Phase 2: The War Begins...

"So...how do you want to do this? Pistols at fifty paces?"

"The only way that the Demon of Good can be destroyed is by the blades four."

"Okay that is really starting to get old Arty, can't you speak English?"

"He dares to mock the tongue of the victor? What should we do with him my friends?"

"Kill him, slowly."

"Destroy his mind, then take over his body. It will serve us well"

"Let's go after his family. We know where they are..."

"All good ideas, but you forget a couple of things. One, I am standing right here. Two, I am rather capable of taking you on. Three, no one messes with my wife and children. And four..." Jedi turned around, looking at each of the dark figures that now surrounded him. The sun was long darkened by storm clouds. Rain was likely to occur soon. "You just freak me out."

"Weapons online. They only gave you limited clearance though. You have hand blasters, multiple launching, and the close-in weapons system. Do you want me to try to raise the others for help?"

"Great, just enough rope to hang myself. No, let's see what kind of fun we can have first."

"The time for you to perish is now!" With those words, the one that looked like King Arthur of old sprinted no accelerated forward! The others were not far behind, each drawing a blade from sheaths at their sides.

"What's this? Swords? Accelerators? This looks like fun." Jedi said, dodging the blows as they flew in. "BETH, what's in our bag of tricks that we can answer back with?"

"Well, you could use the polytitanum power diverter...."

"Sounds good." Jedi brought the item out of his bag, and brought it up to block a blow that would have severed his head clean off. Polytitanium was 1000 times stronger than the steel of his younger days, and was the strongest material that was man-made. Not that that meant anything to him, his body was far stronger than that. They had allowed him to even explore the deep surface of Jupiter. That is until he lost radio contact with them.

"JEDI! The Polytitanium!" It was beginning to crack!

"Oh boy. Julie needed that for her experiment tomorrow. YIPE! Time to go!" Jedi now had no choice. The only way for him to fight was to bring back an old tactic that he had read about. He was going to have to fight a war of attrition. Slowly giving up land until he could think of something better, widdling away at his enemy until they were equal with him. It wasn't his kind of fighting, but it would work.

"Why do you cower? Why don't you fight with your sword?"

"I don't have one, that's why! When someone points a gun at you and you don't have anyway to protect yourself, you run!"

"LIES! You are the holder of Excalivur! We feel its footprint on you!"

"I don't own a sword. Even if I did, I would much rather use this!" Jedi brought up his index finger. "BETH, maximum rate of discharge!" The glowing line of light that discharged was a dead on shot. As it made it's way toward the figure of King Arthur, it suddenly was reflected back at Jedi! "What the heck!? BETH I sure hope there is an explanation for this!"

"I can't tell for sure, but it seems that those people are altering the flow of space-time. They must be able to become multi-massive, amazing!"

"Hey, BETH. Hate to interrupt your physics lesson, but I sort of need some help here with the weapons systems, I need to find a way to hit them to destroy them!"

"That's just the thing, as long as they are able to alter space-time like they are doing, they are untouchable."

"Well there goes the whole attrition plan..." Jedi didn't know what he could do next. They were indestructible, and he wasn't. Was this how he was going to die? Death had never scared him, but in the last ten years, since he and Julie had had their children, he didn't want to die. "What about this sword they are talking about? Is there anything in your database from any encounter with a sword that may match theirs in any way?"

"Scanning. Oh, and by the way, look out to your right, incoming." Jedi quickly accelerated to a higher level and avoided the blow. The blast that he had fired just a few seconds ago finally hit. The shockwaves were deafening, to a normal human that is.

"I can't forget that there are innocents here." Jedi thought to himself. "But if I limit myself, people will die anyway, and I will be destroyed! What to do?"

"Jedi, there are three memories. One is when you were young, and your cousin showed you that old Civil War sword of his Great Uncle's. Another is placed in the dreams, when you had your first crush on--"

"BETH, please, stay out of my dreams, those are private."

"Oh, well, the third is a residual sensor trace of the time when we were speaking with the Inuta."

"I was on the Phoenix then, right?"

"Yes."

"Where is the Phoenix now?" Jedi dashed again from another set of blows, and took to the street, hoping to draw them along.

"The USS Phoenix is currently in storage in the special reserves section of the Second Chance Earth Museum."

"BETH, plot a course, take over the acceleration, and open a virtual conference with Julie and the Cyborgs."

Herald of Light: I know! I left off right in the middle of the action, and I have a bad habit of that, but that is where I need to stop. I had two more parts, but they were deleted in a freak accident (better not to explain), so I will have to remake them at some point. Well, until next time! Have a great day! :D