blow up pod's that had bombs attatched to them Zeshaun sped backwards until he figured he was going to be safe incase the bombs did go off. It seemed for the moment that they were safe.

"Quick thinking kid." Alan said to Requiem.

Zeshaun turned to Alan. "You realize that the explosion could have set off the bombs and we could all be dead right now."

Alan shrugged. "Well we're not dead right."

Zeshaun started shaking his head and then realized in horror that Zeshaun and Alan seem to always have this same conversation but the roles were switched. I never thought I would be telling Alan something was too dangerous.

Zeshaun gunned the engine and sped back up to the angry podracers and the crowd that was getting angrier and angrier by the second.

"Could we have security down here, and a commlink to the speakers of the track." Alan said.

In a couple of minutes 4 men dressed in black came running towards them with something in there hands. Zeshaun instinctively pulled out one of his blasters from his armpit holsters but felt foolish when he realized that they were the security that they had just called for.

Alan took the comm "Attention everyone!" Alan barked, the crowd instantly got quieter. "We have just kept all of your beloved podracers from death and would appreciate it if you calmed down and cooperated with us."

The crowd started to settle back into their seats and a dull roar emerged from their conversations. Zeshaun and Alan both looked at each other relieved that they had saved themselves from this catastrophe.

"What the, what is this under my racer, no wonder I was loosing, why wont it come off." A pod driver was now yanking at something that was attatched to the underside of his pod.

"NO!" Zeshaun, and Alan simultaneously yelled.

Zeshaun was hit by the wave of energy that was released but landed not too far away and just had a sore back. Not what I really expected from these bombs but if that's the best they've got well then better for us. Zeshaun thought as he slowly got himself up from the ground. He saw Alan doing the same. They looked at each other and shrugged.

The speeders were only slightly scorched and only one of them was completly blown up, it seemed the driver was also unfortuantely killed.

Although it wasn't as bad as Zeshaun thought it would be the crowd wasn't expecting anything so they started screaming and yelling and running out of their seats.

"People, please calm down! It's okay!" Alan tried to calm the crowd to no avail.

Zeshaun wondered why he wasn't dead right now but just pushed the thought aside. Why should I be complaining. Zeshaun thought making his way over to the other drivers with his two auto pistols drawn just in case something crazy happened.

Alan staggered to his feet and looked on in horror at the carnage in front of him.  He glanced over and was glad to see Zeshaun clambering up slowly.

"People, please calm down!  Its okay!" said Alan as he tried to calm down the crowd but to no avail.  He shook his head sadly and thought to himself this is a dark day for Paladin.  Not only had one of the Podracers been killed but now the race itself would surely have to be abandoned as the crowds started leaving fast.

Alan couldn’t think of that right now, there were other racers that depended on them.  He got onto his com quickly.

“Requiem, tell me you’ve got the detonator de-activated?” asked Alan.

It felt like minutes ticked by when in fact it was only a matter of seconds.  Requiem’s voice filtered down through Alan’s helmet as he said “they’ve just been de-activated now Sir”.

“Good” replied Alan.  He gazed over sadly at the Podracer that was in flames and wondered if Requiem hadn’t aided him and Zeshaun, whether or not that racer would have been alive today.

“Sir, look at this” called out Drakar.

Alan moved over to the wreckage.  He had noticed that Drakar had been milling around the wreckage but was unsure what it was he was doing or looking for.

“What have you got?” asked Alan.

“Hair Sir, and by the looks of it Wookie hair” replied Drakar.

Nova let out a loud growl.

“Easy Nova, Drakar, I don’t see what you’re getting at” replied Alan as he saw a flashback to the wookie podracer fumbling with the bomb.

“I think I see what you are getting at” said Lucky who had joined them.

“Would someone please fill me in on what is going on?” asked Zeshaun, “my head hurts”.

“There was never a Wookie entered into the races” said Lucky.

“Exactly” replied Drakar.

“How do you know this?” asked Alan.

“I checked the racers listing before we landed” said Lucky.

Both Alan and Lucky glanced over at Drakar.

“Um, I placed a bet on one of the racers when we arrived, I figured I might get lucky but I did check out who was racing before I placed a bet” replied Drakar.

“If a Wookie was driving this thing then where is the driver that should be driving it?” asked Nick.

“My Podracer!” screamed a voice.

Alan whirled round to see a human male running over to the wreckage.

“You mind telling me who you are?” asked Lucky.

“I’m Dam G’Trol” replied the man, “and this, this was my beautiful racer”.

“You mind telling us who was driving it?” asked Alan.

“Some Wookie paid me handsomely for the opportunity to drive it, said it was real important to him” replied Dam.

“Let me get this straight” said Zeshaun who was rubbing his head, “the original driver didn’t die but some wookie that wanted to race, did”.

“My guess is that he was part of the group that planted the bombs in the first place.  If the remote detonator hadn’t worked then being in the race meant that he could set off a remote control to them” said Drakar.

“What makes you think he was one of the bombers?” asked Alan.

“Well that obvious, isn’t it” said Lucky.

“Is it?” queried Zeshaun who groaned.

“Of course” said Alan as he replayed the events in his head, “how else could he have known about the device, he went straight to it even though it was very well concealed”.

“But why blow himself up?” asked Nick.

“I guess to avoid being captured” replied Alan.

“So what’s the plan?” asked Zeshaun.

“We find out who is behind this bombing and we bring them to justice” said Lucky.

“And someone round up security and get the crowd back in here” added Alan, “there’s going to be a race here today whether I have to round them up myself by gunpoint.

Zeshaun laughed as he spoke to the local security and watched them go and start rounding up the crowd.

Requiem got up from his spot at the Top of the Tower after hearing the information Alan had just gotten from one Dam G’Trol and from the rest of his squad mates. Requiem slowly got up from his spot looked down the tower and than jumped. He slowly began to grab onto the metal along the tower as he than scraped his plasteel armor into the brittle steel, as he than slowly circled the tower with his hand embedded into the metal.

Requiem landed on his feet as he than Began to speak into his Commlink.

" Okay i'm going to go look for some more info on this tell me if you need anything, i,ll be back soon " Requiem than slowly jogged to the front of the Ando Prime Pod Racing arena entrance and than exited into he cold harsh icy planet weather. He began to walk around the area trying to finds somewhere he could to get information about the Explosions.

" Fine but make it quick, we might need you back here for further investigation Commlink Us for any information you might discover "Lucky had begun to Say and Alan nodded his head after her Message.

" Roger " Requiem than slowly entered into the open air and began to search.

Requiem began to follow to the streets asking about the devices at the Pod Racing Track until he had gotten some information from a random bystander " hey, have you seen a wookie pass by here anywhere ?? Or leave anywhere ?? "Requiem asked in Curiosity and waited for the answer.

" I dont have Answer to Imperial Scum Like you and your other comrades. " The Stranger kept walking by muttering curses under his breath about the Pod Race and the bets he had placed on a Racer. Requiem than looked to his right and than cursed under his breath and than slowly heard someone in the alleyway to his left.

" so i hear your looking for some information. . . " Requiem slowly looked to the placed were the voice was coming from and than walked into the alleyway

" yes i am. . . "Requiem responded slowly looking around for the unknown assailant.

" Well than try that Cantina across the way I saw someone fitting your description coming out of it "The unknown Man answered back to him the man slowly made a grim yellow smile at his trap and than left the alley way and continued on his way. Requiem took the information and went across the street to the Dralnor Cantina. Requiem followed through the doorway and than walked up to the bar. He turned a couple of eyes but they turned back to their Drinking. Requiem turned to his side and than tapped a man drinking some unknown type of fluid at his side .

" Hey have you seen anyone talking to a wookie around here ?? " The Drinker turned his head and than slowly protruded a blaster from inside his robe, and placed it onto Requiem's side.

" you dont ask those type of question's around here " As another blaster appeared onto Requiems back from one of his henchmen . Requiem lunged out and elbowed the one behind him in the nose and from this hit the Cantina turned into an all out brawl as the People inside began to attack each other and blaster fire was aimed at Requiem. Requiem than opened his CommLink and than began to speak into it. " I need some assistance the Dralnor Cantina Cant miss it listen for the blaster fire " Requiem couldn't help himself from laughing about what was going on over the CommLink and he swore he heard his squad mates slowly say a loud is he insane ?? Requiem reached to his sides and than Grabbed his IVP-18 S-Fox Machine Pistol's and than slowly rolled to a table and kicked it over the Cortosis Metal on the top of the machine had enough cover for him to maneuver and fire at the Henchmen.

Requiem slowly emptied his clip in Blind Fire and than reloaded his Machine Pistol's he began firing onto others on his left he hit the one firing and he had fallen to the floor in a crumpled heap, Requiem Clipped one of the henchmen on the Arm as he dropped his weapon and fell to the floor in pain. Requiem than slowly rolled over to a small section in the cantina as 5 others entered the room with large artillery weapon's Requiem threw a small C-22 fragmentation grenade in their direction as they all blew back away from them getting any closer I really hope that they don't charge me for that but nonetheless- I Really need some back up here Requiem than charged around firing his Magazine into the Henchmen as more of them crumpled to the floor. the corner  of the cantina filled in with more men behind Requiem and he than got ready for the 1st real Blaster battle he ever had.

Requiem stood still with his back to a wall and a large desk with 4 seats on his right. Requiem stood their ready for anything with his IVP-18 S-Fox Machine Pistol's in his hand's, Requiem slowly dropped the Magazine from both of the Pistol's and sent them down to his sides where his ammo was, as they magazines slid in, Requiem than lifted up his guns and than rammed the gun's hilts together so that the ammo would stay in place.

Requiem slowly exhaled as he than slowly moved out from cover and began firing onto the group of enemies by the door. Requiem than fell to the floor and than slid towards an over turned table. Requiem placed his back onto the table and than slowly wondered what everyone else was doing. Requiem than heard Lucky star over the CommLink at her end of the mission and wanted to get their himself.

"Guys, guys! don't kill him, just disarm him and pat him down for anymore weapons, we may need him later. You all stay here while I do a bit of scouting to see if this dude's got any companions waiting nearby."Requiem slowly tried to remember the rest of the message, Requiem saw one of the Hench men run towards him with a Large 8-gauge Shotgun in hand. Requiem sent his guns to the Henchmen's forehead as he than fell to the floor in a thud as he was knocked out.

Requiem ducked to the floor the second he saw a large man with a VC-1 Flamethrower. He husked into the Room with a sort of vigor in his step as he than kicked the tables aside to get to where he was. Requiem got up from his spot and ducked under the Man's line of fire and shot him twice in the knee. He screamed in pain as he hit the floor.


Requiem reached to his side and grabbed an M32 "toothpick" combat Knife from his belt and than stabbed it down into the man's chest as his eye's suddenly turned surprised and he went cold. Requiem than reached to his side and grabbed the other Knife while putting his Machine Pistol's back into his holster. He looked to the 3 other henchmen in front of him blocking his escape. He than lunged from his cover and sent the 2 Knives to the men on the far left and the far right.

The middle henchmen looked to his comrade's as all he saw was a white fist with black palms connect into his nose as he lay on the Cantina floor knocked out. Hmm, that's over with now to get some answer's Requiem heard someone near the bar groan in agony, Requiem than slowly walked over the rubble on the floor kicking things aside and scrounging for extra item's. Requiem reached to his side and placed his hand upon one of his trusted machine pistol's as he than bent over and began to look into the eyes of a man with a bullet wound in his arm and his leg.

Requiem slowly placed his weapon into the man's arm wound and began to dig the hot metal deeper, the man screamed in pain as his wound burned in protest. " I'm going to need some information. . . and your going to give it to me." The man looked with disgust at Requiem and than spit on his Helmet Visor. Requiem swung his Pistol into the man's face as it than connected and he than slowly coughed up blood and Requiem wiped his Helmet Clean" okay I'm going to ask this again I need some information " Requiem began to place his weapon's barrel into the man's leg wound and than bury it deeper as he than screamed in pain.

" Okay, Okay what do you want just stop. . . " Requiem slowly moved his weapon from the wound and than began to crouch next to the Hostage.

" Now who do you work for ?? " Requiem asked so that he could probably get some information out of him

" I work in an underground Crime syndicate for Ando Prime" Requiem slowly listened to his rant and than questioned him about the race's

" my comrade just went there to kill the other trooper's their so that this intrusion is over and my boss can get his Winnings from his bet on the Pod Races. " Requiem slowly pondered his yarn and than surprise struck his face as Requiem stood up slowly and than aimed his gun to man's fore head, now knowing that they were supposed to be killed and that they're were probably more henchmen in the stands watching.

" Where is the HQ for your crime Syndicate ?? " Requiem asked the incapacitated gang member with a quickened pace.

" HQ is on the east End of Juaka Canyon in a secluded Cave, thats all i know i swear " The Man said in desperation

" Thats not enough. . ." Requiem pulled the trigger as the bullet flew from Requiems Machine Pistol into his forehead as his body fell to a crumpled heap. Requiem began to speak into his CommLink slowly enough and than began to continue.

"Assistant Squad Leader Alan you their ??? " Requiem asked into the CommLink as a small crackle was heard and than his response.

" Yup what do you need ?? " Alan asked back as the Icy wind could be heard over the CommLink and the squad's chatting over Lucky's catch.

" i have some information i,ll be their soon. " Requiem slowly closed his CommLink and than began to step over the rubble in the cantina, he than slowly walked back out into the cold and holstered his weapon, and began walking back into the direction of the Pod-Race Track.

"Roger that." Zeshaun said while walking toward the back of the line.

Zeshaun looked behind him every so often to make sure no one was following them. Zeshaun was getting a strange feeling that they were being watched but no matter how hard he looked he could not find anyone in the streets or in the windows of the buildings. Zeshaun took his shotgun out of his shoulder holster to make himself feel better.

"Where are we going again?" Zeshaun asked

"To the HQ of the Crime syndicate." Requiem said from the front of the line.

"How far is that?" Zeshaun didn't want to be walking in the cold forever.

"Not to far, we're almost there." Requiem assured.

They walked for a little longer until they reached a canyon in the snow. It was very deep but not incredibly wide, just wide enough for a large speeder to get through.

"Where do we go now?" Nick asked looking down into the canyon.

"The man said there was a secluded cave somewhere around here." Requiem said looking over the edge.

"Well it's not gonna be easy to fin-" Zeshaun was cut off by Alan,

"Hear that?" the squad became silent. "It's the sound of an engine."

Sure enough the distinctive sound of an engine could be heard coming from the left side of the canyon. As they sat and listened they saw a speeder full of men come out from the wall and speed off down the canyon.

"I think we found the cave." Alan said.

"Now how do we get down?" Zeshaun wondered.

"We have the right equipment, it came with the armor." Lucky said holding up a grappling hook.

Zeshaun checked his belt and there was a grappling hook. He pulled it out. Everyone managed to successfully secure the end in the ice and they started their decent into the canyon.

The canyon was not as deep as Zeshaun had thought, it only looked deep because the ice on the bottom was like glass and reflected the walls. As they all touched down on the ground a couple voice could be heard coming from the direction of the cave. Everyone drew their weapons. Zeshaun tightly held onto his shotgun.

"Alright, slowly, we want to surprise them if we can, and try to make it as quiet as possible." Lucky whispered.

The squad shuffled forward in a quick jog and they sprung into the cave. They caught two guards completely off guard and before they could set off any alarms they were both knocked unconscious to the ground. Luckily they didn't need to fire a single shot. Nova and Zeshaun dragged them into a corner and tied them up.

"On three, we'll bust through the door." Lucky ordered. "ONe...Two...Three!"

Lucky kicked down the door and the squad ran in weapons at the ready. They had walked into a large hallway, three of them could stand next to each other comfortbably. They cautiously walked down the hallway. The hallway was lit by torches and the flickering light cast shadows all around them.

"Those two lazy assholes..." A voice echoed through the hall.

Lucky motioned for everyone to stop and get against the walls.

"They haven't reported again, I should go kill them myself." another different voice could be heard.

Two big men rounded the corner. They were armed with rather large looking rifles. Lucky motioned everyone to be very quiet. They stood in the shadows waiting for the two men to leave. Drakar put his back against the wall and caused a loose piece of ice to fall and shatter on the ground.

"What the?" the two men both turned.

"Open fire!" Lucky ordered.

The little skirmish did not last long and in a few seconds both the men were dead.

"That probably alerted someone, we should hurry." Alan said

The squad ran down the hall hoping to make it to some kind of hiding spot before anyone could come and attack them.

Zeshaun stood in silence. He was very tempted to go bash the computer and the monitors that were infront of him but he felt like they may need them so he held himself back.

"Well that's a new complication." Zeshaun said through clenched teeth.

Not only were they stuck, the city hall would be exploding and it was freezing. This whole mission had only reinforced his dislike of the cold. They all sat near each other trying to keep warm and think of an idea.

"We don't know how badly they caved us in, maybe we can blast our way out." Nick offered.

"Too risky, we might just end up burying ourselves even deeper." Lucky said shaking her head.

"We could call the police or security and see if they'll bail us out of here." Zeshaun said.

"I've already tried. We are either to deep into the ice or they are jamming us, I can't get through." Alan said.

"I think the best idea is to explore the rest of this place, maybe there's a spot where the roof is thin and we can break out from their, or maybe they have an underground passage to the city." Lucky got and stretched her legs.

They all slowly got up and prepared to explore. Zeshaun clipped his belt back on and shivered. They walked down the hallway that they came from, just to make sure that the hall was actually closed. The hall was blocked by tons of snow and there was no way to get through it.

They headed back toward the main room with the monitors but took a left instead of a right. They came across the sleeping quarters but found no one inside. They continued and found a cafeteria type area, the squad searched for some food but it seemed that they must have taken all the food before they got here.

The paladin's kept walking through the dimly lit pathways and searched every nook and cranny trying to find some kind of pathway. After a while they stumbled across a very nice looking office. It must have been their leaders. The first thing that everyone noticed was the ladder that was in the back of the room leading up toward the ceiling.

"Ill go check it out, search the room for datacards, id cards, anything that could be important." Alan said moving toward the ladder.

Everyone watched as he climbed up and stuck his head up through the hole in the ceiling. Alan's body dissapeared up through the hole but his head hung down a second later.

"Everyone quick! I found the vehicle hangar!" Alan said excitedly.

Everyone ran over to the ladder and they all nearly ran up the ladder. They came out in the control room of a hangar, there were a couple speeders left. They rushed down to the hangar and each went to the doors to see if they could get them to open.

The speeder ride took only a few minutes to get from point "A" to point "B". "Alright everyone," Lucky yelled, "Let's get inside and rid this place of those bombers!"

The squad gave a quick, "Oorah!" and then followed their squad leader inside. The first pair of rooms were clear of anyone. Cautiously rounding the corner en route to the grand auditorium, three blaster bolts whizzed by Zesh's head. Instantaneously, the Lance Corporal ducked and wobbled to cover before the assailant could release anymore shots.

"Target at three o'clock!" Zeshaun yelled. Nova pulled out a grenade from his pouch, yanked the pin out, and tossed it in the general direction of where the blaster fire came from. A moment later and a man's scream filled the hall as Paladin watched him fly helplessly through the air.

Nova looked back at Zesh as the Lance Corporal said, "That's one way to do it." Both gave a slight chuckle before heading off to return to their mission.

Zeshaun put his shotgun back into his holster, dissapointed that the didn't get to even empty a whole clip but he couldn't compalin because their plan had worked and the bombers were now hopefully all dead. A brilliant explosion took care of the so called leader of the crime syndicate and now the stage had a large crater in it. Luckily none of the civilians in the city hall were hurt.

"Well that worked well." Lucky said.

"Almost too well." Zeshaun added.

"Don't say that, you'll curse us." Alan said

Zeshaun laughed, he didn't think very highly of curses and mystical things. He was standing around not doing anything and it made him nervous. Out of habit he started to check his weapons to make sure they were all loaded and that he hadn't lost them in the battle. He whipped out his submachine gun, a newly aquired weapon and admired it. This is such a pretty gun. Zeshaun thought smiling to himself. A sudden bang near the second floor took his attention away.

"Hey boss, we set up all the other explosives." a man said.

A group of 10 thugs had come through a door on the second floor balcony.

"Where's the boss? Who are you?" the apparent leader said.

They obviously weren't the smartest bunch but they were holding rather large weapons so Zeshaun kept himself from laughing.

"We have killed your boss, surrender and we won't be forced to do the same to you." Lucky said pointing her rifle up at the group.

The squad followed suit and now they all had their own weapons concentrated on the group. One of the men grinned and pulled out a grenade from his back pocket. Lucky immediately opens fire on the man and hit him in the head.

"Open fire!" Lucky orders.

The sounds of their weapons fill the room as the crowd within the field gets down on the ground and covers their heads. Zeshaun straffed the balcony and was sure that he had at least hit 2 or 3 people. 4 shadowy figures could be seen running back out the door.

"Quick everyone up the stairs!" Lucky orders running out the doors.

They split up and they went up both set of stairs hoping to cut them off before the thugs could get away. They rushed up into the second floor and found themselves face to face with the four remaining thugs.

"Drop any weapons you are concealing." Lucky ordered. "And get on the ground."

They did as she told but smiling the whole time.

"What's funny?" Zeshaun said, slightly annoyed.

"You guys need us, we know where all the bombs are and where the detonator is." The middle man said chuckling to himself.

"You think that's funny?" Zeshaun said, now slightly angry.

"Don't hurt him Zeshaun, he's right." Alan says putting a hand on Zeshaun's shoulder. "but it won't matter because they're going to tell us everything."

The smile disappeared from the man's face and turned into a grimace. That made Zeshaun smile

Zeshaun flinched at the brutality of Alan's interrogation. He wasn't sure that he could have done that if he was in Alan's position. I guess that's why Alan's the assistant squad leader Zeshaun thought.

"Let's get this over with." Lucky said. "We'll split into the same groups as before in the podraces. Alan's group will try to disarm the bombs, we'll disarm the detonator."

Zeshaun and Alan nodded. Drakar and Nova followed them down the two flights of stairs to the basement. They opened a couple of doors before they got to the room with the bombs.

"Well I'm glad that we stopped them before they set this off." Alan said seeing the room filled with all different kinds of explosives.

"Maybe we can take some of these back to base, they would probably appreciate the extra explosives." Zeshaun said

"Yeah if we don't kill ourselves trying to disarm them all." Drakar said laughing.

"Alright everyone, let's get disarming." Alan said taking off his gloves and rolling up his sleeves.

Zeshaun took off his gloves as well and was surprised to find that it wasn't very cold in the room. He started on one bomb, slowly taking it apart and taking out the parts that needed to be taken out.

"Do we actually have to do everysingle one?" Zeshaun complained after only doing 4 of them.

"Well this is just in case Lucky, Nick, and Requiem can't disarm the detonator." Alan explained.

Zeshaun groaned, and Nova growled at him, "Just do it."

"I don't need to hear anything from you." Zeshaun mumbled.

"you want to say that to my face?" Nova growled getting up.

Alan was immediatly between them hand on his blasters. "Both of you need to stop and get back to work, no time for cultural differences now."

Zeshaun mumbeld "stupid wookies" Zeshaun could feel Alan's glare through both of their helmets.

He continued working and kept hoping that Lucky would call in soon telling them that they could stop and go home.