Knights of the Old Republic II: Sith Lords
Knights of the old Republic and Starwars are owned by George Lucas (I think he owns them both). Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all characters belong to Joss Whedon. I own nothing here. As said by many wise men..and women…please don't sue me.
The timeline for Buffy takes place about three years after the end of Buffy. No exact date has been decided. KOTOR 2 timeline starts right from the beginning of the game. I apologize now for my lack of grammar etc, etc. I've never posted anything I've written until now. This bug has been floating in my skull since I first read Slayers of the old republic by Michael Weyer. It definitely fed my imagination. Thanks Michael. Anyways on with the show. Please comment. It won't get better in quality or quantity without constructive criticism.
Prologue:
Dawn Summers could hardly believe the events of the last two minutes, she had arrived at the Hotel in Cleveland with her sister Buffy, Willow, Faith, Xander and Giles to celebrate her sisters twenty fifth birthday and within seconds of walking through the door spotted several Vampires moving towards them from the same reception hall they planned on using.
It turned out that a rather powerful Demon Mage had arranged for an interesting reception for the group, his reasoning however really didn't matter, it was a Demon and Demons were Evil.
The fight had gone pretty quickly, the Vampires were nothing more than piles of dust within a minute of their attack but it gave the Demon Mage the time he needed to cast a spell, apparently meant for the whole group.
So for the last minute Dawn found herself holding onto a doorframe as the demons spell created a magical portal that looked more like a tear in reality begin to suck anything that wasn't tied down into it's growing maw.
Her fingers were getting tired and the sweat was making it hard to continue holding on, a hand gripped her forearm and she smiled to see Xander staring down at her.
She looked down and saw the portal, she looked straight and saw the floor, the portal was exerting enough force that she was no longer standing.
"Hold on Dawn, I got ya" Xander said, the sweat on his forehead dripped off his face and flew towards the portal.
"That's the plan" she called out.
Xander tried to pull with all his strength but only managed to tire himself out "The portal's got too much pull, Faith and Buffy are taking on the demon, hopefully they can shut this down".
Dawn nodded and turned her focus on keeping her fingers locked into the doorframe, a few seconds later she heard Xander growl.
"I'm losing my footing!" he grunted.
'Oh shit' she thought.
One second later she felt Xander slam into her and together they flew towards the portal, another second passed and she felt another impact, her head was spinning but she managed to focus on a battered and bruised brunette Slayer, one hand gripping a bolted table leg, the other holding Xanders leg and Xander still holding her arm.
"Hold on guys, I got ya" Faith said through swollen lips.
"What about Buffy?" Dawn screamed to be heard above the wailing wind being sucked through the portal.
Faith smiled "She's doing just fine" was her only reply.
Dawn then spotted something that stopped the breath in her chest "Faith look out!" she managed to say before a large potted planter slid under the anchored table and glanced off the slayers head.
The next second was filled with horror and vertigo as everything spun around her, all she knew was that she was falling towards the portal, Xander and Faith right with her.
Chapter 1:Peragus
Awaken.
Dawn opened her eyes and realized she was on the floor and it was cold, her fingers brushed against it slightly, metal?.
"Dawnie?" she heard Xander ask weakly from her left.
"Yeah, I'm here" she replied, her own voice cracking, it felt like she hadn't spoken in days, she also realized that she was wet.
Looking towards the man who was basically a brother she noticed he was dressed in a strange brown and grey jumpsuit with no arms or legs and he was wearing red and white shoes "Nice get up Xander" she smiled as she tried to stand up.
Xander nodded and smiled "Buffy would kill you if she saw you" he retorted.
Sure enough she was wearing an identical jumpsuit "Oh god, this is hideous".
Xanders laugh was cut off from a groan to her right, both of them looked to see a tall woman with dirty blonde hair wearing an identical jumpsuit open her eyes and try to sit up.
Xander moved to stand as well while dawn slid over to the woman "Easy now" she said as she helped the woman stand.
The woman looked at her curiously "You look familiar" she said weakly "Have we met?".
Dawn shook her head "No, I don't think so" she smiled "Were not from around here".
Xander laughed as he moved around the room "That's one way of putting it".
The woman looked around the room "Kolto tanks..we must have been injured somehow".
Dawn followed her gaze and saw five transparent tanks, three of them were now empty and open, the last two were occupied, she couldn't believe she hadn't noticed them before, the two men within seemed to be floating in some sort of clear liquid, breathing tubes stretched from the rear of the tank to their faces.
"Kolto..what's that?" Xander asked from the only door to the room.
The woman pointed at the five transparent tanks lining one wall, "Those are Kolto tanks" she said, two were occupied, two men in blue and brown jumpsuits floated inside "You truly don't know what Kolto is?".
Xander and Dawn nodded.
"Kolto is a naturally occurring chemical produced on a world called Manaan, it accelerates most species natural healing" she explained.
"Oh, that's handy" Dawn smiled.
Xander nodded and walked towards the two women "Well, this chat is nice but I for one would like to know where we are" he said looking at the tall blonde.
"And why Faith isn't with us" Dawn added.
She shook her head "I have no clue, last thing I remember was being on a Republic warship the Harbinger".
"Warship?" Dawn asked "Are you a soldier?".
"No, not for a long time now" she said, a look of pain flashed across her face for a brief second.
Xander stepped up and extended his hand "Alexander Harris, my friends call me Xander".
The woman smiled and took his hand "Shayla Kracek".
Dawn smiled "Dawn Summers".
Shayla nodded "A pleasure to meet you both, curious though how we are alive when those two are clearly dead".
Dawn and Xander looked at each other "What?" they said in unison.
Shayla pointed at the two tanks "The status displays behind the tanks show both men are dead".
"That is interesting" Xander said hesitantly "Didn't you say Kolto heals people?".
"Yes, that's why I'm rather interested in finding out how we survived" she nodded.
Dawn turned and headed for the door "Well, we all have questions and we won't find them here".
Shayla and Xander nodded and followed her, the door slid into the wall almost faster than any of them could see revealing a short hallway with three identical doors, the one directly in front of them appeared to be damaged, sparks and smoke trailed from the central mechanism.
To the left was a large window, showing what looked like a computer console of some sort and another door "Shall we try door number one?" Dawn asked and moved to open it.
As soon as the door opened Shayla moved to the computer, it beeped a few seconds later "This place is called Peragus, the entire facility appears to be under Emergency Lockdown".
Xander moved to the second door, it wouldn't open, Dawn moved to a nearby storage box and tried to open it as well.
Shayla checked a few commands and stiffened "I have the facilities medical logs".
Both Xander and Dawn moved to stand next to her as she activated the first one from three days before, the screen flashed to a recording of a dark skinned woman.
"Still examining the survivors of the damaged freighter, looks like it goes by the name of the Ebon hawk, four survivors were found on board, three placed in the Kolto tanks for recovery, the fourth was moved to the detention area after she attacked one of the security personnel, the carbon scoring on the vessel suggests it was in a battle but there's no indication of who fired on it, we couldn't get much from the navicomputer, I'm surprised the ship was able to make it inside the peragus asteroid field without the asteroid drift charts, Aside from the four survivors we recovered an old woman, no life signs. There was also a protocol droid and a utility droid, both were sent down to maintenance while security sorts through the other items on the ship. It looks like the utility droid, a T3 unit was able to get the ship working enough to get to the colony, we're prepared to.." the recording ended.
"Interesting" Xander smiled.
Shayla nodded "It does give us more information".
"And the location of Faith, the detention area" Dawn added.
Shayla looked at her "Are you sure?".
"Wait till you meet her" Dawn smiled.
"Try the next one" Xander nodded.
Shayla activated the next recording it flashed to the same woman "…could be jedi, but we won't know for sure until we get the transmission back from the Republic. If those three are Jedi that would account for the recovery rate" the recording jumped as if it was damaged "…but I'm more concerned that Jedi here may cause trouble, some of the miners, especially Coorta, area already st.." again the recording skipped "Another accident today, a detonation in the ventilation tunnels..if the lockdown measures hadn't activated the whole facility would have been destroyed, we got most of the injured to the kolto tanks in time, but the rest had to go to the morgue. One of the wounded said a driod caused the accident but we couldn't get the specifics".
Shayla moved onto the next recording before either Dawn or Xander could speak, the same woman appeared again, her features showed the stress she was under "…Miners about the Jedi, a number of droids have been acting oddly and not even memory wipes seem to be fixing the problem. There was a detonation in one of the fuel vents the droids were working in, we deactivated several of them and moved them down to maintenance but we're still treating plasma burns…that cuts us down to almost half-shifts, and with the droids malfunctioning we may not make the Telos shipment for this month. Fortunately the detonation didn't cause a lockd-".
The womans face changed as an amarm echoed in the background "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".
"..No, if the ventilation systems are malfauctioning..Evacuate the medical bay, everyone Evac.." the recording ended again with static.
Xander sighed "So this is why we haven't seen anyone yet, either there locked up still or were the only ones left".
Shayla nodded as she accessed the patient logs "Apparently the last treatment request killed our two friends in the tanks but somehow only reduced us to minimal lifesigns" she tapped a few more keys "A lethal dose of sedatives".
Dawn shook from the thought "Someone tried to kill us..".
"Apparently so" Shayla nodded and smiled a second later "The medical storage room is behind that door Xander, I'm unlocking it now".
The door opened revealing three large tanks and two small storage containers, Xander moved into the room and checked the first one, the top sliding open like a fan, he pulled out two white boxes "What are these?".
"Medkits, quick and easy to use, they'll come in handy" Shayla nodded.
Dawn moved to the second one, it opened like the first, she pulled out five vials of different liquids capped in metal "And these?".
Shayla moved next to her "Chemicals, we can use these to create more useful items, more medkits and the like".
"We can?" Dawn asked.
"Yes, as long as we have access to the right equipment, like that workbench over there" she smiled.
Dawn nodded "Nice".
Xander moved back into the next room to the storage container, it opened easily enough, he flashed a smile at Dawn who just rolled her eyes "Two more medkits".
"How exactly are we going to carry all this?" Dawn asked.
Shayla nodded "Let's see if we can find something usefull in the Morgue next door".
"Oh, yay, my favorite place" Xander said mockingly.
"I just need to unlock the door from the computer" Shayla said as Xander and Dawn moved back into the hallway, it opened a few seconds later revealing seven beds, four of them were occupied.
"It looks nicer than most morgues I've been to" Xander smiled.
Dawn moved to the first body, an old woman in dark brown robes "I found the old woman from the ship I think".
Xander moved towards the back of the room, "Wow, this guy looks completely charred on his left side…hmm, he has something in his right hand" he struggled with the dead man's grip for a second and finaly pulled a long tube free.
Shayla entered the room "A plasma torch, we can use that to access the next section".
Dawn saw the old womans eyes flicker open, she stumbled back "Guys!".
The old woman sat up and swung her legs over the edge, she adjusted the cowl of her robes to conceal her face more "Find what your looking for amongst the dead?".