The group marched back to the Republic embassy and confronted Roland and he explained everything. "Since I don't know what's going on down there, all I can say is watch for anything and good luck."
They then went into the submersible with Carth driving to the bottom of the ocean. The ride was in silence while Juhani and Bastila meditated, and Jolee just stared out the window at the water.
Carth suddenly had to swerve the submersible out of the way when a massive object came straight towards them but as soon as Carth swerved, the object disappeared somewhere behind them.
...
Canderous was just cleaning out his repeater rifle when his commlink went off. 'Hello? This Canderous.' He said in Mandalorian.
'I know who you are. You are talking to Revan.' The voice replied in Mandalorian.
'Revan? I'm glad you are alive but everyone else thinks you are dead.' He said.
'Good, lets hope it says that way. Well, I've just became Malak's apprentice and I want you and HK to join me.'
'Does Malak know about this?'
'Yes, I told him about the two of you. Also, the Sith know to expect the two of you. You know the materials in the cargo hold?'
'Yeah? What about it?'
'Just make a bomb out of it. I was planning on using it for something but now I'm planning to use it for the Ebon Hawk.'
'Alright. I'll hook it up to the engines and once we get the data then me and HK will join you shortly after.'
'Good. Anyone else around?'
'Only the twi'lek and the Wookiee. The Jedi and Carth went down to get the Star Map.'
'That makes your job easier then.' And with that the commlink was off.
Canderous began building the bomb in the cargo hold and he was building it fast and carefully.
While Canderous was talking to Revan in Mandalorian, Mission walked by and heard Canderous' voice and a female's voice speaking in Mandalorian. She merely thought he was talking to a friend and thought nothing of it and returned to her bunk for a nap, while Zaalbar was busy making something in the swoop bay..
About 45 minutes later, Canderous had the bomb made, along with a detonator, carried the bomb to the engine room. He placed the bomb in the middle of the two engines and connected the bomb to the engines. "I better sabotage this a little so that pilot doesn't get suspicious of anything." He muttered to himself. A few minutes later, he rechecked everything and he hoped that the ship wouldn't give away the foreign object in the engine room.
"Now, I've got to either wield the door shut or put a complicated password on it. But first, I've got to knock the Wookiee out." He muttered, as he got the tools for either wielding the door shut or a passcode on it.
Suddenly HK came in the room. "Statement. Need anything?"
"Go stun or knock out the Wookiee."
"Affirmation: I will but what are we doing?" The droid asked.
"We are going to see your original master." Canderous said.
"Exclamation: oh I'm so happy she's alive and I can't wait to serve her again." The droid, left but took a stun blaster from the cargo hold and quietly walked up to Zaalbar and blasted him. The Wookie was surprised but couldn't react as he passed out.
"Hehe. You know what, I think I might just do both, just to get under Carth's skin." Canderous muttered with a smirk as he closed the engine room door and started wielding the door. After the door was wielded shut, he added a security console and made s series of impossible answers. Canderous just smirked at his little sabotage and walked to his bunk. He put on his blue Mandalorian assault armor and he and HK left the hangar.
...
Carth and the Jedi finally got the bottom of the ocean and entered the station. When the hatch opened, the 3 Jedi began stretching since they spent who knows how long in HHe submersible. "I think I nearly died of old age." Jolee complained.
"You could've gone a bit faster, Carth." Bastila said.
"Well, I figured I'd take the scenic route so everyone here could enjoy the view." Carth replied, causally.
They took a look at their surroundings at the station and it seemed to be a mess. Half of the ceiling and part of the wall collapsed onto a submersible, destroying it. The room seemed to have some light but a few lights were flickering. On a nearby wall, there were holes and a blaster nearby. There were a few dead bodies lying about and there was pools of blood in some places.
Carth walked over to the nearest body and looked at it. "Guys, I think these were the mercenaries that were sent by the Republic. And it looks like, he was mauled to death."
Bastila's face scrunched up into disgust. "That's disgusting. Let's hurry up so we don't run into whatever that did this to him."
"I don't like this place either but we get the Star Map and get out." Said Jolee.
The 4 of them walked over to the door and were met with a panic stricken twi'lek mercenary. "How... how did you get in? Did they send another submersible? Quick, we have to get out of here, we have to get away!" The merc said.
"So, who are you?" Bastila asked.
"No! No! We have no time, we have to leave now! I managed to close the door after they killed everyone else, but I don't know how long it will hold." The merc said, fast.
"Calm down, sonny. We are just trying to help." Jolee said.
"What is he talking about?" Carth muttered.
"Can you please tell us what happened here?" Bastila asked.
"The Selkath, they went crazy! They started killing anything that moved. Someone must have triggered the defense systems too, 'cause all the droids activated as well. I was one of the mercs the Republic sent down here to find out what happened. We came down and secured the first couple rooms... there were bodies everywhere... And the Selkath came out... screaming and croaking their fishy little war-cries." The twi'lek explained.
"Wait, you mean the Selkath?" Bastila asked, not really comprehending what she's hearing.
"So we are going to be fighting fish? I guess I'm making the sushi then." Jolee muttered Carth couldn't help but he just grinned.
"They swarmed out and over us. There was no way we could stop them. So we ran... But hardly any of us made it. I locked the door behind us, bu...but the others had already left in the submersible! The sharks... the firaxa out there and... worse... I heard an explosion shortly after the submersible left. They didn't make it. Just food for the sharks and the Selkath...like us."
"We should get him to the surface." Juhani suggested.
"Back to the surface. Yes...NO! There's something out there... it got the other submersible already."
"And it nearly got us on our way down." Carth said.
"You are lucky to be alive." The twi'lek said.
"So we are stuck here? Great." Muttered Bastila.
"We can't leave until you do something. Blow up the entire station maybe. That might distract whatever it is long enough for us to escape to the surface. But all the machinery and stuff is in the southern half, and that's been flooded! There might still be environmental suits but... but... the Selkath might have laid their eggs in them!" The twi'lek said.
"Wait here, while we go into the station." Bastila said, trying to walk past him.
"No! I locked the door so that the Selkath won't get in. If you open it, we're all done for!"
"Listen, we have to go in there. We might be able to stop whatever's going on here." Bastila said, putting her hands on the merc's shoulders and looking him in the eyes. "We will be extra careful and besides, what can a bunch of fish do to 3 Jedi and a soldier."
"Well, you might have a point." The merc mumbled.
"Stay here and we will come back for you. I promise that you will be safe." Bastila said, with a smile.
"Ok, I will stay here and wait for you, I guess." Said the merc.
The group went through the next door and found a long hallway. There was a couple dead bodies in the hallway and they could see the firaxa sharks swimming around outside.
...
They found a terminal and wondered if it was working. "I'll see if I can work my magic." Mumbled Jolee, as he sliced the terminal.
He looked through each camera and it appeared that the Selkath were in the side rooms, so he locked the doors, and disabled the patrol droids in a nearby corridor, and disabled the rest of the droids and he downloaded the map of the area to a datapad. He got off the terminal and looked at the datapad. "Ok, I'll lead. I have the map of the area and I locked certain doors so we don't become fish food." He said, as he walked ahead of everyone.
They looked at the state of everything and pipes were leaking and there were large puddles of water on the floor, dead bodies. Even on the camera footage, it appeared that the research station is falling apart.
They had their weapons drawn just in case anything happened and they watched the disabled patrol droids for any sign of powering back on. They walked in total silence except for some loud groaning sounds on the other side of certain doors and they knew it was Selkath.
They came to a room, where there was crazy laughing in a locker and they approached the locker. A soldier, who went crazy, had locked himself up so he wouldn't get eaten by the Selkath. They spent at least several minutes trying to convince the soldier to come on out but he wouldn't so Carth shot the lock and began knocking some sense into the man, which the soldier became sane after a few moments and went to join the twi'lek mercenary. They looked further into the room and they found a environmental suit and a sonic emitter near a dead scientist.
"This is where we split up." Bastila said, once they reached one of the pressure doors, after they attached the sonic emitter to the environmental suit.
"Ok, we will wait for you here and try not to get eaten." Jolee said and the only thing Bastila could do was smile weakly at him.
...
Roland Wann was looking at his console when a Republic soldier walked up to him. "Sir, I've just found out something." He said, looking at the datapad in his hands.
"What, is it soldier?" Asked the diplomat.
"Well, you know the group that went down in the submersible? The soldier, the 3 Jedi, the twi'lek and Wookie, the Mandalorian and 2 droids." The soldier was still looking at the datapad in his hands and he handed the datapad to Roland.
Roland started looking at the datapad. "What about them?"
"Well, I just found out that they have bounties on their heads by Darth Malak and 3 of those bounties have already been claimed." Said the soldier, who showed the claimed bounties to Roland.
"The crimson droid, the Mandalorian, and some woman named Tana Bell. Strange, I don't remember seeing her." Roland said. "Wait, when were these other bounties claimed?"
"Well, I heard Carth mutter something about losing someone on the Leviathan. So I'm guessing killed by Malak or some soldiers." Said the soldier. "Also, the other 2 bounties were claimed not that long ago." The soldier who found the video that the Sith sent to them.
The video showed HK-47 and Canderous, in some light battle armor, being confronted by some Sith soldiers and a couple dark Jedi, in one of the Sith hangers. They started fighting and HK-47 was destroyed by a dark Jedi while Canderous was killed by a Sith soldier.
"Now, I've got to figure out how to them this." Roland muttered.
"Also, here's another thing. There are several Sith interdictor cruisers orbiting the planet, preventing any Republic ships to leave. The Selkath don't think anything of it." Said the soldier.
"Well, this just got harder." Roland muttered as he walked over to the submersible hanger and waited for them to come back up, if they were still alive.
...
Near the hangar bays where the Ebon Hawk is, a crowd of people began gathering towards one of the Sith hangar bays. The Republic soldier from earlier was watching the group from a distance, wondering what was going on but didn't want to get close and just hung back with his friend, who was busy checking the kolto.
The group moved into the hangar bay to discuss whatever they needed to discuss. They locked the hangar bay door behind them so no one could see or record their little meeting.
The group mainly consisted of humans in uniforms and Selkath and a tall bald man who had a goatee was giving instructions about something and he put his hood on
"Do you know what to do?" Asked the tall hooded man. The humans began murmuring that they did understand.
['Yes, I will begin hacking their systems.'] said a Selkath who went towards the shuttle.
"Take these uniforms. No one will think anything of you but you must do it fast and quick and then we can get out of here." Said, the bald hooded man, and his 2 hooded companions remained silent.
"Thanks. We won't let you down." Said a uniformed human, as he took the uniforms and most of the humans left the hangar bay.
The tall hooded man turned to his companions. "Follow me since I know how to get there and surprise them." He said and his two companions just nodded.