"This was once a city," Master Kivan thought "now it's a pile of rubble." The stench of various things burning, the sounds of blaster fire and explosions filled the air, a sigh escaped Kivan's lips. The jedi stood in the middle of a street around him were eight soldiers of the Republic and his Rodian padawan, Kivan held his green bladed lightsaber at the ready as did his padawan with a blue colored saber. "They're coming," Kivan said, he may not be able to see them because of the thick smoke but he could feel them thru the force.
A barrage of blaster fire erupted from the opposite side of the smoke-cloud, one of the Republic soldiers screamed and went down; the rest found cover among the rubble that lay about the street, Kivan grited his teeth and alongside his padawan began batting blaster bolts back at the enemy, Kivan was a human he had been a jedi most his life and he had fought with these soldiers since the Mandalorian wars he was not about to lose them to the Sith under Malak's command. The soldiers were firing their blasters and Kivan noted several agonized screams from the opposite side.
Suddenly the enemy came into view several Sith troopers armed with blaster rifles and carbines, they surged forward yelling at the top of their lungs their faces obscured by their helmets, several went down to Republic blaster fire still more went down from their own shots deflected back at them, "Hold them off as long as you can!" Kivan shouted, spotting some loose rubble above the street level Kivan nudged it with the force and it tumbled down atop the unsuspecting Sith, there were terrible screams as the troopers were crushed to death. Those that were behind the rubble picked their way over it a few being cut down by blaster fire, the rest kept coming, and they would be upon them real soon. "Hold the line!" Kivan shouted to his troops.
The closest sith drew vibroblades and stun-batons as they were only a few feet from the two jedi, "I've been waiting for this!" The padawan shouted he leapt forward and cut thru one of the sith's armor. "Padawan wait!" Kivan shouted, but the brash young Rodian paid him no mind. Master, Kivan found himself surrounded on all sides by SithTroopers, he quickly did a flurry of quick strikes against them, he cut through ones arm, and slashed another ones leg, then he was on the defensive blocking a vibroblade chop to his head, he kicked the trooper in the shins and drew back, one with a stun-baton charged him suddenly, Kivan force pushed him back into two of his comrades. Kivan suddenly spied his padawan fighting a Sith Trooper clad in red armor and wielding a Krath double sword, out of the corner of his eye Kivan saw another Sith trooper rushing him but before the man could reach him he was suddenly on the ground face down a great rent having been torn in his armor, a Republic soldier stood above him with a vibroblade in hand.
"Thought you colud use a hand the man smirked, "Lt. Race you take far too much risks." Kivan said, Kivan's padawan was still fighting the Sith Elite, but another sith trooper had come from behind and jabbed the padawan with a stun-baton. The padawan yelled horribly as the charge jolted thru his body, the Elite Sith then ended his life with a stroke of the double sword. Kivan looked back further and saw even more troopers backed by Sith war droids. "There's too many! Fall back!" Kivan yelled, "You heard him move, move!" Lt. Race shouted, one of the Republic soldiers aimed through a sniper rifle and sighting the Sith Elite trooper aimed for his head and fired.
The trooper went down sparks flying from his helmet, satisfied the soldier picked herself up and left with the rest of her comrades, "Nice shooting Sable!" The lieutenant shouted. The Sith sensing defeat surged forward throwing caution to the wind, a thought came to Kivan as he batted back more blaster bolts, "Someone throw me some grenades!" Dutifully one of the Republic soldiers tossed him a bag of frag grenades, using the force Kivan pulled the grenades loose, armed them and flung them towards the enemy soldiers; the grenades exploded devastating the troopers and droids that were pursuing them.
Using a burst of speed Kivan caught up to the Republic soldiers, "He's here now switch on the mines." Lt. Race said, "Yes, sir." "Good thinking." Kivan commented to him, "Thank you sir, and I also found us some shelter, he pointed to a half destroyed building, "Let's go they're not far behind." As if emphasizing this a blaster bolt impacted the street. "Great, don't they ever give up?" Sable said. Running as fast as they could the small group entered the building a few seconds later they could hear the mines being detonated. Kivan surveyed their surroundings, the place looked like a laboratory, "What is this place?" Kivan asked, "Research station of the native government, they were experimenting with some kind of new kind of suspended animation." Lt. Race replied. "Like cryogenics?" "No from what I understand this would break a physical body down until a preset time or deactivated, you wouldn't realize how long you were out either."
A coldness fell on Kivan the darkside, he looked up to see a dark jedi garbed in robes and hooded mask crouched atop a piece of heavy lab equipment the man leapt down igniting a crimson lightsaber, "Keep, back!" Kivan shouted to the republic soldiers, as he met the man's attack, the two warriors exchanged blows neither one of them injuring the other, thinking quickly Kivan used the force to hurl the dark jedi into a machine, the man grunted as sparks flew from the machine and something was activated. Kivan heard a strange sound and looked up to see a bright beam.
The dark Jedi woke up he didn't know how long he'd been out, "Where was the jedi? Where were the Republic soldiers? Why hadn't they taken him prisoner?" He rubbed his head and tried to feel for them in the force, strange it seemed like they were still here but yet they weren't odd.