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(3.7) Nights of Revelation
Nights of Revelation
Republic City
Coruscant, Galactic Republic
Nabrina smiled as she piloted her airspeeder through the busy air lines of Coruscant's Republic City. She was finally able to enjoy that feeling of success that comes from a sense of accomplishment. Her dinner meeting with Senator Marisula had been more fruitful than she ever imagined it could have been. Not only did she finally find someone with an idea of what she was talking about first hand. Senator Marisula was truly a wealth of information and he was even able to provide actually proof that these shadow stalkers exist and more importantly than that he was able to show that they have been supplied at least in part by the Grand Army of the Republic. 'Oh this is just too sweet' she thought to herself as she just grinned while passing a group of airspeeders. For once she really felt like she had made some progress in her quest. “Oh shite, wait till Ubaah hears about this.” She said getting her comlink ready. She didn't want to wait to tell him the remarkable news that she finally uncovered. She was so filled with excitement that she didn't even notice the Security Speeder slowly moving up behind her.
She checked it once to make sure that it was preparing to send her message. She nodded as she glance down and saw that the signal would have a delay in the transmission. 'Well my friend you will have to deal with a short delay' she thought then tapped the record/send button. Pausing for the red light to turn to green, she started to talk, “Okay Ubaah you are going to love this. I just had a meeting with one of my contacts tonight. OH MY GOD Ubaah, I have it. The proof we were searching for. These Shadow Stalkers really do exist! More than that, Ubaad, they are being supplied by our very own Grand Army. My contact actually believes that they are some type of secret branch of the Republic Military. A Black Operations unit so to speak, that is used to clean up messes that are too dangerous for the Chancellor to let get out. I have it all right here with me. Once I get home I am going to send it all to you for you to see what I found. You have to see this Ubaah.....”
Her voice was cut off by the sounds of sirens behind her. “What the hell?!” she said finally taking notice of the Security Speeder behind her. “I wasn't speeding. What does he want with me.” she said slowing the airspeeder down while she heard the Officer calling her to land her speeder. “Where would you like me to land” she said out of frustration. “Fine, fine” she finally said as she noticed a place clear enough to land. “I have never seen so many speeders parked along here.” she commented as she landed her speeder with a metal clanking sound. “Where is that Senatorial Permit, I wasn't speeding. Just wait till I contact Captain Narcassan about this tomorrow.” Her frustration was clearly heard as she forgot about the recording comlink.
“Step out of the speeder, Ma'am.” The Officer said walking up the speeder with a hand on his weapon. It was clear he was taking no chances with her. He was a clean shaved attractive human male with light colored eyes and dark hair. From her advantage point, she never noticed the small tattoo of a offset star and moon on the back of his neck.
Nabrina started to get out of her speeder as she spoke, “Officer why was pulled over? I know I was not breaking any of the laws.” She reached over the edge of the speeder to grab her shoulder bag. She knew that she would need some of her documents within it. She placed the bag on the front of the speeder.
The Officer stepped forward to close the distance between them as he held out his hand, “Permit and ID please Ma'am.” He completely ignored her question and statement.
Nabrina started to pull out her documents when something struck her as odd. His uniform seemed almost fresh and new but there was some type of stain on his collar. She looked at it strangely, “Did you cut yourself this morning Officer” she questioned softly.
He smiled back at her as she noticed the blood stain from where he had stabbed the original owner of the uniform. It was too late for her to do anything about what was about to happen. He saw his partner sneaking up behind her with his weapon out. It was his gaze behind her that cued her to something was wrong. She turned to see the second man walking up to her. He was dressed like he belonged to a street gang and more importantly, he was holding a blaster pointed at her. She could tell that he had been living on the streets for some time. He was not clean shaved and was very dirty. He had a scare over his left eye . His head was half shaved showing off a tattoo of an offset star and moon along with a tattoo of some type of ship on his neck. She started to back away hoping the Officer also saw the man, only to find the Officer grappling her from behind.
Nabrina let out a scream as she remembered her basic self defense classes. She drove her elbow in to the Officer's ribs causing him to let out a groan in pain. He doubled over a bit falling back, “Damn BITCH” he yelled at her that added “SHOT HER!
Before his partner could react, Nabrina was able to get to her shoulder back. She swung it as hard as she could hoping that the large number of heavy items within the bag would render him dazed so she could get away. Sadly the bag hit the man in the arm and the shoulder. It did free the weapon from his hand and knocked him back enough for her to attempt an escape. The bag however ripped open sending the contents scattering across the landing pad. Nabrina didn't have time to think, as she let the bag go and ran as fast as she could.
The Officer leaped up screaming, “Get the damn chip!” he waved his hand at the speeder, “I got her!” he snapped as he took off after her.
His partner nodded as he watched the pair take off down the walkway. “Fine with me, I never bloody like the idea of killing her in the first place, stupid slags.” He said searching for the datachip. “Where they hell is it. Come on where is that chip!” he said as he continued to search for the chip. Finally he found it still in the torn bag. “I got your bloody chip!” he yelled not caring that they couldn't hear him. He got up and pulled out the small fire bomb. “This should do it” he commented as he set a timer and tossed the bomb in to the front seat of the speeder. “Just like I was told right? Caspy, do this, Caspy do that. No one cares what Caspy has to say. Just do this and that.” still commenting as he calmly walked away but then stopped, “I TOLD YOU, I DIDN'T LIKE WORKING FOR THAT WOMAN!” he yelled out once more then turned again and finally left the area. He never noticed the comlink under some papers sitting on the front seat. He never saw that the link was transmitting the entire event via the holonet.
The comlink saw everything that just happened. Sadly, no one on Coruscant will ever know about this transmission. The fire bomb exploded with such intensity that the speeder was lifted up almost ten feet in to the air. The blast blew the speeder in to hundreds of burning pieces scattering high and far. The front seat of the speeder flew high over the edge of the landing pad in flames. Other pilots narrowly avoided it as it vanished in to the lower levels of Coruscant. With it, the charred remains of her comlink and the datalog of what just happened.
Meanwhile, Nabrina ran as hard as she could trying to get away from the Officer. She heard him yelling behind her “Stop Criminal!” The irony of that statement didn't escape her but at the moment she had no time to think about it. Her life was on the line and she had to get away. She yelled out, “Please someone help me!” To her surprise no one even tried to help her. One man had even tried to trip her as she ran past him. Everyone else just got out of the way so that the Officer could have a clean shot at catching her. Ahead of her she saw a Rodian rushing her way. Like the man at her Speeder he too was dirty and dressed like a gang member. She knew that they were working together and she didn't need any other clues for that fact. She turned so hard she nearly lost her footing as she tried to make for a alleyway. “Someone HELP ME!” she yelled out again. Still no one even paid attention to her plight.
She pushed herself hard as she ran down the alleyway. She glance behind her to see where they were. To her surprise they were starting to slow their chase. 'I might actually get away!' she thought as she turned her head just in time to see a large dark thing in front of her. She hit it hard head on causing him to let out a bit of wind. She bounced off him backwards and landed on her rear. She looked up to see a larger than normal human male standing before her. She saw the tattoo on his neck of an offset Star and Moon. She blink as the Officer and Rodian run up and stopped right behind her. She looked around and realized she was trapped. “I have money, I can pay you” she thought hoping maybe she could end this without her getting hurt. At the same time she knew that her attempt would fail. This was too planned out for this to be some random attack. They targeted her for a reason.
The large human laughed deeply. “How much can you pay rich bitch?” he said slowly lowering himself next to her. “We are get'n paid pretty good to kill you” he said then back handed her across the face so hard that it filled her vision with stars. Another slap across her face added planets and moons around those stars. The third hit sent a commit across her little solar system of her vision. She fell back hitting her head on the ground with a whimper. “But before we do you, we go'n to have some fun with you, little rich bitch.”
“Crush, thats not part of the plan. The authorities will be here soon” the Officer said nervously then added, “just cut her up like we were told and lets get out of here!” The Rodian nodded his approval of sticking to the plan
Crush smiled, “Come on Jaxs” he said grabbing the front of her shirt and ripped it open with a loud ripping sound. “Just look at her. Prime A Grade Twi'lek meat wait'n to be tak'n and used. She a high class whore begg'n to be abused” he said smacking her again causing her to start to whimper.
Nabrina looked around, her vision was cloudy and blurred from the blows she taken. She thought she saw something high above them, but her attention was pulled back as her shirt was ripped open. “Please don't” she whimpered as she tried to look away. The next smack forced her to look back at him. He grabbed her lekku and held her head so to look at him while his hand groped her. She felt to defeated and broken in that moment to offer any more resistance. 'Soon it will all be over' she could only think. They were going to do what they wished with her and there was nothing she could do to stop them. She was powerless to even defend herself.
The Rodian moved backwards, “Crush, just kill her like we were told. It was said clearly to just do that and nothing more.” Everyone knew how important it was for them to do what their employer had said. The last time they changed her plans, she had their former leader gunned down. Betraying her was something he was not willing to do.
Crush looked down in to the fear filled eyes of Nabrina as he smiled back at her, “How's about a kiss for your nuw boyfriend” he said with a slur while slowly lowering his face towards her bruised face.
She closed her eyes as she started to smell his foul breath hitting her face. She thought she was going to vomit as the warmth of his breath got closer. She heard a series of thuds and a smack. Her eyes snapped open just in time to see Crush falling atop of her. His broad chest covered her face and cut off her breath. She heard more sounds of combat while she fought hard to get her head free from the weight of the man. 'my god he's heavy' she thought trying to get free from him. 'Did his partners kill him' she questioned as she just worked her head free of him. Her question was about to be answered.
She saw the Officer trying to get up from a pile of trash along the side of the alleyway. His head was bleeding badly already and his stance was shaken. She looked over and saw a second Rodian standing in front of the gang member Rodian. The second Rodian was familiar. Then it dawned on her, 'the messenger from the Senate Building earlier today' she thought almost speaking the thought out loud. She tried to struggle herself free with no further success.
The messenger had a pair of weapons in his hands. She never saw anything like them before. They seemed to be like two large three pronged forks. The center prong was longer then the outer two and straight. The outer two were a bit curvy and uniformed with each other. He held them where the prongs joined with the hilt. The gang member Rodian leaped forward with a vibroknife. The messenger easily sidestepped the attack while driving his left weapon up and catching the hand of gang member between the center prong and an outer prong. With a wide spin of his arm the messenger twisted the gang member's arm out wide to the side. The gang member let out a scream as his arm was continued twisted behind his back. The messenger drove the hilt of his right weapon in to the now twisted shoulder of his opponent. Then a twin smashing blow was dealt to the back of the head of the gang member.
The blows shattered the gang member's shoulder, rendering the arm useless and enclaving the skull of the gang member. The messenger pulled the broken arm harder as he twisted his own body. With a pop of his hips and a powerful jerk of his arms, he tossed the gang member across the alleyway in to the side of the building. The Rodian slammed his wounded head against the wall, splattering blood in a two meter pattern. The Rodian landed in a pile of trash with a thud. At the same time, Officer thought he had a opportunity to sneak attack the messenger as he quietly moved up behind the him. Despite the care taken to be silent, the messenger turned at the very last moment. The Officer drove his own vibroblade at the messenger only to find his weapon hand being caught by the odd weapon of the messenger. With his right arm caught by the messenger's right weapon, the messenger drove the hilt of his left weapon in to the elbow of the Officer. The blow shattered the joint as the messenger twisted under the limb and brought the hand back at the Officer's side.
With a scream from the Officer, the messenger drove the blade deep in to the Officer's side. The messenger held the blade in the Officer's side while holding him up ensuring that he was dead. Within seconds the last breath of the Officer slipped from his lips. The messenger let the Officer fall to the ground and check the other two to make sure they were not getting back up. Just as he already knew, they were all dead. With a nod he walked over to the large human where Nabrina was still trapped. He grabbed the human and lifted the body off her. And dropped down next to her. “Are you hurt” he asked her taking note of her wounds and ensured that she was not in any immediate medical danger.
She didn't believe her eyes and what she just saw. She never saw anything like this before. All she could do was shake her head. She was dumb founded by the turn of events. Her mind however was rapidly recovering.
He looked at her carefully as he pulled off his jacket and covered her torn blouse. “We have to move” he said taking careful hold of her arm and helped her to her feet. He was caring in his touch of her and she could tell there was something odd about him.
She started to go along with it then pulled her arm away from him. “No wait, what is going on” she questioned and added, “who are you?” She was still in shock over all that happened with in the past few moments.
He looked at her with surprise on his face. “While, it would appear they were hired to kill you. Luckily I was near by to help you.” He explained poorly trying to hide the truth of why he was there. He then restated his question, “so we can go now?” trying to get her moving already. He knew that the threat was still very real and time was not on their side.
She looked around, “near to help me?” she said not buying the statement. “You are not some simple messenger.” She paused then demanded an answer, “ARE YOU!?” She knew that maybe leaving was a good idea but her mind wanted answers first. “You are not just some good intentioned messenger. Don't lie to me.” she demanded holding her ground on this issue.
He looked down in disappointment. “Fine” he said as he reached up to his left upper arm and keyed some datapad. There was a shimmer about him and around him. Within seconds the Rodian before her was gone and replaced by an attractive human male. “I am Priest Aves Pryde, Temple Guardian from the Innisfree Temple” he explained softly and quietly.
Her surprise and shock was written across her face at the statement and revelation. “Azgardian?” she said knowing the answer just as the word formed on her lips. She felt stupid for asking such a foolish question but it was already asked before she caught herself.
He nodded, “Warlord Raynar assigned us to protect you a few weeks ago.”
She shook her head, “So he ignored my refusal of his offer for bodyguards I see.” She had mixed feelings of being thankful the man was there but disappointed that her refusal was ignored.
He smiled at her, “Regardless Senator, judging on the recent situation. His action seems justified and well thought out.” A loud explosion was heard down the alleyway. “Please Senator. We have to flee the area. We can not trust anyone at this moment” he explained as he motioned for them to leave. Finally she nodded and he lead the way for them to leave. The night was still young and there was no telling how many more gang members were hunting them. He had to protect her at all costs, that was his orders and he will follow those orders to the letter.
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