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Onset: Part Two

Cale Darksun could not be more bored. He had tried playing on his broken holo media system, he had taken so many walks around the transport he had lost count, and his thumbs were numb from twiddling. "Farkling stars...could this pilot FLY any slower?" he thought aloud. By now all passengers in his cabin had requested noise silencers and were sleeping soundly. Dwelling on his thought about the pilot, Cale had what he thought to be his most ingenious idea since inventing the swear word "Tarkling" after Grand Moff Tarkin. Shedding off the miserable electro-blanket given to him, Cale stood up and wormed his way into the corridor again, this time with his intended destination the cockpit of the aging transport. Hands halfway in his pockets, he cruised the corridors, receiving several disapproving looks from some people, and eyes-lit grins from others.

When Cale finally reached the cockpit, he looked around for the usual lackey who would deny him entry twenty times before finally consenting. To his surprise, he could not find one. Walking over to the wall adjacent to the blast door, he saw a dusty keypad that looked as though it hadn't been used in well over a year. Brushing the dust off of it, he examined the numerics on top of it.

What would a bunch of numbskulls that travel to Coruscant back and forth all the time keep as their entry key?

Cale grinned as he punched in three numbers he was sure would open the blast door: 0,0,0.

Stupid tarklings used the farkling coordinates for Coruscant..

Sure enough the blast doors slit open and dust flew off the door as the air blew out. Coughing away the dirt going down his throat, Cale entered the cockpit, and a musty smell was the first thing he noticed.

"How long has it been since someone cleaned this kriffing thing?" he declared.

It has been precisely fourteen standard weeks. a metallic voice answered to Cale's surprise.

"What in the name of Vader was that?" Cale turned and noticed that there was no organic pilot at the helm of the ship, but instead a clanky, outdated, mechanical droid.

I am P1L07, pilot of this voyage to Coruscant. You are in a restricted area zone. You are instructed to return to your seat and await arrival on Coruscant. ETA is two standard days.

Cale could not control his rage any longer. "There's a tarkling DROID, piloting this ship? And it's taking you TWO DAYS to get through one SYSTEM!"

I am going to have to ask you to stand down sir, and please return to your seat. Do not make me call security.

"You're security is gone! Can't you fly this thing any faster?" he asked exasperatedly.

We are traveling at a perfect speed of two hundred kilometers per hour.

"...We're flying this thing at the speed of like...a landspeeder? Are you serious?"

Quite serious sir, this way we stay within Coruscant speed regulations

Then, the idea dawned on Cale. Slowly, he moved towards the droid, making sure as to not make any sudden movements. "Say..I think I remember an ordinance against travel at a speed lower than two thousand kilometers an hour," he told the droid reassuringly.

Are you sure of this? the droid asked, his metallic tone turning to concern. Cale took the opportunity and made his move.

"Yeah, I'm perfectly sure. But, you look like you've been piloting this thing for quite a while. Why don't you go down to maintenance, get yourself spruced up, and let me pilot this thing for a bit. I'm perfectly certified." Cale pulled out his pilot licence as proof, and gestured to the door. "Go on, it's okay. The ship is in perfect hands with me." The droid glanced at the controls of the transport, and then got up, barking a strange thanks to Cale as he went.

"Smooth as ice." Cale said, as he cracked his knuckles, and got to work on the shuttle.

Vin Morrs could not regret missing his target anymore. He had returned to Neb expecting, maybe even hoping to get reprimanded for letting the girl go, but to no avail. Instead, Neb had simply given him a solemn speech on the many negative consequences that may have resulted from Vin's failure, leaving Vin's guilty conscience running wild. Vin stood quietly by himself at one of the viewports pondering if anything could actually happen to the girl because Vin did not bring her to Neb. He slumped down in one of the seats, and his thoughts raced through his conscious mind and then slowly drifted into his unconscious as Vin Morrs passed slowly to sleep.

Angel Syricia backed herself against a wall. This is just a dream. I am not talking to a real life..Sith! Phoenix Feron was now holding the lightsaber horizontally, and Angel could smell the ozone created even from where she was standing. "What do you want from me?" she said cautiously. Phoenix switched off the lightsaber and clipped the hilt back under his jacket, unseen to even the careful eye. He watched as Angel studied him, noticing the crimson shirt he wore underneath his solid black jacket, and the dark black pants underneath. He laughed and said, "Not the typical garb of a Sith is it?"

Angel squeezed her hands into tight fists and yelled out again, "I said, what do you want from me?" Phoenix watched her and couldn't help but notice her plight. "I thought it was quite obvious. I want you to be my apprentice. I have connections within the Imperium, and I know you would be..well suited, Angel Syricia."

From the Force, Darth Imperius could see the emotions play out in the head of Angel Syricia, and then, she fell to her knees.

"I...accept."

Imperius watched her fall to her knees and pulled out one of his lightsabers. Tapping her on each shoulder, he bid her to rise. "Rise, Lady Terra." Angel stood, this time not as a renegade Imperial, not as a misfit, but as a Dark Lady of the Sith. "Train me well," she said.

"As you wish." Imperius sat down, and gestured for Terra to as well. As she sat, Imperius reached out in the Force.

"You may have noticed that sometimes, you can do things that you wouldn't expect yourself to be able to. Maybe it was reading a friend's emotions, maybe it was as though you could understand an animal. Maybe you had a glimpse into the near future. This is the Force, and you must learn to communicate with it. The Force is everywhere, it binds us and builds us. It is a tool to be used for the gain of the user. The closest way to embrace the Force is through your emotions. Your emotions fuel your connection to the Force. Passion, anger, lust, and hate will bridge the connection between your human body and the will of the Force. It is even said that if you allow this enough, you can separate your soul from it's human shell, and travel through the Force itself. Even I have yet to achieve this, but if you can, you will be more powerful than you might ever imagine. So, to begin with, you must try and open yourself to the Force. Let your emotions get the best of you, and see if you can see me in the Force."

Angel gazed rather skeptically at him, and he gestured to continue trying. Emotions will fuel me. She turned her thoughts towards her new-found desire to be a Sith and concentrated hard and long. Nothing. Next, she tried concentrating on her anger at the Jedi who had approached her. She could feel something wavering and she thought she could "see" something, but as fast as it came, it left again. Thinking that if the thought of one Jedi could give her that new sight, her hatred of the Jedi who had crashed his fighter into her family's transport would take her to even greater heights. She tried it, and sure enough it worked. It felt like she had plunged into a whole new world, and she tried to explore it, but as soon as she tried that, she blacked out of it and found herself looking into the eyes of Imperius.

"I saw it and...then I lost it..." she panted, out of breath.

" I know. You are not concentrating, and that is why you fail. Your emotions are your fuel, use them," he reprimanded.

Angel began to try again and gazed into the deep blue eyes of Imperius and concentrated on the hate of the Jedi again. Slowly and surely she sank into the new world and tried to 'explore' it. Just as the time before, it began to falter and she began to slip back into the real world again. Desperate, she racked her brains for any emotion, any at all, and found herself concentrating on Phoenix. Lust. Any guilt at using lust for her teacher as a tool vanished as she found herself staring at a blaring light in the Force. Knowing that it was Imperius she continued on in her exploration of the new world. She could feel the Force ebbing and weaving through everything though nothing had the same feel as that of Imperius. She didn't know why, because he was the only organic or because of something else, but there was something about him.

"Excellent, you have taken your first step into a greater world. Now my lady, let us return to the cabins, you will be missed."

Neb awoke to the sound of the engines blaring loudly and the velocity of the transport increasing greatly.

"What's going on?" he asked cautiously, to see Vin standing by the viewport. Neb got up from his seat and stood by the viewport. Contrary to the slow stagger towards the bronze jewel in the distance, the ship was now moving towards the planet at a startlingly fast speed.

"Is this model ship even able to go this fast?" he asked Vin jokingly. "I'm not quite sure, Master," he replied

Suddenly, the intercom crackled on for the first time during the journey, and most likely the first time in it's service.

"Howdy ho, all, and welcome to the Achi-Jharn. I'm your new captain, Cale Darksun filling in for our other captain who is..uh..unable to be with us at the moment. We'll be reaching our destination, Coruscant in about one hour, so hold onto your children."

The freighter jolted and all of a sudden, Neb found himself pressed against the ceiling and the wall and realized that the ship had been turned upside down. Laughing to himself as the ship turned back around and several people fell back on top of their seats, he returned to the viewport and watched as he once again approached Coruscant.

Author's Notes: Okay, I lied. You don't get to see Coruscant or Luke in this chapter, but you'll most definately see Coruscant in the next chapter, and most likely Luke. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed, leave a review PLEASE