AN: This is part two of Hamertong. As always, the characters aren't mine as well as the places, technology, ect.
She stood on the hill, alone, watching the flames die down from the destruction she had made. She had black hair and she was wearing jeans and a tang top as black as her hair. Her eyes were ice blue, cold and emotionless. The flames were roaring and threw eerie highlights into her hair, eyes, and clothes. She had her hands clasped behind her back. She never moved.
Shada D'ukal was in the Alderaan System on Wayland . . . again. It was the jungle world she had been on when she had gotten the holocron containing the Hamertong. This time she hadn't been in the jungle, thankfully. She'd visited the palace of an aggravating senator and was now on the fringes of the ironically named Cloud City.
Shada snorted to herself, remembering the way everyone at the senator's house had screamed and tried to run out of the house as it burned and blew up around them. A cold, cruel smile slid across her face. Her mother had taught her so much, and as brilliant as the woman was, she still had no idea what Shada had planned for her. But first there was something she needed the woman for and she would make sure she got what she wanted.
The fire finally died out and Shada turned, making a perfect about-face. She strode over to the edge of the hill and continued walking. She dropped onto the landing ramp of the Sun Crusher, her personal ship that she had gotten made just for her. Her father had actually made the order and had made sure that she had gotten everything she wanted on the ship. The Sun Crusher was indestructible, literally. Its armor was made of quantum crystalline, something harder than durasteel and titanium. It was triangular and it had plenty of turbolasers that covered every angle of attack on the ship. The ship was indestructible.
Once up the ramp and in the cockpit, Shada flicked the switch that would raise the ramp. The black and white R2-D4 droid plugged into the control panel gave her an unhappy sounding whistle. "Yeah, but not a direct route. We're gonna take a bit of a detour before going back to Kristi." Shada told the droid. Crusher was another present from her father. Unlike, the Sun Crusher, though, Crusher had been with her all the time. Shada could understand the droid when it spoke and it could understand her as well. It was her faithful friend. Her only friend. She didn't allow herself to get close to anyone or anything else except Crusher and the Sun Crusher.
The nav-computer beeped at her and she pulled the lever that would take the Crusher into hyperspace. Shada watched as the stars faded into the blue streaks that were always there going into or out of hyperspace. Crusher whistled again. "No, I don't plan to make her upset at me again. And don't start telling me that I should just go strait back to her either. After what she did before, I wouldn't trust her with my life." Crusher whistled an affirmative and said no more.
Kristi had attacked Shada when she'd been ten. Her father always called it The Incident, but that was because even if he hadn't wanted to admit it, he'd still been in love with her. Shada on the other hand, had developed a hate for the woman. When her father and brother, Sky, had been alive, she would refuse to talk about Kristi or the attack. Now though, she nor Kristi ever spoke about it either.
Shada snorted. It was ironic that the woman had tried to kill her and now Shada was taking over the galaxy with her. She and Shada still argued though. That was almost all they did and it drove Kristi's boyfriend, Xander, insane. Kristi and Shada tended to argue in the Mistryl Battle Language and Xander couldn't understand a word they said. Actually, he could never understand a word Shada said because whenever she was around him, Shada made it a point to speak in the Battle Language. He always had to ask Kristi for a translation. Shada found his confusion entertaining. Kristi, however, did not. She was starting to pester Shada to stop speaking in the Battle Language, but Shada had no intentions to do so. After all, she hadn't before, why start now? Besides it infuriated Kristi and that was always fun.
Shada got up out of the pilot's seat and headed into the back of the ship. This was where her room was. She planned to sleep through the hyperspace trip before coming back into realspace where she had programmed the nav-computer to go.
An hour later, the nav-computer beeped at her and Shada got up. She dropped out of hyperspace in the orbit of the planet Dathomir. It was the place where she had gotten a program for the Hamertong, a gigantic laser that Shada and Sky had been sent to get on the Wayland as well as save Sidney, Sky's girlfriend, Scott, and Veronica, Shada's one-time worshiper. They were all dead now, courtesy of Shada. Well Shada and the Sun Crusher really. It had been the Crusher's turbolasers that did it but it had been Shada that had fired them.
Shada hadn't stopped with her friends either. She had taken care of her father and everyone else that had lived in the Mistryl palace on Emberlene. She'd had a blast as she blew the palace to bits and dealt with everyone in it. She had then joined up with her mother, the woman she was going to take care of when she got what she wanted from her.
Shada flew closer into Dathomir airspace and the traffic controller came over the comm. system. "Unidentified ship, state your purpose immediately."
"This is the Sun Crusher. I need a place to land and refuel." Shada replied. She decided that she wouldn't get nasty unless they gave her a hard time. She was in a relatively good mood right now anyway.
"Copy Sun Crusher. Follow the coordinates to your landing pad." He told her.
"Gotcha." Shada replied. Shada programmed the coordinates she had gotten into the nav-computer. She then brought the Crusher down into the atmosphere of Dathomir. Like last time, the atmosphere on Dathomir had been stormy and clouded. It made landing a challenge for anyone of lesser skills, but Shada had trained enough to know how to navigate and land in such an atmosphere.
Shada landed without a hitch and turned to Crusher. "Stay here with the ship 'kay?" Crusher whistled an affirmative. Shada released the ramp and was heading down it even before it hit the ground. Dathomir was a world with various terrains. It had mountains, desserts, oceans, and unfortunately, forests. Shada had had enough jungles and forests to last her a lifetime but everywhere she went there just had to be a forest or jungle of some kind. It was really annoying when Shada thought about it. Fortunately for her, Shada wasn't going into any forest areas. She was going to a camp in a mountain valley.
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