MCA Lobby, Saturday morning

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After a couple missions that inevitably went insane the past few weeks, Zayne was on leave from Reciprocity so he could take care of everything he needed to do in Fandom. Once he landed his shuttle on the rooftop landing pad (HE HAD A SHUTTLE NOW, what was happening?), he sent a quick message to parties who might be interested that he was back and made his way down to the lobby to check the state of everything.

He was a little concerned when he checked the list of residents to see if anyone had moved in or out and found it folded into a paper hat. Also, it hadn't been updated. That seemed like the lesser concern. This was going to take some investigation.

[OOC: Zayne's officially back in town! Messages went out to anyone who thinks they might have received one. Open, but I'll be slowish most of the day.]

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The desk phone in the office rang.

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"Mauvaise Chance Apartments," Zayne said automatically as he picked up the phone. "This is Zayne Carrick."

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Yakko leaped out of the receiver, grabbed Zayne's face, and planted a big, cartoon kiss on him.

"TAG! YOU'RE IT!" Yakko said once he let go of Zayne's face. And then he rushed out the door.

That... was probably his way of turning back control of MCA to Zayne.

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As he watched Yakko flee, Zayne wiped his mouth with his sleeve.

He really had no idea what the hell just happened, but he was relieved that the... weird dog thing was gone.

He had no clue how much fear he should have over what happened to his apartment under Yakko's watch.

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Jaina... hadn't actually known he'd been gone all this time, since she'd heard he was going on a little trip and hadn't been around to see that he didn't come back. But in the most depressing scenario where this ended up being her last trip to Fandom ever, Zayne was definitely one of the people she wanted to see.

"Hey there," she greeted him.

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"Someone I know and like. There's that balance again..." Zayne muttered. "Hey Jaina. You have great timing."

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"Why?" she asked a little warily. Because in this town...

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"Some... thing greeted me when I got in. I think your grandfather warned me about it, too, but it was weirder than expected," Zayne said. "So I could use a normal visitor."

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"...Gremlin?"

She was immediately looking at the floor, too, because that was not happening this weekend.

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"No, it was more like a dog. I think it's a teacher. And it may have been doing the paperwork here while I was gone," Zayne said. "It would explain a few things."

Like the phone bill, which was in the form of a paper airplane. (Not just any airplane. A stealth bomber. Highly detailed, too.) Zayne picked it up and tossed it across the lobby.

[solo_sword]

Heeeeeey, hey there. Don't throw the detailed paper stealth bomber away in front of the pilot. Which was why Jaina watched it fly for a moment before calling it back to her hand to study it.

"So basically, same old Fandom, it sounds like," she said.

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"Pretty much. Did you just get into town, too?" Zayne asked.

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"This morning. What do you mean, too? Where were you?" she asked.

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"Most recently, on a Republic cruiser. I'm a Lieutenant in the Navy now," Zayne said. "It's been an eventful couple of months."

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"Congratulations. I've obviously missed a lot," Jaina frowned. "What happened?"

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"A lot happened in a very short time. I went home for a visit, right? Turns out, the Mandalorians were getting closer to Phaeda, so they started drafting young men. Since I couldn't claim Jedi to get out of it. And then a week after we started deploying, my whole group was captured by the Mandos, so they drafted me, too."

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Jaina paused. "They captured you to make you fight for them?"

This would only happen to Zayne.

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"The Mandalorians only have two uses for prisoners. They make them slaves or put them on the front lines," Zayne said. "They figured a guy with Jedi training would be a good fighter. They didn't know that I don't kill."

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Of course they did.

"Kriffing Mandalorians," she sighed. "I'm betting they figured that out pretty fast..."

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"My commander was a former Jedi Council member who defected, so he figured out how to use someone like me for a while," Zayne said. "He made too many assumptions about what I'd be willing to go along with, though."

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"What did they want you to go along with?" Jaina had a pretty good idea about Mandos at this point, and she'd had a really good perspective on war for a long time, but combine the two...

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"Master Kace, my commander, wanted a group of Mandalorian Knights," Zayne said. "So he figured he'd raid the Jedi Academy on Dantooine, kill the Masters, kidnap the younglings, and raise them as Mandalorians."

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Jaina stared. Just stared.

And then, "WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIS BRAIN."

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"He suffered a great loss a long time ago. It messed him up," Zayne said with some sympathy. "Fortunately, the people from my ship managed to steal a Mando Dreadnought and get to Dantooine before he could take the kids."

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Yeah, with Jaina's personal experiences- especially what happened on Ossus- this guy was getting zero sympathy from her. She didn't care who he lost.

"Good. I don't suppose there's been any punishment for him, has there?" Like something large and heavy crushing his head?