Chapter I - Invading a Grand Republic Ship
"Intruder alert! Intruder alert!"
A robotic female voice chanted through the intercoms of the pearly white hallways that made up the endangered space shuttle. Red hazard lights blinked on an off, illuminating an otherwise dark, hollowed long stretch of corridor. These flickers of red light reveal a platoon of Grand Republic soldiers taking position into the crevices of the entries ways that align throughout this large tunnel.
"Initiating Security Protocol A7Z9! Sectors I-B and I-C are now being secured! Antilock Security system engaged!"
As the security protocol begins, a lone, black-hooded figure can be seen turning the corner in the distance, a solid red light illuminating his position.
"Capitan La'Hos! I see the intruder! Should we engage?"
It was a fearful Grand Republic soldier that had inquired this, his voice echoing from a diagonal crevice where the wavy-haired, darker-skinned female General was located. She was hesitant, but ultimately nodded in agreement; a look of both courageousness and perplexity filled the accents of her facial features.
"Attack!"
Flashes of red and green lasers illuminated the hallway. It was only then that the large tunneled corridor began to close in divided sectionals, each section containing a large volt door that assumed a different pattern of defense. The intruder, who, for a brief moment, was seen dodging and avoiding the laser attacks with precision accuracy, continued to walk forward. The lasers came to a halt as the last of the protected vault doors came to its complete close. A sigh of relief filled the young General's face.
"Soldiers! We will contain the prisoner until we can make an emergency landing on..."
Interrupting, a beam of red light accompanied by some smoke and thick ash blasted from the nearest vault door, the red laser carving the shape of an ident large enough for a person to fit through. Instinctually, the General began to fall back, her eyes facing toward the door, leaving her blaster pointed at its now-ravished view.
"We need to create a barracks of soldiers between here and the cargo bay! That is our mission! Arnold, Smidge, take your boys and set up a blockade in Sector I-E and I-F! I'll fall back and ensure the entrance to our cargo is secure! The intruder is ascending with extreme prejudice, shoot on site!"
The General takes a sigh as she looks down at her com for just a brief moment.
"What could this guy possibly want from our cargo? We don't have anything of real value on board, I don't understand- "
A large explosion interrupted her self-inquiry, a thick sheet of metal from the vault doors casted itself forward.
"Go! Go! Go!"
A platoon of troops began to head toward the compromised door, shooting their blasters.
"Pathetic! If this is the might of the Grand Republic, I don't imagine that democracy is longed for this world."
The voice of the black-cloaked intruder was muffled through his helmet audio com, his silver mask, mostly hidden by the hood of his cloak, gleamed from the solid red light of his lightsaber. He clenched his leather gloves onto the familiar sword, gripping onto the device as he made strokes across the air, deflecting the lasers being sent in his direction.
"I've only come for one thing. I have no desire to kill, but, if that is your will."
The masked knight twists in a full circle as a multiple laser beams shot toward him are immediately redirected with the stroke of his sword, pinpointing toward the nearest group of soldiers, and killing them upon impact.
"I will gladly oblige!"
General La'Hos continued to make her way down an off-shoot corridor with a group of young soldiers, the team coming to a complete halt at the sight of the federal ship's escape pods.
"General-eh-Captain, you cannot go with us to the cargo bay!"
A younger female solider argued, concern and fear filled her voice as she pulled the shoulder of the General from behind and gestured.
"You're one of the greatest heroes this Republic has seen. It's been an honor to serve you."
The woman took off a necklace dawning a symbol that resembled the Resistance insignia from the Force Wars and handed it to the General, placing it in her hand. The entryways of the escape hatches filled the background of the scene.
"Banchi, I'd never abandon my ship. You know that- "
"General, you've heard the stories of those missing vessels all over the galaxy. Those attacked do not survive. If the Grand Republic is under attack, we'll need you to serve!"
The woman soldier let out a short sigh and grinned as she motions to open the nearest hatch with just the push of a button.
"I know you why you took this mission, even despite your rank. But you owe 'us' nothing."
Banchi closed La'Hos' fingers over the corld, silver trinket.
"This is your calling! To fight. Take this necklace, and, live to fight another day..."
As the two women shared a brief embrace, a glowing red light from the shadow figures' lightsaber illuminated the seen behind the female soldier. It was only when General Anina La'Hos looked up that she noticed this figure standing erect behind the young soldier.
"Look out!"
The General screamed in horror, the red lightsaber piercing through her comrade, the soldier's eyes changing from a bright sky blue to a lifeless grey. The General did all she could to hold back her tears. She backed away, adverting into the escape hatch the soldier had just opened for her.
The man in black pulls his saber out of the lifeless corpse in front of him and stares calmly at the escape hatch entryway as the body of the General's friend falls to the ground. He contemplates chasing the General, but as the doors close, and the pod begins to dive away from the spaceship, he was riddled with the knowledge that his mission was of more importance.
The General, unable to keep her composure, leaned back on the walls of the escape pod and screamed in a silent agony as it whirled its way down toward the atmosphere of the nearest planet.
The black figure could do nothing at this point but watch as the first victim to ever escape his grasp plunged to the depths below.