Chapter 22

Alpha was very annoyed as he glared at the fancily outfitted man pointing a blaster at Renn.

Unlike Renn and Opal, Alpha didn't have the force acting like a magical navigational device in his head. So, the two kids had managed to run ahead of him as he tried to navigate the narrow alleyways to follow them.

When he had heard the sounds of fighting from up ahead, he had given up trying to navigate through the alleyways and just capitalised on the enhancements made to him by the technomancers of house Dredd back on Aruum to charge straight through the walls separating him and Renn.

His enhancements let him smash trough the walls without a scratch but the disguise he was wearing was torn to shreds by the sharp broken stones from the broken walls. His metal body that had been hidden underneath the robes he had been wearing was revealed.

"You are designated as enemies of house Dredd. Your death has now been authorised." Alpha's cold robotic voice hissed out as he assessed the people in the courtyard.

Fancy clothes began panicking. The droid that had just busted through a solid wall was probable the scariest thing he had ever seen in his soft and cushy life. He was shaking with fear as he pointed his blaster at the droid.

"S-s-stay back, I-I'm warning you." He stuttered as Alpha took a step towards him.

Alpha completely ignored the blaster being pointed at him and casually lifted his arm and fired a shot from a hidden blaster built into his wrist.

The blaster bolt tore through fancy clothes upper arm, severing his whole arm at the shoulder. Fancy clothes screamed in agony clutching at his stump with his now only remaining arm as he slumped to his knees in shock. His severed arm, the hand still clutching the blaster, fell to the ground at his feet.

Alpha kept striding forwards leaving fancy clothes a wailing heap on the ground. Alpha shot two more blaster bolts from his wrist blaster as he walked past him. One bolt hit the Gamorrean that had hit the mysterious cloaked figure with its axe in the head, sending it dropping to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut. The second bolt impacted into the Gamorrean stab victim cutting off its yells of pain.

The three remaining Gamorreans charged at Alpha, hoping to catch him off guard if they rushed him. Their plan failed and with two quick chops of his hands Alpha had crushed two of their throats.

The final Gamorrean was then lifted of the ground by his throat by Alpha. The Gamorrean struggled and squealed in fear but soon went still when Alpha broke his neck with a single jerk of his hands.

Alpha then walked slowly back towards fancy clothes. He could have killed him with his opening shot but the vindictive side of him had wanted the man to suffer. He had tried to kill Renn, so Alpha was going to make his last moments painful.

Fancy clothes was trying crawl towards the hole Alpha had made in the wall with his entrance. He was desperately clawing at the dirt to try and escape from the demonic assassin droid. His crawling suddenly became a lot harder as he turned to look up at the droid that was now standing with one foot on his back.

"N-no plea---" his desperate plea was cut off as the red light of a blaster bolt filled his vision before his world went dark forever.

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Renn watched in Relief as Alpha tore his way through the enemies in the courtyard. He checked to make sure Opal was okay and when she nodded to assure him, he looked over at the twi'lek girl and the mystery person.

He looked over just in time to see the mystery person sway and stumble and he sprinted over to try and catch them before they fell.

Renn arrived just in time to catch the cloaked person just as they slumped backwards. Their hood fell down as they collapsed revealing a girl, slightly older than Renn, with long red hair.

The twi'lek girl joined Renn in checking on the now unconscious girl before Opal sprinted over and began examining the injured girl. Opal concentrated using her medical knowledge and her force abilities to try and see how badly the girl was injured.

"Is she going to be okay?" The twi'lek girl asked softly, looking nervously at Renn and Opal.

"Hopefully" Opal answered while concentrating on the injured girl. "It looks like she took a nasty blow to the head when she was thrown against the wall. She seems to be wearing armour underneath her cloak so that stopped most of the damage from the axe that hit her, but she might have some broken bones."

After Opal gave her diagnosis Alpha walked over to them. "We should leave soon. The blaster fire will have alerted people to the fight, I can already hear people making there way to this location." Alpha was worried, he had already let Sapphire know what was happening and she was getting their ship ready to leave.

Alpha also knew that Scythe and Spark were currently charging through Mos Espa to try and reach them to help in case more fighting were to breakout, while the rest of the droids were securing the hangar bay to protect the ship.

Renn nodded and picked up the injured girl and looked at the nervous twi'lek, "Come with us. We'll take you somewhere safe and help heal your friend."

"Come on you'll be okay." Opal said holding her hand out to the twi'lek girl, who looked at her hand for a second before accepting with a nod.

"Okay" the girl said quietly before letting out a startled cry when another of the courtyard's walls exploded and two more assassin droids ran into the courtyard.

Renn gave the new droids a deadpan look before sighing, "do you lot have something against walls?" he asked tiredly.

Scythe looked back at the hole in the wall he'd just ran through confused like he hadn't notice it before and acted shocked. Spark just shrugged "Its not our fault they break so easily." He said then looked around at the destruction in the small courtyard.

"Looks like we missed all the fun" Spark said seeing the remains of the fight.

"Alright we need to move now. People are going to come and investigate, and I don't want us to be here when they do.

Scythe you lead the way, don't take any chances, anything looks unfriendly shoot it." Alpha wasn't taking any chances, after Renn had nearly been killed, he was not going to risk his safety at all.

The group left in a hurry and began making their way back towards the hangar bay. The sight of four children with varying degrees of injury being escorted by three heavily armed assassin droids caused the residents of Mos Espa to watch them in shock.

They managed to reach the safety of the hangar bay without any problems as no-one was brave, or foolish, enough to try and mess with the menacing droids. Sapphire lifted the Speedy Vagabond into the air as soon as everyone was on board and immediately began accelerating away from the desert planet.