Lordess Chronicles

# 6

Surprise on Cella

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Time Line: 2 months after the end of the Sith Rebellion

Dalla Dragoon is a female Mirialan, and is a very strong Jedi master. She was excellent in stealth and information gathering, an excellent feat during the Sith rebellion, and is still good today when trying to find any surviving Sith, if there are any left. That is why Abraxis Carlon has her now, and is looking at her beaten body. She was found trying to sneak into his estate, probably trying to see why he was so intent on staying there for so long, but has now decided to move out of his house. After years of people trying to buy his house at amazing house, and has now suddenly decided to up and leave without an explanation definitely aroused Dalla's suspicion, as it would anyone.

But now she was held captive on Abraxis's ship, heading towards Groex Gal's secret base. He would like to torture her there, find out anything that she knows that he doesn't that may or may not be useful to him at this time. "Master, we're almost there." Bree Alder said, entering the room. Bree Alder was Abraxis's secret apprentice, and was going through training faster than any Jedi ever in recorded history. She will be a fine Jedi in Abraxis's new Jedi Order, but he still has a long way to go before he can achieve that.

Bree looked at the beaten, unciounsce Mirialan, and then to her Lightsaber on Abraxis's belt. "What color did she have?" Abraxis sighed, and then pulled Dalla's Lightsaber off his belt. "Green, like mine." He tossed it over to Bree, who caught it with a glint in her eye. She has a very bad habit of trying to find out about other people's Lightsaber colors, something that Abraxis will have to change one day.

Abraxis didn't turn to his apprentice when she activated Dalla's Lightsaber, and then simply watched it, imagining the battles this blade has seen, the enemies it has killed, and the places it has been to. She then deactivated it, and then placed it on her belt. "I will make good use of this blade." Abraxis grinned, and then looked down at his apprentice "I want you to stay here and watch over the Jedi, and make sure she doesn't pull anything. The last thing I want is for her to escape and tell the council of my betrayal. I still need to go and get information from the Jedi library, and I need to hear from the Jedi how the chase for Linora is going. She has defeated Dex, who was secretly giving Groex information, and now works for the Unko."

Bree bowed, and then stood up straight. Abraxis left the room, hoping to try and meditate on the current events.

Linora Lordess , Garen, Fiona Solusar, and Korvas Hunt stood at the base of a mountain, hiding behind a giant boulder. Pok was hiding behind a tree, looking up at a base that was three stories tall with a wall around it, a ray shield gate for the entrance. Pok brought his head back behind the tree, sighing. 'An entire week was wasted trying to find this planet, and then it took us a week to get all of my men here, but for what? We found only two ways in, one entrance that Fiona and the crew of the Blood Angel can take, and the other is the ray shielded entrance guarded by several turrets. Those turrets will completely annihilate my men, and we barely have enough men to actually lead a good resistance.'

Pok pulled out a datapad, and then activated it. This base, from what they can tell, makes weapons for the Crimson Blades, and is in the process of making a very powerful ground weapon that is said to be unbeatable, but is still in the prototype stage. If Pok didn't know any better, it sounds like the Crimson Blades are preparing for war, and not just any gang war, but an actual galactic war.

Pok hopes that this was meant to counter their resistance, but he doubts that is the case. The leader of this fortress is an Mrlssi by the name of Padga Dagwa, a scientist that loves making weapons of all kinds, and doesn't care who buys them or how they are used, as long as it does not affect him. Pok looked over at Fiona, who was looking right back at him, most of her face covered by her wrappings. "Do you have a plan?" Pok said in a normal tone of voice, knowing that the fortress was too high up to hear them. Fiona nodded, and then responded.

"Korvas will return to the ship, and then send Cyan over her. Korvas will fly above and shoot the fortress from above, hopefully distracting their turrets. Linora, in the meantime, will sneak in, and try to sabotage their defenses while trying to obtain as much information as possible in case Padga is thinking of deleting all information he has. Meanwhile I, Garen, Cyan, you and your forces will attack head on, distracting their ground forces. Does that sound good?"

Pok looked up at the fortress, and then nodded. "Yes, it does. Those turrets are incredibly powerful and strong, if my information is correct, so we should attack at night. It will give us cover and, while they are a big target, we will be spread out and thus harder to hit. I'll call my men and tell them to get ready, and you get the ship ready. Something tells me we're in for a big fight."

Padga Dagwa followed the hooded figure down the hallway, anxious to see what he thinks of his weapons. This man was part of an alliance that the Crimson Blades made with an organization that calls themselves the Shadow emergent. In exchange of the Crimson Blades giving them weapons and men, they will give them any one thing that they want, and that is the freedom to do what they want. This hooded figure called himself Zank, a name that Padga never heard from any sort of religion or species.

It was probably an alias, which Padga can understand. If they're a secret organization, then they could be using aliases to disguise their true identity. Padga was about to ask Zank a question, but stopped when Zank took his hood off. He has spiky red hair, his eyes were black with red dots and two red tattoos around his eyes. He opened his mouth to speak, revealing a mouth full of red, pointy teeth. "My master has high expectations for your weapons, Gadga." Zank looked over at Gadga, saying, "You better not disappoint."

Gadga felt a sudden chill go down his spine, a sudden feeling that told him he should meet expectations or else meet a very painful end. The two of them reached a door, which Gadga opened up after putting in multiple codes on the side panel. The door slid open, and the two of them walked in. The room was full of weapons of all different kinds: blasters, blaster pistols, and heavy weapons. Some were equipped with grenade launchers, scopes, silencers, poison grenades, and small blade attachments. "These are just the rifles, Zank. There are still the grenades, armor upgrades from armor that you wear to ship armor, weapon upgrades for the ships, and even have upgrades for Vibroblades, allowing them to better withstand attacks from Lightsabers."

Zank looked at Gadga, saying, "Good. My master will be most pleased. Now, show me to the next section." Gadga nodded, and then started to walk out the door until he realized that Zank wasn't following him. Turning around, he saw Zank staring up at an air vent. "Is there a problem?" Zank looked back at Gadga, his eyes showing no emotions. "Nothing, I just… Nothing. Let's move on."

Linora looked back into the room through the air duct opening, and saw the two of them leave. 'This is no simple pirate operation, they are preparing for war with whoever that man works for. I have to destroy this base, and without any of these weapons leaving. I hope that Korvas's distraction will start soon.' Linora pulled out a small thermal detonator, and then planted it in the room underneath the vents.

Linora crawled through the vents, thinking of that man's name. 'Zank, a name I haven't heard of. What's it origins? I have to look this up just so then I can quench my thirst of curiosity.' She soon reached another room that was filled with guards and two terminals, which two male humans are working on. Linora silently opened the vent, and then jumped in. She pulled her Lightsaber off her belt, and then activated it. She leapt toward the closest guard, and then, with a slash of her blue blade, killed that one as well. Linora did this strategy until the guards and the personal on the terminals were dead. Putting her Lightsaber back on her belt, Linora rushed over to the closest terminal, and was glad that the personal didn't get the time to log out of the terminal.

When Linora put her hands on the terminal, the alarms went off. Did they discover her already? Her question was answered when the building shook. Korvas must be starting his bombing run, meaning that she doesn't have much time before Pok's forces start their offensive. Linora inserted a chip into the terminal, and then started downloading all the information in there directly into her chip. It took about two minutes before it finished, and then she extracted the chip, stuffing it into her pocket.

Once that was done, she quickly started deactivating a few defenses. One of them was about half of the turrets, and she made it look like a cross wire, and then she weakened the shields surrounding the base by flowing a bit of the power into an area marked 'secret'. Whatever was in there, it didn't say, except that it had a ton of mechanics and heavy machinery. What the hell were they making? She should go and find out.

Too late.

She saw the screen change, and saw the doors for the room marked secret started to open up. Then the words 'destroy the intruders' appeared on the screen. This didn't look good.

Fiona smiled when the shields were shut down, and a lot of Pok's men shouted in victory But Cyan, who was behind the same rock that Fiona was, and he didn't seem happy. "Cyan, please tell me that you don't have bad news." "I do. The shields were from a Gertallion factory, very powerful. Even with minimal power it could last continual bombardment for several hours and there is no way that Linora could get rid of enough power to make it this weak, so they must have turned it off, but why?"

Cyan's question was then answered when the front gates opened up, and a giant vehicle rolled out, but it didn't roll out Instead of wheels it had four legs that had wheels on the outside, an giant cannon on the top. Two small turrets popped out of the sides of the vehicle, and then started to fire at Kop's army. It slaughtered them, destroying them quickly and easily. What was supposedly a very easy battle was now turning into a slaughter house. Fiona saw only one option here. With a mighty roar, she yelled, "RETREAT!"

Gadga smiled as his Spider roller easily defeated the rebel soldiers. "As you can see, Zank, my Spider roller is the ultimate tank. Not only does it have the main cannon along with the two turrets on the side that can rotate a full three hundred sixty degrees. Also, if they run into the forest like they just did, then look at this." Pressing a button on a nearby console, he whispered something into it.

The Spider roller then morphed from it walking on four legs to being wheels. Then, two buzz saws attached to arms come out, and then started to cut the trees, pushing any and all trees out of the way. "So, have I disappointed your master?" Zank looked at Gadga, and replied, "No, you have pleased our master. Give me the schematics so then we can also start building and start upgrading it."

Gadga eagerly agreed, and then pulled out a schematic in his pocket. "Here, I want no payment. All I want is to see my creations prosper! Please, use them as you please!" "I've got another idea." Gadga and Zank turned around to see Linora standing at the open doorway, her now active Lightsaber. Zank sighed, and then pulled something out. "You're supposed to be Linora, right? The Jedi that is being hunted from the Republic? I heard your Lightsaber skills were of medium skill, so this should be easy." After pressing a button, a red blade popped out with a snap-hiss. "Gadga, my master will have to teach you how to better defend your bases. Until then, I'll deal with this whore."

Zank lunged forward, his Lightsaber twirling in the air. When the two clashed Zank brought his free hand around, slapping her with his free hand. She fell on the ground, a small amount of blood trifling out of her mouth. She immediately rolled out of the way as Zank tried to decapitate her. The red blade barely missed her head, allowing Linora to stand up.

Only to be kicked back down with one of Zanks feet.

She landed, momentarily stunned, but then quickly got up on her feet while deflecting Zank's Lightsaber. Linora tried to defend against Zank, but she found it extremely difficult to block each attack. He was too fast, too strong, and his attacks seemed random but also seemed like they were planned out.

Linora had to get the schematics that Gadga gave Zank, but how? Gadga was with two automatic security droids, near the viewing glass, his hands behind his back. He looked like he thought that he was unstoppable, but that wasn't the case. No, it's not the case.

Linora ducked under Zank's Lightsaber, and then leaped towards Gadga. The two droids opened fire, shooting out blue laser blasts. Linora deflected them back at the droids. The droids were now a smoking pile of rubble on the ground. With a slash of her Lightsaber, Gadga fell to the ground, dead. She turned around, blocking Zank's Lightsabers.

Gadga is gone, which is good since he can't make any more schematics, but how can she get the schematics off of Zank? This was gonna be tricky.

Fiona swore as another volley of laser fire came through to her right, killing five more men. Fiona looked around the edge of a rock, looking out the entrance of the cave. In the cave with her were Cyan Dysar, Garen, and five of Kop's men. Kop was running off with several of his men when Fiona last saw him, the spider roller ignoring him to go after a bigger group. That group is now a line of dead bodies near the laboratory. Korvas has tried to get in a few shots, but it must sense the ship and fire at it, forcing it to retreat.

This invention of Gadga is truly dangerous, and seems to have no weakness. She brought her head back, hoping the spider roller won't detect them. "Alright, Linora will be counting on us taking that thing down. I'll take any suggestions." Everyone was silent.

'Of course, they always leave it up to the captain to get them out of a mess. I wish I let someone else take the job.' Fiona crossed her arms, trying to think how to defeat the blasted tank! She thought of what she read about Gadga, hoping to find out some sort of weakness. 'Gadga always make his vehicles with armor that can stand a few rounds from a capitol ship, and has enough power and ammo to destroy an entire squadron, maybe even two. Hell, with what I've seen this tank could possibly take out four, but Fiona would rather not test that theory out.

She spun around, getting into a crouch while pulling out her DH-17 blaster pistol as a sound came from behind her. Did the Spider Roller discover their location? No, it wasn't the spider roller. It was Kop along with two other troopers. Eyeing Fiona's blaster, he replied, "Wow, is this how you always welcome your friends?" Fiona holstered her blaster. "Only those that have seen me naked."

Kop entered the cave with a grin on his face. "Kop, what happened to your other men? I thought that you had more men than this." Kop sighed as he reloaded his E-11 Blaster Rifle. "We tried to take it on, to hopefully find a weakness, but nothing worked. Our blasters were worthless, grenades did squat, our rockets didn't even leave a scratch, and it was gaining up on us. When we wasted all other options, we all threw some sonic grenades that we had."

Kop sat down next to Fiona, the two soldiers with him crouching next to him. "When they went off, it seemed… hurt, like the sonic grenades were hurting it. Sonic weapons can be used to at least repel it, but I'm not sure if it can kill it." Kop pulled out one sonic grenade. "This is the only one I had left before we ran out and the spider roller then started to slaughter us again. One grenade won't do." Cyan snapped his fingers, saying, "No, you're wrong That one grenade is all we're gonna need."

Linora found it extremely hard to stand. Zank was standing in front of her, twirling his Lightsaber, looking bored. Linora could sense his impatience though, his impatience that it is taking so long to kill her. She could also sense a hunger, a unquenchable hunger. Linora looked at Zank's pocket, knowing that the schematic was still there. She has to get it and destroy it!

Of course, the problem was that she couldn't get close enough to him to actually get her hand in and take it, but even if she could, she was worried that, with Zank's speed, he would cut her arm off before she could bring her hand back out. She looked over at the two destroyed droids, and then formed a plan.

She readied herself in a new fighting position, one that usually stands for an last strike chance. It all requires speed, and if she misses then that will keep her open, exposed to an attack. She took three steps forward, Zank ready to evade Linora. She lounged for his left side, forcing him to go to his right. And right into the thrown debris from the droids. He fell on to the ground, unable to respond in time when the Linora grabbed the schematics in his pocket, and then ran towards the window. Before Zank could fully stand up, Linora jumped out the window, and then, using the force, cushioned her fall.

Linora stood up, her legs shaking. Why in the world did she think that was such a good idea? She looked at the schematics in her hand, and then threw it up in the air. With a single swing of her blade, she cut it in half. When she downloaded everything from the terminal into her datapad, she made sure to delete everything in it. That should put a dent in things here. Then, right on cue, the blood angel soared above, and dropped three bombs on random parts of the laboratory.

Linora smiled when she saw the building crumble, including the part where Zank was. When the blood Angel landed next to her, Linora gladly ran up to it as the ramp went down. When she entered the bridge, the Blood Angel was already up in the air "Linora, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad to see a Jedi here. That Spider Tank of Gadga's is destroying Pok's army. I tried to help, but it always knows when I'm nearby and shoots at me. I don't have what it takes to bring it down, so I thought you could help."

Korvas looked over at Linora as she sat down in the co-pilots seat. "I have a plan to take it down, but I'm not sure how it will work out." She looked over at Korvas, saying, "In order for it to work, I'm going to need your help."

Garen disliked the plan greatly. While he and Cyan was perched up in a tree, waiting, Fiona, the woman he gave his life debt to, was down on the ground, fighting with Kop and his men to distract the Spider Roller. "You ready Garen?" Cyan asked, pulling out a Sonic Grenade. ("Of course I am, now let's get this done with.") Garen growled, grabbing tightly on a vine with one hand and Cyan with the other.

With a push, Garen pushed off towards the Spider Roller, swinging through the air. Garen let go of the vine, and landed right on top of the tank. Cyan immediately grabbed an antenna that was on the top, bracing himself as the Spider Roller tried to get them off. Garen grabbed the sides of the Spider Roller, trying to hold unto the Spider Roller.

Eventually, Cyan managed to pull out his fusion cutter, and activated it. A small blue flame popped out, and then started cutting a small square on the hull near the cannon. After a minute, he finished cutting through. "Garen, I'm through! Get off now!" As Cyan activated the Sonic Grenade, Garen jumped off unto a tree, grabbing it with his claws.

Cyan planted the grenade into the Spider Roller, and then rolled off. Sparks flew out of the Spider Roller as the grenade went off, the Spider Roller veering left and right until it crashed on its side. Fiona was the first one out, her blaster aimed at the giant death machine. Kop was the last one to come out of cover, he, Fiona, and the remaining three soldiers surrounding the Spider Roller Garen climbed down the tree, and then pulled out his Bowcaster as Cyan pulled out his blaster pistol and joined everyone in surrounding the machine.

"Is it dead?" Asked a Rodian Soldier who was holding a TY-6 Sniper Rifle. A Female human walked up to the Spider Roller, and then kicked it. Afetr a small painful grunt that escaped her lips, she replied, "Yeah, it looks dead." Fiona holstered her blaster, and then chuckled. "Well, with what little troops that might be left I doubt we'll be able to do a successful offense."

Fiona's comlink beeped, and she then picked it up. Once activated, an hologram of Linora appeared. "Fiona? Dear god, I'm glad you're okay. Korvas finished off the laboratory and I destroyed any chances of this Spider Roller being made again. How is the one that's out there?" Fiona told Linora of what happened, and when she finished the Blood Angel was hovering above them.

"Smart strategy. Give Cyan my thanks. Kop, call your men for a extraction at your location." Kop gave an affirmative response, and then sent out the signal.

Zank shoved off a few large pieces of concrete off of him, blood dripping down his mouth. Looking down, he saw his clothes torn, revealing long scratches with small amounts of blood dripping down it. He looked up, and then swore. Four ships were leaving the atmosphere, and if what he sensed was correct, the remaining soldiers that were attacking the laboratory were on it. "You have failed me." Zank felt a sudden chill go up his spine at the sound of the metallic voice. Turning around, he saw a life-size hologram of Darth Vafot, his master. The source of the hologram was a small communicator being held by a man in red and black robotic armor with a wolf helmet.

It was Vafot's personal forces, a special task force known as the Shadow guards. "Your ship is destroyed, Gadga, his lab, his weapons, and all of his shematics are destroyed. The Spider Roller that is out in the forest was taken aboard one of theior ships You have failed me, Zank. This Shadow Guard has a ship waiting for you nearby. Go with him, and once you return to us I will have a punishment perfect for your failure. I expect you to do better from now on, Zank."

Then the hologram disappeared, and the Shadow Guard put the communicator away. "If you'll come with me, the hadzuska koshûjontû is waiting for us." He said. The hadzuzka koshûjontû is the Sith language for 'Shadow-born'. Zank then grudgingly followed the Shadow Guard, wondering if he should kill him or let him live.

Linora pulled out her own personal datapad, and then uploaded the information from Gadga's terminal unto it. She sighed when the datapad then crashed, but was lucky that she copied all the data unto her second datapad. She should have guessed that Gadga booby trapped his information. Linora threw away the datapads as a knock was heard on the door. "Come in."

The door opened up, and Fiona stepped in. "I hope you're feeling okay. I just read the report of what you went through with that weird Zank guy." Linora lay down on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. "I rather not think about it. Has Kop been able to reproduce the Spider Rollers?" Fiona placed her hands on her hips, replying, "No, nothing. The systems became fried when Cyan threw in the Sonic Grenade, most of it unrecognizable now due to it being so charred from the grenade and some of it that is actually undamaged we have no idea what it is. Also, since you decided to destroy the schematics and kill Gadga, we have no other way of being able to rebuild this. Pok says that he will give it to the Republic, and tell them a few lies about where we got them and why it's damaged. They want to keep their alliance with us a secret so then the Republic won't target them."

Linora snickered. "Of course. Our only companions won't admit it." Linora sat on the edge, smiling under her wrappings. "Linora, you have to understand that the only reason they are rebelling is because of the way they were treated by Groex Gal and his crimson organization, the Crimson Blades. If it's found out that we are working for them, then the Republic would be after them."

Linora simply sighed. This situation could not get much worse.

To Be Continued In # 7 Republic ships, incoming!