Guess who's back?! Again... I'm a high school graduate now, and am still, if not more, busy! It's insane, but it's great to say I have stayed in school, and have made it to such an important step in my life. But, this isn't about me, it's about the story, haha! So, I hope you all enjoy it! See ya at the end!
Sudden Truth:
No One's POV:
Sara sat inside, what she found to be a ammo room, huddled in one corner, behind a crate. She had fetched her helmet and had slipped it on, allowing her to be in her own quiet world.
The goal of hiding in here, was to try and clear her mind some.
She sighed, and pushed another pack of anti-armor rounds aside and crossed her legs, and leaned against the wall.
She always felt like she was somehow trapped in a cage when she felt like this. It felt like she couldn't move, couldn't go on, and she didn't know how to break that feeling.
She closed her eyes and sighed, as she let her mind drift. She could be anyone, she could be everyone, and most importantly, she could be totally faceless if need be.
But it wasn't what she truly wanted. She wanted peace, a place to call home, and a family.
But at the moment, she felt very faceless, just like most clones seemed to feel. They all shared the same face, which made them so much more the same, then anyone else.
She suddenly opened her eyes, and sat perfectly still. She felt a sudden presence in the room, it was very familiar, and it wasn't good.
She felt her head spin, as she leapt to her feet and ran, as if her life depended on it.
And it did.
*Elsewhere inside*
Joe sat watching the clone brothers talking amongst themselves, and it made him think about Sara again. He was racking his brain to understand why he felt so connected to her, but nothing made sense yet.
Things seemed even more confusing to him, when the clones asked if he had seen Sara. He had said no, but then his senses picked up on something, quite familiar and quite deadly.
"What's going on?" Sev asked him, only to be waved off.
"Shut it, I'm listening." Joe replied quietly, as he closed his eyes.
Sev crossed his arms angrily, but let the boy be, and the others remained quiet as well. Joe searched the area around him, trying to figure out what was wrong.
After a minute, he opened his eyes, and pulled his lightsaber out, and ignited it, causing the clones to draw their own weapons.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Niner demanded.
"Sara's in trouble!" Joe replied, as he quickly sped off down one of the halls, followed by the group of clone soldiers.
*The roof*
Sara bolted up the stairs, crashing into the frame of the door, as she got to the roof, due to her head spinning violently. She hurried out and looked around for some sort of cover to duck behind, but found she was out in the open, except for a few posts.
She stumbled over to the largest post, and quickly ducked behind it. Her body was screaming from the sudden adrenalin rush, and she felt herself shaking.
She fumbled around for her hand gun, which was holstered at her lower thigh, and finally got it out, and switched it to high.
She knew what was after her, and she was going to kill it this time. She had too.
She had enough sense about her to switch on her helmet comm, so that the others would know her last words. Because if she was going to go down, she was going to go down in a blaze of fire, taking this thing with her.
"Lo kyr'am aruetycate chakaar; ib'tuur Ni ganar ner ani'latoon gra'tua bal parjai!"
Her head was still spinning violently as she rolled out from behind her hiding spot and began firing bolt after bolt at the thing that had followed her.
She didn't stop firing, not once, until one bolt suddenly came at her, and hit her full on the chest, sending her flying backwards into the wall, until she slipped to the ground, unmoving.
*Inside*
The Commando's and the Nulls had all heard what was going on, and what she had said, but the Commando's weren't exactly sure of what she had said.
"Tell me she didn't just give us a voiced suicide note." Fi said, as they ran down the halls.
"No, it wasn't that. She may have known she was looking at a fight to the death, but it wasn't at her own hand." Ordo said.
"Then what the heck did she say?!" Darman demanded.
"Lo kyr'am aruetycate chakaar; ib'tuur Ni ganar ner ani'latoon gra'tua bal parjai." Prudii repeated.
"Into death traitorous scumbag; today I have my ultimate vengeance and victory." Mereel translated.
"Then what does she mean by that?!" Joe asked, as they began sprinting up the stairs.
"It means, I think she's found the thing that killed her parents." Fi said quietly, as he slowed to a stop and got into position.
Joe still had his lightsaber in hand, and before they had even said 'go' he was out the door, leaping at a cloaked figure, standing over Sara.
Joe swung his lightsaber down, trying to cut off it's arm, but it blocked his saber, with one of it's own. Which shined a deathly color of red.
Joe leapt back in shock, and looked up and saw none other then his old Master standing before him.
"I see you escaped Kamino. Shame. Looks like I'll just have to kill you now." he said, as he brought his lightsaber up, only for it to be shot from his hand, with a well placed bolt from Sev.
Kenass used the force to pull his saber back to his hand, but before he had it, Joe cut it in half, rendering it useless.
Kenass faced his former apprentice with rage filled eyes. He raised a hand, and lightening began to crackle around his fingers, but he quickly jumped back, as a sand bag fell from a pole above him.
Joe looked over and saw Sara drop her gun, and let her arm fall back to the ground beside her, as she slouched against the wall again.
Joe turned and saw Kenass making a run for a speeder that was parked next to the roof. He jumped on, and took off, as Darman and Atin made a few quick shots to scare him off, but not attract unwanted attention, the Null ran back inside to warn Skirata and Vau about what had just happened, while Fi and Niner ran over to check on Sara.
Joe stood in shock, as it finally sunk in that his old Master had just been in front of him, and had tried to kill him. It made all his suspicions clear. His Master really had set him up. And that made his blood boil.
He looked over at Fi and Niner, who had popped Sara's helmet off, and Niner was making her hold still, while Fi checked her eyes and how well they reacted to light.
"I don't think you have a concussion, so that's a good sign. But you did take a good hit to your chest, so you're going to need that looked at I'm afraid. Katarn armor is thick, and very strong, but I still want to make sure you aren't to badly hurt, other then a bad bruise." he said, as he hooked her helmet on his belt.
Sara blinked a few times, and looked around. She met Joe's eyes for a minute, then looked around again.
"Where is he?!" she asked suddenly.
"Who?" Scorch asked, as he walked over.
"The man who was just here! Where is he?!" she asked again.
"Long gone, he made a run for it, as soon as we started shooting at him. He got lucky too, had you not been down, we probably would have slotted him." Darman said, as he joined the others.
"No... you let him get AWAY?!" she screamed.
She fumbled around again, trying to find her gun, so she could go after the creep, but Joe pulled it away from her with a quick use of his force powers, then Niner and Fi grasped her by her arms and pulled her to her feet, and herded her inside.
"You don't want to go after him Sara, trust me. That man was my old Master, Kenass. He's very deadly and will stop at nothing to kill anyone who comes against him." Joe explained.
"No, he's the one who's going to die..." Sara said, as she tried to pull away from the two Commando's, who had a tight grip on her.
"And just why would you do something so suicidal?!" Fixer asked.
"That man is the one who sent the droids who killed my parents!" Sara nearly screamed.
They all pulled to a stop, and Niner and Fi had to hold her up, as she crumbled to the ground, suddenly sobbing. Her adrenalin rush had worn off, and the hurt had returned and from the sudden shock and trauma she had just been through seeing the man who had hurt her so badly, caused her strong emotional barriers to be broken down in seconds.
Niner and Fi helped her down the stairs and back into the main room, where the cots were set up, and they gently let her sit down on her cot, and she laid down, still sobbing.
Fi took her helmet and slowly handed it to her, only for her to grab it away from him and clutch it tightly to her chest, making her wince in pain.
The clones slowly moved away and let her be, as Kal, Walon, Corr and the Nulls came running in.
"What happened?!" Skirata demanded.
"We found the man who assassinated Sara's parents. And it would seem that he's after her now too." Sev said, as he motioned to Sara.
"And that would be?" Vau asked, clearly impatient with the face that someone had found them here.
"His name is Kenass. He was my former Master. And an extremely deadly Sith." Joe said, stepping forward.
"A Siit?!" Kal exclaimed.
Joe nodded and Kal looked over at Vau. Vau shrugged and Kal shook his head.
"Dar, call Etain and tell her to get over here as fast as she can, as well as Bard'ika. This is getting out of control." Kal said.
"But they just left to help out with a bar fight on the other side of town, I don't know if they'll be back anytime soon." Darman said.
"Just comm her and tell her that when she and Bardan are free, to get their shebs over here. We need all hands on deck for this." Kal explained.
Darman nodded and commed Etain, telling her they needed them to get their back sides back, as soon as possible, then closed his comm and turned back to Skirata.
"What do we do now Kal'buir?" he asked.
"We wait and do what we can for Sara." Skirata said.
They nodded, and Fi walked over to try and calm Sara some, while the others checked their weapons and made sure they were loaded.
Joe looked around, and felt very bad for Sara, that this had happened to her. It wasn't fair to her, that her parents had been murdered.
He suddenly began to see just how wrong the Sith were. At least, his Master was. And if all other Sith were like that, then he truly did not want to be one of them.
And nodded once to himself, and took his lightsaber out, and looked at it. From that moment on, he only did what was for his friends.
Never again, would anyone, but himself, decide what path he took. His fate was now his own. And for the first time in a very long time, he smiled a genuine smile.
He was free from the Sith. And he was now the one who controlled his fate.
And that was how it would until the day he died...
Well... I bet you all are pretty surprised by that, eh?! Pretty shocking huh? Or have some of you figured out that Kenass was the one who planned this all? If so, let me know, I'd like to know if some of you were expecting that or not. But, until then, what will happen now? Sara didn't die like it might have seemed, that armor is pretty tough, she's lucky she got hit in a hard place, and not a weaker one, huh? But was that just a coincidence or was she spared for a reason? I guess you all will have to keep guessing until I tell you, HAHA! Well, I hope you enjoyed it, please review, and I'll see ya all later!
