Chapter 5
Year 0 Month 1 Day 13
The empire has suffered the destruction of an important droid factory, and the Jedi sent out a Jedi to find out why. While he tries to solve the mystery, the war waged on. The empire came up with one of its most bold operations yet. They plan to attack Atlas
Stedam was leader of the special ops over the empire. He planned out many attacks and assassinations of the enemy. He was a bold tactician, but even he wouldn't have been as bold as Darth Sym, or Emperor Sym.
"I have a series of missions that will lead to the sacking of Atlas. First thing's first. We have at least one mole in your special ops. Find out who they are."
"I'm going to do what?"
"You will kill the mole in your group."
"I'm sorry my emperor, but that first thing."
"You mean the sacking of Atlas. Yes, you see Atlas is providing most of the troops in the war at this point. They are the true threat to us. Once we sack it we will be one leap closer to winning this war." Sym must have been planning this out since the war began Stedam said to himself.
"You know that the mole is under my command?" He asked
"Yes, and who ever they are, they need to be punished. We lost one of our ships because they leaked the information. We can't have that." Sym pulled up the pictures of seven spec ops.
"We know that the traitor is in this group."
"How do you know that?" Stedam asked.
"Because these people sent out coded messages. One or all could be the Mole. Find out who it is."
"It will be done my Lord." Stedam bowed.
Stedam knew exactly how to get the mole.
He walked passed one of his men.
"Get these seven and send them to the training room. Make sure they don't have a weapon." Stedam knew exactly what he was going to do.
The seven spec ops were put in the training room. It was a bright white room with the tops the only thing that wasn't blinding white. It could make someone go mad.
The first spec op was a human male. Ranger was his name. He was abandoned as a child and learned the useful art of manipulation and stealth. He knew how to fight. He wore a mask that covered his mouth, only showing his eyes. One was mechanical, and other was Blue.
The second was Jet. A snake faunas who had major mistrust towards humans. She kept to herself. No one really knew what she was like outside of battle
The third was Sinn. They were from one of the towns. They wore a full mask and modified their voice. They had no obvious feminine or masculine features.
The fourth was Skyler. A new recruit that had the skills of a fully trained soldier. He was also young but had wisdom beyond his years. He always disappeared after battles
The fifth was called Echo. He was an assassin that was hired for the Empire specifically. He wore a Metallic mask with a face on it. He always wore a black cloak over him and was prone to use needles as his weapons.
The sixth one was the only other faunas, A fox faunas. Chron was his name. He was just as deadly as any of the other members in the room. He was ready at any time to fight.
The final one was Valetaja. The highest-ranking spec ops in the room. He knew all the people in the room and fought alongside them except for one.
"What is this about?" Skyler asked.
Chron tried to open one of the doors, but it was locked. They all were locked. Chron looked at the glass.
A single knife rose out of the ground. Stedam's voice came over the room.
"We have a mole in this room. You will figure out who that is, and you will execute them. You have four hours."
After that everyone was ready to fight. Valetaja watched them all.
"Why would one of you betray the empire." He looked hurt.
"How do we know it wasn't you?" Jet said.
"Because you all know me. Except for that assassin."
"I don't go back on contracts if that's what you're implying." Echo said
One of the walls opened to show a screen. Six more came out showing the same thing. Dates and codes.
The names of everyone in the room flashed across. The screens moved back in the wall.
"What was that?" Sinn asked.
Ranger was ready to fight for his life.
"I think we all know we have some skeletons in our closet." Sinn said
"Your one to talk. We don't even what you are!" Chron yelled.
"What do you mean about that?" Sinn asked.
"Take off your mask and we'll know" Skyler said.
"I have no need to do so." Sinn was getting defensive.
"What were those messages about?" Chron asked
"I could ask you the same thing." Echo said. He walked towards Sinn.
"Let's not do this." Valetaja said
"Why not? One of you is a mole!" Chron pointed at everyone. That got everyone's attention.
"Why are you so certain? Why are you nervous?" Ranger said.
"Your trying to send me down the river. YOU ARE ALL TRAITORS" Chron was against the door he was sweating profusely.
"Something's wrong" Echo said. Chron started to shake. He collapsed to his knees and held onto his gut. He started to foam out of the mouth. The foam turned into blood and Chron started to rush towards the knife. As he got to it he picked it up and slammed it into his chest multiple times. He fell to the ground and his blood spilled on the floor, staining it.
Echo walked to the body and placed the knife on the pedestal. He cleaned it before placing it down.
"I guess he wasn't the mole, but why was he poisoned?" Valetaja asked. He walked towards body.
"One of us probably did it." Echo said
"What makes you think we would ever be so savage as to poison one of our own."
"Poison isn't savage. It's an art form. Its how nature fighting back against any who try to control it. It's the thing that most completely has destroyed empires. It controls our lives so completely."
"You seem to like poison." Skyler said.
"Like it? Oh no, I more than like it. It completes me. It makes who I am. It is the thing that forged me."
"You're insane." Ranger said
"But not a mole. The Empire hires me to kill in anyway I want. I would never do anything to make me lose money." Echo stopped talking. He looked up at the clock and saw that only fifteen minutes passed.
"I thought it would have been longer before one of us went crazy." Valetaja said.
"It's a one in six chance that anyone of us the mole. Who's playing the ultimate game of chance?" Echo said.
The knife on the pedestal sunk into the floor. Out came a revolver. Echo laughed at it.
"They were waiting for that." Ranger said.
"Let's try not to give anyone a reason to use that gun." Skyler said.
"Remember, one of you is a mole." Echo said.
"How do we know it's not you?" Sinn said.
"You don't, but I'll prove it to you." Echo said
"How?" Valetaja asked. Echo walked towards the gun and placed opened it. He spun the cylinder and knocked it back in. He placed it to his head and pulled the trigger. Nothing.
"Does someone else want to play?" Jet looked at Echo.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Jet asked.
"Now why would I do that?" Ranger walked up.
"I don't trust any of you. You are all traitors in my eyes." Ranger put the gun up to his head. He started to breath heavily and screamed.
He pulled the trigger.
The Bullet found it's mark. Blood splashed against the wall, and Ranger's body collapsed to the floor, blood coming out. The pedestal lowered down, and the gun fell down the hole.
Out of the pit came 5 syringes.
"Four of these syringes will save you, the other will end a life." Poison started to fill the room. Echo laughed.
"Are you trying to kill me?" He asked.
Valetaja ran towards the first syringe and injected it. Sinn followed. Neither died. Skyler got to the third syringe and injected it. Echo got to the pedestal but was thrown away from it.
"You don't deserve to live." Jet said. She plunged the fourth syringe and didn't die. Echo looked at the last syringe.
"What if I don't take it?"
"We will shoot you." A voice said. Echo plunged the syringe in his arm, then he started to convulse. He kept convulsing until he lied still on the ground.
"He must have been the mole." Sinn said
"It might be possible that the mole is still alive. Who's to say that Jet isn't the mole." Skyler said.
"How dare you?"
"You condemned Echo to his death. How do we know that you wouldn't sell the Empire's secrets to the Alliance?"
"Don't you dare send me down the river. I fought for the Empire for the past year. You just came here all of a sudden, but you have the experience of one of us!" Jet said
"Let's calm down." Valetaja said.
"I'm not going to let a human tell me what to do!"
"A human? Just because we're human doesn't mean that we want to kill you" Skyler said.
"Tell that to my family."
The same knife as before rose out of the ground. Jet grabbed it and ran towards Skyler. Skyler grabbed Jet's arms.
"We're looking for a mole!" Skyler yelled.
"I'm looking at them!" Jet kneed Skyler. He backed away. Jet then jumped over him and dug the knife deep into Skyler's head. Jet couldn't get it out.
"You killed two people here! You have to stop!" Sinn yelled. Jet stood there.
"I know he was a mole. I did my duty." Jet looked at the body.
"You humans disgust me. You all abuse my people. You rob us. You fight us. You kill us. You destroy our homes just for existing! I will make you humans pay!" She ran over to Echo. Valetaja tackled her.
"Calm Down!" Sinn looked at the clock. It's already been three hours sense this all started. One hour left on the clock.
"Have we killed the mole?"
Silence
"Answer me! We don't deserve to be stuck here! We have nothing to hide!"
The officials outside of the building have stopped listening.
"ANSWER ME!" Sinn was ignored. Jet stopped trying to fight.
"I'm better now. I'm better." Jet said. She went to the door. "I'm sorry… I'm sorry"
"I know, but you still killed him." Sinn was over Skyler's body. She saw something on his back. She pulled out the knife and cut his shirt off. On his back was a large Tattoo. On his arm was a special one. It was an alliance tattoo.
"He was a mole." Sinn said.
Valetaja went over to Ranger's Body and pulled back his sleeve. There it was, on his arm.
"Two."
Jet went to Echo. She searched his arm but didn't find one. She went to the other and found the same result. She took off his shirt but found nothing again. She put his shirt back on him.
"Echo wasn't a traitor." Jet called out.
Valetaja found the alliance Tattoo on Chron.
"They still think that one of us is the traitor. We'll have to show our arms to them." Valetaja said. He went first and showed his arms to everyone. He looked at Sinn. Sinn hesitated, but started to pull their sleeve up. They only went to elbow then stopped.
"You have to show more."
"Do I?" Sinn went for the knife but couldn't find it.
"What?" Jet snuck up behind Sinn and cup Sinn's arm. Sinn bled, but the tattoo was shown. Jet wrapped her arm around Sinn's neck and squeezed tighter. She grabbed her knife and stabbed Sinn in the kidney.
Sinn fell down to the ground. Sinn grabbed out the knife and tried to stab Jet. Jet stepped back. Sinn started to bleed out. Jet kicked Sinn in the face and picked up the knife. Jet cut Sinn's throat.
"You still haven't proven yourself Jet." Valetaja said
"How could you say that? I just killed the traitor. I knew you humans were seeking to destroy me! Where is it? Where is your Tattoo?" Jet pointed the bloody knife out at Valetaja.
"I don't have one. You on the other hand have yet to prove me otherwise."
"You think so, well then…" Jet pulled up her sleeve, showing no Tattoo. She pulled up her other one, showing no Tattoo on that arm.
"Is that proof enough?" Jet asked.
"No. You asked me where else my Tattoo was. How do we know that you aren't hiding one somewhere besides your arm?" Valetaja said
"Do you want me to strip to prove to you that I'm not a traitor? Is that what you want?"
"No. For someone who's not a traitor, you do seem to be scared."
"You think I'm scared? You must be crazy."
"Or I am right." Valetaja knew what was going to happen next.
"I guess I'll just have to prove it to you. I'll be the one to get out of here." Jet said. She ran towards Valetaja with the knife guarding her forearm. She jumped over Valetaja, but he was ready for that. When she jabbed at his back he turned around and grabbed her wrist. She looked at him. He twisted her arm to make her drop the knife.
Valetaja grabbed the knife. He tried to slash at her, but she cartwheeled backwards, knocking the knife out of his hands. She grabbed the knife as it landed in her hand. She ran towards him, and right before getting to him, she dived under his legs. She sliced at his leg, but he moved only getting a minor scratch on it. He punched her back.
"You're going to have to do better than that."
Valetaja grabbed the knife from her and tried to stab her. She saw the knife coming towards her, so she rolled out of the way. She got back off the ground and tried to get some distance away from him. He was aiming for the right moment to throw the knife. She noticed and jumped out of the way. He threw the knife, but Jet grabbed Ranger's dead body to catch the knife. She felt it enter into his body as she grabbed it out of Ranger's chest.
"That's a foul move." Valetaja said. He rushed Jet, but she wasn't moving. She knew she had to keep the knife close to her, or she was going to die.
Jet jumped on the pedestal and jumped again towards Valetaja. She spun in the air and was ready to deliver the final blow. Valetaja didn't have enough time to avoid the full hit, but he tried his best. His best ended with a knife in his shoulder, and a surprised Jet. He headbutted Jet and knocked her off from the knife, but not before the knife was twisted in his shoulder. He ripped the knife out of his shoulder with a loud scream.
"I'll kill you for that!" Valetaja yelled. He only had the ability to use one arm. Jet shaking off the effect of the headbutt. She took a second to realize that the knife was rushing towards her. She moved to the side before the killing blow could be given, but not before a large gash in her side was made. She grunted in pain, but she needed to focus on the battle. She grabbed the hand that had the knife and tried to force the knife out. She was able to get it out, but she needed to do something to stop Valetaja. She grabbed the knife and drove it into Valetaja's wounded arm. The knife hit bone and broke it. Valetaja screamed. He gave a strong punch to Jet. She backed off with the knife still in hand. She was still wounded, so she couldn't relax just yet.
Jet went up to Valetaja again, trying to get a mark across his stomach. She started, but he moved his hand to stop the killing blow. He stopped the knife with the hand that was broken. His good hand found a home on Jet's neck. He raised Jet up and slammed her into the ground. He grabbed her hair and brought her ears up to his mouth.
"Now, you will pay."
"Traitor…" Jet said weakly. Valetaja slammed her down then threw her in the air. He grabbed the knife and tried to plunge it in Jet's heart. She moved to the side just in time for a burning pain in her gut. She coughed up blood, but she wasn't ready to check out just yet. She punched Valetaja in the nose, and he let go of the knife. She pulled it out and threw it at Valetaja. He was hit in chest. His lung had to be punctured. His breathing became harder, and it caused pain. He took a few more steps towards Jet, but she pulled out the knife. He coughed out blood. She was holding onto her wound, her arm covered in blood. She quickly sliced his throat to end him quickly. He started to choke on his blood. The blood was coming out of his mouth. He still wasn't dead. She plunged it in his head and took a step back. She watched as the once white floor turn red with blood.
She tried to get the help to stabilize by using the wall, but then she felt something poke her.
She put her hand up to her neck and looked up. Echo was standing there. He wasn't dead.
"I just injected you with a something that will make you tell me the truth. Are you a traitor?" Jet soon lost all use of her arms. She couldn't move.
"I am not a traitor." Jet said. Echo fired a second thing at Jet, which she soon learned was a dart.
"This is will clot your blood. It will help you stop bleeding faster and may just keep you alive long enough to get you to the Med bay."
Echo nodded his head at the ceiling.
Stedam sent down a medic team to get Jet out of there. Echo walked out and started his way to the observation area. Stedam waited there and clapped for Echo.
"You found them. Sorry for almost getting you killed in there." Stedam motioned his hand, and a private came up with a briefcase full of Lien.
"I provided for all the weapons in this little activity. Do I get reimbursements for the lose of my knife and syringes?"
"We covered that. It looks like you'll be seeing a lot more of Jet as she'll take Valetaja's position."
"Did you know who the traitors were from the start?"
"All but one. You just helped us know for sure."
"I would also like a different mask. This one could have gotten me killed."
"What kind of mask?"
"I want one that changed my voice, one where I can place two cylinders of poison, and release them, and one with an updated air filtration system. Also, It should also have a built in radio in it."
"Anything else?"
"Make it white. I'll paint it myself."
"We'll get that to you soon."
"And give this to Jet. I'll make her my apprentice." Echo takes off his mask, showing Stedam his face. He pulled up a face mask.
"We'll be seeing you soon Echo."
Author's Notes: So, this was an attempt to do a slower story. I want to know what you thought about it. This wasn't a plot chapter, but more of a character Chapter.
I created Echo for a different story, but this one can fit him.
Next time will be the start of the battle of Pare
May the Force be With You
-DragonZlayerx12
