Yavin was a large red planet, with four moons in orbit.
"We're landing there?" I asked.
"No. Yavin is a gas giant. You'll go straight through the surface." He pointed to a green moon. "That's where we're going. Yavin 4."
It was a jungle-covered moon. Much like Zant's jungle in appearance. Rooda and I looked to each other in worry of what will happen to us next. If the Rebel Alliance against the Empire resides here, what would happen to us?
"I'll tell them you aren't with the Empire, and maybe they'll let you in the Rebel Alliance." He sighed and the ship's sails retracted into the walls. "It's not going to be easy."
He reached Yavin 4 and flew the Nightmare to an ancient pyramid, a large door opening into a secret rebel base. The ship came into the hangar to a complete stop and Rakine stood up to the door.
"Rakine Cerivian," a fellow rebel pilot walked up to him.
"Karus," he nodded.
The rebel looked at me and Rooda as we stepped out, Rooda's mask over her face and my hood over my head and my cloak covering my whole body, dragging on the floor. He pointed at us in shock.
"You brought Sith?!"
Rakine lowered Karus' arm and tried to calm him down.
"They are rebels. Opposers of the Empire. They're with me." He turned to us. "Right?"
I nodded and Rooda pulled her mask from her face, showing an emotionless face.
"These two Zan-Deer warriors have agreed to join the Rebel Alliance." Rakine walked to me. "May I present Darth Venison." He walked to Rooda. "And his new apprentice, Rooda."
We both nodded.
"You're not with the Empire?" Karus walked hesitantly to us. "You are rebelling too?"
"Yes. We have no connection to the Empire." I lifted my arms and revealed the inside of my cloak. "No Imperial relics. Just my own darksaber." I held it in my left hand.
"They were trained by myself only. Not the Empire." I nodded. "And Roo is Lord Venison's current apprentice."
Rooda nodded.
Karus started to grin under his hairy face. There was something about this pilot that speaks to me. He is a Force-sensitive person, with some knowledge of the Force itself. But he tried to conceal it from me.
"Very well," he shook our hands. "How trained are you in combat?"
"He killed Lord Sorin," Rakine pat by shoulder and walked to Rooda. "They're both excellent sword fighters too. I have seen both their skill in combat. Lord Venison is really strong in the Force, but his apprentice isn't as strong."
"Ah, the Force, a powerful ally," Karus chuckled. "All the help we can get is good enough, Rakine. I hope these two Sith will help the Rebel Alliance to dominate the Empire." Karus laughed heartily and patted Rakine's back, and the two began walking away. Karus looked back at us and motioned us to follow him. We began to walk behind them and I lowered my arms, the cloak covering my body again. Rooda pulled the mask over her face and we walked down the halls of the rebel base. When Karus opened a door to a room full of people, a female voice echoing trough the halls, we all slowly entered and she stopped talking.
"Rakine Cerivian," she smiled. "Welcome back."
"Mon Mothma," he nodded. "I have returned with two more rebels. He turned to me and Rooda. "This is Darth Venison and Rooda. They have joined the rebellion against the Empire."
"Sith? Rebels? Interesting. But how do you know that they will remain loyal to the Empire?" Mon Mothma looked at me and Rooda.
"They have no loyalty. I trained Lord Venison with much that he knows. And Rooda is his young apprentice." Rakine sat down in a chair and made himself comfortable. "All that I tell you is true."
Mon Mothma nodded and looked at us again.
"Lord Venison. Rooda." Rooda pulled her mask off her face and revealed her Zan-Deer doe face. "You two are experienced fighters?"
We nodded.
"And you are helping us?"
We nodded again and Mothma sighed in relief.
"We could use your help. Can you help us to locate the Sith of the Empire? Two of them, Lord Sidious and Lord Vader. You two and Rakine should go find this project that they are overseeing. A weapon of great power said to annihilate a single planet. We wish for you three go find it and give us any information to us about this weapon."
"What ship did you even use to get here?" Karus asked.
"Zant's Nightmare." I answered. "It is my own starship."
Roo looked at Rakine.
"We need to go."
Rakine sighed as he got up. Karus walked out of the room and followed us. We headed for the hall to the hangar to the Nightmare. The door opened and Rakine sat back in the pilot seat, starting the Nightmare. Karus sat in the seat next to Rakine.
"This is Lord Venison's ship?" He looked around in awe. "How come you fly it Rakine?"
"Because I know the galaxy like the back of my hand. Venison hasn't been to every system or even seen the Death Star. So I'm flying it."
Karus nodded and Rakine started the ship out of the hangar of the rebel base and flew out of the jungle of Yavin 4.
"This weapons of the Empire, this Death Star, the Sith are overseeing it?" Rooda asked Karus.
"Yes that is all true."
"And we are to find information and return it to Mon Mothma." Rakine nods his head as the sails of the Zant's Nightmare branched around the sides of the ship, gliding through space.
"This is a very unique spacecraft," Karus looks around in approval. "Lord Venison built this?"
"He stole a starship from Coruscant and modeled the rest of it." Rakine replied.
"What did you say it was called?"
"Zant's Nightmare," I answered. "Named after our old home, Zant, a small outer rim system in the galactic west."
Karus nodded.
"What a surprise that it has never been heard of."
"We don't have visitors." Rooda simply said. "Hence it was never found. Rakine was the first to find it and luckily, before the Empire."
"We are the main species that lives on Zant. Zan-Deer. But my apprentice Rooda and I are the only non-primitives from Zant."
"So Zant is a primitive planet?" Karus turns back in his chair to us, interested. "What is Zant like?"
"It is a small planet, covered in three main biomes, a desert, a jungle, and a mountain tundra each taking up a large portion of the planet surface. A large river crosses between the desert and jungle, and it branches off into the mountains." Rakine opens up a small screen and shows Karus a picture of Zant and its surface.
"Intriguing," Karus nodded.
Rakine flew the ship to what looked like a large construction site in the middle of space. A metal spherical frame with multiple ships working on building a metallic outer shell and the interior area.
"That's the Death Star?" Rooda asked as she stood up and walked to the front of the ship, me getting up and following.
"It's not very intimidating." I shook my head amused.
"Because it isn't done yet," Rakine flew in closer. "Wen this is finished, who knows what it can do to many innocent systems?" The Nightmare headed closer to the construction site and the sails shrank back into the walls. Rakine pulled out a holographic message and displayed the Death Star, showing it to all the rebels back at Yavin 4.
"I think I found the Sith." Roo pointed to a large pointed ship.
"Of course they would be in the Star Destroyer," Rakine carefully led the ship to an open landing area in the side of the Star Destroyer, going through an invisible barrier and landing the Zant's Nightmare in the hangar.
"Now what do we do?" Karus stood up as stormtroopers paced to the ship.
I opened up the main door and walked out, my hood over my head and cloak over my body, dragging behind me. The stormtroopers cocked their guns and with the wave of my hand, multiple stormtroopers fly into the walls and onto the floor of the hangar. One shoots to me and I ignite my darksaber and perfectly deflect the shot into his armored chest. I telekinetically picked up some stormtrooper guns and handed them to Rakine and Karus.
"Ven, you can't just waltz onto a Star Destroyer and expect a warm welcome." Rakine stepped out behind me, Rooda and Karus following.
"I didn't expect a warm welcome, and I don't think Vader and Sidious are even expecting us." I deactivated my darksaber. "We should find them. Introduce ourselves and stop this Empire from growing."
I walked toward the hangar exit to the main area of the Star Destroyer. I could feel the presence of the two Sith Lords in the top of the Star Destroyer, in the command center. I walk down a hall with my darksaber ready for any attack. Stormtroopers come out of rooms and open fire on us, I deflect each shot as Rakine and Karus shoot back. Rooda watches as I Force choke the last stormtrooper and send him to his knees. I look up at security cameras and Rakine sharpshoots each camera, destroying any surveillance systems we run into. I continue to walk down the hall in hopes of stopping the construction of the Death Star, to destroy Lords Sidious and Vader, and to overthrow the Empire.