Bright hissed loudly as the trap sprung. Without thinking she ducked out from under Havock's support taking the other woman to the floor with her as bolts of red energy began to fly over their heads. She cringed as her recently treated wounds stretched with her body and pain shot through her abdomen and shoulder. Instead of just hitting the floor, Bright continued the movement till she had rolled back up to her knees. Along the way she had managed to grab one of Havock's customary twin blasters.

She brought the weapon to bear and pulled off a shot, dropping a man who was too slow to bring his weapon up. Bright was not in the mood to be compassionate, and so she would not ask questions before shooting. Even in her current state Bright was a precise shot. She dropped another man as he took aim at Verkur. It was moments later that she noticed Havock at her side firing with the remaining of her blasters.

"It would seem to me that these guys are determined to get that necklace back." Bright said through gritted teeth. Her right arm and hand began to tingle, a sign that numbness would follow shortly.

Havock did not answer as she coolly fired and hit her mark. Bright looked to her left almost surprised to see a familiar face from her past. Where did she come from? She asked herself glancing at Mai. The sergeant couldn't deny that she felt remarkably better knowing she was here to watch their backs.

Taking another look around at everyone around her and the chaos continuing to erupt in spurts. She took down another of the ambushers down and nearly jumped to her feet when she saw Sara slip through the crossfire and take off.

"I don't think so, not this time." She said taking aim and grazing the woman's leg enough to make her stumble and hit the floor. "Mai!" Bright called to the Cathar woman. "Grab her!" She shouted over the din and noise indicating Sara cursing and struggling to her feet again.

Bright couldn't help but grin as she heard Mai let out a low growl and watched as the Cathar sprang to action. The red headed veteran felt a twinge of envy at the grace and speed that Mai possessed. And the fact that she grabbed Sara before the crafty woman could get far made Bright doubly envious. It was chasing Sara that had gotten her wounded in the first place.

The sound of the skirmish dying out brought Bright's attention back to the situation at hand. The service hall was littered with bodies but from what Bright could tell none of them were from RAIDERS. She breathed a heavy relieved sigh and sat hard against the wall.

Skarr raised his hand, "I will." He walked closer to Sara and grabbed her arm. He made her sit down on one of the pipes and bent down to where their faces were level.

"Now, where's your scientist friend?" Skarr asked as nicely as he could. She stared at Skarr and turned her head to the side in defiance. He sighed, he knew she'd resist. Skarr shifted the DC in his hands.

"If you don't tell us ma'am, I'm going to have to shove this Deece up your thermal exhaust port," Skarr said still as polite as could be.

Sara took the hint, "I'm sure Malerie has recovered her by now." Skarr sighed along with the rest of the squad. This was all a wild bantha chase.

Skarr turned to Havock, "Why would it matter if we find this scientist, we've got the necklace?" Havock only glared at Skarr and now it was his turn to take the hint. He turned back to Sara.

"So where did Malerie take her?" Skarr questioned. Sara seemed to think on this for a little while.

"To the docking bay. We have a transport there." Sara confessed. Skarr turned to Havock and she nodded in approval. Mai grabbed Sara and they began walking again.

Another trap, Skarr thought, Big surprise. The Lambda shuttle was the worst eyesore Skarr had ever seen. He held the DC rifle in his hands. That would make matters easier, a heavier weapon would help against the inevitable armory the enemy would have.

The squad strode towards the shuttle almost casually, despite the weapons they held. There were only a few visible guards outside the shuttle for the moment, but Skarr expected that to change.

Especially when Havock pulled the trigger of her blaster and blew away the first guard with deadly accuracy. The rest of the squad fired, taking out the guards surrounding the shuttle. Skarr could see Sara inching away from Mai and grabbed her by the hair.

"Sorry miss, we can't exactly let you go," Skarr apologized cheerfully. Still holding on to her hair, he fired at the guard coming down the landing ramp. Havock and her squad surrounded the shuttle now.

"Alright guys, we're going in. Skarr, Jaenna, and Karash with me, the rest will stay and guard the shuttle," Havock announced. The squad nodded and the soldiers going with Havock gathered around the loading ramp.

Havock gestured them inside and Skarr took point. After all, he did have the rifle. They immediately encountered three guards and they were quickly dispatched.

"Shall we continue?" Skarr asked, waving Havock onwards.

The prone figure laid out before her at the foot of the transport entry ramp, blurred out of focus for the third time since she knelt down to examine him. Karash had taken a nasty hit but it looked like he would survive. They needed to get off the watery grave they were in though.

Having a transport there at the squad’s disposal, was like hitting a fast forward button on the whole mission. At first, Havock thought that they would have to wait several more hours before they could sneak off the hotel and return to the mainland where their ship was waiting. Now they were able to leave without further disruption. The last thing they or the Vast Empire needed was the local authorities pissed off about the covert mission they had just clumsily pulled off. The important thing was that they had the necklace and if they could get to the shuttle they could get it contained and stop the damn radiation from leaking into their bodies and making them nauseous as hell. Or was that just her.

When she looked up to examine the transport she almost fell backwards from the dizziness. She was able to make out the words “TransCorp”, written across the side in basic. Havock tried to focus on the letters and found herself failing miserably then two hands grabbed her seconds before she hit the hanger floor. “Dammit Ayme.” She rubbed her eyes and tried to focus again, she didn’t remember tipping over. Her hands started to push away the new person who was riffling through her pockets looking for the canister. “Woman, how many pockets do you have?”

Someone shook her in a not so gentle way. “Ayme!” Her eyes rolled and finally managed to focus on Jaenna’s face. “You have to be the stupidest smart person I know.” The blue eyes broke contact and nodded to someone near Havock’s thigh. She didn’t have time to refocus before Brightstar stabbed her leg with the anti-radiation meds. “Geeze Bright, you didn’t have to enjoy that.”

“Jaenna, she’s your problem. Please find a way to talk sense into her, one of these days.”

Jae sighed and ran her free hand through her dark hair. “Come on. Time to go, hun.” She helped the still spinning Havock to her feet then laughed slightly under her breath. “You’re a walking disaster, but still kinda cute. Let’s go find you a chair, ya?”

Havock stayed silent, just continuing to stare while doing her best not to lose her lunch on the hanger bay floor.

“Vera! Run!” Mai quickly grabbed the screaming Sara and in a swift motion raised her blaster pistol to the nervous looking doctor that had just entered the room.

Doctor Vera Snyder had her hands raised in submission to the squad of troopers. “Please just let her go.” She pleaded, her eyes were wet with worry.

Jaenna paused at the top of the landing ramp with a still uncoordinated Havock attached to her shoulder. Verkur took several steps forward positioning himself between Sara and Doctor Snyder but out of reach of Mai’s pistol. “Look lady, we are taking this transport and the necklace and there’s noth-“

“I don’t care about the transport or the energy module, take them both. Just let her go.” She stood there with tears now falling from her eyes. She was wearing a coat with the name ‘Knowles Labs’ embroidered on the chest above a pocket. Vera had her brown hair tied back and looked like she was about to throw her smudged glasses across the room. There was nothing threatening about the woman in the least right now.

Verkur stood there with a raised eyebrow. Mai looked at him, waiting for her orders, she didn’t seem to care what they were either way. Bright had knelt by Karash, she was getting him prepped to move into the transport once Havock was settled.  Skarr had his hand on his blaster rifle, ready to finish the job and leave just like everyone else at that moment.

“I let you two go, you can run off and tattle on us. I don’t like those odds lady.” Verk slowly raised his rifle.

“Look I’m just a Knowles lab tech, I built an energy module. That’s it. They made me transport it to TransCorp because they thought they were giving me a vacation or something, I don’t know. Sara she just works for TransCorp, she’s just a security guard. We are nobody. You want the damn thing you can have it, I don’t care.” Suddenly her posture shifted slightly, she seemed to get more confident as she prepared what she had to say next. “If you are going to kill her though, kill us both, and stop debating about it. Just do it dammit.”

Havock chuckled under her breath. “I get it, heh heh.”

Jae looked at her oddly for a second then rolled her eyes and pushed her into the transport getting her secured in a passenger chair. “Stay. Don’t make me sedate you.” She tried to sound serious but the smirk on her face betrayed her. She hesitated but turned and left the very loopy squad leader in the vacant transport.

When she returned Bright was carrying Karash up the ramp and two very important people were missing. "Verk, where in the hell is Snyder and Sara?"

He shrugged, passing a still vigilant Mai and Skarr. "What can they do, I took their comms and we've killed all of their people. Right now its more important to get out of here. And she is in no condition to make this decision so it was mine, its done. Let's go." He brushed past the former squad leader and silently made his way into the transport.

"Does anyone know how to fly this thing?" Skarr did not look happy but he was trying to hide that.

Havock tried to raise her hand and succeeded in only whacking the appendage on the chair she was attached to. "Oooh oohh, I can fly ships. I'm good at that."

"Yes, of course you are dear. Any other volunteers." Jaenna looked around.

"I've got it. I'll also go put this away." Brightstar shook her head at the two women and made her way to the cockpit which also had the containment device designed to hold the energy module.

"Great, lets all find our seats and get ready for a smooth ride home." Verkur smirked and headed towards an empty chair.

A single word resounded from the walls of the cockpit. "Shit." Then a red-head came bursting though the doors. "Problem, big problem."

"What now?" Mai groaned walking away from a computer terminal in the passenger area. She must have been informing whoever she was traveling with of her deviation in company for the journey home.

"Its the damn containment field. I guess the company didn't really trust these ladies, they rigged the containment shell and I just set it off. So now they can track us, we need to move."

"If we can get back to our transport we should be okay though right?" Skarr muttered.

Bright was already back in the cockpit and all the others could do was shrug.

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We are on their transport, which will get us back to the capital city. We need to ditch this ride and get on ours before the TransCorp guys catch up with us. They will be trying to get us from their transport since we have effectivly subdued Sara and her peeps. So hurry up and get on the RAIDERS transport. By the time we get there Havock will be in better shape, but Karash is KOed for the rest of the trip.

Havock laid in the cot for a few seconds. There was no telling what they would find, and they had to get the module from its containment on the TransCorp ship to the RAIDERS transport. She rolled her feet to the floor and rubbed her eyes. A small figure easily walked in and sat next to her on the cot.

"Feel better, dumbass?"

She chuckled, leave it to Jaenna to know what to say even if the majority of the squad would never understand the two of them. "Yes, all except my head. Which feels like it got hit by a passenger transport."

"Serves you right." Jaenna nudged Havock with her shoulder.

"Ha, yea, love you too."

A loud noise cut off any further conversation between the two. They both turned with little surprise towards the doorway, Havock sighed, "Ah well, back to work then?"

Jaenna nodded soberly. "Yea I guess so."

She quickly collected her weapons that had been left on the table in the small passenger room. The transport had proven to be much bigger than she thought at first glance. Not that it mattered, they wouldn't be taking the thing anywhere beyond the Capital City's hanger bay. The RAIDERS transport was parked a good 500 meters across the tarmac from where they over looked a sea of TransCorp goons heading towards them blasters already flying bolts.

Havock took a peek out the entry ramp and immediately slammed herself flush against the wall to avoid getting shot. "So this is not their diplomatic corps then I take it."

"Gee what was your first clue." Jaenna knelt at her feet so she could fire off a few shots towards the impending stampede.

"Shame, I figured you could negotiate for us."

"Sometimes I really think you like being shot at."

Havock shrugged. "It's a living."

"Ladies, not to interrupt, but we do have a situation here." Verkur was against the opposite wall but aligned himself in a blind spot so the TransCorp mercs couldn't reach hit him.

"Bright?"

The red head snapped her attention to the squad leader on the opposite side of the entry ramp. "Right, I have the energy module. I set a countdown on my datapad so I don't end up being carried like you and Skarr. If we can get across this blasted hanger bay we'll be fine. The transport has a containment field designed for this thing."

Karash's prone form had been moved about half a meter behind Bright's position, he didn't look to be waking from his slumber any time soon. Fantastic, so we need to carry him.

"Mai, have anything that will level the playing field?"

The cathar woman made a low rumbling growl. She swiftly reached behind her into her pack and pulled out a detonator of some sort. Havock could see her smile slightly as she chucked the devise into the hanger with little ceremony, then pulled back ducking from the blast. "Oh shit."
Havock grabbed the still shooting Jae by the shoulders and yanked them both to the floor just as the flashbang went off, causing the transport to shake slightly.

Jae looked oddly at Havock as they both laid on the floor. "Seriously, you can tell me to duck yanno."

"Maybe I just like tackling you, yanno." She smirked and grabbed Jaenna by the arm as they both stood up. "Let's move. Skarr, Bright get Karash."

They made it half way across the hanger with bolts randomly flying around as they ran. Havock stayed close to Skarr and Bright as they awkwardly carried Karash. Then a new bank of blaster bolts soared through the smokey air towards the confused TransCorp mercs still trying to get their vision back and the dashing RAIDERS.

"And those would be the police." Verk pointed towards a collection of cargo sitting out prepped to be put on one of the transport ships. The luggage was just bulky enough to adequately cover the squad from the new firefight.

"Well here's the good news, they are all distracted." Brightstar smirked and looked at the tired faces around her.

Verk smiled. "That they are."

Havock glanced over a rather ornate piece of luggage. She pushed back the thought that people really shouldn't spend so many credits on something has silly as luggage. She shook her head and watched the scene before her. The mercs were dropping from the stun bolts they couldn't see beyond a blurry light flying towards them seconds before they fell to blackness.

"Go."

They all ran, ducking behind other various crates or ship loading equipment littered along the otherwise open path to the transport. Jaenna, who was by far the fastest runner, darted up to the transports door and frantically pushed buttons to get the ramp open. Mai scampered up behind Jae, "need some help with that?"

Jaenna scoffed, "no." She growled and cursed a bit as a bolt exploded a bit too close to her hands for comfort, before half turning quickly in Mai's direction. "You could cover me."

"Right." Mai hissed.

The door finally released and began to lower just as the rest of the group arrived. Bright and Skarr ran through immediately to get Karash and the module secure. Havock continued to cover fire as she stood at the open hatch. "Time to go ladies." The three troopers turned and jogged through the ship leaving Jaenna to secure the hatch.

Havock dove into the pilots chair and quickly started the ignition sequence.

"You sure you're okay to fly?" Brightstar came in behind her and sat in the co-pilot's chair doing what she could to assist.

"Yes. The module?"

"Secured."

Havock slammed her fist into the final button and smirked as the engines fired. She could see a group of police pointing and yelling at the transport uselessly. She glanced at them one final time before turning the helm towards the stars and pushing the throttle for all it was worth.

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fin.