So here we go another chapter. I've noticed thatmy spelling is a bit off. Well that's because my new laptop doesn't hav word or anything else that has a spell check function. So please forgive the spellng. These chapters are bit longer then my previous fanfictions because I love Star Wars. The reason why I decided to make this is because of all people Disney owns Star Wars now. I have nothing against Disney it's just that they're too kid friendly and will screw up Star Wars sooner or later down the road. Anyway let's just keep moving on. I might be a bit slower if I get permission to remake a mod someone made for Star Wars Empire at war.
Chapter 2 Boarding Action
Time:0000 Since Boarding
Karmon, Richard, George, Ven, and Keller arrived at an airlock that was right below the Interdictor. Karmon goes over an places his hand on the release switch to the hatch. They all lock up their armor for space exploration. It was the only way they can get into the Tyrant with all of the opening sealed shut. Richard had a fusion cutter on his belt instead of incidneary grenades like usual. Then the com came online it was Zacharia who was explaining to the Dark Troopers what their mission objectives were.
"Alright troopers. Your priority is to keep your eyes out for any survivors. Besides that we need you to find a way to open up one of te multiple hangar bays so we can send in a rescue team to pick up the survivors. We also need you to see if you can figure out what happened here. I will keep my view on you the best I can from the command bridge." Zachaira explains to the DArktroopers.
"We're professionals Captain not some of your lackies." George says with an intimdating voice like he always had.
"Yah we do this sort of thing all the time Captain while you sit in you command Bridge giving orders while your all safe." Richard says with a kind of Russian sounding voice.
"Alright then good luck to all of you." Zacharia says then flips the com off.
Karmon then starts to flip the switch when Ven stopped him.
"Wait let me turn around." Ven says turning around so his back it toward the hatch. "Okay go." Ven tells Karmon.
"What are you going to do?" Keller asks with an intellegent voice.
"I'm going to do a space back flip. It's going to be epic." Ven tells Keller. Of all of them Ven was the youngest and he thought that just because he had a Mandalorian symbol on the side of his helmet mde him epic and unkillable like a Mandalorian warrior. Speaking of which was a Mandalorian.
"Suit yourself." Karmon says then flips the switch blowing the hatch making a vacuum like effect inside the airlock sending them flying towards the Interdictor.
Karmon, Keller, Richard, and George flew straight towards the Interdictor while Ven was spinning around crazy. Seems get shot out the airlock had made him have an uncontroled launch and needed help before he missed the Interdictor which was about a couple more seconds away. Before they hit the Interdictor Richard angled his body using his momentum to pull Ven over so he'd at least hit the Interdictor. Then they made contact.
Karmon, Keller, Richard, and George landed on their feet and attached to the durasteel hull of the Interdictor with their magnetic boots while Ven slammed into the Interdictor with his face. Then he got up and turned on his magnetic boots. Karmon searches around for a lever of some sort that would open a hatch that would let them inside. He found it then flipped it. A door opened up beside him and signaled his team to go inside the hatch. Once all of his team was inside he went in as well and closed the hatch as well. The hatch seels and air is poured into the hatcth they were now in. They turned of their magnetic boots and waited for the door to open above them so they could crawl into the Interdictor.
Suddenly opened above them was other blackness. Seems like the power grid was down. They crawled out of the hole they found themselves in and turned on the lights on their blasters. They seemed to be in a hallway in the Interdictor's lower section. It was pitch black but they could see an R2 Droid acces port on the wall beside the hatch they came through. The hatch shut and Karmon goes over and takes a tool from a pouch that he had on the back of his jet pack. It was and R2's access key that allowed them to access these things. He places the E11 Blaster beside him and uses both hands to find the right combination to restart the power. Or at least enough power to activate the lights. The others keep looking around checking for any signs of life with the limited amount of light they had availible.
"What do you think happened boss?" Ven asks Karmon who was still trying to find the right combination. He was wishing they brough an R2 unit with them now.
"Don't know seems like the ship went into lockdown." Karmon says Ven.
"That explains why the hangarsa nd all the other openings are closed down. Standard precaution for low power. But that still doesn't explain why the Gravity Well is active." Keller says outloud.
Then there was a click as Karmon found the right combination. The lights go on and the ship comes alive with the sound of electricity flowing through it once more. Karmon removes the tool and places it back in his pack and seals it up again. He grabs his Blaster as the rest of his team comes to him expecting him to know what to do next.
"Alright power's back up. Now we need to deactivate the jammer which is coming from a level above us. George and I will take care of that. The rest of you go to hangar A1 which is further up the ways. Stay together we don't want to end up like the people that used to be here." Karmon tells his team and they all acknowledge with a "Yes Sir!" then went off in the directions Karmon told them to go. Ven, Richard, and Keller went in the direction of Hangar A1 while Karmon and George went the opposite direction trying to find a turbolift up so they could deactivate the jamming device.
Karmon and George go through the hallways going around different corners trying to find a working turbolift but none seemed to be working. They were continuing on their way when all of a sudden there was loud creeking sound that echoed through the ship but below the sound of the creek was an onimous scream like the metal was screaming. This stopped the Darktroopers in their tracks instatnly. Suddenly the com in Karmon's helmet went off and he heard Ven's voice on the other end.
"Boss did you hear that?"
"It was just the ship settling in Ven nothing more." Karmon tells Ven trying to get rid of the rookie's fear.
"No not that sound the scream I think the ship is haunted." Ven says.
"Ghost don't make the a creek Ven." Richard says in the Background.
"Well my dad always told me trust my gut and it says that we should be back on the Salvation not hear." Ven says.
"Enough! We need to focus on the objective." Karmon says leaning up against the wall and placing his hand on it. "This ship just needs some minor repairs that's all." Karmon tells Ven who was still listening.
"Roger that sir. We'll keep going but if I hear that again we'll need to regroup." Ven tells Karmon.
"Alright nVen we will. Just get the job done." Karmon says then turns off his com and gets off the wall.
Karmon then reaches back for his blaster but before he does notices something weird. The glove on his hand was covered with human blood. He then looks at the wall and notices the huge blood splatter on the wall. He wipes the blood off of his hand the armor covering his thigh. Then grabs his blaster. As George continued on their way. The blood on the wall. Karmon couldn't get it out of his head. Something was different on this ship. It was cold but yet warm at the same time and the air felt damp as if there was something in the air. As for the smell he couldn't smell it. Luckily his suit was still set for space and that made it where no air can come in or out. His team kept their suits set for space at least as far as he knew.
He focused back on the mission at hand and was following George who he hoped was leading him the right way. The power was on but some of the lights were flickering. Up ahead a light was flickering off and on rappidly. Kamon looks down for a moment and when he looks up he sees a Stormtrooper standing beneath the flickering light. The light flickers off for moment and when it comes back on the Stormtrooper was gone without a trace.
"Did you see that?" Karmon asks George.
"What sir?" George asks.
"Nothing. Just the ship playing tricks with me." Karmon says.
Karomn and George continue on their way despite what Karmon just said. But what if what he saw was more then the ship playing tricks on him there was something odd going on here. Like where did all the crew go and why did the ship's communication system go down and why was the Gravity weel still on when most of the crew was gone. Then there was that Trooper he just saw. This ship was going to be a trip for Karmon.
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Ven, Richard, and Keller made it to hangar A1 and were in the process of finding the controls to open the hanga door. They eventually find the way that led up to the hangar control area and go up. Richard stayed down in the hangar bay to make sure no survivors stayed in the hangar bay. Keller and Ven made their way to the control area and started hitting buttons hoping that whatever they did opened the hangar door. They never really had to this. Actually it was Keller that sat down in the chair trying to access the hangar bay door but no matter what he did he couldn't find the switch to open the door. Ven walked around the control noticing how empty the ship seemed to be. At that moment he realized that Captain Zacharia wouldn't like this place when he got onboard once so ever.
Ven never liked the quiet either but he thought for a moment if anyone was on this ship they would of at least seen them when they entered the ship but they had seen no one only blood trails and some Stormtrooper armor peices here and there. He continued looking around the room when the light suddenly went off without warning. In the Hangar bay Richard looks up at the control deck which was above the hangar bay. The lights were out. They probably hit a fuse or something. This ship needed decent repairs it was falling apart and the lights were going out everywhere. Then Richard looked to his right and saw a silhouetted figure duck behind a large durasteel shipping crate. Richard pulls up his flamethrower flips it on and walks over to where he saw the silhouettted figure. He got there and there no one or anything in sight. He then flips his flamethrower back to off and walks back to where he was. It was probably a Mynock or something like that. It was just weird this entire ship just empty.
"What did you do?" Ven yelled at Keller flipping the light on his blaster on.
"Sorry I hit the wrong button. I'll turn them back on." Keller says trying to find the switch he flipped in the darkness. He had put his blaster beside the chair so he could access the terminal but now he couldn't see a thing except for the light behind him from Ven's blaster rifle.
Then came another creek that could be heard throughout the ship this time there was nothing that sounded like scream like earlier. But it still freaked Ven out.
"What is that?" Ven asks.
"Probably the generators starting up. Some ships when they're left lon enough tend to do that when you start the power again. That's why we have manuals." Keller reminds Ven still trying to find the switch.
"Well that suits me. This place is creepy enough as is. Now we got a creeking generator and that thing that made that scream earlier. " Ven tells Keller.
"That was probably the ship as well. You know this ship has been floating around for a while. Not to mention it's crew's failed to maintain it." Keller tells Ven then finds the switch and flips it turning on the lights again. At least some thign was going right. Now if only he could find the controls to the hangar door.
"Speaking of the crew what do you think happened to them?" Ven asks.
"Probably abandoned ship or somethinglike that when it got too far out you know how these things work."
"That's the point if they abandoned ship that how come most of the fighters are still here and some of the pods haven't been launched."
"Lockdown remember."
"Then how would they have left the ship?" Ven says making what Keller said irrevalent.
Then Richard comes up to control deck to join the others who were up there. He notices something that Keller and Ven failed to notice when they entered the control deck. A bloody hand print next to the door. It was human and was dripping. Meaning it was recent. But uestion was who left it. Them or something else. Then something clicked. Ven and Rcihard point their weapons ay where the click came from and then saw a music player playing music. Ven laughed and put his blaster down while Richard wasn't amused. He set the music player on fire making it stop perminantly.
"What's wrong with you?" Ven asks.
"It irritated me and you were loosing foucs. It need to be done." Richard says then heads down to the hangar bay with Ven following him leaving Keller in the control deck.
Keller continues a system check until he stumbles upon a video recording. He ignores it and continues to search for the Hangar bay door controls. He finally found them and activated them opening the door open little by little it creeped open. He grabed a datacard from the bag on his belt and put the video recording onto it so he could view it later. Once the file transfered he grabbed his blaster rifle and went back down to the Hangar bay thinking that Richard and Ven were waiting for him there. But when he got there they were both gone. He was alone.
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Karmon and George found and deactivated the jamming station which was odd. Still they seen no one yet. Karmon tried to make contact with Keller but was receiving nothing but static. Karmon looked at George. Ven and Richard never got along with Keller and they both that the two would leave him behind eventually. Then Karmon manages to reach Ven over the com.
"Ven where's Keller?" Karmon asks.
"He's in the Hangar bay sir. He was trying to open the hangar bay doors last time we saw him. I'm not suprised you can't reach him the communications jammer is still up after all." Ven tells Karmon.
"We just ook it out."
"What then how come you can't reach him?"
"We don't know find him and bring him back."
"Yes sir." Ven tells Karmon then gets off the com and looks at Richard who was beside him.
"I heard. We have go back and get the lacky." Richard says turning around and walking back towards the hangar bay they were just at. Ven follows Richard it would take them thirty minutes to get to the hangar bay agian.
Back in the Hangar bay Keller moves around thinking that he could find the others on his own. He looks around his breath getting faster as he realized they were not in the hangar bay anymore. How long was I in the control deck. He thouh to himself thinking he wasn't there for that long. But in reality he realized the video file took longer to download. It probably took tne or twelve minutes at most. He then turned of his communicator and tries to reach any of the others.
"Hello anyone out there. I seemto have gotten lost or somerthing." Keller says but is not able to reach anyone. He curses under his breath then decides to leave the area. He obviously wasn't going to find anything in the hangar bay.
He enters the hallway he used to enter the hangar bay. The lights out in one half of the hallway just as he remembered. But this time there was something ominous in the air like that sense that he was being watched from behind by some unseen predator. One problem from what he could tell the thing he felt like was watching him was behind him in the dark section of the hallway. He felt that whatever was watching him had souless hungry eyes. He turned the light on his blaster rifle and checked the hallway that was blackened by the darkness. As far as he could see there was nothing down the hallway. But then he notices something duck behind and corner. He takes a few steps into the darkness that weird feeling getting worse. His neck was shivering now. He eased around the corner then he heard Ven call out to him from the opposite end of the hallway. He takes his attention off of the hallway and looks back at Ven.
"Keller come on. We need to inform the Captain of the Salvation now." Ven yells at Keller from the opposite end of the hallway with Richard beside him checking his flamethrower damage.
"Coming just give me a second." Keller responds and takes a breif second to check the hallway he was going into to see if he could find the thing he saw. But there was nothing there. He didn't know what creeped him out more the silence or the fact that there was absolutely nothing onboard this ship.
He ran to join Richard and Ven as they entered hangar A1 to wait for Karmon and erorge. That's when they heard the ship creek and scream to life again. This scream was diffrent it didn't sound mechanical this one almost sounded human or Wookiee. Ven again was the onl one that bothered to hear the scream that made his blood stop flowing for a moment as he wondered what it was making those sounds.
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Ven Flashes back to an assignment he had earlier before. He was assigned to an Imperial prison barge. The conditions were horrible and he was still in his Imperial Stormtrooper armor. The screams from the inmates who were suffering from the abuse of the guards. Of all the guards he knew the one he feared most was the Prison Guard Sartoris who was stationed aboard the prison barge Purge. That was his last Stormtrooper assignment before he became an Imperial Darktrooper. He was one of the prison guards onboard the Purge a couple months ago.
The last officer to inspect him was Sartoris who shot him a grin that made him shiver. No matter what he did Sartoris never liked him. But this time it was different. Sartoris actually placed his hand on his shoulder.
"Congratulations Darktrooper. You're free to go." Sartoris told him and Ven walked off of the prison barge for good.
But as he took his final steps off of the barge he noticed three human prisoners come aboard. He recognized them from a report he seen. Well he at least recognized the youngest boy of the three who was no more then fourteen. His name was Trig Longo. He felt a bit of sympathy thinking he could stop and say that the boy didn't belong here but it was the boy or him. He made a choice. A choice he would come to regret.
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The sreams reminded him of when he was a Stormtrooper onboard the Perdge. Those blood curtling screams of the dying inmates probably getting beaten to death by one of souless guards. He looked at his fellow Dark Troopers who had heard worse in their covert operations. But Ven knew the sound of dying screams and these screams were different. They said it sounded like the metal creeking with power flow but to him it sounded like something else was coming back to life. But what? He had no idea. He'd rather not find out.
Ven contacts the Captain onboard the Salvation tellin him that hangar bay A1 was open.
"Affermitive trooper. Is anything wrong?" Captian Zacharia asks Ven.
Ven thinks for a moment thinking about if he should tell about the bloody hand print ofr the screams that seemed to accompany the creeking vessel. But then it occured to him that if he did so then he might be charged with insanity. He responded carefully trying to hide any emotion in his voice.
"Yes sir everything is alright on our end. The ship is a bit creeky that's all." Ven tells Zacharia lying and hoping the Captain couldn't tell.
"Very well Trooper I will prepare a landing party at once." Zacharia says then cuts off communication.
Zacharia was pleased with the Troopers success on the Interdictor. But that was just the beginning of the operation. Zacharia was different then most Imperial officers. He actually cared for the troopers amd people onboard the Interdictor where other officers would leave them there. He turned around from the communication station when Norman took off his head set and spoke to him.
"Vader would like to see you sir."
Zacharia looked back at Norman. He had forgotten the Sith Lord remained on the ship to over see the operation. As far as Zacharia knew Vader was hanging around his Tie advanced in the hangar bay or somehwere like that. This time he was in the hologram chamber where another hologram projector was located. One only used to report to the Imperial Admirals and rarely Vader himself. Zacharia had never once seen the Emperor or could even imagine what was going through his devious mind. He had heard reports that there was a battle station the size of a small moon being built somewhere in the galaxy. One code named the Death Star.
"Tell Vader I'll see him after I deal with something." Zacharia tells Norman.
"Yes sir I'll inform him right away." Norman says placing the head set around his ears again and hitting a couple of buttons on the keyboard.
The Captain steps into the turbo lift. It activates sending him down ten decks then the doors open and he steps out. He makes his way through the passageways of the Destroyer going by Stormtroopers and Engineers. The Engineers were still trying to repair the sship after the sudden stop that stopped the engines and somehow shut down a couple of minor systems all around the Destroyer. Zacharia continues on his way when he reaches a door that had a hand scanner to access it. He looks around then places the palm of his hand on he scanner. The scanner makes a beep and the door comes wide open.
He goes inside the room and the door automatically closes behind him. Inside the room there was a women and a young boy almost fifteen yeard older wearing a suit of Stormtrooper armor that was almost larger then him. The helmet was set down on a table beside him and he was speaking to the women as if she was an older sister to him. The women on the other hand was interacting with the FX-7 medical droid that she wanted in the room. She had given the droid a nickname but the name escaped Zacharia as he entered the room and removed his officer's cap. He then pulled up chair from a table to his left and sat casually listening to the boy's conversation with the women.
"I don't beleive you brought me with you. You said yourself that you wouldn't serve on another Imperial vessel again and yet here we are again. Only this time it's different." The boy said sonding a bit angry about where he was.
"We needed to come out here remember. We need to see if it's gone now. This was the last ship that was coming out here. I had no idea Vader was coming onboard if I had known I would have gotten in the shuttle and gotten off of her the first chance I got. Trust me this was a suprise to me too." The older women told the boy putting a vial of clear liquid on one of FX-7's multiple arms.
"Really. I'd rather have died on the Destroyer then get discovered by Vader himself." The Boy says waving his hand around as he spoke outraged.
"Relax boy. Vader won't harm you as long as you are under my command and as for the doctor. Vader doesn't even know who she is. Trust me you are safe here." Zacharia says crossing his arms and grinning.
The boy turns his head and sees Zacharia in the chair grinning. He hadn't licked Imperials. He's always bad interactions with Imperials.
"Not to mention him. How are you sure we can trust this guy? He can be reporting us to Vader by now for all we..." The boy says but is cut off by Zacharia.
"I know what you went through boy. I lost my family during an Imperial raid and they lied to me about it. The only reason why I'm still in is because I want to change things around the galaxy and being in the Empire is the only way I can acheive that boy." Zacharia tells the boy.
The boy looked at the Imperial still not trusting him entirely. Then the women placed her hand on the boy's shoudler. He looked at her and that seemed to calm him down. He trusted her like his brother before he died.
"Trig if it wasn't for Zacharia over here we wouldn't be here and he would've ratted us out to Vader. He's an old freind of mine. We can trust him. Th women tells the boy revealing his name.
"Sorry Zahara. I'm just still getting over what happened on the shuttle as we left the Destroyer behind. I was scared." Trig tells the women revealing her name as well.
"Need I remind you doctor why you two are out here." Zacharia tells Zahara getting out of the chair and putting his officer's cap on.
"No need Zacharia. Thanks for the droid by the way. It fills the void Waste left." Zahara tells Zacharia and turns her attention back to the droid. This time she was adding another vial of the clear liquid to another of the FX-7's many arms.
"So why are we here exactly?" Trig asks Zacharia.
"You are needed for this assignment. Zahara told me about what happened aboard the Purge. I'm sorry for your lose." Zacharia says.
Trig tilted his head as a tear ran down from his eye. The memory was still painful for him. He lost his brother and his father within a short amount of time. The only thing he had to live for was Dr. Cody who treated him as a younger brother. Then Zacharia placed his hand on his shoulder and he looks up at the Imperial whipping the tear away.
"I felt the same way when I lost my family Trig." Zacharia says then places an E11 blaster in Trig's hands. "You know how to use one of these things?" He then asks Trig.
"I do now." Trig says with a grin on his face.
"Good because you're going with onboard that thing." Zacharia tells Trig then turns to Dr. Cody. "You too doc."
"Give me a moment..." Zahara said as she placed the last of the vials of clear liquid onto the Droid's arm.
The FX-7 then pulls the arm back and spins around checking all of it's arms making sure they were all functional. The Droid then spins as if to look at Dr. Cody. No one could really tell because it wasn't like a 21-B so it didn't have a face to look at. In other words it just looked like a weird looking upside down trash can.
"How you doing Rust Bucket?" Zahara asks the FX-7 Droid.
"Excellent Dr. Cody." The Droid says with a voice similar to that of Waste her old 21-B Droid.
"Why Rust Bucket?" Trig asks Zahara.
"I have no idea. Why did I call my old Droid Waste?" Zahara tells Trig making a smart comment.
"Good point." Trig said then turns his attention back to the Imperial. "So what now Stormtrooper?"
"Suit up and meet me in hangar E4. I'll take you there in my Lambassa shuttle so Vader won't notice you." Zacharia says opening the door but then stops and says one last thing before he left for the hangar. "Come on boy."
"Rust Bucket" Yah not the best nickname but it suits a droid like a FX-7 like Waste stuck to well Waste. Anyway I've brought Trig and Zahara Cody in because I think they still have something to settle. Like who made Black light and what was it's purpose. I might explain another one of my fanfiction characters in the next chapter. Or you can check my profile I'm finally updating. Anyway got to go tons of things to do.