Competition: “Birds of a feather die together”

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“Birds of a feather die together”

Crow has been said to be more of an opportunist, and waits for his targets to make a mistake. Intel has also revealed that the Zabrak is a former crime lord from Coruscant, and he still has connections in high places. Based upon the given information, he’s hidden in an old LoL outpost to the west on the edge of an ice field, and is accompanied by two of his underlings: a Human female known as Kilera Morson, and a zeltron male known as Kiv Tek’ar. Both are armed with kitanas, while Crow is armed with a vibrosword and a DC-17 Hand blaster. With a minimum of 500 words, write how your character proceeds to take out this careful Zabrak, and how they succeed or fail.

Grading will be based on creativity, grammar, realism, and continuity.

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Take Your Pick
Organized by
Blade Mistress Shadow Nighthunter
Running time
2016-02-29 until 2016-05-07 (2 months)
Target Unit
Battleteam Tacitus Athanasius
Competition Type
Fiction
Awards
Fifth Level Crescents and Clusters of Ice as per VOICE guidelines
Participants
3 subscribers, of which 1 has participated.
Results
Member
Brandon Tarsus
Textual submission

Tarsus and Scorpion where traveling together in Scorpion's custom speeder. The trunk of the speeder was modified to hide her two 1D9 droids for emergencies. Tarsus thought it was a neat little touch.

They were traveling over Daemon; heading west to the ice fields to link up with Crow. Scorpion had made an emergency call to him. She told Crow that someone had killed Snake, and that they needed to link back up. Her ploy was to trick him to being exposed, and have her and Tarsus ambush him along with his two followers. Tarsus felt the plan was fool proof, yet a lingering doubt plagued his mind.

“Do you think he's onto us?” Tarsus asked Scorpion as they were exiting Daemon's city limits.

“I don't know,” she said. “I doubt it, though. We've worked with each other for quite some time. He should trust-”

A huge explosion rocked the speeder they were in. It fell one hundred feet, and hit the ground harshly. Tarsus and Scorpion both slowly climbed out of the wreckage; both in serious pain.

“I take he's onto us,” Tarsus said as they were quickly surrounded by police. The two shrugged off the pain, and pulled out their weapons. There were ten officers to kill; Four in front of them, and six taking their rear flank. Tarsus fired a shot into the gut of one which caused him to shoot the back of his comrade. Scorpion quickly threw her knife into a third, but the fourth fired a shot. He missed, and Tarsus shot him in the head. He turned his attention to the first one who was shot, and finished him quickly. The other six opened fire. Tarsus and Scorpion got in cover. As they laid pinned down, Scorpion pressed a button that released her 1D9 droids. They quickly ripped the officers in pieces. The Droids were suddenly destroyed. Tarsus and Scorpion popped up, and saw a group of three.

“Crow, and his friends,” Scorpion said as they got out from cover to engage them.

“How did you know?” Scorpion asked Crow.

“I have friends in high places,” he said. “You should know I have completed access to all the city's security resources. I've been watching you this whole time.”

Crow’s cronies unsheathed their kitanas, and charged them both. Tarsus got Kiv to worry about. Kiv quickly went to stab Tarsus, but Tarsus quickly side stepped, and grabbed his arm. Tarsus then suddenly pulled out his trust rusty bowie knife, and stabbed Kiv in the throat. He violently pulled out his blade, nearly cutting off Kiv’s head. Without warning, Tarsus threw his blade at Crow, landing it in his leg. He turned to his left, and saw Scorpion struggling to get Morson’s sword out of her hands. Tarsus pulled out his pistol, and fired a shot through the side of Morson’s head. He turned his attention to Crow, who began firing at them with his blaster. Scorpion and Tarsus ran to cover, and then heard more police sirens.

“Time to leave!” Tarsus shouted as he jumped on a nearby speeder. Scorpion jumped on, and they sped off as fast as they could.

Placement
1st place