Nal'dar Tann's Story

The lush open fields of Dantooine harbor mainly farmers, no cities existed on the serene planet, until the Galactic Empire that is. The Empire created one large city on the largest Continent, named Dantoo Prime, it holds the Empire base on the planet, as well as all semblance of planetary government. Dantoo Prime is rather large, about 10,000 square kilometers, it has a population of around 20 million, and has the largest food stores of any city in the quadrant. The leader of this city is Darth Angor, one of Darth Vader's lowlier apprentices.
On the same continent, in the Fields of Banir, lies the ruins of an ancient Jedi Temple, here lies the resistance group, trying to free Dantooine from the grasps of the Empire.


Dantoo Prime, 25:00

Cal, wearing a brown cloak to cover up her body, slowly walked through the streets of the northern region of Dantoo Prime, followed by Nal'dar, "she also wore a brown cloak. There passed the northernmost Empire barracks, two Stormtroopers stood guard outside the large metal door. Cal and Nal'dar broke off into an alleyway next to the barracks.
Nal'dar pulled off her hood, revealing her blue skin and red eyes, "Okay so how long before their backup would get here?"
Cal did the same, "If the intel is right about 10 minutes."
"10 minutes to clear out an entire barracks?"
"Look, this is the northern region, there shouldn't be more than 20 Stormtroopers stationed there."
"I still don't see why we have to do this," Nal'dar looked down, showing a bit of uncertainty.
"Look Nal, if we want to free Dantooine from the Empire, we are going to have to rid the entire planet of these plastic boys, and we need the data on that computer, so come on," Cal said, reassuringly, grabbing Nal'dar's chin and lifting it up.
Nal'dar smiled and said, "Let's do it."
Cal and Nal'dar walked out from behind the alley and ripped off their cloaks, Cal quickly pushed the two Stormtroopers on the ground using the force, then drew her lightsabers. Nal'dar pulled out her yellow double-bladed saber and impaled one of the Stormtroopers. Cal impaled the other, then proceeded to open the door with the force. There was a small area with a greeting droid, Cal crushed it with the force before it could activate an alarm.
There was another door, it opened automatically when Cal and Nal'dar were near it. Two Stormtroopers were walking along a small hallway, one raised his blaster and fired, Nal'dar deflected it back at him, killing him. The other activated an alarm, then got slammed into a wall by Cal, who then proceeded to impale him.
"10 minutes now, GO!" Cal yelled at Nal'dar, pointing at the other end of the small hallway they were in. Nal'dar nodded and ran to the doorway at the end of the hall, Cal went the opposite direction, and cut a hole in the door.
She jumped through the hole into a small room, there were four Stormtroopers with their blasters pointed at the door Cal just leapt through, they all began firing. Cal deflected the shots then pushed them all backwards with the force, including multiple small objects in their vicinity. Cal quickly jumped upward and impaled two of the Stormtroopers with her sabers. The other two started getting up; Cal removed her blades from the two fallen troopers then decapitated another. The fourth one got up and began to run. Cal fired a single bolt of force lightning at him, knocking him out. Cal then sauntered over to him and impaled him.
Cal continued through to next door, it opened automatically. It led into a small hallway. Cal looked down the hallway, it led upward, no Stormtroopers were in it.
"My lucky day..." Cal said to herself.
She moved at a brisk pass down the hallway, there were two doors, one led into the Troop quarters, the other lead into the armory, which is where she needed to be. Cal completely ignored the door to the troop quarters and walked to the armory door. Cal thrust her blade into the door, and slowly created a hole, it was a very thick door.
When she finished the hole she jumped through and landed on her feet, there were no Stromtroopers in the armory.
"That's odd..."
A door in the opposite direction of Cal opened, it was Nal'dar.
"Come on, the computer is just through here," Cal said, gesturing to a third door in the armory.
It opened automatically, there was a single person there, a young Sith.
"So, the Jedi order still lives..." he said, revealing a red lightsaber.
"You're master can't kill us that easily..." Nal'dar said, lifting her lightsaber.
"Yes... nor could I..." he said, lifting his saber to destroy the computer.
Cal quickly shot a continuous array of electricity at him, he began convulsing. When she stopped, he fell, then got up and charged at Cal. Cal blocked his saber and Nal'dar sliced off his head.
"What a fool..." Nal'dar said.
"That's all anger does for you..." Cal said, moving away from his body.
She accessed the computer and removed all the data she could onto a chip.
"Come on, we have to move..." Nal'dar said.
Nal'dar and Cal quickly ran through the barracks and left, with 5 minutes to spare.

Cal and Nal'dar rushed through the city, they ran quickly, fearing discovery by the Empire. By the time they got to the dock, they were breathing heavily. Cal and Nal'dar slowly entered the building and stepped onto the elevator pad. There were two besalisks on the pad as well, taking up most of the room. They went up about a kilometer, then left, the two besalisks continued up.
"God I hate besalisks..." Nal'dar said.
Cal giggled at her remark, which made Nal'dar smile as the two continued on through the dock.
"Dock J-89, this should be it!" Cal said, quickening her pace.
She looked out to the large docking pad which held their ship. It was an average Barloz-class freighter, named Autumn's Fury. Milo was sitting by one of the boarding ramps.
"Milo!" Nal'dar said, waving at him.
"I assume the mission was a success?" he said, grinning.
"But of course." Cal said, scoffing. Cal and Nal'dar quickened their pace even more to the Autumn's Fury.
"How did Master Ruan's mission go?" Nal'dar asked Milo.
"Well, we're picking him up, you can ask him yourself," Milo said walking up the boarding ramp.
Nal'dar and Cal followed him. They walked through a small hallway.
"I think I'm going to rest for a bit," Nal'dar said, opening the door to one of the quarters.
"Yeah no problem, we've got this," Milo said, gesturing to Cal to continue moving to the cockpit.
She stepped in front of him and heard a few whispers between Milo and Nal'dar as she opened the door to the cockpit. She stopped at the ships computer and checked on the supplies, nothing much just some food, then sat down in the co-pilot's seat. Milo came in a bit after and sat down in the pilot's seat.
"Okay let's go," Milo said, starting up the engine.
"Let's," Cal said looking at Milo, who was focused on the piloting.
The freighter lifted off the docking pad and left the city.

They flew for about three hours, staying under 500 kph, so as not to be detected, and when they finally reached their destination they had to wait for 8 more hours.
Cal was lounging in the golden field they landed in, under an blba tree, about 50 meters from the ship, Nal'dar and Milo stayed inside, but Cal loved the planets environment, so she opted to stay outside.
Finally she saw in the distance, her master, Ruan, moving through to fields towards the ship.
She got up and went over to meet him.
When they met up Cal began walking alongside him and asked, "So how was it?"
"Well the Dantari trading system is usually not held up on promises, but items, we really need those weapons in order for them to join us," he said.
"Well, as soon as we can get a shipment they will have it, how many tribes did you get with the promise?"
"Too few..."
"How many Dantari did you contact?"
"In all the tribes, probably around 50,000."
"Not bad for a week's work, eh?"
"Well, try not to forget, there are over 100,000 Empire forces in the city, and that's not including their vehicles..."
"If only Mon Calamari had waited, we could really use one of their ships to take out that damned Star Destroyer in orbit..."
"Don't forget that the Mon Calamari are not the only ones with powerful ships, if we can contact the Chiss, we may be able to persuade them to join our rebellion..."
"But the Empire hasn't even bothered attacking The Chiss Ascendancy, it's all the way in the unknown regions , why would they help us?"
"You make a good argument..."
Milo came rushing out of the ship, he sprinted to Cal and Ruan.
"Bad news, really bad news, The Emperor is coming here, to deal with us..." he said, fear filling his eyes.
"Damn," Cal said, "What is he bringing with him?"
"The Devastator," he responded.
"There is no way we can stand up to a Super Star Destroyer!" Cal said again, now beginning to panic.
"Calm down," Ruan began, "If we can succeed in defeating the Emperor, then we can crush the empire with ease, and all we have to do is move up our plans and we could have the necessary arrangements for a ground assault within days."
"He's right," Cal said, quelling the fear within her, "We have a couple days until he arrives, so we just need to get the blasters and the Freerunners and we can take the city..."
"It's not that simple!" Milo yelled, "With that Super Star Destroyer, Vader could just take out the city once we took it!"
"No, Dantoo Prime is too important as a food storage and shipping plant for him to do that..." Ruan said, scratching his beard.
"Well I suppose so..." Milo said.
"We have no time to loose, let's take the ship back to the temple and regroup!" Cal said.
They rushed into the ship and took off.

2 days before the Emperor's arrival

Cal and Master Ruan were meditating in the courtyard of the temple as Nal'dar and Milo were purchasing Two Freerunners in the City. For an instant, all was peaceful, then Cal felt a darkness coat the inside of her throat, she began to choke. Ruan immediately went to her aid, "What is it!?" he yelled. Just as soon as the darkness appeared, it subsided... she began to cough and gasp for air, "The dark side...." Ruan gazed down at his pupil.
"It... it came out of nowhere!" Cal yelled, catching her breath.
"Something powerful must be at work..."
"Master, there is no time to dwell on this, whatever it was, it is gone, and no one is near..."
"Something just attacked you out of nowhere, that is cause for concern!"
"The emperor will be here in less than two days, we need to focus on that!"
The Autumn's Fury landed outside the temple. Cal and Ruan left the courtyard to meet Milo and Nal'dar.
"Two KAAC Freerunners have been stashed a couple kilometers from the city, just waiting for pilots!" Milo said, walking up a long hallway that served as the entrance to the temple.
"Good," Ruan said, "Now we just need to hire some mercenaries to pilot them..."
"But I thought we would use the Dantari?" Nal'dar said, walking past Milo.
"Now remember, the Dantari are primitive, we can teach them to use blasters in a day, but not how to pilot a Freerunner."
"Good point..." Cal said, looking down and crossing her arms.
"Come Cal, we can drop Milo off to acquire some mercenaries while we get the blasters." Ruan said beckoning them all to walk back to the ship.
"Yes master," they all replied.
They all got in the ship and took off.

Cal and Ruan dropped Milo off in the southern end of the city, close to the black market, then flew to the central area. Cal and Ruan left the ship, Nal'dar was meant to pick them up to collect the blasters, and walked all the way to the elevator pad without saying a word, until Cal said, "Master, do you really think we can take the city?"
Ruan laughed, "No, no I do not."
Cal was shocked at his blatant pessimism, "Master!?"
Ruan's yellow eyes locked with Cal's white empty ones, "Our mission is not to take the city, but to kill Vader, that we must accomplish."
"Master, that is your goal, not ours..."
"With Vader dead we can restore peace much more easily than with one damned city!" Ruan yelled.
"Master, calm yourself, someone on the other pads may hear..."
"My apologies Cal, we need to take the city, and kill Vader, weather we can accomplish either of these is unknown to me..." That marked the end of their conversation.

They left the port and walked along the streets, which much cleaner here in the central city than the outskirts. They walked for about 10 minutes before coming up to their destination, a BlasTech warehouse.
There was a large open area, three guards on the ground, and two up in towers manning Repeating Blasters. Their target was the main warehouse, which had one guard by the door. They were unsure how many more were in the adjacent warehouses and guard houses, but they had no time to collect information.
Ruan charged into the courtyard and drew his lightsaber, a single bladed purple one, Cal used the force to knock the two guards in towers onto the ground, knocking them out, then drew her own lightsabers. The three guards on the ground began to fire at Ruan, he deflected all their shots and made his way towards the warehouse door. Cal fired a bolt of electricity at one of the guards, knocking him out, then grabbed the other guard and threw him against a wall, knock him out. Ruan moved close to the last guard and cut off his hand.
"MASTER!" Cal yelled, "We said we wouldn't kill them! They aren't with the Empire!"
"They supply them, they might as well be licking Vader's boots!" he yelled, the guard screamed.
"They were forced into that contract damnit!"
Ruan ignored her and sliced off the man's head. We don't have time for this damnit! Thought Cal. Ruan opened the door to the warehouse with the force, then went in, Cal followed. There were no guards inside the warehouse, but there were a few droids.
"Cal, access the droid systems to load those onto the gravity lifts," Ruan said, pointing to a computer. Cal went ahead and did it while Ruan contacted Nal'dar to come and pick them up. The droids began putting large cases of E-11 blaster rifles into the gravity lift to go up to the docking port. A thermal detonator was thrown into the warehouse through the doorway, Cal quickly threw it back using the force, hoping no one was seriously hurt.
"Master!" she yelled, "Into the Gravity lift!"
Ruan dove into the lift, knowing it wouldn't be the most comfortable ride, Cal followed, deflecting a few blaster shots with her lightsabers along the way.
When they got to the docking area, the Autumn's Fury was already being loaded with the blasters by droids. Ruan ran up the loading ramp, Cal not far behind him. They waited another minute in the cargo bay, they closed the loading ramp once they collected as many blasters as they could.
"Go man the turret," Ruan said, pointing to the back of the ship. Cal nodded and headed off to the turret.
The ship took off, from the communicator Cal could hear Nal'dar, "We've got two T-47's on our tail, if we don't take 'em out fast they can contact the Empire, and this thing can't take out a Tie!"
The ship was flying low, very low, so as not to be detected by aerial detectors. The first T-47 wasn't too hard to take down, only a few well fired shots took it down, the other one however, followed them for quite awhile, it took out one of the engines before Cal shot it down, "Can we stay airborne without that engine?" Cal asked.
"Yeah we're fine, get up here quick, we need a plan to get Milo out of the city..." Nal'dar said.
Cal quickly went to the cockpit and went to the communications station.
"I've got a plan," she said, smiling.
"What is it?" Milo said over the communications system.
"We can't pick you up, I hope you didn't spend ALL that money..." Cal said.
"Ummm.... why?" Milo asked.
"Nal told me about an old 74-Z bike that you guys found, buy it and get back to the Temple once you've got all the mercenaries."
"No problem, always wanted a bike..."
"Problem solved!" Cal said, ending the transmission.

1 day before the Emperor's arrival

Cal was meditating in the Temple as Ruan, Nal'dar, and Milo were training their newly acquired allies, the Dantari, in how to use blasters.
The plan was simple, use the Autumn's Fury to bring Ruan, Cal, and Nal'dar into the capitol building, as well as a dozen Dantari. Then charged the city with the rest of their Dantari allies and the two Freerunners, and pray that Vader isn't on the battlefield.

The day of the Emperor's arrival

Cal, Ruan, and Nal'dar were in the Temple, as well as their dozen Dantari allies and a mercenary to fly the ship. Milo was with the 50,000 Dantari and the two Freerunners, ready to liberate the city on Ruan's command.

Cal was getting the ship prepared for the assault, Nal'dar was explaining something to the Dantari leader in the temple courtyard, and Ruan was nowhere to be seen. Cal went looking for him, he was alone in the main building meditating.
"Master," Cal said, moving closer to him.
"Do you know what Vader wants most?" he said.
"I suppose Ultimate power is a bit ostentatious, so to Conquer the Galaxy?" Cal said, sitting across from Ruan.
"One may think that," Ruan said, opening his eyes and smiling, "but the true thing he wants, is the most powerful force technique there is."
"The transfer of his essence into a new body?" Cal said, remembering her teachings.
"No, but something even more powerful, midi-chlorian manipulation."
"What is that Master?"
"It is the most fearsome power of the Dark Side, developed by Darth Pelagueis, it is the complete control over life and death..."
"How could that be possible?"
"It is the farthest reach of the dark side, something to be feared, but luckily, Vader does not know that last remnants of Pelagueis' holocrons."
"Why are you telling me this Master?"
"Because I fear I shall not survive this, there are two who know of the location of these holocrons, Master Yoda and someone who I don't even know..."
"Why not destroy these holocrons master?"
"To destroy such knowledge is an abhorred offense to the Jedi Order..."
"But why are you telling em, I don't understand."
"Because if the fight with Vader is with you, and not me, I want you to shove it in his face with your last breaths..."
"Master, what makes you think I shall perish in a fight with him?"
"Please, he is more powerful than anyone of us..."
"Master, show me your Electric judgment," Cal said, realizing that her master was different than before.
"What?"
Cal raised her two hand and fired a green bolt of electricity between them, "Do it."
Ruan stood up and focused, when he fired the lightning between his hands it was white.
"Master, you have been corrupted with anger," Cal said.
"So what!? Once Vader is dead my anger will subside!"
"No, no it won't..."
"You are my student, there is nothing you can do about this..."
He was right, there was nothing she could do but continue with the plan, with a close eye on him of course. They left the building and went into the ship, The Dantari were waiting in the cargo bay.
"Master," Cal said to Ruan, "Please take the co-pilot seat, I want to meld with Nal'dar."
Ruan of course, took this as an insult, but then he realized why she did it, he had changed too much to do anything but harm to the meld, "Okay," he said, moving towards the cockpit.
Cal moved to the Captain's room and waited for Nal'dar.

Milo was leading a charge with the Dantari, when a blast from space fired down and blew out many of their forces.
"Get into their lines! It's the only way we can be safe from an aerial assault!" he yelled into his comm. system, which was then communicated to all the squad leaders, who followed his command. The Freerunners began firing into the front lines, both luckily escaped the space assault. The main problem they faced was a large number of At-Ats, it would take a bit of time for the Freerunners to take them down. Milo fell back to one of the Freerunners, he stored the new bike in it.
"Let's see how those At-Ats stand up to this..." Milo said, activating the bike and traversing the forces. He hit top speed as he was charging at re At-Ats, he jumped off the bike, which smashed into about a dozen Stormtroopers and blew up, and was flung into the fray. He tried to ignore as many troops as he could trying to get to the At-Ats, but he had to take out a few on his way.
As he jumped up to one of the At-Ats, he was hit by a Phase II Dark trooper, he fell down to the ground and dropped his lightsaber. He slowly got up from the hard hit and saw four dark troopers standing between him and the At-Ats. He stared at them for a moment, then they all raised their assault canons and began firing. Milo jumped up off the ground and avoided the shots, he then pushed two of them to the side, not knocking them down, but moving them. He propelled himself towards the last two, thanks to his battlemind, he was immensely focused and was able to absorb the few shots the two dark troopers he was charging at fired. When he got close enough he used all the force power he could, along with his own body to knock them on the ground. One of the Dark troopers to his side fired a missile at him, which he narrowly avoided, it barely scratched the two Dark troopers on the ground.
Milo found his lightsaber when he was thrown from the explosion. He activated it and threw it at one of the troopers, taking off its head. He ran at the dead machine and grabbed his saber as it came back, he jumped towards the two troopers on the ground and sliced one through the waist, the other activated its jump pack and got away. The one remaining standing started firing its blaster canon, Milo deflected the shots and moved closer to it, once he sliced it diagonally from the shoulder, he began looking around for the last one, it was nowhere to be seen. He felt it nearby, so he jumped to the right, it shoved its knife into his side. Milo quickly impaled it through the chest and fell on his knees, looking out onto the rest of the battle field.
The Dantari were overpowering the ground forces, but the At-Ats were obliterating them, one was taken out by one of the Freerunners, but there were still three remaining, and moving closer every minute. One of their Freerunners was taken out, and it was clear that they were losing... But overhead, Milo saw Autumn's Fury flying ...
"Take out that bastard..." Milo said, getting up, ignoring his injury.

Autumn's Fury flew directly over the Capitol building, there were two Espo walkers that began to fire at them, Cal and Nal'dar jumped out and the ship took evasive maneuvers. Cal used malacia on one of the pilots, causing him to accidentally pilot his walker off the building while Nal'dar went the brute force way and shoved her saber through the glass, killing the pilot.
The ship landed and the rest of their force went out, the 12 Dantari, and Master Ruan.
Cal, Nal'dar, and Ruan all felt the dark presence coming towards them as the Autumn's Fury left the building.
"Cal, Nal'dar, you take the Dantari and kill Darth Angor, I will take care of Vader..." Ruan said, activating his lightsaber.
"Master you'll die!" Nal'dar yelled.
"I know..." he said softly, Cal was the only one that heard.
"Let's go..." she said.
"But Cal-" Nal'dar began, realizing that they had to, thanks to the meld. She nodded at Cal, understanding the situation.
"Come on let's move!" Cal yelled to the Dantari.
They all rushed off the roof.

Master Ruan's battle with the Sith Lord was at a close, he saw Vader ready a lightning attack, and Ruan just let it slip past his guard... The lightning struck him and shot him backward, on the verge of death, he started to laugh.
"It's funny, *cough* I never got to meet you *cough* in person," Ruan said through a veil of coughs, "But I hold your *cough* desire in my hands, *cough* midi-chlorian *cough* manipulation... the secrets of life *cough* and death are now lost *cough* to you forever..." Ruan continued laughing, as the life slowly drained from his body, "How does it feel *cough* to have killed her again?" were Ruan's last words as he died before the Sith lord.

The battle was lost, the remnants of the Dantari were retreating from the battlefield, Milo was surrounded by hundreds of Stormtroopers, all with their guns trained on him. His body was still, his lightsaber was unlit, and his mind was at ease. His trade-mark grin appeared on his face as he ignited his saber one last time. The Stromtroopers fired on him, eviscerating him with their repeated blaster shots. Yet, he was ready to pass on, he had failed but he was at peace... and at peace he would remain...

Cal, Nal'dar and the remaining Dantari charged down the corridors of the Capitol building, they finally reached Darth Angor's office.
"Dantari, you keep going, kill as many Empire dogs as you can, me and Nal have this," Cal said pointing down the hallway.
Cal and Nal'dar looked at each other, both holding their unlit sabers, they nodded and opened the door. The room was quiet large, there was a large circular desk in the center of the room, behind it, the entire wall, around 30 meters long, was a window, and at the center of that window, looking out, was a woman, she had brown hair and was wearing a black cloak.
"So you've finally come..." she said taking a drink from a glass she had at her side.
"We've come to kill you, then your master..." Cal said.
The woman turned around, she was human, with green eyes, she was wearing black armor under the large black cloak, "Have you now? Well then I best dispatch you before he arrives..."
She crushed the glass in her hands and removed her cloak, she then took out and ignited two lightsabers, both red, Cal and Nal'dar did the same.
"Two against one, hardly seems fair..." Darth Angor said, smirking.
Nal'dar charged from the left, Cal did the same from the right. Before they reached Angor, she lifted the desk and threw it at Cal, who split it in half and continued to charge through it. The battle went on for a time, the sound of lightsabers crashing against one another, never landing a blow on flesh, Cal and Nal'dar jumped a bit back, needing a new strategy...
"You're better than I expected..." Angor said, "But still now strong enough!" Angor took a deep breath and then screamed, she then charged at Nal'dar with lightning speed.
"Force Rage!" Cal yelled, running to her partner's aid. Nal'dar was barely able to deflect the blows, soon she would be cut down by the Sith.
Cal rushed in, Angor fired a huge blast of energy, which Cal jumped away from, but the backlash still threw her against the window, about 5 meters away. When the energy hit the wall, it went through it, vaporizing a large hole. Nal'dar was still being bombarded by the Sith's attacks, Cal got up and focused on Angor's dark energy, she used the most powerful force attack in a Jedi's arsenal, Sever Force, she completely cut off Darth Angor's connection to the Dark Side of the force, she was unable to make it last for more than a second, but that was enough. Once her Force Rage was finished, she became extremely weakened, barely able to lift her lightsabers. Cal fell onto her knees, and Nal'dar decapitated the Sith. Nal'dar rushed to Cal.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah..." Cal said, breathing heavily, "Didn't think I could pull that off..."
"Well it wouldn't have been useful if she hadn't used that rage ability..."
"Thanks a lot, I just pulled off the most difficult force power on the light side, and that's all you can say?"
Nal'dar giggled, and helped Cal up, "It was very impressive, okay?"
"It was downright amazing is what it was..."
Cal stood on her own and looked around the room.
"Do you think master killed Vader?" Nal'dar asked Cal.
"I don't know..." she said.

Cal and Nal'dar stood about 15 meters from the door of the office, which now had Darth Vader blocking the way, along with four Phase II Dark Troopers. Cal and Nal'dar looked at each other, then both ignited their lightsabers.
"We may not win the battle, but trust me, your Empire shall fall," Cal said, getting ready to attack.
Nal'dar charged ahead of Cal, who followed with a large blast of green electricity, which was easily blocked by the Sith Master, but it gave an opening for Nal'dar, a typical Jedi would have dodged the attack, giving Cal time to finish them off, but Vader was not typical, he stood his ground, deflecting every attack that Nal'dar threw at him. Cal joined the fray, the sound of sabers clashing resonated through the room.
After a few minutes of battle, to no avail to either side, Nal'dar and Cal jumped backwards, both breathing heavily. Cal began losing focus, the stress from severing Darth Angor's tie to the force beginning to weigh heavily on her. Nal'dar figured this out through the meld and charged at Vader by herself. Cal propped herself up against the window, gazing at the battle between Nal'dar and Darth Vader, she knew Nal'dar would lose soon, Vader was too powerful...

Cal awoke in a small cell she was lying on a bench, Nal'dar was on the same bench with her knees brought close to her face. Why did they put us in the same room? Cal thought, not dwelling too long on the subject. She looked around a bit, typical Empire cell, nothing special. She looked at Nal'dar and said, "What happened Nal?"
Nal'dar started to cry a little, then said, "He was too strong..."
Cal moved over to Nal'dar's side of the bench, then held her, cradling Nal'dar's head in her bosom. She didn't speak for a time, but then said, "It's okay, at least you stood up to him by yourself, I was almost ready to fall down as you kept striking..." she kissed the top of Nal'dar's head then continued holding her for awhile.
After a few minutes, Nal'dar moved away from Cal and stood up, wiping the tears away, "I'm a Jedi Knight, I can't be struck to tears from one loss..."
Cal continued sitting down then said, "Exactly, now, where are we? And how to we get out?"
Nal'dar looked around the cell, nothing suggested any specific ship however. She looked around a bit more, then replied with, "Well, I haven't the slightest idea, but if I had to guess, I'd say we were on the Devastator."
Cal nodded then said, "And how exactly could we escape...?"
”Well, sadly we don't have our lightsabers, apparently that's too much but putting us in the same room is just fine," Nal'dar giggled, then returned to her thought, "So, these doors are much too powerful to be moved with the force, so I'm thinking we hope for some stupid Stormtrooper to come in, wanting to get a little action from the prisoners, then we jump him!"
Cal laughed at the last comment, then remembered where exactly they were, "So jumping the first guy to come in here then, let's hope it's not Vader..."
"Oh he's much to devoted to his dead wife to take advantage of us," Nal'dar said laughing.
"Well, that wasn't EXACTLY what I was talking about..." Cal said, giggling a little, she smiled then said, "I'm glad you're feeling better..."
Nal'dar looked down on the ground, a bit embarrassed. Cal stood up and hugged her, when the embrace ended Nal'dar moved to the door, and Cal sat back down, cross-legged. Nal'dar looked back at her, then said, "You going to meditate?"
"Well, there's nothing else to do, might as well..." Cal said, sticking her tongue out at Nal'dar, she then closed her eyes and lied in wait. Nal'dar sat next to her and began meditating herself.

Cal cut her meditating short, she felt something. Unsure what it was she asked Nal'dar, "Hey Nal, did you feel that just now?"
"Feel what?" Nal'dar asked, standing up and walking to the door.
"I'm not sure, just a surge of emotion..." Cal lied down on the bench and stared at the ceiling.
"Well, I DID feel some more force-users than just Vader and us," Nal'dar said, pleased with herself.
"Yeah I felt that too, but that emotion..." Cal started, not finishing her statement.
Nal'dar sat down beside her head and said, "I wouldn't worry about it..."
"But for some reason, I think it was directed towards me..." Cal said, beginning to fiddle with her hair.
"Why would someone have a 'surge' of emotion towards you?"
"Remember how I told you about me getting choked while meditating with Master Ruan?"
Nal'dar looked down at the ground, sad that their master had died, but she swept the emotion away and said, "Yeah, what about it?"
"Well, this has the same feel to it... like it's the same person..."
"Well then be on your guard, in case they try to choke you again!"
"I wouldn't be killed by a simple choke, please, previously it lasted for a second, with two more seconds I would've been free from it!" Cal sat up and looked at the door, "So let's wait for this foe, and be ready to deflect any force attack he has prepared!"
"I can't do the stupid bubble, you know that!"
Cal laughed and said, "Well I guess you're just gonna' die then!"
Nal'dar giggled then hit Cal in the shoulder. The next moment the door opened, a man walked in, and starred at Cal. She looked at him and asked, "Who the hell are you?" there was no response, "What do you want?" still no response. It was then that Cal felt what he was, this was the man who choked her, this is the man with a torrent of emotion towards her. She glared at him. After another moment he left.
"That was him..." Cal said, still glaring at where the man once stood.
"What?" Nal'dar asked.
"That was the man who choked me, and boy does he want me dead..."
Nal'dar put her hand on Cal's shoulder and said, "Not if we eviscerate him first..."
"Bit dark there Nal?"
"No, I don't harbor any anger towards him, I just love you and want you to be protected!"
Cal laughed at her comment, it was true, the light side of the force thrived on love, and hate fueled the dark side... which is all that man had... hate...

Cal and Nal'dar were loaded into an escape pod, then jettisoned to a planet. The second they entered the atmosphere, both Cal and Nal'dar felt an immense amount of dark-side energy... Yet, instead of coming from a single source, it radiated all around.
"By the force..." Cal said, "We're on the Sith home world!"
"What!?" Nal'dar yelled.
"I read it while we were still in the academy, the location was not in the archives, but the planet was abandoned about 5 thousand years ago... It marked the end of the Sith Empire, and the end of the Great Hyperspace War. I can't remember the name of the planet... but it's pretty far out in the galaxy in the Primus Goluud system..."
The escape pod crashed into the planet and Cal and Nal'dar walked out into the barren world, they landed in a large red desert, about a kilometer on each side of them, was a mountain range. Overhead they could see three moons as the sun began its slow descent on the horizon.
"By the force..." Nal'dar said, "This planet is pure malice..."
"It is testing our resolve," Cal said, "Steel yourself and prepare for an onslaught of darkness..."

The last bits of sunlight were being ripped from the sky, in a few more minutes, night would fall. Cal and Nal'dar were moving towards one of the mountain ranges, feeling an immense amount of Dark Side energy there. With darkness coming in, Cal used Force Light to light up the area around them, not its usual use but it still worked.
Two more shuttles landed onto the planet, not particularly close to them, but still close enough for them to realize they were both Sith.
"Damn, we don't even have our lightsabers! What can we do against two Sith!?" Nal'dar said.
"A Jedi has much more in their arsenal than a lightsaber, we can do much more damage to them with the force than they can do to us..." Cal said, putting her hand on Nal'dar's shoulder.
"What are you talking about!? The dark side has all the powerful attacks!"
"Powerful, against a typical person," Cal laughed, "But one thing a Sith can never understand is that the power a Jedi has, the power from peace, love, and justice, will always outshine hate..."
"That's easy to say when you aren't having lightning thrown at you..."
"Calm down Nal, we can protect ourselves from all that, it's the lightsabers that we need to worry about... I might be able to block one, if I'm lucky, but there's no way you can..."
"Never been good at Tutaminis..."
"It's not that, very few Jedi can successfully block a lightsaber with the force, at least that's what Master said..."
"Whatever... why exactly are we going to the place with the most dark side energy?"
"Well, I assume we're here because Vader wants the dark side energy for himself, so if we go and seal the Nexus point, then we can halt his plans, granted, he'll probably kill us afterwards, but at least we get to thwart his plans once before death!"
"Let's stick it to the Empire one last time!" Nal'dar said, quickening her pace.

Cal and Nal'dar reached the mountains after about 15 minutes of walking, it was still night time, and overhead the stars glistened alongside four moons. The dark side energy was kept at bay, thanks to Cal's light, but they still had two Sith, armed with lightsabers and hate to worry about...
"So, what else do you remember about this planet?" Nal'dar asked Cal as she took the first step upwards into the rocky mountains.
"Not much, just that this is the Sith Home world, there are no sentient beings that live here, and that the only real significance this place has is as a burial site to a bunch of Sith Lords..." Cal said, following Nal'dar into the incline.
"Wait..." Nal'dar sad, stopping and looking back at Cal, "Is this the planet that the Fallen Jedi went to after the Hundred Year Darkness?"
"I think so... I never really studied that period..." Cal said, stopping.
"So this planet is called Korriban," Nal'dar said, "And I bet we're going to the Valley of the Dark Lords..."
Cal pushed Nal'dar a bit to get her moving then said, "What do you know about it?"
Nal'dar continued moving up the incline, "Well, apparently after the Fallen Jedi retreated from the last battle of the Hundred Year Darkness, then they moved to the planet Korriban, said to house a species that was naturally dark-side oriented. The Fallen Jedi took over the planet, and for many years interbred with the natives, the Old Republic didn't know anything about this for a long while of course, but apparently, all the Sith Lords are buried in a place on this planet, called the Valley of the Dark Lords..." She looked up at the top of the mountain they were climbing, "I bet that's the nexus point we're sensing..."
Cal felt a feeling of anxiety, "I... I don't know if I can quell that much hate..."
Nal'dar moved closer to Cal and placed her hand on Cal's shoulder, then said, "You can't, but we can..."
Cal smiled then moved past Nal'dar up the mountain.

Tony ran toward the women he sent a message to animosity saying"that's not what i'm here for i don't care i'll stop and kill one of them you take the other and we leave this rock alive and happy i don't need anymore power dark or light i need more liquor!"he was tired already and saw flying creatures try to swoop in at him and cut them in half the creatures shrieking the whole way down he was happy to hear that he would replace it with the screams of women in a minute he ran faster and harder he would kill at least one of the women and had no plans of fighting animosity but was prepared still as Tony approached he hid his force from the others making himself disappear from their senses he had trained hard to learn to do that and it would pay off now he saw the women and waited for a signal from animosity to attack they would ambush the women and kill them easily he hid on top of a large rock it was surging with dark energy he ignored it his own energy blending in as the perfect camo for the force he was waiting to strike careful to stay out of the light.

Tony was unsure of this he would fall back his plans were tactical greatness he didn't care how they did it but two jedi would die here he didn't care if he had to convert them two jedi would not leave this planet's surface he would divide and conquer them not killing the younger less experienced one no she would under go the conversion he would stay down there until she died if he had to he wanted a student one who at least knew how to fight already he found a building that would make dividing them easy he broke it perfectly animosity could fight the dazed arkanian while he fought the padawan for control of her will he would not fail if he wasn't double crossed they might both walk out with two new sith allies who knows he told his goal to animosity he thought it was a good plan then he went to the padawan he was a good mimic and through the dust he used the force to copy the Arkanian's voice and called"quick we must retreat this way!"he then ran so the padawan would not get a good look at him if she followed his plan was to get her back to the shuttle and trap her there while coaxing her to the dark side.
(dazed from the building no doubt so no bitching about it.)

The creepy man's offer was tempting, at least that is what Cal was trying to show, she would never submit to the dark side, never... She looked up at the man and said, "Sorry, I don't join with people like you..." She raised her hand and turned her head away, an immense blast of light was produced, most likely blinding the man. Cal had no time to check whether he was dazed or not, she ran towards the presence of her friend, leaving the man behind.

Nal'dar continued following the figure she thought was Cal, then stopped and realized that she could sense no love within the figure, it wasn't Cal.
"Who are you!?" she yelled, raising her hands, ready to attack, or defend.

Nal'dar didn't trust the man before her, she held the lightsaber in her right hand, and the three crystals in her left. In a lightning fast motion she inserted the purple crystal into the saber and activated it, jumping a meter away from the man and getting into her Vaapad opening stance. She smirked then said, "Bad move giving your prey a lightsaber..."

Cal sensed her friend from about 100 meters away, she started sprinting at her top speed, while charging up electric judgment. It took her about 15 seconds to reach them, she jumped above Nal'dar and fired her electric judgment at the man before her, then stuck her landing.

Not having enough time to put the crystal into her newly-acquired lightsaber, Cal swiftly raised her hand and blocked the saber with Tutaminis, then used the force to put the crystal in the lightsaber and jumped backwards about a meter. She activated the saber, blue, then raised it towards the man. She then said in a mocking tone, "How'd you find us? Did you remember my scent you little puppy?" She giggled a little then jumped up and attacked him from the air, using her preferred style of combat, Ataru.

Nal'dar saw what was going on between Cal and the Sith, then quickly looked at the other Sith and said, "If you really are our ally, then help us take this bastard down!" She charged into the fray!

As soon as Cal saw the energy-build up in the man's hand (thanks to her Arkanian eyes), she dove to Nal'dar and gripped her stomach, then activated Force Bubble to protect them from the force lightning. The power surged throughout the watery ground, hitting the energy field Cal had set up, but not damaging it in the least.

"You okay?" Cal asked Nal'dar removing her hands from Nal'dar's waist and looking into her eyes.

"Yeah I'm fine, you really saved my butt, thanks," Nal'dar smiled then looked outside the bubble, the Sith was still pummeling the ground with lightning, "Damnit..."

A blast of dark side energy slammed Cal's mind, causing her to lose focus for a moment, just enough for the bubble to go down... Nal'dar, knowing how strange this was, grabbed Cal by the stomach and used force push on the ground to propel themselves away from the watered field. Nal'dar then asked, "What the hell was that Cal?"

"I... I don't know..." Cal said, standing up and looking at the man, "He has a great power over the force, frightening even... yet it is filled with lust, desire, and emotion... he's just a common Sith!"

"I wouldn't call him common, but we need to eliminate him..." Nal'dar said, igniting her lightsaber.

"He's too powerful on this planet... we need to quell the energy from the nexus point if we are to have any chance..."

"Then go..." Nal'dar said, stepping in front of Cal, "Go and erase the nexus point, me and the other Sith can handle this cretin..."

Cal was about to put up objection to this, but then realized it needed to be done. She simply said, "Don't die..."

Nal'dar smirked and said, "There is no death; there is-"

"-the force," Cal finished the Jedi proverb, then ran towards the cliffs.

Nal'dar stepped a bit forward and planted herself firmly in between the man and Cal, yet still out of reach of the water, she would stand firm until either her own death, or his...

The immense power channeled within the man was awe-striking, Nal'dar's first instinct was to run, but then he might go after Cal. Devising some semblance of a plan, she jumped forward just enough to avoid the attack, but not enough to allow him to go after Cal without being killed. She didn't think she would be able to keep this up for long, but she had to try, she wasn't alone after all, the other Sith was there. Hopefully he wouldn't fire any more anti-matter pods on the surface, he must've not thought that one through too much...

Cal felt the great disturbance in the Force as she sprinted away from the battlefield, she had no time to help, she needed to get to the Nexus point...

After a few minutes of running, Cal stopped at the top of a mountain over-looking the valley. It was covered with rocks and statues, in the center was a spire-like building, with dozens of excavation sites around the mountains into the tombs of ancient Sith Kings, and Lords... The dark side was nigh-overpowering in the presence of so much Passion, and ancient hate... Most Jedi would be unable to keep with the light in such a place, but Cal needed to be strong... She took a step closer to the place, then heard a voice:

"A Jedi? In this land...?" Cal turned to the voice, it was a Spirit, an apparition of the dark-side of the force, it appeared to be an ancient Sith Lord, Naga Sadow. His facial features were skewed, from many years of breeding with the ancient species of the Sith. He continued talking, "Why would a warrior of light be in a place such as this...?"

"To eliminate the dark side from this place..." Cal said, standing tall and trying to seem confident.

"You cannot... it is impossible, this planet's core is infused with the dark side, there is no way to alleviate it..."

"I can try..."

"You truly are foolish little Jedi, the Sith are more powerful than anyone could possibly imagine... Look at the new Dark lord, Vader, what a striking and powerful man, do you believe you can actually defeat him?"

Another voice chimed in, "She can, and she will Sadow..."

Cal looked to her left, it was a human, dressed in Jedi Robes, he didn't look familiar to Cal...

"Anjuta Pall... why do you still haunt this place... you were taken to the light if I recall...?" Sadow said, laughing.

"Anjuta Pall? Didn't Darth Revan free you from this place?" Cal inquired.

"He freed me from the clutches of 20,000 years of darkness... and I repay him by helping the occasional worthy Jedi that wanders to my burial ground..." Pall said, smiling.

"You are a fool, all the Jedi are fools, the Sith are eternal, the Sith will win! Darkness is the right path! You know it to be true girl!" Sadow said. Cal made a fist then thrust it through his spirit. He laughed and said, "Do you really think he can defeat the Dark side? A Sith never dies!"

Cal smirked then used an immensely powerful force light, the Spirit of Naga Sadow screamed then disappeared... forever...

"Jedi, what is your name?" Pall asked Cal.

"Cal," she said, nodding and smiling.

"I will help guide you to the epicenter of the Nexus, quick we must hurry!" The spirit began to move quickly down the mountain, Cal followed...

The man ran away from Nal'dar and disappeared, normally it wouldn't be too hard to find him, but with the combination of the dark side energy resonating from the planet, and the fact that it was night time, she was unable to find him. She did, however, sense Cal, so she decided to go to her, figuring the man was after her. She ran up the mountain towards the single other presence of light on the planet.

Cal was following the Spirit of Anjuta Pall, when a ship landed near her, it was one of the other Sith's. Anjuta Pall appeared directly in front of Cal and said, "Do not trust this man! He is a follower of the insidious force! Quickly we must move!"

"The insidious force?" Cal asked, not moving.

"He is neither Dark, nor light, he is one of few whom think that neither side is stronger than the other."

"He isn't a Sith?"

"Nor is he a Jedi..."

Cal thought on this for a moment, and realized, "He may not be a Jedi, but he isn't a Sith..."

"He will sell you out to save himself, for he is driven by instinct and carnal desire!" Pall said, beckoning Cal to move around the ship.

"I don't have time for this I have to seal the nexus..." Cal said, charging right past the ship and continuing to sprint towards the Spire in the Center of the Valley.