Before the dark times - Unknown Territory
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Progress only occurs when people are daring enough to make it.
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Red Armored Menace!
After discovering a plot to sell lightsaber resistant weapons and armor to the criminals in the Coruscant Underworld, Padawan Learners Orion Dusk and Serra Keto, along with many more were sent to seize and discover who the arms dealers selling these weapons are and where they came from.
After a brief conflict on one of Coruscant's landing platforms, Orion Dusk and Serra Keto were rendered unconscious and captured by the arms dealers,
Now the two Padawans find themselves without their weapons, and in unknown territory, having only their inherent skills and knowledge of the force, to guide them through this arduous endeavor.
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The Cargo Ship reached its destination. A swamp and mountain planet that was identified as Obredaan, that was relatively unexplored by the Republic. In the cockpit of the ship, the red armored swordsman spoke to the pilot. "Transmit our code to the outpost, so that we're not shot down by the anti air defenses."
"Understood." The pilot replied as he was in the process of transmitting the landing codes they had. "We should arrive in a few minutes."
The sword wielder nodded, before leaving the cockpit and moving into the cargo hold, where the ray shield holding the two Padawans he had captured were. He noticed the boy stirring first. When the boy was conscious enough to observe his surroundings, the red armored man spoke up. "You made a mistake, coming after us. Now, you've a debt to pay to the Jin'ha, and we will make sure you pay it."
"You sold weapons to criminals and let them attack civilians." Orion pointed out. "This was our retaliation for you disturbing the peace. If anything, you owe us."
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The Jin'ha drew his blade and thrusted it forward, effortlessly piercing through the ray shield between them and making the boy instinctively lean back and tense up in surprise. The Jin'ha pressed the tip of the blade to Dusk's throat. "Not wise, speaking ill to someone who doesn't care about your well being. If you want to survive for more than a minute, then you will learn your place." Orion kept his mouth shut, seeing that it was either that, or he dies right here and now. After a tense few seconds of silence, the Jin'ha pulled his sword back, before walking away. "More bravado than intelligence."
As Dusk relaxed his muscles, he heard Serra stirring. "Keto?" He noticed her with him now and watched her wake up.
"Ugh...what happened?" She asked, still dazed.
"I don't know." Orion said. "We were fighting those armored men on Coruscant. I think the leader of the group knocked me out."
As Serra snapped out of her daze, she remembered what happened. "Oh. Right. I went after the guy who did it. I guess he got me too. Looks like he took us prisoner."
"Yep." Dusk confirmed. "Do you still have your commlink on you?"
Keto checked. "No. You?" Orion shook his head no. "Any idea where we are?"
"I woke up a few seconds before you. I'm just as clueless as you are." Dusk answered. "My best guess is that we're on the ship that we went after."
"Any ideas as to how to get out?" Serra wondered.
"Well..." Orion had something in mind. "I might, but it depends."
"Depends on what?" Keto questioned.
"If one of those armored guys comes back here." Dusk explained.
"What's the plan if one does?" Serra was curious.
"Quiet!" The Jin'ha swordsman spoke up, walking back towards the ray shield. "I will cut out your tongues if you say one more word."
Keto then decided to taunt him. "One more word." She repeated with a snarky expression. The Jin'ha grabbed the hilt of his sword.
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Orion quickly used the force and pulled the Jin'ha swordsman's body towards them. As the swordsman stumbled through the ray shield, Serra realized what his plan was and the pair both rushed forward, tackling the armored man hard and fast though for all three of them to pass through the ray shield before it closed up on the Padawans.
The two slammed the Jin'ha's back to the wall, before Dusk palm struck him in the helmet multiple times, then Keto punched him in the exposed gut, letting Orion knee him there right after, before Serra jumped and spin kicked him in the head, knocking him out.
The two then quickly made their way towards the cockpit of the cargo ship. As they did, the pilot knew they were coming, due to him hearing the noise from where he was at. The pilot had turned on the autopilot on the cargo ship and grabbed a hatchet and a blaster pistol, before hiding at the side of the entrance to the cockpit.
When the pair of Padawans reached the entrance, Keto barely avoided the hatchet being swung towards her face, ducking under it and rolling into the cockpit. The Jin'ha shot at her, but thanks to her Jedi reflexes, she avoided the blaster bolts. However, they struck the controls to the ship, making the cargo ship start to lose control. The three stumbled around before Serra went for the controls to try and stabilize the ship.
The Jin'ha was about to shoot her again, but Dusk came in and swatted the blaster out of his hands. The pilot didn't back down though, as he swung his hatchet at the boy, who ducked and dodged the flurry of swipes until he found an opening and grabbed the pilot by his wrists, pushed him towards the wall, then kept kneeing him in the exposed gut until he couldn't stand anymore.
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The ship began to rock around, causing Orion to stumble and look at his fellow Padawan, concerned about their situation. "Serra?!"
"The controls are shot up! I can't stop this!" Keto told him.
As the ship began to pick up speed and descend towards the swamp floor, Dusk noticed the pair's lightsabers and quickly grabbed them, tossed Serra hers and moved out of the cockpit back towards the cargo bay. "Let's go!"
"Go where!?" Keto questioned as she followed him there.
Orion found the control panel to the cargo bay door and after pressing a few buttons on it, opened the bay door and both Padawans held on to something as crates and tools began falling out of the cargo bay. "Oh man, I don't like this idea anymore."
"If you just thought of a better one, please tell me!" Serra was more than open to suggestions.
"Unfortunately, no!" Dusk replied, as he could feel the pair getting closer and closer to the ground. "Just...tuck and roll when we do drop!"
"And hopefully not get splattered by a tree!" Keto added.
As the trees were now in eyesight of the pair from where they were holding on, Orion yelled out "Go!" and the pair let go of what they were holding on to.
The two Padawans were sent out of the crashing cargo ship and watched it continue towards the tree line ahead, but then the pair noticed themselves approaching some trees of their own, and the two of them braced themselves. They both tucked their bodies in, shielding their faces and bodies with their arms and legs, and as the pair reached the trees, they could feel the twigs and vines scrapping them, snapping from the force of their bodies striking them, and oh so slightly slowing down their descent to the swamp grounds they were falling into. Soon enough, they were under the branches and vines of the treetops, but they could barely see a thing because of the fog. They barely had time to notice that they were about to land in water, and when they did, they braced once more. When the two bodies reached the water, they both made a big splash of water and mud, as the pool wasn't that deep.
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After at least ten seconds after the impact, Orion was the first one to resurface, completely soaked and mostly covered in mud. He coughed for a while, before taking in a deep breath, needing it after what he just went through. He then heard someone else come up from the water, also mostly covered in mud, and begin coughing and gasping for air. He turned around and knew who it was. "Serra!" He called out as he waded over to her as fast as he could. "Serra, you alright?"
She coughed a few times before answering him. "I'm still breathing, so there's that."
"Can you walk?" Dusk asked her.
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"Yeah." Keto replied as the two of them made their way out of the swamp water. "So what now?"
"I don't know." Orion answered. "I didn't really think this far ahead."
Serra sighed before sitting on the ground. "Well, we know where that ship was headed on its crash course. Let's see if we can maybe scavenge some logs from the wreckage, find out where in the galaxy we are."
Dusk walked in front of her and offered a hand to help her up. "Ok, then let's go."
Keto accepted his help and grabbed his hand. He pulled her to her feet and the two began to walk through the foggy swamplands. As the pair walked through the swamplands together, the two of them felt understandably uneasy, considering the situation that they were in. It also didn't help that there were multiple different creatures lurking about in the swamplands, making all manner of noises and either scurrying or slithering about.
Serra then noticed something up ahead, took Orion by the arm and pulled him with her behind one of the trees. Dusk then spoke up. "What is it?"
"Shh!" She hushed him, before peeking out from behind the tree to confirm what she saw. She looked ahead and saw more red armored men, who seemed to be headed in the same direction that they were, before stopping to rest. "Damn it. More of those guys." She whispered.
Orion looked at what she saw and had an idea as to what they were doing here. "They probably saw the ship crash and were on their way to investigate." He quietly surmised.
"Ok, so how do we go about this?" Keto quietly wondered.
"Well, we either quietly sneak around them, or deal with them quickly, to make sure that they can't alert any others to our presence." Dusk silently spoke. "Right now, all they probably know is that their cargo ship suddenly crashed for some reason. They might not know about any Jedi being the cause of it yet."
"With how dense this weather is, I doubt that short range comm lines will work." Serra quietly pointed out.
"The ship could have been seen by multiple groups." Orion silently stated. "Either way, I still would say that if we do engage them, we take them out as quickly as possible."
"Well, the direct route is faster." Keto whispered. "Plus, if there are more groups like you say, and one of them gets to the ship's logs first, they'll probably discover us from that and alert everyone that's here."
"So...the direct route it is?" Dusk knew where this was going.
"Yep." Serra said as she and Orion both prepared to engage the men ahead of them.
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The two Jin'ha up ahead soon heard something that was approaching them and turned to see what was coming. They saw the pair of Padawans running towards them and the Jin'ha both pulled out daggers to combat them with. "You take the girl. I'll take the boy." One of them said, before the other nodded and went for the female.
Keto saw the Jin'ha coming for her and she ignited her saber, slashing at the armored wrist of the Jin'ha and making him drop his blade, before grabbing him by the shoulders and kneeing him in the exposed stomach area multiple times. As she did that, Dusk went for the other one, igniting his blade. As the Jin'ha realized they were dealing with Jedi, he quickly cartwheeled out of the way of his opponent's incoming slash and sent for a counter slash of his own. The boy was quick however and avoided the attack, grabbing the Jin'ha by the wrist, then swinging him around before letting go and letting the armored man hit a tree stump. As the Jin'ha recovered from that, he turned around to receive a strong spinning hook kick to his helmet, striking the armored man with enough force to knock him out.
Orion winced for a moment before speaking up. "Those helmets never get any less painful to strike."
"Let's move." Serra took point and quickly paced through the forest, with her fellow Padawan not far behind.
As they pushed forward, they ran into another four Jin'ha. One had a mace, another had a pike, and two had blasters. The two with blasters began shooting at the pair of Jedi, who deflected them away from themselves, but were soon face to face with the two other Jin'ha. The one with the pike went after Keto, attempting to stab her with his extended reach, but the Padawan was quick and managed to dodge her way towards the Jin'ha and knee him in the stomach hard enough to make him drop his weapon. As the two with blasters shot at her, she used the Jin'ha's body as a shield, holding it in front of her and pushing forward towards the pair.
As that happened, Dusk blocked and parried a swing from the Jin'ha he was fighting, getting the mace out of the way long enough for him to crouch and palm strike the armored man in the stomach hard enough to make him keel over. The boy then saw his fellow Padawan charging towards the two with blasters and quickly joined her, trailing behind her as she pushed forward. Once the pair reached the two blaster wielders, Serra threw the body she held at one of them, knocking him down, while Orion ran past her and sliced the blaster of the other Jin'ha who was there. As the man went for a dagger, Dusk grabbed him and kept kneeing him in the stomach until he couldn't stand anymore. By the time that the other Jin'ha got the body he was under off of him, Keto reached him and stomped his stomach, then kicked him in the head, knocking him out.
The pair then quickly continued their way towards the crashed ship. However, as they did, a muzzle flash was barely seen by Orion, who moved his blade in front of him and deflected away a precise shot aimed at him. "Sniper!" He called out.
Serra saw the next muzzle flash and took cover behind a tree, letting the blaster bolt strike that instead of her. Her fellow Padawan followed her there and she spoke up. "I'm starting to think that we might have crashed near their base."
"That would explain the multiple groups." Dusk commented. "You reconsidering the plan?"
"Nope. We're still going for the ship." Keto said, before she ran out from behind the tree, with Orion following her, charging right for where the sniper's muzzle flashes were coming from. "And we're still taking the direct route."
"Why did I know you would say that, Serra?" Dusk replied, seeing another muzzle flash and swinging his blade in front of him to deflect the shot away from them. As the two pushed forward, they could see where the sniper was posted. "That's a sniper post. So the theory that were near a fortification is starting to sound more likely."
Keto saw the Jin'ha sniper shoot at them again and deflected the shot away, before using the force to jump up to the sniper's level, knock his sniper out of his arms and strike him in the gut multiple times until he couldn't stand anymore.
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She then jumped back down to the ground. "Well, since we know how to properly deal with these guys now, taking on more doesn't seem like a problem."
The two of them continued forward, making their way out of the dense tree line and into a more open, but still very foggy section of the swamp. The two of them moved up a hillside and continued their way down the fog covered swamp, until they saw multiple muzzle flashes ahead of them. The two of them reacted in time and deflected the shots away from them, but since there was no cover to run to, they were stuck in the open, and they heard and soon saw more Jin'ha approaching them.
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"Doesn't seem like a problem, huh?" Orion quoted, earning a quick shrug from Serra, before the two charged the group.
Four Jin'ha charged at them, one wielding a mace, another with a knife, and two with batons. The one with the mace and one of the baton users went after Dusk, while the knife user and the other baton user went for Keto. As the group reached the pair, they engaged the Jedi, who used their lightsabers strictly for defense, as attacking with them was useless.
Soon enough, the Jin'ha with a baton fighting Orion pressed forward too much and left himself open to a counterattack, which the Padawan exploited, chopping the red armored man in the neck with his hand hard enough to knock him out. As that Jin'ha fell, the one with the mace swung hard and fast, landing a hit on the boy's stomach, briefly stunning him long enough to be kicked back, making him stumble to the ground, but not out of the fight just yet.
While that was happening, Serra was ducking and dodging the swift swings and stabs that the knife wielding Jin'ha was attacking her with, stalling him out until the other Jin'ha with the baton tried to swing at her, prompting her to jump over the knife user and let the baton strike him in the helmet instead. As the briefly dazed Jin'ha was busy recovering, Keto blitzed over to the baton user, grabbed him by the arm, moved her body behind him and twisted it, before throwing him over her and into his dazed ally. As the two were on the ground, and getting back up, the Padawan blitzed over to them and axe kicked one in the exposed lower back, taking him out of the fight, before grabbing the other one by the shoulders, pulling him up to her level, then continuously kneeing him in the exposed gut, quickly taking him out too. She then looked to see her partner in trouble, but as she went to help, the muzzle flashes from the snipers were seen again, and she focused on deflecting the shots away from herself.
Back with Orion, he pushed himself off of the ground, but barely avoided the next swing from the Jin'ha he was fighting against. As the armored man went for another swing, Dusk moved his blade in front of him and blocked the attack. However before any counter could be made, the mace user swung again, much harder, breaking the boy's block. As the Jin'ha went to strike again, the Padawan thought fast and used the force to push the mace user away, sending him flying backwards before he landed face up on the ground. Seeing his chance, the boy then tapped into the force to jump over towards the Jin'ha and land on his exposed gut with both legs, knocking the wind out of the Jin'ha and rendering him unable to battle. As the Padawan jumped off of him, he saw his partner deflecting the blaster shots of multiple snipers, and looked to see where they were coming from, before turning off his lightsaber and springing into action.
Serra began to struggle with deflecting away the multiple blaster bolts coming at her, and when she briefly managed to look over to where she last saw Orion, she saw that he was gone. At first this didn't bode well for her, but then when the sniper shots began to decrease in intensity, until they eventually stopped altogether, she put two and two together, knowing what happened up ahead.
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Keto moved forward and soon saw Dusk as he jumped down a sniper post with two Jin'ha sniper rifles in his hands. He then handed her one and spoke up. "The scope has thermal vision. It seems to be how they're seeing us before we turn on our lightsabers. You thinking what I'm thinking?" He gave her one of the rifles.
"Oh yeah." Serra replied as both she and Orion tampered with and removed the scopes on those rifles to take them for now. As Dusk put his on his belt, Keto looked ahead through hers and could make out what was up ahead. "I see at least seven more of those guys up ahead. They're all elevated though."
"There's probably a cliff up ahead. They might be stationed to guard it." Orion guessed. "At least we can see who's ahead of us now though."
"That is a plus." Serra agreed with him. "So, shall we?"
"Take the lead." Dusk said, letting Keto take point and soon enough reach near the base of the aforementioned cliffside and hid behind a large tree stump. "Huh. I was actually right." He looked to see a few paths on it. "From the little I can see, it looks like there's a path on the cliffside that we could use to get to the top of it."
"Huh, weird." Serra commented while looking through her thermal scope. "It doesn't look like any of them are wielding blasters."
"How can you tell? Thermal imaging doesn't show weapons." Orion wondered.
"Their posture." She answered. "Some of them are leaning forward on something while talking to their colleagues. Ono or two of them look like they're sharpening something. And a few of them are swinging and thrusting in front of them like they're practicing to kill time."
"You'd think that a cliffside would have at least one there. Especially with all this fog everywhere." Dusk commented.
"Probably what the sniper posts earlier were for." Keto guessed. "Either way, unless they have thermal vision in their helmets, these guys are blind to us until we get in their face."
"Alright then. Let's go." Orion said as both of them left their cover and made their way over to the bottom of the cliffside.
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The pair took advantage of their knowledge of where the Jin'ha on this cliffside were at and both of them stayed together, choosing to deal with them one at a time, starting at the pathway entrance. The first Jin'ha there was sharpening a knife in his hands, and failed to notice the pair blitz towards him. Serra kicked him in the gut before her partner chopped him in the neck to knock him out. The two then crouched and slowly moved up the pathway.
There was a pair of Jin'ha up on the next level. One was pacing about, while the other was leaning on the cliffside, looking away from them. The pair waited until the one pacing had turned away from them, before making their move. Keto leapt forward and grabbed him by the head, before pulling him back and letting Dusk kick him hard enough to knock the wind out of him. While Serra lowered the red armored man's body to the ground, Orion went for the other one, who had only just turned his head to see the boy in his face. Before he could do anything though, the Padawan punched him in the gut multiple times, before palm striking his helmet and knocking him out.
The two Padawans then moved up to the next level and found another pair of Jin'ha. One with a baton, and the other with a pike. They were both preoccupied talking to one another to notice the young Jedi duo approach them, and when they did notice them, it was too late. Keto jumped up and locked her legs around the baton user's neck, choking him unconscious with her legs, while Dusk elbowed the pike user's gut, stunning him long enough for a well placed palm strike to the helmet to knock the armored man out. The two of them slowly made their way to the near top of the cliffside, only to hear the sound of blaster fire and some creatures wailing, which caught the attention of the final two Jin'ha assigned to guard the cliffside.
The pair of Padawans poked their heads above the cliffside and used their stolen scopes to get an idea of what was happening in the fog up ahead. When they looked through, they could see at least twenty Jin'ha in the process of fighting off dozens of what was shaped like K'lor'slugs, which Orion noticed. "Wait. K'lor'slugs? Are we near the Noe'ha'on System?"
"Um, what?" Serra was a bit confused, since she wasn't exactly as book smart as her partner was.
"Noe'ha'on. In the Piryn Shar sector in the Expansion Region." Dusk explained.
"The Expansion Region?" Keto repeated, a little surprised. "We really got shanghaied that far?"
"We'll find out when we get to the ship." Orion said.
"Alright then, let's plow through these guys while they're preoccupied." Serra got ready to fight.
"Not this time." Dusk grabbed her by the arm. "We could handle about six of these guys, but twenty is a stretch. We're going around."
"We can't see anything ahead of us, except for whoever has a heat signature." Keto pointed out. "This is probably the only way forward if there were so many guards before."
"Doesn't mean we need to plow through the middle of the action." Orion stated. "Let's follow the edge of the cliffside, and keep our sabers off."
Serra sighed before speaking up. "Fine, we'll take the scenic route this time."
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Dusk was glad to hear that and took point with Keto following behind him. The two of them quickly but quietly moved along the edge of the cliffside until they noticed a strip of land that divided off two sections of water, with one section more elevated and pouring out of a hole in the strip of land. However there was something in the water on the elevated side that did not look natural, which prompted them to want to investigate. Serra hopped down the cliffside into the elevated side of the river and waded through it, while Orion used his scope to monitor the skirmish that was happening close by, seeing the Jin'ha slowly but surely dispatching the K'Lor'slugs.
When Keto reached the unnatural looking thing in the water, she could tell that it was something made of metal. She inspected it for a bit and guessed that it was a part of a ship. She inspected it some more and soon recognized what it was. She then used the force to flick a pebble at Dusk, who felt it hit his shoulder and prompted him to look back to his partner, seeing her signal him to come down with her. After looking back at the skirmish one last time, guessing that the Jin'ha will finish it in roughly a few minutes, he then slid down the cliffside and waded through the swamp water until he reached her. "What is it?" He asked.
"It's the landing gear of the ship we crashed." She answered.
"So the ship could be nearby?" Orion realized.
"Probably just down the river." Serra guessed.
"Well, we've got minutes at most to get there and figure out where exactly we are." Dusk said.
"Then let's not waste any time." Keto suggested as the pair waded their way over to more shallow swamp water and jogged their way down the riverside until they could see more ship parts, until they soon enough found the wreckage of the cargo ship that they were on not too long ago. "There it is."
"Looks like the cockpit is still mostly intact." Orion noted. "Let's get those ship logs before our friends upstairs are done with pest control." Serra nodded to that and the pair climbed into the ship wreckage.
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The two of them soon climbed their way through and over the debris and got to the cockpit of the ship. Aside from some exposed circuitry, the moss completely covering the transparisteel outside and the occasional spark every now and again, the cockpit was pretty much fine. The pair then began pushing some buttons until the systems on the ship began to come online. Thankfully, no engines or lights turned on, so the ship still looked unentered from the outside. Soon enough, the pair were able to bring up the ship's logs.
Keto managed to find out what planet they were on. "Okay, it says here that we're on the planet 'Obredaan', a small mining planet of some sort."
"Obredaan?" Dusk repeated, sounding concerned. "That's in the Mid Rim. We're almost halfway across the galaxy."
"Yikes." Serra was inclined to feel the same way. "Well, it says here that the ship was going to land over at a mining outpost about a dozen klicks south of our current position."
"Probably to dump back the materials that they didn't get a chance to sell." Orion said, before he took out his scope and looked up in the direction where the Jin'ha and K'Lor'slugs were fighting, to see that the Jin'ha were just about finished with dealing with them. "Serra, the Jin'ha finished their pest problem."
"Got it." Keto replied, before noticing something else. "Huh? Hmm, it looks like the ship sent out a code to another location. Let me see." She soon discovered what it was. "An outpost a few dozen klicks east of here, full of anti air cannons that just happen to be able to cover the outpost they were heading towards."
"Oh, great." Dusk sarcastically commented. "Is that it?"
"Yeah. That's it." She replied before noticing a hatchet that once belonged to the Jin'ha pilot from before on the ground, as Orion started to climb out of the cockpit, Serra decided to grab the hatchet and use it to smash the controls to the ship, making any attempt to look into the logs almost impossible. She then followed her partner out.
The two of them waded their way over to the edge of the cliffside below the Jin'ha and made sure to stay as close as they could to it while moving back the way they came, letting the Jin'ha attempt to inspect the crash site while they got away.
[Silence]
When the two of them reached the strip of land from before, the pair rested near the base of it and processed the information they just gathered. "So, not only are we stranded on a hostile planet." Dusk said. "But we are also stranded in the Mid Rim, on an obscure and mostly unvisited planet, that's home to not only hostile wildlife, but also to multiple arms dealers that have weapons and armor that can resist energy based weapons and ray shields."
"So, pretty much a normal day for a Jedi Knight out on the field." Keto quipped. "We got this. We just need to think smart about our next play."
"Next play?" Orion repeated. "You're seriously already thinking of a way for us to try and handle this situation?"
"We got this far on our own." Serra pointed out. "Besides, all we need to really do is get a signal out to the Republic and make sure that they don't get shot down when they arrive."
The boy sighed. "Well, since I'm not exactly thinking of a plan at the moment, do you have one?"
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Keto then explained her plan. "Well we need to send a transmission out and make sure that the Republic gets it. The mining base would be the best place to do that, because it should have a transmitter that we could use. But we also have to take out the anti air defenses before any backup does arrive, otherwise they'd just get shot down. If we go to the mining base first, we won't be able to get to the anti air base before help arrives. If we go to the anti air base first, the Jin'ha will just turn it back on."
"You are not suggesting we split up." Dusk already knew what she was planning.
"You got a better idea?" She questioned, to which the boy stayed silent. "Then start heading South. You're the one calling for help."
Orion was extremely unsure about this, but he honestly couldn't think of anything else, so he sighed and then spoke up. "May the Force be with you Serra."
"May the Force be with you too." Keto said to Dusk before she started trekking Eastward, towards her objective, leaving him to go South, towards his.
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And here is the next chapter in the Origin of Orion Ark of this story. Not much is to be said really, as I feel like everything is self explanatory in this However I do want to address the guest who asked if this story was a harem story. NO IT IS NOT. I don't know if I just don't know how to properly write a female character, or if the world is actually this quick to shipping, but Orion was not being hit on by all of the girls in this story. Serra is a friendly rival, and likes to occasionally poke fun at him being a bookworm. (It will also be an early reflection of the dynamic of Orion and Ahsoka, as the two girls are extremely similar in personality and fighting style) Shu was appreciative of him for assisting in the rescue of her sister. (As a family member would be if a sibling was recently abducted and rescued.) Mai is a tease who just likes to mess with people. (Think Jessie from FF7 Remake) Trust me when I say that Orion will not be getting any romantic involvements anytime soon. Definitely not this early into the war at least. Aside from that, hope you enjoyed this chapter, please only leave a review if it is about this fic or the OC of this fic, and until I decide to upload again. :)