When Candy said that it would be a bit squashed in here was somewhat of an understatement. Nadia had room up the front to fly the droid, but me and Kreia were squashed together in the back. Which was just a tad uncomfortable, in more ways than one.

When we finally made it to Onderon's orbit, we were starting to get shot at by their turrets. Nadia had a grin on her face as she dived through their defenses. I clenched my eyes shut.

Remind me to never, ever, hop in a Basilisk with her ever again.

There was a strong jolt as she landed the droid, then the top of the droid opened up and Nadia jumped out of it, igniting her lightsaber and taking out the people shooting at us.

I humped out of the top of the droid, following Nadia out and then landed next to Mandalore who was providing Nadia with cover fire with his huge blaster.

"Have fun?" I asked him as I deflected a blaster bolt that would've hit my chest otherwise.

"Immensely." He replied.

Nadia looked over at us as she and Kreia dealt with some of the soldiers, "We're gonna try and get to the castle. Can you two finish up here and then come?"

I glanced at Mandy and then back at Nadia, "Yeah. We're good." I said to her.

She nodded her head and then her and Kreia moved ahead, leaving Mandy and I to deal with the remaining guards.


Ayden looked out at the tower that stood over them. He glanced at Atton, Mira and Visas who were silently talking about something.

"Atton. There are a whole bunch of guards over there. How do you plan on taking them out with out alerting the rest of the place?" Ayden asked.

It wasn't Atton who spoke up next but Mira.

"See those power generators over there?" the woman asked, handing Ayden a set of binoculars.

Ayden looked through them and saw what she was talking about, so he nodded his head.

"They power the turrets that are over there near the entrance. If we can shut those down, it'll be easier to sneak out there and not get shot into a million bits."

Ayden nodded his head, "What does that one power? The one right all the way over there?" he asked, pointing over the far side.

Mira took the binoculars back from Ayden and looked over at where he was pointing. She frowned, "I don't know. Only one should run the turrets." She said.

"Well then. Only choice is to disable both of em, right?" Ayden said with a grin.

Mira nodded her head, "I'll disable that one and then go over to the other one."

Ayden shook his head, "I can disable the other one. Just tell me what to do."

Mira also shook her head, "No way kid. Unless you happen to have a stealth field generator on you."

Ayden smiled and then reached into his pocket and pulled out a small circular device, "Got it right back at Peragus. Totally forgot about it until I saw those Mandalorians disappear into thin air." He said and then clipped it onto his belt.

Then he vanished.

Mira rolled her eyes where she assumed he was, "Fine." She said, "Just open the panel up and pull the biggest card out."

Ayden nodded, even though no one could see him, "Yeah. Like pulling the graphics card out of a computer. Well, the biggest would be the motherboard but considering that it's along the side of the computer, it's kinda hard to just pull it out. The graphics card is most accessible." He voiced.

Mira blinked, "Just... go?" she said, her voice puzzled as she then disappeared.

Ayden snuck out past the first generator. He found it quite strange that he couldn't see himself as he moved over to the generator.

There was a panel on the side that could be opened up with ease. When he looked in, Ayden frowned. The card that Mira had told him to pull, looked like it had already been pulled… But just for extra measure he pulled it out further, snapping the thin cord that connected it with the rest of the insides of the device.

Satisfied that he had done the job correctly, he walked back over to the others, seeing Mira was already back there.

He deactivated the stealth field generator making him visible again, "Done. Now what?"

SOON

"Yes. This is very stealthy!" Ayden shouted over the sound of his humming lightsabers and blaster fire.

"It's not my fault!" Atton shouted back at him.

"You walked right into their line of sight. How is that not your fault?"

"Because… it just isn't!"

Ayden rolled his eyes, dusking a blaster bolt and then slicing at a Boma Beast. "Well, at least the turrets are off. That part of the plan worked!"

"That's a miracle in itself!"

"Do you two wish to know what a miracle is?" Visas spoke up when she got close enough to the two guys with their names starting with 'A' "The miracle is that you two have not been shot yet as a cause of your bickering."

Ayden looked around and saw that the sith and creatures were all dead, "V, a bit of bickering whilst in combat always help." Ayden told her.

"My name is Visas, it is not 'V'"

"Yeah, I know that. V is just easier to say." Ayden shrugged as he looked to the giant doors that loomed in front of them. He glanced at Mira who had her lightsaber in her hand, Atton who was watching them in amusement, Dustil who was hiding his smile and then there was Visas who was standing there next to him, now ignoring him.

Then the door opened to show two of those sith assassins.

But these two had lightsabers.

But then again, there was only two of them and five of the Jedi…


After we had dealt with the remaining soldiers, Canderous had gone ahead to secure the path forward (but just between you and me, I think he just liked to shoot things) and I was keeping the rear secure.

I ran around the corner and was face to face with blasters, "Don't shoot!" I exclaimed, looking at their uniforms. Damn. They were Vaklu supporters. Why couldn't they've been Talia's…

"Who are you?" the soldier in charge snarled at me.

Think quick. Think quick.

"I'm a sith."

I could've winced at that. I should've said 'Think quick AND smart.'

"You, a sith. I laugh at that." The man said, his blaster still in my face.

In a matter of seconds, I whipped my lightsaber out and cut the ends off of all of the blasters that were pointed at me. No going back now.

"I should've said that I'm a Sith Apprentice. You know like the guys dressed in black with the fancy red or purple lightsabers?" I snapped at him.

The men jumped back in surprise when I had pulled my lightsaber out, "What do you want?" he said, his voice not showing any sign of rudeness.

Wow. He bought it?

"I wish to go to the palace. You di'kuts do have the sky bridge secure, don't you?" I snarled at him.

You know you hang out with Mandalorians too much when you start using their language.

"Yes, ma'am. It is 100% secure!" Jee, that's what he thinks!

"Well, then, let me through!"

The men moved out of the way almost instantly and I stormed past them. I had my back to them and a smile on my face. No wonder Vaklu looses this thing if he has idiotic men who believe that anyone who says they are a Sith, are actually a sith.

All of a sudden there was a searing pain in my leg on the back, making me stumble forwards before spinning around bringing my lightsaber up and deflecting about two shots.

"You are no Sith." The soldier at the front sneered at me. He had a smoking blaster in his hand, "A sith would've killed us."

I glared at them and then pushed my hand out, they flew backwards and hit the crumbling building behind them, "Aren't you lucky that I'm not one, then."

I then turned back around and started walking, no, limping would be a better term of phrase, along it. I paused as I looked at the back of my leg. The blaster had only just grazed it, and my trousers had managed to deflect most of the burn. But man, it still hurt!

I reached into my jacket and pulled a bacta patch out of one of the inside pockets. I lifted the pant leg up and put the patch on my leg, making sure it was stuck on there before standing back up straight and moving fast (ish) along the path.


"I had to run to catch up with you, you've made impressive progress. The Sith Camp lies in ruin." Xarga said to Mira and Atton.

"Yes. So much damage for a stealth mission." Dustil spoke up, his smile showing no trace of a smile but his voice said otherwise.

Atton shot an annoyed look at Dustil and then at Ayden.

"Hey, I didn't say anything!" Ayden protested lightly with a grin.

"You were going to. That's bad enough." Atton replied before looking back at Xarga.

"I told Kelborn of your progress. The other team are already en route to Iziz. Also, Kex checked our sources for any information about this place. He believes that this is the tomb of Sith Lord Freedon Nad."

Ayden started coughing, his hand covering his mouth. When he finished coughing, he glanced at Dustil, 'Freedon Nad?' he mouthed before covering his mouth before he could laugh. What a stupid name!

Dustil let out a small smile before hiding it and then shrugged.

"Who the hell was Freedon Nad?" Atton asked, scratching his head slightly.

"Freedon Nad was a dark Jedi. The stories say he was far worse than Malak and Revan were." Xarga told them.

Ayden say out of the corner of his eye that Dustil frowned at the mention of Revan.

"Is that all you know about this tomb?" Mira asked Xarga with a frown, "If it's like the tomb that Nadia told be about on Korriban, we'd be in some trouble."

"I can taste the power of the Dark Side here. Freedon Nad must have been truly great to leave such an impact." Visas spoke up, "The echoes of his life are still here. I feel secrets can be learned here."

Mira bit her lip, "I've got a bad feeling about this place. Sith and ancient tombs are never a good combination." She said with a shake of her head.

"I am returning outside. My attention is required to keep the path to our camp clear." Xarga told them before turning around and leaving.

"How helpful." Ayden said as he looked around. He looked through a doorway they were standing in front of, "Guys, bogies at 12oclock." He said, making everyone look to see a bunch of sith soldiers running towards them.

These ones were either wielding blasters or pikes as the attacked them.

Ayden's yellow and blue saber whizzed in front of him as he deflected the red blaster bolts that were shot at them. The soldiers were quickly dealt with. Just as they looked voer, the door that they had been coming from was slowly shutting.

"Come on!" Mira exclaimed as she rushed to the door, the others following her in her rush.

But unfortunately just as they got there, the doors shut with a loud bang noise.

"I think all of those soliders and beasts are trying to keep us out of that door." Atton started, "Must be something important. I don't suppose I could talk you out of going in there?"

Atton then found himself on the end of four annoyed looks.

"I thought not. The door is shut tight. Somewhere down here should be a way to open it."

"Boom boom." Ayden said but Mira shook her head.

"Not unless you want the whole tomb down on our heads." She told them.

"Well, at least the door would be open."


"Your plan seems to have succeeded. Your enemy has indeed revealed himself." Queen Talia spoke, her voice was hushed as loud pounding sounds vibrated through the room coming from the door.

"I anticipated the Sith. Those beasts… they weren't in my battle plan." Jedi Master Kavar replied with a sigh.

"Even now Vaklu is using them to breach the Palace. I will not surrender to that usurper. I would die first." Talia said, venom spiking in her voice.

"Every man here would give their life to keep that from happening." A soldier said from where he stood guard behind the Queen.

"There is hope... It is faint, but growing stronger. I think my message was received." Kavar said, his eyes looking back to the Queen.

"Which message? What are you talking about?" Queen Talia asked with a frown.

"An old student is returning and I don't think the sith are going to know what hit them." He replied a smile on him face.

"Master! A Basilisk War Droid landed in the merchant sector." Said a woman rushing into the room, her silver hair flowing behind her, "I think it's Nadia and Reese."

Kavar smiled and looked from Sinah to Talia, "See?"


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