Zekk sat on his knees and concentrated on the chain links that held him fast to the wall. He wasn't sure how he was going to break them, he just knew he had to for Jaya's sake. She meant so much to him. So much he never realized about her suddenly sprang into his head. The perfect slant of her eyebrows, the royalty in her noble nose, the perfect curvature of her lips, and even the scar that scraped across her lean, tan stomach, due to his own mistake over the summer with his lightsaber. Zekk focused all those emotions on those chain links, all of the force he could muster up, all of his power as both the days of his dark jedi and light jedi training. It worked, the chain bent. Zekk smiled with giddiness. It worked! the chain BENT! He would be out of this mess soon. He would do anything for Jaya. Zekk focused on the chain again. The time he almost slayed his Jaya with his lightsaber sprang into his mind. That bright blood colored saber wavering above her head... slowly, slowly descending. A million metal tangs sounded around the small dungeon. Zekk's eyes sprang open and he fell backwards, free of the chain. "Eat that Sith breaths! Your chain can't hold ME! Im ZEKK! Im a JEDI!" Zekk jumped to his feet only to crumple again... broken ankle. He sat on the ground, attempting to get up again, attempting but failing in utter defeat. As soon as he admitted that defeat he suddenly heard his old master Brakiss's laughter rang in his ears. "I have got my darkest knight back at last. That's it m' boy. Taste defeat, be angry, for you shall never see your Jaya again, I shan't let you. Alas, my darkest knight has returned." Zekk did as he was bid. He let his emotions roll. Anger, defeat, grief, tears, and hatred for this man who had turned him away.
Jaina was awake again, but not having a good time getting about being awake. Her eyes were swollen, her limbs caked with blood, her hair drenched in sweat, feet swollen, knee shattered, arm broken, body gouged, bloody, broken. Jaina was awake, yes, but she didn't want to be. Her own exsistence hurt her at this point. "Ah Sith... How in Vader am I going to get out of this stupid X WING! Jaina looked around at her crashed x wing, smashed in, crushed. Her dear ship wasn't coming back, not without SERIOUS mechanics... "Ah Zekk were going to have a sithspawn of a time fixing this mess." Jaina flipped her comm link, testing her luck, hoping to Yoda that the force was with her. It was. "This is Jaina Solo, Imperial Mission Interceptor. Come in Mission Control! Uncle Luke? Anakin? DAD!" No one answered her. "SOMEBODY HELP ME!" "My dear Jaina all is well. Report your coordinates and i shall send a ship." Jaina should have questioned the voice but she didn't. If someone was going to get her out of this ship then she gladly accepted.
Zekk sat back in his chains in agony. Not because he was hurt but because his master had broken into Jaya's comm link, she had surrendered her coordinates, and now Brakiss had sent out his dark jedi. Jaya was going to be forced to join the dark side. Unless Zekk could fix this all up and rescue his Jaya... while back in chains, broken ankle, and under the nose of a dark jedi... "Not simple, not simple at all," Zekk muttered.
