The Galaxy in Rebellion after the events in Malachor III the Rebellion begins to grow even stronger as a young boy named Ezra Bridger finds an ancient Holocron of immense power that the young Jedi is trying to unlock it's secrets to help them against the empire especially after Ahsoka was declared missing in action.
On the Moon of Oricon lays a remnants of the Eternal Empire fighting against the newly formed Eternal Alliance troops composed of soldiers from the Galactic Republic, Sith Empire, Zakuulans and volunteers from across the galaxy struggle side by side with the recent additions of sky troopers against one of the last pockets of resistance of the Eternal Empire As the battle rages on ground it is clear to the soldiers of the eternal alliance that the loyalists will not go down without a good fight.
The loyalists, both Knights of Zakuul and ordinary soldiers entrenched in what was once the Dread Fortress that belonged to the Dread master's years before when they tried to eradicate all life in the galaxy. And equipped with heavy blaster repeaters, rocket launchers and antiaircraft cannons they were giving a hellish job to the eternal alliance take their positions
In the northwest entrance the Current C.O of Havoc Squad lead his troops in an attempt to break the enemy line and enter in the fortress, "Hold the line! We have to destroy those heavy blaster repeaters to enter the fortress. Aric Jorgan said as he fired his anti-material rifle at the loyalist position held by three soldiers with a heavy blaster repeater. The loyalists were busy keeping the enemies away when one of them suddenly he looked back and saw a knight of Zakuul walking towards him the soldier caught the attention of the other two and said "Look they sent us reinforcements!" But when the others looked at the knight they saw their appearance change suddenly, and in surprise they saw the droid infiltrator Z00M with two cannons on her wrists and one on the right shoulder ready to shoot, before they could say anything the droid shot with her cannons eliminating the three soldiers and taking the repeater. Z00M cheerfully said "three lumps down and machine gun taken master lump" and nodding to Jorgan. Jorgan nodded back and said "Position taken people, move move move!" They started the run toward the fortress Jorgan leading his squadron looked briefly to his right and saw ZOOM, waving at him and his troops, "Weird droid" Jorgan thought while heading to the interior of the fortress
Meanwhile in the principal entrance Senya Tirall along with her son the Former Emperor Arcann leads a handful of force sensitives in an attempt to destroy the artillery and allow the advancement of walkers but was having hard time with the loyalist knights fighting with everything they had to stop them. Senya is fighting a tall knight with a shield and pike, she dodges the enemy attack and the knight charge against her, Senya jump over the his head and in a fast motion and impale him in his back with her lightsaber, she looks to Arcann fighting against four knights blocking their attacks with the lightsaber and finally using force repulse sending two of the enemies flying while the two remaining managed to stand firm but shaken, she runs to his son and they stand side by side against the 2 knights of Zakuul, she said trying to reason with them "The war is over, nobody else needs to die, you are welcome to join the alliance us help us to rebuild our home"
The Knights nothing said only stared their foes with a murdering expression, Arcann and Senya couldn't see their faces because of the helmets but they could sense their hatred by them and the Alliance Commander. They said nothing for a while, until the female knight said with angry and determination "I'm not interested in being a traitor" and their rushed forward against their enemies with partner, she with a yellow lightsaber and her partner with two lightsaber in a Jar'kai only to be countered by a joint force push from Arcann and Senya sending the knights flying away with force and violence against a massive pillar killing both and damaging the pillar in the process.
Senya closed her eyes and lowed her head started breathing deeply from exhaustion due to the intensity of the battle so far.
Arcann worried with her mother took his mother's hand and looking at her fondly said, "You tried mother, don't blame yourself for the choices of others."
She looked at her son and a small smile formed on her face but soon disappeared and Senya said: "they will not stop!" she said in a cold tone with a tint of sadness.
Arcann did a slight nod and saw his surrounds most of the resistance was dead and the remaining knights were bruised, tired and wounded but they kept fighting regardless. there were a half dozen still fighting some of them being slaughtered while he looked but one caught the attention was a young knight without helmet who was fighting a Dashade of red skin and of great stature with the name of Akghal Usar, the knight waved his lightsaber in the diagonal from bottom to top in a desperate attempt to defeat his enemy only to be disarmed by the blade of the Dashade which seemed to do little or no strength to disarm the young knight who jumped back in amazement and before the knight could use force to pick up his weapon he saw the Dashade with sword sheath of the back advancing against him with speed, the knight used shield to defend of the attack, the first one was strong only using the force he was able to barely stay in place, but the Dashade did not give up nor stopped he continued to punch the shield by kneading and damaging the shield capable of resisting a direct attack of a lightsaber while tiring and hurting the knight until a strong punch of Akghal Usar destroyed the shield and sent the young knight against the wall with great force but incredibly still alive surprising both Arcann and Senya. they saw the Dashade unsheathing his sword and walking towards the severely wounded knight with the clear intent to end his suffering there and at that moment, arcann and Senya ran to defend the boy from Akghal Usar and the two stood between the knight and the Dashade who was outraged for them staying between him and his prey and squeezed the hilt of his sword but before anything went wrong Senya said "he is beaten and he is not our goal and continued pointing to the artillery guns saying the alliance commander your master ordered to destroy the artillery cannons and ended up pointing to the almost unconscious boy on the floor and ended saying: and to spare those who surrender and injured."
The Dashade stared at the three of them for a while, until they heard the sound of the cannons waging an alliance Starfighter that went into their firing line atomizing both the fighter and their unfortunate pilot, Akghal Usar look them again and doing a "whatever" with his shoulders he turned his attention to the cannons, Senya and Arcann relieved turned their eyes to the young man that passed away and started to take care of his wounds, Senya look to Arcann and said : Go lead the attack, we still have a mission to fulfill I will stay here until help arrives. Arcann nodded and wan to his team but stopped only to say to his mother: if we can save a life today then everything we went through will be worth it, and ran again to reach the others. When Arcann reunited the with his team of 6 Sith, 4 jedi, 3 knights of Zakuul and the Dashade, they all stared the 6 cannons still firing against alliance positions in long range, arcann and the others used the force to destroy the artillery, using force crush and force lighting to destroy them. When Arcann saw the burning fragments of the artillery on the ground he allowed himself a moment to compose himself before activating the comlink to say.
"This is Arcann, the ground artilleries are down" said Arcann and looking to the air artilleries he continued saying "but we still need to take down the northeast." He waited an answer when he heard a familiar voice." "Good working Arcann! Thank you for destroying the ground artillery, an medical our troops are coming to your position to enter in the fortress and reinforce your positions along with a platoon of field doctors and medical droids to treat the wounded over" and the familiar voice continued "There has been a change of plans, the third group will not enter through the northeast entrance". Arcann was confused to say at least and asked, "Then where's commander?" The commander in a confident, relaxed voice said, "They expect a final attack by the northeast entrance so we will do what they do not expect, we will attack the roof and we will destroy the anti-aircraft artillery and end this once and for all" Arcann was about to say something in protest but was cut by "May the force be with you my friend, over and out." and stared the comlink for a moment.
In a shuttle a few kilometers away from the dread fortress the Commander of the eternal alliance, Battle master of the Jedi order, hero of Tython and conqueror of the Sith emperor Herron Onasi descendant of the great republic war hero Carth Onasi kept his comlink on his utility belt, and looked at his strike team there was the Sith Lord Lana Beniko, The former S.I.S agent Theron Shan, The Mandalor Shae Vizla aka Mandalor the avenger along with her group of six die hard and strong warriors ready for anything and the former Zakuul officer Koth Vortena captain of the frigate gravestone and the main reason why the shuttle has not been pulverized so far.
"Whoa that is fun isn't?" said Koth while diverting from the barrage of fire coming toward him making the shuttle sway all the time along with its crew.
"Can't you keep this shuttle steady Koth?" Theron asked visibly sick of the whole bump.
"Not if you want to stay in one piece." Koth replied still dodging the blaster fire.
"Lana any more intel of the target?" Asked Herron struggling to stand on the shuttle
"Yes commander!" Lana Beniko replied, while picking his holodisk and an image of an armored man appeared in front of everyone but Koth.
"His name is Luzon Jax an exarch of Zakuul, according to the over watch files he is a veteran of the first incursions of Zakuul in Sith space and the republic, years ago he fought in several battles in which he killed thousands personally including two… dark…councilors." Lana said with reluctance and a hint of disbelief.
"I heard about him, he was a celebrity in old world not famous as Arcann and his brother but still a big shot." Koth said while he pilots the ship.
"Wait if he was so famous why I never heard of him before?" asked Theron
"I thought the Exarchs lived in the star fortress maintaining order in their worlds and acting as governors." Said commander Heron as he wonder why this Exarch went rouge.
"He had an star fortress, according to the archives he was the first selected to be exarch, the modifications he underwent increased his power and his success allowed others to be selected for surgery, he was chosen to manage the Star fortress over Begeren where he came in contact with Sith writings, some writings were sent to Zakuul for further study." Said Lana more interested.
"T minus 5 min until target people." Koth said, while struggling to dodge the more constant barrage of turbolaser
Herron nodded and asked to Lana. "What happened with him?"
"He disappeared." She said and continued: "He was summoned by the emperor Arcann as well as others to Zakuul, but in the middle of the way he simply disappeared along with his ship. All the searches were in vain and he was declared dead."
Before anyone say anything the shuttle was hit by the blaster fire but the shield hold it together, the commander went to the entrance of the ship and said "Okay Koth is going to do two passing's, the first one I'm going to jump over and destroy the antiaircraft artillery so you can come down together on the second." Pressing the button he looked at the descending ramp showing the Oricon surface still devastated by the dark side of the force many years after the dread masters fail
"It's now or never." Said Koth almost shouting.
The commander positioned himself on the ramp and jumped toward the roof of the fortress, using the force to propel himself faster and faster fired towards the antiaircraft batteries dodging the fire blaster and landing at high speed causing a shock wave that destroyed them and damaging the roof of the gigantic fortress.
"The Commander cleared the way, land this thing." Shae Vizla said to Koth that answered, "On it." He made the maneuver and landed, shattering the roof, allowing the passengers to get off the shuttle.
Herron reunited with his team and through the comlink said, "Good job Koth, see if you can help to extract the wounded away from battlefield."
"Don't need to tell me twice commander." Koth said while taking off.
Herron chuckled then turned to his companion and igniting his lightsaber he said: "Let's move.
The group walked inside the fortress being leaded by Herron with his blue lightsaber ignited and ready if needed, watching their surroundings watchful for ambushes and traps. walking through the aisles of the fortress, Herron has flashes of visions of his past from his fight against the Dreadmaster and his legions of servants and monsters, against immeasurable difficulties he survived, preventing the Dreadmasters' plan and saving the galaxy from a living nightmare without ending, but he was brought back to reality with the cry
"We have company!" from Theron when they spotted a handful of knights of Zakuul and loyalist troopers. Herron and Lana engaged the knights while Theron and Mandalorian's quickly took care of the enemies troopers. It was so along the way, the enemies had numbers but alliance had the best, and Herron had faced the worst of the worst and always emerged victorious, his rapid movements with his lightsaber were perceived was blue blur making his way between the enemies.
They arrived what once was the gate to the throne room of the Dreadmasters, they could sense a dark power emanating from the other side of the door Shae Vizla was the first to speak.
"Something very wrong is happening in that room." Vizla said with her weapons in hand ready for anything.
Herron was using the force to determine how many enemies are in the room, even with the phenomenon interfering in his senses he could say there was 15 enemies in the other side and all knights.
"I count fifteen enemies in the room, all force sensitives." he said.
"I sensed too, and one of them is very strong in the force, must be the leader." Said Lana
"I sensed too, stay back!" Ordered Herron before using a force blaster the blasted the heavy gate and knocking down 4 knights guarding the entrance in the process, Herron entered in the room along with his allies and saw a group of 10 knights and the exarch a tall and well-built man knees before a holocron and using force lightning on him as if he tried to activate it. Without looking to his enemies he simple ordered his knights to attack them and at once all the knights advanced against their enemies with weapons in hand, Lana attacked using a storm of force lightning taking down 3 enemies, Theron dodged a vertical swing of a lightpike and using a rapid succession of shots he overwhelmed the knight of Zakuul, Herron using force weave took care of 6 that were thrown in all direction then he looked at the Mandalorian's using Bes'kar swords, jetpacks and blasters to attack and defending from the enemies, one of the Mandalorian's was beheaded by one of the knights with a lightsaber thrown and Mandalor shouted a command in Mandalorian.
"Solus briik!" The Mandalorian's grouped themselves in a single line then Shae Vizla said, "Hettit!" and the Mandalorian's pointed their flamethrowers against the enemies that used the force to protect them from the flames, they were stuck when the Mandalorian launchers silenced, leaving only a black smoke that dissipated showing the knights prepared to renew the offensive watching the Mandalorian's in a position to launch their wrist missiles, and before any reaction the knights could make, the missiles were thrown grimly in full and causing a great explosion, after that only the exarch was still alive he stood up and stood in combat with a violet light saber in his right hand and a chain of lightning in his left hand and he radiated hatred.
Herron took his battle stand and positioned himself to use the form VI: Niman against the exarch.
"The fortress fell and your followers were defeated, surrender!" Herron yelled, while his allies stood beside him stood beside him with weapons in hand.
"You will not stop me, the ritual is almost ready," The exarch said and suddenly he fired a final torrent of lightning in the holocron that made a great noise followed by a brief tremor that rocked the building causing rocks to fall from the ceiling, and all watched the holocron create a kind of portal like a wormhole, Herron and the others looked in awe while the exarch who saw the portal grinned Herron realized what he wanted to do and the moment the exarch ran at full speed to the portal to try to escape the jedi used force push that pushed him away from the portal but the exarch recovered from the attack and advanced with lightsaber in hand against Herron who rose his lightsaber to defend himself from the attack, the lightsabers crashed then engaged in a vicious lightsaber duel. The fight was powerful and brutal, with both combatants changing battle positions, utilizing several fighting styles and trading numerous blows.
Even Lana, who was watching the fight, could not even see any movements; but she could feel the tremendous power of the clash, Theron Shan, Shae Vizla and the remaining opened fire in a vain attempt to destabilize the exarch, that was deflecting the bolts to back them, with they barely dodging their own bolts and Lana watching as the deadly dance unfolded, Luzon Jax's movements were quick and precise but not enough to destabilize the Jedi who stood firm between the exarch and his escape route. Frustrated with his lack of progress he jumped back the exarch thrust out with a force scream that created huge shockwave of to obliterate the jedi but the Eternal Commander shielded himself with the Force and threw his lightsaber with incredible speed piercing the exarch chest like a javelin, killing him and ending the fight.
"That was close." Herron said whipping some sweating after a short but brutal fight off his head.
"Why didn't you fight that Sith?" A Mandalorian asked with his rifle in hands
Lana turned to them and saw the mark of a blaster bolt in his armor and pointed to it while saying "You were almost killed just by firing a rifle at long range, if I had jumped in the middle of the fight it would have been torn to pieces."
"She actually has a point" said his partner with his helmet in hands analyzing the mark of a bolt above the visor almost killing him
"That was I carry a personal shield generator with me." Theron said with a smirk on his face. "Although the cry of our late friend has somehow fried my shield and almost left me deaf."
"We still have that holocron to deal with it." said Herron Onasi as he picked up his com and said that the leader was defeated, and he was informed that the other sections of the fortress were taken and they had some P.O.W with them but they suffered heavy casualties. He informed his team of the update of the battle and the news was received with a miss of relief and exhaustion. He understood what they are feeling since Iokath are fighting nonstop, and some were tired like him.
"Any idea Lana, Herron?" Heron asked to Lana
"It is very dangerous to simply pick up the holocron, if a discharge of force lightning activated it then another discharge should deactivate it." She said after thinking.
"Why not just blast the blasted thing?" Shae Vizla asked.
"That wouldn't work besides you would kill us all if you tried." Said Lana
"Well do it Lana." said Herron
Lana positioned herself in front of the holocron and fired a continuous torrent of lightning into the holocron in an attempt to turn it off, but something happened the vortex was destabilized, got larger and began to suck Lana and the others, using the force grip Herron grabbed them, the current of the vortex was very strong, using all its force Herron pulled his allies away but in doing so he deconcentrated and was pulled by the vortex of the holocron to the shock of everyone room.
"COMMANDER!" They shouted while the vortex dissipated only remaining the holocron
In Atollon thousands of years while the Phoenix Squadron was on a mission
The holocron remained in the base hidden from the others by Ezra, but a bright light soon appeared and the holocron destroying the room and levitated causing a tremor catching everyone by surprise.
"What is going on? Is this an earthquake?!" Captain Rex appeared trying to stay in his foot when the tremor in same way that appeared suddenly disappeared, after causing minor damage in the base.
"What was that?" A pilot asked to Captain Rex
"I don't know look for wounded inside I'll contact Kanan and the others."
The base personnel looked throughout the base for wounded, luckily nobody had serious injuries but when a team of mechanics entered they saw an unknown man using some kind of armor and they looked each other and said almost in unison, "Who is he?"
End of the chapter.
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