Disclaimer: Don't own DBZ or Star Wars or very much of anything I use here. I'm just borrowing it for fun and amusement.
Cryos moved through the darkness in complete silence. He avoided obstacles less by sight than he did with his other senses. All his other senses seemed heightened beyond anything he had ever felt before. It puzzled him, but he wasn't about to question good luck.
He was suddenly struck by the urge to jump and did just as the ground below him exploded up in an eruption of Dark Force energy that shattered the concrete.
"Very good, Cryos." Darth Posh's voice boomed. "Now try to avoid this!"
Every faint shadow in the room began to stretch towards him. Cryos was a little confused, the shadows were on the ground and he was floating above it, so how could they harm him?
The realization came suddenly, almost as if someone was whispering in his ear. They're after MY shadow! He thought with alarm.
He dodged and twisted, but it was no use. The shadows tangled around his and quite suddenly he couldn't move. He tried to power up but the shadows somehow kept him from raising his power level.
Darth Posh laughed. "Did you truly think you could defeat me!?" He roared. "My powers make me invincible!"
But his laughs died suddenly when the shadows let go and returned to the inert shadows of the room's inanimate objects.
"So much for being invincible." Cryos stood up and brushed himself off.
"But… How did you do that?" Darth Posh's voice demanded.
"Honestly? I have no idea." Cryos admitted. "But I'm not complaining."
He smiled and raised his power level until he began to glow and lit up the entire room. All the shadows that had attacked him vanished in the light, except one. One vaguely human shaped shadow remained.
Cryos blasted it and it vanished.
"This isn't over…" Echoed the Sith's voice.
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"We're lost, aren't we?" Traitin asked.
"No," Pahrac insisted. "we simply put too much faith in your directions. Those technicians you interrogated were either misinformed or smart enough to trick you. Either way, you are fools for believing them."
Mazzark blinked something from his perch on Traitin's shoulder. Traitin didn't understand it, but from the annoyed look on the tiny alien's face he had to agree with the sentiment.
"This is getting us nowhere, we have already passed this intersection." Pahrac announced.
"How can you tell?" Traitin asked.
"It is hard to smell much over the scent of your fear, but I can smell that we passed here already." He sighed. "We shall split up and each find our own way to the power core. Whoever finds it first will set off the self-destruct sequence. There should be enough time for us all to escape even if we get completely lost. Escape pods are always well marked. Now, let us go."
Mazzark hopped to the wall and started scuttling down the right hallway. Pahrac turned left and slithered off down that hallway.
Traitin looked down the hallway in front of him.
The only of his species in this entire Universe, traveling with aliens with super powers, battling to destroy a planet-destroying super-weapon in a war that, until today, he had never known existed.
"Maybe I shouldn't have let Cryos heal me…" He muttered and started down the hallway.
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Kentra awoke slowly. Her body was not used to being unconscious for any length of time and was a little slow to recover.
She looked over and could see a figure in a dark cloak who seemed to be holding the room's only light source.
The figure turned slightly and revealed the light source to be a glowing, floating orb. It looked almost like a small energy blast, but Kentra had never seen one that transparent.
Even as she watched it became more and more see-through, until it almost looked like a glowing soap bubble. Kentra stared in fascination as something started to move inside it. With her powerful vision, she spotted a humanoid form with a long tail moving inside.
"Cryos…" She tried to say, but her voice was barely a whisper.
The hooded figure turned and the bubble popped. It raised one finger to its lips. "Shhhhhh…"
The figure turned towards the shadows on the far side of the room and dropped to one knee.
The shadows darkened and formed into a vague person, then spoke in a deep, booming voice. "Someone is helping Cryos, did you detect any Force users helping him?"
The hooded figure shook its head.
"Neither did I, so whoever they are, they are powerful. I did not think even Skywalker was powerful enough to evade my detection. But perhaps he found someone in whatever far-flung Universe he wound up in stupid enough to help him." The shadow paused for a moment, then, anger in check, continued. "So I see one of our dark Jedi managed to catch Kentra. I trust it was the one we equipped with that experimental lightsaber?"
The hooded person nodded.
"I thought so, none of them were nearly strong enough to stand against her without a few tricks."
Kentra concentrated on not moving as though her life depended on it, and it probably did.
"Any progress on how we can defeat Cryos once and for all?" The shadow asked.
The figure nodded.
"Good, will it be ready soon?"
The figure nodded again.
"Very well, I shall delay him. But without a permanent solution we will not have much time."
The figure bowed lower as the shadow faded away. When it was gone, the hooded person stood up and started walking towards Kentra.
"Who-" she started to ask but the person shushed her again. They cocked their head for a moment and seemed to listen, then nodded.
"Who are you and why did you help me?" Kentra asked.
The figure took a deep sigh before hesitantly removing the dark hood that covered their face.
"But… No…" Kentra whispered.
Yamna nodded. "Yes, it is me. And as for why I protected you and my father, I do not know. But I do know that both of you will die by my hand tonight."
"Don't do this!" Kentra insisted. "Luke Skywalker told me that even the darkest of Sith can be turned back to the Light Side! We can help you!"
"I do not WANT to be HELPED!" Yamna roared back and kicked her mother, sending her smashing into the wall. "I now have the means to destroy both you and my father once and for all! Then I will rule by Darth Posh's side for all eternity as masters of this Universe!"
Kentra coughed pale green blood. "If you're so committed to the Dark Side, why did you help Cryos and I?"
Yamna glared at her, then waved her hand. Kentra didn't see it but she sure felt the wave of dark energy pass over her body. And she fell back into unconsciousness.