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Jedi could probably hold their breaths for a long time, but the gas wasn't an inhalant but rather absorbed through the skin. A second later the young Jedi gasped, falling back against the side of the cavern, slowly dropping to her knees.
"You see, that was easy!" Jabba said, shaking his hand with a chuckle before turning serious. "Her master, this Kiffar, Vos, will be a tougher fight."
Aurra smirked evilly. "Jedi aren't really that tough if handled appropriately Lord Jabba. They are noble creatures, and that can be used against them. I'll handle Vos, don't worry."
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Moving through Mos Eisley Quinlan avoided everyone else around him by rote, using Force Cloak and Stealth almost absent-mindedly as he concentrated on thinking about what else he could be doing to help the investigation. Having putting most of the weight of finding actual evidence on Aayla's thin shoulders he wanted this mission done as soon as possible.
If Aayla can figure out if Jabba is connected to this illegal slave trade, we won't be able to move against him here. The Hutt was simply too strong on Tatooine, with a literal battalion's worth of toughs to call upon. But we might not have to. If we can trace a connection from him back to Ryloth, we can go from there and wrap up the tentacles of the slave trade which are actually in Republic space shutting off the source of the slaves at said source. Further, that would show Jabba the Order knows about his evolvement. Jabba's a careful creature, if a prideful one and he would pull back from Republic space rather than dare our further involvement.
But Quinlan was never one to leave anything to chance. And if they couldn't attack Jabba out right, that didn't mean they couldn't tried to assassinate him if it came to that. Quinlan was a pragmatist, and while he had a Jedi's respect for life, he loathed Hutts with a very un-Jedi like passion, and slavers were even worse. He'll be in public during the Mos Espa pod races in two days. That would be the best time to do it. I'll head there tonight, scout out the lay of the land, find a...
Just then he heard an explosion somewhere nearby, and felt the deaths of at least three people through the Force, their last moments filled with pain and fear. Turning quickly Quinlan looked in that direction, seeing fire explode out of the door and windows of one of the houses set along the edge of the town. Through his Force senses he could also feel two other people inside the blazing inferno, though from here he could only barely make out their panicked cries.
At this time of day there weren't many people in this section, and those that were had begun to run away at the explosion, uncaring that there might still be living people within the house. For a brief heartbeat Quinlan stood unmoving, then cursing raced towards the fire intent on doing what he could.
He had just reached the fire when the two lives inside were snuffed out, and the building exploded, sending stone shrapnel in all direction. Quinlan quickly ducked away, raising his hand to aid in directing the Force to ward off the shrapnel heading towards him. But the explosion hadn't begun to die down before a sudden flare from his Force Precognition hit Quinlan. It's a trap!
Rolling away Quinlan dodged an incoming blaster bolt that would have taken him in the back before pulling out his activating it just in time to intercept another bolt of super-heated plasma. Turning in the direction the shots had come from Quinlan flung off his cloak between rounds before moving forward to block blocked two more. Falling into a defensive stance Quinlan now moved forwards randomly towards the position of the blaster bolts, leaping around and bouncing off the walls of the nearby stone houses to close faster. Despite that the blasters still tracked him unerringly, and Quinlan had to admire the gunman's speed and accuracy.
Leaping up onto the roof the blasters were coming from, he stared for a split second at a blaster rifle set on a pintle mount. The gun was firing automatically set up at with a small sensor of some kind. "Kriff!" He shouted, pushing himself up and off the roof of the building as it, like the one he had initially responded to, exploded underneath him. The rock shrapnel caught his legs despite his attempt to put some distance between himself and the explosion, but thanks to his Force Precognition he had jumped just in time to avoid serious injury, and he quickly pushed the pain from the impacts and cuts away with the Force.
Quinlan hit the desert floor, rolling only to once more feel the Force warning him of a nearby threat. He turned just in time to block a lightsaber attack at his back, and he stared at his attacker recognizing her just as Aayla had. "Aurra Sing!"
Having a visible enemy in front of him Quinlan actually let a smirk appear on his face. A use of Ataru he pressed Aurra back leaping around, forcing her to backpedal under a flurry of attacks from every direction, his lightsaber blade moving with speed and precision. "You'll find I'm a little different than your normal targets!"
"That's right, you are!" Aurra grunted her speed barely able to keep up with Quinlan's and his lightsaber coming just a little too close to cutting her. "You're even more gullible!" She ducked under one his blows, her free hand pulling out another lightsaber from her belt, stabbing upward.
Yet Quinlan recovered his balance too quickly, putting his lightsaber between this thrust and his body carrying the blue of her blade to the side with his own dark green one. Kicking out he caught Aurra in the stomach sending the slighter woman skittering backwards, unable to even cut at his leg before he had flipped himself up and backwards out of her range. His feet touched the sand, and Quinlan once more hurled himself towards Aura. He didn't care why she had attacked him, or how she had even detected his presence, all he wanted to do was deal with the enemy in his way right now.
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