Screaming like a stuck mynock.

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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The explosion rocks Will slightly as he keeps fighting and tries to see how much longer he has to hold them off before they can leave.

Those blades hurt but he doesn't have time to think about that now.

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"Come on Will, run!" Guppy yells. The palms of his hands are lightly burned from the blast, and he has no arsanel left to help him with. He knows he's bleeding somewhere, it's trickling down his leg.

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The remaining soldier is taking down, spraying blue liquid everywhere. For a moment, there's stillness.

Then, in unison, every soldier, on every level of the docking bay, drops down to one knee, heads bowed. Reluctantly, the unarmoured men, with their makeshift weapons, also drop down to their knees.

At a balcony high above, a black-and-gold armoured figure appears, cloak trailing behind him. Will and Guppy might recognise him as Enzu Koren, the man from the news broadcasts.

Slowly and deliberately, he reaches to his belt, pulling a lightsaber from it and igniting it, red blade extending upwards with a hiss.

At which point, the engines on the shuttle starts.

"Get in!" Lagos calls. "We're ready to leave."

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Will runs towards it and pulls Guppy in, so he ends up falling which hurts, those claw things are cruel.

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"Thanks. Please tell me you can pilot." Guppy says, collapsing on the floor next to Will.

He opens his bag and tries to get out the skin fuser without touching either of his palms. If he can get the skin to heal up fast enough he can help, or something... his trouser leg is wet, his hands are shaking and his vision full of the little black spots that threaten to make him make an ass of himself.

"I'm sorry." he says, over and over again as he tries to heal himself up.

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Lagos doesn't reply, but there's a rumble as the ship lifts off, turning and soaring out of the docking bay.

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On his balcony, Koren flicks off his lightsaber, staring after the ship.
"Bring me a vessel, and inform the Exchange that our alliance, and our rule of this station, must unfortunately come to a premature end. I want all troops back on the Wyrm within half an hour. I won't be responsible for the fates of those who remain behind."

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"There should be kolto and bandages in that box near the door," Lagos says. "Painkillers, too. They'll do a good job on any wounds you have." He pauses, frowning out the viewscreen, as the massive, crustacean-esque ship turns about and towards them. "We may have a bit of a bumpy ride, though."

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Will grabs some kolto and puts it on Guppy's hands, taking the fuser out of them,

"Naught to 'pologize for, just rest. Thank ye, just glad to get out o''er."

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"Thanks." Guppy says to both of them. He crawls over to the nearest available seat, with one next to him for Will, and straps himself in as best he can, keeping his head low.

"Will, can you bring the bandages please? How hurt are you? Honestly? If you help me get rubber gloves on over the kolto I can help you, otherwise I can talk you through it."

He pulls his trouser leg up with the edge of one finger, trying to get a look at what's bleeding down his leg. Having established that he hasn't severed any major vessels, he balances that leg on his knee and uses his forearms to apply pressure above the wound.

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The ship shakes a little, then harder.

"We're taking some fire. Those Interdictors are designed to hit much bigger targets than us, so we should be alright until they send out fighters. The Wyrm doesn't seem to be firing at all, yet."

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