In the dead of night, on the roof top of a grayish durasteel building that housed the Syndicate's hideout, a jedi was carefully burning an entrance in the form of a circle, whilst using the force to make sure no steel fragments accidentally fell down and triggered the alarm system. By the time the hole was large enough for Tikala to fit through it, she only had to wait for a signal from Terrow to jump in and quickly deactivate the backup battery.

Terrow, together with his remaining two siblings, was hiding on top of a rusty-red abandoned factory, waiting for his electrobinoculars to pick up the awaited power failure. He had instructed two of the twi'leks to guide and oversee that the droids would successfully execute their mission. "Com on! Shut dow-" he didn't even get to finish the thought, before receiving a message from one of the twi'leks saying... 'Disconnected' followed by his electrobinoculars showing a significant decrease in power. He used a small red lighting pen to signal GO! to his sister on the opposite rooftop.

Tikala didn't hesitate, she jumped as soon as she saw the signal. With the force to steer, she maneuvered herself through the large cylinder passing sensor arrays and a huge ventilation fan on the way down. Luckily for her, the industrial fan was off-line at the moment, otherwise she would have been shredded to pieces. In less then a second she reached bottom safely with no injury, she immediately located the only door out of the cylinder and used the force to break it open with a loud crack. Having memorized the layout of the structure, she blazed directly to the backup battery, passing a pair of engineers in with such a speed that she seemed like a brown blur, leaving them with no hint of what that was.

Inside the room where the emergency battery was installed, she detected that it had just automatically activated and light returned to the building for mere moments, before a dataspike was inserted into the battery's control module.

Terrow saw to his amazement, that the building lit up followed by an instantly blackout. "DARN! THAT WAS QUICK!" Terrow more or less shouted in his mind. He observed as five bounty hunters exited the building to find all their defenses off-line.


In the meantime, Briza and Mathorn had sneaked over to the hideout's backdoor to be on standby. After seeing the building turn itself on and afterwards off, that was enough of a signal for them to knock down the door and enter the building, lightsabers at the ready.

Inside the almost black durasteel-wall corridors of the complex, three bounty hunters, who had just activated the lights in their armor, were talking over a comm unit. They were completely unaware of the danger, when a blue lightsaber blade protruded through the first bounty hunter's stomach followed by a red blade flying in the face of the second mercenary.

The last guy just stood frozen for a second as he realized what had just happened, he then quickly grabbed his comm unit to call for help... before his it was pulled from his grasp by an invisible force. He was then physically slammed into the ceiling above and lost consciousness immediately.

As they moved further down inside the building, both siblings spotted another pair of bounty hunters scouting around, with only the lights from their visor giving them away. Reaching out with the force, Briza used force-crush to break two bounty hunters' necks, and they fell before even noticing the danger ahead.

Mathorn whispered in a slightly disturbed tone, "You are so savage at times."

With Briza remarking in a nonchalantly low voice, "Proud of it."

When the bounty hunters finally realized they were under attack by saber wielding foes and starting to regroup, Briza and Mathorn had already pushed their way deep into the base and incapacitated or killed most of the defenders with relative ease.

Their advance had only occasionally been halted by grenades that was thrown in their direction, or once when a dozen of heavy armored syndicate members got the desperate idea of using flamethrowers to engulf the corridors in a flaming infernal, paying no regard to neither the building's interior nor the unconscious survivors laying nearby.

It took the combined force powers of the two siblings to systematically destroy the flamethrower's gas chambers at a safe distance and then throw their lightsabers to penetrate and cripple the armored troops.


Meanwhile. Tikala, who had just sent the back up battery out of commission, had been using the force to put her foes in stasis, before they even had the chance to locate the infiltrator. After searching the base floor for information in absolute darkness, she moved upstairs to continue her exploration, only seeing the metal corridors through the force.

As she stretched her sense with the force, she could hear people talking right above her. "Sir! We have lost contact with our investigation team!"

"This is dire! Our hideout has been compromised! We need to escape to assess the situation," Tikala heard another voice say. Followed by a third voice exclaiming, "Let's rush to the escape tunnel immediately!" The sound of metal doors being opened in hast and rushing feet fleeing the corridor above.

With no time to waste, she sprinted upstairs in hot pursuit, hoping quickly to find and cut off the assumed leaders escape route.


Observing from outside the building, everything looked very peaceful. Only occasionally a Bounty hunter would exit through the main entrance to scout about for the enemy, which Terrow had to take out with armor piercing sleeper darts, before they could escape. He had also ordered the twi'leks to secure the perimeter around the building in case of a sudden breakout from an angle, where he himself couldn't cover.

Though Terrow hadn't heard from his siblings after they invaded the hideout, he had complete confidence in their abilities to handle whatever the Tenkan Syndicate could dish up with, especially now that their security had been set out of action. All he had left to do now, was to wait out the operation patiently and make sure everything was in order on his end.


With her force enhanced sprinting, it didn't take long for her to find the stairway that led upstairs. Reaching the top of the stairway, Tikala now sensed that the men were headed right towards her. As soon as the Bounty hunters were within earshot, she called out to them. "Halt! The building is surrounded! Lay down your arms and you will come to no harm," Tikala promised in a firm voice.

Though firm, the soft voice of this little rope clad zabrak, held no intimidation nor any hint of a threat, it just made the five men chuckle. "MEN! Take the jedi prisoner! She might just be the hostage we need to get out of this!" The man in front commanded as he aimed his pistol for combat.

Tikala sighed deeply. Even with the force as her ally, her ability to sound threatening was seriously lacking. She could do nothing but ignite her lightsaber and enter in a defensive stand, ready to fight off her attackers.

Within the first few seconds, several wrist rockets were fired at her, Tikala shoved them aside with a simple hand wave, making a deafening clang as they one by one impacted the wall. The attack was soon followed up by flamethrowers and blaster fire. Tikala quickly cocooned herself with a force bobble, to withstand the heat, whilst simultaneously deflecting incoming blaster bolts with her emerald blade. In order not to be overwhelmed, Tikala swiftly sprang around the corridor, from wall to wall, to the ceiling and back to the floor. All the while, she was striking with quick slashes at the blasters and other arm based weapons.

The syndicate troops had a hard time surrounding the fast and nipple little jedi. To them it felt like they were shooting at a ghost. She seemed to be a microsecond faster than any of them were able to aim their guns. Which meant they couldn't use grenades, as they would most likely injure themselves in the blast radius. They even tried to use their tangler-guns to hinder the jedi's movement, but yet again only found thin air and the wires swiping the walls, with a metallic sounding clang upon impact.

One of the men collapsed after his torso was burned by a swift cut from her lightsaber. Another fell when Tikala slashed at an opening in the back of his breastplate. A third had his arm on fire as the gas tank in his flamethrower was pierced by the green blade. But as if that wasn't enough, suddenly two other lightsaber welding zabrak foes came running towards from the opposite side.

"ENOUGH!" Exclaimed the leader. "We surrender, you have won." And threw away his weapons.

Briza and Mathorn stopped running, when they saw the leader of the syndicate strip himself of weapons.

Sensing legitimacy in the spoken words. Tikala immediately halted her attacks and smiled in return. "Very well, call your men to lay down their weapons and come peacefully with us to the surface."

Reluctantly, the Leader took his comm-link and issued the order. "This is Yurian Tenkan speaking, you are to lay down your weapons and head to the main gate to surrender yourselves."

As the entire Tenken syndicate was laying down their weapons, a cold darkness swept across the building, like a fog of corruption had surrounded the place. Both Briza and Tikala immediately became tense and began scanning their surroundings, for any immediate danger.

Standing next to his sisters, Mathorn declared chipper, "Good work Sis! Victory is ours." Completely failing to notice his siblings sudden acute alertness.

Suddenly! All of the bounty hunters were shaking violently, to the point that some of them tilted to the floor, from lack of proper balance. It was like something had possessed them and was claiming their very existence.

Both Briza and Tikala instantly ignited their lightsabers, they turned to stand side by side... With Mathorn looking like a big question mark as the scene unfolded.

When their spastic shaking had subsided, just as quickly as it came. All of them stood up and drew their vibroblades. Even the ones that had taken injuries to the knees and legs, looked poised to strike.

Mathorn had to swiftly side step, or he would be a head shorter. "WHAT THE!?" He burst out, as he too ignited his lightsaber in a defensive posture.

"Be careful! They are controlled by some kind of evil force entity." Tikala warned urgently, she could sense the force flowing through them, similar to regular force users.

Briza was just about to reply, when she too was attacked by three syndicate members. Whilst she had no trouble defending herself against their combined onslaught, their force enhanced precision and speed was very perplexing to her. The fact that these beings could now use the force, felt somewhat unreal.

As two other members attacked Tikala head on with high cleaves, she force pushed them a dozen meters down the hallway, until they were stopped by a solid durasteel wall with a loud crack. Next assisting her sister, she somersaulted over her brother and in Ataru styled combat, repeatedly slashing and cleaving from various angles in an overwhelming fury of motion.

But despite the fresh burn marks inflicted on the Bounty Hunters, pain seemed not to register in the syndicate members' minds at all. That meant Tikala had to resort to more drastic measures. She targeted joints and bones, which was effective enough for the first Bounty Hunter to fall to the ground nearly motionless.

As the whole situation finally sank in, Mathorn's first instinct was to help his sisters in their fight. However he noticed that the other two members, Tikala earlier sent flying, had just recovered and were renewing their attack. Mathorn entered his preferred fighting style Djem-So and just tanked the incoming attack head on.

Now that Briza had received help from her younger sister, she retaliated by stabbing vital points with her left blade, while keeping their attacks at bay with the right. Together with her jedi sibling, it took them no time in dealing with these force controlled syndicate members.

As Tikala cut the torso of the last member, she sensed that the whole personal of the Tenkan's syndicate was coming for them, all force enhanced. "More is the way! " She hastily informed.

Briza wasted no time and threw her lightsaber at one of the members. A human girl in her mid twenties, now lay dead on a cold durasteel floor, with a burned hole through her heart.

"UGH! DON'T KILL GIRLS! NOT COOL SIS!" Mathorn yelled an angry protest. All the while cutting down the leader Yurian Tenkan, in a quick cleave, a strike that could have been mistakenly fatal.

"SHUT UP MATHORN! More is coming! Be ready!" Briza commanded irritatedly.

Tikala seriously wanted to discipline her siblings for their lack of valuing life. But this wasn't the time, as their mission would be jeopardized if they didn't stick together and fight.