======================================================================== Subject: [Sith War 9] The Taxman Cometh Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc Sent: 04/19/02 12:02 AM By: Rainbow Heron (rainbowheron@ftc-i.net) ======================================================================== ===One Part Only=== There. The last bobby trap was set. Nobody would be getting in or out of his store, including the 'Sith Rat'. But just as The Jedi Hacker was turning back to his reconstructing droid army, he felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of alarms all went off at the same time, and were suddenly silenced. When he took his headphones off, he discovered that it wasn't an "as if" situation- all of his alarms *had* gone off. Before he could form the question "Why?" in his mind, the front door to his store was kicked in, and an enourmous garrison of Bounty Hunters poured in...followed by a very large and very fat Toydarian who was holding a very mean-looking badge. Hacker was aghast, "What you doing in my store?! How'd you get past the detonators?!" "Eh no worry 'bout that. I'm from the IRS. We're here to take your store from you." "WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?! I PAID my taxes already! I even turned them in EARLY for goodness sake!!!!" The toydarian was amused by Hacker's reaction, but he was strictly business. "Eh I know you turned 'em in early, but you didn't pay up all the money. we'll just be repossessing your store and your 'toy battle droids' until you pay us in full. I no gonna ask what kind of entertainment you use 'em for." Hacker started to protest, but found himelf on the business end of a very mean dozen of pistols. He could only watch as the Bounty Hunters began to cart out his entire stock, his entire army, and all but one half of his replicators, and even the beers in his icebox. "Not so quickly there you anatomically impossible pachydernatous bat!!!" The toydarian flew into his face and gave him a few choice Huttese words of his own. While the being cussed, Hacker stealthily pulled out a remote control and pushed a button, activating a nearby pack of droidekas. "You're NOT taking my army!!" The Toydarian gave The Jedi Hacker and annoyed look and pulled out a little remote control of his own- which not only overrode the Hacker's super-secret signal, but made the droidekas and a good portion of his army all start marching out of the store, allowing themselves to be herded by the IRS bounty hunters. Hacker's jaw dropped. The Toydarian was smug. "Whuddya think you are? Some kind of HACKER pulling your remote out like that?! I'm with the GOVERNMENT! Super-secret tricks don't work on me- only tax money! All of IRS gots one of these!" He waved the remote in front of Hacker, mocking him. He then motioned for the bounty hunters who were still holding up Hack-boy to let him go and to take the remote too. The Toydarian turned to leave. "Eh, seeing how yous no have much else we can take, I think your IRS debt has been paid, eh?" With a full laugh, he and the bounty hunters took the last remaining items in the shop and marched out. "Heh heh, I hope youa have fun with your little Hacker stood there in shock for several minutes until Pi hobbled up beside him- they'd taken one of Pi's robotic legs and a few of his attatchments. Hacker could hear sounds coming from the direction of his warehouse and discoverd to his horror, that the IRS had taken everything in there as well. Worse yet, his ships were gutted by at least 20%. Pi rolled up alongside the distraught Hacker, as he slouched down the enterance to his warehouse, which now had a small sign on it which read 'repossessed'. If Pi had access to a databank, it might have tried to track down his sidekick's accountant or at least check up to see what the girl and her critters were up to. But seeing as it was barely able to even connect to another machine (the IRS had taken the adapter too), Pi just stood next to his sidekick and...well...just kinda stood there. ============ SUMMARY: -thanks to the espionage Seanpuff & Ewanpuff did a couple posts back, the RASSM IRS repossessed just about everything Hacker has. Call it Alice's way of preventing Hacker from taking over RASSM cuz she doesn't like coup d'etats and she's protective of her friends. ============ -Rainbow Heron (sig hopes everyone else fared better with the IRS this year) I think they left Hacker at least *one* beer... ========================================== http://web.infoave.net/~rkanderson/rassm/swc.htm Rainbow Heron's Sith War Characters Page ========================================== Who needs kids when you've got Pokémon?! ================================================================================================================================================ Please don't repost this without my permission or plagerize this AT ALL! Thanks for stopping by! Rainbow Heron 04/23/02 This post never showed up on Yahoo/Google for some strange reason. >:-P~ ================================================================================================================================================