Disclaimer: Don't own characers I steal from others, yada yada…
Cryos kept his power elevated as he walked into the cave. It was mostly just to light his way, but it never hurt to be prepared when going into enemy territory.
The stone walls eventually gave way to metal ones, and then quite suddenly opened up into a large round room with inch-wide holes scattered across the floor, walls and ceiling.
Cryos stopped in the center of the room. It was obviously a trap, but a good way to get your enemy to show himself was to let him think he had you.
He stood still for several moments, then a spotlight came on directly above him. It shone straight down on Cryos and he let his glow fade.
Cryos waited until the trap sprung. Hundreds of thin, metal tentacles came shooting out from the walls and reached out to grab him. They stretched from their holes and wrapped all around him. Within seconds, he was completely covered with them several inches thick.
He could easily have ripped through them and shredded them to pieces, but he waited and listened. Very soon, he heard voices outside.
"He took out the door and the front guards, but we got him master. Those loops form an airtight seal over the victim's face and suffocate him. He's long gone."
Cryos stifled a chuckle. Most people had never met an intelligent species that could exist without air.
"No," A deep ominous voice said. "He is not dead, I can feel him very strongly. He finds this amusing, and could escape the trap at any time he deemed fit."
Cryos made a face at that. How could that man have known?
"You can come out now." Said the voice again. "You're not fooling anyone."
Cryos burst the chains holding him and landed next to the two men. "I don't suppose that one of you will return my daughter?"
The one man was just a thug, but the other was smaller, and wore a dark cloak that covered his entire body with darkness and made him look like a shadow.
The shadow man waved his hand and a few dozen thugs jumped Cryos. He grabbed one with his tail and slammed him into the biggest group of them. Taking them all out of the fight.
Next he spun and kicked one man back into another pile of the stupid thugs.
The remaining ones attacked him from all sides. He jumped up and stuck to the ceiling. The idiots all looked up as Cryos dropped a tiny energy bomb right into the middle of the group, sending them flying in all directions.
When the dust cleared, the men were all unconscious, and a few were smoldering slightly, but none were dead.
Cryos turned to face the shadow man, but saw only a blank wall where there had been a doorway before.
Easy enough to fix.
Cryos dove at the wall and ripped right through into a long hallway. He took a few steps and a trapdoor in the ceiling opened up and dropped a bolder down right behind him. It started to roll towards him.
Cryos could easily have smashed the big rock, but didn't bother. He started running, slowly at first but then faster as the bolder picked up speed soon he saw a dead end up ahead. He fired a small beam that blasted a hole a few feet across through the metal into the room beyond, he took another flying leap through the hole and was on his feet before the bolder smashed into what was left of the wall.
This room was dark. As he started walking into the shadows he raised his power and started to glow again.
"Very good…" Came a voice. Cryos looked around trying to see where it had come from, but quickly realized that it was in his head. "I chose you, alien, to be our enforcer."
"What if I refuse?" He asked.
The voice just laughed. "Your body is strong, but compared to us, your mind is weak!"
Cryos suddenly felt something in his head. He recognized it from hanging around with Mewtwo, the psychic cat creature. Someone was probing his mind!
The invading fingers of thought wormed their way through his head, cutting off all other thoughts.
Cryos dropped to his knees and his glow faded into the darkness…
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Kentra sat in the village with Pahrac, Tran and the two Jedi. They were asking her questions about Cryos, and the future world where they had come from.
Cryos had only set out a few minutes ago, but she knew something was wrong.
She had never felt like Cryos was in danger before, but now she knew without a doubt that he was in more trouble than he had ever been before in his life.
She didn't know how she knew, but she did.
She expressed this to the Jedi and they exchanged knowing glances.
The MonCal, whose name was Dacban, asked, "Is your daughter, special?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" She asked defensively.
"Does she, have special powers, sometimes, appear to have?" Yoda 'clarified'.
"Not any more so than me or Cryos," Kentra stopped suddenly, flashing back to when Yamna closed Washu's wormhole with a wave of her arm and all the times she had somehow escaped form her and Pahrac, even with her super vision and Pahrac's skill as a hunter.
Jedi Master Dacban smiled. "I thought your daughter may be the source of the Force upwelling we felt earlier. And now that we are closer, I feel a shadow as well. There is a dark presence in the desert. A Dark Jedi, maybe even a Sith."
"I thought the Sith were wiped out!" Kentra said before she realized that they were now several hundred years before the deaths of the Emperor and Vader, the last known Sith.
"No," Yoda told her. "Kill only the student, last time, we did. Still on the loose, the master is."
"So that could have been him that kidnapped Yamna?"
"I find it very likely." Dacban said. "The question is: what happens when your husband, as powerful as he may be, I doubt he could handle a Sith on his own." He looked up suddenly and shouted. "DUCK!" Just as Draco came shooting in at high speed right over their heads.
Pahrac leapt into the air and snatched the little lizard in his mouth, effectively caging him for the time being.
"Let me out!" He wailed. "Cryos promised me candy!! I need the candy or I'll explode!"
Dacban waved his hand. "You will listen to me."
"I am under your command, boss me around." Draco said in a flat, emotionless voice.
"Very good master." Said Yoda. "You calmed him very quickly."
"No I didn't…" Dacban said, his eyes narrowing. "I'm not effecting him at all."
"Draco is highly suggestible when he wants candy." Kentra told them.
"Either way, it accomplishes out goal." Dacban leaned close to Pahrac, but then got a whiff of the Kelbrid's breath and backed up a bit. "Draco, we need you to take us back to where Cryos is. We think he's in trouble and we need to help him."
"Okie!" The lizard squawked and Pahrac let him go.
Draco squawked loudly and transformed into his spaceship form. His body was now almost a hundred feet long, and he had four huge dinosaur legs. His huge mouth opened and he said "Come on! He's right over here!"
Kentra and Pahrac hopped into his mouth, but the Jedi were a little reluctant.
Understandable considering they were talking about jumping into the mouth of a gigantic and mentally unstable creature.
But eventually they got in and Draco took off, way too fast! He shouted in delight as he flew in little circles about the desert before finally crashing right into the side of the mountain. They punched through the rocks and into a large cave.
"See? I told you I could get us here!" Draco announced and opened up his mouth to let his passengers out.
The Jedi squinted in the darkness, but Kentra could see easily.
"Cryos!" She called when she saw him standing in a dark corner of the cave and she ran towards him.
"NO!" Shouted Dacban.
"Do that you mustn't, Kentra!" Screamed Yoda.
But she didn't listen. Kentra flew straight to him and threw her arms around him.
But Cryos didn't move.
"Cryos?" She asked. "What's wrong?"
In response, Cryos turned to face her. She looked up into his eyes, and they suddenly flashed bright red!
Kentra screamed and backed away.
Laughter boomed out of the darkness and a hooded figure appeared in a darkened doorway. "Your husband is ours now." He said. "And now Cryos: kill them!"
Cryos smiled evilly and started to power up.
