Escape!

[Rotzi]

Kitra felt Kri stir a bit. "Kri?" She moved some strands of hair from his sweat dampened face. "Hey, you ok?"

Where's a med pack when I need one...? she thought angrily. Calm down.. the squad that guy mentioned should be here...

"Hang on, Kri. You'll be fine.. you'll be fine..." she murmured in Nagaian, more for herself than anyone else.

[Kassil]

Miki glowered at the two, looking far more menacing than anyone as slender as him had a right to look, as the sound of steps moving towards them in tripletime becomes audible.

One of the approaching group snaps off a salute to Miki. "Sir!"

"Get the one out cold to medical. Stabilize and revive, and when you can stuff him into the brig. Move it!"

"Sir!" A pause. "What about you, sir?"

"...I'm a Zenarch. I'll heal. Now get your ass outta here with him."

"Yes, sir!"

"As for you... You'll be coming with me to the brig." Miki glares at Kitra. "Your buddy will be along as soon as medical stabilizes him. Don't worry, we've had worse trauma cases than him and patched them up."

[Rotzi]

Kitra looked at the men as they took Kri away. "Will you be keeping us, or are you handing us over to someone else?"

She stood slowly, allowing her cloak to fall into place. As an after thought the Miraluka adjusted her sunglasses again. No need to let the world see what's under there.

[DivenWest]

Nixx shook his head, trying to clear it. The Inquisitor was dead... and unless he did something drastic very soon, so was he. The Inquisitors of the Empire were more than just fancy hunters, they were trained by Lord Vader and the Palpaitne, and some ment a great deal to their lords. He eyed Kitra... she had the gift... she had to... and the Nagian... they would have to break him... but it may just be enough to save his life.

"Will you be keeping us, or are you handing us over to someone else?" Kitra asked.

"If you give them to me, it might just be enough to keep the Empire from turning this station into free floating atoms. The emperor doesn't take well to a member of his inner circle being killed. If I deliver his killer and...." he eyed Kitra, "a replacement, they might just forget where it happened."

[Kassil]

For a moment, Miki doesn't reply, and when he does, it's a hissing sound that sounds more at home from a serpent's throat than from any human mouth. "The Empire, if it attacks Scylla after endangering the entire station - a major waypoint along most intergalactic trade routes, I might suggest you and your Emperor consider - then that will prompt any number of /other/ of stellar nations to unite against the Empire."

"More than that, Scylla isn't as defenseless as you seem to think. Believe me, before a hostile force could get within ten parsecs, there will be an armada sufficient to lay waste to a dreadnought and her attendant vessels, as well as several more mercenary fleets and loaned military forces, on their way here."

"Scylla is in free space. It remains that way. Your Inquisitor fucked up, broke the rules, and got himself killed. If you want, you can hang around in space waiting for me to boot these two off - after they've answered for their transgressions aboard the station."

"Now, you can accept this, or argue about it. I would not advise that you argue."

[DivenWest]

The laugh that Nixx was containing fianly broke out at the end of Miki's speach. "Oh my, your forces could destroy a dreadnought? Thats hardly an acomplishment, my own ship is more than a match for several dreadnoughts. Let me remind you that the dreadnought is a designe that went out with the Republic. This may be free space, but the arm of the Empire reaches far, the majority of the other steller nations that do busness with you have either, quite intellegently, signed pacts with the empire or have suffered great losses at out hands. No one would come to your rescue, and if you expect me to fear your oversized ion cannon, since the Rebels pulled that trick on Hoth, all Imperial ships carry improved Ion Shielding as well as fluidics backups for the primary systems."
At this time, several dozen storm troopers had filed into either end of the hallway. There weapons obviously not as locked as Nixx had previously promiced.
"You see, thats the problem with being an indepenent station in void space, by the time you get anything, civlized space already has something better. I will give you two days to punish the two force users as you see fit. At the if at end of those two days, they arn't in my brig, its your head I will bring Lord Vader."
Nixx jabbed a finger at Miki to emphasize the point, a smug smile almost visible past the look of cold fury. Not giving the station chief time to respond, he turned on his heel and marched down the corridor back to his ship, the troopers swiftly following him.

[Rotzi]

"Fuck..." Kitra had been relieved when she heard the Miki would keep them but now... "FuckfuckfuckfuckFUCK!!!" In anger Kitra grabbed the nearest breakable object... her sun glasses. Those gave in rather quickly, but she kept her "eyes" shut.

You just have to find some way to get us, don't you. Ever since I fucking lied through my fucking teeth... You couldn't live that down.

[Kassil]

Watching Nixx leave, Miki's furious expression slowly changed, until finally he released a sharp bark of laughter.

"A Republic dreadnought?" With a shake of his head, Miki gestured sharply to Kitra. "I forgot that Imperial space likes to measure things in Ultras and Megas and Mark II and that kind of macho bullshit."

"Let me rephrase it into Imperial terms, now that the good commander has left and won't learn his mistake... An SSD, not a dreadnought, along with her entourage of attendant lesser vessels." The station chief snorts. "Two days oughta be time enough to call in a few favors... Hmmm."

A moment later, a message pinged the central control for the station. "Hoi. Any word on that nanoplague? We may have a need to use it if it'sinfected that ship."

[Rotzi]

Kitra sighed, realizing those were the only sunglasses she had. "Um... I don't suppose I could ask you for some sunglasses, could I?"

Her hand was covering her "eyes." Now I know why I usually have a gun or something of the like in my hand whenever I get mad.

While she wasn't self conscious without the glasses, they did help her get around. Especially if there were those in the Empire around. "It makes walking around everyone easier."

[Kri'hamon]

The expanse darkened as the inquisitor reappeared, Kri reached for his blade, but alas it was missing...

He watched with horror as the torn figure drew a lightsaber and ignited it with a soft hiss...

Kri seemed to be frozen in terror as he watched the inquisitor come closer and closer, then inquisitor rose the blade for the final shrike, its arc seeking Kri's torso in a deadly swing...he braced for the blow...

[Kri'hamon]

Just as the blade seemed to bite into his body, he opened his eyes to the soft glow coming from the window opening up into space, the stars seemed to chase away the shadows...

He glanced around the bleakness of the room, the empty walls, the bed he was lying on...the image of the purple clad figure flashed through his mind in an angry jolt...and disappear into the shadows of the room...

He watched as the door quickly slid open, and watched as a figure slipped quickly into his room and closed the door behind it with a soft hiss. The figure then drew a vibroshiv and starting walking quietly towards the bed he was lying upon...

[DivenWest]

Nixx had to move fast, he knew that the station chief was no fool. He had just wanted Miki to think he was. He had one more favor to call, one of the other galactic nations that owed the Empire, and their Comander owed Nixx personaly.
Back on the bridge he had his troops withdraw from the station and had the Tritoch break off from the station, staying just within the maximum weapons range of the station. He sent a tight beam message through a wormhole half a parsec away... soon he had a responce.
"Director, how nice to see your lovely face again," Nixx chimed to the hologram of the Sebation Comandant.
"Yes, Mr. Nixx, I still wish to personaly thank you for returning that errent human to me, the data in his mind has opened the galaxy to us." The Sebation Comandant was a sharp minded woman, with the looks to match.
He knew exacly what she ment by personaly thanking him, and he paled at the thought, luckly the hologram only showed black and white. "Well, to get right to the point, there is something that I need you to do for me."
"Quite the buisness man Mr. Nixx, what can the Peace Keepers do for you?"
"I have a situation that I believe to have manipulated in my favor, yet it all hinges on you."

Back on the station, the lone squad that was ordered to stay behind finished dumping their armor in the partical reclamation unit. Their weapons well hidden under the baggy clothing they "borrowed" from a crew of drunk spacers. They walked the halls looking all the world like a spacer crew, albet a very well shaven crew.

[Kassil]

"No sunglasses, no. Tie something over your head if you want. We've had stranger species than yours through here." Miki doesn't even bother turning as he stalks off down the corridor, still fuming.

Computer, full-scale red alert. For a moment, the lights dimmed all over the station, followed by... Seemingly nothing. Aside from hidden cameras an mics coming to life, adding a very faint, very thin hum to the ambient noise of the station.

Elsewhere, the orderly in the medical ward slipped along with surprising silence after the person advancing into Kri's room, grasping a stunrod in one hand. It was always so easy to overlook droids - so few in civilized space were something other than mindlessly subservient machines.

Back with Miki, he growled. "Control, I want you to contact the Myrridans and the Silons, inform them that some Imperial goons are getting uppity. And tell the Mordain vendor we'll take him up on that upgrade, to replace the Warhammer with a Starlance disruptor and adding a few dozen turbophaser arrays."

The station chief glancd over his shoulder at Kitra. "Come on, move it. I don't intend to hang around down here, and I'm not through with you yet."

[Rotzi]

"I just try to make myself look as human as possible... easier to hide that way..." Kitra said more to herself as she wrapped a scrap from her cloak over her eyes.

Once that task was finished the Miraluka followed Miki. "not through with me, ne?" She was feeling a bit more like herself now. Like how she was before she found out that the Empire was on Scylla.

[Kri'hamon]

Kri watched as a second figure slipped in, a bright flash filled the room and the sound of a body could be heard hitting the floor...

Kri decided it all to be a dream, rolled over, and went back to sleeep...