Opening Statement: General Story overview for you readers. It's KOTOR with at twist. LSF Revan, but theres a marine that joins the quest starting on Endar Spire. RevXCarth or RevXMarine... good tension between the 2 is what I'm hoping for.
Notice the name of the Marine... foreshadowing at its best!
Disclaimer: Dun own SW or KOTOR or anything...
Rating: uhhh, for now I'mma go with a PG13
"What are you doing asleep?"
Sienna opened her eyes slowly, looking up into the eyes of some soldier. She brought her hands to her eyes, rubbing them softly. "What do you want?"
The man snorted. "Oh nothing much. You know, Sith are only everywhere, trying to board the ship, kill us all."
Sienna stared him down, making sure he wasn't joking before her eyes shot open as she realized he was telling the truth. "I… Ok I'll get up." She started to lift up the covers, then stopped. She hesitated. "Uhhh… mind giving me a second here."
The man rolled his eyes but turned away.
She got out and walked over to her storage locker, popping it open. "Who are you?" she asked absentmindedly.
"Trask… Trask Ulgo. I'm your newly assigned bunkmate. Different shifts though, so… anyways Bastilla called for you to get to the bridge. So I was sent down here to get you seeing as you wouldn't respond."
"Ok, I'm good."
Trask turned around to look at Sienna. Her tanned skin was hidden beneath the basic tight fitting Republic armor, and she had a blaster rifle cradled in her arms along with a vibrosword in its sheath. Trask grinned at the shape she made. Sienna rolled her eyes and brushed past him.
"What do I need to know?" she asked. Trask shrugged. "Not much. Get to the bridge… avoid the Sith." He tapped in the command codes to the door and the whooshed open. The sound of blaster fire came alive, and they realized that the Sith were already here.
Sienna stuck her head out of cover for just a second before pulling it out. "A dozen Sith, about 4 Republic soldiers. They could use our help." She tried to put up a brave face, but Trask could see that she was afraid. It was her first real combat after all.
Trask nodded. "I'll be right behind you."
Sienna nodded and took a deep breath. Silently, she whispered to herself, "This one's for you dad." With that, she popped out and started shooting as she charged forward. Her first volley caught a Sith trooper as he charged as well, and he fell quickly. Her subsequent shots did little more then force the Sith into cover, which allowed her to reach cover with Trask behind her as the other Republic soldiers used this to get off a few shots. More Sith fell, in exchange for another Republic soldier.
A young private from across the hall glanced over at her. He was shaking slightly, similar to Sienna herself, but he had a lopsided grin pasted on his face. He nodded to her, then rose and fired off a few shots, and she heard him say, "Yesss!" under his breath as he dived under cover again. Sienna just shook her head before doing the same thing, popping another Sith down.
Across from her, the private shouted out at her, "Name's Corran Halycon. I count 5 Sith left."
"Sienna. I count 5 too."
The private grinned at her. "Fantastic. I say a charge."
Sienna shrugged. "You lead, I'll follow."
The privates grin faltered. "Hey, I'm no leader." Before she could reply, he yelled out, "Charge on 3. 3, 2 ,1." At 1, he rose, screaming incoherently and firing. Sienna did the same, rising from her position. Trask came behind her and 1 other Republic soldier rose to join them. They're fire pushed the Sith into cover and let them get to vibrosword range. In the lead, Corran narrowly dodged the first Sith's vibrosword before throwing his rifle at the Sith, who clumsily caught it in time to have his throat cut by Sienna's sword. Corran then pulled his sword and engaged with another Sith and Sienna moved forward to allow the others in.
The sith soldier clumsily swung his vibrosword at Sienna, but she easily blocked it with an outside parry, using a riposte to gut him. The Sith grunted heavily before falling to the ground. From the corner of her eyes she saw the other Republic soldier lose his head to the Sith sergeant. She moved to close with him, but Corran roughly pushed his way through, having finished with his own target, and started going at the sergeant. He moved quickly, using little power but instead tiring out the Sith. In the close confines of the corridor, there was no effective way to help Corran out, so she turned to helping Trask with his foe, who had his back to her. A swift thrust and he fell, and she turned around just in time to see one of the Sith's blows land. Corran had parried to the outside for a strike, but had gone to wide. This allowed the Sith to kick out, and his foot caught him roughly in the stomach, sending Corran reeling backward. As the Sith moved forward to kill Corran, Sienna pushed forward, blocking the blow with her sword. The Sith's head flicked in irritation, but he just resumed the duel with her. However, he was tired, and within a few moments, Sienna managed to break through his defenses and finish him.
She turned around to survey the situation. All the Sith were dead, but all that remained aside from Corran and Trask was a single trooper, who cowered in the corner, refusing to move. Not really sure what to do, they opted to leave him and started for the bridge.
"Thanks for saving my bacon back there," said Corran casually.
Sienna just nodded. "Wouldn't do to have your blood all over me. It's icky."
Corran glanced at her, wondering if she was serious, but her wink conveyed to him it was a joke, so he just grinned.
Sienna shuddered within, wondering what in the world possessed her to say that. She couldn't believe she'd just killed someone… that was her first kill… that man was gone, no longer living…
She was snapped out of her thoughts as Trask finished punching in the code and the door whooshed open…
To reveal a pair of Jedi fighting it out. Sienna prepared to attack, as did Corran, but Trask held out his arm.
"Don't bother. We'd just get in the way." No one said anything, but merely watched the majestic duel.
Sienna found herself noticing all the mistakes they were making, but still enthralled in the beauty of it. Glancing at Corran, she realized he had the same look in his eyes…
Curious.
At last the Jedi punched through the Sith's defenses, cutting him down… just in time for the bulkhead to explode, pitching the Jedi through the air, dead before she hit the ground.
Trask cursed. "We could of used that Jedi. Bastilla's gonna need all the help she can get."
Sienna nodded, and started to move forward, knowing the bridge was just ahead.
"We go in on 3. Sienna, use your vibrosword, Corran and I will cover you." Sienna nodded, pulling out her sword as the door whooshed open. As they expected, the Sith were there, but were quickly dispatched.
"She must have already escaped! Quick, to the escape pods," Trask said shakily as they rushed through the bridge. They opened the door, and came to a T-intersection.
"It's the ri…" the door in front of them opened, to reveal a bald evil looking man in silver and black armor. He grinned evilly before ignited a saber.
Sienna felt her heart drop. They were screwed. This Dark Jedi would skewer them.
Beside her, Corran snarled and struck forward, but the Dark Jedi merely through a hasty block before force pushing him away. He went flying back, slamming into a wall and dropping heavily.
"GO! I'll hold him off." Trask charged forward, striking at the Jedi as he closed the door.
Sienna wanted to say something… she wanted to stop him. But she couldn't. She found herself frozen up, unable to move.
Then she heard a loud scream. Trask's scream. It was promptly silenced.
Panic flared in her. She opened the door to her right, and heard Corran rise slowly behind her.
"Fuck… let's go," he said calmly, though clearly in pain. Sienna turned to look at him, and saw him holding his side painfully. But he looked ok at least.
"What are we going to do. He's going to hunt us down and…" she was interrupted as the door began to grow brightly.
Corran grabbed ahold of her. "Get ahold of yourself. He gave up his life for us. Now let's GO." He said more forcefully. She nodded in front of him, and wiped away at her eyes a moment as they advanced.
A comlink beeped, and Corran coolly pulled out his comlink. "Corran here."
"Private, this is Carth Onasi. You and the Ensign are all that's left. No time to explain. But you've got a group ahead of you. A big group. You'll need a hand for it. After that, you're through and we can get out of here." He paused as a flurry of blaster shots rang out. "Hurry." With that he hung up, and the 2 glanced at each other.
"I'll get the robot working," Corran said quickly. "You look on the computer for something."
With that he quickly went to work, fiddling with the robot as Sienna stood there. He got it working in good time, while Sienna got the computer to overload a console. They heard a loud bang, and it showed that only 3 Sith remained. Corran grinned at Sienna, and she grinned back. He turned back to the robot. "Go in there, and kill the Sith." With that he slammed the door open and pushed the robot forward. It walked in, while Corran and Sienna remained silent. Weaponfire rang out, and a moment later he heard a grenade explode.
Corran peaked out. The droid was down, and one soldier remained. The Sith saw him and fired off shots as he dove for cover.
"Damn't, we don't have time for this," cursed Corran. That dark Jedi can't be far behind." Cursing, he popped out of cover, fired a flurry of shots to force the Sith in cover and rose to charge. As he closed, his rifle ran out of ammo much to his dismay, and the Sith came up, about to open up…
A shot rang out, and Corran closed his eyes in preparation for the pain… but got nothing. He opened his eyes to find the Sith in front of him on the ground, a small hole in his head. Corran turned around to see Sienna holding her Blaster steadily, a feral look on her face. He visibly sagged with relief. "Oh thank the force. Come on, let's go."
"I've come for you, fools." Sienna paled, as did Corran, and he quickly stepped forward up to Sienna. The Dark Jedi was there, watching them.
"Nice to see you… we'd really rather not stick around and chat," said Corran nervously, fumbling for a cryo grenade as discreetly as possible.
The Dark Jedi laughed menacingly. "Ah a brave one. Not many of you around, most of you were killed rather quickly."
Corran grinned at him as he finally got his fingers wrapped around it and flicked the arming switch. "Well, I just sorta STUCK around," he said as he flung the grenade and tugged Sienna away at the same time.
The grenade detonated, freezing the Jedi's feet to the ground. It wouldn't last long, but it would give them the time they needed to escape.
Sienna immediately accelerated ahead of him and slamme the door open to reveal Carth Onasi.
He looked at them, realized they were friendly and returned to firing it out with Sith.
"Commander, no time for them, we gotta go," said Sienna eagerly.
"First, these Sith die," he snarled back.
"Not now Car…sir. A Dark Jedi is right behind us." A loud roar of anger behind them accented Corran's point. Carth growled at them, but he nodded and jumped into the pilot position of the cockpit position. Corran and Sienna squeezed into the small pod behind him, and he quickly ejected the pod.
The escape pod had Corran and Sienna crammed together uncomfortably, as it was a 2 person pod, including the pilot, and Sienna slowly felt a liquid pour onto her. She glanced over at where it was wet…
It was coming from Corran. His side was bleeding heavily.
"Holy shit, when did this happen."
Corran didn't even look at it. "I'm fine. It was when that doltish jedi threw me into the wall. Impaled myself on something."
"We.. we gotta do something! You'll die!" exclaimed Sienna, but Corran just shook his head.
"I'll be fine. No room anyways." Sienna had to agree, as in the tight confines of the pod, there wasn't much to do aside from watch the blood trail out.
Carth suddenly turned back at them. "This is gonna get rough! Brace yourself."
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