Yet again I apologise for the delay. I needed to update my other fanfiction, 'X-men Evolution Season 5' before I did this one to make it fair for both sides. If it feels any better they were delayed a lot too.
Anyway here is the next chapter after Ventress's assault. I don't think it's as good as the last one which many of you enjoyed but it shows I'm alive and my hands work
Enjoy :D
Star Wars: Destroying the Past
Chapter 10, A common enemy
"Often in war, you find your enemy not so different from yourself"
Ventress on Farrfin! From rumours of their amazing powers, the dark Jedi has been sent to capture them by order of Count Dooku. Complicated by the presence of Master Plo Koon a fight soon breaks out where rouge Padawan Nik Swayer reveals his released lightsaber, Akigai! The droids are on the offensive; both Jedi and Rouges have to work together if they want to survive.
The droids were marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah (couldn't help myself). B1's, B2's and spider droids were going down the mountain side, blasting apart the village bellow. Three B1's were about in the middle.
"Boy, this sure is easy if they don't shoot back." one said.
"Roger roger to tha-" the second said before being blasted. The first looked down to see a few of the resident Farghul with guns shooting from their windows and whatever cover they could find. The first and the third moved to better cover.
"Well…we have bigger numbers" the Third said, trying to make the odds sound better "this should be easy."
"Your right. So long as we stay keep blasting it should be Ok- Wait! What's that?" the droid pointed it's three fingered hand in the air. There was a strange green hoop that zipped down and split apart four B2's. "Blast it!" Red bolts surged towards Akigai, but bounced off as the scythe got closer.
"It's not working!" the first said. The lightsaber swept down on them. "I knew we should have taken our chances with the cats." The two were scrap. The blade continued to spin across the mountain taking off more and more droids. But where was it's wielder? Nik Swayer, the guy capable of bringing people to the dark side through just being annoying, was on top of a building. The emerald eyed Padawan was lying down eating a nerfburger with his left hand and controlling the lightsaber with his right.
"This has to be the laziest way to kill droids ever." he thought, chewing another mouthful.
"Wow, you've soiled your name, mine and all Jedi before you whilst pigging yourself out letting me do all the work. You're a bit behind today aren't you?" Only Nik heard the sound of Akigai talking.
"Got that right. Yo wielder so lazy, he uses a remote to operate his remote."
"Is that suppose to be vaguely funny?"
"Least it's easier to understand then your jokes."
"Only cause you're too stupid to laugh at good jokes and has to revert to your usual banter. I don't understand why you don't bore yourself."
"Take that back! I am way funnier than you! You've been in this world for less than a week and already you think your on top!"
"You've been in the world for fifteen years and your humour hasn't improved in any one of them."
"You can't improve on perfection."
"Nik!" the Padawan bolted up, his lightsaber shuddering a bit in flight but staying on it's path "are you going to help me or will I have to bring you down from there myself?" Nik recognised the speaker as Camille. He called Akigai back and jumped down from the building. Cam was using her yellow lightsaber, cutting up a crab droid, leg by leg until she stabbed it. Before she could rest two red blaster blots zipped past her face and she turned to see eight B1's, one with a yellow head. She turned a cog on her lightsaber and the second blade went out. She spun the blade, going from leg to leg, hair accessories clicking with every deflection, and the soulless shells fell in seconds. But the blots kept coming from three super battle droids, side by side. Cam turned off her lightsaber and leaped to the side of them. Then she twisted one of the cogs and ignited it again. At the normal length of a lightsaber it would scrap the first in the row then graze the second but with double the length it destroyed them all.
"You see" Cam said, panting while wiping the sweat off her face with her gloved hand "that's actual fighting."
"I still took down more than you, and had to tolerate Akigai's blabber." Cam's face softened and frowned. "Oh sorry."
"No' it's ok." she looked down to her lightsaber, wide eyed "Please, talk to me. Say anything. Is there even anyone there?" As they were on the run the team took comfort with their lightsaber conversations. All except Cam who couldn't hear a word.
"Hands in the air." said a voice behind them, gruff and no nonsense. They turned to the barrel of a gun, being held by clone commander Wolffe. Nik sighed. "I said hands in-"
"Yeah I heard you. But do you really stand a chance, look up, look at me scythe, look at it." he gestured to his lightsaber, swung over his shoulder. "Don't it look intimidating for a innocent soul like moi?"
"Not that weird language again."
"Yeah I better stop before I milk the joke too far."
"You?" Cam said, sarcastically "no you wouldn't."
"I've seen that weapon in action" the clone persisted "I know what it can do and it seems aside from that battle with Ventress you use it like a slob." Nik looked appalled "How could you make that droid destruction on the mountain look more lazy?"
"If I had a hot dog instead I would eat it slowly, centimetre by centimetre. That would be the Laziest case scenario."
"Hot dog?" Nik's eyes widened.
"This galaxy hasn't seen hot dogs yet?" His face showed sympathy, real sympathy "you poor, poor souls." Wolffe raised his blaster, Nik grabbed Akigai, Cam clutched her nameless lightsaber and-
"STOP!" A blunt order that everyone obeyed. They all turned to Jedi master, Plo Koon. "fighting amongst ourselves wont save those people or us."
"Didn't stop you when Ventress appeared." Cam scowled.
"That doesn't matter now. What matters are those innocent people." they all nodded in agreement. "Ventress and the droids are after us. If we run away from the village they will go after us making the Farghul safe."
"Right!" Cam and Nik agreed. The Kel Dor smiled under his mask. They may seem rebellious but they do have responsibility and honour. But no-one would forgive them for killing Palpatine, they would need to be captured after the droids are taken care of. "Before we go lets confirm something. Your name was Nik Swayer, right?" Nik nodded. "you miss?" He addressed the other.
"Camille Pine. And you?"
"Plo Koon." they set off running out of the village. Both sides stayed away from each other yet close to their weapons. Nik turned to Cam as they sprinted along.
"Plo Koon, heard about him?"
"Yeah. He came from a line of Kel Dor Jedi. Inventor of electric judgement, expert pilot and amazingly strong in utilising the force through telekinesis and altering his environment." Nik had a blank look on his face.
"So he's strong."
"Very. That means as soon as the droids are dealt with we run away like there's no tomorrow." Wolffe kept his cold robotic eye on the rouges, but his real one looked to his general. After serving him so long he could see the Jedi was worried, even with his mask and goggles hiding his facial features.
"Something bothering you sir?" he asked.
"I sense something peculiar in the force. Something familiar."
"Sir?"
"When they came to Coruscant I was in the sidelines, maintaining the perimeter. I felt this odd presence from the space port, shortly before they escaped. As Swayer fought Ventress I felt the same force signature, but slightly different."
"What could it be?"
"I'm not sure" Plo thought of the security footage of Andraw's quake pole and witnessing Nik's scythe "but I have my theories."
Elsewhere on the hillside Ventress was recovering from her fight with Nik. Although she wasn't too badly hurt she was fuming she had to resort to using droid backup. But this anger only fuelled her desire to hunt down the rest of them. She looked over the town from the middle part of the mountain, skirt off. She watched the droids get scrapped by the locals and the cats slowly die.
"Mistress" a B1 commander said "the Jedi have left the town and are moving east." the bald woman turned to the cannon folder, pleased with the new information.
"Good. Order the forces to move away from the villagers and the tanks to set up a barrier on the western road."
"Understood" the droid got it's communicator "All forces move away from the village."
"What?" a droid said over the transmission "but we were just winning."
"These are direct orders! Retreat now!"
"We're so close to capturing these settlements. Can't we-" the witch grabbed the communicator.
"Do as I say! Retreat and set up a barrier on the west path!"
"R-R-Roger, Roger, s-sorry commander." the clanker stuttered. Ventress scowled at the incompetence. She and Grievous both confesses about destroying their own droids, and who could blame them. Meanwhile in the smoking wreckage of the village, a familiar Farghul male carrying a rifle and his two female counterparts both with shotguns emerged from their housing.
"Agnis" Clive asked "what were the total credits for the match?" one of the women, Agnis, looked at a computer, typed a few things in and her eyes widened.
"If it told you how many digits it has" Agnis said "I think you'd get a nosebleed." Mane smiled.
"Great, I never though I could make this much money from a few younglings. Brier, where did Cam and Nik go?" Clive questioned, setting down his rifle.
"From the camera droid footage they went to the outskirts." said the other woman, holding a data pad.
"Right, we're following them. At this rate I could gain millions, start a website, a billion hits on holonet easy." He ran to his land speeder and Agnis and Brier got in the back. "I'm not letting them get away." The speeder started off and Brier looked at the Datapad and four fleeing figures were visible.
Said figures were only just starting to slow down.
"Hey" Cam said, halting altogether and the others followed suit "hear that? The shooting has stopped."
"See" Plo said "they're after us. They stopped firing on the people and are coming to us."
"That's great…if you have a death wish." Nik quipped. "So is there a easy way out of here, an army waiting to scrap the droids or are we gonna have to fight them all by ourselves. If it's one of the last two I'm out of here."
"We have backup on the outskirts, just behind the mountain." Wolffe explained. They ran some more until reaching the other side of the mountain. They stopped. Seven tanks with many battle droids looked at them. They aimed. Nik looked at Wolffe.
"Ever cross your mind the droids came from behind the mountain?" The clankers opened fire. With so many shots and the heavy lasers from the tanks they retreated to some cover. However Nik jumped right back out and dogged the lasers, holding his scythe high.
"Droids, Smoids. I've got a magic trick for them. One swing and I will saw the tanks and the droids in half, nothing up my sleeves." He threw his lightsaber and the hoop zoomed towards them. The front droids screamed and shielded them selves with their arms. But they didn't have to. Just as it was about to hit a tank a figure leaped into the air onto it. She held one of her red lightsaber out, stopping the scythe without trembling. Ventress battered Akigai, the living lightsaber that got close to defeating her, back with her other saber. Nik witnessed his weapon flying back too him, out of his control. Thinking fast he jumped to grab the shaft, flying back some of the way due to the power of the deflection. Asajj saw her chance. The witch leaped at Nik and drove her blades down on him, pushing the lanky Padawan back. The droids finally put their arms down and looked at the fray. They were at the advantage. Their confidence returned and they began to fire again. Wolffe found some cover behind a boulder and shot them back, but even a commander couldn't take down a whole army.
"Retreat!" Plo shouted. They didn't need to be told twice. Nik and Cam ran with their enemies while the droids and Ventress followed. They retraced their steps, going back behind the mountain to the other side, but alas, more robots stood in their way. They three humans and a alien had no choice but to move forward, but a few seconds into this they stopped. They were on a mountain, and were now by the cliff. Behind them was the familiar clunk, clunk of the battle droids. They were boxed in.
"Well this is a trap and a half." Nik stated.
"Where are the others?" Cam yelled above the shots "Surly they can hear all this. Sod's law their lazing about, not a care in the world."
Red lasers streamed through the air as squad upon squad of droids marched to a T-6 shuttle. Outside the five remaining rouges were fighting off the invasion.
"Where did these guys come from?" Sara complained, jumping and rolling between droids, decapitating them. "I was just in the shower when all these droids showed up and started to blast us!" She sliced the arms off a few Super Battle droids then continually slashed their bodies as her wet hair dried. She was pissed.
"Stop complaining." Scott answered back, surrounded by droids. He threw his unnatural red lightsaber in a spiral and soon they were all scrapped. "You get angry over the smallest things."
"I do not!"
"Hey, less talk more action." Thom called, standing on top of a pile of droids, fresh lightsaber cuts all over their metal bodies. He faced a troop of B1's all aiming at him. He saw a rock to the side of them, and smiled. Keeping on hand on his lightsaber he put the other behind his back and lifted the rock. A droid turned to it a second before it fell on them. The powerful Padawan next faced a bunch of spider droids, charging their lasers. He held out his hand and just before they were going to fire, turned their heads to face each other. They fired, they were hit, they were scrapped. A few B2's saw all this and used both their hand guns at him. Padawan Surr deflected some until he had an idea. Telekinesis is one of his best talents so he brought all the B1's guns to him.
He held one in his hand and the others floated, all the exact same angle and position. He pulled the trigger on his, they all fired. The B2's were outgunned, something they were not used to, and after they fell Thom moved the guns to the other droids. Everywhere in sight there was scrap.
"Good work Thom" Andraw called, beheading all the droids in his way and deflecting a countless number of blaster bolts "now there's just the rest of the army." He activated his COM link to the ship. "Royse, any contact from Cam and Nik?"
"No" she replied "shall we take off and find them?"
"Yes. I'll get rid of these guys and you start the ship up." Padawan Crest put on hand above his lightsaber while the other gripped, force swelling thorough it. "Clash, Yochisuzu!" A white light engulfed him as his partner showed her true colours. We move away from the fray, through forests and grasslands, barren cliffs and onto a mountain. Zooming in there are four people, all wearing distinctly different clothes and on the edge of a cliff. One of them is a Kel Dor. He raises his head away from the army.
"What is it general?" Wolffe asked.
"Oh, nothing. Nothing to distract our attention at the moment." They all turned back to Ventress, behind a huge army. Lightsabers, lightsaber scythe and a blaster all aimed at her.
"This is your final chance" the harpy said "turn that scythe back and surrender and I may bring you to my master conscious. Think about it. You killed Palpatine. The whole republic hates you. Not one person will forgive you for what you have done and that Jedi will just stab you in the back. If you do manage to escape he will just capture you and have you imprisoned, tried and executed. If you, and your other friends come with me you will have a purpose in the separatist cause, be heroes. What will it be, life or death?" They were silent, until Cam stepped forward.
"I'm going to say no for three reasons. We have our morals and they are all against yours, you tried to kill us just a few seconds ago and Andraw makes the group decisions. Nik, keep Akigai the way he is, we're not backing down."
"Pity." she whispered, then spoke to the droid forces "if anyone of them tries to run from this battle, fire everything at them. This is personal." the droids aimed, ready for them. Wolffe moved back, knowing he was just get in the way. The witch screamed as she soared into the air. Nik leaped to mean her but she swung her blades and knocked him away. She landed, eyes closed, then brought up her lightsabers instinctively. The ruby swords were holding back those of blue and yellow. Nik flipped back and drove his lightsaber down…where Asajj was. The pale dark Jedi rolled forward and spun round to meet the three. She dashed, they swung as she jumped while twisting in the air, her scarlet sabers spinning too as a lethal shield. She landed and brought her duel blades up, crossing each other, blocking all her opponents lightsabers at once, Plo to the left, Cam in the middle and Nik's scythe blade to the right. She showed no strain at all.
"Camille" the chalk woman said to her centre "you seem like a smart girl. Don't you see joining me is the best thing to do?"
"To keep us alive it is the smartest," the human relied "but to go by our morals, is the worst. Just because we both dress in similar ways, we are not alike." Nik looked at them both. "They show the same back, legs and even cleavage. If it weren't for the huge hair difference I couldn't tell them apart."
"As if height, skin tone and naval wasn't enough." Nik ignored his lightsaber and snapped back to the fight.
"Shame" Ventress said "I'd hoped to make this three-on-one, or even two-on-two, but if your going to be that way, I guess I'll settle with one-on-two." Cam was straining to keep her hold on her side, if she slipped then- "Wait!" she thought "Doesn't she mean one-on three." The Rattataki smiled, seeing the confusion on her face. As if it was no effort at all she pushed all the sabers back and threw her hand forward. The force flew Cam backwards, feet dragging on the ground. "Dam, I should have seen that commi-" her thought stopped. He world stopped. Her mind was away from the fight. Time slowed. She put her feet down but they kept going. "I'm not on the ground. I'm airborne." The push was so strong it sent her several meters to the edge of the cliff…and beyond. She was falling from a mountain.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" A scream. That's all she could think of.
"Cam!" Nik screamed, running to get her. But the witch was in front of him and kicked him away from his friend. Elsewhere a blue pole of Plasma was brought down to the ground. The earth fragmented and the shards, from boulders to grains, slammed into a android army. Andraw was about to pulse himself in the air to surprise the next round, but he felt her.
"Cam…" he knew she was in trouble.
"She's not too far. We have the time!" Yochisuzu said. Even she cut her usual drawl. This was life or death.
"Royse!" He yelled to the stolen ship, confident with his voice that he didn't need the COM link.
"I sense it too." the raven haired Padawan replied over the COM "almost done, get on." Luckily hope was not lost. On a slope on the cliff, Padawan Pine dangled from the earth. She knew it could hold her for long. She knew Ventress will stop Nik. But she didn't know how to get out of there. There was no way out bar the rocks bellow. She was without hope. She couldn't save herself. Fear won over her. The human brought up her hand for a better grip and saw her lightsaber. Camille looked at it.
"Please." she begged "talk to me. Please tell me how to get out of here. You haven't talked before but this is serious. If I go we both go. I don't know if you can here me, or if you even care about me, but if you do, please. Please, I'll do anything. Please…help me, you're my only hope." Silence.
"In that case…" her eyed widened. The tears threatening to fall were washed away. The background began to turn white, the mountain disappeared, to be replace by the her inner world. It was only now that Cam still felt fear, fear of where she was going, fear of what will happen, and even fear of her own weapon.
To be continued…
CLIFFHANGER! LITERALY! Sorry about stopping it here but next chapter we will see another release in action! Hope your enjoying it.
Will Cilve continue to make money out of our troop's antics? - "Isn't it obvious?" (Clive)Does this mean Yochisuzu has abandoned her perverted ways? - "Don't count on it." (Yochi')Are the rest of the gang happy they got some more fight scenes?"Hell, yeah." (Sara)"I feel great. Did you see that blaster trick? Awesome" (Thom)"Whatever... ... ..." (Scott) (Everyone stares at him)"Are you sure? I mean you and me didn't get even a mention last chapter. Don't you want more appearances and fights-" (Thom)"No." (Scott)
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