Meanwhile...

Avidea leaned back against the cantina table. Drink in hand as she watched the twil'ak dance all the way on the other side of the room. She sighed, already five missions had gone wrong, and that wasn't the least of it. Reports of missing troopers have been going off and on for weeks on end, along with apperently random attacks to homebase. The Sith appeared to become stronger with each passing day.

Avidea turned back to the table, takeing a long drink from her glass. Setting it down hard on the polished metal to grab the drink tenders attention for another glass.

Wonder what's next... She thought to herself as she watched two men to her left get into a brawl.

Dalith, fully armored possibly returning from a mission, walks silently into the "slightly" boisterous cantina. Through his helm, he scans the bar and her patrons. He notices two possibly drunk patrons fighting before spotting another Human, female to his surprise.

"What is someone like her, doing in a place like this?" he wondered to himself as he walked over to take a seat directly across from the women. He taps a button near his shoulder, causing his helmet to retract revealing his face. He orders a drink from the tender, taking it in one swig. He purses his lips as the liquid flows down his throat. Though not for long, he is used to this. This is what he always did after a mission. He again looks at the women, now feeling slightly more confident with the effects of the beverage. He gazes at the women again, smirking ordering another drink.

Arcindra was next to walk into the Cantina. He looked around in his black suit and his long black hair only complimented to his stunning looks. His dark green eyes penetrated the room as he saw Avidea he smiled warmly and sat next to her jestering to the Bartender to get them 2 of his favorite Taris drinks.

"So, whose your money on? the drunk on the right or the drunk on the left?" Arcindra whispered.

Avidea took another drink, her eyes instantly moveing to the man who sat down across from her. Her lips turned up in a slight smirk as she glances up from under her eyelashes, the rim of her glass still on her lips as she eyed the now helmless man.
At first she had thought him a bounty hunter, but it was the roughness and darkness of his armor that had made her change her mind. Still, she liked what she saw.
She looked over to Arcindra, as he sat down beside her.

"Whose your money on?" Arcindra had asked her. But Avidea wasn't paying attention, she was still intreaged by the mystrious man infront of her.

Avidea shruged after a moment, turning in the stool to watch the two men punch each other.
She spoke her usal fluid voice, a voice that sounded like liqued sound,

"I wouldn't put my credits on either of them. They'll pass out before too long."

Dalith watches the republic trooper walk next to the women as he finishes the drink, frowning "..Of course, a trooper type. Should've known.". He would order another drink from the tender, then a thought would occur to him. He would get up and walk toward the drunks fighting. He smirks as he walks close "But of-course that doesn't mean..". He would tap one of the drunk's shoulders, waiting for him to turn around fully before he would strike him in the neck with accuracy and swiftness born of years of practice, swiftly knocking the man out. Cold.

Dalith looks to the other drunk, looking at him almost as a subtle threat. He then turns the the women again, keeping his expression monotone as he returns to his seat and to his drink thinking to himself "Well, i've done my good deed of the day. I'll drink to that.".

Arcindra looked at the man, making sure that his gun was in easy reach. However the man was no direct threat to him or Avidea so he simply smiled sipping from his Taris alchololic drink.

"The guys got skill, I am almost impressed"

Arcindra would eye the drunk who was knocked out....Poor fellow!

Avidea leaned back against the table, clearly likeing what she saw. Though, she didn't let that fact be known to Arcindra. She leaned over and whispered in his ear,

"I'll be right back..."

She gave him her drink to hold and stood up, smoothing out her rugged pants and pulling down her frayed shirt. She eyed the man subtly as she walked over into a closed off room of the cantina.

Watches the women with curiosity, smiling brightly when she leaves the main room "Check, and mate.". He gets up to follow the women, without first subtely loading his pistol incase things should go amiss, this is done out of the eyesight of the republic trooper. He walks into the room, putting on a monotone face.

Arcindra sighed, he probably had lost Avidea but he couldn't let that stop him. He looked at a girl across the room and grinned, the girl was a Twi'lek in jedi robes.....Wait, JEDI robes?!

"Well now....This is an unusual thing to see" Arcindra smiled.

Arcindra walked over to the jedi and smiled

"She ain't left you as a friend mate." Tayeko said.

"Well why did she leave then?" Arcindra asked.

Tayeko smiled "To rob him, she is a smuggler what did you expect?"

They both laughed and the bartender brought them both drinks

Avidea leaned against the wall just behind the door. Putting her foot against the wall to help support herself as she crossed her arms, looking down and closed her eyes.

"Hmm..."

She looked over to the door as it opens back up again. The man walking in with his monotoned face.

"Well, hello there."

Dalith looks at the women, scanning her to an extent. Fully revealing his oddly colored blue eyes. "Hello there miss, what brings you alone to this..droid closet.". He smirks at the women, taking a seat on one of the, conviniently placed stools.

Tayeko stands up and motions for Arcindra to follow. She grabs one of her lightsabers and opens the closet, letting both herself and Arcindra in. She closes the door.

"I have no time to explain but you are all in grave danger. All I can say is that in 6 hours 5 sith lords are landing outside base." Tayeko smiled.

"I wouldn't doubt her guys, this is Tayeko Sungazer. One of the strongest Jedi of the brotherhood" Said Arcindra.

Avidea frowned, the two cetainly ruined her plan. None the less she hurried over to Arcindra.

"Are you sure Tayeko?"

She wrapped an arm around Arcindra's waist. But still, she stole a few glances to the mysterious man.

Dalith, returns to his monotone state. Though he has his back turned to the group, he thinks to himself "Ahh, damnnit...". He turns around to face the group. He scans the group, his gaze stays on the women for longer than the others. He looks down at his watch "Six hours, thats wonderful. That only gives me five and a half for a half decent escape. A trip to Corucant actually." Dalith shakes his head, thinking to himself.

Tayeko smirks "Well I suggest we all suit up then and I also suggest that we scramble air support as well. If we can blast the sith out of the sky before they land it would make the battle much easier"

Arcindra smiled nervously "So these sith lords....There are only 5? Are they coming for a diplomatic meeting? possibly?"

Tayeko grinned "I only negociate with lightsabers"

"Five? Sith Lords? Something else is amiss..."

She was just a bit distracted. She takes her arm away from Arcindra, walking over to the large window.

"How would you know, precisly 6 hours? Infact, if they are comming, there would be minors comm--"

She must be very good at queueing her comments, because just then an alarm went up.

"Of course. See, you two should listen to me more often." She runs out of the small room, out of the cantina.

Dalith regards the alarm, following the women (yet again) into the main cantina. He observes the absolute utter chaos as patrons sprint about going every which way, he frowns. He looks at the women again "Well, I picked the absolute -best- day to go to Ord Mantel..". Dalith then sighs, walking toward the exit. Pressing the same switch as he did earlier, his helmet covers his face once again. He heads off toward the door he came through.

Tayeko smiled and walked out looking back at Arcindra. "I can handle most of these Sith, I will gather some space troops and we will fight them in the air. If they manage to get on the ground you need to finish them of."

Arcindra nodded and headed to his headquarters, a private was running with a huge cannon gun. He threw it to Arcindra who caught it with one hand "Thanks private, now get yourself ready!"

"Sir yes sir!" yelled the private.

Arcindra put his cannon blaster to explosive shots and smiled. A none deflective blast of utter destruction! Arcindra's favorite choice of rocket.

Avdiea ran outside, looking up at the sky seeing small ships already being deployed out. She hopped on to her speeder, pulling out a cloke and wrapping it around her shoulders to keep her warm. She quickly raced across the area to the hanger.

Dalith watches the women take off, he just shakes his head thinking "Lets not get attached to 'republic girl' now Dalith, get it together." He gets on his speeder, heading toward his ship. Thoughts race through his mind, his conscience winning the mental battle he finally concedes "Ahh, damnnit..". He turns around, heading in the direction the women went.

Arcindra was also on route to his secret hanger which held a modified Trooper Cruiser. He grinned at it with its 4 automatic turrets and enough room to hold more munitions and ammo than any one man should have! He climbed into the ship and started up the engines. Tayeko meanwhile was in her own ship powering up the engines.

"This is Arcindra to rest of Squad. Take of immedietly and prepare to engage oncoming Sith warships."

Arcindra then took of and smiled as he raced into the skies!

Avidea hopped off the speeder as it was still moveing. Letting it hit into the wall. She ran to her ship, running up the ramp and towards the cockpit.

"Damn it, what a peice of junk!"

The hatch wouldn't close. She continued to flick the diffrent switches, unable to get it closed as other ships, small and large alike blinked out of the atmosphere.

"Close already damn you!"

She really wanted to get into the fight, it's been a while since she had been in space!

Dalith, meanwhile was following the womens trail. He notices smoke billowing up to the east, he chooses to go there. Upon arriving at what looked like a hanger he would notice the crashed speeder thinking to himself "Ha, looks like the women parks her speeders gracefully..". He hops off his speeder, sprinting into the hanger.

As he runs, he notices the mass of ships taking off into space. He then sees the women yet again, frantically pressing button and flipping switches. He crosses his arms, smirking. As he again retracts his helm he says to the women "Miss me?".

Arcindra was now in space with a lot of other ships. But no sith were here yet...Scanners were on long range - when the sith arrived everyone in the fleet would know where they would be jumping from.

"Keep your eyes open fleet." Said Arcindra.

Avidea suddenly turned around, instantly standing up and putting her hand on the hilt of her blaster.

"The hell are you doing on my ship?"

With the sudden change of events, she had all but forgoten the man from the cantina. In the excitement she hadn't noticed that this was infact the same man.

She glared at him, slowly pulling out the blaster as she awaited his answer.