[h2]The General[/h2]

Reed tilted his head away from the edge of the pillar he was hiding behind as several bullets grazed of the side of it.

he'd found a place aboard a ship belonging to a former federation officer as a first officer, it was finally a place aboard a ship again, a place of command as well, and a way off the damned station. He had went to get some things from a stash he kept and was on his way toward the ship, things had been going smoothly until an explosion in a nearby area attracted a lot of attention from the rebel security. he'd managed to get by on the rebel-friendly station just fine for awhile, but he was ultimately recognized by a few passing rebel soldiers, which led to his current situation.

he'd ended up in a fight with three rebels, two were lying on the ground now, one completely motionless and the other writhing in pain and bleeding from a wound in his chest, and the third was taking cover behind a few crates firing at Reed's hiding spot with a pair of pistols. when the shooting lulled Reed's poked out of cover and leveled his magnum at where the rebel was and fired three shots before pulling back behind cover to reload. He sighed [i]at least with most of these rebel sympathizers preoccupied with the explosion down the way i don't have to worry about him getting reinforcements[/i] He thought as he pushed the cylinder back into his magnum and cocked it.

[h2]The Rebel[/h2]

Donovan had turned to mercenary work after the rebellion had been defeated. he tended to stick to places like this station, rebel-friendly or neutral at least, and he tried to avoid federation space unless a job took him there. at least now he'd signed on with a proper crew now, the captain may have been federation but as it's ex-federation now he could overlook that.

He was heading toward the Black Dirk when an explosion rang out at one of the bars. He stopped and turned to look as some of the station security rushed past him toward the scene of the explosion. He was going to move along and let them handle it but he noticed someone that looked strangely familiar. He stopped two of the security soldiers and pointed out the man to them "that's General fuck'n Reed" they were shocked to see him in a place like this and immediately assumed he was responsible for the bombing. They had started approaching him and thought he'd be easy to take down, they hadn't expected him to pull a gun as soon as he did, they didn't even get a chance to say anything, what resulted was one soldier getting killed, the other wounded on the ground, and Donovan was taking cover behind a crate as he shot at Reed with his pistols, he took a moment to reload and heard as Reed returned fire with his gun, three shots, one flew past and the other two hit Donny's cover "where'd he get that fucking hand cannon?" he murmured as he slipped clips back into his weapons.