A Hostile Invasion

[Bardok]

Titus was suprised as the hunter changed tactics. Instead of distancing himself from him, he dove straight at him. The man slammed straight into Titus, knocking him onto his back. The hunter grabbed Titus' lightsaber and tried to wrestle it from him. Titus held strong, and punched the man's face plating. The blow did nothing to stop the man. There they wrestled for control over the weapon.

Mr. wookiee had missed the bad man with the big knife. Mr. wookiee was angry. Mr. wookiee smash! Mr. wookiee drew his bowgun and fired a shot at the bad man.
"AWAHAWHAWAHWAWAHHAWA," he shouted his war cry.

[Maximus]

The sith would not give in. He refused to let go of his weapon. He aimed several punches with his gauntleted fists at Maximus' face plate to no avail.
Maximus reached into his boot, pulled out his fourteen inch knife, and plunged it into the sith's ribcage between his armored plating.

[Jack Starbuck]

Jack let gravity take him. He fell on his back missing the bowcaster shots that flew overhead. Having his heavy blaster pistol unholstered he aimed and fired three shots, rolled to the side, primmed a thermal detonator and threw it at the wookie. "kark you!"

[Xeones]

Xeones rolled to the side, as Jack threw the detenator. A good move by the captain but dangerously close to Xeones. The blast went off. Xeones was thrown several feet into the air. He landed hard on his side. The world faded in and out of his vision. Part of his armour was smoldering. He stood up wearily barely able to stand. He looked around for the wookie and Jack, he could not see them. He realized that he couldnt see anything the last thing he remembered was hitting the ground again.

[Bardok]

Kantur Set's rounds missed the human, who fell backwards and fired three shots with his own weapon at him. Two went wild, the third struck Kantur in the bicep of his left arm. The human primed a grenade and rolled out of the way.
Kantur Set had only just managed to dive into the bushes before the explosive detonated. Kantur felt heat wash over his back.

[Bardok]

The knife wound didnt go very deep, only about two inches. It still hurt.Titus bared his teeth and growled at his would-be assailant. He shifted his weight and rolled left, using his massive bulk to put him on top. Titus grabbed the hunter's knife hand by the wrist, and pulled it out of his side. Despite how strong the hunter was, the smaller man was still not as strong as Titus.

[Maximus]

Maximus was on the bottom now. A disadvantage though it was it also provided an opportunity to separate from the massive sith. He moved his knees up and wedged them between him and the sith. He pushed hard, and he and the sith began to separate. When he had the chance, he planted his right foot on the sith's chest, and again pushed as hard as he could. The sith fell backward, releasing his hold on Maximus' wrist, who in turn lost his grip on the sith's lightsaber. Maximus scrambled to his feet in the already thinning smoke, and looked back up at his enemy.

[Bardok]

Titus fell backward, and used his momentum to roll onto his feet. Titus was enraged, his anger building with each second gone by. He used that anger to call upon the force. The darkside flowed through his body, giving him a sense of exhilaration. He opened his left hand down by his side, and unleashed a bolt of blue lightning at the hunter.

[Maximus]

It hit him like no pain before.
Maximus had just stood to face the sith, when his opponent launched a deadly bolt of lightning at him. The bolt struck Maximus dead center of the chest, and electricity arced through him. His whole body felt like it was on fire. His muscles spasmed and his legs gave out. He fell backwards into the grass and continued to spasm as the current relentlesseley pounded on his nerve endings.
His vision teetered on the verge of blackness, and he fought with all his might to remain conscious. He fought to clamp his jaw shut. He refused to reward the sith with the howls of his pain. However long the sith could hold this for, Maximus would outlast him, through sheer will alone.
He could outlast anyone. He would survive.

[Jack Starbuck]

Des' helmet flew off of Jack when he fell backward so the initial blast gave him a small side affect of shell shock. He got up dazed and wobbled over to pick up the helmet. When he donned it on he sluggishly raised his rifle to look for the wookie, there was no sign of him. "Serves you right." He walked around looking for Xeones when he found him. "kriff...Xeones!" he ran over to his smoldering body and checked for a pulse, thankfully he was still alive. "I'm sorry." He knew the grenade was dangerous but he had no clue where he was throwing it because his helmet was off and the smoke was still up. "Come on we need to get you out of here."

[Bardok]

It was working! Titus could feel the energies of the darkside flowing through his veins. He would crush this insignificant little insect. Or rather, roast him alive.
But his plans were foiled when two blaster rounds struck him square between the shoulder blades. His armor melted away and he himself felt burning in his back. He whirled to face his new attacker.
A surviving soldier had seen the sith and had opened fire on him. He fired again. This time, Titus was able to deflect one bolt, and had to dive left to avoid another. As the soldier followed Titus, Kantur Set appeared behind him.
The big wookiee raised his hands over his head, and smashed them down on the unsuspecting soldier's helmet. There was a sickening crunch of bone breaking, and the soldier fell face first, dead.
Kantur Set bounded to his master as Titus stood to his feet.
He spoke in his tongue: "My master, I think it best we leave. You are injured and require healing. I have a ship back in my village. Now is the time to get away. We can come back and fight another day."
Titus looked about the chaos among the field. They were outnumbered, more soldiers were picking their way through the smoke toward them. The one called Xeones did not move, nor did the hunter opposite the clearing of him. Titus clenched his fist.
He then extinguished his blade. " You are right. Get us to your ship. Let us leave this wretched planet. I have a new task to complete anyways." And with that Titus followed Kantur Set off into the forest, leaving behind all the enemies who were so hell bent on killing him.

[Xeones]

Xeones heard a loud ringing sound in his head. Captain jacks voice could be heard in the distance. Xeones looked up and the Captain was right next to him, helping him to his feet. Xeones stood on his own.The wookie was no were in sight. "Captain this is pointless to fight here Xeones nodded his head toward the sith and the bounty hunter duking it out,, " Let them settle this." "We shoudl go help your soldiers in the main invasion."

[Maximus]

Maximus wasnt quite sure what had happened. He knew he was no longer being assaulted by the deadly lightning. He still had no control over his muscles. The continued to spasm and twitch. His vision was blurry. His body was on fire.
Finally, he began to get some feeling back in his limbs. After a few more minutes, he was able to sit up straight. He called up his biosigns on his HUD. Everything was good, his heart was beating erratically still though. Through some miracle, the sith had failed to kill him. As he read the diagnosis he found that not even his skin was burned. At worst it would be red and sore for a few days.
Maximus checked that all of his suit's functions were still in working order. Once he was satisfied with the inspection, he attempted to stand.
Once on his feet, he wobbled a little, but he was able to stay up. He shook his head to clear the fuzziness. Maximus looked about the field.
Death littered the clearing, on almost every inch. Dead soldier's lay strewn about everywhere. The mutilated terentatek lay dead nearby, a pool of blood forming around it's body.
The young soldier he'd followed to the clearing minutes ago was nowhere to be seen. His bounty, and the wookiee were both gone.
He had failed to capture them.
Maximus cursed under his breath and raced through the trees back toward his hut.

[Jack Starbuck]

"Your one hell of a soldier Xeoneos, I'm glad your with us." Jack got him up to his feet and handed him his carbine. He then got on his mic. "Des, how is the fight going? Were on our way to join you."
"zzzzzt not good sir! zzzzzztt there are far more Jedi than expected! there is no way we can take any of them prisoner."
"Are you sure about that sergeant?"
"Yes sir their everywhere! we can't even make it to the structure, command has sent far less soldiers than needed, this is a hell hole sir."
"Then fall back sergeant! get back to the gunships!"
"Sir? is that cleared by command?"
"If its not, then there gonna have to deal with it!" (OOC: *cough stevie *cough)
"I don't understand what there thinking! they can't afford to lose this many men its suicide, go ahead and cover the main assault force ."
"Yes sir."
"Xeones and I will be there within 10 minutes, this is Starbuck out!"
He turned to Xeones.
"Looks like the fight is over, we just need to give the main invasion force some more time to get extracted so we may have a little extra work if thats ok with you."
This wasn't a question

[Jack Starbuck]

The two soldiers ran out too a dirt path that supposedly lead to the temple entrance. Jack saw two stormtroopers running down the path away from the battle while a wookie roaring in rage was charging them firing his bowcaster at the pair. Jack and Xeones immediately opened fire on the wookie. He wasn't stopping. "Move back!" This wookie was blood drunk and Jack and Xeones had to get out of his path. Suddenly a shotgun round flew into the back of the wookie sending him forward face first, dead. Jack looked up to see Des' smiling face behind the wookie. "Son of a murglak."
Des slung his slugger and took a step forward, unfortunately it was his last. He flew into the air and after a moments pause he was flung into a nearby tree "No" Jack whispered it happened so fast, he could hear Des' neck snap from the mic and he knew it was over. Still in shock a Jedi walked around the corner with his lightsaber drawn. Jack gritted his teeth "No!"
He raised his carbine up and fired 10 shots at the incoming Jedi, and he blocked it beautifully. After the dance the Jedi pushed his hand out backwards shooting Jack backwards, forcing him to let go of his carbine so he could land in a roll. As quick as ever he unholstered his heavy blaster pistol and fired 3 more shots which the Jedi merely swatted away and continued his confident walk toward Jack. Out of options he looked to his pouch, one flash bang left. He pulled the pin and threw it high, The Jedi looked high to see the grenade but his attention went back to blocking another flurry of shots from Jacks blaster, then the flash bang went off a meter above the Jedi. Des' Helmet kept Jack from feeling the affects from the blast but he saw the Jedi dropped his saber with his hands to his bloody ears walking around in a daze. "Now you know." Jack was pulled off his helmet and let it fall as he unsheathed his sith shortsword. Jack was now the one who was blood drunk. In his blind rage he charged forward, no form, no plan, he ran as fast as his legs could take him with his sword held out in front of him.
It was at this moment the Jedi looked up to see Jack in front of him, and for the first time in his life, Jack saw what a true monster he had become in his enemies horrified eyes. The sword plunged deep into the Jedi's sternum, as Jacks momentum threw both of them to the ground.
Coughing from the dust their fall kicked up, Jack stood up to see his victim on the ground panting for breath with his sword still deep inside of him. He met the Jedi's eyes with his own, He saw the face of a young boy agonized by pain, blood was seeping from his mouth, and all he could hear from it was "pl..please..."
Shaking Jack unholstered his blaster pistol and let it drift toward this boys helpless face. He took one last look at the boy whom he would never forget, to the face he knew would haunt him for the rest of his life. Gritting his teeth he pulled the trigger, and no matter how hard he tried he couldn't help but wince.

[Xeones]

Xeones could feel The Captains emotions. They were so strong, Xeones could usualy sense the way someone felt, but this was different. It seemed to him as if he felt the same emotions. Knowing what the Captain just went through, Xeones did the Jack a favor by moving the jedi's body. He put it in a safe area. Xeones also picked up the lightsaber and put it away in his pack. Somehow he knew that Jack might need to see this again, just not now. All the sudden Xeones did not feel like fighting the rebels anymore. Before it had seemed like a game. The Jedi were the ultimate prize as you chased them through the galaxy. He and his fellow soldiers used to talk smack as to who would kill a jedi first. For the first time Xeones felt empathy. He saw the other side, what they really stood for. This was more than a small band of people roiting in Courasant to change taxes. More than a gang of no good slime balls trying to over throw the empire. No, what Xeones saw was pure. This Jedi enclave did not give off the same sense of hate and loathing that the sith enclaves did. There was something different here. It was calm, there was no power struggle in the ranks. It was just people who cared deeply about something. People who seeked to better themselves as well as there peers. People who simply wanted to study the force and become closer to it and their surroundings. Xeones did not really see these things, he felt them. Just as he felt the strong emotions in Jack, he could feel the pureness of this enclave. Xeones turned to Jack," Your going to be all right buddy, I suggest we..."
He was cut off by the sound of a lightsaber hissing.

[Maximus]

Maximus pushed the stick farther on his cruiser. The ship responded grumpily. The years of sitting in the jungle had been a little unkind to it. But it still worked and thats all that Maximus cared about.
He was still angry at himself, angry that he'd let that sleemo sith get the better of him and escape. Somehow, someway, he was going to find him and complete his mission. And he knew that the young captain and his black armored friend might have the answers he needed.
He flew on, heading straight for the temple. He hoped he arrived before the cruel tides of war claimed their lives.

[Jack Starbuck]

Jack quickly turned around his blaster pistol raised to see the the other Jedi standing defiantly 10 meters away from the pair. Jack didn't fire a shot, he didn't know why but he realized Xeones didn't either. The Jedi only stared and Jack stared back. Jack could feel something, the Jedi was searching him, but it was more than just seeing the physical. Jack knew the Jedi was prodding him emotionally as well as Xeones. He saw in the Jedi's face the pain he and Xeones felt and the pain they have suffered.
The Jedi extinguished his blad and holstered it on his belt and knelt by the boy Jack killed only moments before. Jack looked to Xeones and gave him a confused look, he sensed Xeones had the same feeling.
He looked back to the Jedi who put out a hand. The sword in the boy was pulled out by the power of the force. Jack took a step back as the sword made its way closer to him.
"He was my apprentice." The Jedi spoke in a calm voice
"Oh kriff." Jack whispered under his breath as the sword got closer.
Jack knew this was a Jedi master, and that he stood no chance against him.
"I'm sorry" was all he managed to say
"I know you are." the Jedi replied
Jack sword slowly turned so the handle faced him, he hesitated but finally grabbed it.
"He didn't die in vain"
"Wha..what?"
The Jedi gestured to the boy
"It is because of his death your destinies are now able to take place, now go in peace." The Jedi now picked up his apprentice with the force and walked back toward the temple.
Jack just stood in utter confusion and then gave Xeones a confused look and let out a long exhale.

[Xeones]

Xeones felt that he wanted to follow the man. He had so many questions. He felt that for the first time in his life he had seen a true warrior. No one in the empire seemed to compare. The sith were close but they were missing the compassion, the other soldiers were great but they were missing the connection. Xeones felt his chest grow heavy. He wished he had his helmet now. But he didn't care if Jack saw his eyes beginning to well with tears. He said nothing but turned to leave the enclave. They and the other Invasion troops would get a free pass. He simply walked to the dropships, not bothering to check his surroundings. It didn't matter to him anymore.

[Jack Starbuck]

Xeones turned and walked toward the gunships while Jack stood and stared off the way the Jedi left. 'what did you mean destinies opened?' Jack took another breath then leapt done to retrieve Des' body. He carried him back up and carried with with a brisk jog to catch up with Xeones. When both reached the gunships an imperial captain was standing in front of them.
"Excuse me captain but you are not permitted to leave the battlefield!"
Jack paid no attention to him as he loaded Des' body on the ship.
"Captain did you here me!?" Jack spun around grabbing the man of equal rank as him and pinning him against the bulk of the ship. He glanced at his branch and saw a 'transport officer' insignia. "Look, you don't know anything about this situation or maybe even combat for that factor, and if we continue this we are dead, we are all dead!." He let go.
"I will not stand for this use of --"
Jack punched him square in the jaw knocking him out instantly. He lifted him up to the ship and got on himself. He turned to see Xeones standing there and he gave out his hand to help him aboard, but Xeones did not take it
He saw that look in his eye
the look that showed he knew what he was doing
Jack pulled his hand back and gave him a salute
"Alright Chief get us out of here."