(Aurali's P.O.V)
Note to self: Never ever ever ever bring up the past with Tyla!
After getting the comlink from Atton, I ran off after Tyla into the mines. Force knows what her anger would get her into. She had enough rage to blow up Malachor on her own.
"Hey. Can you hear me?" Atton said over the comlink.
"Yeah. For the most part." I replied.
"Good. You need to be careful down there. I'm picking up some weird readings."
"I wouldn't doubt if it was Tyla's rage you were picking up on. It can be sensed for miles." I mumbled sarcastically. I searched a nearby cylinder and found a miners uniform in it. "Heck yeah!" I cheered.
"What is it?" Atton questioned confused.
"I found me some clothes!" I heard the multiple cuss words over the comlink and laughed. "Disappointed?" I said.
"N-no. It was distracting anyway. For the droids and Tyla I mean. Wouldn't have been able to get anything done."
"Riiiiight. Let's go with that." I laughed at him again. "I'll keep you updated on what's happening."
"Tyyyyyla. Where art thou Tyla? I'm sorry for pissing you off. I really am." There was no response across the bond. It was totally silent. A little too silent. I could usually at least feel her presence circulating around in my brain, but there was nothing there. Not even Tyla could cut off her bonds this well on her own free will.
"Crap. Atton! Something's up. We might be in some trouble!" I called across the comlink.
"What is it?" He said, semi-panicked.
"I can't get anything from Tyla. She won't respond."
"Wonderful! I told you two it was too dangerous down there!"
"Whatever. I'm going to find Tyla." I stated, running through the tunnels.
Most of the droids had been killed thanks to Tyla, and when I got to the main central shaft I spotted her unconscious on the ground, about ten droids surrounding her. "Great. I get to fight droids. That was totally on my list of things I wanted to accomplish today." I charged at the droids and began to slice them up into tiny pieces until they had all been destroyed. I ran over to Tyla and lifted her up, leaning her against the command station. "Tyla! You have to wake up! Now!" It took a few seconds, but eventually she groaned lightly.
"Get off. I can…take care of myself…" she said groggily as she tried to push herself up. She tripped and fell slightly, but she managed to catch herself. She turned around and started to work her way to where the final set of droids were.
"You stubborn person." I grumbled following after her to make sure she would make it. "Everything is okay Atton. I found Tyla and she's not dead." I told him.
"Well that's good to hear. Now hurry up and get out of there before something else happens!"
"Finally felt like helping?" Tyla asked as she fixed the miner uniform she was wearing. She was looking better than she first had when I had found her, but she was still a little dizzy.
"You ran off before I could come with you!" I protested.
"Yeah yeah, I don't care. Can we hurry this up and get out of here?" Tyla demanded. She paused for a second, then let out a small sigh. "I can't believe I'm about to do this." Tyla turned to face me and she took another breath.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been so bitchy with you. It just that…I haven't worked with anyone else for so long, and the fact that it's you I'm working with when I tried so hard to forget about my past just made things worse. I shouldn't have taken it out on you though. Running off and killing a battalion of droids tends to clear the mind you know?" Tyla laughed slightly, and then continued. "Can we put this behind us?"
"Yeah. We need to work together to get out of here so we should probably try not to piss each other off."
"Okay. Nice to see that you two are friends again, but don't you remember that we have to get off of here!" Atton exclaimed.
"Atton is right. We need to take the turbolift back up and make our way back to the administration level. After that we should be able to get to the hanger and get off this station." Tyla said, taking charge once more.
"Well then let's get going! What are we waiting for?" I shouted and Tyla smiled at me.
"Follow me!" she said. So I followed her back and we barely made it out of the turbolift in time as what was below us exploded once again and we rolled out onto the new level. We walked around for a little bit until we found a dead maintenance officer and an HK-50 droid. Then we wondered around a bit more until we found a sonic sensor. Using our epic persuasive power, we made him speak the code. We went out that door and were greeted by even more droids! Surprise surprise.
Then we took a relaxing walk across the asteroid surface. Okay, so maybe it wasn't that relaxing. Try being relaxed when there is superheated gas blowing in your direction and you see a random ship dock! And the fact that we were walking at the speed of penguins to get back didn't help at all.
Well, we eventually got back inside. Then we got to fight more droids. Then came the dormitories. Someone had turned poison vents on so we had to be extra careful. Thank the Force for breathe masks. I really did not want to go through the sensation of being poisoned.
"Haha! We have liftoff!" Tyla yelled as she got the turbolift door to open. "Now let's get back up to the administration level!"
"Yeah. I am so ready to get out of here." I replied, running as fast as I could to get back. As I slid in the room, Atton glanced up at me.
"Glad to see you two back in one piece."
"Yep, well, physically at least." Tyla shot a quick glance my direction. I felt a shiver run up my spine and glanced around.
"Must be Kreia."
"Yeah. I don't know how and why she ended up here but I don't trust her." I stated.
"I don't either, but she may be useful to help us get off the station." Tyla declared. Kreia began to speak but Tyla apparently couldn't resist the urge to interrupt.
"Alright, I say that we all head back to the ship and get as far away as possible!" Tyla declared. Without even waiting, she ran to where we could get aboard the Hawk. Instead of being able to get on it without any problems though, we were stopped by the same HK-50 droid that we had gotten the code from earlier. Tyla, of course, being Tyla, didn't try to reason with the thing. She just started attacking it.
"Joy. More fighting. Just what I wanted. For once can we do things without fighting? I mean seriously! We don't even have lightsabers!" I complained.
"Hey, at least it is better than hand to hand or a blaster!" Tyla called out as she struck out at the assassination droid. She froze for a second then yelled run as the self-destruct sequence activated. We had all made it a safe distance away when the thing did explode.
"All right, let's pick up the remains and keep moving. Since we still can't get to the Hawk, I guess that means we're going to go over to the Harbinger." Tyla said, shoving something under her uniform.
"Let me guess, that would be the necklace." I stated.
"Look, I'll explain why I'm still wearing it later. Just not right now, okay?. Happy?" Tyla responded.
"Yep!" I accidentally said out loud, getting an odd look from Atton, seeing how he was the only one who didn't know about the bond.
"What was that about?" He questioned.
"Nothing. Let's just go."
"You Jedi are so cryptic. It gets annoying." He mumbled, ignoring us.
"Okay, can we please keep moving?" Tyla asked, looking at all of us. When nobody objected, she turned and began making her way up the loading ramp. "Then let's move!" In fact, the Harbinger was pretty easy. Kreia did yell at us, but I really don't think anybody cared. There were assassins that attacked us out of nowhere, but no one was seriously injured in the battles with them. In fact, everything was going really good. We had the charts and we had just finished off another group of Sith.
We went through the dormitories and I paused at one of the rooms. "Can I grab my things Ty? I have some important stuff in there."
"Sure. Whatever. I need to get my stuff out of my room anyway. It's just down the hall so I'll be back."
"Alright." I walked into my room and picked up all the scattered datapads I had thrown around and shoved them into my pack I had on my bed.
"What's with all the datapads?" Atton questioned, coming up behind me.
"It's nothing. Just the job I was doing. Once we're out of here I can go back to Nar Shaddaa and get paid." I explained.
"So how does someone like you become a Jedi anyway?"
"I don't know. They just took me in off the streets and trained me. Not like I had a choice in the matter." I muttered, kicking open my footlocker and pulling out all of my clothes. I shoved them into my pack and then slung it onto my shoulder.
"You finished?" He asked.
"Yeah. Let's grab Ty and get out of this place." I said, walking out of the room.
"You get all your things?" Tyla questioned.
"Yeah. Let's head out." I said, walking towards where we thought the fuel line was. We stopped by every footlocker we saw and grabbed everything out of them as we went.
"What is this..." Tyla's face paled as she pulled out two lightsaber hilts from a footlocker. "You have got to be kidding me." She muttered, placing them down on the ground beside her.
"Wow. How did lightsabers get here?" I mumbled, looking at the weapons I had once used all the time.
"I don't know, but we might as well use them. It's better than using a vibroblade."
"Even if it does bring back bad memories." She finished through the bond.
"So what colors are they?"
"I hadn't checked." Tyla activated the first lightsaber, which gave off a silver yet green glow. It looked to be about the same color as viridian. "Here, you can have this one." Tyla said, deactivating the saber and throwing it my direction. I caught the lightsaber as she looked at the second one.
"And this one…" Tyla trailed off as she activated it. Her face paled as the silver glow filled the small room and she threw the lightsaber in mine and Atton's direction as hard as she could. I dodged it, but ended up slamming into Atton by accident. He stumbled a bit, but was able to hold me up. The saber then deactivated and hit the floor, the sound of it resonating in the now silent room.
"N-nevermind. Can…can I have that back?" she mumbled, pointing to the hilt in my hand.
"Yeah. As long as you don't try to kill me again." I told her, handing her the viridian one. "This is like my old one anyway." I grinned, examining it. Atton pushed me away from him lightly as I continued to look at it.
"Try to keep your balance next time." He told me.
"Sorry about that. Silver and me just… don't get along." Tyla said, shakily securing her lightsaber to her belt.
"I'm sorry about that. It won't happen again." Was all she said before she cut off the bond. So Tyla continued to lead us through the ghost ship until a scary looking Sith lord showed up. Kreia said that she would take care of him so we let her go. We continued to walk on until we reached the fuel line.
"You have got to be kidding me! You seriously can't be thinking about crossing back over to Peragus using the fuel line!" Atton exclaimed.
"We aren't thinking about it, we're doing it!" Tyla chimed in helpfully.
"It's the only choice we have Atton." I stated. "Either that or you can go fight some more Sith. Which I highly doubt you want to do."
"Fine. Not like you were gonna let me have any other choice anyway." He muttered.
"Nope, you don't get choice!" Tyla said happily as she walked a few more steps. Suddenly unbearable pain wrapped around my wrist and it felt like it was being dipped in molten carbonite. Atton said something but I couldn't hear it over mine, Tyla's, and Kreia's thoughts all at once. Eventually it subsided enough and we both managed to stand up fully.
"What…was that?" Tyla asked.
"That would be the unbearable pain that comes across bonds." I answered.
"Well, whatever it was, it's over now. We need to keep moving." Atton said.
"Thanks for being so caring." Tyla muttered as we walked on. We walked until we came across T3.
"Great. Another droid. Just what we need. I think I've seen enough of these walking trashcans for one day." Atton said, glaring at T3.
"Be nice to him! He helped us! If it wasn't for him we wouldn't be here right now." I exclaimed, hugging the droid. Tyla ran over and hugged the droid too for a few seconds.
"Alright, that's enough droid love. Can someone disable the mine while I make sure that T3 is okay?" Tyla asked when she stepped back from the droid. We both turned to Atton about the mine.
"What? Why do I have to do it?"
"Do you reeeeeeally want to get me to disable the mine? I tend to create more explosions than actually fixing the problem." I explained to him.
"Don't let her touch the mine!" Tyla said in a panic.
"Whatever. Just move back some. I don't want it to hurt you two if something goes wrong." He told both of us. Tyla smiled at me as she went to look over T3. There was a series of clicks and beeps as she looked the droid over.
"He's taken a good amount of damage, but he is running just fine. He's a tough little guy." Tyla concluded when she finished. Atton disabled all of the mines and then stood up, walking back over to us.
"All of the mines have been disabled. We're good to go."
"Good. The mines would've been very problematic. I'm glad we've got you to assist."
"It was nothing." He replied, scratching the back of his head.
"Okay okay, can we keep moving? We need to finish off all the droids and disable the force field. Then we might have a chance of getting out of here. Atton, Aura, go kill some droids. I'm going to take T3 and we are going to get the computer working." Tyla ordered. So we all went off and did the duty Tyla told us. Atton and I polished off the final droids, and Tyla got everything we needed. We opened up another door and inside the Ebon Hawk was waiting for us.
"Finally! We are out of here!" I shouted. Tyla just stared at the ship.
"This will do us good. It's not a bad ship." Tyla declared before she ran to the ship.
"I've flown a ship similar to this one. They're really sturdy." I exclaimed. Tyla nodded her agreement and we climbed the ramp of the ship. Atton ran to the direction of the cockpit and Tyla turned to look at me.
"Everything is in good working condition. Now we can get out of here!" Tyla said.
"Yeah. I don't want to be here any longer." There was an explosion outside and we all looked up in shock.
"Frack there're Sith attacking the ship!" Tyla shouted.
"We need some time to get the engines running! Let's give the turrets a workout." He called out, and Tyla grabbed the controls happily.
"There shall be DEATH AND DESTRUCTION!"
"Dear Force Tyla! Calm yourself! You're not a Sith!"
"BECAUSE OF A WILD FLUKE OF NATURE!" she called out, her voice shaking with every blaster shot.
"Ok! We're good! It's time to blow this joint!" Atton shouted over Tyla's psychotic laughter while she manned the turret. Tyla reluctantly removed herself from the turret and move to me.
"Aw, that was fun." She complained.
"You're insane." I sighed.
"We're not out of this just yet!" Atton hollered. I ran to the cockpit and saw all the asteroids flying by us.
"Well that is just great. I guess you need to just keep flying and dodge the asteroids. We can get out of this still." Tyla said, taking in the view of the rock-filled space.
"I'm doing all I can, but it isn't enough. What did you do to piss these guys off?" Atton asked. Tyla shook her head in annoyance.
"Look, just dodge the damn asteroids then try to make the jump to hyperspace. We can't willingly destroy the facility." She ordered.
"Well we can't just sit here and do nothing while the Sith keep firing at us either, now can we?" Atton said aggravated. Right as he said this, a couple of shots flew by us and hit an asteroid. The ship started to shake as the entire field went nova and I barely heard Atton make the jump. Time seemed to stop for a few seconds, but when I looked up, we had made it safely.
"Thank everything and anything. Now that that's over with you can just drop me off on Coruscant." Tyla stated, looking at the map.
"Well...about that..."Atton started, looking warily at her.
"What is it?" She growled.
"The ship is programmed to go to Telos. We can't go anywhere else until we go there." I explained, and she snarled angrily.
"Great! Just great!"
"This is no coincidence. Someone wanted you two to travel together once more." Kreia stated, magically appearing out of nowhere. Tyla jumped and put a hand on her heart.
"What the…where did you come from?" Tyla asked out loud.
"Well….When a mommy and a daddy love each other veeeeeery much, something magical happens and nine months later poof! Out came a Kreia!" I explained sarcastically.
"Thanks for the image Aura. I did not need to know that." Atton muttered. "Now I officially have to bleach my brain."
"Shall I get you some brain bleach then? I'm pretty sure we could come up with something." I laughed, thinking of a memory of mine from the Enclave.
"Are you thinking about the whole 'Growing Malak's Hair' incident?" Tyla asked.
"Why yes. That's exactly what I was thinking of." I grinned at her.
"That is enough foolish antics. We must discuss why the Sith are after you two." Kreia grouched, being a killjoy. Tyla shot her a pointed look.
"Discuss? Discuss! We have nothing to discuss!" Tyla shouted at her.
"Our antics are not foolish you old witch!" I yelled. "It's okay Ty. Just calm down."
"When you two decide to stop acting childish, I shall be waiting in my quarters." Kreia scowled before stalking off to a different part of the ship. "Am I not allowed to forget my past? I was hoping to leave as soon as possible, but oh no! Fate denies me what I want!"
"Don't count on it ya old hag." I growled as she walked away. "I know, I know. It sucks. We're just gonna have to deal with it though."
"Yeah I know. Even if I don't like it there's nothing I can do about it." Tyla responded. I sighed for an answer.
"Well, now all we have to do is wait until we reach Telos." Atton said, sliding into a more comfortable position in his seat.
"Wonderful. I just love waiting." I sighed, sitting in the co-pilot's chair and relaxing. So much for getting out of this situation without problems.