The Rebel Faction

Enroute to the planet the X-wing carring it's precious cargo of the jedi observer cut through the atmosphere. Vonta was flying with her jedi senses at the helm. There was a strong force emination coming from the second continent of the planet. And she was following it to the source.

What she came about as she passed over the horizon was a sight of total chaos. Three maurader class corrvettes were sitiing side by side. exchanging fire with a unknown force. It seemed like they were shooting at nothing. But on closer inspection she saw that there were droids advanceing on the ships.

As she made her first run over the battle she saw that there were many smoking craters around the area of the ships. The dispersal of the wreckage was all too familiar. They were crashed fighters. Along the ground she sees remanents of the crafts. A Y-wing Nacelle and a Head hunter air foil twisted to the point that it is almost indistinguishable from the other wreckage.

She swings back around towards the battle. THe ships appear to be vintage old republic the strange thing is that the combatants are useing mostly hand blasters. Not many heavy weapons. Flying down amoung them she uses force cloak to hide from their sensors. No need to have them see her. Leting lasers lance through them she makes a swaft of destrution.

One of the defenders seems to be trying to flag her down. Almost desperately. Shed wonders why.....

--Bring the Ship down. Or the force lightening well...-- The thoughts spoke in her minds eye. Just as a lance of energy cut into her sheilds. Almost over loading them.

"What the frill!!!!" Vonta cries. R5 screams in the back taking note of the damage. Sheilds at 35% and holding.

"I see it Setting down."

Be for she does so thour she switchs to lowwer repulsors and glides over the ground about 4 meters. Aiming the nose at the general area that the force lightening came from. There was a dark spike and another lance of force lightening came at her. She cut power to the repulsors and was a metter to the ground when she reengaed it again. The shock to the fighter was tremedous but not as bad as it could have been had the lightening hit.

The Blue white bolts passed over her. Lineing up her targeting computer she computs the general coordinates of the attacker. switching to proton torps. She fires the repulsors again and gains altitude. Takes aim and fires.

Two yellow bolts of light shoot from the front nose of the fighter. the Missles cover the distance in miliseconds. Hiting the attacking force at their hear. Droids were destroyed at ground zero. And others farther away were scattered by the shockwave.

The droids seemed to stop their attack. Turning back they move to retreat for now.

Vonta manuvered for the downed convoy of craft. She was greated by cheering onlookers. She felt a glimer of the light side in almost all of them. Some wore blast helmets with the visor down. Now what had she gotten her self into.

She got out of her fighter and looked about. The man that had warned her of her attack before she was attack was the one to greet her.

"Welcome stranger, And thank you for coming to the Aid of the Teepo Palidins."

:: Teepo Palidins! :: She had been expecting to find a source of strength but this is unheard of. The paladins of the old days. BLaster toting beings that use the force as their guide.

It was explained what was going on in this system. The Krath of old had taken a foot hold the teta system again. The other dimensional beings that affected the universe through sentients were amassing resources here for the conquest of the known galaxy.

The Some how the Paladins that were in hiding in the unknown regions caught wind of the plan. She must remember to pose the question later. They came here to either turn the inhabitants back to the light or at least disable their war machine before it could start.

The Krath here have grown powerfull. Utilizing a buried krath droid factory to construct a army of ancient monstrosities. Groups of them had even managed to sommon massive amounts of dark energy to use as a offensive weapon as they did againest the X-J fighter.

"But how could they have decimated you so. And if they took out your ship so easily why keep you allive." THe paradox poised a dilima of sorts.

The Palidin that was explaining the situation at had was quiet a moment. " They want our bodys to help channel the Krath force beings. There is a way to brain wash a force user. Turning them into a willing slave of the krath."

"So they want you as a army." she says.

"We came to stop them but we may have unwittingly given them the key to a complete victory." The two were quiet.

Vonta gathered her strength. "I am not a ordinary Jedi by any means as well freind. I am a searcher of the old ways. I am trained in the ways of the jedi, Aiki, and the Jensaarai. And perhaps I can turn the tide."

"All of these ancient crafts still exist?" He sounded as if they were the stuff of legends come true.

She considers her next words. "To a degree my friend. Remanents of some remain while others were hidden from the universe via the force."

The Palidin took his time for his next words. " But what good is a JEdi such as your self going to make? The army we face comes on a regular bases. Waging a war of attrition againest us. Soon we shall fall."

"Not if we strike back. What you have in me is a being that can hide us from the sight of all technology. The benifit of Jensaarai tutulage. Getting us past the droids with out problem and to the heart of the battle the Krath controlers." She waits for his answer.

"It is a plan that stands a chance yes. But what of numbers." HE wonders.

"I want you all to gather up none functioning droids. I can show you what to do. We may not have much time but it well have to do." Vonta gets to work. They need to reprogram the droids so tha tthey well be fighting on their side. ONce that is accomplished they can put them back in the feild ready to strike them from within.

It is like a battle plan of the old days.

The things set in motion Vonta trys her best to give the most experienced Palidins a lesson in force cloaking. twenty in all needed to be taught. Extending her mind to them all she shared her experiences with them Switching the force cloak on and off trying to give them a feel of it.

By the end of the lesson. 6 were acting like they always knew it, and 10 were using it weakly. It should be enough.

"Now Observer you taught us so we must teach you. You cannot allow the Krath the chance to even touh you. Or they may possess you like they have many others of our group." Vonta made no arguments about it.

In return the Teepos tryed to teach vonta the blaster arts. She already knew the basics of battle meditation but this was much deeper. It gave you a sense of your surroundings for hundereds of meeters simaltaniously. The masters were showing her the intricacys of the Teepo blaster. The weapon was esquisite. Some thing that in the trained hands was one of the most accurate weapons on the face of the galaxy.

She meditated on the weapon. Practiceing shoting a half dozen remotes at once on low power. After a hour she had a limited proficiency at it. But she could use the force power.

The minutes ran down until the time of the combat was expected.

The Aiki Knight thought that he should not need any assistance. In his quarters he sat and meditated. He felt his padawan so near the ancient foe. One that was almost as dangerous as any of the Dark jedi, Sith or other wise.

Foes that could eat and feed off a soul for power. Especially those of the force users.

Turmoil is in the force. The universe is falling to chaos yet again due to threats from all directions. He felt.....He felt.

He stood up immediatly. They were in a bit of trouble.

"Miss solo, when you come out of hyper space I suggest you be prepared for combat."

he did not wait for her response as the ship prepared to return to real space. He felt the battle as much as he saw it.

There were ancient Mandolorian ships battleing it out with a Nubulan-b2 Cruiser and 2 mauraders. The Ships that are attacking them though are firing bolts of dark force lightening at them. And this ship was about to matterialize almost in the middle of such a blast of lightening. He prepares to brace him self for any turbulance.

This ship would not survive the trip in is what the Aiki surmises. Fine then he takes matters on from here.

"You got me here miss solo that is all that I could ask. I well take it from here though."

He took out two more bags of jewels. "Here is the rest of the payment and a bit extra for the escape pod."

At that he left her hangin on that word again. He sped to the nearest escape pod and got in. The manuel release was easy enough. Pull a lever and she was away. Allowing the podd to go in free fall until he was past the majority of the heavy fire.

The battle field was set. The rumbleing of feet across the now barren wastes of this planet could be heard for miles. A rythmic clip clap of feet totally and unnaturally in sinc. The palidins sat in the trenches awaiting the coming battle.

The enemy had arrived now. Hundereds of them. Battle droid armed with swords and plasma energy bows. The battle would begin but not like it had gone last time.

The droids were now within firing range. Awaiting the order to fire obviously from their controlers. Walking over a ground littered with the remains of destroyed krath droids. Or so they would have thought if the droids had inteligence enough to think. From under their feet came energy fire. The ranks of the droids were Being eaten away at from the inside. Reprogramed droids in varies states of damage were repaired and reprogramed to fire on their fellow droids. A bout 200 in all strung about the battle feild in groups of four or more.

This throughs the droids into a moment of chaos. They are programed not to attack each other but here were two doing just that and not al of them could tell the allie from enemy so they open fire on each other. A hover command unit watches as it's troops are thrown into chaos.

The palidins take advantage of the attack and open fire. Adding a notther avenue to respond to. The control ship needs to restore order. 6 robed beings stand in a circle. And from them a bolt of force lightening cuts into the paidins line of defense. forcing them to take cover.

Vonta and a group of 10 palidins use this as their cue. Sneaking out amoung the chaos. She and her commando group sneak out amoung the battle. Coverint their presence from sensors and droids alike with jensaarai force cloaking. The group walks amoung the field. They must take the command unit to end this.

The palidins lay down a heavy cover. Her group was made up of knights and masters. All founght with blast helmets over their eyes. Making sight impossible. Or seemingly. They fire with a deadly accuracy taking the droids heads off at a extreme distance.

At the command carrier the master levitate them up to they upper deck where the robed beings where still unleashing force lighting at the teepos.

"Now!" Vonta cries out. She switches to full aiki mode. Drawing on all that that dicipline has to offer. Three more krath appear in full body armor.

One krath takes command. "Intruders! eliminate them!"

A second takes a moment. "But we need them aliv......"

"Do as I say!" The other quiets and ignites a light saber along with the other two.

The teepos scatter. The masters firing with deadly accuracy. And using a force made shield to deflect the laser bolts reflected back at them.

Amoung a hall of fire vonta cuts into them parrying a laber with her bare empowered hand she drops one with a nerve strike to the temple of his head. He goes down with out a fight. The second turns on her striking at her mid setion. She allows it through. The cortosis armor shuts the saber down ands leaves him open to the mercys of teepo live fire. He goes down dead before he hits the ground. The last one falls to acombined force push from the remaining teepos. the eleven boarders advance on the main group of robe waring force lightening wielders. They sense the threat approaching and attack accordingly with induvidual force lightening attacks. Vonta ignites her light saber deflecting the lighting. The masters sheild the rest.

Vonta moves in disengageing her light saber she makes a flying kick to one in the chest taking it down. The plan is to blow this control unit to kingdom come. Some of the palidins set the charges. A cry tells vonta it is time to go. But reinforce ments have arrived. 5 more robed figures. Firing more force lightening. Vonta and 5 of her team are caught in the fire. She summons a Aiki energy sheild but her stregth is wanning. She falls to her knees in her effort to maintain it. The others were not so luck. The 5 teepos fell uncouncious after the first assault.

Vonta was the only one drawing the attention of the enemy reinforcments.

The others were down leaving the charges set. Vonta was begining to black out. She watched as the timer begain on the explosives. The captures saw it as well but to late to stop it. Last she saw was a bright light before every thing went dark.