Sorry of the late update. I was very busy recently but I'll see what I can do.


On the planet of Slayn.

High templer Konyth walked along the rough ground of the fiery planet. The planet was made up of fire and sand, and the Tal'darim structures were not helping with making the environment a better place.

This is not how things are supposed to be...

At the period of destruction, the chosen one was supposed to bring the Protoss race to a new height. The oracles had witnessed it. But instead, the one chosen to extend the first born had turned to the dark ways.

Instead of building up the Golden Armada and reconstructing the Aiur fraction in this new world, the abomination turned to the Tal'darim fraction that was stored in the database merely because there strength in combat might be useful in the new world. But now, the Tal'darim was prospering under the chosen one, and the rebirth of Aiur was nowhere to be seen.

Due to her doubt in the absolute loyalty of the fractions beside from the Tal'darim, Cassidy limited the amount of resource given to these fractions. Instead, she spent most of her resources on improving the Tal'darim race.

That was why the Tal'darim was including hundreds of zeolets and slayers, along with dozens of vanguards and three destroyers, but the Aiur fraction was limited to a dozen zeolets and a single high templer. The Tal'darim had level one upgrade in shield and weapon, while the Aiur fraction had no such luck.

Cassidy warped the Aiur buildings and units onto Slayn from her pocket dimension and replaced them with a Tal'darim Nexus and Tal'darim units.

Konyth knew he had to do something. If he stood by and watched, then Aiur would be lost for ever, along with every single trace of the Daleem Protoss.

He knew he had to leave Slayn and rebuild Aiur somewhere else. If Cass wouldn't do it, then he would.

But the Tal'darim High Lord wouldn't be happy about him escaping from her control. It was one thing to not use someone, it was another to allow that someone to abandon.

The Tal'darim would stop at nothing to stop him. But he had faith. The Khala would guide his blade through the utter darkness.

Still, he had to act before the Tal'darim realized something's off. First, he needed to steal a ship.

Konyth walked toward the hanger, which held two Tal'darim destroyers. They were the only way, besides warping, to escape from Slayn. Twelve zeolets followed him.

Four zeolets and an ascendant were standing guard at the gate of the hanger. Two photon cannon added extra protection.

"What do you want, the firstborn?" The fourth ascendant smirked. He didn't realize what the high templer was attempting. It was stupid to betray the Tal'darim, which was way stronger. He paid a price for his arrogance.

"For Aiur!" Konyth wasted no time. He roared and tossed a feedback on the ascendant. A red flame appeared from inside, and the ascendant fell on the ground, screaming in pain. His powerful Psi energy was used against himself. He survived, barely.

The four Tal'darim zeolets reacted quickly. All of them were heavily upgraded and well trained, but the Aiur zeolets weren't weak either. The zeolets were quickly overwhelmed by the twelve charging Aiur zeolets. Two of the photon cannons fired at the zeolets, but the ammo merely caused some ripple on the zeolets' shields before being dismantled. Four red lights signified the end of the Tal'darim zeolets. The fourth ascendant activated emergency warping system and escaped a second before Konyth's Psi blade landed in what would be his head.

Slightly disappointed in failing to kill his foe, Konyth wasted no time as he entered a destroyer and warped the other zeolets into the ship. He quickly redirected the warp drive of the ship to prevent being warped back by force. Quickly, the ship lifted into the air and jumped away...

First Ascendant Arialla was sitting in her chamber, the second well decorated building on the planet, when a supplicant entered. 'First Ascendant." He kept his head low. "The hanger was attacked. Protoss loyal to the Aiur fraction abducted a destroyer and jumped away."

"They are fools to betray the High Lord." Arialla said. The air around her shook from her anger. "Recall the destroyer. Gather the warriors. I will deal with those traitors." Arialla stood up. Psi lightening flashed between her fingers.

"Second Ascendant Dheren tried that. It appeared like the traitors did something to the warp drive. They were prepared."

"They were planning for this betrayal for a while." Arialla sat back down. "What are our losses?"

"Four zeolets and two cannons were destroyed. The Fourth Ascendant cowardly escaped after being defeated."

"The dead were weaklings. As for the Fourth Ascendant, he is too weak to serve the High Lord. Give him the strength..." Arialla said coldly. The supplicant shuddered and felt bad for the fourth ascendant.

"Shall we pursuit?"The warrior asked after a few seconds as Arialla closed her eyes and did no further action. But what about the Aiur units? Arialla glanced at him, and the supplicant knew he went over a line. He bowed and left the room in a rush. Arialla waited until he left before opening a comm to her leader.

On Tatooine, Cassidy watched as the Hutt fleet stopped mobilizing and the Terran fleet leaving. It appeared like the two came to an agreement. Didn't matter. She got what she came for. That was when she noticed a request for communication from the First Ascendant.

"Arialla?"

"High Lord."

"You better have something important to say, FIRST ASCENDANT." Cassidy said impatiently. She didn't want to spend precious time on talking with an underling when she should be escaping with her objective.

"High Lord. The Aiur fraction escaped Slayn via a stolen destroyer."

"What the..." Cassidy frowned. "Send units to the Aiur Nexus and kill every single Aiur Protoss. I will be back soon."

"As you wish, High Lord." Arialla replied. She closed the comm and walked out of her chamber.

A few minutes later, half the Tal'darim army marched to the Aiur Nexus, only to find it abandoned...


Cassidy closed her comm and turned back to the owner of a shipyard on Tatooine. She suddenly realized something: She needed a transport to bring Shmi, who is human, to Slayn. That was why she and Shmi went to a ship yard to purchase a vessel. The Tal'darim soldiers warped away.

"This ship costs 2500 credits, but it's worth the price." The owner advertised his product as much as he could. "This baby has its own hyperdrive. I would've sold it at a much higher price if I wasn't in such a hurry." He said as if he made a terrible deal in selling the ship. It was a method to convince the customers to accept the price.

But Cassidy wasn't just a regular customer.

"I'll take it. How long before I can have the ship?" Cassidy didn't bring any credit with her, but that was not a problem.

"Just a second." The owner smiled warmly and walked to another room to grab some pages. But as soon as he entered the back of the room, he took out an inter phone and called a certain number.

"This is Tatooine Security Division. State your request." A voice came from the comm. The speaker was proud, and he had the reason to be. The job as a member of the government under the Hutts was enough to make him feel better than the civilians.

"I have spotted someone on a bounty." The merchant said quietly, frequently looking over his back. "She looked exactly like the one wanted on a bounty put up today. She was wanted, dead or alive, by Jabba."

For a few seconds the other end of the phone was quiet. But then another voice spoke. "This is commanding officer of the TSD. Give us your location and keep the target there for ten minutes."

"How about the bounty?" The merchant asked greedily.

"You'll get them. All 10000 credits." The captain replied, and the merchant, satisfied, sent him his location. But inside the captain smirked. Jabba offered a bounty of 10000 credits on this girl after having a conversation with someone on the fleet that blockaded Tatooine and destroyed ten Hutt ships. Whoever she was, she must have angered the great Jabba. He had no sympathy for the girl. In fact, if he could be the one to bring the girl in, then he would likely be praised by the ruler of the outer rim. He would be promoted, at least. After all, he had been on this job for way too long. It was time to move up a few steps. 10000 credits also wouldn't hurt.

"Gather all combatant and bring all weaponry. Move to this coordinate." He said as he grabbed on to a blaster. It would be the best if he could be there to capture the wanted.

As for the merchant...he would give his life in an attempt to stop the target. His death would be sad, but there would be no point for a dead man to get the credits, right?

The shipyard owner had no idea he was sold out by an official. He was still trying to stabilize the girl that was unlucky enough to stumble into her shop.

But as he was walking back to his customer he suddenly realized a thing. It would be dangerous for him if the security forces came and he was beside their target. It might be better to leave for now and then return to reclaim the price.

"I might need a piece of material to complete the transaction." He said, smiling and pretending to be normal. "I'll be right back."

Cassidy nodded, not suspecting. After all, she could sense the man was just another normal civilian. What could he do to threaten her.

Again, her arrogance hurt her.


Cassidy frowned as the merchant hadn't return after twenty minutes. He should be back. What sort of transaction would need this amount of time. Plus, she had an odd feeling, as if she was in a life threatening condition.

Outside the shipyard, dozens of people, human and alien, surrounded the building. All of them were armed with blasters, and some carried much stronger weapon, such as sniper and machine gun. The members of the security force wore white helmets and black body armor. Captain Minch was in command. He had a blaster strapped on his belt and wore a white helmet, as if that would save him from a blast.

"She's in the building. Here." The merchant gave Minch a pad containing the live footage of the security camera in the building. Cassidy was sitting on a chair with her eyes closed while Shmi was walking around aimlessly.

"Move!" Minch ordered, and all the soldiers moved to enter the building from all five entrances. Three snipers were on a tree, in another, higher house, and behind the cover of a security vehicle. Five speedsters prepared to hunt down Cass if she tried toe escape.

Inside the shipyard, Cassidy finally had enough. She stood up and walked toward Shmi. "We need to get out of here...something's..." She didn't complete her sentence as three sounds of blasters penetrated the air. Two green blasts flew toward her.

Cassidy's expression changed drastically. She didn't wear her armor and didn't have a plasma shield. An alien armor wouldn't have been the most covert. This made it much harder to defend herself.

Still, she was in time to create a Psi shield around herself, which absorbed the two blasts. But the sound of a body hitting the floor made her curse. She turned around and found Shmi on the ground, a hole on her forehead.

Damn it...

But Cassidy didn't have time to curse fate as the sound of footsteps approached.

"Target intact. Capture her." Minch ordered as the soldiers formed a circle around Cassidy.

"Hands on your head or we will open fire!" One of them roared. They ignored the dead woman by their feet. She was with their target, which gave more than enough incentive for her death.

They had no idea what mistake they made.

Cassidy suddenly grinned. On the entire trip here she had been suppressing her urge to cause chaos and death. Why? She needed to bring Shmi back alive, for the future's sake. She had to flee from the Terran hit squad. She had to watch the Terran fight the Hutts. Now she had to suffer defeat from a group of weaklings...

Luckily, now that Shmi was dead and her plan to control Darth Vadar was already gone, why not have some fun?

Cassidy smiled wickedly. A series of beams of light shined upon her and the soldiers looked away. A few seconds the lights disappeared, and they found two dozens two meter tall aliens before them. Most of them wore armor and had two red light staffs on their arms. Two of them floated in the air. The girl that they surrounded now wore a red armor with blades pointing out of every corner. Her long braid was covered by red plating. She had two red staffs on her arms.

She grinned...and all hell went loose.