Chapter 52: Apprehending the Assasin
"Stay here!" I heard Anakin said as he began running out. But I could see a slight jealousy adorning his facial expression.
"Jon, give him our speeder." I said as I turned to Padme.
"Although I could probably join Anakin in the chase, I truly saw no reason to. I'd much rather stay here and help Padme, increasing our relationship.
Not only because she's one hell of a specimen but also because she's a Senator with immense political credit and every point I can get in the book with her, I'd gladly take.
Jon didn't even respond, simply sprinting after the Jedi. They were extremely fast and therefore I wondered if Jon would even get the message to Anakin.
"Are you okay, Padme?" I asked as I watched her emotions changing from shock, to panic to lastly a bit of a blush, likely due to the position we held a few seconds ago.
However that quickly disappeared and she got control over herself again.
"Yes, Thalron. Thanks to you." She said as she took my hand and got off the ground.
I could also see her eyes slightly aiming down to my stomach and chest. I guess she could feel my muscular AB's and medium sized chest when I helped her.
"Do you wish to join us in pursuing the attacker?" I asked Padme and she looked at me like I was dumb.
"And how will you find them?" Padme asked and I smiled.
"We gave him our speeder didn't we? And that happens to have a tracker." I said as the realisation dawned over her face and she smiled.
"Of course I'd like to join you, give me a few minutes to prepare." She said and we walked out, once we were out I turned to Alexander.
"How many speeders do we have?" I asked since we recently borrowed one away.
"We had 3 speeders and now we have 2. Each speeder can take 2 Pilot and 5 passengers." He said and I nodded.
"You and Robb will join me and Padme, have 4 others situate themselves in the other speeders." I said and Alexander nodded, hurrying off to inform the rest.
3 minutes after we left Padme came out and it wasn't a big shocker regarding her outfit.
She wore her usual white combat clothes with a WESTAR-34 in her holster.
"You're always prepared, eh?" I asked while I waved my hand for her to follow us.
"Being a Senator isn't the safest job." She said and I nodded.
"I can agree with that, but it's also the one with the most corruption and security." I responded, and with that she went a bit quiet, acknowledging that I spoke the truth.
"We have one speeders, it's an Arrow-23 Landspeeder and I'll be driving, we'll have 6 of my guards in the speeder." I said and she nodded, she knew she didn't hold any power to invite her own guards.
Plus she knew my Guards were superior in every way except loyalty to her.
The speeder were situated right outside the Apartment complex.
The Arrow-23 Landspeeder was one of the faster Landspeeder to exist at this time. It also had a turret on to top, which meant you needed local permission to use it.
Luckily Senators and Leaders of Planets got that automatically, meaning I would not be stopped or arrested for using weaponised speeders.
We climbed on board, it was designed for Luxury and therefore it was quite comfy.
I entered the pilots seat and began powering up the speeder. I also turned on the tracking device, which showed the other speeder going down towards a club.
The other speeder was a simple four seater. Built for civilians but customized for luxury. However it also included stuff like laser proof outer layers and was quite secure.
I sped ahead as the last of my guards entered.
Padme decided to put herself beside me. In the gunners seat.
"How would you prefer we handle the assassin?" I asked Padme, although it was meant for her to answer the entire speeder, as the guards would do most of the work.
"Capture him. I want to get information on who hired him and put him in jail." She said determined.
It was a usual Padme decision. Aiming to capture rather than kill.
"Ya heard her. Put weapons to stun." I heard Alexander order the rest of the guards.
I looked at the built in map to see that we were approaching the speeder. Seemingly outside a restaurant. And I recognised it. It was more of a pub and a gambling building than a restaurant.
"Alexander, you and your men will head ahead while I and Padme will stay back." I said, I could see Padme get a bit reluctant at the prospect of sending others ahead.
But I ignored her and I saw Alexander nod.
"Understood, Count Thalron." Alexander said and he turned to his men, all who nodded.
And with that I flew over the restaurant and began flying downwards.
Each Coruscant sidewalk had a small area designed to park your speeders. They were in the air, but the door or entrance facing the sidewalk allowed one to walk onto it.
I approached the closest one, it was about 10 meters behind the entrance to the restaurant.
We quickly went out and ran ahead, 1 guard remaining at the speeder but the other 4 followed us.
As we ran, we reached 2 meters ahead when Padme stumbled and almost fall.
Luckily I was beside her and caught her, I also saw Alexander turn to wait for us. But I nodded at him, signaling for him to keep going.
I helped her to her feed and she gave me and appreciative nod before we began to move again.
However before we could move I felt something touch my back, before pain spread through my body and towards my head.
I barely managed to look behind me to see a taser before my vision became black and I passed out.
…
My eyes slowly opened as I groaned.
However I didn't move, my brain, albeit a bit slow still managed to active my memory of protocol when kidnapped.
Which I knew I was due to the slight second where I spotted the taser.
I opened my eyes to see myself lying within a cell and I could see a pair of shoes standing outside.
Although I knew I could likely act asleep for a bit more, but I hear movement behind me and decided to properly wake up.
Wouldn't want to be railed from behind by a Hutt.
I got up onto my ass, sitting and looking around.
I was in a small cell, perhaps the size of 3 single bed side by side was about the size of the cell, and about 3 meters in height.
However looking around I quickly spotted another organic lying on the metal floor.
Focusing my eyes on it I quickly realized it was Padme, and she was slowly waking up.
I ignored her for a few seconds and looked outside the cell, and through the right side of the cell I could slightly see a cockpit, and outside the windows to the cockpit I could see a black void.
Fuck, we were on a ship, in space. Meaning they are bringing us somewhere.
But the question is where, and who has something against me and Padme.
Honestly it could just be Padme's enemies but I was in the wrong place, or the other way around.
We had a few common enemies. Count Dooku, Viceroy Gunray, and a lot of Senators.
That's when I heard Padme fully wake up.
"Ugh, uh…. Where am I?" She mumbled as she lifted her upper body and leaned on her right hand.
"Shhh, we've been captured and we're currently in a cell on a ship." I said and she struggled to fully absorb that.
"Huh!? Thalron? Is that you?" She exclaimed before cutting her voice down a bit.
"Yes, it's me." Was my simple response.
"Oh god, we've been captured." She said to herself as she slowly disgested the news.
"Any idea who it is?" She asked after calming down.
"Probably bounty hunters, the security is slack and ship not very well maintained. As to whom hired them, Count Dooku and Viceroy Gunray are a few that comes to the top of my head." I said and she began thinking.
"Do you know where we're headed?" She asked and I shook my head, a sigh escaping her after that.
"Let's just hope we won't be killed immediately after." I said as I began looking through my clothes.
The first thing I noticed was that I had a big collar around my neck, holy fuck that was bad. But better than a slave chip.
I couldn't find my hidden pistols, communications device or anything. They had completely strapped me. Although I still had clothes on but it wasn't much.
A white shirt and black pants.
While I did that Padme did the same, however they hadn't even touched any of her clothes but removed her holster, pistol and everything.
"What is this?" Padme said after getting over the slight panic attack she had when she found it.
"Probably something equal to that of a slave collar, meaning they can kill you for looking at them the wrong way." I said, not helping with her panic but eventually she calmed down.
And with that silence enveloped both of us as we began thinking.
Or more so, Padme began thinking. I already had a plan.
It was suggested by Alexander 7 years ago, something to ensure they could always find me.
Something called a chip.
We spent close to a trillion credits to design a chip completely invisible to any sensors. It included a GPS Tracker and something I could mentally order to call for help.
Meaning Alexander knew of my position and was likely on his way with the majority of the fleet.
However I still needed a way to get this fucking collar off me as they're likely to kill all of us before letting anyone else get us. So they might kill us the second Alexander arrives.
However I couldn't tell Padme this quite yet as I wasn't sure they weren't listening, and if they learned of it. They're likely to drop me off but still bring Padme or just outright kill us both.
Soon enough Padme broke the silence.
"What do we do?" She asked, a bit fearfully.
"We can't do anything, let's wait and hope our allies find us." I said calmly, however this didn't sit right with her.
"What? We can't just do nothing and hope for someone to find us. We have to make it easier for them or escape at the very least?" Padme said angrily.
"Relax, we need to focus on remaining alive. Alexander has a method on tracking down people, and it has never failed." I said, which relaxed her a bit.
Of course that was complete bullshit, Alexander didn't have any way to track down people. But he had a way to accurately track us.
"Fine, but-" she tried, only to be interrupted.
A man walked up to us, it was a male Zabrak with white markings.
"If it ain't the nice Senator. Senator Amidala and the other guy. I don't care for your name. All I know is that someone wants you to suffer." He said and he began smiling maliciously.
"Luckily the spice mines also pays me to bring people there, so I get paid for two jobs at the same time." He said.
Oh poor guy. His greed had clouded his judgement.
The Bounty was likely to torture us and then kill us. But he would sell us to the spice mines. Although death was almost certain so I understand his way of thinking, he should still have just killed us.
However Padme got frightened. She knew the dangers of working on a Spice Mine, but she was scared for all the wrong reasons.
"Hehehe, and even better. This spice mine isn't for slaves, but for criminals." He said before taking a dramatical break. "And a few of them might be rapers, and you young lady is quite fine if I may say so myself." He said with a malicious smile again.
"If I didn't despise humans I would borrow you for a night as well." He said before walking away, while laughing.
And with that I barely saw him take out a stick-sort of thing and pressing a button on the top.
And my view blackened again.
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