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"I dunno... but if you ate food made of organic materials, I'd cook you up a victory banquet" Tabitha said cheerfully. Her right arm was also bleeding profusedly, revealing the metal construction within. There clearly was too much blood being spilled for her to survive, yet here she was still standing and not showing any signs of pain - however she did comment about not being able to get much feeling in her right arm as she raised the rocket launcher again at the crippled Engi.
"Stand clear unless you want to be hit with..." she started before firing anyway.

The rock... missile clearly missed the Champion though and impacted again with the audience stands in another location. She discarded the heavy weapon just as a series of sharp blades were lobbed at her from the Engi. "I didn't get great scores on the demolitions training" Tabitha remarked, taking out her blaster and deploying it into a rifle with a scope "But I could bullseye a swamp rat with a T-16 Blaster back home..."

Everything was chaos. Targon saw Kr being squeezed to death, Arkangel was thinking his next move while dodging the Engi and Tabitha had her insides bleeding out. The Engi suddenly threw Kr and stood still, doing it's weird recharge thing. He made a bold decision and charged at it, climbing up it and punching its eye out, finishing the job Kr started.
He turned his attack onto its back and plugged out even more wires, then jumped off quickly as it quickly tried grasping for him, missing the blue Mantis by inches. He ran to the side and watched its right arm fall completely off. It shook its head, trying to see its targets but failing due to being blinded, then fell on its side, losing balance.
"Oh, you are kidding me." The Champion moaned, and then exploded with a powerful and awesome mushroom cloud, and sending debris everywhere, smacking into the energy shield and dissolving. It also sent debris flying toward the group, and as Targon jumped out of the way he shrieked, "We won! We wo-" A metal plate hit him squarely in the legs, knocking him to the ground and blacking him out on the spot.

There was a stunned silence amongst the crowd as the Champion exploded.
"Holy crap..." the announcer shouted.

Tabitha took a deep breath and lowered her rifle. She then looked at herself and the blood and said "Did I just..."

Suddenly, the announcer said "Well... our combatants have beaten The Champion! But folks, we can't just award them all the Grand prize. Oh no... because... ummm..."
He cleared his throat and chanted "Many men enter! One man leaves!"
The crowd was quick to catch on to this rallying cry and also started shouting "Many men enter! One man leaves!"

Tabitha collapsed to her knees as she realised the extent of her damages. "How much blood did I lose..." she muttered, running her hands over the gash in her abdomen "Holy crap I can feel my internal organs too."
In her eyes, she wasn't seeing any robotic pieces despite it being clearly obvious that there was machinery.

Quintet heard the audience. He had no intention of losing it all now. He lept into the arena, shooting the announcer directly in the head mid-air. His targeting systems took a moment to re-tune and he began shooting upwards and announcing into the audience.

"THIS IS A HEIST! Throw all of your weapons into the arena and duck, putting your arms and hands or claws on your head."

One mantis attempted to resist. He shot him multiple times on the spot, setting a clean example. This wasn't his first time.

"YOU WILL BE WITH HIM IN THE AIRLOCK if you do not give in now. We are contacting local enforcement and using you as hostages. Your original count is 46. Now it's 45. I repeat, throw your weapon into the arena. I need all the humans in the arena."

He quickly used the ship to call up the enforcement.

"Original count 46. Count 45. Humans in shot range. Surrender your men into the area and ditch your weapons or they go first. Proof of life prepared."

He stopped the transmission and whispered to his crew in the arena.

"Get to the ship. If you make one wrong move, they'll barge in and kill all of us. Get in the ship and stay quiet.
The local enforcement had spammed him with messages. He bared one reply.

"I spare no-one. Do not advance."

Quintet bent down to look at the scraps of the champion. He looked over the chips, finding the hard drive in its heavy hardened-steel box, grabbing it and giving it to Tabitha to take into the ship.

"He'll be a good wanted hostage. Take this back to the ship."

He noticed a mantis creeping up behind him. He shot him in 2 legs and the mantis jumped out at him. He finally killed him, kicking his body to the feet of a human to keep them oppressed.

"Stay down and get to the ship. Act like you're hostage. They're here."

He heard some footsteps and turned around and killed 2 soldiers at once, killing one every time they refused to give in. He hoped they'd break soon.

"Run for the ship. NOW. Tell them you're hostage fetching me a... bomb. Yes, a bomb."

As soon as Quintet started shooting up the place, every scumbag, pirate, outlaw, bushwhacker, murderer, cutthroat, mug, thug, cug, pickpocket, mugger, buggerer, bandito, Botan Agent, and Space Methodist drew out guns of various makes and calibres and opened fire on the repair drone that decided to have the audacity to start a "heist" in the middle of a combat arena.
This however also did lead to a massive shootout in the arena stands as several other agents of various law enforcements or rival gangs also opened fire on each other.

"And that's what happens when everyone is armed and someone shoots up the place..." Tabitha muttered as she was told to check the Champion's remains for a storage device. The chaos in the arena was also spreading to the market itself, although for other reasons...

Several orange/yellow battleships and cruisers were dropping into the system and launching fighters. A Rebel Fleet had arrived, not because of a few phone calls... they just happened to be gathering in the area.

Kr hit the energy shield with quite a force. The energy barrier sparked a little at the impact and Kr fell to the ground and blacked out for a second. He opened his eyes, but couldn't hear anything over the ringing in his ears. Looking strait up at the ceiling, he slowly regained his senses and lifted his head up. It was still spinning, but he saw the engi explode. He got up slowly and suddenly noticed the chanting of the crowd. He was still dizzy from the impact, but he could make out Targon lying on the ground with a metal plate nearby and Tabitha looking at the huge gash in her torso. A repair drone suddenly came in and fired several shots. He couldn't hear what was being said, but the arena almost immediately erupted into chaos with shots going everywhere. A huge brawl had started, and it looked like it was spreading out the entrance. Kr was still not fully aware of what was going on, and found himself stumbling toward Targon. It seemed to take forever to reach him, but then he was suddenly there. He picked up Targon and started aimlessly walking, muttering incoherently. He suddenly found himself outside the arena, staggering for some reason. He then remembered that Targon was on him. He also seemed to think that he had to something that was very important, but he couldn't remember what it was.

"Get to the ship," Targon wheezed to Kr. "The ship, you idiot." Then he blacked out again. He was not doing good at all; black goo seeped from his cracked legs and he had various wounds from the fight.

Tabitha moved as quickly as she could with all the damages sustained. The bleeding had mostly stopped anyway but her hands were coated in blood.
Several pirates stood in her path as they were hitting each other with energy swords or firearms.
She opened fire on them with her blaster, cutting them down as they ran for cover from the new, bluer threat.

Seeing Kr and Targon running off in another direction, she ran after them as well to get back to the ship. A Rebel Fighter flew overhead being chased by several Rockman Pirate Scouts. Debris and missiles rained down as the dogfight raged.
"Once we get back to the ship, I don't think we can exit the same way we entered... but don't worry I've got a plan on getting us all out of here..." she explained to the Mantises just as a Rebel Rigger crashed nearby, dislodging several Rebel soldiers. "Troopships!" a pirate yelled, firing a rocket at the wreckage.

Kr was still in a daze-like state when he heard a noise very close to him. It took him a while to realize it was a voice. It said something about a ship. He started to go toward a sign that said docks. A blue human went by and said she had a plan. He though she looked familiar, but he couldn't recognize her. He walked toward the ships and came to a large number that said 47. The next moment he was inside. "Medbay...medbay...mmhmmh..." He muttered some more incoherent speech. He stumbled toward the medbay and set something down on a table. Kr stood and looked around the room, something was beeping and there were other noises in the background, but he payed no attention. Suddenly, he collapsed, unconscious.

(How did I not notice that?)