Kinara's Story

Wait, what are.... oh no you dont! Try to search my ship without my permission ? Like Sithspit you are!! Sadly Snowbund noticed on her ships internal sensors certain things happening and reacted, hitting a few controls she sealed the observation deck to keep soldiers from moving so freely through her ship. Locking them in halls and out of certain rooms. this wasn't good"Cynthia! The men are spreading into Fury, stop them, something, stay diplomatic, I cant sense if Kinara is up yet. I dont know who these people are opr where they came from, but T7 has the full readout of the ship. Just have her look at that and keep the men in that deck with you!!" The mere idea of the men searching her ship scared the Kraethian. "If they find out I am not truly human, we got problems, this ship is encoded to my signature, if they try to take it from me..."

Cynthiana inwardly smiled and replied to her scared friend. "Relax Snowball, I'll run interference, just keep the bridge sealed" Cynthiana mentally replied to Snowbunds sudden scared Connection, this wasn't good, Cynthiana could feel that searching thing on the edge of her senses again, and she felt it getting closer too. "We're dead in space in a region none of us aboard know anything about. Other then hoping and praying that the planet below is not in the market for Kraethian Furs" Cynthiana said aloud to Elanna with a slight bow of greeting again.

"I'm keeping the entire observation deck sealed, sadly you're up there too. I can use ray shielding though. Lock the searching men within the shields and let you get back down from the observation deck before I vent it ?"

"No that wont work Snowbund, it wont work ,We're Jedi not Sith remember ? Trust me pleas,e I know what I'm doing" Cynthiana replied softly in the Connection, this was under control, hopefully

"My droid here has a readout of everything currently ailing Focus Fury at this time, we have main reactor power, but no engines, even if we could get back our desired destination the only result is nothing as we cant move." Cynthiana reached out with her senses. Following each Marine as they moved through the Fury.

Sensing where two where going. with Kinara in the medbay and the door still wide open, Cynthiana focused her pink eyes on Elanna and calmly said simply "Do us all a favor and inform your men to return to this room and not waken the one in the medical bay, its imperitive she gets her sleep. She has not woken in two days since we left Arda and it worries me" the last time Cynthiana had really seen Kinara was shortly after the Clone Wars and during the Purge and rise of the Empire back home. Cynthiana had since lived on her homeworld of Kuat for several years.

Somehow however, Cynthiana felt it was going to go downhill very quickly. Already wishing those Droids she had faced on Arda at the spaceport there were hidden aboard the Fury. If they were, she prayed tothe Force itself for them to be of aid. The enemy of her enemy was her friend, in a manner of speaking. But there was something else about the woman, and the soldiers now on the CR90. The way the woman handled herself made Cynthiana cross her arms and look the woman over carefully.

Finally Cynthiana shook her head after trying to think over what Elanna had said she was part of, "I'm sorry I must apologise but I am not familar with this.... Empire was it ? I guess you could say I kept to my homeworld for some time before the Sith started tracking me again recently. It was not until meeting up with a friend who again I must apologise for at this moment she is rather scared of this planet and quite possibly you and your men. And because they have begun searching her vessel without her leave, Recall them into this room. now. If you are searching for something, you must ask first of such permissions to do so. And since your men did not ask for permission, some of them are now locked in ray shields. For Mandos, they're quite stupid" Then again the Aschen marines looked like Mandolorians, so it was lack of proper knowldge of this galaxy for Cynthiana to get the two mixed up, it was also very possible that Snowbund could snap and accidently kill one or harm one out of fear. But Cynthiana tried to keep herself calm

Compared to the soldiers, and to Elanna, Cynthiana was rather scantly dressed, and looked to be completely unarmed aside from a silver cylander about 55 centimeters long, but then again, Cynthiana was a Jedi Master, and her ally was the Force. Snowbund too was a Jedi Master as well; yet.... she was scared of the Aschen, scared for her life. Kinara, who while also a Jedi Knight, was out like a dead hyperdrive at the moment.

The moment would pass, however, as Kinara began to stir. Reaching out with the Force, she squinted her closed eyes. Surely she wasn't dead....but it seemed that the ship she was on was. Or at least mostly. It took a little while, but the young Jedi finally opened her eyes. The room looked more or less a mess.

Not that she wasn't used to that, though.

She sat up slowly, a hand to her throbbing head while she gritted her teeth. Letting out a sharp breath she sighed and looked around the room again now that she was conscious. Well, they survived their encounter with those weird droids it seemed so that filled her with some amount of happiness. She swung her legs off of the recovery bed and tied her hair back quickly before standing.

Another reach out with the Force told her that Snowbund and Cynthiana were healthy and well, albeit a bit panicked. She shook her head before looking around one last time; where was her bag?

Elanna nodded slightly as she tapped her communication node.

"Change of plans." She said aloud, as a coded bitstream message played through AI translation into her ears.

"Commander, Fleet is recalling you back to Tal'dor, The Nightraven is needed on another more urgent assignment. The Imperial Intelligence Agency is being tasked with observing the target world for consideration. But Minister Chaska just brought the proposal before the Quorum, and they're not happy."

Torres frowned for a moment, before she looked up to Cynthiana.

"We need to depart, I apologize, but I will be unable to assist you." Torres said, regretfully as she turned, nodding to the Marine Sergeant standing beside her.

"Recall your men, we're getting out of here." She said as she turned to the docking hatch, wrapping her slender fingers around the rappelling rope that would pull her up into the Reverence S Above.

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If permitted, the Marines would retreat to the room where they initially boarded, from there they would all return to the hatch from where they came, to board their ship for departure.

Cynthiana merely bowed her head at the aplogy, "For what aid you were able to give us, you managed to cease our constant spin, and for this we thank you. Safe travels to you and yours." She said simply, a hint of strong Coreward accent to her tone. "Snowball, they're leaving, you can release the Mandos you got in the ray shields now."

"Doing so as we speak Cynthi, caught one outside the medbay, that door is open. Kinara's up though, best you check on her, we stopped spinning like you said, but we're still dead in space and cant move. At least we got reactor power, and the galaxy map is loaded"

"Good for me I will see to Kinara, you try and keep us.... sane. But keep your guard up Snow, we might have company. Something does not feel right" Cynthiana replied as the men who had begun searching the Fury came back to the observation room and airlock station. "For what aid you were able to give us, you have our thanks." Cynthioana said to Elanna with another slight bow as the airlock shifted closed and the light went red as the solders left.

That's that. now to see to Kinara Cynthiana thought, turning on her heel she darted to the turbolift and went down two decks to the medical bay. Stepping into view from the turbolift Cynthiana saw Kinara looking rather distressed. But of why she did not know. "Oh thank the Force you're awake! You had us worried the last two days!" Cynthiana said seeing her friend up and about, searching frantically for something. "Is something wrong ?"

Once Elanna was situated in her CIC, she opened up a large map of Eterna once more, her eyes glancing at it for a moment.

She then brought her attention to the Datalink, a flickering image of Admiral Nagala displayed.


"Commander, I've recieved new orders from Chairman Inviere. The IIA Is going to send spies to observe the planet, and keep the Empire informed of it's state of affairs, The Quorum wants to initiate contact with the planet's respective governments, while others want to leave it alone."

"I understand." Commander Torres reported. "I'll spool our FTL Drives and set course for Tal'dor." She said, before she opened a transmission to the corvette below them.

"I'm transmitting some information if you're interested in addtional contact with my people." Torres said, before transmitting some information on the Aschen Empire, for Snowbund and Cynthiana to go over.

After the transmission was complete, the Reverence S pulled away, and engaged it's stealth. The Prowlers didn't have a chance to leave the hangar bay.

Immediately after the Reverence S Disappeared, there was a spatial rupture and a flash. The Aschen ship was gone.

Meanwhile, in an unknown corner of Wild Space, Lord Wrath continued to cast his telepathic net across the star system. Entire worlds, civilizations both ancient and modern, passed through his awareness. He could sense the fear and anticipation wafting from Cynthiana and her comrades. Their own chaotic emotions, paired with the dark power of the Sith holocron, was like a beacon that quickly lured Wrath's presence to the small corvette drifting in orbit around Eterna.

"Cynthiana..."

The net snapped closed like a vice. A telekinetic Force grip latched onto the vessel - causing the hull to groan in protest and the lights to flicker erratically. Wrath's awareness, like the unblinking eye of a cosmic titan, descended upon the ship and narrowed upon the three lifeforms hiding behind its narrow walls.

"... You cannot hide from me..." a Voice spoke into her mind, ending with a mechanical raspy breath. A face, like a solemn black skull adorned with glowing red eyes, flashed into her mind. It was quickly followed by the brief image of a star system, except it was a star system unlike any other. The system was comprised of a single planet,a single moon, and a single star...

... With the planet at the center.

Then just as suddenly as it appeared, the image was gone.

A sleek and narrow shuttle suddenly tore passed Eterna and skid to a halt beside the corvette. Three metallic objects were jettisoned from the shuttle. The objects uncoiled into three humanoid droids before they latched onto the corvette's hull with a series of thuds.

The Agents of Wrath had returned.

As the Fury suddenly lurched Cynthiana screamed, clutching her head as she dropped to her knees As something called her name, and connected with her. Oh no, no no. No, something was looking for her, something powerful, not entirely evil, yet not entirely good, They were looking, Ah it hurt! She shrieked briefly as a image invaded her mind, all she could see for a brief instant was a planet, with a single moon, and the star orbiting the planet.

Atella

The northern continent of Eterna, home to prosperous temperate climates and diverse geography, as well as the majority of the planets crystal fields.

This was weird.

She jerked out of the trance she found herself in when she heard dull thuds outside the ship, and then came Snowbunds frentic screeching in Kraethian and Catharese.

ONG {Oh Not Good!} was repeating in Cynthiana's mind. Using the force she opened a nearby cabinet and withdrew her back, within it was the holocron. She rarely let it out of reach, even at the Temple on Coruscant it was always within reach, or her senses at all times. Only she could open it and see what was inside.

She heard another thud up above and briefly looked upwards. Sithshit!

Kinara was about to answer Cynthiana's question when she found what she was looking for, and shook her head as she leaned down to pick up her bag from under the table. However as Cynthiana screamed, Kinara jerked back, hitting her head against the table with a loud Thud!, which made her curse under her breath while she rubbed at her head.

She looked to Cynthiana after managing to stand up, and then bit her bottom lip. She'd no idea what was going on; until she did however.... she needed to make sure all her stuff was with her. Everything was. Clipping her lightsaber to her belt, and something else that looked like a night-stick to the back of her belt, she walked over to Cynthiana, reaching out with the Force to calm her.

"Shh....Cynthiana? Are you okay?" She then glared at the holocron and her hand went to her saber hilt. "I thought you were going to get rid of that..."

[As the Fury floated in orbit Snowbund read through the datapacket, a large one, locked in the bridge alone. As far as she knew the droids that they had briefly facted on Arda were after not her but Cynthiana, that and the Mandos had given her information ? This was interetesting to say in the least. She heard, and then felt Cynthiana's sudden Force surge and then heard her screaming, Oh Sithshit.... What now ? Snowbund stopped her reading and stood up just as she heard a pair of hreavy thuds on the windscreen and stared at two droids....

ONG!

Cynthiana struggled to get herself calmed down, OK, it was OK, she was alright, the brief vision of the planet, the syastem, weird as it was, in Wild Space somewhere, Unlike Zakuul which she had hidden on for a few years to evade the Empire belonging to Plapatine before hiding on Kuat, her home world. She took a deep breath and tried to focus as resounding thuds were heard outside and above.

"I think we're going to have com...." She started to say when Kinara spoke, turning to her friend she shook her heasd concerning the holocron "I tried, and every time it just draws unwanted problems, Even when locked, it still lures others to darkness, I have to keep it garded until I can find a proper vault to hide it in. Until then I'm stuck with it." She was thankful however that Kinara did not yet ask how she defeated the three droids the first time as her hands went to her saberstaff before picking up the sack. Going through it carefully she found a item.

A tracking device.

Sithshit....

Kinara gritted her teeth and huffed at Cynthiana's inability to destroy the Sith Holocron. Apparently now that she was well rested it could tempt her; making her lean towards the Darker emotions. She felt this however and was fighting back. She shook her head and walked out of the room, unintentionally bumping into Cynthiana as she passed due to the Holocron-induced little rage.

Once out of the room however she felt okay, and paced back and forth to calm her nerves. She needed another large Saber Crystal to fit her empty hilt; she had three smaller ones already, but needed the last one to complete it and give it the power it needed to contend with Hate-fueled Sith Light sabers.

She heard the clunking on the hull and slowly drew the hilt of her lightsaber again from its place on her belt, thumb hovering over the activator button. Her other hand went to the hilt of the one on her back, and grabbed the handle of the night-stick-like saber. The metal was saber resistant, so she could use it for damn near anything she wanted to.

Spinning the nightstick hilt in her left arm she lowered into a defensive stance, unsure of what to do. "Cynthiana?" She asked, the door still open behind her.

Right before Cynthiana could answer the nearby speaker roared to life "We got company, Sensors are counting half a dozen of the suckers, Droids all of them. I'm also picking up strong Force Signatures from them too! Good luck guys they're in the observation deck, hangon they just sealed it!"

Ok great that meant half a dozen droids were in the ship, and they were drifting. Cynthiana searched through the sack briefly and held u pthe tracking device. Well Sithshit. She grumbled something and then used the force to destroy the tracking device, a brief explosion of electrical power enveloped her hand.

Destruction of a Holocron just wasn't possible, if at all. And Cynthiana knew it, she had tried time and again, but each time, the Darkness within the holocron she carried tried to lure her, tempt her. you name it, it alwayus showed her Visions of what the Darkness could do if it were a destroyed holocron. So she simply made a new layer, more light to contain the dark, Now it was more like the size of a small basketball like rock.

She looked up when she heard her name called by Kinara. At the same time she created using the Force, another layer of light to encase the holocron. Anything to stifle the dark side within the thing. "What ? Great, they're back. And apparently they still want this. It wont work for them." She withdrew her saberstaff from where she set it and snapped on one of the blades. Using it with the Force she sealed the latest holocron layer with the saber, locking it, melting it, fusing mostly.

There, another layer of Light to shield the darkness from getting loose.

Now then, something more important was to be had, turning to Kinara as she turned off her pink blade she asked "Are you alright ? You slept for two days since we left Arda" Otherwise known as Terra, "You had me worried sick!" With the ammount of safeguards Snowbund had thankfully in place, small stuff mostly, it was a matter of time before things got.... crazy

The Agents of Wrath scuttled across the ship's hull like cockroaches. Their azure cybernetic eyes combed the surface with a mechanical scrutiny as they searched for an opening into the vessel. One of the droids finally came across the hatch of an airlock, and it summoned its siblings with a mental ping.

It tossed its brown cloak over its shoulder, revealing a metallic arm. The limb moved fluidly, almost organically, yet the cold durasteel coating the droid's flesh affirmed its nature. A blinding violet light materialized above its wrist. Beta-Seven, for that was its designation in the collective, thrust its clenched fist against the hull with a dull thunk and the light erupted into a piercing blue flame.

A moment passed, and a small section of the door started to glow an angry orange.

<< Infiltration completed in approximately forty-five seconds. >>

<< Acknowledged. >> Another droid stood beside Beta with his feet magnetized to the hull. << Gamma, begin streaming to Repository. >>

Kinara waved away Cynthiana's question. "I'm fine, just hungry. I'm afraid that that won't matter though if we can't get down to a planet and get rid of these ....things." she said calmly. As the sounds of skittering across the hall reached her ears she lowered into a lower stance, and her lip twitched.

The loud pang of Beta's fist clanging against the hatch of the airlock, she blinked and opened a comm-link the Bridge of the ship. "We've got masks on this ship, right? I'm afraid those things are going to try and break in!" She said. She then shook her head. "Screw that, actually....if there's a planet nearby, bolt for it, maybe we can burn them off in the atmosphere!" She said calmly, moving to where she could feel the Droids breaking through the hatch, letting the Force guide her.

Her feet moved quickly and quietly, and as she found the hatch, and took quick, deep breaths, packing her body and lungs with as much oxygen as she could within a short amount of time.

She had a feeling this was going to get rough really quick.

"We're in Orbit of a planet yes, but we dont have any movement..... oh Sithshit no they aren't! Grab something!" Snowbund's hands went over controls in the bridge and the hatch Beta was opened, thankfully the lower level was solid enough, the observation deck was sealed off anyhow. Worst came to worse, Snowbund could activate some ray shields to hold them all in. Even keep air in too if she had to do so.

Cynthiana smirked, "Well, even if I DID give this thing to those droids they'd find it completely useless, lifeless, piece of junk really." she said, she put the pack on then brushed her hands off, her fingers sparked abit from the Force Lightning she had used to fry the tracking device. "Best case scenario, we can take these things on inside the ship, from what I've seen, Snowball added some sparring rooms, and the walls are lined with Cortosis..... Which should help in keeping them out"

Snowbunds voice rang on the comm "They're in, I opened the hatch, good luck, I ray shielded the bridge and the observation decks, Once the airlock closes and cycles, the air will be fine... oh hey we got movement!! Hangon to something!" The Fury lurched briefly as it got underway, the engines going at half power as Snowbund worked to keep her ship under control. There was no time to lose. Apparently something, whatever it was, that was holding them dead in space, was now done with them ? But whyfor ?

And just as the ship lurched it sent Cynthiana dead to the deck, all sorts of medical supplies landing on her with painded grunts, followed by a loud scream as half a block of kolto slammed onto her. Kolto was not just heavy, but when you blew a unrefined keg of it up, it felt absolutely great!

The sudden opening of the airlock took the Agents by surprise, but they quickly recovered and leaped through the open hole. All three droids - Alpha, Beta, and Gamma - landed inside the airlock with a roll and crouch. Two of the droids' eyes glowed with the same golden yellow as their lightsabers. The third's, however, glowed an eldritch red and radiated a nauseating aura...

The pair of glowing red eyes narrowed coldly onto the other side of the room, and they seemed to peer through the steel and focus solely on Cynthiana.

<< Prepare to breach the interior. >> Alpha-7 ordered.

The two flanking droids stepped forward and ignited their lightsabers. They swung in a synchronized motion and drove their blades into the inner airlock door. Slowly, ever so slowly, they pushed their blades through the steel to form a circle.

As the lightsabers of the droids made contact through the cold steel of the inner air-lock, Kinara took a few more breaths to pump up her body, then she activated her main saber, the night-stick shaped one in her left hand lacking a proper focusing crystal to be of much use. The green bladed hummed to life, and its black core crackled in the center.

She lowered into a defensive Soresu stance once more with her ignited saber pointing towards where she suspected her enemies would land -in front of her- and with her left arm bent slightly, the saber-resistant hilt of the guard-shoto saber gleaming in the light of the ship's interior.

"I guess about ten seconds before the party starts; I'll do what I can to keep 'em busy now that I'm fully rested." Kinara said into her comm channel. "Just try to get us on that planet! I don't care if you have to crash us in a field. I'm not dying in space." She growled.

Clearly the influence of the dark holocron hadn't completely rubbed off yet, but otherwise she remained neutral, light.

Alright....let's party.

"There's no way whatsoever I'm landing in a field or anything! I just got this ship, you think I wanna wreck it already ?" Snowbund grumbled over the comm before hitting some more controls as the observation deck airlock pressurised and opened allowing Kinara and Cynthiana to see four lightsabers poking through the airlock door to cut it open "Please tell me they're not doing what I think they're doing ?"

"Yeah" they're doing it." Cynthiana said withdrawing her saberstaff and ignting one of the blades. There was not enough room to duel in this corridors of the CR90, yet it was spacious enough for their needs at that moment.

"I told you not to tell me that" Snowbund grumbled again and hit some controls. Ray Shields activated along the walls. they were lightsaber resistent and thus allowing the fight to comhence once the droids cut through.

"You may want to look into getting the airlock repaired as soon as possible though. Where's an earby station for such repairs ?" Cynthiana said offhand as she was once more thankful that Kinara said nothing concerning the Force Lightning yet. Just frying the tracking device alone with force lightning could lure Cynthiana to the dark side, but no.

"I said not to tell me about that!" Snowbund screamed. Fully rayshielding herself in the bridge. These droids however weren't after her, or her ship just something on it, something Cynthiana carried

The yellow lightsabers, slowly but surely, completed the circle around the air lock. They vanished from sight, leaving the glowing red steel visible to the two jedi. Suddenly the door lurched towards them as it was shoved violently from its perch. It was quickly followed by the two droids leaping through the hole before the door landed on the ground with a deafening CLANG!

The droids lashed out at the two Jedi with lightsabers blazing. They spun them in tight circular motions to divert any strikes before slashing at the Jedis' saber handles in an attempt to disarm them. A pattern emerged in their chaotic flurry as they simultaneously attacked and defend. What strikes one could not block or dodge, the other would divert with their own lightsaber.

The third droid simply stood in the doorway while the other two dueled with the Jedi. Its glowing red eyes narrowed coldly on Cynthiana. An aura of darkness surrounded the droid's inert neutrality like a shroud. It's cybernetic eyes diverted towards Cynthiana's bag.

"Surrender the artifact." it spoke. "It must be archived and contained. Surrender it, and we will refrain from deadly force."

Kinara would wait for the droids to come to her, her mastery in Soresu allowing her to effortlessly block and deflect almost every single strike that the Makashi-wielding droids used. What she couldn't block or deflect she dodged just barely. She however did use the circular movements the Droids were employing against her and Cynthiana to her advantage, her deep, steady, but mobile stance keeping her very much in the game.

The saber-resistant metal of the guard-shoto in her left hand did its job, and she used that for a majority of her blocking, spinning it much like one would a tonfa to also counter attack in a graceful, dance-like way. She would attempt to cut the arms and legs off of these droids as best she could whilst mostly defending, using a bit of the acrobatic Ataru form to close the distance between her and her opponent.

Briefly she cast a glance to the third droid standing in the shroud of darkness and her lip twitched before she ducked a saber-strike and went to sweep the Droid's legs with her own leg.

The the walls ray shielded, nothing could get past them or damage much if anything at all. Snowbund watched as the fight occured. At least she had engine control, so they could move, for the moment at least. The airlock was going to need extensive repairs judging by the damage done, but she had the credits for it, after all, with sixty or so million creds to an account, what was not to get at that piont anyhow ?

First thing was first, Cynthiana thought seeing the three droids. One once more kept back, shrouded in darkness, they were after the holocron she carried. Well tough shit they weret getting it!

Flinging out her saberstaff the pink blade span like a massive wheel, spinning backwards as she threw it forwards towards a droid, then catching it, she did the move twice more before shifting and all but slugging a droid dead inthe center of where its face were to be. Slamming into it with a cortosis lined glove with all the Force she could muster behind it before launching force lighting right behind the punch directly at the Droid.

How Cynthiana could control Force Lightning, and not be lured by the Dark Side while doing it, was all thanks to that Holocron she carried on her at all times. She lifted with her free hand a burnt black device "Looking for this ?" She asked, holding between two fingers, which still sparked, the electrified tracking device. She had fried it using Force Lightning.