Chapter 6 – Pointless Questions
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"I'm not sure I understand the question, uh...Mister..." said Kyp Durron as he turned around.
"Morden," the other man responded.
"Morden, yes," Kyp replied, "Who informed you on where I was?"
"Master Kalendros," Morden responded with a smile on his face.
"And does he know what this chat is about?" Kyp asked the man.
"No, but, in order to see someone of your importance; I had to get a recommendation, he provided it," Morden said as he sat down, "You still haven't answered my question, Master Jedi...What do you want?"
"Well, what do you mean, what do I want?"
"What do you want?" Morden asked again.
"What do I want for my birthday? What do I want to do tomorrow? What do I...?"
"What do you want?"
"This is pointless, what I want is for you to go away and leave me be."
Morden stood up and said, "As you say."
"Wait...what do I want? The Yuuzhan Vong destroyed my world. I want justice."
"But, what do you want?"
"To break all the bones in their bodies, and grind their skulls into the ground."
"What do you want?"
"To devastate their planets, poison their water, to completely, and utterly destroy them."
"And then what?"
Kyp looked up with question on his face, "I don't know, as long as Coruscant's safety is guaranteed, I don't know that it matters."
"I see, well, thank you very much for you time Master Jedi...Good day," Morden said as he walked out of the room.
Kyp smiled as he sat back down on his bed. "Good day, Mister Morden."
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A young woman and her husband walked out of bay 13. She looked up and saw Captain Sheridan, and smiled.
"Ah, Princess Amanda, this must be your husband, Icky," John said to her.
"Yep, that's him alright," she replied
"How was your flight?" John asked the young princess.
"Long and boring...Icky here was a spoilsport, never let me have any fun," she said as she stuck out her tongue at her husband, who was rolling his eyes.
"Heh, yeah, so...What brings you to Babylon 5?"
"My father, King Roland, told me I needed to take a long vacation, and since B5 is the last place he wants me to be, I chose here, logically," she said with a huge smile on her face.
"Your room has been prepared; I'll have your bags taken there immediately."
A young man walked up and smiled at Amanda. She smiled back.
"Amanda, I'd like you to meet Wes Janson, he just got here a week ago."
"Wes Janson, this is Princess Amanda, from Io. Her father owns that moon of Jupiter, he's a little eccentric, and his daughters certainly get it from him."
Amanda held out her hand and Wes graciously took it and kissed the back of it. Amanda giggled as Icky growled in the back of his throat, eyeing Wes up and down. Wes looked into her eyes and she looked back into his, shaking her head. Icky looked over confused and frowned at her.
"Come on Icky, we were just having a bit of fun. Ah, you are such a spoilsport. Hmph!"
Icky took Wes aside and said, "If you lay one hand on her, I will kick your ass so hard the Vorlons will wonder how you got into their space without a ship. Got it?"
"Yeah...I got it, little man."
Wes winked at Amanda as he walked off. She winked back without Icky seeing. She then turned back and followed John to their quarters.
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Wes looked over at Amanda and laughed.
"We shouldn't be doing this," he said.
"Yeah, I know, but it's so much fun," she replied.
"I don't know how you guys convinced me to join you, but I'm glad you did, this is a lot of fun," Linauri said, "Isi is going to kill me if he finds out what we are doing though."
"I'm almost done over here, what about you Amanda?"
"Yes, yes, I'm done!"
Amanda leaned her head back and stared up, she then let out a long sigh.
"Lin?"
"You know it!"
"Me too!"
The three stood up and washed their hands. They looked up and laughed as they saw the squadron of bright pink Starfuries. They turned around and began to walk to the exit. The door suddenly opened and Garibaldi, Isildur, Wedge, and Icky were standing in the doorway. Amanda gulped and smiled at Icky.
"Hey Icky-poo," she said.
"Alright, which one of you is the brainiac behind this little operation of yours?" Garibaldi asked the trio.
Amanda pointed at Wes, but Wes and Lin both pointed at Amanda.
"I should have known it was you Mandy, after your last visit, we are still trying to get the red smiley faces off the walls in Brown-17."
"That was you?" Wes asked Amanda with a laugh.
She nodded her head and giggled as Garibaldi took them away.
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Kyp picked up the holocron Master Skywalker had leant him. He stood up and walked out the door. He began to walk down the corridor toward Luke's quarters. All of a sudden a large pipe hit the back of his head, and he fell to the floor. He looked up before he passed out and saw two men take the holocron. They drug his body toward the docking bays. They pushed him back behind a tower of cartons and ran off toward their ship.
"Come back here, with tha..." Kyp said as he passed out.
The thieves walked onto their ship and flew off into space. They opened the jump gate and flew off. A few hours later, they jumped out of hyperspace.
Suddenly the alarms were going off. Two shadow motherships came out of hyperspace and instantly fired upon the transport. The ship erupted in a ball of fire and metal.
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Kyp woke up as an arm shook him. His eyes slowly opened. He recognized the man in front of him.
"Master Durron, you were hit in the head. There is no permanent damage, but you might want to head to MedLab to have it looked at closer," the man said
"Thank you Mister Morden, but I am in some real trouble," Kyp replied as he grabbed the back of his head.
"Oh, and my associates wanted you to have this, consider it a gift, from friends you didn't know you have."
Morden held out a small box. Kyp took the box and opened it. Inside was the holocron. Kyp looked up, only to find Morden was gone.
"Thank you, how can I contact you?"
A voice appeared in his head saying, "I will contact you."