She Isn't a Saint -- The Mandalorian

6. The Imperials

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"If you're so worried about the kid, why don't you take him back? What are they going to do? Kill you."

"They could." He reached for the control lever, the knob was sitting beside it. There was guilt as he looked at the chair to the right. Koyi could feel the way he attempted to push it down, how he was working through his very nature at that moment. Mandalorians had a profound respect for lost children, taking them in as their own until they could be returned to their family or came of age. A foundling, the Mandalorian had called her one. Even as a bounty the Child was still a kid. He worked the knob back into the place before finishing the preparations to leave.

Koyi waited for him to finally allow himself to think. And he did. She felt the loss, the empty sense of horror for the realization of what he had done. He grabbed the lever, pulling it down. He turned off the controls as the engine groaned as it powered off. She didn't wait for him before she jumped down into the main level. As the hatch opened she checked over her weapons. When Mando made his way down he hurried out. She was quick beside him, trying to keep up with his determined and quick stride. "Do you have a plan?"

"No, but I'll come up with something. Here." His hand hovered over her arm as he led her down an alleyway. They followed a different path than the way they had come in. As with any other corridor in this town the buildings looked mostly the same. She tried to find the Child's Force signature, but there were too many for her to pull out just his. Despite the want to find the kid quickly, the Mandalorian made sure that Koyi was with him every time he moved on. They had made it to another opening in the alleyways. He turned around a building and stopped just before a large dumpster. Looking down, Koyi's hand moved to her blaster. Her fingers bit into the holster when she saw the Child's pod discarded atop a pile of trash.

"They threw it away? Shit," Koyi muttered out, frustration running its course. She let out a low breath tapping on the end of her right lek. Her fingers moved above the scar, as she thought. "Mando, where is he? Which building did you drop him off at?" He moved away back to the main bit, unclipping his rifle as he went.

"I'm going up. Stay down here. It'll only be a moment." With that, he climbed up onto a building. Koyi took out her blaster and held it to her chest as she waited for Mando. She didn't know what they were about to get into, but she trusted the Mandalorian. She knew that if the Child was alive he would find him and save him. It seemed odd for her to be trusting the Mandalorian, but with all things considered that's a good thing. As the thought crossed her mind he climbed down off the roof of the building. Without verbal confirmation, she knew he had found the building he was looking for. She followed him to the green metal door, standing off to the side. He knocked.

A droid popped out of the wall and looked around asking who was there for what. Mando grabbed the rod connecting the camera to the rest of the droid, his other hand moving to break the end, short-circuiting the droid. He handed Koyi's small object as he hurried her towards a further part of the building. She turned the object around in her hands; it was a bomb. With a small smile, she set it up, quickly handing it to him before they both moved out of the range. She ducked down and covered her ears, hoping to lessen the amount of carnage her ears and montrals took in. As the wall crumbled in on itself the Mandalorian started forward. She dropped her hands to her side with a curse, knowing that a massive headache was going to follow all of this.

Alarms blared as she and Mando moved into the building. He shot two stormtroopers as they examined the rubble. Koyi slunk towards the door inside, waiting. She switched to her knife and stabbed the next trooper, blood flowed from the open seam between his waist and groin. He staggered and she pushed him back slamming his head against the wall. She shook the blood off her hand as Mando led her further inside.