Chapter 3. The Escape
'This city is BEAUTIFUL!' shouted Eria Jpn from the top of the Temple 'I'M THE QUEEN OF THE WORLD!'
Eria rolled her eyes 'Oh, it's Titanic. Then I have a bad feeling about this Temple's fate.'
'Come on, you have to admit the city is beautiful right!'
Eria laughed 'Yes, yes, Coruscant is beautiful… well; the fact is that even if you stand on top of the highest tower of the Jedi Temple, it wouldn't make you rule Coruscant.'
The Japanese voice bank looked down, unamused
'Eria-san you ruined the mood.'
'The mood… of being the Queen of Coruscant?'
'Well, yeah. They said that Coruscant is one planet, one city. You see, isn't that awesome?'
Eria shrugged. Okay enjoy yourself Queen. In fact, I don't even know what is awesome, being the Queen of Coruscant, or the planet itself.
'Well, I think we climbed a little bit high.' She looked down 'This Tranquility Spire is the highest of the Temple.'
'Apparently…' Eria Jpn said, still excited
'Apparently, we are not supposed to be here. Let's get down.'
She grabbed her friend and landed down on the roof.
'I can say it is high, ouch I must have hurt my leg.' Eria Jpn said 'It's alright, just a bit itchy.'
'Well, this visit to the Temple is useless anyways, we are not Jedi, and so we are not allowed to access any areas other than the Public places, unless we have a Jedi.'
The other said
'Yeah, at least we can sneak up here and see this beautiful city… I hope that someday Earth would become just like this. If Ahsoka didn't have to go for her mission we would be able to see the Temple.'
'I doubt it will be good.' Eria said casually 'I'm worried for Silent and Redeemed, they are not a good Duo, and thus this world is dangerous.'
'Don't worry much, Silent has that awesome unbreakable spell until now, and Redeemed do telekinesis. They will be fine. Now let's go see all the others, shall we?'
Serenno:
Silent swore she hated Star Wars from now.
Carefully hiding her presence as well as possible, she moved silently [even under the spell] around the Sith. Her rifle pointed at him and shot.
He deflected it. AGAIN! What a jerk!
Shaking her head, she thought I have to stay calm… this plan went wrong because I forgot to instruct Redeemed.
She shivered at the thought of instructing her current ally, it would waste ages, and they didn't really have much time. Also she comforted herself that Redeemed learned things quickly, though not always in a positive way, so she had no choice but to believe.
'Okay…' she told herself 'Coming…'
While that in the hangar…
'JUST GET TO WORK FOR GOD'S SAKE, YOU STUPID SPACESHIP! HOW CAN THEY THINK OF SOMETHING AS COMPLICATED AS THIS?'
Somewhere on Heaven, God chuckled, somewhat amused
'It would be long before it becomes My Sake, young one.'
Back to the clueless Append, she had been touching, clicking, pushing, bashing, kicking, anything you can think off except destroying the ship, in order to even make the thing come to life.
'Come on, I need to go aid Silent!' Redeemed sworn.
She had tried pressing alone and combined every buttons, yet nothing happened. There was only one button untouched, which was the biggest one.
Redeemed had the experience NOT to press the biggest button, but then it was a start.
'Please don't blow the ship off…' she prayed.
God blessed her.
The whole machine came to life, energy flowed in the wires.
'That's better; now let's move this fat guy!' Redeemed grinned.
She started pressing some buttons. The navigator lit up
'Ready to send emergency signal to every receiver possible… in three, two, one…' it said
'Eh… are you kidding me…?'
On the palace on Serenno, an emergency flashed onto Dooku's navigator. Of course, due to Silent's spell, it only attracted attention by its light.
Dooku turned around seeing the sudden light. Thinking he should check it out, he jumped up, only to be aimed by another blast… He's the Count, and of course he didn't die because of that, but he decided not to come up yet.
So, it was back to the battle with the unknown silent enforcer.
Throughout his life never had Dooku seen such usage of the Force that could silent someone. That would prove very effective for him if he had the power, he thought. He would be free from annoying things around.
Yet it seemed that the spell spread in radiator from the user, so basically you were also dulled in battle. Every sound would be consumed.
He was definitely having this attacker to have some questions to her. Yet, the only way to stop the silence was to decapitate the attacker.
Even that seemed a bit difficult for him the time, he admitted. Moral Lesson: Sound is an important element in battle. The mightiest can fall without his sense of hearing.
'You should come out and duel if you can attacker.' He tried to say, assuming the castor should be able to listen even in her spell. He was not wrong…
In some corner [I am not gonna say where], Silent facepalmed at her friend's cluelessness. She didn't expect Redeemed would send to the WHOLE UNIVERSE. They would be in much trouble, even after getting out of this planet.
"About the Count's offer, err; well the situation is not welcoming to me as I'm not a formidable fencer, and I don't have that flashy weapon."
She found herself tripping over something round and almost fell over.
'A lightsaber…' Silent murmured, picking the thing up. It was a Jedi color lightsaber with white handle, and the Append wondered why it was there.
Then she was reminded about the Episode 'Nightsister'.
"I guess I'm safe to use this… since those Nightsisters are all dead…"
Well, the lightsaber is not gonna kill you. We guaranteed a life-long contract for lightsaber's safety [or did we?]
Silent extended her hand to grab it. She was gonna choose. If she picked this thing up and ignited it, she would show her position, which was exactly what Dooku was looking for.
"Redeemed, you'd better brought the ship here in the next 10 minutes or else I'll curse you in my death."
Using her every courage, she ignited the lightsaber, its blue blade extended and lit her own position. Silent didn't remove her spell, though, she knew she was gonna need that.
She was true.
Dooku was pleased to arrogance about his success.
'Now, you are doomed.' He opened his mouth.
Silent stared 'Not until God falls, Count!'
GOD: I NEVER FALL YOU IMBECILE!
Which mean I am not gonna be doomed, are You an idiot Old Man?
In the Star Wars Universe, operating a Spaceship is the least you MUST know to survive.
And seemed like our clueless Append didn't have what it takes…
Redeemed took the steering handle. It looked like the airplane's yoke. She had been taught how to fly an airplane under Lily's instructions, though it definitely DIDN'T go well. She crashed into the runway, to be honest.
Well, a second risk wouldn't be bad.
Holding the yoke back to speed up, the engine came to life and was about to take off… but… a spaceship is so not an airplane.
'Maybe pulling this thing up may work…' she tried. It actually worked, with the spaceship ascending in a drunken fashion and was overbalanced.
'Wow, how to take balance…' her glance met the buttons 'Force no! No more buttons now!' she found herself saying in Star Wars style… such influence…
Redeemed tried driving to the left, it went too far left; revolving it back right, overbalanced again. She would have crashed into many obstacles if it wasn't for her constant use of Telekinesis, pushing things out of her ways. Finally she made it to the Silent spell area.
'I'm coming…'
That's very good to hear my friend. You took long enough… Silent said to her sarcastically.
'How can you…' Redeemed said in amazement.
This is my territory, you forgot idiot? I am just left from your position. Operate the front light by the second button on the fifth row, left to right. Just don't do it yet
'OK… I'll do when you say it. Oh I see you… you are doing fencing…?'
Look, I need to engage this old man and retreated for more room to evacuate. So just follow me up to the higher ground, and I'll jump.
'Fine, copy that. Don't forget to tell me the open gate button.
Redeemed heard a groan along with Of course, just do it.
She flew along.
Only in battle did Silent realize why this Sith was the Master of Sword Fencing, or as these people call, Makashi. He managed to drive his opponents out in elegant bladework and footwork as well. Silent had to focus intensely just to survive his blows and parry back. And when she had to instruct Redeemed, he seemed to have taken an advantage.
"This fight is unfair. I am not even a dueler, and he's an expert one."
It didn't mean she didn't have skills. Swiftly she managed to dodge another slice and blocked another, but still forced into a backward stance.
They made their way out of the forests and were now heading toward another cliff. Silent jumped up on the cliff and tried advancing as fast as she could. She knew, yes, she knew, that if even a single bolt of lightning hit her, she would fail. And The Lord would fall.
God grumbled: 'It's not related to me you brat!'
Swinging her blue blade to block a force lightning bolt, she jumped higher, ended her connection with the bolt.
Above her was a large spaceship.
Get the light on NOW!
The current clumsy pilot opened the light, and it shone directly at the Count's eyes, forcing him to shield himself. In that split moment, Silent ordered her friend
The First button on second Row!
And made a desperate leap
They said 'Look before you leap', but with Silent, she scarcely had the time to even leap, not even enough to afford look.
Still she trusted her friend.
'Sound RETURN!' like a sound wave, the Sound she had been enforcing covered the whole area. In Redeemed and Dooku's ears, after being temporarily deaf for long, now seemed about to go deaf for real at the mass of sound pouring in fiercely.
Second Lesson of the Day: Being deaf is terrible. You cannot enjoy Vocaloid.
'You shouldn't have let it go loose like that!' Redeemed shouted, covering her ears.
'Got too used to Silence, I assumed.' Silent smiled evilly.
Count Dooku covered his ears, still holding his extinguished lightsaber.
'He should have learned to use ear-cottons…' Silent said, feeling sorry. She approached the main yoke and thought "No wonder she couldn't keep balance, she was using the support cockpit. Oh well, she did save the day." Before balancing the ship, ready to leave the cursed planet of Dooku.
Redeemed leaned back
'Silent, you are definitely scary. Silence is GOLDEN and HARD.'
The other patted her as she grinned 'Let's get outta here.'
'Give me one reason why you were allowed in the Jedi Archive!' Solid said to Dark when the latter was reading a book.
Dark looked upon her hard friend
'Well, I asked Madame Jocasta Nu, and she said yes. You can ask her if you want to borrow book too, you know.'
'That is not the point! I mean this Archive is only allowed for Jedi…'
'Not exactly… I welcome anyone who is grateful to knowledge. Yes, to knowledge.' The Archivist Jocasta Nu calmly reasoned behind her.
Solid rolled her eyes. How troublesome.
'You are projecting your thoughts so widely, dear visitor.' With that, she left.
The Append was curious. She leaned forward to Dark
'Hey, what does it mean to project one's thoughts?'
Dark shrugged 'Well… basically it is the state of a being's thoughts unshielded; Force-Adepts can read the thoughts as if they were basically spoken out.'
Solid glared at the Archivist
'Am I unshielded?'
'Oh give me a break you are not even a Force-Adept! Of course you are unshielded! How to make a Jedi NOT to read your mind is not to make your thoughts so obvious, for laughing out loud.'
'Am I obvious?'
'Behind Redeemed yeah you are the most obvious person on the planet. You even exceeded her in some categories…' Dark lowered her voice as Solid's death glare was used 'Don't worry, these thoughts are just momentarily, she cannot read you as much as Despair or any Psychometry/Clairvoyant. '
'Hey guys,' Eria called from outside the door 'A little meeting!'
Outside was all the Vocaloids at the Temple currently. They all expressed that: I wish this Temple were our secondary mansion, which only Eria didn't prefer.
'I have just received that an emergency signal from Serenno was sent to all receivers…' Eria began slowly. All the Vocals stared and started laughing their heart out.
'It's Redeemed, it's Redeemed, IT'S REDEEMED FOR THE WIN A HAHAHAHA!'
Even Eria couldn't stop the laughter
'Told you, I am still not the most clueless.' said Solid proudly.
'I bet the Council… learned of it…' GUMI Power hysterically hiccupped from the burst.
'Yes…' Eria took a breath 'that proved the two of them were on Serenno and had undoubtedly found an escape. Silent should be able to hang around out there…'
'How?'
'Well, she reads Wookieepedia for entertainment, seriously I don't understand why, perhaps because it is one of the highest number-of-article wiki. She should be able to do that.'
'And Folia reported that they needed our appearance.' Rion said, clutching the chains.
They all knew the reason why.
'Hope they can help us…' Eria sighed '…to find our friends… I wonder why in the world Mizki hasn't come.'
They would fine out soon enough. And bless us, we'll find out in the next story.
END OF CHAP 3.