CHAPTER 7
THE END OF THE BEGINNING- PART 2
Kaldo was launching proton torpedoes at a nearby battle cruiser when he saw the white flash. Thousands of screaming forces then filled in his head, and thousands and thousands more filled his head. The pain was too unbearable to control, so his emotions enveloped him as he screamed in pure agony. The voices in his head lasted for a whole minute, but then it was silent. Not a single sound- not even the zing of a laser bolt. He then looked underneath him and saw an ugly sight- the flat, ruined on the surface of Coruscant was dead. All of its trademark sky-high buildings were ground level, and not a single air taxi was in the air. He then looked at the sky and saw a black, menacing Coruscant he had been to before. He couldn't believe it- with one blast and in a single minute, everything, and colossal craft with sharp, pointy wings that could puncture any ship light a lightsaber through butter. But then, as he looked down, Kaldo had a great idea.
"All Jedi Knights, Padawans, and Masters", said Kaldo. "Concentrate your power to lifting up the ruined Jedi Temple. We will hurl it at the black ship".
"What are you trying to accomplish?" asked an annoyed Aayla.
"Just shut your mouth and help me out", said Kaldo. He then used all the Force power in his body to lift up the building, but it took the effort of all the Knights. Once the enemy saw what was going on, they started firing at the Jedi. The Jedi, being defenseless, were dropping like flies, especially from the black cruiser's guns. Each time a Jedi died the burden became heavier and heavier for him. But all the Jedi had strong wills, so they were able to lift up the building. The cruisers then started to shoot at the building, but they couldn't blow the whole thing up.
"When I count to three", said Kaldo, "lunge the Temple at the big black cruiser. One, two, THREE!" He then used every power in his being to throw the building, and it worked. There was a large explosion when the two impacted, and a small but large hole was in the side of the cruiser. Kaldo then began to speed towards the cruiser, for his intention was to go into the hole.
"What the hell are you doing?" asked Shaina over the intercom. "You're actually going to go into the hole?" Kaldo then turned the intercom off and zoomed into the hole. RX-DX screamed with protest as the O-Wing dodged the powerful laser bolts. Unfortunately, one bolt hit the astromech droid and the life of RX-DX ended. Kaldo had to ignore the bittersweet death and crashed into the hole. His O-Wing was pretty beat up when the crash was over, but Kaldo was okay. He then got out of the hole, but five battle droids charged up to him and started firing. Fortunately for Kaldo, he had his lightsaber with him, so he was twirling around, slashing each of the droids in half. He then deactivated his lightsaber and started walking away, but the floor collapsed on him and he fell through a tunnel. He then fell out of the tunnel and found himself in a strange, blue room full of kolto tank-like things, but each had an almost nude Zabrak with strange red- and black tattoos. Kaldo couldn't tell at first how many there were, but as he got closer, he could tell that there were about fifty of them, with the exception of an empty one. Then, he heard the soft pitter patter of footsteps, and swept around to see a dark, shadowy figure looming in the distance.
"Stumbled upon my clones, have you?" asked the shadowy figure.
"Who are you?" asked Kaldo.
"I thought you were Jedi", said the shadowy figure. "Can't you use your force powers to probe through my mind?" Kaldo then got out his lightsaber but didn't activate it, and the figure laughed. "I should've paid closer attention to my Jedi lessons. You guys aren't as bad as I had thought. Oh well. You Jedi are in my way and deserve your punishment." He then pressed a button on one of the control panels, and the clones all simultaneously got out of their kolto tank-like things. From within their loincloths they each grabbed a single bladed lightsabers and activated it, giving off a dark red glow. Kaldo then activated his blue lightsaber and charged at them, hoping he could last at least a few minutes.
"This is brilliant", said Dyaka. After the violent tremors aboard the ship (which was caused by the launch of the Hyper bomb), life hadn't gone much better for Dyaka and Zerra. Every now and then the ship would be overcome by another violent tremor, which caused them to bounce about the walls. They had found no success in finding the engine room, and their hope dimmed as they found two armed guards in their path.
"This is what we shall do", said Zerra. "I, the stronger one, shall leap forward and try to combat them, while you grab one of their blasters and blow their heads off".
"Might as well ask", said Dyaka. Zerra's face then lit up and she hugged Dyaka.
"That's it!" said Zerra. She then walked up to the guards all happily and gave them a kind look.
"Excuse me kind sirs", said Zerra. "Where may I find the engine room?"
"It just a block down from this room", said a guard. "It's the door with the big horn on it".
"Thank you so much!" said Zerra. She then motioned for Dyaka to come and he followed. They didn't say a word until they found the room with the big horn on it, just as the guard had said. Dyaka then opened the door to the room, but a huge tremor made Shaina and Dyaka fall on the floor and roll into the room, which was really dark, damp, and grimy. Thirty seconds later, they stood up and found themselves right near the engines.
"That was really convenient", said Dyaka. Then, a shadowy object moved towards them with a red blade in hand. He had thick black and brown armor, and the two easily recognized the man- it was Voren Fett.
"Run", said Zerra. "NOW!"
"No", said Dyaka. "You will not survive".
"Neither will you", said Zerra. "And you're way more important than me. NOW GO!" Dyaka heeded her advice and ran as fast as he could away from the area. Voren was paying attention to Dyaka, and Zerra used that to her advantage by using her quick-draw skills to quickly pull her gun out at blast at Voren's hand. Voren didn't have any real Jedi skills, so her shot not only blew the lightsaber apart but his actual hand blew off. She then shot at him, but the bolts reflected off his armor. She then kept firing and firing at him, but before long, she ran out of energy. Voren then slowly crept up to her, armed with a blade that popped out from his wrist gauntlet. He then charged at her while swinging his blade towards her, but she expertly dodged. She then grabbed a loose pipe and tried to deflect the slash, but his blade cut right through the metal. She then tripped on the ruined pipe and fell to the ground. She felt like she was safe for a minute, but Voren kept slashing at her, even though she was on the ground. She then used her position to her advantage and tripped Voren, giving her a change to run away from her attacker. Voren then saw the ploy and got up quickly, with his blaster in arms. He shot her in the leg, which caused her to fall onto one of the larger pipes. He then dropped his blaster and stuck the blade in her gut. She felt he painful jab of the weapon, but the most painful part was that she knew that she would not live another minute. She died after a minute, and Voren retracted his bloody blade. He then turned around and found a disturbing site on his part- Dyaka Tyanika holding a case full of explosives.
"I have spent my life creating this galaxy", said Dyaka, "And I hate to see my work destroyed." He then pressed a trigger, and with that blow, the whole galaxy was saved.
Kaldo lunged at the clones, hoping that that move wouldn't take his life. Fortunately, he landed right in front of the clones. With one sweep of his lightsaber he took out the front row's legs, and then used the force to push the rest away. He then ran towards the rest of them with his lightsaber swinging, but the clones seemed to already have some experience. Not only did they deflect all his blows, but also they formed a circle around him. Kaldo then lifted his lightsaber to cover his face, thinking of a strategy. He then used the force to leap towards the ceiling and hang by an overhanging bar. He then threw his lightsaber and used to force to make it act like a grenade, slashing everything in its path. After a while, one of the clones threw his lightsaber at the bar, which force Kaldo to fall. Once Kaldo recalled his lightsaber, one of the other clones used the force to propel the legless Jedi at him, but Kaldo chopped the flying clones into smaller pieces. All the clones then circled around him again, this time swinging their lightsabers wildly into the air. Kaldo was able to use his force mastery to deflect all these blows and to destroy more clones. He sent one clone flying through the air with a powerful kick, but the clone landed on one of the Kolto-tank-like things and the liquid started spraying on Kaldo. The liquid didn't seem to have an effect on the clones, but Kaldo was hurt badly. The liquid make his skin burn, a sensation that no Duros deserves to feel. His body was nothing but pain as the liquid soaked through his body, causing a sensation of pain. And all he felt in his mind was anger. Anger at the clones who did this to him. Angry at Terrorous for making the clones. Angry at Aayla for dragging him into this mess. His mind was anger, and nothing else.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" yelled Kaldo. With one great leap of energy he jumped away from the clones and, with all the anger bottled up in him, unleashed a fury of purple laser bolts from his fingertips, which electrocuted everything in its path. Kaldo knew it was a dark side trick, but he didn't care. All he wanted to see was the clones suffer for making him suffer. So after a couple of minutes Kaldo had ran out of energy, and the clones had ran out of life force. Terrorous then walked out of the shadows and paced towards Kaldo.
"Most excellent", said Terrorous. "I didn't know that you people had so much power in you. But you've wasted you energy on my mere clones, while I am twice the power of all of them combined!" He then tossed his coat away and, strangely enough, he removed his hands. "I have made several sacrifices to earn my Sith Lord title, and this is one of them. But like all the great Sith Lords before me, I have used what I have and used it to my advantage. You might even call it a gift." He then used the force to put two single-bladed lightsabers into the sockets where his hands used to be, and used the force to activate them. "Now you shall see the true end of the Jedi- starting with you!"
THE END OF THE BEGINNING- PART 2
Kaldo was launching proton torpedoes at a nearby battle cruiser when he saw the white flash. Thousands of screaming forces then filled in his head, and thousands and thousands more filled his head. The pain was too unbearable to control, so his emotions enveloped him as he screamed in pure agony. The voices in his head lasted for a whole minute, but then it was silent. Not a single sound- not even the zing of a laser bolt. He then looked underneath him and saw an ugly sight- the flat, ruined on the surface of Coruscant was dead. All of its trademark sky-high buildings were ground level, and not a single air taxi was in the air. He then looked at the sky and saw a black, menacing Coruscant he had been to before. He couldn't believe it- with one blast and in a single minute, everything, and colossal craft with sharp, pointy wings that could puncture any ship light a lightsaber through butter. But then, as he looked down, Kaldo had a great idea.
"All Jedi Knights, Padawans, and Masters", said Kaldo. "Concentrate your power to lifting up the ruined Jedi Temple. We will hurl it at the black ship".
"What are you trying to accomplish?" asked an annoyed Aayla.
"Just shut your mouth and help me out", said Kaldo. He then used all the Force power in his body to lift up the building, but it took the effort of all the Knights. Once the enemy saw what was going on, they started firing at the Jedi. The Jedi, being defenseless, were dropping like flies, especially from the black cruiser's guns. Each time a Jedi died the burden became heavier and heavier for him. But all the Jedi had strong wills, so they were able to lift up the building. The cruisers then started to shoot at the building, but they couldn't blow the whole thing up.
"When I count to three", said Kaldo, "lunge the Temple at the big black cruiser. One, two, THREE!" He then used every power in his being to throw the building, and it worked. There was a large explosion when the two impacted, and a small but large hole was in the side of the cruiser. Kaldo then began to speed towards the cruiser, for his intention was to go into the hole.
"What the hell are you doing?" asked Shaina over the intercom. "You're actually going to go into the hole?" Kaldo then turned the intercom off and zoomed into the hole. RX-DX screamed with protest as the O-Wing dodged the powerful laser bolts. Unfortunately, one bolt hit the astromech droid and the life of RX-DX ended. Kaldo had to ignore the bittersweet death and crashed into the hole. His O-Wing was pretty beat up when the crash was over, but Kaldo was okay. He then got out of the hole, but five battle droids charged up to him and started firing. Fortunately for Kaldo, he had his lightsaber with him, so he was twirling around, slashing each of the droids in half. He then deactivated his lightsaber and started walking away, but the floor collapsed on him and he fell through a tunnel. He then fell out of the tunnel and found himself in a strange, blue room full of kolto tank-like things, but each had an almost nude Zabrak with strange red- and black tattoos. Kaldo couldn't tell at first how many there were, but as he got closer, he could tell that there were about fifty of them, with the exception of an empty one. Then, he heard the soft pitter patter of footsteps, and swept around to see a dark, shadowy figure looming in the distance.
"Stumbled upon my clones, have you?" asked the shadowy figure.
"Who are you?" asked Kaldo.
"I thought you were Jedi", said the shadowy figure. "Can't you use your force powers to probe through my mind?" Kaldo then got out his lightsaber but didn't activate it, and the figure laughed. "I should've paid closer attention to my Jedi lessons. You guys aren't as bad as I had thought. Oh well. You Jedi are in my way and deserve your punishment." He then pressed a button on one of the control panels, and the clones all simultaneously got out of their kolto tank-like things. From within their loincloths they each grabbed a single bladed lightsabers and activated it, giving off a dark red glow. Kaldo then activated his blue lightsaber and charged at them, hoping he could last at least a few minutes.
"This is brilliant", said Dyaka. After the violent tremors aboard the ship (which was caused by the launch of the Hyper bomb), life hadn't gone much better for Dyaka and Zerra. Every now and then the ship would be overcome by another violent tremor, which caused them to bounce about the walls. They had found no success in finding the engine room, and their hope dimmed as they found two armed guards in their path.
"This is what we shall do", said Zerra. "I, the stronger one, shall leap forward and try to combat them, while you grab one of their blasters and blow their heads off".
"Might as well ask", said Dyaka. Zerra's face then lit up and she hugged Dyaka.
"That's it!" said Zerra. She then walked up to the guards all happily and gave them a kind look.
"Excuse me kind sirs", said Zerra. "Where may I find the engine room?"
"It just a block down from this room", said a guard. "It's the door with the big horn on it".
"Thank you so much!" said Zerra. She then motioned for Dyaka to come and he followed. They didn't say a word until they found the room with the big horn on it, just as the guard had said. Dyaka then opened the door to the room, but a huge tremor made Shaina and Dyaka fall on the floor and roll into the room, which was really dark, damp, and grimy. Thirty seconds later, they stood up and found themselves right near the engines.
"That was really convenient", said Dyaka. Then, a shadowy object moved towards them with a red blade in hand. He had thick black and brown armor, and the two easily recognized the man- it was Voren Fett.
"Run", said Zerra. "NOW!"
"No", said Dyaka. "You will not survive".
"Neither will you", said Zerra. "And you're way more important than me. NOW GO!" Dyaka heeded her advice and ran as fast as he could away from the area. Voren was paying attention to Dyaka, and Zerra used that to her advantage by using her quick-draw skills to quickly pull her gun out at blast at Voren's hand. Voren didn't have any real Jedi skills, so her shot not only blew the lightsaber apart but his actual hand blew off. She then shot at him, but the bolts reflected off his armor. She then kept firing and firing at him, but before long, she ran out of energy. Voren then slowly crept up to her, armed with a blade that popped out from his wrist gauntlet. He then charged at her while swinging his blade towards her, but she expertly dodged. She then grabbed a loose pipe and tried to deflect the slash, but his blade cut right through the metal. She then tripped on the ruined pipe and fell to the ground. She felt like she was safe for a minute, but Voren kept slashing at her, even though she was on the ground. She then used her position to her advantage and tripped Voren, giving her a change to run away from her attacker. Voren then saw the ploy and got up quickly, with his blaster in arms. He shot her in the leg, which caused her to fall onto one of the larger pipes. He then dropped his blaster and stuck the blade in her gut. She felt he painful jab of the weapon, but the most painful part was that she knew that she would not live another minute. She died after a minute, and Voren retracted his bloody blade. He then turned around and found a disturbing site on his part- Dyaka Tyanika holding a case full of explosives.
"I have spent my life creating this galaxy", said Dyaka, "And I hate to see my work destroyed." He then pressed a trigger, and with that blow, the whole galaxy was saved.
Kaldo lunged at the clones, hoping that that move wouldn't take his life. Fortunately, he landed right in front of the clones. With one sweep of his lightsaber he took out the front row's legs, and then used the force to push the rest away. He then ran towards the rest of them with his lightsaber swinging, but the clones seemed to already have some experience. Not only did they deflect all his blows, but also they formed a circle around him. Kaldo then lifted his lightsaber to cover his face, thinking of a strategy. He then used the force to leap towards the ceiling and hang by an overhanging bar. He then threw his lightsaber and used to force to make it act like a grenade, slashing everything in its path. After a while, one of the clones threw his lightsaber at the bar, which force Kaldo to fall. Once Kaldo recalled his lightsaber, one of the other clones used the force to propel the legless Jedi at him, but Kaldo chopped the flying clones into smaller pieces. All the clones then circled around him again, this time swinging their lightsabers wildly into the air. Kaldo was able to use his force mastery to deflect all these blows and to destroy more clones. He sent one clone flying through the air with a powerful kick, but the clone landed on one of the Kolto-tank-like things and the liquid started spraying on Kaldo. The liquid didn't seem to have an effect on the clones, but Kaldo was hurt badly. The liquid make his skin burn, a sensation that no Duros deserves to feel. His body was nothing but pain as the liquid soaked through his body, causing a sensation of pain. And all he felt in his mind was anger. Anger at the clones who did this to him. Angry at Terrorous for making the clones. Angry at Aayla for dragging him into this mess. His mind was anger, and nothing else.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" yelled Kaldo. With one great leap of energy he jumped away from the clones and, with all the anger bottled up in him, unleashed a fury of purple laser bolts from his fingertips, which electrocuted everything in its path. Kaldo knew it was a dark side trick, but he didn't care. All he wanted to see was the clones suffer for making him suffer. So after a couple of minutes Kaldo had ran out of energy, and the clones had ran out of life force. Terrorous then walked out of the shadows and paced towards Kaldo.
"Most excellent", said Terrorous. "I didn't know that you people had so much power in you. But you've wasted you energy on my mere clones, while I am twice the power of all of them combined!" He then tossed his coat away and, strangely enough, he removed his hands. "I have made several sacrifices to earn my Sith Lord title, and this is one of them. But like all the great Sith Lords before me, I have used what I have and used it to my advantage. You might even call it a gift." He then used the force to put two single-bladed lightsabers into the sockets where his hands used to be, and used the force to activate them. "Now you shall see the true end of the Jedi- starting with you!"