Chapter 7. End Game
Part 1. Dark Strike
The time had come and the Brotherhood gathered together in the main courtyard. Supreme Dark Lord Trystan Voat stands on a platform with his family, Gyllan, and Syrah Voat. "My brothers and sisters…The time has come!" They all cheer, "We have the means to reach the core worlds…Gyllan Cage will show us the way. The Jedi and the Republic they protect will fall. This is the age of the Brotherhood!"
As the Sith Knights and Masters board the shuttles for the ships in orbit Trystan has one last meeting with those Sith who have reached Lord status. Gyllan and Syrah are present as well as they have been recently named Lords of the Sith. "Our primary target will be Coruscant and the Jedi Temple…" Initially Syrah was going to challenge Lord Voat in the arena, but she changed her mind after learning that she is pregnant.
After the meeting is over, the Sith Lords shuttle up to the flagship. "Lord Cage…show us the way to Coruscant."
"My Lord…" Dylan has the power to create and manipulate hyperspace lanes. He pretends to create a stable path. "Set course two three five point one, one, three…"
"All ship prepare to jump on my count…Three…two…one…"
The stars streamline and all the ships, but the droid transport ships and the flagship make the jump to lightspeed. That is when Syrah stabs Trystan Voat in the back. "FATHER!" Tylar screams, but his voice is ended when he is decapitated by Dylan. Then Syrah unleashes her most powerful sith spell and kills everyone on the bridge.
"That went well…" Dylan says.
Syrah leans down to Lord Voat, "I am Darth Syren of the order of Darth Bane…I thought you should know that before you died…" She twists his head and breaks his neck finishing of Trystan Voat. Syren walks over to the main control panel and seals off the bridge, launches all the escape pods, and closes off the shuttle bays. Then she shuts off the life support systems on the rest of the ship.
"What about the other Sith still on board? They can use their power to hold their breath for hours."
"I will deal with them…You take Lord Voat's yacht and twenty legions of battles droids to the academy…Kill them all…I will head for the palace." Dylan grabs Syren and kisses her. They stare at each other then he leaves. Syren licks her lips then begins unleashing sith spells on the Sith Masters and Knights still on board the ship. Most are driven insane and begin attacking their comrades, when it is over the only people left alive on the flagship are Darth Syren, Master Vai, Sith Knight Xano a Zabrak, and Master Daaro.
Using his skills Xano is able to restore life support in the galley and makes his way their where he finds Master Vai. "Master Vai! What the hell is going on?"
"Isn't obvious? We have been betrayed."
"By whom?"
Before she can answer a vent plate falls to the floor and Daaro slides down and lands on the floor. "Master Vai! Xano!" The interlock arms, "I think we are the only ones left…"
"Master Vai was about to tell me who she thinks is responsible for all this…"
That is when a lightwhip tail cuts through the main door, then a second and third slash leaves the door in huge chunks. "Lord Cage!"
"That is not her name…" Vai says.
"Bow before Darth Syren…or be destroyed."
Master Daaro ignites his double edge lightsaber, "Darth! You follow the teachings of Darth Bane!" He says the last part pointing.
"I am here to finish what Darth Bane started all those years ago." Syren cracks her whip and cuts a table in half.
"Bane was a traitor!" Daaro says yelling, "Two Sith against the entire Jedi Order is non-sense…Join us…Lead us."
That is when Vai decapitates Daaro, "Master Vai!" Xano says shocked.
"She will never join us…It is us or her…" Vai looks at Xano, "Are you ready?" He nods, then Vai points her hand at the window. She smashes the plexo glass causing a vacuum. Darth Syren's cloak billows in the rush of air escaping, but she remains in her place. Master Vai remains where is standing, Xano is struggling to hold on. Vai uses her power to rip up a table and close the hole in the wall.
Seizing the opportunity Syren strikes with her whip at Xano, but Vai throws her left lightsaber blocking it. With a roar Vai charges at Syren and slides on her knees as the whip is swung at her. When Vai comes up on her feet she blocks with a spin and extends her hand to the other lightsaber. Meanwhile Xano runs leaping up onto a table and jumps at Syren who grabs him in the force and slams him into the wall.
Of the two Sith Vai is the more dangerous as they fight. As she fights Darth Syren mouths a spell on Xano. He gets up and sees Vai as Darth Syren and Darth Syren as Vai. He shakes his head, but the image remains. He attacks Vai/Syren. He swings the left side of his saber, but Vai/Syrem ducks with a forward and backwards thrust. She impales him on her right saber while the left is wrapped around by the lightwhip.
"Weak minded fool!" Vai says, as she goes under the lightwhip and straightens up. Then she swings her right around in a twisting and spinning motion closing the distance between her and Syren. When she is a few feet from Darth Syren, Syren unleashes a force shout at Vai killing her.
Syren stands over her body as she coils her lightwhip. Then she collects the lightsabers of the Sith she killed. Syren loads up a shuttle and flies to one of the droid transport ships. The droids had killed all the people on board and taken over the ship. Then she sets course for the Sith Palace.
Part 2. No Mercy
Sith Academy
Droid fighters bombard the Sith Academy, destroying the defenses and blowing up the ship hangers and landing pads. Meanwhile Darth Atlas marches up the steps followed by legions of Battle Droids. He ignites his lightsaber as the enter the main hall. The droids start shooting at the students and Masters. Those with lightsabers fight back, but not for long as they overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the droids.
It takes eight droids to wear down the blocking skills of a student and twenty to get past the defenses of a Master. Atlas unleashes a lightening storm and kills two Masters and five students. "TRAITOR!" Cyroh screams leaping down from the second level. "I trusted you…" he says swinging his saber, "I bought you into the brotherhood! And you betray us!"
"Used me you mean."
He blocks left then right, Atlas blocks low, then he counters, but Cyroh rips his saber from his hand. That is when Atlas extends his hands and force pushes Cyroh who slides across the floor. Atlas points his hand a statue and pushes it over. Cyroh raises his hands and stops the falling statue. "MASTER!" His apprentice a Twi'Lek named Ronni screams. There are three students with Ronni and they all charge Darth Atlas.
Atlas summons his lightsaber off the ground and ignites it. He spins a female student and decapitates her with one blow. He blocks a swing from Ronni and grabs the sword hand of the second student. He breaks the boy's arm and kicks Ronni in the chest. As the boy hits the floor Ronni falls backwards, Atlas twists his saber and stabs the last student in the chest. Then he spins around and stabs down killing the boy with the broken arm.
He stands up and looks toward Cyroh who is gone. Using force sight Atlas tracks his movements through the Academy. He eventually finds the Sith Lord trying to remove the debris from his private landing pad. "I didn't think you were a coward Lord Cyroh."
"I am not a coward…I am trying to leave and save Lady Kamile…"
"I still consider you a friend...Come and join me…" He extends his hand, "Become my Apprentice…When I kill Darth Syren you can rule at my side. The Jedi can be defeated by two…We have a plan."
"You won't kill her…" He says turning to face Atlas, "You love her too much, but she will kill you…I have seen it…I see it even now…"
"You are wrong she loves me…"
He nods, "Aye she does love you…But she loves the order of two even more…You could have been Lord of the Brotherhood, but now you will die at the hands of the woman you love…Goodbye my friend…" He unhooks his lightsaber and points it at himself, then he ignites it.
The Sith Royal Palace
Lady Kamile enters the control room, "What is happening? I felt a great disturbance in the force…"
"All the ships, but the droid transport ships have gone to lightspeed…COMs are down…"
That is when Lady Kamile goes to all fours, as she feels the death of her husband, her son, and all the Sith Lords on the bridge of the flagship. "My Lady are you alright?" Lord Okyn asks rushing to her side.
"They are dead…My husband and all the Sith Lords that with him on the Flagship…Don't you feel it?"
"I…" He stops as his force senses are bombarded with death. "Yes…I feel it…Not just Lord Voat…The entire Sith army…Sith Knights and Masters…The soldiers…centuries of accumulating weapons and resources all gone…"
"Lady Kamile! Lord Okyn! An emergency transmission from the Academy…"
The hologram flickers in and out, "We are under attack by the Sith Droid army…They are being led by…" The transmission is cut.
"What happened? Get him back!" Okyn screams.
"The signal is being jammed my Lord."
"I will take a shuttle to the Academy…" Sith Herald Lady Nissa says speaking up.
Before she leaves the control room the alarms go off. "What now?" Kamile asks. Okyn grabs her and uses his body as a human shield when a missile hits the command center. Darth Syren stands on the hall of the lead Droid transport ship as thousands upon thousands of Sith Battle Droids descend on the Sith Palace. The hood of her cloak is up and it flaps in the wind as the ship lowers to the palace. A Droid General stands at her side.
"General surround the palace on all sides…I want Lady Kamile Voat taken alive…"
"Yes mistress…"
Another droid uses a missile launcher to blow a hole in the palace on the fifth level. Darth Syren runs off the top of the ship and leaps toward the hole with blaster bolts flying all around her. She lands one foot and knee. She uncoils her lightwhip and ignites it. She cuts a servant in half that is hiding under the bed. She rips the door off the hinges and walks up the hallway. A dozen soldiers run towards her firing their weapons. Darth Syren unleashes a force shout on them cracking the walls and shattering all nearby glass objects. Then she comes upon a platoon of soldiers setting up a defensive position on the fifth floor. She kills them all with her most powerful Sith spell.
Using her senses Syren locates Kamile who is being escoted by her daughter and a Sith Knight. "This way is blocked…" Syren says to Kamile, her daughter Alyse. The Knight steps forward brandishing a saber spear. Syren grabs him in the force and crushes every bone in his body. Then she tares apart Alyse's mind with a Sith Spell. With a nudge in the force Syren shoves Kamile to the ground.
"Leave us in peace…You can have the Republic…Only spare my child."
"Peace is a lie! There is only passion…However I will spare your child…" She touches her stomach, "A final test for my child to see if he is worthy of Bane'sThrone…" She takes out a vibro-blade. Several hours later everyone in the palace and at the Sith Academy are dead. Both buildings are in smoking ruins, even the people in the city had been slaughtered. Prakith is now a dead lifeless world. All the accumulated knowledge in the palace and the Academy are loaded onto ships and taken as booty.
Darth Atlas kneels before his Master Darth Syren, "You have done well Lord Atlas…You may arise."
"Thank you Master…"
"I want you to open a hyperspace lane for me…"
He frowns, "For us you mean…I am looking forward to a long journey back home…"
She sighs, as this is the beginning of the end for the two of them. The moment Darth Syren became pregnant is the moment she decided to train him up to become the new Lord of the Sith. She would love her son as only a mother could, but she was still Lord of the Sith and she followed the teachings of Darth Bane fiercely. Her son had to earn the throne. As for Darth Atlas he is blinded by love, despite his ruthlessness he would want to rule as a family and that she could not allow. He would have to die.
"There are things that require my attention…I need you to remain here organize things…When you are done you will join me…"
He sighs, "I will miss you…"
"And I you…" From the surface of the planet Atlas creates a stable hyperspace lane for Darth Syren. She leaves aboard a long range shuttle with Kamile's son on board and a nanny Droid. She names him Trystan Cage.