2.0 - Lure of the Lost

"I know his name... and now so does the Pilot."

Mal flips a few switches on his console, then turns around in his chair to face Heyop and dagger.

Name's Mal. Mal Duey. Ease up, I've got no love for the empire either and I'm glad we got out of there.

See. Now you know the pilots name. The one that just saved our asses, Dagger says and puts away his lightsaber. He turns to go find Urik and assess his wounds.

"Now that he's saved our asses we're also conveniently in his debt though." Heyop shoots over his shoulder hearing Dagger leaving it at that. "So how'd you end up in our closet? Couldn't find the toilet paper to restock the water closet?" Heyop asked still not really convinced, he could say his name was Darth LittleBigShoes and he loved the Empire, didn't mean it was true.

I'm not in his debt, I call back, I helped him out with the bucketheads. It's just you guys, I add and walk out.

Urik is hurt pretty bad (7 out of 19 wounds remaining). But the Stimpack has stabilized him for the moment. He will accept any medical ministrations, but doesn't ask for any. Nor does he complain, groan or whine. The one sign of how much pain he is in (besides all the blood) is the way he is gritting his teeth and breathing shallowly.

Mal looks Heyop right in the eye

I know what it looks like. The troopers found me, captured me, and dragged me to this ship. they locked me in that closet to keep me in until I guess they dealt with you. I managed to jimmy the lock and me and your friend over there took care of the two troopers that are currently in the closet.

If I had to guess, I'd say we all were on that planet for the same reason

how's your friend who got hit? do we need to detour to a hospital or do you already have a medic on board?

Nodding Heyop replies, "Troopers found you on planet and shoved you into the ship compartment as a makeshift brig, that makes sense. We're on planet to sightsee. Troopers found you and detained you implies you may have been doing something illegal... Want to let us know what that might be? Also no hospitals we need to get the ID's of the dead and drop those off with the living trooper after we jump someplace else and find a place to lay low and repair the ship. Once we can verify somehow what you're saying I guess we'll decide what to do. I don't think any of us want a bigger target on our backs."

Mal sighs

Look, pal, I don't have time to dance around with you. If my dreams are right and that fancy little gizmo your buddy had out is what I think it is, then there's more than you're letting on.

Mal reaches into his breast pocket SLOWLY, and bulls out a bright blue crystal

If I were a betting man, I'd say you know what this is and my story makes a whole lot more sense.

"Well if you want me to level with you and not dance around the subject that's fine. That little gizmo could lead to getting one's self executed in some situations. You slightly understanding what it is like be dropping live ordinance. I don't know you from Alpha or Zeta so you pulling that out and still having it on your personage means you hide it someplace they didn't want to look in a pat down or they didn't do a good job of searching you or you're a plant. You're leading me into more questions since I'm the pessimistic cynical curmudgeon of this group if you can't tell. Why are you in such a hurry and what's up with this story and dreams you speak of? You on something?"

dreams telling me to go to that planet. dreams telling me I'd meet people. I understand the implications of what's going on, and now I guess I understand why you're a paranoid old coot.

Dagger comes back into the room. Urik's good for now but we need some more medical aid, or he is going to need plenty of time to rest up his wounds.

Seeing the blue crystal in Mal's hand I brighten up, Hey! Another Jedi! Did you go through the crazy trials too? Although, you should know that thing isn't very effective without the hilt. I mean...unless you can throw it really hard?

Mal put the crystal back in his pocket

Son, I've been through hell and back. if that's not a trial, I don't know what is. I guess you could call the dreams I've been having 'visions'.. they told me that once I left that planet I'd learn how to build my own hilt. I suppose that means you guys can teach me

Mal looks over at Heyop

If you think you can trust me.

Mal stands up and heads to the back of the ship to retrieve his carbine that was confiscated when he was captured. He's also going to put eyes on everyone on the ship.

Heyop sighs.

"Dagger what the hell man?" Heyop asks once Mal opts to leave due to tension?

"Would you like to tell him where the machine is too? If we could explain it?" Heyop asked a little bit shocked.

"Yes he did help us and we owe him for that but don't you think you're playing your cards a little out in the open? What if he's Imperial and he's working for someone like Urik's kidnapper or worse one of his pupils out for revenge?" Heyop stated realizing it was somewhat pointless since Dagger usually just threw caution to the wind.

"I'm giving the guy the third degree since we don't know him. If I didn't know you or the rest of the group and you were like Urik's kidnapping pycho mentor sure I'd check things out from what you people said, look at me I'm like you too. People call me Heyop the Horrible, I love kicking puppies or whatever that sounds believable. If that's all it takes to prove I'm whatever great for me bad for people who are complacent. I can understand he's got a lot of questions if he's legit or checks out and I'm been a pretty big prick about riding him for it now. But there's a lot of pockets in the story he's stating to be true. And he has no way to prove it seems. What if he's some guy with a bounty on his head and he stole the crystal off a Jedi those troopers killed or tortured and he's just trying to get out of a bad situation?"

"Maybe I'm overthinking this due to the trials, Csillag, Kaveri, you got anything on the guy?" Heyop adds.

Kaveri shrugs, "Seems to me, if he's a hunter, he's just taken himself from a position of potential strength and moved into one of weakness." She continues to make sure the hyperspace jump is going well, and adds, "The right time to capture or kill us would have been when he had stormtrooper backup. The door to the ship was open -- and perhaps the stormtroopers in the closet can tell us something about him. Heyop - perhaps you should question them before he spends any time with them?"

Heyop nods and goes to do just that, "Csillag did you want to take a look at Urik? He'll probably say he's fine regardless of if he has one or two legs..." he asks before leaving.

Heyop will go ahead secure the knocked out trooper and search them one time to see if they have open commlinks or anything on them that may be used to track their current location when they pop out of hyper space as well as give them an advantage to commandeer the ship. Once that's been inventoried and the person moved 'respectfully' Heyop will look to see about the closet compartment and it's inhabitant.

Dagger takes the tongue lashing knowing that Heyop needed to have the air of command. You can't have a good corsec and bad corsec without the mean grumpy one. He grins stupidly though as he cant help but think Heyop is a little too intense for his own good.

He says nothing as Heyop leaves. He simply goes off to find Mal.

Hey, he says when he finds him, That was some fancy piloting, flyboy. Where did you learn that?

Mal stops and raises his head to the ceiling, his back still to Dagger. he mulls something over in his mind, sighs, looks down, and turns to face the twi'lek

Don't suppose I need to keep secrets if I'm trying to earn your trust. That question has two answers. One, I'm ex-imperial military. Those TIEs I outran? I used to fly them. No sense in me keeping that hidden when those troopers will tell you as much. second, I just let go and it feels like the ship just knows what I want it to do.. I can't explain it...

and before you go into a panic about my military background, I'm on the run from them just like you. I started running and never looked back the day I found out I could do this

Mal reaches out to his carbine on the floor and uses the force to pull it into his hand.

Ah, then we have something in common, Dagger says, pulling out the hilt of his shoto and floating it a few inches above his palm.

As you can tell we already have a military man hanging out with us, Dagger says, nodding back to the front of the ship. Im not worried though, about your past. Our pasts are not who we are now...just the path we took to get here. I think we are also headed to the same place. There is no death..., Dagger says, letting his words hang there for a moment, expectantly.