Both Carth and Raye looked up as the alarms sounded.

"I've got to get to the bridge!" Carth turned away.

"I'll come with you - I've got to find Bastila."

Gone were thoughts of avoiding Carth, of finding something to occupy her time until Bastila got back. Now all that mattered was finding Bastila, making sure she was safe. That was the only important thing.

"We need to make sure Bastila gets to an escape pod." She said as she followed him. "It's my job to make sure she's safe."

GT kept close behind Raye, screaming a high pitched whine that somehow managed to be drowned out with all the noise surrounding them.

"It's all our jobs," Carth answered. "Don't worry, she'll be fine."

Raye said nothing further as the two turned a corner and ran into three Sith soldiers.

"Down you go!"

Carth drew his blaster and fired at them, while Raye threw her lightsaber. It hit two of them but not the third. Still, that made their battle much easier, and they finished it quickly.

The bridge was at the end of the corridor. They just had to make it another few feet and they'd find Bastila. As they approached the door, Raye threw it open with the Force, not wanting to wait for it to open on its own.

As expected, they found Bastila inside, along with a couple other Jedi.

"Raye! Thank the Force you're alright!"

Half the bridge crew was dead. The other half ran through the corridor Carth and Raye had just come from, preparing to defend Bastila. Carth ran to the communications terminal and contacted the rest of the crew on their communicators.

"This is Carth Onasi." He began, struggling to stay calm. "The Sith are threatening to overrun our position. We can't hold out long against their firepower. All hands to the bridge!"

The order came too late. The Sith were quickly overwhelming the soldiers and making their way ever closer to the bridge.

"Bastila, you need to get out of here!" Carth instructed. "Get to the escape pods."

The Jedi nodded and looked to Raye.

"Come, we must leave here quickly. We must get to the escape pods."

Bastila all but dragged her out of the room, Carth and the other Jedi following along behind.

"Nahi and Luke are dead," She reported as they ran. "And so are most of the bridge crew."

Raye felt a twinge of sadness at the news. She hadn't known Luke well, but Nahi was a close friend of hers.

"Damn these Sith..." She muttered. "Attacking us here, practically in the middle of nowhere - it's like they knew we'd be here."

No one liked the sound of that. Her words suggested that there was a spy among them, or that perhaps the Sith had some way of tracking their ship. Either was was bad news.

They were ambushed by more Sith soldiers mere yards from the escape pods. The two Jedi who'd been following left to fight, urging Bastila and Raye to keep going. Raye wanted to stay and fight, but Carth all but pushed her down the corridor.

"Now's not the time to be all heroic and die," He said, "The Sith have practically taken over the ship - there's nothing left for you to do here."

"He's right, Raye. We must leave now. If we don't I fear we will all be killed."

Raye looked to Bastila.

"But what about Akanni? She's still back there somewhere! We can't just leave her!"

"She could be dead already."

Raye's eyes narrowed at Bastila's cold words, but she had little time to dispute them. They'd finally reached the escape pods, and quickly urged Bastila into one. As soon as her pod was away, Carth turned to Raye.

"There's another pod down there at the end. Go get in."

"What? No, I'm not leaving yet. I can't abandon everyone that might still be alive!"

"If you stay, there's every possibility that you could die." Carth said simply. "And I won't lost another Jedi. Not on my watch. Now get in the pod."

Raye still wouldn't go. Running out of options, Carth looked to GT. The little droid didn't seem to approve of Carth's idea, but it was eager for it's master to get into a pod, so it didn't question the order it had just been given.

Sneaking up behind Raye, GT zapped her in the back of the neck with a low-level stun blast. Carth caught her as she collapsed and carefully put her into a pod. GT followed, and once they were both secured, Carth ejected the pod.

Then he turned to the communications console in the pod bay to check lifesigns and see who was left. The lifesigns were slowing dwindling, until there was only one left. It was the woman Raye had been worried about, Akanni Dain. Carth had no idea why she was so important to Raye, but she was still out there somewhere, and he'd never left a man behind.

"This is Carth Onasi on your personal communicator..."