Hello, everyone! I just wanted everyone to know that I love writing this story so much! I want the Expanded Universe to continue so much that I decided to write this story after getting encouragement from a new friend of mine that I will not name for safety reasons. Anyway, on with the story!
Deep within the Chateau Mountains, in the Restricted Section, Edaan was hot on Xasha Xizor's trail. Sensing that she was close, he stopped using force speed, and grinded to a halt within seconds. Hearing raised voices about fifty meters ahead, he extended his awareness through the force, and could hear the conversation.
"-is intollorable, Xasha! You said that the Jedi didn't know where you were headquartered, but now here's one of their best knights with the backing of the Anjilic clan! We have to get out of here, now!" said a high-pitched voice that could only belong a rodian, one of the Black Sun vigos present.
"Easier said than done, Drake, there's an Imperial Interdictor here and a Hutt fleet blockading the system. We can't get our assets in here in time to help us!" said a Gen'dai that must be another Vigo.
"Well, I guess that we have to surrender to the Jedi, Durge. Maybe he'll be merciful and let us live." The last voice said, belonging to a grey-skinned humanoid that was revealed to be a Shi'ido male.
"Never!" Xasha roared. "Where's your courage, vigos?! He's just a boy, a scrawny human being. We can beat him and escape if we use my secret weapons against him and his followers. By doing so, we can gain the master's favor."
"I don't know who your 'dragon lord' is, Xasha, and quite frankly, I could't care less." The rodian said. "I'm going to surrender to the Jedi's forces. At least Azzian the Hutt is leading this invasion. I just might get a fair trial." He said hopefully, before walking away and being blasted in the back by Xasha.
"Did I say that you could leave?" she said coldly. "No one surrenders to the Jedi. Unless you want to be deep-fried like Grudo here."
The remaining two vigos acquiesced to Xasha's threats, and took up positions with their security teams.
Seeing enough, and being further disgusted by Xasha's methods, Edaan decided to take the initiative. He force leaped up to the balcony above the forces below him, he shouted at the top of their lungs, "Black Sun!" as al of his enemies turned to see him, he continued. "I have no quarrel with you. You are pawns in a game beyond your understanding. Xasha Xizor does not care about your survival, but I do! My forces will arrive within this section of the base within the hour. I offer you a way out of this predicament. Join me in this struggle against the forces of darkness that consume this galaxy, and you will be given immunity for all of your past transgressions. I give you my word as a Jedi and a man. You have five minutes to consider my proposal. If you do not admit defeat, and help me take in Xasha Xizor, then all bets are off.
Two minutes later, four-fifths of the Black Sun security forces, as well as both of the surviving Black Sun vigos, agreed to Edaan's terms, just as Akku and his team arrived in time to see the renegade Black Sun forces turn their guns on Xahsa and her allies. To say that they were dumbfounded was a massive understatement.
As a relieved Edaan briefed them on the situation, Xasha activated another button on her gauntlet, activating her secret weapons. Three doors opened to reveal three giant insect humanoid droids powering up. As the droids came online, Edaan recalled a story that the Great Holocron told him as a child about the Jedi Yoshi Raph-Elan on the planet that was taken over by the crime lord Gar-Oth, and how he helped liberate it, along with gaining the love of the future queen Lourdes. Yoshi's entry told him how he battled a similar droid called the Goliath, and how he vowed to return to the planet to watch over Lourdes. Edaan always assumed that meant he would come back to secretly marry her. Tragically, the Jedi Archives revealed that the Grand Army of the Republic killed Yoshi during Order 66, a contingency order demanding the deaths of all Jedi. Since most clones across the galaxy complied with the order, Yoshi didn't have a chance of survival, and was killed within seconds of the order being issued.
As the droids came fully online, and as both sides readied themselves for the final battle on Falleen, Edaan uttered to himself "Why can't anything ever be easy?"
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, as this story probably won't be updated again since I have some travelling to do later. And yes, I used the EU characters Yoshi Raph-Elan, Gar-Oth, and Lourdes, as well as the droid Goliath. Look up their descriptons on Wookieepedia if you don't know who they are. Goodbye for now, and Long Live the Expanded Universe!