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Post by hk47fan on Nov 5, 2007 22:02:59 GMT -4
Robert
I kept slashing at the YVH with my sabre, attacking it's weak points. I saw the other coming right back at me though, and decided to truly test my power as a Redgrave and Poppellwell. I tapped into my Force Power and closed my eyes as I tried to pull the huge YVH I had been slashing at for the last several minutes, and I could feel it going up...and finally when I could tell it was in Mid-Air, I slammed it right into the face of the other and did it several times.
The other YVH that was being hit violently finally fell apart after a few strong slams, and the other one's sensors were extremely screwed up now. I winced as I tried to tear it apart with the Force, and I almost felt pain from trying to do this, but remained determined and concentration, and soon enough it collapsed.
Now, to find the others.
Calvin
As I approached the end of this duct, I could tell Shalin was doing something, but I didn't know what. Part of me wanted to wait and see, but I had to just keep going.
Here we go. I told her I can tell I'm going into a place where you can't be...hopefully, I can get back into a place where you are soon. Shalin, before I go, just know I love you.
With that I jumped now, and knew it was time to rely on pure stealth.
Jacen
I nodded to them in agreement, and then kept going, trying to be as descreet as possible and not set off anything. I kept moving slowly as we were going all the way to the other side of the estate, and Force Flashed about five cameras along the way.
Sal-Solo's smart, but maybe not smart enough for Jedi. I thought to myself
Soon enough, the fire escape was in sight.
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Post by Force_Flow on Nov 6, 2007 16:36:38 GMT -4
Jaina felt rather than saw the speeder curve sharply. Forcing her eyes open, she looked out the window towards Robert, just about a level down. “Come on!” she heard Thann Mithric yell from the driver’s side. ”Jump!”
“Come on, Robert!” she yelled. “We’re done here!” She hurridly glanced out the window to her right. Nothing yet, but that didn’t mean anything. They had to get to their pick-up point, and fast.
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Ben crawled through the ducts carefully. His knee banged against something hard about five minutes in, and he hissed in suppressed pain. His knee throbbed uncomfortably, but he was distracted by a group of guards below him.
“Security’s pretty tight…”
“Yeah, they expecting a Jedi?”
A snort. “Maybe. Jedi are sneaky.”
Ben grimaced. He liked sneaky, but he was aiming more towards the huge power-house of destruction. He mentally shook his head, continuing. The air ducts were barely big enough for Calvin in front of him, and Ben had wide shoulders like his father. The entire thing was enough to make him mildly claustiphobic.
“I think we drop off here,” he said under his breath. Prodding Calvin’s side with the hilt of his lightsaber.
In answer, Calvin took the grate separating the air duct to the hall, and, with some difficulty, clamored out. Ben did it with less fussing around, and used the Force to move the grate back to where it was.
Dusting off his hands on his pants, Ben glanced up and down the halls, and mentally wondered how many this place even had. "I think we go that way," he said, pointing. "Feels like something big over there." --
Rylee glanced back over her shoulder as the door slid open. “Okay, let’s go,” she said, gripping her lightsaber. “I’ll go in with Jaden, and you come in behind us. Just, er, keep your guard up and stuff.” Meh, it’s what Jaden told her most of the time.
Jaden put a hand on her shoulder, and they entered the fire escape. “Let’s try the highest floor to the lowest,” she suggested. “We can probably catch him around the middle.”
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Post by hk47fan on Dec 12, 2007 12:36:22 GMT -4
Robert
I nodded, and I jumped up, using the Force to fuel it and proppell it, and soon landed inside the speeder. Looked like I was the last one to make it, so I yelled "Alright, lets go!!!!!"
Calvin
I nodded in agreement, and tried not to let the pain of feeling Shalin vanishing get to me, as I edged along the hall with Ben behind me, and we continued on, and I sensed something up ahead...it was an actual being, although I didn't think it was a guard. At least...not the person I was sensing, but we got closer and I felt more.
As we came closer to them, it looked like a simple desk clerk but with some guards, and a simple security droid.
I looked to Ben, and whispered "You go, I'll stay in the shadows...if they see me, it'll cause some trouble...you can get this part done easier than I can."
Jacen
I let the two go ahead, and then I followed their lead, as it seemed they had every move planned out...which was good, and not surprising. I had learned alot from Jaden, especially on how to do stuff like this. I just hoped this would go smoothly, and everyone else's parts were going smoothly too.
I followed them up the fire escape slowly, looking around to make sure we still hadn't been seen.
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Post by Force_Flow on Dec 12, 2007 13:55:14 GMT -4
Thann Mithrac, in the driver’s seat, said, “Control acknowledged my transmission but Team Tauntaun didn’t. I suspect they ran into a trap.”
“Right.” Jaina rapped her knuckles on the side of the speeder. Nothing had gone right, and now three Jedi of Team Tauntaun—Jaden Solo, Jacen Solo, and Rylee Skywalker—were incommunicado.
“How’s Zekk?” the Faleen asked.
“Ow.” Zekk’s eyes opened.
“Better,” Jaina said.
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At a distance of fifty meters, Ben began to make out what guarded the door into the repulsor control chamber: two CorSec agents, one male, one female, and a floating ball-shaped droid with four aims dangling from it. Even as Ben noticed them, the droid drifted out from the doorway to the middle of the corridor as if to bar his passage.
Ben raised his arms. “Don’t shoot! I’m only a kid!”
Embarressing words. He wanted to grow up so that he’d never be able to use that excuse again. But for now, it was useful.
“Hold your fire,” said the female guard. She stepped out, beckoning him to come foreword.
“I’m lost,” he said breathlessly. He managed to put an air of fear in his voice.
“How did you get into the restricted section?” Ben moved ten meters closer to her as she spoke.
“I was exploring the tubes, and I got tired and hungry. I fell asleep and then there were explosions and alarms and people rubbing. I finally found a real hall, but I don’t know where I am.” He made his voice sound garbled, but did not manage to summon real tears. He decided he needed more practice.
“Do you have a datapad?” asked the woman. “I can transmit you a map out of here.
He shook his head. “No.” Now he stood in front of her and the hovering droid.
It looked pretty sturdy, and he could see small modules on the top that suggested the defeltor sheifl generator. Even without them, it looked like it could take a shot or two.
“You stay right here,” the woman commanded. “I’ll go get you a printout.”
Her companion, who hadn’t moved from the door, finally spoke. “No, Lyman,” he said. “Protocol is that we call it in and they send someone to escort him out.”
“There’s no one available to escort him. Everyone’s been pulled off for Target Alpha. So we can stay here and babysit until they send someone, maybe hours from now, or we can send him off.”
Her partner sighed, but did not reply.
Ben felt his pulse quicked. If the female agent got her way, she’d be opening the door for him—one last task for him to undertake. He could feel Calvin approaching them from the shadows, sending out short Force bursts to momentarily stun the droid without their noticing.
Prioritize your steps, Jaing had told him.
Priority One was floating droid. Calvin was taking care of that. Number Two would be the agents. He’s have to see who was more alert and who wasn’t. The man seemed more wary of him than the woman.
Another one of Jaing’s lessons: Plan and time your steps. The woman was stepping up to the doorway and preparing to insert her identicard into a security board slot. The man wasn’t moving. It was a staredown.
That gave Ben a moment to plan. He’d need to wait until the door was just opening, then he’d take out the droid. His next priotity would be getting into the chamber before the door closed again.
After that—Jaing would be disappointed that he couldn’t find a way off the station, but Ben couldn’t think that fast, anyway. Irritably, the man stepped out of the way and let the woman, Lyman, insert her card into the slot.
Everything began moving in slow motion, as though the entire cooridor was submerged in thick, transparent liquid. Ben saw the door beginning to slide upwards. Doors like this opened almost instantly, but his time perception was so dialated that he could watch it rise a meter.
He held his hand above his pouch and tugged with the Force. His lightsaber leapt up to his hand, and he snapped it on, swinging at the hovering droid even as the distored snap-hiss announced that his blade was coming to life. The point of his lightsaber blade sheared through the bronze hull, bringing the droid down.
Calvin rolled through the doorway even as the lady was pressing the CLOSE button. With a simple Force Push, he knocked her into a corner. He dodged a blaster bolt from the male guard and brought his blade around in a circle, slicing off the barrel. He pushed him back—hard—into the wall, where he stayed there, unconscious.
Lyman tried to rise, but Ben now stood over her her, his lightsaber at her neck. Her eyes blinked in surprise. “Get up,” he ordered harshly. “Drop the weapon. All of them.”
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Jaden climbed up the fire escape exit with ease. They passed five doors, each on a different level, and finally stopped at the sixth and last one. The stairs stopped at the door, and Jaden pressed her back to the wall, taking out her lightsabers.
They stood there for a moment, scanning for danger with highly attuned senses.
Almost immediately, she could feel it.
“It’s a trap.”
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Post by hk47fan on Dec 12, 2007 14:29:22 GMT -4
Calvin
I got through the door just in time, but Ben didn't. However, I trusted him. He could fight off those guys in there while I moved forward.
I kept my lightsaber ignited, and began to walk through this next hall. Things seemed pretty empty, but I felt like something was up ahead...something oddly familiar...but what?
I stared forward and continued on, but after a few minutes, I ran into some type of robot. It was good sized, but not a YVH. And also for some reason, it wasn't attacking me.
Jacen
I looked to Jaden, half-stunned. I knew it too; we had been tricked. And we were in for a load of trouble now. I quickly took out my lightsaber, but had yet to ignite it. I didn't want to yet, I would let our foes make the first move this time.
"Be ready..." I warned my cousin and wife "This won't be easy."
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Post by Force_Flow on Dec 12, 2007 14:38:57 GMT -4
The droid was mound of machienery as big as a half-dozen Hutts engaged in a no-rules wrestling match. Roughly human-shaped, it had a desk-sized head that looked like a sensor node whose surface was thickly covered in antennae, light monitors, and holocam lenses. Its torso was made up of mismatched modules, each at least as big at the head, connected with durasteel cables and light-bearing transperteel fibers. Dangling torso untits surrounded—perhaps incorporated—the control board a fugitive would need to access to shut the place down. The machine’s arms appeared to be the heavy duty cylindrical limbs from a wreaker droid, and ended in the same clumsy, destructive manipulator hands. Instead of legs it had a thick bottom plate whose skirted edges probably concealed repulserlift machinery. All these components were of different colors, some black, some silver, some industrial green.
Fully upright, it would probably be four meters tall, but it sat hunched foreword, like a lazy student kneeling with bad posture.
Its head turned to bring two oversized holocam lenses to bear on the intruder, and it some from somewhere inside the head unit, strikingly reminiscent of Jaden Solo’s voice: “Who are you?”
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“Droid to the far left,” Rylee whispered. “Big, powerful… Can’t say much more than that. I can feel a dozen more problems on the ceiling and walls. Concealed turrets most likely. And I’d bet my lightsaber that droid’s one of those bodyguards we rented for Ben years ago.”
“It’s a YVH, not a Nanny droid,” Jaden said, “But close enough. Keep the lightsaber.”
“So what do we do, Master?”
“Third floor,” Jaden said. “We need to find Thracken. That’s what we came for, and I’m not going to let a few droids stop us.”
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