The Mandalorian

Chapter 2: The Child

They had begun their journey back, finding that the Blurrg had run off, they hoped, back to their guide. Leaving them with a lengthy walk back to their ships, in the dangerous route beneath the way they came. The plus side was that the heat was off their backs, now that they were in the shade. 

The pram stayed between them both. The child was looking around, wondering what these two Bounty hunters had in store for him now. Both walked in silence, wondering what to do about the kid. They didn't know, nor trust one another enough to voice their opinion of not really wanting to give him up. She knew that he would have to honour his word after accepting a contract, and didn't fancy going up against him, she needed more information first.

But they continued on in silence. His curious face looking at his new captors. They stopped, hearing something and noticing the little creatures that were running about, were now scurrying off. The pair had their hands on their blasters, preparing for anything. Two bounty hunters leapt out at them. They weren't quick enough with their blasters, Mando's was knocked out of his hand, her wrist was grabbed by her own attacker. 

Their fobs beeped rapidly as they got close to the pod, both went to push the pod out of the way, but she was pulled back, her assailants hand pulling tightly on her wrist. Instead Mando was the one to successfully push the kid to relative safety, the pram shooting back swiftly, causing the kid to fall over.

Mando blocked a few swings at him, using his battered vambraces to stop them. She shoved her knee between her attackers legs, causing him to grunt in pain, she flipped him over, throwing him to the floor. Before she could take a shot a third jumped out, knocking her blaster to the ground. Mando grabbed hold of his attackers weapon, grabbed his shoulder and also shoved his attacker to the ground. 

She had pulled a knife from her own vambrace, taking swings at the third. The second had finally gotten up, recovering from the knee kick, and charged the Mandalorian. He dodged, throwing their weapon to the floor, and unclipping his rifle. Using it to block attacks and shock one of the hunters, knocking him out. She dodged attacks against her, using her knife to parry, causing him to stumble, kicking her foot out she tripped him up, burying her knife into the back of his head. 

The third decided to charge the kid, his weapon raised ready to strike. She went to throw her knife, but the Mandalorian had his rifle aimed at the hunter. Shooting once and disintegrating the target, just before he could reach the kid. 

"I love that blaster." He turned to her for a moment, but her eyes were trained on the falling ashes of what was once a Nikto bounty hunter. The child just stared at the pair that had saved his life. Their eyes were now drawn to the beeping fob that lay beside one of the bodies. The Mandalorian realising that the entire Guild was likely given one. "You're hurt." Her statement snapped his attention to, looking at his arm, it was nothing too serious. 

"I'm fine." She smirked, unsurprised by the response. 

"I never said you weren't, nonetheless that needs to be closed, an infection out here would be lethal." He nodded, she was right, but that was the least of their concerns currently. 

"Later, now we gotta keep moving." She was looting the bodies, gathering any credits they had, not bothering with anything else. He watched as she gathered their blasters, checking on the kid as she did so. 

"He's fine, here." He walked over to them, taking his blaster that she held out to him. "We should get to higher ground, make a camp, it'll be nightfall soon. Then I'll have a look at the wound." It wasn't a request, but it was what he would have done, so he didn't dispute it. 

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Their camp was pitiful, they weren't prepared for an extended trip back, having one small light, no real source of heat, and very little in the way of food. Mando took to repairing his battered chest piece, with the one tool he had. The kid just watched as they settled down. She was rummaging in her bag, hoping she had packed a proper med-kit, she never left without at least one, it was just a matter of finding it.