KOTOR V: The Force Plague

[TreeX]

Kharne feat Gain: Master Two Weapon FIghting

Weapon Proficiency: Lightsaber

Jedi Defence

 

Kharne, with Tysy on his shoulder like a rag doll and holding Solidus by the leg upside down made his way past 3 Sith checkpoints. Making his way past the Engine Room a Sith Patrol Leader stepped towards Kharne.

"You! Mandalorian! Shouldn't you be guarding the girl?"

"Yeah, these two fools attacked us so we toasted them," Replied Kharne, "Now will you let me past?"

"Why? Where are you off to?"

"The Dumpster to get rid of these bodies."

"The dumpster's the other way... Wait a second you're not -!"

Kharne's eyes narrowed, leaving Tysy slung over his shoulder he let go, pulled out a plasma grenade and tossed it at the squad while his left foot whirled out and crushed the Sith Captain's nose, jabbing the bone into the man's brain.

 

"Too close that was." Said Solidus still hanging upside down from Kharne's grip.

"I know. The Captain's are getting smarter. Let's hurry, I'll bet -"

 

The alarm went off and a female voice sounded all around, "Attention all personal. The target has escaped. One or more of the assailants wear the Mandalorian armour as a disguise. Hunt them down." Within moments of hearing this, twenty Sith soldiers rounded the corner and stopped in surprise.

 

"Well... We're screwed now." Kharne dropped Tysy on her feet and tossed her the Mandalorian Assault Rifle, dropping Solidus from his other hand he pulled out his blasters, his face a grim mask.

 

 

Aegis class gain: Jedi Bladesmaster

Feat gains: Inner Strength I

Weapon Specialization: Lightsaber

Master Jedi Defence

Increase melee damage

 

Aegis twirled his lightsaber, circling around the immobile Sith woman wielding the red double blade. Stepping over a dead Dark Jedi Aegis whirled into action, closing in on the Dark jedi in Ataru form, Aegis feinted to the right, bringing his left foot crashing into the woman's lower ribs, she stumbled back, Aegis pressed his assault whirled his blade up, down, right, left, thrust, parry he forced the Sith woman back. She brought the double blade down with a crushing blow, Aegis wasready, falling onto one knee, his right leg snapped out tripping her, but instead of being dumped to the ground she used one hand to press against the floor propelling herself back and nimbly onto her feet. Her hood fell back and revealed a mature woman with long brown flowing hair, green eyes and high cheekbones. Looking at her one would think she'd be a harmless, gentle woman however it had a profound effect on Aegis.

 

Is - Islena!?

"I am surprised you recognise me Aegis after all you have put me through."

It... I... It wasn't my fault! I had no way to reach you!

"So, aboard the Mauler during the War of the Lawful Sith you left me to die?" She said calmly.

I could not reach you! The Sith had barricaded the door, I had a mission to destroy the ship befopre it reached Coruscont with its plasma generator!

"And you leave me, in the midst of a Sith battalion to die? No, not die, to be captured. Do you have any idea what they did to me Aegis? Any idea at all?" Her voice rising.

No, I...

"Shut up! You no longer have the right to speak! they tortured me for six months! I cannot even describe what it was like for me! Every day I would think my master would come to save me, every day, and yet you never came. What did you do? Forget about me?"

I...

"Do not speak! I had to use my own abilities which the Sith used on me to escape! I killed my way out of the Oregon! Do you know what it is like, having the blood of hundreds on your hands? And I had to use dark powers! You lied to me all these years! What evil is the darkside besides the description of what the fool Jedi give them?"

But...

"No more words! Today you will feel the pain of which I felt ten fold!"

 

Screaming in fury, Islena assaulted Aegis, pushing him back, her blade whirled to the left, Aegis made to parry, but she suddenly changed direction, jerking the other blade towards Aegis. Aegis ducked and she brought her knee up smashing Aegis down the corridor and cracking the glass covering Aegis's eyes. Aegis rolled over on his stomach, got on one knee and stood up, parrying another blow towards his head, Islena kicked him square in the stomach, slamming him against the wall, as Islena approached the rasping Aegis, he gripped his lightsaber backhanded and brought it up to her chest, she easily parried and slammed her gauntlet fist into Aegis face, cracking the left glass even more. Gripping him by the robe she threw him into the other wall and tossed him to the ground. Aegis got up, and wobbly stood in the form of Juyo, twirling his lightsaber expertly (if a bit slowly) he assaulted Islena, after trading a series of blows, Aegis swung an arc designed to cleave her in two, she bent backward, drawing her fist back and slammed it into his stomach, as he doubled over her lightsaber came up searing his saber arm off entirely. Aegis screamed and stumbled back, falling against the wall his lightsaber clattering down the coridor. Falling onto his back, Aegis stared up with his remaining eye as Islena stepped towards him. Lifting him up by the throat she sneered, "And so the Grey Jedi Aegis Valheru falls to the hands of his former Padawan, Dark Jedi Islena Hlervu." She raised her lightsaber for a decapitating swing but stopped, looking at the pitiful form of her former master. Snorting in disgust she deactivated her lightsaber and tossed him to the ground. "Pathetic." She said as she walked back to her snub fighter.

 

Aegis moaned. The oxygen stung his left eye, he screamed as he felt its fire burn. Getting up and leaning on his remaining arm he crawled towards the broken wall where he knew was the hangar. temporarily using the Force to block his pain he crawled on hand and knees to the door. He saw the Sith soldiers assaulting the Twilek Jedi as she deflected shots. He used what was left of his strength to use Force Camoflage and climbed through onto the Myriad's cargo ramp. Crawling just past the ramp he collapsed and fell into sweet, sweet oblivion.

 

Islena Hlervu hopped in her snub fighter and escaped the corpse of a ship the frigate was becoming and jumped to hyper space back to Darth Sinister.

[steven]

"This is where it gets interesting mandalorian." Solidus soon got a bad head ache "Arrg, Aegisk has been hurt. I'm going to have to ruin our connection before I fall unconious." Solidus canceled his and Aegisk mental connection and used force heal. "I couris. Where are we going? The hanger or main rector?"

[TreeX]

Kharne's mental connection with Aegis suddenly fizzled out, snorting in surprise he dragged Solidus and Tysy behind a pillar under the fire from the Sith battalion.

 

"Head back to the ship, Aegis's ship has a Cranium Detonator placed inside just in case for situations like this. Its explosion alone will rip this ship apart. Get out first." shoving Tysy towards the corridor Kharne stepped out from behind the pillar with his shield on, going toe to toe with the battalion Kharne slowly retreated down the corridor, his blasters blazing, and Sith troops falling, he stepped past the blast door and jammed it closed and ran to follow SOlidus and Tysy.

 

((Before I forget: Can anyone here actually picture my fight scenes?))

[Jedi Atomic]

((I could give it a try TreeX. You want KOTOR design, right?))

 

http://www.firingsquad.com/media/gallery_image.asp/204/3

Here's Aegis meeting up with Islena. The fact that your battling one of her droids before her. Also that might not work as Aegis for you but i looked and that one was on a ship 2 jedi and one girl with red staff unless Islena didn't have a red staff lightsaber.

[RobQel-Droma]

Coryn sat in the cockpit of the Republic snub fighter. He was growing uneasy, partly because of the quiet in the hangar, and partly because Kharne, Soludis, and the rest had not showed up yet. Jumping out of the cockpit he looked around the hangar, looking for a comlink. Unfortunately, as he had lost his, and there was none here, he couldn't contact them to find out what was taking them so long. Hope everything is going well with them. A dark Jedi came out of the door next to him. Cause it sure isn't going well for me.

 

Leaping to the side, he rolled and came up with his blasters facing the dark Jedi. The Sith's two red and purple sabers ignited, and the Sith lept at him. Dodging the sabers, he blasted at the Sith, but the shots were all deflected or dodged. Grabbing his vibroblade, he swung at the Sith's head. The Sith raised his hand, and Coryn found himself flying through the air, victim of a "force push." Rolling to the side, Coryn tossed a plasma grenade, which exploded harmlessly off to the side of them. Getting up, he charged the Sith, swinging his blade as fast as he could. Letting his blade lock with the Sith's saber, he let it be forced down, and then punched the Sith in the face.

 

Feat Gain: Flurry

Coryn Class Skill: Dual Ranged-Melee (This feat allows Coryn to carry both a melee weapon and a ranged weapon at the same time)

 

The Sith stunned him, and as he stumbled back, the Sith raised his blade. Bringing his hand up to block it, Coryn fell back. The Sith came for him, and as Coryn brought up his hand, the Sith went flying back and fell to the ground. The Sith stumbled back, and Coryn pulled out his blaster and shot several times. Bringing his blade down again, he fought with the Sith, forcing him back, while shooting his blaster. Finally, a shot caught the Sith in the chest and he died.

 

What the... What in the galaxy did I just do? It was almost like I used the.. No, that Sith must have tripped. Still in amazement at what had happened, he Headed over to the door. Coryn looked out. He should probably wait there for them, and offer help if they needed. Waiting for 15 minutes, Coryn paced impatiently up and down. Blast it! Where are they?

[DarthSion101]

THULE

 

A beeping at the comm console had caught Darth Sinister's attention. He stood up and pressed the activation button. "Why have you disturbed me?" He spoke in an eerie tone. Commander Grann responded quickly "Master....your Meta_human mutations are now fully infused with the force, their mental inhibitors have renedered them complete slaves to your service."

 

Darth Sinister smiled evily. "Excellent." Commander Grann continued. "Sir, The girl has been rescued from the firgate near Korriban. Our enemies have revealed themselves as you predicted they would."

 

"Of course they did, the Jedi are nothing, if not predictable. They took my bait, and showed themselves. So tell me Grann what fledgling force have they sent to find us this time?" Sinister asked cockily.

 

"Well reports indicate, the girl, two mandalorians, a republic officer, a wookie, and 3 jedi, a twilek female, a kel dor male, and a tiny alien......not sure of his species." The commander responded. "That is all commander." as Sinister turns off the comm. He turns to face his vicious servant Tretiak, who had quietly been listening to the reports.

 

"Massster, thessse foolssss, will be of no concern, I engaged them all quite easily, had I not been on a mission to capture the child, I would have made them all beg for mercy, before I slew them. The wookie, is familiar to me, and I would very much like to add his pelt to my wall." Hissed Tretiak.

 

"Yes, the next time we encounter them, will be the day the republic dies, the day my abominations run wild accross the galaxy, bringing death and panic. With the plague striking at the heart of the force, limiting the Jedi, our victory will be so much simpler.

Ah yes the wookie, why should it concern you, there are greater challenges within that pitiful band i'm sure." Sinister declared

 

"I remember the sound of his growl, his essence, he is the child of a family I once enslaved, and slaughtered, they shielded him from me when he was young, I seek to put an end to him, I detest loose ends." Tretiak snarled.

 

"Patience Tretiak, Patience, In time he will seek you out, and when he does do what you will with him. Do what you will with all of them, wipe them from the face of the Galaxy."

[Tysyacha]

Tysy, now rescued, definitely had some "splaining" to do. To Kharne and

Aegis, and the others with her, she bowed her head modestly.

 

"I don't know what I was thinking, imagining that a primitive version

of Force Push would somehow hinder that Trandoshan from capturing

me. I put all of your lives at risk with that foolish act, and I'm sorry.

What kind of a Padawan am I, getting captured when our first mission

had barely started?! Something tells me I'd better reach out to the

Council through the Force and tell them they've got the wrong girl."

[Writer]

"You'll do no such thing," Taa'la hissed. "I don't fail well and I'm not about to have this mission fall apart simply because you think you caused your own capture. We press on."

 

Dark Side points gained

 

((Is everybody close to or on the ship?))

[TreeX]

((I'm assuming they are but wut da bleep wy hasnt anyone noticed a half dead Aegis @_@? And Jedi Atomic i was wondeirng if you understood it not if you could make a pic of it lol))

 

Lying folded up in his cloak by the cargo ramp, Aegis groaned in pain, his left hand tenderly touching the stump which had been his arm. Moaning a bit he curled up into a ball and felt the embrace of unconsciousness.

 

"better think we should fly off," said Kharne, he borrowed Coryn's comlink and had a chat with Scur, "get off the ship unless you want to be fried meat. I give you 5 minutes starting now. 300...299...298..."

[steven]

"With your capturing it has revealed an enemy. I have a contact on Yavin station who knows more about trandosian than trandosians do. And finding out who these trandosains are we will find there sith alleys"

[Jedi Atomic]

((TreeX what do you mean by pics? drawings? or custom battles while your playing KOTOR? explain, and i might understand better.))

 

Scur grabbed his comlink, "Hello, anyone come in, hello?" yelled Scur into the comlink.

 

Some random Republic soldier picked it up and Spoke into it. "Hello?"

"Hey, wheres your captain?"

"he's dead. Many of us found jedi dead on the ground and some dark jedi jumped at us while we were examing them and started killing everyone at the same time almost." wimpered the soldier. " Hurry and come over to the South hallway. Few of us are left don't know if we survive." Suddenly the remaining soldiers started yelling at the soldier talking to Scur. In the background Scur hears the comlink hit the ground and then there's blaster sounds through the comlink. Scur commmanded his comrades to folow him. They ran out of the medical room and down to the South hallway. When they got to the South hallway they seen republic soldiers lined along the wall.

"We can't hold them off come help us." Said the leading soldier of the group. Scur and his men ran over to the wall next to the soldiers and waited. Rayce walked to the corner and grabbed a grenade from his belt and through it at the group of Sith troopers after a pause in the firing. He leaped back yelling at the soldiers to get back, and it exploded seconds after a chain reaction occured and yelling came from down the hall, of the Sith troopers dieing. Scur and the rest of the Republic soldier run through the smoke of the grenade and hurry to the hangar.

When the gate opens, a mandalorian, Coryn, pulls out his blaster and is shocked but notices it's republic soldiers. The men walk into the hangar and they stop. Scur walks up to the Mandalorian, "Wheres the Jedi girl, Aegis told me she was saved through the force?" he questioned Coryn, wondering if he knew.

[RobQel-Droma]

"I don't know, I heard that she was rescued, but that is all I know. I am waiting for them to take off. What are you, Republic Soldiers doing here? And what do you have to do with us, or the Sith" Coryn replied.

[Jedi Atomic]

"We were on Taris when the Officer sent us on a mission to save a jedi girl needing to fight the source of something called a plague." replied Scur. "I think we are few of the remaining loyal Republic left in the universe." Rayce added from the crowd of soldiers waiting for the dropship to retreive them.

[TreeX]

Another Hangar door suddenly opened, Tysy ran forth towards the Myriad and what she recognised as the Mandalorian, Coryn.

Moments later Solidus leapt out from the same door, deflecting a few blaster shots as he did so, and bounded towards the gathered party.

 

After a few more moments, Kharne backed out into the hangar blasting down the few remaining Sith still following. Smiling at the tattered remnants of the SIth battalion, he hit the blast door activator and the door jamed itself shut. Kharne proceeded to turn on all the mines he left on the way back. The explosions and screams were like sweet music to the Mandalorian's ears.

 

Dark Side Points gained: 5

 

Scur looked around at the remaining three crew members of the Myriad and cursed. "Men, get your ships and get out of here. Return to the Republic and notify them of what we have found."

Alexer, the highest ranking of them saluted crisply, started heading towards the way they came and saw the advancing Sith Troops. Looking around he saw the multitude of docked Sith Fighters.

"Get in the Sith ships men, do not engage! Retreat!"

 

Tysy, Coryn, Taa'la and Solidus immediately boarded the Myriad, Scur started heading to a Sith Ship but noticed a few dozen SIth rifles pointing his way, he gulped and got dragged into the freighter by the Kharne before the blasters pinged against the ship's closing doors.

 

Kharne looked at his timer, 24...23...22... Kharne snarled, rammed the rest of the crew out of the way,dropped his blasters and headed to the cockpit. He fired up the ship engines and just as the Myriad exited the Sith Ship, Aegis's Kamikaze Ship exploded, turning the Sith into one big fireball.

 

He got off the seat and sighing headed back to the cargo ramp to grab the blasters he dropped and noticed Taa'la standing over a cloaked figure.

Who..?

Kharne made his way to the unconscious form.

[Writer]

Taa'la sensed Kharne behind her and turned. "Your friend seems to have had an encounter he will not easily forget."

 

She turned again and knelt by Aegis using Force Heal on him.

 

Light Side points gained

[TreeX]

Kharne stared down at his old friend in shock. Getting on one knee he noticed the damage to Aegis's glasses, pulling the spares from Aegis's robes he placed it carefully over the exposed eye. Hauling him up he dragged Aegis to the medbay.

[Jedi Atomic]

Scur fell to the ground after being dragged into the Myriad. Scur quickly stood up, "Did Rayce make it off safely?" "Yes," replied Kharne walking towards Aegis.((sorry))

 

Scur walked followed Kharne to the medbay and watched. He wondered if Rayce and the other men are alright, but he remembered that escorts were outside yet defending.

[Writer]

Startled by Kharne's movement in taking Aegis to the med bay, Taa'la stood. She followed him slowly and stood at the head of the bed Aegis had been placed on.

 

"I'll do everything I can for him," she told Kharne. With that, she used Force Heal on Aegis again.

[steven]

"Thats nice but we still need to get a piolt!" shouted solidus from the middle of the ship "Somebody needs to get us out of here and take us to Yavin station. NOW!"

[Writer]

Taa'la felt torn. She could pilot the ship, but Aegis needed help. With an exasperated sigh, she yelled to Solidus, "Get back here. Help the Kel Dor. I'll fly the ship."

 

She hurried out of the med bay and into the cockpit.

 

"Away we go," she whispered.

[steven]

Solidus jumped on the side of the side and put his hand on Aegis. They both began to glow and Aegis wounds began to slowly heal. Several minutes later the wounds were healed. "I have heal his physical wounds. I dont know how much blood he's lost or how much life was drianed. Only time will tell."

 

(This might be my last post for several days. Because Im going to bristol. I'll be coming back on Sunday. You may use my character as an NPC but dont get him killed. I want to do that. But Noone is to use my characters untill thursday. Understood? Good)

[Jedi Atomic]

Scur followed Taa'la to the cockpit, "I'll pilot this ship or atleast help. I've been trained." he said trying to convince her.

[Writer]

"Thanks," Taa'la said. "It's always helpful to have a copilot." She sat down in the pilot's seat and directed the ship away from the mess they were leaving behind. She half turned to Scur and said, "Start plugging in the coordinates for Yavin station. It sounds like that's where we're headed next."

[Jedi Atomic]

"Right away," Scur punched in the coordinates to the Yavin station stationary above the gas giant. The stars became lines of light streaming past them and soon the lines became a bluish glow around them and they waited.

__________________

 

The buish glow ended and the lines of stars came back and soon back to pitch black with stars around them with a Orange planet straight ahead of them. Scur was amazed by this and looked everywhere soaking everything he was looking at, since this was his first time out of the Taris sector. He then focused on a small station just a little below them and then directed the Myriad towards that station.

 

Feat gained: Small star ship intermediate co-pilot.

[TreeX]

Kharne twirled the orange bladed lightsaber around. Admiring the twin blades as they circled past each other,twisting, thrusting, parrying at imaginary foes he would seem outwardly calm, determined and simply practising. However if one were to have access to his thoughts, the term, One is not all it seems would be ironically fitting.

 

Who could have defeated Aegis so utterly? I know Aegis is by far not the most powerful of Force Users, but what could so utterly maul him?

 

Frowning with such thoughts repeating over and over in his head Kharne twirled his orange saber to the right, making 3 rapid jabs, he transferred the blade to his left hand, idly spinning the saber in front of him and watche dthe blade humm.

 

The warrior who defeated Aegis either was proficient at bladesmastery or was powerful with the Force to get in close and beat Aegis. Sith are animals, however even they wouldn't use such crude ways to inflict pain. Judging from Aegis's wounds that person had a personal vendetta against Aegis. But how... Aegis was captured during Bastila's Strike Force against Revan and before that he was busy with other parts of the war as a Padawan... He never made any enemies as a tradesman... He attacked the Lawful Sith ship... It's a shame about that girl he had with him... Pretty Lass, would have made a fine Jedi...

 

Kharne head snapped up, Islena? Impossible. She died during the assault. But at 14 she nearly beat me with a sword... And the wounds on Aegis were all physical.. No Force damage... Could it be... She must be very twisted though... The darkside of the Force can do that....

 

Kharne deactivated his lightsaber tossed it to the ground where it rolled and stopped by the door. He sat on the bunk, his feet flat against the ground, his elbows on his knees and he put his head in his hands, pondering his discovery...

 

+1 Intelligence

 

 

Aegis' memories of the confrontation flashed through his sleeping mind, he then began questioning himself whether he could have saved her or was a coward. Slipping into the healing trance he began to ponder such sudden Impacting events on his life.

 

I watched as Islena was overrun by Sith troops. I could do nothing! I had to stop the ship before it blasted a chunk out of Coruscant!

Are you sure?Asked an insidious voice in the back of his mind, Or were you just a coward, saving your own neck, where you could simply have to cut down two men where as the poor girl was being beaten by an entire battalion?

I had no choice! It is either a choice of whether I stop the ship and save all our lives!

Our lives? Do you mean your life? Your honour? You stopped it because it would have scrapped the vows you ahd taken all those years ago, was Islena as important to you as the empty words of a Jedi? No she was not. You can still save her you know. Teach her the power to break free of the hold this Darth Sinister has on her, teach her to destroy the fool and teach her what true power is!

Yes, I could, but will she listen? She is already more powerful then me -

Oh really? So you admit you do not have the power to bind this child? This wench that you trained? That you are an utter failure?

No... I can stop her..

Then do it! Teach her the meaning of pain! Show her how the power can be wielded by a master! Destroy her resistance and use her as a slave to carry out your bidding! Destroy her will and you will have yourself a vassal of death!

And there shall be no stopping us! I will lay waste to the Sith! The Sith will fall to me and then we shall use the resources of the Sith to build an Empire, an Empire of Aegis the First!

 

Dark side points gained 40

 

Aegis's eyes opened and looked up at Solidus, getting up, Solidus grunted "Getting up already? You should not. Do not tire yourself, I-"

Silence Jedi. I do not need lectures on you for my own limits. I will ask when I wish for your opinion.

Solidus watched silently as Aegis Valheru passed a hand over the bleeding stump where his arm connected to his shoulder. The blood stopped bleeding and it healed utterly simply leaving a stump covered in skin.

 

Aegis made his way to the workbench to create a lightsaber from the one he lost. Pulling out his purple crystal, his head twitched violently from side to side as he viewed what could be in thefuture...