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p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane's footsteps had receded by the time Serra was fully conscious, and Lyrii had explained her blunder to her. Serra wasn't upset at Lyrii for being tricked, and turned to face the ray-shield door of the cell both of them were now in./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii saw how Serra was staring analytically at the door, and spoke hopefully after a few seconds. "Do you have an idea how to get out of here? I know you've been placed in cells many times."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra slowly shifted her eyes to Lyrii and gave a small tsk. "It's not my fault Dooku doesn't have a sense of humor. As for this cell, I have a few ideas. I should make it quick though. How much damage did you do to the ship to crash it?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""The left engine," Lyrii recalled, "but I knew I couldn't blow up the ship with you on it so I didn't do much. He might be able to restart it."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Then I'd better hurry," Serra sighed. "Bane took my gear. Can I borrow your lightsabers?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii instantly held our both hilts and Serra took them. She thumbed the activator switch on them, but nothing happened. Serra made a noise of surprise and tried them again./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What in the?" Serra frowned. "Lyrii, did you damage them when you took out the engine?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""No," Lyrii shook her head. "They should work fine. I threw one at the rayshield on the door, but there's no reason the other one wouldn't work."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra tried to activate Lyrii's lightsabers again and then shook her head with a sigh, "no good. Those stun cuffs I was wearing prevented me from using the Force easily. That's why I didn't wake up before you came. Most of Bane's gear seems designed to counter Force-Sensitives so I'm not all too surprised that he's discovered a way to keep our lightsabers from activating."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii took the lightsabers back and clipped them on her sides while Serra pondered how to lower the rayshield. If she could, then it was likely Lyrii's lightsabers would work again. Serra walked over to the door and looked through the rayshield to the control panel that monitored the rayshield. She raised one of her hands and focused on the control panel./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"After a few seconds of struggling, she lowered her hand and banged her head against the wall of the cell. "That won't work either. The rayshield's distorting my connection to the Force. I can't bring it into focus enough to remotely use the panel and deactivate it. What is with this Bane guy?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What about one of your spells?" Lyrii asked cautiously./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra raised her head from the wall. "I could try doing my area clear spell, but with my control will slip like usual and it'll just recoil. As long as I can do enough damage on the cell though, I suppose it's worth it. All right, better back up."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii took Serra's warning to heart and crept as far back against the cell as she could go. There was probably an easier way to get out of the cell, but she didn't know what it was. Serra closed her eyes and started whispering rapidly, speaking sounds that sounded more like runic designs then actually words. The language of the Dark Side made Lyrii's skin tingle as Serra built up her power./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When a Force-User was going to engage in combat of any sort, they instinctively created a shield of Force energy around them. This meant that their opponent wouldn't be able to use the Force to tear the lightsaber from their hand or toss them down the hall. An opponent who was strong enough could tear through their enemy's shield, but it usually worked well. Your lightsaber was activated you raised your shield, that was what Lyrii and every other Force-User had been taught./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii raised her shield now as well as he could with her connection to the Force distorted, wary of Serra's spell. She knew this spell, and that Serra would be able to cast it successfully. What she feared was the recoil after it was cast that would knock Serra out for several hours./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Even with her shield up, Lyrii was worried about how much damage she would take. She would have to deal with Bane once she got out of the cell, and even though Cad Bane was a mundane who could not use the Force he was not a weak opponent. Defeating him was going to be Lyrii's greatest challenge once the rayshield came down./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"The wind ruffled her hair as a breeze was created and the shadows draped themselves around Serra like a multi-layered cloak. Serra opened her eyes suddenly. Her irises were now pure with a golden sun-like corona around it, and her pupils were slits like a snake. The whites of her eyes were now black./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She threw her hand out and a shockwave of energy jumped from her fingers and threw itself towards the door. There was a spectacular sound of tearing metal as her attack eviscerated the entire wall to a degree that the entire ship tilted upwards a few degrees. Her attack seemed to reflect off the wall, and Serra was thrown back as it crashed into her and slammed against the wall hard./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Her shirt was torn and burnmarks decorated her chest as she fell to the ground loudly, already unconscious. Once Serra's spell stopped rippling, Lyrii ran over and knelt by her friend. Although there were burnmarks, there luckily was no severe bleeding and her heartbeat was slow but stable. Even better, when Lyrii held out one of her lightsabers the dark gold blade materialized with a snap-hiss. Serra had done it./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii heard footsteps approaching, Bane's undoubtedly, and she deactivated the lightsaber and stood beside the doorway. Like most people, when Bane's footsteps as he saw the carnage from Serra's attack he walked over to the cell slowly with his blasters in front./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane saw Serra lying on the ground unconscious, and hesitated just outside the doorway. Then he carefully took a few steps inside, unable to see Lyrii from where she stood. His blasters appeared through the doorway before he did, and Lyrii stood perfectly still./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When his blasters were far enough inside, Lyrii snapped out a hand and force-pushed his blasters out of his hands. Bane lightsabers went flying away towards Serra's form and he instantly turned to face the direction of the attack. Suitably disarmed now, Lyrii launched into an attack against Bane. It would take a few precious seconds for Lyrii to be able to activate her lightsabers and she doubted Bane would give her that chance, so she forewent them entirely./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii was surprised by the speed behind Bane's blows, and it dissolved into fistfighting, for she did not give Bane a chance to draw another blaster. Bane tapped one of the controls on his gauntlet and sparks flew around his palm as he grabbed one of Lyrii's arms. The jolt of electricity made Lyrii's head snap and Bane smiled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"After a few seconds, he dropped her and Lyrii fell limp to the floor. He glanced over at his other problem, but Serra was still unconscious. Bane was glad that the Sith were so gullible and that the same trick worked twice./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii opened her eyes as Bane started walking towards Serra to retrieve his blasters, and suddenly jumped at him with both of her lightsabers activing. The movement was quick, but just as she feared the sound of her sabers activating gave her away and Bane was able to avoid her. She slid on the floor of the cell and fell into stance, between Serra and Bane./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You won't put me down that easily bounty hunter," Lyrii warned him. "You think I wouldn't notice that you used electricity to knock Serra out when I looked her over? It was obvious you'd try the same trick again against me."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She jumped at Bane with Force-speed, forcing the bounty hunter to turn tail./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You won't get away mundane!" Lyrii shouted and chased after him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra was always, emalways/em protecting Lyrii. This time Lyrii would protect Serra. She would keep her safe this time, and even if she failed to kill Bane, she would force the bounty hunter away until Serra recovered from using her spell./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When Serra had first come back from Naboo with the little Gungan girl Roo Roo Page to Serenno, Count Dooku had been away on the war front. She had been smiling as she showed the little infant that lay slumbered in her arms to Lyrii. Lyrii liked Serra's smile even though it was warmer than a Sith's should be. If the Republic took her prisoner then Serra would lose her smile along with her life, and Lyrii refused to let that happen./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Their fight was taken outside of the damaged ship and onto the landing pad before long, but that suited Lyrii fine. She jumped to the top of emXanadu Blood/em, and then leaped off it towards Bane. Both of her dark golden lightsabers were raised over her right shoulder in a downward stroke./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane barely managed to activate his rocket boots in time to avoid her, and her lightsabers came so close that one sliced the brim of his hat and the other the front of his jacket. Both landed on the ground though instead, and Lyrii instantly tore them free and turned to face Bane again. If she could not handle one non-Force using mundane then how could she expect to help Serra on the battlefield against the Jedi?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane started shooting his blasters, but Lyrii deflected them all with absolute ease. Form 3, the defensive form, was her specialty because where Serra attacked Lyrii would defend her. She couldn't do ranged attacks like Serra could, so until she could get close enough all she could do was deflect. Deflecting lightsaber bolts accurately required a certain degree of Force-control, something Lyrii didn't have much of, so she couldn't even knock one of Bane's blasters from his hand./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He seemed to realize as much and smiled, thinking that she would be easier for him to deal with then Serra had been. Bane however forgot about one thing as he kept shooting at Lyrii in the spaceport, sending customers scattering to avoid Lyrii's wildly deflected shots. Serra was still here./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Two shots knocked both of Bane's blasters from his hands, and he watched as they spun away from him. Bane withdrew another blaster only to have it go flying away as well, and he saw in horror the other Sith holding a blaster, standing on top of his ship. It was the one that he had left in her cell. Her head was lowered so he couldn't see her eyes, but the air around her form seemed darker somehow./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Do not," Serra whispered quietly, "do not underestimate the daughter of Heather Winters!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra raised her head defiantly, revealing her eyes. Her golden eyes with their red corona looked the same as always, but the white sclera was black as if she was in the middle of a spell. This time the red color of the corona did not waver like a sun, but had instead seeped into the black sclera like a set of veins./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra Winters shot twice more with her stolen blaster, and took out both of the rockets on Bane's boots. Without them, Bane was suddenly aware of Zyggeria's gravity and fell to the ground. He managed to land on his feet, and instantly fired the metal darts hidden in his gauntlet at Serra./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Count Dooku's Alycote blinked and the spikes stopped in midair a few feet from her face. She let them fall to the ground and then dropped Bane's blaster beside her. There was a thin metal cylinder in her other hand with a handguard near the mouth shaped like flower petals./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane recognized it as the hilt of a lightsaber and put a hand on his belt where it should be clipped, but of course, it wasn't there. Then he remembered that after he had captured his target he had left her lightsaber on his bridge. It seemed she had found it again, and she looked really pissed off at being locked up./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She jumped form the top of the ship down to the ground, falling slower and more delicately then an ordinary person would. With a snap-hiss, a meter long crimson blade with a black core materialized, highlighting the red in her eyes./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She smiled and raised her lightfoil, pointing it at Bane. "And do not underestimate me."/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongBane can take them down one at a time, but what about when Serra and Lyrii working together? The table might have just turned against him. Keep in mind they're also still on Zyggeria, and the Zyggerians are probably not to happy with the disturbance they're causing. This fight is probably going to dissolve from here./strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane's footsteps had receded by the time Serra was fully conscious, and Lyrii had explained her blunder to her. Serra wasn't upset at Lyrii for being tricked, and turned to face the ray-shield door of the cell both of them were now in./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii saw how Serra was staring analytically at the door, and spoke hopefully after a few seconds. "Do you have an idea how to get out of here? I know you've been placed in cells many times."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra slowly shifted her eyes to Lyrii and gave a small tsk. "It's not my fault Dooku doesn't have a sense of humor. As for this cell, I have a few ideas. I should make it quick though. How much damage did you do to the ship to crash it?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""The left engine," Lyrii recalled, "but I knew I couldn't blow up the ship with you on it so I didn't do much. He might be able to restart it."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Then I'd better hurry," Serra sighed. "Bane took my gear. Can I borrow your lightsabers?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii instantly held our both hilts and Serra took them. She thumbed the activator switch on them, but nothing happened. Serra made a noise of surprise and tried them again./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What in the?" Serra frowned. "Lyrii, did you damage them when you took out the engine?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""No," Lyrii shook her head. "They should work fine. I threw one at the rayshield on the door, but there's no reason the other one wouldn't work."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra tried to activate Lyrii's lightsabers again and then shook her head with a sigh, "no good. Those stun cuffs I was wearing prevented me from using the Force easily. That's why I didn't wake up before you came. Most of Bane's gear seems designed to counter Force-Sensitives so I'm not all too surprised that he's discovered a way to keep our lightsabers from activating."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii took the lightsabers back and clipped them on her sides while Serra pondered how to lower the rayshield. If she could, then it was likely Lyrii's lightsabers would work again. Serra walked over to the door and looked through the rayshield to the control panel that monitored the rayshield. She raised one of her hands and focused on the control panel./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"After a few seconds of struggling, she lowered her hand and banged her head against the wall of the cell. "That won't work either. The rayshield's distorting my connection to the Force. I can't bring it into focus enough to remotely use the panel and deactivate it. What is with this Bane guy?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What about one of your spells?" Lyrii asked cautiously./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra raised her head from the wall. "I could try doing my area clear spell, but with my control will slip like usual and it'll just recoil. As long as I can do enough damage on the cell though, I suppose it's worth it. All right, better back up."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii took Serra's warning to heart and crept as far back against the cell as she could go. There was probably an easier way to get out of the cell, but she didn't know what it was. Serra closed her eyes and started whispering rapidly, speaking sounds that sounded more like runic designs then actually words. The language of the Dark Side made Lyrii's skin tingle as Serra built up her power./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When a Force-User was going to engage in combat of any sort, they instinctively created a shield of Force energy around them. This meant that their opponent wouldn't be able to use the Force to tear the lightsaber from their hand or toss them down the hall. An opponent who was strong enough could tear through their enemy's shield, but it usually worked well. Your lightsaber was activated you raised your shield, that was what Lyrii and every other Force-User had been taught./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii raised her shield now as well as he could with her connection to the Force distorted, wary of Serra's spell. She knew this spell, and that Serra would be able to cast it successfully. What she feared was the recoil after it was cast that would knock Serra out for several hours./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Even with her shield up, Lyrii was worried about how much damage she would take. She would have to deal with Bane once she got out of the cell, and even though Cad Bane was a mundane who could not use the Force he was not a weak opponent. Defeating him was going to be Lyrii's greatest challenge once the rayshield came down./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"The wind ruffled her hair as a breeze was created and the shadows draped themselves around Serra like a multi-layered cloak. Serra opened her eyes suddenly. Her irises were now pure with a golden sun-like corona around it, and her pupils were slits like a snake. The whites of her eyes were now black./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She threw her hand out and a shockwave of energy jumped from her fingers and threw itself towards the door. There was a spectacular sound of tearing metal as her attack eviscerated the entire wall to a degree that the entire ship tilted upwards a few degrees. Her attack seemed to reflect off the wall, and Serra was thrown back as it crashed into her and slammed against the wall hard./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Her shirt was torn and burnmarks decorated her chest as she fell to the ground loudly, already unconscious. Once Serra's spell stopped rippling, Lyrii ran over and knelt by her friend. Although there were burnmarks, there luckily was no severe bleeding and her heartbeat was slow but stable. Even better, when Lyrii held out one of her lightsabers the dark gold blade materialized with a snap-hiss. Serra had done it./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii heard footsteps approaching, Bane's undoubtedly, and she deactivated the lightsaber and stood beside the doorway. Like most people, when Bane's footsteps as he saw the carnage from Serra's attack he walked over to the cell slowly with his blasters in front./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane saw Serra lying on the ground unconscious, and hesitated just outside the doorway. Then he carefully took a few steps inside, unable to see Lyrii from where she stood. His blasters appeared through the doorway before he did, and Lyrii stood perfectly still./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When his blasters were far enough inside, Lyrii snapped out a hand and force-pushed his blasters out of his hands. Bane lightsabers went flying away towards Serra's form and he instantly turned to face the direction of the attack. Suitably disarmed now, Lyrii launched into an attack against Bane. It would take a few precious seconds for Lyrii to be able to activate her lightsabers and she doubted Bane would give her that chance, so she forewent them entirely./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii was surprised by the speed behind Bane's blows, and it dissolved into fistfighting, for she did not give Bane a chance to draw another blaster. Bane tapped one of the controls on his gauntlet and sparks flew around his palm as he grabbed one of Lyrii's arms. The jolt of electricity made Lyrii's head snap and Bane smiled./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"After a few seconds, he dropped her and Lyrii fell limp to the floor. He glanced over at his other problem, but Serra was still unconscious. Bane was glad that the Sith were so gullible and that the same trick worked twice./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Lyrii opened her eyes as Bane started walking towards Serra to retrieve his blasters, and suddenly jumped at him with both of her lightsabers activing. The movement was quick, but just as she feared the sound of her sabers activating gave her away and Bane was able to avoid her. She slid on the floor of the cell and fell into stance, between Serra and Bane./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You won't put me down that easily bounty hunter," Lyrii warned him. "You think I wouldn't notice that you used electricity to knock Serra out when I looked her over? It was obvious you'd try the same trick again against me."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She jumped at Bane with Force-speed, forcing the bounty hunter to turn tail./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You won't get away mundane!" Lyrii shouted and chased after him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra was always, emalways/em protecting Lyrii. This time Lyrii would protect Serra. She would keep her safe this time, and even if she failed to kill Bane, she would force the bounty hunter away until Serra recovered from using her spell./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When Serra had first come back from Naboo with the little Gungan girl Roo Roo Page to Serenno, Count Dooku had been away on the war front. She had been smiling as she showed the little infant that lay slumbered in her arms to Lyrii. Lyrii liked Serra's smile even though it was warmer than a Sith's should be. If the Republic took her prisoner then Serra would lose her smile along with her life, and Lyrii refused to let that happen./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Their fight was taken outside of the damaged ship and onto the landing pad before long, but that suited Lyrii fine. She jumped to the top of emXanadu Blood/em, and then leaped off it towards Bane. Both of her dark golden lightsabers were raised over her right shoulder in a downward stroke./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane barely managed to activate his rocket boots in time to avoid her, and her lightsabers came so close that one sliced the brim of his hat and the other the front of his jacket. Both landed on the ground though instead, and Lyrii instantly tore them free and turned to face Bane again. If she could not handle one non-Force using mundane then how could she expect to help Serra on the battlefield against the Jedi?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane started shooting his blasters, but Lyrii deflected them all with absolute ease. Form 3, the defensive form, was her specialty because where Serra attacked Lyrii would defend her. She couldn't do ranged attacks like Serra could, so until she could get close enough all she could do was deflect. Deflecting lightsaber bolts accurately required a certain degree of Force-control, something Lyrii didn't have much of, so she couldn't even knock one of Bane's blasters from his hand./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He seemed to realize as much and smiled, thinking that she would be easier for him to deal with then Serra had been. Bane however forgot about one thing as he kept shooting at Lyrii in the spaceport, sending customers scattering to avoid Lyrii's wildly deflected shots. Serra was still here./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Two shots knocked both of Bane's blasters from his hands, and he watched as they spun away from him. Bane withdrew another blaster only to have it go flying away as well, and he saw in horror the other Sith holding a blaster, standing on top of his ship. It was the one that he had left in her cell. Her head was lowered so he couldn't see her eyes, but the air around her form seemed darker somehow./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Do not," Serra whispered quietly, "do not underestimate the daughter of Heather Winters!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra raised her head defiantly, revealing her eyes. Her golden eyes with their red corona looked the same as always, but the white sclera was black as if she was in the middle of a spell. This time the red color of the corona did not waver like a sun, but had instead seeped into the black sclera like a set of veins./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Serra Winters shot twice more with her stolen blaster, and took out both of the rockets on Bane's boots. Without them, Bane was suddenly aware of Zyggeria's gravity and fell to the ground. He managed to land on his feet, and instantly fired the metal darts hidden in his gauntlet at Serra./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Count Dooku's Alycote blinked and the spikes stopped in midair a few feet from her face. She let them fall to the ground and then dropped Bane's blaster beside her. There was a thin metal cylinder in her other hand with a handguard near the mouth shaped like flower petals./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Bane recognized it as the hilt of a lightsaber and put a hand on his belt where it should be clipped, but of course, it wasn't there. Then he remembered that after he had captured his target he had left her lightsaber on his bridge. It seemed she had found it again, and she looked really pissed off at being locked up./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She jumped form the top of the ship down to the ground, falling slower and more delicately then an ordinary person would. With a snap-hiss, a meter long crimson blade with a black core materialized, highlighting the red in her eyes./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She smiled and raised her lightfoil, pointing it at Bane. "And do not underestimate me."/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongBane can take them down one at a time, but what about when Serra and Lyrii working together? The table might have just turned against him. Keep in mind they're also still on Zyggeria, and the Zyggerians are probably not to happy with the disturbance they're causing. This fight is probably going to dissolve from here./strong/p
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