Trandosha: Rooftop

She looked at this male somewhat confused: he acted like he knew her, yet she was pretty sure she'd never seen him before in her life.

Must be mistaking me for someone else. She thought, mildly amused. Since at night most 'normal' Trandoshans could only see individuals by their heat signitures, so being able to identify someone can be a bit of a chore. Standing up straight, the pair of K'Zur on her hands relaxed at her side, she stared at him with a faint smirk she knew he wouldn't be able to see.

"A question though..." She said. "Who the @#%$ are you?"

Tissuss: Orbit

"Sir, they have responded: they are sending shuttles to pick up that crew." The comm officer said.

"Good. Relay that to the crew of the False Hope on this ship and the other two." The second said. "I'm sure they'll be glad to go home and recover with more familiar faces."

Triton

When she reached engineering Varcanna spotted a couple of Trandoshan engineers, who were working on the engines. She had a feeling it wasn't willingly, considering the armed guard standing not far from them. A couple more guards were sitting at a table off to one side, playing a card game.

This is going to be a tricky one. She thought, the cogs in her brain trying to work out how to eliminate these guys without raising the alarm. Varcanna noticed that the guard not participating in the game would occasionally wonder over and see who's winning and she got an idea.

When the guard's back was turned, she waved at the engineers, who looked up at her with a puzzled look on their faces. She made a couple of hand gestures, which simiply meant: give me something to throw. The engineers looked at the guards, then back at her, smiling when they recognized her mischievous grin. One of them took out a bolt from his toolbox and tossed it to her, which she easily caught.

The next time the standing guard stood next to the table to watch the game more closely, she let the bolt fly and it smacked one of the sitting guards right in the back of the head.

"Ow!" The stung guard said. "What you hit me for man!?"

"Hit you? I didn't hit you?" The standing guard said.

"Bull @#%$...you are always pulling pranks like that on us." The stung guard rose to his feet threateningly.

"Look...you can't seriously be still upset about the 'whipped cream in the shaving cream can' bit..."

"You know...I think he was looking at my cards earlier just to cue you in on when I am bluffing!" The other sitted guard said, raising to his feet as well.

"Now now...I wouldn't go that far..." The accused guard said, backing away.

The guard she hit with the bolt swung at him, which he ducked and countered by bashing the man with the butt of his rifle. His attacker went down, grasping his head, and his card buddy tackled him.

Varcanna calmly made her move then, taking out the baton and knife she looted before. While the two were wrestling each other she finished off the first guard with a quick stab through the heart. She then bashed the one of the pair that was on top with the baton on the head and slashed the throat of the man on the bottom before he could react. To finish off, she snapped the remaining guard's neck.

"How many more are there in here?" She asked the two engineers, who had watched the show gleefully.

"Not entirely sure." One replied. "Five I think...which could be anywhere in this area."

"Time to hunt them down then..." Varcanna said with a smile. "Should be fun..."

Trandosha:warehouse

He looked at her for a second, the blushed. “Oh ….. great… “, he said before being slapped in the back of the head

“What person Bro!”, came a females voice from behind him

He turned. “Not like I can tell who’s who with these cloaking generators on”, he said

His sister nodded. “Uh huh, yea sure.. keep telling yourself that”, he said with a wink

“Huh.. HEY! IT’S NOT LIKE THAT!”, he said

Tissuss:Orbit

The captain of the cargo ship Ulysies, monitored the stabilization of some of the key systems in the station they where about to build. “Everything survived the trip, begin construction”, he said

…

The doctor and his assist’s where able to Stabilize Lavality while in the medical bay. He smiled briefly, “I thought as much, someone tried to poison her”, he said while sitting down in a chair and holding a vile of her blood. “Of all the stupid things to do, must’ve been one of the marine’s back at the Triton”

Triton

Lumier made her way toward the bridge, along the way she had cut down several marine’s who had gotten in her way. She looked around a corner and noticed no marines, “Hmm they must be running out of marines”, she said to herself and made a break for the bridge.

As she ran she heard something, then dove for the ground as the passage behind her suddenly exploded. She coughed and looked behind her, “A trap”, he said and ran her hand over her mouth to clear some blood

“Child’s play”, came a female’s voice from the bridge door

Lumier turned, recognizing the cold, heartless voice. “You….”

“Something wrong dear sister?”, she said with a grin

“Don’t ever say that…. We disowned you when you murdered those children”, Lumier said reaching for her blade

The girl laughed. “Those children had it coming, they where, after all, Trandoshan”, she said

“That doesn’t matter”, Lumier said, anger in her voice. She quickly examined the walls.. the area she was in was completely open to the elements of the outside, So, the engineer’s havn’t repaired this portion of the ship.. this’ll be interesting

“Come on sis, I know you want to kill me”, The girl said

Lumier grinned, almost mischievously. “You have no idea how much I want to”, she said in a low tone.

The girl grinned, before she became a blur of motion. Lumier watched as the girl dashed down what remained of the corridor and tried to slash out using her Vibrolance. But Lumier was faster, or luckier, and dodged the attack

They both stood up. “Ok warm up’s over”, she said

Lumier winced. “Wa… warm up?”, she said in disbelief… oh great

Trandosha: Warehouse

She chuckled. "Do not worry." She said, smiling. "Mistakes happen, especially since you can only see in heat at night." She looked over at the horizon, where the first rays of the sun was just starting to make it's apparance. "I must take my leave...good day."

Without another word she jumped from the roof and disappeared into the shadows.

Separatist Hideout

"I see..." Rissonik said, the Keshir having just gave him his report. "So you have no clue who this individual works for...or what his or her purpose is."

"No Sha'tor." The Keshir said. "I was hoping he or she would take out Besk, but seemed to only want to toy with him instead."

"A dangerous game. This individual must be overly confident. If you can find this individual again...I would like for you to find out more about him or her. Someone like this we need to be sure who's side he or she is on..."

Just then Lissuss and her group returned and Rissonik smiled when he saw the confirmation that they succeeded in rescuing the girl.

"Glad to see she is safe." He said.

"Aye Sha'tor, though we had some help from some unknown entity..." One of the K'Satikur warrior said.

"I already know about that." Rissonik said, raising a hand. "And our spy was only able to determine it was a fellow T'Doshok, nothing more."

Tissuss: Triton

After a relatively short time Varcanna found all the remaining guards in the engineering section, and she was a bit disappointed.

"This was too easy..." She mumbled as she started on her way toward the bridge. "I wonder how Lumier is holding out?"

Tiskus was running out of victims, in fact...the marines were now running from him.

"Wusses..." He grumbled, getting bored. The walls trembled briefing and the sound of an explosion got his attention. "Sounds like my kind of party..." He said with a chuckle, trotting the source.

(ooc: thanks for the heads up bro...fortunately...only a couple of words were lost.)

Trandosha:warehouse

Kysh nodded. “The two that where talking about are part of an assassination squad that’s part of our organization, there the most well trained, and deadliest. It’s been rumored that a single assassin can bring down two full squads of marine’s, and after today, and what I saw, I believe it”

He walked over to a small bed and placed his sister on it. He placed his hand on his sisters forehead, “her head is hot, feels like she has a fever”, he said. “After what they had done to her, this is expected”

…

A male figure stood outside that very hideout

“So, this is where Kysh and his small party have been hiding”, said a male who could not be seen

“Apparently so, unfortunately we can’t make any move yet”, a female’s voice came from nowhere

He nodded. “You’re right, the admiral hasn’t sent the message yet, you think something happened?”

“Possibly, we can’t strike at Besk yet, and we can’t strike at his boss either. But we can strike at the mercenary group’s HQ that’s located here in town. Kill their leader and the Council will have one less ally to worry about”, the female said

“You handle the merc’s. I’ll handle the pirates’ leader. I heard he was in a meeting with the council leader; I’ll strike at him while he’s heading to the spaceport

Tissuss:Triton

Lumier slammed into the bulkhead, blood dripped down from the walls. She felt pain, “Damn.. this is turning bad”, she said while trying to figure out what to do

Her opponent moved and tried to impale Lumier, but failed. Lumier dodged and brought her fist up and punched the girl in the stomach, then ran in back of her and slammed her foot into the back of her opponent

Her opponent hit the wall, making a big event. She shook her head and looked at Lumier, “Nice, you managed to get me”, she said

Lumier stared at her opponent. “What the hell is she.. a cyborg?”, she asked herself. Any normal human would’ve broken their neck with how fast the girl had hit the wall. “Time’s like these I wish Tiskuswas around”

She got up and looked at Lumier. “I bore of this fight”, she said and looked away, then grinned. She rushed toward Lumier and moved with such speed that Lumier didn’t even notice her coming in front of her and punching her head in the chest, she flew backward and into the door that lead to the bridge, the door bulked and broke away and Lumier flew through the remains. She hit the commands chair and finally fell to the ground; coughing up blood she managed a smile. “I’m in over my league”, she said

Trandosha: Warehouse

"Best let her rest then." Rissonik said.

"In regards to that assassination squad..." The K'Satikur that had witnessed the guards death spoke up. "I don't believe they were the ones that killed the people inside that building...."

"How do you mean?" Kysh asked.

"I actually saw one of the guards in there be killed by an invisible foe...and she specifically said that your sister was not of her concern. Plus the slashing of throats just doesn't seem like your guys style."

Rissonik eyes narrowed. "Such a technique is favored by T'Doshok that are pure assassins...and use a weapon called a K'Zur"

"A what?"

Rissonik looked over at one warrior, who reached into one of their supply boxes and pulled out what looked like a leather glove, only adorned with wicked looking foot long blades at the ends of the fingers. The warrior handed the weapon to Rissonik, who handed it to Kysh. "Do any of your group use that weapon?" He asked. "I doubt it, for it's a weapon rarely used by any T'Doshok these days, even among my own clan."

"So you're suggesting..."

"That there is another party in this now, one whom we don't know who's side she is on."

Hyossk's Chambers

Hyossk looked worried, but then the aging Councilor has been looking worried a lot as of late.

"He's dead...?" He said, uncertain.

"Yes Councilor, along with two of his hired guards. " Besk said. "No witnesses to the murder either...and I believe it was the same individual that attacked my squad while I was investigating. He managed to kill a couple more of my squad right in front of me before I drove him away."

"Then you know who it was..."

Besk shook his head. "No. He was using some sort of cloaking device...one our infravision couldn't defeat."

Hyossk nodded. "The Sykir did report recently that three prototypes of such devices were stolen."

"And now being used against us. Do your Sykir friends happen to have a 'counter' to such devices?" Besk asked, his tone slightly bitter. The fact that the professor was doing things behind his back still left a sour taste in his mouth.

"Not that I know of. As secretive as they are I was surprised they told me about the cloaking devices..."

There a was a knock on the door, which Besk went to get. The opened door revealed the leader of the Pirate group himself, who looked angry yet frightened at the same time.

"Your band has failed again..I've heard..." Hyossk hissed.

"You told us there was only one Trandoshan Destroyer guarding that ship! There is three!" The pirate growled.

"The Fanggore and RedClaw, who recently defacted, no doubt." Besk mumbled.

"I had sent a small number of our remaining fleet to assist you in the event those two ships did show up." Hyossk said.

"Well they never showed up...my crews were slaughtered."

Hyossk looked at Besk, who could only shrug unknowingly. Did those ships defect too?

"Either way...you still failed." Hyossk said. "And you know the price of failure..."

The pirate leader gulped and backed away.

"Councilor...if I may." Besk interceded. "While it displeases me to actualy 'help' such worthless scum....must I remind you that we've lost 50% of our fleet during all this and the shipyard is behind schedule on replacements. Sending what remains of our fleet after his band would leave us vulnerable and we still don't know who pulled the attack on Sakkh. We should concentrate our forces around the homeworld and take care of the threats on our own home soil first. Your son and heir is still missing for instance...and it will be only a matter of time before the Separatist start to use him against us."

"You're right..." Hyossk groaned, Besk finally beaten some sense into the paranoid Trandoshan. "Instead of killing you and your band off....I want you to have what remains of your forces suppliment ours around Dosha."

"So we will be babysitters now?" The pirate leader said with a sneer.

"Would you rather be dead?" Hyossk growled. "I can arrange that...."

The pirate leader bulked, nodded once in acceptance and promptly took his leave before taking the chance Hyossk would change his mind.

"It's hard to find good help these days..." Besk said.

Hyossk sighed. "Harder to keep good help alive as well."

As if on cue, Besk heard his comm unit beep: he only had it with him in case his group needed his presense immediately. He took the device out had looked at the screen, it was only a text message, but the message made his eyes widden.

"I must go..." Besk said. Hyossk, who normally would have chidded him at that moment, had that worried look on his face again and simply nodded. Besk quickly ran off.

He felt angry, yet a bit frightened as well. Who would be bold enough to attack his groups HQ?

....

She watched the chaos as the mercenaries ran about, trying to locate their attacker. Calmly she pounced on another two, her K'Zur ripping into their hides easily and leaving them a bloody mess before ducking into another hiding hole.

The reason she was attacking this place was simple. The professor supplied this group with the latest weapons and technology, and the group is lead by Besk...

She knew not to get cocky though. Besk was no doubt on his way here and she knew she couldn't take out all of these mercenaries on her own...

Tissuss: Triton

Tiskus had just rounded a corner when he saw Lumier flying pass in the distance.

"Looks like the lass needs some assistance..." He muttered to himself gleefully, his long metal tail twitching with anticipation for a good fight. He charged forward and didn't hesitate to ram the first thing that passed in front of him, who slammed into the wall hard from the force. "Is kis a private party or can anyone join?" He said, grinning, his various natural weaponry still stained with the blood of all the marines he slew.

...

Varcanna hard a nasty fight up ahead and when she peeked around the corner she saw Tiskus and that one human @#%$ squaring off. I think I'll sit out this one... She thought. And stay out of their way...

(ooc: bro, feel free to control Tiskus for this fight)

Trandosha:Merc HQ

Off in the distance, in the darkness that supplied an area of the base, a short female stood, her hands resting gently on the stock of her sniper rifle. “Come on…”, she said as she tracked a Trandoshan who was searching franticly for there attacker

She pulled the trigger, and smiled when the round tore through the head of the Trandoshan sending the body spinning to the ground. “One down”, she said and licked her lips, “One to go”

Having killed only 15 Trandoshans, using 15 rounds, she ditched her rifle and took out her Vibrolance. “Not the same type of weapon’s those Trandoshan’s use, but this modified version should be more than enough”, she said and jumped, landing on the ground below she looked around, her cloaking device still active

She saw a group of merc’s running toward where the commotion was, she was her speed and agility to out flack the group, she came up in front of them and took the head of the lead of the group off, she then cut cleanly through the body’s of the rest. When the slaughter was done, she smiled. “Lavality would have a fit if she saw how much fun I was having”, she said under her breath knowing full well that she was defying orders by attacking a group, instead of attacking on person

Somewhere near the Spaceport

A male figure knelt down in the darkest area of the spaceport, which happened to be right next to the door. “Lets see, he should be arriving any moment now”, the male said

He was right, a second later a group of pirates came around the corner and made there way toward the spaceport doors. The male had taken care of the two guards at the gate and had made it seem like they where still alive

“Yo!”, One of the pirates in the group yelled. “Seen anything while we where gone?”

He chuckled. “Those fools…. And they call themselves pirates”, he said

The lead pirate walked up to the guards at the gate, looked at them, his eyes widened. “Move! It’s a-“, he said before being impaled by a vibrolance. The lance went straight into his chest, severing his spinal cord and killing him instantly, he quickly moved so fast that everyone else in the group didn’t believe what they had just seen

He ran down the street, before coming to an alleyway. He looked around, then decloaked and ran his hand through his hair. “One pirate leader down.. 3 more to go”, he said before reactivating his cloaking device

Tissuss:Triton

Lumier smiled. “Nice of you to join the party”, she said.

Tiskus looked over his shoulder, “Not nice to hurt a lady you know”, he said

The girl just looked at him, then rolled her eyes. “Give me a freak you stupid dog”

“You’re the one who let you’re guard down”, He said

“Lucky part, it won’t happen again”, she said

Lumier watched as the girl rushed toward Tiskus, who in turn blocked the incoming attack. The fight continued on and she had no idea who would win, would Lumier win, or Tiskus, the fight was an even – even type of battle. The two opponents where equal in strength and just about every other field… except one

The girl and Tiskus where now locked in combat, there hands together the two of them trying to push the other. “This is where you die…. “, The girl said

Tiskus didn’t say a word, rather instead of just grinned. The girl looked at the grin and let her guard down, long enough for Tiskus to slam his whole body into the girl, the force of the slam went her crashing through the repaired hull and landing on the ground below. “She’s to cocky for her own good”, he said

The girl laid there, before moving a hand

“How can a human survive such a fall”, Tiskus asked himself

“Because-“, Lumier said before coughing up some blood. “She isn’t human.. she’s the only one on our ship… who isn’t human…”

Tissuss: Triton

Tiskus got a sly grin. "Let's see if she can survive kis ken..." He said. Before Lumier could ask what, Tiskus climbed to the edge of the hole and jumped...

"That will hurt..." Lumier said with a wince.

The girl only just managed to open her eyes when saw her doom literally falling down on top of her. Tiskus' 10 foot cyborg form crashed right ontop of her, his clawed metal feet ripping right through her own cyborg body easily with all the weight that was behind them.

"Good fight...now you die..." Tiskus said as he ended her misery by ripping her head off. It took some effort to pull himself out of the hole he made...and he had a bit of a limp now: he's body wasn't exactly designed for jumping off such high places....

Meanwhile Varcanna took the opportunity to check on Lumier.

"You are definately going to need medical attention." She said.

Trandoshan: Merc HQ

She ran along, looking to kill a couple more before Besk arrived. Suddenly she ran into...nothing...and fell back on her rear. Her cloaking device shorted out, revealing her sparsely covered black leather clad form, dark blue eyes and dark green scales. However on once shoulder, there seemed to be a smudge of white instead of green.

She shook the stars out of her head and noticed a second Trandoshan female flicker into view briefly, whom she recognized as the same female she saw on the rooftop before.

"Seems we have similar goals...if only different motives..." She said to her.

Trandosha:Merc HQ

The girl smiled. “It seems so, the two of should be able to handle Besk”, she said before re’engaging her cloaking device. “Sorry to be rude, but staying visible like that is our real weakness”

Warehouse

Kysh leaned up against the wall, he was glad to have his sister back, but the fact that the assassination squad was on the planet made him worry. “Why would they be here… normally there only released when where at war”, he said

“Perhaps”, Lissuss said, walking up next to Kysh. “Lavality declared war the Trandoshan government?”

“Nah, it would be reckless, foolish at best. She would never place the lives of civilians in the hands of a madman…. I think there is another reason there here”, Kysh said

Tissuss:Triton

Lumier nodded. “I guess I over did it.. huh”, she said trying to smile.

Several marine turned the corner and aimed their weapons at Lumier and Varcanna. “Freeze”, one of them yelled

Trandosha: Merc HQ

Maybe it was pride or something else, but she really didn't like the sound of that. "Sorry..." She said as she reactived her own cloaking device. "But with all due respect...Besk is mine...and mine alone. For the pain he's caused me...I intend to make his life misrable before ending his life...."

Deciding she had enough fun here, she made her way out of the compound. She watched with some satistifaction as Besk arrived, a look of shock on his face....

Your days are numbered...

Warehouse

"I have heard a rumor that Hyossk ordered an attack on a convoy that was passing through T'Doshok space." Rissonik offered. "If the rumor is true...and that convoy was a part of your organization...that would explain a lot."

"However...any assassination attempts on Hyossk himself will no doubt be blamed on us." Russis said. "While Hyossk is the main source of the problem in regards to achieving our goals, killing him would work against us."

"Our group wants avoid assassination if at all possible, for our goal is to change our reputation...and assassinating one of our own kind of goes against that..." Rissonik added.

Tissuss: Triton

Varcanna simply smiled and leapt toward them, did a forward flip as their rifle fire flew passed her and planted her feet into the faces of two of them, slamming them against the far wall. Out came the knife and baton, which found their marks against two more. She felt the burn and pain from one shot that found it's mark on her shoulder, but she ignored it as she introduced the shooter's face to the baton. The last marine got a gut full of knife.

"Sorry...didn't feel like standing still." She said with a smile as she calmly finished off the ones that were just stunned.

Triton

Lumier chuckled even though it hurt. "There to easy for you", she said while getting up. Her legs burned with pain. "I'm going to need some time off after this"

Trandosha:Warehouse

Lissuss shoke her head. "No, they won't kill him unless ordered to. What I find odd is that the Admiral hasn't contacted them, cause if she had we wouldn't have meet up with them", she placed her figure on her cheek

"It's possible that the fleet is either engaged... or something might've happened to her, either way if she is unable to give orders. Then I fear the war council will instantly declare war on the Trandoshans, and if they do that.. there will be nothing we can do to convince them to stop", Kysh said

Lissuss nodded. "Lets just hope that doesn't happen"

....

The girl just stood there. "She letting her lust for vengence cloud her judgement", she said as she watched the other cloaker leave

She got up and walked away, she saw Besk arrive. She also noticed the surprised look on his face. "Killing him would cause quite a few problems for those council members", she said and then left to report in