Chapter 3: Telos and Hoth
Traya still in her tatters of robes sat up and looked at Xen who bent down and upchucked. Traya smiled.
" I warned you that you would get sick."
" I'm fine." Xen snapped standing up and shaking her black hair out of her face so her purple eyes were visible.
" We must leave here."
" Why?"
" Vader will have sensed me come back, you can bet he and a few Jedi will be coming to kill me."
" So? Its not like I can't take them on."
" Ha, ha, ha, ha! Can you so easily slay Jedi? You yourself may have dropped and fallen away from their teachings, yes, and you may consider yourself more powerful from studying holochrons." Traya began but was cut off by Xen.
" How the bloody hell did you know I was studying holochrons?"
" Why else would you come to this damned pit?"
" Well…"
" Just listen, Jedi are not as weak as you believe them to be. Perhaps they are blind, but not weak."
" I can take them all on! Besides you said yourself you wanted Vader dead."
" It is not yet time! And believe me there is no way you could take them all on, you are not strong enough in the force, I can help you."
" So are you saying you can take them on?"
" Yes, I am."
" Bantha crap! You're as old as this place!"
" If you don't believe me I would be more than happy to prove it to you."
" That so?"
" Attack me."
" You're unarmed."
" Just do it."
" Fine." Xen replied smiling. She reached down into her clock and obtained both of her lightsabers. She flipped them out and switched them on. She brought them up over her head but before she could strike both of them flew out of her hands and crashed into the wall, they deactivated and tumbled onto the floor with a ping. Soon after they landed Xen herself flew toward the wall and landed hard on the ground. She had hit her head and her vision was blurry. Traya hadn't lifted a finger.
" Convinced?" Traya asked. She stood up and walked up to Xen.
" Uh-huh." Xen mumbled her vision clearing.
" We will be going now." Traya said. Xen stood up and retrieved her deactivated lightsabers.
" Alright, I have a good place to go."
" Where?"
" Echo base, Hoth, there's a small band of thirty storm troopers there and an old friend I met a long time ago. He's trying to rebuild a criminal organization he used to be in control of before Skywalker nearly killed him. He actually survived an explosion in a skyhook in space. Well it wasn't really him, he had a clone."
" I would be happy to meet him, his name?"
" They call him Prince Xizor."
" Prince?"
" Of the Black Sun."
" Let us be on out way then."
" What about Vader?"
" Once we get to Hoth we can come up with something, I have an idea and it involves his daughter."
" Nice, the old classic. Destroy everything he holds dear to him then?"
Traya nodded.
And with him, so goes the force….
XxX
Vader steered his old Lambda class shuttle onto the snow covered plateau on the northern pole of Telos. He flicked a switch and the boarding ramp lowered. He and his two companions exited the ship, Yoda and Leia.
" There are markings here." Vader said. There were indeed imprints in the snow, a ship had landed here.
" Gone she may already be." Yoda said thoughtfully.
" You are probably right." Vader replied still transfixed with the imprints in the snow. " This base is fitted with a radar, it probably still works."
" Check we will."
He Yoda and Leia walked to the entrance in the middle of the plateau and soon they were descending down a spiral stair case. They found themselves in a control room overlooking a hanger then, and Vader strode up to a computer consol. Amazingly it booted up and Vader looked at the screen.
" The most recent thing it detected was us today, but there's another ship. It's a Theta class shuttle, it was here for a while to. It looks like it is registered to someone called Xen, but it was defiantly reregistered because Theta class shuttles are Imperial."
" Xen?" Leia asked. " Dumb name."
" Help Traya she did." Yoda said. " To where was the shuttle headed?"
" It cant tell me." Vader said.
" Mm, go back to Coruscant we must and alert Chancellor Mothma."
" Then we find Traya." Vader said icily.
" Agreed." Leia said. " We should gain her permission to search."
" Yes, she'll give it to me." Vader said. " After all I am still general of the old Imperial fleet."
" Republic, Lord Vader." Yoda said sternly.
" Oh yes, right." Vader said. He was defiantly turning back into Anakin but he would never allow himself the pleasure of a clean identity. Anakin Skywalker committed no crimes, Lord Vader committed many and since both were the same he would always be known as Lord Vader. A small punishment for everything he had done, he would never be redeemed.
" But you have been Anakin." Padmé's voice said. He ignored her since it most likely was not her and set back off to his shuttle, Leia and Yoda in his wake.
