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The last thing I could see were the Temple Masters standing over me smirking, and Raena backing up as 2 more groups of the 7 demon dogs approached her. Then my eyes got wide momentarily, as I felt several sharp pains from Shomari, who seemed to be getting battered brutally.

"No..." then my last breaths left me as I passed out.

My eyes slowly fluttered open, my wrist painfully throbbing and I could feel a slight hissing where the wound was still sizzling. Looking around I saw there was a sinister looking control panel about 10 yards off, facing away from me. My arms were stuck in some kind of cool metal that didn't budge. I closed my eyes, relaxing and sending out probing waves of Force to get a better grip on my situation. I saw that Raena, Shomari, and I were hooked to seperate parts of a wall. The wall had some kind of powerful generator behind it, that heated the steel to a semi-liquid state, which is how we were put into the wall. I cringed thinking about the burns we must have on our hands now. My feet hung limply below my body, and I found that this gave a constant, unpleasant, tug on my arms. The sensation reminded me of a stretch taken too far. The door's across the containment center hissed open, and in swooped a shrouded figure.

"Well," he laughed bitterly. "Look how the mighty have fallen."

"I don't know about that," Shomari's arrogant voice floated from my right side. "From this angle, we're looking down on you."

"From my angle, I don't think there's a target temperature this wall hasn't heated up to," the Sith Lord fired back angrily.

"Give it a shot," Shomari sneered back. "I think 5,000 degrees Kelvin is a nice goal."

"This isn't some silly, childish game. A simple dare won't hoodwink me so easily." the shrouded man hissed.

"You're padawan's seemed to have that same mentality," I interjected.

His glowing red eyes turned towards me, and I could feel his immense power rising. I knew what I had said touched a sensitive spot. I remembered thinking how odd it was that a Sith Lord was showing such care for an apprentice, right before a tendril of dark Force wrapped around my midsection and yanked me away from the wall hard. I yelled as my back cracked several times and continued to bend as he pulled my torso away from the wall. I realized that he also had bound my feet to the wall also, and the result was a painful bending and stretching of my muscles. I pulled as hard as I could with my strength, not thinking as my instinct took over. After several excrutiating moments, filled with my anguished screams he finally released me. I slouched heavily against my bonds, panting heavily from the stress my body had gone through. Then he turned away from our trio solemnly and walked away in silence.

"Wow, you touched a nerve," Shomari commented.

"Where's the Ambassador?" Raena refocused the conversation.

"She's fine," Shomari assured her. "In a little prison cell."

"Alright, I need your help you two," I said suddenly taking control. "Help me bring this wall down."
"Why?" Shomari shrugged. "Do you want to show up at the ambassador's cell squatting a sheet of steel?"

"Déshawn, just turn the heater on and remelt the metal." Raena pointed out simply.

"I really didn't want to do that. But alright," I answered.

I let a bubble of Force encircle the control panel in front of me and let my thoughts flow through it as I searched for the right switch. I found the one connected to the wires, and I prepared to activate it, when a flash of heat went through my hands and I hesitated.

"What are you waiting for?" Shomari urged. "Do you want me to do it?"

"No don't," I started to warn him.

Then I felt him push a wave of Force towards the shady switch and it flicked on. I suddenly felt bolts of electricity flow through my arms and transmit to the rest of my body. I let out a yell of agony as I was electrocuted intensely. It took me about a minute to gather my thoughts enough undo Shomari's mistake. Raena and I glared at him, panting heavily, smoke rising from all of our bodies.

"Proud of yourself?" I growled.

Shomari coughed painfully, "sorry," he muttered.

"Let me handle this," I heard a deep voice boom from behind the panel.

"Get to it Johan," I told him. Then I turned towards Shomari, "he put a shroud on it."

"I can tell," he sneered back.

"Sorry guys, you're going to have to bite the bullet," Johan interrupted. "There's no simple release."

"He's good," I whispered to myself.

"Just hurry up," Raena urged him. "He's coming back."

The plate of steel heated up and my skin began to burn painfully as the steel reached a liquid point. A few seconds later all of us dropped to the ground and ran away from the now white wall as it slid to the ground. My hands were tender but I still forcibly grabbed Johan and dragged him out of the room. The door's closed behind us and the molten metal flowed slowly towards the door.

"How'd you get out?" I raised a suspicious eyebrow at Johan.

"Not a Jedi," he smirked exposing the light saber I'd given him earlier. "So they didn't check me very well. Lazy security."

"Where you near the ambassador?" Raena asked quietly.

"They only have one holding area," Johan smirked again.

"Then you're leading this little escapade," Shomari held a hand out indicating Johan's role.

As we ran through the hallways, I thought how odd it was that the Sith Lord's power had remained completely vacant until I angered him. No Jedi, or Sith, that I had ever heard of, was able to hide and recall their power that completely or quickly, and it made me nervous how difficult sensing him would be. It also gave me a slight chill to think what other powers the mysterious figure embodied.