Chapter 2:
The palace's shield collapsed.
"What's going on." Stolas said to a servant.
The servant was looking through his holocom.
"Our shield generator was hacked by the Shadow Exchange." The servant said.
Two Shadow Exchange ships crashed against the palace and began to unload mercenaries.
One mercenary dropped down and shot the servant and went to shoot Stolas until Stolas used his magic to release a few stones from his wall and launch them like bullets into the mercenary.
"Already making a mess of my place." Stolas grumbled.
"Look what you did!" Stella shouted running over to him.
"What I did!?" Stolas yelled back.
"Putting your chips on the Federation, that's what you did! Now we are targets to the galaxy!" Stella shouted.
Stella walked away from him finding Octavia and grabbed her wrist.
"Mom, let go!" Octavia shouted.
"We're leaving to a stronghold, come on!" Stella shouted.
"Where's dad!" Octavia said.
"Let's go!" Stella shouted ignoring her question.
Stella pulled Octavia off into the palace while soldiers ran by to take care of the invaders.
Scourge headed outside and used the force to bring one of the cruisers away from the side of the palace and throwing it off into the garden.
"Isn't that Stolas' garden?" Karura asked walking up.
"Was." Scourge said.
Five Raloi frigates rush to hover over the palace while starfighters flew out to engage enemy starfighters.
"Who are these people?" Karura asked.
"Apart of the Shadow Exchange." Thane said running up to them.
"Where are Ken and Eto?" Scourge asked.
"Off to fight the invaders." Thane said.
They noticed a strange-looking ship coming down and it's turbolasers shot down at the palace while it kept flying toward it and stopped dropping down two escape pods into the destroyed opening of the palace.
The escape pods opened and two people walked out of them, a male and female that looked nearly identical to what they was wearing and with earrings on.
They was both Vampyres, the male named Noi, and the female named Vern.
Three guards ran at them and both of the Vampyre's rung out a strange sonic boom from their mouths that knocked the guards away and burst their eardrums and then their brains.
"I bet they are keeping Stolas somewhere secure." Noi said.
The two noticed Octavia and Stella running somewhere with six guards following them.
"I think I know where he is." Noi said with a grin.
Noi pushed his orange styled shades up and both him and Vern leaped down a few floors from the walkway and landed down in front of Octavia, Stella, and their guards.
The guards aimed but were blasted away by the same supersonic wind that blew their brains out.
Stella went to attack but Vern leaped up biting her fangs into her neck and Noi letting out a burst of air from his palm that cut right through her chest and out of her back.
Octavia began to create a spell until Vern spun her foot out and kicked Octavia into a pillar.
"Wait, this is his daughter." Noi said.
Octavia was knocked when her head made an impact with the pillar.
Noi contacted a Shadow Exchange pilot to their location and a shuttle headed down from the strange-looking ship.
"Now we-" Vern began to say.
A blaster bolt hit Vern's right ear, blasting it off making her yip in pain.
Noi turned around and saw Joker with his blaster drawn.
"I'm not letting you take anyone." Joker said.
Vern turned around and let out a powerful wind from her mouth which swirled and began to cut up Joker.
Joker weakly tried to shoot again but his gun was ripped apart and soon his body was shredded up by the powerful razer wind.
Joker dropped to the floor and the shuttle crashed through the wall and Noi and Vern handcuffed Octavia and placed her into the shuttle, and the shuttle headed back to the large ship.
"Joker!" Scourge shouted running in.
Ken leaped down next and de-summoned his kakuja.
"Oh my god." Ken said.
Joker laid there dead staring at the ceiling.
Scourge put his fingers on his eyes and shut them.
The Shadow Exchange fleet headed up into the sky, heading back into space, and eventually the remaining forces left into hyperspeed.
A few minutes later, Thane was looking at the enemy bodies.
"They are mercenaries for the Shadow Exchange alright." Thane said after examining them.
Stolas ran in.
"Dude I'm sorry about-" Hide began to say.
"Octavia! Octavia!" Stolas shouted looking around in panic.
"Stolas, calm down." Ken said.
Stolas turned and gave Ken a scary stare.
"Don't you tell me to calm down!" Stolas said eerily.
"Stolas, your ex-wife is dead." Hide said.
"As sad as it is to hear that, my focus now is finding my daughter." Stolas said.
"Sir! We found a datapad left in your throne, with a note to say to give it to you." A Raloi guard said.
Stolas took it and turned it on.
Stolas read it and then while the datapad was in his hands, he began to crunch it down breaking the metal and letting the electrical sparks hurt him but it didn't seem like he cared.
"What did it say?" Ken asked.
"They have my daughter. It's me they want, and they will make a trade." Stolas said.
"Can't we then go and I don't know, destroy this company?" Ken asked.
"They want to meet on a disclosed location on the outer rim of our System, on a barren planet of ice." Stolas said.
"They would never disclose their base location to us. Makes sense they want to do the exchange in this system." Thane said.
"No one knows where their base is?" Scourge asked.
"No. I also doubt they'd have Octavia with them. They'd want Stolas and her to have a much grander bounty." Thane said.
Stolas walked over to his desk.
"There has to be a way we can- what are you doing?" Ken asked looking to Stolas.
Stolas brought out a strange looking device and turned it on.
"What is that?" Hide asked.
"A tracking device I put on Octavia's phone. Luckily they never took it off her because they wouldn't know what our way of communication looks like. I see she's at the Beskarr System on the planet Karakame." Stolas said.
"Karakame, I never heard of it." Ken said.
"Karakame is a drug lord's dream. The Hutts used to control it until the Hutt Cartels all disbanded. Only recently was the last Hutt to disband the Cartel and now the Cartel is no more, now leaving the Shadow Exchange as the last and most powerful illegal business center." Thane said.
Stolas picked up his grimoire and walked out while speaking to one of his guards.
"I want half of our fleet to head to Karakame, ask everyone else to stay here." Stolas said.
"Wait hold on, you're going to need help." Eto said.
"I won't risk any more lives." Stolas said.
"Think straight, if you go now then you might put her in danger. We will help you." Eto said.
Stolas shook his head.
"This is my fault, I should have knew the risks of leaving my Tyrant title behind. I must fix it." Stolas said.
Eto grabbed his collar yanking him down to face her.
"You aren't going alone." Eto said sternly.
Stolas gulped and looked at Ken and the others who were ready to go.
"Thank you, my friends." Stolas said with a soft smile.