The White Blade of Glyss

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"<Your turn to come into the arena, ladies>" the Geonosian guard told the two of them.

"<Roger>"

Jessica accepted that she was not very agile, not very fast, and would rather fight at range with either the Force (that is, her brain) or the massive anti-vehicle gun, if at all. As such she knew that Summer was going to be more agile than she is, and that each other were being sent as gladiatrices in the arena for Geonosians to see, prior to making their grand speech. But she was satisfied with Summer being able to learn lightsaber moves capable of real things against other padawan-level combatants, with their real lightsabers being kept for actual combat outside the arena. They are led inside the gladiators' room, after having made a trip to the arena, which was one city block away from the palace of the aristocrat from whom they bought Summer's lightsaber crystal. Inside the room were several Geonosians who also harbored dreams of freedom and status. Hopefully the aristocrat won't throw Jessica or Summer to the wolves.

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

"Babe we are fighting each other right?" She would ask as her feet strike the ground gently almost silently. She would continue to walk with her love. She was very proud of what she had accomplished with her loves help. She would continue to walk looking around a bit worried

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"<Are we really going to be fighting these space witches?>" one of the Geonosian gladiators asked its neighbors.

"<We may never know until the arena program is released: knowing the duke, it can choose on a dime>" another Geonosian gladiator commented.

"<The program has changed, space witches: you won't fight each other anymore. Use your live lightsabers, now you're going to fight these gladiators>" the lanista told Jessica and Summer.

"<Roger>" She then turned to Summer. "No, we won't fight each other"

While Geonosians were known to use political dissidents as arena fodder on a regular basis, Jessica had no idea whatsoever of whether the gladiators were loyal to Werah: they could have been prisoners that were imprisoned for otherwise-common crimes. It was unlikely that it was going to be Sith Triumvirate prisoners: most of them were killed off in Stalgasin. As they distributed the weapons to the gladiators, that is, the picador pikes, the Petranaki scimitars and the beastwardens' shields, Jessica expected the Geonosians to fight each other and to think of them as being just fighters like any other, but they will be proven wrong, especially if they both use their respective magic to disarm opponents, or even, in Jessica's case, use Electric Judgment. Here they were handed back their lightsabers: the green-bladed one was Jessica's, while the white-bladed one was Summer's.

"If you use pyrokinesis or cryokinesis to make the enemy weapons uncomfortable to wear, you will make them much more vulnerable"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would nod glad not to have to fight her love. She would feel the lightsaber and it was perfectly balanced in her hand, she had no idea how she had made it so but it helped. "Babe I wonder if we will fight tag team style or 1 on 1 cause I would feel much better having you beside me than being by myself"

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"We are caught in a trap. Geonosians are skeptical that we bought the crystal for a lightsaber: we are thrown inside the arena because they needed proof that the lightsaber worked. However, they didn't inform us as to the format. I suspect the format will be made clear only once we are on the sand floor"

Jessica realizes that she fell into a trap set off by the duke that owned the crystal used in Summer's lightsaber, as they are getting stripped by the lanista, while taking care not to damage the clothes. The gladiators, including the two ladies, fight without armor, and, also, the clothes are stored aside, in the same location as their other belongings, leaving the two as if fighting in a bikini or some other such thing. Also, the first two pairs of gladiators, that is, the Jedi and two picadors. That duke is a voyeur worse than the Zeltrons: to be fair, many among the Geonosians never saw Jedi in their lifetime, and yet we are the faces of the Jedi in Confederate service. I may be the Confederate mascot because Hyporians and non-Geonosian residents of Geonosis think I have such stunningly good looks, now to leave them with an impression of Force-powers that will last forever, she thought. But the portcullis leading beasts or gladiators into the arena is still locked. Which means that their turn in the card hasn't arrived yet.

"Clearly the duke is using us for show. But Geonosians can be a little... barbaric sometimes. They think us Jedi can fight just fine in our underwear"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

As Jessica answered Summers mind began to wander. She would wonder a great number of things, whether it would be tag team or solo. Then as they were pulled aside and they would try to hold her she would fight. This had to be some crime. SHe would resist and it would be held by several guards to hold her with her massive strength. She would finally be stripped of her shirt then they would pull her pants off. She would feel so exposed in her bra and boy short panties. She would cover herself but then realize it was no use. She would finally stop and then head over to Jessica, her lightsaber in hand. "Jess this is terrible why would they do this I think I am going to die!" SHe said embarrassed

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"Patience. I knew you were a little angry at the duke making you but I do not feel the duke sent us in here to kill us outright. He expects us to win"

With the arena staff safely stowing all the belongings they had, other than their respective lightsabers, the lanistas were a little shaken by Summer's show of strength. Summer had roughly the same strength (in bursts) as Jessica was, so they were to gently guide the pair to the center of the arena. They were facing the crowd, much like in Bloody Magic World, where the arena was a place for players to grind their units using one-on-one duels. But unlike BMW, here they were in a tag team, standing in front of a rabid crowd, who wanted nothing better than to see these space witches actually use their magic.

"<The masterpiece in today's gladiatorial games will soon begin: today we will have the space witches, the Jedi in the Executive Council of the Confederacy, Jessica Med-Beq, and her padawan, [member="Summer Sovereign"]! This will be a fight that you will remember forever. The Geonosian gladiator pairs will come in three waves: the first pair will be the picadors, the second will be the swordsmen and the third will wield sonic blasters. If they defeat all three teams, they can be let go>" the announcer told the audience of 40,000.

"<Let the games begin!>"

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

As Jessica spoke Summer would Calm down a little and breathe. She would allow herself to be lead into the arena. Once she saw the crowd she would freeze up. She had never felt like this before. She felt deathly embarrassed, she had worn little clothing before but never like this, one wrong move and she may end up mooning everyone... She thought about this as she ignited her white blade

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

By being nearly naked in the arena, Jessica was as embarrassed as an inexperienced Mandalorian underwear model would be in her first fashion show. She narrowly became one, were it not for her refusal to adhere to Mando fashion practices, whom she knew were brutish beyond belief, and where models were expected to be brainless beauties. The Geonosians were gasping upon seeing the two ladies in underwear: never had they have a chance to look at how gorgeous these Jedi were. To the 40,000 Geonosians in the crowd, these were as nothing compared to the two picadors coming right for them. Jessica couldn't resist the temptation to chain-fire Electric Judgment on them even though she knew that such an operation would force her to solve for the Maxwell's equations of the pikes twice as fast as she is used to, since the picadors were about five meters apart, and 10 meters from her. Well within range of her being able to weaponize EJ.

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would try to put the fact that she was in her underwear out of her mind. She had bigger fish to fry. She would begin to accelerate the molecules making up the weapons the two were holding. Having succeeding in disarming one of them she would then approach with her lightsaber and she would send a thought to Jessica Should I kill him?

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

No, Summer. This is not what the Jedi Code asks us to do, she thought, knowing that Summer would read that particular thought. While that chain-fired Electric Judgment may have been a little weak, it made both targets dizzy even though the picador pikes used as lightning rods. But it also had the drawback of rapidly draining her own mental abilities, meaning that pyrokinesis was out of the question for the time being, even when Summer successfully used pyrokinesis to melt the pike of one picador, rendering it unusable, because the weaon melting meant that its electric tip also melted with it, with the temperature having exceeded the Curie point, the Tesla coil in the spearhead didn't work anymore. When the other picador, still armed, closed in in Jessica, she thought of using the mind trick on him while the first Geonosian picador flew back to the gate for a new pike. As Jessica attempts to use the mind trick on the still-armed picador...

"<You will cease fighting at once>"

"<I will cease fighting at once>"

"<You will return back to the gate>"

"<I will return back to the gate>"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would hear her thoughts and would smash the other fighter over the head knocking him out without killing him. She would then come up to the man who was headed for the gate and just for safety measures slash the weapon he held in half. "That was easy." She said as she went over to check on Jessica

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"<Look at these space witches chasing off these gladiators using space magic!>" the Geonosian announcer screamed on PA.

"<We want to see them use their lightsabers, too, and not just magic!>" a member in the assistance commented.

"<Send in the last two groups simultaneously: they are more powerful than we thought>" the organizer of the games ordered.

Which meant that the two of them were fighting four gladiators: two with sonic blasters, two with scimitars. Keep your Force-energy for Force-speed, she thought, knowing Summer will receive it. Because she knew Summer was going to need more than just a well-placed shot of pyrokinesis to survive this, and another shot of pyrokinesis would exhaust her Force-energy. The first two might have been rather easy to defeat, the last four will prove far worse when taken together, especially the ones with sonic blasters. What was a gladiatorial match will quickly prove to be a game of hide-and-seek, especially with the duet being trained in using lightsabers. They expect lightsabers, more than they expected magic, from them. Jessica knew that, with such gladiators, they would use the flying units with blasters in an attempt to corner them, where the scimitar-wielders would move in for close-quarters. Let them close in while we exhaust their ammunition by running around the sand, she thought.

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would hear her and get ready to run. She knew they would have to split if they were going to stand any chance at all they would have to use trickery to win this one. That didn't assure Summer very much though she did use trickery while flying she prefered while on the ground to have a straight up fight. But she got ready to bolt, the tension in her hamstrings was real, she stayed on her toes with her lightsaber ready

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

One of the swordsmen closed in on Jessica while she continued to run across the cream sand of the arena, dodging the sonic blasters, whom she knew had a limited capacity. But with each enemy shot missing, there were holes in the ground. Plus sonic blasters couldn't be batted back: they would pass through regardless. She tried to block one as if it was a normal blaster shot, to no avail. It's useless to try to bat the sonic blasters with a lightsaber: you would be stunned if you are hit by one but no more than that. That's why they sent both gladiator teams at once, she thought, while still running around to dodge the enemy sonic blaster shots. But she would use telekinesis to send one of the Geonosian gladiators with a sonic blaster on a collision course with the other, crushing their bones in the impact, while having exhausted her Force-batteries. Yet the gladiators are still alive. And the swordsmen are both closing in on Summer. Your Force-batteries are almost running dry from all that running, this is your cue for fighting them with a lightsaber. Their scimitars aren't designed to resist a lightsaber, she thought again while she knew Summer would receive that information. Meanwhile, in the crowd:

"<Jessica is a wonderful witch, I have to grant you that much>" one of the spectators told its neighbor.

"<Wonderful and not just because she is a pretty face. His Grace hasn't disappointed us today: these exotic space witches are the real deal>"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would have been running around and dodging the blasts but as the Sword wielders closed in on her she would hear Jessica's voice in her head telling her it was time to fight. SHe would quickly turn around her white blade glowing. She would let them close the gap before striking out making sure to keep the fighters on her right side so she could see them. When they would attack her she would swipe her blade in a large horizontal Slash cutting both of the swords in half. They would look up at her and as the white light glowed in her bright purple eyes it would seem as though they were clear white. They looked at her in fear before turning and running. Summer would then turn her attention to the sonic blaster wielders. As she did the warriors she had just taken out of the fight would be hit and stunned. She would then look at Jess What is the game plan?

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"<Now that was a convincing demonstration of the space witches being able to use their magic, as well as their lightsabers. Clearly Jessica is the better of the two with magic>" the podcaster screamed on PA.

"<The games are over>" this voyeur of a duke declared.

"<Are you not entertained?>" Jessica asked, screaming as loudly as she could.

With all four gladiators taken out of the action, the games were declared over. Clearly they were able to overpower the gladiators, and they had a demonstration of Force-powers that warranted, to the Geonosians' eyes, the cost of both a regular gladiator fight card and a ticket at a porn theater. They all made it out alive, but were inflicted devastating defeats. They may be injured, perhaps severely so, but they all lived because they both followed the Jedi Code. But now that the two ladies made it back alive from the arena, they re-enter the gate and into the dressing room, where they are given their personal belongings back, including but not limited to, their clothes. Of course, their respective jewelry was preserved, too. These jewels were incompatible with Geonosian physiology, especially these wedding rings that each other wore on their left ring fingers. As for the injured gladiators, they were brought to the infirmary.

"Now you can put your clothes back on again. They are convinced by now that the lightsaber is the real deal"

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would quickly put her lightsaber blade and hold it at her side. As she was lead out of the arena she would instantly be at Jessica's side. She would reach over and take her hand in her own. SHe would smile as she saw her clothes and as the guards left she would look at Jessica in all of her stunning beauty. "Babe you are so damn sexy..." SHe would say it was random but its how she felt at this moment. She would see her things and instantly she would grab her wedding ring. She would replace it on her left ring finger. She would then proceed to get dressed placing her lightsaber on her belt when finished. She would then come over to Jessica "you wanna get something to eat when we get out of here?"

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

"This flatters me, and this reminds me of the first time we met each other. You're beautiful, too, and the Geonosians charged double this time because they knew we were the centerpieces. To this voyeur they call a duke, from whom we bought the lightsaber crystal, we are exotic creatures, and very pretty ones at that. And highly talented Force-users. Before today, all they saw of me was because I am the Confederate mascot to off-worlders. Now they know a little bit better who I am, beyond simply being one of the sexiest women in the galaxy. And yes, a meal would be well-appreciated"

And, of course, the Mandalorians would find her really gorgeous: never would a Mando modeling agency offered her a contract in the first place otherwise, and her looks haven't changed that much since then. But she knew that what made her stay so good-looking was mostly a function of her Force-power. Oh, now that she is back with her clothes and her lightsaber safely holstered, they could go eat somewhere. Just that they shouldn't expect fish: they cost a fortune on Geonosis and one is better off going to Nelvaan for these sorts of things. A good kebab isn't out of the question, however. Geonosians love to feast on nexu meat, however, and they never got a chance to eat nexu meat before.

[member="Summer Sovereign"]

 

[Eli-Mae Forrest]

Summer would smile and as Jess got dressed she would walk over and place a hand on her lovers rear "Babe do you know what Im thinking when we get done with dinner?" She asked in a suggestive tone. She would then smile and offer her hand "Shall we?"

[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]