Tali Quinn was growing in confidence now that she had witnessed first hand Avrria's newly prospering chaos-causing abilities, and with her growing confidence in Avie, came a growing number of mischievous schemes.
Currently, the Sith was sitting at her table with her apprentice Jaesa. It was late on Korriban, and the young Sith relative in question had headed to bed, and now the two elder Sith were, thanks to Tali's evil mind, conjuring up ideas for what they were referring to as an 'Evil Sith Kaggath of Pranks' against...Well, everyone in the Academy who they currently disliked, but primarily against Avrria's instructor, Overseer Harkun.
So far, the 'plans' included throwing rotten fruit at him and stealing his Lightsaber and replacing it was a stick, but just Jaesa opened her mouth to make another suggestion, Tali's Holoprojector lit up with a loud chiming sound.
The Sith Lady sighed and answered. The Holographic image of Darth Nox greeted her with a grin. "Tal, I kind of need a favour..." She began 'innocently'.
Tali raised a single red eyebrow curiously. "Oh? Now what, Kit?" She enquired.
Kitty Zalia-Revel-Kallig-Nox shrugged. "It's really not that much of a big deal, but it saves me the hassle of coming to Korriban myself."
The last thing anybody on the planet wanted was Kitty dropping in, but Tali wasn't committing until she was sure what Kitty's idea of a 'favour' was, so she just waited for the other Sith to elaborate. "It's only one little Holocron..." Kitty began, attempting to look innocent.
She's definitely up to something, Tali thought to herself. "Which Holocron?" She asked, curious to see if she could figure out her Sith friend's plans before the trouble began.
"Well, any you find on the way are also greatly appreciated!" Kitty grinned cheerfully, "But the one I'm looking for is this!" She pressed a button somewhere and another Holoimage appeared beside her, showing a glowing pyramid. "It's in the tomb of Ajunta Pall...somewhere. Some silly old Sith lost it in there." Kitty explained.
Ooh...An idea occurred to Tali. That, Tali decided with a grin, would be a perfect excuse to take Avie off grave-robbing again, which, last time, had led to some fun chaos. "No problem!" She beamed at her fellow Sith, instantly brushing off concern over Kitty's 'plan'.
The Holographic Sith grinned back. "Great! Well...I'll leave you to it and go then! Bye!" As abruptly as she had interrupted them, Kitty vanished. The troublesome but somewhat confused Emperor's Wrath turned back to her apprentice.
"Well, now Lady Weirdo has gone," She laughed to herself as she joked about her friend, "Any ideas? After all...Finding some silly Holocron can't take that long."
Jaesa smirked. "As a matter of fact, I do have an idea and it's brilliant." She declared in a decidedly smug tone.
Tali joined in with the smirking. "Oh? Do tell!" She said, delighted at the concept of more mischief.
"So, you know in the graves there are a surprisingly high number of worthless but potentially projectile urns and such?" Jaesa pointed out, giggling a little at her own idea.
Tali didn't get to be Emperor's Wrath by being slow on the uptake and was already cackling as she began plotting out how her apprentice's idea could be easily put into operation the next morning.
"Wakey, wakey, time for trouble-makey!" Avrria heard someone chanting as she blinked open her olive-green eyes. Jaesa was leaning over her bed with a big grin on her face. She rubbed her eyes and considered smacking the other Sith with a pillow as Jaesa tried to pull her out of bed. "C'mon, Master Tal and I have some great, fun, Sithy plans for today!" The Sith Apprentice insisted in a sing-song tone as she yanked Avie's arm.
Hearing that, Avrria finally motivated herself to crawl out of bed. "Oh?" She questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"It involves violence, so it's going to be entertaining..." Jaesa told her, still grinning in a slightly worrying manner as the two young Sith made their way upstairs to Tali's quarters, where a concerned Malavai was watching Tali, who, since Vette had decided it was best not to stay on Korriban, was making her own breakfast. Seeing Tali with a knife was intimidating at the best of times, but things weren't going her way, so she had resorted to threatening the loaf of bread as she stabbed at it, trying to slice it up.
Eventually, after some intervention from Malavai, breakfast was eaten and the day's plans explained to Avie, with excessive cackling from Tali and Jaesa, so the three Sith decided it was time to head off.
When they reached the tomb again, Tali and Jaesa, clearly enjoying their 'fun' plans, skipped cheerfully inside and began cutting up beasts inside. Avrria paused, rolled her eyes, then shrugged. "Well, why not? I'm getting quite good at this, anyway." She decided, before charging down the steps after them, startling some Imperial troops who were inside fending off K'lor'slugs, despite Tali pointing out that 'the professional slaughterers' were here now to handle it for them.
The troops were most surprised when their Sergeant took his helmet off for a moment and got hit on the ear by a claw that Avrria had cut off a K'lor'slug. "Oopsie!" The young Sith giggled.
Tali laughed at the startled soldiers. "And that, my...friends, is what happens if you stand around trying to steal kills from Sith Lords. Now, unless you've seen a Holocron round here, or you want to become K'lor'slug bait, I advise you to beat it." She told them in a superior tone. The majority of them legged it immediately, but one of them didn't.
Tali and Jaesa simultaneously fixed the brave or incredibly stupid man with hard glares, while Avie continued cutting through the beasts. "You have five seconds to give me a very good reason for not getting the hint." Tali told the trooper.
"That Holocron thing you mentioned...I think I might have seen it..." He explained nervously.
Her Lightsaber blade swung a little closer to the end of his nose. "Where?!" The Sith demanded.
Worried about Tali's temper and her swishing Lightsaber blade in such close proximity to his face, the Imperial quickly spat out an answer, nervously backing up against the wall and lobbing a datapad with a map on at them. Jaesa grabbed it quickly and began skimming over it.
"...B-But you'll die in there!" The soldier added. That gabbled remark, unfortunately for him, drew Tali's attention, which had shifted to the map, back to him.
The Sith narrowed her brown eyes into a menacing glare. "Are you calling us as weak as you?" Tali asked aggressively, whirling her Lightsaber back towards him. He tried to back away but ended up walking into the wall, jabbering fearfully as Avrria finished cutting up the K'lor'slugs and the three Sith all turned on him. Jaesa muttered something about slicing his limbs off, but Tali just brought her blade up, stabbing him in the face.
"Right, now that's sorted, where to?" The Dark Lady grinned, turning back to her two companions. Jaesa mulled over the datapad's map again, checking the way carefully. "The Holocron we're looking for is that way." She explained, pointing. "Then there's more artefacts and some less valuable stuff in the next two rooms." She added.
"Alright, to the Holocron!" Tali cheerfully called out, gesturing with her Lightsaber, causing the other two to dodge rapidly. The Sith laughed off the near-fatal incident and ran off with a chilling battle cry. Jaesa and Avrria looked at each other, then shrugged and ran after Tali emitting their only shrill yelps and whirling their weapons as they went.
They returned about three hours later, all carrying assorted things that they had raided. Some were actual artefacts and others were just things that hadn't been nailed down. Tali was smugly waving the main Holocron around. "I'm glad we got to this. Much too important to leave festering in a tomb." She decided as they emerged, blinking, into Korriban's sunlight once more.
Jaesa nodded, fiddling with a small, sharp-edged but rather ugly statue of a long dead Zabrak Sith. "Some of the other stuff isn't bad either. This, for instance, would make an excellent weapon."
"Yeah, and these urns look like they'd fly quite well...Y'know if someone dropped them down the stairs." Avrria suggested, smirking.
"Whenever our enemies are passing..." Jaesa added, cackling.
"That," A certain lunatic redheaded Dark Lady, usually know as Tali Quinn, interrupted, "Sounds like a fun way to spend this afternoon."
True to her word, Tali disappeared into her quarters and re-emerged with "picnic lunch", consisting mostly of cakes, and sat down beside her apprentice and her young relative, at the top of the stairs with a pile of worthless urns and artefacts, or as the three Sith had begun calling them, 'ammo'.
Avrria was dangling over, watching people pass. "Well?" Jaesa asked impatiently. "Anyone who'd make a good target?" She questioned, holding up the small statue.
"Well..." Avie leant over again. "I think that's Jird from my class. He's the one Tali strangled." She pointed out a Mirialan boy, seeming quite amused by the memory of their last encounter.
"You mean the one who laughed at you? Drop it, Jaesa!" Tali added her own opinion sharply. Jaesa gleefully complied, letting the statue fly over the edge and strike the Mirialan's head with a resounding thwack, breaking into pieces. Jird shouted a Mirialan curse as he rubbed a lump on his head, looking up for the source. Avrria ducked back, leaving him confused and very annoyed. He stormed off in the direction of the medical bay to get the lump sorted.
As soon as he was gone, there was an outburst of cackling and high-fiving among the troublemakers.
After the excitement had died down, Tali looked back at Avie expectantly. "Anyone else?" She asked curiously.
The young Sith grinned and nodded, pointing towards a Chiss Apprentice who was meditating in front of a monument directly below them. "Didn't she call you a stuck up Jedi Bitch last week, Jaesa?"
Jaesa took a look over the edge too, nodded grimly, and selected a large urn containing the bones of some mental old Sith's enemy. She smirked, mouthed, "Bombs away!" At her partners in crime and released it. It whistled through the air and shattered against the side of the monument, showering the Chiss girl in bones. She let out a shrill squeal and jumped up, disturbing her master and causing a loud argument to ensue between the Sith.
Another burst of cackling began, only to be interrupted by Harkun, who had chosen a bad time to be passing by their picnic area. "What in the Emperor's name is going on here?" He demanded, staring at them in confused annoyance.
"A picnic." Tali informed him calmly, while Jaesa and Avrria traded glances. "A better question would be why can't you mind your own business?" She asked, causing him to look distinctly outraged and open his mouth to reply.
But Tali's question was never answered, because Jaesa and Avie took it upon themselves to pelt him with the remaining artefacts, causing him to run off, cursing at them in every language he knew.
The Sith Lady beside them smirked, polished off the last tray of cakes, and declared that "A hilarious ending to a day well spent."
Which, unfortunately for the rest of the Academy's occupants, meant it would probably happen again.