Episode Four
Geonosis
Mai wakes up from her slumber, finding herself in a room full of creatures that she had never seen before.
"Are these the natives of this planet?" Mai thought aloud.
Then one of the creatures flies down right in front of her, inspecting her by only staring, as if admiring her figure.
"What do you want?" Mai asks with some aggression.
The creature made some clicking like sound, as if it was a droid with bad communications speaker. Mai guessed it was their language.
"Look, you better let me go, or else," Mai tries to threaten, but the alien doesn't understand the human basic language.
The insect looking alien Geonosian turns away and used its bug like wings to fly away, leaving its captive alone and chained to a wall.
Mai drops her head in fear and sadness, wondering how she got herself into that position, "somebody help me."
*****
After around a hundred and twenty hours of space travel, Garth and his men along with Zen lands on the planet Geonosis, where Garth believes Mai is located.
As the Alderaan Freedom Fighters soldiers begins to set up their camp base, Zen climbs up a small rocky hill to join Garth who is scouting from the top with his macrobinoculars.
"Find anything Bray?" Zen asks.
"There's a small group of Geonosians camping down there, about four of them. But they don't have our target."
Garth sighs and rolls over, laying on his back and staring up at the sky who shares the same color as the sandy and rocky ground.
"This is rediculas, why are we here again?" Garth asks for a reminder.
"Because you believed the woman we're after can help bring the corporation down, and get the New Republicans to side with us, proving we're not terrorists."
"But why the hell do I have to believe a woman like that for? Damn it, none of us knows how to speak these aliens language do we?"
"I don't think anyone outside of the Wild Space Region does," Zen estimates. "This search wont be easy, but luckily I came prepared."
Garth looks over to Zen to see what he meant. Zen reaches into his bag, taking out a small tracking robot.
"What is that?" Garth asks.
"It's called the Blannek," Zen says.
"Strange stupid name," Garth complimented as he grabs the robot from Zen's hands and observes it even closer.
"The corporation developed that, I found it on a file from the computer we downloaded from during our last mission," Zen starts to explain. "I built it on the way here, it is designed to be remote controlled up to almost eleven hundred-thousand meters."
"Well, isn't that very useful," Garth compliments.
"I know," Zen agrees. "Plus, it can also pick up heat signatures from living bodies, so the heat that comes from this planet wont interfere with this machines scanning. It'll also find heat signatures from the next room, but we wont be able to see what's in that room, at least not until we command it to enter the room. It also has an echo system."
"What's that?" Garth asks out of curiosity.
Zen starts to explain as he takes back the Blannek in order to some minor adjustments, "it sends out a signal, whenever it hits an object, it returns back to its source, giving a picture of what it looks like. It like how a radar works."
"I see," Garth said.
"Plus, this thing is so silent," Zen begins to finish his explanation, "it has almost a perfect stealth capabilities."
"We'll see," Garth said, as if it was a challenge. "Their cave is over there, launch it."
Zen smiles as he says, "yes sir."
Zen tosses the robot into the air, and watches it falls a little ways before it begins to hover. Then Zen enters a command in his small computer like device in his arm, to command the robot to enter the cave only a hundred meters away.
*****
Hovering in space above the planet, Darth Crut meditates in his cockpit, as his entire one-man space cruiser is completely shutdown.
Darth Crut senses the freedom fighters ship on the planet, and plans on taking action as soon as they're off.
*****
The Blannet hovers silently as it sends constant silent echo signals in order to allow the user to command it where to go.
*****
Back at the safety of the camp, Garth, Zen and some of the men watches as Zen gives the Blannet constant commands.
"Man, where is she?" Garth thoughtfully asks aloud.
"It is possible we could have the wrong colony," Zen said, "or these Geonosians has already killed her. These natives aren't very friendly when it comes to foreigners. Their relationship towards other races worsened after the end of the Clone Wars battles on this planet over seventy years ago."
"That room right there," says one of the soldiers, pointing to a large room on the screen. It only has heat signature signals in that room.
"That's probably the noble chambers of this colony," Zen went. "It is worth a look, even if this girl isn't in there. By the way, what was her name?"
"I think she said it was Mai," Garth answers.
Zen pilots the robot into the large chamber, seeing the colony leader sitting on its throne, as two of its guards stands in the middle. On the far side of the wall where they saw the last signature in was a Geonosian warrior dying as if it was just recently attacked.
"She's not in here," Zen went.
*****
The Blannet turns around to leave due to the command that Zen just gave it. When it turned around completely, it catches a glimpse of a large rock made mace that smashes into the robot.
*****
"What happened?" Garth went.
"They must've spotted the Blannet," Zen guessed.
As soon as Zen brings back the screen, they seen a group of more Geonosian warriors, two of them carrying a female humanoid slave prisoner with black long hair. Her face wasn't visible for long before the Geonosians finished the robot off, cutting the visual screening.
"Can you bring back the face of that girl?" Garth asks.
"No problem," Zen said as he enters some commands, replaying the screen. He paused the screen just when the female shows her face, just before one of the warriors destroyed the robot entirely.
Garth recognizes the face, "that's her."
"Great, then lets go," Zen suggests as he closes up the screen. "Personally, I didn't expect to find her alive after all this time."
"The sooner we can get to her, the more alive she'll be," Garth went.
"I already got the entire map of that colony that the Blannet made memorized, we can be there in as little as fifteen minutes once we reach the cave." Zen estimates.
*****
The Geonosians drops Mai onto the floor in front of their leader.
The leader stares at Mai with its discussing eyes, as if trying to decide what to do with her.
Mai stares back, as she moves slows up, and rest on her legs and buttocks. Mai starts to show some signs of fear, wishing this were all nothing but one big bad dream.
The leader says some things in his own language to Mai, but Mai couldn't understand it. When the leader is finished, its guards and warriors cheer in celebration, worrying Mai even more.
Mai looks over to a wall, finding a now dead Geonosian lying on the floor. Mai wonders if she'll be joining that corpse soon, but at the same time wonders what happened to it.
Mai looks back at the leader who walks up to Mai, with a smile on its face. Mai couldn't hold back her fears anymore. Her eyes and her breath shows that she's afraid, she even began dripping tears of fear from her eyes.
The large leader grabs Mai on both of her shoulders, and picks her up and tosses her onto its chair, almost knocking her unconscious.
When Mai fully recovers, she finds herself trapped, with the Geonosian leader on top of her, fiddling with her cloths. Mai wouldn't allow it, so she used an escape technique she knows, and escape from the leaders grasp, and out into the open away from the Geonosians in the same room.
He wants to mate with me, Mai thinks to herself, realizing the alien's true intention. I won't allow it.
Mai reaches down to her ankle, and takes out a combat knife that the Geonosians failed to disarm her of. There are only five Geonosian warriors, plus their leader, and only one of her. She knows she doesn't stand much of a chance.
The leader gives its warriors a command in their language, forcing them to attack Mai unarmed. Only one of the five warriors approaches Mai, ready to attack her. Mai gets into her fighting stance, waiting for the alien to attack.
The Geonosian steps forward, but Mai makes her assault with her knife. As she thrusts it, the Geonosian flies up into the air long before Mai could reach it. Then the enemy counters by diving down towards Mai as a counterattack, striking Mai.
Mai hits the ground hard due to the force from the foe's strike. Mai realizes that she didn't suffer from physical injury, so she stands back up.
The Geonosian quickly makes another strike, allowing Mai to stab the alien with a quick thrust as it came. The warrior backs off a little bit, due to it's small wound that Mai gave it.
Mai waits for the next attack from the Geonosian. She knows she doesn't stand a chance if she attacks the Geonosian, unless it attacks her first. And if the rest of the Geonosians attack also, then she will be in even more trouble as well.
The warrior attacks Mai, came close to hitting her again. Mai makes no hesitation as he swings her knife from above to its target. The Geonosian sees the attack and dodges it.
"No," Mai cries out, realizing that was a good chance too.
The warrior turns around and attacks again, but Mai ducks from the enemies flyby attack, and fails to counterstrike.
Mai thinks to herself, this is getting me nowhere.
The warrior lands on the ground in front of Mai. After a short hesitation, it attacks Mai, attempting to grapple her. In success it grapples Mai, preventing her from countering attack.
Mai struggles, but couldn't escape.
Oh no, Mai thinks to herself.
The creature tries to kick Mai as she continues to struggle, but she manages to dodge it, which loosened the Geonosians grip on her hand that holds the knife. Mai takes the opportunity, but the Geonosian dodges at the last second, receiving only a small minor scratch.
The Geonosian flies up into the air, making a small turn, and makes its next attack on Mai. As Mai braces herself, the warrior dodges to her side, and strikes her almost from behind before she could react.
Mai swings her knife, managing to wound the Geonosian again as it flies by after hitting her.
The Geonosian flies away, covering its wounds as it keeps a distance from Mai. Mai is exhausted from the beatings she took. She knows sooner or later, she's going to get hurt if it keeping hitting her.
Mai looks at the throne chair, realizing that her blaster is there. She knows she can reach it just before the warrior could, so she quickly makes her move.
The Geonosian sees what Mai is running too, so it too makes its move to stop her. But Mai reaches her blaster pistol and fires three shots. The Geonosian dodges all three shots, barely dodging the last two.
The Geonosian quickly makes its counterattack, almost hitting Mai again. Mai raises her blaster pistol and fires two more shots, misses again.
The Geonosian warrior flies down to ground level and makes its attack from there. Mai sees the attack and dodges it. The foe hits the stoned table where Mai's blaster pistol was held on.
Mai makes a single shot this time, finally hitting her appropriate target, killing the Geonosian warrior.
Mai falls onto her knees, catching her breath after that exhausting fight. Even though Mai is exhausted, she knows she won't last through a second fight.
The leader sends the last remaining four to recapture their slave prisoner. Mai knows this is bad, as she could barely stand, wondering what she should do next.
Geonosis
Mai wakes up from her slumber, finding herself in a room full of creatures that she had never seen before.
"Are these the natives of this planet?" Mai thought aloud.
Then one of the creatures flies down right in front of her, inspecting her by only staring, as if admiring her figure.
"What do you want?" Mai asks with some aggression.
The creature made some clicking like sound, as if it was a droid with bad communications speaker. Mai guessed it was their language.
"Look, you better let me go, or else," Mai tries to threaten, but the alien doesn't understand the human basic language.
The insect looking alien Geonosian turns away and used its bug like wings to fly away, leaving its captive alone and chained to a wall.
Mai drops her head in fear and sadness, wondering how she got herself into that position, "somebody help me."
*****
After around a hundred and twenty hours of space travel, Garth and his men along with Zen lands on the planet Geonosis, where Garth believes Mai is located.
As the Alderaan Freedom Fighters soldiers begins to set up their camp base, Zen climbs up a small rocky hill to join Garth who is scouting from the top with his macrobinoculars.
"Find anything Bray?" Zen asks.
"There's a small group of Geonosians camping down there, about four of them. But they don't have our target."
Garth sighs and rolls over, laying on his back and staring up at the sky who shares the same color as the sandy and rocky ground.
"This is rediculas, why are we here again?" Garth asks for a reminder.
"Because you believed the woman we're after can help bring the corporation down, and get the New Republicans to side with us, proving we're not terrorists."
"But why the hell do I have to believe a woman like that for? Damn it, none of us knows how to speak these aliens language do we?"
"I don't think anyone outside of the Wild Space Region does," Zen estimates. "This search wont be easy, but luckily I came prepared."
Garth looks over to Zen to see what he meant. Zen reaches into his bag, taking out a small tracking robot.
"What is that?" Garth asks.
"It's called the Blannek," Zen says.
"Strange stupid name," Garth complimented as he grabs the robot from Zen's hands and observes it even closer.
"The corporation developed that, I found it on a file from the computer we downloaded from during our last mission," Zen starts to explain. "I built it on the way here, it is designed to be remote controlled up to almost eleven hundred-thousand meters."
"Well, isn't that very useful," Garth compliments.
"I know," Zen agrees. "Plus, it can also pick up heat signatures from living bodies, so the heat that comes from this planet wont interfere with this machines scanning. It'll also find heat signatures from the next room, but we wont be able to see what's in that room, at least not until we command it to enter the room. It also has an echo system."
"What's that?" Garth asks out of curiosity.
Zen starts to explain as he takes back the Blannek in order to some minor adjustments, "it sends out a signal, whenever it hits an object, it returns back to its source, giving a picture of what it looks like. It like how a radar works."
"I see," Garth said.
"Plus, this thing is so silent," Zen begins to finish his explanation, "it has almost a perfect stealth capabilities."
"We'll see," Garth said, as if it was a challenge. "Their cave is over there, launch it."
Zen smiles as he says, "yes sir."
Zen tosses the robot into the air, and watches it falls a little ways before it begins to hover. Then Zen enters a command in his small computer like device in his arm, to command the robot to enter the cave only a hundred meters away.
*****
Hovering in space above the planet, Darth Crut meditates in his cockpit, as his entire one-man space cruiser is completely shutdown.
Darth Crut senses the freedom fighters ship on the planet, and plans on taking action as soon as they're off.
*****
The Blannet hovers silently as it sends constant silent echo signals in order to allow the user to command it where to go.
*****
Back at the safety of the camp, Garth, Zen and some of the men watches as Zen gives the Blannet constant commands.
"Man, where is she?" Garth thoughtfully asks aloud.
"It is possible we could have the wrong colony," Zen said, "or these Geonosians has already killed her. These natives aren't very friendly when it comes to foreigners. Their relationship towards other races worsened after the end of the Clone Wars battles on this planet over seventy years ago."
"That room right there," says one of the soldiers, pointing to a large room on the screen. It only has heat signature signals in that room.
"That's probably the noble chambers of this colony," Zen went. "It is worth a look, even if this girl isn't in there. By the way, what was her name?"
"I think she said it was Mai," Garth answers.
Zen pilots the robot into the large chamber, seeing the colony leader sitting on its throne, as two of its guards stands in the middle. On the far side of the wall where they saw the last signature in was a Geonosian warrior dying as if it was just recently attacked.
"She's not in here," Zen went.
*****
The Blannet turns around to leave due to the command that Zen just gave it. When it turned around completely, it catches a glimpse of a large rock made mace that smashes into the robot.
*****
"What happened?" Garth went.
"They must've spotted the Blannet," Zen guessed.
As soon as Zen brings back the screen, they seen a group of more Geonosian warriors, two of them carrying a female humanoid slave prisoner with black long hair. Her face wasn't visible for long before the Geonosians finished the robot off, cutting the visual screening.
"Can you bring back the face of that girl?" Garth asks.
"No problem," Zen said as he enters some commands, replaying the screen. He paused the screen just when the female shows her face, just before one of the warriors destroyed the robot entirely.
Garth recognizes the face, "that's her."
"Great, then lets go," Zen suggests as he closes up the screen. "Personally, I didn't expect to find her alive after all this time."
"The sooner we can get to her, the more alive she'll be," Garth went.
"I already got the entire map of that colony that the Blannet made memorized, we can be there in as little as fifteen minutes once we reach the cave." Zen estimates.
*****
The Geonosians drops Mai onto the floor in front of their leader.
The leader stares at Mai with its discussing eyes, as if trying to decide what to do with her.
Mai stares back, as she moves slows up, and rest on her legs and buttocks. Mai starts to show some signs of fear, wishing this were all nothing but one big bad dream.
The leader says some things in his own language to Mai, but Mai couldn't understand it. When the leader is finished, its guards and warriors cheer in celebration, worrying Mai even more.
Mai looks over to a wall, finding a now dead Geonosian lying on the floor. Mai wonders if she'll be joining that corpse soon, but at the same time wonders what happened to it.
Mai looks back at the leader who walks up to Mai, with a smile on its face. Mai couldn't hold back her fears anymore. Her eyes and her breath shows that she's afraid, she even began dripping tears of fear from her eyes.
The large leader grabs Mai on both of her shoulders, and picks her up and tosses her onto its chair, almost knocking her unconscious.
When Mai fully recovers, she finds herself trapped, with the Geonosian leader on top of her, fiddling with her cloths. Mai wouldn't allow it, so she used an escape technique she knows, and escape from the leaders grasp, and out into the open away from the Geonosians in the same room.
He wants to mate with me, Mai thinks to herself, realizing the alien's true intention. I won't allow it.
Mai reaches down to her ankle, and takes out a combat knife that the Geonosians failed to disarm her of. There are only five Geonosian warriors, plus their leader, and only one of her. She knows she doesn't stand much of a chance.
The leader gives its warriors a command in their language, forcing them to attack Mai unarmed. Only one of the five warriors approaches Mai, ready to attack her. Mai gets into her fighting stance, waiting for the alien to attack.
The Geonosian steps forward, but Mai makes her assault with her knife. As she thrusts it, the Geonosian flies up into the air long before Mai could reach it. Then the enemy counters by diving down towards Mai as a counterattack, striking Mai.
Mai hits the ground hard due to the force from the foe's strike. Mai realizes that she didn't suffer from physical injury, so she stands back up.
The Geonosian quickly makes another strike, allowing Mai to stab the alien with a quick thrust as it came. The warrior backs off a little bit, due to it's small wound that Mai gave it.
Mai waits for the next attack from the Geonosian. She knows she doesn't stand a chance if she attacks the Geonosian, unless it attacks her first. And if the rest of the Geonosians attack also, then she will be in even more trouble as well.
The warrior attacks Mai, came close to hitting her again. Mai makes no hesitation as he swings her knife from above to its target. The Geonosian sees the attack and dodges it.
"No," Mai cries out, realizing that was a good chance too.
The warrior turns around and attacks again, but Mai ducks from the enemies flyby attack, and fails to counterstrike.
Mai thinks to herself, this is getting me nowhere.
The warrior lands on the ground in front of Mai. After a short hesitation, it attacks Mai, attempting to grapple her. In success it grapples Mai, preventing her from countering attack.
Mai struggles, but couldn't escape.
Oh no, Mai thinks to herself.
The creature tries to kick Mai as she continues to struggle, but she manages to dodge it, which loosened the Geonosians grip on her hand that holds the knife. Mai takes the opportunity, but the Geonosian dodges at the last second, receiving only a small minor scratch.
The Geonosian flies up into the air, making a small turn, and makes its next attack on Mai. As Mai braces herself, the warrior dodges to her side, and strikes her almost from behind before she could react.
Mai swings her knife, managing to wound the Geonosian again as it flies by after hitting her.
The Geonosian flies away, covering its wounds as it keeps a distance from Mai. Mai is exhausted from the beatings she took. She knows sooner or later, she's going to get hurt if it keeping hitting her.
Mai looks at the throne chair, realizing that her blaster is there. She knows she can reach it just before the warrior could, so she quickly makes her move.
The Geonosian sees what Mai is running too, so it too makes its move to stop her. But Mai reaches her blaster pistol and fires three shots. The Geonosian dodges all three shots, barely dodging the last two.
The Geonosian quickly makes its counterattack, almost hitting Mai again. Mai raises her blaster pistol and fires two more shots, misses again.
The Geonosian warrior flies down to ground level and makes its attack from there. Mai sees the attack and dodges it. The foe hits the stoned table where Mai's blaster pistol was held on.
Mai makes a single shot this time, finally hitting her appropriate target, killing the Geonosian warrior.
Mai falls onto her knees, catching her breath after that exhausting fight. Even though Mai is exhausted, she knows she won't last through a second fight.
The leader sends the last remaining four to recapture their slave prisoner. Mai knows this is bad, as she could barely stand, wondering what she should do next.