Vanelli stepped out of the shop, into the cool evening air. Feeling a little chilly, the twi’lek pulled the hood of her cloak over her head, hiding her lekku and most of her red face.
“I think I’ll head on over to Dren’s and see if I can find some smuggler’s willing to do a bit of gunrunning,” thought Vanelli. “The militia will need more weapons soon, with the way those new recruits are coming in.”
The sounds of shouting and blaster fire coming from the spaceport snapped her out of her thoughts. “Dren’s will have to wait,” thought Vanelli as she turned towards the spaceport.
“Out of the way!” shouted a Sith trooper as they stormed past her, on their way to the spaceport.
She estimated that at least two dozen troopers had run past her. Va’nelli crouched and drew a holdout blaster from a holster on her left thigh and fired several shots at the backs of the Sith troopers. The first shot hit a trooper square, between the shoulder blades sending him in to his comrade to the left, causing Va’nelli’s second shot to only graze that trooper’s shoulder. Both her third and fourth shots went wide. She wasn’t a great shot, but good enough to be a useful skill.
Va’nelli stood and waved as the commander yelled something undecipherable, but obviously angry. Their return fire barely missed her as she ran in to an alley off to her side. She holstered her blaster and surveyed the alley. “Great, dead end,” muttered Va’nelli as she spotted a narrow ledge high above her head. With the assistance of a dented plasteel case sitting in the corner she was able to vault herself high enough to grab a hold of the ledge. The twi’lek pulled herself up and with her back to the wall, slowly inch her way back to towards the entrance. She could hear the troopers rounding the corner in to the alley and hoped they didn’t look up too soon. Four troopers entered the alley with their blaster rifles at the ready. The first trooper signaled for two of the troopers to follow slowly and watch their backs. The two lead troopers reached the dead end and turned around in confusion.
Va’nelli dropped down into a crouch between the four troopers. Her left palm came up and the first two troopers crashed back in to the wall, knocking them unconscious. In the same moment Va’nelli spun, her lightsaber humming to life, the yellow blade taking one of the remaining troopers’ right arm off at the shoulder. Va’nelli shouldered the one-armed trooper on to his back and brought her lightsaber up to deflect a blaster bolt high. She ran the one-armed trooper through with her saber and leapt at the remaining trooper with an overhead attack, her saber sliding through the upper body of the trooper.
Va’nelli set off back towards the unconscious troopers with a grim look on her face, the saber in her right hand still out.
Va’nelli removed her cloak and tossed it aside as she ran off towards the spaceport.
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Originally posted on Aug 25, 2009 in Trust, Credits and Loyalty. Follow the adventures of Vanelli and her companions from the beginning, here.
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old republic, roleplaying, star wars
