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sticksofthejedi) wrote2012-04-02 12:46 am
sticksofthejedi) wrote2012-04-02 12:46 am
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Memory: Flying the Jedi strike team's extraction from a botched operation on Corellia is like driving for a bunch of kids.
Received: Day 133, morning
Form: ...A ball of yarn. Five uses before it inexplicably stops working. (3/5 uses)
Summary: Jaina leads a strike team on Corellia, but it turns out the operation was a trap. Starts with the operation launching and botching. Jaina and her team tangle with powerful war droids, abscond with vehicles, and get into an Absolutely Absurd parody of stereotypical comedic family driving arguments. Jaina will finally be working on getting a little bit off her moral high horse. A little bit.
Jaina has a strike team (Herself leading Jedi Kolir (Bothan alien), Thann (Falleen alien) and not-boyfriend Zekk) set up for an ambush on Corellia. For reasons not covered in this memory, they've been assigned to capture the star system's Prime Minister, Aidel Saxan. His air speeder is coming in fast, with four security vehicles arrayed around it.
Jaina gives the order to begin; she and three other Jedi leap at the vehicles. She sheds her robe in mid-air, left in a black jumpsuit for the operation, ignites her lightsaber and shanks the first CorSec speeder's engine. The next one in line tries to maneuver to hit her, trying to knock her to fall to her death; she throws herself flat against the hood and slices the second one's engine as it passes overhead. All the speeders are sounding an alarm; the two Jaina's tangled with are essentially neutralized, as the one she's on has an emergency landing at the gates of the Prime Minister's residence. Things seem to be going well, but then Jaina feels shock and alarm from Zekk. Zekk had leapt to the Prime Minister's vehicle and cut his way in, a bantering one-liner on his lips, only to find an old droid inside waiting to set off a self-destruct.
So that blows up.
Zekk's falling, limp and burning. Kolir isn't good enough with telekinesis to catch him on the fly (she can lift tons given time to concentrate, but NEEDS TIME) so she slows his fall. She's got him 15 meters over the pavement when the speeder Kolir's on crashes itself into one of the speeders Jaina took down. Jaina's better at the Force, and when she sees Zekk start dropping freely again, she catches him, brings him over and starts smothering his flames. She has a stronger-than-usual Force bond to him, so she can feel he's still quite alive, but feels the pain of the explosion's blast, shrapnel and burns. Before she can do anything else, the occupants of the speeder that made a controlled emergency landing emerge -- it's Yuuzhan Vong Hunter droids, the toughest droids made in the era (It's basically the goddamn Terminator, but with built-in heavy weaponry.).
Thann is engaging several of the droids himself, and hops on a civilian airspeeder to buy distance and time. He gets on the commlink and announces the operation was a trap.
Jaina's deflecting continuous blasterfire from four YVH droids; Kolir finally reenters the fight after her crash. Kolir's bloody, but she decapitates one of the droid, drawing attention and buying Jaina the time she needs to find a good target for telekinesis.
Jaina drops an automated cargo vessel on two of the droids. Though damaged, it manages to take back off to try resuming course after skidding a little ways from where Jaina pulled it down. She knows that would have only delayed the droids, and Force leaps to engage in person, twisting to ninja past airspeeder traffic along the way. Kolir's advancing on the last upright droid while Jaina moves to finish the two she cargo-droned. Turns out one of the droids she hit smashed clear through the roadway and into the sewers below; it leaps back out as she approaches, she cuts it in half and finishes destroying the still-active upper half. The other droid is just getting back up, armor damaged from Jaina's vehicular assault; Jaina finishes it off by dropping another cargo drone on it. Thank you, scifi city airspeeder traffic.
A civilian passing by is checking on Zekk now; Jaina checks Kolir's status. Kolir complains some of her teeth are knocked loose. She points out Thann is coming back, with two droids still after him. Jaina grabs the previous cargo drone and commits some more vehicular droidslaughter. Kolir and Thann team up to shoot and saber the final droid down. Jaina tells the civilian checking on Zekk he'd better go; the guy flees. Jaina declares the operation a bust, and asks Thann to commandeer transportation.
Thann is a Falleen Jedi, so he exercises all the persuasive power of the Force combined with sexy pheromones that catch Jaina and Kolir on the sidelines, both arousing and annoying them. Thann convinces a lady in a speeder that the strike team are Correlian law officers with injured and bad guys to chase down; she lets them take her speeder. Thann's piloting, Jaina's got Zekk's head in her lap because she's got unacknowledged Feelings for him. As they take off, Thann informs Jaina that their control team acknowledged his commlink transmission, but "Team Tauntaun" didn't, and probably ran into a trap. Kolir complains at Thann about using mind tricks and pheromones at the same time, all in a horrible lisp because of her teeth.
Kolir: You shouldn't do that, you know.
Thann: Do what?
Kolir: Use Jedi mind tricksh and pheromonesh at the shame time. Not fair.
Thann: I should perhaps use the mind tricks alone and maybe fail?
Kolir: Well, no.
Thann: How's Zekk?
Zekk: (finally opening his eyes) Ow.
Jaina: Better.
Zekk opts to go into a healing trance. Thann's on the commlink again; he informs Jaina that Luke and other Jedi will come get the team off-planet, but lost their shuttle and need a new ship. Team Tauntaun was ambushed inside Thrackan Sal-Solo's mansion, stole a speeder and will rendezvous with Jaina's team. Thann jokes they're thinking of stealing some credits or kidnapping a holodrama star so the mission isn't a total bust. He also reports that the Galactic Alliance fleet jumped out of hyperspace into an ambush in the system. Jaina sets Kolir to looking up a private spaceport, one easy for them to commandeer a shuttle from.
Thann: Find one with a female manager on duty.
Kolir: (grimace)
Thann: It'll speed things up.
Kolir: If I ever find out you do that to get datesh, I'm going to cut something off you.
Thann: (indignant) I am an ethical Jedi. I only twist people's minds in the line of duty.
They find a minor spaceport and land in a parking area obscured by trees. Zekk comes out of his trance, no longer troubled by pain. He repeats a joke he'd been nagging Jaina with earlier: "Are we on Corellia yet?" "Quiet, you." She does stroke his hair for a moment.
Thann reports Luke is leading a fighter squadron on a diversionary run for them. Team Tauntaun finally rendezvous with them -- two more Jedi, Tahiri and Doran Tamer, plus a droid they picked up. Jaina asks where Tauntaun's third Jedi member is, and Tahiri says the last member decided to stay hiding in Sal-Solo's mansion, and they'd stolen the droid and disguised it in her robes to carry and make it look like the strike team was fleeing the scene with their third member a casualty instead of leaving one behind. It was originally going to be Doran who stayed behind, but the third member, Tiu, shot that down.
Jaina: And a naked man the size of a dwarf Wookiee is going to stay hidden for how long?
Doran: That's what Tiu asked. In almost those exact words, as a matter of fact. So I said, 'Forget it.' And she said, 'No, it's a good plan, except for the fact that, as usual, you introduced a fatal flaw. We pull out the fatal flaw, and it's viable again.'
Jaina: And fixing the plan meant substituting a tiny Omwati woman for a big slab of hanging meat.
She's annoyed, because she doesn't want to leave a member of her operation behind, but she ultimately admits that having someone hidden inside Sal-Solo's security will be useful. She orders Doran to start administering bacta patches on Zekk's wounds, and tells Thann to go mindbend the spaceport's female manager into letting them commandeer a Lambda shuttle.
So Jaina's in the pilot's seat, Zekk is in the co-pilot's seat, and they're all arguing like it's a stereotypical comedic family roadtrip.
Doran: On the datapad, it's See See See Thirty-Nine.
Zekk: I'm telling you, the signs read WEDGE ANTILLES BOULEVARD.
Jaina: Be quiet. It's got to be the same route. Cities rename their streets all the time.
Zekk: (who is, incidentally, enormous for a human) This seat is too small for me --
Jaina: It's too small for anyone. I think it's built for a child.
Zekk: And it smells like fur.
Jaina: Yes, there's fur coming off it and sticking to your clothes. Maybe a Bothan?
Zekk: Doesn't smell like a Bothan.
Kolir: We don't all shmell alike! How do these rumorsh get started?
Jaina: Rest your mouth, you're injured.
A local speeder deliberately cuts Jaina off in her flight lane, making her slow and causing, of all things, an airborne traffic jam. This scene is Absurd.
Jaina: Rudest pilots in the universe. Where's Uncle Luke?
Thann: Soon, soon.
A CorSec speeder turns on its flashers and siren, and signals for Jaina to pull over. Again, this scene is Absurd. She decides to ignore the cops.
Zekk: Are we on Corellia yet?
Jaina: First chance, I'm going to space you.
We get some narrative of...Jaina navigating Wedge Antilles Boulevard and Five Brothers Avenue and finally crosses paths with Luke's squadron, which also has annoyed cops behind them trying to get them to pull over. With the rendezvous, they all make sudden course changes, breaking straight for space. Jaina's incidentally annoyed she doesn't get to enjoy doing this in one of the nimble X-wings, but she observes that it's still better than being stuck in Corellian traffic.
Received: Day 133, morning
Form: ...A ball of yarn. Five uses before it inexplicably stops working. (3/5 uses)
Summary: Jaina leads a strike team on Corellia, but it turns out the operation was a trap. Starts with the operation launching and botching. Jaina and her team tangle with powerful war droids, abscond with vehicles, and get into an Absolutely Absurd parody of stereotypical comedic family driving arguments. Jaina will finally be working on getting a little bit off her moral high horse. A little bit.
Jaina has a strike team (Herself leading Jedi Kolir (Bothan alien), Thann (Falleen alien) and not-boyfriend Zekk) set up for an ambush on Corellia. For reasons not covered in this memory, they've been assigned to capture the star system's Prime Minister, Aidel Saxan. His air speeder is coming in fast, with four security vehicles arrayed around it.
Jaina gives the order to begin; she and three other Jedi leap at the vehicles. She sheds her robe in mid-air, left in a black jumpsuit for the operation, ignites her lightsaber and shanks the first CorSec speeder's engine. The next one in line tries to maneuver to hit her, trying to knock her to fall to her death; she throws herself flat against the hood and slices the second one's engine as it passes overhead. All the speeders are sounding an alarm; the two Jaina's tangled with are essentially neutralized, as the one she's on has an emergency landing at the gates of the Prime Minister's residence. Things seem to be going well, but then Jaina feels shock and alarm from Zekk. Zekk had leapt to the Prime Minister's vehicle and cut his way in, a bantering one-liner on his lips, only to find an old droid inside waiting to set off a self-destruct.
So that blows up.
Zekk's falling, limp and burning. Kolir isn't good enough with telekinesis to catch him on the fly (she can lift tons given time to concentrate, but NEEDS TIME) so she slows his fall. She's got him 15 meters over the pavement when the speeder Kolir's on crashes itself into one of the speeders Jaina took down. Jaina's better at the Force, and when she sees Zekk start dropping freely again, she catches him, brings him over and starts smothering his flames. She has a stronger-than-usual Force bond to him, so she can feel he's still quite alive, but feels the pain of the explosion's blast, shrapnel and burns. Before she can do anything else, the occupants of the speeder that made a controlled emergency landing emerge -- it's Yuuzhan Vong Hunter droids, the toughest droids made in the era (It's basically the goddamn Terminator, but with built-in heavy weaponry.).
Thann is engaging several of the droids himself, and hops on a civilian airspeeder to buy distance and time. He gets on the commlink and announces the operation was a trap.
Jaina's deflecting continuous blasterfire from four YVH droids; Kolir finally reenters the fight after her crash. Kolir's bloody, but she decapitates one of the droid, drawing attention and buying Jaina the time she needs to find a good target for telekinesis.
Jaina drops an automated cargo vessel on two of the droids. Though damaged, it manages to take back off to try resuming course after skidding a little ways from where Jaina pulled it down. She knows that would have only delayed the droids, and Force leaps to engage in person, twisting to ninja past airspeeder traffic along the way. Kolir's advancing on the last upright droid while Jaina moves to finish the two she cargo-droned. Turns out one of the droids she hit smashed clear through the roadway and into the sewers below; it leaps back out as she approaches, she cuts it in half and finishes destroying the still-active upper half. The other droid is just getting back up, armor damaged from Jaina's vehicular assault; Jaina finishes it off by dropping another cargo drone on it. Thank you, scifi city airspeeder traffic.
A civilian passing by is checking on Zekk now; Jaina checks Kolir's status. Kolir complains some of her teeth are knocked loose. She points out Thann is coming back, with two droids still after him. Jaina grabs the previous cargo drone and commits some more vehicular droidslaughter. Kolir and Thann team up to shoot and saber the final droid down. Jaina tells the civilian checking on Zekk he'd better go; the guy flees. Jaina declares the operation a bust, and asks Thann to commandeer transportation.
Thann is a Falleen Jedi, so he exercises all the persuasive power of the Force combined with sexy pheromones that catch Jaina and Kolir on the sidelines, both arousing and annoying them. Thann convinces a lady in a speeder that the strike team are Correlian law officers with injured and bad guys to chase down; she lets them take her speeder. Thann's piloting, Jaina's got Zekk's head in her lap because she's got unacknowledged Feelings for him. As they take off, Thann informs Jaina that their control team acknowledged his commlink transmission, but "Team Tauntaun" didn't, and probably ran into a trap. Kolir complains at Thann about using mind tricks and pheromones at the same time, all in a horrible lisp because of her teeth.
Kolir: You shouldn't do that, you know.
Thann: Do what?
Kolir: Use Jedi mind tricksh and pheromonesh at the shame time. Not fair.
Thann: I should perhaps use the mind tricks alone and maybe fail?
Kolir: Well, no.
Thann: How's Zekk?
Zekk: (finally opening his eyes) Ow.
Jaina: Better.
Zekk opts to go into a healing trance. Thann's on the commlink again; he informs Jaina that Luke and other Jedi will come get the team off-planet, but lost their shuttle and need a new ship. Team Tauntaun was ambushed inside Thrackan Sal-Solo's mansion, stole a speeder and will rendezvous with Jaina's team. Thann jokes they're thinking of stealing some credits or kidnapping a holodrama star so the mission isn't a total bust. He also reports that the Galactic Alliance fleet jumped out of hyperspace into an ambush in the system. Jaina sets Kolir to looking up a private spaceport, one easy for them to commandeer a shuttle from.
Thann: Find one with a female manager on duty.
Kolir: (grimace)
Thann: It'll speed things up.
Kolir: If I ever find out you do that to get datesh, I'm going to cut something off you.
Thann: (indignant) I am an ethical Jedi. I only twist people's minds in the line of duty.
They find a minor spaceport and land in a parking area obscured by trees. Zekk comes out of his trance, no longer troubled by pain. He repeats a joke he'd been nagging Jaina with earlier: "Are we on Corellia yet?" "Quiet, you." She does stroke his hair for a moment.
Thann reports Luke is leading a fighter squadron on a diversionary run for them. Team Tauntaun finally rendezvous with them -- two more Jedi, Tahiri and Doran Tamer, plus a droid they picked up. Jaina asks where Tauntaun's third Jedi member is, and Tahiri says the last member decided to stay hiding in Sal-Solo's mansion, and they'd stolen the droid and disguised it in her robes to carry and make it look like the strike team was fleeing the scene with their third member a casualty instead of leaving one behind. It was originally going to be Doran who stayed behind, but the third member, Tiu, shot that down.
Jaina: And a naked man the size of a dwarf Wookiee is going to stay hidden for how long?
Doran: That's what Tiu asked. In almost those exact words, as a matter of fact. So I said, 'Forget it.' And she said, 'No, it's a good plan, except for the fact that, as usual, you introduced a fatal flaw. We pull out the fatal flaw, and it's viable again.'
Jaina: And fixing the plan meant substituting a tiny Omwati woman for a big slab of hanging meat.
She's annoyed, because she doesn't want to leave a member of her operation behind, but she ultimately admits that having someone hidden inside Sal-Solo's security will be useful. She orders Doran to start administering bacta patches on Zekk's wounds, and tells Thann to go mindbend the spaceport's female manager into letting them commandeer a Lambda shuttle.
So Jaina's in the pilot's seat, Zekk is in the co-pilot's seat, and they're all arguing like it's a stereotypical comedic family roadtrip.
Doran: On the datapad, it's See See See Thirty-Nine.
Zekk: I'm telling you, the signs read WEDGE ANTILLES BOULEVARD.
Jaina: Be quiet. It's got to be the same route. Cities rename their streets all the time.
Zekk: (who is, incidentally, enormous for a human) This seat is too small for me --
Jaina: It's too small for anyone. I think it's built for a child.
Zekk: And it smells like fur.
Jaina: Yes, there's fur coming off it and sticking to your clothes. Maybe a Bothan?
Zekk: Doesn't smell like a Bothan.
Kolir: We don't all shmell alike! How do these rumorsh get started?
Jaina: Rest your mouth, you're injured.
A local speeder deliberately cuts Jaina off in her flight lane, making her slow and causing, of all things, an airborne traffic jam. This scene is Absurd.
Jaina: Rudest pilots in the universe. Where's Uncle Luke?
Thann: Soon, soon.
A CorSec speeder turns on its flashers and siren, and signals for Jaina to pull over. Again, this scene is Absurd. She decides to ignore the cops.
Zekk: Are we on Corellia yet?
Jaina: First chance, I'm going to space you.
We get some narrative of...Jaina navigating Wedge Antilles Boulevard and Five Brothers Avenue and finally crosses paths with Luke's squadron, which also has annoyed cops behind them trying to get them to pull over. With the rendezvous, they all make sudden course changes, breaking straight for space. Jaina's incidentally annoyed she doesn't get to enjoy doing this in one of the nimble X-wings, but she observes that it's still better than being stuck in Corellian traffic.