Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Endgame

[Fredi]

"I belive you are correct...I just recieved news that the ruins of the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine were destroyed. I fear that this is related to what you have seen in your vision. You are correct, we must be alert."

“Well Master Brianna, we need to inform the council and gather a group of Jedi's to investigate this new menace.”- Fethe said. “I am willing to be part of this group of Jedi's master”.

[Tysyacha]

((Chevron, feuer frei--fire at will--at Holty's character, Goran Tex!))

 

Gathering Place of the Found, Coruscant

 

Jedi Knight Anna Organ practically threw her arms around Jolee Bindo and Garren Shain in a gigantic group hug. "Oh, thank the Force you're here!" she cried. "I was afraid no one else was going to see me, or sense me, or help--"

 

"Help?" asked a cold female voice. "It seems all three of you are beyond it."

 

Before any of them could react, a figure clad in black leather, wielding a double-bladed vibrosword, spun around and kicked Anna in the face. Her nose broke. She tumbled backward onto the hard floor of the freezer. Anna's skull gave a sickening crack, providing her with an instant concussion.

 

The assailant, in the blink of an eye, then decapitated Jolee Bindo.

 

Blood spurted everywhere, freezing where it hit ice. Anna groaned, with tears pouring hotly down her face. She recognized the figure at once and bawled.

 

"Save your weeping," sneered Seeker Adeline. "You've made your choice already."

 

She placed her foot on Anna Organ's face and began to press down hard.

 

"This, and nothing else, is what we're after, weakling Jedi," the Seeker announced. "An iron heel stamping on a Force user's face...forever."

[Chevron 7 locke]

((Alkonium, could you bring Jolee's body and head back to the Temple?))

 

Hyperpspace, en route to Coruscant

 

Juhani was piloting the Blade, but as she did a sudden pain ripped through her body and she screamed in pain and horror because she knew what had just happened.

 

Somone close to her had just died. She didn't know who it was or how it had happened but she knew that someone close to her had just died violently.

 

I...I need to talk to Jolee when I get back.

 

Another round of blaster fire nearly hit the ship and Juhani quickly stopped the ship just in time to see a small ship go past.((That's not you Betrayer.))

 

Another dark-sider. I don't have time for this. We need to reach Coruscant as quickly as possible.

 

Juhani quickly locked on with one of the ship's few missles and the fired on it and watched as it blew up after only one hit.

 

It must not have had shields. she thought.

 

She opened up comn channel to the turrent station. "Psycho! Will you please get whoever that is off our back! I'm running out of manuvers!"

[Tysyacha]

Aboard the Ebon Blade, in the near vicinity of Coruscant

 

"I have one," snarled Perdante, furious at the ship that was firing upon the Ebon Blade. It was piloted by her very own Master--she could sense his void-black aura through the Force. With a great strength of will, she sent a distracting wave of pain and rage directly into the path of the enemy ship, and the figure's brain. Unfortunately for the redeemed Sith Initiate, this meant she had also opened up a doorway into her own mind through which he could pass and give orders. Unless she was strong, she'd have to obey.

 

Did the figure know that? Did he sense that he now had that power over her?

 

Perdante believed that her distraction would prove victorious--which it was. Her Master's vessel banked sharply to the left, spinning off into space and rolling uncontrollably. She gave a cry of triumph, then glanced at the Cathar.

 

"Juhani?!" she cried. "What's wrong? You look like you're in terrible pain!"

[Alkonium]

Garren then shot out Adelina's knee, knocking her off balance, and more importantly, getting her foot off Anna's head. "Try anything else, and it'll be your head next." He told her. "See the big hole where the door to the freezer used to be? I placed and set off that charge, and I've got more of them, enough to take out this whole building. If you don't want that to happen, you'll let us go, and take our friend's body with us. Anyone get too close, and I'll set them off, and you'll all be one with the Force." He added, bluffing and adding insult to injury.

[Tysyacha]

Gathering Place of the Found, Coruscant

 

If Seeker Adeline would have been a Force user herself, she would have known that Garren Shain was bluffing. As it was, she despised all users of the Force, and thus she was unable to sense this. Contemptously, she spat on the freezer floor. Her spittle turned instantly to ice, crystallizing near the drops of the blood from Anna Organ's broken nose. Anna herself was still crying, relieved to be finally free of Seeker Adeline's boot from the sensitive area.

 

"Go, then." The Seeker scowled. "You are not a user of the Force, and yet you seem to be their ally. Take this headless corpse with you, and get out of my sight. If I ever see you again, rest assured you will pay with your life."

[Chevron 7 locke]

"What's wrong? You look like you're in terrible pain!"

 

Juhani slowly brought her head up from the controls. "Someone close to me has just died. Violently and quickly. I can only pray that they died without any pain."

 

She glanced over at the sith and then back to the control panel as a light suddenly came on. "When we get back to Coruscant, there is close friend of mine that I want you to meet."

 

She smiled as she remembered some of the things that Jolee had taught her. "His name is Jolee Bindo and he fought in both the Great Sith War and the Jedi Civil War. He is quite possibly one of the wisest jedi left and an excellent teacher. He manages to suprise even me sometimes."

 

She looked at the light and the message that was under it. "We're approaching Coruscant. We should be able to lose whoever it is in the traffic around the planet.

 

She opened up a comnlink to the planet below. "This is Jedi Knight Juhani, We are approaching the planet and request permission to land at the Jedi Temple. We also have a hostile ship in purusit, requesting that fighters be sent up to take care of the hostile."

 

Juhani had barely finished speaking before a squadren of fighters shot past the Ebon Blade and headed for the ship behind them and then a voice responded to her over the comnlink.

 

"Jedi knight Juhani this is Temple control, you are cleared to land at landing pad C."

 

Juhani nodded and headed for the planet below.

[Tysyacha]

As Juhani and Perdante docked on Landing Pad C, the former Sith Initiate said, "The 'hostile' you mentioned was none other than my old Master. Don't worry. I sent him a little message of my own--one that will cause him a lot of pain."

 

For a moment Juhani could see the calculating gleam in Perdante's eyes that had made her a prime candidate for Sith training, even as a young child.

 

Some armored droids came up to greet the two. "Identify yourselves, please."

[Alkonium]

"Likewise." Garren replied, and carried Jolee's body out while supporting Anna. After they made it back to his ship. He started transmitting the recording from his electrobinoculars to Republic Intelligence, and set a course for the Jedi Temple. "This is Garren Shain, a smuggler working for the Republic, requesting permission to land. I'm carrying Jedi Knight Anna Organ, rescued from the Gathering Place of the Found. She requires immediate medical treatment for a broken nose, a concussion, and potential hypothermia. I'm also carrrying the body of Jedi Master Jolee Bindo, murdered by the leader of the Found." He sent out to the Jedi Temple's docking control.

[Tysyacha]

((Sorry, Cyborg Ninja/Zen, you missed your chance to kill Anna. Don't worry--you'll have another chance later, when the Seeker sends you out after her!))

 

Gathering Place of the Found, Coruscant

 

Seeker Adeline hated to lose. She was not like Perdante, who had humbly accepted her defeat at the hands of a more-than-worthy opponent. Instead, being vanquished only whetted her appetite for vengeance and retribution. Upon hearing that one of the lesser Pilgrims had committed some infraction--attempting to engage in "carnal relations" with a fellow Pilgrim, and one of the same gender as well--Adeline did the same to him as she had done to Jolee.

 

"None of that will be tolerated," she said to those few congregants who still remained in the Gathering Place of the Found. "Disperse, all of you. Celebrate."

[Cyborg Ninja]

((Its okay ))

 

Psycho followed the Jedi and Sith out of the ship and froze when he saw the two droids walk over to him. He then remembered he was with Juhani and his slight moment of fear was gone.

 

"I believe my jedi friend can introduce herself. I'm Psycho, Contractor for the jedi an this," Psycho said pointing to Perdante, "This is Perdante, my assistant and trainee."

[Chevron 7 locke]

"Identify yourselves, please."

 

Juhani pulled out her identification card and showed it to the droids.

 

"Jedi Knight Juhani."

 

Juahni smiled despite the fact that someone close to her had died. "I will be alright when I speak with Jolee. He has a way of cheering me up. He...tells the strangest stories."

 

Juhani laughed once as she walked toward one of the doors that would lead her to the main temple. "When you meet him, ask him about Andor Vex."

[Tysyacha]

Jedi Temple, Coruscant

 

"Andor Vex?" asked Perdante. "Hmmm...That name sounds oddly familiar, but I can't quite place it." She slipped her hands behind her back and followed Juhani and Psycho into the main section of the ornate and beautiful Jedi Temple.

 

"This place--it seems so fresh, so golden. Clean. I feel like I don't belong here." After a pause, she added, "After all, I was a Sith Initiate. Had I still been one, those two droids that we met earlier might have shot me on sight. I assume they're programmed to differentiate between friendlies and hostiles?" A smile.

[Cyborg Ninja]

Gathering Place of the Found, Coruscant

 

Zen looked over as Adeline executed a pilgrim. He looked into her eyes and noticed something was wrong. She seemed to be irritated by something or perhaps someone? Zen walked over to her and bowed down to her like he always did.

 

"Noble Seeker," he began allowing his head to move up a little noticing her knee. "Noble Seeker you are injured...whoever did this to you I will hunt down if they have not died by your hands already," he said in a whisper.

[Fredi]

Fethe once fallowed the path of the dark side, he felt the dark side when it arrived at the temple, it was not a strong one, but he could still feel some of the strong emotions the dark side creates. Fethe had now left the quarter of Master Brianna, since he last spoke to her about the vision, leaving her alone to meditate on the proposal given by him. Fethe then fallowed the presence of thin dark force and headed towards it. He saw Juhani, the Cathar war hero with another woman.

 

“Welcome to the temple”- Fethe said to both

[Tysyacha]

Perdante smiled but did not speak. She could sense, through the Force, that the Jedi before her picked up the traces of the Dark Side upon her presence. "Thank you," was all she answered, giving a small bow at the waist to Fethe.

 

Gathering Place of the Found, Coruscant

 

Zen could hear the grinding of the noble Seeker's perfectly-white teeth. Good thing they had all been capped and crowned at the age of six, part of the plastic surgeries and beauty rituals her mother had made her undergo in order to make her a pageant queen. Before finding the Truth, Adeline had been the most beautiful human on the planet of Coruscant, "modified" or not. Fame, wealth, and suitors had been hers. Before Adeline had found her path, she had been worse than lost. She had been spiritually dead--soulless.

 

Now she knew better. The Truth was the Way, the Path and the Life.

 

There is no other way. There is no other way...

 

"The one you have captured has escaped," announced the Seeker. "Or, rather, I should say she was rescued by some scum who infiltrated our sacred Complex! One was a Jedi himself; the other, a non-Force-user. I slew the Jedi, as he should have been slain. He was defending the condemned prisoner and trying to save her. As for the other one..."

 

She smiled. "I want him dead, with his head obviously missing...or near-missing."

[Alkonium]

Garren then approached Juhani and Perdante. "You mentioned Jolee Bindo? I'm sorry to inform you that he was murdered by the Found. I was able to bring his body back here, however, and save the Jedi he was trying to rescue. I'm sorry for your loss." He said to Juhani, and knowing her reputation, feared how she might react.

[Tysyacha]

"The Found?" asked Perdante. "Who or what is 'the Found', and--you say Jolee Bindo was murdered?" She couldn't believe it. "So much for Andor Vex..."

 

Cold shivers suddenly made Perdante stagger backward upon her injured leg.

[Cyborg Ninja]

Jedi Temple, Coruscant

 

Psycho grunted when they entered the Jedi Temple. He never really cared for the place, it just usually gave him the chills. He was startled when the man that arrived gave the knew of the death of Jolee. Even Psycho knew that man was one hell of a jedi. Whoever these "Found" members are, they must be very tough to kill.

 

Gathering Place of the Found, Coruscant

 

Zen listened to Adeline talk of a Jedi and non force wielder rescue the Jedi he captured. He was angered the non force wielder escaped and felt as if this being was dishonoring him. He allowed a small smile to escape when he was told to kill this person.

 

"You are the arm of The Found and I am your blade. You point in a direction and I shall slice whatever stands in our path. When would you have me leave?"

[Chevron 7 locke]

"You mentioned Jolee Bindo? I'm sorry to inform you that he was murdered by the Found. I was able to bring his body back here, however, and save the Jedi he was trying to rescue. I'm sorry for your loss."

 

"So much for Andor Vex..."

 

No...this can't be true! Jolee can't be dead! The old man can't be dead!

 

Juhani staggered past the smuggler and the sith and then walked into one of the rooms where a large crowd of experienced Jedi Masters and Knights were gathered around a single table.

 

Please...no. He was the only one I could talk to! He can't be dead! He can't be dead!

 

She pushed past the assembled masters and knights who tried to keep her away but they couldn't stop her. She walked as though she was in a daze, until she finally reached the table and looked down at the headless body of her comrade and old friend.

 

"J-Jolee..." She whispered in shock.

 

She fell to her knees and simply stared at the body. Her mind was a total blank except for the good times she had had with jolee.

 

no...No....NO!

 

Juhani then stood up and simply leaned over the body of her friend and let the tears begin to fall.

[Fredi]

Fethe was surprised to what happened to Jolee, and a experienced Jedi Master was killed by the new menace, Fethe maintained his emotions, knowing not to fall to them because it is the Jedi way not to, he had no emotion. “He is one with the force now”- Fethe said as he looks at Juhani and the body of Jolee. “Inform Master Brianna of this matter”- Fethe tells an apprentice, “Smuggler, you must know where the killers are, do you have any useful information” Fethe asks

[Tysyacha]

Gathering Place of the Found, Coruscant

 

"If you do not wish to feast and celebrate with the other Pilgrims," answered Seeker Adeline, "then I suggest you leave immediately." She gave Zen a brief description of Garren Shain, the "non-Force user" she had mentioned. "I would be very pleased if you managed to slice through the muscles in his neck first, and leave his head hanging halfway on his body, before bringing him to me."

 

What is it with me and decapitation? she thought. Why do I prefer such a method of execution? Is it only because it is so quick and painless?

 

No. This face I wear--it is not my real face. My real face, and head, were taken away. Reshaped. I do not even know what I looked like as a baby.

 

If I cannot have the head with which I was born, my foes shall not have theirs.

 

Jedi Temple, Coruscant

 

Perdante tried to follow Juhani, wherever she ran, but the security droids in the Jedi Temple would not let her. They simply picked her up and carried her to the waiting area in the Temple courtyard when the former Sith Initiate refused to be escorted. "We apologize for the inconvenience," they said, "but you are attempting to enter a restricted area. Visitors may not go inside without the proper authorization, which you don't have. Come with us."

 

When Perdante wouldn't, they hoisted her into the air and bore her away.

 

Humiliated, but laughing like mad, she decided to relax for a bit.

[Chevron 7 locke]

“Inform Master Brianna of this matter”

 

Brianna was walking of her private chambers when she heard Fethe speak. "Inform me of what?" She asked as she walked toward the assembled jedi around the table.

 

She could hear someone weeping heavily near the center of the crowd. The time between her steps decreased as she hurried toward the conter of the group.

 

The breath left her body when she looked down at Juhani weeping over the headless body of Jolee Bindo. The lightsaber she was holding in her hand dropped from her suddenly numb fingers.

 

"Who did this?" She asked the assembled crowd quietly, her words were barely heard over Juhani's sobbing.

[Alkonium]

"A woman who called herself Seeker Adelina, the leader of a very dangerous cult called the Found. They intend to kill every single Force User in the galaxy." Garren explained. "My name is Garren Shain; I am a smuggler the Republic hired to investigate the Found. I have already transmitted my findings to Republic Intelligence, but if you wish, I can provide you with a copy as well."

[Rexraptor2000]

Meta sometimes wished he was any other species. This was not out of a belief that any other species might be better than his own, but so he wouldn't have to keep explaining what the hell he was every time he walked into a room. Sometimes he had to lie and other times Meta told the truth when he should have lied. Such was this case, in which Meta had inadvertently stumbled into a meeting between the highest powers of the Republic.

 

There were moments in life that were sometimes simply to awkward for normal sentient creatures. What partially made Meta and his species so effective in negotiations was their ability to cut straight to the point, which was exactly what he did at that point. He announced that he was the last metallic organism of an extinct race from another universe, and that he was basically just traveling through when he happened to land in on their top secret meeting. Recently Meta's means of traveling between universes had become more imprecise, and he was bound to land in places he didn't want to. Naturally, the top leaders did the one thing anyone in their position might do: stick a gun in his face and tell him to get on a dissection table. After the tools failed to break his natural armor (either by incapability or destruction) and after innumerable scans, database cross-references, and even examination from a Jedi, they finally believed at least the part where he wasn't organic. The only thing that made them nervous was the Jedi being nervous, as Meta was a dead spot in the Force. After the big mix up, Meta and the leaders of the Republic made a deal: they would recognize Meta as a citizen of their government and give him free reigns to go where he wanted, with whatever funding he needed for the trip. In return, he would help them save the Jedi.

 

If there's one thing that people expected from a metallic species was that he would know rocks. Technically they were right, though Meta really hated looking at rocks all day long and would sometimes pretend to be offended by the presumption. He was not in the playful mood though, and looking at rocks was better than being cut open. The issue that Meta had stepped in on had been about rocks, rocks that were being used to essentially neuter the Jedi. More specifically, it was about a mineral substance that, when injected into a Force-user, would render them unable to use the Force. The substance, Meta had already deduced, was artificial in nature but old enough that it could be mistaken for being a natural occurrence. He had also deduced that the only people who would have an interest in investing the time and money to go through the process of removing the Force were those with a seriously bad taste in their mouth about the whole civil war thing. Deductions were not what the brass wanted though. They wanted answers to meta-physical questions that Meta simply couldn't give at the moment, so was in the process of investigating.

 

At the moment, Meta was in the process of trying to run a controlled test as to the actual effects of the substance. The problem? Getting a willing participant.

 

“What happened to one for all or the selfless Jedi?” Meta asked as the next knight walked away without a word. He was half-tempted just to gag the man and run the tests with or without the consent part. That wouldn't be looked on kindly though, especially in the middle of the Jedi Temple. Meta certainly couldn't ask one the masters do it, since the point of his mission was to help without being acknowledge.

 

All of that went out of the window when Meta walked toward the entrance of the complex and found himself in the midst of a crowd with a crying cat-lady in the background and a headless body. He did manage to walk in just in time to hear the man Rolan explain who caused the disturbance, as well as its source. An interesting and possibly fruitful lead, though there were always people who would love and hate force users. Meta decided to hang in the crowd, if somewhat standing out, to hear more.