Chapter 34 – Return part 2
D125/0 ABY
As the surviving rescue group was being led by Ahsoka, they heard the explosive sound generated from the battle between Fenrir and Borsalino. As they made their way to the imperial facility, Ahsoka quickly cut open a way through the wall using her lightsabres. She, Rex and Hunter then entered first and quickly made their way to the holding cells, quashing all Imperial personnel on the way. As they released the prisoners, one of the Togruta prisoners, a man stated that there was another facility, with more prisoners and that it was being manned by Zygerrians.
"Lets get you all out of here, then we can liberate the prisoners in the other facility.", Hunter stated.
As they were making their way out, with Ahsoka taking the lead, she suddenly sensed danger ahead and told them all to wait inside. Ahsoka then went out alone, only to be greeted by magma projectiles falling from the sky. Confounded, as their was no volcano nearby, Ahsoka saw the source of this – a man donning red armour, with a pink flower painted on the left side of his chest armour, his face fierce and showing no mercy. She quickly dodged the projectiles and then created a force barrier.
"Rex, lead them away from here, while I hold off this attack.", Ahsoka ordered Rex, while straining to hold off the attack.
As Rex and the others were getting away from this, Ahsoka took the opportunity to run after them and saw that the man had started to walk towards them slowly. He then seemingly disappeared and appeared right in front of the group. A large scythe made out of magma appeared in his hands, but before he could swing it, he was frozen and the group saw Fenrir, who was fighting Borsalino some distance away from them. "Go", he mouthed to Ahsoka who nodded. As the group began to move away from the three of them, the ice cracked and the red armoured man freed himself from it. He shook his head slightly, before saying "Borsalino, what the hell are you doing?"
Borsalino only sighed to this and continued his fight. The other man scowled and took a fighting stance, swinging his scythe, releasing a shockwave, which barely passed over the heads of the group and burned the trees in the distance. Ahsoka and Rex stopped to try and deal with this guy. The red armoured man got ready to swing his scythe again, but before he could swing it completely, the scythe was stopped by a foot covered in lightning and pushed to the ground. The resulting shockwave pushed all of them onto the ground, and through it all they saw Tarre standing over the scythe, with his lightsabre in his left hand. Tarre then jumped back and as the other man reared his fist back in order to attack – it transformed into a big red magma fist. At the same time Tarre too reared his right hand back, coated in lightning. They both swung their fists at each other, but now instead of a shockwave, there were two walls – one made of magma, the other lightning pushing against each other. Finally, the two walls then blew up, pushing the two opponents away. The rescue group and the prisoners put themselves completely on the ground, covering their faces.
Tarre and Fenrir then appeared in front of them, with Tarre saying "You all need to get up now. His ice won't hold them for long." Ahsoka raised her head and saw Tarre, extending his hand towards her. She took it and stood up, with the others standing up as well. They all saw a giant ice wall in front of them, holding their two attackers in it.
"There are a few transports 200 metres east of here. Take them and leave the planet. There is a second team, who are going towards the other facility. They'll get them out of here.", Tarre said. He then paused and looked at Echo, raising an eyebrow. Turning towards Fenrir, Tarre asked "What did you do this time?"
"He was badly injured and I accidently used a de-aging spell.", Fenrir replied. Tarre simply looked at him, mentally making some colourful comments about his stupidity, while the others looked at him in shock. Ahsoka herself looked at Tarre, to be honest she wanted to both slap and kiss him right now, but resisted herself. Tarre sensed this and said, "Sorry for my lateness, I got held up."
The ice wall then started crumbling and Tarre said to Fenrir, "You really are dropping a lot of balls today."
Before Fenrir could say something, there was a deep ringing and a bright flash of light. In response to it, Tarre and Fenrir put up a strong force barrier in front of them, which was immediately bombarded with indiscriminate energy blasts coming from the bright flash.
"Þú vita þessi situation kalls fyrir einn seraphim (You know this situation calls for a seraphim).", Fenrir said. The barrier was holding for now, but both of them seemed a little flustered.
"Þú idiot, eru þú forgetting um vials (You idiot, are you forgetting about the vials).", Tarre said.
"Þau eru til munu used einga inn flestr desperata ór timur (They are to be used only in the most desperate of times).", Fenrir replied.
"Vel, þessi seraphim ir bad news incarnate, ok ef minn instincts eru rit þá þar ir einn archangel headed hí (Well, this seraphim is bad news incarnate, and if my instincts are right then there is an archangel headed here).", Tarre replied.
(A/N – This language is Old Norse.)
Suddenly the barrage stopped, but the barrier had held on. In front of them were three individuals now, the two who were previously frozen in ice and another person – a human male, with shoulder length black hair tied in a ponytail, a scruffy beard and white armour and cape. This person was slightly levitating above the ground, his name – Baldur, son of Odin and Frigga.
"Okay, you all need to run now.", Tarre said twirling the hammer and calling forth the power of thunder.
"We will hold them off, get out of here.", Fenrir said.
With that the rest of them started moving, and Ahsoka looking back. She saw Fenrir pull out a circular metal shield with red, blue and white paint and having a red star in the centre. He pointed that shield at the enemy and Tarre hit it as hard as he could with the hammer. This resulted in a thunderous shockwave directed towards the enemy, raised up a lot of dust, making things hard to see.
D125/0 ABY
Onboard the Ghost, its crew members now included another person, who Issho described as a Council representative. Talia knew this person's true identity but was forbidden by her master to tell anyone about it.
Currently Issho and this new person – his grandfather Bor, the second king of Asgard were both sitting near the dejarik table, along with the rest of the crew. The tension in the room was palpable due to the two of the strongest beings on the ship. They were currently not speaking.
"So, why did the council send you?", Talia finally asked in an effort to break the tension.
"Thor's busy trying to clean up the council's mess and as such he sent me to meet with him.", Bor answered pointing to Issho.
"Is Odin back?", Issho asked (rather disrespectfully).
"He is… Is that how you treat your father boy?", Bor asked back.
"If I do, then that is not your concern, Þú shitty gamall maðr (you shitty old man)", Issho answered.
Talia's eyes widened at this, and Bor's eyes narrowed menacingly. The others (except Issho), were concerned at this. Hera took a bold step and asked them, "For the remainder of this trip, can you please be nice to each other?"
Bor looked at her, one eyebrow raised and said, "You truly are Thor's daughter, aren't you?" surprising her and everyone else.
"How did you know that? We never mentioned this to you.", Kanan said.
"You think I wouldn't know this, huh. I am his grandfather and I am very familiar with the fire behind his eyes. The same fire I see in you.", Bor said pointing at Hera, "We can expect great things from you in the future."
Shocked by his words – Hera, Kanan and Mace Windu, said nothing. Issho's anger was now completely seen as he stood up and drew his sword on Bor.
"Where were you when Odin went mad? When the Dark Elves attacked us, because of your failure?", Issho said.
"My failure. You think I wanted it to happen, huh boy. I had warned your father, told him not to get complacent. Those dark elves had done terrible things, almost comparable to what they did to you lot, and during my time I brought them to their knees. I took their source of power from them and you – the future generation was supposed to guard it. So don't go blaming me for your ineptitude.", Bor replied in a calm tone as he grabbed the sword by its sharp end and yanked it out of Issho's hands.
The rest of them had taken a step back out of fear, when suddenly Chopper beeped frantically, saying the General Dodanna had contacted him and that the fleet was heading towards Shili, as the planet was about to be attacked.
Hera then quickly entered the cockpit and inputted the new coordinates into the hyperdrive, which would take them to Shili. She then told Chopper to tell Dodanna that they were on their way.
"Grandson, let us put our differences aside for now. We are working towards the same goal and I fear that we are both needed on this planet Shili.", Bor said as he gave Issho back his sword.
"Very well.", Issho replied.
"You are a Seraphim class four, aren't you?", Bor asked, to which Issho gave no answer.
"This ship is moving too slowly. Show me the star-charts and I will get us there in less than a minute.", Bor said.
Hera and Kanan looked in surprise, but then Mace said, "Show him the star-charts… Chopper." He still wasn't used to the droids with a personality.
The shockwave didn't have much of an effect, except it compelled Baldur to stop levitating above ground, with his feet now actually touching the ground.
"I don't need you, dog of Loki. But I do need him, and I am willing to destroy this whole planet to achieve that goal.", Baldur said. With this he raised his hands and energy spears formed out of thin air and pointed towards Tarre and Fenrir. Baldur smiled slightly and snapped his fingers, but nothing happened. Baldur looked surprised.
Suddenly, a large cloud formed above them, and a booming voice came from, "Your orders are to bring them in, without injuring them."
"Who is that?", Fenrir asked.
"Lord Michael, I wasn't expecting you here.", Baldur said.
The cloud then cleared and from it descended the archangel Michael, the former God of Thunder. His current vessel was a black man, bald and bearded. Like the case with Lucifer, this wasn't his true vessel, which was destroyed by Bor (towards the end of his reign). He quietly landed and said, "Gabriel's grace will not save you two. Come quietly, or this world will pay the price."
Tarre and Fenrir were truly afraid at this statement, but were hiding their fear well. Tarre knew of a strong trapping spell, but it would not hold an Archangel for long. There were also sigils that they could use to expel an angel/archangel of a planet, but it would end up expelling the two evolving pagans as well and they couldn't exactly draw them at this moment.
In the other slave facility, manned by Zygerrians, the old man was still in thought. He finally rose and looked up at his cellmate – a giant. "Well, he is not here, but on his way. Unfortunately, patience is not my strong suit. Fortunately for you and all of the slaves in this facility – I am breaking you out of here."
The giant was surprised at this exclamation, but as tried for the past two days, he could not learn anything about this old man, except the fact that he was very old. He then saw the old man's eyes glow purple, and heard one word, "Hakai." Suddenly the cell doors, and the shock collars on the necks of every slave in the facility turned into small purple lights which then dissipated into the air.
"You're all free now, time to leave this horrible place.", the old man said, and casually walked out of the cell. His eyes still glowing purple, he whispered the same word and all the Imperials and Zygerrians inside the facility turned into small purple orbs of light and dissipated in the air.