Atella

Dario sighed, turning the crystal marble containing intel of the foreign ship within it's magic. When the ball was placed on his portable projector, a perfect plasma replica of the thing appeared. He had other crystals in a small pouch in his work case, contaning more intel and models of the visitors.

For now the device was off. Looking at it was giving him a headache. It was entirely puzzling, a strange ship here and gone, their people looking at the planet. If they were even people.

Dario settled back into the basket chair of the bubble shaped plasma pod he was riding in. He was approaching Ensis fast up the Tear and wanted to enjoy some of the ride before seeking council with those higher in power than he.

[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.