STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Rescue

"That does sound like a grave threat. Do you know anything about these ships?" Xavier asks.

"Nothing. We have no way of bringing them down. They made it a point to shoot down our only fighter... but why am I telling you this? Why do ou care?"

"If you help us," Dak says, "we will do what we can to help you."

"What can you do? You're just bodyguards. You couldn't even keep your woman alive..."

He gestures to Rianna, who has become paler than usual and is starting to convulse.

"She has tendency to go wondering off, where it's harder for us to protect her. She is very stubborn that way, but trust me we have certain skills and abilities that can be useful for you."

Xavier will try to get this point across through a little intimidation.

Trax nudges you, Xavier.

"Just tell him you're a karking Jedi!" Trax says.

Xavier listens to Trax and removes his green lightsaber and powers it on.

"Like I said we have abilities and skills that will be most beneficial to you if you help us."

The man in the lab coat forgets himself and his jaw drops.

"You... you're a Jedi!?" he says, in shock. "Fine! Take her to the medical center, quickly!"

Dak will allow the merc who was going to grab Rianna to guide him to the med center.

The mercenary guides you into the building, which is all metal surface and eerily sterile. Rianna is quickly presented to the doctors in the medical center. It only takes a single blood sample for them to deduce what kind of poison has been used against her and begin treatment. The convulsing stops shortly after as the antidote fights the poison.

The man in the lab coat, though, has questions for Xavier.

"Are you the only Jedi?" he asks.

Dak waits for Rianna to wake.

"We all are Jedi, or at least we were. We set off on our own to see what the Universe had to offer. Mary and Fidos fell in love and we decided to start up a merchant business so they could settle down," Xavier says calmly.

"Odd name, Mary," the researcher says. "Slavery is not quite the Jedi niche, from what I know. I guess leaving the Republic changes people. I know it's changed me."

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Rianna can now slowly regain consciousness, though she has also been administered pain meds to help with the agony. The treatment is regenerating her veins, arteries, and capilaries, and it is not a fun process...

"Someone tell me where I am, right now..." Rianna says woozily as she starts to wake up.

And eesh. Really nasty poison they had...

"How did it change you?"

Dak speaks quietly. "We're on Magnus Delta, in a medical ward. You were poisoned, during that pirate attack. The people here are edgy, apparently because of some kind of local trouble. Don't kill anything, Mary," he says, placing special emphasis on the cover name, "Just stay close to me... Fidos," he finishes with a displeased grimace.

"And remember... I love you."

"...what are you even talking about? And why shouldn't I kill anything?"

"Because you're my wife," Dak explains, looking pained. "And we may be able to cut a deal here, if we play along."

"What? Since when..." Rianna starts saying, before she realizes that must be the cover story Dak and Xavier fed to whoever found us there. "...once I am able to get up, you're dead. Both of you."

"And trust me, I remember being poisoned quite well. I've lost a fight with someone with a flamethrower before. I think this was more painful."

"It's nice to see you are back to your charming self, Mary," Xavier says not flinching before looking back to the man in the lab coat.

"Like I said stubborn."