Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt
A loud hiss and a visible venting of steam told Nevan that at least the entry hatch still worked, unfortunately it seemed that the landing gear had never deployed and the hatch refused to open more than a crack. Nevan rolled his eyes in frustration "Just my luck."
Rolling up his sleeves he looked over at Aida "I'll lift the ship and open the door, you get through as quick as possible and I'll follow."
He cursed silently to himself "And hopefully I can put her back down gently."
He waited for Aida to nod in conformation and then closed his eyes. Slowly the ship rose into the air and hovered no more then a few inches off the ground, and with another gesture the hatch opened enough for Aida to duck through.
Nevan dove through the hatch after her, rolling back to his feet he spun around and slowly put the ship back into place.
"If we're lucky they'll think we left and wont send anybody else." Nevan circled around the ship and groaned "I can get her flight worthy, but she's taken a lot of damage it'll take forever and a hell of a lot more materials then we have to get her back to one hundred percent."
Aida just smiled at her Masters strong affection for his ship.
Nevan continued talking, oblivious to the fact that Aida had stopped listening to him long ago.
"-New inductor coil, and we won't be able to use either of the bottom gun wells for a while...Aida." He snapped his fingers in his Apprentices face "You listening?"
She gave herself a slight mental shake "Yes Master, I'll start patching any hull fractures."
"Good girl, but leave that big one I saw up top open for now, we can probably use it to bring up supplies we'll need if not." He said the next part with a great sigh "We can cut her open."
Aida immediately got to work, smiling as he ran his hand over the hull and once more sighed.
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The work went quickly, with only momentary lapses as Nevan stopped to lament over his poor ship. As it turned out the whole punched on top by the missile turned out to be a blessing, allowing them to bring up the supplies they needed to repair the hull with ease.
Soon after it became apparent that the work was progressing much faster than either of them had anticipated.
"There." Aida said with pride "Now we only have to patch the one on top and we, can get to work on her innards."
An inhuman growl caused Aida to spin around, lightsaber drawn instantaneously. When she was satisfied nothing was going to jump out and attack her, she relaxed and placed her lightsaber back on her belt "Very funny Master."
"Master?" She took a step forward and stared into the jungle surrounding them "Master!"
A call rang from the other side of the ship "What?"
Realizing the noise was not just some prank from her Master, Aida stretched out her senses. She caught a glint of something primal, something very hungry and with almost perfect timing, jumped high into the air using the force to aid her jump.
With a loud crack the skull of a huge lizard like animal slammed against the ship, it looked almost like a Dewback only nearly twice the size and a hell of a lot meaner.
Aida landed deftly several feet behind the lizard "Careful big guy, we just finished fixing that thing!"
It turned and charged once more.
Aida jumped into the air again, only this time the lizard had learned, dove and in a midair slammed its head into her and sent her flying into a nearby tree.
Aida cried out in pain.
The lizard stalked forward, about to consume it's prey.
Aida face twisted into a triumphant grin as it began to lift into the air, its stubby legs scrambling, trying to run as though it were still on the ground. After a moment of searching she found her Master standing on top of the Demons Foe his arm was outstretched as he support the beast. With one shove of the other arm Aida heard the audible crack of the creatures spine. With a final motion he sent it flying into the distance.
Swiftly he jumped from the ship and rolling as he landed, running directly towards Aida "Are you okay?"
"I got lucky, I'll walk away from this with a couple of bruises." She moaned as she shifted onto her side "Really bad bruises."
He carefully picked her up "Come on let's get you inside and I'll see if there's anything in the medkit that can help."
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"Looks like there's not much in the way of technology we can use but there may be one way, I'm just not sure if it will work on bruises." Nevan tossed aside the medkit as he spoke.
"Try anyway, can't hurt."
Nevan seemed to ponder this for a moment "Well actually..."
"Not funny"
He laughed and kneeled down beside her, he closed his eyes and began to concentrate. He found the centers of the damaged areas and just as with all principles of the balance of the Shadow side calmed the chaos. The blood began to seep back into the damaged capillaries which began to knit themselves closed. In a matter of minutes the chaos of the damage was put back into the balance, the body once again well and every piece back to normal and fulfilling it's role in the system.
Nevan patted her on the shoulder "There, you rest for a few moments I'll get to work on getting power restored, looks like we may have to spend another day or two fixing the ship before we can get off this rock."
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The next three days were spent repairing the ship, with only occasional and never regular breaks to eat and sleep or meditate. Once and in a while one would stop and make a complaint and even after some arguing they spent three hours sparring. Just when Aida thought she understood her masters movements, his tactics would change, he would use a lightsaber trick she didn't recognize, or his movements would just be too fast to follow.
After the little spar session they quickly got back to work until finally it was finished, the ship was in as good a condition as they could get it under the circumstances.
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"There all I have to do is flick a couple of switches and we're good to go." Nevan said with a smug smile of satisfaction.
He flipped three switches.
Nothing.
He hit them again, only in rapid succession.
Nothing.
Frowning he delivered a kick to the console behind him.
A loud groan, a couple of sparks from an overhead console, and finally the familiar hum of the ship starting up and doing a systems check. Lights danced about the various consoles in the cockpit and a warning light informed them of various parts of the hull that were inadequate and likely to be breached during a battle.
"Now let's get the hell off this dust ball." Aida said leering at the landscape in front of them.
Soon enough the ship was away, and shortly after the jump to hyperspace was made.
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A/N: Not really much to say here, please review and point out any mistakes other then that I hope you enjoyed it.