Curious about the strange writings on the card, and worried about the whereabouts of Gydion, KS call in the Rebel CSI team.. what fruitful bit of information will they uncover about our errant colleagues whereabouts?..
After wandering about a unkown planet after crash landing many moons ago Starkset finally finds some form of civilisation and pawns his collection of vet rewards to book package on a ship bound for tattoine! Once on the planet he finds a kind soul to tip him the credits to get back to Amber Ridge (No seriously someone was kind enough to lend me money i know its hard to believe)
Now finally after getting back to his guildhall and taking a shower he awaits new's on the rescue of Jess and also wants to know what day and year he is now living in!
audie enters the atmossphere of the planet dathomir, he crash lands near the Nightsister strong hold, little remains of his jedi star foghter and R5 is no where to be seen, he spots a ship landed near by, it is a ship of the Nightsister negotiation team, audie stows away in the storage bay of the ship...
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wegded between a crate of process brackaset carcasses and a cage of live Baz Nitch things are a little uncomfortable to say the least. The bay door swings open and the ships pilot walks in accompanied by what can only be a NS elder. Frm his vantage point Audie overhears what thier real purpose is...
... How are plans progressing with the smuggling of slaves to Talus? Very well reverend mother, everything is goign according to plan, the slave shipments continue, the Empire continue to pay and the stupid rebels have no idea what our true intentions are (muwahaha) Curiouser and curiouser thinks Audie, I must find out more....
that transmission was heard in AR, where most KS where just busy re-grouping to make a new plan to find all that are lost and unaccounted for (that's how u say that right :P)
Devon gets sick and tired of everyone bickering and yell's at the top of her lung's "I want jess back" So without delay the regrouped KS rescue team head's back to there starship's and head back out after Vader with a renewed vigur and fear of physical bodily harm from devon
"I'm not scared of Devon," thought Jibb, hoping that his habit of speaking his thoughts out loud hadn't happened; and that Devons innate telepathic abilities were concentrated on looking for jess rather than hearing anything else.
"I think I know where Jess is though" "who you talking to?" "no-one" "shh then"
*radio static* Calling all Spirits, I think I know where Jess is, Vader normally drops of younglings to the Singing Mountain Clan on Dathomir, but we're gonna need Audie to *charm* his way past the guards if we are going to have any hope.
Where is Audie btw? Anyone seen him since his last report from Dath? Anyone?
With the rescue mission hanging in limbo, starkset and jibblett head of to Dathomir to find Audie as he seem's to be the key to the master rescue plan.
Upon arrival on Dath starkset picks up the presence of his one time padawan and now a strong jedi knight but sense's a turmoil in the young jedi's feeling's "jibb's we need to hurry" the 2 brave jedi jumped on there speeder's and sped thro the jungle deftly avoiding all kind of huge hulking creature's.
A few hour's later they arrive near what appear's to be the Nightsister's stronghold, after taking out the binocular's and surveying the hostile's Stark turn's and say's to jibb "we should call in some backup" Jibb simply turn's and smile's the next second he's on his feet and force running into the stronghold his word's carry on the wind "try and keep up starky"
'I hope he's following' thought Jibb as he sprinted down the hill towards the cave entrance. A quick glance over his shoulder eased his concerns as he saw Starkset keeping pace a few metres behind him.
The first 3 guards were down before they even realised what was happening, swift sabre hilt strikes to the head rendering them unconcious. 'What are you doing?' asked Stark 'it would be much quicker just to kill them' 'ah, but not as much fun, besides, I dont like hurting ladies' chuckled Jibb. 'Ok, lets focus, were looking for Audie.. where would he be?' 'The sleeping quarters' they both said simulataneousy, as cheesy grins spread across thier faces.
Jibbs frame was limned in white light as a bolt of force energy hit him in the back, 'thats not very friendly, is it?' 'Now they made me mad' Thumbing the trigger on his sabre he turned to meet the guards, 'I dont think these are ladies Starkey lad, let em have it!'
For the next ten minute's Stark and Jibb were engaged in frantic fighting the air was filled with the sound's of saber's humming, women screaming in agony and the smell of burnt flesh but the two daring jedi made steady progress on the way down to the sleeping quarter's.
In a rare quiet moment they walked into a very large damp section of the cave where there was an overwhelming stench
"Something's not right here" said Stark "I feel like were being watched"
"I feel it to, we best be cautious" Muttered Jibb
They made there way slowly toward's a light coming thro another tunnel when all of a suddon there was a huge gust of damp stinking breath behind them "Watch out Stark" Jibb's yelled, but it was to late Stark had been grabbed by a huge mutated rancor and was being painfully squeezed by the rancor's massive claw.....
..convulsing madly and grasping for breath Stark dropped his sabre and fell limp, turning slowly blue as the air was crushed from his lungs. Jibb sprinted toward the hulking creature diving into a roll at the brutes feet and hamstringing it with a clinical strike from his sabre. Enraged the hobbling monstrosity dropped its struggling prey and whirled on its new foe, a massive swing of its gnarled fist connecting squarely with Jibbs head and sending him flying across the cave to land sprawling and unconcious some 15 metres away...
Elsewhere in the cave a sleepy Audie had awoke to sound's of battle up above, he could feel the presence of his old master Stark and his friend Jibblett, he also noted that the sleeping quarter's was empty apart from himself, Audie stuck on his cloak and grabbed his saber while muttering obscene word's to himself.
By the time he had got 50 meters the sound's of battle had ceased Audie cursed as he knew he would have to pass through the Rancor enclosure...
By the time he had made it to the connecting passege to the enclosure he could hear more noise's of battle and familiar voice's he entered the enclosure just in time to see Jibb go flying thro the air and he also noticed Stark gasping for air on the floor.
Audie used the power off the force to grab Stark's saber and then force ran and jumped high in the air landing on the rancors back he lit both saber's and plunged them into the rancors shoulder blade's then ran down the rancor's back splitting the beast into nearly 3 piece's...
'white meat or dark?' he asked cheekily as he bent to aid the still immobolised form of his former master. 'just help me up will you' replied Stark tartly, although his true mood was revealed by the wide grin on his face and the sparkle in his eyes. Leaning on Audie for support they both made thier way to Jibbletts slumped form; 'erm, Stark? that doesn't look very good, should he be bleeding from the ears like that?' '****, no, its bad, real bad' Starkset looked around anxiously, knowing full well that the Nighsister guards would be returning any moment. 'You stay here and guard him and I'll get outside to call for a shuttle evac and lets hope to god they get here in time, any brain damage I dont think we would notice, but the wallop we're gonna get from Alas and Nixy if he's not ok is not goign to be healthy for the both of us' Stark grinned madly at his old apprentice and faded into the shadows chuckling quietly to himself.
Back at the entrance to the cave Starkset emerged he didnt have much of a moment to rest tho for as soon as he went to calle for an evac a couple of ns sentry's emerged from his left. "Oh fcuk" Stark thought as he thumbed his saber on he ran forward to engage his right arm swiftly going up to the right and taking the first sentry down minus a head then swinging himself to the left and bringing his saber around splitting the other sentry's vibro lance in half, then he followed that with a backstep and a thrust of his saber saw the other senty drop with a look of agony on her face.
He took his chance and called the shuttle evac in there ETA was five minute's, Stark headed back in to the cave to help bring his comrade's up to the surface and hoping that would be the last hostile contact of the evening...
As Stark approached the spot where Jibb lay he noticed no improvement in his condition; Looking across at Audie they both shrugged helplessley, knowing that there was little more they could do now but wait and hope. Lifting the slumped Trandoshan between them they slowly made thier way up and out of the cave, heading for the high ground where the landing beacon for the shuttle was placed. Audie looked around nervously, 'erm.. why's it so quiet? Not that I'm complain..ugh.aaaaaach' scrabbling at his throat and gasping for breath he fell to his knees. Jibbs still form fell to the ground, unseeing as 1st Audie and now Stark seemed to be having the very life choked out of them. An entourage of Nightsisters crested the rise, foremost among them a forboding figure dressed in fine regalia and arcane symbols. 'SLAVE!' she screamed at Audie 'You dare to defy me you puny weasel?'
Elsewhere assembled at a nearby starport was some of KS's finer member's after hearing of Stark's and Jibb's hasty flight to Dathomir Marrt had decided they would need a backup team. He arrived and scanned for any transmission's on the planet and when he heard Stark call for a shuttle evac he and the rest of this little KS team headed straight for the co-ord's. Pendarric took the lead his stealth abilitie's alway's invaluable as when he neared the co-ord's he spotted a bunch of nightsisters approaching the trio of jedi in dire trouble.
He commed into mart and told them to hurry, things were getting very nasty very quickly, Pen went into stealth mode and picked his spot he took his aim on who he beilieved to be the Nightsister's leader he wanted to wait for the rest but he sensed his friend's couldnt last much longer he fired....
The elders form lit up with corruscating engery as she was hit by a bolt of power from somehwere off to the groups left. Audie passed out and slumped to the floor next to the critical form of Jibb. Shots rang out and Stark vaguely made out a shimmery form in the distance running from cover to cover. 'They better hurry' thought the Lone Jedi 'I reckon I've got about 60 seconds before things get horribly out of hand'
The group of nightsister's where now feeling slightly unbalanced the group split into two groups one trying to find there new uninvited guest and the other still concentrating on the group of jedi in front of them. Stark with a little bit of hope restored throw his saber to the group of remaining NS neatly decapiting one and wounding another tho the elder recovering from her blow sent a bolt of lightning at Stark which threw him backward's and into a rock, Starks world started to go hazy but just before his view was gone completly he noticed the the elder NS group being flung apart by the impact of a missle hitting the ground between them.
Stark heard a familiar voice shout out "sorry were late" it was Marrt, Stark mumbled out "about bloody time" then he to joined his jedi companion's in unconciousness
Stark awoke to find himself laying on a bed in the med bay of what appeared to be Roms bulk freighter. His blurry vision took in the sights around him. Audie was sat off to one side being tended by a med droid and Jibb floated in a Bacta tank across the room from him. Alas's face came sharply into focus, stood next to his bed. 'What the hell happened?' 'You 2 go running off to rescue captain hormones and the next thing I hear is a distress call from Marrt about getting to Dath asap' 'Its a long story..' Stark muttered.. 'will he be ok?' he gestured towards the bacta tank. 'Its too early to say yet, he's in pretty bad shape' she sighed, 'but stop avoiding the question.. what happened?'
'deep breath, steady yourself son' thought Stark 'Well, it all went a bit wrong when we wer...'
Proximity Alarms overrided the sound of his voice and Roms voice came over the ships comm. 'Incoming gunboats and they've got an escort; I'm gonna try to outrun 'em'...
"outrun them in this hunk of junk u got to be kidding" Marrt blurted out in Rom's ear, once again Marrt was on his comm calling for any KS space refinforcment's Waro was the first to answer "send me the co-ord's and i will be straight there"
All the while Marrt was busy getting help Rom was franticcaly trying to outmanouver and outrun the pursueing ship's, Alas and Stark came stumbling into the ****pit nearly falling to the floor as the freighter shock all over.
"Watch out for the astroid's Rom" shouted Alas "hmmmpf you think u could do much better then!" retorted Rom.
Another voice came through on Marrt's comm "Pen here sorry was jus away from comm in the toilet, i'm 8k away from your position and closing in fast" Marrt made a very audible sigh and slunk back in the chair "dont we ever get a break" he mutterd as another astroid smashed into the side of the freighter..