The Shaper's Perch

[Hurrikaine]

Hurrikaine saw that Skeang was holding back. That he was suppressing the anger and the strength that he fought with the last time they had come to blows. His body began to fly around wildly slicing and kicking at Skeang at a breakneck speed with a wild array of attacks.

[Skeang]

Skeang parried Hurrikaine's attacks as quickly as they came in. He felt a knick on his shoulder, as it was growing back he knew this fight could go on forever. Skeang had to make an attack, he sliced toward Hurrikaine's head so not to hurt the crystal that was his mind.

[Hurrikaine]

The nick that came out of Skeang's shoulder was just what whoever was controlling Skeang wanted. One of his free arms reached out and grabbed for it but the person who controlling him did not noticed the saber headed straight toward his head. Hurrikiane tried to dodge but his injured leg lagged when he moved resulting in it being cut off at the knee. Without hesitation Hurrikaine continued to fly backward releasing every explosive he had on him, toward Skeang.

"Farewell I am sure we will cross paths again unless you are willing to let your friend run around the galaxy under my control."

[Skeang]

Skeang covered himself with his arms allowing the explosions to knock him back as they were unavoidable. By the time Skeang was able to look around Hurrikaine was long gone. He felt Lents power activate nearby, Skeang rushed off to find him.

[Hurrikaine]

Hurrikaine put the tissue that he had taken from Skeang in with an incredible archive of parts from other animals. The voice in his head began to speak directly to him.

Voice: "You are a strange creature shard."

Hurrikaine: "What do you want with me?"

Voice: "Well its not what I want from you its what you can earn from me"

Hurrikaine: "Earn? EARN? You are controlling me like a puppet you can do what you want with me right now stop toying with me and say what you are doing."

Voice: "Well you see I like to think of myself as an advocate of change. I shape things, reform them and make them better as I see fit."

Hurrikaine: "I noticed what you did to my body it was quite an upgrade but when I get to you it will be something you regret."

Voice: "Now see I meant more then just changing you physically I want to turn you into more then just a Jedi. I want to make you a free and independent worker of mine. That is why I am going to try a little controlled experiment with you."

Hurrikaine: "So I am some sort of lab rat now am I?"

Voice: "Look I am going to put you to sleep again so that I can repair your leg but when you wake up you will have full control of your body again. I will be nothing more then a voice in your head monitoring you. Once you are there I will give you a few tasks to take care of."

Hurrikaine: "It can't be that simple cause you know I will run away."

Voice: "Well it won't be total freedom I mean I can control you if I want to but your motivation for these tasks will be that your new leg will be basic and useless in turn with your intact leg you will be at a major disadvantage. If you complete these tasks you will get a new leg and more upgrades turning you into a jedi who is an even match for even the sturdiest sith."

Hurrikaine: "Do work for you just to become stronger? I will only be making my enemy stronger."

Voice: "You may act like that now but I scanned you when I was fixing your body the first time. You constantly fear that you will become obsolete and will die. Your fear is what will keep you here."

Hurrikaine: "I.. I don't fear that enough to help you out."

Voice: "Well look I have my own beliefs about you but if it helps you do your new job for me I will take control of you and invade more enclaves that will soon after come under empire attacks due to the fact that we can track where you are at all times."

Hurrikaine: "You are a monster.. but you leave me with little choice. Make me stronger and give me free will that will keep my friends out of harm's way and I will do any minimal task you ask of me."

Voice: "Good good..... *laughs* You have incredible potential and I will bring that out in you. Just rest now your first task will start in a day or so. You will have to rely on your own skill and compensate for the new leg I am putting on you. So no holding back. Now sleep... My pets are not working as intended so I have a Jedi to kill."

[Eth Erzin]

Lents' lightsaber swung in a blurry circle, slicing off the barbed tip of the voxyn's tail. The tail retreated, but the tip continued flying towards Lents' face. He flinched out of the way, but lost his grip on the side of the tank and slipped downwards.
Wondering how much punishment the glass could take before the voxyn's broke through--"Probably not much"--Lents redirected his lightsaber to stay floating outside the tank, swinging it angrily at any voxyn that got too close.

[Skeang]

Skeang was still lost in the maze he sent Lents a message.
"Where are you? There is a droid running around here missing a leg be on guard."

[Wild Animal]

The creatures backed away from the tank, wanting to avoid their target's weapon. Once they were far enough away they spaced themselves evenly between one another, all of them facing the tank. In unison they emitted an ear-splitting, high-frequency screech, shattering the tube their prey was hiding in.

10 SECONDS TILL SECURITY SYSTEM RE-BOOT.

[Eth Erzin]

The glass crumbled around Lents, and the maddening screech overwhelmed his sensitive mind. He writhed into a contorted and helpless mess, clutching his head as he lost his Force grip on his lightsaber. This was not good. He needed to fight back. To get up. If he hesitated now, they would leap in, and then he would die here, in the middle of the Maw where his body would never be found.
So he fought back, using the force to block his head from the attack, and slowly pushed the sound waves back. He couldn't repair the tank, but he could make a precision counter-attack if he acted fast. He reached up with the Force and swept the waves down, looping them back at the voxyns. Redirecting the waves back, he lashed out with ll his energy, punching the energy at the three predators. They obviously weren't affected by their own sound, but the flow of energy aided Lents' Force push he unleashed in their direction.
As they stumbled back on their feet, he pounced after them, physically grabbing his lightsaber as he didn't have the concentration to maintain the Force push and control the blade as well. The voxyns stumbled back head-over-heels and Lents' yellow blade shone again as he swiped it in an upwards arc at the voxyn on the left.

[Wild Animal]

Regaining its footing, the voxyn on the left leapt back and to the right, avoiding the strike. It stood up on its 4 hind legs and began regurgitating acid that it would spray out at its prey.

SECURITY BACK UP SYSTEMS ONLINE.

Sounds of machinery coming back online sounded and the ray shields around the tubes flickered back to life. The voxyn who was poised to eject its volatile spray was standing where the shattered tube had once stood; thus as it fired its digestive contents, they collided with the shields and splattered all over its firer. The Voxyn shrieked as it was blinded by its own acids and curled on the floor of its new pen.

The other two payed no attention to their caged commrade. The one who was at the center of the small pack leaped out at the humanoid, while the other stood with its tail poised to strike it he dodged.

[Eth Erzin]

Lents stumbled forward, not remembering about the ray shields before he almost ran into them. He pinwheeled his arms and avoided contact with the shield, and still held his activated lightsaber. As it flailed around, he suddenly felt a heavy weight on his side, and flinched back away from the ray shield. The voxyn's claws scratched and raked at Lents' breastplate, and he scrambled back to avoid a certainly fatal assault; but suddenly the creature stopped moving, and toppled to the ground. Lents could just see at the angle, but his lightsaber had accidentally sliced open the voxyn's stomach when he had narrowly voided being fried by the ray shield.
Breathing heavily, his eyes darted to the last voxyn, beyond the body of the other one. Two of three voxyns lay dead or incapacitated, but accidentally so; and Lents still had doubts as to whether he could defeat this last one without prodigious amounts of luck on his side.

[Skeang]

Occ: sorry if im taking control of the animal too much here but I want this thing dead and us out of here so hurrikaine can post when he gets online friday

With great timing and luck Skeang burst into the room to see a monster attacking Lents. He knew the creature was poisonous but knew that what would be a deadly poison for some would only be a sting to him. He grabbed the creature by 2 of its leg putting his face against its while he lifted it against his body exposing its underbelly to Lents. Its tail stabbed into his leg and it went numb with pain as the poison entered his body.
"Kill it while I got it held like this."
Skeang thought he had everything under control but the creature who was longer then he was tall spun its head around spitting acid on his face. The skin that had just started to regrow instantly burnt away and the flesh on his head and chest was combating the acid in a race to hold itself up. Lents had to hurry.

[Eth Erzin]

"Skeang!" Lents was incredibly relieved, the gen'dai had shown up just in the nick of time. He waved his hand forward and the lightsaber flew towards the voxyn, whose head was turned. An angry flash and a loud hum and the voxyn's head was no longer connected to the body. Lents hurried over to his friend. "Are you alright? Will the acid cause any long-lasting harm?" Lents deactivated the lightsaber and latched it to his belt again. "Where did you go? Did you find Hurrikaine or Sarvina?"

[Skeang]

Skeang threw the body of the creature aside trying to assess the damage to his body.
"I found Hurrikaine, we fought for a while but he got away." He panted. "But he is under control of whoever is the master of these creatures. Sarvina's scent or at least her phereomones are just a few hundred yards from where we are now."
Skeang fell to a knee gasping as his face grew back from the acid. The poison was spreading fast throughout his body crippling it while his body fought to regenerate through it, it wouldn't kill him but this poison made it difficult to stand.
He yelled. "The leg! Cut it off quick at the knee. If the poison spreads to my whole body it'll take hours to circulate out and we can't turn tail and run just yet. Not without at least one of our comrades."
Skeang grit his teeth in expectation but the poison's burn on the tissue was causing much worse pain then a quick cut on his leg. He was readying the force to counteract the pain but he suddenly felt an immensely dark presence heading toward them, not even trying to hide itself.

[Eth Erzin]

Lents maneuvered the lightsaber down to Skeang's muscular leg and swiped through. He felt weird mutilating his friend, but knew it was for the best. "Alright, let's go get Sarvi--" Lents noticed the dark presence at the same time he saw Skeang's demeanor also change. "Yeah, I sense it too." Lents pointed at Skeang's leg. "Was that the best idea? Who is this coming towards us?"
Lents oriented himself towards where the dark side presence was coming from. He angled his lightsaber to point towards the door nearest to the source. "You ready for this? Is this the Shaper?"

[Skeang]

The shaper walked into the room slowly holding a gagged Sarvina at his side. The shaper himself was cloaked with obvious large malformations to his body and a large amount of weapons on his person. He lit a bright red lightwhip at his side before speaking in a raspy dead voice.
"You have entered my factory and attacked my men. You have killed my creations. You have overstayed your welcome. And for a creature who even with my help could never be any use to anyone even at her full potential. Comradeship... So illogical, so ignorant taking any form it can, in my years of research the only thing I have never been able to shape is emotion."
The room surged energy as he lifted his arm dropping Sarvina to the ground. He kicked her across the room so she was directly between Skeang Lents and himself. The shaper then sent his whip right at Sarvina. Skeang jumped forward taking the point of the whip deep into his back.
"My point exactly. A creature with such perfect natural biology endangering itself for a lesser creature. So illogical, I wish to.. Improve you Gen'Dai. But if this is the kind of behavior you will frequently display I shall just destroy you all here. Your parts will all make superb materials."
The Shaper then sent his whip at Lents. The whip was long and it was obvious the flight path of it was being directed by this sith's force powers.

[Eth Erzin]

Lents jumped back and angled his lightsaber to catch the lightwhip. As he was weary from his battle with the voxyns, his muscles started to twitch and he was unable to control his body to the full extent of his Form IV training. Sithspawn! This is bad--at least I can still control my blade.
He gathered a powerful Force grip on his lightsaber and pulled back as hard as he could, trying to yank the lightwhip from the Shaper's grasp.

[Skeang]

The shaper let go of his whip allowing it to fly away as he quickly ran forward to Skeang with nothing more then his hand. Skeang saw this as an chance. He lunged forward slicing the robes of the Sith before him, but as he felt that his attack might be successful the shaper palmed his chest. The initial attack was not very powerful. Skeang pierced the shaper's back with his claws just barely as he felt the shaper's hand move in his chest. The hand itself was prods, daggers, different tools that he was using to cut the muscle tissue away in his chest til it was almost halfway though his body in nearly no time. Skeang tried to recoil so that the Sith couldn't cut him any further, but as he recoiled everything went black. The Sith shot lightning directly into the hole in his chest causing a large hole in his stomach to explode a large hole in his chest. Skeang was wobbly after but he readied one of his sabers slashing down at the Sith who was directly in front of him. The Sith dodged to the side with lots of time left to spare. The shaper took his clawed hand and slashed all detail off Skeang's face with one foul swipe. He then force pushed the stunned Gen'dai, Sarvina and all the things in a small radius back several feet. Skeang passed out for only a second only one thought went through his head.
"This creature is incredibly powerful, no amount of strength could hit this guy, and his durability was being pushed to its limits."
Skeang got back up having his body partially reformed. The Sith had recovered his whip with the force. Sarvina having passed out from the knockback from the push. The Shaper waved his left hand as several sharp pointed spikes flew from the tips of his hand at Lents.

[Eth Erzin]

Lents had wrestled with the lightwhip, trying to remove it from his blade, but before he got very far, it moved by the Shaper's power back to him. Lents stepped forward to try to engage the Shaper, but then the Sith had assaulted Skeang so violently Lents wasn't able to get an attack in edge-wise as Skeang was torn apart and blown to bits.
Lents leaped forward with his lightsaber and was about to cleave the Shaper in two, but he maneuvered back and threw a salvo of sharp spines in Lents' direction. Flinching back, Lents reflexively punched out with the Force, sending the spikes scattering in every direction; but he lost his footing and stumbled back. It took him a moment to recover but by then the Shaper had already moved on to his next attack. Lents' lightsaber swung down again and clashed with the Shaper, but the Sith's body was somehow too durable to take any noticeable damage from the yellow blade. "Sithspawn! Skeang, what do we do?" Lents retreated, carrying his lightsaber back as well, but making sure not to take his eyes off the nigh-invulnerable Shaper.

[Skeang]

Skeang thought to himself.
A foe who is so fast and calculating that its impossible to hit him directly. How can one fight something that can guess where his moves will come from and react so quickly.
Skeang hand an idea but it required Lents to push his limits to an extent he has never seen before. He looked to Lents.
"I gotta do something stupid now, and it requires a large amount of help from your part. You know I can't say my plan in front of this guy but I get the feeling you will know what I mean when I say I need you to return the favor from the control tower."
Skeang mustered all the strength he had left into a charge. He turned off both his sabers and dashed preparing an uppercut for the Sith before him. The Sith's hands glowed with an intense force lighting prepared for the oncoming attack.
"You expect to take me out with one incredibly reckless move? Well come at me then, you will be completely destroyed."
Skeang smiled as his uppercut missed the Sith completely. The Sith blasted him with his lightning at close range and Skeang used it to his advantage as he continued to punch straight up into the ceiling of the room. The punch mixed with the lightning attack coursing through Skeang made the punch even more powerful as Skeang's entire hand exploded. Debris fell from the roof quickly caving in the room, separating the room in half from where Skeang and the Shaper were and where Lents and Sarvina were. The Sith grabbed Skeang by the arm as it grew back holding him from heading to where Lents and Sarvina were. It was all up to Lents to get him to the other side of the room before they were cut off by the debris from the explosion.