Blood Band Brothers

[Master_Archon]

Soon it was 6:00, and the daily routines had started. Cyphon who had recovered from his dream, lay in the med-bay, using Ancient Force Heal to quicken the healing proccess. He opened his eyes to see a twi'lek standing over him. "Hello!?" he said, a little stunned, and confused, she responded, "Hi, you wouldnt happen to know where Mr.Gravemind is, would you?" "No...not that I can think of..." he said weakly, "Oh, thank you anyways!" said the twi'lek.

 

"Your welcome!" he said as she walked away. "Masta Cyphon!!!!" came the yell, Cyphon quickly became alert, thinking, *Oh no, oh no, they didnt...they wouldnt...they couldnt, they would!!* he jerked around, to his horror, he saw her! A huge built nurse, she was human, though only 6' tall, which is smaller than Cyphon, she was still imposing, her name...Volka. She was feared, and respected by all men, she had the stregnth of two wookies some men said, and Cyphon knew first hand how strong she really was, and two wookies is nothing!! Ignoring all pain Cyphon bolted, heading for the only place he knew might be a good one to hide...the engine room! As he ran he could hear her behind him, she was built like an ox, clever as a fox, keen eyed as a hawk, and the most scary thing of all...as fast as a rabit! Cyphon saw her behind him and put on an extra burst of speed, men diving into hiding places when they saw Volka! Cyphon thought to himself as he ran, *being chased, by a Bear...nothing, chased by an angry Gundark...scary, chased by a 80 year old Crate Dragon...horrifying, being chased by Volka...only God can help you there!!!!*

[Rexraptor2000]

When Shadow heard that voice and he knew exactily what it belonged to. And he knew exactily where the person that... thing was chasing would try to hide. The men had heard it too and were nevous. "Okay whatever you say troops, you were just here sleeping when Master Cyphon ran through here and went on a loop to the bridge through that corridor." He said pointing to another corridor. They nodded and got into sleeping positions, while Shadow did that as well. And they waited for The Thing to come.

[Master_Archon]

"Hi Shadow, bye Shadow!" said Cyphon as he ran by, he knew that his ploy would work. He stopped before he got to the end of the engine block, turned and opened a ventilation shaft. He quickly jumped in and closed it behind him heading for the brig! He knew that Volka thought he was going to the engine room, and he knew that Shadow would tell her he was heading in the bridges direction, and he also knew that he had left Shadow to the rath of...her! He knew that she would know Shadow's lieing, and that is where he would be able to escape! Because he knew that she would tear the engine room apart, and that when she was finished she would be out of ideas, and she would lash out at the nearest people. When Cyphon got midway he stopped, he then sent his every thought to contacting Shadow, first he said he was sorry! Then he told him to run like no man has ever ran before!! Cyphon could only hope that Shadow would understand the little pulses of the force he was sending toward him.

[Rexraptor2000]

Shadow felt it and knew he was incredibly close to The Thing's wrath. He also felt the pulse. "Run like you've never ran before!" he shouted instantly and ran using force speed to head to the hanger. He'd rather be running from a monster in a large space than a close space. The troopers got the hint instantly and ran like there was no tomorrow as The Thing got there.

[RC-1162]

Vader had spent the night in the room Leia and Master Cyphon were hiding in through the battle in the hallways. He got up and glanced at his chronometer. 6 AM. He shook the sleep out of his head and glanced at his daughter, who was sleeping soundly on another bed. He smiled under his mask and left the room. As he got into the halleway, he heard the sound of someone shouting, it was Shadow.

 

Run like you've never ran before!

 

Only Volka could scare him like that. Vader got into the hallway calmly and followed Shadow's group into the hangars slowly, unafraid of Volka.

[Rexraptor2000]

As Shadow's group arrived in the hanger, he realized that they weren't being followed, and let out a sigh of relief, as did the other troops. The hanger was mostly empty because, well, who uses a hanger in hyperspace? There were a few personal, but none really.

 

"Alright. Since we've had our mourning run, let's head to the chow hall." Shadow said.

 

"Amen to that." said one of the clones. And they headed down to eat.

[Master_Archon]

Cyphon emerged in the brig, hopping out of the ventilation system, he looked around the hallway filled with cyborgs, cleaning the area. He waved said hello, and left. He felt better after that little run, then he bumped into a rodian, "Hello, sorry, I'm looking for a Master Cyphon, have you seen him?" said the rodian.

 

"Yes, I'm master Cyphon!" he replied.

 

"Oh, good I have a proposition for you!" said the happy rodian.

 

They talked about the celebration for an hour, three hours later from there, they were setting up a stage in the hangar. And to keep it a surprise, all personel were not allowed into the hangar. Cyphon had gotten dressed, collected his sabers, got a release form from the med-bay, and headed for the mess hall, "hhmm, I missed breakfast! I'll have to fill the space in with lunch!" he said laughing to himself.

[Rexraptor2000]

After eating breakfast, Shadow headed down to the Galactic map room to try and figure out where they were going. When he got there, he found that it was empty. He got the coordinates from the computer and started to look for it on the map. When he found it, he was confused.

 

"That's odd, I don't ever remember going to that area of the Unknown Regions." Shadow murmured to himself as he touched the point with his finger. It was was surrounded by stars, but it had been supossedly stated that the planets that orbited them were uninhabitable.

 

The map magnified and it showed a system with with a medium sized sun, and five systems, each one a gas giant. The one they were heading to was the smallest blue giant on the the edge of the system.

 

It looked familiar, but he quite couldn't place his finger on it, mentally of course. he was there for a long time looking at it and by the time he realized what time it was, it was already lunchtime.

 

So he decided to look at it a bit later and go get lunch.

[RC-1162]

It was lunchtime and Vader decided to go find Shadow to figure out how to locate themselves. He went to the lunchroom and spotted Shadow at a table and went up to him.

 

"So, figured out where we are now?" asked Vader. "You could use some of the astromech droids to calculate our coordinates, you know."

 

((sorry i took so long, guys))

[Rexraptor2000]

"I don't know how far along we are yet, but I do know where we are going. It's an uninhabitable system in the Unknown Regions. We'll be coming out of hyperspace over a blue gas giant on the edge of the system. It wouldn't do much good to learn where we are anyways seeing as if we drop out, we could loose life support." Shadow said, having barely picked at his food.

[Master_Archon]

Cyphon had been in the galley (cafateria) ever since Shadow came in. He walked up and heard what was said, and commented, "Blue gas giant...on the edge of a system....hhmm" Cyphon looked at the floor with a distant gaze.

 

"Shadow, could you do me a favor?" Cyphon asked, looking up, "and I need to talk to you Vader...if you have the time."

[Rexraptor2000]

"Sure Cyphon." Shadow replied.

[Master_Archon]

"Excellent, I need you to scan in the deeper regions of the system, about a couple thousand lightyears out, towards the middle of the far regions! Use astromech droids like Vader said, if you have to...just transfer the file to me on what you find. I've got a pretty good idea where we are, and dont need any explanations on what the area looks like. Go to it when you have the time." Said Cyphon with a smile, while turning back towards Vader.

[Rexraptor2000]

Shadow got up, his food untouched, got a droid from matinance, and went to the map room. People were starting to come and do their daily duties, greeting him with salutes and such. When he reached the room, the droid told him it would take about a half an hour to do the scan, and so he decided to take a nap.

[RC-1162]

"What do you need?" Vader asked Cyphon.

[Master_Archon]

Edit: ((I'll post soon but I dont have the time guys, sorry!))-This is no longer true!

 

Cyphon looked to Vader, "I need to tell you something..." he said, his voice trailing off.

 

After he had told him his dark thoughts on where they were headed, Cyphon went to the Dorms, to check on, and talk to the Diplomats. Cyphon had told Vader that where he thought they were going, should be kept a secret, until they had proof of where they were headed, exactly. He didnt want the men more nervous than they already were. And he had told Vader a few tidbits, and secrets of what the place was, or at least what he knew. He hoped Vader could help him in the deciding what they should do, when the time came, when they came out of hyperspace.

 

The day went by uneventful, the stage, and decorations were set up in the main hangarbay, and the men went off to sleeping. Cyphon sat talking to the rodian for hours, till finally, close to mourning he went to his room, the next day slipping in.

[Rexraptor2000]

Shadow had long ago sent the results to Cyphon and gone to sleep.

 

Now he was dreaming that he was a child again, on a ship with a lot of people, all happy and smiling. Then there was an alarm and people shouting. There was the sudden shake as the ship entered hyperspace, but there were other people on the ship now. They had blasters and were shooting everyone in sight. Shadow was picked up by someone, though he couldn't get a good look at her, and taken into a hold. He remembered that hours later the door began to turn red and was blown open, the shards killing many of the people in the hold and killing the woman holding him, her corpse saving him.

 

They started to file in and Shadow hid in a container. The people shot anyone they found and began to looking in the containers. The ship dropped out of hyperspace just before they were about to find Shadow and they left. About an hour later, there was an explosion and some screaming. Shadow heard a screech/roar and he dared to peek outside the container to look. What he saw would give him nightmares. It was a mutilated creature, skin decaying with a yellowish color and had tentacles sprouting out of its left hand standing just outside the room in the hallway. The thing that made it worse was, even though it was mutilated and decaying, it looked like a person, with the head dangling by a piece of flesh. Unfortunately, he couldn't control his stomach and threw up. The creature noticed him. The creature leaped and Shadow got out of the container, barely avoiding getting hit by the creature who crashed into the container. Shadow scrambled out into the corridor to find the both ways of it were infested with the things. He turned around to find the one behind him closing in also. Suddenly a bunch of yellow rings formed materialized out of nowhere and when they dissipated, a lot of floating machines were in their places. And then the opened fire with their yellow lasers, followed by the gagging smell of burning flesh. He felt something hit his head hard and he passed out into darkness.

 

Shadow woke up breathing hard. A few clones were looking at him and one of them asked "Are you alright, Sir? You were moving a lot in your sleep and hit a few of us hard."

 

"I'm fine. It was just a dream. And I apologize for hitting a few of you. Now go to sleep. We're going to be halfway through our journey tomorrow." Shadow replied, not entirely sure about the fine part himself.

 

"Yes, Sir." the clone said and they all went to sleep.

 

Shadow stayed up for a moment and whispered to himself "That is over now Shadow. Forget." He then went back to sleep, peaceful, for now.

[Dark_Lady]

Jynn leaned back in the pilot's seat of the Ion Storm. As she watched the stars streak past her window, her thoughts drifted into the past.

 

In the beginning, everything had seemed so clear. It was her destiny to be trained by Kai Lin, to meet Kante Rhun, to tangle with Xendek. And the war had seemed just as clear. The Republic had been fighting the Separatists for good reasons. Even the corruption growing in the Senate was easy to see.

 

But something changed. The balance of power shifted. The Separatists had become stronger than anyone could have imagined. Then came the massive attack on the Jedi. Almost no one had seen it coming. Kante Rhun was dead - just like Kai Lin - just like the younglings thought to be safe in the Temple.

 

The things that should have lasted forever were gone.

 

Nothing was clear anymore.

[Master_Archon]

Cyphon awoke, getting out of his bed, he headed to the galley. Men were either waking up, or eating, so he got his food. It was a special treat, a buffet of cullanary food from one of the stars, who was a famous cook. After eating he headed to his room to get dressed, but was stopped by the twi'lek from earlier.

 

"Hello, um, can you point me to the cafateria? I'm lost..." she asked Cyphon.

 

"Head down the hall, the door I came out of a ways back is the galley" he said pointing the way.

 

"Thank you!" she said while walking away. Cyphon stared at her as she walked away, an expression of wonder, and concentration on his face. "Ah, I see..." he mumbled to himself as he walked to his room.

 

Around an hour after lunch a female voice came over the comm system, "all personel, everyone, please come to the main hangar, that is all!" The voice said excitedly. Cyphon smiled to himself as soldiers, and other personel, went jogging, running, or walking to the hangar. Cyphon followed, and watched as, in surprise, the men saw, and heard the show stage. So another day went by, with the men feeling happy, and free spirited, which hadn't been for a long time. Cyphon watched, as they enjoyed the day, and watched as it continued into the night. After awhile, the show was done, and the men went to the dorms, and the final day of their journey in hyperspace, came crashing in.

 

((Sorry, but I'm trying to speed things up to the moment we come out of hyperspace. Dont need this thread to get boring! ))

[Dark_Lady]

The Force called to her again, stronger than it ever had before. Jynn shrugged her shoulders in resignation and decided to listen for once. Closing her eyes, she drifted off into meditation. A while later, she blinked, looked around, and began studying her star charts.

 

"Not so very far away," Jynn murmured. She punched a series of coordinates into her nav computer.

 

The Ion Storm leapt into hyperspace.

[Master_Archon]

It was around mid-day of the third, and final day in hyperspace. Cyphon had been in his room all day, meditating, and reaching deep in to space, trying to feel the area in which they would come out. But something drew his attention away, it was a concentrated escence of the force, though faint, it was there. This made him worried, so he delved deeper, trying to draw on this small blip of the force, that was so far away. He prodded it, testing it, trying to draw it just a little closer, so he could tell what it was. Then it jumped, it leapt from his field of sense, he was surprised, he started to expand his thoughts out in all directions to find it. He felt it, but could not pinpoint it, it felt closer, and getting closer as he thought, but before he could find it, he found something else. He concentrated on the new entity, it was out there, yet it was not through the force he felt it, almost, a pure absense of the force, something he hadn't felt since the Exile, from so long ago. Then, he felt what he was looking for in the first place, the forboding thing that had so prominently plagued his thoughts.

 

He came out of his meditation, with a look of worry on his face, he decided not to jump to conclusions. He looked over at his message system on his datapad, there was a message, several hours old. It was the report that he asked Shadow to send to him, about the deep space scans. He looked them over, his face turning from a face of worry, to a face of anxiety, and fear. There, right where he thought it to be, was the deeper system, with it's third planet, the only inhabitable one in that sytem of nine planets. Gaia, or Terraferma, as what it's technical name was, was the last thing he wanted to see. He only hoped that they came out near the edge of the outer systems in that area, and he hoped that they didn't run into what he feared the most!

 

Opening his door he trudged down the hall, passing all in his path, knocking any over that got in his way. He trudged up to the head engineer, a top graduate of one of the best engineering schools in the galaxy.

 

"Tell me! When exactly are we coming out of hyperspace?" asked Cyphon hastily.

 

"Um...at around 04:00...PM time sir" said the engineer looking up, a little confused. Cyphon looked around impatiently, "oh, one more thing sir! I was able to pinpoint our exit vector to the tee!" said the engineer excitedly.

 

"How?" asked Cyphon. "Since we're so close to our exit, I was able to use some old techniques to find our exact exit point" said the head engineer in response.

 

"Go on" said Cyphon. "We'll be coming out on the far side of a gas giant, it's got a strange satellite, or moon of some sort that orbits it. My statisics could even detect other more reasonably shaped moons orbit it as well, along with, what looks to be an asteroid that orits the gas giant, right next to the strange satellite moon." Cyphon looked even more worried an anxious than before. He looked down at the engineer and said, "contact all high ranking people, and all sector heads in the area, call a meeting basically!" The head engineer got up, saluted and trotted off to do his bidding. Cyphon headed to the meeting room that Shadow had talked to the diplomats in.

[Rexraptor2000]

Shadow now did not look like a General or Jedi, but like a Drill Sergeant. He was wearing camo cloths and a green cap, barking out orders and drilling troops hard. Some were cursing to themselves and some were just trying to finsih the impossible time limits that Shadow set for them. Shadow had woken them up at three in the morning chronometer time and was drilling them along with some other sergeants. Anyone who wasn't a drill sergeant or a general and was seen by the sergenants was being drilled, some diplomats included.

 

When a messenger came and told him about the meeting, he turned around and said to all of those in the hanger "Half Hour Break!" Quite a few of them sighed in relief and then Shadow left to the meeting.

 

When he got there he found that a few where already there, including Cyphon, and he asked "What's this meeting about? I still have two more hours to drill them."

[Master_Archon]

"Drilling will have to wait, this meeting is for everyone with high enough rank or importance, once Vader gets here, along with a few others, then we'll start!" said Cyphon in response to Shadow's comment.

 

((One of you guys could post! I wanna get us out of hyperspace! I'm just trying to explain where we're going! Are you alive Rexraptor2000, RC_1162? Are you planning on posting again? Anyone? Dark_Lady? Hello?))

[Dark_Lady]

((I'm alive and here. I'm just waiting to get out of hyperspace, not much I can do until then. And I'm supposed to get out of hyperspace after you guys, right? Can't you just say that "the meeting started after Vader arrived" or something? Vader doesn't actually have to do anything right now, does he? Please let me out of hyperspace!!! Please!!!))

[Master_Archon]

((Well RC-1162 is Vader, but I guess I'll have to use my TM prowess to get us out of hyperspace!))

 

Cyphon looked at Vader as he entered the room, Cyphon nodded at him, and he took a seat. "O.K., everyone is here, so lets get started. For one, we're coming out in an unknown system, near a gas giant, and an unknown satellite moon. I know from ages past, when I was very young, and not considered 'dead', which technically what I should be." he said laughing lightly. "That this 'moon', is not what it seems, now I'm not going to say what it is, but when we get there, we can only stop for a short time, but only to get supplies then. Does everyone understand? Good, meeting ajourned." Everyone got up and started leaving, talking to eachother as they went.

 

Many hours later, the ship's engines could be heard gurgling, and straining, as they finally came to rest after three days of sustained hyperspace. Then they hummed loudly to a nice halt, and were quiet, all except for the sound of steam rising as the engines cooled. Cyphon was on the bridge, which had been nicely set back up, and a small crew of people were at the various stations throughout the ship. Cyphon sighed as he looked out at the enormous gas giant, luckily the 'moon' wasn't in view. Then the sensors officer called out, "hyperspace exit detected." Cyphon said, "it must be Felix and the Matukai" said Cyphon with look of question.

 

"No sir, from what we can tell, they came out of hyperspace a day before we did, it's also too small to be one of ours" said the crewman in response. Cyphon stared out across the vast expanse of space, trying to see what this mystery 'ship' was.