DISCLAIMER: Locations such as Tatooine, Coruscant, etc, and items such as a lightsaber are
property of the Star Wars universe created by George Lucas and his many writers. This fic is
mostly original and characters such as Lord Pentares, Commander Ayslinn Starr, Major Aerill Jax,
Malcolm, Commander Dah'lin, Lysa Jax, etc are property of the Penname Aerill Jax and are not to
be reproduced in any form without the expressed written consent of this author...
BOOK ONE
Redeeming Light
Prologue
"It was a time where ancient knights once roamed the land, where man
coexisted with itself and alien races in brotherhood each seeking a
common good. Knights stood as protectors to those who needed protection,
justice to those who needed justice, and the upholders of good in the
land. They were of the light, an offspring with an unending source of
power that was used for good. However, through human greed and selfishness
all good things come to an end, an evil man with bad intentions swayed
those who were easy to control to his banner. There were those who tried
to fight this evil harbinger but to no avail, failed. Those whom were
still alive fled out of fear and justice was left undone. A true and
honest King was sacrificed amidst these times and hope was withered.
The evil man, Pentares, assumed the throne and in the following years
led the kingdom into turmoil and strife. It was written that when the
people needed him again the great king would return and bring forth Excalibur
once again. Amidst these troubled times unto the queen, Lysa, was born
a son. This son who was to be the one true king was named Aerill, in
the language of his people, redeemer. He was the last, best hope for
his people. So begins the story of the rise of a true hero, the
salvation, the king of light."-Journal of Karta
Chapter One
Out of the Darkness
Screams of pain were being muffled as Lysa clenched her teeth
and a cheaply widdled piece of wood. As Lysa bit down onto the piece
of wood she felt a pain in her gums as if her teeth were going to shatter
as the small plank did little to ease her pain. Sweat beaded on her
forehead and slowly dripped down her body as it soaked the rumpled
sheets covering her. It was happening then and there and there would
be no stopping it now, she was going into labor. Time was running out
quickly as Pentares' men overtook the palace security and the King's
own personal bodyguards. Even now it would not be too long before
Pentares himself would discover Lysa. If Pentares knew about the child
that was being born at this very moment he certainly would have plotted
to kill him like Herod in ancient times. Lysa cries out in pain as she
pushes with what little strength she has left to try to bring her son
into the world. Standing at her side is a woman draped in robes of a
bluish hue a hood is pulled over her head and her eyes are hidden in
the darkness. The woman in robes steadies Lysa as she pushes the baby
further out the birth canal. Though there is light in the room a shadow
hides the face of Lysa confidante.
"Come on Lysa, push!" the lady in robes commands to Lysa as
she holds onto Lysa's hand tightly.
Lysa lets out a moan of pain and pushes with all her strength
while squeezing the woman at her side's hand. She closes her eyes
halfway trying to ignore her pain and at the same time focusing on the
child within her. She pushes again furthering the child's movement
out. The head of her child is now visible and a light shines bright
where the head is. Lysa gasped in awe as she stares at her child, her
eyes focusing in disbelief and yet at the same time remembering what the
prophecy spoke of. The lady next to her in the room looks toward Lysa and
nods her head.
"He is the one." Lysa whispers softly.
"Come on Lysa, one more push!" the Lady says.
Lysa lets out a moan and pushes with all her strength and then collapses
back onto the bed. The lady in robes comes toward her with a baby wrapped in
robes. The lady in robes closes her eyes for a second and lays her hands on the
baby. She moves her hands gently over the child's forehead as if to bless this
new being. The lady hands the baby to Lysa and withdraws her weapon quickly as
if started by a noise closeby.
"My queen we must get you out of here they are not far off." The lady in
robes states as she wanders towards the edge of the chamber with her weapon drawn.
Lysa holds the baby up to her face looking down on her son. The boy is kicked
and cooed softly as it beheld its mother for the first time. Lysa smiled at her
son lovingly as she held him gently in her arms.
"Aerill, my son, I don't know if you'll remember this, but no matter where
you are always remember that I love you." Lysa whispered into the little babe's
ear before she covered him in a hood too big for his head.
Lysa looked down on her son and sobbed quietly before she looked up at
the woman standing next to her in robes. With a sad look in her eyes, Lysa raised
the baby up toward the Lady.
"Lady Ayslinn please take him, take him somewhere safe and watch over him,
teach him the ways of the ancient knights. If he is to come back and reclaim what
is his then he must go somewhere safe. I can not provide that for him." Lysa said
softly while she sobbed not wanting to let her baby boy go but at the same time she
feared for his safety.
"Yes, my queen." Ayslinn greeted Lysa for the last time with a courtly bow
before she took Aerill into her arms.
"Please Lysa get out of here it's not safe here!" Ayslinn pleaded to Lysa.
"I can't, no matter where I go he'll find me, now go and take this." Lysa
said as she handed Ayslinn a diamond shaped object. Ayslinn looked at the object,
realized its importance, then nodded as she tucked the diamond object into her cloak.
"Please promise me you'll get out Lysa, please. You have to leave Lysa, if
he finds you, I don't even want to think about what he'll do to you. He already
murdered your husband." Ayslinn pleaded with the Queen.
"I will. Now go, you are his Guardian now, I relieve you of your duties to
me." Lysa commanded Ayslinn.
Ayslinn looked toward Lysa one last time and then turned away as she held the
babe close to her chest and in her arms. Ayslinn's thoughts wandered as an internal
battle in her head took place. Ayslinn was fighting another war something she had
wished for so long would never happen again. It had been years since the last conflict
of the old wars that had ravaged the planet a decade previous. In the recent years the
King had begun the process of rebuilding what was lost. Ayslinn in the recent years had
come to the conclusion that she would be a pacifist and would never again fight in the
wars of man. This time Ayslinn had been enlisted by her majesty to care for her newborn
son until he is ready to fight for his crown. As Ayslinn thought back to leaving Lysa
just a few seconds earlier she realized just how many people she had lost in her life.
This was another friend lost, it wouldn't be too long before she herself joined them,
but for now she had a mission to do.
Ayslinn raised her hand in the air and for a second and a light emits from her
palm, and then it disappeared. A hidden door opened up and Ayslinn entered through it
swiftly with the tiny babe in her arms. The door closed shut behind them abruptly as it
made a muffled slam leaving Lysa all alone. Tears filled Lysa eyes and she weeps silently
for her son. Her heart was broken and weary from the years she had spent building an
empire with her husband and now the pride that she had developed had all but withered away.
In the peace that had been brought from the years of war, Lysa had not had time to herself
nor did her husband. They had to be examples for the people and her life had to be nearly
perfect as the model queen. Royalty on her homeworld never had a chance to really do what
they wanted only what was expected of them. Finally when she had a chance to finally
settle down her own flesh and blood was ripped from her and it broke her heart into a million
pieces. There would be another time to fight but not in her lifetime it was for her son to
decide when the time is right. Lysa reached out into the darkness with her eyes closed as
if to grip and take back the child that was no longer hers.
"Goodbye my son." Lysa whispered into the darkness.
*****************
Ayslinn, holding the boy, quickly descended down the spiral staircase built into the
older part of the palace. As Ayslinn strode down the staircase only a quiet tapping is heard
as her steps barely touch the stone steps. The stairwell itself was built years ago by the
King's grandfather as a secretive exit point. The stairs themselves had not been used in years
and the cobwebs and the dust that have gathered upon them defined the age of the stairs. This
route had been used only once during the reign of the King's grandfather during the evacuation
of the palace during his reign. Upon reaching the bottom of the stairs Ayslinn ran her hand
over the wall in front of her. Ayslinn pushes in one of the stones and it reveals a control
panel before her. Working quickly, Ayslinn tapped on the small keyboard in front of her pushing
a few symbols until she got a response from the computer screen. A light on the computer
terminal turned green as the panel itself read ACCESS GRANTED, the door started but then it
abruptly stopped. Ayslinn shrieks quietly while reading the terminal, ACCESS DENIED.
"Shit, they're faster than I thought." Ayslinn mumbles to herself before unhooking an
item from inside her cloak.
Wrapping the baby up in a piece of cloth and tying it around her chest she is able to
hold the baby close while effectively using both her hands. Ayslinn pushes a button on the
cylindrical object in her hand and a purplish light blade ignites out the top. Ayslinn
quickly drives the blade into the stonewall-like door pushing with her might and cutting a
hole large enough for her and the child to fit through. Upon completing the hole Ayslinn
shut off her blade and safely tucked the object back into her cloak. Ayslinn pushed the
part of the door aside and then she stepped through.
*****************
A man in red robes and a dark beard sat looking at a monitor in front of him. Seeing
a young woman carrying an object around her chest he stares closer at the screen. A tiny
head peaks out of the cloth and he stared at the screen grinning. He pulls a small device
out of his robe and put it to his mouth as he pushed a small round button.
"Yes, my lord?" a man answered.
"Commander Williams send some of your men to arrest the queen, she has been holding
out on us. The queen is guilty of treason bring her to me now." Said the man in robes.
"But sir!" Commander Williams starts.
"Do it or I'll find someone to replace you. Remember Commander, you are expendable."
yelled the man in robes.
"Yes sir." replies Commander Williams.
"Oh and Commander Williams you better not screw up this time." said the man in robes
threatening.
"I won't, sir." the Commander replied
"Now get to work." the man in robes said.
The man in robes looked back toward the monitor. The first part of his takeover had
been successful the King now dead and the Queen soon to be disposed of, nothing was left to
stop him.
"Soon Lysa you will be mine and the resistance will be over." He said quietly to
himself as he laughed.
******************
Ayslinn entered the private docking bay in full stride wasting no time trying to get
to her ship. Seeing the Centurion in the docking bay she smiled. She started to head toward
it when she stopped abruptly sensing danger. A blaster bolt zoomed past her barely missing
as she immediately huddled back behind a crate in the docking bay. Hiding behind the crate
and using it for protection, Ayslinn quickly plans her next move. Seeing her immediate danger
she reached inside her cloak and pulled her lightsaber. She looked down at the baby as she
planned her next move. She closed her eyes for a second leaving the baby on the ground. She
pulled off her cloak and softly wrapped the baby up in it and as if she were a master magician
the baby vanished from sight.
"Forgive me my prince, I have to leave you here for a moment." She whispered softly
to where the baby as.
Instinctively Ayslinn flipped into the air and landed carefully on her feet then
dropped to her knees. She gripped the lightsaber with both hands and pressing a hidden lever
the two ends of the lightsaber detach. Holding separated ends of the lightsaber, Ayslinn
prepared to ambush the henchmen who were shooting at her. A quick snap-hiss sounds signifying
the ignition of the two separate blades. The light shining from the ends in the darkest of
blue and yet blazing like fire. The troopers seeing her, immediately head towards her firing
bolts from their weapons. Working with catlike reflexes the blade of the first lightsaber
deflect the first bolt over the head of the first trooper who is lucky enough to duck.
Spinning around quickly Ayslinn brought the second blade in a downward arc at the second bolt,
which deflected back and hits the man square in the chest knocking him to the surface of the
docking bay rather quickly. Seeing his downed comrade the other troopers rush in toward
Ayslinn. Backed against a wall Ayslinn quickly turns off her lightsabers and throws them high
into the air. She flips out of the way of one bolt and then runs up the wall, getting a
rebound off the wall she kicks the nearest trooper in the face immediately snapping his neck
from the impact of the blow. Her lightsabers landed in her hands as she immediately reignites
the two ends and slices the next trooper into fourths as she brings the first blade through his
left shoulder and out his waist then the second blade through his left side up to his right
shoulder. In panic the other troopers flee from the docking bay. All danger gone Ayslinn
reconnected her lightsabers and powered them down. She then picked up the child and entered
the Centurion. Wasting no time Ayslinn powered up the systems to the Centurion then turned
on the engines. She then closed the landing ramp and sits down in her pilot's chair. At ease
Ayslinn activates her droid copilot designated Taurus-86. Using the Centurion's computer
system she immediately hacked into the palace's mainframe and opens the launch tunnel.
"Okay Taurus let's get this ship out of here!" she said to the droid.
"Compliance." the droid replied in a deep bass voice.
Ayslinn looked over the display making sure the ship's guidance systems are intact.
Ayslinn flicked a few switches then she held the flight yoke. She turns on the deflector
shield systems. Looking out the viewscreen she can she troopers firing at the Centurion,
but their shots are in vain for their shots only bounce off the deflector shields. The
Centurion enters the launch tunnel gracefully as it heads out toward the sky. The ship
blasts off toward the heavens quickly leaving the planet far behind. Ayslinn gazed upon
the planet for an instant leaving the only home she knew. She had never been off the planet
before, this was her only home and now she was leaving it. Tears started to form in her eyes
as she looked down upon the home she is leaving behind. The tears built up from the sadness
of knowing that she can never return. Ayslinn would be a fugitive and hunted down by the new
dictator Pentares. She looked down at the tiny baby, knowing that he'll never really be able
to see his home. For now they must find a new home, a new place to live.
"Lady Ayslinn we will be entering hyperspace soon." Taurus said while looking in her
direction.
"Make sure you cover our trails we don't want anyone to know where we are going."
Ayslinn responds to Taurus.
"Will do." Taurus complied.
A red light flashed on the pilots chair console. Ayslinn's eyes stared at the red
light as she powered up the weapons systems. Looking out the viewscreen she prepared for
whatever may come.
"Taurus, tell me the first second we are ready for hyperspace don't delay." Ayslinn said
while easing her fingers over the weapon controls.
"Compliance." Taurus said.
Fighters quickly entered Ayslinn's line of sight as they headed for the Centurion.
Shots hit the shields as shake the ship slightly. She switched her computer system to patch
into one of the guns. A little monitor lit up showing the aiming crosshairs.
A fighter startstreaked in fast, taking control of the gun through the pilots chair she
targeted the fighter with one of the mini cannon's on the Centurion. Seeing the fighter in
her crosshairs she locked on and fired a steady purple beam toward the fighter the beam locked
onto the fighter hit it dead on. A small explosion is seen in the monitor. A few of the
automated weapons locked onto fighters and caused similar explosions.
"We are ready Ayslinn!" Taurus commented to Ayslinn.
Ayslinn stood up and put the baby into a child care unit. The top of the unit
closed over the young babe and he immediately fell asleep. Ayslinn looked out the viewscreen
seeing the darkness of space.
"Out of the darkness and into the unknown. That is how this child is to be brought
into the world." Ayslinn whispered.
She sat down in the pilot's chair and strapped herself in preparing herself for the long
voyage ahead.
"Excuse me?" Taurus interupted Ayslinn's train of thought.
"Nothing I was just mumbling, Engage!" Ayslinn responded.
The ship lurched as the stars ahead sped toward then past the ship. Bright white
lines went by them as the stars raced all around them. Looking at the computer console Ayslinn
looked over the starmap for a suitable place to live.
property of the Star Wars universe created by George Lucas and his many writers. This fic is
mostly original and characters such as Lord Pentares, Commander Ayslinn Starr, Major Aerill Jax,
Malcolm, Commander Dah'lin, Lysa Jax, etc are property of the Penname Aerill Jax and are not to
be reproduced in any form without the expressed written consent of this author...
BOOK ONE
Redeeming Light
Prologue
"It was a time where ancient knights once roamed the land, where man
coexisted with itself and alien races in brotherhood each seeking a
common good. Knights stood as protectors to those who needed protection,
justice to those who needed justice, and the upholders of good in the
land. They were of the light, an offspring with an unending source of
power that was used for good. However, through human greed and selfishness
all good things come to an end, an evil man with bad intentions swayed
those who were easy to control to his banner. There were those who tried
to fight this evil harbinger but to no avail, failed. Those whom were
still alive fled out of fear and justice was left undone. A true and
honest King was sacrificed amidst these times and hope was withered.
The evil man, Pentares, assumed the throne and in the following years
led the kingdom into turmoil and strife. It was written that when the
people needed him again the great king would return and bring forth Excalibur
once again. Amidst these troubled times unto the queen, Lysa, was born
a son. This son who was to be the one true king was named Aerill, in
the language of his people, redeemer. He was the last, best hope for
his people. So begins the story of the rise of a true hero, the
salvation, the king of light."-Journal of Karta
Chapter One
Out of the Darkness
Screams of pain were being muffled as Lysa clenched her teeth
and a cheaply widdled piece of wood. As Lysa bit down onto the piece
of wood she felt a pain in her gums as if her teeth were going to shatter
as the small plank did little to ease her pain. Sweat beaded on her
forehead and slowly dripped down her body as it soaked the rumpled
sheets covering her. It was happening then and there and there would
be no stopping it now, she was going into labor. Time was running out
quickly as Pentares' men overtook the palace security and the King's
own personal bodyguards. Even now it would not be too long before
Pentares himself would discover Lysa. If Pentares knew about the child
that was being born at this very moment he certainly would have plotted
to kill him like Herod in ancient times. Lysa cries out in pain as she
pushes with what little strength she has left to try to bring her son
into the world. Standing at her side is a woman draped in robes of a
bluish hue a hood is pulled over her head and her eyes are hidden in
the darkness. The woman in robes steadies Lysa as she pushes the baby
further out the birth canal. Though there is light in the room a shadow
hides the face of Lysa confidante.
"Come on Lysa, push!" the lady in robes commands to Lysa as
she holds onto Lysa's hand tightly.
Lysa lets out a moan of pain and pushes with all her strength
while squeezing the woman at her side's hand. She closes her eyes
halfway trying to ignore her pain and at the same time focusing on the
child within her. She pushes again furthering the child's movement
out. The head of her child is now visible and a light shines bright
where the head is. Lysa gasped in awe as she stares at her child, her
eyes focusing in disbelief and yet at the same time remembering what the
prophecy spoke of. The lady next to her in the room looks toward Lysa and
nods her head.
"He is the one." Lysa whispers softly.
"Come on Lysa, one more push!" the Lady says.
Lysa lets out a moan and pushes with all her strength and then collapses
back onto the bed. The lady in robes comes toward her with a baby wrapped in
robes. The lady in robes closes her eyes for a second and lays her hands on the
baby. She moves her hands gently over the child's forehead as if to bless this
new being. The lady hands the baby to Lysa and withdraws her weapon quickly as
if started by a noise closeby.
"My queen we must get you out of here they are not far off." The lady in
robes states as she wanders towards the edge of the chamber with her weapon drawn.
Lysa holds the baby up to her face looking down on her son. The boy is kicked
and cooed softly as it beheld its mother for the first time. Lysa smiled at her
son lovingly as she held him gently in her arms.
"Aerill, my son, I don't know if you'll remember this, but no matter where
you are always remember that I love you." Lysa whispered into the little babe's
ear before she covered him in a hood too big for his head.
Lysa looked down on her son and sobbed quietly before she looked up at
the woman standing next to her in robes. With a sad look in her eyes, Lysa raised
the baby up toward the Lady.
"Lady Ayslinn please take him, take him somewhere safe and watch over him,
teach him the ways of the ancient knights. If he is to come back and reclaim what
is his then he must go somewhere safe. I can not provide that for him." Lysa said
softly while she sobbed not wanting to let her baby boy go but at the same time she
feared for his safety.
"Yes, my queen." Ayslinn greeted Lysa for the last time with a courtly bow
before she took Aerill into her arms.
"Please Lysa get out of here it's not safe here!" Ayslinn pleaded to Lysa.
"I can't, no matter where I go he'll find me, now go and take this." Lysa
said as she handed Ayslinn a diamond shaped object. Ayslinn looked at the object,
realized its importance, then nodded as she tucked the diamond object into her cloak.
"Please promise me you'll get out Lysa, please. You have to leave Lysa, if
he finds you, I don't even want to think about what he'll do to you. He already
murdered your husband." Ayslinn pleaded with the Queen.
"I will. Now go, you are his Guardian now, I relieve you of your duties to
me." Lysa commanded Ayslinn.
Ayslinn looked toward Lysa one last time and then turned away as she held the
babe close to her chest and in her arms. Ayslinn's thoughts wandered as an internal
battle in her head took place. Ayslinn was fighting another war something she had
wished for so long would never happen again. It had been years since the last conflict
of the old wars that had ravaged the planet a decade previous. In the recent years the
King had begun the process of rebuilding what was lost. Ayslinn in the recent years had
come to the conclusion that she would be a pacifist and would never again fight in the
wars of man. This time Ayslinn had been enlisted by her majesty to care for her newborn
son until he is ready to fight for his crown. As Ayslinn thought back to leaving Lysa
just a few seconds earlier she realized just how many people she had lost in her life.
This was another friend lost, it wouldn't be too long before she herself joined them,
but for now she had a mission to do.
Ayslinn raised her hand in the air and for a second and a light emits from her
palm, and then it disappeared. A hidden door opened up and Ayslinn entered through it
swiftly with the tiny babe in her arms. The door closed shut behind them abruptly as it
made a muffled slam leaving Lysa all alone. Tears filled Lysa eyes and she weeps silently
for her son. Her heart was broken and weary from the years she had spent building an
empire with her husband and now the pride that she had developed had all but withered away.
In the peace that had been brought from the years of war, Lysa had not had time to herself
nor did her husband. They had to be examples for the people and her life had to be nearly
perfect as the model queen. Royalty on her homeworld never had a chance to really do what
they wanted only what was expected of them. Finally when she had a chance to finally
settle down her own flesh and blood was ripped from her and it broke her heart into a million
pieces. There would be another time to fight but not in her lifetime it was for her son to
decide when the time is right. Lysa reached out into the darkness with her eyes closed as
if to grip and take back the child that was no longer hers.
"Goodbye my son." Lysa whispered into the darkness.
*****************
Ayslinn, holding the boy, quickly descended down the spiral staircase built into the
older part of the palace. As Ayslinn strode down the staircase only a quiet tapping is heard
as her steps barely touch the stone steps. The stairwell itself was built years ago by the
King's grandfather as a secretive exit point. The stairs themselves had not been used in years
and the cobwebs and the dust that have gathered upon them defined the age of the stairs. This
route had been used only once during the reign of the King's grandfather during the evacuation
of the palace during his reign. Upon reaching the bottom of the stairs Ayslinn ran her hand
over the wall in front of her. Ayslinn pushes in one of the stones and it reveals a control
panel before her. Working quickly, Ayslinn tapped on the small keyboard in front of her pushing
a few symbols until she got a response from the computer screen. A light on the computer
terminal turned green as the panel itself read ACCESS GRANTED, the door started but then it
abruptly stopped. Ayslinn shrieks quietly while reading the terminal, ACCESS DENIED.
"Shit, they're faster than I thought." Ayslinn mumbles to herself before unhooking an
item from inside her cloak.
Wrapping the baby up in a piece of cloth and tying it around her chest she is able to
hold the baby close while effectively using both her hands. Ayslinn pushes a button on the
cylindrical object in her hand and a purplish light blade ignites out the top. Ayslinn
quickly drives the blade into the stonewall-like door pushing with her might and cutting a
hole large enough for her and the child to fit through. Upon completing the hole Ayslinn
shut off her blade and safely tucked the object back into her cloak. Ayslinn pushed the
part of the door aside and then she stepped through.
*****************
A man in red robes and a dark beard sat looking at a monitor in front of him. Seeing
a young woman carrying an object around her chest he stares closer at the screen. A tiny
head peaks out of the cloth and he stared at the screen grinning. He pulls a small device
out of his robe and put it to his mouth as he pushed a small round button.
"Yes, my lord?" a man answered.
"Commander Williams send some of your men to arrest the queen, she has been holding
out on us. The queen is guilty of treason bring her to me now." Said the man in robes.
"But sir!" Commander Williams starts.
"Do it or I'll find someone to replace you. Remember Commander, you are expendable."
yelled the man in robes.
"Yes sir." replies Commander Williams.
"Oh and Commander Williams you better not screw up this time." said the man in robes
threatening.
"I won't, sir." the Commander replied
"Now get to work." the man in robes said.
The man in robes looked back toward the monitor. The first part of his takeover had
been successful the King now dead and the Queen soon to be disposed of, nothing was left to
stop him.
"Soon Lysa you will be mine and the resistance will be over." He said quietly to
himself as he laughed.
******************
Ayslinn entered the private docking bay in full stride wasting no time trying to get
to her ship. Seeing the Centurion in the docking bay she smiled. She started to head toward
it when she stopped abruptly sensing danger. A blaster bolt zoomed past her barely missing
as she immediately huddled back behind a crate in the docking bay. Hiding behind the crate
and using it for protection, Ayslinn quickly plans her next move. Seeing her immediate danger
she reached inside her cloak and pulled her lightsaber. She looked down at the baby as she
planned her next move. She closed her eyes for a second leaving the baby on the ground. She
pulled off her cloak and softly wrapped the baby up in it and as if she were a master magician
the baby vanished from sight.
"Forgive me my prince, I have to leave you here for a moment." She whispered softly
to where the baby as.
Instinctively Ayslinn flipped into the air and landed carefully on her feet then
dropped to her knees. She gripped the lightsaber with both hands and pressing a hidden lever
the two ends of the lightsaber detach. Holding separated ends of the lightsaber, Ayslinn
prepared to ambush the henchmen who were shooting at her. A quick snap-hiss sounds signifying
the ignition of the two separate blades. The light shining from the ends in the darkest of
blue and yet blazing like fire. The troopers seeing her, immediately head towards her firing
bolts from their weapons. Working with catlike reflexes the blade of the first lightsaber
deflect the first bolt over the head of the first trooper who is lucky enough to duck.
Spinning around quickly Ayslinn brought the second blade in a downward arc at the second bolt,
which deflected back and hits the man square in the chest knocking him to the surface of the
docking bay rather quickly. Seeing his downed comrade the other troopers rush in toward
Ayslinn. Backed against a wall Ayslinn quickly turns off her lightsabers and throws them high
into the air. She flips out of the way of one bolt and then runs up the wall, getting a
rebound off the wall she kicks the nearest trooper in the face immediately snapping his neck
from the impact of the blow. Her lightsabers landed in her hands as she immediately reignites
the two ends and slices the next trooper into fourths as she brings the first blade through his
left shoulder and out his waist then the second blade through his left side up to his right
shoulder. In panic the other troopers flee from the docking bay. All danger gone Ayslinn
reconnected her lightsabers and powered them down. She then picked up the child and entered
the Centurion. Wasting no time Ayslinn powered up the systems to the Centurion then turned
on the engines. She then closed the landing ramp and sits down in her pilot's chair. At ease
Ayslinn activates her droid copilot designated Taurus-86. Using the Centurion's computer
system she immediately hacked into the palace's mainframe and opens the launch tunnel.
"Okay Taurus let's get this ship out of here!" she said to the droid.
"Compliance." the droid replied in a deep bass voice.
Ayslinn looked over the display making sure the ship's guidance systems are intact.
Ayslinn flicked a few switches then she held the flight yoke. She turns on the deflector
shield systems. Looking out the viewscreen she can she troopers firing at the Centurion,
but their shots are in vain for their shots only bounce off the deflector shields. The
Centurion enters the launch tunnel gracefully as it heads out toward the sky. The ship
blasts off toward the heavens quickly leaving the planet far behind. Ayslinn gazed upon
the planet for an instant leaving the only home she knew. She had never been off the planet
before, this was her only home and now she was leaving it. Tears started to form in her eyes
as she looked down upon the home she is leaving behind. The tears built up from the sadness
of knowing that she can never return. Ayslinn would be a fugitive and hunted down by the new
dictator Pentares. She looked down at the tiny baby, knowing that he'll never really be able
to see his home. For now they must find a new home, a new place to live.
"Lady Ayslinn we will be entering hyperspace soon." Taurus said while looking in her
direction.
"Make sure you cover our trails we don't want anyone to know where we are going."
Ayslinn responds to Taurus.
"Will do." Taurus complied.
A red light flashed on the pilots chair console. Ayslinn's eyes stared at the red
light as she powered up the weapons systems. Looking out the viewscreen she prepared for
whatever may come.
"Taurus, tell me the first second we are ready for hyperspace don't delay." Ayslinn said
while easing her fingers over the weapon controls.
"Compliance." Taurus said.
Fighters quickly entered Ayslinn's line of sight as they headed for the Centurion.
Shots hit the shields as shake the ship slightly. She switched her computer system to patch
into one of the guns. A little monitor lit up showing the aiming crosshairs.
A fighter startstreaked in fast, taking control of the gun through the pilots chair she
targeted the fighter with one of the mini cannon's on the Centurion. Seeing the fighter in
her crosshairs she locked on and fired a steady purple beam toward the fighter the beam locked
onto the fighter hit it dead on. A small explosion is seen in the monitor. A few of the
automated weapons locked onto fighters and caused similar explosions.
"We are ready Ayslinn!" Taurus commented to Ayslinn.
Ayslinn stood up and put the baby into a child care unit. The top of the unit
closed over the young babe and he immediately fell asleep. Ayslinn looked out the viewscreen
seeing the darkness of space.
"Out of the darkness and into the unknown. That is how this child is to be brought
into the world." Ayslinn whispered.
She sat down in the pilot's chair and strapped herself in preparing herself for the long
voyage ahead.
"Excuse me?" Taurus interupted Ayslinn's train of thought.
"Nothing I was just mumbling, Engage!" Ayslinn responded.
The ship lurched as the stars ahead sped toward then past the ship. Bright white
lines went by them as the stars raced all around them. Looking at the computer console Ayslinn
looked over the starmap for a suitable place to live.