Revan gently landed the speeder on the hotels docking platform. Her friends filed out of the speeder looking a little big haggard. Zaalbar fur was standing on end, and Revan tried not to laugh.
"Well I think I'm going to bed," Jolee coughed, but he smiled inwardly, "hehe she reminds me when I was young one, same driving skills, hehehe."
"I think I will do the same," Juhani commented, as well as Mission and Bastila.
Carth pulled Revan aside, "I hear they have a nice restraunt here, care to get something to eat?"
Revan smiled at him, "That sounds nice, but first I think I will change into something less stiff."
Carth nodded, it was obvious he felt the same way, "Ill meet you outside the restaurant," He smiled.
Revan again smiled inwardly, it was funny how she could read him so easily now… that Force bond she had forged with Carth during that battle with the sea beast had gotten stronger.
She stood outside her door, felling slightly uneasy, slightly on edge, "What's wrong…" she wondered as she opened her door. She could feel a disturbance in the Force, that tiny twitch of uneasiness.
She half expected to find her room in disarray but everything was in order. Shrugging she went and opened her clothes container, then she noticed something odd hidden in the folds of one of her robes… It was the size of a fist and round with little lights around the middle. It made a slightly beeping sound and shock registered on Revan's mind.
"A boom!" Revan gasped, backing off.
Revan ran to her bedroom door but she was not fast enough, the boom exploded violently, fire and bits of things engulfed her room and Revan was thrown out of her room's window, the glass shattering and falling to the ground below. Revan called to the Force and wrapped it around herself just in time, the Force bubble protected her from the brunt of the explosion and she fell with a heavy thud onto a docking platform below. The Force bubbled absorbed most of the impact but the air was knocked out of her.
"Ugh…" Revan coughed while looking up.
Then she noticed a black figure leapt onto a personal speeder, look at her downed figure and zip away into the traffic. Revan jumped up and ran to another speeder that was on the platform. She quickly hacked its computer and got it running, using the Force she felt the presence of the cloaked figure and speed after it.
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Carth was busy putting his medals away when he heard and felt the explosion. The whole building seems to vibrate and he heard a tremendous boom. He quickly went out into the hallway, and several other doors were opening.
"What the Hell," Jolee yelled and then noticed Revan's room at the end of the corridor.
The door was blown out and shattered into medal shards, smoke billowed out and sirens were ringing. Emergency personal and guards were rushing to the building. Carth arrived first at Revan's room, he coughed and choked on the smoke and he plunged through.
"Revan!!!" He called, trying to see through the acrid smoke, "Revan!!!" He called again. A terrible feeling crept over him as he frantically tried to find her.
Juhani arrived next and she sneezed against the smoke. Calling to the Force she tried to find Revan amongst the rubble… nothing. Others were arriving as well as emergency people who tried to keep on lookers away.
"Over here," Bastila called, "Look." She rushed over to the shattered window and pointed out a torn piece of Revan's blue Jedi robe.
"Oh no… please let her be ok," Carth's mind cried as he looked out the window and stared at the docking platform that was far below.
"Is she down there?" Juhani asked tentatively, her voice somewhat shaky.
"Please sir," a guard pulled Carth away from the window, "Please wait outside."
Carth was somewhat angry with the guard, but it was obvious she wasn't in the room. He quickly left and hurried down into the Hotel lobby, several onlookers looking worriedly and frightened as he shoved past. Canderious had apparently had the same idea and was starting up a speeder in the hotel docking bay. Carth hoped aboard and they speed off to the lower docking platform on the other side of the hotel.
Canderious examined the shattered pieces of glass, and a few torn pieces of Jedi robe that lay far below the smoking window. Quickly Carth picked a small communicator from amongst the rubble, "This is Revan's," he gasped. Canderious nodded as he looked at it.
"Good news is I don't see very much blood and the face that she's not here suggests that a: she's alive and b: able to get up," Canderious noted.
Carth breathed a little easier after hearing that news, then he noticed a few items at the other side of the docking bay. A few wires and a computer spike lay on the ground, "Looks like she high jacked a speeder, or something similar," Canderious noted smirking.
Carth's shoulders sagged somewhat, "Guess we will have to wait till she contacts us…" Carth frowned, he really didn't like that solution but without her having her communicator…
"Let's get back to the Hotel and inform security," Carth noted.
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Revan pushed the speeders engines as hard as it would go as she dived in and out of traffic, through alleyways and tram tunnels. She was swiftly gaining on the black driver even though he was desperately trying to evade her. Traffic zoomed by and people swore in multiple languages as the black driver and Revan cut them off or zipped around them. She felt the wind push heavily on her body as she evaded obstacles and unwary drivers. The cloaked driver took one swift glance behind himself, noticing Revan quick pursuit and he dived down towards the planets surface trying to throw Revan off. He swerved around another vehicle, trying to backtrack and loose Revan in the commotion but she had anticipated this move and only gained more ground on him, now she was only a few clicks behind.
The driver half-heartily chucked a grenade at Revan, hoping to at least slow her down, but she swiftly evaded it. The Force flowed strongly through Revan; her mind was singly focused on the goal; to captured with unknown person. She pushed the engines once more and brought her speeder right next to the cloaked driver who rammed his into hers. Revan pushed hers back against his, sparks flew as the two high-speed vehicles collided. The black driver brought out a blaster and aimed it at her; Revan ducted her speeder under his and brought it up on the right side of his speeder. With one daring leap she jumped behind his, and grabbed him around the throat with one arm. The man struggled against her and then he used the Force to throw her to the back of the vehicle…
"A Sith…" Revan's mind registered.
Revan hung onto the back end of the red and silver speeder, and then flipped herself back aboard, right behind the Black Sith. The driver hissed at her and drove the speeder straight down and right threw a stream of traffic… even Revan wouldn't have tried a stunt that stupid. Miraculously and with a lot of colorful language they made it threw unscathed. Revan called to the Force and used it to stun the driver. She grabbed the controls pulled the speeder up from its fatal course, and then she docked it on the nearest buildings roof, and pulled the cloaked driver out of the vehicles and held him against the wall by his throat.
She pulled back the cloaked hood and stared into the face that sneered at her. She had seen this face before on the Leviathan during her escape… he was one of the Sith apprentices there.
He laughed, "I see you recognize me! Good, she said you would."
"She?" Revan asked.
The apprentice laughed, and sneered at her, "Heheh, she also said you wouldn't have a clue what was going on."
Revan pressed him harder against the wall. "Tell me who sent you…" her voice was calm and chilling like ice.
"The Sith will rise again…" he narrowed his eyes, then he starting gasping and choking.
Revan felt a small amount of angry as she watched the prone form of the Sith assassin… the poison had done its job swiftly and effectively. He had cheated her out of what she wanted to know.
"The Sith will rise again," she went over that statement in her mind, trying to decide what significance it had, "Tired…so tired," Her shoulders sagged as weariness overtook her. She stared at the dead body and flipped him over with a booted toe, looking for any more clues… nothing.
Revan walked over to the speeder and examined the control panel, she pressed the communicator and set it too send to the Jedi council.
A furry Cathar greeted her, Revan smiled, "Hello Juhani, you mind informing the proper people where I am," She looked away at the Sith. "Tell them I caught the assassin, but he poisoned himself before I got any answers."
Juhani looked somewhat relived, but frowned at Revan, "You look pretty torn up, are you ok? When I heard the explosion I feared the worse…" Juhani cast her eyes downward.
"Yes I'm fine but the speeders engine seems to have burned out, I could use a lift, here's my coordinates." Revan tilted her head slightly smiling and punched in the coordinates.
Juhani nodded, "I make sure someone picks you up quickly."
"Thanks," Revan commented and cut off the communication. She stared at the night sky; most of the city's light covered the little stars but Revan could see a few twinkling down at her… "The Sith will rise again…" Revan went over that line again, and she shivered.