Master Jedi - Enter Bossk, Exit Bossk
posted 1 June 2007, Friday
Deep in the Nar Shaddaa infrastructure, in a small usually uninteresting part of the Teegan Warehouse sector was a tiny out-of-the-way bar that was hardly noticeable to those who didn't already know it was there. It was purposely designed to keep people away as the semi-retired information broker who ran it was at the point in his life where peace and quiet where as valuable as money. Today, though, there was no peace to be found - only pain.
The front door lay cracked open, thumping against the dismembered leg of a patron that kept it from completely closing. The entire floor of the establishment seemed like a messy operating table covered in blood, guts and body parts to spare. Bodies were strewn everywhere, and the sad few not dead yet suffered wishing they were. Laying along the bar was the owner gasping, moaning and wincing in pain, wishing he had taken his friends advice and retired two years earlier. Hovering over him was a not-too-happy Leia holding her lightsaber which was plunged into the man's right side. "I understand your code and I respect your customer's privacy, but you aren't helping yourself at the moment. You can take your chances with me, which I assure you are not very good, or you can take your chances with an angry someone else who may or may not come looking for you. Now, I told you I would pay for the information so I don't see why you are so reluctant." Leia conversed in a calm, crazy voice as she twisted her saber again inside the man.
"AAAAAAHHH!" He screamed. "I... I can't! He's an S-rank... My family... My kids..!"
"I can never understand how you fools choose to fear someone who may harm you as opposed to the person standing on top of you, actively threatening your life!" Leia pulled out her lightsaber which had burned a significant hole in the man's side, flipped it in the air catching it right-side-up then brought it down on the man's right foot slicing it off. "My patience has run out so I'm going to slice a piece of you off every second until you either give me the information or you die!" Leia brought her lightsaber down again slicing the man's left foot off as the screams continued. As each second ticked off pieces of the man fell to the floor, but Leia was too far gone to notice or care about the cruel torture she was engaged in. She was too close to finding her husband's capture, and the rage inside of her had brought her once again to the edge of her sanity.
Standing at the edge of a bottomless, black cliff inside her mind, she would begin to sway as if manipulated by the currents of her anger. With each new fit of rage the cliff collapsed and broke into pieces leaving her less sane ground to cling to as the darkness below beckoned. On the other side of the cliff the subject of her outburst would stand drawing her attention away from her eminent fall. She would always manage to catch herself, but each new episode would dull her reaction time and awareness.
"Okay! Okay!" The legless old man begged right after Leia had taken his right knee off. "Bossk... He claimed Han Solo's bounty... It's true..." The old man gasped for air. "He's... He can be found at the... Tlik Tlik Club..."
Leia reached under her belt and removed a Chit card with a thousand credits on it and threw it on the old man. "You could have had more," she said coldly then walked out of the bar stepping over the carnage she had created.
Leia walked out of the bar and headed down one of the famous catwalks Nar Shaddaa was known for. It skimmed along the edge of the buildings and looked down on the miles of city below with little more than a small rail for safety. About a block away from the bar Leia stopped after passing a small, dark alley sensing someone she knew. She didn't bother to look in when she spoke, "I know you're there Menn-al, and I don't care that you're following me. Follow whatever orders Dorem gave you, but don't interfere with me or try to stop me."
"I am only here to observe." Menn-al's face poked out of the shadows.
"Then do that, but heed my warning. I don't want to kill you." Leia continued on her way leaving Menn-al behind in the shadows. Dorem's becoming more trouble than he's worth she thought as she hurried to her destination.
Menn-al waited a few minutes before emerging from the alley and following after Leia. He didn't like the idea of following her, and the last thing he wanted to do was get on her bad side, but he was under contract to Dorem and he had to do his job. Out of his pocket, Menn-al removed a small scanner and flipped it on revealing Leia's exact position. A tiny tracking device in the outfit given to her was one of the many insurance policies Dorem had put in place, and lucky for them she knew nothing about it.
An hour later, Leia found herself in one of the most dangerous sectors on Nar Shadda. It's name was long forgotten and was now only known as the Snake Pit. The few people wandering the streets immediately took notice of Leia, and were it not for the rage that emanated loudly from her person would have tried to take her on. As she walked through the maze of walkways and dirty alleys the only thing on her mind was revenge, and with each step closer she prepared herself.
The Tlik Tlik Club was one of the handful of places in the Snake Pit to show any semblance of enjoyment or fun with it's bright pink lights, flashing advertisements and loud music drifting through the doors. The enormous grey skinned Savrip beside the entrance acted as the guard. Without losing a step Leia approached the bar and exchanged glances with him who felt no need to stop her. She pushed open the bright red front doors and entered the smelly, smoky pink haze that consumed the place. The square interior had two visible floors with personal rooms lining the walls. A dance floor and some small tables filled up the area between them and the oval shaped bar located in the center. The club was full of bounty hunters and criminals enjoying themselves, and on scattered pedestals naked dancers entertained.
Leia walked up to the bar, threw a few thousand credit chits down and waited for the bartender to come over. The bartender was a Shan: a near human species that looked human in every way except for their grey-blue skin. Their eyes were usually red or blue and they had silver hair on their heads with chromataphores that allowed them to change it to any color, at any time. No one really knew where they came from so rumors abounded that they were the product of mass genetic experiments.
This particular shan was wearing his hair red to blend in better with the club decor, and as he walked up to Leia he noticed the chits on the bar and immediately took on a suspicious demeanor. "What can I get you?" He asked, looking at the money.
"I have a special job that requires a special type of individual, and I hear there is an S-rank bounty hunter who frequents this place that might help me," Leia said as she pushed the credits towards the bartender.
The bartender smiled as he took the chits and hastily placed them in his pocket. "There are many S-rank bounty hunters who frequent this establishment, but you are wasting your time. Bounty hunters don't do business this way. You post a job and see who fills it. That's how it works."
"Listen. I don't have much time so just tell me where Bossk is!" Leia's anger started to rise. The bartender eyed Leia for a moment then nodded before walking over to a green Trandoshan at the end of the bar and whispered something to him. The Trandoshan then got up and disappeared into a large personal room at the back divided by one of the large pink curtains there seemed to be too many of.
Two minutes later a gigantic dark brown Trandoshan no less than nine feet tall emerged from the back room. He was more lizard than humanoid, and had legs and a tail as thick as logs. As he slowly made his way towards Leia, her patience had reached its limit and she began walking towards what she knew was a bodyguard. She reached for some more credit chits as she snaked her way through the tables hoping to dispense with another greedy thug, but before she could get the first word out she found herself flying through the air and crashing into a table on the other side of the club. The huge Trandoshan was powerful and with the flick of his arm he sent Leia flying.
With the loud crash trouble was immediately recognized, and like experts who had seen countless fights the nearby patrons quickly gathered their things and calmly got out of the way. Leia slowly rolled off the broken table and spit out a bloody piece of tooth as she checked to see if her jaw was broken. She had never been hit that hard before, and she knew she was lucky to be conscious. As she whipped out her lightsaber everyone began leaving or taking cover realizing things were going to get serious.
The trandoshan bodyguard had reached Leia as she recovered and bent down to pick her up, but before he could grab her by the hair a bright, blue flash saw the guards arm sliced clean off. As he screamed in pain Leia got up and Force-threw him into the wall. Standing up forced a sharp pain into her side and she realized that the fall had hurt her more than she thought.
The bloodied bodyguard rolled over on the floor and pulled a blaster from his belt firing a few desperate shots at Leia, but they were easily deflected back at him, hitting him in the shoulder. Leia picked him up off the ground and began to Force-choke him up against the far wall. "It looks like I need to make an example out of you!" she said before throwing her lightsaber at him and disembowelling him.
The stream of guts on the floor served as a warning to anyone else, and a quick look around the room told her that they had gotten the message. "Good!" she said out loud as she limped over to the back room where the bodyguard had emerged. "Where's Bossk!" Leia yelled as she grabbed the silky, pink curtain and ripped it down revealing a dozen bounty hunters and general scum Bossk entertained as his entourage as well as Bossk himself sitting in the center in a large metal chair. They all had blaster rifles pointed at Leia and confident, smug looks on their faces. "What do you want with me?" Bossk rasped in his barely understandable accent.
"I'm here to find out what you did with Han Solo... and to kill you!" Not being able to take the threat, one of Bossk's henchmen squeezed his trigger in anger inciting the rest to do the same. Leia jumped into the adjacent room avoiding the hail of blaster fire and from her back focused her energy on the wall breaking off a massive chunk that flew towards Bossk's men. When she got up half of them were down and the other half stood wondering what happened, but they didn't last long enough to figure it out. Streams of Force lightning curled from Leia's outstretched hands and quickly pacified the room, but Bossk was not among the dead. "You're not getting away from me," Leia screamed as her eyes began to glow violet with rage. The chair Bossk attended was gone, and in its place was a hatch implying a custom made emergency escape route.
With a wave of her arm the hatch exploded down the escape tunnel that lead to the back of the establishment. "Bossk!" Leia called as she popped out of the tunnel into a small room. The clickity-clank of a thermal detonator drew her attention to her feet, and the raspy laugh of her target told her were to send it. With ease Leia flicked her wrist and sent the explosive to the nearby doorway wrenching a loud cry from Bossk as the blast hit him. A small, evil smile flashed across Leia's face.
On the catwalk outside a spotty trail of Bossk's blood ran down the metal path to where he was now limping, but still intact. "You're mine Bossk!" Leia cried out as she began running after her wounded prey. Half way to the left turn ahead of her a silent stream of laser blasts moved to intercept. I didn't hear a blaster, Leia thought as she stepped onto the wall to her right and wall ran over the incoming fire a split second before getting hit. Bossk's SK-31 blaster was specially modified by him in order to silently take down his bounties, and it was one of many tools he was ready to employ to save his life.
Gritting her teeth Leia knew she needed to be more careful, but her anger drove her violently forward with little regard. Again a silent stream of laser fire approached as she reached the corner. This time she was ready and deflected them with her lightsaber, but as the final shot bounced off her blade the blast of a strategically placed sequence charge ripped through the metal catwalk and sent Leia tumbling off the edge. Leia desperately reached for the first rail just below, but she couldn't hold on tumbling further down. The second rail sped by and she missed it by a few inches, but with a scream of determination the third rail slammed up into her left hand and stayed there.
She hit the walkway chest first then slowly pulled herself up trying to ignore the pain that was running through her body. "Damn you Bossk!" Leia yelled as she layed on her back feeling lucky that she was able to Force-block most of the blast. She sat up, grabbing the rail for support, and saw the large piece of shrapnel that was sticking out of her right thigh immediately making her aware of the tremendous pain it was causing. I can't pull it out or I might bleed to death. I'm going to have to patch it up until I'm done. With her lightsaber she cut some strips off her robe and tightly wrapped them above and below the protruding object in her leg; She worked quickly always keeping in mind her target.
One-hundred feet above her Bossk growled his discontent as he watched Leia catch herself on the rail below. His feet, one of the few places he didn't wear protection, were wounded affording him a slow limp at best in his escape, but as a proud Trandoshan he refused to show any weakness or discomfort. As Leia patched herself up, Bossk prepared his blaster for a long range shot then leaned on the rail taking aim. The blurry picture of Leia slowly came into focus within his scope, and with her head in the crosshairs he slowly squeezed the trigger with the expertise of a professional killer.
In tune with all of its surroundings, the Force that flowed through Leia alerted her of the danger and made her react to the blast. She Force-blocked it away with her left hand then stretched out her right towards Bossk. Her frustration and anger exploded through her hand as she twisted the walkway under Bossk into a mess causing him to lose his balance. With his feet hurt he quickly stumbled and slid half way off the edge grabbing a mangled rail for support.
Leia left her robe on the floor and began limping towards Bossk destroying the catwalks below him; opening a path upward. Everytime he tried to climb up Leia would twist the walkway a little more to keep him unbalanced. She had caught her prey, and now it was only a matter of time before the kill. Leia's leg was bleeding badly, but the sight of Bossk dangling above her helplessly was the only thing she cared about at the moment. "What did you do with Han!" Leia screamed as she Force-pulled Bossk down from the ledge, allowing him to hit the floor in front of her with a thud.
"Han... died a miserable, slow death!" Bossk laughed on the floor face down, defeated. Leia unclipped her lightsaber trying to hold back the anger and the urge to kill him. "You can die fast or slow," she said as she brought her blade down slicing Bossk's right arm off. He tried not to scream. "Now where's my husband?" He didn't respond and began moving his hand down to his belt. Leia didn't hesitate to cut it off and kick it off the edge into the darkness below. With the little strength he had left, Bossk rolled over and waited for his end. Leia knew he wanted to die and that letting him live with this defeat would hurt him more, but she couldn't have him hunting her down for revenge either.
Leia's leg was giving out, and the pain was starting to take over her entire right side. She kneeled over Bossk to take some of the pressure off and looked him in his eyes. "I'm going to kill all of you. Every single one of you bastards that have ruined my life!" Leia grabbed his throat with both hands and began squeezing on Bossk's thick, leathery throat. His thick skin made it difficult for human hands, but channeling her anger through the Force Leia began to choke the life out of the famous bounty hunter. Bossk gagged and choked as Leia increased the pressure, slowly wrenching the life out of him. The more she stared at his face the more rage built up inside her and the more she squeezed.
Leia's sure footing on her canyon of sanity was slipping away as the ground broke up and tumbled into the darkness below. Still she would not look down and become aware of her imminent fall. The image of Bossk doing horrible things to her husband playing out on the other side consumed her, and as she began to slip down into the abyss the ringing of approaching footsteps on the metal walkway grabbed her attention. Desperately Leia turned and clawed at the ground trying to hang on.
She snapped out of her rage to find Bossk dead; his mouth gaping wide and his tongue dangling out. Her fingers deep inside of his neck, her hands covered in his blood. With a deep sigh Leia relaxed her hands and released her death grip relieved that once again she was able to find her way out of the darkness. Standing a few feet in front of her Menn-al looked at the scene in his usually indifferent manner. Leia glanced up at him, but didn't say anything then fumbled about as she tried to pick herself up. "Are you going to help me?" Leia frustrated as she barely had enough strength left to move.
"You told me not to interfere remember?" Menn-al stood motionless.
"Fine!" Leia collapsed on the cold metal catwalk and rolled on her back helplessly. "I'll just wait here then," she said as she closed her eyes and passed out.
To Be Continued...
The front door lay cracked open, thumping against the dismembered leg of a patron that kept it from completely closing. The entire floor of the establishment seemed like a messy operating table covered in blood, guts and body parts to spare. Bodies were strewn everywhere, and the sad few not dead yet suffered wishing they were. Laying along the bar was the owner gasping, moaning and wincing in pain, wishing he had taken his friends advice and retired two years earlier. Hovering over him was a not-too-happy Leia holding her lightsaber which was plunged into the man's right side. "I understand your code and I respect your customer's privacy, but you aren't helping yourself at the moment. You can take your chances with me, which I assure you are not very good, or you can take your chances with an angry someone else who may or may not come looking for you. Now, I told you I would pay for the information so I don't see why you are so reluctant." Leia conversed in a calm, crazy voice as she twisted her saber again inside the man.
"AAAAAAHHH!" He screamed. "I... I can't! He's an S-rank... My family... My kids..!"
"I can never understand how you fools choose to fear someone who may harm you as opposed to the person standing on top of you, actively threatening your life!" Leia pulled out her lightsaber which had burned a significant hole in the man's side, flipped it in the air catching it right-side-up then brought it down on the man's right foot slicing it off. "My patience has run out so I'm going to slice a piece of you off every second until you either give me the information or you die!" Leia brought her lightsaber down again slicing the man's left foot off as the screams continued. As each second ticked off pieces of the man fell to the floor, but Leia was too far gone to notice or care about the cruel torture she was engaged in. She was too close to finding her husband's capture, and the rage inside of her had brought her once again to the edge of her sanity.
Standing at the edge of a bottomless, black cliff inside her mind, she would begin to sway as if manipulated by the currents of her anger. With each new fit of rage the cliff collapsed and broke into pieces leaving her less sane ground to cling to as the darkness below beckoned. On the other side of the cliff the subject of her outburst would stand drawing her attention away from her eminent fall. She would always manage to catch herself, but each new episode would dull her reaction time and awareness.
"Okay! Okay!" The legless old man begged right after Leia had taken his right knee off. "Bossk... He claimed Han Solo's bounty... It's true..." The old man gasped for air. "He's... He can be found at the... Tlik Tlik Club..."
Leia reached under her belt and removed a Chit card with a thousand credits on it and threw it on the old man. "You could have had more," she said coldly then walked out of the bar stepping over the carnage she had created.
Leia walked out of the bar and headed down one of the famous catwalks Nar Shaddaa was known for. It skimmed along the edge of the buildings and looked down on the miles of city below with little more than a small rail for safety. About a block away from the bar Leia stopped after passing a small, dark alley sensing someone she knew. She didn't bother to look in when she spoke, "I know you're there Menn-al, and I don't care that you're following me. Follow whatever orders Dorem gave you, but don't interfere with me or try to stop me."
"I am only here to observe." Menn-al's face poked out of the shadows.
"Then do that, but heed my warning. I don't want to kill you." Leia continued on her way leaving Menn-al behind in the shadows. Dorem's becoming more trouble than he's worth she thought as she hurried to her destination.
Menn-al waited a few minutes before emerging from the alley and following after Leia. He didn't like the idea of following her, and the last thing he wanted to do was get on her bad side, but he was under contract to Dorem and he had to do his job. Out of his pocket, Menn-al removed a small scanner and flipped it on revealing Leia's exact position. A tiny tracking device in the outfit given to her was one of the many insurance policies Dorem had put in place, and lucky for them she knew nothing about it.
An hour later, Leia found herself in one of the most dangerous sectors on Nar Shadda. It's name was long forgotten and was now only known as the Snake Pit. The few people wandering the streets immediately took notice of Leia, and were it not for the rage that emanated loudly from her person would have tried to take her on. As she walked through the maze of walkways and dirty alleys the only thing on her mind was revenge, and with each step closer she prepared herself.
The Tlik Tlik Club was one of the handful of places in the Snake Pit to show any semblance of enjoyment or fun with it's bright pink lights, flashing advertisements and loud music drifting through the doors. The enormous grey skinned Savrip beside the entrance acted as the guard. Without losing a step Leia approached the bar and exchanged glances with him who felt no need to stop her. She pushed open the bright red front doors and entered the smelly, smoky pink haze that consumed the place. The square interior had two visible floors with personal rooms lining the walls. A dance floor and some small tables filled up the area between them and the oval shaped bar located in the center. The club was full of bounty hunters and criminals enjoying themselves, and on scattered pedestals naked dancers entertained.
Leia walked up to the bar, threw a few thousand credit chits down and waited for the bartender to come over. The bartender was a Shan: a near human species that looked human in every way except for their grey-blue skin. Their eyes were usually red or blue and they had silver hair on their heads with chromataphores that allowed them to change it to any color, at any time. No one really knew where they came from so rumors abounded that they were the product of mass genetic experiments.
This particular shan was wearing his hair red to blend in better with the club decor, and as he walked up to Leia he noticed the chits on the bar and immediately took on a suspicious demeanor. "What can I get you?" He asked, looking at the money.
"I have a special job that requires a special type of individual, and I hear there is an S-rank bounty hunter who frequents this place that might help me," Leia said as she pushed the credits towards the bartender.
The bartender smiled as he took the chits and hastily placed them in his pocket. "There are many S-rank bounty hunters who frequent this establishment, but you are wasting your time. Bounty hunters don't do business this way. You post a job and see who fills it. That's how it works."
"Listen. I don't have much time so just tell me where Bossk is!" Leia's anger started to rise. The bartender eyed Leia for a moment then nodded before walking over to a green Trandoshan at the end of the bar and whispered something to him. The Trandoshan then got up and disappeared into a large personal room at the back divided by one of the large pink curtains there seemed to be too many of.
Two minutes later a gigantic dark brown Trandoshan no less than nine feet tall emerged from the back room. He was more lizard than humanoid, and had legs and a tail as thick as logs. As he slowly made his way towards Leia, her patience had reached its limit and she began walking towards what she knew was a bodyguard. She reached for some more credit chits as she snaked her way through the tables hoping to dispense with another greedy thug, but before she could get the first word out she found herself flying through the air and crashing into a table on the other side of the club. The huge Trandoshan was powerful and with the flick of his arm he sent Leia flying.
With the loud crash trouble was immediately recognized, and like experts who had seen countless fights the nearby patrons quickly gathered their things and calmly got out of the way. Leia slowly rolled off the broken table and spit out a bloody piece of tooth as she checked to see if her jaw was broken. She had never been hit that hard before, and she knew she was lucky to be conscious. As she whipped out her lightsaber everyone began leaving or taking cover realizing things were going to get serious.
The trandoshan bodyguard had reached Leia as she recovered and bent down to pick her up, but before he could grab her by the hair a bright, blue flash saw the guards arm sliced clean off. As he screamed in pain Leia got up and Force-threw him into the wall. Standing up forced a sharp pain into her side and she realized that the fall had hurt her more than she thought.
The bloodied bodyguard rolled over on the floor and pulled a blaster from his belt firing a few desperate shots at Leia, but they were easily deflected back at him, hitting him in the shoulder. Leia picked him up off the ground and began to Force-choke him up against the far wall. "It looks like I need to make an example out of you!" she said before throwing her lightsaber at him and disembowelling him.
The stream of guts on the floor served as a warning to anyone else, and a quick look around the room told her that they had gotten the message. "Good!" she said out loud as she limped over to the back room where the bodyguard had emerged. "Where's Bossk!" Leia yelled as she grabbed the silky, pink curtain and ripped it down revealing a dozen bounty hunters and general scum Bossk entertained as his entourage as well as Bossk himself sitting in the center in a large metal chair. They all had blaster rifles pointed at Leia and confident, smug looks on their faces. "What do you want with me?" Bossk rasped in his barely understandable accent.
"I'm here to find out what you did with Han Solo... and to kill you!" Not being able to take the threat, one of Bossk's henchmen squeezed his trigger in anger inciting the rest to do the same. Leia jumped into the adjacent room avoiding the hail of blaster fire and from her back focused her energy on the wall breaking off a massive chunk that flew towards Bossk's men. When she got up half of them were down and the other half stood wondering what happened, but they didn't last long enough to figure it out. Streams of Force lightning curled from Leia's outstretched hands and quickly pacified the room, but Bossk was not among the dead. "You're not getting away from me," Leia screamed as her eyes began to glow violet with rage. The chair Bossk attended was gone, and in its place was a hatch implying a custom made emergency escape route.
With a wave of her arm the hatch exploded down the escape tunnel that lead to the back of the establishment. "Bossk!" Leia called as she popped out of the tunnel into a small room. The clickity-clank of a thermal detonator drew her attention to her feet, and the raspy laugh of her target told her were to send it. With ease Leia flicked her wrist and sent the explosive to the nearby doorway wrenching a loud cry from Bossk as the blast hit him. A small, evil smile flashed across Leia's face.
On the catwalk outside a spotty trail of Bossk's blood ran down the metal path to where he was now limping, but still intact. "You're mine Bossk!" Leia cried out as she began running after her wounded prey. Half way to the left turn ahead of her a silent stream of laser blasts moved to intercept. I didn't hear a blaster, Leia thought as she stepped onto the wall to her right and wall ran over the incoming fire a split second before getting hit. Bossk's SK-31 blaster was specially modified by him in order to silently take down his bounties, and it was one of many tools he was ready to employ to save his life.
Gritting her teeth Leia knew she needed to be more careful, but her anger drove her violently forward with little regard. Again a silent stream of laser fire approached as she reached the corner. This time she was ready and deflected them with her lightsaber, but as the final shot bounced off her blade the blast of a strategically placed sequence charge ripped through the metal catwalk and sent Leia tumbling off the edge. Leia desperately reached for the first rail just below, but she couldn't hold on tumbling further down. The second rail sped by and she missed it by a few inches, but with a scream of determination the third rail slammed up into her left hand and stayed there.
She hit the walkway chest first then slowly pulled herself up trying to ignore the pain that was running through her body. "Damn you Bossk!" Leia yelled as she layed on her back feeling lucky that she was able to Force-block most of the blast. She sat up, grabbing the rail for support, and saw the large piece of shrapnel that was sticking out of her right thigh immediately making her aware of the tremendous pain it was causing. I can't pull it out or I might bleed to death. I'm going to have to patch it up until I'm done. With her lightsaber she cut some strips off her robe and tightly wrapped them above and below the protruding object in her leg; She worked quickly always keeping in mind her target.
One-hundred feet above her Bossk growled his discontent as he watched Leia catch herself on the rail below. His feet, one of the few places he didn't wear protection, were wounded affording him a slow limp at best in his escape, but as a proud Trandoshan he refused to show any weakness or discomfort. As Leia patched herself up, Bossk prepared his blaster for a long range shot then leaned on the rail taking aim. The blurry picture of Leia slowly came into focus within his scope, and with her head in the crosshairs he slowly squeezed the trigger with the expertise of a professional killer.
In tune with all of its surroundings, the Force that flowed through Leia alerted her of the danger and made her react to the blast. She Force-blocked it away with her left hand then stretched out her right towards Bossk. Her frustration and anger exploded through her hand as she twisted the walkway under Bossk into a mess causing him to lose his balance. With his feet hurt he quickly stumbled and slid half way off the edge grabbing a mangled rail for support.
Leia left her robe on the floor and began limping towards Bossk destroying the catwalks below him; opening a path upward. Everytime he tried to climb up Leia would twist the walkway a little more to keep him unbalanced. She had caught her prey, and now it was only a matter of time before the kill. Leia's leg was bleeding badly, but the sight of Bossk dangling above her helplessly was the only thing she cared about at the moment. "What did you do with Han!" Leia screamed as she Force-pulled Bossk down from the ledge, allowing him to hit the floor in front of her with a thud.
"Han... died a miserable, slow death!" Bossk laughed on the floor face down, defeated. Leia unclipped her lightsaber trying to hold back the anger and the urge to kill him. "You can die fast or slow," she said as she brought her blade down slicing Bossk's right arm off. He tried not to scream. "Now where's my husband?" He didn't respond and began moving his hand down to his belt. Leia didn't hesitate to cut it off and kick it off the edge into the darkness below. With the little strength he had left, Bossk rolled over and waited for his end. Leia knew he wanted to die and that letting him live with this defeat would hurt him more, but she couldn't have him hunting her down for revenge either.
Leia's leg was giving out, and the pain was starting to take over her entire right side. She kneeled over Bossk to take some of the pressure off and looked him in his eyes. "I'm going to kill all of you. Every single one of you bastards that have ruined my life!" Leia grabbed his throat with both hands and began squeezing on Bossk's thick, leathery throat. His thick skin made it difficult for human hands, but channeling her anger through the Force Leia began to choke the life out of the famous bounty hunter. Bossk gagged and choked as Leia increased the pressure, slowly wrenching the life out of him. The more she stared at his face the more rage built up inside her and the more she squeezed.
Leia's sure footing on her canyon of sanity was slipping away as the ground broke up and tumbled into the darkness below. Still she would not look down and become aware of her imminent fall. The image of Bossk doing horrible things to her husband playing out on the other side consumed her, and as she began to slip down into the abyss the ringing of approaching footsteps on the metal walkway grabbed her attention. Desperately Leia turned and clawed at the ground trying to hang on.
She snapped out of her rage to find Bossk dead; his mouth gaping wide and his tongue dangling out. Her fingers deep inside of his neck, her hands covered in his blood. With a deep sigh Leia relaxed her hands and released her death grip relieved that once again she was able to find her way out of the darkness. Standing a few feet in front of her Menn-al looked at the scene in his usually indifferent manner. Leia glanced up at him, but didn't say anything then fumbled about as she tried to pick herself up. "Are you going to help me?" Leia frustrated as she barely had enough strength left to move.
"You told me not to interfere remember?" Menn-al stood motionless.
"Fine!" Leia collapsed on the cold metal catwalk and rolled on her back helplessly. "I'll just wait here then," she said as she closed her eyes and passed out.
To Be Continued...
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