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Location: Durge's Ship
Status: In hyperspace
Durge was in a very good mood. One of the six Jedi following him dead. Now, all he had to do was deal with the rest of them. Grinning evilly, a plan came to mind. He would trap them all and kill them in one go.
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Location: Endless Pursuit
Status: Morose
Even sat in deep mediation as the ship hurtled through lightspeed. The loss of Parlu had hit the team hard. The girl had given in, and had paid the ultimate price. Now, they were hot on the tail of Durge, to avenge Parlu and bring him to justice as they'd been instructed. If they failed, the monster would go on killing.
The nav computer tinged, and Even felt a surge of triumph from their quarry as he left lightspeed. Even pulled them out, and summoned the others to the bridge.
"He's here somewhere, most likely hiding in wait. Orynik, Yastan, take the gun turrets. Let us try to defeat this fiend." Evens aid.
"Master, what if…" Seless began.
"Calm your fears young one. We are hear to perform a mission. We must stop Durge. Get to it." Even said.
The two went to man the turret, while Stwartik took the pilots seat, and Even settled into the copilots seat.
They had arrived in an asteroid field, which according to the data had been caused by a battle during the Galactic Sith War many millennia before. Even narrowed his eye.
"He's around here somewhere. Be wary." he counselled.
"Master, he's there!" Yastan yelled from above.
Even saw the red ship belonging to their quarry up ahead, accelerating away form them.
"Time to end this. Open fire!"
The Zabrak and the Trandoshan opened fire, and massive laser bolts lanced out from the concealed laser cannon at the bounty hunter's ship. Durge pulled his ship around and came hurtling towards them.
"Evasive manoeuvres!" Even barked.
Stwartik rotated then ship out of harm's way, and Orynik got a blast right onto the main body of Durge's ship.
"Bullseye!" he crowed from below.
Stwartik pulled their ship around and went off in pursuit of Durge.
"Master, he's going into that big asteroid!" Seless said, pointing.
"Then we shall follow." Even said grimly.
Stwartik took the ship into the asteroid, and they went through the honeycomb structure, lights actively searching for Durge. Even frowned. It wasnt like Durge to hide from an enemy.
Abruptly, he realised what had happened.
"We've been had!" he cried.
"What are you talking about Master?" Seless asked, as thiough worried for his sanity.
"Get us out of here!" Even barked.
Stwartik reacted immediately, spinning the ship around and accelerating through the asteroid, using the Force to guide his movements.
"Master..." Seless began.
Behind them, there was a massive flash. A series of cluster mines, a wicked invention that you fired one off and a web then expanded, blew up, and sent an incinerating wave of energy towrds the ship. Fire and rock came hurtling at the ship, and Stwartik braced himself for impact. The shockwave hit the ship, and sent it spinning wildy out of control.
"Get us stabilised now!" Even ordered.
"I'm trying master, but it isnt working!" Stwartik protested.
"Remember young one. Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." Even recited, and Stwartik nodded grimly.
The ship was still spinning, and bounced against one asteroid. The shields deflected the damage, and it bounced them around again.
"Stabilising now Master Piell!" Stwartik called as he fixed the repulsors and levelled the craft out.
"Well done young one. Well done indeed." Even said, clappiung the lad's shoulder.
"Please dont do that again!" Orynik called from the turret.
"I agree!" Yastan seconded from below.
There was calm for a second, before a blast rocked the back of the ship.
"Was that an asteorid?" Seless asked.
"Worse. It's Durge!" Even shouted.
Durge's ship then came flying at them, it's lasers pounding away. Stwartik swore and pulled the ship up, narrowly avoiding the hail of deadly laser fire.
"Damn bounty hunter." He cursed, rolling the ship.
A blast then hit the back of the ship, and an alarm started blaring.
"That doesnt sound good." Stwartik said, as the ship began to list heavily.
"He's hit the stabilisers!" Seless called as she went back to check.
The shop started to roll harder, and Stwartik struggled to regain control.
"Seless! Fix that please!" Even called.
"Why cant you do it?" she called in a muffled voice.
Even turned to the hatchway.
"I'm too short you fool girl!" he said grumpily.
"Ahh!" Stwartik yelled.
Even twirled to see what the problem was.
"What is it?" he demaneed.
"Master there's a missile coming straight for us!" Yastan screamed, and both he and Orynik clambered out of the turret, just before the missile hit.
The missile slammed into the top turret, and a plume of fire shot upward from the ship, while the entire thing rocked, throwing the Jedi to the ground.
"The top turret is gone, and there's extensive battle scarring to the hull! Major disruption in the power grid! Total systems failure!" Stwartik shouted.
The lights flickered and died, and the ship shuddered to a stop.
"Not good!" Even cried.
Durge brought his ship about, and came flying at them, to finish them off.
"Suggestions master?" the Trandoshan asked.
There was a thud from behind, and Yastan went rushing back to see what it was.
"Seless has gone out of the airlock!" he shouted.
"What?" Orynik asked, confused.
"Dont stand there debating! Orynik, get back in the turret. We'll need you in there as soon as the power gets back on. Yastan, help me reactivate the power grid of we're mincemeat." Even said, and he rushed down to the main computer in the hold.
While the others determinedly tried to repair the ship, Seless, clad in a vac suit had leapt out of the ship, had lit her saber and was on an intercept course for Durge.
"Right you swine, you're going down." She growled.
The Bothan activated her thrusters, and was flying straight at Durge, before he even realised what was going on. Her blade sliced the fuselage of one of his engines, and she grinned. If she could take out both engines Durge would be trapped here and they could finish him off.
Durge's ship stopped firing and flipped over to try and find whatever had damaged it. Seless threw her lightsaber, and it sliced up the fuselage of the other engine. However, this time the ship didnt slow. The engine was coming towards her, and she thrust her returned saber into the engine, then held on for dear life.
Yastan linked up another coupling.
"Any better?"
"No. Try the red one. It's always the red one!" Even said, hitting the main computer with a hammer.
"They're all red!" Yastan grumbled.
"Well what silly fool does a daft thing like that?" Even asked himself.
Seless pulled herself onto the fuselage as Durge brought his ship around to finish the Endless Pursuit off. She slipped a tracer beacon from her pocket and stuck it into the hole she had created, holding onto the guardrail for the airlock as she did so. She then activated her thrusters. If she didn't stop Durge destroying the others, it'd be a waste of time laying the beacon.
Yastan gave out a cry of victory as sparks flew.
"That's it! More!" Even shouted.
Yastan fiddled with the wires further, and suddenly the computer flared back to life.
"Brilliant! Orynik, fire!" Even barked.
The Trandoshan fired off a shot that hit Durge's shop head on and sent it spiralling off.
"Careful! You about blew me to atoms you oversized lizard!" Seless yelled angrily.
"Whoops." he said meekly.
Durge's ship pulled up sharply, smoking. Seless was in position. The tracer was in place, and the others could get away if they needed to. She now had to act. She wasn't strong enough to cripple his ship, but she could get it into trouble. She plunged her lightsaber into the cockpit, and pushed up.
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Location: Durge's Ship
Status: Irritated
Durge cursed as the Jedi ship reactivated. Between that and the pesky Jedi floating around outside, he was getting very cranky. And he wasn't sure he could win.
"This is Durge! Ventress, meet me at Tatooine! And bring some droids." he growled, plotting the coordinates.
The Jedi had escaped him this time, but not the next time. He would crush them on Tatooine.
He started to become aware of the smell of burning plastic. He saw smoke coming from his panels, and roared.
"Jedi!" he cursed.
The lightsaber blade then punched through, and Durge grabbed it. Ignoring the pain in his hand, he pulled at it, trying to rip it from the Jedi, or rip the Jedi wielding it apart.
"Hyperdrive activated." his ship told him.
"What? Oh no! Not yet!" he pleaded, letting go of the saber and trying to stop it.
The saber disappeared, and Durge roared in fury as he jumped to lightspeed.
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Location: Endless Pursuit
Status: Relieved
"That was either the bravest or most stupid thing I have ever seen young one. Do not risk your life in such a way again." Even scolded.
Seless pouted.
"But master, she did save us. If not, we'd be free floating atoms." Stwartik reminded him.
"I suppose this is true. However, it was very reckless. Do not do so again." he said.
"Yes master. But on the plus side, he's bound for Tatooine. His ship is damaged, and he'll have trouble getting in to land. We can catch him." Seless said excitedly.
Orynik smiled viciously.
"Yes. We can corner him and take him down." he purred.
Even nodded.
"Very well. Stwartik, is the ship lightspeed capable?" he asked.
"Yes. All we need to do is watch the power gauges and we'll be fine." the young Jedi answered.
Even nodded grimly.
"Then let us pursue. The beast's movement is hindered. Let us see if we can now infect the wound we gave it. Enough perhaps to take it down." he said, fixing their eager faces with a determined one of his own.
Well hello!
Apologies for the extreme delays this has suffered, along with Dark Leader, but I'm trying to do a chapter a day, so hopefully both will soon be done! On a similar note, this story has only three chapters left, and then we can go onto the tale of Asajj Ventress!
However, onto this tale...
Durge has been undone temporarily. We may have lost one of our team, but the Jedi are in hot pursuit of the bounty hunter. What will happen on Tatooine? Will justice be metted out?
Well I hope to start the next chapter right now, so hopefully this will be updated soon! Until then, please read and review!