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sticksofthejedi) wrote2012-03-27 10:54 pm
sticksofthejedi) wrote2012-03-27 10:54 pm
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Memory 28
Memory: A GAG officer, held hostage by Jaina, mouths off.
Received: Day 131, noon
Form: Small, wooden, Iolite-colored box. Opening the lid shows the memory; unlimited sharing.
Summary: Jaina infiltrates Caedus' flagship for her second attempt on his life. She takes a Galactic Alliance Guard officer hostage so she can make her way around the brig, and ends up sidetracked from her mission investigating a red herring.
Jaina has infiltrated Caedus' flagship, the Star Destroyer Anakin Solo. She's trying to assassinate Caedus, with a secondary mission objective to locate Hapan Prince Isolder's cell, one among thousands of units. Because this is her last shot -- she got onboard while Caedus' fleet is making its attack directly on the Jedi's hidden base -- she's going in connected to the Force and she figures he knows she's coming as a result. That means there's probably security teams searching for her.
So Jaina takes hostage a female GAG officer whose name's initials are C.C. She dresses C.C. in her orange flight suit, and puts on C.C.'s black uniform. As they come up on the first security team, Jaina reminds C.C. that if the officer does anything stupid, they'll all die pointlessly. C.C. points out that if she was going to do something stupid, she would have done it already; she'd rather live. Jaina: "Good. I'd rather let you."
There's a boom and lights flicker as the ship takes a bad hit. The guards look around nervously. Jaina draws on the Force, nudging their minds to reinforce the idea that this woman in a GAG uniform is one of their shipmates -- nothing out of the ordinary here. The guards address Jaina as a captain, and she Jedi Mind Tricks them into accepting that her hostage is part of a legit prisoner transfer. She decides to go ahead and ask them to tell her where Isolder is, and they aren't quite dumb enough. They ask why she needs to know that when she's doing a prisoner transfer; remembering that her mom pulled off playing the flirt to trick some guards in a recent operation, Jaina attempts to pose coyly and suggests she'd heard he's easy on the eyes. The guards are annoyed, tell her that's inappropriate, and move on. Jaina is annoyed that her over-sixty-years-old mother can successfully use flirtations to distract guards when Jaina in her prime cannot. C.C. snarks.
C.C.: That was smooth. You should probably just stick to the Force tricks.
Jaina: I got rid of them, didn't I? And how do you know that wasn't a Force trick?
C.C.: If it was, it needs work.
Jaina: Careful. It's not too late to kill you.
C.C.: [Laugh.] Is that really what this is about? Isolder?
Jaina: Of course. You think Jedi go around breaking into prisons for fun?
C.C.: No, I thought you were here for the Mandalorian. I heard she was working with a Jedi when Caedus captured her.
For those just tuning in, in Jaina's last memory, Caedus telekinetically broke Boba Fett's granddaughter's back. Jaina thought she was dead. Jaina uses the fact most people don't actually know what Jedi do to her advantage; she bluffs and threatens C.C. with hurting her with Jedi tricks that won't even let her scream. This is super effective because Caedus has picked up a reputation for his dark side practices; C.C. directly says it's Boba Fett's relative, and takes Jaina to her. Jaina's guilty over the revelation that she abandoned a friend. Jaina swears and hits a wall. C.C. apologizes, tells Jaina what cell block Isolder's in, at least narrowing down the search, and explains C.C. doesn't have the security clearance to get in there.
C.C.: so you're going to have to fight your way in. Maybe you could dump me in my cell first.
Jaina: Maybe I could. If you're not lying about the Mandalorian.
Jaina contemplates that the smart thing to do would be forgetting the mention of Mirta, and remembers that's What Fett Would Do if their positions were reversed and Fett was faced with a choice between the mission and saving one of Jaina's relatives. They go into the prison infirmary bay, with Jaina using the Mind Trick some more on guards. He scans her for weapons, questions what Jaina's lightsaber is; she tells him it's a high-power glow rod, points it at his eyes, and offers to show it to him. He declines, thinking she'd blind him annoyingly.
She notes that as time passes, the frequency with which the ship takes a decent hit is lightening; the battle is turning in Caedus' favor. She finally pinpoints the exact room Mirta's in using her empathy; Mirta is angry and disheartened. Jaina uses telekinesis to grab Mirta's bed, lifting and dropping it twice to get the guards at the room's door to go into the room to investigate; once they've opened the door -- THEY at least have clearance -- she uses the Force to throw the near one and C.C. into the room, following them in and locking all of them in with Mirta. She punches and kicks the two non-hostage guards unconscious. C.C. is going for the alarm while Jaina's busy; Jaina points at her without even turning to see her, warning her not to try it.
C.C.: This is going to leave a bruise, isn't it?
Jaina: Probably.
Jaina knocks her out. She turns to examine Mirta; the Mandalorian woman's clearly unwashed and in bad shape. The only restraint on her is on one arm; Jaina releases it and discovers that that's the only part Mirta can still move. Jaina tells her she's glad to see the woman alive; Mirta scoffs that she's hardly "alive." Jaina apologizes, explaining she thought the Mandalorian was dead; Mirta says it'd be nice if she checked because then Jaina could have shot her in the head and spared her the indignity of paralysis. Jaina apologizes again, and then mentions she doesn't think she can get the woman -- unspoken, it was an inconvenience to try freeing Mirta to begin with, but it's impossible with Mirta as a paraplegic.
Mirta understands; Jaina has a mission to carry out, and even says she doesn't understand why Jaina even came to find her. Jaina hooks a thumb at C.C., and says she got played -- the hostage knew all along what Mirta's condition was, and was just trying to eat up Jaina's limited time. While Jaina puts the unconscious GAG guards and officer in restraints, Mirta makes Jaina promise to deliver a warning to Fett -- "Ba'buir." She wants Jaina to tell Fett that the Imperial Moffs took her blood to design a biological weapon that will kill him if he goes to their homeworld -- and she wants Jaina to tell Fett that he deserves it. That HE is to blame for her fate. Jaina promises, but suggests Mirta doesn't sound like herself; is she sure she wants Jaina to tell Fett that? No, Mirta claims -- but she can't help how she feels. Mirta starts rambling, and it seems she's no longer mentally clear on whether it was Caedus or Fett who's been hurting her. Mirta finally settles on that Fett sent Mirta and her strike team on a suicide mission.
Jaina promises, and Mirta adopts a peaceful look and feeling. She makes one last request -- she wants one of the guard's blasters. Jaina thinks she wants a mercy killing, or to commit suicide. Mirta tells Jaina that OBVIOUSLY she just wants something to menace the guards with when they wake up, so they don't figure out a way to raise an alarm and ruin Jaina's mission. Jaina sighs, and arranges their commlinks and weapons within Mirta's reach.
They talk briefly about Caedus. Mirta says he underestimates Jaina; Jaina says that's not news -- maybe not even true. All she has on him is five weeks of Mandalorian commando training. Mirta scolds her. Five weeks is enough to get the job done, but more seriously, Caedus is clearly delusional because he thought he was being attacked by Luke back in the first Jaina/Caedus duel. Jaina suggests maybe Luke was there, thinking about how she suddenly weakened when Caedus started directing stormtrooper fire away from Jaina -- now that she's not concussed, she's starting to figure out that Luke was supporting her from a distance, and created a distraction. Mirta finally tells Jaina to get going. There's only an hour before someone comes to give Mirta her medications, and then the guards will be discovered.
Mirta: And no offense, but I don't want you as a roommate.
Jaina: No problem. We'd probably kill each other. May the Force be with you, Mirta.
Mirta: Yeah, sure, Jedi. Shoot straight and run fast.
Jaina steps out, seals the cell, and uses a fingernail to scratch up the thumbprint reader so no one can get in. She takes three steps, and hears a blaster shot -- she freezes, thinking Mirta did kill herself.
Then she hears two more shots, and realizes Mirta just shot the two guards and C.C.
Kriffing Mandalorians.
Received: Day 131, noon
Form: Small, wooden, Iolite-colored box. Opening the lid shows the memory; unlimited sharing.
Summary: Jaina infiltrates Caedus' flagship for her second attempt on his life. She takes a Galactic Alliance Guard officer hostage so she can make her way around the brig, and ends up sidetracked from her mission investigating a red herring.
Jaina has infiltrated Caedus' flagship, the Star Destroyer Anakin Solo. She's trying to assassinate Caedus, with a secondary mission objective to locate Hapan Prince Isolder's cell, one among thousands of units. Because this is her last shot -- she got onboard while Caedus' fleet is making its attack directly on the Jedi's hidden base -- she's going in connected to the Force and she figures he knows she's coming as a result. That means there's probably security teams searching for her.
So Jaina takes hostage a female GAG officer whose name's initials are C.C. She dresses C.C. in her orange flight suit, and puts on C.C.'s black uniform. As they come up on the first security team, Jaina reminds C.C. that if the officer does anything stupid, they'll all die pointlessly. C.C. points out that if she was going to do something stupid, she would have done it already; she'd rather live. Jaina: "Good. I'd rather let you."
There's a boom and lights flicker as the ship takes a bad hit. The guards look around nervously. Jaina draws on the Force, nudging their minds to reinforce the idea that this woman in a GAG uniform is one of their shipmates -- nothing out of the ordinary here. The guards address Jaina as a captain, and she Jedi Mind Tricks them into accepting that her hostage is part of a legit prisoner transfer. She decides to go ahead and ask them to tell her where Isolder is, and they aren't quite dumb enough. They ask why she needs to know that when she's doing a prisoner transfer; remembering that her mom pulled off playing the flirt to trick some guards in a recent operation, Jaina attempts to pose coyly and suggests she'd heard he's easy on the eyes. The guards are annoyed, tell her that's inappropriate, and move on. Jaina is annoyed that her over-sixty-years-old mother can successfully use flirtations to distract guards when Jaina in her prime cannot. C.C. snarks.
C.C.: That was smooth. You should probably just stick to the Force tricks.
Jaina: I got rid of them, didn't I? And how do you know that wasn't a Force trick?
C.C.: If it was, it needs work.
Jaina: Careful. It's not too late to kill you.
C.C.: [Laugh.] Is that really what this is about? Isolder?
Jaina: Of course. You think Jedi go around breaking into prisons for fun?
C.C.: No, I thought you were here for the Mandalorian. I heard she was working with a Jedi when Caedus captured her.
For those just tuning in, in Jaina's last memory, Caedus telekinetically broke Boba Fett's granddaughter's back. Jaina thought she was dead. Jaina uses the fact most people don't actually know what Jedi do to her advantage; she bluffs and threatens C.C. with hurting her with Jedi tricks that won't even let her scream. This is super effective because Caedus has picked up a reputation for his dark side practices; C.C. directly says it's Boba Fett's relative, and takes Jaina to her. Jaina's guilty over the revelation that she abandoned a friend. Jaina swears and hits a wall. C.C. apologizes, tells Jaina what cell block Isolder's in, at least narrowing down the search, and explains C.C. doesn't have the security clearance to get in there.
C.C.: so you're going to have to fight your way in. Maybe you could dump me in my cell first.
Jaina: Maybe I could. If you're not lying about the Mandalorian.
Jaina contemplates that the smart thing to do would be forgetting the mention of Mirta, and remembers that's What Fett Would Do if their positions were reversed and Fett was faced with a choice between the mission and saving one of Jaina's relatives. They go into the prison infirmary bay, with Jaina using the Mind Trick some more on guards. He scans her for weapons, questions what Jaina's lightsaber is; she tells him it's a high-power glow rod, points it at his eyes, and offers to show it to him. He declines, thinking she'd blind him annoyingly.
She notes that as time passes, the frequency with which the ship takes a decent hit is lightening; the battle is turning in Caedus' favor. She finally pinpoints the exact room Mirta's in using her empathy; Mirta is angry and disheartened. Jaina uses telekinesis to grab Mirta's bed, lifting and dropping it twice to get the guards at the room's door to go into the room to investigate; once they've opened the door -- THEY at least have clearance -- she uses the Force to throw the near one and C.C. into the room, following them in and locking all of them in with Mirta. She punches and kicks the two non-hostage guards unconscious. C.C. is going for the alarm while Jaina's busy; Jaina points at her without even turning to see her, warning her not to try it.
C.C.: This is going to leave a bruise, isn't it?
Jaina: Probably.
Jaina knocks her out. She turns to examine Mirta; the Mandalorian woman's clearly unwashed and in bad shape. The only restraint on her is on one arm; Jaina releases it and discovers that that's the only part Mirta can still move. Jaina tells her she's glad to see the woman alive; Mirta scoffs that she's hardly "alive." Jaina apologizes, explaining she thought the Mandalorian was dead; Mirta says it'd be nice if she checked because then Jaina could have shot her in the head and spared her the indignity of paralysis. Jaina apologizes again, and then mentions she doesn't think she can get the woman -- unspoken, it was an inconvenience to try freeing Mirta to begin with, but it's impossible with Mirta as a paraplegic.
Mirta understands; Jaina has a mission to carry out, and even says she doesn't understand why Jaina even came to find her. Jaina hooks a thumb at C.C., and says she got played -- the hostage knew all along what Mirta's condition was, and was just trying to eat up Jaina's limited time. While Jaina puts the unconscious GAG guards and officer in restraints, Mirta makes Jaina promise to deliver a warning to Fett -- "Ba'buir." She wants Jaina to tell Fett that the Imperial Moffs took her blood to design a biological weapon that will kill him if he goes to their homeworld -- and she wants Jaina to tell Fett that he deserves it. That HE is to blame for her fate. Jaina promises, but suggests Mirta doesn't sound like herself; is she sure she wants Jaina to tell Fett that? No, Mirta claims -- but she can't help how she feels. Mirta starts rambling, and it seems she's no longer mentally clear on whether it was Caedus or Fett who's been hurting her. Mirta finally settles on that Fett sent Mirta and her strike team on a suicide mission.
Jaina promises, and Mirta adopts a peaceful look and feeling. She makes one last request -- she wants one of the guard's blasters. Jaina thinks she wants a mercy killing, or to commit suicide. Mirta tells Jaina that OBVIOUSLY she just wants something to menace the guards with when they wake up, so they don't figure out a way to raise an alarm and ruin Jaina's mission. Jaina sighs, and arranges their commlinks and weapons within Mirta's reach.
They talk briefly about Caedus. Mirta says he underestimates Jaina; Jaina says that's not news -- maybe not even true. All she has on him is five weeks of Mandalorian commando training. Mirta scolds her. Five weeks is enough to get the job done, but more seriously, Caedus is clearly delusional because he thought he was being attacked by Luke back in the first Jaina/Caedus duel. Jaina suggests maybe Luke was there, thinking about how she suddenly weakened when Caedus started directing stormtrooper fire away from Jaina -- now that she's not concussed, she's starting to figure out that Luke was supporting her from a distance, and created a distraction. Mirta finally tells Jaina to get going. There's only an hour before someone comes to give Mirta her medications, and then the guards will be discovered.
Mirta: And no offense, but I don't want you as a roommate.
Jaina: No problem. We'd probably kill each other. May the Force be with you, Mirta.
Mirta: Yeah, sure, Jedi. Shoot straight and run fast.
Jaina steps out, seals the cell, and uses a fingernail to scratch up the thumbprint reader so no one can get in. She takes three steps, and hears a blaster shot -- she freezes, thinking Mirta did kill herself.
Then she hears two more shots, and realizes Mirta just shot the two guards and C.C.
Kriffing Mandalorians.