STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Trials

Xavier moves as fast as he can to keep up with the prodding. He finds it hard to breath some. Still he knows he will be healed up by the time he needs to fight.

He gives a quick glance back to the Pirate Leader.

This isn't over, Xavier thinks to himself before he is shoved on the ship.

Before you are shoved onto the ship, you see a group of the clubbing pirates, well, clubbing a victim. Rather mercilessly. In fact, you don't think they intend to take him alive.

"What's going on?" the Pirate Leader demands. His voice, while you can clearly hear what he is seeing, is somewhat distorted... almost electronic.

"This native tried to fight us!" one of the pirates claims. "Shot Terald with a rifle!"

"Let me see him," the Pirate Leader demands. The henchmen step aside, revealing Wokam.

A smile almost comes across his face as Xavier sees the alien fighting back.

Xavier will try and move closer to where Wokam is. Seeing what the Pirate Leader will do.

Wokam's small nose is broken and his eyes are swollen and blacked. He is breathing hard and looks very unwell.

"Help..." he gasps, seeing you.

"He tried fighting?" the Pirate Leader asks.

"Yeah!" the thug says, tossing the Leader his rifle. It's now broken.

"Unusual," the Pirate Leader comments. He drops the rifle and crushes what's left of it beneath his heel. "And highly annoying."

"Please...don't..."

The Pirate Leader reaches for his pistol.

Xavier sees the man preparing to kill Wokam.

"Why kill the little alien," Xavier says quickly. "He is beaten and no more of a threat. Plus killing him would be a waste of labor and resources, and time."

The Pirate Leader pauses, then moves his hand away from his pistol.

"Why do you care, good sir?" he asks, mockingly. "Are you friends? Pals?"

"I have no emotional attachment to him, but I am a man of logic." Xavier pauses.

"And killing someone who can provide you with labor is a logical waste. Wouldn't you agree?"

Xavier is monotone never flinching.

EDIT- Rex was here

"Pydyrians are terrible slaves. So damned lazy!"

The Pirate Leader grabs Wokam by the throat and forces the Pydyrian to look at him.

"Completely useless, aren't you?"

"Apparently this lazy, useless slave killed one of your men. So either he is useful, and not lazy."

"Or your men are even lazier, and more useless."

Xavier hopes Wokam catches on and answers right. He will even look into Wokam's eyes trying to glare into him to say he isn't worthless.

You can feel the Pirate Leader glare at you as he roughly releases the Pydyrian.

"Really? Let's see what the Pydyrian thinks, hmm?"

He crouches down before the Pydyrian again, grabbing him once more by the throat.

"Are you worth something after all? Say so! Speak up!"

Wokam says nothing.

"I will spare you if you look me in the eye and tell me that you are worth my time, Pydyrian."

Wokam speaks. "Will I be a slave?"

Xavier can do nothing but watch. Xavier would like to tell him he was already a slave before. Cowering at anyone willing to be mean. The fact is he was more free now then he had probably ever been in his life.

Still all Xavier could do was glare at the Alien and hope he said the right answer.

"Of course," the Pirate Leader says. "You think I would let you go?"

The henchmen laugh at this comment.

In response to the Pirate Leader, Wokam says nothing, letting himself go limp in the arms of the pirate thugs.

"You still haven't answered me," the Pirate Leader says, reaching for his pistol. "Tell me you're not worthless and that killing one of my men was the best thing you ever did, and I won't kill you."

Wokam says nothing.

"Tell him, you're not worthless," Xavier says.

"Do it."

Wokam does not look at you.

"You see? Worthless!" The Pirate Leader draws his flintlock pistol and places it against Wokam's forehead.

Pew!

The Pydyrian's body falls to the ground, dead.

"Get him on the ship," the Pirate Leader says to his thugs, indicating you. "Keep watch on him."

With that, they whack you with a stun club and haul you onto the transport, through its cargo bay doors on the side.

Xavier right before they stun him look at the body. His heart rate increases but that is just the body's response to natural stimuli. Truth be told Xavier felt nothing about the death of Wokam.

He was just a possible ally on the inside, that and Xavier was responsible for his death. Yet Xavier was already looking past his death. Then everything went black, and he was dragged unto the Cargo ship.

The cargo bay of the transport is rather expansive. You might even be able to fit a shield generator into one of them comfortably. But for now, it's absolutely packed full of people, all frightened, all shouting, all minorly injured.

The fear is overwhelming to your senses, but luckily you are not so sensitive that this feeling is debilitating.

Pirates continue to cram more captives into the hold and occasionally re-stun some of those hostages already stuck here with you. Four pirates, at the Leader's bidding, stand guard over you with rifles.

"Should I feel honored to be getting such attention," Xavier says as he leans his head on the wall.

Xavier saw the the fearful hostage were taken on board. Most were seemingly cowards that simply gave up. At least Wokam was willing to take one down. Even if he was to weak to go on from there.

You do notice that none of the prisoners are Pydyrian. The majority are human, with a handful of other races. The Almanian System is notoriously dominated by humans with few exceptions. Very few species find anything of value on Almania itself.

Soon, the hold is overcrowded. People are smashed against each other... except you. You've got room to breath because you're surrounded by four pirate guards.

Xavier leans back and begins to examine his possible injuries. He isn't worries. He is tough, and bulky. Things that would put out normal people will only delay him.

Still with the Cargo full this meant that they would be taking off soon.