so you weren't serious about killing me off right? asked Osaka ,don't worry I wasn't I answered. now shall we get out of the author's note box and get back to the story I said. oh sure Osaka said with a smile.

CHAPTER 12

The trip to Yuakri's, Nyamo's, and the padawan's location was a quiet one for the padawans had found out what Malacard did to their home planet. "So how

are you guys doing?" asked Nyamo still nothing but silence for a good couple of minutes before Chihiro finally spoke "how can someone that cruel be

allowed to roam the galaxy?" she asked, "I have been wondering about that for years" answered Yukari she sounded quite depressed while she said it.

Arriving at their location the planet Quesh, they were met up with a group of scientist, one of them being , "oh hey I didn't expect to see you

again" Yukari said with a surprised look on her face "yeah, well the Republic keeps sending me to random planets over and over well I guess that's the life

of a scientist" said with a smile "so what's up?" asked Nyamo "well as you may know master Jedi we need to give everyone who comes to this

planet a special shot that will allow you to survive on the planet" one of the Scientist answered "survive?" asked Kaorin "well you see the planet's

atmosphere is highly toxic so the shots are needed to help you survive" answered "indeed I should warn you though the effects of the shots don't

last forever you will need to see another medical personal after they wear off" one of the scientist said "how long do they last?" asked Sakaki "unfortunately

it varies from person to person, but you will know when it wears off, once you start getting nauseous, dizzy, and/or one of various other side effects from

being on this planet" one of the scientist said, no one said word they just looked scared, got their shots, and then proceeded on to the planet's surface,

"well this is going to be flattering" Yomi said sighing a little.

As for Tomo and Kaizer their moods have perked up quite a bit, ironically it was because a Hutt had tricked them into his battle arena and in doing so he

had unintentionally allowed them to take their pain out on various droids and monsters, "remind to thank that slime-ball, for the means of calming down

once we are done here" Tomo said with a smirk "no problem" Kaizer replied also with a smirk a few hours later a large Gammorrean came walking out

wielding a plasma whip he spoke in his native tongue (now I smash Jedi heads) he said, to which Kaizer replied in gammorrean (we aren't Jedi, and it is

you who shall be defeated), the gammorrean just laughed and asked (that be a laugh, what make you think you can beat me?), Kaizer just shook his head

and replied (because we just killed five rancors, a few hundred gladiator droids, and a two-headed krayt dragon I would say our odds are pretty good) as

soon as he finished the gammorrean charged, the battle lasted maybe 30 seconds tops, before Kaizer and Tomo chopped off his hands and pinned him to

the ground, "hey Shadius how is you gammorrean?" asked Kaizer "not so good, why?" Tomo replied "no reason I just wanted to see if you had any good

taunts for him" Kaizer said " I am will to try my luck" Tomo said full of confidence, what happened next was hilarious "uh (you…..handsome twilek….will

you…..have my….offspring?)" Tomo said struggling trying to say something insulting and failing misrably, Kaizer just started to laugh hysterically "what did

I say?" asked Tomo who was looking pretty dumbfounded, when Kaizer told her what she had just said she turned bright red and started to walk off slowly

not saying a word, the gammorrean was equally embarrassed but also insulted from being called a twilek. (HEY I WANT TO SEE MORE BLOOD!) the Hutt

bellowed in his native tongue of Huttesse "well too bad for you" Kaizer said as he and Tomo started to leave the battle arena, that didn't sit well for the

Hutt (release the Gorog!) he commanded, his men obeyed without question, apparently they were just as unpleasant as him, as the floor opened up and

the Gorog came out, it attacked the Hutt instead (wait-what?! No-no-no, don't eat me!) the Hutt begged but the gorog grabbed him and ate him

fortunately for Kaizer and Tomo they didn't need to fight the monster, because it choked to death on the Hutt "o-k anyone else?" asked Tomo, (no you two

can go now….) A gammorrean guard said visibly scared, the two Sith left the arena headed to their ship and headed off to their next destination "so what

was our mission here again?" asked Tomo as they left the planet "no mission I was just bored, granted I didn't expect us to get captured but it wasn't the

worst experience of my life" Kaizer answered as they left the planet.

Back on Quesh, everyone was going crazy on account for the fact the planet had eight rakghoul bombs and four of them just went off "you would think they

start dying from the planet's toxic atmosphere!" Kagura shouted as a group started clawing her "just don't let them bite you that's how the virus is

transmitted" Nyamo informed everyone while shouting. Osaka turned around after slicing a rakghoul's head in half that tried to bite her with her lightsaber

and said "good to know" before turning back to the massive rakghoul pack and killing a few more "WHY IN SPACE ARE THERE SO MANY RAKGHOULS

HERE?!" Yomi shouted as one ripped off a chunk of her pants "I DON'T KNOW!" Yukari answered her while one tried to bite her, it was thrown through

the air thanks to Yukari's force push and crashed right into the side of a mountain. "I never thought I'd be glad to be dead" Arumik's ghost said as he

watched the fight, he started to go all goo-goo eyed once the rakghouls started to shred the Jedi group's clothing "hey before you all finish them off can

you let them claw at you all for just a little bit longer?" Arumik asked, Nyamo just glared at him and yelled "SHUT UP!" the battle took a few more hours

before the last of the rakghouls was dead "aaaww, I was hoping you all would let them claw at you a little longer" Arumik said as the group collapsed from

exhaustion "so why are you here?" asked Yukari all out of breath "no reason" Arumik answered as he disappeared into thin air "we will be seeing him again,

won't we?" asked Kaorin "I fear so…" Chihiro answered her all the while sighing.

About another hour later, the group was able to disarm about 2 out of the remaining for bombs unfortunately the next bomb they encountered was

guarded by 3 Sith and a couple of troops ordinarily this wouldn't be a problem, but unfortunately they had to deal with at least 5 othe rakghoul packs and

there was at least two more that were standing in their way and at least 5 of them were wielding blasters "I didn't think rakghouls could use blasters"

Osaka said, "yeah, I've heard that rakghouls often keep the memories and skills of the people they mutate from" Yukari informed her and she was looking

pretty nervous and yet determined and the same time "I'm worried that our shots could end at any time" Kagura said "don't worry I believe we can last at

least a little bit longer" Chihiro said

trying to offer encouragement "I just regret that I never bothered asking master Blasilver or master Satele that breathing technique" Nyamo said she

sounded like she was ready to beat herself up "what's that?" asked Chiyo "it's an old technique, sort of like the healing trance, it is where you use the force

to sustain you in situations like this, some Jedi can hold their breath for months on end" Nyamo informed her "wow that's-that's pretty impressive" Yomi

said with wide eyes "I know, right?" Nyamo said with a smirk. The fight over to the rakghoul took a long time to complete, with no estimated time, matters

were made worse when Sakaki got hit from the blast of a thermal detonator, she managed to avoid the worst of the damage but was still knocked out cold,

and Kagura got shot in her left knee cap by the blaster wielding rakghouls "ok where did those b**tards get those thermal detonators?!" Kagura yelled

trying to hold back the pain "SHOOT, Chihiro and Kaorin, get over there and help them!" yelled Nyamo, Chihiro and Kaorin complied without a word "good

now get them back to the nearest medical center NOW!" Yukari yelled as they were under fire from the blaster wielding rakghouls again Chihiro and

Kaorin complied without a word, although Kaorin was fangirling on the inside from the idea of getting to hang out with Sakaki by herself completely

forgetting about Chihiro and Kagura, well with two of the groups best fighters down it was safe to say they were gonna have a hard time with the

remainder of the mission.

Tomo and Kaizer had just returned to the Maladrone, Malacard's flagship, and were in surprised to see that Malacard was nowhere to be found "hey where

is that psycho Sith?" asked Tomo looking around "your just saying that because he isn't here to hear you" Kaizer said shaking his head "…yes" Tomo said

with her down low. A couple of minutes later a trooper informed them of where Malacard was at. "He is busy torturing a Jedi for information" the trooper

informed them he sounded slightly nervous "good to know, by the way why do you sound nervous?" asked Kaizer "I didn't mean to sound nervous but I do

feel bad about that Jedi" the trooper answered now sounding sad "I know he is sadistic piece of sh*t but…" Kaizer said but was cut off by Malacard who

had just entered "what was that?!" Malacard asked sounding ticked off "uh I was saying what a wonderful man you are and that I shall follow you until

death" Kaizer said trying to suck up to Malacard, but he was clobbered by Malacard's force lightning attack "well I couldn't get anything from her but at

least I got to make her suffer" Malacard growled but his mood perked up when he said suffer, in fact there was something about how he said suffer that

disgusted Kaizer, Tomo and the trooper, and Kaizer had a pretty good idea as to why though he dared not say it, let's just say female prisoners are

Malacard's favorite kind for reasons that won't be mentioned. "On to your next assignments" Malacard said directing his attention to Tomo and Kaizer

"yes?" asked Tomo trying to sound respectful to Malacard "go travel the galaxy find me artifacts that are strong in the force and bring them to me"

Malacard demanded, Kaizer and Tomo obeyed without a word, "I don't care where or how you get them or what they are just bring them to me!" Malacard

continued sounding quite menacing as Kaizer and Tomo left.

Back on Quesh, the group had just managed to get to the Rakghoul bomb, unfortunately they were going to have trouble the fight to get to the bomb had

drastically fatigued them. "We must succeed…..we can't stop now" Yukari said gasping for air the final fight to deactivate the bomb was brief but brutal on

the group, Chiyo had passed out from exhaustion, and everyone was badly injured. To make matters worse the last bomb was about to go off but there

was no way the group could get to it in time, not in their condition anyway. The group headed off to the nearest med camp, just as the last bomb went off

"I-I can't….believe it" Nyamo said close to tears "you tried master Jedi and what bombs you did manage to deactivate allowed for more people to survive" a

doctor told her "thank you, but how are we going to take care of the rakghoul problem that is most likely going to take place?" asked Nyam who was very

concerned however her concern was replaced by surprise when the doctor reveiled a surprise to her "we actually managed to evacuate everyone from that

area in time so I am not too concerned" the doctor said with a smile. That perked up Nyamo and everyone else's mood "that's good" Yukari said with a

smile.

Tomo and Kaizer started their quest to find force-sensitive artifacts on the planet of Dantooinee, "hey he said he didn't care where we got the artifacts or

what they were" Kaizer said just before Tomo could ask him why they were on Dantooinee "we're gonna have to fight a bunch of Jedi to get those artifacts

aren't we?" asked Tomo rhetorically, Kaizer just chuckled and off they were, it actually wasn't hard for them to get their hands on some Jedi artifacts,

although they didn't know why so they quickly checked to make sure there wasn't any tracking devices on them, there wasn't but they kept their eyes open

to make sure the Jedi didn't have any surprises for them. The next batch of artifacts they were going after were in the Jedi temple itself, they waited until

night before sneaking into the temple after few close calls the snatched what they could grab but just before they were home free a deep, heavy voice

shouted at them, the ycouldn't make out the words but they didn't need to because the source of the voice force leaped right in front of them. There, right

in front of them, stood a hulking, six foot tall Echani Jedi "I am the echani Jedi master, Voryn, now surrender or else I shall have no choice but to use

force!" the Jedi bellowed, and while Kaizer and Tomo thought about listening to him for a minute there, the fear of Darth Malacard took over and they

prepared for battle "so be it" Voryn said grumbling in the process. The Jedi master proved to be a difficult adversary in deed, he utilized both his echani

training and Jedi training all at once, as lightsaber blades clashed the battle began to attract the other Jedi who were at the temple, "SHADIUS! We will

have to end this quickly!" Kaizer shouted, to which Tomo nodded to a few seconds of fighting later Kaizer got the echani Jedi master in a blade lock and

whilst he held him back Tomo took the opportunity and sliced off Voryn's right arm, they then quickly subdued him with force lightning before making their

escape with the artifacts, Voryn quickly regained consciousness but the two Sith were long gone by then "I sensed the good in them" the Jedi master

thought to himself. "That was close one" Kaizer said breathing heavily "no kidding" Tomo replied also gasping heavily they quickly left the planet and

headed off to their next destination.

Little did Kaizer and Tomo know they weren't alone, Malacard, surprisingly enough DID have "allies", the first he sent off after them was an assassin named

Virlok he was a deformed Imperial Zabrack who took delight in killing, the next two who he had planned to join him was the infamous grand moff Bulma

and the demented Cathar admiral Kamineko, he had a cousin by the same name who died at the hands of Kagura though he did not care, what he had

planned for them was to join him in an upcoming assault on the planet Anime. Malacard sent Virlok off to the planet Quesh to deal with the Jedi there little

did Virlok know he was being followed by Darth Tyrannose "yeah, no I am not gonna sit around and do nothing I want to see where that Psychopath is off

to" the Sith lord said to himself. Many questions were going through his head all at once, primarily involving why he still a member of the Sith. Back on

Quesh, everyone had recuperated on the space station the reason being because the doctors really didn't want to treat them in Quesh's toxic atmosphere.

"Well are we done yet?" asked Yukari, "yeah we're done here" answered Nyamo as they headed towards their ship they galmost got attacked by Virlok,

almost, Tyrannous stabbed him in the back with lightsaber killing the assassin instantly, and just watched as the group got on their ship and left "hmmmm,

even I know it's no coincidence that I ran into them again" Tyrannous said to himself he then left for his ship and headed to the planet Nal Hutta "the

planet's name means glorious jewel in huttese, what a waste of a planet" Tyrannous thought to himself, he really hated Hutts. He spent a few days there

once and for some reason Nemro the Hutt kept trying to get him killed not that Fa'athra was any better, fortunately for them they wised up and stopped

their attacks on him. "I need to get my head straight, although even I have to admit it is rather ironic I chose this rock to clear my head" he said to himself

with smirk as he landed on the planet's surface.

Back on Typhon, the group was given some good news…and bad news, the good news is that most of the bombs were deactivated the bad news more

than a few dozen went off and a few dozen more were place all over the galaxy. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Yukari yelled she was seething with anger "I

am afraid not, now we must act as rakghoul extermination squads on the world's with bombs that went off and deal with the bombs that have yet to go off"

Satele said calmly and maturely albeit with a ting of sadness in her voice "we need to find where the accursed bombs are coming from and get rid of them

as soon as possible" Nyamo said "I know, we are looking into it, but it is not easy especially since members of our order are scattered all over the galaxy"

Satele said with a blatant amount of sadness in her voice. So the group was once again off to the next planet acting as 10-(wo)man bomb squad team, due

to the fact the council was more interested in stopping these bombs before more rakghouls could pop up, and Jedi masters such as Blasilver Johtoore and

Sawako Yamanaka were struggling to control the problem before it got too out of hand and the latter of the two mentioned Jedi masters had brought in her

Jedi band to help her out and they weren't making much progress at all.

Well the next planet the group landed on, Voss, did not go well at all mainly because a bomb went off and they were ambushed by a pack of rakghouls,

though they were able to quickly take care of the problem a Voss mystic informed them that there were nine more bombs left "how they managed to sneak

these bombs on our planet without one of knowing is uknown" the mystic said, the group was looking quite nervous. But matters were made worse when

eight of the nine remaining bombs all went off at once, a few hours later an army of rakghouls were charging right at them "Where do these things keep

coming from?!" asked Yukari who was visibly freaking out "You must hurry, through our visions we have forseen the last bomb will have enough power to

take out the rest of the planet" the Mystic warned them "don't worry we will" Nyamo said to which everyone else agreed to even Yukari "hey guys, if we

don't survive this I want you all to know it's been a pleasure working with you all" Yomi said with a smile "likewise" Kagura said with a smile.

HOW'S THIS FOR A CLIFF HANGER, FOLKS?!