[14 BBY]
[Equator City, Rodia, Tyrius System, Savareen Sector, Outer Rim Territories, Disputed Territories]
I disliked playing politics, but it was my duty to play it unfortunately. Just like it was necessary to take risks like facing down the likes of these and their pirate minions. Examples needed to made. Not just for the sake of peace, but for the sake of my reputation and that of those around me. I no longer had to hide my powers from a galaxy wide Jedi Order, but, instead, had to compete with the Jedi Order within the Empire itself. Not that I wished to show all my abilities and spellcasting, but I did need to destroy what lay before me. These idiots had wished to attack me, personally, and use me as leverage. It was stupid. It was infuriating. And it was something that I needed to discourage.
That and I was just weary of seeing idiots like this, drunk on the Dark Side Kool-Aid running about, butchering innocents and being generally fucking stupid evil cretins wherever they went. Because, honestly, they killed all these innocent people on the assumption of catching me and that was somewhat misguided to say the least as I took another step forward, my hand rising up and drawing out my grenade launcher. My cloak rippled out of the way as I moved my armoured arm, grabbing the weapon and then aiming at the Dark Jedi on the right as she took a step forward.
Thwunk!
…and then shot at her, causing the others to scatter as the Force likely screamed warnings at them, my hand rising up reload the weapon as windows were broken open and blaster rifles pushed through. My tactical systems sensors picked them up, just as I could feel them in the Force, and Zeta Jones and Zorro, my light assassin model person droids were already racing to the building on my right. The former Jedi had jumped away from me thankfully, allowing me to easily reload and raise my launcher….
Krackkkthooommm
Thwunk!
….and fire another round through the broken open window as the first alchemical round I'd fired exploded in a corona of fire and toxic smoke. Feeling the flow of things, the incoming next attacks, I reloaded again in a swift but easy manner, arm going back and holstering the weapon behind back even as I dodged and bent as a lightsaber came for my helmeted head. It was one of the female Jedi, a former Knight whose name I couldn't place but that I'd seen before years ago, and she favoured a two-handed swing as if the lightsaber was some heavy-duty claymore despite it not being. My other hand had gone to my side, drawing out my rune engraved and force-imbued beskad sabre, then 'throwing' the beskar steel blade to my other hand and catching the lightsaber as she tried to catch me on the backswing.
Krackkkthooommm
My shorter weapon caught hers as the building I'd fired my second grenade into erupted in flames and smoke and agonised screams. I didn't dwell on it, nor the sounds of breaking doors as Aaron and Abigail took the direct route unlike the more stealth Z-duo. They were the A-Team after all flashed through my mind as I forced the Jedi's blade downwards, feeling the other two coming at me, and so I opened the female human's guard and smashed my armoured fist into her face. She staggered, her blade falling from her hands as I opened that fist to grab her head while I moved my beskad into a guard position on my other side. It was speed and power now as two blazing swords of light came for my vitals.
I threw the stunned Jedi to my left, the blade coming from that direct piercing her chest as the other Jedi screamed 'Noooo' and sounded of despair, shock, and horror through the Force. But I ignored the near-human a moment, turning and facing the insectoid Dark Jedi, his emotions awash with anger as two other Jedi raced towards us. This blade I caught my beskad, drawing my blaster pistol and firing into the body mass before me as I blocked with my beskar iron blade, the green blade screaming as it met rune forged beskar, the disruption between master and blade clear through the Force. This Jedi was good, managing to dodge my shots, bar one to a non-vital part of his shoulder chitin as he tried to retreat from me so he could use his blade to try deflecting my shots.
"RAAAAHHHHHHH!"
…and after a short flurry of blows I let him as I stepped backwards, my gun sheathing in a swift move as I went down to one knee as the blue ligthsaber swung by the screaming, howling, dark side drunk idiot came at in me in a supremely telegraphed move. I allowed the momentum of his swing to dive him forward as I stepped back and up again as the blade went past my armoured head, my hand, now holding a time delayed lock-grenade, slamming into his back. That served to make him stumble towards the other, insectoid Jedi, the small bomb stabbed into his back as I took another step back, free hand now going to my cloak and unclasping it as I continued to walk swiftly.
Krrumppptoooom
…and a muffled detonation came from behind me as I activated my jetpack as one of the Dark Jedi died as the insectoid one flung the exploding one away rather than trying to save him. The other two Jedi were trying to grab me with the Force, something was extraordinarily difficult at the best of times, but pointless against me as all my gear was Force infused to resist such things. I'd planned for Sidious after all, and I flew up to the rooftop was three fleeing pirates erupted unto the roof, my hand now pulling out my blaster pistol and headshoting them as they came into view as I disengaged my jetpack so I could stroll on the rooftop. Inside the building the Z-team were busily killing the dozen ambushers, just as the A-team was dealing with the full building on the other side of the street.
The two Jedi who…
'Ah, there's another one. How unfortunate' I told myself as another darksider came charging towards our little duelling arena along with a bunch of armoured vehicles and several squads of soldiers and droids. It was problematic as one of the two Jedi who'd been coming at me a moment ago was up on the roof after some Force empowered acrobatics even as I shot down another pirate soldier before sheathing my blaster. I stepped to the side as a metal spear created by ripping some pipes was hurled at me, meeting the second with my blade and defecting it around me as I turned to face the red-skinned Jedi. Spoke in Mando'a, to her as she glared hateful and fearful at me.
"Nar dralshy'a"
Try harder
Fear flared, along with rage, the Dark Side controlling her rather being controlled by her…
I blocked the insanely predictable blow. Oh, there was an enormous power behind it, the Force howling at me in rage and power from her. That was the strange obsession of this dimension I was born into. All that Power and no idea how to use it. All mixed in with the toxic belief that being Strong in the Force was the same as being Powerful. A Sith before me now would have been different, in control, but the modern Jedi way and the Dark Side led to this howling, shrieking, tornado of Dark Side energy that simply lashed out rather than truly fought me. Instead, I was in control of her, of the Force, blows met with ease as I caught and then took away her lightsaber with a flick at her wrist.
"Misdirected Passion. Such a waste" I told her before driving my beskad through her heart, then lifting and throwing her body at the other Jedi as he finally charged up to meet me, the insectoid one lingering back for the reinforcements to arrive. This time I simply raised my hand, grabbing the 'spears' that had been thrown at me as the arrival caught the corpse….and then flung them so they impaled both dead and soon to be dead Jedi, piecing both of their chests in a squelching sound. My other hand flicked my blade, cleaning it as the blood splattered off the blade and the Force imbued metal cleaned itself before I sheathed it. Then, both hands free, I began to stroll forward on the rooftop, watching as a tank rolled forward. In this case a captured defoliator.
'Really don't care about friendly fire, now do we?' I mused as the weapon, an area effect weapon, took aim at me and then fired the high explosive incendiary warhead at me. Using on hand to shield myself from snipers, I raised the other, clenching it into a fist and catching the shell in the air. Holding it there rather than risking losing control by moving it. Held it till the fuse caused it to be detonated from 'impacting' the air, the fire filling the air…
I ignited my jetpack and fly upwards, dropping my shielding effort and using both hands while chanting mid-air, twisting and grabbing hold of the flames as blaster rifles fired at me. Twisted in mid-air, ripping the firestorm into my power and twisting it downwards as I descended, flames in a vortex around me as I Force slammed into the ground in the middle of the charging formation. Screams erupted around me as the force of the impact rippled outwards along with a firestorm of their own creation, dozens of pirates incinerated or horribly burned, vehicles crashing into each other or into buildings. One charged at me, a tank, and I raised my hand, slamming the Force into it and using its own power and momentum, along with repulsor lift drive, to cause it to flip into the air and then crash down on the defoliator tank.
The Jedi who'd been with them was trying to flee it seemed, and I strolled after him as he fled towards his compatriots, my beskad sabre flying out to dispatch a pirate survivor as I passed. Something I did with the Jedi as I bent, hand patting the ground, and activated my jetpack again so I blasted forward like a flickering blur. My sabre flashed as I passed the fleeing fool, ending the jetpack blast and jogging into a walking stride as his hit head the ground behind me, the two surviving Dark Jedi awash in the Dark Side, charging towards in a fear and rage filled frenzy. My hand drew out my own lightsaber now, coming into my free hand, beskad in the other as I met the attackers, the Eye of the Storm as their chaotic rage and terror was slammed into by focus combat discipline. Amidst the flurry of blows there was no contest.
I stood over the bodies of the slain, amidst the burn streets now silent, looking up in the broadcasting to the people of Rodia "People of Rodia you have been liberated. The Fallen Jedi and pirates destroyed. Welcome to the United Federal Empire!"
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