[i]"I need a transport!"[/i]

That was Saleen's immediate thought as she scoured the battlefield for any means of transport. Spotting a small garage at the side of the complex, she rushed over and entered the building.

There were only a few speeders and hover vehicles. Two of them were crushed under the rubble as parts of the roof in the garage had collapsed down upon them during the heavy fighter. The only vehicle that remained functional was a speeder painted in an obnoxious yellow and black taxi checker theme.

"Just what I needed!"

Jumping into the speeder, Saleen leaned forward to reach under the main console, when the sudden realization struck her!

[i]"Wait, how do I hotwire this thing in the first place?"[/i]

She had seen it done in countless movies and holovids, and even witnessed a twi'lek scum do it to her friends car. What she had never really seen was the minute details of the procedure however!

[i]"I don't got time for this!"[/i]

"Halt! Wait for me!" Suddenly sounded as one of the bounty hunters from the battle, a Gran, came running over to the cab.
"I need a ride!"

Inside her helmet, Saleen's jaw had just dropped. This was of course invisible to the bounty hunter, who looked down at the quiet woman and raised an eyebrow.

"The rebels are getting away!"

"Oh, right. That's right!" Saleen finally said, as she switched character from rebel to fellow bounty hunter. It was fortunate for her that she did not wear any rebel armor. The Gran must have mistaken her for a fellow mercenary, the fool!

" ... I can't get this thing to work!"

"You can't even hotwire a car?!" The Gran exclaimed, before motioning for Saleen to move to the passenger seat.
"You're one of the new guys, aren't you? Stand back, I'll show you how it's done!"

Moving aside as the bounty hunter entered the car, the Gran reached his hands under the steering wheel. As a visible spark flew out from under the console, the engine on the speeder began to hum to life, as it levitated half a meter further up into the air.

"Look, it's easy." The bounty hunter explained as he sat back up, before looking over at Saleen.
"Say, I don't recall you... you came in another shuttle?"

" ... I guess so?" Saleen reasoned, shrugging her shoulders.

"That doesn't make sense. There was only one shuttle ride."

Saleen became quiet, as an awkward silence ensued between the two mercenaries. A sign of revelation suddenly passed over the Gran's many eyes, as Saleen began to feel the ignorance that had been her cloak earlier was no longer worker.

In the next moment, the two mercenaries both reached for their sidearms. The Gran was quicker than Saleen however, and managed to raise his blaster and fire off a shot right at Saleen's chest. The blaster shot hit her chestplate where it dissipated into a blastmark, and knocked Saleen backwards in the Car. But by this time, Saleen had managed to pull her own heavy calibre slugthrower, and with a loud bang; fired off a heavy slug that tore completely through the heavy leather armor of the bounty hunter. He roiled back as alien blood was splattered all over the interior of the car, including on Saleen!

"I'll be taking over from here." Saleen explained, before she grabbed the Gran and pushed him into the back seats of the speeder, painting even more of the car in alien blood in the process. Shuffling her butt over to the main driver seat and putting on her seatbelt, she downed the gas and flew out from the garage, swooping past the square where the battle had taken place and out into the city as she headed for the shuttle's location.

*

Driving like a drunk through the city, she inadvertently knocked over a lamppost and one communication booth in the short run to the shuttle. When she saw the rebels as they prepared to take off, she pushed the gas down even more as she drove right up onto the landing platform. As she approached the ramp of the shuttle, she hit the brakes, but it was not enough to stop the speeder. The speeder continued up the loading ramp of the shuttle at a dangerous speed, narrowly missing some rebels that had to jump out of the way, before it crashed into the back of the truck!

As she collided with the back of the truck, her helmet was slammed into the steering wheel! The Gran bounty hunter who had been lying in the back of the cab was tossed out, before promptly being splattered to the back of the truck she had just crashed into.

Looking around at the rest of the rebels in the back of the shuttle, Saleen unbuckled her seat belt before she opened the door to the cab and stepped out. Looking around at the rebels, she glared at them from behind her helmet.

"Who's bright idea was it to leave me behind?!" She suddenly yelled. But as she moved to lean on the side of the cab, the front of the cab that was currently wedged into the back of the truck suddenly burst into flames, causing Saleen to immediately jump to the side!