Ky'ram could barely believe what he was dealing with. Not two seconds ago this had been his closest friend. Now her blade was threatening to remove his head. He blocked attack after attack, refusing to take the offense despite knowing he was a better swordsman than she was. Each time she struck he deflected the blade back down towards the ground, forcing her to take longer to recover and strike again.
"Skye stop this!" Ky'ram yelled at the girl. "You don't know what you're doing!"
"I know exactly what I'm doing!" Skye yelled as she stabbed out at the man. "You lied to me! You never trusted me after I came back! I bet you only asked Leia to put you in charge of watching over me just to make sure I could be put down if the need ever arose!"
"Skye you know that's the anger talking!" Ky'ram yelled while knocking the blade of plasma away. "You know if that was true I would have already killed you here and now!"
Skye readjusted her grip and charged headlong in once more, a growl emanating from her throat. Her volley of blows came in stronger than the attack before, but still not near the strength she knew Ky'ram to hold.
"You think you'd be able to?" Skye taunted him. "I'm more powerful than you think, Ky'ram. You have yet to see my true ability!"
"And the same holds true about me!" Ky'ram yelled back. "You only know of my skill with the blade."
Skye growled again, obviously growing tired of the Mandalorians attempts to talk her out of fighting. Dropping one hand from her grip she took aim at him and let loose a stream of Force lightning. The Mandalorian rose his blade quickly and caught it, barely shifting his stance at all.
"Ah!" Snoke rang out from behind the two. "A practitioner of Soresu! And a well-trained one at that! Who taught you Mandalorian?"
"My father, Jedi Master Bardan Skirata!" Ky'ram screamed over the arc of electricity.
"So a Jedi defected to the Mandalorians!" Snoke laughed with giddiness. "How interesting."
Ky'ram returned his focus to the fight, reaching into the force and tossing an old disable Gonk droid at the girl. Skye easily cut it in two as she renewed her assault, Ky'ram barely stopping the attack. The Mandalorian continued to block the lightning as he held a hand up and Skye began to feel her windpipe closing.
"I will knock you unconscious if need be Skye!" Ky'ram yelled asher lightning ceased while she attempted to break his grip.
Skye began trying to speak over the strangulation as her anger grew. She finally had enough and an explosion of force energy, centered on her, flew out knocking Ky'ram's gripaway. Reigniting her blade she strode towards the Mandalorian.
"My name is Darth Ja'ak!" She yelled, striking out with her blade towards his head, rage fueling her attack.
Ky'ram brought his blade up in attempt to block once more, though he didn't expect the power behind the blow. Her strike connected and knocked his blade out of his hands. As she reeled back to strike again he attempted to Force jump out of the way while calling his lightsaber to his hand. Her blade easily struck through the hilt of his rendering it useless. As she continued the attack his legs were removed at the knees. Landing on face the Mandalorian struggled to even move.
"Good." Snoke began chuckling. "Now finish it and your ascension to being my apprentice will be complete."
"No." Skye told him as she deactivated her lightsaber and turned back to the Muun. "This is a greater defeat than he will ever know. That his enemy pitied him enough and did not view him as worthy enough to even deserve death. Left to rot on this trash heap of planet for the rest of his days, with a worthless traitor to both the Resistance and the First Order. I can't think of a befitting punishment for an enemy of the Sith."
Snoke laughed again as he began to make his way towards his ship signaling for Skye to follow as well. Nodding her head she turned her back on the Mandalorian one final time before reaching out and crushing the hyperdrive on his ship. The shuttle the two Sith entered, departed quickly form the planet leaving Kylo and Ky'ram alone in the wastes of Raxus Prime.
The ex-knight of Ren turned to the Mandalorian, who was obviously in great pain from his wounds. He turned the man over so his face was no longer in the trash and then reached for the man's legs. Ky'ram reach out and grabbed his arm giving him a questioning look.
"I was going to heal them." Kylo explained. "Luke did teach me a few things before I turned my back on him. There is no telling how long we will be stuck here, nor when we will find a set of suitable replacement legs for you. To escape we will have to aid each other."
"Thank you Kylo." Ky'ram apologized, never expecting to hear himself say the words.
"It's Ben." The boy told him. "Kylo died when Snoke decided to throw me away."
"Well Ben it's nice to finally meet you." Ky'ram said with a laugh. "Your mother has told me a lot about you."
"It will be nice to see her again." Ben quietly remarked as he continued hearing the Mandalorian. "I wonder what she is doing right now."…
The Resistance base was in an uproar. A message had been received no more than five minutes past that both Ben and Ky'ram had been killed during the confrontation with Snoke. The message stated that Skye had been captured by the ruler of the First Order and did not know which base she was being transferred to. That was all that had been received before the holorecording was cut abruptly.
Fire teams and fleets were being called to assemble. The General was barking orders faster than any had ever seen before. She figured with such a blow being dealt to them the First Order would not wait to attack them at any of their bases and she was not going to accept the possibility of such heavy casualties lying down. Finally she turned towards the newest member of the SpecForce.
He wore a standard issue infiltrator's uniform and had a long necked blaster marksman's rifle slung over his shoulder. He had brown colored fur and emerald eyes. His species was considered rare in the galaxy, due to an attempted genocide against their people over four thousand years earlier. His hands ended in claws and he had razor sharp teeth.
"Kite." The General addressed him. "I need you to go to Raxus Prime. Recover and bring back Admiral Skirata's ship and body, along with Kylo's, if possible. If not that's possible, destroy everything that links us to being there. Am I understood?"
"Yes Ma'am." The soldier responded. "You can trust a Cathar to handle the problem as quickly and quietly as possible."
The General nodded and the Cathar sniper left the room, towards the hangar bay where his personal ship was docked…