Adventurer's lot (for RavenSaint)

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Going by how smoothly the landing went, they really aren't expecting anyone to turn up this early. All the better. Captain Dalton holsters his trusty laser pistol, zips up his jacket and walks out of the ship. Yes, he has crew that could take care of this, he could control the whole rescue operation from the bridge and never face risk, but he has a reputation to think of. It's captain Dalton who delves into the den of pirates and saves the girl. It helps a lot the pirate crew has a rat between their numbers, so he knows exactly where to go and what kind of resistance to expect.



The asteroid converted into a spacebase fell into criminal hands long ago, and the planetary authorities never did anything about it, until someone abducted the kid of the royal family. And they're not going to do much about it now either, but they sure want her back.



Lucky thing he's been taking a vacation down on the planet, so he was ready to go as soon as the hideout location was discovered. As he walks deeper into the station, he ocassionally nods in greeting to an old friend here or there. Before the planetside vacation, he spent some time here. The planet is fine, but when an adventurer looks for entertainment, crime enclaves like this are the place. But that'll have to wait for now. Work first, then he can come back and spend all the money he gets for rescuing the girl...


Finally, he finds the place. They rented a storehouse, just one of many similar ones in this place. Dalton pulls out his gun and after short while thinking how to approach the situation, he decides on old but gold entrance, right through the wall.



"Make me a door." He orders and a small drone hovering above his shoulder and recording this whole thing rushes into action. The iron sheet wall resists its high powered laser for about two seconds before melting and falling down, leaving an opening just large enough for Dalton to go through.


"Hello, I've come for the girl, do not resist and nobody will be hurt." He introduces himself heroically to the room full of nothing. A door in the opposite wall opens and a surprised pirate stares at him. "I'm not repeating that." Dalton says and shoots. Chaos ensues.

[RavenSaint]

"Oh there is nothing wrong with going out to this beautiful garden they say...it'll be so much safer than trying to disguise myself as a commoner and sneak out to town they say..." grumbled through the mind of not through the mind of Princess Clara Ryder. 28th in line to the imperial throne of her home planet, a throne started by the one who founded and first colonised said planet. But that was many generations ago, this is now and the red eyed beauty finds herself in a cage with her wrists bound together and with her only company being the pirates who have abducted her in the first place.

At least until the sound of someone's loud introduction interrupted the surprising harmony in this room full of kidnappers...to a point that the pirates themselves had to go to the next room to find out what the source of said noise was. "Definitely can't be the royal guards, they're usually too busy watching my siblings...and they would at least get inside the right room before making such a racket," dismissively went through the raven haired beauty's mind, unable to speak because of the makeshift gag the pirates has put on the royal princess, before her eyes snap more open at the sudden sound of gunfire and even the odd explosion..


(Basing Clara's appearance on: https://storage.googleapis.com/pai-i...051fa3dd7.jpeg but with black hair and red eyes)

[guesswho]

The fight doesn't last long. Confused pirates get under each other's feet and they weren't expecting just one person, dressed in similar fashion. He gets two before they figure out what's going on and the remaining two turn tail and run. That went just about as expected. He knows how to deal with locals. Dalton enters the room with princess in the cage. Luckily, she seems unharmed, even if royally pissed off. Who could blame her.



"Ah, hello, princess. I'm captain Dalton. Your family hired me to retrieve you from your little...trip. Shall we go?" As he says that, he shoots the lock on her cage. "Please follow me." Dalton bows very slightly. Then he pulls out a knife and cuts the rope on her hands.



"You're going to miss the royal banquet, if it's any consolation." Dalton says with a grin. He's certainly glad he'll miss it. "My ship is in the nearest dock, but it'll take us a couple hours to get to the planet." This is going to be a nice catch, he's already counting the reward in his mind...

[RavenSaint]

Kidnapped from home...caged, wrist bound and mouth gagged...yep, there is no mistake that Miss Ryder would be royally pissed off and no now could exactly blame her. Neither could one blame her for backing up a bit in the cage when this relative stranger to her approaches the cage door. Captain Dalton may be known to many but Clara has been purposely kept away from locals and their gossip so she is relatively unknown to the knowledge of worlds or what certain levels of celebrities could be.

'Ah, hello, princess. I'm captain Dalton. Your family hired me to retrieve you from your little...trip. Shall we go?'

At least the introduction and the statement that he was hired to save her did relax some of Clara's nerves a little as the first thing she did, once her hands are free, was remove the gag from her mouth and grumble "couldn't they at least hired someone who knew where to go." Could it be out of the raven haired princess' annoyance at what state she was previously in? Either yes or no there might have been a reason why she was gagged by the pirates. Especially when her response to missing 'the royal banquet' was "at least I don't have to listen to some boring official try to kiss my father's ass..." with a light shrug.

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A true royal attitude, that. At least he won't be saddled with the princess for long. "I'm sure they'll send someone like that eventually, would you like to wait for them in the cage? No? Then let's go." Dalton rushes the princess out of the room. They need to get out of here before reinforcements, or rival gang, arrives. "We're not entirely safe yet, this being a sort of a pirate base."


There are already some onlookers gathering, he didn't exactly do this quietly. Soon, somebody will start to ask questions. Dalton leads the way around the gathering crowd, for now deeper into the asteroid. The corridors stop being metal and become stone, with lights hanging from the ceiling here and there.



"Keep close to me, it's easy to get lost here." This way is much longer, they'll be walking for some time, but they'll avoid most people and pursuers would certainly need to be very lucky to find them. But there are other dangers...

[RavenSaint]

"Of course n-h-hey!" though wanting to say how much she didn't want to stay in the cage, let alone wait in one for someone else to save her, Clara couldn't help but get interrupted by Dalton practically having to push and pull the raven haired princess along to get her to move quickly. And while the Captain's reasoning makes perfect sense to most...Miss Ryder does not look amused at all as she seem to feel obligated to point out "well we would be safer if you didn't make so much damn noise coming in!"

Damn? Maybe being the youngest of her siblings meant that Clara had the least amount of lessons to learn how to talk more formally?

Though that didn't stop the beauty with a surprisingly big bum from at least playing ball enough to let her 'saviour' lead her through the ever gathering crowd and deeper down these corridors. "You better not get us lost then," Princess Ryder is quick to say to the male, the fact that the pair are rushing might make it hard to tell if she was trying to tease Dalton or give him some attitude...though the milky skinned beauty is quick to move one of her hands to grab hold of one of the male's own, possibly an attempt to make sure not to lose him as she is completely unaware of the vast amount of dangers the curvaceously chubby cutie could be in.

[guesswho]

Despite the complaints, at least she's cooperative and it doesn't look like he'll need to run around the tunnels looking for him. Under the circumstances, she does the best thing possible and grabs onto his hand.

Also the gag they put on her is starting to make sense. Hopefully he won't have to resort to that, while traveling to her home planet, though his patience with her complaints is starting to wear thin.

Holding her hand, Dalton leads the way through the tunnels until he's sure they've lost any pursuers. The drone still hovering over his shoulder makes a scan of their surroundings, but finds nothing.

"Alright, let's take a short break. We should be more or less safe here, if we don't stay for too long. Here, have a snack." Dalton hands her a nutritios stick, which is full of everything human body needs, but unfortunately indeed tastes like a stick. "Not exactly a twelve course dinner, but we'll have time for that on the ship."

Dalton sends the drone to check two adjoining tunnels, but they're empty. He reaches out to the ship, but report is that situation is rather calm.

"So, things are going well. They're looking for us, but it's not exactly a full blown manhunt. And you can stop with the rude remarks, thank you very much." The last sentence, while stated in a calm tone of voice, bears a thinly veiled threat in it.

"We'll rest for a couple minutes and then we'll continue. It'll take us about two hours to get to my dock. Once there, we take off immediately, so you can be your family's problem as soon as possible." He usually doesn't go that far, but princess is starting to get on his nerves slightly.

[RavenSaint]

With how whiny and quick Clara Ryder has been to complain about almost anything...maybe there is a convincing reason why the pirates decided that a gag would be needed, as well as why her own family decided to offer a reward for her rescue - regardless of who it could attract - instead of actually using their own royal forces. Though the princess' hand does feel quite fragile and delicate, especially in comparison to Dalton's own hand as hers seem to fit ever so naturally in it while they weave their way through various tunnels.

Where else could this curvaceously chubby cutie naturally fit though?

That could be a question for another moment as the red eyes beauty definitely looks appreciative at the offer of food...only for her to give a facial exprssion that screams 'what the hell is this?' when handed a nutritious stick. "I guess this could be the best someone who rely on rewards to afford," she said...though it isn't clear if she was trying to jokingly tease her saviour or straight up insult his possible lifestyle. Either one way, the other or neither Clara did take a moment to sniff the stick before biting a piece of it and give an almost confused expression at the taste...only to start eating more of it. Maybe Miss Ryder is hungry? Or perhaps she ain't as fully snobbish as her more trained, older, siblings?

'And you can stop with the rude remarks, thank you very much.'

The thinly veiled threat wasn't missed however as Clara waited until the Captain mentioned his plan to rest for a couple minutes before going to make her her own 'family's problem as soon as possible' before pausing from her 'meal' to look over towards Dalton. "What rude remarks?" could the young royal be genuine with her inability to notice her own rudeness? Or maybe she is trying to challenge the male out of curiosity as she is quick to add in "and aren't heroes supposed to save damsels, not threaten them?" before finishing off the rest of her stick.

Maybe 'problem' is a more accurate name for her than 'damsel'?

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While her reaction to nutri stick is definitely rude, his own crew rarely reacts any better, and Dalton himself only eats them as a last resort, but it definitely does not help her long term prospects. And clearly the young lady doesn't even realize she's being rude and ungrateful...or if she does, she might just be relying on that royal privilege.



"Oh I'll save you, don't worry about that. While I'm alive, no pirate will lay a finger on you." Nobody can say he wouldn't protect the VIP with his own life, after all, that's what his entire reputation is built upon. That said, his contract always specifies that in case VIP is uncooperative, he can do whatever he sees fit to change that. It is very rarely he needs to do anything like that, most people, upon being rescued from their pirate captors do whatever they can to make his job easier.


Dalton looks around and his drone makes another sweep. There's about two hours of walking through the tunnels ahead of them and princess is starting to get on his nerves already. This is only going to get worse if something isn't done. No signs of life in the vicinity, and that just about seals her fate.


"Just one more thing to do before we continue." He says as he grabs Clara's arm and pulls her gently, but with irresistible force towards a larger piece of rock. Dalton, built like tank both in size and in strength, doesn't give princess much opportunity to resists as he puts his leg up on the rock and in one smooth move lifts the princess and bends her over his knee. Her outfit barely covers her cute cheeks, which perfectly suits his needs. There are no more warnings or threats, Dalton simply swings his arm and gets to work. A good swing and his palm lands with a loud slap on her behind, making it jiggle nicely, he notices, but he doesn't even give one cheek enough time to come to rest before his palm lands on the other. There's quite a bit of force behind each of them, and the thin fabric probably won't be doing a whole lot of protection for the young princess. Holding the girl in position where she can do very little about her fate, Dalton continues raining hard slaps on her barely covered butt.

[RavenSaint]

Could it be complete obliviousness? Or could it be that she was affected by the illusion of royal privilege? The answer isn't clear with the raven haired beauty, at least as of yet, as she does at least appears to be listening to Dalton explain how he'll make sure 'no pirate will lay a finger on' while he is around. Though that doesn't mean that the red eyed princess has any clue what could be on her saviour's mind....

'Just one more thing to do before we continue.'

Not that she had long to find out as Clara's body felt so soft as Dalton didn't need anything more than gentle to easily lift Miss Ryder up, pull over her over towards a rather conveniently placed and sized rock and bend her over his knee. The princess does appear to have a very big bottom and her outfit appears to highlight this 'quality' instead of provide any form of protection as "youch!!" eeps out the raven haired beauty's lips the very moment Dalton's hand struck the princess' pudgy peach for the first time. First of many perhaps? "Wha-Wha-What ar-ek!! Owch!! Yowie!!" are quick to squeak out Clara's lips, interrupting her attempt to ask about what Dalton is doing to her, as her bottom seems almost cheerful in how much it jiggles about with each connection of the Captain's palm against her obviously ill-protected bum.