Cypher stepped down from the ships walkway, he was followed closely by his small spherical droid with the red eye. His stride was confident, arrogant even. You could almost sense the smug smile etched on his face behind the mask. Jiri clenched his teeth. His grip tightened on the rifle, this was the son of a bitch he had been waiting for, the one he needed to kill for revenge. Cypher cast his eyes upon Tyken. His metallic voice rang through the air with a sense of accusation, 'you have caused me no end of trouble… but you were a successful experiment. I know that, even if you do not'.
Cypher extended his hand towards Tyken in a show of offering. Cypher implored, 'I can show you the unimaginable power that you could posses with me! Join with me!', his talking became more enthusiastic and emphatic, 'Together we will have the power to bring this entire galaxy to it's knees!'.
Jiri's death stare became more concentrated, he wanted nothing more than to rip the head off this masked bastard. He glanced at Tyken. He did a double take when he saw Tyken's expression, it was one of indecisiveness and contemplation. Was he actually considering this offer? 'Tyken!' Jiri's voice was sharp and commanding, Tyken snapped out of his trance. Cypher turned his attention to Jiri.
'Oh yes, the child', he moaned condescendingly. 'My orders are to bring you in alive, but if you resist I have no reservations about killing you'.
Jiri's temper hit boiling point, he gripped his rifle tightly as he brought it into firing position, lining up his sights on his hated masked enemy. He shouted in rage as he snapped a shot off aimed directly at Cypher's head.
Cypher drew his light-saber, the red light of the blade sprang to life with a swish as he successfully ducked the shot to his head. Jiri grunted in frustration as he fired off another three shots, all on target to Cypher's chest and neck. With blinding speed, Cypher's light-saber cut through the air, spinning around Cypher's body to defend against the shots. The first shot deflected into the ground, the second ricocheted into the sky. Cypher spun quickly avoiding the third shot, but then swung his light-saber like a bat, sending the blast directly back at Jiri. A bright light burst from Jiri's chest as the shot ripped into his flesh with massive force. Jiri was smashed backwards, he hit the ground back first hard, and skidded across the ground several feet, and was left twitching and writhing in pain upon the ground.
Tyken cried out, 'Jiri!'. Jiri was still moving, but his only movement was the result of his agony. Tyken's face turned to one of anger and retribution, creases showed on his face, he grit his teeth, he even snarled slightly as he drew his light-saber. The blue blade sprang to life from it's hilt, piercing the darkness. Cypher stood motionless, watching Tyken for a beat before exclaiming, 'my old light-saber... Fitting that you stole it during your little escape'.
Tyken pulled the blade into his fighting stance and charged at Cypher, spinning the blade to throw his opponent off guard, surprise him as to where the strike would come from. Cypher drew his own blade across his body, his confidence was obvious, he was even excited. He whispered in a low voice as Tyken charged towards him, 'Come at me, do not disappoint', his anticipation of finally having a good fight was hard to hide.
Tyken swung his light-saber, Cypher waved his to intercept, the clash of blades caused sparks to fly in all directions. The blades were held against each other, both combatants pushing, the purple light coming off the sabres was intense. Both pushed with everything they had, it looked like a stalemate, neither was giving ground. Suddenly, Cypher pushed outwards with a wave of force energy, a shock-wave that smashed outwards, sending Tyken flailing backwards, but able to keep his footing somehow as he stumbled back.
He only just managed to regain his balance before Cypher jumped at him, light-saber swinging for his head. Tyken blocked it only centimeters from his throat. Tyken pushed his blade outwards, away from his body. As soon as he did, another blow reigned on him, coming on from the other side towards his chest. He moved his blade imminently to deflected it, as soon as he did, another blow followed to his leg. Every time Tyken deflected, another blow would come with incredible speed. Tyken found himself being pushed back trying to stop the reign of saber strikes, the devastating force they were being delivered with tested his balance, if he slipped up once he was dead or worse… but he couldn't get off a single strike, the blows were coming in too fast and hard.
A chance! Tyken saw for a split second an opening, he hesitated slightly before striking with his saber towards Cypher's throat. Cypher ducked effortlessly under the blade, his saber flashed through the air again and caught Tyken on the arm.
Tyken yelled in pain as sparks flew from his arm. He stumbled back and fell backwardsclutching his wound, it wasn't deep, but the arm was going to be slower for the remainder of the fight.
Cypher ceased his aggression, light-saber still drawn he appealed to Tyken again, his metallic voice ringing through the air once more, 'you hesitate, that is why you are now upon the ground, lookup up at your better'. Tyken exhaled heavily, aggression was all over his face. This seemed to amuse Cypher, 'look at you, naive, weak and pathetic. You surely know now that you cannot beat me, but I am offering you an alternative…'.
He extended his hand towards Tyken again, 'join me! With me you will know power that you never thought possible! Others will beg at your feet! The universe will become your plaything! You have only to take my hand…'. Tyken was gasping for air, his wounded arm had trouble holding onto his light-saber properly. Tyken knew that he did not want to die, and if what this masked man said was true… He looked at Jiri, there was blood on Jiri's lips as he struggled to get up. Tyken remembered what had been done to the youth, his family, his home, his planet, all gone… all because of him… No! He owed Jiri everything, he could not rest. He couldn't accept death!
'NO!' Tyken shouted as he pounced on Cypher. Cypher was caught off guard as he struggled to mount a defense, Tyken's light-saber flew through the air with speed and power, reigning strikes as powerful as had been reigned on him. Cypher struggled to hold his defense, blocking shot after shot, moving backwards.
Cypher's determiner was calm however, he blocked the strikes as he moved backwards, forcing Tyken forwards to continue his aggression. Suddenly he saw a chance. There was no hesitation, his light-saber moved with amazing speed at Tyken's exposed leg. Tyken blocked it at the last possible second. Then more blows came down from above as Tyken was again put on the defensive, blocking the seemingly unstoppable onslaught of furious blows.
Cypher begun to push Tyken back as his reign of saber strikes pummeled again and again against Tyken's failing defense. Tyken begun to tire, his wounded arm, the never ending barrage of light-saber blows, his movements slowed down ever so slightly...
Enough so that Cypher's red saber found and opening and pierced Tyken's stomach, Tyken fell to the ground, clutching his mid section, gripping it in the fetal position. The wound wasn't deep, but Tyken already knew that it would kill him if he didn't get medical assistance for it. Cypher swung his saber at the now defenseless Tyken, catching his leg. Sparks few as the leg was cut open. Cypher then drew his sabre right next to Tyken's body.
He begun to speak again, 'my friend… it didn't have to be like this, if you had simply come with me this would have been so much simpler'. He pushed the blade into Tyken's shoulder. the light-saber slowly sunk into his flesh, a loud searing noise could be heard, smoke came from the wound, sparks of burnt flesh flicked up from the wound. Tyken screamed, the cry echoed for miles around.
Cypher pulled the blade out quickly and swung at Tyken again, catching the other arm. Tyken was now completely defenseless, neither of his arms could move. Cypher lowered his red blade next to Tyken's throat. His metallic voice sounded, 'I'd much prefer to bring you in alive, but a corpse will suffice'. He raised the blade above his head.
Jiri came back into focus, shaking the cobweb haze. His vision was blurred, but he could see a figure with a red light-saber standing other another figure, Cypher! That masked bastard had taken everything from Jiri, now he was going to take his friend? Jiri stood and bolted towards Cypher, his vision tunneled as he hurtled towards his adversary, he had only one target.
Cypher had only a moment to react as he saw Jiri speeding towards him, he pulled his light-saber to his side ready to strike. Suddenly Jiri pulled out the pistol from his pocket and fired a shot at Cypher's head. Cypher barley reacted in time, pulling head head to the side and only just blocking the shot with his saber. Suddenly Jiri was on top of him, gripping his wrist that held the light-saber, stopping his blade from moving.
Before Cypher could move, Jiri threw his head towards Cypher's mask. The headbutt connected with brutal force. For a moment Cypher lost his awareness. The impact was so hard that his mask cracked. He regained his awareness just enough to be able to swing his saber from his still held wrist. Jiri spun his body into Cypher's, dodging the saber swing. With his back now turned towards Cypher, Jiri pressed Cypher's arm downwards across his own. He pushed with everything he had until he heard the unmistakable sound and feeling of bone breaking. Cypher's arm bone shattered as he screamed in pain, dropping his light-saber from his now useless arm.
Jiri threw an elbow behind him at Cypher's face, further disorienting him. Cypher staggered backwards, but Jiri jumped on him again, fury in his strikes. He threw a punch at Cypher's chest and heard the sound of more bones breaking, he broke at least two ribs, maybe more. Jiri's leg shot out towards Cypher's knee, causing Cypher's leg to collapse underneath him. His leg strength failed him and he dropped to his knee's.
Jiri grabbed him by the throat as he pulled the pistol out and brought it up to Cypher's head. Cypher was about to speak, 'You have no ide-', he was silenced by the shot hitting him in the forehead at point blank range. Cypher's body was thrown backwards from the force, smoke pouring from the hole left by the blaster.
As Jiri's adrenaline rush faded, he felt his body begin to give way. He snapped out of it, 'no! I can't die here, get back to the ship and…', he looked over at Tyken lying motionlessly on the ground. He ran over as fast as he could, clutching his wounded stomach. He checked Tyken's pulse. It was feint, but it was there. 'Alright dude, hold on, we're gonna get you help'. Tyken was unconscious, not moving at all. Jiri threw Tyken's arm around his own shoulder as he got to his feet.
As he did so he noticed the small droid following Cypher approach his body. A small laser, or scanner of some kind fired from the droids red eye. Something came out of the body, it looked like mist being sucked into the droid. The droid finished and moved towards Cypher's ship.
Jiri kept walking with the unconscious Tyken slung over his shoulders as he watched this small droid go into the ship. The bay door to the ship closed and the ship took to the air. It turned and begun to leave the atmosphere. Jiri turned his attention to his target, Plex's ship, the Ninbus. He had to gamble that Plex had not left, and was willing to give them medical attention, if she had gone they were both dead.
He kept pressing onward, despite Tyken's body becoming heavier and heavier. Breathing was getting harder, he felt like there was no more air on the planet. His vision was fading. He kept pressing onward however, not even sure he was going the correct direction anymore. His legs felt like they were made of lead. His shoulders were numb, he closed his eyes, unable to keep them open any more. With closed eyes, he kept pressing onward, his legs fumbling almost giving way underneath the weight. It was no use, he collapsed. His face hit the hard ground and his consciousness begun to fade.