Chapter 13
It was dusk when Alex finally arrived back at Black Shot's weapons facility. He was tired and the strong desert sun had sapped the energy from his body, but he could not stop now. Alex crept his way around the perimeter of the massive building, looking for the best way to enter unseen. He spotted a window on the top floor, a few metres above ground and he hoped that this was Black Shot's office.
Between Alex and the window stood a Clantaani guard, patrolling back and forth. The guard was only armed with a pike, the head of which was made of sharp serrated bone. He wore no armour. When the guard was turned away Alex stealthily dashed behind a boulder that was in front of the guard's route, he then whistled softly so that only that guard would hear. The Clantaani paused for a moment and with a puzzled expression he gripped his pike, ready for battle. The guard cautiously made his way over to the source of the sound. Alex waited for his moment and then jumped out from behind the rock, he grabbed the Clantaani's head and with a quick jolt, he broke the vertebrae in its neck. Alex took the dead Clantaani body and sat it against the rock. It was out of sight from anyone else who may stroll past that way.
Alex began to scale the wall to the top floor window. He started by jumping onto a window seal and then gripping to a stray bar of metal that protruded from the main building structure. Alex swung himself onto a balcony just below the top floor and then he force jumped through the main window.
He was right that this would be Black Shot's office. In the centre of the large room sat a sturdy metal desk and all along the walls were bookshelves and weapons racks. It was not long after Alex came through the window that Black Shot entered through the main door. Alex used his force powers to slam the door shut once Black Shot was inside and then lock it, he even knocked a bookshelf in front of it to make sure that he would not be interrupted. "Surprised to see me?" Alex asked rhetorically before smashing Black Shot in the jaw with his fist.
Black Shot fell to the cold metal floor and a spurt of blood trickled from his flat nose. Alex grabbed Black Shot by the collar and hurled the defenceless creature against a bookshelf. Funny that a figure so powerful was now left so vulnerable. Alex's actions were now only driven by anger and vengeance for Amicus and Elexis. Alex held Black Shot down and leaned close to his ear. He then began to whisper bitterly through pursed lips. "You listen to me you worthless piece of space trash, you're going to tell me exactly what I want to know or I swear I will kill you!" Alex suddenly noticed the severity in his threat.
Black Shot defiantly looked Alex in the eye and laughed, "You Jedi are so blind."
Alex threw Black Shot face down on the table and made him bleed some more, "Tell me who betrayed me!" he demanded, "Who betrayed the Jedi?"
Someone from outside started to knock on the door and tried to open it. "You have no idea, do you?" Black Shot teased.
Alex grabbed a double-edged blade from one of the racks and said firmly, "After you are dead, I will come back for your gang, and everything you have ever achieved will be burnt to ashes." There was a rage that boiled inside of Alex.
Black Shot closed his eyes for a moment, "I will tell you nothing."
Alex pushed the blade against Black Shot's throat.
"Wait!" Black Shot squealed, "I will tell." Before he could speak again he was hit in the neck by a tiny little dart and he started to faint.
"No!" Alex shouted, "No, don't die. Tell me who betrayed me!" Alex was sweating.
He grabbed Black Shot by the shoulders and tried to shake him back into life. When it didn't work he started slapping his face until Black Shot opened his eyes again.
He reached out and gripped Alex's collar, pulling him closer, and with his final dying breath whispered the name, "Elexis." And then he was dead.