"O'course ya can m'lady..." said S'kulta with a wicked grin as he shouldered his way past the doe and into her office followed by two others, both with plasma guns trained on Koto's back.<br/>Koto sighed as he raised his hands over his head, S'kulta pinning them and forcing him down to his knees. Koto felt a chill go down his spine when he felt the barrel of S'kultas personal plasma pistol slide up his neck and press against the back of his head "Dis 'ere wurm stole somethin' from me dat I would much appreciate havin' back..."<br/>Koto grimaced "It wasn't yours to begin with grey-kin..." and now it was S'kultas turn to grimace as he half pulled the trigger, the end of the barrel starting to get hotter against his neck as the weapon warmed up.<br/>"Wha's dat? you got sumthin' to say to me boy?" his blocky teeth ground into a smile. He had the earth whelp exactly where he wanted him... Well, not 'exactly' per-se... He had no intention to do what he wanted to him with the Dragon Lord here before him, so instead he slipped his two pudgy fingers underneath the string on Koto's neck and lifted it off his head.<br/>Koto tensed for a moment when he felt the thick yellow nails of the primitive being scrape up his neck, taking the one thing that was most precious to him.<br/>On the end of the string dangled a clear, purple tinted crystal, and everyone knew what it was immediately. It was Laudanite, one of the most precious mineral commodities in the known galaxy, and only certain few (seeing as it was only complete nutters and fools) chose to hunt for it.<br/>That single little crystal around his neck would fetch at least five million credits easily.<br/><br/>"You know that it is not mine to give to you S'kulta... And if my brother were still alive he would have told you to go stick your head outside..."<br/>"Piss off pinky..." S'kulta growled, "Both you and your brother agreed to give it to me as payment for your stay on the station..."<br/>"Which before you saw it for yourself, told me was only ten thousand credits for the stay! Not the millions that crystal became worth after you killed my brother over it you fucking extortionist..."<br/>The gun barrel grew hotter on his neck as it was pressed into his skin. Koto had broken the one solemn rule he could have used if he had even intended to stay on the grey's good side because if there was one thing in this universe that a grey didn't like to hear, it was that they were a liar and a cheat, which is why Skulta began to sweat, his eyes almost glowing red with rage as he growled lowly, the other two greys now pressing the muzzles of their rifles against each side of his head, "Wha' did you call me Earth worm?"