Chapter 21

Jazz

Danny carried Jazz and Jof through the Star Destroyer intangibly, flying at his top speed to get them to the Bridge while Jof gave him directions. Finally they found themselves in a room with many men in uniform at some kind of computer consoles and a large window. There was Thal sitting on a chair watching a black sphere send electrical shocks at her parents. "MOM! DAD!" Danny and Jazz yelled as Jazz used the Force to push the robot into the wall hard enough for it to explode into scrap metal. Danny made them visible and Thal stood up, activating his lightsaber pike. "I was wondering when you would show up, and you brought Favrem with you. You really have been quite helpful," he said. Jazz and Jof activated their lightsabers and Danny got ready to blast ghost rays at him. Jazz could see the bruises on his face as he got a little closer.

"Everyone, out! I don't want any distractions!" Thal yelled, and all the uniformed men ran out of the room, "Now then, who dies first?" Danny yelled as he blasted ghost rays at him. Thal blocked them with his lightsaber pike as Jazz and Jof ran at him, Jazz going for an overhead slice while Jof went for a stab at his chest. Thal blocked Jof's stab with his blade and Jazz's slash with the handle of his pike and spun it around before going for a slash at Jof's head. Jof blocked the attack and Jazz went for her own stab only for Thal to deflect it and jump back. Danny blasted ghost rays at him as he flew at him. Thal dodged the first three and deflected a fourth then did a spinning kick to Danny's head that sent him into a wall. "You're much more reckless that Vlad was, but then aren't all 'heroes'?" Thal commented as Jof threw her lightsaber at him.

Thal deflected the lightsaber and Jazz Force pushed him back into the window, cracking it. Jazz could see Thal's eyes glow red as Jof summoned her lightsaber back to her hand as he jabbed both hands at her and Jof, sending them flying into the doorway. "So, you still hold to the Jedi ideals? Then maybe I should show you how stupid such sentiments really are," Thal said as he kept Jazz and Jof pinned to the wall with one hand out. Danny flew at him and Thal nodded his head and three chairs slammed into him, knocking Danny down. Thal spun his pike in his fingers and held it like a javelin at her Mom! "MADDIE!" her Dad yelled and pushed her aside, just in time to be skewered.

"JACK! DAD!" Jazz, her Mom, and Danny all screamed. Danny yelled and blasted a pure white ghost ray at Thal. Thal barely dodged the laser and Danny flew at him and punched him in the chest plate hard enough to crack it and send him into a wall. "I'll kill you!" Danny screamed as he sucked in air as Jazz and Jof fell to the floor. Thal clutched his hand and Danny choked. Thal swung his arm and Danny slammed into the wall next to him. Thal coughed up blood and Danny struggled up and tried to punch him again. Thal caught his punch and twisted Danny's arm, "You will not punch me with this arm again!" Thal summoned his pike to his hand and sliced Danny's arm off, making him scream in pain. Thal then kicked Danny back and went in for the kill. Jazz felt raw power course through her body as she ran forward and blocked Thal's strike.

"No more!" Jazz screamed at him as she forced him back. "I won't you hurt any more people!" She yelled as she slashed away at him. Thal barely blocked her blows as she slashed and stabbed, getting him to retreat closer to the broken window. Jazz then kicked him in the cracked armor and jumped back and summoned the Force to her and used it to push with all her might. Thal went flying out of the window, screaming in incoherent rage as he fell.

Jof

Jof stared at her apprentice as Jazz breathed heavily at the open window. Jof stood up and helped Maddie up. "Maddie, he's gone," Jof told the widowed mother. "We can't just leave him!" Maddie shrieked at her as she struggled to pick up her husband's body. Jof helped her and Jazz came up with them, helping the injured Danny walk. "Can you use your powers?" Jof asked him. Danny took a deep breath and said, "No." "We need to go now!" Jof yelled as they went as fast as they could through the hallway. Stormtroopers were right there and pointed their blasters at them. "Don't move," a man in gray uniform smugly said. Jof could sense the danger coming and yelled, "Get down!" The Star Destroyer was rocked and alarms went off. "What's happening!" the man in gray uniform yelled.

Jof ignored him and yelled, "We have to get to the escape pods!" She and Maddie ran, carrying Jack's body with them while Jazz did the same with Danny, Jof could sense him going into shock at his lost arm. "Jazz, you need to use the Force to carry your Father and get to the escape pod, I'll cover you," she told her padawan. Jazz stood there for a second and said, "Okay." Jof drew her lightsaber as Jack's body floated. Jazz, Danny, and Maddie made their way further as Jof activated her lightsaber and deflected several shots back at their attackers and Force pushed the rest back. Jof caught up with them in time to block another blaster barrage. She again used the Force to send her attackers back and used the Force to lift up the now unconscious Danny from Jazz. "RUN!" she screamed as the floor started to move. The three women ran; Jazz and Maddie following Jof's lead as they made it to the escape pods.

Jof activated the escape pod and set out. Jof took control of the limited controls and flew the escape pod into a park. Once they landed Jof opened the hatch and helped Jazz and Maddie get Jack's body and Danny out. Medics and police were arriving and the police pointed their guns at them. "Wait! Please, the boy needs help!" Jof yelled and pointed at the now unconscious and powerless Danny. "Hold on!" Jof saw as Col. Smith made his way to them, "She's telling the truth, she's the one that took that space ship down!" The police looked at him and lowered their guns, allowing the medics to take Danny, Maddie, and Jack into their vehicles. Once the vehicles drove off one medic went up to Jof and Jazz and said, "What happened?"

Just then one of the police cars flew up into the air and crushed the one beside it. People screamed and police yelled, "FREEZE!" "No," Jof whispered as she felt the evil presence in the Force. "Get back!" she yelled, only to watch as the lightsaber pike flew through the air, slaughtering the police. It flew back into the hand of Kandall Thal. His head was covered in blood and his armor's chest plate and arm guards were gone while the armor on his legs was cracked. Thal's blazing red eyes glowed as he saw Jazz. "DIE!" he screamed as he punched his hand at her. "NO!" Jof yelled and tried to deflect the attack. Jazz flew back and hit her head on the escape pod. Jof checked and saw that she had been partly successful, Jazz was still alive. Jof picked up Master Tan's lightsaber and activated it along with her own.

"You think you've won!? I don't need a Star Destroyer to take over this mudball! I'll gather my surviving men and recruit some more natives here, and I'll take over! With their militaries devastated and the most advanced governments neutralized, they can't stop me!" Thal laughed like a madman and Jof realized that he had finally lost his mind. Jof jumped high into the air and slashed down with both lightsabers. Thal deflected both attacks and went for his own slash that Jof ducked and went for a rising slash. Thal hopped back and went for a stab that she barely deflected with her lightsaber. Jof went for a stab with Master Tan's lightsaber and nicked Thal's cheek. Jof jumped up just as Thal tried to Force push her back and came up behind him and attacked again.

Thal blocked her blows as she forced him to retreat then ducked down when she tried to decapitate him and kicked her legs out from under her. Jof deactivated her lightsabers and rolled back when he tried to stab her and jumped up and threw Master Tan's lightsaber. Thal blocked the blue blade with the shaft of his pike and sliced the hilt to pieces with his blade. Jof ran forward and stabbed at the now open Thal as he tried to bring his pike around to defend. Jof felt the searing pain as her left arm was cut off at the same time her lightsaber pierced Thal's heart. The Sith acolyte looked at the lightsaber and then at Jof as his pike fell from his fingers and he finally fell dead.