Cotez was thrown threw the air and into the wall, or what was left of it. The wall had been reduced to slag, Cotez went flying into a still existing part of the wall, smashing threw it and into the next room. Pain filled his vision and he curled up, closing the world out, pain was all that was left. He got up, his arm was numb, but other than that the pain had seeped away from his body. He looked for any suriviors of the explosion, he instantly saw several bodies impaled on rubble, a couple more were just torn to peices by the explosion, however he saw some survivors, all struggling to rise.
"Mum, Mum"
Cotez yelled, he could not survive if his mother was dead, yet somehow
he knew that she was till alive, a slight twinge on the edge of his
consciousness.
"Cotez?" Came a muffeld reply from the rubbled to
the right of him. He ran over and lifted the rubble with all of his
strength, but ti would not budge, he tried again and again but it did
not work. Finally he gave up.
"I will go and find some help" he
said, he turned around and behind him he saw the jedi, right as rain,
walking in between the rubble, checking to see if he could find
survivors, this gave Cotez time to look at the destruction that was
rought, he saw that there was an entire section of the wall missiong,
instead it was a giant crater of melted slag, he could see out into the
streets of the city, rubble had fallen down there, the street was
littered with ruble.
"Cotez, do you need some assistance" Camahl
asked, this pulled cotez out of his thoughts he looked at the Marrian
jedi for the real first time, he looked humanoid at a long glance, but
at closer glance his skin was glassy, he had slanted ears and eyes, it
gave him an aged look, but also made him look so young.
"I guess, over here" Cotez gestured, over towards the pile of rubble that covered his mother. Cotez tried again to lift it, and looked back at Camahl who just stood there.
"Are you going to help?" Cotez asked.
"Move out of the way" Camahl said. Cotez moved to take a swing at the jedi, but out of the corner of his eye he saw that the rubble was slowly lifting up, he looked back at the jedi and realised that he was the one doing it, his eyes were closed and his arms were raised, the rubble lifted out of the way and settled a meter away from where it originated. Camahl opened his eyes, and looked at Cotez.
"Don't let your anger cloud your judgement" Camahl said, he turned around and walked over to the other survivors, that all began to slowly rise from the floor, coverd in dust and blood, but nontheless seemed alright. Cotez turned around and saw his mother hudled where the rubble was, she seemed to be alright.
"Mother" Cotez said as he ran towards her, he lifted her of the ground and dusted her off.
"Are you alright?" he asked
"Yes... i am fine" she said, she seemed a little bit dazed but nontheless alright.
"Men assemble, we have to get this mission underway!" Came the colonel's voice. Cotez walked over and stood next to the jedi.
"Thankyou" Cotez said.Camahl nodded and patted Cotez on the head.
"Now, this incident has happened, but we must move on, we have to attack them now, they are surely aware that we are here, this is evidence of it, so we msut hurry and ge there as fast as possible." He shoved his gun into the air and the surviviors did the same, it was a rememberance thing, to remember the dead. He walked down the stairs to the bottom floor, everyone followed. Cotez turned to his mother and nodded, smiled then followed. They all assembeled down the bottom of the building and prepared to charge out and attack the command post.
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Verak saw as the plasma fired by the Rakamat fired on teh buildings nearest them, he knew that there could be any number of surprises in them so best destroy them before those surpirses could be unloaded on the Yuuzhan Vong troops, he smiled. This was going well, the enemy was in full retreat, the base was small but it was built like a city, spread over a large area. He turned to Veramus and claped him on the shoulder.
"Godo job Veramus, i want you to put aside a group of Warriors, and some Chazrach, just incase they decide to attack this command center" Verak turned around as Veramus nodded, Verak knew that this battle was far from over, the enemy still had enough troops and resources to mount an offective offensive, he just could not place why they were retreating, giving themselves less area to defend was one idea, but then they were in a fine position to defend minimal areas before, maybe they retreated so they can concentrate their fire on the warriors and Chazrach charging at them, nonetheless he had to finish this faster, he knew that they would do something but he did not know what. He flexed his arm, and uncurled his amphistaff from his arm, he also uncurled his command baton from his waist and held it in his opposite hand. He flexed his arm muscles, he needed a fight, he wanted them to attack him, he wanted to defeat them.
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They ran out of the building at high speeds, diving into the first cover that came up, of the fifty or so people that began the mission there were only a dozen or so remaining, Cotez himself, Camahl the jedi, Cotez's mother, the Colonel, two people remaining of the demolition squad and six normal commandos. He knew that this was a futile attack but said nothing."Are you sure that this will work?" He asked the Colonel, "I mean we have hardly any men left""Well...it is all we can do" The Colonel replied and turned his attention back to the front of the clearing waiting for a good time to move out. He raised his hand, and signaled to move forward, everyone got up and ran forward, lowering their bodies as close to the ground as they could so that they remained inconspicuous. They traveled as fast as possible, avoiding some of the normal ourcropings. They arrived at a massive outcropping near the edge of the command post, they sat there for a minute recouperating their energy.
"Now, we must attack lightning fast, Camahl will get their attention, being a jedi and all, the rest of you must protect him until we plant our explosives, ohh and you have to protect us aswell." The Colonel said, Cotez looked at his mother, who was looking at him aswell.
"If this doesn't go well, i want you to bury me at the home, if you can" Cotez said.
"Don't talk like that, we will be alright i promise you" She hugged Cotez then turned her attention to the Colonel, Cotez did the same. The Colonel had his hand raised slightly to symbolise waiting. Then it flew forward, Cotez rose as fast as possible and moved his blaster into the ready, as fast as he was Camahl was faster, he flew up and ignited his lightsaber in the time it took cotez to get to the other side. Cotez looked left and right, saw his mother, she was running forward with her blaster at the ready.
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Immediantly as they came out of cover, they fired into the units guarding the Rakamat, as the demolishion team ran through the cover, the vong reacted fast, positioning themselves infront of the Rakamat, they began throwing thud bugs, alot of thud bugs, Cotez looked to the left and saw one impack the shoulder of one of the commandos, everyone else dived for cover, this was going to get messy fast, Cotez thought.
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Verak looked to the left as he saw a vibrant blue bar, a weapon, a lightsaber come into the hands of a man twenty meters away, followed by a group of human he growled, how had they gotten so close?.
"WE'RE UNDER ATTACK" Verak yelled, he pointed to where they were coming from and a group of warriors ran infront of the Rakamat, in a defensive position they began firing thud bugs, the jeedai as they had come to be known as, was harmlessly bating them aside, and charging towards the Warrior lines.
"Focus attack on the jeedai!" Verak yelled, the warriors began to concentrate their fire on the jedi as he began to move closer. The warriors started to advance, the jedi ran into their ranks and started to attack, he severed the arm of one of the warriors in the first exchange of attacks, he had positioned himself so that only one warrior could strike him at once, and he was dispatching that warriro with ease. Verak growled and drew his amphistaf, he walked over towards the Warriors, the ones at the back moved out of the way, he confronted the jeedai.
The jedi looked at Verak, and grinned, Verak grinned back, a fellow warrior at heart he thought, a pity he would die. Verak settled into an offensive stance and the jedi settled into a defensive stance, he attaked once, the jedi blocked, the jedi attacked and Verak blocked. Verk smiled again, the jedi was at a point where his physical exertion was at the max, were as Verak was only just exerting himself, being fresh onto the feild he had an advantage, but he knew that in any fight you have to be aware, and not think that you will win at the start of the combat. He charged the jedi and thrusted towards his knees, the jedi flipped and landed behind Verak, he dived his blade towards Verak's legs. Verak moved out of the way and kicked the jedi in teh stomahc, sending him falling backwards several feet. Verak picked walked over to the jedi, and prepared to strike the final blow, but to the jedi the fight was not over, sumersaulting over Verak's head he lunged during flight at Verak's legs, hitting them and woundig Verak. Verak howled and sung at the jedi, who was now on the defensive, but Verak had a plan. Verak struck out at full length, pretendingto be of balance, the jedi moved in and struck out at Verak, Verak using his lightning fast reflexes that he was renowned for. He moved out of the way and kneed the jedi in the gut, then slammed his fist down on the back of his hadn, removing the lightsaber from his grip. The jedi fell to the ground, Verak came in for the final blow but again the jedi flipped out of it, he summoned his lightsaber to him and ignited it, charging at Verak, he striked out once towards Verak's head, once towards his knees and once towards his chest, Verak dodged the first, dodged the second and parried the third, putting the jedi of balance he struck out with his amphistaff, he felt teh familiar resistance of flesh as his amphistaf penetrated into the gut of the jedi, he removed his amphistaff satisfied. The body of the jedi fell to the ground. Verak looked around and noticed that the Warriors were still fighting the reemainign soldier, with a roar he charged into them, followed by Veramus and severl aother warriors.
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Cotez watched as what looked like the leader of the vong dispatched the Camahl easily, he dispared, if he can defeat him so easily, what hope do the rest of us have? During the battle, the commandos had managed to take some vong down, but now with the vong charging them, the commandos had to many targets to attack. The commandos, threw several thermal detonators towards the commander, he easily smashed them aside with his amphistaff, they collided with another vong further behind him and exploded, vaporizing him instantly, the commander kept coming, he was roaring, he met the first commando and instantly impaled him in the chest, Cotez turned around and looked for his mother, she was preparing a sniper rifle, she was aiming at the commander. Cotez ran over to try and stop her, but it was to late, the commander had noticed the glint in the scope and was heading towards her.
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Verak cleved his second commando in to, he suddenly got a ray of light caught in his eye, he turned around and saw the source of the light, a scope attatched to the top of one of the infidels machinations they call weapons, he charged over to the soldier and suddenly he felt this massive force slam him in the shoulder, he spun around and hit the floor. The warriors around him halted.
"Go, Attack them" He yelled. He pushed himself up and turned to the infidel, he now saw who was weilding the weapon, a female, he would be shamed eternaly if he fell to a woman, he rose and charged at her once more, yelling in rage, he unnerved her she did not get of a second shot, he threw his amphistaff at the womand hitting her in teh shoulder and grounding it into teh ground he ran up and looked over her, this was another of many wins today, he pulled the amphistaff out."P..lea..se..." She said, blood grugling out of her throat.
"Hmm, you will die, your blood shall be another stain of victory on my amphistaff." Verak replied, with that he shoved the amphistaff into her throat, then yanked it across, severing her head from her shoulders. He laughed, he turned and walked away, Ready to rejoin his warriors, the victory was theirs, then an explosion rocket the Rakamat, he looked as he saw infidels scrambling around the Rakamat, he growled as he realised the combat had been a distraction, he ran after the infidels, a squad of warriors forming up behind him.
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It took awhile for Cotez to work his way towards where his mother was, when he arrived he felt his world shattered, he looked at her decapitated body, rage filling him, he howled in anger and loss, he ran towards he and hugged her dead body, he wanted revenge, he needed revenge, he would have revenge. He stood up, her blood staining his clothes. He looked out over the battlefeild, he saw the commander and a group of his men running away, running towards the demolishon crew, he grinned, the grin was one of evil. He ran after the commander, not careing if he was noticed, he kept running. He saw the vong warriors attack the demolishion crew, they only noticed when the first of their already depleated number was cut down, the colonel. Cotez felt more anger, they slaughtered without pause he would have revenge.
A Vong warrior noticed Cotez and charged towards him, cotez barrel rolled, and smashed teh vong in the shins and then kept running, he heard the vong hit the ground, but didn't turn back to look. He reached the rear of the commanders group. He smashed one warrior in the back and fired into his exposed legs, at this close range it left a crater the size of Cotez's fist. This caught the attention of the vong, they turned aroudn with amphistaffs raised for the kill, he stepped back once, to make them think he was fearful, then he fired as fast as he could at the lead vong, hitting him several times in key areas, the other two vong attacked him and shashed the gun out of his hands, he was now defenceless, the commander walked up behind the warriors and grinned. So much anger, so much hate filled Cotez he unleashed it by extending his arms, a force unfamiliar to him spread threw his body and an other worldy force smashed the two vong infront of him away, they flew six feet then smashed into the exposed carapace of the rakamat, or what was left of it, a bone crunching smash indicated their deaths. Cotez looked at the commander.
"You Killed my mother!" Cotez yelled he looked at Camahl's lightsaber still lying on the ground, he extended his hand, the lightsaber naturaly flew to his hands. "You killed my friends" Cotez ignited the lightsaber. "You will die" Cotez charged forward.
