"I'll have a Juri Juice" Owen Aiden told the bartender.

The barteneder, a Bothan, nodded and went off to mix the drink. Owen sat down on a stool and looked around the dingy place. There were mean-looking aliens in dark corners, talking in low tones. A few men sitting at the bar. And a small stage where a Twi'lek, clothes almost nonexistant, was dancing seductively.

Owen just kept a hand on his small, easily concealed blaster, and his vibroblade that were strapped to his waist.

Minutes later, the Bothan bartender returned with Owen's drink. Owen took a sip of it and watched a barfight break out between a Trandoshan and a Dug. The Dug had apparently insulted the Trandoshan and the Trandoshan wished to exact revenge.

The fight lasted mere minutes, with the Trandoshan ending up with a few bruises and the Dug having to be carried out by his friends.

The Trandoshan tipped the bartender a few credits and walked out as well, with his associates. Owen merely sat back and took another sip...

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Smoke walked in decked out in his new, modified ISF suit. He had fixed it up some and added a mask. His blaster was on his thigh and his sword on his back, and if anybody had a problem with it they would have to take the weapons from him...and Smoke doubted anybody wanted to try to take his Sith sword. He hopped up on a bar stool and ordered some spiked fruit juice. Smoke had a weird feeling, but he didn't know what it was. His juice came and he drank some, then he got the weird feeling again. He figured it was the juice, and he looked around to see if anybody was watching him. He saw someone a few stools down, and something in his brain snapped immediatly. He knew this man...but who was he? Smoke has never met him that he could recall, but he felt something....was it the Force? Smoke could feel the presence of the Force in this man, but that wasn't it. It was something...different...<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

Owen stared at the man in cold shock and horror. The man was wearing the bio-exoskeleton suit that Owen used to wear...or somthing extremely similar.

The man was also masked. And he was carrying a sword.

Owen downed his drink and put the glass on the counter. He looked at the man once, long and hard. Then he stood up and walked out of the bar, one hand on his vibroblade.

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Smoke downed his drink and left a few credits, then climbed down from the stool and followed the man out. Once outside, he grabbed the man by the shoulder forcing him the turn around. They were almost the same height....if not exactly. The same build too.<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

"Excuse me sir, but may I ask who you are?"

Owen's reflexes took over and when he turned around he delivered a solid right uppercut to the man's jaw. Owen saw that the punch barely made the man stagger.


Impressive.

Owen slipped into a Teras Kasi fighting stance and perpared to strike again. This man reminded him too much of...

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Smoke backed off, a little shaken. The man punched like the devil, it even hurt Smoke...but he wasn't normal. He wasn't human...he knew it, and so did a few other people. This man's fighting style...Smoke often used that...Teras Kasi...<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

"What was that for?! All I wanted to know was who you are!"

Owen smiled slightly.

"I wanted to know how you would react."

He cme out of his defensive stance slightly.

"You can call me Snake" He said.

"Snake..."

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Smoke had heard this...somewhere before...in the Empire maybe? Yes, it was the Rogue Empire! But who was he?<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

"Well, call me Smoke. Wish I knew my real name..."

Now that name was familiar to Owen. He had heard of this Smoke. He had been brought in to a RE Lab around the same time as himself and Ethan.

"Nice to meet you Smoke" He said.

"I remember now! You're Solid Snake...were abducted as a kid, altered, etc. I was almost sent on a mission to kill you about five or six years ago, but I got out of it. You should be thankful."

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Smoke recalled being asked to go on a manhunt to find Snake, but he had refused. He wanted to be with his usual group when they went to get the defecting Captain.<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->