Crimson Rock watched in mild interest as his colleague attacked his target. Law was indeed powerful; he had been trained by the mind himself. It was a common thought that he was being groomed to take a seat on the Tribunal as soon as one of the current seat holders made a mistake. Errors were made every so often but to those holding the top three seat of power in the order, even a minor mistake would prove to be fatal.
As it was there was only one way for someone in the upper echelon of the order; the removal of your hood during combat. That was why Crimson Rock was even there. If a mistake was made it would be seen and justice would be met out.
"Take us into position near the blast doors." He growled. His apprentices moved quickly to comply and the vessel moved slowly to its target destination. Now they could only wait to see what would happen.
Elydyn Taalar was beginning to get angry. Of course he was relieved that his team had suffered no casualties during their death charge. An energy field had erected itself around the six Jedi and deflected all the base defender's attacks. Of course stated energy field also held them captive and therefore out of the fight.
The Jedi had spent the first two minutes attacking the field trying to find a way out, but it easily absorbed their attacks and looked no weaker for it. Windscar's troops were not idle either; they were still attacking the section in which their master was struggling for his life. First they wasted several packs of blaster gas firing at the wall, the only result they got was the attacks ricocheting off the barrier and attacking their own. The Droids attacked as well, their heavy blasters would have made short work of just about anything else but now they were all but useless in the face of this strange technology.
Elydyn decided to sit down and meditate while he awaited a solution. The rest of the Jedi followed suit as the defenders brought out some rockets. Amidst the sound of large explosions Justus let himself slip away. He drifted among the stars feeling his own strength bolstered by the other life forms in the galaxy. Then the scene shifted; fires and ruins dominated the landscape, corpses drained of their life force littered the barren scenery. In the middle of it all a pile of skulls rose a massive stone throne formed at the top. Then a red hooded man appeared and two similarly, yet slightly differently dressed men emerged from behind the seat. All gave off an aura of massive strength and knowledge of the Dark Side of the Force.
The man on the thrown turned his face to stare at Elydyn, his face a void that seemed to draw Elydyn's strength in, much as a black hole draws in the light. The Jedi tried to ignite his lightsaber but he could not muster the strength to do it. He collapsed to the floor his cloak fluttering about.
Lord Windscar clutched his weapon tightly as he directed another attack at the red clad beings face. He blocked it with the palm of his hand. No that couldn't be right it had to be a trick of the light or something like that. But he did it again. Something in his glove must contain a lightsaber stopping material. The duelist continued to exchange blows for several more minutes, Windscar knew he would lose this battle if he didn't do something soon. The Crimson Order agent was powerful and fast, but there was no way he knew everything about him.
He flexed his shoulder muscles and the feathery overcoat he had been wearing flew open. With a quick beat he was off the ground and out of range of the man. The red clad creature paced back and forth, staring up at its target with its vacant face, cocking its head slightly as it searched for a solution. It clearly was not going to move, nor was it going to release him.
"Ok so what's this all about anyways?" Windscar asked trying to figure out where he went wrong. He never even thought of turning on the Order it was all Gnave's idea. The Kaleesh General decided to go solo, leaving both Windscar and the Order holding the bag in a manner of speaking.
"You know very well what you did!" Law hissed. "For acts of treason you will be punished!" He thumbed a button on his belt and the energy shield began to contract, the roof lowered and the areas that the shimmering red touched the ground were developing a deep trench as the energy cut into it. Windscar was forced to fly lower and soon he was in range of the Crimson assassin. The cloaked being jumped at him and the business man was hard pressed to avoid the attack. He gathered his strength and dove at his foe, his silver saber flashing as he swept by. The attack was a narrow miss as Law demonstrated his sharp reflexes. The move was repeated several times, each having the same result. Windscar was tiring this exertion was taking its toll. He dove forward again but this time his foe caught his saber in his hand and another set of red blades emerged from his other. With a surgical strike he clipped Windscar's wings causing him to cry out in pain and hit the ground hard.
With a sound halfway between a hiss and a growl Law lunged forward at the prone form. His target sprang up and deflected one of the hands the other scored a shallow blow to his left shoulder. Biting back a curse the rogue Jedi attacked slashing his saber in a diagonal blow, aiming for his left shoulder. Law sidestepped and brought his claws around again. Windscar knocked them aside with a backhanded blow and managed to land a Force strengthened kick to the hooded assassin's midsection. He grunted and staggered back slightly allowing Windscar to press the advantage.
He rained down blows upon the man, never giving him a chance to set up a good counter attack. He had him nearly to the back wall when Law finally regained his composure. The Order's hit man ducked and managed to get inside Windscar's attacking range. He delivered a hard head butt to Windscar's chin. It knocked the man off balance and the creature jumped forward to deliver its own merciless assault.
Windscar staggered back under the vicious attacks. He moved back out of attacking range and waited for the man. He was glad to see he was obliged and Law moved forward in a blur of motion. With a well timed attack Windscar managed to cut the corner of Law's hood. Suddenly a fur lined face was partly visible, its yellow eyes blinking rapidly as if it were trying to adjust to a spotlight suddenly being shined directly in its face.
Elydyn snapped awake and reached for his visor. The rest of his comrades did the same. The jumped to their feet and engaged the magnetic seals on their boots just as they heard the blast.
It appeared that Crimson law knew what was coming he threw on a breath mask and formed a Force barrier around himself as soon as his identity was known. Windscar followed suit, just in time too.
The heavy blast doors suddenly blew open with an ear splitting screech. Several missile strikes later all six of the Jedi Stealth X's were destroyed. Laser cannons thundered and the droids clinging to the roof became so many spare parts. The carnage cleared for a moment allowing Windscar to glimpse the attack ship, a shuttle judging from its size. Its cockpit was oval shaped with a long thin neck attacking it to the main cargo and sleeping areas. Either side of the control area featured a pair of heavy cannons. Connected to the main body were two rounded multipurpose projectile launchers. On top of those two more turbo lasers were mounted. The wings were like an Imperial shuttle but only folded in one spot giving it a rough "M" shape. Each wing had another trio of energy weapons mounted on the tips.
Windscar knew the design, no forget that, he had built the ship, ten of them in all. He knew their potential for destruction. If all ten of them were here he hadn't a chance now that the Jedi were grounded.
In a blur of red Crimson Law ran up the opening loading ramp and disappeared Seconds later the wings tipped in a mock salute and the shuttle backed out of the hangar. The energy field dissipated as the control cards fried and the Jedi stepped forward. "Windscar deactivated his lightsaber and raised his hands in defeat. "I surrender." He managed to gasp before crumpling from stress and exhaustion.
"You failed Lord of the Crimson Law." A deep voice muttered from the shadows of the cargo bay.
"It wasn't my fault." The feline-like Togorian growled. "There were too many variables Six Jedi were not supposed to show up. I could have handled it anyways."
With a metallic screech and a snap-hiss a blue green blade snapped into being illuminating a massive creature sitting on a cargo container. Its trunk-like legs ended in three sharp talons, two faced forward and the other backward. The shadow rose, its long flowing red robe was cut open on both sides allowing arm movement even with the cloaks main piece attached. The beings right arm ended in a large claw, which was now curving back into a bayonet style configuration, the saber extended from the center of the arm. The other hand was more or less humanoid. An armored five fingered hand, sharp edges ran along each digit making the hand even more lethal in hand to hand combat. The ridges split into three different channels as it traveled up the arm making a large crest at the elbow. A few clicks brought Law back to reality. He realized that the free hand was holding a datapad.
"Kovaine under the law of the Council of Nineteen, you are hereby sentenced to death for breach of conduct."
"You can't kill me!" The feline roared. "Tribunal or no you are nothing compared to me!" He ignited all ten of his claws and ran forward. He didn't make it even five steps before the wind left his lungs and his feet left the floor.
"You should just give up." A woman's voice taunted as two orange blades joined the teal, yellow and red ones already lighting the bay.
"Hiding behind your apprentice?" Kovaine managed to gasp out as a pain suddenly shot up his side.
"Actually he is." Another voice replied mournfully as Fear pulled his black light saber from his chest cavity.
"How?" he managed to gasp before crumpling to the ground. The last thing he saw was Crimson Rock taking long legged strides two where his body lay. Hi lifted one of his massive clawed legs and with a rush of air Crimson Law's universe went black.
