Ok Chapter 3 up, in response to the one review I've got, he he, will there be romance? Too early to tell so to speak, but it's leaning more on the "Yes" side. I can't tell you who will be involved though. I'm also currently working on another story completely diffrent from this one which I might be releasing chapter 1 soon. I've got chapter 4 done already for this story. If the reviews are good I'll post it up soon. Thanks for reading, R&R please.
Chapter 3:The Phantom Bikers
Bastilla stared out into the area around, wondering what had happened in the dark days. The clouds and dust in the sky seemed to block out most of the sun, keeping it gray. Mira, Jolee, and Atton stood by her side looking out from the top of there ship, the Silver Fire, at the catastrophe in front of them.
"It's terrible... This... This could've been a great city once, a great planet.." Bastilla began shakily. A Jedi was supposed to keep their emotions in check, but this disaster was far too much for Bastilla to take in without letting her emotions seep through her voice. "What could of done this..."
The four were staring out at a distaster. The wreckage was terrible. Amongst the planet there was nothing but wooden shacks splintered, durasteel buildings squashed and splattered. everything destroyed. Pieces of things that once towered over the ground now stuck up from the ground and crushed buildings.
"It's simmilar to the wreckage on Taris isn't it?" Atton replied, seeming alot less shaken up by the sight than Bastilla.
"Well... Yes... Uhm... Not quite, I mean you see..." Bastilla began, stumbling her words."
"You mean you never saw any of the wreckage because you tucked tail and skipped yourself all the way to your precious Jedi Temple?"
"What? Tuck tail, why you little!" Bastilla was visabily furious and it was quite obvious. "I wouldn't call it tucking tail you nerf-herder! What would you consider doing? Sitting at the top of the tallest building you could find to wait around and stay to see the planet fall beneath you?"
"No that's not what I meant at all."
"Well then what DID you mean?"
"Look never mind it, just forget it, I didn't know you were so sensative to areas like the destruction of planets that you willingly slaughtered countless people to steal a crime lords ship and make way with a Twi'Lek runt, a walking old rug, a mandalorian thug and a sith lord."
"Atton if you don't close your trap I'm going to go over there and show you what-!" Bastilla was cut of by the voice of the old former Jedi Master, Jolee Bindo, who had remained quiet, still taking in the destruction of the planet .
"Bastilla! Now now, don't let him get the best of you, control your anger, we've got a mission here, we need to find Juhanni."
"What makes you think that Cathar is still alive?" Mira piped up questionably
"I can feel it. There's life on this planet, even if we don't find Juhanni, we at least should try saving any remaining survivors shouldn't we?"
"Yeah I guess your right Jolee, I guess we should get started looking right?"
"I'd say so, we're not going to accomplish any thing by standing around up here arguing about pointless details," Bastilla replied, sounding a bit still angry, possibly aggitated about the whole argument with Atton.
"Alright well let's go," Jolee said as the gorup made there way down the ship to the surface of the planet.
The gorup had been searching for hours, they still hadn't found a thing indicating what had gone on on the planet. It was still simply a mystery. They had been cut, scraped,
bruised, the scraps of metal and rubble was rough and difficult to move without being cut.
"There's nothing here..." Mira murmmered, getting annoyed and bored by the minute.
"We just need to look some more..." Bastilla said encouragingly.
"Maybe she's right Bast, I mean look we've been searching for hours and we've come up empty handed." Atton said discouraged.
"Atton we need to search some more, if we can find Juhanni then we can have a chance against the Sith! They're out there, and we need all the help that we can get."
"Yeah I guess your right I mean, we could really use some help here in this war against the Sith, I mean if they're really as tough and strong as we think and all, then they're going to be monsters. You know if we-"
"Look, there, right there, there!" Jolee spat out nervously and excitedly, pointing at the direction at two specks far in the distance, moving closer at a significant speed.
"What the-" Bastilla murmmered. "Mira, take out your sniper, see what you can check out."
"You got it commander." Mira replied and obeyed, reaching to her back to grab the long snipper rifle. Quickly she zoomed in to see what was out there, coming closer by the moment.
"Hey it looks like... It looks like... Like speeder bikes... But... I think this thing is broken man, really it looks like they've got hoods on... But no face... Like... Like... Like skeleton heads..."
"What, give me that..." Bastilla yanked the sniper away, partially of fear, partially because Mira was stalling and wasting too much valuable time. She stared through the sniper rifle, keeping it unsteady for the majority of time, but finally got a good look at what Mira had described.
"My Force... You're telling the truth Mira! Here, guys look at this!" Quickly she handed the rifle to Atton who would pass it on to Jolee after looking through at the skeleton heads.
"What's going on guys?" Mira asked a bit worried.
"I'm not sure... Everybody, I do not think that these guys mean buisness, everybody get your wepons ready!" Bastilla and Jolee gripped there lightsaber hilts tightly and ignited them, showing the bright yellow blades, almost exactly the same except that Bastilla's was a double-bladed light saber, rather than a single-blade like Jolee Bindo's. Nother-the-less Jolee was still deadly and prepared for battle.
Atton grabbed two heavy blaster pistols as Mira grabbed her Repeating Mandalorian Blaster Rifle. The two speeder bikes zoomed in closer and closer, and it appeared they were hostile. The two beings shot out at the gorup quickly with blaster rifles. Bastilla spun her double-bladed saber in a circle motion
Blaster shots went straight by the heads of the phantom swoop bike pilots. Atton ran straight to the left without turning, blasting off shots at the two bikes, hoping to damage the main engines to send their pilots flying out in front of them. Mira jumped to a small area that had the corner of an old rusted up busted building still standing straight. She leaped to take cover there as blaster fire penetrated the wall in front of her. As the blasters stopped shortly she rose up just enough to fire a round off at one of the men, hitting his arm a couple of times, yet the man gripped the handle bars with ease.
Bastilla and Jolee positioned thereselves with there knees bent in a ready possition. As blaster fire was returned at there allies and the two phantoms came nearer, Bastilla and Jolee leaped up. Bastillas saber twirled at the neck of the one on the right, cutting the head cleanly off, then going for a stab at the torso of the same phantom. The pilot flew back off the bike, and the bike spun out of control, crashing into a large trash heap.
Jolee's saber cut straight through the middle of the second phantom immidietly cutting him in half and sending him flying off the bike as well. The two saber weildiers shut off there wepons but kept them in hand as Mira and Atton rushed back towards them.
"That was... More than enough for one day.." Bastilla panted. They looked down and up close at the heads, and saw that they really were skeleton heads, in fact the whole entire body were skeletons beyond the cape and there long robe like clothing which covered there entire bodies.
"These things... How do they have life? There simply skeletons.."
"There has to be something else Bastilla. Some other controller here, controlling there every move.. Now lets go check out those bikes.." Jolee said.
The four warriors walked towards the trash heap and moved out the bikes and laid them down on the ground in the orange sand to see how it looked. It seemed no diffrent than the average and standard speeder bike. There was no way that these could've been programmed to run through and fire blaster shots like that. And there was no way the skeletons could've piloted them.
"Well this is quite the mystery isn't it, "Jolee announced. They stood staring at the speeder bikes with there backs to the split skeleton pieces.
"Yes," Bastilla agreed. "We need to get back to the ship to tell the others of what we've discovered."
"Yes I agree," Jolee replied. "Are you all up for the short journey back? " The two others nodded in agreement. The hike would be short back to the ship considering they took hours to search but did not actually move too many kilometers far out. "Alright then, well if-" Jolee stopped dead in the middle of his sentance. Bastilla felt it too.
The two turned around, hands on there hilts of there saber still. They activated there blades and threw them spinning behind them at the newly re-put together skeletons, slicing through them once going through them, and again going straight back through them to get back to their owners hands. The skeletons dropped dead, for real this time, motionless and lifeless.
"Let's go," Bastilla commanded.
"Mmhm." Jolee said as he nodded with the others, turning to hike back up to the ship.
"Hello? Visas? Brianna? Hello? Can anybody here me?" Bastilla spoke through the Silver Fire's communications device.
"Hello? Bastilla?" The voice came kind of faint and with alot of static. Bastilla ran her fingers over the controlls to try and bring the voice back more clearler.
"Bastilla?" The voice came more clearler this time, minimum static, and definatley louder.
"Yes, Visas, this is Bastilla."
"What is it Bastilla, do you have any new information?
"Yes Visas. Please transfer me into Drendan and Revan's ship."
"Ok hold on one moment..." Visas appeared to be typing in something into the commands though Bastilla couldn't see exactly what was going on because they were too far out and apart to communicate to the ships full capeability. "Ok Drendan? Hello? Revan..."Visas said Revan with a tone of hatred in her voice. "Drendan?"
Bastilla seemed a bit worried.
"Ok let me tune into Drendan's com-link. All messages from his ship can do directly to his com-link, give me a second... Drendan? Hello? Drendan, can you hear me? Drendan do you copy, please respond..."Visas tried for a couple more minutes before finally giving up.
"Bastilla, I can't get through, I-I, I just can't seem to reach them. I don't know what must've happened, those two should be answering perfectly, I don't see how they are not able to answer... Something must've happened.. Yes I can feel it now in the force, I can feel it running through, dark ripples in the force.."
"Visas, we'll leave right now to whereever their ships communications device is coming from, give us the coordinates and-"
"Bastilla, no!" Visassaid angerly and firmly. "You have a mission to find all the heroes of the Star Forge, you must find the others before you leave, you can not leave without those people onboard your ship, do you understand me!"
"Visas you are not my Jedi Master, nor are you a Jedi Master at all, the Jedi Order is no longer in existence, we will rebuild, but as of now your nothing but a civilian to me when it comes to taking orders, I will do what I want when I please do you understand you old blind woman, do you understand!" Bastilla was clearly visuably, but even through her voice it was obvious that she was anger.
"Control your anger fool! You expect to get anything accomplished by lashing out at your commanders? You fool, I am not one to fool with, you better-"
"Visas you are not even close to my commander, my commander and general is Darth Revan, a man far superior to you and your useless weak tactics and over abusive power controlling antics, so why don't you take all your pathetic speaches and lectures of how your the Jedi Master and about how your a commander and you can just shove them-"
"Now now Bastilla," Jolee chimed in. "Maybe she's right, I mean I've seen Revan in action, he's a great warrior, I doubt that he'll need our help. I don't think that he's in too bad of a situation considering how he's got that exile by his side."
"Yeah Jolee's right," Mira agreed. "Drendan has taken down the toughest of the tough, the biggest of the bigsgest. He's bested ledgends, he's punked out giants, I don't think he or Darth Revan will be needing any help. Cmon' Bast, we've got a job to do."
"Yeah even I can't disagree with them. If Drendan's with Revan, Revan won't even come close to any true danger." Atton nodded as he spoke, with an encouraging grin across his face.
"What?" Bastilla couldn't believe what she was hearing. "I-I don't believe this... But-but guys, what if there any danger?"
"They'll be fine,"Visas shouted. "End transmission."
"But-" Bastilla was cut off before she could continue, and before she could get the coordinates of Drendan and Revan's laocation.