Here's the next chapter. I forgot to say that Jacob will eventually get a lightsaber, but it won't be for a few chapters. Actually it might happen in the next chapter, depending on what I can think of to do. Just keep reading and reviewing!
Chapter 5: Aggressive Negotiations
Jacob couldn't believe what was happening. He finally discovered a new planet on his own (with Fantha, of course), and he was about to be executed on it.
But Jacob did have a plan to get off. It was very risky, though.
"Hey Jacob," Fantha said, "You've been sittin' there quiet as hell for a while. It's not gonna stop us from dying. What are you thinkin' about?"
Jacob didn't move. Finally he spoke.
"I have a plan to escape. It's dangerous, but we can pull it off if we do it right." Jacob stood up.
Jacob was waiting for a sith to come into his room to give them food, just like what happened every other day they were there.
"What time is it? Don't these people have any- sundials or anything?" He was becoming frustrated.
"Don't know. Why, what are you waiting for? Our deaths?" Fantha said sarcastically.
"When the guy comes in to give us food, I'm gonna steal his key," Jacob replied.
"Woa, I have a few things to say about that. First, how do we even know they'll give us food? We're gonna die anyway! And secondly, these guys are probably armed." Fantha looked at Jacob. He was staring at the door. He closed his eyes. "Jacob?"
"They'll give us food," he said, "I can see him coming. And even if he is armed, he'll never know we escaped." Jacob grinned at Fantha's confused face. "Don't worry, I can do this."
A few minutes later, the sith man entered the room with a tray of food. He unlocked the door, gave Jacob and Fantha the food, and closed and locked the door. When his back was turned, Jacob waved his hand. The key quickly floated off of the sith's belt and flew into Jacob's waving hand. The sith left.
"Woa, how did you do that so fast? Usually you have to concentrate for a couple of minutes." Fantha said, impressed.
"I've been practicing," Jacob said and unlocked the door.
The two soldiers left the cell. Fantha stretched.
"Ahhh. Feels good to be out!" He looked at Jacob. "So what now?"
"Now," Jacob said, "We need our weapons."
Jacob led Fantha out into the main hallway. Luckily, it was completely empty.
"They're probably in the barracks." Jacob turned into another hallway, careful not to be seen.
Jacob stopped at a door and put his ear up to it.
"Can't really tell if anyone's in it," He said. "Well, guess we better take a chance!"
Fantha gulped as Jacob opened the door. The room was filled with 5 sith. Jacob used the force to grab a sword on the wall and threw it to Fantha. Then he grabbed two of his own.
Fantha, being physically strong, felt at home with the sword. He twirled it around and struck down a few sith. He ran for one sith man and clanged his sword with his. He slashed and parried, and finally sliced the man in half and blocked a hit from a sith woman behind him. He swirled around and stabbed at her.
The other three sith in the room ran for Jacob. Jacob blocked with both swords, and force pushed one sith back, right into Fantha's sword. Jacob stabbed another sith quickly with his sword.
The last sith was about to stab Fantha in the back, but Jacob sensed it. Jacob threw his sword at the sith man, ending him.
"All right, where are those blasters?" Fantha looked around. "Let's get out of here before Vigor finds out we escaped."
"He already knows," Jacob said.
They searched the room until they found their blaster pistols.
"Alright, now we need to get to the ship." Jacob said.
Jacob and Fantha left the room, back into the hallway. Jacob looked both ways.
"So...which way?" Fantha said.
"Don't exactly know," Jacob said. He pointed. "Let's try this."
They followed the hallway and came to a large room. The room had two large stairways on each side, leading to a balcony. Large double doors were in the front of the room.
"This must be the exit!" Jacob ran over to the double doors and opened them. Right outside stood Blaizen.
"Thought you could escape? My master will deal with you." Blaizen said. He raised his arms and parts of the walls outside ripped down and fell in the doorway, blocking the way out.
"Shit!" Jacob shouted. He ran over and tried to move the debris.
"We'll have to find another way out," Fantha said as if it was simple. He looked up at the stairs and at the balcony. "Up there. I see a door. No idea where it leads though.
Jacob climbed the stairs, followed by Fantha. Jacob listened in the door to see if anyone was behind it. No one was there, so he opened it and entered a hallway identical to the one on the lower floor. Lined on the walls were entrances to other small hallways, with doors on the walls. Jacob looked around, trying to decide which door to try. Fantha went over to a door.
Let's try this one! He ran over to open the door.
"Wait!" Jacob caught him by the shirt. "I was toured through this place, I'll figure it out." Jacob was only toured in the bottom floor, but he didn't want Fantha to make stupid mistakes. "I remember the bottom floor was all training rooms. Dueling rooms, meditation chambers, and stuff like that. Well, except the barracks and the dungeon." Fantha sighed impatiently.
"Well that's good to know, but we're not on that floor. Where did these doors lead?"
Jacob took his chances and opened a door. It had a table in the center large enough for a person to lay on. It was covered in blood. All kinds of gadgets were in the room, like whips, clubs, and other things used for torture. It was empty. Jacob left and looked through all of the other rooms. They were also torture chambers. They searched until the only door left was the main door at the end.
"That'll probably lead to the main area in this temple," Jacob said. They went through.
The room looked like the main entrance room, except the door. Instead of a large exit door, there were two doors on each side. The room was filled with sith.
Jacob moved first, his good reflexes acting. He pulled the trigger to his blaster and one sith fell to the floor. About eight sith ran up onto the balcony, armed with swords. Jacob jumped over a low hit and blasted the sith off of the railing, onto the floor. Another sith let out a cry of war as he lunged. Jacob raised his gun and shot, as the sith threw his sword. The sith fell but the sword flew at him. Jacob bended back, dodging it as a sith slashed down from behind, skimming Jacobs shoulder. He turned and blasted him in the neck, and took his sword.
Fantha already killed many sith. He had one sword in his hand from a dead sith, and his blaster in the other. He killed the last sith on his side of the balcony, and grabbed his sword. He quickly holstered his gun and jumped off the center of the balcony, each arm stretched out to the sides with the swords. Before he hit the ground, he threw both swords, killing two sith simultaneously, and grabbed his gun. He blasted his way through sith, approaching the door.
Jacob saw Fantha, almost at the door. He clanged his sword against a sith, and kicked him down, stabbing him. He twirled the sword around, blasting at the same time. When he came near the bottom of the steps, he flipped over the railing and landed on his side. A sith followed, with his sword stabbing down. Jacob rolled and jumped back up. He ran through the crowd, slicing as many as he could.
Jacob reached Fantha, and they were cornered at the door. They dropped their swords and again started rapidly shooting. The sith fell easily before reaching them. But one sith kept running. Jacob saw him getting too close and fired.
The sith held his hand out, as if to catch the blast. When the blast hit, or when it should have hit, it ran into thin air and disappeared.
"Looks like they figured out how to stop it!" Jacob said nervously.
All of the sith stopped and grinned, holding their hands out. They all blocked the blaster fire. Jacob opened the door behind them, and followed Fantha inside. They closed the door and held it closed. Jacob searched the room for something to block the door with, because he knew he wouldn't be able to hold all of them off.
A sith named Gorgan walked into Vigor's throne room to report what had happened. He had a large build and a mean face. He approached Vigor and waited. Vigor looked at him.
"Speak," he said.
"The prisoners have escaped from their cells. They were just caught up in the second floor's main stair. The sith there are trying to hold them off. It's chaos up there, I can't believe how strong two men could be against us!" He noticed Vigor's face was serious, unlike the other times prisoners in this temple escaped.
"The force is strong in this one. It fuels him, making him stronger. Tell the sith upstairs to keep searching for them, and try to kill them. They will fail. But I have a special job for you. They will try to leave, but they will fail." Vigor stood.
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