Kentra flew higher and higher into the sky. The air was getting dangerously thin, but she didn't care, she was going to kill Darth Mange. She finally reached the edge of the atmosphere and stopped.
"This is where you get off." She told him and she started to spin. She kept spinning faster and faster until the thin air and wispy clouds spiraled around them like a hurricane.
Then she let him go.
Darth Mange screamed as he flew off in a long arc. It wouldn't put him into orbit, but he would fly a considerable distance before coming to a sudden, and final, stop.
Kentra, her act of violence complete and her rage burnt out, began to cry. As the tears froze to her cheeks in the frigid air, she thought about Cryos.
She knew that he was supposed to be immortal, but his head had been blown completely off. She couldn't see how even he could survive that.
Very suddenly, she felt a power flare far below her. Cryos!!! She thought. But as fast as the spark came, it was gone. She thought she must have imagined it, but despite it all, she refused to give up and started flying back down to the cave.
When she got there, she saw Cryos standing at arms length from the Sith Lord. They were surrounded by a cracking sphere of energy. "Cryos!" She screamed and ran towards him.
"NO!" Shouted a voice. "Do that you mustn't!" She ignored the poorly spoken warning and crashed head first into the barrier.
It exploded with dark power and sent Kentra careening backwards into the far wall of the cave.
Kentra opened her eyes and looked up at Yoda. The short Jedi was standing next to her head. "Warn you I did. Dark energy, surrounded by they are. Do nothing, we can, is all. Up to Cryos now, all is."
Yoda's basic was obviously suffering from the stress of losing his master, but Kentra decided to not point it out. She looked over at her husband, locked in a deadly struggle with the dark Jedi.
Come on, I know you can win…
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Cryos wasn't sure where he was. It was dark, and there were dark clouds all around him. The clouds seemed to form a perfect sphere in the distance. They were all that he could see in every direction. Occasionally, lightning zipped from one cloud to the next, but it always stayed far away.
Cryos wasn't sure how long he floated in the vast space, but eventually he became aware of a presence watching him. He spun, trying to catch his observer, but there was no one there.
"Who's out there?" He called, but was met only with silence.
He turned again, faster this time, and saw a blur of movement and a shadow moving so fast he couldn't even make out what it was.
Cryos blasted at the shadow, but it moved too fast. He fired again and again, but the shadow was always one step ahead of him.
Soon, it started laughing. It started out fast and high pitched, but gradually got deeper and louder until it boomed across the vast emptiness.
Cryos stopped shooting and looked around for the source of the voice, but it didn't have a source, it was all around him.
"CRYOS!" The voice boomed. "YOU HAVE INTERFEERED WITH MY PLANS!"
"Who are you!?" Cryos asked. "What do you want?"
"I WAS GOING TO DESTROY YOU FOR GETTING IN MY WAY, BUT NOW I SHOULD THANK YOU!"
"What's that?" Cryos asked, confused.
The shadow reappeared in front of him and spoke. "You allowed me to find this plane of existence. I had been searching for it, a world of pure Dark Side power. With this much power, I can wipe out the Jedi once and for all!"
"What do I have to do with this?" Cryos asked.
"Everything. The dark side grows by feeding on life. You are an infinite wellspring of it! I just need to harness your life energy to gain infinite power."
"Fat chance!" Cryos yelled at the shadow. "You'll never be able to kill me and take my life force!"
"Yes, I realize that." The shadow nodded at him. "So what I'll have to do is operate like a battery. I'll drain enough life force from you to go out and do my business, then return to you and recharge. I can keep you locked in this existence to keep you out of trouble between feedings. And the best part is, you'll always recover! I can keep draining you forever!"
Cryos glared at the shadow long and hard. He focused much more power than was necessary into a blast and fired. The beam hit the shadow and shattered it into tiny pieces.
Cryos smiled until the laughing started again. "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND YET!?" The voice echoed around him. I AM INVINCIBLE HERE!!"
The shadow bits started to spiral around him, picking up speed as they drew closer. Cryos tried to dodge, but the pieces hit him and stuck, creating tiny dark spots on his skin. He tried to wipe them off, but it just spread them around.
After a moment, he realized that he wasn't spreading them, they were spreading themselves! Cryos tried to flare enough energy to blast them off, but they absorbed the energy and grew faster.
Taking the opposite approach, he lowered his power and conserved his energy, it slowed them down, but not a lot.
"FIGHT IT ALL YOU WANT!" The voice echoed. "IT ONLY MAKES VICTORY SWEETER FOR ME IN THE END!"
Cryos pulled his power into himself, trying to keep it from being stolen, but it only slowed the process. His entire body except for his face was covered in the darkness now.
"Very soon." The voice whispered in his ear. "I have almost enough power now, soon I will break the connection and stop the transfer. Then I can go out into the rest of the word and destroy. I shall start with your wife and daughter, then the rest of that planet. Then I'll move on and destroy the Universe, I shall be the supreme master of life and death. And with you as my power source, I can keep going forever…"
Cryos was boiling with rage, he wasn't about to let this monster use his own power to kill. But there was no way to resist, no matter how he tried to resist, his strength was flowing into the dark Sith Master.
Suddenly, everything fell into focus. There was no way resist the transfer of power, but maybe he could overload it.
Cryos started to power up, reaching the Super-Sayian level in seconds and not stopping there. He powered up to his maximum power level and started to pour his strength into the darkness that covered his body.
"No! What are you doing!? Stop!" The Sith's voice cried in his ear.
Cryos just focused on putting his energy into the shadow, and watched in fascination as it started to boil off his skin. It was working!
"You can't win!" The voice said. "You may win for now, but I will return! I will have my revenge on you and your family!"
"I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, goodbye and good riddance!"
Cryos gave his energy one last boost, and the shadows covering his body burst into flames.
The Sith master gave one last, lingering scream as his body dissolved and vanished into nothing.
Cryos smiled as the last of the shadows disappeared. Now to go home and… Cryos's mind froze as he realized he had no way to get back.
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Back in reality, both Cryos and the Sith master screamed as flames of power burned over their skin. The energy flickered on and off until it caught on the Sith. Cryos's body fell back and lay motionless on the floor as the Sith continued to burn.
After a few moments there was nothing left of him but a dried out mummy.
Kentra ran over and shook her husband, trying to wake him up, but he didn't move.
"Not in his body, Cryos is." Said Yoda. "Bring him back, we must. And quickly, or lost forever he could be."
