Here's chapter 9. Make sure you read the new version of chapt 8 first! It's the same thing, but I added stuff at the end. Make sure you read it all first, and review it if you like. This chapter won't make as much sense at the end unless you do. I like this chapter, mostly because of how much different it is. There's new characters, and the story will eventually get even more exciting when Jacob and Olathe, brother and sister, meet up and their paths collide. Enjoy, read, review, yippy, skippy.
Chapter 9: Trouble on Manaan
"Stop! What are you doing to me?" Olathe was trying to yell, but her voice was being drowned out. She was falling asleep.
"Just a few more sedatives," a man's voice said calmly.
"Theeere we go. Good night, little girl."
Olathe's eyes were closing. In seconds, she fell asleep.
A loud knock on the door disturbed Shintor Beerus' sleep. He rose from his sleep couch to answer the door in his small one room apartment. The young Twi'lek opened the door, rubbing his eyes.
Outside stood a Bomewright stranger and Shintor's friend, Kaja Sinis. Kaja had long blonde hair, spiking up on the sides. His face was smooth and gentle looking, and he had blue eyes. He wore a simple dirty, tan tunic and pants. He was smiling.
"I think we found Olathe!" The civian Kaja said.
"Why do you think? Who's he?" Shintor pointed at the Bomewright.
"This is a scientist named Cobar Jacash. He has a clue of where she is." Kaja didn't waste another second and walked straight to the lift tube. Shintor quickly followed.
Shintor had yellowish eyes on his round, green head. His trademark Twi'lek head tails swung as he walked. His black jacket was worn over an orange shirt. He walked quickly.
The three entered the lift tube and began down.
"So what's going on? I just woke up!" Shintor seemed excited and mad at the same time.
"Cobar knows a bunch of guys who are conducting some kind of experiment of some kind tonight. He's heard clues that they captured a Twi'lekian girl, young, about 15, and she's their test subject."
"Yes," Cobar said, "My science partner is in on it and I heard him talk about it. According to his information, she was kidnapped about a month ago, exactly when your friend Olathe was kidnapped." The scientist seemed very knowledgeable.
"Is the test dangerous?" Shintor had fear in his eyes.
"The experiment very well can be fatal. Really, I have no clue what it is. That's why we need to get there before they start."
Shintor took a deep breath. "Ahh……Jacob's gonna kill me."
The three men exited the lift tube and walked out of the building. It was still dark. Shintor jogged to keep up with Kaja's fast pace. Shintor looked around, wondering where they were going.
His question was answered as Kaja started pulling out a grate for an entrance to the sewer. Shintor sighed.
"The sewers? You gotta be kidding me!" Shintor was getting angry.
"Calm down, Shintor, we'll never pull this off if you're not calm."
"Why can't we get help from the republic? They would send soldiers or gaurds or something?" Shintor was hopeful.
"No time."
For the first time, Shintor noticed the bag Cobar was carrying on his shoulder. He took it off and set it down on the floor. Cobar opened it and handed it's contents out.
"Here, Shintor, I'll give you a blaster rifle, you a repeating blaster, and I'll take this pistol." Cobar said.
Shintor took the rifle and glared at Kaja, who was lowering himself down into the sewer.
"Patience," Kaja said and disappeared under the ground. Shintor followed, lowering himself inside.
Inside was dark and wet. It was damp and humid, and greenish water ran through the bottom. A thin, narrow catwalk ran across above the water. Kaja immediately was walking across. Shintor ran to catch up.
"It just figures that when Jacob would leave, something like this would happen. Especially when he puts me in charge to watch her," Shintor complained.
"It's because everyone knows you like her." Kaja was calm.
"Of course I like her…..wait, did you mean, like, that he thinks I like her?" Shintor seemed bewildered.
"It's obvious, man. Don't worry, no one will stand in your way! Certainly not Jacob, he seems to like you like a brother!"
"Wouldn't that mean I would be Olathe's brother?" Shintor had a straight face. Kaja laughed.
The catwalk was coming to an end. Ahead they could see a door, large an metal. A small control panel was next to it.
"Alright, this should be it." Cobar put his ear to the door. "I hear voices. She must be in there, ready your blasters."
Cobar opened to control panel and pushed a button. The door smoothly slid open. Inside were about a dozen Bomewrights. Most gathered around a table. Machinery and computers were set up all around the room.
As the door opened, the Bomewrights turned and stared in fear. Shintor, Kaja, and Cobar aimed their weapons.
"What's going on here, fellas?" Kaja said.
"I'm sorry, sir. We don't want any trouble!" A Bomewright said. "We just needed to test something!"
"What are you testing? And why?" Shintor was angry.
"Alright, I'll tell you!" The Bomewright was fearful and was staring at the blasters. "We need to test our machine on the girl, so that we can use it on-"
"Shut up! Don't tell them who!" Another Bomewright interrupted.
"No," Kaja said politely, "tell me who." He gazed at the bomewright. The scientist stared and gulped, then looked at Shintor, then at Cobar. As he saw Cobar, he gasped.
"Cobar, my friend! Why are you with these nerf her-" he looked at Shintor's angry gaze, "uhh, men."
"I'm turning you in, Jonebbo! I won't let you hurt this poor girl!" He aimed his blaster pistol.
"Ohh…..well it's a little too late. The experiment's over." The bomewright stepped aside, afraid. Shintor aimed his blaster at the bomewrights gathered around the table. They all cleared away.
On the table, chained down, was Olathe. But the only thing recognizable about her was her head. Her neck was thick and hairy, like a wookkie's, and her stomach was pinkish peach, like a human's. She had the arms of a rodian, and the short, tiny green legs of a whill. She was asleep.
"Olathe? What happened?" Shintor shouted.
"The experiment was to make her able to change whatever species she is. It got a little messed up though, and, well, she's every species at once!" The cowardly bomewright said.
Shintor shook her. She started to wake up. Suddenly her body shifted, and her body was different species.
"Oww! Uhhhgggg……" she opened her eyes, "Shintor? What's going on?"
"I'll explain a little later. We better get you to a med center." Shintor said. Olathe looked at her hands.
"WOA! What happened to me?"
Shintor lifted Olathe up onto her shoulder and started for the door. Kaja and Cobar went with him.
When the three climbed out of the sewer, Shintor put Olathe on the ground.
"What now? Should we take her to the med center to go in a kolto tank? Or maybe she needs bacta?" Shintor looked around.
"I don't think any of those would help," Cobar said, "but I might be able to fix it a little. Not heal it completely, but maybe let her control it."
"We better get to Shintor's apartment then," Kaja said. He helped Shintor lift Olathe back up, and led him back to the apartment complex, and up the lift tube into his apartment.
Back in the sewer, the bomewright scientist turned on his communicator. The screen buzzed on, and a face covered by static appeared.
"I'm sorry, sir, but the experiment failed. And the test subject escaped."
"Well find a new one!" the voice said on the communicator. "And get on that problem immediately! I need this ready by the end of the season!"
"Yes sir." The screen buzzed off. The bomewright turned to the other bomewright scientists in the room. "Get working on it, we need it done by the end of the season!"
"Wow, Shintor!" Cobar said, entering his apartment.
"I know, small, but cozy."
"Yea! That, and you must've never cleaned this place for the whole time you lived here!" Cobar stared around the room in wonder at it's disorganization..
"It's not that bad!" Shintor argued. He looked around. In the center was his sleep couch, unmade with dirty clothes on it. The floor was covered in dirty clothes and socks. A table at the side of the room with 4 seats around it had books and dirty clothes on them. Right inside the door was a counter and stove, also covered in dirty clothes.
"Hey, do you ever wash your clothes?" Cobar laughed. Shintor ran to a chair and sat down.
"Better get to work, Cobar," Kaja said.
"Anywhere I can put her?" Cobar asked as Shintor pointed to the sleep couch.
He laid Olathe on the sleep couch and took some medicine from his pocket, and gave it to her to drink. Then he examined her malformed body.
"Don't worry," Cobar said. "It's not hopeless."
Far away from Manaan, on the unknown planet Korriban, Vigor and a hooded man were talking to two sith. The sith were backed up against the wall, horrified.
"You two failed me for the last time! No more letting our prisoners escape! This ends now!" The hooded man walked slowly towards the two men. Vigor looked at him.
The hooded man held out his gloved hand. The two sith lifted from the ground. The man started squeezing his fist together. The two sith screamed in pain. They were being crushed. The blood curdling screams only stopped when the two siths' bodies imploded. Their blood spilled on the floor, and their bones cracked. Vigor smiled.
"Yes, good job. Now go, Necrosis, find and kill the prisoners. Show no mercy!"
Necrosis bowed and turned, walking into the distance.