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Who Liberates You? (Mia)

Kaeshana - Firemane Villa


Kaeshana, an exotic world at the edge of Protectorate space, on its frontier to what was still called the unknown regions. For many centuries it had been isolated from the rest of the Galaxy, its people living in ignorance of life beyond their little orb. But then change had come to the planet, mostly based on a new order that had arisen through the efforts of their Queen and her offworld allies.



One of those allies now stood outside of her villa on the landing pad. Eyes cast to the sky and wearing a blue dress, face lined with vicious scars, Siobhan Kerrigan awaited the ship of [member="Mia Monroe"]. The former Mandalore would receive clearance from the Tirathana Skyport to land, so there should be no trouble getting planetside. As she patiently waited for the Mandalorian's craft to come in to land, Siobhan suppressed a sigh. A breeze of a wind swept towards her, brushing against her skin and long dark brown mane.



Unless you counted sporadic encounters here and there, they had not seen each in ages. Not since Mia had perished on that awful day during the Protectorate's spectacularly failed assault on Sith-held Coruscant. When Ordo had revealed himself to be the Dark Lord, though it had later been discovered that he was possessed. A meatpuppet the villain had played with. Like Shadow had with her. It had not saved him from being Force-severed by the vengeful Mandalorians. She did not know whether he was alive or dead.


Mia had perished and Siobhan...had not been there due to recovering from a coma being spaced had put her in. She would not admit it, but to a large degree the guilt she had felt had driven her to join the Jedi in their doomed assault on Alderaan. A battle she had been lucky to escape with after being partially mind raped. So much had happened since then. The One Sith Empire still stood and held sway over much of the core. That queen Akala's madness had caused a great conflagration across the Galaxy. Her flesh hand gripped her cane tightly. At least it was an elaborate looking cane, but as much as she hated to admit it, physically she was no longer at her peak. Certainly not after fighting her way through Vong monsters on Alderaan to find a portal to hell to get wife and daughter back.


In any case, they would finally meet again. Siobhan was fairly in the dark about what Mia had been doing lately, which she hoped to rectify. Far as she knew she had walked away from the Mandalorians. They would not accept her anymore. Perhaps due to the means she had employed to return from the dead, Velok's knowledge. Truth be told, Siobhan did not particularly care about what they thought, dar'manda or not. After all, far as she was concerned Mia was her friend and she stuck by her friends.
 
Mia wasn't really there when she received the go ahead from security. Though she sat in the cockpit and guided the ship safely to ground, she was a million miles away. Coming back from the dead wasn't a new thing in the galaxy, yet those she'd heard of that did never seemed to feel the sense of loss she did. She lost a part of herself in the void between life and death and she would never get it back. She moved on auto-pilot, running the ship through shut down, holstering a gun at her hip and pulling on a jacket. How long had it been since she'd seen Siobhan?

Too long. It was always too long, but that was Mia's fault. So absorbed by her own problems she'd forgotten she had friends to reach out to for support. That was until she'd received the invite to come to Kaeshana. Heavy boots rung loudly as she moved down the landing ramp, the sight of Siobhan bringing her away from her deep toughts and back to reality. She took it all in, all that she had missed. She didn't say a word as she approached, a slight frown on her face as she noted the cane. What wars had Siobhan gotten herself into this time.

Upon reaching her, Mia did something unexpected. She pulled her friend into a tight hug.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
 
[member="Mia Monroe"]


The hug was extremely unexpected. As a matter of fact it took Siobhan completely off-guard. After all, Mia was not the touchey-feely type! But when Siobhan got her composure back she quickly returned the embrace, as much as she could given her injuries, hugging the Liberator tightly.


No matter what had happened to her since her resurrection, Mia was her friend. "Welcome to Kaeshana, Mia. It's good to see you," Siobhan said warmly. "It's been too long." There was no reproach in her words. The last time she had seen the Mandalorian was very briefly on Mandalore when Verz Horak returned from his travels. After a few moments she pulled away, giving the woman a good one-over. For the record, she still thought 'new' Mia was hot as hell, but for a change she was not about to make lame flirtations and more checking for injuries than oggling her. "You hungry? Got food ready inside."
 
"Good to see you too." She noted the once over and smiled slightly. Mia had made a point of staying out of the wars and involving herself in less life threatening endeavours since coming back. It was something of a dull life if truth be told, but she had to address her issues, rather than take them to the battlefield with her. Her stomach growled at the mention of food and she grinned.

"Starving. Somehow ship rations just don't cut it."

She nodded to the cane. "Chasing sith finally caught up with you, huh?"

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
 
[member="Mia Monroe"]


Siobhan chuckled slightly. "Yeah. That and going to hell to get my wife and kid back," she responded dryly. She left out the part that due to the Force being wonky she had been caught in her own tornado when thrashing Fire Breathers on Alderaan. Suffice to say a building dropped on her and she had to chop her own arm off because a pillar was lying on it.


See, that sort of stuff was kind of embarrassing! "I'm kind of retired now. Crusading got dull and too costly." Well, there was more to it than that, but no need to flood Mia right now. Anyhow, there were more pressing matters, such as food!


Limping more than she would have liked she led Mia away from the landing pad and into the tastefully opulent villa, bringing her to the dining room. Very attractive servant girls were already busy filling the table with delicious smelling dishes of food and drinks. "Sit down, help yourself, got plenty here to fill your tummy. We so got to catch up on stuff," Siobhan said before taking a seat.
 
Mia raised an eyebrow, not believing a word of what Siobhan said. She had her hands in Firemane, so fund weren't exactly what she'd call short and Siobhan never expressed any signs of boredom on their travels. If anything, it was quite the opposite. "Uh huh," Mia gave a sly grin. "She's grounded you, hasn't she?" She was of course referring to Siobhan's other half. She'd met her briefly when Siobhan had been in a coma after Darth Shadow had blown her into space.

"Who'd have thought it, Siobhan Kerrigan, anchored by a ball and chain." She squeezed her friends shoulder as they entered the house, the smell of food making her mouth water. Settling into a chair opposite her, eyes wide at the selection of food in front of her. When was the last time she'd eaten properly? She couldn't recall. She began piling her plate with various dishes so she could enjoy a little bit of everything.

"I never knew you had a kid." she commented as she tucked in. "You've never mentioned one before."

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
 
[member="Mia Monroe"]

"If you want to put it that way! There are chains at night. After all the years battering ramming, I just wanted time with my family. Never really had one before. Tegs, Cory, Miri, my daughter," Siobhan said fondly with a strong note of affection, chuckling a bit. Crusading and battering ramming of the galaxy was very easy for Siobhan from a financial perspective. It was not for lack of financial means, but simply because one day she would charge herself into an early grave.


As much as she hated to admit it, she was not getting any younger! Physically she was no longer at her peak. "Galina's my daughter. I adopted her recently. Couple months after Teta and Alderaan. Poor lass was marooned on an arctic island on Kaeshana for eight years as a kid. Had to learn to survive against wild beasts with nothing but improvised weapons. She's my little angel. Trying to give her a family." Seeing Mia help herself to the food, Siobhan likewise filled her own plate.


"So...what's been happening in your life lately? You been staying out of galactic drama and stuff."
 
Mia wanted to know more about this adopted daughter. there was a tinge of guilt about her, had she not been so self absorbed she might have known of the girls existence sooner. Might have even met her too. There was still time wasn't there? She smiled slightly.

"Surprisingly, yes." She gave a small chuckle. "I tried to reintegrate with the Mandalorian's but..." she trailed off eyes dropping down to her plate as she played with her food for a moment. There was a darkness in her eyes when she looked back up. "After what the did to Ordo? I couldn't stay." she shrugged the darkness slipping away. "I left. Been spending time in my labs on the Tion Trade Nexus, working on a project."

She grinned at the thought of her golka, waiting to be unleashed on the galaxy. "You'd love it, Legs. They've turned out beautifully. A few minor problems I need to address but their almost ready. You can have your pick of the first litter." She took a sip of her drink. "Tell me, how is Tegs? You mentioned hell..."

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
 
[member="Mia Monroe"]


Siobhan was quiet and let Mia speak her piece. She saw the darkness in Mia's eyes when the woman looked up. However, to put it bluntly, it did not bother her. After all, she was the exact opposite of pure as white snow and force-bonded to the former Grand Inquisitor of the Atrisian Empire. She frequently had made use of what Jedi would call the dark side and Sith techniques.


Mia had justified grievances, far as Siobhan was concerned. And she was not killing innocent people or joining the Sith. "I understand. I don't blame you for leaving. I'd have done the same. I do business with the Mandalorians, but I don't really have contact beyond that. Wasn't really the same without you and Ordo."


Way back as a young Jedi knight, she had been possessed by Shadow and used like a meat puppet. In her mind, it was comparable to what Ordo had went through after Coruscant. She tensed a bit at the mention of Tion, but made no issue of it. Suffice to say she did not trust that trade federation, though Firemane had business ties to several companies that were affiliated with it. However, the mention of the beasts of terror brought a bright smile to her face. "Lovely. I can't wait to see them with my own eyes when you're done. And to have one of my own. My daughter...likes dangerous pets. A little too much sometimes!" she said cheerfully.


"Tegs is doing well, thanks for asking. She and Galina were among those teleported into the netherworld. When that queen Akala struck her again. It was...frightening to lose them. Terrified me. I killed my way across Alderaan to find a portal to follow them. The ghost of Adril, my dead master, guided me. But we all got out. Tegs is currently in Levantine space, seeing to Firemane operations there. New planets we discovered and are establishing relations with. I guess she wanted to have some action again!" Siobhan joked.
 
"Dangerous is putting it lightly, but I won't spoil it for you." Mia grinned slightly. "I'd love to meet Galina, she sounds like my kind of kid."

She listened intently to Siobhan's brief recount of the recent galactic attack by Akala. Truth be told she'd been too absorbed by the golka to notice the trouble around her, but she'd seen enough of the aftermath to know it'd been bad. She almost felt a twinge of jealousy at Siobhan's happiness. She seemed so whole and it made Mia realise just how much she missed Ordo and how much she missed Rel. Their time was over, she knew that and it was that that allowed her to wash it from her mind.

"I like the Levantines, they don't try to tangle themselves in everyone elses problems. Keep their concerns central and worry about their own people before others. Something a lot of the large factions seem to have forgotten. So what now?" She took a sip of her drink "You a housewife now, or have you got something to keep yourself busy besides a family?"

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
 
[member="Mia Monroe"]


"Sure she'd love to meet you. Told her some stories about you. The Levantines are a fine bunch, yes. Some of them come across as being too withdrawn or idealistic about the galaxy, but I can get behind minding your business instead of being obsessed with planting your flag on as many planets as possible or blindly crusading," Siobhan said.


However, Mia's question made her tense slightly. To an extent, she had been putting up a front. On the outside her life seemed idyllic. A beautiful wife and daughter, gourgeous girlfriends, a harem, her own company. Fame and power on Kaeshana. All this was true, but it was not all. "Been enjoying my harem, running Firemane this side of the galaxy, training students and...," at that Siobhan paused, unable to continue. She took a deep breath, visibly warring with herself whether she should speak up or not.


Finally the facade broke. "I'm...overseeing a planetwide evacuation. Or rather helping the Queen. We have about a year. Then Kaeshana will be destroyed by a massive asteroid. Too big to destroy it or knock it off course. Extinction event," she said finally. It was probably a measure of how much she trusted Mia that she divulged this to her. Her flesh hand was shaking slightly when she reached for her glass to take a sip from her drink.
 
Mia's eyes widened. "Feth."

To think that something so simple as an asteroid could disrupt an entire planet in the age they lived in was almost heart breaking. There were force masters who could wipe out entire planets, but stop an asteroid. She frowned, her food forgotten she reached to rest a steady hand on Siobhan's trembling one.

"How can I help?"

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
 
[member="Mia Monroe"]


There were times when Siobhan was grateful for the fact that her bionic eyes had robbed her of the ability to cry. For one, she hated showing what she considered to be weakness. "If you can get your hands on ships, that would be appreciated. Firemane has super freighters and building more...but we can always use more transport," she said with a sigh once she had regained her composure.


There was a long pause before she spoke again. "Galina is being sent to LS space for her own protection. Once the Queen makes the announcement, there'll be chaos here, probably civil war. I've got Firemane people watching my daughter but...can you help keep her safe?" she asked. "If it's not too much of a burden. Goddess knows you've got your own issues to deal with."
 
Mia nodded. "Of course." she agreed without hesitation. Siobhan was family, that made Galina and Tegs her family too, no matter how distant. She had so little of it left now, her own problems didn't matter anymore. "I've got a place on Laekia, she can stay with me there."

"I may be able to persuade the Levantines to lend a few ships to help, perhaps even the mandalorians too. I might not be among them any more, but I think they'd come when called all the same, if not for me, then at least to help."

She paused. "There must be a way to destroy it, if not outright then reduce its size and lessen its impact. Where is it?"

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
 
[member="Mia Monroe"]


Abruptly Siobhan pulled the Liberator into a tight hug, not wanting to let go. "Thanks you...thanks a lot, Mia. This means so much to me," she spoke, voice strong with emotion and feeling. Far as she was concerned Mia was family. There was no doubt about that. The words that left her lips were heartfelt. "You're family."


With some reluctance she withdrew. "The rock is an estimated 50km long, 18km wide and 8km tall. The Eldorai's deep space probes picked it up as it passed through the orbit of the next outermost planet. It's on the outer rim of the Asur System." That was the star system Kaeshana is located in. Our attempts to knock it off course using weapons, mining drills, even ramming other objects into it have proved ineffective. We'll keep trying to cut it down to size...but I guess sometimes there are no miracles. In any case I'm preparing for the worst."



There was a pause before she continued speaking. "Measures have already been enacted for the exodus, preliminary. To save as many people as possible, move the Skyport. We have a suitable planet picked out. Tygara. Located at the edge of Levantine space. Somehow a lost colony of the Eldorai ended up there. Don't ask how, I don't really know myself."
 
Mia couldn't recall Siobhan showing such emotion before, it warmed her heart to know that Siobhan felt the same as she. "It's alright." she mumbled as Siobhan hugged her tight. There was slight discomfort, more because of the emotion displayed than the hug itself. The pair seemed to joke, more than express their feelings. "She'll be safe, I promise. Only thing you have to worry about is that she's with me."

She grinned, briefly. Didn't seem like the right moment to crack jokes. Her food forgotten she thought about the asteroid. What was it that they taught forcers? Size matters not. 50km...

Mia blew out a sigh. "Only way you could blow something that big would be from the inside and with a fethton of explosives." she shook her head "I'm so sorry, Siobhan."
 
[member="Mia Monroe"], [member="Galina Kerrigan-Alcori"]


"It's ok. I've had time to deal with it. Can only focus on what can be done, getting out as many people as possible and ensuring my family has a future," Siobhan said, then arose from her chair. A slight groan escaped her throat, then she gripped her cane.


"And I'm very glad you're here. Wanna go see Galina? She should be upstairs in her room. Probably reading a book about advanced physics that's way too complex for me. My little girl's a big bookworm when she's not hunting animals in the forest with bow and arrows," she smiled.
 
Galina was sitting upstairs in her room, and as Siobhan had predicted she was in the middle of her Quantum Physics textbook and working through one of the lessons within. The young redhead certainly loved her sciences and mathematics. Specifically she was working through the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the math that went along with it.

Her studies had been extremely important to the redhead. Just as important as keeping up her hunting skills with her bow, and learning all the new technological weapons that she had missed out on, while she spent nearly a decade alone on the arctic island. So much of her time, since returning to society had been dedicated to learning basic first. Something she still wasn't perfect at. And the rest had been catching up on all the years of education that she had missed out on, so that she could at least be somewhat informed about the galaxy around her. Even with the coming apocalypse, she still refused to neglect her studies even now. And truth be told, they helped to keep her calmer and stress less about the horror that was just around the corner.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] | [member="Mia Monroe"]
 
Mia rose as Siobhan did, smiling warmly. "I'm glad you invited me, i'd almost forgotten what family was." her smile flickered, briefly and she dropped her gaze, blowing a sigh out of her nose and pushing her emotion back into the dark hole it existed. Part of her wanted to move round to make sure Siobhan was ok when the goran slipped from her lips, but she knew better. Siobhan was as proud as they came, pity and assistance was not something she would take with gratitude.

Her spirit brightened and the opportunity to meet Galina. "I'd love to!"

[member="Galina Kerrigan-Alcori"] [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]
 
[member="Mia Monroe"], [member="Galina Kerrigan-Alcori"]


Siobhan gave Mia a sad smile. Sad because of all that Mia had lost, a smile because she was here. But there was no pity in her eyes. Neither of them appreciated that sort of thing! "I'm glad you're here. Wherever I am, you'll always be welcome in my home," she said firmly and meant it.


She appreciated the fact that Mia did not fuss over her. Whilst Siobhan was softer and probably nicer now in semi-retirement, she was still as extremely proud as ever. So she limped up the stairs, leading Mia to Galina's room. Inevitaby her daughter had her nose buried in a very complex looking book. Siobhan was happy that Galina was adapting to the modern world and getting such joy from her academic activities, but sometimes it got a bit awkward when her daughter was talking about things her mother had no clue about!


"Hey, sweetie. Reading something fun?" she asked warmly as she crossed the distance, giving her daughter a hug. "We have a friend over to visit. This is Mia. You remember her from the stories I told you? She's come all this way to visit us."
 

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