The Obscured Pending Darkness

[Kixi Rajki]

"Ah you have a family and kids", Kixi said with an evil grin on her face, she let go of the Bothan and at the same time kicked him in the left knee in a manner to force him down on both his knees before her. She then proceeded to gently put her hand on his jaw and lifted his head so he could see Kixi in a way that was overshadowing. She spoke slowly in a sweet and gentle voice. "Your family, tell me exactly where they are", she concentrated with the Force. "Tell me the exact location and take me to them". Kixi cocked her head and could feel the conflict in Vinskk.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

"AH...they're on Bothawui, also known as far away. I can't bring them to you, but here..." Aeil reached into his pocket, to Vinskk's alarm, who stopped him by roughly grabbing his arms. Free-Eyes reached into his pocket instead and produced the picture. "A paper picture? Old fashioned." He inspected it closely. "Nice looking kids..." Aeil, desperate, pleaded with the Gran. "You don't want them to grow up fatherless, do you? And what did I ever do to you all to deserve to die, huh?"
He was speaking the truth. Aeil really did have a family back home. Whether or not Kixi wanted to seperate them or not was up to her...
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[Kixi Rajki]

"What has he done to deserve this he says", Kixi laughed out aloud taking her hand of Aiel's jaw, and her other arm briefly in the air. "What you have done, is make the grave mistake to defy a human", the word human slipped from her mouth by accident. "I mean a Jedi", she quickly corrected herself and continued. "We all have choices given to us. Not always are we given what we are promised". She looked towards Mako who was standing next to the Gran. "You see her, she may be female human like me, but she is the love of my life. One man who secretely despised that fact put me in a position similar to yours", she said, as a tear drop became ever so visible in her left eye. "Except when he said I had a choice to either do what he says or she dies, he lied to me after I succommed to his wishes". She paused briefly trying to hold in her emotions of sadness and hate. "He maimed her before my eyes destroying half her body thus why she is how you see her now, a cyborg". She took a moment to recompose herself. "I am giving you a choice Bothan, tell me all you know regarding your government's reason to spy on the Jedi, or seal the fate of your family. You have a choice better than what I did, as I will spare your family if you comply". In saying this she could feel Vinskk's conflict. "If you have something to add, then spill it out now", she snapped out to the Trandoshan.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

Free-Eyes looked at Kixi with amazement. "You're going to kill his family? I didn't hear that right, did I?" Vinskk hissed lowly, "Gran heard correctly."
"No! I'll kill you first, you karking space witch!" Aeil made an attempt to rush towards Kixi, but was held back by the titan Trandoshan, who carried him in a bear hug.
"Please...don't hurt them..."
The pity, the compassion he felt so early in the mission towards Kixi was hitting him full force now as he heard those words and remembered. He remembered what happened that fateful night. He remembered the bowcasters held to his head and his family. He remembered it was like to beg, to plead. He remembered what was on Trandosha, waiting for Vinskk to join them...
The graves of his wife and children.
"If Human wants family dead...then Human will have to do it herself.", he muttered.
He was mad now, enraged, full of hate from the past memories that flooded him. Stretching to full height, towering over everyone in the room, the Trandoshan roared out, "VINSKK WILL NOT KILL FAMILY! KIXI WILL DO KIXI'S DIRTY WORK!" He slammed his fist down on a table, breaking it in half. Free-Eyes and Aeil stared at the lizard in shock as he stormed up to Kixi, stopping right in front of her face as he virtually spat out, "Harm Bothan's family, his CHILDREN, and no life debt, no weapon, nothing shall stop Vinskk from tearing Human inside out."
Pain and suffering all bubbled to the surface of Vinskk's brain, his psyche, as he stood there, not breaking eye contact with Kixi, a stream of tears now leaking out of the Trandoshan's eyes...
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[Kixi Rajki]

Mako was quick. Her half cyborg body gave her that one advantage over most people not Force sensitive at least. In a flash she flipped through the air, ripped out both her Zat'nik'tel Gua'uld pistol like weapons and landed 2 metres behind the Trandoshan, both guns pointed at his head. "I don't think so", she sternly said. Kixi still bearing the grunt of her recent injuries fighting the Twi-lek Jedi Master, breathed heavily as the Trandoshan starred menacing at her ignoring Mako behind him and not feeling at all threatened by her. "I seem to have have hit a soft spot have I. Perhaps you need to be reminded that it is I who you serve and that it is I who decides when your debt to me is paid". And as Kixi said those words, it hit her. The Dark Side of the Force. She could feel it flow through her, and with that she summoned it at her command. She Force tugged the Trandoshan back a few steps as lightening came out of her hands. The Trandoshan hit the floor in agonising pain. Kixi stopped. As she stopped she also realised that helping the Jedi who served the Light Side was a fruitless and pointless exercise and no longer did she care about the information that Aiel had been hiding. She spoke to the Trandoshan with harsh bitter words, "Your place is to serve me! Remember it! I will spare the Bothan's family but you must prove your loyalty to me!", Kixi said gritting her teeth as she spoke.. "Kill him immediately and prove it to me now", she angrily hissed at him.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

Vinskk spat on Kixi's shoe, writhing in pain. He got up on one knee and hissed out, "In the Scorekeeper's name, Vinskk shall not rest until Jeedai slime drowns in her own blood! Vinskk renounces life debt!" He jumped up suddenly, yelling something in Gran to Free-Eyes, who promptly ran out of the room with Aeil, held at gunpoint. The Trandoshan continued, "Trandoshan has done the unspeakable now. To renounce a life debt...Vinskk is a Trandoshan no longer!" He knew she was weak from the fight, that he had a chance of killing her, and didn't particularly care if he died . His life was forfeit to the Scorekeeper now.
Unhooking a thermal detonator, Vinskk primed it and held it up, saying, "Vinskk is holding dead man's bomb. If Trandoshan lets go, everyone in the house dies. There is no deactivation."
At that moment he realized how much he hated her, the anger all pent up throughout the entire ordeal finally exploding as the Trandoshan entered a primal state of bloodlust. One claw still clutched around the grenade, Vinskk rushed Kixi and took a swipe at her, narrowly tearing her throat out with surprising speed. The second attack came even closer...
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[Kixi Rajki]

As Kixi fell backwards blood oozing from her throat, she called on the Force to create a Force bubble around her. It would protect her momentarily. The Trandoshan had forgotten about Mako behind him as Kixi fell on her knees grasping for air, and the other 2 aliens ran out. Mako fired three bursts from one of her Gua'uld Zat pistols at Vinskk's grenade. The Zat pistols were small and sophisticated weapons. One shot would stun you, two kill, and three vaporise. Vinskk who had momentarily turned the tide into his favour had lost that advantage as the grenade suddenly disappeared into nothingness. Mako then fired one single shot at Vinskk to stun him. However his armour was heavy, it didn't work. She fired a second shot which normally would kill, however that instead paralysed the huge Trandoshan. He too fell on his knees. Mako ran to Kixi as the Force bubble collapsed. She grabbed her head as she coughed blood everywhere and was about to fall, and then held her tightly in her arms. Kixi was struggling to breath, her eyes barely open as she felt Mako holding her. "Nooooooo", Mako cried out and screamed. She looked at the conscious but paralysed Trandoshan. "You Bastard!, you flamming bastard!". Mako tried contacting the command ship. But only static could be heard.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

Vinskk laughed, then gurgled something in Gran yet again. This time, Free-Eyes and Aeil entered the room with neural bands and ion rifles, made to block out external suggestions by the Force and to disable droids. They immediately fired upon Mako, disabling her with a volley of shots to her cyborg body. She would be incapacitated for a quite a while, but not dead.

As the two aliens hesitantly advanced in the room, the Trandoshan got up on one knee and hissed out weakly, "Vinskk always had plan...to kill Kixi and be free. Free of ridiculous life debt. But Trandoshan forgot plan after kindness shown to Vinskk. But when Human did this...Free-Eyes still remembered plan. And Gran had help from Bothan Jeedai threatened."
Free-Eyes looked at Kixi with a glare. "Sorry, Kixi. You paid good, but I basically owe Vinskk my life. He saved me when I was just a kid from getting too deep with this...crowd. What's the best way to repay someone saving their life? Helping them get their life back." Aeil was silent, training the gun on Kixi, his fur rippling, his face a mask of hate. No doubt he was enjoying the turn of tables.
Vinskk's paralysis was beginning to slightly wear off as he spoke again, this time a bit stronger. "Jeedai can never outsmart hunter. Trandoshan's life debt ends here. Vinskk will reclaim points lost for Scorekeeper and will become worthy again."
The two aliens held the ion rifles to Kixi's head. The rifle may have been made for droids, but it would certainly have still hurt her, especially aimed to the head. The Trandoshan slowly got up, still semi-paralysed...
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[Kixi Rajki]

Just before Mako had been rendered unconscious, she had managed to pull out her healing device. A very hii-tech apparatus designed to close wounds by the Ancients back in a neighbouring galaxy to the Andromeda Galaxy. Kixi's throat had stopped bleeding, Mako just having saved her life, Kixi was on her knees weaker than ever with ion rifles pointed to her head. She looked up at Vinskk and laughed. "You think I'm stupid you repulsive piece of kark? I knew this might happen someday.". As she slowly raised her hands she detached a glass test tube from under her long dress. "Oh don't worry it isn't my lightsabre as you can see". Despite the guns being pointed to her head, Kixi smiled, her facial expression one of pure evil. "You call me a space witch? I'm a thousand times worse". She began coughing blood her throat hurt like hell as Mako had only managed to heal it enough to stop the gashing blood from the wound Vinskk had inflicted.

"Back home we encountered a lizard species similar to yours. One that could manipulate their bodies and use human DNA to look like us. Only way to eradicate them was to create a genetic virus which only killed them. I was the lead scientist in successfully deploying such virus and consequently won that war. But it didn't end there. After the war was over, I ordered the slayings of millions of their kind in an act of mass genocide. We killed women and children all in the name of humanity. While you were on my ship, I took the liberty of studying your DNA while you were asleep. Your Trandoshan DNA is 85% identical. I had the virus modified". She shook the vile in her hand. "Let me go, as all I have to do is drop this and although Free-Eyes will survive, you will experience agony beyond nothing else. Furthermore my crew onboard my starship have orders to unleash it on Trandosha if either Mako or myself are killed." She paused again, clearly this was her last stance, or so it seemed as she had triggered a signal to the Calder mit Arhan outside to take off on its own. The two aliens heard the ship take off but never took their eyes away from Kixi. "I suggest you let me go and we all get to live". She smiled once again.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

Vinskk cracked his neck, falling back to a knee, not yet ready to stand. Free-Eyes helped him up, grunting as he rested him on his shoulder. The Bothan still had his gun trained on Kixi. "Let's move, Vinskk! You can finish this later, on your terms, when you have the advantage." The Trandoshan nodded weakly and spat once again, this time the saliva landing on Kixi's neck wound. "Vinskk has your scent, Jeedai...Vinskk will hunt you until the day Trandoshan dies."
The life debt meant nothing to him anymore, although it still stood, despite his earlier proclamation of breaking free. He had two choices, either to serve her, or to kill her, and at that moment, Vinskk chose to hunt her down. But later. He was wounded and she had the momentary advantage. Free-Eyes dragged him to a garage, where a speeder sat, dusty and unused. "I'm going too, right? You're not gonna leave me with her?" The two looked at Aeil, who trailed them, and Free-Eyes nodded to him. They all hopped on the speeder and left the building. The Trandoshan called a business partner then to bring the Broken Talon to him as they sped off to a spaceport, awaiting the vehicle.
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[Kixi Rajki]

Kixi yelled out as the three hopped onto the speeder. "I am technologically more superior than the lot of you, I'm going to attack your home world of Trandosha and kill millions", she waived the vile in her hand. "No one will stop me, nor catch me because no one can. I have the intergalactic starship remember?" Kixi's wicked laugh caused shivers to run down the necks of all 3 aliens as they sped out the building.

Kixi got on her feet. Mako was just waking up and Kixi helped her up. "They know of the Genghis virus, they're running", The two women ran outside the building. They were now able to comm the command ship and with the Arkhan above the skies they were able to track the speeder heading for the spaceport. With the Arkhan above they were also able to use the Asgard transporters onboard the Ueshiba. Both Kixi and Mako were instantly transported to the bridge of the massive starship.

"Take off now", Kixi ordered the pilot and bridge crew. "But we don't yet have clearance", said the tactical officer. "It doesn't matter, we are leaving, they won't be able to do chit to us". The Arkhan fighter ship had entered the Ueshiba's docking bay by this stage. The starship now hovering above the spaceport. "There", Mako the first officer pointed far below her. The speeder with the three aliens could be seen. "Good" Kixi wickedly laughed. She commed the transporter room. "Beam the three aliens on that speeder bike below to the brig". She intended to capture the three of them. Then she would go to Trandosha and have Vinskk on his knees before her and while unleashing the Genghis virus on his people.

The three on the speeder bike below spotted the huge Daedalus starship hovering above them. Vinskk instantly recognised it. And then a white ray of light flashed and enveloped the bodies of all three aliens.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

"Don't worry, I got this!", Free-Eyes yelled. He flipped a switch on a pack attached to his belt. The light went around them, phasing the cement around the speeder. Vinskk and Aeil stared at the Gran in amazement. He shrugged and grinned. "I studied it, like you told me to. What, didn't expect me to make a counterweapon so quickly? I'm offended. You're talking to-OH CHIT!" Free-Eyes nearly crashed into a pole. He swerved and kept explaining, "Antimatter particles! They're tiny, but they dispel light. I took them from her hyperdrive. She's not gonna be able to phase out of here until she fixes it."
Aeil was busy screaming into a comlink on an encrypted channel. "Mayday, Shadownet, mayday! This is Alpha 31. I'm in need of assets on my mark. We have a woman with a bioweapon at the ready! Notify the Sith government as well, tell them this is a terroristic threat to Coruscant, and notify the Republic to BOLO for an alien vessel, equipped with a stealth field generator in the Trandoshan system."
The comlink fizzed back, "Shadownet to Alpha 31, request for support granted. Sith and Bothan reinforcements are en route. Notifying Sith to shut down air space on Coruscant now..."
Free-Eyes zipped into the crowded spaceport. It was extremely crowded as they quickly descended and went inside the main hub, taking the fight on ground. Vinskk hissed, stumbling, "Now we wait..."
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[Kixi Rajki]

"What!", Kixi slammed her fist on one of the ship's consoles. Not impressed at what she had just witnessed. "They are going to escape! To contend with Kixi Rajki is to lose!". Again she slammed her fist on one of the panel's. Mako spoke quickly, "Captain, calm down we have bigger problems. We have just intercepted an encrypted transmission. We're working on decoding it now but it may take some time". Kixi nodded to Mako. Kixi had been humiliated by a bunch what she saw in her eyes as inferior aliens.

Kixi turned to her engineer. "Did you repair that hyperdrive while we were gone". She got a quick positive response from him. "Good". She turned back to Mako. "How far are the Confederate and Atlantean strike forces?". Mako replied, "We received news 30 minutes ago that they had just arrived on the fringes of the Galaxy". Kixi nodded in acknowledgement. "Set course for the Trandoshan system, however stop short of entering it. We will wait for that message to be decoded first and for the rest of our strike force to arrive". She paused, "Did that Trandoshan really think he could mess with the might of our noble House". Kixi had delibrately spoken with all comms open, decoded nothing and made sure the transmission could be heard in Basic. Her forces were on the other side of the known universe. Kixi and her crew had been all alone since the day they left the Andromeda Galaxy. She was hoping they would take the bluff as there would be no one to help her if the Trandoshan and co called upon their reinforcements which she was already certain they would. The Daedalus class ship then disappeared into the high night sky, not yet aware that awaiting them in very high orbit were enemy vessels set on an intercept course to the Ueshiba.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

The trio rested inside the hub, attracting attention from the people around them. Aeil's comlink garbled out, "Sith forces notified. They've shut the skies down with their planetary shield. We're probably gonna make this a dogfight. Republic forces notified, Trandosha is under a blockade. Bothan and Sith special forces are readying on your location. Keep in contact, Alpha 31." "Roger that, Net Command."
Free-Eyes nodded and said, "A dogfight, eh? Do we have permission to join in?" Aeil shook his head. "Negative. Let them deal with it. We'll join in once they ground her."
Meanwhile, Sith fighter squadrons were breaking into attack formation, ready to engage the Daedulus class ship...
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[Kixi Rajki]

"Incoming ships and look they've raised the planetary shields", Mako yelled out. "They're onto us. We can't go to Trandosha assuming we get out of this, they're probably waiting for us there". Kixi was quick, she was a great captain when it came to improvising. She radioed into the hanger deck. She ordered the virus to be loaded onto one of the Ancients Puddle Jumpers which were small space ships with cloaking devices but no hyperdrives. She spoke to her crew, her uniform shinning as she stood before Mako and her crew to make her speech. "We will exit the ship with the virus in a Puddle Jumper, we will wait until one of their ships lowers their shields, we have good reason it is heading for Trandosha. We will then escape via the Puddle Jumper. You will jump out of here to a safe location and come back for us later". The ship suddenly shook interrupting her speech. "Fire the Asgard beam weapon on that ship dead ahead. They're trying to block us".

A blue beam suddenly steaked out from the Ueshiba's powerful Asgard gun turret. It hit the oncomg ship head on. Destruction. Explosion. The ship was gone. "Mako lets get to the hanger deck". She pointed to the engineer. "Engage the intergalactic drive to break through that shield. It will create a massive gravimetric ripple sending shock waives to the planet's surface, given its not supposed to be activated close to a star system, let alone a planet, but who cares, as long as you escape, that's all that matters". With that both Kixi and Mako ran for the hanger deck and boarded the Puddle Jumper.

They exited cloaked and headed for the nearest enemy ship. A massive wormhole could be seen opening, creating massive gravity rifts sending shock waives in all directions including the planet's surface. And then the MXS Morohei Ueshiba was gone. The shockwaves hit the Puddle Jumper hard. The small ship shooked and bucked. They took on damage. Kixi did not anticipate this. "We're in trouble", Kixi looked at Mako, "The cloaking device has just gone offline".

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[Vinskk Revamp]

"This is not good..."
Vinskk and his company saw the beam of pure blue energy hit a Sith vessel, and like that, it was fire and chunks of metal. A shockwave then soon after ripped across the surface as the Ueshiba warped out, sending speeders and people flying and cracking buildings. Aeil inspected all of this with binoculars and stopped on something of interest. "Is that an escape pod?" Indeed it was. Unknown to them, it was carrying Kixi, Mako, and a sample of the deadly Genghis virus. They weren't the only ones to see it. Within moments of it's reveal, Sith capital ships turned their tractor beams onto it and held it there. "Strike teams are going to engage at drop point, Alpha 31. You are clear to engage as well, if you so wish."
Free-Eyes turned and asked Vinskk, "Let's kill that space witch already, huh?"
The Trandoshan clicked. The parlysis of Mako's blasters had already, for the most part, worn out. "Let us free myself of this life debt."
The three hopped back on the speeder, which miraculosly did not go flying off due to the shock wave. "Alright, here are the coordinates!, Aeil yelled as the Puddle Jumper was lowered slowly onto a clearing...a park of some sort.
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[Kixi Rajki]

Mako felt scared. Kixi could feel her. She hugged her closely and put her head close to hers. "It's going to be okay. You're with me". Kixi kissed her on the lips saying,"If we die, we die together". They briefly locked eyes. Then they got to work.

They were not gonna go down without a fight. Kixi could sense the dark side of the force all around her. Both women attached their Ancient body shields on them. The device created a protective force field around their bodies. Both also injected themselves with nanites. Another Ancient technology. This was a dangerous act, as it alone could kill them, let alone their awaiting enemies. However it was necessary to repair their bodies as Kixi was certain, they were going to go down. This fight was going to be about how many they could take down before they were defeated. Kixi readied her lightsabre, Mako her twin Zat pistols. The rear door of the Paddle Jumper opened. "Today is a great day to die!", Kixi yelled out as both Mako and herself stormed out.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

Sith soldiers, acolytes, even Lords awaited the two females in the hundreds. Bothans were littered in the mass here and there as well, holding blaster rifles, tough and seasoned. All in the crowd had their weapons turned on the two, and those who were Force-sensitive reached out in a collective mind to influence Kixi and Mako, to break their spirit. Aeil, who was in the rear of the formation, pulled out a PA comlink and announced, "Surrender! You're outnumbered and outgunned severely. The Sith will take you prisoner only if you lay down your arms now and allow yourself to be arrested. Comply, or die!" The Sith in the mass grinned eagerly, wishing to take their lives. It was clear that they had the advantage, and doubt started to seep, then cascade, like a waterfall, into Kixi's mind.

Vinskk and Free-Eyes were on top of a building close to the park where the scene was occurring. The Trandoshan was setting up a high-powered sniper rifle while the Gran talked. "What do you think is gonna happen? They can stop her, right?" He gave Free-Eyes a look of disdain and ignored the Gran as he aimed the rifle, peering down the scope to see Kixi's head. "The Jeedai is Vinskk's..."

 

[Kixi Rajki]

All was a blur, the world around Kixi Rajki First Prime of Sunrider moved slowly for her. She could feel the collective mind trying to influence her, however she had been taught from young how to shield against it. Only way out was to demonstrate to the Sith that she was a worthy warrior to them. Hate ran through Kixi's blood stronger than ever before. The sheer thought of the Trandoshan's betrayal and failure to comply to her command infuriated her.

She called on the Force and pulled in one of the weaker soldiers towards her and sliced hm in two. She pulled in another and repeated her move. She spun and moved like the speed of the wind deflecting blaster fire from all directions with her lightsabre, and lastly she summoned Sith lightening and fried one of the acolytes that had leaped at her lightsabre pointed at her chest. This was impossible. And she knew it.

Mako, Kixi knew she was in trouble. A split second loss of concentration and she failed to sense the blaster bolt that was fired from a distant sniper to her head. It hit her on the head, her body shield protected her as she staggered back. She looked at Mako, her body shield was all that had kept her alive. She couldn't take much more and dropped to her knees. All moved slow for Kixi, sounds distorted, the chaos around her a blur, she leaped over to Mako and with one arm brought her head and body close to her chest. Just as one of the Sith Lords was approaching.

Kixi eyed him in the eye and......... Turned off her lightsabre, dropped it and raised one hand in the air while still holding Mako close to her with the other. "I surrender", she exclaimed and yelled. "I surrender". The Sith Lord continued to stare Kixi in the eyes, could see the fear in them, fear not for herself, but for the other she held in her arms. She valued her more than herself. Very unusual for someone clearly powerful in the dark side. "Please", Kixi said begging. "Don't hurt her, do what you want to me, but let her go". Kixi suddenly felt a sensation, a flash of light, "Don't hurt her, do what you want to me, but let her go", Kixi said begging. That had felt weird, she felt as she had just said those words a moment before. And from that point on, she was at the mercy of the Sith.

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[Vinskk Revamp]

The Sith Lord looked at Kixi with pure hatred. He wanted to finish her, to have her and her friend spilt along the park, but he stopped himself. There was still questions that needed to be answered. He reluctantly gave the order to cuff and band them, roughly, as they were dragged to a discreet personnel carrier with tinted windows and the Sith emblem.
Free-Eyes saw this and told Vinskk, "Don't shoot! They'll take care of her." Vinskk hesitated and reluctantly packed up his rifle. "Vinskk will follow them." They climbed down the building and hopped on the speeder, following the now moving Sith vehicle...
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