Ahsoka awoke to find herself tied up to a metal pole inside a dark room when her vision returned she looked to see Hestia was sticking a kneeled in her arm, wincing when she saw it cause her muscles tensed. The girl bit her lip to fight off the pain as Hestia pushed the liquid of the vial into her "What is that, poison, drug?" She asked the doctor. The girl was covered in bruises and mud from her fight from Beatnik.
"All medicine are drugs, this is morphine it'll dull whatever pain you're having girl." Hestia said as she took out the needle. Ahsoka felt the medicine loosen up her body and bring a sense of relaxation from head to toe, singing she tried to keep herself focused.
"And it'll dull my senses, I.. I won't talk, not even if you torture me." She said pushing the doctor away. Hestia didn't leave. She flashed a light in each of Ahsoka's eye and saw the girl was concussed.
Hestia put the needle back into a medical bag with a Red Cross on it smirked "What part of doctor don't you understand, we don't hurt people." She said closing the bag and getting up.
"Then why am I tied up?" Ahsoka asked the white skinned arkanian offshoot, Hestia smirked "So you don't try to escape and hurt us."
Hestia walked to the door, when it opened Ahsoka saw Teeseven, in the doorway before it shut closed. Leaning up against the wall out of sight was Ladon, the trandoshan had his arm bandaged after losing it. "How is she?" Ladon asked Hestia.
"She has a concussion, do you have any that plant stuff we got from that dealer on Corellia, the ones that made Beatnik go insane and destroy our food supply?" She asked Ladon.
He shook the scales on his head left to right "Alright then we let her sleep it off, then you can question her in the meantime what do you plan to do with her?"
"You think I'm going to hurt her, she's a child?" Ladon asked the doctor.
"She's also a jedi, you've killed them before?" Hestia said hand on her hip.
Ladon sighed getting off the wall "Only when they try to kill me or usss."
Hestia narrowed her white eyes at him, "I just want to talk to her when she's able, I'll leave that up to you." Ladon turned around and walked away heading to the cockpit.
Meanwhile the doctor walked down the hallways of the ship while Teeseven stayed behind in front of the door as she returned to the med bay. When she opened the doors she saw Ulic-Nox was trying to get up out of the bed "You shouldn't be up."
"Hestia?" He asked, turning around.
"Lado, where's Ladon and Teeseven?" He started to try and get off to walk toward her but lost his footing. Hestia dropped her bag and ran to catch him helping him onto the bed "Fine, everyone's fine except you." She said cupping his face.
She grabbed her bag off the floor and opened it taking out a medical device to scan him "You need to rest."
"I- I can't rest." Ulic said stubbornly trying to get up but Hestia forced him back down "No." she said.
Ulic grabbed her pulling her eye level "Ladon said I'm captain now, that means-" "Jack squat to me, I'm the ship's medic that means I out rank everyone when it comes to health so get back in that bed until I say so." In the flurry of the argument Ulic didn't even notice the syringe stuck into his leg, Ulic-Nox's eyes rolled back into his head as he hit the bed out cold.
"Stubborn as your brother." Hestia sighed, shaking her head back and forth.
Back in Ahsoka's makeshift cell she struggled to get free before giving up seeing the knots around her were wound tight and she had nothing to cut herself. Taking a deep breath she started to focus on the ropes through the force, she focused on each knot starting to loosen them when the door burst open breaking her concentration. Teeseven rolled in, wheeling up to her the droid beeped a few times getting her attention "Yes it's nice to see you to but I'm not Ashala, my name is Ah-SO-Kah." She reiterated to the droid.
"Where are we going, I can tell by the ships humming we're in hyperspace?" She asked.
The droid started to answer her before Buur walked in "Droid." He barked.
The droid turned its plate head around at him curios at what he'd done to warrant such a tone "Go check on the engines droid."
The droid turned away from Ahsoka and beeped goodbye before leaving the room, Buur waited till the droid was gone and shut the door behind him leaving him in the room with Ahsoka, the mercenary towered over at her "What are you looking at ugly?" Ahsoka asked the advozian.
He reached under his is belt and pulled out a blade "You killed my Captain, he was the meanest son of a bitch I ever met but he was my friend so this is going to hurt and I'm going to enjoy it." Buur growled kneeling down putting the blade to her cheek, it was so sharp the touch against her cheek cut her, she winced "I didn't kill anyone." She said back.
"You might as well have locked us up in that cell." Buur said slowly starting to drag the blade when Ahsoka saw a Ladon behind him.
Ladon's claws grabbed Buur by the back of his collar and yanked him back throwing him into the back wall, Ladon kicked him in the balls. When Buur dropped his knife grabbing them about to fall over Ladon pinned him into the wall with one arm growling at his throat "I said no one touchesss her Buurrrrr." The rumbling in the lizards throat was a growl slowly rising.
A one armed trandoshan and advoze locked eyes "You protecting this karking jeedai murderer after dey killed Macross?"
"Macross made hisss choice, we all made the choice to do thisss job." Ladon snapped showing his fangs "Ulic-Nox didn't, this kids the dying after one of hers ran him through like a dog." Buur hissed about to raise his arms but Ladon dug his claws deep into the advoze's neck causing him to bleed.
Ladon through him at the doorway, Buur grabbed onto the doorway so he wouldn't fall "Get out." Buur spat on the floor at Ladon's feet before he left, Ladon sighed taking a deep breath before turning around to Ahsoka. He grabbed a crate with his one arm and pulled it toward her before stopping. He opened the crate and took out a corked bottle before he sat down on top of it. Ripping the cork out with his teeth then took a swig of the bottle and savored the taste, Ahsoka could smell the alcohol from her tied up spot and gagged a bit.
"Sssorry about him Jeedai" Ladon said setting the bottle down.
Rubbing his eyes, Ahsoka looked up at him before she spoke "Ulic-Nox, your friend said he was dying?"
"He's hurt, real bad by your massster, the one with the scar." Ladon said dragging his claw across his left eye to let Ahsoka know it was Anakin who'd done the deed.
"That's impossible, master would never hurt someone unless they deserved it let alone try to kill them?" Ahsoka said as Ladon looked at her with sympathetic eyes.
Taking another drink he burped "Maybe you don't know him asss much ass you think, than again I've only talked to Jeedai from the other end of one of these." Ladon said taking out her lightsaber from his vest.
"That's mine." Ahsoka snapped trying to break free but couldn't, Ladon snickered before he put it away "Obviousssly, you'll get it back when i sssay."
Ahsoka's desire to get her lightsaber back was turned into curiosity "You… aren't going to kill me?" She asked as he took another drink.
Ladon took his drink and shook his head "No for now you'll be our guest-" "You mean prisoner." She asked tugging at the bindings.
The two of them kept a stare on one another before Ladon finished the bottle entirely before throwing it at the wall and leaned in close his breath reeking of the vile drink. "Don't press your luck with me Jeedai, both Buur and Beatnik want you dead or worse, your master may have killed the last thing I value in this galaxy so don't give me a reason to give you to them." Ahsoka looked at his strong powerful jaws. His razor sharp fangs could easily take out her neck with a single bite.
Ahsoka could feel fear traveling up her spine as he closed his jaws "Now I want to ask you something, you'll answer me honestly and bare in mind if Ulic dies you may follow." Ladon said.
"Jedi are known to have powers of healing, can-you-help-him?" Ladon asked Ahsoka went pale.
She gulped "I… I don't know, only the most powerful Masters can heal mortal wounds."
The trandoshan snarled before he got up, he walked to the door leaving her alone again, when he shut it he saw Hestia walking down the hallway "I thought you said I'd get to choose when you talk to her?" The doctor asked.
"How's Ulic?" Ladon asked to change the subject.
"Stubborn, like Macross, I gave him enough meds to knock a rancor out." She said, facing her the hunter walked up to her "I asked if ssshe could heal him like in the old stories the kids mom use to tell me, she says ssshe doesn't know?" Ladon said, Hestia looked over at the door.
"Will we make it to the Revanites in time?" Ladon asked her.
Hestia didn't answer him. She only looked at the door to Ahsoka's room "Hestia?" Ladon asked.
"No, not unless she can help him." She whispered.
Ladon squeezed his remaining claw into a tight fist before releasing it, a few seconds later Ahsoka's cell door opened with both Ladon and Buur walking in, Buur holding his knife. The cut her from the pole and dragged Ahsoka to her feet "This way." Ladon hissed. She was lead out of the 'cell' and down to the medbay, Ahsoka saw the door open to see Ulic-Nox was laid out on the medical bed under a blanket with a breathing mask over his mouth keeping him sedated. Teeseven was on one side and Beatnik was on another holding a scatter gun pointed at her.
"I remember you." Ahsoka said to the Jawa who replied to her in his own tongue with what was definitely an insult.
Buur cut the ropes around her arms off making the fall to the floor before she felt the back of a blaster up against her lekku by Ladon, "Heal him." Ladon growled.
"I… I don't know if I can, I've never tried?" Ahsoka said, Hestia came past Buur and grabbed the girl by the hand "Try?" Hestia begged.
Ahsoka looked at her, the doctors face was sincere with what she was asking, she could feel the fear in the room but also the anger and the hatred. Ahsoka rubbed her arms and wrist and looked back at Ladon who gestured for her to at least try. Ahsoka took a deep breath walking up to Ulic's bed on the side of Teeseven the droid had one claw on the bed holding Ulic's hand and asked her something in droids peak "I'm not sure I… I'll try Teeseven." Ahsoka said before Hestia pulled back the blanket and showed the bandaged wound, blood had started to seep out of it and Ahsoka gulped.
She raised one hand and put it on Ulic's chest, the slightest touch made the boy wince when Buur almost stepped in Hestia got up and stopped him. Ahsoka reached into the living force over Ulic-Nox and closed her eyes, but they jolted up with a chill running up her spine "What is it?" Hestia asked as everyone saw the wild movement in her body.
"He's… he's weak."
"Tends to happen when you get- Stabbed." Buur grumbled.
Ladon who had his blaster still trained on Ahsoka lowered it "Pleassse, pleassse try our family can't loose another one so sssoon."
Ahsoka heard the sincerity in his voice and took a deep breath before she closed her eyes again and focused on the wound.
TWILIGHT, HYPERSPACE
Many hyperspace kilometers away because even in space the imperial system is dumb, Anakin and Obi-Wan were on their way to the nearest Republic fleet. Anakin leaned back in his chair slapping his gloved hand over his face "How could I let this happen, again first Bane and now these smugglers."
"Ahsoka is strong and I sense she's still alive." Obi-Wan said trying to comfort the padawanless jedi.
"For the moment, these criminals could gut her at any second for revenge." Anakin snapped almost jumping out of his chair.
Obi-Wan wasn't faced by the harsh tone in his old students words "Its the boy isn't it, your still thinking on it."
"How could I not." Anakin sighed cupping his eyes "He just wouldn't stop Master, he was losing there was no way he could win and he kept fighting." Anakin said rubbing the hand and wrists that dealt the blow to Ulic.
"Master I know being Jedi, we have the hardest job when it comes to making that choice to kill or not, but they never you never prepared for children- not children." Anakin said clearly shaken by the incident, one he never meant to happen.
Obi-Wan could feel the anger and doubt within Anakin "I've contacted Master Plo Koon's fleet in the nearby Corellia System they know we're on our way and will hold position in the meantime their Captain, the older brother I saw a recording of you two talking what do you think he meant by you forgot about your people?" Obi-wan asked him to try to get him to think about something else while still focusing on their objective.
"At first I thought he was referring to Tatooine when I was a slave to the Hutts, looking at the records of both Macross Shan and the Jawa they had plenty of dealings with the Hutts?" Anakin said turning off the self pity and focusing on being a jedi.
"I searched Republic Records for their names, nothing for Shan that was over five hundred years ago." Obi-Wan got up and walked over to the ships secondary monitor the one Ahsoka would usually sit in when it was just the two of them. "Ahsoka requested the classified texts of the Shan line before we left."
Anakin smiled "That's my girl." Anakin said walking over and turning on the monitor next to Obi-Wan "I took a look at them myself, and found some very interesting details."
"Like?" Anakin asked "Like the line of Shan ended three hundred years ago at the end of the High Republic Era." Obi-Wan said
"So Shan isn't their real name?" Anakin asked "Perhaps, I referenced Republic records in the outer rim once we were able to get our hands on before the Separatists rose to power there are various bounties and prison sentences for Shan's but almost all were either annulled or taken down, someone or something has been covering the tracks of anyone with the name Shan." Obi-Wan told him skipping through files and images of wanted posters but the faces had been blacked out or the data was corrupted.
"Do you think the Council had anything to do with it?" Anakin asked him.
Obi-Wan gave him a worrisome glance "Honestly Anakin the Council isn't always against you, but now that you say it if someone was able to corrupt these files then they must have been able to do it within the temple?" Obi-Wan guessed.
"We need to find out, they may be helping the smugglers and that could lead us to Ahsoka?" Anakin said.
NIGHTINGALE
In another part of the galaxy, Ulic was awake he sat up in his bed and reached for his stomach the wound was healed leaving only a seared flesh scar. All the pain in his back was gone and the tan skin was slightly paler from the burn but that was it. Sittin on a chair across from him was a drowsy Hestia who woke up seeing him "Your awake." Hestia said stunned.
"I'm alive too pateesa?" Ulic said looking at the wound "Thanks to the jedi?"
"Jeedai?" Ulic asked in his hutteese slang.
"Oh yeah um, Beatnik kidnapped that Jedi girl you were acting all sweet with when we got arrested before you were stabbed then we forced her to heal you and then she passed out so we put her in your old room to sleep since your in the Captains Quarters now." Hestia said, it took the boy a few moments to process it before a light bulb clicked on in his head.
His brown eyes got wide with horror "YOU LET A GIRL INTO MY ROOM!" Ulic sprang from the bed and ran out of the hallway to the crew quarters, he passed the captains quarters running toward his room and opened the door. Ulic froze the second he saw Ahsoka, what many people didn't know about the XL freighters were just how well equipped they were and how easily they could be modified. That included not just weapons and stealth tech, each crew quarters came with its own shower system so that every crew member could have the safety and privacy they desire. That included being able to lock the door from the inside, but when Ahsoka was brought in she'd been unconscious and the door hadn't been locked so Hestia could check her.
That meant the second Ulic opened the door, he saw Ahsoka reaching for a towel in a fogged up shower as he came up. The two of them had their cheeks flushed followed by each of them screaming, Ahsoka raised her hand and yelled "GET OUT!" A wave of force pushed slammed into Ulic and the door slammed shut when he tried to block it but he slammed into the wall and knocked out cold.
Later, Ulic-Nox woke up in the Nightingales common rooms with Ladon sitting next to him. There were two cups of tea sitting on Teeseven's head like a counter. Ladon took one cup and sipped it "You know I don't know a lot about women but always knock, always." Ladon said handing him the tea.
"Where are we going?" Ulic asked, taking the cup.
"...Back to them." Ladon said, when Ulic heard it he was taking a drink and spat it out over Teeseven.
"WHY!" Ulic snapped shooting a look at the trandoshan "Don't asssk me, asssk the droid." Ladon said pointing to the droid to blame. Ulic-Nox glared at Teeseven "Tee, whyyyyyyyy the last time we were with the Revanites they tried to kill us?"
Teeseven responded calmly to be yelled at "You call being sacrificed to a giant worm snake thing 'just a test'?" Ulic-Nox asked him as he sat back down rubbing his forehead.
"Ooooooohh, Ladon what the hell is going on?" Ulic-Nox moaned rubbing his face trying to calm down, he felt a shirt thrown over his head and raised up to see Beatnik had tossed him an old shirt that the boy quickly put it on covering his scars as the Jawa approached him.
Saying something to him in Jawaese, Beatnik revealed behind his back Ulic-Nox's sketchbook "My sketchbook?"
Beatnik mumbled something out rubbing the back of his hat "What he said, you were learning Jawa right?" Ladon asked Ulic.
"He said he was trying to rig the Jedi ship to explode but found my book when they heard us coming." Ulic translated holding it tight "Thanks Beatnik."
The trandoshan sipped his tea with one hand before setting it down "A plan made long ago, once we rendezvous with the Revanites I promissse I'll explain everything with Dusk."
"That old witch?" Ulic asked him.
"Don't tell her that." Ladon snickered.
In Ulic-Nox's room, Ahsoka was drying off in the towel, she looked at her clothes on the bed noticing they were all rather dirty. Her boots were caked in mud along with her white pants that stained easy, the red skirt and top were also muddied and slightly torn, the only thing that wasn't nearly ruined was her torgurta sash, the only thing that she wore from her people along with the selka beads as she had no hair to make a braid. She walked over to the nearby closet and opened it only for a wave of wrinkled up clothes and shoes to fall out.
"Ugh boys." Ahsoka said to herself when a knock on the door made her jump.
"Excuse me Jedi?" It was Hestia on the other end.
Ahsoka looked around and remembered Ladon had taken her lightsaber, so when she walked to the door she opened it just a crack "I noticed your clothes were dirty before you showered, so I brought some new fresh ones well their kind out of style I was younger when I wore them." Hestia said standing outside the door, in her hands was a stack of different clothes, Ahsoka looked at the at the doctor with distrust before she reached out and took the clothes.
Hestia had the door slammed in her face but it only made her sigh "Jedi, they never change."
Leaving the hallway, Hestia walked into the common room "How much longer till we get to the crazy club?" Hestia asked Ladon.
"Soon, we'll be dropping out of hyperspace to… wherever Teeseven is taking us?" Hestia's grey eyes got wide "We don't know?" he asked.
Ladon scratched the side of his hip "My guess is Dusk messed with his already damaged memory banks and rigged it so if things ever got serious, like bad pooda serious like this he'd take us to them."
"So they'd kill us." Buur said walking in armed to the teeth with blasters holstered in areas nobody would expect, with body armor and explosives strapped to their bodies.
Ladon rolled his eyes slapping his forehead at them "If you shoot then they will kill usss."
"Except for me." Ulic-Nox said "Except for him." Ladon said pointing to the boy.
Ahsoka had come out of the room to hear them talking and snuck up around the corner to eavesdrop on them. "This is just in case they decide to do us like the Jedi did the boy." Buur said lowering his blaster rifle
"Look I don't like it any more then you do, but they can refuel and resupply us when we reach them, if all goes well this is just another checkup." Ladon said standing up trying to get everyone to calm down.
Ulic-Nox sat forward rubbing his hands "How do we explain Macross, or the weapons which nobody seems to want to tell me about?" Ulic-Nox said sitting up, the crew looked to one another before Ladon knelt down in front of him.
"Fine, you of all people deserve the truth kid." Ladon said reaching for his hands he squeezed them in his claw trying to find the words. "You remember the jobs we went on raiding medical and food stores?" Ladon asked him, Ahsoka remembered reading it in the report about them Obi-Wan had drafted.
The boy nodded "Of course, money wasn't always good but gave us a lot of safe harbor when we needed it?"
"People in the outer rim need all the help they can get and they me on the verge of having sssomething none of us hasss ever had before?" Ladon said looking at the crew then at Ulic "A nation of our own, not a single planet or system but a unified people standing for one goal one purpose, a free galaxy where people didn't need to live in fear of pirates, slavers or a government that doesn't care about them."
Ulic's eyes got wide "You and Macross made a deal with the Separatists?"
"It's more complicated than that, but yes-" "I NEW IT!" Ahsoka suddenly burst from behind the cover, she was wearing a high collared red vest zipped up on the side to the collar, she had put on long sleeved fingerless gloves that went up to her shoulders, her vest went down past her hips where she wore her red belt with her torgurtan sash. Her legs were covered by a set of grey pants with pockets on the side and zippers down into her boots.
Buur and Beatnik aimed their blasters at him "You are separatists."
"No!" Ladon said to both his crew and Ahsoka "No, I don't expect you to understand Jedi but we want the same thing you want an end to thisss stupid war." Ladon said.
"By smuggling weapons it will only prolong the fighting?" She asked and accused him "And what are you doing huh?" Ladon asked Ahsoka "You jedi are suppose to be peacekeepers and you're fighting a war for tyrantsss!" Ladon yelled at her, Ahsoka didn't back down as he stood in front of her.
Ahsoka nearly snapped "How dare you say the Republic are tyrants, the Separatists have razed worlds like Ryloth, burned cities and slaughtered millions."
"Droid soldiers following the orders of ambitious war criminals, and the Republic's response is to create an army of slave soldiers to be led by people who were taken by the Republic's Jedi to enforce the status quo." Ladon said walking toward her.
"The jedi fight for peace, they help and protect people." Ahsoka said firmly "And what of your people torgurtan!" Ladon yelled at her "Tell me do you remember your family your people?" Ladon asked her to hold up a claw.
"What?" Ahsoka asked him.
Ladon gestured back to his crew "We all had people, families that we lost not because of the Republic or Jedi, but because neither of them cared enough so I'll ask again do you remember your family?" Ladon asked her.
"I… I'm a jedi, their my family." Ahsoka said, Ladon only sighed, shaking his head.
"Well this is our family, the only family we have left I know you had nothing to do with what happened with Macross, he died as he lived fighting for what he believed in." Ladon said to the other Nightingales and down to Ulic, then turning around to Ahsoka "Before you throw us in with Count Dooku's war criminals at least let show you after we deal with the Revanites."
Ahsoka got puzzled at hearing the name "Revanites?"
Just as she asked the ship started to come out of hyperspace "You'll find out soon enough." Hestia said walking toward the bridge, everyone including Ahsoka made their way up there just in time for the blue vortex of hyper speed to dissipate and they came out to see world Ahsoka had never seen before. It had a single sun and moon orbiting it, the planet itself was covered mostly in green lands with small oceans.
"What world is that?" Ahsoka asked, "Your guess is as good as ours." Ulic-Nox said sitting down in the pilots chair next to Ladon.
"Teeseven?" He asked the droid it beeped at him "Belkadan, so this is where they went after Yavin 4?"
Ladon started to bring the ship down "Makes since, Revan loved those old lizards." Ladon said.
"I'm sorry but I just heard you all saying the Revanites were dangerous; why are we going to them?" Ahsoka asked getting in the only empty seat watching the strange world get closer to them, looking at the stars around she couldn't recognize any of them from her years of training, meaning they had to be somewhere in the far corners of the galaxy. Ladon was in the copilot seat flipping switches and pressing buttons "If I'm going to war, I'd rather have someone I'm afraid of on my side then the others." he said starting the landing procedure. The Nightingale descended between thick white clouds, sprinkling the cockpit glass with water that were blown off a few moments later when they broke through the clouds Ahsoka saw they were flying over a small ocean toward a thick jungle swamp. They soared over large trees covering the jungle floor, there were openings into the seas with swampy rivers feeding into the ocean as there was no beach. Ahsoka could see flocks of birds starting to surround the ship following it before breaking off, as a suddenly larger bird swooped in grabbing one of the birds scattering the flock. The Nightingale got lower over the trees heading toward a small mountain range covered in green foliage and bare beige rock but when she got closer she saw it wasn't a mountain range.
It was a city retaken by the nature, thick vines from the trees had reached up over giant towers pyramids, bridges and even what'll poked like roadways around it, but unless she wasn't a jedi she wouldn't notice that some of the vines had been cut away around walkways and on balconies with doorways showing that someone was home, she was right for certain when a massive grey maned creature with wings landed on the top of the ship and hung off the side looking into the cockpit. It had a large beak and four strong limbs like large cats, its hide was a dark reddish brown and someone was riding creature had a harness over hits torso and the rider looked out covered in what looked like fur from the griffins mane and a patchwork suit dyed to match the rest of the creatures' hide. A pair of goggles poked out of the bush of hair.
Ladon raised his claw up at the rider who raised one arm waving to the left and then pointing down before it flew off.
"What the stars was that?" Ahsoka gasped.
"A scout, must have known we were coming, Ulic follow him." Ulic-Nox flew the Nightingale down to behind the creature heading to a vine covered platform, suddenly it opened the branches splitting showing they were sawed perfectly at the seem letting the Nightingale descend into the hidden city.
Ahsoka looked over the side to see an underground hanger with stone at the bottom, when the Nightingale passed through the doors they slowly closed in around them leaving them in total darkness.
"Everyone out and no weapons Buur, you too Beatnik you psychopath." Ladon said getting up pointing to him.
Ladon stopped in front of Ahsoka "It's no use keeping you hidden they already know you here, Madam Dusk will want to talk to you."
Ahsoka gave the trandoshan a puzzled look as he passed by "Madam Dusk?"
Everyone got up heading out of the ship, Ulic was the last one in the cockpit he looked at her before he set his book down on the dashboard "She may sound scary but that's because she's terrifying." Ulic said waiting till she got up.
"I'm not afraid of you or her just so you know." Ahsoka said up to him as she rose.
"She does and so do you." He said walking past her, Ahsoka felt his word sting into her she had never had anyone outright say it to her when she wasn't trying to be scary like with a petty criminal or Separatist. They waited till Ahsoka and Ulic joined the rest of the crew at the loading ramp, they lowered it slowly the only lights outside coming from the ship itself. Ladon walked out first followed by Hestia, Buur, Beatnik then Teeseven before Ulic gestured for Ahsoka to go next she rolled her eyes and did so thinking they were all being dramatic. When everyone was outside the Nightingale Ahsoka looked around the ship surrounded in darkness suddenly they heard a loud thumb and looked up to the ships cockpit, someone else had landed on it and Ahsoka's eyes got wider when she saw a white lightsaber, another one behind them overhead, then another on the port side engine, then to their right, to the side and finally one of them in front.
Their white lightsabers gave of a ghostly visage off their attire was alien but also to familiar to Ahsoka, They wore simple vestments and tunics but were wrapped up around their forearms with white togas over their shoulders and wrapping down their waists, hoods down into their robes covered their faces along with masks that had slit visors and carvings on the face and around the slit. "Revanites?" Ahsoka asked as she tensed up and looked to Ladon, he nodded at her with a "hmhm". "Give me my lightsaber, now." Ahsoka snapped.
Ladon didn't get the chance to rebuke her order because her lightsaber flew out of his vest and into the shadows before someone turned it on. Walking out of the darkness holding Ahsoka's lightsaber was a figure in long grey robes, they wore a white cloak around their shoulders and had a hood too, the hinge of their cloak was white with rings interlocked with lines going down to the floor.
"I wondered what it could mean when a jedi was with you Ladon?" It was a woman's voice, Ahsoka could only deduce this was the mysterious and notorious Madam Dusk. As she got closer they saw she was flanked by two more strangers in full body robes and white togas but instead of lightsabers they held long staffs that when they stamped them on the floor lightsaber lances shot out on the end and pointed at them.
Ladon raised his one arm and took step forward "Madam Dusk, I see you and Teeseven got close last time?" He asked, Teeseven rolled out behind the crew and up to Dusk where she rubbed its head "Hello my old friend."
"Ladon, I see you've seen better days?" She said behind her lightsaber wielding guards "Dusk I don't have time for pleasantries Macross is gone and now the Jedi are after us."
She pulled back her hood and Ahsoka saw a head of flowing white hair held up in long braids done up to it wouldn't be in her face. Her face was narrow with eyes like a hawk and a small nose that lead down to a pair of pouty lips "By the Force how could fuck up this bad?"