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Celeste and the kid we're currently both cuddled up together in one of the seats, sleeping underneath an blanket, and snoring away. It had been awhile since the two were able to sleep, so they both took this as the opportunity. The girl had no idea what Mando had planned, but she knew he'd end up making the right choice. She had too, because she was just too psychically and mentally drained with what occurred hours ago. Not to mention at how confused & slightly frightened she was once the little one and her touched hands.
While Mando was piloting his ship, he couldn't help but wonder where he'd make everyone head to next. He obviously wanted them to find a safe place to stay, but that was almost impossible with people still tracking the child.
Then suddenly, a hologram message popped up with a familiar face. Mando couldn't help but grow more irritated, and curse at the galaxy for hearing and acting onto his troubles and worries.
"My friend, if you are receiving this transmission that means you are alive. You might be surprised to hear this, but I am alive too. I guess we can call it even. A lot has happened since the last time we saw each other... The man who hired you is still here, and his rank of ex-imperial guards have grown. They have imposed despotic rule over my city, which has impeded the livelihood of the guild. We consider him an enemy, but we can not get close enough to take him out. If you would consider one last commission, I will very much make your worth while. You have been successful so far in starving off their hunters, but they will not stop until they have their prize. So here is my proposition. Return to Nevarro. Bring the child as bait. I will arrange an exchange, and provide loyal guild members as protection. Once we get near the client, you kill him, and we both get what we want. If you succeed, you keep the child, and I will have both your name & assistants cleared with the guild. For a man of honor should not be forced to live in exile. I await your arrival with optimism." Karga says in his video message, which only made Mando aggressively switch the hologram off, due to him being in a deep thought.
Mando then turns around to face the two both sleeping away, while his mind kept racing. Meeting up with Karga was the last option Mando had in mind, and yet it seemed to be the only option he had left. He couldn't risk loosing the kid nor Celeste, but even if they flew and hid to every other planet in the galaxy, someone would find them. And if he were to go straight to Karga, they could easily become outnumbered.
With one big sigh, Mando found himself looking back at his control pad, and suddenly flying the ship towards a familiar planet to grab a friend...
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"We are back, here? Because? Why? I-I mean, I'm not complaining but there has to be reason you flew us back here...." Celeste says while the three walk throughout the forest. She had secretly hoped he didn't fly back to admit his feelings for Omara, as screwed up as that was.
"Because we cant face a Karga alone." Mando simply states, giving the girl some sense of relief. But not soon after did she only grow more confused at the unfamiliar name.
"Karga?" She asked her boss with furrowed brows, showing clear confusion.
"The guild leader." Mando states simply, causing Celeste to snap her head in the direction of the Mandalorian almost in shock.
"I thought I killed him?" She says clearly in shock, which Mando understood. He didn't even understand at how the man withheld from when her blaster hit him, especially since how close she was to hit his heart.
"Yeah, I did too." He sighs out almost in defeat, while leading the girl towards the familiar restaurant hut from a far.
"Wait—you're not serious that we go back there?" She says to him with worry, while hoping that she didn't make the mistake of trusting him to pick their next plan of action.
"What other choice do we have? We either do this, or keep putting the kid in danger." He tells her almost in a defensive tone, which only made the girl sigh in defeat. They had been betrayed twice in almost the same week, so she couldn't blame herself for how she felt about his plan.
"There has to be another way." She says while trying to come up with her own genius plan, even though in reality their wasn't nothing that they could do.
"Don't you think I've already thought of every possible way? I'm not very excited to visit him, either." Mando says to the girl as they neared the noisy restaurant, before entering it completely.
As the three of them walk in they come to see one of Celestes favorite people in the galaxy having a brawl in the middle of the restaurant. The place was filled with way more people this time around, and were cheering on the two. Right as Cara defeats the man in the matter of seconds, people around give up theirs bets to the woman. Celeste couldn't help but smile along with the woman that was still unaware of their presence.
Once the three walk a bit closer towards their friend, she looks up, and immediately smirks at their presence. It had only been a month or so, and Celeste's was completely filled with joy.
"Looking for some work?" Mando jokes causing Cara to laugh slightly, before watching Celeste quickly hug the woman.
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"Seems like a straight forward operation. They're providing the plan and firepower. I'm the snare." Mando explains to Cara, who was which filling herself up a cup of spotchka.
"With the kid?" She asks smiling to herself, as if she knew what the man was going to say next.
"That's why I'm coming to you." Mando informs her which made her slightly shake her head, before lifting the cup to her lips.
"I don't know. I've been advised to lay low. If anybody runs my chain code, I'll rot in a cell for the rest of my life." Cara informs the man who gave her that exact advice months back, which Celeste couldn't help but smile at.
"I thought you were a veteran?" Mando asks the woman before watching the man that she fought earlier, put down his credits onto the table in front of her.
"Come back soon." She says with a smirk before watching the man walk off, clearly still devastated of his lost
"I've been a lot of things since. Most of them carry a life sentence. If I so much as book passage on a ship registered to the New Republic, I'm..." Cara starts off rambling again to the man, only for him to interrupt her mid-sentence.
"I have a ship. I can bring you there & back with an handsome reward. You can live free of worry." Mando informs her, desolately trying to get her to come along, because even he knew he couldn't do it all alone.
"I'm already free of worry. And I'm done playing solider. Especially fighting some local warlord." Cara states defending her reasoning, which made Celeste to finally speak up.
"He's not a local warlord. He's imperial." Celeste informs the woman before Mando could get the chance. Celeste knew that if Cara informed her about them being Imperials, that she'd immediately join in. She hated those arseholes with a passion, and she knew that's what was going to be her motivation. To kill as many as them as possible...
"I'm in." Cara states simply making Celeste's smile only widen, while Mando states down at his assistant in overawe.
