Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic is owned/published by Bioware and published by LucasArts.
Shout out to my reviewer, Handerra.
This is an entirely different take on KotOR than my first attempt. So sit back, and enjoy the ride.
Unit 5186 was not having a good day. First, his squad left him at the mess-hall to go on patrol. Then his squad was slaughtered by some homicidal freak. Luckily, the mess-hall was open…
Mach let out a sigh and said, "So, let me get this straight. I am going to board a ship, which only god knows where it is going; to guard a Jedi, a female one at that. And to top it off, she's the Jedi poster child! I am I forgetting any thing?"
General Von Nelshon chuckled, not the least bit perturbed by Mach's outburst and said, "No, but you did forget the fact that you are going to be paid half-a-mil to do this job."
"Well, there's that." Mach conceded. He sighed. "When do I leave?"
"Your connecting flight to Coruscant leaves at 0800 tomorrow."
Mach had never left a job unfinished so he headed for the main Sith base, which also happened to be the only Sith base on the planet. Mach reached a cliff overlooking the base and surveyed it. Six to seven hundred Sith were housed inside making it impossible to storm it from the front. Lucky, for Mach, he didn't need to. The Sith had wanted to create the base as soon as possible, thus they had installed a K-53 power plant. The K- 53s, while easy to build and maintain, had one small or one big problem; depending on how one looked at it. The 'plant was completely stable unless the outer-casing was cracked or damaged. If it were cracked however, a very short time later it would blow up rather spectacularly. Mach smiled his grim reaper smile that he was famous for. He withdrew his combat knife and took a step forward…dropping off the cliff head first.
After falling for about 6 to 7 meters he let his feet swing down as he gripped his knife in both hands and raising it, blade facing out, to about chest level. He slammed in to the Sith guard's body with enough force to immediately snap all of the bones in the guards lower body. At the same time Mach's knife was driven to the hilt in the top of the Sith's head. Mach slowly stood up. After cleaning his knife of various bodily fluids and brains, he sheathed it as he headed for the maintenance hatch.
Mach easily avoided the guard and personnel on his way to the power plant. Upon arriving at the windowless control center, that was over the plant, he walked up behind the lone guard, grabbed his head, and calmly slit his throat. Letting the body hit the floor, Mach strode forward as the technician turned. The tech' started to open his mouth but Mach, with out pausing, kicked his right foot out in a front-thrust kick; smashing the Sith in the chest; propelling him over the railing! His fast-fading scream reached Mach's ears. Mach pressed the button to drop the power plants cover shield. Mach backed several meters away from the console and then ran towards it! Just before he reached it, however, he jumped and flipped over the console to fly a good 4 meters beyond it. Landing on the power plant's exposed cover, Mach removed a XMT9- 2500 mini seismic charge from his belt.
As he was finishing setting the charge, he heard the command center door open. At the command "Hay You! Stop!" Mach quickly stood up and assessed is opposition. Four Sith Shock Troopers all had their guns pointed at him. Mach slowly backed a meter-and-a-half away from the edge. Mach then smiled his reaper's grin and blurred to the edge; leaping off it! At times like these the world seemed to slow down to a crawl, giving him plenty of time to unholster his dual Mandalorian Heavy X-50 Pistols. He sighted both X-50s on the trooper to the far left, and squeezed the triggers. The dual blasts instantly killed the Sith. Blaster fire began to slowly lance out at him from the remaining troopers. Mach let instincts guide him and he rapidly pulled both triggers. He landed in a crouch, a full meter beyond the Shock troopers; arms and guns sweeping behind him as the Sith troopers collapsed behind him. He slowly stood up and if one could see his eyes right then they just might see something inhuman burning in its depths. Then he blinked and the eyes returned to normal, as if nothing happened.
Mach holstered his weapons and walked off into the base. Mach eventually reached a overhang a kilometer way from the base, having been "interrupted" several times. The overhang allowed Mach to see the entire base from in distance.
Mach held up a small, thin rectangle and pressed the red button on it then looked at the Sith Main Base. A few seconds later a deep rumble sounded from within the base. A second later the Sith base exploded in all directions with a spectacular BOOM! As Mach's naturally gray eyes viewed the destruction, he whispered in awe, "Beautiful." He then headed back to the Republic Base.
After packing and making arrangements for his "protection" gear, Mach had four hours to burn, so he headed for the hand-to-hand combat room. Mach arrived in time to see a Republic Cadet fall to the floor unconscious, courtesy of Bob "Big Bob" Dunner. Dunner was known for his uncivilized conduct with women and beating his opponents into a bloodily pulp. Supposedly he bested a Mandalorian Combat Captain in hand-to-hand, then he killed the captain. Bob immediately walked over to a pretty female mechanic and started to "talk" to her. She shook her head, but he wouldn't take "no" for an answer. As he was grabbing her arm, he noticed Mach had entered the room. Bob noticed Mach's lack of interest in him and immediately took offense. After all he, Bob F. Dunner, was the best there was! And with these thoughts he called out to Mach "Hay Murc! Wunna fight like man instead of hiding like a girl?" The room hushed in expectation as Mach turned around but didn't reply he then taunted "Looks like yer jus' a woman in disguise."
Mach shrugged and started to walk to the mat as he said, "Need to relax before the ship leaves anyway. And by the way, since you have decided not to leave that lady alone, bad things are going to happen" Dunner raised his hands up in the air and said in an artificially high voice, "Ohh, I am soo scared!"
Mach smirked and said in a voice that sounded a bit like a beginning of a nightmare, "You should be."
Bob held up his large fists, ready to begin. Mach stood opposite him and still had his hands at his side. Dunner then proceeded to jeer, "Look at 'em! He don't even know how to fight!"
The fight buzzer sounded and the fight began. Bob immediately and confidently swung his fist at Mach's head! Mach however, bent out of the way and the fist passed by him harmlessly. Dunner followed it up with a uppercut, which was dodged again by Mach. He then began flailing, hoping to hit his enemy. Mach however, without moving from his spot, evaded every attack with ease. Bob suddenly lunged for Mach with arms outstretched. He reached Mach's spot, but just before Dunner reached his target, Mach back flipped out of the way. Bob was so surprised that he forgot to put up his hands. Mach took advantage of this failure and ran, but it wasn't really a run; more like a glide, punching the large man in the face; knocking him down. Mach continued on his path past Dunner, stopping a short distance away. Bob slowly got up; murder in his eyes. He let out guttural scream and charged Mach! Just before Dunner reached his object of hate and embarrassment, Mach moved out of the way and clotheslined him, flipping Bob head-over-heels to slam on his back. Mach then knelt by Big Bob's face and said in a low dark whisper "I told you bad things where going to happen." Mach then slammed his fist in to Big Bob's head knocking him out. Mach stood up to stunned silence.
As he was leaving the mat, scattered applause rose and soon the whole room was clapping. Mach left the room indifferently.
A short time later Mach was standing on the landing platform as he waited for the transport ship to finish its landing procedures. After the ship finished Mach began moving his equipment onto the spacecraft. He was getting ready to bring aboard the last of his items when he heard his name being called.
"Mach!" Harvey called. Mach turned as Harvey ran up to him, leaning over to catch his breath when he got there. Mach looked over at his hunched figure with amusement.
"Screw you." Harvey said with out malice, "Not all of us are super-muscled like you." Mach shrugged. "We can't all be the same. That would be boring." He deadpanned. Harvey opened his mouth to make a retort but then closed it as he thought about it.
"Anyways," Harvey said, "Since you took care of the Sith here we're moving out soon." He paused, and then continued. "So I just wanted to see you off and tell you good luck."
Mach nodded and then headed to the ship's on-ramp. "Mach!" Harvey shouted, "Good luck and may the force be with you!" Mach waved over his shoulder and Harvey watched as the ship lifted off. Not knowing that the ship's occupant had begun the journey into destiny.
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