Chapter 8

Mazer groaned as he lifted the last crate from the armoury. I began walking back to the ship with him as their was nothing left to guard in the room.

"I still say we should have just grabbed a few of the crew members and made them do this for us." he grunted out.

"Great thinking, give a group of enemies with nothing to lose access to guns, explosives and our ship." I said sarcastically, he just glared at me in response. As we entered the hanger Lynn got up from the ships ramp and grabed the bomb. He passed us without a word, he already explained when we started unloading the armoury that he would plant it as soon as we were ready to leave. The bomb had a fifteen minute wait time between activation and detonation, that gave us plenty of time to get out. Despite this Lynn returned to the ship in a dead sprint, I actually taunted him a little as he barreled through the door and started the launch procedure. Once again we all strapped ourselves down as the engines roared to life and took us into space. Lynn had informed us before hand that we would wait just outside the ship to be absolutely sure that the bomb detonated, we all knew how disastrous it would be if the empire learned of our academy.

As soon as we had taken off I unstrapped myself and walked into the cockpit room, wanting to watch the explosion. I watched over Lynn's shoulder as he stared down at his watch, counting the seconds silently until finally the bomb went off. There's something intoxicating about watching a soundless explosion, its like your in a different world from the destruction right in front of you. We all stared at this silent fireball until the perfect silence was broken by Mazer letting out an annoying whistle. Even this couldn't ruin the comfortable feeling I had though. Housing the dark side within you brings a mode of constant internal strife and discomfort; or so I thought. For the first time in a very long time I felt completely relaxed. It felt similar to the high I got when I beat the hell out of Mazer but so much more intense. I was so lost in this new found bliss I was walking back to my seat before I even realized it. I was brought out of this haze by the sound of soft laughter, I looked up at Mazer and raised a brow questioningly. For a moment he looked as if he was searching for words before he simply blurted out.

"We are badasses!" I let out an amused chuckle, after a moment I even graced him with a response.

"The Sith are mighty." I said with an agreeing tone, making him smirk.

"And we are the Sith." He said spreading his arms as if displaying himself. Suddenly from the cockpit Lynn spoke over his shoulder, his tone sarcastically cross.

"Don't get to cocky Mazer your just a recruit, you should see Master Donavin fight." He had peaked both are curiousities but Mazer was the one who replied.

"You've seen our Master fight?" He asked prying for details, Lynn only gave one.

"Yes. He was unstoppable, he was like a God." His voice was soft and quivering with awe just at the memory of this event he witnessed. Mazer waited about thirty seconds for Lynn to say more before giving up and speaking himself.

"Well I might just be a recruit but I'm still pretty tough." He said cockily, again I was in too good of a mood for it to bother me though. It seems Lynn was in a similar state judging by his reply.

"Yes Mazer you are." He said patronizingly. Lynn let out a laugh following his statement and I joined him, after a second so did Mazer. We've never been this light hearted around each other, I think Master Donavin was very wise to send us all here. We chatted pleasantly almost they entire trip home, something I rarely did with Lynn and something I never did with Mazer. We talked mostly of our pasts, apparantly Mazer was a gang leader and found by Master Donavin when he foolishly tried to mug him. We all had a good laugh over that.

The ride home felt much shorter then the ride to our mission, I was surprised when I suddenly felt the pain in my gut return. And I was shocked by what I felt on the planet, I looked up and saw that Lynn and Mazer clearly felt it too judging from the morbid expressions on their faces. There were nine total people on the surface.