Fandom Knights of the Old Republic : The Beginning of the End

[Riven]

He stood still, his sabers in his hands as he waited for the droid to attack as two more people enter the fray, obviously on the side of the droid. The black haired one is obviously very angry, shaking the dead twi'lek's body in utter anger, the other one, just stands there silent. He noticed something though, he sheathed one of his sabers and opened up his datapad, revealing the Wanted poster for Lilliah Varren, and the Missing poster for Nevia Gnuddar. He raised it up slowly to inspect the holographic images, revealing two perfectly matched silhouettes. He held his saber at Lilliah as he read the contents of the Wanted Poster aloud, "Lilliah Varren, I am Republic Agent Miles, you are hereby under arrest for kidnapping of Nevia Gnudarr. You will stand down." He pulled back out his second saber as he put the datapad away.

 

[MarkNorbert]

"I am afraid I can not allow you to do that." Sose said, as he walked towards the group outside the ship.


Using his mastery of the Force, he pulled the white robbed Jedi's lightsabers from his hands to him. When they got close enough, he elegantly grabbed his lightsaber and with an effortless swing, the beautiful red saber cut the two lightsabers in half, the pieces falling down on the ground, behind Sose. Then, he unsheathed his lightsaber and put it back.


(Sose was a Jedi Consular before becoming a Sith. He took the lightsabers with ease, both because of his Force mastery and the element of surprise. Trying to not make Sose OP. <_<. Also, if we all get together, @Riven you will be able to get a new pair of lightsabers.)


"Miss Varen, I must applaud you for coming to this pathetic excuse of a planet. Tracking you down with the Force here is, if not, impossible. However, a visit at a bar and a little bit of persuading has brought me far." he explained how he was able to find her, as he put his hands behind his back.


Sose took the opportunity to look around, at Lilliah's companions. His eyes lingered on them and remained on the droid holding a lightsaber. He narrowed his eyes at the sight, a few questions flying through his dark mind. Crossing his arms around his chest, but using one to scratch his chin, Sose became intrigued by the sight. However, he didn't had time to observe the droid. But how could he become blind about this?


"This droid is yours, miss Varen? I will have to ask you a few things about it. Now. Come. Or face the wrath of all of the scums on this planet. I shall escort you safely back to my ship." he said, then rose his chin a little bit high, his hands, back on his back again.

 

[Riven]

He turned around, both angrily and surprised, now facing both the group and the Sith. He watched as his sabers were slashed in half, the only remnants from his time in the Sith. He spoke with his distorted voice, in obvious anger, "You have destroyed my weapons. I am no Jedi, nor a Sith. But you have destroyed something very close to me." He watches as he talks to Varen, almost as if master and apprentice. He holds out a hand and charges it at the Sith, utilizing both force lightning and push, he hurls a ball of force lightning at the mysterious Sith.

 

[MarkNorbert]

Surprised by the outburst of the robbed Jedi, Sose was unable to properly defend himself from his attack. Pushed away and electrified, Sose flew away a couple of meters then landed on the ground, his face still facing the group in front of him. He stood on one knee, while the other was being used as a support for his hand.


"I admire your burst of rage. Use your anger to crush your enemies." Sose said, as he rose up, with his chin held high. "But not today. You clearly don't know how to use your anger to your advantage. Look around you, you are surrounded. And soon you will be swarmed by criminals. No matter how powerful you are with the Force, you will tire out. You have no weapons to fight with. You will never stand a chance. Learn to use your anger only at your advantage." he spoke calm, with a tune of a mentor.


"Or suffer the consequences like every fool. Believe me, I have seen enough of them. During and after the Mandalorian Wars. Are you, one of them?" he asked the robbed Jedi, curious to hear his answer.

 

[Riven]

His mind starts to relay flashbacks in the back of his head, he angrily shakes his head. He looks up at the Sith, still speaking with his voice distorted, "No! No I am not! I was a fool when I was one of you! But no longer!" He yells as he proceeds to use both of his hands, throwing sparks of force lightning continuously at the Sith, refusing to fall back from whence he came after all this time. "I am not going back to what I was! Never again!" He yells as he continues to assault the Sith with force lightning as memories flood his mind of his training in the past within the Sith.

 

[MarkNorbert]

This time, Sose managed to pull his lightsaber in time and counter the bursts of rage from the young Jedi. He watched as the boy got angrier and angrier by each second. In this futile battle, as Sose thought of it, he cracked a wicked smile and watched the boy, satisfied.


"You already are. You're letting your anger take control of you. How pathetic you are, pretending to fight the temptation of the dark side, but you are letting it take control of you so easily. Even Jedi's are more resistant than you are boy. You are nothing but a pathetic excuse of a Sith hoping to redeem himself by serving the Republic as a mercenary." Sose laughed, as his words poured out of his mouth with ease, with a hint of satisfaction from his voice. "Fall once more, boy. Let it consume you."

 

[Riven]

The Sith was right and Kylen knew it, he was feeling himself getting closer and closer to falling back towards the darkside as he continued to attack the Sith, the memories, coming closer and closer to him. He drew his hands back as he stood, ready in case the Sith was going to try something. He took deep breaths, enough for them to be heard as he breathed through his mask. Almost as if immediately, the memories disappeared as he refocused. He backed away a little, resisting the urge to attack him again. He force pushed the Sith into the wall and backed up, leaving more and more space within him and the Sith. He spoke with his voice in distortion again, "And you are nothing but a withered old man, lose the mind and word games, Ancient." He spoke more confidently as his mind refocused onto itself.

 

[Kazanna]

Lilliah had waited, bided her time momentarily, let them fight it out for a few seconds so she could gather her energies. She had tapped deep into the force, called upon the full extent that her drug addled mind could muster, and had been unleashing it.


Those few seconds was all the time she needed.


Lilliah's cloak flew open as eight of her nine lightsabers shot out around her, in a spiral, igniting all at once. Her ninth saber in her hand extending in both directions. She was no longer interested in the younger Sith or Jedi, or renegade, she didn't care about HK, all she knew, was that there was a powerful Sith, standing in front of her, trying to drag her back to the hell she had just escaped.


"Never again." She said, her tone of voice cold, and unforgiving, her eyes arcing with force energies.


Lilliah's sabers began to dance around her in a horrible spiraling wall of death. She turned towards Sose, her expression blank. The only displayed anger was in her eyes, and it was wrathful, so terrible not even hell itself would be able to match it. Lilliah's force energies lashed out in all directions as she moved towards Sose slowly.


"I told my master, in my last communication with him. That I was finished. That I no longer wanted anything to do with the Sith." She said bitterly as the spiral of her sabers began to alter, the sabers were rotating as they spun around her, creating a lotus flower visually.


"I told him I would do the same to any that came after me, that I did to those four." She raised her ninth saber towards Sose, "If you think you can take me Sith. You are welcome to Fail!"


Her force grip on her lightsabers would be much stronger then that of anyone elses. She was a master at manipulating the force and moving physical objects with it, so even with his powers, Sose would be at a very great challenge to assault her.

 

[Riven]

He watched as the one named Lilliah levitated nine lightsabers that were hidden from view. It was astonishing to be able to see someone able to use the force to pick up all those sabers, he knew for sure though, that she couldn't hold all those sabers up forever though, all the separate force focused on different items took IMMENSE focus and strength. He perked an eyebrow as he listened to what she said to the Sith. Kylen stood in the middle unaware of what to do, he knew for sure Lilliah was against the Sith, it was more then obvious the Sith was the true enemy here, but still, Lilliah was a target for the Republic. He'll deal with that later, for the time being, he'll count on her as a something short of an ally. He faced both of the groups, but most of his gaze is mainly upon the Sith warrior. Kylen clenches his hands into fists, waiting for someone to throw the next move.

 

[Penelope Burns]

Nevia noticed the strange young man standing in the middle of the two Force masters, like a fly trying to stop two titans from fighting. He was going to be crushed within seconds if he stayed. Nevia jumped into action, grabbing Kylen and shoving him into a wall next to HK before soon following behind. She wasn't about to be caught in one of Lilliah's Force attacks either.


With the immediate danger settled, Nevia turned to watch the two titans of the Force face off. Sose immediately showed his experience with the Force, and Lilliah had a level of potential energy that even a Jedi Master would struggle to defeat. If Sose was truly at that level of power, Nevia and HK could immediately come to her aid, it wasn't like she was fighting alone.


In silence, Nevia watched the duo face off, making sure to keep her own lightsabers hidden in case she needed to assist Lilliah with a surprise attack.

 

[MarkNorbert]

"If you want to get away from the Sith, by all means, see as you desire." Sose said plainly. "But do not expect your old master to give up just like that. And I'm not here to kill you, just seeking aid or information."


Sose returned his hands back to his back and began walking from left to right, never breaking eye contact with her. Honestly, Sose felt threaten by her, with her lightsabers unleashed towards him and he being the target of that force. Her old master feared her and Sose seemed to understand why.


"Look around you child." he said. "If I recall right, two criminals ran away and they will bring friends with them. You believe you can handle the entire planet all by yourself? Or with your friends? You have no chance. Not even I do. And I fought against Mandalorians. No, it would be best if you would calm yourself down, waste no more energy on me. If you want your old master dead, then why turn down a helping hand? Are we Sith really the savage beasts that the Republic and Jedi order portrait us?"

 

[Riven]

He grunted as he was tackled to the ground. He looked up to see the one called Nevia push him out of the way of the battle. He sits confused as he speaks to her in his digitally distorted voice, "What are you doing!" He got out from her, "Why do you plan on helping the one that kidnapped you?" He asks with obvious confusion in his voice. He sits up slowly, "Other then that, why are you with the sorts? She's a Sith as well!"

 

[Kazanna]

"Yes... You are..." Lilliah said flatly, "And I can buy my way back into the Hutt's good graces. I have the credit and I can get more spice. I know their language, and YOU do not. You cant manipulate a Hutt with anything other then a whole lot of credits. He made me murder entire colonies, I was part of teams sent to wipe out entire worlds! The barbarism of the Sith is beyond scope and I will be a part of it no more!" Her outrage at his words shone out in her voice.


Her dual saber did something then, that shouldn't have been too shocking. It split in the center, giving her a tenth saber. She began moving towards Sose, slowly, but purposefully. "You will return to him. You will tell him I am beyond him now, You will go to your death at his hands, Or I will burn you to death with the lowest setting on my sabers that I can set them to. It will take hours, and you will die a tortured death. Take your pick Sith. I will not warn you again." Her sabers ceased their rotations, four of them took their place around her, acting as shields, constantly rotating, the other four directed themselves towards Sose, one towards each of his limbs, but held, unmoving in the air. The two in Lilliah's hands glimmered as her grip shook with anger.

 

[Penelope Burns]

"Don't be an idiot!" Nevia said, watching him to make sure he didn't get up to keep fighting. "I've seen her fight firsthand, getting anywhere near her in a fight is suicide, especially when seconds ago you were trying to arrest her." Nevia spoke with an anger in her voice, but in reality she just wanted him safe. If he really was with the Republic, she couldn't afford to let him get hurt, not to mention she needed answers as to how he knew who she and Lilliah were. The Republic didn't know anything about Lilliah, unless some police organization marked her as a dangerous criminal, and the Council told Nevia at the very beginning of her mission that there would be no rescue party, no help if she got into trouble. "How do you even know who we are, anyway?"

 

[Riven]

He sits up as he pulls out his hidden blaster, "I'm not talking about this battle! I meant what the other Sith is saying is true. There is a huge collection of entities entering the area, I can sense it... As to who I am, why I'm here, and how I know who you are, that's classified. But I know at this point, classification doesn't matter anymore, I will explain later. For now, I'm betting that the twi'lek's buddies from earlier are back, but this time with friends." He continues to speak with his voice distorted as he loads his blaster, he's going to keep his identity a mystery until he gets offworld, revealing your identity is something you don't want to do on Teth, especially when you're an agent.

 

[Penelope Burns]

Nevia mentally hit herself for not realizing sooner. Of course more Hutts would come, probably enough to crush their crew of in-fighters. Looks like she was on protection duty for Lilliah. "You will tell me everything when this is done." Nevia said, looking Kylen in the eye. She wasn't going to bother using the Force to order him to help, he was likely going to help on his own.


"Here." Nevia said, wanting desperately to hold onto it, but deciding that they stood a better chance if he had a lightsaber as well. She handed him her own lightsaber, keeping her master's for herself. "Cover the entrance behind Lilliah, I'll get the one Sose came in from. If you need help, call for me and I'll back you up." With that said, Nevia ran to the entrance Lord Sose came in from and stood, waiting for her opponents to arrive.

 

[Riven]

He hesitantly reached for the saber she offered and took it into his hand carefully, "Thank you, I won't lose it." He held it facing away as he ignited it, revealing its green blade. He nodded, accepting it and deactivated it as he held it carefully. He looks over at Nevia, "I'm guessing you don't trust me at all don't you? Regardless I'm Republic or not."


He held his personal blaster with him reassuringly, he was best with a lightsaber over a blaster, but he wouldn't forgive himself if he lost her lightsaber. He walked off towards the entrance she told him to go to, holding his blaster in his left, the saber in his right. He told her something as he walked off, "I know you don't trust me, but believe me, I'm on your side."

 

[MarkNorbert]

"Always keen to violence, I see." Sose said, disappointed. "A shame you can not talk like a civilized individual. You can be amazed how far that can bring you. But no more need of you if you are unable to cooperate. I will find other ways to end your master's miserable and pathetic life. You do as you've done so far. Run away."


Turning around, Sose began walking away slowly, his hands at his back. His boots clicked on the floor, echoing them through the sounds of engines. It seemed that he couldn't get what he wanted. He had no desire to fight. Nor kill. He wasn't like the other Sith as she described them. True, he might be one of them, think like one of them, but he took it to another level. Instead of killing, he preferred to turn it on his side. Instead of destroying an entire planet, he would rather turn it into a core planet, loyal to Revan's empire.


"A lesson for you." he stopped in his tracks and looked behind his shoulder, to find another person appearing into view. "No one is good. Not even the Jedi. When the Mandalorians attacked, they slaughtered thousands. When the Republic begged for the Jedi's help, they hid in their academies, pretending the war never happened. And in this chaos, a leader was born. Revan. He didn't ran away. He took the fight to them. Something the Jedi Council couldn't do. And now, his empire is growing. A great number of his loyal men, including myself, are those who fought in the Mandalorian Wars. Those savage beasts, including your master, are nothing but fools who went on the winning side. But the point of this lesson is simple. Running away won't change anything. Stop running away, stop fearing your master and go become a proper Sith. Then, you can play pazaak with whoever you want." With no more words said, Sose used the Force to disappear from the pair of eyes that were looking at him.

 

[Kazanna]

Lilliah let her lightsabers all switch off at the same moment, they wrapped back into her cloak as they did, and she merged the dual saber back into it's original form, muttering, "I don't WANT to be a Sith, I don't WANT to be a Jedi... I just want to be left alone!" She snarled after Sose as he stalked away. A moment later, she moved towards the Twi'lek's body, and searched around for a communicator. She opened a channel to the Cartel lords in his comm registry, "This is Lilliah Varen, the Twi'lek Agent you sent to make a deal with me was killed mistakenly. I'll be waiting." Lilliah sighed as she slid down to her knees and looked at the Twi'lek's headless body with a groan, "What the hell... am I supposed to do now..."

 

[HK Fifty]

HK-25 did as he always did , always will do and always has done. Do incredibly stupid shit. First he assessed something.. There were still hostilities. It was in his best interest... Oh fuck that. Let's see how we could hurt everyone. Or... Sure why not. Varen didn't care. The Jedi pissed him off , and the others he didn't care about himself. He promptly then threw his saber in an arcing circle , intercepting the cumminicator. It sliced in half exactly as he wanted it to. He then pulled out his most powerful pistols : the mandalorian disintegrator. Why had he never used these , anyway? He then held one on nevia and one on the man in white , while he then tried (and failed) to try to locate the sith. He just figured... Why not try to get him to reveal himself? "ANNOUNCEMENT : if you do not calmly decloak and give me your ship , I shall murder these Jedi. The Jedi you very plainly showed you want ok your side. You must do this within 8 standard seconds or I will shoot them both , and you will only have corpses and varen.. The only meatbag I even care for. Anyway , let's get on with it. I would like to be going now. Perhaps you would join us , learn powerful force techniques? That's where we are going after all! Then perhaps we could... I don't know make our own planet? Star system? Give the dark lords revan and malak the disatisfaction of knowing we have a large section of the galaxy? Perhaps also you would care to learn of how droids gain the force as I did? So many decisions" with that... Ohshit.. He had some kind of vision , which caused him great pain. He collapsed to the floor. It was of him , standing in malak's flagship. He was killing... Everyone. Except varen. They were both taking out large groups of sith soldiers. He heard her say something about where the others were. "Query WHAT OTHERS?" He exclaimed , thrashing about on the ships loading ramp. Then the vision stopped. He promptly said "retraction : it appears we may need each other..." And then fell back over , utterly exhausted by the mental toll that wrought on him.

OOC

he isn't asleep. He's just pretty much barely able to move. That overloaded half his systems. Anyone that wants to , feel free to beat the shit out of him. He kind of deserves it being that he just threatened to kill everyone but varen.

 

[Kazanna]

Rather then allowing the communicator to be destroyed Lilliah caught the light saber, by the blade, using one of the few force techniques she was good at to deflect the energy away from her flesh and outwards as the weapon powered down she summoned it to herself. She scowled at HK and stepped over to him. "Stop being Stupid HK! Your going to get me killed!!" She shouted at him, kicking him while he was down. She was worn out, exhausted, but she was also pissed off. "Nevia, Take your new boyfriend back to the ship. I'll move HK... even though I SHOULD LEAVE YOU FOR THE HUTTS!!" She screamed at HK, kicking him in his head, denting his plating visibly. She used the force to lift the droid off the ground. She clipped his saber to her belt, she'd give it back later, his two blasters followed it, as did his ripper. "God, it's like my style... You idiot.. Why did you kill the Twi'lek! Of course the cartel is going to know who I am. It's what they do!" She was floating him back towards the hangar, back towards the cargo hold of her ship. "And enough with the idle threats HK, We flesh bags don't take them seriously, it just pisses us off. Any one of us could rip you apart from a distance too. Jedi are kind of strong like that. At least I know I could... Dunno about Nevia... or the new guy..." She scowled and glared at the droid. She didn't want to damage him any further until his processing matrix was back online, to where he knew what was happening, then they were going to have a very long talk. He was going to learn what it meant to be part of her ships crew.


Lilliah realized then that she was going to have to put into action a series of codes within her ship, rules that had to be followed, to avoid this sort of thing in the future. She sighed and rubbed her head. She hated rules...

 

[Riven]

The moment he walked toward the location, a blaster shot missed him by mere inches, hitting into the ground in front of him. He looked up to see armed thugs approaching. He pulls out his blaster, firing a trio of shots. Two of them go by, missing the guy in front, but the third hits it's target right in the chest. Kylen angrily continues to fire at the incoming thugs, right until his blaster is out. He sighs as he holsters his blaster and ignites Nevia's saber, charging at them with the saber as he swings left and right.


He uses a little trick he used to do a lot back then when he was swarmed. He used his free hand to throw force lightning into the blade of the lightsaber, absorbing it. He then yells as he swings the saber, slingshotting a combined force of force lightning at the incoming foes.

 

[Penelope Burns]

Nevia heard Lilliah's instructions just as a blaster shot missed her by an inch. She immediately used the Force to throw the two Cartel thugs into a wall. As soon as their immediate threat was over she turned to Kylen and used the Force to double her speed as she rushed to him. "Get on the ship!" She yelled, reflecting a blaster shot meant for her head.


As soon as he was alerted she returned to her position, noticing that the two thugs were now backed up by three more. She ran into their crowd, blocking their poorly aimed shots as she closed the gap. Without any sense of pity, she slashed her lightsaber in all directions, killing the five instantly. With them out of the way she ran to the ship, waiting for her allies.

 

[Kazanna]

Lilliah heard the fighting, and turned again, her eyes going wide, "No no no no!!" She screamed. All her careful work had been undone by the idiots she brought on board with her. She groaned and ran down the ramp towards Nevia, "What are you doing! Don't kill them!! My gods..." She covered her face with the palm of her right hand, "This day can't get any worse..." She looked to the other Jedi, and let out a bitter scowl of disgust. Tired as she was, she released four of her lightsabers and held them aloft. "Enough!" She shouted towards the incoming cartel assassins, "I want to negotiate, Bring me a negotiator!" She screamed at the first one that got near enough. The man, clearly a human, paused and considered things. The four floating sabers were quite the deterrent, so he glanced back to his comrades and held up a fist. He carefully reached up and pulled off the mask he wore, remarking, "For someone were trying to kill, it's strange to want to talk." He pulled a comm out of his sleeve in the same motion, and dialed a channel, "It's Rotan, Yeah, she want's to-" Lilliah wasn't having this, she was tired of waiting, so she pulled the comm from the man's grip with the force and caught it, "This is Lilliah Varen, I understand that several of my crew are complete IDIOTS! They will be punished for their stupidity, but I came here to build a trading relationship with your cartel, not to start a war. If your going to attack me over a single dead courier I think I should reconsider who I plan to sell the twenty tons of spice I have to more carefully." There was silence on the other end of the comm line and Lilliah waited for a moment, before a voice cracked over it, "We apologize for the inconvenience Miss Varen. Please return this device to the man who called with it." She propelled it like a rocket at the man, who caught it with an Oomph! A moment later, he nodded as the person on the other end gave him an order. He motioned to the rest of the cartel Assassins to withdraw. "We hope to do business with you in the future Miss Varen, But next time, we pray you'll leave your crew in your ship." Rotan said before he vanished. Lilliah let out a gasping breath and collapsed, her lightsabers following her to the ground as they shut off. She let out a sobbing heave of exhaustion, muttering, "The... things I do... for you idiots..." a moment later, she was unconscious, laying on the permacrete beneath her ships engines.

 

[Riven]

Kylen didn't need to be told twice, he force pushed HK into the ship with the last of his energy. The moment he turned around, a stray blaster got him right in the shoulder blade. With a pained groan, he watched as he saw the Cartel thugs withdraw, while Varen fell to the ground, unconscious. He hopped over, using his bad arm to heave her up and limp her back to the ship. He continued to groan in pain as his shoulder still had a smoking hole on its plate. The moment he reached the ramp into the ship, he crouched down, releasing her onto the ground of the ship gently. With another pained sound, he rolled over, facing the ceiling of the craft and looking at Nevia with a pained smile, holding out her saber in his hand with a tightly clenched fist.


"Heheh, see? Told you I wouldn't lose it..."