Hi guys! It's feels good to upload another brand new chapter to The Assassin: The Final Stand! With all the excitement happening on Coruscant, Desric has shown the Jedi the true meaning of fear. But while the Republic struggles to push back the droid invaders from their home planet, lost stars struggle to grasp onto the dark reality of the assassins.
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Aftermath
Hyperspace
An hour has passed since the crew of The Cursed Angel discovered the truth behind the bombing of the Jedi Temple, and Ahsoka's false crime. An hour has passed since everyone learned that Desric had survived his death at the battle of Theed on Naboo. It had been an hour after the crew all discovered that Barriss had been secretely working for Desric this entire time. It had been an hour since The Cursed Angel was under heavy fire and everyone abandoned ship. But it had been only an hour after Ahsoka watched some of her friends get captured by the Assassins before she watched Aaron go down inside the burning ship before she, Grace, and Ventress, jumped to lightspeed on an escape pod.
After the three girls watched their friend die inside the burning ship before it exploded, what felt like an hour traveling through hyperspace, felt like a century. As time slowed down for them, their hearts will filled with sad and misery, knowing that they lost their most rtusted friend.
As the escape pod continued to travel through the vast cold of hyperspace, Ahsoka and Grace were both in pain and sorrow, as if Desric and Barriss stole ach of their hearts. When they watched the ship blow up from the inside they felt as if they failed Aaron. Without him, the bond between each and everyone was broken. They also cannot forget that they watched Jaybo and Marcus get captured by Assassins and were going to be tortured just like Derric.
Instead of fighting, they all knew that they were all outmatched in every single way possible. They were caught off guard by Barriss, they watched their friends get captured, they watched their home get destroyed, and they watched their true friend die in the explosion. For the first time in their lives, they were broken, defeated, and the only thing they did was run.
After they watched the ship get destroyed, Grace knew that they couldn't go to Coruscant. If they did, it would be too late and she and her friends would have been killed. Out of fear, for the first time in her life, Grace made the decision to run back to her home on Onderon. Like a little girl who saw a horrifying monster, Grace did what most little girls do, she ran and hid in the place she felt safests. In doing so, she typed the coordinates to Onderon where she thought she would be safe.
Onderon
As the escape pod exited out of hyperspace, the three girls began to hear loud beeping noises as they looked at the planet of Onderon. They did not know that they had exhausted all the fuel in the escape pod and one of their engines was blown out. Grace rushes over to the controls and sees a layout of the pod as it highlighted one of its destroyed engines. Ventress get's behind Grace. "What's going on Cameran?!"
"We've lost one of our engines…" Grace said while she tried to stabalize the ship. "I'm trying to transfer power some power from all of our engines to this particular engine."
As they all flew down to the planet's atmosphere, they watched flames form on the side of the pod as it began to fly faster towards the surface. While Ahsoka stayed quiet, still in shock, Grace and Ventress were at the controls. "Can't you get us to slow down?!"
"What does it look like I'm doing?!" Grace said to the hairless witch. "If I sacrifice some power to our busted engine, we have less power to slow us down!"
While the two argued, they quickly entered the planet's atmosphere and tried to get the pod to slow down as mcuch as they could.
Unifar Temple
While the girls struggled to slow down their escape pod, someone looks up into the skies with a pair of binoculars and sees a large ball of flame enter the planet's atmosphere. The binoculars lower down and it is revelaed that Saw Gerrera was looking through the binoculars. Without looking away from the sky he calls to his two close friends. "General Tandin, you may want to look at this."
"What is it Commander?" General Tandin said as he walked beside his closest ally. As the General looked through the binoculars, he watched as the ball of fire slowly make its way to the surface of the planet. "Hmm, now what is that?"
"Could be a Separatist drop pod?" Saw said.
"Or it could be a normal escape pod." The General suggested.
"Either way, I would like to take a squad down their to investigate." Saw suggested.
After Saw made the suggestion of investigating of what was going to crash in the valley's, the General knew what to do. "Go. Take a small band of soldiers to see what this is."
"I'll go with you as well." A voice said behind them before the two men turned to see that Lux Bonteri was walking behind them.
General Tandin looks over at Saw and watched the young rebel respond with a nod. "Very well. But you must hurry, that pod is going to crash in the valleys in a few miuntes."
"Come on Bonteri." Saw said as he patted his friends shoulder before the two soon quickly ran through the palace to gather a few men that would go with them to see what was going on.
Valleys
As the pod flew closer to the valley, Ventress and Grace struggle at the controls. They knew that they would all die if they didn't pull the ship up a little bit. Ahsoka looks over as she watches Grace yell at Ventress while they both took hold of the controls. "Pull up! Pull up!"
"What do you think I'm doing?!" Ventress yelled before they all saw their pod slightly lift up. Once they saw that they were not falling on a downward position, but now at an angle, the risk of dying was being lowered.
But they knew that their pod was going to crash, and each of the girls knew that they were getting closer to the ground. Grace looks at a computer screen and sees that they were decending close to the ground. In a few moments they were going to crash. "EVERONE! BRACE FOR IMPACT!"
Not a moment later, each of the girls in the escape pod strapped themselves in before they each watched their pod slam it's side against the cold rock ground, before skidding across the floor like a rock skipping across a pool of water. As the pod crashed, it spun and dragged it's metallic body across a valley while the three girls inside held onto dear life while their pod made a slow stop before it could crash into a near by forest.
After their pod came to a halt, Ahsoka, Grace and Ventress unstrapped themselves and slowly got oout of their seats. Using the force, the former Jedi and Sith push the glass at the front of the pod. As they climbed out of the pod, they all looked past the pod and saw the destruction they brought forth to this valley.
While there were no civilians nearby, they all saw trial of torn valley leading up to their pod. They felt as if it were a miracle that no one was hurt. But despite their survival, they knew that this didn't compare to the horror they saw not to long ago when they watched The Cursed Angel get torn apart and destroyed with Aaron inside it.
As they looked at the valley, they heard a strange noise come from behind them and they soon realized that their pod and slowly bursted in flames from the inside. With a cloud of black smoke beginsing to form above the pod, the three girls slowly looked out into the distance before Grace saw two faces she was happy to see.
Out in the distance, across the valley, Saw and Lux are seen riding their dalgos and were heading towards the crashed escape pod while a few men were riding behind them as well. Grace felt so happy and relieved that her friend and lover were on their way to rescue them. For Ahsoka, she saw this as a sign of relief from all the pain she recently endured. But Ventress, on the other hand was very hesitant. Despite her recent "good" deeds, she was still a wanted criminal and she was concerned of her safety if these rebels would welcome her with open arms.
As the rebels road to the crashed escape pod, Lux gets off of his dalgo and rushes over to his girlfriend. "Grace!"
When Lux rushed over to Grace, the two lovers held each other close before they began to lock lips with one another. Grace decides to break the kiss. "How did you know we were here?"
"We saw your pod falling from the sky. We thought you were a droid drop pod." Lux explained while he held his angel close, afraid that he almost lost her.
While Grace and Lux held close to each other, Saw looked at who was standing amongst his friends and quickly grabbed his blaster before he got off his dalgo. "Hands up Ventress! Stay where you are!"
"Saw lower your weapon!" Grace said, begging her friend not to do anything stupid.
"Do you know who this is?!" Saw asked while he got closer to Ventress with his blaster while his men surrounded the witch. "Do you know who she used to serve?!"
"Saw she helped us!" Grace said. "We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her."
With every nerve in his body telling him to pull the trigger, Saw struggles to lower his gun, but eventually the tension eases as Saw puts down his rifle and his men shortly do the same as well. In the midst of the confusion, both Saw and Lux are confused as to what led them crashing landing on Onderon.
"Would someone tell us what's going on?" Lux asked. "Where's everyone? Where's Aaron."
Suddenly there was nothing but silence, and the two men saw tears forming in Ahsoka's and Grace's eyes. By only looking at the expression and tears in their faces, both Saw and Lux suddenly realized that the worst had come. They realized that Aaron was dead.
"No…" Lux said as he suddenly began to cry with Grace. At the same time, Saw felt the anger inside him suddenly build up. In an instant he leaves a scream out of anger before slams his fist onto the floor. He had never this sort of pain since the death of his sister Steela. It seemed like the people that pushed him to be better were all dying. As the rebels tried to accept the fact that the brave man who fought beside them in their time of need was dead, Lux has grace climb with him on top of his dalgo while Ahsoka did the same with Saw, and a rebel brought up a spare steed for Ventress to ride on.
Surely the goup left the crashed escape pod and headed towards the city of Iziz where the three girls would explain what had happened after the events that occurred when they last saw each other.
Unifar Temple
An hour had past since Grace, Ahsoka, and Ventress returned to Iziz with Saw and Lux. After they were rescued when they crashed, no words were spoken amongst these friends.
When they reached the city, the people of Iziz were happy to see that their "princess" had returned. After Onderon was liberated from the Separatists, Grace decided that she would stay and try to live a peaceful life with Lux. While she lived inside the palace, she did what ever she could to help the people within the city. While her friend Saw was making sure that the men were being well trained in the art of war, Grace attended the women and children. They loved her, and they saw her as girl fit for royalty and they saw her as their princess.
Although Grace didn't like that unofficial title, she did enjoy seeing that she was bringing hope to the people. But, despite this time of piece, she knew that she belonged on the frontlines and she decided that she would do her best to defend Iziz from any potential threat.
However, as the group walked through the city, and made their way to the temple, the people saw the girl that the women and children looked up to, hang her head in sorrow. They did not know that she had lost her best friend to a mad man, a monster.
Once they all reached the temple, the three girls were kindly welcomed by General Tandin and King Dendup, but this moment of happiness was surely put to an end when Grace and Ahsoka explained what had happened to their friends, they told them what happened to Aaron.
The two girls told that Desric was behind everything that unfolded on Coruscant. They told them that it was Desric that smuggled the nano droids to blow up the temple and that it was him that made Ahsoka look like she killed Letta. The girls also mentioned that Desric knew that Aaron would go insane and used Aaron's insanity to get him to tear down his trut in Grace, Anakin, and the rest of his friends. Once they explained everything that led up to Ahsoka walking away from the Jedi Order, the surely told them about the dark truth they discovered.
Grace and Ahsoka soon told their friends that the reason why Desric was able to get the upper hand of them, was because Barriss was secretly feeding Desric information. Everyone in the temple was stunned to learn that Barriss was Desric's secret apprentice, and that once everyone on the ship discovered the truth, Desric's large army had them corned before they began to tear The Cursed Angel apart. While Marcus and jaybo were able to escape, they were surely captured by the assassins. Despite their fortunate escape, Ahsoka, Grace, and Ventress all watched the ship blow up with Aaron inside.
The entire temple mourned in silence as they were all stunned to hear that Aaron was killed by the same people that attacked Iziz not to long ago. With everyone now caught up to the events that occurred after the liberation of Onderon, they all felt pain and sorrow for Grace and Ahsoka's loss. Although Tandin, Dendup, Saw, and Lux, knew Aaron for only a short time, they all knew what it meant to loose a close friend and ally.
Coruscant
Shortly after the ground invasion of Coruscant, Chancellor Palpatine was kidnapped by Desric and was soon escorted to General Grievous' ship where a battle above the planet was taking place. With the Separatists trying to make an escape with the Chancellor, several Republic Warships exited hyperspace before hundreds of clone starfighters began to engage the droid invaders that attacked their home.
In the midst of the battle that was taking place in cold space, two Jedi Starfighters began to fly through the battle where they both began to fly through burning Separatist ships and Republic ships that were struggling to stay alive in this battle. Following the Jedi were several clones flying right behind them where they were acting as an escort to make sure the Jedi would reach their main objective.
Inside a yellow starfighter, Anakin Skywalker looks beside him and sees his master, Obi-wan Kenobi, fly in a red Jedi Starfighter. "Master, General Grievous' ship is just ahead of us. The one crawling with vulure droids."
"I see it-oh this is going to be easy." Obi-wan said in a sacarstic tone, realizig that they were going to be fighting a hellish battle before they reach the Chancellor.
As the two men stared at Grevious' ship, they saw a swarm of Vulture Droids flight right toward them, like a swarm of angry wasps. Anakin soon looks over at his faithful robotic companion R2. "Here we go R2. This is where the fun begins."
Alright everyone that's gonna be it for the chapter! BAd I mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, with all the excitement happening around Desric, it was time to get back to our group of friends who have just lost their a member of the family, to a monster.
Will Ahsoka and Grace be able to come back from this? Will there be any retribution? We'll find out next time!
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