Screaming like a stuck mynock.

When they're in the lift, Will says quickly,

"We 'elped with the Magnus job 'mongst other things."

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"And we've heard from Atton since the crash, he's okay."

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"Is that supposed to impress me? I don't even know who Magnus is," Lagos grunts. "I'm glad Atton's alright, but if he's on the planet, that's not much help to me."

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Will is getting tired of this whole run around,

"Na to us either, an if ye want to find yer way off o''ere too, best get the stuff that we can bargain for a ship."

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"Assuming you don't want to work on it forever." Guppy says, following Will's lead.

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Lagos mutters something as the lift opens, and leads them through the market (now filled with the exoskeletoned Sith soldiers, who pay them little attention) and into the vast docking bay.

After crossing several bridges and going down a couple of staircases, they are eventually at a platform, very high up, with three lockers on it. Lagos busies himself unlocking the third one along.

Once he opens it, an alarm goes off, loud and blaring. Lagos curses.

"They must have found it and rigged it with an alarm," he mutters, loading the contents of it into a bag. "We've got to get out of here."

All around the docking bay, Sith soldiers turn, before one leaps down from a bridge, spinning in the air to land between Lagos, Will and Guppy, blades sliding out of one arm.

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So Will draws his sword and blaster, he'd rather use the sword but he fires a few blaster rounds off to maybe buy them some time.

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Guppy pulls both of them next to him and presses the 'Sonic Screech' on his stun gun.

A protective zone keeps them from being deafened, but should hopefully hurt everyone else in the near vicinity.

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The Sith soldiers crumple, and the one that had leapt down between them clutches his chest, now glowing with blaster marks.

Then, their armour changes. Specifically, the helmets - they reshape themselves, just slightly, around where the ears would be. The one on the platform, having been shot, and having caught the full brunt of the screech, is clearly not going to be getting up for a while, though he groans and twitches slightly, but the others straighten up.

Two more land on the platform, as Lagos backs off to get between Will and Guppy, trying to make himself small.

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Will curses and fires a few more times as he searches for a ship,

"Ye, find us somethin' we can get out o''ere with!"

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"RUN!" Guppy yells, shooting the two soldiers on the platform. "That was my only kickass move."

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The blaster bolts rebound harmlessly off their armour, this time, as they slide their hooked, claw-like blades out from their wrists and approach.

They're remarkably fast and agile, it seems.

Lagos, meanwhile, starts peering around for a ship that doesn't look like it'd have good security.

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Will stuffs his blaster into his belt and moves into them with his sword.

He's not sure the best way to fight those blades but he'll do all he can.

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Guppy tries the stun gun, then as a last resort, tries to kick the soldiers in the groin.

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The stun gun makes one crumple, but the second one remains quite firmly standing. Groin-kicking would, arguably, work better if they weren't wearing armour.

Guppy is spared from the immediate wrath of the remaining soldier by the fact that Will has something sharp, is thusly presumably more dangerous, so Will gets swiped at with the claws.

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So Will tries to parry the claws as best he can but he still gets some long scratches across his side.

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Guppy reaches into his bag, grabs his spray on deodorant and sprays it in the face of the soldier, in the hope of either making it stoned or at least blurring its vision by the residue.

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The soldier seems visibly confused and impaired by the spray (it rather mists up those glowing 'eyes' on his helmet) and pauses hesitantly for a moment.

Meanwhile, Lagos apparently spots a small shuttle nearby, and starts tugging Guppy towards it.

Two soldiers jump into their path, backed up by a person who is clearly not a Sith - an unarmoured, burly man with what looks like a baseball bat.

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Using that moment of distraction, Will uses his sword to go after the man with a baseball ball. Hopefully that will buy them the time to all get in.

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Guppy isn't sure at all that the deodorant is going to work on two people.

Those blades look deadly, and if his guns and unarmed combat won't work he's not sure what to do...

So instead he gets a clear shot and shoots the unarmoured man with his blaster, freeing up Will to take on one of the remaining men.

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The man screams, bat clattering to the ground as he collapses, clutching his shoulder.

The soldiers pay him no attention, raising their claws, as the deodorant-sprayed soldier approaches from behind, slowly and cautiously, as he still can't really see properly.

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Will's in the midst of taking on the other soldiers but does spot the one approaching Guppy and slashes at his leg.

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Guppy launches himself hard at the remaining soldier, to knock him as far from Will as possible, then throws the deodorant at the soldier's feet and shoots it with his blaster.

It explodes, violently, knocking Guppy back too, but he gets up quickly and runs past them, looking behind to check that Will is winning.

He hopes so. He's out of ideas.

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The leg-slashed soldier sprays blue liquid, as the armour is cleaved apart to reveal a mass of what appear to be plastic tubes holding a luminescent, bright-blue substance. Exposed muscle can be seen in the spaces between tubes, but the soldier doesn't appear to actually have any skin as such.

One of the other soldiers is knocked back by the explosion, right off the edge of the bridge (no handrails, for shame), whereupon he plummets down quite a way. The fall doesn't seem to faze him, but it does mean he's far, far away.

Lagos takes the chance to dash over to the shuttle, open it, and hurry in.

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