AoL Raid on Bimmisaari Capture/Defend the Sith Emperor's Personal Ship

[Taiden Keth]

Outside Bimmisaari Orbit
Plan B - The Landing Party - Inbound to the Apex
Mission - Board without being blown out of the sky.

Rocked back and forth as bolts of aggression left their mark upon the forward shields, warning lights going off as what guns were left shooting at them made themselves known. Holding fast, Taiden was aboard a Droch class boarding ship, one of many in the pack, spiralling toward their targets like drill bits ready to find a home of their own. Closing in on the firestorm ahead. @[member="Judah Lesan"] @[member="Cambria Zadira"] @[member="Manu Xextos"]

@[member="TD-30"] @[member="Marcus Faust"]

"Grace of the light be with us all," Taiden responded to @[member="Cambria Zadira"], a phrase she'd made fittingly, every Echani around him eager but held, poised at the point of striking but waiting, on a fine knife edge of discipline. The Droch ships were armed with light lasers, rocket droids on the roof helped for anything that got in too close, but in reality the fighter's would have to do the work, else the boarding parties were not going to make it in at all.

"Form the V!" Creating a combat zone or box, a V formation maximized the cover each ship gave the other. The gamma assault shuttles were better armed, and provided the bulk of it, while the droch were escorted by the shuttles in between the double stacked V. It was a heavy fire zone for anything trying to get in closer to the lighter shuttles, all following behind the fighters, and a V to cut through the screen coming at them.

The High Cards and the Brynjar's own fighters were all they had, Taiden could see their skill, but he also saw the task ahead of them. Great pilots meeting great odds. His strategic mind, maximized what they had in the choice of the formation, and gave them the best chance of success against a ship with supposedly few guns online for a short time.

As the Apex grew into view, so did the many beams of that light they sort, sent both ways, ships weaving to avoid being hit, some of the shuttles not being so lucky. "Keep our forward shields to full, " breathing deep of the moment, and committing it to memory, that second when the forces would meet and become one entity. Screams of starfighters roaring against the night, the battle an uncertainty, about to be decided. ~Light be with us all~, Taiden sent through the force to any nearby pilot.

 

[Glade]

Glastro City Capital - Inside the Intergalactic Commerce Center.
Financial Records Building, inside, near the roof cornered!

@[member="Yusan Fenn"] "She's... she's mad, she's just killing everyone." Nato said to Yusan over the wrist-link, as he attempted the rescue, Yusan she cared about, more than she let herself let on, it was in her voice, the guy had saved her life once before. "Please don't, I just need, just be safe Yusanny." @[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"]

Screams, all she heard were the wake's of memories through the force, wakes she would one day feel from its passing. Twirling around, and aiming low, Nato glanced the first blows up the edge of her weapon swinging down, Ataru wasn't much about defense, it was all or nothing. Seeing her move away, Nato vaulted up and over, in front of @[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"] swinging at her head as she was somersaulting over, landing low, dipped in front of her. Aurora overhead, and legs bent, one foot extended wide. Flexibility and Agility, the corner of her mouth curled up in a sly little smile.

"Uh uh," she shook her head, hair falling free, "no goin' away tsk tsk," she waved a finger, this was one monster that Nato couldn't let just walk away or get help, someone somewhere had to make sure she didn't.

The figure of eight was way too fast for the padawan to try and contend with, barely able to even keep her guard up under the onslaught, nearly being hit two or three times, losing a lock of her hair as the beam almost brushed her face. So Nato put herself somewhere the saber wasn't, back up and over @[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"], kicking out at her head in a spin, doing exactly what the woman did to her and moving the opposite way, away..

The madness of all of this, what the Sith was feeding her brought up the pain of her spine, the cracked spine being healed with crystal implants and bacta it still hurt, "I saw you all, ' was there," Nato said, "when the senate", emotion welling up palms tensing completely white, the screams from the other's beam and hideous nature seeping into her, "We're past right and wrong..." and here again, "you're all monsters." kicking off back in again, with a wide low swing aimed at @[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"]'s midriff. Nato was responsible, for the lives, but not for killing them, was she, maybe? She was responsible for this thing in front of her, and every Sith that could live like this after her!

Midnight conviction lit in her dark eyes, "You'll never have me," the girl was reassuring herself as much as defying Knight, "never!" Aurora burned brightly, trying to execute a hawk bat attack, get in and get out, one more broad sweep of yellow beam, as she lept in, and tried to leap out.... Offensively Ataru carried it well but meeting whatever it was in @[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"]'s palm it was caught and.... she was stuck! For a split second, her eyes went wide, caught in a web of clever devising.

@Shinjū Aÿasha @Aditya Amadis @Dove @Yusan Fenn

 

[Shinju]

Glastro City Capital - Inside the Intergalactic Commerce Center.
Financial Records Building, inside, near the roof
@[member="Natol'ine"]

Ahhhhhhhh Shinju had barreled forward to Natol'ines kick when she jumped letting the blue shimmering in her palm swallow the blade when she hit the floor and it fed into her. The energy letting her eyes burn again for a moment as she stood up and withdrew the blade from her palm quickly to hid the fact. Then she watched the woman coming at her with such conviction, such resolve that she just had to enjoy it as her enjoyment of the fight now fed into her. The screams were more audible compared to some thing that were coming next. The slash from Nato that came to her hand and she latched to it. Letting her palm be held to the side as the blue light flared lapping at it and Shinju spoke using the energy she was absorbing to augment her trickling madness.

"You shouldn't fight it girl, you can't fight it. The force is by its very nature chaotic, filled with cruelity and malice, the jedi choose to ignore it but it is the nature of people to be violent. Claim all you want you vaunted superiority and prowess, claim whatever lies you tell yourself but stop denying your natural instincts. Your natural urges, do not deny them."

Shinju continued to eat at the blade and her eyes had went to something else, the pupils dilated to the largest pools of blackness while she looked at Natol'ine the energy giving her more abilities in the force one of which was sensing skills. She could feel the girls resolve, feel the effect the screams had on her or the news of it all. A laugh came as Shinju pushed her blade to separate them again. Her breathe came out with a laugh and shudder before red tendrils went across her right arm licking at the blade to cause it to flicker. Shinju held her saber out pointed as the drain came to lap more at Natol'ine. One of the few ways to counter she had learned from the Yun-Harla and commander was to drain right back.

"Let out that anger, I killed all those people in your name, I sullied your commitment, the others killed many more and unless you kill me here and now I will burn every world you set foot on just to find you. I WILL FIND YOU WHEREVER YOU GO, I WILL KILL ALL YOU HOLD DEAR, I will tear into you until there is nothing left but a simpering girl who begs for death and when you look up, when you feel my boot at your throat. When you are begging I will never allow it, you shall live knowing everything you held important, your friends, your family, your loved ones, you will know they died because of you and get to live on. The only way your going to get close to bypassing me is to enjoy the fight. So use it, come at me with everything you have and give in."

Shinju laugh again her body slightly bulking under the latex bodysuit where the rubber one was while she felt it strain to contain her while visible she got larger from the energy enhancing her body. Shinju projected stronger levels of the same images on a loop this time adding the audio to it. All the screams and people begging for death that come to some while others only got it after killing their friends and family. The republic captain who had to kill her own child to be let off the rack, the mother who was forced to eat her own baby so she could save the others. All the cries and screams while Shinju spoke in the force now driving it like a battering ram or a tidal wave of emotion to swallow, to enrage Natol'ine.

"It is as natural as the force itself Natol'ine.... that anger that passion Nato.... raw natural passion. The jedi forbade something that good calling it evil, they believed it was wrong but how can you deny your bodies reaction. It is a betrayal of your body and the force to not act, to not try and stop me. There will be no pain once you fight back, come at me with all your anger, all your passion and stop me. Take your first step to becoming what the servants of the force were meant to be."

With another laugh finally Shinju moved her blade as she rushed forward and preformed a quick flank the momentary burst of speed sending her around the hallway and towards the back of Natol'ine, her saber went for an upwards slash to the spine again with speed and strength augmented by the force. A one handed grip while she prepared to catch a blade again with her shimmering hand and laugh. "STRIKE ME, MAKE ME PAY AND GIVE INTO THE NATURE OF THE FORCE."

 

[Arage Bao]

Michael listened intently and nodded in response: "I will aid you, @Vulpesen"


He also felt the presence of a darkside user on the bridge and that troubled him. Most of his men were untested in battle, they would crumble under enough stress. There would have to be a way to avoid that.. but at this point they had more pressing issues.

 

[Marcus Faust]

@[member="Vulspen"] and @[member="Michael Sardun"] were to close to hide from him now. He could sense their light side presence as it neared and clashed with his own. One of them was familiar to him, the Jedi from Hapes. So he had survived? Marcus figured he'd want his little saber back, and he could have it. If he killed Marcus.

"Watch the vents." He ordered to the 141st troopers in the bridge. His hand reached down and pulled the silvery metal hilt of the cobalt bladed saber he'd used after Kiyala Demont destroyed his crimson blade. He hadn't had time to construct a new one since, Valen and other conflicts are up his time. But he'd put the blade to good use.

 

[Dakil]

Aboard the Apex
Bimmisaari High Orbit

The mechanical voice cracked slightly with anger, his finger jabbing at the screen of the hallway security cameras. "Find them and kill them now!" The attackers fled through a maintenance shaft, skidding down the hallway until diving down through a ventilation shaft area. It was hardly inhabited by Imperial crewmen or soldiers and would make an easy escape route to spread across the entirety of the ship. "I want soldiers dispatched there now, corner them!"

Meanwhile, hundreds of Stormtroopers in the hangar bay and multitudes of ground support vehicles punched off into the black vastness of space. Gunships and landing barges rocketed away from the ensuing space battle, narrowly avoiding the crossfire between the vessels battling. Almost more than half of the entire 141st division was deploying to reinforce the Commerce Center and stabilize the city.

 

[Serah Oricion]

@[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"] @[member="Natol'ine"]

He looked for half a second at his comlink and threw back a response, surely loud enough that even the sith would hear it. "Look there miss Natol'ine, you better not be dead by the time i get down there or ill be pissed." While his voice was loud, it was clearly in the same cheerful tone with a tinge of seriousness to it. His saber was half of the way done with the hole and he had to press on harder and faster, the urgency of her message was somethinng he could not overlook. No ally would be left behind today, not while he was still alive and kicking. "And furthermore, we are going to need to work on my nickname after this. Because Yusanny seems slightly odd to me, dont you think?"

 

[Glade]

Glastro City Capital - Inside the Intergalactic Commerce Center.
Financial Records Building, inside, near the roof cornered!

Shinju was attacking the spot that Nato felt the most emotion from, her spine, rolling forward just in time to get the back of her dress singed. "Never!" Nato said more cutting than before, more worn down to its effects. The emotion was welling inside of her, not overcoming her yet but close, never do what they expect, the one Jedi lesson she did remember, she was trying desperately to hold on to any Jedi ideals. Her skin was feeling all of it, just this chill that wouldn't stop, the screams and the madness a constant drone in her mind, the images arhhhhhh....

"You don't know anything, get outta my head!" She did come at @[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"] harder than before, the spins in Ataru increased, the offense suited the form and made it harder to block, constantly following up. A youthful energy, made for an excitement, but also a danger when using this style.

Dom Cha the first acceleration, spinning Aurora around in her wrist, rotating orbits, around her back and forward, dipping one hand to the floor Nato kicked her legs over to go for Shinju's neck, in a cartwheel and followed with the saber, becoming more of a whirling mass of a yellow beam. Slowly finding her form on the offense, she brought both hands on the blade in an over head chop, body naturally coming to rest in front of the woman. All one move. The air seemed to move with her, just a little breeze....

Kill all she held dear? Nato was a carefree girl usually, but watching these Sith slaughter younglings again and again, had gotten under her skin. She was feeling the lift of the air, of her body more and more, not becoming a blur, but the spins increased, the emotion pressed on her was driving her. "You can't hurt them anymore," she said, "no, no no, never." A definite swirling of the aura, and of the stare she gave Shinju, maybe not the blustering girl she might expected, she was finding something more dangerous coming at her, a maturing force connection with a real passionate reason to want to stop her.

Standing in Ataru stance, the forward motion known as backward leap came next, stepping forward in a hook step, and starting to turn, she looked over her shoulder and jumped to the other foot, leaping around in a spin, using the momentum to continue into another spin jump, another spin jump, and another spin jump, rolling the blade around her body in sweeping motions to attack each time again. That strange breeze was there again, something generated in the force, with the girl in the background of its gentle wind.

Losing her balance at times, but moving to regain it just as quick, balance was difficult in Ataru, you just had to go with it. Like this duel, lost in all that was coming at her, her first real taste of how dark the Sith could be. Lost in the emotion that was completely saturating her every sense, it wasn't just words, she could feel it all over her skin, writhing like a sickness.

@Yusan Fenn Because Yusanny seems slightly odd to me, dont you think. It was like a bolt out of the blue. Tears filled her eyes as Yusanny cracked a joke, and she had to dab a hand to her face, letting out a laugh to break the hold... just as Nato was not trained yet to feel serenity, she felt relief when she heard Yusan, the emotional hold the Sith had over her was dented by his voice. It was enough to let tears in, emotional release for all she had seen, she was being stupid doing this, "I'm coming Yusanie," she had to run, she wasn't ready yet to stop Shinju, could she get away? Beginning to move backward, the girl was tiring from the duel slowly, as Shinju got more energy, Ataru's high offense required the constant use of hers.


@Shinjū Aÿasha @Aditya Amadis @Yusan Fenn

 

[Kei Amadis]

LOCATION: Aboard the Apex
In the Maintenance Ducts, heading to Communications
@[member="Vexander Graves"] and 3 Wildcards, 1 Injured.
Mission, Evade Angry Pursuit. Move to communications array.

The last one, Kei nodded to @[member="Vexander Graves"] solemnly, half as many as when they started. He was about to agree about Vexander covering the rear, when it started back up anyway... "Covering fire!" Kei snatched a downed blaster and fired up, aiming through the almost completely broken floor, a hole that now stood between them and their attackers sniping back and forth. Thankfully he was a much better shot, exhaling with the pull of the trigger as more Sith fell. Pulling the injured back further into the shafts, covering their position, a medic braced the injured man's broken ankle as quickly as he was able.


The hiss and spit of blaster fire echoed out behind them, their pursuers wouldn't be far behind.

Studying the injured soldier the general grinned reassuringly, "can you move soldier," the veteran wildcard nodded and pulled himself up, these were trained and by now seasoned spec ops, to walk on pain. "Good man," nobody on this ship was a rookie, these were the best of the best old republic. The Echani lived and breathed combat, the Nikto worked for the hutts for generations, and the Thyrsians were just damned mean by all accounts, and scary to boot. It was a mixed bag coming at the Apex for sure, but all ready to do what they needed to do.

One man supported the injured wildcard and they began to climb down, slowed but then they had a variety of options on where to head next, lots of potential places to try and search for them. "Your right, we have to keep moving, towards the communications array, they won't expect us there." Kei grinned to @[member="Vexander Graves"], he had a plan, and he doubted anyone had seen it coming, there were much more vulnerable targets they could pick but he knew the main plan, "ever record a droid's voice before?"

Moving through the ducts, it'd take a while before anyone found them, hide and seek again for the last of their strike team. Every so often they'd hear voices or boots, and move in a different direction. Opening up the ship's plans again to rework a new route, they had to work their way underneath the array, and to be able to patch into it through the main bulk of the ship... not easy, but they were in the right place to pull it off.

They made good time....

It was time their luck finally ran out however, several Sith troopers did pin them down, locking one door behind them and putting six men where they wanted to go, two more behind, "Cover me!" @[member="Vexander Graves"], instinct, Kei's saber Unity in hand the epicanthx ran forward, heavy Djem So swings knocking aside blaster fire, and force pushing several of the troops out of reach, "put down your weapons and surrender!" They didn't of course, even when he disabled a couple of their rifles, and unfortunately had to kill a few more. Moving through a third man's weapon, his luck had run out, and Kei took a hit himself, a biting graze on his left arm. The general grunted, grimacing.

@Vexander Graves @TD-30 @Marcus Faust

 

[Kalius Aegrus]

Aboard the Apex
Bimmisaari High Orbit

Little did most of the crew here on the Apex know, the famed commander of the 501st legion was aboard the vessel. His blue-striped armor and emblem upon his shoulders told all who he was. Commander Jay and a squad of other striped soldiers stood out in the white-clad mass of Stormtroopers scurrying to their battle stations and hunting down the intruders. The squad merely strolled through the corridors as if there was no current situation at all. The 501st team was aboard the ship for a day or so with inspection of the crew and the vessel specifications for use by the Emperor himself.

And apparently it wasn't that safe.

Exactly the reason the 501st was here. Jay and the squad sped up their pace, heading for the armory. With a grin behind his helmet, he only issued a single order. "Fill yer' boots, boys." They trooped over to the massive array of weapons like children in a candy shop. Most of them grabbed standard issue rifles, grenade launchers and other explosives filling their belts. Another yanked a rocket launcher from the wall and shouldered it with a hearty chuckle. At last came the final piece of the cake, the two man team toting the E-Web blaster cannon. All trained with their weapons of choice, all the very best of the legion, and all of them prepared to fight to the death.

"Let's roll."

 

[Ginnie Dib]

OOC: Getting caught up, if I miss anything important, please let me know.

"Yusan!" Aditya yanked open a storage compartment on her shuttle and grabbed an extra carbine gun, tossing it to the man. "Hey! Where are you going!? Are you crazy-brains?!" Alone in her shuttle, Aditya sat down in the gunnery seat with the hangar door locked. She rapidly tapped her fingers on her knees, buzzing up and down in the seat. She pulled up readings on the building's integrity and tapped her toes on the ground.

"Ohmigoddessomigoddessomigoddessomigoddess... I am insane!" Rushing to the cargo hold of her shuttle, Aditya dug for the engineering supplies she kept, while schematics downloaded to her datapad. Yanking two bags out of the storage, she shoved them in a backpack and grabbed an extra carbine gun. Locking the ship up on auto-pilot, she left it in the shadow of the building, and raced after @[member="Yusan Fenn"].

"Got your back. . . don't let me die or @[member="Kei Amadis"] is gonna eviscerate you with a plastic spoon." Time to go save @[member="Natol'ine"]. She covered his six, then sighed. "Is your lightsaber gonna be finished any time soon, or will Nitro and a blasting cap do better?" What, she was an engineer who worked salvage. KaBOOM!

 

[Serah Oricion]

He had just finished cutting through the first ceiling before looking up at her and cursing. "What are you doing out here you moron.... fine fine, get down here and blow through this next level, we need to save her fast." He looked up at the hole above him and waited for her to jump down, he would reach out with the force and slow her down when she did. "And dont get us killed with your bomb please, i would rather be alive tomorrow." @[member="Aditya Amadis"]

 

[Manu Xextos]

"Sir! The Apex lost weapons!"

Manu leaned forward and punched his finger out at the ship. "Power to for'ard shields, reduce speed by 1/4 burn, drift us Point Oh-Four-Seven-Gamma..." The Brynjar rocked at the gun blasts which hit it, Manu clung one-handed to his chair, the other holding @[member="Felix Emer"]'s dog Max close to his seat. No use letting the puppy slide around. It would be way too hilarious, and Manu needed his serious face. "Concentrate port batteries on Hangar Bays. For'ard batteries, watch the Xo'Xaan, keep firing on Comm. Aft batteries, wait my command."

The Brynjar flew downward and forward in a tilt, shortening the target it presented to the Xo'Xaan and strafing forward to get a better target on the deployment points of their troop ships. "Xe'loth, I don't know where their stormtroopers are. . Scan for life form concentrations. Find our people via their wrist communicator frequency. Extrapolate target points to eradicate anyone who isn't us on that ship."

Manu's voice was whisper-calm, as intimate and joyful as a lover reconnecting with their significant other for the first time in years. The spread of battle before him surged an energy in his heart. The Ops and targeting teams worked madly to find the targets Manu required, he sent a message on his wrist comm to the other Jedi 'Brynjar targeting troops. Consolidate and avoid high density areas.' @[member="Kei Amadis"]@TD-30@Marcus Faust@[member="Michael Sardun"]@[member="Taiden Keth"]

"Sir! We've got it."

Manu grinned. "Fire. Rip holes in their hull if you have to, get those troops dead."

"@Cambria Zadira, @[member="Judah Lesan"]. Secondary mission objective: Destroy those troop shuttles heading for the surface. Hangar Bay, deploy second Squadron! Destroy those troop ships!"

 

[Ginnie Dib]

@[member="Yusan Fenn"] "What am I supposed to do, wait up there knitting you a sweater!?" All the faith in the world flung Aditya down into the hole made by Yusan. Upon landing, Aditya stumbled. She broke a heel! "Oh gosh." Ripping the heel clean off her shoe, she tip-toed over and yanked a vial of Nitro out, sticking a thin metal prod through the cap. Licking her lips, she caaaarrreeffuuulllyyyy cut a small divot into the floor where the explosion would originate, "Hah, hah, you don't wanna get blown up? Neither do I. Owe Kei 'We Made It Survival Sex' later, and like heck I'm missing that for any force in the universe. Don't . . . breathe. . . "

Setting the highly volatile substance down, Aditya eaaaassseeeeddd herself up and gently pulled her backpack back on both shoulders. She grabbed Yusan's hand and booked it, throwing herself against a wall and curling into a little ball as a thorough and thunderous conflagration filled downward through the space, hopefully catching @[member="Shinjū Aÿasha"] The Pointy on fire.

 

[XV-265]

Aboard the Apex
Some corridors

XV was walking as stealthy and as quietly as a Droid could. He tried to avoid every enemy he came across, so that his element of surprise didn't get ruined. It would also delay him and every second he wasn't getting closer to the bridge was a second wasted.
He already had to change his course to avoid two patrols, which didn't help. It would only be a matter of time until the first couple of troopers saw him, then he would have to eliminate them before they could warn the sith.

 

[Dakil]

Aboard the Apex
Bimmisaari High Orbit

Everything on board seem at hand. The 501st detachment down near the lower levels had finally mobilized. It wasn't to TeeDee's excitement that they'd activated late to the party, but it was still better than never moving out. Besides, he had more pressing issues to deal with. Besides, the weaponry of the Apex had been disabled. Some power remained in the system, just barely enough to keep a handful of the point defense weaponry online, but nothing more. Most of the troops were either groundside, securing the city or leveling off the Apex in search for intruders.

Maybe it was time for TeeDee to have some fun.

"Helmsman, I want a 180 degree port yaw rotation with our hull facing them. Allocate our remaining power to the point defense batteries near the hangar and double hull shields." It was a Marg Sabl tactic, but in reverse. The hull facing the enemy would protect the hangar bays on the port and starboard sides of the vessel along with the reactivated nearby weaponry. He didn't know exactly what they were aiming for, but they would have to work around it to fire upon any vital systems. Penetrating the hull shields and scoring a direct impact could puncture to the main reactor and destroy the entire shield. "And now we play the waiting game."

It was almost too easy. If the attacker tried to swing around and fire on the Apex, the defending Star Destroyer could merely rotate on it axis to retalitate to each new threat.

Pathetic Jedi.

 

[Shinju]

@[member="Natol'ine"] @[member="Yusan Fenn"] @Aditya Amadis

The pain fed into her from the blade and now, now she felt it like a wash of warm liquid against the skin. That tantalizingly sweet wash of emotions from Natol'ine. The beauty of consume essence at its core is all emotions around you and in some cases genocide had been used to fill one with so much energy they could live for centuries off it. The bank wasn't a genocide but it had been full of pain and sadness, anger and death, destruction chaos. All boiling to the surface to go into her as she remained in the area. Even the small amounts of regret the soldiers felt was feeding but nothing compared to the taste here from her. Oh she was a special one and Shinju just drank it in letting all of her wants and needs come.

This was about seeing how much she could get from her and it was a sight to behold. Her muscles tensed and her lips curled bringing a welcomed feeling of euphoria at the thought of devouring her. "Oh but it is so much fun in there." Shinju kept at it moving with Natol'ine as she went about attacking. The grace and speed were a match while Shinju switched from juyo to Ataru her form dropping lower and jumping back to match her blade strikes with Natol'ine. It wasn't a retreat it wasn't a push no she bounced from foot to foot kicking off with a smirk. "Come on now sweetie, don't you want to show how much stronger then me you are? Should I have to pay for everything?"

A feint and Shinju brought the blade up to lock it a little getting a louder scream from the shard in the blade. Her hand moved to use a flowing water cut to try and tap her hand. The emotions and memories from the saber and shard inside to let her try and overwhelm her. She kept moving and kept her hand to defend. The girl was good but she was doing something in a hallway with debris now. That gave Shinju ideas and oh so many when her foot touched another wall and kicked off. Shinju matched the movements of Natol'ine not perfectly but she moved with it.

She kicked off the wall towards the roof bringing her saber down in a diagonal slash almost like it was pushing her up. Then her hand touched the roof and for a moment and gripped it pushing downwards with the force to flip front wards. The feet touching the ceiling briefly. She went down in a tucked roll twirling the blade behind her back as it just barely scraped her back. A practiced movement while the force flowed through her body. The muscles weren't enough she had to make sure everything was that little bit faster. Half of Ataru was using the force and its energy, something that she could maintain. How long could Nato?

The question came to Shinju with a thought while she hit the ground and rolled forward bringing her blade into her palm again to cheat. She siphoned and absorbed from the shard and the power cell to keep herself topped off while she sprang up to match Natil'ines movements. Going from wall to wall with quick jumps and slashes. Shinju could hear her talking again while she kept at it letting her madness and force push at Natol'ine and show her more. The list of horrible things she had done to women and children, made them do to each other for a chance to stop the pain.

Pushed people past the point of madness and then let them kill their friends in blood lust. She wasn't one for being subtle leave that to the others, no Shinju was going to force the issue upon her and force her to see it all. The children she locked in a room and let be eaten alive by her tuk'ata hounds. The child she cut from its mothers womb and has been raising herself to be her child, the crashing a star destroyer of infected on the moon of Dagobah and sending them off to kill the ones there during the Dark Harvest incident, capturing a jedi and maiming him until he pulled himself off her rack and died trying to kill his former master, using the slaves on Metalorn as meat shields to fight the jedi, the slave pits in the Fringe temple where she drained them into the grotto to have a pool of blood and so many more terrible things done not in the name of the sith.

"Oh but I can my sweet girl, I can hurt them over and over again all I have to do is find you. All I have to do is arrive and like a poison everything around you will die like I promised. I like keeping my promises, I enjoy it you see the feeling of their pulse under my teeth and can tear into it. The gush of blood was it explodes into my mouth and a laugh. Come on then come and try fighting me. I am more then ready to eat that pretty face." Shinju almost mirrored Natol'ine stepping back and now with the blade and sliding the hilt from her belt, not something she often used but the cord came apart to drape on the floor as she moved spinning at first to jump.

The lightwhip swiped around As Shinju moved forward in the twirl, it came alive with a snap hiss of deep red light came around her the smirk on her face when she came down and lashed out with it before jumping again. The debris and walls were hers now to move on as she went back and forth bringing the blade around and down, over her head and straight forward into a stab. The relentless attacks of herself and Natol'ine something that could be beheld and seen as Shinju touch the ground going low and swinging the whip like a bolo at the girls feet. That unnatural breeze in the force that Natol'ine experienced moving strands of her red hair as well. The knight then laughed even deeper.

The movements continued to come while Shinju went about it and jumped back and forth. For all that it was worth... Two fighting in Ataru could be a game of acrobatics the biggest threat coming if one of them slipped up and so far neither one seemed to to be slipping in this, no it looked more like a dance fight with twists and flips between the debris and walls, the floor and ceiling all the stage for their movements. A casual romp of blades was enough to get her juices flowing as Shinju did what seemed to be upsetting Natol'ine more. Talk she could talk and she loved to talk.

"Come on Natol'ine you were doing so well at first and now where is that fire and aggression. All your speed, all your anger and drive and yet you do not want to use it. All those emotions bottled up... I could teach you to use it you know. I could show you how to be stronger then the sith, how to be stronger then any jedi. How to fight and win, how to purge the unworthy from your sight. All you have to do is fall to your knees and ask. Say the words and we can stop fighting here, your friends can even join you. There is no need to die or be put on the rack, spare yourself the true pain that will come from it. Because once Kaelin takes you, you will not be coming back in one piece. Or perhaps you want to wander the galaxy hoping to do good and hurting more people. We can do such wonderful things. Maybe even work on that technique of yours, I am a great teacher you'll learn and can be kind to my students."

Something different was happening now and Shinju could see it or hear it just making it out on the comlink from Natol'ine as she moved and tilted her head. Then she let her arm shimmer as with a snap of the whip it wrapped along the length of her arm activated and caused the light to flare. Blue light ate at the red of the whip while she just played with the hilt in her hand and went on the move again jumping to the side. No fancy flip just a kick off the wall and sheer power from her saber. She slashed at Natol'ine with ferocity and kicked her foot to try and catch one of her knee caps.

A juyo technique jump and follow your blade with a strike. Get them off guard before you finish it. Then the girl was running and Shinju sneered letting the whips power cell flicker, expended. The burning sensation behind her eyes was back and she could feel things. Feel more people nearby which made no sense normally. They were in the lobby unless someone else had escaped. She would have to find them and finish their processing for the payment but no matter as far as she was concern and as she tossed the dead lightwhip to the side. She took off after the running girl and spoke more with a lit to her voice and that predator gaze.

"Run and hide, run and hide but your still going to die, whether rain nor shine I always catch my prize and you have such lovely eyes." Shinju cackled letting the sound reverberate and come when she heard something behind her and turned her eyes going wide. The wall of fire that came down from the roof several feet away from her was more then enough while she focused. Energy and heat, fire and warmth it was hers. She opened herself more then she had done before outside of the training room and her saber dropped still activated while two blue hands pushed at the wall.

The force shimmered in a push to funnel and hold it back, it shimmered making the air distort for a moment while Shinju snarled drawing at that heat with her skin. To warm her up and to make her stronger as she felt it. The intense heat going into her body until it cooled at her finger tips. The blue narrowing on her palms as she held it in place and her muscles trembled, the impact making her teeth rattle in her mouth and she shivered her jaw jostling until it bit her tongue. The taste of blood had Shinju more then alert now while she left a wall of swirling ice. Cyrokinesis took the heat of fire and fed it to a person leaving ice.

She moved then pulling the saber to her hand as she ran after the girl and the burning behind her eyes became intense. She could feel it when she saw Natol'ine and screamed letting them flare red, letting her sight burn as it sent out a burst of pure concentrated energy. She screamed with it aiming not at the girl but just below the two of them as the sight vaporized the floor and carved a path down into the bottom. Shinju lashed out more while her eyes returned to being normal but her vision blurry. The commerce buildings basement was her destination but she pulled to bring the girl with her before she laughed.

"Come here little one." Shinju threw out her hands one still clutching the saber as it fed into her and she pulled with all the energy she had at Natol'ine she pulled with the force and let loose the small pouch of pelko powder from her belt. She had the barbs for one purpose and that was ensuring plenty of people with their bare skin felt the sting. The paralytic poison well worth it for training sabers and in the work she did it could let her slice up plenty of victims. She would have to get more but that was easy, she wouldn't have another chance to slice into another like Nato for a long time. "Get over here." The collapsing floors and the destruction into the lower level was all she needed to keep her away from her friends.

[you know a duel is intense when Number of words: 2060]​

 

[Taiden Keth]

Outside Bimmisaari Orbit
Plan B - The Landing Party - Closing to the Apex
Mission - Board without being blown out of the sky.


Reading the battle, pure conflict in motion, Taiden grabbed the communicator, "Concentrate all your fire on the apex, match their rotation" His voice remained calm, calculating. Everything they had, the apex's commander was clever but the shuttles were more manoeuvrable, they just needed one spot in its shields going down to gain entry, just one. The Echani read the displays, and the battle ahead as words becoming it, seeing the shots going off like sentence punctuation and structure, he'd spot the hole in the shields the second it came up.

Starfire, burning bright. Small red suns, ship explosions that would flash and be gone the second they appeared. The fighters were proving a match for the Apex, especially with Jedi flying them, but even so one of the smaller shuttles started to buckle and disintegrate as they closed, a lucky missile hit breaching the reactor core. Brief screams of those onboard were silenced just as quickly.

Some of the e-wings from the Brynjar were taken down in the furball but not the highcards, you could spot them saving lives a mile away, standing out, aces all. "Shuttles keep the formation tight, give us a screen going in from the PD." The shuttle was rocked, and he almost fell of his feet, almost on the shield... almost there.

"Release!" Missile after Missile was launched from the assault shuttles, all concentrated on one spot, right next to main engineering, not on it but close to it, to breach the shields, some were hit by the limited PD but most of that was protecting the hangers... the fighters soaked up some of the fire and finally the rest hit home. Volley after volley was sent, and would be showing up as a grand warning light on the droid commander's display, he had his PD in the wrong spot. Taiden didn't want the hanger or the bridge, he wanted the engines. If he took engineering... there'd be no control over the engines to move, this ship would be a sitting duck for @[member="Manu Xextos"].

There it was, their rear shields were buckling.... just enough the first of the Droch's broke formation and slammed their pinchers into the hull, no doubt the commander would get those shields back up again but for now, Echani were ripping into its hull quite literally like drills with their claw ships, the larger shuttles closing but not yet in place... the commander still had a split second to act.

@[member="Judah Lesan"] @[member="Cambria Zadira"] @[member="Manu Xextos"] @[member="TD-30"] @[member="Marcus Faust"]

 

[Glade]

Glastro City Capital - Inside the Intergalactic Commerce Center.
Financial Records Building, inside, near the roof cornered!

Sirens call of sickness and sadness, she didn't just hear memories she became them, they were all over her. The memories were making her skin writhe, and body itch. Natol'ine was beginning to tire, to match the leap from the roof she rolled herself away, the hissing of blades nearly took her arm off as the orbiting beams collided behind both their backs. Heart rate going a hundred miles an hour, she was beginning to obviously need to breath more, to keep up, small arms starting to feel a bit heavier under the relentless sith attack.

Smash, stab, smash, stab, smash coming at her from over her head, almost took aurora out of her hand, off balance, and staggered the padawan back to the floor, nimbly springing to her feet, the only thing that brought her back into the fight, was the lightwhip, forcing her to move or lose her legs, she jumped both knee's up. The Juyo strike barrelled her back into the far wall, cracking her back against it, out of breath but a brief break, giving her distance, Natol'ine held her hands to her head, looking into her palms, she wanted it to end, tensing up, looking down, she was almost spent. "Hmm alright,", she held the weapon out "alright." Breathing heavy, one last spark in her yet.

As the floor began to crack, there was that emotion again spilling out of her, probably the only thing carrying her forward. Throwing herself at Shinju with Jung Su Ma, long sweeps of the beam, full rotations of her body, a full horizontal twirling of the beam to match her tight spin. One handed, it moved from chest to attack at the neck, long circling sweeps over her head following, pushing off in a roll to carry her towards her opponent again. Jung Su Ma continued circling over her head at into Shinju, a padawan's speed but showing she was finding her technique. Air started to pick up around them, the current of it, matching her twirl. Signs of the future, revealing dust contained in wind eddies, kicking up light stone debris toward her target, the cracking floor peppering Shinju with shards that'd the Sith had caused to happen. All the time while the floor came away, the wind breezed around, Nato was going to make it.... had to... just a few more steps, twirling back away, "Wait for me!" @Aditya Amadis @Yusan Fenn

A shattering, and the floor gave out completely, piece by piece crumbling away, she hopped from one splintering shard to the other, cracks appearing around her nimble steps, Nato pounced away for the final edge, clinging to the crumbling ledge with both hands, fingers grasping at it, "mmmmrrrrhhh,". The pull on her was too much from Shinju, just as she saw the others appearing ahead of her, the floor gave in completely and the Kiffar, was on her last finger tips. Then the poison, just as the others would reach her, they would see her hands clasping up towards them, and falling down.

A jump or a lunge.... or something, would be the only way they'd get to her before hitting home in the basement, if that was their destination, a few floors down from near the roof. Nato's body free fall, was going limp, fast. The Jedi or Sith might need to catch her, someone might, because falling with no control over the landing, wouldn't end well.

@Shinjū Aÿasha @Aditya Amadis @Yusan Fenn

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulepesen heaved a sigh as they reached their location, directly under the bridge. "You ready Sardun?" His voice was weary, but not defeated. He hated death, but he had accepted the inevitability of a fight with the job he had chosen. "Something tells me that this is going to be quite the interesting struggle." He placed his lightsabers against the metal above his head and rested his thumbs on the activators, awaiting @[member="Michael Sardun"]'s go to slice a clean circle above them for an entrance.