The Kaffir
The galaxy slid swiftly by the windows of the Iron Bat. Just another minute in hyperspeed and they would be there, Zoma V, the jungle planet the Jedi were based on. Sam was bored out by the sight, but at the moment there wasn't much to do. Freddie was sleeping in his cabin and Carly was meditating in hers. The three were really great friends, although they were very different from each other, especially Sam. Sam leaned her head on her hand, which elbow was leaning on the table in the cockpit. She looked at the big countdown clock at the top of the window in front of the pilot seat. Thirty seconds left before the Iron Bat would be out of hyperspace. The Iron Bat wasn't much of an impressive spaceship. It had a very geometric form, with only a nose and two flat wings sticking out. It was about fifteen meters wide, thirty meters long and it contains of two floors of two meters high each. It meets pretty much all the needs of the three Padawan. Each of them had a private cabin, which were connected by a mutual room of eight by eight meters, called the cabin hall. There was also a kitchen right there with five cupboards (three for Sam and one for both Freddie and Carly). A bathroom was connected to the cabin hall. The second floor was entirely occupied by the trainings floor. The ship was equipped with four lasers and two smaller fighters. Those fighters were more agile then the Iron Bat, but they were less powerful. In a space battle Carly and Freddie would take the fighters and Sam would take the Iron Bat, mostly because Sam was the biggest favor of the obvious approach while Freddie and Carly preferred the more subtle ones. Sam looked at the digital clock again, just another five seconds. Sam stood up and took the pilot seat. Three seconds. She took the control stick. Two seconds. She breathed in. One second. And she breathed out. The galaxy appeared before her eyes as did the green-bluish planet hanging at the face of the galaxy.
"That's Zoma V, alright," Sam said. "Time to wake 'em up," Sam took the control stick and gave it a nudge. The ship started to make a sideward summersault.
The ship shocked and Freddie fell out of his bed. "Ow!" he exclaimed. He moaned and reached out with the Force to grab his lightsaber, but when he realized what happened he sighed and clasped his lightsaber on his belt and put on his dark greenish robe and walked out of his cabin to the cockpit. He noticed Sam was there already, seated in the pilot seat, but Carly wasn't. She was probably meditating. Sam was wearing her dark brown attire and an also dark brown robe over it.
"Why do I even bother to ask?" he asked himself before giving his attention to Sam. "What in the name of the Force was that for?" he felt some dizziness in his head so he clasped his hands on the co-pilot seat.
"For waking you up," Sam said. "And look! It worked?" Freddie growled. "Now, now, you animal, not so grumpy. Just enjoy the ride,"
"How can I enjoy the ride when you're flying?" Freddie replied under his breath.
"Hello, Iron Bat? Is that you? Over," a voice emerged from the ship's comlink. Freddie took the co-pilot seat and activated the comlink on the pilot panel. They were connected to a voice-only comlink, so there weren't any holograms showing up.
"Yes, this is Iron Bat, over," Freddie said.
"Good, we have a situation here, the base is under attack!" the voice yelled, "Repeat! The base is under attack!" then Freddie heard some lightsabers igniting and slashing through metal material. He lost connection. Freddie turned to Sam.
"Can you land this thing without breaking it?" Freddie asked.
"Maybe," Sam said. "But I'm not gonna try," she smiled mischievously at Freddie, who sighed and rolled his eyes.
"I'm going to wake up Carly," Freddie said. He walked back to the cabin hall of the ship and knocked at the arch separating the hall and Carly's room. He saw Carly meditating fully at peace. Her smile reached both ears. By the Force, she was beautiful when smiling. Her combed, dark brown hair fell straight down to the middle of her back. She was clothed in very light-colored attire. She wasn't wearing a cloak at the moment, but hers was as white as white can be. Freddie hated the moments he had to disturb her, but at the moment he clearly doesn't have a choice. "Carly," Carly opened her eyes. She immediately looked at Freddie.
"What's the matter, Freddie?" Carly asked. She still smiled and tilted her head a little.
"The Beta Base gets attacked," Freddie said. "Sam's trying to land now,"
"Oh no," Carly said as she stood up and took her lightsaber from her bed and clasped it to the belt. Then she started to follow Freddie. Freddie wondered if Carly was more worried about the attack on Zoma or about Sam trying to land. In no time really, the two of them gathered themselves with Sam at the cockpit. Sam already managed to enter the atmosphere. A cloud of smoke was noticeable in the middle of the forest covering the planet.
"What are you doing here?" Sam asked to Freddie and Carly. "Get ready for the party," Shrugging at the term 'party' in this context, Carly and Freddie agreed with Sam. They ran to the entrance of their ship with their lightsabers at the ready.
"Warn us when you get there!" Carly yelled.
"You'll have to jump, guys!" Sam yelled. "The dock is blocked. I catch up with you later!"
"Okay!" Freddie yelled, "Open the ship in the neighborhood of the dock then! We make it clear for ya, just land in a nearby area until we give you a signal,"
"Aye"
At that moment the entrance of the ship opened revealing a jungle surface filled with battle droids, Jedi troopers and laser bolts. Carly and Freddie dropped themselves out of the ship and reached out with the Force to ensure a soft landing. Then they ignited their lightsabers to start slicing through the droids. Carly's green blade and Freddie's blue one deflected a couple of laser blasts, while their wielders dodge the rest of them. Freddie used Matashi (1), holding his lightsaber, with a curved hilt, in one hand and one hand roaming freely around his body. Carly practiced Soresu, wielding her lightsaber with two hands, easily deflecting the laser bolts in her direction.
"Ah, there you are," a voice said from behind us. Two male Jedi Knights, came out with their lightsaber ignited, both blue bladed. The first one was tall green skinned Nautolan. His name was Jedi Master Jost Taluka. He had dark maroon eyes and his robe was dark brown. He stood at least one head taller than Freddie. The other Jedi was a shorter human. He had black hair combed backwards to his neck. His robe was dark green, like Freddie's. His name was Zaimur Fallon. He was a little bit smaller then Taluka, but for a human he was still impressively tall.
"What's the status?" Carly asked.
"Most of our troops are dead," the Jost said. "We probably have to retreat,"
"So why are we here?" Freddie asked, deflecting three more bolts.
"Ehh…" Zaimur said. "We needed transport,"
"You don't have transport?" Freddie asked.
"No, they're disabled," Zaimur said.
"I'm calling in Sam!" Freddie said as he activates the comlink on his left wrist. "Sam! Come in!"
"Hey Frednub, what's up," Sam responded. "I found a spot, four clicks south of your position. Uh oh," she said suddenly
"What's up?" Freddie asked.
"There's a dude here, with a lightsaber and judging his empty glare, it's not a Jedi!" They heart two lightsabers ignite and clash.
"Sam!" Freddie yelled
A green blade and a red one collided with each other. Sam landed the Iron Bat in a clearing with a middle of about 40 meters. She was now located approximately five meters in front of the closed entrance of the ship. Sam utilized a Force Push to create a distance between her and her opponent. She used this time advantage to study her opponent. It was a male, white skinned Kaffir, clothed in black attire, covered by a black robe. His black hair fell in braids on his high back. His eyes looked haunted by yellow irises and were surrounded by a wicked shadow.
"Who are you?" Sam yelled at her opponent.
"My name isn't important when I kill you," the Kaffir scoffed, his voice intimidatingly low.
"Bummer," Sam smirked. "I always wished to have the name of my murderer on my tombstone," Sam repositioned herself with her lightsaber straight upwards on her right rear and approached the Kaffir. She slashed her lightsaber at the right midriff of the Kaffir, but the near-human blocked the attack. Sam jumped over the Kaffir and landed on a branch of a nearby tree. Sam was an expert in using the environment to her advantage and jumped from branch to branch to avoid the Kaffir's attacks. Sam decided to attack from the air. The Kaffir blocked and Sam ended up standing close to the Kaffir, forced to parry the Kaffir's next attack.
"You're strong, little girl," the Kaffir taunted. "You have potential when you become one of us,"
"I'll never join you!" Sam yelled.
"Maybe, maybe not," the Kaffir said. "But if not, I might ask your friends to join me,"
"They'll never join you either!" Sam yelled again.
"Yes, your friends," the Kaffir hissed. "They're very close to you. After I'm done with you, I think I might… kill them,"
"You can't beat my friends," Sam said angrily.
"I feel your anger," the Kaffir said. "Now, unleash it to beat me,"
"Make me," Sam challenged. The Kaffir exclaimed out of anger and unleashed a flurry of attack at Sam's body, who parried the attacks.
"Sam!" a familiar male voice yelled. Sam saw the figures of her two friends approaching her with their lightsabers ignited.
"Sam, are you alright?" Carly asked.
"Yeah," Sam said. "But I'm kinda busy here,"
"Let me help you," Carly said with a smirk. She utilized a Force Jump trying to attack the Kaffir from the air. The Kaffir blocked Carly's attack, before blocking Sam's attack. Carly and Sam both launched multiple attacks, but pretty much all of them were blocked by the Kaffir. Freddie slowly approached the battle with his blue bladed and curved hilted lightsaber ignited. When the Kaffir saw Freddie approaching him he stopped fighting and created a Force Wave to send both Carly and Sam flying against a tree. Freddie was too far away for the Force Wave to be affected by it. He only protected himself with his robe to prevent his face being hit by sand, grit or small trenches. Confident he waved away his robe and approached the Kaffir.
"As you can see, your friends are no match for me," the Kaffir said. "Now give me your best,"
"I would have it no other way," Freddie said quasi-polite. He saluted and extended his lightsaber in front of him, pointing at his opponent. The Kaffir took the initiative and launched an attack. Freddie easily parried the first attack and then the second, and then the third. The Kaffir's attacks followed faster and faster at each other, giving Freddie a lot of challenge to parry them all and at some points Freddie was forced to either dodge or withdraw a little in order to avoid getting hit. Freddie decided to counter attack an attack from the Kaffir, turning the tables for a while, but the Kaffir quickly received the upper hand again. The blue and the red blade fought a fast battle, with the red one in a clear advantage. The two engaged each other in a saber lock, grinning fiercely at each other. The two were located under the ship right now. The Kaffir withdrew his lightsaber a little and caught Freddie of guard with an attack at his hip. Due to Freddie's movement, the Kaffir's lightsaber hit Freddie above his right hip. Freddie yelled out in pain and collapsed.
"Now, you are handicapped," the Kaffir said. "Now you're dead!" the Kaffir raised his lightsaber, but was surprised when his lightsaber got blocked with a green lightsaber blade. Carly stood there with her lightsaber under the Kaffir's, blocking its path to Freddie.
"But he's not alone," Carly said. She slashed in the direction of the Kaffir forcing him to dodge and to leave Freddie alone. Also Sam got back to consciousness and joined the battle. Two green blades were attacking the red one fiercely as their masters began to sweat. While the girls engaged the Kaffir in a lightsaber battle, Freddie slowly regained his strength to walk. He slowly approached Carly, Sam and the Kaffir again, more crouching than walking.
"Freddie, stay there!" Carly yelled.
"I won't let you alone!" Freddie yelled. The Kaffir slashed a sideward slash, which was blocked by both Carly and Sam. The three engaged each other in a saber lock. Then the adrenaline did the job in Freddie. He reached out through the Force, leapt at the Kaffir, ignited his lightsaber and slashed through the hilt of his lightsaber. The red blade died. Carly, Sam and the Kaffir looked shocked at Freddie's sudden action as Freddie collapsed to the ground again.
"Freddie!" Carly squealed as she kneeled in front of Freddie. She carefully put her hand on his wound. The Kaffir then saw the chance to escape and Force Jumped on the ship and then used a new Jump in the direction of the forest, but the movement was stopped when the Kaffir was in mid-air. Carly didn't notice what happened as she was too worried about Freddie, but Freddie did.
"Sam, no!" he yelled, but it was too late. Sam used a Force Pull at the Kaffir and impaled him with her green blade. Carly turned around, closed her eyes and used the Force on him to search for any life, before she reopened her eyes.
"He's dead," she said with a calm voice.
"Hey!" Jost yelled. The Nautolan ran from the forest into the clearing. "What happened?"
"Sam killed this… man," Carly said. "Probably one of those assassins of the recent killed Jedi,"
"I see," Jost said. "What happened to Freddie?"
"He's injured, but I don't think he's in danger," Carly said. "Where's Zaimur?"
"He… didn't make it," Jost said.
"I'm sorry," Freddie said, while putting his hand on his wound.
"We gotta go inside," Jost said. "There isn't much time,"
"I agree," Sam said as she hurried into the Iron Bat. Carly tried and supported Freddie into the Iron Bat.
Jost finally entered the Iron Bat, but used the Force to take the Kaffir's lightsaber. He closed the door and examined the lightsaber.
"Very remarkable…" Jost said in himself.
(1) Makashi is a reference to iFence, since Makashi is the style based on the fence sport a fighting sport Freddie seems to master in the TV-series.
I really hope it doesn't suck...
