OOC:

This story is meant to be posted on by Beta40 and Njall only

Early in the morning, Beta couldn’t tell, there was a beeping that sounded like an alarm clock to the left of him. Arg... this early in the morning? Must be a prank, he thought. Beta swung his left arm and heard a loud clang followed by an electric shock to his cybernetic arm. His arm stopped working and he looked to where the beeping just was. It was Njall’s personal astromech droid, R2-Annoying as Beta liked to call it. Njall is going to kill me now, he thought as he examined the giant dent that now replaced the droid’s head and he just got it fixed!Beta stood up and took of his cybernetic arm. I need to fix that too now. He walked to his wardrobe and put on some clothes suitable for a trip to the repair shop, again. Beta took his wallet, a coat and the astromech now lying on the floor. Trying not to disturb anyone, he left the building while dragging the droid behind him with his other arm. Beta left the building to see his friend, Njall, standing in front of him.

“Let’s go to the repair shop,” Beta said

“Why” Njall asked and Beta tossed the arm and droid to Njall’s feet, “Oh...”

“I’ll pay” Beta replyed, seeing the look, both angry and confused, on Njall’s face

They were walking to the repair shop and Beta was telling Njall about what happened that morning between him and the droid. Njall was carrying the busted droid and Beta was carrying his arm. It was dark out but you could see a faint light on the horizon. A slight chill was going down the back of Beta’s neck as he was also wondering why Njall came to get him so early in the morning but Beta forced himself to think it was the small chill in the air.

As they got to the repair shop the human sitting at the desk asked “You again?”

“Ya, of course me, who else?” Beta then slammed the arm on the table “How much for these?”

“These?

“Njall?” Beta asked and Njall put the astromech on the desk “These.”

“Uh, about...” The cashier and apparently owner dragged on “10,000”

crap Beta thought “How long?” he then said out loud

“’bout 2 hours, be back by then or it will cost extra”

“’k” Beta said then he and Njall left

The two left the building and walked around. Beta was following Njall. They walked up to multiple buildings and Njall was checking them through the windows. They did this until they found an open bar. Beta and Njall walked in and saw suspicious looks coming from all directions. Both of them went to the counter. Beta asked for a beer and Njall didn’t get anything. They went to a corner well out of earshot.

“I wouldn’t be drinking now if I were you” Njall said

“Why not,” Beta said while taking another gulp

“We’ve been put on a mission”

Beta spat out what was left in his mouth “WHAT!”

“Sorry if it’s a surprise bu-“

“-but it is a surprise!”

“Okay what I was saying is we’ve been put on a mission. Only you and me. They’ve give us our objective and the location but we haven’t been given a pilot or shuttle.”

“So we have to get our own shuttle and pilot?”

“I guess. But where are we going to get a shuttle on our own?”

“Good timing, I bought a star fighter a couple days ago, it has enough space for both of us and I have my own pilot droid so we should be good on that part.”

“Okay, here’s the mission objectives”

Njall tossed a small data pad on the table. Beta picked it up and it read:

MISSION: TATOOINE REBELS
MEMBERS OF MISSION: NJALL, BETA40
PROBLEM: THERE IS A SMALL GROUP OF REBELS FORMING A BASE ON THE PLANET TATOOINE. THERE IS A SMALL NUMBER OF REBELS THERE LEAD BY TWO HIGHER RANKED REBELS
OBJECTIVE: FOIL THE OPERATION AND TAKE OUT THE TWO IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION

“There is basically no info on this. But we need to do this lets go get the droid and the arm and head back to the lot that the star fighter is parked. My droid is also there” Beta said when he finished reading.

Njall grabbed the data pad and they left the bar. Beta and Njall walked back to the repair shop and put 10,000 ICs on the counter. They got the arm and droid back as the person at the counter took the ICs. The droid was now walking on its own and they went and got the armour that they needed for the mission. Beta packed a bunch of grenades and weapons. He walked outside and saw Njall who was also ready to go...

The ship that they were on was more of a star fighter than a shuttle. Beta walked to the cockpit were his personal pilot droid was and set the coordinates to Tatooine. He then found the ship taking off so he walked to the passenger room where Njall was seated. Beta sat beside Njall and put safety harness on.

"Buckle up, we're taking off now" Beta said quickly

"How long?" Njall asked

"Wadda ya mean how long?"

"How long is it going to be 'till we get there?"

"Ya mean Tatooine"

"Yes"

"I don't know, couple hours maybe"

"Got any food?"

"Ya, under your seat you should find some ration packs there"

"K" Njall said and he grabbed a pack and opened it up.

There was glass on either side of the two troopers and Beta was looking outside at that point. They were just leaving the atmosphere and he was already getting the chills that something was wrong here. Beta could still not get used to the queasy feeling of entering hyper space or the sound of someone eating a ration pack. The stars turned to a blur as they always did. Beta knew that then it was safe to stand up so he did so. He walked to the small space in the back that had a fridge and some storage containers. He got some real food from the fridge and found his armour and weapons in the closet. He left the armour alone and almost tripped over Njall’s droid and tripped on his own astromech, R7-Q8 (referred to as RQ). RQ caught the pizza and the beer can hit R2-Z7 in the top of its dome shaped head, making a loud clang.

“Don’t break my droid again!” Njall said as he heard it

“Don’t worry” Beta said as a stood up “The droid doesn’t have any brain power to lose any way”

Ignoring the look that he was now getting from Njall, Beta took the pizza and the beer and sat down again. Beta took a bite of the pizza and popped open the beer.

“Can I have some” Njall asked

“Sure” Beta replied “there’s some in the fridge at the back”

===An hour of pizza and beer later===

Njall was asleep and Beta was trying to find something to do. He stood up and walked to the front, not forgetting to kick Njall’s astromech droid. He looked out the main window and there was nothing but a blur of stars...

Beta looked out the door in the cockpit. There was a small group of rebels standing there, wondering what a ship like this was doing on Tatooine.

“Hey Njall, a little heads up. There are some rebels outside the star fighter most likely waiting for us to leave the ship.” Beta whispered to Njall

“So what’s the plan of action then?” Njall asked back

“I’ll provide a distraction and you can run out there and blast the hell out of them”

Beta’s friend nodded to show that he agreed and understood. They walked to the back to get ready for their mission. Njall grabbed his blaster rifle and his armour while Beta wanted to be much more prepared than that. He had a small storage of grenades of all sorts in the back of the ship. He took some and put them around his waist. Beta also had his blaster rifle, two blaster pistols and two combat knifes at each side. Beta ran to the front, set off a smoke grenade, opened the door and through it outside. A small bit of smoke was inside the shuttle but it was nothing to worry about. At that point Njall ran outside with his rifle at hand and started shooting at the rebels. It was apparent that the rebels were firing back because some of their stray shots entered the fire spray patrol ship. Beta ducked to the ground to avoid being hit and before he realised it, his pilot droid had been hit and it went through its main wiring and circuitry, making it useless to them. shit Beta thought as the droid was sparking through the large blaster hole in the side of its head. He couldn’t just sit there for much longer while his friend was being fired at so he took his own weapon and aimed at the rebels.

After a couple minutes of blaster shots flying through the cloud of smoke, the rebels were dead. Neither Beta nor Njall were injured so they decided to find the base.

“The base has gotta be close,” Beta said to Njall “rebels just don’t patrol anywhere on a planet!”

“I think you’re right on that one Beta, ‘cause I've never seen rebels fall too far from the base”

They were talking for the rest of the time that they were walking, that is until the stumbled upon a piece of ground that seemed to be somewhat hollow. Beta stomped on the ground there and they could both hear vibrations of metal below their feet. Beta activated a grenade and threw it on the ground.

“What the HELL are doing?!?” Njall yelled at Beta

Beta then tackled Njall to the ground as an explosion of sand and metal erupted behind them, “That’s what I'm doing” Beta said and stood up

Njall brushed the sand off of his legs and Beta looked into the hole in the ground that the grenade had made. It was deep and dark so they couldn’t see the bottom. Beta jumped in the hole and hit the bottom as quietly as he could.

“Beta?” Njall said to him, and then he yelled “BETA?”

Beta looked up at the confused storm trooper. He knew that he could reach the top so he put his hands up, lifted himself up and said “Ya?”

Njall fell over into the sand and Beta laughed at him.

“Come on, there’s a path way leading both directions”

The angered Njall jumped into the hallway that Beta was already in...

OOC:

Even more soon..