Here is the chapter folks! Me and jojobink01 have been waiting for this moment. A HK-47 centered chapter. We had a lot of fun writing it out.
After all, HK-47 is the MOST POPULAR character in Knights of the Old Republic?
Also as a bit of a side note. To those who try to DM us asking us if we want to commission you. Please don't do that, or we'll sue you and call your mother. It's entirely your choice.
Also, we may need to slow things down. We've been pumping chapters so much that it's taking a toll on us.
Picture two men that've been hit by an aging machine. That's us.
Don't worry, we'll work on it at a slower time.
One more thing. So I spelled Aeormaton as 'Aeromaton'. Hopen that clears the misspelling and I need to do the corrections from previous chapters.
Now then, onto the Eighth chapter of this story of Knights of Tal'Dorei!
Knights of Tal'Dorei
VII
Query: Is there someone you need killed?
REBEL HIDEOUT, WHITESTONE
"Time to start Percival!"
That is what the very first thing that Percy was asked after he and everyone went back from their mission. Suffice to say, things are getting heated. "The fuck happened back there?" Vex asked, his tone was mixed with anger, confusion and worry.
"I assure you, I'm in control." Percy was trying not to bring up what happened earlier.
HK was feeling irritated for some reason. "Irritated query: Were you? When you pointed that primitive weapon at me?"
"HK…" Bastila spoke, wanting to get the droid out of their conversation. She wasn't in the mood, considering that HK had just massacred many guards back at that prison. There may have been some innocent that he may have unlawfully killed. But, she had no control over his extreme violent tendency.
"The pepperbox is a potent tool. I-I may have gotten carried away." Percy admitted.
"Query: Is that so?" Revan's Droid was not believing what was coming from the white-haired boy's mouth.
Vex, who was leaning against two boxes piled against one another, was concerned for her teammate's wellbeing. This is a red flag that she can no longer ignore. "Percy…" She softly spoke, turning her attention to him. "Holding that weapon, it's like you're a different person. What is it?"
Percy looked at the List and saw that Stonefell's name was removed from one of the barrel. "When we came here, darling, you promised no more lies." Vex told him in assurance. "You owe us the truth. Just like how Revan and Bastila told us back on the ship how he was a former Dark Lord before redeeming himself."
Percy contemplated her words. He looked up to Revan, who nodded his head, before he looked down at the floor. "You're right. The creation of the pepperbox begins five years…"
He begins to tell his story to the others how he and his sister, after being tortured by the Briarwoods and the traitors who sided with them, escaped their home and how his sister was supposed to be dead after being struck by arrows. As he was cornered around a cliff, he had no choice but to jump into the freezing water.
There he was fished up by a fishing crew before he went to a new location. Fearing that the de Rolo name painted him as a target, he disappeared and wandered aimlessly. For over two years, he tried his best to survive in the streets by eating what scraps he could find to survive. It wasn't appetizing, but what can he do?
But that wasn't the worst part. Memories of his family dying in the most brutal, cruel, and sadistic way played on his mind whenever he tried to sleep. Due to this unrelenting grief that plagued his mind, it was this that sparked something in Percy's mind.
All that anger and hatred manifested within him.
And that led to the creation of his first gun, The List. A weapon of vengeance that he so desperately sought to those who have wronged him.
And after he told his story…
"Yikes. No wonder he's single." Scanlan can't help but to comment, earning him a glare from Vex.
"Not the time, Scanlan." She scolded him.
Revan, meanwhile, thought of his mask and how that motivated him to stop the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders back in the Mandalorian Wars. As he thought about it, he couldn't help but find some similarities with Percy.
"Observation: That doesn't give us enough explanation of the smoke that emits from within."
Now everyone turned to look at HK. "I explained my story. Why do you need more?" Percy can't help but to ask as it was a touchy subject.
"Explanation: Smoke emits from you every time you get angry. First, you showed such anger towards Mistress Shan, something that you almost killed her weren't it for my Master's intervention. Then you did the same thing to me when that short fatty meatbag with the hammer died." HK explained.
"I'm not in the mood to talk about it." Percy spoke.
As this was happening, a wind blew past Keyleth. She immediately turned around and saw who was calling her. "Sun Tree?" She walked towards the tree bark on the opposite side of the room they were in.
Walking up to the tree, the half-elf/druid placed both hands on the wood. "What happened to you?" She asked with empathy. Placing her hands on it once again, a green glow emanated from her hands before her whole body was covered in green light. She closed her eyes as she began to have a vision of the Sun Tree.
What was once a beautiful and glamorous tree was reduced to a desolate husk. No thanks to the Briarwood's apathy after their takeover of the hold. She was immediately shown that within it, a growing darkness has enabled it.
But she wasn't the only one who's seeing it.
Revan, Bastila, Jolee, and Juhani were also struck by the vision. They immediately clutched their heads before it ended. Vex had the same feeling although it was a mild case for her. Those who weren't Force Sensitive looked at them with worry. "Woah! Are you alright?" Pike can't help but to ask.
Revan just nodded as he looked at the Cleric Gnome. "I'm alright. Just saw that tree from before." He turned to look at the others. "You saw it too, right?"
The Cathar Jedi nodded in confirmation. "Yes. I've never felt so much malice."
Bastila felt the same way. "The tree. It has such a Force that I've never felt before. The Briarwoods did something to it."
Jolee could only come up with one possible solution. "Then that means the Briarwoods must've dabbled with some sort of unique Dark Side Abilities that we aren't too familiar with."
"Do you need to be healed?" Vax asked the Jedis, to which they shook their heads.
Although he isn't Force Sensitive, Carth can answer the Rogue's question. "That's what usually happens when the Force acts around them."
Scanlan, for once, was thankful he wasn't like that. "Thank God! I don't want to imagine the headaches I'll be getting from experiencing what you all saw."
"Uh…" Archie, who was with them after entering the room, can't help but to wonder what they are even talking about.
Vex, who was massaging her temples, looked at them. "Then who was the one who showed it to us?"
They turned to where Keyleth was, who was down on her knees and had both of her hands covering her mouth. "You're so weak." She said with utmost remorse. She proceeded to put her hands together before a small, white orb appeared. The light was able to sprout a single twig, full of life, before it snapped. She was about to cast again when…
"Keyleth!" Said half-druid stopped casting it as Vex called out to her. She turned around to see her teammates and Revan's group looking at her.
She immediately noticed that Revan, Bastila, Jolee and Juhani were rubbing their heads. Vex was in a somewhat similar manner but seemed to recover quickly. "What happened?"
Instead of her question being answered, Revan crossed his arms over his chest and looked at her. "You did something that showed us the vision of the tree. What did you just do?"
Keyleth immediately realized that the four were Force Sensitives, meaning that her magic somehow affected them. Getting to her feet, she began to bow down profusely. "O-oh, I'm…I'm sorry! I didn't mean to get you and the others involved! I just–"
"We know you didn't mean any harm." Bastila assured her with a smile. "Although, you could try to warn us next time if you are going to do that again." The half-druid looked up to her before nodding her head.
"I hate to interrupt." Archie spoke up, now grabbing everyone's attention. "But we have bigger problems than all of your personal shite. We have a real chance at reclaiming Whitestone here."
Grog let out a scoff. "Do you want to? I mean this town ain't even got any ale." And everyone rolled their eyes at the Barbarian's reason because of course he's concerned about that.
"Aye, we've seen our share of dark days. But Percival de Rolo is back from the dead." Archie spoke, placing a hand over his friend's back. "If that won't inspire the people nothing will."
Even though the words were encouraging, Percy was still feeling doubtful. "Sorry, Archibald. Right now I'm only thinking about my sister."
"Ugh. Guess they're a close knit family?" Scanlan said out loud, earning him rightful glares from the Jedis, Carth and Canderous. He didn't seem to notice as he looked at everyone. "Eh? Know what I'm saying?"
"SHUT IT!" Both Vex and Vax shouted in unison at the Bard Gnome who proceeded to grumble.
"I know you're eager to rally the troops." Percy spoke to his friend. "But Cassandra's my only family. I have to find her."
"Suggestion: Why not have me find Mr de Rolo's sister instead?" HK-47 suggested.
Everyone froze up upon hearing the droid speak. Keyleth, for obvious reasons, didn't like what he said. "HK…I don't think that's a good idea. Especially what happened back in the prison break."
Vex can vouch from that. "Yes. You seemed to take great pleasure in killing them. None stood a chance. What you did was an outright massacre!"
"Counter: Mistress Vex, only a few of those meatbags escaped when they realized that they were up against me. Mockery: I didn't sign up for this! I'm out of here! Conclusion: If a few escaped me, then I would make it my mission to hunt them down. Provided I get permission of course." HK explained.
"You need to have therapy." Vax can't help but utter while facepalming, knowing that it won't work.
"Um, Pike. Do you think HK is more scary than me?" Grog asked as he knelt down next to Pike and whispered.
"Um…I think so. Never met an Aeormaton that gives a run for your money." The Cleric Gnome whispered back.
"Query: Do none of you realize I am an assassin droid ever since Master Revan revealed back on the ship…? Irritated statement: Why bother what I said about my primary function." HK said as he shook his head as everyone, excluding the Ebon Hawk Crew, stepped away from him.
"Does anyone realize we've been traveling with a dangerous assassin?! A psychopathic one?!" Scanlan asked in horror as he hid behind Grog.
"If he's at a party, then I'm gonna be gone. I don't care what you say, sis." Vax spoke next as he held on to Keyleth's arm who was hanging on to him for dear life.
"Statement: I do not know why you meatbags have a right to be worried. I can make some accidents once in a while. Explanation: When I was out of my Master's service, I was employed by another Master who wanted me to eliminate some of his rivals. I eliminated 104 people before the Master realized his mistake and tried to kill me with a pen." HK revealed, earning varied reactions from Vox Machina.
"A hundred and four people?!" Pike shouted in both disbelief and shock.
"By accident?!" Vex screamed in utter disbelief.
"Oh my gosh! I'm gonna be sick!" Keyleth felt dizzy and nauseous upon hearing this.
All the while, Bastila leaned over to Revan's ears. She needed to know what the droid was saying was true. "Is what he said true?"
The only thing what Revan did was facepalming while silently groaning. Looking back, he should have made additional instructions for HK-47 programming. Why as a Sith Lord he didn't do all of this he did not know.
"Fuckin' Hell…" Achie said in awe. "I'm startin' to think yer gonna quickly depopulate Whitestone at this rate."
"Ok HK. You said enough," Revan decided to speak up before HK said anything else. "I think you need to sit this one out. This rescue is just one person we respectfully don't want you to go around and do whatever it is I programmed you to do."
"Query: But Master. I can get this job done. Although I am an Assassin Protocol Droid–"
"Exactly my point."
"Give him a chance." Revan turned to look at Percy, who was focusing his gaze on HK. "He may be our key to destabilise the Briarwoods' control, as you said before."
"I hate to break it to you, but are you sure it's the right idea? Don't get me wrong, but he killed a hundred and four people! By accident of all things!" Vex reminded him.
"Well, he does have a point," Carth spoke up as Revan and the others turned to him. "Way I hear it, Revan did the same thing to the Republic back when he was a Sith Lord."
"That is true," Bastila added, "You seem to have made it quite important not to damage any key infrastructure."
"Why though?" Keyleth asked, "I mean from you say normal Sith Lord to take over and not caring about life?"
"Can any one of yer tell me and the others what this 'Sith Lord' thing is about!?" Archie asked as he had no clue what they were talking about.
"Think of them like the Briarwoods but powerful and wield these glowing sticks and not giving a hoot and toot about life." Jolee plainly answered for everyone.
It seems as though this was enough for the halfling to take this in. He looked at Revan. "Woah! I never expected yer to be like the Briarwoods. What made yer change?"
"It's a long story," Revan answered before looking at Percy. "Are you sure you want HK to rescue your sister?"
"I'm certain. But under one condition." The white haired man got up from where he sat and walked over HK and spoke, "Don't. Kill. Anders."
HK and Percy had a staring contest for a few seconds before the droid spoke. "Irritated statement: Very well. If your little smoke is telling you that this kill is meant for you then fine. Don't blame me or anyone else here if that smoke for one sudden decides to take over your body fully."
"Pike, do you think you can scan Percy with your magic?" Vex kneeled down and whispered to the Cleric, "though I hate-"
"I don't think I can." Pike whispered back as she leaned to Vex's ear, "I need to focus on the people and get a blessing from the Everlight to help us for the battle to come."
"Aye. We need as many abled bodies as we can get." Archie agreed with the Cleric's words. "We also need weapons. The only problem is that we don't have any at the moment."
"Then I'll go back to the Ebon Hawk and get T3 to help me out. Out of all of us, I can sneak around without being detected and get back with the weapons that the people can use." Juhani spoke as she volunteered to get them.
Archie had to do a double take on what he heard. "Yer got weapons?" The Jedi nodded her head.
"To be fair we haven't got time to sell them cause we were hunting down an ancient weapon." Carth added.
"Statement: At least they are going to be useful for meatbags who need it." HK pointed out, seeing how many weapons they need to discard. "We have a variety. From Sword, Axe, Blasters…oh how joyful I am when we train these rebel meatbags."
"HK…" Revan utters underneath his breath, knowing all too well that the droid's bloodlust is coming back. "Just don't do another mass slaughter. We don't need any more enemies killed."
"Don't worry, we'll be training them once the weapons are here," Bastila assured the droid, feeling relieved that she needed much space after hearing his killings.
"All right, all alright!" Archie spoke as he went to the droid's side. "How about where Cassandra is and you can rescue her?"
"Answer:Certainly." HK replied, wanting to kill more people now.
"Now just you wait, you two!" Both the droid and Archie turned to look at Canderous, "If you are going to rescue Percy's sister, then you should take me with you." And all of them raised an eyebrow. Why would this Mandalorian volunteer to go with them?
-Scene Change-
PROFESSOR ANDERS'S HOUSE, WHITESTONE
After traversing through the heavily guarded streets, HK, Archibald and Canderous found themselves hiding in a ruined house as the halfling looked through his telescope of a very heavily fortified house. HK immediately knew what this location was. "Observation: So this is where Mister de Rolo's sister is?"
"Aye. It seems as though that little stunt of yours has bumped up every security for their nobles." Archibald spoke while looking through his lens. "Ah, shite! At this rate, we have to wait until midnight strike."
"Then why don't you allow me to be a distraction?" Canderous spoke up. He was tossing a frag grenade up and down on his right hand.
The rebel leader turned to the Mandalorian. "With what?"
"Let me show you," Canderous got up and went out from the hiding spot.
As he did so, both Archibald and HK peeked out from their hiding spot and watched the man casually walking where the guards were. It seems as though he was playing dumb one of them called out to him. "Hey! You're one of the rebels, aren't you?! Put your hands where I can see them!"
The Mandalorian seemed to ignore his pleading, which seemed to infuriate them. He and another guard left their post to confront him. "Did you hear me!? I said–"
*TOSS*
*BOUNCE*
*BOUNCE*
*BOUNCE*
The two guards looked at the circular object that hurled towards their position. None of them opened their mouths when an explosion happened, throwing them off their feet and onto the ground. Luckily, the grenade wasn't a frag one. Instead, it seemed to be more of a flashbang. "Argh! My eyes!"
"I can't see anything!"
The two guards' voices caught the attention of the others. They went to where it happened and saw their current state. "What the hell happened?!" One of the reinforcements asked.
"Some scared man threw something at us," The first guard answered as his eyes were no longer blurry and saw that the man was gone. "Where is he!?"
"He must have run off."
The second guard gritted his teeth. "Damn." He got up and looked at the others. "Everyone, split up and find this man! He isn't going anywhere." All of them nodded and they immediately dispersed to find out where he went...not knowing that Canderous hid where they passed him.
Seeing the guards gone, Archibald couldn't help but be impressed by this. He turned to look at the droid. "Well, looks like he made an opening for yer?"
"Statement: This is why you should never underestimate a Mandalorian." HK spoke before he focused his attention on the gate that lacked any guards. "Reminder: This is where I must depart, little muscular meatbag. I shall find de Rolo's Sister and probably get that Anders meatbag so his smoke will have a piece of killing."
-Scene Change-
In one of the rooms within the house, Professor Byron Anders was tending the wounds of Duke Vedmire. The other man winched as each shrapnel piece was surgically yet forcibly removed from his body.
"How you fell to a firebomb is beyond me," Anders commented, annoyed as he took out the shrapnel.
"I told you. That Aeormaton completely fooled me." Vedmire winced as a shrapnel was taken off from his left cheek. "For one member, I thought he'd shoot me. Stonefell tried to retaliate but he was killed in front of my eyes. That Aeormaton didn't do it. It was a man with him, holding what looked to be a canon of some sort."
"A man?" Anders demanded to know as he took out one shrapnel, "How can one man take out Stonefell?"
Vedmire looked back at him with a scowl on his face despite the painful process of the shrapnel being removed. "I told you, that man had a cannon of some sort. It fired weird projectiles. By the looks of it. It isn't magic."
Anders hummed in interest. "A new invention of some sort?"
The Duke could nod. "Yes. Question is, how could someone of that size wield such a thing?"
The Professor was taking interest in this man's cannon. It seems as though the rebels had something up their sleeves. "Vedmire…" Said person looked at him, who let out a sinister smirk. "After you make your recovery, let your guards know of the reward for capturing this man."
The duke can already see what he is trying to imply. "Ah, you want his weapon, correct."
"Exactly!" Anders responded as his tongue dimmed silver. "After all, what better way of controlling the populace by showing them a new creation of mine? Something that the de Rolos once lacked during their reign."
Outside of the building, HK quickly disposed of a guard before tossing him onto a bush where his body could not be easily found before booting his invisibility. He was thankful he got it from the Ebon Hawk before he aided in breaking the rebel leader out. He could easily traverse his way through the place without getting spotted. That is only if someone could see movement and hear his footsteps.
Making his way to find an opening into the house, the droid heard a conversation from an open window. He immediately recognised it to be that Vedmire meatbag he encountered earlier. By the sound of it, it seemed to have his wounds tended. A sudden opportunity arose as he pulled out a grenade. But it wasn't a frag grenade.
"After you rest, I want you to disperse as many guards as you can." Anders ordered the Duke. "It may be a lot to catch that one man. Yet it can also give us the weapons of those Jedis as well."
Vedmire looked at him, knowing what he was already talking about. "You seemed to be obsessed with these Jedis ever since Lady Briarwood told you about her encounters with them."
Anders let out a sinister chuckle. "They have something valuable that would benefit from my research. Not to mention their unique magic can give m-us the advantage over our enemies." He is about to explain further when–
*BOUNCE*
*Bounce*
*Bounce*
*Bounce*
Both of them looked at the floor and saw a spherical object in between them. Vedmire's eyes widened as he immediately knew what it was. "LOOK OUT!" He tackled the Professor to the ground despite having some shrapnel stuck to some parts of his body.
Expecting an explosion, none of them were aware that a green gas immediately came out of the grenade. The duke immediately knew what this was. Without a words began to step away as Anders looked at the grenade, when he began to feel intrigued by it. Although he was immediately dragged out of the room and they closed the door behind them.
Making sure the Professor was okay, Vedmire let out a sigh of relief. "Thank the gods you're alright. We could have died there."
"What happened?!" Cassandra's voice called out to the two as she walked towards them.
Anders looked at her with confidence. "It looks like we're about to have guests." That made the female de Rolo look at him while tilting her head…
*KICK!*
The doors were kicked wide open with a loud impact and the Guards began to scream in terror as what they were facing didn't even stand a chance. "Kill that thing!"
"It's making our weapons and armor useless!"
"Oh fuck this, I didn't sign up for my death!"
*KABOOM*
An explosion was heard as what seemed to be around ten guards were instantly dealt with. Right after, the sound of mechanical footsteps climbing on the staircase. All eyes then turned to see a rusty-colored Aeormaton on the same floor and holding what looks like a new-version of a crossbow. "Statement: Ah, we meet again, meatbag." He was referring to Vedmire as that.
The duke growled underneath his breath. He glances at both Anders and Cassandra. "Go. I'll hold this bastard off." The Professor didn't utter a thing. Grabbing the de Rolo female on her wrist, he dragged her deeper into the house.
"This time I won't make the same mistake as…. WHAT?!" Vedmire spooked as he charged at HK only to see fire coming out of him.
"Mocking remark: Ah, but you seemed to be making the same mistake." The droid said with a mocking tone. He saw the Duke rolling onto the ground while screaming in agony. This felt music to his ears as he just aimed his fully upgraded Jamoh Hogra's Carbine to his head and fired a single blaster shot, ending his life in the process. "Mocking: Goodbye, meatbag."
The droid just walked past the burning body as he went deep into the house. Since the fire had begun to set, he needed to make this quick and rescue Cassandra from that fat meatbag.
Without a beat, he began to walk deep into the house to find the pair. It would have been impossible to find them if footsteps weren't echoing throughout the hallway. As he entered a room that looked as though it was a private classroom, HK heard a noise coming from within. He walked within and he saw Anders holding Cassandra with a dagger around her throat. "Ah, ah, ah!" Anders stopped the droid in his tracks. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."
HK didn't say anything as he sensed two guards behind him while they pointed their weapons. However, he immediately felt as though they were shaking in his presence. "Correction: Maybe I could say the same thing to you, fatty meatbag."
Anders was insulted by this Aeormaton's words. "Fatty? One more word from your mouth and I'll have the two guards turn you into scrap so then I can research you."
HK didn't seem to feel threatened by his words. "Statement: Your guards seem to be very scared of aiming their primitive weapons."
The professor seemed to be heeding this Aeormaton's words. "Which is why you and your group have caught my attention. My new employers want to reward me for researching and reverse engineering everything you got." Seeing his opportunity, he then ordered, "Destroy this Aeormaton." His tongue and eyes glowed silver as the two guards no longer afraid and aimed their weapons at him.
However, he didn't expect this to occur all of a sudden.
*ZAAAAAAP*
The Professor was immediately zapped by an electrical device coming from the droid. He released Cassandra and dropped the knife around her throat. He fell onto the ground and began spasming on the floor before falling unconscious.
The two guards immediately went for the attack. But HK quickly drew his dual Mandalorian Disintegrators and shot them, disintegrating their bodies in the process. Turning to Cassandra who looked at him wide-eyed as HK walked past her and looked at Anders.
"Mocking Query: Did your informer tell you that this Aeormaton was equipped with several weapons?" HK asked as he took out a mini vibro-knife and prepared to take out the source of the control. Before that, he turned to Cassandra.
"Warning: Please look away or go into the other room, your brother would kill me with his smoke, if he learned that I did this in your presence." Cassandra did what she was instructed and walked away. Now that he is alone, HK cut Anders's tongue off, which he crushed soon after, before looking at him. "Statement: Looks like you'll be interrogated by Mister Percy without your tongue. Fortunately, I just so happen to translate everything you say."
Well, his mission was an outright success. Now it was time for him to bring this fat meatbag and Cassandra back to the rebel base.
-Scene Change-
EBON HAWK, OUTSKIRTS OF WHITESTONE
Within the confines of the Ebon Hawk, Mission Vao was starting to get very bored. Sure, being accompanied by T3, Zaalbar, and Trinket was alright for her. But it felt as though she was missing all of the action that was happening within Whitestone.
She looked around the ship to find something that may interest her, whether it be inspecting some weapons, or making some tinkerings to current ones. But so far, none of it interested her. It seems as though
That is where something did. And it was within the cockpit. Seeing the pilot seat empty gave her the idea of attempting to fly the ship. Though she may not have enough experience, perhaps this occasion would give her the experience she needs. She took a step when.
"GOOOOOOAAARRRR."
The Twi'lek teen stopped where she was and turned to look at her best friend standing on the doorway with his arms crossed. A sudden realization came to her. "Oh, Big Z. What are you doing here?"
Zaalbar made several sounds that made Mission have the expression of awkwardness. "Oh…uh. Nothing special, just wanted to give the ship a few spins." That made the Wookie make sarcastic sounds at her. This made her snap back at him albeit in a friendly manner. "Hey! I easily get bored staying on the ship. Gotta find something for the time being!
Just then, they heard footsteps approaching the ship. The Twi'lek teen pulled out her blaster and aimed to where the ramp was. She looked over at Zaalbar. "Careful, big Z. Some shit is about to happen." And that caused her Wookie friend to make several growls. She raised an eyebrow. "Oh, come on! It isn't a big deal saying shit, big Z! It sounds so cool. If Vox Machina can say it, so can I!"
"I'd better be careful of saying those words around Carth, Mission." And the Twi'lek teen gulped upon hearing the voice as Juhani decloaked, however she did it.
"Oh…fuck…" Mission could only utter until she realised what she just said. "I mean, oh dear me. What are you doing here, Juhani?"
"I was sent here to gather spare weapons and I was looking for help carrying them." The Cathar Jedi answered her question.
"Um…okay…" The Twi'lek teen seemed to take the answer well. "And how are we going to get it to them?"
Fortunately for the Cathar Jedi, it just so happens that they have a Swoop Bike within the ship and also there is an abandoned wagon nearby. "I may have a solution. You, Zaalbar, and T3 should come as well to help."
-Scene Change-
REBEL HIDEOUT, WHITESTONE
Percy was pacing back and forth, wanting in anticipation of HK's mission. And to be frank Revan couldn't help but feel that this is how Alek had felt. "Everything is going to be alright, Percy." He spoke with assurance.
"Yes, but what if your assassin droid decided that my sister was a bit of the enemy?" Percy countered as he heard enough of that droid to worry.
"Then I will take responsibility for HK and try to reprogram him or alter his files to where he's less trigger happy," Revan answered.
The white haired man couldn't help but let out a dry chuckle. "I hope that works, Revan. Bastila's not taking it too well, right?"
Revan glanced over to Bastila, who was tending to the wounded alongside Jolee and Pike, before he glanced back at him. "Who knows. HK refuses to be re-programmed."
"Announcement:Master, I'm back!"
All turned to see HK, who was dragging the unconscious body of professor Anders, whose mouth seemed to be bleeding but Percy knew he was still alive. Next to the droid was…
Percy couldn't believe who he saw. There is no mistake on the girl's hair plus that streak of white. Walking over to her, he uttered… "C-Cassandra?"
The girl blinked at the man before her. She was taken back at a face that she hasn't seen for ages. "P-Percy…"
In a couple of seconds, Percy pulled Cassandra and wrapped his arms around her for a hug. He was close to tears as he ruffled the top of her head. "I-It's really you! I thought…I thought I'd ever see you again!?"
Cassandra felt the same way as tears started from her eyes. She put two hands on her brother's arm. "I could do the say to you, brother."
Percy eventually broke free from the hug and he looked her directly in the eyes. "Cassandra, what happened? When we escaped, I saw you fall. I thought you were dead."
His sister looked away before looking back at him. "And I thought you'd come back to check."
Percy let out a sigh before looking back at the floor. "The Briarwoods. They kept you alive?"
"Of course they did?" His sister nodded back at him. "They had use for me. Pardaging me in front of Whitestone. Loyal and loving." Seeing that he wasn't looking at her, she grabbed his chin to face him towards her. "But I've been using them, too. Feeding information to the resistance?"
"You must have wanted to escape." Percy spoke softly.
His sister looked away as if she was hiding her shame. "Running away was never my strong suit."
Percy looked down a bit before looking at his sister with an assured smile. "We don't need to anymore. We're together." Cassandra looked unsure. But Percy put a hand on the back of her head and touched the top with his forehead. They both shared this tender moment, until…
"What the fuck happened to him!?" Now their reunion was cut short. Both Percy and Cassandra looked at everyone who surrounded the unconscious Professor who had blood surrounding his mouth.
Anders woke up and saw everyone staring at him. Getting up to the floor, he was about to speak when something was missing something. Moving a hand to his mouth, and trying to feel something his eyes widen in horror.
His tongue. It was missing. Looking around the room, he was trying to find out where it was. Only for his eyes to land on one specific person. The Aeormaton. Turns out, he wasn't the only one as everyone looked at the Droid. "HK, w-w…what did you do?" Keyleth asked partly horridly.
Revan and the Ebon Hawk Crew knew what their droid was about to say. "Answer: Oh, I simply cut his tongue off with a mini vibro-knife. Sadness: Oh I missed the chance of hearing his screams while I surgically removed it."
"Holy fuck…" Pike couldn't help but say, horrified that the droid would go to such length gripping the Everlight, and she could have sworn for a second she heard some sort of gasping.
Keyleth, meanwhile, just ran out to vomit because she couldn't bear how casual HK declared what he had just done.
Grog patted his best friend's back even though he was reviled by this Droid's action.
Vex, and Vax felt the same way. "God. I'm thankful we didn't get on his bad side. Yet."
Scanlan just tugged his collar. "Y-you know, I think I'm going to stop being a pervert when he's around." He remembered his threats and how he was going to chop off his manhoods if he went a step too far.
Bastila just massaged her temples yet again. Of course, Revan's droid would show his sadistic side to their enemies. He didn't have to go that far to mutilate their armless enemy by literally cutting a part off.
Casanderous, Juhani, and Jolee went silent. Carth, meanwhile, used his training to keep himself from being spooked.
Even Archild and Yenne got very spooked by HK's actions.
"HK…" Revan spoke to his droid as he felt one of his eyes twitching.
"Assurance: But no matter. There is another way of getting him to speak." HK said as he glanced down at the Professor.
"What do you mean by "another way" to talk?" Vax demanded as everyone looked at Anders's bloody mouth.
"Justification: This fat meatbag had something in him that allowed him to control two guards with just a flick of his mouth. I worried that if I were to return him here with his little tongue intact, he could find a way to control all of you." HK justified as Cassandra nodded in agreement.
"Fine. I suppose there's nothing less for me to do." Percy sighed as he facepalm while he prepared himself.
"Statement: One moment." HK-47 said as he lifted Anders up and spoke, "Threat: should you refuse any of Mister Percival's questions, I will make your life so hard by first removing that little you know what's from you. And it will be so painful that you will be begging for your mom's mouth to put you out of your misery."
Anders's eyes widen at the threat as every single person in the room stiffen at the threat. Percy just gulped before recomposing himself and coughing. "Thank you HK for making that statement obvious."
"Statement: You are most welcome." The droid spoke, bowing down before walking out as he and everyone else gave Percy much needed room to interrogate Anders. Knowing that he isn't willing to talk, he brought out his Vibro-knife and looked at his crotch. "Warning: If you are not willing to talk, then I am going to chop off what that small, pointy eared meatbag is afraid of getting rid off." And that made the Gnome Bard cover his crotch. He's going to need a lot of ale after all of this.
Anders's eyes widened. HK's words aren't bluffs. He is willing to do it unless he is going to give them what they want. He muffled a few times, which HK easily translated. "Translation: Oh stop! I'll…I'll tell you everything! Just please don't let that insane Aeormaton do it." HK spoke with a mocking tone.
Percy only just glared at the Professor, who was looking back at him with fear. "Why did you betray us?!" He first asked.
The professor muffed a few times as Hk listened before answering, "Translation: The de Rolos looked down upon me. Yet the Briarwoods didn't. They appreciated my work!"
The white-haired de Rolo male let out a growl. He couldn't let his anger get the better of him. He needed to gather more information before doing so. "What are the Briarwoods planning!?"
A few more muffles as HK translated, "Translation: Our master, the Whispered One."
Revan's eyebrow raised upon hearing that as the Force went a bit haywire. Walking to where Professor Anders is, he then asked. "The Whispered One? What is its connection to the Brairwoods?"
Anders muffled once again. This time the droid was able to translate it. "Translation: The Whispered One is our Master. He wants to go back to the living world. But he hates the fact that the Jedis are here to prevent it from happening." Again he muffled, which HK revealed. "Which is why I helped the Briarwoods in their quest of slaughtering the de Rolos. They had something underneath the Castle that could bring their Master back to the living world. I told you everything. P-please don't kill me."
Percy, meanwhile, felt his entire world went still. So everything he had suffered at the hands of the Briarwoods was all part of something bigger. His facial expression sure caught the attention of HK. "Query: I suppose that little smoke of yours wants to go in for the kill?" He knew he was going to get his answer. Percy's eyes went to a black iris and sclera and orange pupil and raised The List to…
*BANG!*
Anders screamed in pain as he was shot on the chest. He attempted to crawl away when he was grabbed onto the throat and lifted in the air.
Percy donned on the plague mask as he lifted his traitorous Professor up and banged him against the wall. "WE TRUSTED YOU. YOU WERE OUR TEACHER. WE WOULD'VE DONE ANYTHING YOU ASKED." Anders could only hyperventilate as he put his gun where the heart is "AND YOU BETRAYED US WHEN WE NEEDED YOU MOST. YOU'RE THE FACE I SAW WHEN MURDER ENTERED MY HEART."
Keyleth, who just finished vomiting her guts out, went back inside and felt sick again. This time, she saw Percy mercilessly holding Anders at gunpoint. She knew what was about to happen. "Uh, guys…"
"Warning: Let his Little Smoke have his fun." HK told the half-druid.
Without warning, Percy pulled the trigger on the List, putting a bullet on the professor's heart. Blood splattered across the wall and he dropped the professor onto the ground, with no signs of life.
Even though this sight was outright brutal, none dared to speak up. If anything, Percy needed this. HK saw that Anders's name vanished on the List's Barrel and the smoke vanished. He knew he had to ask one question. "Query: Is your smoke now satisfied from killing this fatty meatbag?"
"For the most part, I don't know," Percy admits before taking a deep breath before breathing out.
HK looked at his Master and his Mistress. "Statement: Oh Master! This brings me such joy that you and Mister Percy have such commonality back when you were–"
"Not now, HK." Revan reminded him as he looked at him as he was about to make a comment regarding brutality. Well, this is a mess that they are going to have to clean up.
Bastila noticed a troubled look on his face. She grabbed one of his hands and squeezed them to both comfort him and grab his attention. "Revan, are you alright?" She knew he was shocked about Percy's killing of Anders.
"Let's just say I am reminded of a few things," He admitted having some flashes of what he did during his time as a Sith Lord.
Carth and Canderous knew they had to join in. "You know, kid's been holding this back ever since the party." the Mandalorian Admitted.
The Republic Soldier could say the same. "After we held him for a couple of times, he needed this moment." Even though it was too brutal for him, he couldn't let Percy hold back any longer.
"Ahem…" All of them turned to Juhani, who had just returned from the Ebon Hawk with the spare weapons. She was looking at the sight before her before she uttered. "You all want to clean up. Mission and Zaalbar are about to come in and I don't want the young one to be traumatized at this sight."
-Scene Change-
WHITESTONE CASTLE, WHITESTONE
Delilah Brairwood gazed at the burned building within the open balcony of the Castle. She let out an irritated growl as two nobles were killed in a single night. First is the Duke Vedmire. Then, most recently, it was professor Anders. Vox Machina and their Jedi allies had really struck a nerve this time.
She turned around and stormed off inside of the building. She entered one of the rooms where there were many candles laying about. Walking down the flight of stairs, she immediately let out a demand. "Where's my steward?!"
Footsteps begin to approach her from behind. "I-I'm sorry, Lady briarwood." The male quickly apologised. "Did you need me to bring you something?"
"You already have," She responded with sinister intention. Without time to react, she quickly and deeply slashed him across the throat, causing him to bleed from his neck wound, mouth and nose. The poor servant choked on his own blood as he swirled around and knocked one of the candles.
Seeing her servant dead, Delilah dragged the body into a ritualistic pattern. Since she didn't have the book thanks to that damned Aeormaton who had the audacity to burn her tome, she had to resort into writing one on a piece of parchment paper. It wasn't a lot, but this is going to delay the uprising.
As she dropped the body onto the pentagram, her husband walked to her side. "Delilah, what are you doing?"
"Protecting you," She showed him a green crystal before she proceeded to chant a spell that shined the blood and pentagram. She then continued. "Drezzaka kruum. Venz-shi-thradi."
All of the blood and life force of the servant seemed to suck all of it as it all went up to the air. This caused Sylas to raise an eyebrow to what he was seeing. "Dwem rastathek. Oshem Sutreeporvas!" Light emanated from the crystal before it enveloped the entire room.
Outside in the graveyards, the dead emerged from the ground and their empty socket glowed purple. There were many of them and all were heading towards the city.
-Scene Change-
After cleaning the mess and disposing of Anders's body (courtesy of HK burning his body until it was ash), Juhani arrived with T3, Mission and Zaalbar with the spare weapons from their ship.
Naturally, the rebels, Archibald and Yennen, were confused as they had never seen the Twi'lek and Wookie duo before. They'd assume that the kid was a tiefling and the giant furry monster to be a goliath. However, Revan confirmed that they are aliens, which awed them.
Speaking of which, everyone looked at T3 due to it being a unique-modelled Aeormaton, something that confused the little droid. But, like the others, Revan and the others confirmed it was a 'utillity droid' or whatever it was.
Giving spare weapons such as swords (both single and double bladed), axes, blasters and carbines, Carth and the others trained in them. Some were quicker learners than the others. By the looks of it, they could easily
That was when the Force Sensitives, including Vex who got a mild sensation, felt something very off. This was obviously caught by Pike who saw them rubbing . "Woah, are you guys alright?"
Bastila just nodded her head. "We're fine. We just…felt a disturbance in the force."
Juhani could vouch for what she was saying. "The Dark Side…the Brairwoods did something.
"Well, that ain't a surprise." jolee commented, shaking his head off from feeling the Force being weirded out.
"Woah, you guys sure have a tendency to have headaches whenever shit like this happens?" Vex couldn't help but comment. Mission heard it and just mimicked the same word, but was caught by Juhani and Carth.
Carth was not happy that the half-elf swore in front of Mission. "Vex…"
"Query: You meatbags may want to come and look at this."
Everyone turned to HK, who was looking outside of an open window. Revan, although he had enough of his antics as of today, couldn't help but ask, "What is it?" He felt the Dark Side flowing within the city.
HK just pointed his fingers outside, making everyone look at the open window. There, they saw many beings, both in normal size and giant size, roaming around the city with glowing purple eyes. They immediately knew they were undead due to seeing bones and rotten flesh throughout the body but they didn't expect that the Brairwoods would resort into this to disrupt them.
If anything, Mission did voice out on what was on everyone's mind. "Well…fuck me!"
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"Mission!"
And that wraps things up here folks.
Looks like some shit insane shit is about to happen.
Oh, and it looks like Vox Machina had somehow influenced Mission into swearing.
At least Vedmire and Anders are now dead.
Not onto the notes…
Crimson Soldat: Yeah, we realised how messed up we were in this chapter. Then again, we did focus on a literal sociopath and someone who is possessed by a demon. Next chapter will be a treat. And it will be a combo name. What is it, you'll have to find out.
Jojobinks: Now there's something that we know you're wondering: but Crimson, and Jojobinks, if most of these guys swear and and do hot dirty jokes, then why is this rated t. Well our dear friends, I think you should either A: Look at Mission, B look at the rated stuff and rules for rated T stuff, C and respectfully, don't ask.
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