16 Apprenticeship 4

Leaving getting to see the streets of Coruscant for the first time was quite the experience, the hustle and bustle was on a different from anything I've seen before. Level 5127 was where the giant city was, so from the roads me and Wire were walking on, I could see the countless starships (I think) using flight paths to move around.

Another thing I was impressed at was how clean the streets were, literally not one spec of dust anywhere. Imagine the cost of keeping everything clean with droids, too much for me to think about that's for sure.

First things first, I need some credits or I won't be able to do shit. No booze, no armour, no nothing. Therefore I find my way through the masses of people to an elevator that could take me down to the lower levels of the planet. Since what's a better way to get money than to borrow it from other criminals.

Stepping in the lift Wires pressed the key for a random lower level, while the music in the elevator starts to play... what in the actual fuck is this shite. It literally sounds like gears turning.

There's another way to make credits here, give the aliens some decent tunes to listen to instead ae this shite.

After a long elevator journey filled with diabolical music we reached the underground of Coruscant, "I have to agree with you Master Lycan, even my central processing unit is struggling to understand the enjoyment for listening to what my auditory sensors are picking up on". You know its bad if the droid can't make heads or tails out it.

With plans of being an intergalactic DJ on the horizon, me and Wires began scouring Coruscant's dirty underbelly for criminal activity. The difference is like night and day comparing this level to the surface, the general lack of light paired with a lack of law enforcement makes for a shady looking level. The buildings being run down was the least of your worries being here, the two of us were only walking around for a few minutes and we already seen several cases of armed robbery.

Of course we stopped it after robbing all participants of their coin, which was easy even without a lightsaber. Even if I wasn't as awesome as I was, having a fucking ninja killer droid made it an easy task. Before knocking them out and ditching them in a random alley way we made sure to get some information about the crime bosses in this area.

With a few timely threats we worked out that a man called Nhax Menerro was top dog around here and therefore will be our ticket out of poverty.

A few more threats to the right people and we got an area where he usually sets up shop in while he's here. Heading over we began the search.

Watching from the roof of a nearby building we see our man sitting at a desk facing away from the window while his arms were rapidly packaging some sort of blaster rifles in a container which markings read something completely different. Nhax's main business is shifting weapons too different gangs, both on and off planet.

He's probably got other jobs on the side but who cares at this point. All I care about is how much money he's got saved up.

Telling Wires the plan and that before we get all the cash and information he has, that he's not aloud to kill him. Otherwise we'd just have a dead man and no clue where his stuff is.

After double checking to make sure Wires won't do anything daft. Wires scaled the side of the building and broke through the window entering the room from behind our cash cow.

With Wires busting through the window and pinning the man onto his seat with a blaster aimed at his skull, I had the grand view of seeing the testicles on his lower jaw quiver as he sat in fear of what's to come. All the while I was thinking about how such a fugly species came to exist.

Swear down that when I watched the first movie I genuinely thought that the mandibles on the Aqualish from the cantina were just a pair of balls latched onto his face.

Wires picks the blaster hanging off his hip and tosses it over to me. Catching it I have a look at the design, and found out it was a GL-77 blaster pistol. Nothing too special so I add it to the collection of new blasters hanging from my belt.

Walking up to the captive I tell him "Tell me where you keep your money and I won't kill you" making the Aqualish tremble even more than he already is.

A few weird noises later Wires translate it into "I will tell you what you want to know, just please don't kill me".

"Bring us to it then, Wires don't let go of him in case he tries something". Following being Nhax and Wires, he took us too another room in the complex and points to a safe.

"Open it" I ordered while Wires lets an arm go so he could punch the code in. An audible crack comes from the safe as the door begins to side open and I seen the multitude of different colours of credits lying inside. It was a beautiful till I realised there was only around 30,000 credits. The bastard must still be hiding some.

Turning back to look at Nhax and stared to use a mind trick on him that would amplify his fear. Don't want to risk trying to mind break him before getting the money.

"The rest of the money where is it?" I commanded as I pulled a blaster pistol off my hip. Aiming the muzzle at his head "I'll give you 5 seconds to give me an answer before I pull the trigger".

Beginning to tone down on the fear, on the count of 3 Nhax spills the beans on where he stashed the rest of his money.

"Well hurry up and take us to it then" I said while spinning the blaster round my finger. Stumbling around, he eventually takes us to a different room and opens up a compartment hidden under furniture.

In the room there was credits lying everywhere a good hundred thousand if I was correct. Looking back at the Aqualish I demanded "Your ship as well, where do you keep it".

Saying something which Wires translates into "He's keeping it in ship yard 43, he said he'll even give you the keys for it". After Wires says that Nhax walks over to a drawer and puts a code in to open it.

Feeling around the drawer he rapidly pulls out a different blaster pistol and fires a few shots at me and Wires. Fucking dick should've expected something like this from someone who's been in the smuggling business for years.

Holding my hand out I use tutaminis to absorb the blaster fire aimed at the two of us while Wires fills the Aqualish up with plasma from his blaster.

"Good job mate, since he's dead I need you to find somewhere to leave the body". As the droid leaves with the dead Nhax, I begin sorting out the credits into different bags to make it easier to carry.

Soon Wires makes it back and I tell him to bring down all the blasters he was packing so I could take a look at them. When he brought them down I almost had a fucking heart attack. T-7 ion disruptor rifles and 30 of them at that, these bad boys are lethal to organics and droids. I could probably sell these for a pretty penny but fuck that imagine having a platoon of troops with these, Not many things would be able to stop them.

Thinking for a moment I tell Wires, go and find one of those mad floating things for all the cargo. We're moving everything out of here and getting a better place to keep it.

While my partner does that I, finish up packaging everything up for the move. In total we've make 360,000 credits which is good for just now, not enough to buy full starships or anything like that but at least I'm not poor anymore.

Eventually Wires brings back one of those floating things and we begin our ascent to buy a new gaff.