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[sergeant_slick]

[Slick's voice is clipped, no-nonsense, and deadly serious.]

Heads up--There's a Jedi on-planet. They're the people that keep mine enslaved. Expect enhanced reflexes, agility, telekinesis, mind-reading and mind-altering abilities, and a lightsaber. The blade can cut through just about anything without slowing down.

This one's named Anakin Skywalker. I've met him before. Don't trust him.

And... I'm in need of a medic. I can walk, but I'm not fit to fight right now.

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[foxable]

[ It's not an answer, and though Fox is by no means a particularly insightful man when it comes to other humans, he's not that dense.

He pierces his lips thinly for a minute before replying, his speech a little too fast and a little too clipped. ]

Not to use my stuff in a -- You got in a fight with him? So he did hurt you. Knock on the head--

Where is he??

[sergeant_slick]

I don't know. [He's a little slow on the uptake at the moment, blame his throbbing head. Wait, is Fox thinking of--] Don't try to go after him by yourself. It won't go well.

[There's a little bit of him that's happy, though. After he broke away from the indoctrination, it was hard to believe anybody was ever going to back him up. He'd sort of kept quiet about the details with Fox--he didn't understand the pacifism thing, maybe he wouldn't take well to hearing about the soldiering side of things. But now he's got a head injury and he's feeling a little like rambling.]

He's the one in charge of all the poor brainwashed bastards in the 501st. I was deployed along side them before, he's friends with the one they put in charge of us. [The 212th is still "us", especially right now when he's not at his best.] They can disassemble somebody faster than you can blink. Probably why everybody thinks they're good at doing war. They're not.

[foxable]

[ There's a reason for Fox's pacifism, and it wasn't innocence or ignorance. It was born of defiance, more than anything else: a fuck you to a world that so often and so easily took to violence.

Defiance against the world. Defiance against his own boiling emotions when all he wanted to do was punch someone in the face. Like now. ]

He can try it. [ Fox had never believed the world would give up its violence or its hatred. He had never expected to.

So defense had always been a large priority for him. First: never be noticed. Second: get away as quick as you could the second you were. Third: they couldn't hurt you, if they couldn't hit you.

At least for this, he knew what he was getting into going in. ]

I'm not going to fight him. [ Just getting that out of the way. ] But he - there's no difference between him and you, here. Alright? I don't care how fast he can fucking dissemble someone. If he's here, if he's one of us, that means he's just as deep in the shit as we are and I am not going to let him treat you as anything lesser. You understand?

Where did you last see him.

[sergeant_slick]

And I'm treating him like the moral coward he is. [He's audibly angry, but there's no reason to stop being angry about the Jedi. They haven't fucking earned it.]

He kept claiming the slavery was a choice we could make, tried to say that we could leave but he couldn't. Called me foolish for trying to find a way out that he didn't like. You can't trust Jedi. They say they're all about peace and justice, but they don't lift a finger to help anybody unless it's convenient.

[He sighs.]

In the tower, lower levels.

[[ooc: or, you know, wherever makes sense to square the difference between now and the TDM. Space is warped and time is bendable.]]

[foxable]

Slavery is a fucking choice, huh? [ Yeah, his voice sounds very dark. ]

I'll find him.

In the meantime.

I know you were in a hard situation, Slick, but if you use my magic offensively again against anyone living I'm going to stop teaching you anything but healing magic.

[sergeant_slick]

[A hollow laugh.] I guess I just didn't want it hard enough.

[He pauses, taking a deep breath.] Yeah. I know. First priority is working more on control. So don't get yourself killed, alright?

[foxable]

If he kills me, he'll have a lot more problems, don't worry about that. [ Mildly, but also he's not kidding. He's pretty sure Mingyu would burn a city down. So let's not do that, alright? ]

Control, and maybe we should start on some defensive spells. Most of mine work on evasion, stealth and escape.

[sergeant_slick]

Good enough. [He won't push it further. You stay in one piece, Fox.]

I like the sound of that. Got some experience skulking around already, but I could use some more. [He'd been good at it, but he'd still gotten caught.]

[foxable]

Hey, hey now, let's not call it skulking.

Let's call it wisely remaining unnoticed.

[sergeant_slick]

See? You're teaching me more stuff already.

And... thanks for believing me. If I'd said all this stuff back out there, they would've called me defective.

[foxable]

Yeah, because they were trying to indoctrinate you into accepting slavery.

But they are wrong. Wrong then, wrong now. End of story.

[sergeant_slick]

Yeah.

It's just nice to hear somebody else say it. [Because back at home, he'd almost believed he was defective. By Republic standards, he was. But fuck their standards.]

[foxable]

Well I'll say it whenever you need to hear it.

And I'll say it to this asshole too.