Braithe sits against the windows her whole body shaking, white spots form in her eyes obscuring her vision. Jo stands infront his body between her and Korrux. She holds onto the jedi that had fallen unconscious in the escape.
Korrux walks over to a console on the far side of the room and turns the alarm off. She pulls a crate out from the corner of the room and sits, turning to face the intruders. "Interesting." She says with a smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes. "I thought the jedi would come to retrieve their great Zen Cho. But no. I have a Mandalorian and a smuggler." Jo doesn't flinch; the barrel of his blaster pointed solely on the Sith. "You must not be worth much to them Zen." Korrux looks past the Mandalorian, "oh he's not listening." Korrux returns her attention back to Jo. "So it looks like your my only entertainment." she says playfully "Oh, put the gun down will y," BANG.
The room fills with light for a moment as Jo fires his weapon. Yet Korrux only frowns. The blaster bolt hangs in the air in the middle of the room. "Such a pity." She stands and walks towards Jo; he tries to move backwards but finds himself unable to move. She gets closer, walking around the suspended blaster bolt. She stands next to him and places a hand on his helmet. She removes it slowly. "Let's not have your armour get in the way, shall we?" The helmet is tossed to the ground as it lands with an echoing CLUNK. Jo watches as the blaster bolt shifts and crackles as turns to point at his head. Korrux circles around him, looking at Braithe and Zen, she gives a sly smile before returning back to her crate and sitting back down crossing her legs. "Right, I am going to ask you a question. Your response dictates whether or not I'm having my guards remove mandalorian pieces from my floor." Korrux waves her hand, and the blaster bolt begins to reverse towards the now unprotected Mandalorian slowly.
"I know you were hired, so who are you supposed to be meeting. Who wants my dear friend Zen Cho?" Korrux asks. The Blaster bolt continues to reverse back towards Jo. He attempts to move again but his armour doesn't budge, she seems to have suspended his clothes keeping him from moving. "I don't know." He answers. She cocks her head to the side to see a cowering Braithe. "No you don't, but I sense she does." Korrux looks at Braithe.
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Braithe shakes her head, tears well in her eyes. "Answer or your big blue friend here is going to remind everyone why mandalorians wear helmets." Braithe opens her mouth to speak, "I can't tell you. Because I don't know either" she says. The bolt shoots backwards and stops at Jo's ear who cries out in pain as the tip of his ear is vaporised. "Oh please, I can feel you witholding it you may not have met them. But I know you are holding onto some nugget of wisdom" Says Korrux. Her face no longer smug, now irritated. Her amber eyes bore a hole into Braithe's mind. "Who is Fulcrum?" Braithe continues to stay silent shaking at the sight of the sith lord who had now bolted from her seat. "You think you're being brave," teases Korrux, "You arent. you are merely drawing out a slow and painful death for your friend." Braithe pushes herself to stand, and meets the furious sith. Her hand opens to reveal a small communicator "Now B4." Flood lights illuminate the room from behind her. Shining through the windows causing Korrux to shield her eyes.
A hail of bolts smash the windows taking out two guards at the door and breaking Korrux's concentration, freeing Jo. Then a torpedo flies through the window which the Sith lord catches with the force, Korrux strains as the torpedo pushes against her ccontrol forcing her down on one knee. Seeing the opportunity Jo grabs onto both Braithe and Zen and exits onto the balcony. The flood lights turn revealing the Star lance. As the airlock opens a metal hand exits providing Braithe a way to climb on to the ship, its B4. Braithe grabs the hand of the droid, "I know you're smiling under that face plate."
"I cant smile," B4 answers.
Jo attempts to lift Zen, and both Braithe and B4 grab a hold and lift him up placing him in the cargo hold. Jo attempts to jump up onto the ship but the torpedo returns crashing into the balcony the explosion sends him flying to the far corner of the balcony and into the jetpack he left behind.
Jo attempts to look up as he sees Korrux walking through the broken glass and the fire, her robes jolting and cracking in the wind. He turns his head to see both Braithe and B4 looking out to him. Jo stands, and Korrux ignites her lightsaber. "Please try!" She shouts at him, "I'm desperate!" Jo looks back at B4 and throws himself off of the ledge. Braithe hears an excited yelp from B4 as he rushes to the cockpit. He turns the ship, the thrusters point at the balcony. The force of the heat and the shockwave throws Korrux flying back into the room as he speeds off after the Mandalorian, who had ignited his jetpack and was flying away. Korrux rushes back to the balcony to see the mandalorian standing at the airlock of his ship clutching his side staring back at her.
