Chapter Forty Nine: Light

Salvador stood in the command room of his base, his armored arms folded in front of him across his armored chest. His black leather gloved hands resting on his forearms. He stood at the front of a massively long table. Seated on both sides of this table are the many Sith Lords and Jedi Knights and Masters that held some form of voice in the Force Army.

Salvador had brought Fin in to explain the epidemic that this "Vaccine" that the normal humans have created could cause. Everyone was in a small level of panic over the news. They were concerned more with the fact that it took them so long to find out about this vaccine than the actual effects the vaccine would have if they took it in.

"On top of the worry of this vaccine" a Sith started. "The President has been assassinated, and his position filled by the leader of the Guardians, Rick"

"A minor problem" Salvador growled through his masked face. "Rick is not attuned to the force he will be easy to control if we can get someone close to him"

"This war is stretching too far" a Jedi blurted out standing up. "You have lead us for four years and nothing has changed!" he yelled pointing a finger at Salvador. "I suggest that new leadership is needed if we are to win this war with as little normal human deaths as possible" he was cut off by gasping for breath.

Faces turned to the front of the table where Salvador held out a gloved hand, using the force to choke the Jedi. "You wish to save the very people who wish to destroy what we were born as?" he asked squeezing more tightly with the force. "They wish to change us into them like we are some type of epidemic. This war started because they refused to coincide with us. This is their own foolishness that has started this conflict, and I plan to put an end to it" he explained increasing his grip with the force around the Jedis throat. "You will be good to remember your place, Jedi"

Salvador released his grip on the force and the Jedi slumped forward over the table coughing while trying to catch his breath. Salvador crossed his arms in front of his chest again and resumed his posture. "Have we been able to locate this Crystal Jedi that went rogue before this army was formed?" he asked the room.

"We have had a few promising leads but nothing solid or concrete" a Sith answered. "Why the sudden increased interest in her, Lord Salvador?"

"That is not for anyone else to know" Salvador growled back. "Just locate her and report to me her location" he ordered.

"We have to consider the great possibility that she has been killed by the Worlds Army, as many Jedi and Sith have" a Jedi stated.

"For the sake of our cause, Jedi" Salvador replied. "You'd best hope that did not happen"

The door to the command room suddenly slid open and Stacy walked in. She wore the black leather suit that she had acquired during her mission in Vegas. "Lord Salvador" she said with a slight bow. "I've located her"

Everyone in the room could feel for a brief moment, Salvadors excitement. He strode across the room and stood in front of Stacy. "We leave at once" he said walking around her.

She quickly followed him out of the room and down several halls until they reached the hanger area of the base where they boarded a small transport craft that would take them to their destination. Salvador took a seat on the opposite side of the cabin area than Stacy. "Where did you locate her?" he asked.

"She was detected about an hour ago in a section of LA" she answered. "We have determined that she is still in the area"

"Any World Army stations near the location?"

"No" she answered. "It's completely barren aside from normal human population of course. That is one place that normal humans live that has zero World Army presence" she went on. "If we can find her, she is ours"

"I heard about your victory in Vegas" Salvador said after a long silence. "You've gotten better in your control of the dark side"

"Thank you" she accepted the compliment.

"Sir, we're approaching the location" the pilot said over his shoulder. "Where should I take the ship down?"

"Four miles out from the location she was last spotted at" Salvador answered. "Give her space to move when she notices us"

"As you wish, sir" the pilot replied bringing the ship closer towards the ground.

Civilians started to scatter as the craft was brought down in the middle of a street. Clearly the pilot did not understand how to "covertly" land a ship. Salvador stepped out of the ship; at the very sight of his black armored and mask presence the civilians all retreated and started to run away from him. They all knew his masked face from news reports. He could feel their fear, he used that fear to increase his range with the force as he reached out to try and locate Crystal.

He sent out several vibrations but received none in return. Either she was gone, or she was masking her presence very well. Stacy stood behind him attempting the same, but with the light side of the force. Stacy knew Crystal from her time with the Jedi, if she would reply to anyone, it would be her. "Got her" she said after several moments.

Salvador rotated his masked face to stare at Stacy. "She remembers me from our time together with the Jedi" she explained as she started to walk towards the location where she felt the reverberation.

Salvador followed a fair distance from Stacy, he clearly stood out among the buildings that they were surrounded by. He needed to keep his distance from Stacy or else Crystal may spot him and retreat.

They walked down several streets until they reached a deserted street that had clearly occupied civilians until moments earlier. Salvador used his sensor equipment in the inside of his mask to scan the area of anyone who would be hiding. He located one, a female. Salvador stepped aside into an abandoned building that was on the street and allowed Stacy to proceed further down.

Suddenly a women stepped in front of Stacy. The women was wearing black leather jacket over a black shirt and blue jeans. She reached out and embraced Stacy in an affectionate hug. "It's been so long" the women said.

Stacy returned the hug. "Where have you been?" she asked the women. "The Jedi have been looking for you for years. They said you left to find Joes killer" she added.

"Yes" the women replied. "But I failed in that task. By the time I arrived back at the Jedi hideout everyone had been killed and all the other Jedi hideouts had been abandoned" she explained.

"I'm glad to see you're safe though, Crystal" Stacy said with a smile.

"I just wish that I could have found the monster that killed Joe" she replied.

"And you have" Salvador said stepping out into the street.

Crystal stared at the suited and masked figure. "You're the one that they've been talking about on the news, Salvador" she muttered whipping out her lightsaber and activating the green blade.

Stacy leapt backwards several meters from Crystal and landed next to Salvador. Salvador reached towards his belt and removed his lightsaber hilt. His red blade flared into existence and hummed in unison with Crystal's blade.

"You killed him?" Crystal asked pacing back and forth in front of Salvador.

"I killed him, yes" he answered. "He was a fool"

Crystal leapt forward and swung her green blade at Salvadors masked face. Salvador pushed her blade aside with his blade and threw a force push that lifted her into the air and slammed her into the side of a building.

"Like your master before you" Salvador said. "You lack the skill of killing"

Crystal pushed herself off the pavement and stared at her foe. "Why have you come here?" she asked. "Tell me!" she demanded.

"For you" he answered pointing a gloved finger at her.

"For me?" she repeated. "Why?"

"To end this war, and establish Sith dominance" he answered. "And to eliminate the normal humans from this world once and for all" he added.

"And you expect me to just help you?" she asked angrily.

"No" he answered reaching out with his free hand and grabbing her body with the force. "I expect you to die first" he added.

Crystal was lifted off the ground several meters, her grip on her lightsaber was too weak to hold it. The handle slipped out of her grasp and fell to the ground, deactivating on impact.

"In truth, I need your connection to the force. Not you physically" Salvador corrected himself.

Salvador felt a sudden shift in the force and his head spun to his right just in time to see a figure dash across his field of vision and snatch Crystal out of his force grab.

The figure turned out to be a young man of no more than twenty wearing loose fitting clothing. He moved so fast that Salvador could not detect him until the exact moment before he snatched her. The young man placed Crystal on her feet and pulled out a lightsaber hilt and clicked the blade on facing Salvador.

"Who are you, boy?" Salvador asked the young man.

"The Hand of Justice" the man replied.

Salvador dashed forward and their two blades clashed. The man blocked Salvadors strike at his stomach perfectly. Their two blades held their contact until Salvador sidestepped out of the clash and swept his leg across the ground at the mans feet. The mean leapt over his leg and used a force push to launch himself high into the air. Gather a great mass of force he unleashed it in an extreme push towards the ground.

Salvador put up a force shield just in time. The area that he stood in was now a massive crater that went about ten meters into the ground. Whoever this Hand of Justice guy was, his control and use of the force rivaled even Salvadors.

Salvador stood still surveying the damage the man had caused, his black masked face turning from side to side. The man had taken off with Crystal while Salvador was protecting himself from the damage of the massive force smash.

Salvador growled in anger and in a pit of rage grabbed a massive skyscraper building with the force and brought it crumbling to the ground in front of him.