Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Taris - The Upper City

Seth and Carth were greeted with an arguement between a Sith and 2 Duros. The Sith was busy yelling at one of the Duros….

"I'll goddamn inspect the building if I want to! You think you can just order me around? The hell with you!" And the Sith procceded to shoot the poor Duros, missing twice.

Seth stepped forward. "Hey! That was uncalled for? What did he do to you?" The Sithturned towards Seth.

"Lookie here! Humans hiding among alien scum? Their Republic fugitives! Attack!" The Sith's droids began to fire.

Carth dodged and shot the trooper in the back of the head, then focused on the droid to the left. He charged a shot and hit it in the mid-section, causing it to blow up.

Seth aimed his ion blaster at the other droid and fired. The blast hit the droid square in the chest, and it began to 'dance' around. "Drrrrrrtzzz….boopeeeeeeeedroooo!" It looked at the blaster in Seth's hand, turned around and ran off, screaming "Mommyyyyyyyyyy!" It tripped and lay still.

Seth sighed. So much for starting off easy. They continued through the building towards the exit, finally making it after a merchant stopped them, selling energy sheilds, and the janitor, who told them where the cantina was. They stepped outside.

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They were greeted by the sight of Sith troopers patroling the streets. Carth spoke up as they made their way through the crowd.

"We ought to be ok, unless the Sith came across a crew manifest on the Spire. Just keep low and out of trouble."

"Yeah, but something tells me that wont be easy" Seth added as they approched a group of drunks, who had something to say about it.

"Heeeey! Look at this! Whats you (hic) lower chity shlums doing (hic) up shere?"

Carth groaned. "This is rich…"

Seth turned to Carth and grinned. "Watch and learn" and he pulled several credits out of his pocket. He turned back to the drunks, smiling his winning smile. "Now, now. Lets be reasonble about this, ok? I'll buy you all a drink if you leave me and my freind alone. Sound good?"

The drunks considered this. "Buy ush a drinksh? Damn straight you will! Come on, this shlumie's buying da next round!"

Another drunk spoke up. "Nah, we got enough drinksh… I say we leave or we'll be late for work…."

All the drunks agreed and they left.

"That was…odd" was all Seth could say. Carth agreed. "I say we walk very fast to the cantina so we dont encounter anything like that again."

They did so, until they came to an old man preaching about 'alien scum' and more. Seth looked at Carth and he nodded. They ran the rest of the way.

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After they got past the guard, they found some seats and a waitress came over for their order. Seth noted that the waitress had very little on…

"May I take your order?" she asked.

Seth stared dumbfounded at her chest.

"Sir? Your order?"

"Whaaa? Oh! I'll have…. 2 kinrath links, a small order of scrambled kath hound brains, and some caffa."

"And you, sir?" she asked, turning to Carth.

"I'll have the same, but double the caffa, I need it."

The waitress typed this down and walked away. Seth's eyes followed her.

Someone else brought the caffa over, and Carth picked his cup up. He sipped it. "Ahhh, nice hot caffa in the morning. I just love it, dont you Seth?…Seth?"

"Huh? Yeah I do." Seth picked his cup up and tasted his. "Mmmm good." He resumed watching the waitress.

Carth rolled his eyes. This was going to be a long day.

Seth got up. "I'm going to talk to some people, see if they know anything about those pods we've heard about."

Carth nodded. "I'll stay here and wait for breakfast."

Seth walked over to the first woman he saw. "Hello there! Nice day, isnt it?"

The woman looked at him. "I must say, you sure are cheerful for an offworlder. I'd think you'd be mad at us, quarintined here on Taris!"

"Quarentined?"

"Yeah" the woman looked suprised. "You dont know about the quaretine? We Sith locked all travel to and from the planet."

Seth gulped. Not good, how we going to leave if we find Bastila? His expresion turned serious. "Your a Sith? Where's your uniform?"

The woman smiled at him. "I'm off duty right now, thats why no uniform. You know, you certainly are nicer than the others. Most people hate us, but we're just people like them!"

Seth put up a false grin. "I agree, some people are just assholes!" Like those drunks, thought Seth.

"Exactly! By the way, my names Alexia"

"Im Seth, nice to meet you."

The woman looked at her datapad. "Oh damn, i have to get back to work. You know, I'd really like to see you again. I'm going to a party later, would you like to come?"

Seth tugged at his collar. A party full of Sith? It would be rude to decline. He'd just have to watch his steps. "Sure, i'll go."

"Excellent! I'll put the time and directions on your datapad." As she did that, she said "Make sure that your right on time. the party's right after shift ends, so we wont have time to put our uniforms away." She kissed him on the cheek. "See you there!" She then walked off.

Seth got up and walked back to Carth just as breakfast arrived. He sat down and told Carth what he'd heard and was planning on doing. Carth choked on his scrambled kath hound brains when Seth mentioned that the party was all Sith.

"Are you a madman! Sith! Your just walking into a deathtrap!"

"Calm down, dammit! I wouldnt go into this without knowing what I am doing!"

"It's plain to see you dont know what your doing by agreeing to go!"

"Goddam! I'll worry about this, ok?" Seth glared lasers at Carth.

"Fine then, if you get killed, you cant say i didnt tell you so."

Seth laughed. "What makes you think your not going?"

Carth dropped his fork. 'Me? I'm not going anywhere!"

"Wanna bet? I'll bet you 10 credits you go."

"You got a deal"

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After they finished their meal, they walked around till they found an elevator. They were greeted by a less freindly Sith this time.

"Halt, civilian! This elevator goes down to the lower city, and no one but Sith troops are allowed down. So unless you have some form of clearence, you're not going anywhere!"

Seth and Carth walked away. They were both deep in thought. Seth spoke up.

"Hey Carth, our Sith party is a 7:00 pm, correct?"

"Well ya, you should know, you decided to go!"

"Alexia told me her freinds wouldnt have time to put their uniforms away…"

Carth realized what he was saying. "We're going to steal them?"

"You bet! Now wheres my 10 credits?"

Carth grumbled and handed them over.

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Seth and Carth arrived at the party, noticing the blinding lights and the booming music.

Carth covered his ears and looked at Seth. "This must be the party!" He had to yell over the music.

Seth grinned. "Ya think?" He yelled back.

Alexia walked up to Seth. "Hey baby, i see you brought a freind!" Seth noticed almost everyone was dead drunk.

"Yeah, this is Amareth, a good freind of mine."

Alexia smiled at Carth. "Well help yourself! There's plenty of ale to go around!"

A few hours later…

Seth stood up, pushing the now unconcious Alexia off him. He stretched, and Carth got up as well.

"Well! That was wild, but fun!"

Seth nodded, then looked at Alexia. "Kill her!" an evil voice spoke up in his mind. Seth stood there, shocked. The voice was familiar…

"What the? Who are you?"

The voice ignored Seth's question. "She's Sith… an enemy! Are you going to let her go?"

"I cant do it! She's unarmed!"

Seth suddenly lost control of his body, as the evil being took control.

A mirror hung on the wall. What it showed was not Seth Khan. His face was pale, grey eyes glowed with a dim light, you could even see the outlines of his veins.

With one swift movement, he broke Alexia's neck.

"What was that for?" Carth was wide awake now.

"Their Sith, they deserve it." The voice was a voice of coldness, a voice of a killer. He turned to face Carth.

Carth gasped. "Seth, are you ok?"

"I am not Seth" the voice growled.

The being in control of Seth's body went among the unconcious Sith, silently killing each of them. There were only 15. He found several uniforms in the cornor of the room and searched for one his size. He found one and put it on over his clothes and grabbed a blaster rifle. Seth suddenly gained control of his body again. His face brightened, his blue eyes shone with light. Seth rubbed his head.

What was that? I could have swore i knew what it was…

"Seth?"

"I'm fine! Grab a suit and lets go."

Carth frowned. Somthing was wrong with his freind. He did as Seth asked and took a last look at the dead.

"Let's hope this works!" Seth motioned for Carth to follow him.

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It was around 12:00 at night. Seth and Carth were at the elevator mentioned earlier. They were busy talking to the guard, asking him to let them go down.

"Well, I see your Sith, from your uniforms. Be careful down there, some gangs are in a war or somthing."

Seth thanked him and stepped inside next to Carth.

The doors shut and the elevator desended into the darkness below.