A blue haze engulfed the seedy cantina on Kessel. The thick smoke from various illegal spice-bongs and pipes was almost suffocating...but not to the regulars of "Krazy Kuyal's Pit Stop and Cantina". One of which happened to be drumming her fingers agianst a well-toned thigh...

Jaina Corellia Han Solo Darklighter was leaned back cooly on two legs of her stool, propped back agianst the wall behind her. She was holding a damn good hand of sabacc cards in the hand that wasn't on her thigh. Her sea-green eyes scanned the faces of the beings she was compeating agianst...a Zabrak, a Chiss, a humaniod, and some squid-looking chick with bad B.O. and a hankering for the same-sex.
Jai had been trying to keep a BIG distance between her and the squid-dyke through out the course of the hands she had been playing...but squid-girl kept inching closer.
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Ugh, do I ever hate Kessel. <!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> Jai thought with a shudder.

Suddenly the metallic cards in her hands---and everyone else's---shimmered a second and then changed in face and value. Jaina nearly dropped dead at her new hand.
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Perfect Sabacc!!! YES! oooo...come to Mama, you little credits you! <!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
Jai stood cooly and laid out her cards, "Gentalmen. Ladies...", she cringed as the squid-dyke batted her 'eyelashes' at Jai. Solo continued, "I believe I have a perfect sabacc. Seems I win."

A uninanimous grumble came from the 3 males, but the squid just 'smiled' flirtingly. Jai could've barfed right there and then....if it weren't for what happened next:
Just then Krazy Kuyal walked up to the table. "Miss Solo?" (Jai still went by her maiden name mostly...just easier that way.) "I'm sorry, but this droid-dealer is broken. That Idiot card is really a Smuggler card."

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--> <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Well, lets not go into details about Jai's reaction...or about how the fight broke out....or about....well.....lets just skip ahead a bit, shall we?<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->

Two hours later Jai limped out of Krazy Kuyal's Cantina...with a black eye, a hurt leg, and squid-gut-stains on her shirt. "Damn, do I ever hate Kessel."

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Jai had come to Kessel on top secret orders from Fearsons, leader of TRE. Some terrorist activity had been going on in the area and there was a rumor that TRE might be targeted next. Therefore, Jai did her Commander-ly duty and became a paid snoop. The customers of the Cantina were no help...she'd been prying all of them for info---descreetly, of course---all night. Some help that squid-girl had been! All she did was use up a blaster cell and ruin a good shirt.
Jaina picked a bit of blue skin out of her hair and cringed...seemed the Chiss' weren't exactly tidy when dieing either. Solo-Darklighter sighed and stuffed her hands in her pockets as she walked back to the public docking bays.

Kessel was an awful place: dark, dirty, dank, and rank. It was also pretty lonely...after comming out of retirement, Jai had missed her family. And Kessel was about as far a cry from the Darklighter Fleet & the planet Delph, as Heaven was from Hell. She kicked at the rocks on the graveled path as she strolled along. Only a Solo was crazy enough to <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> stroll<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> in Kessel's UnderWorld. It was notorious for murders, rapes, and various other acts of crime. However, Jai was alot tougher than she looked...espically with the entrails of aliens all over her.

She knew she was being followed...whoever it was had been tailing her for a block or two. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Your almost to ya ship, Solo...just keep going, just keep walkin'. Dont turn 'round...for the sake of the Minions of Xendor, DON'T turn around!<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
Jai kept stealing glances when she could...a male? a female?....was it even human? She couldn't tell. But she could tell it didn't just want to bum a smoke or light.

When Jai reached the publc docking bays, she lept into bay 11118 and practically dove into her ship, the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Millennium Jade Falcon<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> or <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> MJF<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> for short. She sealed the ramp and finally sighed relief...but drew it back in quickly when a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> rap tap tap<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> was heard being knocked on the hull. She decided to ignore it...for now.

The target stepped away from the sabacc table,apparently winning the hand.The owner of the cantina came over and started speaking to the target about somthing.The target was not happy and a fight broke out between the sabaac players.A few hours later the target managed to get out of the cantina and stumble away.The man got up from the table and went outside.


The taget was now walking in the general direction of the spaceport,most likely toward her ship.The man continued to follow his orders and stayed a reasonable distance behind her.
The man was not obvious either,he was wearing a simple black cloak with a hood.The hood was up so the man's face could not be seen.The target suddenly looked to the right,a sign that meant she knew she was being followed.Most likely her rudimentry Jedi skills that picked him up.He turned on a side street that took him directly to the spaceport,probably faster than the target.He moved to the shadows near the entrance and waited for the target to enter.He watched her come in rathar quickly,casting glances left and right.The man waited untill she was 30 meters away from him before resuming his mission of following her to her ship.

She ran into a docking bay and up the ramp of an old beat-up looking Corellian Light Freighter.He heard the hatch close shut and sealed itself automaticly.

She had just made her first mistake.

She was desperately hoping that the walls of a mere Light Freighter could keep anyone out.The man was just about to make his move toward the ship when a Rodian,Human,and two Squid-like people entered the bay.The man stayed stock still not moving a muscle.The Rodian walked up to the ship and began tapping it.The man pulled out some macrobinoculars and zoomed in on the Rodian's hands.It looked like he was planting some sort of tracking device on the ship.The man sighed.The target's ship was never going to get away so the Rodian's actions were pointless.He silently sneaked up behind the group of people and removed a long vibroblade.He moved behind the human and dispatched him before anyone was aware of the man's presence.He spun and calmly and quickly stabbed one of the squids through the back.The other turned and fired,but the man was no longer there.


The vibroblade appeared at the man's throat and sliced sideways.The last squid dropped without a sound to the ground.The Rodian,the smarter of all of them, just turned and ran for the entrance of the docking bay.The man raised his arm and suddenly two energy bolts lanced out and hit the fleeing Rodian in the back.The Rodian dropped to the ground and was still.The man turned back to the target's ship,but decided to leave it alone for now.Before he left he disabled the engines and hyperdrive with a quick stab and slash with the vibroblade.The MJF would not be leaving anytime soon.

Jai had showered off and got all that squid-mess off of her and the chiss-guts out of her hair. She was presently wiggleing into a clean, white shirt and fussing at Fearsons over her portable com-unit. The conversation was quite a heated, argumental one. It ended by Jai resigning from TRE and telling Fearsons to go take a flying leap head-first into a Sarlacc pit. She cut off transmission and cursed in Corellian as she struggled with the form-fitting T-shirt....just then, a alarm went off in the cabin, "What tha...?"

She pulled the shirt over her head and tugged on her boots on the way to the MJF's cockpit. she plopped down in her captain's chair and looked at the panel before her. A buzzing alarm was going off and a red light was flashing persistantly, "Low engine fluid?"

The thought of her baby, her MJF, being broken totally filled her mind...she didnt even take time to lace her boots before lowering the ramp on the ship and strideing to the back. On her way out, she tripped over something and cursed in Corellian. Looking back, she saw slain bodies all laying on the ground and pools of blood surrounding them. Jai turned pale and gulped...she had just made a BIG mistake by comming out of her ship.

The target lowered the ramp of her ship and walked slowly down.She didn't noticed the bodies untill she nearly tripped over one.Upon seeing the bodies her mouth dropped open and she stopped in her tracks.She cast a quick look around the docking bay and began to walk-run-back up the ramp.The man stepped out of the shadows and unfurled a whip.He launched it up and over the bodies and around the target.He pulled her back and made her stumble over the bodies again.She attempted to struggle but the whip had done it's work,she could not move.The man walked over to the target and around to face her.He pulled his hood back and Darklighter saw his face.


It was Solid Snake.

Jaina struggled agianst the work and cursed in Corellian...but she stopped short and gasps, "S-s...Snake!?"

It could'nt be! She had heard he was killed, some kind of explosion...this wasn't happening!!! Who was this? What was going on?


"W-what are you doing? What's with the whip? Snake...", she didnt quite know what to say.

(sorry for the short post, but i really didnt know what to say! lol)

Snake smiled faintly.

"Yes Snake did die.But I am not the Snake you remember.Solid Snake died some one year ago in an explosion in a Rogue Imperial Research Lab.He was a traitor to The Rogue Empire,he even triggered the explosion himself.Snake cared deeply for you,and unlike him,I want to kill you!.But that will come soon,right now I will bring you back to my superiors."

Snake pulled Jaina closer to him and reached out as if to grab her hair.

Jai struggled and writhed, trying to get free of the whip. She stopped, turned a bit pale, and her sea-green eyes went wide with slight fear on the I-want-to-kill-you part.

"Superiors?" She gasped as he pulled her close and jerked her head to the side, trying to avoid his grasp. "How dare you seize me like this? You can't do this to me! <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> I'm a Solo!<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->"

Snake regarded her.

"And I'm a Snake"

He smiled at her wide eyes.

"Oh yes.I am Snake......Liquid Snake.Clone of Solid Snake"

He continued to smile,a smile that was hauntingly familiar to Jai.

"Such a pretty face and so much resitance.You will be a worthy foe when we finally do battle.And when I will kill you"

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> That face...That smile...how could somone who was cloned from such a dear friend want to kill her? Wasnt the whole purpose of cloneing to DUPLICATE something?!

"Pretty Face"? What?! Was he hitting on her now?<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
Well, that did it...now Jaina was pissed.

"You listen here buster: your makeing a BIG mistake. I dont know who you work for...but believe me, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Kid<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->...there in store for some Solo temper. And so are you if you dont let me out of the whip right this second!!"

"Battle? I'll show you a battle, buddy...Why, I oughta...." All Jai could do was sneer and growl under her breath. She didnt know how, but she had gotten herself into a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> real<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> fix this time...

Liquid's smile faded.He lurched forward and his vibroblade came up and stopped at Jai's throat.His ice-blue eyes stared right at her.

"Don't tempt me,Solo"

He didn't move the sword,he just stood there,as if he was preparing to kill her.