Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is probably one of my favorite computer games. I recently discovered two self-insertion fanfics based on the game, I, Jedi Knight, written by L van Am, and In A Jedi World Book 2 The Sith Lords, written by Nyce. These stories have inspired me to write my own self-insertion story about the game. I'll try to include some original stuff, but right now I don't plan on creating any original characters. Depending on how the story goes, that may change. Since I'm still a novice, I would like to see constructive criticism in some of the reviews.
Chapter 1: Prologue
It was the end of a long day. I'll just leave it at that. It seemed like 1:00 A.M. was about as good a time as any to go to bed. Fortunately it didn't take me that long to go to sleep. I had an interesting dream that night, assuming it was actually a dream. With what followed afterwards, I really have no idea what to believe. So what happened? This "dream" started off with me being asleep, go figure. When I opened my eyes I sat up in bed and saw that I was in a room made completely out of metal. The walls were metal. The doors were metal. The bed supports were metal. About the only thing that wasn't metal was the mattress I was sitting on. I looked to my right and saw someone standing off to the side, someone wearing a simple brown robe.
"Ah, so you are awake," the figure said. It was a woman's voice. I couldn't tell at first because her hood was covering most of her face.
"Who are you? Where am I?"
"In a sense, you already know. You know the first answer, and by knowing that, the second one shall follow." The voice sounded all-too familiar.
"Kreia," I said under my breath.
She smiled slightly. "Yes, I had hoped you would recognize me."
"And I had hoped you would tell me why I'm here."
"You already know."
I rolled my eyes. I knew she wouldn't listen to me, but I figured I might as well make my displeasure known. "I'm really not in the mood for your circular answers."
"Your mind is clouded. You are…confused."
"Oh, really? And why do you think that is? Maybe it's because you're avoiding my questions, just like in the game?" I was really getting annoyed by now.
Kreia took no notice of my frustration, which really didn't surprise me at all. From what I remembered, she rarely raised her voice at the player, and her tone would change only if your actions upset her. She started speaking again.
"You are in a dream right now. When you awaken, you will find yourself elsewhere. You will be there for a reason, though I know not why. I must leave for a time, but you will find someone who will guide you."
"And let me guess, you're not going to tell me who it is, right?"
She left without saying a word.
"How typical," I muttered to myself. I closed my eyes and went back to sleep. No more dreams followed, thankfully. I'd had enough of those for a while. When I woke up again, I was in an entirely different room, this time I was sitting in a lower bunk in some other room. OK, this is getting plain weird. There was a bag next to my bed. I got curious so I looked through the bag. It contained some sort of uniform, change of clothes, and what looked like some money. When I looked at it more closely, I saw a familiar symbol. They were republic credits, and then it hit me. I was in the Star Wars universe. The other two items must have been a blaster and some kind of sword. I looked back and realized there were was a datapad next to my pillow. It had one unread message, and it said all I needed to know:
"The bag next to your bed contains personal items, and you will need them if you are to survive this place. You will meet a friend shortly after reading this. Enemies won't be far behind. Stay on your guard."
No sooner had I finished reading when I heard somebody entered the room and another familiar voice said, "Are you the new miner?"
I looked up to see who it was, even though I already knew. "Who are you?" I asked. Even if I knew who he was, I had to play the part in order to avoid drawing suspicion.
"Atton. Atton Rand," he said, sticking his hand out for me to shake. "So are you the new miner?" he asked again.
I quickly guessed that he was the "friend" mentioned in the datapad, and I had a pretty good idea where I was, but I had to double-check. "That depends," I said casually. "Where exactly am I?"
Atton scoffed. "Oh, you mean you didn't come here on purpose?" he asked, feigning surprise. "I'm shocked. I really am. This slice of paradise," he began while gesturing around the room, "is the Peragus mining facility. We got a report that said someone came in here on a damaged freighter yesterday. There were two other people on board, one was sent the morgue and the other was placed in a kolto tank. Anyway, there have been some accidents with the droids lately, and the administrator figured that since you're here, they need an extra man in the tunnels. Are you up for it?"
The idea of mining on Peragus wasn't exactly too appealing, especially considering what was going to happen soon. I remembered the game all too well. The lockdown began two days after the Ebon Hawk arrived on Peragus, and one day before the Jedi woke up. But I knew I couldn't just wait for it to happen. Maybe I could try to prevent it from happening.
"Guess I don't really have much of a choice, do I?" I shrugged. I quickly changed into the miner's uniform and said, "Alright, let's go." As we headed out of the dormitories towards the mining tunnels I said to Atton, "So what's causing the problems with the droids?"
"Not sure," he said casually. "But it probably has something to do with that Jedi."
"What Jedi?" I asked.
"Apparently that other survivor is a Jedi. Didn't know any of them were still around. Anyway, the Exchange has a bounty on live Jedi, and some of the miners wanted to collect on it."
"Oh yeah? Bet that went over real well with the administrator," I quipped.
"Right, so now I bet they're trying to cause a distraction and clear a path out of here. Not that I'd blame anyone for wanting to leave."
Oh yeah, it's clearing a path, alright, kind of hard to for people to stop you when they're dead. I knew I couldn't say that, because it would only cause trouble, so I shook my head and simply said, "Right." For the next several hours, Atton taught me how to mine the asteroid before Atton got a call telling him to report to the security officer. At the end of my shift I was supposed to report there, too. When I reported in to end my shift, he looked at me suspiciously.
"Were you working with Atton today?" he asked bluntly.
"Yeah, why?"
"Because earlier today he was locked up in the holding cell on charges of responsibility for some of the accidents that have happened here recently."
Not true, it's that HK-50 unit. But if I say any of this, I'm probably going to draw suspicion to myself, and that's not going to get my anywhere.
"So what does that have to do with me?"
"Because Atton was working with you, you're being investigated as well. Until you're cleared to work in this facility, you are to be confined to the dormitory level unless the administrator or I call for you. This begins effective immediately."
I couldn't agree to this. Not with what was about to happen the next day. I had to fight for this.
"Officer, I think I must object to this. You see, Atton was-"
"If you do not comply with my orders, you will be locked up as well."
It was final. There was no way around it. There was nothing more I about it. I sighed resignedly, and went to the turbolift.
I knew the lockdown would start tomorrow, but I figured as long as I wasn't actually in the dormitories, would be able to survive. After a restless night I got into uniform, grabbed my pack and headed towards the exit opposite the turbolift to the administration level. I had no interest in running into Coorta and his miners or the droids that would dispatch them. Plus, I had to make sure I would run into the Jedi, otherwise I wouldn't be able to escape before the whole facility blows up. Closing the door behind me I brandished my vibrocutter, ready to take on whatever droids would come my way. A few hours later, I heard a voice call out, "WARNING: There has been a fuel detonation in the mining tunnels. Emergency Lockdown commencing. All personnel report to quarters and prepare for emergency venting countermeasures."
OK, this is it.
For safety I kept a pair of mining lasers clipped to my belt, in case I dropped the vibrocutter. Suddenly the door flew open and a pair of droids crawled through. They weren't ranged so I was to bash them in with my vibrocutter. But then I found I couldn't close the door again. It was stuck open. I couldn't just stay a target, so I hid myself beside the doorway where no droids could see me unless they came through the door. I kept the vibrocutter ready. I stood guard and waited for the Jedi.
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