The Obsidian Order

Hello everyone, Last time we talked I recounted my first encounter with the enforcers; of course it definitely wasn't my last.  The 7-foot giant that killed my father was still alive. Now the enforcers weren't my only problem, there was the obsidian order[1]. There are obsidian orders on at least one planet per territory which makes my life a whole lot more dangerous, and exciting. Anyway, I was simply heading to the main planet of the territory to get myself a job and this weak little freighter flew by my ship. I recognized it as an enforcer ship so I put a tractor beam on it. I knew there could be enforcers on it, so I went to my armory and took two elite enforcer pistols, I placed my katana in its leather sheath, put my wrist blades on and took an enforcer machine gun, placed some flash grenades around my belt and then put a trench coat over and transported on board the ship. The interior was very old, conduit pipes showing everywhere, I headed to the armory and opened the door, only to be welcomed by gunfire. I moved to the side, and took a flash grenade, activated it and tossed it in. A flash came a second after I threw it in, so I walked in gun drawn and he was on the ground covering his eyes so I kicked him in the head, leaving him unconscious. I tagged all his weapons and cargo which consisted of some pretty expensive and powerful stuff and then, as I was leaving with the enforcer over my shoulder I noticed a torture stick[2] and transported myself into my ship. I tied him up on a chair in a big tub of water then examined him closer, he was a very small 5,3 feet with long tangle blond hair and beard and mustache and his armor was as good as useless, it was all ripped and he looked like a bum. But he did have an insignia of a low rank scumbag[3] and he was quite muscular. He woke up, finding himself tied to a chair with heavy duty flexible titanium cables in a tub of water, he looked around in a panicked way, and when he seen me his skin went completely pale with fear. He asked me in a panicked voice " who are you? What is this place? What am I doing here?"

I zapped the water, making him scream in pain then responded, " I'm the interrogator, your are the prisoner so that means I ask the questions, get that? You answer them truthfully and I wont have to hurt you, but if you lie..." I zapped the water making him scream again then continued talking " that will happen, and I will set it to full power"

He laughed in a painful mocking tone and replied, " I'll never answer your questions! I know who you are, wretched Peddler!"

He spat on me so I whipped him across the gut with the stick and zapped him right on the head; I grabbed him by the throat and said " natural reflexes I'm sure, even a scumbag such as yourself know that spitting on one with a torture stick is not wise. But you will answer all my questions, all of them or I swear on whatever god you worship that you will suffer a whole lot more than you think is possible" and to prove my point I hit him across the face with the torture stick, giving him a huge jolt of electricity.

I looked but his face was like stone so I went to swing again and he put his hand up and said defensibly, " Fine, I work for the obsidian order on planet Karn, happy?"

I smiled and said " and what is your mission, I mean what kind of mission demands that a whole bunch of powerful weapons be placed in a weak ship with a single scumbag?"

He said in a neutral tone " you do know that these cables were worn out" I looked up and then he yanked them broken. Before I could reach my gun he rammed into me, sending me against the wall. I pulled my gun out and fired at him but I missed him by a few inches. I ran after him, I ran of the room and he jumped onto me, hitting my gun away. He grabbed him and threw him on the ground in front of me. I said, " I see you've untied yourself"

He replied " very much so, thank you" we both charged at each other, him being stronger than me gave him the advantage and sent me to the ground. As he went for the kill I jumped up on my feet, I kicked him in the gut and then when he was on the ground I grabbed my torture stick and hit him across the face with all my force, Face bleeding he kicked me off, grabbed my gun and held it at my head and said " I'm in charge now, so you'll be answering my questions"

I sneered at him and replied " not on my ship!" and kicked him full force, grabbed the gun from the air and shot him repeatedly in the head, making sure he was dead. After have dumped his body into space and cleaned up the mess I left for planet Karn.

As I headed to planet Karn, I wondered why they sent a little scumbag in a weak ship to deliver such a deadly arsenal; it could mean that the obsidian order was sneaking weapons behind the centaurs back in hope of rebellion. Either way I was going there, in stealth mode of course because I wasn't the most liked person among the obsidian order. It only took two hours to get there, and to cover the signature of my ship I landed in a field of meteor plants, although it was quite stupid to go in there without protection[4] I had my armor under my trench coat so I was mostly protected. Just as I got out of the bushes, five humans who had seen me land on their property stood there, guns pointed at me. I waved and said, " hello, I'm the peddler, you who might you be?"

The person who appeared to be the leader fired right beside me and replied, " your trespassing, leave and you wont get blown to bits"

I smiled and said, " That is one strange name, although I must say it's quite unique. You don't mind if I just call your trespassing, I find it shorter..." they all glared at me with anger so I continued " ok trespassing, here's the deal. Either you let me stay or you die"

They looked at each other then the leader fired his gun square in my chest. I fell to the ground, but then I slowly got up and straightened my coat out, and then poked my finger through the hole. I looked at them and said "you made a hole in my lucky coat" before they could react I pressed the button on my wrist and armor covered and took form of my head, armor as tough as the rest of my body armor. They started firing but they're bullets simply bounced off my armor. I took my katana out of its sheath and walked toward them, before they could come to their senses I was in action. I decapitated the leader's head and then swung my sword and cut the two other soldiers across the gut, cutting them completely in half. As the corpses lay on the ground, I said " we could have been friends, too bad" and dragged their bodies into the meteor grass and prepared a little better. I no longer concealed my armor, I polished it and took only enforcer elite weapons. I waited for the right chance to initiate my plan, and then an enforcer jeep was approaching so I put my plan into motion.

The jeep stopped in front of me, the scumbag ranking enforcer walked in front of me, then seen my armor and stammered " you're an emperor?"

I looked at my armor and replied, " It appears so, quite a good observation. Bring me to the Obsidian Order primary base" He nodded and rushed into his jeep, I walked calmly as an emperor would and sat in. He was having difficulty with the keys because of his nervousness, but after a few seconds he got it and we drove to the base. He dropped me off and told me before leaving " be careful sir" and drove off as fast as he could. I shrugged his warning off and walked in, as soon as entered the old building a soldier spotted me and called for nine more guards. Ten guards surrounded me, I looked around and said in my most superior voice " drop your weapons immediately, if so I will consider not executing every one of you"

The lead guard walked up to me and said, " You dare come here after your people mercilessly slaughtered a whole village and started a war between us, now you are under arrest"

He spat on me and took his handcuffs out. I smiled and said " you got my coat wet" and grabbed my two enforcer pistols and shot the two farthest soldiers, then one of the nearest soldiers grabbed me so I flipped him over and shot him. Some of their bullets finally managed to hit me but my armor easily blocked them so I quickly shot three of the guards but the two others kicked my guns out of my hands and kicked me to the ground. They pointed their guns at me and went for the kill shot when I slapped my wrists together and my wrist blades came out and I quickly jabbed them into their guts, pulling them out and kicking them both down and kicking them unconscious. I had taken care of them but alerted security so I took my guns and placed them back in their holsters and grabbed my enforcer shotgun. I walked in the elevator and went to the top floor that's usually where the boss is. I walked out on the 31st floor and met a guard, but I  hit him with the hilt of my shotgun, leaving him unconscious, I stepped over the body and walked into the office.

I opened the door and there was a woman sitting at the desk typing something on her computer, I was surprised how calm she looked do. I was holding a shotgun, wearing emperor armor and she had televisions showing the security footage of me killing her soldiers. Without looking at me she said, " Have a seat Mr Peddler"

I sat down in a perfectly calm way, unsnapping the holster for my enforcer pistol and said, " I couldn't help but notice your little enforcer scumbag secretly delivering you deadly weapons, your not planning a revolution are you?"

She smiled without looking up and said, " only a person like you would think in such extreme old fashioned terms. I don't know if you've noticed that there's a war between the obsidian order and the enforcers, we need to get more firepower. So in that sense yes, your old term "revolution" fits this situation".

Suddenly I noticed her taking her gun out of her desk drawer so I quickly drew my gun and before I knew it we both had a pistol pointed at each other's heads. I smiled and said " pretty fast for a desk jockey, do they teach that in the business university"

She smiled back and replied " no, I've had to learn that on my own. But I did learn to control big security forces, like the two master enforcers whom betrayed their centaur because he was just unjust"

I looked back and sure enough there stood two master enforcers with automatic enforcer rifles pointed at my head, she continued talking " now, as much as I detest you, being almost the unofficial representative of all low life crooks in the galaxy, but I need your services"

I put my gun back in the holster, and sat down on the chair and said, " what kind of job are we talking about?"

She put her gun down but her bodyguards kept their guns aimed at me, she was smarter than I thought, she answered, " I admit it's slightly a high-risk operation, you must smuggle five nuclear quantum torpedoes into the centaur's home planet and plant them in five places we have estimated will cause maximum damage and kill the centaur"

I laughed out loud at first, thinking she was joking but then I noticed she wasn't so I said, " that will be a very high price, very high since it's so risky"

She shrugged and said " we'll give you a license to command a starship crew and supply you with any ship you want and money to hire them and 5 million earth stones"

I pretended to ponder but I had already taken the deal in my mind, so I simply added " add a cloaking to that and we got a deal" I extended my hand and she shook it, then she said " lets go to your ship"

We walked to the patch of meteor plants, she looked at it and turned to me with a mocking look and said, "and you expect me to go through that?"

I shrugged and said " either that or I carry you over my head..." she looked at me in a unsatisfied look so I said " just kidding with ya, I'll transport you on board, just don't move your pretty little self too far" I walked through the grass and went into my ship and transported her, then we left to a merchant planet called "Hornet".

She was tired and wanted to sleep so she asked, " where do I sleep?"

I responded quickly " in my bed of course, since there is only one bed you get it. I got my command chair, I just love that chair."

She hugged me and said " you are as generous as people say you are" and then she went to sleep. I walked to my command chair and reclined it, although it was made out of metal I fell asleep very quickly.

I woke up expecting to find us already landed on the planet, I sat up and seen her staring at me, I said tiredly " so, did I talk in my sleep like it says in my most wanted posting?"

She ignored the question and asked, " do you always wear your armor, or is it stuck on you?"

I thought for a second and answered " I keep it on because I want to, I've been in enough fights to learn there is no such thing as too much protection" I put my coat on and equipped my weapons and continued " and besides, don't it just look so damn cool" she smiled and asked " where's the washroom?"

I scratched my head and said, " Oh, I don't think I have one..." she looked distressed then I laughed and said, " kidding, its down the hall to the left, or the right, never mind, it is the left" she kicked me in the leg and went there, she returned and we left for the village of Bloday to get my ship.

As we entered the city of Bloday I turned to face her and said, " I gotta warn ya, people in this town aint exactly social, so let me do all the talking"

She smiled and replied " ok" I turned around and we walked to the closest bar, she looked at me and asked " what you doing here?"

I turned and answered " you are gonna buy me ship while I enjoy a few hours at the pub with me good old friend Mr. Rum, now off you go" She started walking away then I called her and said " and don't get in too much trouble"

She winked and walked away, I walked in the bar and everyone went quiet, I looked around and walked to the bar, I ordered some good old fashion rum and drank a mug when someone tapped me on the shoulder and said " you lied to my sister, left her with your son"

I looked at him and asked " do I know you?" He swung a punch at me, knocking me over the bar, I clumsily got up and said " now that wasn't very nice"

The guy turned to the crowd and yelled " this is the guy that left my sister with a son and robbed her, get him!" everyone got up yelling at me so I ran, dodging one bottle while getting hit by the rest. I jumped over the bar and ran out of the bar as fast as I could, the obsidian order leader stood there smiling with a piece of paper when I said " run!" I ran past her when she seen a bunch of big guys run out of the bar after me, she started running after me and yelled " and you told me to stay out of trouble"

I answered while running " it's a case of mistaken identity" when she looked at me with disbelief I admitted " oh al right, one night I had a little too much rum and did bad things, aint it weird how they still remember"

The police arrived and detained the crowd, not me since I had hidden in a dumpster. We finally got out and she said " despite your complications, I got you hold of the only avenger class ship[5] and like you requested you can choose your crew" I patted her on the shoulder and said " goody, now lets go see my beautiful ship"

The ship was everything I'd imagined and more, I had a cloaking devise too so I installed it and transferred a third of my weapons unto the ship. As I was sitting on my new command chair she walked in so I said, " I'll have to transfer command chairs, this padding is just..." she interrupted me and said, " I did my part of the deal, you do yours"

I put my hands up to relax her and replied " patience, all comes to those who wait, anyways cant you see how honest of a person I am" I grinned my most innocent grin and she replied " oh yes, I'm sure its your honesty that got everyone in that bar to want to kill you, and did I forget the part that you're a fugitive"

I laid back in my chair and replied " technically I'm no fugitive, I was never officially caught. And don't worry, I'll fill me part of the bargain, don't worry your cute little face about that. I just gotta meet a few friends who are very experienced ship people who've helped me get outta a few messes, and what's your name?"

She smiled and said " I'll tell you if you tell me yours ok" I nodded so she said " my name is Mara, your turn"

I looked at her and said, " The peddler, I thought you already knew that, now lets go see those friends of mine.

[1] And no I do not mean the cardasians, this is a human sect that believes law should be upheld at all times, their laws I should say. And when smuggler trying to make some money is detected around, and with my reputation they usually detect me, well how do I say this, punish me for my sins. Even if I do it for a good reason, they see me not only as a "criminal" but as a servant of the devil, its quite comical actually until their trying to kill you.

[2] The torture stick a torturer's best friend when torturing, and worse enemy when being tortured. Its made out of a highly conductive metal that I can't spell and it emits electricity, a good 100 watts of it, good incentive to make someone talk, especially if you hang them upside down and leave their hands in the water, then zap the water.

[3] You must understand that on different planets the ranking system is very different, on earth and mars and most planets the ranking goes with major, corporal, or whatever it is. I'm not familiar, but I knew the enforcer military hierarchy a little more. The lowest rank is "insignificant officer" which only gives you guard duty, the second lowest is " scumbag" which means either you get a freighter ship or a desk job. The 3rd least important is the boss, he's the one who is in charge of the low ranking officers. After this there is the "master enforcer" which is the boss of all enforcers in a specific territory and its planets.

[4] There is a good reason this is sort of stupid. Meteor plants burn you a little tiny bit because of the concentrated acid within them, when you touch them they releases some of its acid, of course my emperor armor protected me from that.

[5] An avenger class ship is the same size than an emperor ship and has double plated hull and force fields already installed, all I'd need to do is install my weaponry which will be more than good enough for the ship and all my shielding. Since its bigger it's a tiny bit slower but carries more arsenal than my good old wolf class ship.