Droid Engineer Archive

It was a hot and sandy Tatooine evening and the usual stench of burnt ozone wrotting flesh and unwashed bodies permiated every inch of the Mos Eisley cantina. Unknown to the Master Droid Engineer that sat beside his trusty Astromech watching the wrythmick motions of the two stunning dancers before him, today would be a day long remembered and a tale that would be told across the land for a long time to come, or atleast until tomorrow afternoon.

A short blue Mon Calamari stood behind the dancers, hackling and irritating them. A usual site on such a dark dank cantina in the worst part of town, but none the less it was the kind of scene Hoshi, the Master Droid Engineer, hated to see. Especialy when it was aimed towards two dancers he had come to befriend. With a flick ofwaist wrist Hoshi bounced himself up onto his feet and glared at the Mon Calamari.

"Get lost, Fish". He mocked, waving his hand toward the door in a cool calm manner.

The Mon Calamari blinked and looked around nervously, unsure as to what his next actions would be. Who was this man that had suddenly appeared and was he capable of harm werethe words swimming through the Fish's mind. Thoughts that were answered by a talk bulky Wookiee that strolled into the cantina waving a lightening cannon around.

"He's just a Droid Engineer. Whats he gonna do?" The wookiee barked in a series Shiryyywook growls.

"Hoshi can take him" The shorter female dancer replied, smiling at Hoshi and ignoring the Fish.

Hoshi glanced over at the Wookiee, trying to asses the reasoning behind his intrustion. It seemed clear he was only interested in a fight and for whatever reasons had decided to pick on a Droid Engineer. It was also clear by the weapon he, it, was carrying and the armour slung over its shoulders that this 7 foot tall fuirball was a Bounty Hunter. A Bounty Hunter versus a Droid Engineer? What were the odds? The beeds of sweat forming on his brow seemed to mimick the thought running through his mind.

"Fight me, coward" The Wookiee growled toward Hoshi.

"Fine. But if I am to fight you, then remove that armour" Yeah that would do it he thought. There was no way this Wookiee would remove his armour.

"Fine" The Wookiee growled back, slowly peeling away its armour.

The dancers gulped and dived out the way, fearing for their friend's life. Hoshi has been brave and stood his ground but it was painfuly obvious that he would stand no match for this towering carpet with teeth. Now or never he thought as he grabbed for a vibroknuckler in his pocket and leaped towards the Wookie screaming a death chant that he had once heard before. The Wookiee roared back but before he could aim his weapon, Hoshi's R2 unit had brandished a wielding torch and zapped a painful burst of energy into the tall creature's behind. Taking advantage of the situation, Hoshi drove the knuckler into the Wookiee's chest several times. Punching kicking and clawing as hard as he could while his droid continued to zapp.

With a whimpering scream and stench of burnt fuir the Wookiee collapsed to the ground with the amasement of everyone that had witnissed the brawl. How had it happened? How had a simple Droid Engineer with no combat skills defeated a well trained and exceptionaly big built Wookiee?

"That'll teach you for picking on Droid Engineer's ya oversized fat heary freak" Hoshi chanted toward the smoking pile of Wookiee the lay before him. "Now, where were we?" He said turning toward the dancers that had regained their position.

If there was a lesson to be learnt this day, it was never to assume a Droid Engineer and his Droid were easy pray. Hoshi and his R2 Astromech "Arwyn" certainly wernt.

Abandon all hope

very funny, very true

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