(A/N) Ok I've got the next few chapters all figured out. I'm still thinking of new ideas but I can't figure anything out besides the next couple of chapters. I'll try to have everyone
Chapter 8
"Hold on," Drendan said to Revan as he stepped out of the cockpit seat. "I think we've got an incoming call."
Drendan put the ship on auto-pilot through the hyperspace plunge and Revan followed him into the communications room. Drendan was right, the comunications computer was flashing red, Drendan clicked in some commands and answered the call.
"This is Drendan Kline." Drendan answered.
"Drendan, oh thanks the Force that you answered this time!" Visas exclaimed. She typed in some more commands and another hologram appeared of Jolee Bindo sitting in the Silver Fire's communication.
"Drendan, where in the galaxy have you been!" Jolee lectured like an overprotective parent.
"Well... First we went to some crazy water like plan-"
"Bah! We don't have time for this, Bastilla's been severely injured and kidnapped!"
"What!" Revan shouted immidietly. "How could you let that happen, you were a Jedi Master!"
"Now now Revan, you don't under-"
"I don't need to! All I know is you and those space rats were with her and you just let her go! How cou.ld you do this!"
"Revan!" Visas began.
"You call yourslef a warrior! You're a pathetic weak fool Jolee, where were you!"
"Revan calm down-" Jolee began but once again Revan shouted in rage.
"Don't you tell me to calm down old man! Where are you!"
Jolee sighed.
"We're on Telos. If the kidnappers came through so quickly we probally have a chance of catching them."
"Shut down all space transport, make sure that no ship gets off the ground without being obliterated!"
"But Revan, I just don't have that type of power, I-"
"Well you better get that type of power."
"But there are ships full of medical supplys! The Sith invasion as left many dying and some on the brink of death, but with these medical shipments, there might be a chance to perserve life for them!"
"Bastilla is worth more than those peasents! I said stop the ships from coming in and getting out! Now!" Revan was in a deep fury that none had seen much of. The communications computers began to spark and smoke a bit. As Revan began to calm himself down, the computers seemed to be coming to a halt of falters.
"Stop those ships, at least untill we get there, after that you can go back to your shadowland exploring. You're of no use to the Republic anymore." Revan stormed out of the area leaving Drendan to explain the rest.
"Well Drendan, we don't have much choice now do we," Jolee said. "I mean Bastilla is quite important. If we can hold this down untill you get here, that'll be fine. But now what has been going on? Where have you been?"
"Well we went to some unknown planet, it was called Kancrod. Completely off the maps. We were captured and beaten but when we escaped and they saw our power, they begged for forgivness. Just happened to be that the Sith came by to do a routine raid on the people. We set up a navy ship and fought back. After that... We were captured again.. By the Sith this time. Revan managed to easily fool the Sith who ran the place. The Kancrodian's attacked and the ship began to sink. I managed to escape and joined with Revan and the Sith just in time to defeat him. Get this though... The Sith said that he was a Sith apprentice.. To Darth Malak."
"What?"
"Yeah he had to be lieing. He must've been up all night with a bottle of Tarisian ale."
"No Drendan, that was no lie, we encountered Malak! He has possesed Juhanni. We had barely escaped his wrath."
"This nightmare just keeps getting worse... The True Sith, Malak's secret fleet, and one small gorup of former Jedi caught in the mix to defeat them all and save the galaxy."
"Well Drendan, we've met up with Carth. He's gone off to try and get the Alderran system to re-allie with us. We're hoping they will understand the importance of this. As soon as we can get the chance, we'll be traveling to Taris to search for Mission and Zaalbar. We hope that if we can find Zaalbar, then we can get the Kashyyyk system to join as well."
"Alright Jolee, well I suppose that we'll be there in a while, we've pretty much recovered from all of our wounds except I've got this-"
Suddenly red lights began to flash in side the whole ship and a loud alarm sound began to blaze through the Ebon Hawk.
"What the-" Drendan began. He peaked around the corner to see Revan working the controls in the cockpit.
"Hold on!" Revan began. "We're being attacked by some ship! It's a Interdictor-Star Cruiser Sith Elite ship!"
"Drendan, what's going on!" Visas shouted.
"We're being attacked!"
"This ship it..." Revan began. "It looks like the Leviathan, but much, MUCH larger!" The large ship began to dispatch many small Sith fighters. They began to surround the Ebon Hawk and circle around them. They failed to fire however, simply surrounding them as more and more began to follow them, creating a large circle. The com-unit began to flash and Drendan opened another com-line.
A red skined humanoid appeared. His chin was sharp and pointy like a long goatee only it appeared hard and red-skinned like the rest of the creatures body. On it's head was a small purple hood behind a gold crown like object. Two golden wings met in the middle of it's forehead, where a large gold bar shaped like a daimond rested on the purple cloth. On it's shoulders were two large pointy golden shoulder armor pads. The rest of what was visible on the hologram was covered in a purple robe.
It began speaking in a language Revan nor Drendan could understand. They made out a few words such as, "Sith'ari", "Jin'jidai", and a few other unworldly words. It was clear that this man was not their ally. Revan typed in commands to signal a surrander if the being could understand.
The Ebon Hawk slowly began to drift towards the large ship, clearly due to a tractor beam.
Drendan shut off the com-unit and and began to work the controls making sure any soundwaves coming from his ship to the Phonis-vex would be covered in static unless they cracked the code. Only those who had aided him in his quest to reunite the Jedi Council and Carth Onasi knew the code so it would be easy to reach eachother without alerting the enemys. Drendan sent in a signal back to Visas and she answered quickly.
"Visas," Drendan began to speak urgently. "We've got no time to waste! We've been ambushed and surrounded, we've fallen into they'retractor beam, these aren't the Sith! They're the species! Red-skinned warriors, unless we think and move fast we'll probally be killed, they're more powerful than anyone we've ever faced before, Visas take Brianna, Bao-Dur, HK, T3 and Mandalore and get over here as fast as you can! We're going to need all the help we can-"
The com-unit began to break up and few words were heard between the static. The Ebon Hawk came closer to the large ship and the fighters began to retract back into the large ship hangars. The Ebon hawk soon landed inside of a large hangar and dozens of red skinned beings marched into the Ebon Hawk, all wearing black tunics and garments with lightsaber hilts on their sides.
They grabbed Revan and Drendan by their arms, then rushed and shoved them down the halls and out of the ship quickly. They tossed them down the ramp and they fell roughly and hardly. The two men grunted and brushed them selves off as they began to stand up, and they immidietly flew back down. They looked up and saw the man from the hologram, only he was much larger. The man appeared so dark and powerful even Drendan and Revan began to feel a slight wave of fear themselves. The man looked at them for quite a few moments before speaking once again, not making any sense to them.
After a long moment of no responses the Sith appeared to call for a droid. He made a motion and a protocool droid walked in a moment later. It looked to it's owner and the Sith began to speak. After he finished the droid turned to the two frightened men and began to translate.
"Sir's, my master says he has brought you here for a reason. He is the Sith lord, Horrus Jecklor, the real Sith lord. He is of the Sith species, and is the ruler of all Sith and is here to wipe the Sith imposters and Jedi off the face of the galaxy, for good. You will give him information that he wants. His first question is this:Who are you and where are the other Force sensatives."
The two stared wide-eyed in shock. They hadn't even stood up and they were already being interrogated. Drendan was beginning to open his mouth when Revan defiantly spat out,"Tell Horrus he can rot on Korriban because we're not saying anything!"
Even Revan was surprised by his own defiance and rebelism. After the translation, Horrus grew with anger at Revan's answer. He gave a low scream and used the Force to pick up the innocent droid and toss it into the wall, shattering it. Quickly Horrus realized his mistake, but had an easy solution. He stared at Drendan intently, staring at him like a Krayt Dragon watching it's pray. Within a minute Horrus had already learned the Stadard Republic language from Drendan. There would be no use for a droid.
"You are quite the brave one, Darth Revan." Horrus's voice deep and raspy. "But your fate depends on your next answers. Drendan however, I will ask you this one. Drendan, where is... Bastilla Shan."
"None of your damn buisness, go jump into a sarlacc pit." Drendan said with confidence. In truth, he wasn't quite sure where she was himself.
"I must've taken in the wrong language, because you seem to be quite the rebel."
"You've taken in the right language nerf herder." Revan remarked.
"Very well, if you choose not to cooperate you will perish. You two will face off in battle against two of my most skilled warriors. If you win, you will be tortured. If you lose, you're already dead." Horrus seemed to have no plans to compromise. Two Sith men yanked Drendan and Revan to their feet and rushed them through a door and down a hall as Horrus took a diffrent path. The Sith tossed the two into another room that was quite diffrent than the halls they just came from. The room looked simmilar to the battle arena in the Upper-city Taris cantina, only instead of civillians cheering for blood, there were hundreds, possibly thousands of Sith. It was a sea of black and red throughout the arena. In front of the two a pair of Sith who looked almost exactly like the others walked through a door opposite.
The Sith drew their sabers quickly before anything further could be explained. Revan and Drendan had no clue as to what was taking place or what was going on, but they both knew from their Jedi, and even Sith trainings, that they had no time to waste. It would be frolly to consider reasoning with the beings. They drew their wepons as well and got into a defensive stance just in time to block strikes from the enemy Sith.
Revan quickly took the offensive pose as he swung his lightsaber high towards the head of his attacker. The Sith quickly ducked and went for a stab but Revan had already flipped over him and landed facing the Sith. Revan took a sweep at him quickly before he even had fully landed. The Sith rolled to the left on the ground. Revan had him right where he wanted him, off blanace and on the edge. Revan stabbed at the torso of the red-skinned man but he rolled out of the way to the right. Revan managed to stop him for a fraction of a second using the Force, but he had just enough time to drive his boot hard and fast into the rib cage of the man, cracking a bone most likely.
Drendan was more evenly matched with his opponent as they clashed sabers, each trying to change the tide but neither able to without losing a limb themselves. Drendan struck right, but the Sith struck the opposite side at a quicker speed than before. Half way to the man's side, Drendan was at least 75 percent sure that he would strike before the Sith. Drendan swerved his saber to the left to block his weakness. He couldn't take the chance. Drendan overpowered the man in the lock up and soon their sabers were driving into the floor. Drendan swung his right foot at the Sith's head but he ducked. Drendan landed his right leg on the other side so that the sabers were between his legs. The saber's slowly moved up due to the position Drendan was in and they neared his crotch slowly. Drendan was soon to be sliced slowly and painfully, but he swung his left leg to the Sith's head quickly. The man was caught off guard and ducked again. It gave Drendan the chance to push down on the red saber to prevent himself from being sliced. At the same time Drendan swung his left leg back around and nailed the man right in the chin. He staggered backwards from the hit, but Drendan kept attacking and nailed the man with his right foot this time. He nearly fell back from the hit. Drendan stroked his arm up and to the left, slicing through the Sith's hand. As the Sith screeched in pain, Drendan twirled his saber and stabbed him straight in the stomache, ending the battle between the two.
Revan had the other Sith on thin ice. He had gotten up, but he was always just a small split second away from not blocking, and he got slower every minute. Sweat poured down the red-skinned head. Revan began to fake the warrior out, starting right then curving off to the left and up, going high then circling around to the right. Within minutes the man was cut down, he was sliced slightly all over and couldn't fight any longer. He dropped to his knees, and lost his head. Revan and Drendan looked up at a large tower in the ship's arena, still weilding wepons, drenched in sweat.
"Very well," Horrus's voice boomed through speakers, it was clear he was in the tower. "You win the grand prize Jedi. You will be tortured for the deaths of our men, and tortured for resisting to give us information. You will be tortured untill you give us information, guards take them away."
Many Sith poured in through each entrances and shoved the fighting men through the halls. They tried to escape but there was no way. They had lost.
