Corran and Kyp didn't have to pick their way through the under city long before they arrived at a solid, vault like door. Easily four meters tall, it dwarfed the Jedi. Though dusty and dirty like everything else in this level of Coruscant, the door's surface under the grime was unmarred and clearly newer than the walls and structures around it.

The Force had led them here. If that wasn't enough, the symbol on the door matched the symbol on the small, metal emblem that Mara had kept in her pocket.

Wasting no time, Corran lit his lightsaber and delved it into the door.

Or, at least, it was supposed to delve. In theory.

What happened instead was the lightsaber did not burn through the metal. The blade sputtered a bit and warmed the metal, but nothing melted away and no progress was made.

Frustration began to burn through Corran. "You've got to be kidding me. This isn't cortosis, it isn't killing the blade, it's just not going through!"

Kyp took a different approach. He began to cut through the wall next to it. While the blade made some progress, it wasn't burning completely through. The walls here were much thicker than he had imagined, possibly more than two meters in depth.

Corran finally turned off his lightsaber. Kyp's silvery blade lit the underground area and gleamed hazily off the metal door. Giving up on the wall, he turned to consider Corran. Corran began to pace, thinking rapidly for a solution.

"There's got to be another way in…"

Suddenly, there was a shudder. Metal moaned from somewhere above and beyond. Immediately, Corran's lightsaber was lit again. He and Kyp turned to regard the darkness beyond them and moved closer together in a defensive position, lightsabers raised.

Seconds stretched on. The Jedi stood in silence except for the hum of their weapons.

With a fantastic screech, durasteel was shredded before the Jedi in the glow of their lightsabers. A massive being, fast moving and impossibly strong, charged forward towards the two men. Force enhanced reactions enabled the two Jedi to jump out of the way. The beast slammed into the vault door where the Jedi were standing moments before. Corran turned as he landed, and to his shock and horror, saw that the thing actually dented the metal.

"Sith spawn!" he spat. "Kyp, we need to get out of here!"

"I'm not arguing!" replied Kyp. As they prepared to sprint towards the darkness from where the beast sprang, a second appeared from the hole the first ripped in the durasteel. In the dim light, it turned its featureless face towards its prey. Both Jedi stopped cold in their tracks and formed up, back to back. Kyp raised his lightsaber to the new arrival as Corran held his weapon defensively towards the original threat.

"I have a bad feeling about this," said Kyp.

As if on cue, the two monsters lunged up into a coordinated aerial attack. Again, the Jedi sprang out of the way. However, the Jedi were not what the beasts were aiming for. Using their supernatural strength and weight, the dropped like massive boulders, fists to the ground, cracking great fissures in the durasteel beneath them. The floor began to give way, crumbling to pieces. Their deed done, the monsters leaped up off of the remaining broken flooring, causing the walkway to disintegrate at an even more alarming rate, and then disappeared into the blackness as suddenly as they arrived.

Kyp somersaulted in a great leap away from the epicenter of the disaster, then sprinted across crumbling supports and used a Force enhanced jump to telekinetically launch himself onto a hanging platform. He caught the platform in a left-handed grip, his activated lightsaber still clutched in his right. Glancing over his shoulder, he saw Corran struggle to stay above the devastation without a telekinetic advantage. However, it wasn't enough. The Corellian fell through the massive fissure and disappeared.

"Corran!" Kyp cried out. He reached out in the Force and found Corran's presence, in terror and still falling. Kyp tried to reach out and lift him out, but couldn't quite get a solid Force grip on him. Determined to save his companion, Kyp deactivated his lightsaber, swung his body towards the abyss, and let go of the platform. He completed half of a mid air back flip and dove in head first through the hole in the ground after Corran.

They plummeted amid tons of twisted durasteel and rock.

Using the Force to guide his decent, Kyp navigated the free fall avalanche and pulled Corran towards him. Lightsaber still activated, the Corellian slashed at pieces of debris that threatened to tumble into him. Kyp gradually closed the distance between them. Finally, he planted both feet against a falling chunk of metal a meter thick and launched himself towards Corran, catching one of his booted feet. Kyp then redirected all of his focus into stopping their free-fall. As he rapidly began slowing their decent, he created a Force bubble around them and pushed the debris away.

Corran glanced down and over his shoulder and to his horror saw approaching solid ground. "Slower, Kyp, slower-"

All too soon, the planet rushed up to meet them. Both Jedi landed on the ground in a tangle with enough force to knock the air out of their lungs. Despite the rough landing, Kyp held together the protective bubble above them as the last of the durasteel landed with lethal force around them, deflected from impaling them. As the last of the giant shards landed, Kyp rolled to his back, coughing, and stared up into the infinite darkness. Dust still lightly rained down on them.

Corran sat up shakily, trying to catch his breath. He ran through a mental checklist and determined he wasn't injured. He turned to Kyp. "Are you hurt?"

Kyp still lied on his back, gazing upwards. He paused to consider."No, nothing broken."

Corran nodded. The two men sat in silence for a moment. After catching a few breaths, Corran interrupted the quiet. "Thanks for coming after me."

"No problem," Kyp replied, raising one hand from the ground to point at Corran. "You owe me one."

Corran chuckled, despite their increasingly desperate situation. Adrenaline from a near death experience had his heartbeat quickened. "Let's figure out a way to get out of here so I have a chance to do so." He hauled himself to his feet and looked around. He heard Kyp do the same behind him.

Using lightsabers for illumination, they discovered they had landed on a great suspended catwalk. Kyp, silver blade held high, picked his way through the fallen debris to approach the handrail on the side. Peering over the edge, he couldn't see an end to the abyss. He shook his head at the enormity of the cavern before turning back around. Corran was bathed in the green light of his blade, trying to pierce the veil of darkness above and around them. "It's like there's no end to it."

Corran shifted his focus from his surroundings to the Force inside him instead. Eyes half closed in concentration, he searched for guidance and he called out mentally for Jysella.

She didn't answer. He tried not to read into that.

The Force whispered to him and he found a direction. Corran turned to Kyp. "Let's follow the catwalk this way."

Kyp consented with a nod. "Sounds good to me. I don't think we'll find a lift or a ladder any time soon."

Corran considered how long of a ladder that would have to be, bearing in mind their free-fall lasted almost a full minute, and decided he would much rather walk fifty kilometers in the dark then try to climb a distance of that length any day.

Together, they set forth on foot.