Soul Of the Jedi (Journey Through the unknown)

by Squasher

After the Execution of Order 66, several refugees attempt to escape the clutches of the Galactic Empire as they must overcome the journey along the way. Besides Lord Sidious, there are those that work deep in the shadows lingering as total Annihilation was their goal, leaving these Refugees to be the only hope. includes Asajj Ventress and Alpha-17. Discontinued, rewrite pending

5. Most Dangerous Creature in the Universe

AN: This is the second longest chapter I wrote for this story I hope you all enjoy

Disclaimer: I only own my OC's

(Chapter 4 The most dangerous creature of the universe)

The next three months had been eventful for the crew; Micah had a nice reunion with his clan at the second colony they stopped at which lasted for a few days. Fifteen days after that the ship made it out of chiss space and Micah stated that since they know the I.D for the ship, going through Chiss space shouldn't be as much of a hassle again, as this period went by the crew had daily routine, wake up, eat breakfast, early morning exercises, period for rest, followed by target practice in the shooting range. Both Daniel and Vega had improved tremendously since they started training to use them, but Caleb still has the highest score when it come to marksmanship on the ship; after that is lunch, followed by free time which Daniel often spends in the taktical deck studying maps, languages, and meditating while Vega goes to practice shooting.

Afterwards it's followed by training where the two boys learned martial arts from the rangers or practice with each other on their katas. Daniel has shown himself to be adept in the shi-cho, soresu, ataru, and some slight skill in the Niman lightsaber forms, made sense since he had been fighting mostly blaster wielders and on the battlefield for the past three years and given how well he integrated force techniques into his lightsaber sequences. He had also picked up the hand to hand martial arts that Aaron had been teaching them, using it to devastating effect especially when he kicks with his left leg... yep Aaron suffered a broken leg because of that one day, but it was nothing the medical droid couldn't fix, after a hard day's training it was followed by evening meals, and after that both Daniel and Vega go to the map room as they liked to call it and study the holocron Yoda gave them, one time the holocron introduced a technique Daniel had been taught before by his master and when the Holocron introduced it Vega said he wanted to learn it, so Daniel brought him to the training room and commend the bridge to ask if the fire suppression system could be disabled when he explained what he was doing they obliged.

"How do you generate fire?!" Vega asked enthusiastically the boy looked like he was ready to bounce off the walls.

Daniel chuckled at the boy's enthusiasm, it reminded him about when he first learned it, "Calm down okay, I'll show you." Daniel chuckled at that the boy settled down but Daniel could see that the boy's grey -almost silver- eyes were dancing with excitement, "Okay first I'll show you how it's done and I'll try to explain it." Daniel started unsure of what to say though he supposed it didn't matter, "You ready?" He asked ready to show his fellow padawan, the boy nodded vigorously to excited for words.

At the nod Daniel took a deep breath, cupped his hands, and focused his energies, ever since he was around three his mother had taught him some of the things she knew and one of those techniques was Pyrokinesis, he remembered the long hours of sweat inducing concentration it took him to conjure up a flame when he first did it, but the end result was worth it... until he accidentally lit the bed sheets on fire, he chuckled at the memory fortunately his mother had managed to douse the flame before it did to much damage, since than he had practiced his control over it, while advanced practitioners could control explosions, Daniel hasn't reached that far but he has used it in combat without much strain before, especially against droids when it was necessary, but for this demonstration he was not trying to be fast, merely show how it's done, after about thirty seconds a bright, yellow, dancing flame appeared in his hands.

Vega looked at the flame in awe "That's amazing!" he exclaimed excitedly, Daniel smiled and doused the flame.

"Do you want to learn this because deep down you're a pyromaniac?" Daniel asked playfully serious his eyebrow raised while Vega's face held shock and outrage.

"What? No that's not it at all!" Vega defended actually taking Daniel seriously, Daniel couldn't keep a straight face and broke into a fit of laughter.

"Y-you… should of... seen your face." Daniel said between fits of laughter after a good fifteen seconds he stopped laughing "Oh! my sides hurt." he said with a chuckle as he swiped his finger under his eyes.

Vega was not amused but before he could say anything Daniel started talking again "Ok. Pyro-kinesis has two major applications Generation and Manipulation, the one I just showed you was generation which we'll be focusing on for right now, generation is when you take existing elements and light them on fire, for example oxygen molecules, candle wicks, basically anything combustible." he explained, Vega listened intently putting aside Daniel's horrible attempt at humour.

"Okay, so how do I generate it?" Vega asked confused he understood the combustible items but he still didn't explain how to generate the fire.

Daniel resisted the urge to smack himself 'I completely forgot to explain how to generate it with those items' he berated himself. "I'm sorry, in order to create fire you have to rub the air molecules together and create enough friction to ignite a flame kind of like rubbing two sticks together to start a campfire." he explained.

Vega understood "So it's an application of telekinesis?" he asked curiously and tilted his head his argentum eyes full of interest.

Daniel thought about it for moment, he supposed in a way it could be viewed like that after all you are manipulating matter to make a chemical reaction "Sure let's go with that." Daniel answered with a shrug not sure what else to say; "Why don't you get started? It took me a few hours to do on my first try so don't feel to bad if you don't get it right away." Daniel stated, Vega nodded in aquess and got into a meditative position and began to focus.

A few hours had past but Vega had yet to conjure up a flame, "ARGH!" he shouted in frustration; "What am I doing wrong?" he asked out loud to no one in particular.

Daniel could feel to boys frustration and disappointment and sought to help him out "Don't beat yourself up, it took me a while to get it right," he told him; "Tell you what, I will show you manipulation right now I always found that easier than generation." he offered Vega whom sighed in defeat, nodded and gave him his attention, "Ok with Manipulation you're working with already existing fire, watch carefully." Daniel instructed.

Daniel created a small flame within his hands in less than a second and held his hands over his head parallel to the ceiling, it started small then he intensified it, the flame went from small and timid, to an intense and raging fire bloom that shot up towards the ceiling, the flames licked at the durasteel metal before it subsided and returned to its small and timid state, Daniel then blew the flame out like a candle and wiped away some sweat away from his brow "That's one of the things you can do with manipulation, here's another." he sparked another small flame and separated it in two holding one in each hand. "Basically you can do anything you can imagine though some things like the fire bloom I showed you aren't efficient uses of the technique." Daniel explained.

Vega was stunned into silence but when Daniel said that last sentence he let out a weak chuckle "show off." He muttered.

"Yes well, at least I was patient learning this ability unlike you getting all frustrated." he smirked.

Vega just sputtered at that before he stopped, "Can't we just continue the lesson?" He asked sullenly, than he realized that Daniel never doused the flames in his hands; "Uh, why do you still have the fire in your hands?" he asked nervously.

"Do you see any other fire sources around?" Daniel deadpanned; "You're going to be trying to manipulate the fire I have in my hands." He explained; "First, make the flame in my left hand bigger." he instructed.

Vega looked at the tiny flame and stretched out with force to coax the flame into becoming bigger. Unfortunately he had the opposite effect and doused the flame Daniel looked at the spot where the fire was "Well… atleast we know you can manipulate it," he bemused; "just not in the desired way, be a little more gentler this time around ok." Daniel ignited another flame.

Vega nodded, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath releasing all his frustrations into the force, after that he reached out again this time being more gentle after a few minutes the flame grew in size, "Good work, you can stop." Daniel said as he doused the fire "I think that's enough for today." he explained as Vega's face showed confusion.

Vega nodded and smiled at his accomplishment and bowed, "Thank you buliono (Brother)." he said and yawned ready for some sleep and headed for the door he turned back when he reached the door "You coming?" he asked upon seeing he wasn't following.

"I'll be up soon go on ahead." Daniel stated as Vega nodded in understanding and left.

Daniel really wanted to get a spar in before going to bed but unfortunately the ship didn't have any training droids on board and they didn't have the materials to build any, 'which is why' Daniel thought to himself, 'I've been studying the maps, seeing if there were anything we could find like debris fields or asteroids' during his study he found a planet with a large debris field around it 'I will run this by everyone tomorrow during breakfast and see if we can alter course' he planned and put the data pad away. 'For now I will practice katas' Daniel pulled his lightsaber out, activated it, and held it in the shi-cho ready stance and began.

After about an hour Daniel deactivated his lightsaber and wiped the sweat off his face, "that's good enough." he said out loud he had went through each and every single sequence he was familiar with, than he shook his head, "What am I saying of course it isn't good enough." Daniel realized shortly after he lost his leg that Jedi martial arts while adaptable can be predictable and Daniel had a feeling that if he didn't change his tactics he wouldn't get very far; "I'll work on it tomorrow I'm to tired right now… I also need to stop talking to myself." with that Daniel grabbed a towel and headed on up to the showers, after a good soak and a change of clothes he climbed into his bunk and drifted off to sleep.

The next morning in the lounge Daniel brought up his idea to head to the planet with the massive Debris field around it "So what do you guys think?" he asked just as Micah came into the room.

"Think of what?" the Chiss asked drowsily as he wiped his eyes from tiredness.

Aaron turned to answer "Daniel thinks it might be a good idea to find some materials so we can spruce the ship up a bit."

"Yeah he found a planet with a large debris field around it, kind of surprising since I would have thought looters would have gotten to it by now." Caleb continued, at that Micah immediately woke up and from what they could see he was a bit... terrified?

"What's the name of the planet?" the chiss asked seriously almost commanding.

Daniel was a bit confused but he looked at his data pad, "Mugg Fallow." Daniel answered causing the Chiss's eyes to widen in fear and dread.

"NO!" Micah shouted surprising them all, he never got like this "Going to that planet is practically a death sentence."

"Why is that?" Vega asked as he fidgeted nervously.

Micah didn't answer right away he was trying to calm down "... Because of Mnggal-Mnggal."

Daniel and Vega felt the fear and hatred for the being as it rolled off the Chiss in waves, "Whose Mnggal-Mnggal?" Daniel asked calmly.

Micah sighed, "No one really knows for sure, all I know is what I was taught at the university, Mnggal-Mnggal is believed to be an extra-dimensional being who's been around for hundreds of thousands of years since the time of the Celestials." Micah said.

"How is that bad?" Caleb asked hoping that was it, but he like everybody else, knew it wasn't.

Micah's red eyes bore into him for a second before he turned his attention back to the group, "Mnggal-Mnggal has a sadistic side to it that would make most sith lords blush." he claimed.

Daniel really hoped he was exaggerating, "What do you mean?" he asked his calm exterior was beginning to crack.

"Mnggal-Mnggal's form looks like a thick gray ooze but it can move around at will and can shape shift not into anything complex mind you but it is very sophisticated with what it can do." he explain.

(How does that relate to it being so sadistic?) Rohkea asked.

"Mnggal-Mnggal for reasons unknown attacks all life, it consumes it and we're sure it doesn't do as some need to sustain himself, no it's because it get's some perverse pleasure out of it." Micah spat; "Mnggal-Mnggal attacks sentients by latching onto them and heads for the mouth or nose to enter the body and sometimes it will bore directly into your pores, after it gets into your body it goes for the brain and consumes it, effectively killing the host and goes on to consume everything on the inside until the body is nothing but an empty shell for it to use at its leisure, and sometimes it doesn't even kill the host right away it can mess with your brain and make you paranoid to the point you'll make irrational decisions and kill everyone around you in some way shape or form and than it consumes you, but to me what makes it far worse than the sith is this, it'll take a child consume them in front of his/her mother or father and then it will quote, bring them back unquote, just to kill them again and It'll do it again and again and again and again just to take joy or humor in watching their parents break, till It's satisfied." Micah explained.

Rohkea really regretted asking that question now, everyone held a look of horror, "Can the entity be destroyed?" Daniel asked hopefully.

Micah sighed "All attempts to do so ended in failure." he said morbidly, causing Daniel to deflate.

Aaron thought about it for a moment "Could we get to the debris field and take the materials without Mnggal-Mnggal noticing?" He asked the Chiss who looked at him with surprise.

"Even after what I told you, you're still willing to take the risk?" Micah asked numbly.

The group looked at each other, all of them coming to an agreement looked back at him and nodded; "You're all crazy!" Micah exclaimed then he rubbed his face and let out a yell of frustration; "and I can't believe I'm going along with this." He grounded out "If you can come up with a plan than I will alter course." He sighed.

"What can you tell us about Mnggal-Mnggal, How does it find its prey? stuff like that." Daniel asked his eyes hardening in determination.

"Mnggal-Mnggal as I said before can shape shift, it can form eye sockets with which to see, a fanged mouth to attack an organism with, and a bat like creature to fly, that's all the forms I know it can take." Micah started, "As for how it finds its target... we're not exactly sure." Micah said.

The group began thinking, than Vega had thought "Can it infect droids?" He asked.

MIcah thought about the question "I don't believe so, but we only have four droids an astromech, a probe droid, a mining droid, and a medical droid, and we don't have the materials to build anymore and even if we did we don't know how it would affect droids." Micah stated.

Caleb then snapped his fingers "You're right, but we do have the materials to build vacuum sealed armor, that might buy us some time should Mnggal-Mnggal latch onto us." he theorised causing Micah to nod

"You're right depending on the material it would buy us a bit of time." he confirmed his theory.

Caleb turned to Rohkea "What's the strongest material we have?" he asked the wookie.

(Duraplast, it should hold up to the punishment, after all it can take a minor blow from a lightsaber.) the wookie answered.

"Considering the clone commando's armor was made out of the same material I'd say we have a good chance." Aaron said confidently.

Daniel looked at the holocron again "And I have some armor designs that we could implement right away." he stated, Vega looked at him with a knowing look while the rangers sent questioning gazes at him.

He pulled out the holocron Yoda had made and showed it to the group. "This is the holocron Master Yoda promised both Vega and I, in it are all sorts of knowledge, one thing that I should tell you is this, during the war the Jedi were developing full body power armor that would protect the wearer but not impede movement." He explained.

Micah seemed very interested in that and he understood why the Jedi would look into such a piece of equipment "That's interesting, but unfortunately we don't have the resources to build power armor." he said.

"I know that, but we don't need it to be power armor just vacuum sealed among other things." Daniel countered.

Aaron was curious to see what it looked like "Can we see the schematics?" He asked.

Daniel nodded and slipped into a meditative trance after a few moments the holocron floated in the air, its corners shifted and separated as it orbited the now round-ish crystal. It emitted all sorts of data in holographic form, from the different lightsaber forms and stances to different force techniques, and all manner of knowledge and research the Jedi had discovered -well a bit of it anyway- after a few seconds Daniel enlarged the data they were looking for and came out of his trance.

The ranger all studied the design, the armor fully encased the wearer from head to toe, with an opaque faceplate to hide the wearer's face, it had a battle drape that attached at the waist and covered the back of the legs presumably made of armor weave to add a little more protection, one of the rangers let out a whistle of approval "Impressive." Caleb said; "How come this never saw combat?" he asked curiously.

"Because by the time we finished the design General Grievous was already dealt with, followed almost immediately by order 66." Daniel explained causing the rangers to nod in understanding.

"Well if you want to, go upload the schematics into the assembler and tell it how many sets you want." Micah said tiredly suddenly Rohkea let out a growl "Oh that's right you wookies don't wear armor do you, well fortunately the tactical room can be locked down I recommend you and Vega stay in there while this operation goes down." Micah suggested, Vega was about to protest "I don't want any arguments from you." Micah told him sternly.

Vega was about to try again, "Vega, Micah has a point if Mnggal-Mnggal is as cruel as he says it is than I want you in the safest place on this ship." Daniel stated causing the young boy to sigh in defeat.

"Very well." he muttered.

"I'm still waiting on the plan." Micah said.

After a few minutes of brainstorming Daniel, Caleb, and Aaron had a plan, First Daniel would take the Jedi starfighter and R7-D8 and get the creature's attention, after Mnggal-Mnggal's attention is firmly on Daniel the three rangers and the mining droid would go aboard as many ships as they could in a teams of two Aaron and Caleb on one team, Micah and the droid on the other, after downloading the database and putting as much materials as they can carry into the crates they had the would board the ship again, and get a safe distance away, after that Daniel would fly back to the ship and they would make the jump to lightspeed.

Micah considered the plan than sighed and got on the intercom, "R7 prepare to alter course." he said then he turned to the other and gave them a hard look, "It's going to take a three weeks to get to Mugg Fallow. Don't make me regret this." he told them seriously and left the lounge having lost his appetite.

During the three weeks they had. Daniel went down to the assembler and imputed the design for the armor almost immediately after the meeting in the lounge, unfortunately it wouldn't be at its full power but in the scope of this mission they didn't need it at full power he had the machine build four sets, Caleb suggested they put cables and grappling hooks in the wrist so as to maneuver easier in zero gravity fortunately they had four 50 meter cables that Micah and Rohkea bought on Nar Shaddaa in case the group needed to scale anything, in about 11 and a half days each of the sets were finished, after wards Daniel went to check the jedi star fighter and made sure it was ready for the mission.

Aaron, Caleb, and Micah all went to maintain the mining droid which was bipedal and a similar model to what the Paragus mining facility used about four thousand years ago, one day Caleb found a plasma torch in the storage room "Hey Micah." he called getting the Chiss's attention "How does Mnggal-Mnggal like high temperatures?" He asked curiously.

"We're not really sure, why do you ask?" Micah answered.

"I have a hunch." Caleb said and pocketed the plasma torch.

"Unless you can figure out how to get a flamethrower working in space we're going to have to rely on blasters brother." Aaron said facetiously as he worked on the droid.

"Oh har har laugh it up, I actually brought it up because I found a plasma torch just now." Caleb explained.

"Let's hope you never have to use it on Mnggal-Mnggal." Micah said.

On the day before the mission the crew exchanged very few words with one another, they found it difficult to say anything to each other due to the pressure that tomorrow would bring they all coped with it their own way, Daniel either mediated or he practised his martial arts, Caleb target practised, Aaron reflected on his life and how he got to where he was today, Vega kept to himself Daniel noticed he often had the holocron with him throughout the three weeks and when Daniel asked him about it he just said "Don't worry about it." Micah just went to his post on the bridge and silently watched as they went ever closer into the face of death he wanted to scream and cry feeling like he was about to lose a family tomorrow but his training and discipline refused to let it happen, Rohkea played Dejarik to keep his mind off of tomorrow.

Shortly before going to bed Micah went to the lounge and found Rohkea in there, "Listen should anything bad happen while we're out there tomorrow, the tactical room can function as a secondary bridge take the ship and fly as far away from Mugg fallow as you can." Micah told the wookie whom nodded.

(In case none of us make it we should all spend some time together.) The wookie stated and got on the intercom summoning the crew to the lounge when they all got their they all looked at each other each could see the anxiety in each others faces.

Daniel broke the silence "You know we can still turn around." He pointed out to the group.

Micah sighed "I'm afraid we can't." he said morbidly; "we are running out of fuel and supplies, this is our best option."

Vega had tears welled up in his eyes Daniel noticed and brought the youngest member of the crew into a hug "I know you're scared... we all are buddy." Daniel said shakily as he embraced the boy he called his brother.

Aaron and Caleb went to the two placed comforting hands on their shoulders Daniel pulled away a bit but kept an arm around Vega a held his arm out to them inviting them in a group hug soon all the rangers joined the hug and during that moment no one said a word.

Hardly any of them got any sleep that night Daniel and Vega tried to dispel their fears into the force but found it wasn't working so they spent the whole night meditating to dispel their fears during their meditation a voice spoke to them "Hello young ones." the voice greeted causing Daniel and Vega to look around in alarm "It's alright I'm a friend." the voice claimed.

"If that is so then show yourself." Daniel demanded while keeping his voice down so as not to wake up the rangers.

"I will do so." No sooner did it say that than a blue figure appear in the room with them greatly surprising the boys "I'm Qui-gon Jinn, Master Yoda told you I would appear in your time of need did he not?" the ghost asked with a raised eyebrow.

"H-he t-told us an old f-friend would appear to help us." Vega stuttered out.

"As much as I would like to continue this discussion maybe we should do it else where." Daniel suggested still unnerved.

"Very well, lead the way." Qui-Gon said with a gesture of his hand.

Daniel and Vega led him to the lounge after the door closed Daniel rounded on the apparition "Ok who are you really?" He demanded.

"I am Qui-gon Jinn, Obi-wan's old master."

"But you died." Daniel said weakly sensing no deceit from the apparition; "killed by the sith."

"A Jedi can survive physical death and transcend the physical plane as a spirit." Jinn stated with a smile.

"Amazing." Vega said his mouth open in awe Daniel was also awed but than he had a thought.

"Is my master also a spirit can I see her?" Daniel asked hopefully.

Qui-gon looked at the boy unsure of how to tell him "She is not a spirit." he said causing Daniel to immediately deflate; "Because she's not dead." he told him.

"WHAT!" Daniel shouted "Where is she!?" He asked forcefully.

Qui-gon sighed, "She's currently being held against her will by the man who attacked you on your final combat mission together." he informed him.

"After we get the materials we need I'm going back to known space to get her." Daniel stated.

"I don't know why you would the man has been following you through the unknown regions ever since polis masa."

'Well that's convenient' Daniel thought to himself. "That makes finding her easier but, Why didn't He just kill her?" He asked.

"This darksider doesn't just kill his victims he wants to make them suffer, he want's her to suffer by torturing you both in front of each other till you both break then he'll kill you." Qui-gon informed him.

"Not if I break him first." Daniel growled his green eyes getting specks of yellow in them.

"Daniel controll your feelings." Jinn ordered sternly.

Daniel with a sigh released all his anger and hatred into the force as he did this his eyes went back to their natural color, "You're right master I'm sorry." Daniel apologized.

"Daniel, it's completely natural for you to feel anger over this situation, but you can't let it control you otherwise you'll become what you hate most." Jinn warned him.

"You're right master Jinn, how about we change the subject?" he asked.

"Yeah... uh... why are you here?" Vega asked after a moment of thought.

"I'm here to help reassure you boys during this mission you both are terrified of this abomination aren't you?" He asked. Vega and Daniel nodded in unison, "There is no shame in being afraid, but you should overcome this fear by yourselves. I am here to guide you remember that."

"Master is what Micah said about Mnggal-Mnggal true." Vega asked.

The three stood their for a long moment before Qui Gon responded. "It's true." he said; "but it never had the misfortune to run into the Jedi before it won't know what hit it." He reassured them with a smile, "besides you have been learning a technique to help on this mission haven't you?" Jinn asked the boy.

Daniel turned to Vega and asked, "What's he talking about?"

"I don't know if it will work." Vega said Daniel could feel the self doubt coming off of him.

"Remember what Obi Wan taught you both, trust in the force." Qui Gon told him "and from what I understand you always had an aptitude for telepathic powers am I right?" he asked knowingly

"Again what are you talking about?" Daniel asked only to be ignored again.

"That's what the masters told me." Vega answered Qui Gon who nodded.

"Remember trust in the force and each other and you may yet win the day." Jinn said as he faded away.

"Wait how can we talk to you again?" Daniel called out.

"I will appear to you after you succeed." With that he vanished

Daniel and Vega stood in the lounge for a minute "Let's go back to bed ok?" Vega asked Daniel nodded and the two went back to bed much more at ease.

A few hours later Caleb woke up in a cold sweat, and fell off his bunk with a thud, rousing his brother "Sorry." he said as he pinched the bridge of his nose "What time is it?" he asked panting.

Aaron checked his chrono " a little past 4:00 am, you okay?" he asked concerned, the young man nodded in response Aaron could see he was physically fine but his mind was another matter; "Bad dreams?" he asked knowingly.

"It was so real." Caleb panted and clenched his eyes shut "The creature took…" He started then he shook his head; "Never mind I don't want to talk about it." He shuddered.

Aaron nodded in understanding and let out a sigh "Let's get an early start to the day, okay?" he suggested as sleep was unreachable for the both of them now, Caleb just nodded and the two got up and went to the lounge to make some caf they spent the next two hours talking about the past and reminiscing.

"You remember when we signed up for the rangers?" Caleb asked his brother with a smile

Aaron chuckled "I do indeed, I remember that the General got pretty upset when you mistakenly shot the security Nexu" Aaron said.

"Oh come on how was I supposed to know that it was tamed?" He said indignantly, then the two started laughing; "You know I think we'll all be alright today." Caleb said when they stopped laughing.

Aaron smiled "I think so to." he agreed just as Micah and Rohkea walked in when the newcomers saw the confident smiles on the brothers' faces they couldn't help but smile as well "Micah how long before we reach Mugg Fallow?" Aaron asked the chiss.

Micah took a moment to look at the displays "Six hours." he said simply, Daniel entered the room and saw that everyone was in a good mood.

He leaned back through the door "Hey Vega come on, let's get some breakfast." he called to the boy when he entered he also bore a confident smile.

"Good morning." he greeted getting the same response in some way from the others after everyone got some food Daniel told them about their encounter with master Jinn last night.

At first the group just played it off as the two boys coming to terms with their own mortality "Look I know that sometimes when dealing with a life threatening situation people tend to see things." Micah started.

Daniel and Vega were about to retort before Rohkea did (No wait I believe them.) the wookie said seriously.

"Why is that?" Caleb asked curiously.

(Do any of you remember learning about the great sith wars, Grand Master Sunrider would receive visits from her deceased husband.) the wookie said (and not only that the sith lord Exar Kun turned himself into a dark side spirit.) he continued standing up for the two boys.

In light of the new information the rangers all apologised for dismissing the boys encounter, "So what did master Jinn tell you." Aaron inquired.

They saw the smile one the boys faces "He told us we'll be fine, that Mnggal-Mnggal never had the 'misfortune to encounter a Jedi' his words not mine." Daniel said confidently upon hearing that the men felt much lighter and were ready to damage Mnggal-Mnggal's pride "He also said." he began turning his head to look at Vega a mischievous expression on his face "That Vega here was learning a technique to help us out." when he said that the group all turned to him.

Vega felt very self conscious from the stares he was receiving Daniel sought to reassure him "Hey look I'm not mad I'm actually very proud of you." Daniel said with a warm smile Vega visibly relaxed at that.

"I was trying to learn battle meditation."He admitted causing Daniel's eyes to widen in surprise.

"Vega that's an extremely advanced ability." Daniel said numbly, "Have you had any success in using it?" he asked curiously the boy shook his head.

"No, I haven't had a chance to test it yet." he said with a sigh of disappointment.

The group all smiled at the boy "Hey don't worry, we appreciate the effort besides you might be able to pull it off during the op." Aaron said as he ruffled the kid's hair

"Just don't try to demoralize Mnggal-Mnggal we have no Idea how powerful Its mind is." Daniel told the him Micah nodded in agreement.

"He has a good point if you can pull it off only use it to boost our moral that's all we need." Micah stated.

(I feel I must ask did you ever tell us what types of ships were in the debris field?) Rohkea asked the Chiss at that question everyone turned towards Micah all of them realized he never did.

"From what I remember the most advanced ships in the field I believe are Gree." he claimed greatly surprising all those present after all the Gree were probably one of the most technologically advanced races second only to the legendary Celestials, if records were to be believed.

"Wow." Aaron and Caleb said almost in sync.

Micah understood the group's amazement "Indeed, Mnggal-Mnggal purposely took those ships and created the debris field, for what no one knows." he explained.

"Perhaps to serve as a testament to its power." Aaron hypothesised.

"Maybe it's art to it." Caleb suggested.

"Whatever the reason, we're still going headlong into it." Micah said.

Shuddering at what twisted thought Mnggal could do if it caught them, "In that case I recommend we get ready we'll be arriving in a few hours." Daniel suggested, the group agreed and finished their breakfast in silence, after they finished eating Vega and Rohkea went to the tactical room, the medical droid was in there to keep an eye on Vega when he would attempt the battle meditation.

Daniel and the rangers that were going out of the ship got their armor on and made sure the vacuum seals were fully operational according to Daniel they would have about three hours of air before needing to replenish their supply.

They had 30 minutes before they dropped out of hyperspace at the edge of the system, Daniel now donned in his armor was doing preflight checks on his fighter he than heard R7-D8 roll in from the utility lift "Hey, R7." he greeted; "Hop in, so we can talk." he said, the astromech complied and hopped into the droid slot, seeing as the binary language of droids went over most sentients heads.

[I noticed that throughout these past few weeks the crew was on edge.] the droid stated Daniel sighed and nodded

"You would be correct." He confirmed the droids observations, "we're about to go face to face with what is possibly the most dangerous creature in the galaxy if not the universe." he told the droid.

[You're afraid?] the droid asked.

Daniel chuckled at the question, "Of course I'm afraid." He answered.

[but not for yourself.] The droid observed.

Daniel was surprised by the insight this droid possessed "Tell me how are you so insightful into the emotions of sentients?" he asked curiously.

[My previous Master never saw fit to erase my memory core and he would often talk about his problems with me I suppose he always preferred the company of droids to other sentients] R7 told him.

"Then why did he sell you?" Daniel inquired with a raised eyebrow.

[Master, was a long standing ally to the jedi and felt I would be of more use helping you than staying on Nar Shaddaa] the droid chirped happily.

Daniel didn't know how to respond to that, this was a gift he felt he never would be able to repay "I'll be sure to thank your previous owner if I ever meet him." he proclaimed.

[I'm sure you will get that chance.] R7 stated, the Mech had stayed silent now as he scanned the small craft running system diagnostics, as well as making sure the engine was properly functioning.

Soon Micah's voice came in over the comm "2 minutes till we drop from hyperspace, Daniel get ready." he said.

"Alright. R7, is the ship good to go?"

[The vessel appears to be in working order.] The droid chimed.

Daniel nodded in approval and strapped himself in, mentally counting the seconds away in his head, as he got the ship up and running.

'Emerging from hyperspace in 10 seconds' he thought to himself '9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... here we go.' "This is Starfire moving out." he reported as the doors opened revealing the star system and he blasted out of the hanger at high speed, he could see the planet that held their quarry in the distance and the massive debris field that surrounded it. The field was just as big, if not bigger than the shipyards at Kuat but less organized or at least to him it was.

He began his report, "I'm heading towards the planet eta 3 minutes." He knew that according to the plan, the mother ship would come in 5 minutes after he did. Meaning, he was going to either find Mnggal-Mnggal or it was going to find him; either way he would have to keep its attention for at least an hour, 'yeah I can do that.' he thought to himself.

"R7, run some scans see if you can detect any biomass or something." he told the astromech.

30 seconds later the droid reported back [scans complete, check the readouts.] R7 chimed in.

Daniel did so and when he did, he almost wished he hadn't, the planet's oceans was one big organism and it was all over the continents fortunately he couldn't detect anything in the debris field, the overwhelming sense of fear began to kreep up on him again but then he remembered Qui Gon's words last night and he released his fears into the Force with a deep breath. "R7 take over, fly us near the planet if you detect movement bring us into the atmosphere, I'll prepare a present for our host." He commanded the droid, R7 took the controls without hesitation and complied.

Now that Daniel was freed from the burden of flying, he began to meditate letting the force flow through him and fill his entire being.

R7 flew into the debris field and continued flying through it, so far he detected no movement from the planet and thus he continued to fly closer after flying about 300 meters he got a ping and gunned the engines flying into the atmosphere of the planet.

"Keep going." Daniel strained out "We need to get to oxygen rich air." he explained

[Affirmative] the droid replied and continued the descent the droid scanned the area and saw that the organism was getting closer 500 meters… 450… 400.

Daniel was starting to glow a little now, not enough to light up a room but pretty noticeable.

300 meters now.

Daniel remembered what Obi-Wan told him about his duel with Grievous 'I was not the one fighting' the esteemed general had said 'you weren't?' 'No I was but a vessel empty of self the Force was fighting through me, you see young one Grievous's opponent that day was the Force and he stood no chance.' 'How did you do that?' 'I gave my complete trust over to the Force and as such it lended me strength.' Daniel attempted to do it before but it was not as easy as Obi-Wan described it to be, now he tried again he tried placing his trust in the Force but he couldn't he wondered why that was 'Why don't I trust the force completely?' He questioned himself, then he came to the realization, 'I don't trust it because I never had any reason to. I suppose I also blame it for taking my mother away, for the loss of my leg, for the death of the Jedi and the rise of the Sith. And I'm scared that it's going to take away my new family and give it to this creature.' Daniel had tears flowing from his closed eyes as he thought this 'but it has given me so much as well, it saved my mother granted she's being held by that darksider but at least she's alive, Vega's alive, and a good number of Jedi have survived there's a chance for us to return.' Daniel released a shaky breath.

200 meters

'I want to trust you' he whispered to the Force 'But I'm afraid if I do You'll take away all I have left.' he admitted 'I suppose this is why the Jedi forbade attachment.' He thought, 'is it possible to love and not be bound by possessiveness and jealousy?' 'it must be the Jedi kept my mother and I together.' 'when I thought I lost her I was devastated I almost starved myself in my grief.' 'but now that I know she's alive I'm happier than a child playing in the meadows on Nabbo.' 'you for whatever reason gave me a chance to save her but I can't do it without you.' 'just as I can't do this without you.'

100 meters

'I'm sorry for casting the blame onto you.' Daniel apologized to the Force. 'all things in this universe happens for a reason...' 'And I trust that in these trials and tribulations.' 'that the jedi will become stronger because of it.'

50 meters a horde of bat like creatures could be seen flying towards them

"I…" he started

25 meters, the horde was getting closer.

"...Trust…."

10 meters, the horde surrounded the fighter and R7 shrilled in alarm

"...You" he finished and he meant it, the Force sensed his sincerity and Daniel was rewarded with strength.

0 meters, The horde was about to latch on and make it's way into the cockpit to get the armored occupant.

However Daniel was no longer in the cockpit his body had become a vessel of the Force and the Force wasn't about to let one of its servants be taken by this creature, suddenly the black ooze that surrounded the fighter all caught fire and it flew away screeching in fright.

When the creature stopped and the fire was out it studied its prey, "You are different than the others who have come to my humble abode." the Ooze said as if in a dream like trance, "come on down to the surface I have host body with which to talk to you." the creature invited.

the Force glared at the creature in contempt though the creature couldn't see it behind the faceplate "Why should I accept your invitation." the Force said through Daniel's lips.

"For one it's much easier for me to tak- I mean talk to you" Mnggal-Mnggal said.

"You seem to be talking just fine up here." Daniel said sardonically

"Fine if you won't go willingly than I will make you go down." Mnggal-Mnggal growled and formed a fanged mouth on his bat like creature and flew at high speeds towards the fighter.

"Stay back!" Daniel commanded while throwing his hand out sending a telekinetic wave that sent the ooze flying in all different directions "R7 do what you do best."

[Affirmative] and took off at high speed towards the planet

Daniel created a massive amount of fire and trailed it behind the fighter as they flew, the fire fell and torched the black sludge that was on the ground that tried to spring up and snatch the fighter as it flew by.

[The others are doing well, they've successfully boarded a gree ship and an old republic ship in orbit] Daniel nodded at that.

"Caleb and Aaron do you read?" Daniel asked through the suits built in Comm device.

Meanwhile on the old republic ship Aaron and Caleb were loading some metal and supplies into one of their crates when their suit communicators pinged when they heard it was Daniel they immediately became worried "Are you okay?" Aaron asked worried that Mnggal-Mnggal may have caught him.

"I'm better than okay, I actually can honestly say I never felt this good since before the clone wars." He said causing the brothers to look at eachother in confusion.

"Uh… Are you sure you're okay?" Caleb asked now worried for his mental health.

"Don't worry everything is fine I actually am contacting you to tell you that about 40 meters from the ship you're on is an ancient sith warship." He said.

"Yeah we know, we weren't sure if you wanted us to go onto it." Aaron stated knowing the feud between the Jedi and the Sith was pretty strong.

"Well after you're done with the ship you're on, board it please?" Daniel asked.

"Very well." Caleb said and closed the link.

"How come you didn't ask him why?" Aaron asked with a tilt of his head as they continued loading the crate.

"Because Aaron, you taught me that if we stood around asking dumb questions especially in a combat zone someone could die because we wasted our time talking." Caleb said with a smile though Aaron couldn't see it.

"I'm so proud." Aaron said with mock sadness "My baby brother has finally grown up."

"Oh come on. I may be younger than you but I'm not the baby of the family." Caleb said indignantly.

Aaron laughed, "No you're not, huh I wonder how he's doing now a days?"

Caleb sighed, "Knowing him he's blowing something up."

"Probably, he loves explosions." Aaron agreed as they finished loading the crate and handing it off to the probe droid "Meet us at that ship." he ordered the droid as he pointed to the ship 40 meters away.

The droid gave a sign that it received the order and brought the crate to the mother ship.

"Hey Micah how are you doing over on that Gree ship." Aaron asked over the Comm.

"I almost finished downloading the database, huh with this we'll definitely have an edge over the Empire." Micah stated confidently.

"It's one thing to get the Data on how to build something it's a completely different matter to build it." Aaron said though he would admit he was excited at the prospect of having a technological edge over the empire

"That's true, how are things on your end?" The Chiss asked.

"We're done here, we got a few loads from this ship we didn't download the data base simply because it's a republic hammer head and we're about to head over to our next target." Caleb reported.

"Okay. May the force be with you." Micah said.

"And you as well." Aaron said and turned off the comm he turned to his brother "Ready?" he asked.

Caleb nodded "let's go." The two of them got crouched a bit ready to push off towards the ship from what they remembered from their military history the ship they were going to board was a harrower-class dreadnought, the vessel was 800 meters long and in relatively good shape, they had their work cut out for them.

They deactivated the magnetic boots and launched themselves at the ship after getting a good distance toward the ship they armed their wrist mounted launchers and shot the grapple hooks at the ship unfortunately only one of them hit the actual target the other hit a piece of debris and knocked it off course.

"Sith spit." Caleb cursed as he tried to regain his composure and get the cable back under his control.

Aaron pulled himself to the ship and looked back to see his brother careening in a different direction "Hold on!"

"To what?" was the snarky reply. Yep even in the face of danger Caleb still had his sense of humor.

Aaron took aim and launched the grapple hook at his brother "Coming at ya." Aaron called out.

Caleb looked at it and saw that it wasn't going to reach him so he looked around for anything to push off from; then he saw the probe droid they used to drop things off if he could latch onto that he'd be fine "Don't worry I found my ride over." he stated and took aim and latched onto the crate the droid was carrying and let it drag him over to the Harrower.

After he safely landed on the hull he activated the mag locks on his boots to secure himself to the hull "You okay?" Aaron asked placing a hand on his shoulder.

Caleb nodded "Yeah I'm fine." he assured him "How about we get into this tin can?" he asked ruefully.

Aaron smiled even though Caleb couldn't see it and nodded "Got nothing better to do, come on there's a hull breach towards the bow of the ship about 300 meters from here."

"Yay, more walking."Caleb said dryly, but started walking to the breach none the less.

It took them a few minutes to get to the breach "Careful of the jagged edges." Aaron warned as they climbed into the opening.

They found themselves in a well lit corridor "Huh the power's still going, even the artificial gravity is online." Aaron mused out loud.

"Perhaps the droids are online." Caleb suggested, they looked at each other and nodded agreeing that might be the case and pulled out their side arms in case any of the droids may be hostile "Micah we believe that there might be active combat droids on the vessel we boarded after you're done on the Gree ship can you help us out?" Caleb asked over the comm.

"Depends on how far away your position is from mine." the Chiss answered "What ship did you board?" he asked

"We boarded a sith imperial ship from the great galactic war era." Aaron answered; "specifically a harrower-class dreadnaught."

"I don't think I'll be able to get to you." he informed; "Just be careful up there." The chiss informed.

"Acknowledged." Caleb said and closed the link he turned to his brother "Well then let's hope the only droids active are the maintenance droids."

"With our luck that's a long shot." Aaron sighed.

"I'm good at long shots." Caleb retorted sardonically drawing a sigh of annoyance from Aaron and a smile from Caleb oh how he loved to get on his older brothers nerves.

They walked down the dark corridors till they came across a door section that separated two doors one open the other closed. "There might be an atmosphere on the other side." Aaron suggested.

Caleb checked the portable scanner he had in his utility belt, "There is." he confirmed; "however I am also picking up some droid signals." he groaned knowing it was impossible to determine if these droids wouldn't blast them the moment they opened the doors.

"Well look on the bright side." Caleb started.

Aaron looked at him "What bright side?" He asked with a growl.

"We survived a war against droids." Caleb tried with a slight chuckle. He knew that these war droids were far more dangerous than the essentially worthless B1s the separatist used, heck maybe even more than the B2s.

"Caleb you know as well as I do that the sith didn't care about profit like the neimoidians do, they built their droids to be as deadly and adaptable as possible." Aaron stated.

"You and I survived an encounter with a Manga Guard during the war these droids the sith built don't even remotely compare." Caleb countered, and he certainly had a point those Magna Guards were probably the most dangerous infantry droids ever built.

"Well that may be true but that doesn't mean anything in the here and now." Aaron retorted.

Caleb sighed in acknowledgement "I know, just trying to lighten the mood." he explained.

"Just seal the door and get behind the other door frame." Aaron ordered, Caleb nodded and complied sealing the door and moving to cover at the left hand side of the blast door and nodded to signal he was ready.

After the pressure equalised Aaron opened the blast door Caleb looked in and what he saw made him sigh with relief "It's just maintenance droids." he said with a laugh.

Aaron nodded "Good we should resupply our Oxygen now that we're here." Aaron suggested.

"It's amazing that this ship survived this long." Caleb remarked as they walked along their blasters at the ready should trouble find them.

"Indeed." Aaron agreed "I think the droids on this ship might be following a directive of some kind." Aaron thought out loud, by the hum of agreement from Caleb it sounded like he reached the same conclusion.

They stopped when they heard something the brothers looked down the corridor to their right and saw a droid walking into a wall repeatedly judging by the model it looked like an old protocol droid and it was trying to speak but its vocal system was on the fritz "ma..ma….st...er?" the droid seemed to be saying.

"Well," Caleb started; "what should we do?" he asked.

Aaron looked at Caleb than the droid "Let's see if we can repair him." He said with a shrug.

"Seems reasonable enough." Caleb shrugged and made his way over to the grey droid to try and repair it "Droid I'm going to try to repair you can you understand me?" he asked the droid Aaron was aiming at the droid incase it did anything threatening.

"Af..fir...ma...tive." the droid responded Caleb nodded and began to get to work.

About 15 minutes later Caleb stopped his work and looked at it "Well I did the best I can, In truth Rohkea is the better mechanic when it comes to machines."

The droid studied the work that the sentient had performed on it, "Statement; I'm quite surprised a meatbag such as yourself is capable of repairing a droid such as myself." the both of them tensed when it said that already afraid of what they made functional.

"Oh no." Aaron said over the private comms, "Please tell me you didn't repair an assassin droid and one of the HK series as well." he begged.

"Okay I didn't," Caleb said; "but I did." he said nervously having recognised the speech pattern of the model from what he could tell it was a HK-51 droid.

"Query: Are you here to save the master?" the HK droid asked its 'eyes' studying the two being in armor.

Aaron seeing no other option nodded his head.

"Joyful conclusion: Wonderful just follow me and we can free the master, and get as far away from this system as possible." the droid said and began to walk down the corridor, seeing no other option they followed the deadly killer.

"You think there might be a survivor on this ship?" Aaron asked Caleb over the private comms

"Either that or the droid has a few screws loose… pun not intended." Caleb stated "but in all seriousness I am leaning towards the latter." Caleb muttered.

"The survivor could be in stasis." Aaron suggested.

"Great then we'll have to wake up an ancient sith lord." Caleb said sarcastically "I don't know about you but I don't want the life to be choked, shocked, or drained out of me thank you very much."

"Than we can kill him if it must be done." Aaron growled "look I don't like the Idea any more than you do but it's either we end this threat now before he or she becomes a problem later on down the line or we let the assassin droid kill us now."

At that Caleb became subdued "We'll be committing murder you know." he said quietly.

Aaron slowed a step and stopped, the two had killed before but never someone who couldn't defend themselves, never in cold blood, it was always in a conflict of some kind like the clone wars or some of the other small scale conflicts that they've been involved in, Aaron however knew that a sith was dangerous and if another one were to be free, he shook that thought away almost immediately, no, when the time comes he'll do what is necessary and he'll accept the consequences of the action so his brother could have a clean conscience.

"Annoyed Query: Why did you stop moving meat bag?" the droid asked "Eager threat: you know I could just as easily just kill you both."

"If you did that you wouldn't be able to get aboard our ship and the crew wouldn't take to kindly to the fact that you killed us." Caleb said after he opened the commline to everyone else's.

"Arrogant Query: And what could your crew do to stop me?"

"We could blast you to pieces." a voice answered.

"Tear you apart with telekinesis or melt you down." another voice added.

"Eagar assessment: oh you have a Jedi in your group the master would be most pleased."

Aaron narrowed his eyes behind his faceplate "Why would that be?" he growled at the droid his hands tightening around his blaster.

"Explanation: The master is a young sith apprentice who was apprenticed to Darth Aartsengel, Darth Aartsengel had become disillusioned with the sith order as it was and sought to defect or at least escape the conflict with his most loyal crew he fled to the chiss ascendancy, unfortunately he failed to realize that the ascendancy was providing some aid to the sith empire at the time..."

"Wait the Chiss were helping the sith?" Caleb asked, "Is that true Micah?" he asked curiously.

a sigh came from the other side of the link "the Chiss did send some men to aid the empire yes, but we also sent men to assist the republic as well." he clarified.

"huh, Okay." Caleb said with a shrug.

"Wait that's it?" Micah asked "no 'you blueskin bastard I'm going to gouge those red eyes out when I see you again.' nothing like that?" he asked while making a bad impersonation of his fellow ranger.

Aaron laughed at the question "The thing about the Sobec family is we don't have time for the humanocentric B.S." Aaron said, "now how about we let the droid tell his story."

"Continuation: as I was saying the Chiss were told by the empire that a renegade ship was on the loose and should be prepared if it came to their space, The chiss took this seriously and when the ship arrived they didn't hesitate to open fire…"

"Hold up." Micah interrupted "The chiss military have strict rules of engagement one of them is that a preemptive strike is absolutely forbidden under the penalty of exile." he told them.

"Well remember what the admiral told us when we were going through chiss space she said commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo was banished because he disobeyed the law." Aaron said with a shrug.

"Well I guess." Micah could see his reasoning

"Or it was Vitiate." Daniel said "Sorry got to let you go I'm dealing with this thing down here." he said and cut off his link.

"Look it doesn't matter." Caleb started losing his patience "Let me guess the rest of the story, the crew made an emergency jump to hyperspace assessed the damage and tried to find materials to fix it they found this debris field and made their way here and most of the crew was killed by this planet's inhabitant and the nice sith master put his apprentice, and perhaps a few crew man into stasis to save them from the parasite that lives on the planet below us. correct?"

"Confirmation: for a meat bag you're smart."

"Yeah, yeah, we get it 'droids are superior to organics' good for you." Caleb mocked.

"Observation: You're mocking me."

"Statement: way to state the obvious." Caleb mocked again.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Aaron hissed.

"No, Just giving him a taste of his own medicine."

"Enough just take us to the stasis room." Aaron told the droid.

The droid complied and did so but not before warning that he would never take an order from the ranger again unless his actual master ordered him to.

As the droid led them the rest of the way Aaron couldn't help but feel a little lighter that he wouldn't have to kill someone in cold blood, but he couldn't help but feel a little guilty that he even considered it in the first place. Even though it was a sith and in the event the droid was lying to them, he had hoped that maybe the sith was dead and they would be able to escape from the assassin droid. But they knew that they wouldn't be able to beat an HK model in a straight fight.

"Declaration: we're here" they stopped to see a sealed security door in front of them.

"So rusty how do we get in?" Caleb asked.

"Threat: if you ever call me by that name ever again I'll rip out your entrails make a noose out of them and hang you from a bulkhead then open an airlock."

"Touchy." Caleb muttered.

"Caleb use the plasma torch you brought with you." Aaron said.

Caleb nodded and pulled the plasma torch from his utility belt activated it and began to cut into the door "It might take a while." then the klaxons started blaring "Oh come on!" he shouted in exasperation.

"Eager statement: we're about to have company, when you started cutting into the security door the security droids were immediately activated." the droid explained.

"Caleb you keep cutting we'll cover you." Aaron shouted over the klaxons

"You're trusting the homicidal maniac with a blaster?!" Caleb shouted incredulously.

"Bet you wish you hadn't harassed him now huh? Aaron asked with a chuckle, he did however turn to the droid "If you dare harm him I don't care what model droid you are I'll tear you apart piece by piece." he growled at the droid.

"Mock plea: Oooh I'm so scared, please don't hurt me."

"You do realise that it was meatbag hands and minds that put you together those meatbag hands and minds can take you apart." Caleb told the droid.

For once the droid was actually left speechless.

"Just cover him while he cuts into the damn door already." Aaron ordered as the first pair of security droids came around the corner he took aim and fired making sure to disable the droids not destroy them.

It took at least three shots to disable the droid with his pistol, he needed something with a little more 'umph'. He saw a rifle on the ground near the droid he downed, he armed his wrist launcher and fired the grappling hook to retrieve the rifle from the disabled droid, after he retrieved it he saw 10 more security droids heading towards them "Caleb are you nearly done?" he asked.

"About a quarter of the way there." Caleb said in a strained voice. "This is not as easy as it looks." he told him as he dragged the torch slowly through the door.

"Well hurry up!" Aaron shouted.

"I'm going as fast as I can If I went to fast I wouldn't cut through the door the metal is a superconductor." he told him.

'Wonderfull' Aaron thought to himself as he shot at the droids then he realise some of them were shielded "Oh come on seriously?" he asked in exasperation.

"I'm halfway there." Caleb said excitedly.

"Annoyed statement: we don't need a status update everytime you get a quarter of the way done." The droid said as he shot another security droid.

Caleb didn't bother retorting just focused on his work.

Suddenly one the droids shots grazed Aaron's shoulder plate though he didn't feel it, he shot the droid and checked the damage it was superficial he wanted to check to make sure he could space walk again but the scanner was unavailable at the moment.

After a few moments "Done" Caleb shouted and kicked the piece of metal in, it landed with a tang like a drummer beating a cymbal "come on." he shouted while pulling out his pistol and started to blast the shielded droids as well "I'll cover you." he assured his brother.

Aaron nodded and dived through the hole narrowly avoiding a blaster bolt that almost hit him in the knee.

"You next bolt bucket!" Caleb shouted, successfully overloading the shield for one of the three droids.

The droid complied and dived through the hole Caleb got out from cover shot at the droids a few times and dived into the hole which Aaron and HK immediately sealed the hole to buy them a little time.

Aaron let out a sigh of relief "So this is the…" he started then he saw HK pick up Caleb by his throat, not even thinking he pulled his blaster out and aimed it point blank at the droid's head "Put. Him. Down." Aaron growled dangerously.

The droid seemed to ignore the ranger "query: Why did you call me Bolt bucket?" it asked the man in his grasp "Threat: you have five seconds to answer."

Caleb clawed at his throat "Why… do you… call organics meat...bags?" he managed to get out.

The droid's sensors glowed bright orange for a moment "Fair enough." the droid said and dropped the man who landed of his feet and staggered back gasping for air.

"You okay?" Aaron asked over the suits private comms.

"When we get these suits to their full potential I'm kicking that droid's a**." Came the wheezy reply.

Despite what happened a moment ago Aaron chuckled at his response "I look forward to it though it would be more impressive if you did it without any enhancements." Aaron noted with a grin.

"That would be true but I can do that later." Caleb said with a chuckle.

"Observation: it appears many of the stasis pods lost power only two remain." the Droid said interrupting the private conversation.

The brothers looked around the room than Caleb saw a corpse leaning against the pod "Hey come look at this," he called to his companions grabbing their attention.

"What is it bro?" Aaron asked then stopped when he saw the corpse it wore the garb of a dark side warrior and in its right hand was an ancient sith lightsaber complete with the razor sharp emitter guard in its off hand they saw a recording device.

"Melancholy statement: This was Darth Aartsengel." the droid said in a voice full of what could pass for sadness.

"I'm sorry for your loss." Caleb said awkwardly.

"Pathetic Observation: he was guarding his student's stasis pod as well." he cried, what actually surprised the brothers is that it sounded like he would literally cry.

"Bro I don't think I did a good job repairing him." Caleb whispered to his brother.

Aaron just shrugged, "I like him like this in all honesty."

"He has a recorder in his left hand." Caleb stated "should we see what it says?" he asked the two.

"Depressed answer: it probably contains a message for the rescuers and his apprentice."

"Alright then I'll retrieve the device." Aaron said and approached the corpse he carefully squatted down, gingerly took the dead man's left hand and took the device out of his hand then place the hand down "I'm sorry." he whispered to the corpse and stood up.

"Let's see what it says." Caleb said, Aaron only nodded and activated the recording the hologram of the man in the same clothing as the corpse appeared.

"Who would have known?" Caleb said after they listened to the recording

"Indeed." Aaron said shocked he never thought that he would have heard of a sith like this "In another life he would have made a great Jedi." he said.

"So shall we wake them up?" Caleb asked him.

"Yeah let's wake them up." Aaron said resolutely and walked over to the console to awaken the two occupants.

"Observation: those droids haven't attempted to follow us in here, Hypothesis: they must be waiting for us to come out." HK told the group.

"Will the droids listen to the occupants of the pods?" Aaron asked as he began the sequence to wake up the two occupants.

"Answer: it depends on how stable their behavior cores are."

"And after 4 millennia of almost no maintenance they probably have gone off the deep end." Caleb sighed; "Perfect." he quipped sarcastically.

"We can worry about that after these two wake up." Almost immediately after he said those words the pods hissed and opened revealing the occupants one was a young man around Daniels age he had white hair and a tattoo on the right side of his face which Aaron and Caleb recognised from their history as slave branding tattoos though that wasn't to surprising to them since the recording said as much, the other occupant was a woman in her twenties 'perhaps an imperial crew men' Aaron thought to himself, she had raven black hair that went down past her shoulders, to Aaron she looked like one of the most beautiful women in the Galaxy and it didn't help considering the occupants were wearing form fitting jumpsuits 'oh force I like older women!' he screamed internally seeing as she's technically over three thousand years old, he shook his head to get those thoughts out of his head, now wasn't the time nor the place.

Suddenly they heard a groan from the young man Aaron approached with caution to see how he was doing "Are you Okay." he asked the man while he scanned him with the medical scanner he picked up from a table, the boy's eyes opened to reveal he had Heterochromia Iridum eyes, one being green the other violet.

"Who are you?" the boy cautiously asked the armored figure.

"My name is Aaron Sobec, we're here to rescue you." Aaron answered: "What's your name?"

the young apprentice looked around the room seeing another armored figure standing next to the HK-51 droid that his master had acquired some time ago "My name is Auron." he finally responded "where's everyone else?" he asked.

Aaron seemed to hesitate before answering "Unfortunately, you and that crewman over in that Pod are the only survivors aboard, not counting the droids."

Auron stretched out his senses to confirm what the man said when he discovered that he was telling the truth he sighed and laid his head back "That's unfortunate." Auron muttered.

"Yeah it is, well good the news is you're healthy, can you walk?" Aaron asked the apprentice nodded, stood up and walked over to the lockers to retrieve his belongings.

Aaron turned towards the other pod with the woman in it and saw that she was starting to wake up as well, he made his way over to her "Are you Okay?" He asked again

Her eyes fluttered open to reveal she had brown eyes 'they're beautiful… No not here!' he fought to control his feelings.

Suddenly the woman looked alarmed "Who are You!" she asked panicked at seeing the armored individual.

Before Aaron could answer how ever Auron beat him to the punch "They're here to rescue us crewman, his name is Aaron Sobec and as for the other one I have no Idea."

She calmed down significantly at that "How did you get past the Parasite?" She asked

"We have one of our crew in a fighter distracting it while we sent scavenge teams into the debris Field" the other armored figure said.

"And you are?" she asked

"I'm his younger brother Caleb Sobec." the man said.

Suddenly Auron asked "To whom is your allegiance, the republic or the empire? he asked with a suspicious glare.

Caleb looked at him while Auron couldn't see his expression he could tell that the man was studying him "Our allegiance is to the Antarian Rangers." he answered.

The woman tilted her head in confusion "I never heard of them."

"You wouldn't have, they weren't founded until... five centuries ago I believe, you've been in stasis for over three and a half millennia." Aaron told them.

At that the two of them blanched "Three and half thousand years." the crewman said numbly

"Confirmation: it is true master you have been in stasis for 3,641 years, 7 months, 23 days, 6 hours, 24 minutes, and 45 seconds." the droid said.

"You pulled some random number out of the air didn't you?" Caleb deadpanned only for the droid to ignore him.

Auron meanwhile leaned against a console to keep himself from falling, "What is the political climate in the galaxy?" he asked, when he asked that he could feel the sadness and grief roll of the brothers in waves he deduced that something had to have happened recently in order for their grief to be as strong as he was sensing it.

"The antarian rangers were founded five hundred years ago to aid the jedi in keeping peace and justice throughout the Galaxy." Caleb started, the young apprentice made no visible reaction when he admitted that the organization that they worked for served the Jedi; "About three years ago there was a war that spread like wildfire across the Galaxy…"

"Caleb how about we save the history lesson till after we get out of here." Aaron interrupted.

At that he nodded and turned to the apprentice "Is that alright with you?" Caleb asked the young sith.

Auron nodded he could see the reasoning for waiting "Just one question, if you serve the Jedi Did you bring any with you?" he asked curiously

"We did he's the one distracting the parasite." Caleb said deliberately leaving out the fact that they had two with them.

Auron stretched out his senses and nearly fell over from shock from what he sensed, "Wow this Jedi must be a really powerful master." he said numbly.

the two brothers looked at each other in confusion "Uh, Daniel's a padawan." Aaron said confused.

Auron's shock increased exponentially at that "Did they up the bar over the last few millennia?" he asked incredulously.

"Not all that much." Caleb said with a shrug.

"But…" Auron just shook his head he'd dwell on it later.

Aaron turned his attention to the Imperial crewman "Can You walk?" he asked her, she nodded, stood up her legs nearly buckled but she caught herself and walked over to the locker to get her belongings.

"Statement: it appears my theory on the droids was correct they are waiting for us to come out." HK reported.

"We had to cut our way in here." Caleb explained "The droids didn't like that to much."

Auron grinned ferally at that "I'll take care of them." he declared, before he took two steps he noticed his master's corpse near his pod, he regarded it for moment an unreadable expression on his face he nodded in respect, reached out with his hand and brought the lightsaber to his hand.

Aaron turned to the apprentice "Don't go overboard please we need the droids or their parts at least." he told the young man.

"I need a fight I've been asleep for three thousand years." Auron retorted.

"Fine, just these droids though." Aaron compromised

Auron grinned "Agreed."

"Giddy Request: Oh Master may I see your work in action?" the droid asked.

Auron shrugged showing that he didn't care what the droid did so long as it didn't attack him. When he approached the door he reached into the force and threw his hand out sending the loose material flying out of the door at high speeds it impacted a droid effectively crushing it, he stepped out and saw a group of six shielded security droids.

"Observation: they brought back up. Assessment: but it won't be enough." The droid said sadistically.

Auron grinned as he pulled out his lightsaber, it appeared to be a simple lightsaber design with some emitter guards he activated the blade with a snap hiss and a ruby red blade emerged from the hilt he then pointed it at the droids, "Your move." he said.

The droids had long gone insane over the millennia and shot the threat, not caring that was what they were originally supposed to protect, the young apprentice deflected all the shots that came his way with ease and a cocky smirk on his face the entire time.

"Is that your best?" he asked with some minor disappointment: "tch, Oh well." he shrugged, moving as fast as he could he slashed at one of the droids making short work of the weakened shield and bisecting the droid.

the droids all pulled out vibroblades and charged the target, one coming up behind the young warrior.

Auron sensed the attack, turned and stabbed the droid effectively disabling it, another one came up behind him he grinned moved a little bit to the side and activated the second blade in his lightsaber just as the droid was about to strike stabbing it through the chassis he then spun the blade up disabling the droid, he continued the spin the lightsaber till it was a whirlwind of red and the blades appeared to get longer and shorter as he did this.

One of the droids charged seeking to stop the spinning blades however Auron stopped spinning the light saber, deactivated one of the blades and side stepped the droid's swing only for him to reactivate it directly into the droid's head when it over swung the blow.

Only three droids left Aurons left hand crackled with electricity and he launched the bolts of dark energy at one of the droids overloading its systems, ripped another one apart with his telekinesis, and for the final one well he for that he pulled out his master's lightsaber wielding both it and his in tantrum and charged the droid beginning a vicious assault.

The droid tried desperately to block but the assault but was too overwhelming as the young sith cleaved into the droid knocking the vibroblade out of its grasp and finishing with a cross cut at the droids waist cutting it in half.

Auron deactivated his weapons and placed them on his belt "That was fun." he said happily.

"Wow." Caleb said having witnessed the carnage "So you based your lightsaber off of Exar Kun's huh?" he asked when he saw the light saber in action he knew instantly that was the case he just wanted confirmation.

Auron simply nodded in confirmation "Where's the shuttle?" he asked.

"We didn't use a shuttle, we spaced walked." Aaron said as he came out of the room.

"You didn't use a shuttle I thought with all the resources that the Jedi could muster up they would at least use a shuttle." the crewman said

"You'ld be right under normal circumstances but unfortunately it isn't the case." Caleb calmly stated.

"Why is that?" Auron asked frustrated.

"BECAUSE THE JEDI ARE ALL BUT EXTINCT!" Aaron shouted at them getting extremely fed up with the two.

The two ancient imperials were stunned into silence at that "What happened?" the woman asked eventually.

"Can we talk about this later?" Caleb asked sadly at that the two nodded "Thank you,"he said gratefully "We need to find some space suits for you two where can we find them?" Caleb asked.

"Declaration: I know where they are follow me." the droid beckoned.

Caleb turned to Aaron "Are you alright you don't usually lose your composure like that."

Aaron sighed "I don't know what came over me I guess the stress is getting to me." Caleb placed a hand on his shoulder in understanding then he noticed something.

"Bro were you shot?" he asked concerned.

"It was a graze," Aaron reassured "can you check it make sure it's not breached? Just in case." Aaron asked.

Caleb nodded and pulled out his scanner the readouts didn't look good "You won't be able to space walk till we repair the suit."

Aaron sighed he guessed as much "How bad is it?"

"It's not breached, but the structural integrity is weakened that I wouldn't recommend space walking with all that debris out there." Caleb said

Aaron nodded "Let's worry about that later."

The crewman was listening to the conversation "Perhaps we could use one of our ships." she said.

Caleb looked at Aaron "That could work."

Aaron nodded "Thank you miss… I'm sorry I forgot to ask for your name." Aaron apologized.

She waved off the apology with a smile "My name is Katelyn Xion." she answered politely.

Aaron smiled "A pleasure to meet you both." he said with a nod.

Before either one of them could respond the rangers comms pingd signifying someone wanted to talk. "Listen up everyone I have a plan." Daniel Claimed

"What is it?" Micah asked through the comm, the group of four was also interested.

"I'm going to destroy the parasite on this planet." He declared.

Auron smirked that was something he could get behind he had a feeling that this Jedi and him would get along.

"How do you plan to do that?" Caleb asked curiously.

"You'll see." Daniel said simply then he cut off the link.

Aaron and Caleb looked at each other "I wonder what he's doing." Caleb said.

Aaron just shrugged though he did wonder himself "He knows what he's doing but what we should worry about is doing our jobs." Aaron said in a no nonsense tone and continued to follow the droid to the armory all the while thinking 'I hope you know what you're doing'.

Meanwhile R7 was doing exactly as Daniel told him while he harassed the parasite with his force abilities primarily using Pyrokinesis to damage the creature and Telekinesis to push it away when it got to close for comfort.

"R7 on my signal I want you to take us up to the planet's stratosphere." Daniel told the droid,R7 made a noise of affirmation and waited for the command.

"Vega can you hear me." Daniel called telepathically he could feel the confusion from the boy no doubt sensing the familiar yet unknown presence contacting him.

"Who are you?" Came the tentative response.

"I understand your confusion, do you remember what Obi-wan said about his fight with Grievous?" he asked.

"Yes… why do you ask?" Vega asked wondering where he was going with this.

"Daniel accomplished the same thing." Daniel answered with a smile.

It took a few seconds for Vega to get what he was telling him "REALLY THAT'S FANTASTIC!" the boy shouted in happiness for his brother, in fact Daniel could sense that he shouted that out loud as well due to the confusion generated from the Wookie member of the crew.

"It is indeed, listen do you remember when both you and Daniel were studying the holocron you found the technique called the "Wall of light"?"

"Yes, but it's an archaic ability neither Daniel or I have an affinity for such things." Vega thought.

"Noncense any practitioner of the force is capable of learning any technique if they put their mind to it." the Force told him "listen just meditate and gather your energies it may take you a few minutes but you can contribute to the Wall when it's ready."

"Okay." Vega said resolutely determined to help in any way he can.

"Good wait for my signal okay." He told him and kept the link open.

"You fool you don't think I could detect the others?!" Mnggal-Mnggal shouted "I will make you suffer by making you watch them suffer!" the ooze started to break off and head on up to the atmosphere

"You will do no such thing!" Daniel shouted and seized Mnggal-Mnggal in a telekinetic grip and threw him down to the planet "R7 fire the cannons." he ordered the droid, the fighters cannons came to life and began pelting the ooze with super heated plasma.

"Everyone Mnggal-Mnggal is aware of you and is trying to get to you!" Daniel informed everyone.

"Alright we should abort I'm finished on the Gree ship." Micah said calmly "I'm on our way out." he informed.

"Caleb and I have to get a ship but we're on our way as well." Aaron reported.

"Do what you must I'll hold him off." Daniel said in a voice that left no room for debate.

"... may the force be with you Daniel." Micah finally responded.

A sigh came from the other group as well "What he said." Caleb said regretfully.

Daniel smiled at the well wishes "Thank you, now run fast run far!" he ordered and cut off the group.

"You care for them don't you?" Mnggal-Mnggal asked Daniel didn't respond to the question, the creature took that as a yes "Then you can watch them die!" and tried once again to make for the atmosphere.

"I have put up with you for far too long." Daniel growled as he sent a massive cloud of fire at the creature "You invaded this domain and many others it's time you went back to where you came from!" Daniel Said each word progressively getting louder as he spoke "R7 NOW!" he bellowed. the droid understood what he wanted and shot straight upward towards the atmosphere.

"Vega be ready I will intiate the Wall of light in 30 seconds." he said over the telepathic link.

"... Okay." Came the strained response.

Daniel could see the creature right next to him he reached out with telekenisis gripped it and threw it back down to the planet again.

the droid stopped the fighter at the desired height and waited for further instruction "Hold position R7." the droid chimed as if to say affirmative.

Daniel opened the canopy, stood up, activated his magnetic boots, and walked onto the nose of the fighter.

[Daniel?] R7 beeped a quisical noise Daniel only moved his hand in a reassuring manner letting him know what he was doing.

"Ten seconds." he told Vega as he saw the creature coming up again.

As Mnggal-Mnggal flew closer it saw the armored warrior out of his fighter and waiting to meet him not only that but it thought it could see ethereal Ghost floating next to the warrior "Are you trying to appeal to my sense of mercy in hopes I won't kill your friends?" The creature asked arrogantly then it began to laugh sinisterly "Your friends' fate was sealed the moment you invaded my domain!" Mnggal-Mnggal shouted.

Daniel raised his hand "3… 2… 1 NOW!" suddenly all the ghosts did the same and a wall of lightside energy appeared around the planet however due to the amount of force users all working together in creating it, it caught fire and it rained down towards the planet the fire was hotter than the surface of a sun and it burned everything in it's path.

"NOOOO!" Mnggal-Mnggal shouted trying desperately to escape its fate it started to burrow its way into the ground but despite its best efforts only a small bit of it survived the rain of fire.

The Force had relinquished control of Daniel's body back to him "Wow." Daniel said breathlessly and happy that his boots were fastened to the hull of the fighter Daniel's comm pinged signifying someone wanted to talk to him.

"Go… *wheese* Ahead." Daniel gasped out.

"Daniel what was that?" Caleb's dumfounded voice came through the comm

"That fireball was so bright what happened?" another voice asked this one belonging to Micah.

"Guys…. I do believe Mnggal-Mnggal... won't trouble us... any more." Daniel reported sounding out of breath but also exhilarated.

"Wooo hoooo." the rangers cheered at that.

"There's just one more thing for me to do." Daniel said and climbed into the cockpit "R7 take us to the surface." he ordered.

[Are you sure that's a wise Idea?] the droid asked.

"A small amount of Mnggal-Mnggal survived I'm going to finish the job." Daniel said to the droid, upon hearing that the droid piloted the ship while Daniel took a few moments to rest.

It took them 90 seconds to find the destination [Daniel there is nowhere to land the fire is everywhere], indeed the planet was now a hellish landscape though Daniel did take comfort in the fact that there was no life on the planet only Mnggal-Mnggal.

"Hold position I'll find him on foot." Daniel said as he opened the fighter canopy and jumped out without giving the droid a chance to respond, he landed on the ground with the grace of a dancer he tucked into a roll to distribute the impact as he landed as well as calling upon the force to catch him from a 30 meter height. "R7 Stay close after I'm done we'll get back on the ship." Daniel told the droid over the comm.

The faithful droid chimed and made a noise as if to tell him to be safe.

Daniel looked around the area if he were to think of any landscape that could fit for hell the mining world of Mustafar would be his first choice with this planet being a close second.

It didn't take Daniel long to find the fragment of Mnggal-Mnggal it was so much bigger before almost encompassing the entire planet but now it was no bigger than a small rain puddle "Are you happy now?!" the creature shouted at him.

"I take no pleasure in taking another creature's life after all I'm not you." Daniel responded his voice soft but carried authority.

"You think this is all I am? I have spread throughout the galaxy I have toppled whole empires even the mighty celestials were afraid of me." Mnggal-Mnggal growled.

"And yet you were beaten by a jedi padawan." Daniel deadpanned; "who had the force as his ally."

"This isn't the end I will hunt you down and make you suffer till you're begging for death." Mnggal-Mnggal growled as he formed a fanged mouth to attack Daniel with.

"Next time I'll be even stronger." Daniel said and reaching into the force generated fire into his hand and sent a wave of fire at the creature hot enough to incinerate it.

'No, I will shift to another dimension and begin my rule there. besides I am all over this universe I will eventually get this "jedi padawan"' Mnggal-Mnggal thought as the fire came closer to it, It started the shifting process but a lot of its form was vaporized by the intensity of the flame that being said it successfully escaped with a small amount intact.

After the deed was done Daniel just stood there for a moment a sad smile on his lips 'I have won this fight with your help.' he thought to himself "Thank you." he whispered out loud, the force swirled around him as if to say 'you're welcome'.

Daniel opened the comm link to R7 "R7, I'm done here." Daniel said tiredly, R7 chimed excitedly, happy that Daniel was fine, Daniel smiled in response, when the fighter came into view Daniel leapt onto the fighter and climbed into the cockpit "I can take us up R7." Daniel said willing to take the controls, R7 relinquished the controls over to him and Daniel took off towards the atmosphere leaving the desolate landscape behind all the while thinking to himself 'Mnggal-Mnggal, the most dangerous creature in the universe, is still out there. the next time we meet I'll be ready.'

AN: Before I go on I feel I should explain something Daniel in the chapter achieved Oneness with the force it is a very powerful state light siders can achieve but when in that state the light sider become an extension of the Force's Will. What that means is that Daniel is in the passenger seat pretty much, any way thanks to RevengeS197 go check out his stuff.