Sometime later, the 2 Jedi and soldier regained consciousness.
"Don't try to move too quickly, you might not be fully recovered yet. Admiral Karath had his guards continue to torture you even after you passed out." Bastila explained as Tana began stretching her stiff muscles.
"They tortured all of us, though you got the worst of it by far. Saul wanted them to make us suffer. He's become some sort of sadistic monster."
"That explains a lot." Tana muttered when her muscles screamed at her. She looked over at Carth and Bastila who were standing up and Tana wasn't able to.
"The dark side has perverted him, Carth. Once you start down the tainted path it leads you ever further into the depths of evil. I fear he is forever lost."
"Why are you so preachy?" Tana complained.
"This is not a matter to joke about! If there is one thing we can learn from Saul it is how the power of the dark side can corrupt even the bravest of heroes!" Bastila snapped. "I'm sorry. Forgive me. Snapping at you like that won't help our situation. I suppose I'm taking the news of Dantooine's destruction quite hard. First Taris, now the Academy...is there no end to the killing?"
'I'm not. I'm glad they are dead.' Tana thought. "Maybe, Saul was lying?"
"We should have felt a disturbance in the Force when the attack came. The fact that we did not is a bad sign. I fear the dark side is growing stronger, casting shadows our vision cannot pierce. I can only hope that some of the Jedi escaped. Vrook, Vandar, Zhar...I cannot imagine all of them being gone. In any case, we have lost our one place of refuge in the galaxy."
"None of this will matter if we don't get out of this prison before Saul gets back!" Carth argued.
"I'm not afraid of him." Tana said, quietly. "Do you know where he went."
"Saul mentioned that Lord Malak was on his way. I think the Admiral left to prepare for his arrival...and to report the results of our interrogation." Carth said.
"I only wish you had been able to resist the Admiral's questioning. I hope the information you revealed does not bring the entire galaxy under the dominion of the Sith."
"Why do I have to suffer and endure torture just to protect the Republic and the Jedi?" Tana pushed back.
"Your attitude disturbs me. Such selfishness is a sign of the dark side's taint and it does little to fill me with confidence in you?" Bastila said, sounding sad.
"Forget about it, Bastila. It doesn't matter anyway. I've known the Admiral a long time. I could see that he already knew the answers to the questions he was asking. The interrogation was a sham. Saul was toying with us. He didn't care what we told him. I think it was just an excuse to torture us before Malak arrived."
"Did you feel that?" Bastila asked, but continued before Tana had a chance to respond. "A disturbance in the Force. The Admiral has sent his message, the Dark Lord knows we are here now. Malak is coming."
"Well, then we better hope that the sadistic droid busts us out of here before he arrives." Carth said.
Tana just laughed quietly. "I know that HK won't fail me."
...
The technician was messing around with HK and start trying to reset the droid's memory core but it was proving quite difficult.
"Eh, I've got a while to deal with this thing." He muttered before turning around to mess with something else.
He turned his back to the crimson assassin droid, which is a big mistake.
HK had his backup memory core turn him and in a few moments, the droid was back online.
The first thing the droid noticed was the meatbag in Sith armor messing with a droid on a table.
The droid remained quiet as he charged his blaster rifle and once his rifle was fully charged, he almost fired.
"Exclamation: Prepare to die meatbag."
The Sith technician froze and slowly turned around with a small pistol in his hand. The droid shot the technician, quickly killing him. The technician slumped against the table and died.
HK walked out of the maintenance room and heard three guards around the corner so he took a frag grenade from the dead technician and tossed it at the guards.
The 3 Sith guards were just talking about something when they heard the grenade.
"What the..?" One of the guards said, but they didn't have enough time to react before the fag grenade went off, killing all 3 of them.
"Statement: only good meatbag is a dead meatbag, except for my master."
HK then went in the direction the guards were standing and came across the terminal for the detention cells and storage equipment and he opened it.
"You may be a droid, but when this is all over I'm going to see the Republic gives you a medal for your part in this!" Carth told the droid. "If I remember the layout of this ship our equipment should be in a storage chamber just through the north doors. After we grab our stuff we need to get to the main bridge controls. The bridge is the only place we can open the docking gates of the hangar where they've got the Ebon Hawk. We have to open those gates before we can fly out of here!"
"We better get moving. I can feel the darkness of Malak's presence approaching, and I don't want to be here when he arrives. None of us is a match for the Sith Lord."
"I'm not afraid of Malak." Tana muttered, a bit too loudly. Tana assumed that she was being cocky but she didn't know.
"Then you are a fool! The power of the Dark Lord is strong enough to destroy any of us...even you. It would be suicide to face Malak here! We need to get away before he arrives." Bastila said.
"Um ok then. Let's go get our equipment and then head to the bridge." Tana said.
"Surprise and secrecy will serve us best. A small group might have a better chance of sneaking onto the bridge undetected while the others make their way down to the Ebon Hawk."
"Count me in, then. I've got a score to settle with the Admiral before we get off this ship, and I have a feeling I'm gonna find him on the Leviathan's bridge!"
"I'll go with the others to the Ebon Hawk." Tana volunteered almost immediately.
"No Tana, you are coming with us. The others can get to the Ebon Hawk on their own, but Carth and I might need your help." And Tana just groaned silently. "The three of us will get our equipment and make our way to the bridge. The rest of us head down to the docking hangar where they've got the Ebon Hawk. You'll have to find a way to deal with guards."
"Don't you worry about that. I know how to deal with the guards. They won't know what hit them!" Canderous said.
"Good. Then let's get our equipment and get going." Tana announced.
"We'll meet you there as soon as we get those docking bay doors open. Just make sure the Hawk is ready to fly when we get there. And may the Force be with you."
"Um, we still need our equipment though. Let's go." Tana said.
The others raced down to the elevator and encountered a Sith guard patrolling down a hallway but he had his back towards them so they ignored him.
Carth, Bastila, and Tana rushed into the storage room and found their stuff. Carth and Bastila changed quickly and Tana changed into Calo Nord's battle armor and a dark Jedi master robes. She put on her stabilizer mask, strapped her heavy blasters to her thighs and hid her Sith lightsabers in her pockets and had 2 ordinary lightsabers attached to her belt and she strapped on her Sith artifacts.
"Um Tana, why are you wearing Sith robes?" Carth asked.
She switched on mask to talk. "I'm trying to deceive the dark Jedi to make them them think that I'm on their side." Tana blurted out without thinking.
Carth just shrugged and Bastila ignored the comment as they killed the rest of the guards and technicians on the detention level and made their way to the elevator.
Once near the elevator Tana saw that her commlink was beeping and she pressed it. "This is Canderous. We're at the the Ebon Hawk. Like we figured, it's under heavy guard. But don't worry...we'll figure out a plan to take care of them."
The trio made their way into the elevator and started up towards the bridge.