The Rebel Faction

The Dark Jedi had barely enough time to croch behind a steel barrel whhen the MTD detonated; flashs of light and molten metal spiraled everywhere, embedding into the wall and detonating chemical packs that had labels such as 'warning: flammable'

Alarms blaring; the Jedi finally regained his senses and rushed toward the door only to find it wouldn't open. "Must've jammed it some-how.." he said and took out his lightsabre which was, surprising, in one piece. He ignited the angry red blade and thrusted it into the door to make an opening, now he wondered how much time it would take him.

Hanger bay

Marine's rushed across the deck as the alarms sounded; an explosion had been reported on deck fourteen, aft supply room. As the soldiers boarded the elevator, mechanics just went about their daily work of repairing and refitting ships had docked in this bay.

One of the mechanics glanced about as he yanked out the security cut off switch in a Sparrow Reten Fighter, the switch allowed flight control to severe the link between the power plant and the fighter, rendering it inoperable. "Monik better be right that this 'Trandoshan' will need a ride... lets just hope they come down to his bay or else they'll find themselves trapped." The mechanic said and went back to prepping the fighter.

The hanger bay was a bustle of activity; mechanics now ran from one point to another, moving supply crates and vehicles off the deck. Pilots engaged their fighters and began to move them into smaller bays so they would get out of the way, all of the movement had the pin marks of an arriving shuttle.

A mechanic had spotted a female Trandoshan leaving the elevator, but he hadn't raised the alarm, instead he moved slowly and quietly, making it seem like he was just going to do more work. Once at the supply crate he delt down and began to fiddle with the numbers, he knew the Trandoshan was hiding somewhere behind him, amongst the various crates, but he didn't know 'where' exactly.

He did a brief look around before speaking. "Small bay to my left, go two down, you'll find a Crescent Reten fighter charged up and ready to fly. Just plot a course and allow the onboard AI to take over, don't worry about being pursued," the mechanic said as he glanced about once more.

"Who are you talking to?" A security officer said who had just walked into the area, the mechanic turned around to find that it was Monik. "Damn it.. don't scare me like that.. thought it was one of their men."

"Nope, most of the traitors have been delt with. A few of them have locked themselves in their quarters but will be delt with accordingly." Monik said and turned his attention to the elevator; a second later the door were blown off and three marines went flying toward the far side of that part of the bay.

Monik crouched down behind the supply crate; as the smoke cleared a Dark Jedi came out of the now destroyed elevator. "What the hell..." Monik said and peeked over his cover and began to fire on the jedi, all his rounds were reflected off the light sabre.

"Whoever else is hiding here, get your ass in gear and move! We'll cover you!" Monik shouted as he primed a granade and threw it over his cover and toward the Dark Jedi.

Lavality sighed as she watched the mission counter. "Fifteen minutes.." she said as she rubbed her left shoulder; she was feeling pain for some odd reason. "Guess I over worked by shoulder.." she said.

"Ma'am, we just got a report from the base, it's from LT. Monik." The communications officer said as he piped the report over to her command chair; the report came up in an encrypted form, it only took her computer a few seconds to decrypt it. She scrolled down the report, she liked what she was seeing. "Well now, much of our problems have been solved," she said to herself.

The communications officer was still listening to the comm. lines when he received a recall order. "Ma'am, theres a recall order in progress. It seems a revolt of some type of occuring on the station."

"A revolt? Huh.. the station commander seems to over-react to every little thing. Ok fine, in form him that our fleet is responding to his distress call and we'll be there shortly." She grinned, when the message was sent, another came several seconds later informing them that they had everything under control, which was contridictory to the fact that the station was still sending out the recall order on all Seren channels.

"Proceed to the base," Lavality ordered. "Prep a Crescent Reten fighter for AI Flight,"

"Ma'am?"

"Asri will most likely use that type of a fighter, its the easiest to handle and has an onboard AI computer that will fly it for her, but in any event, when we arrive we'll need to take it out - naturally since it'll be flagged as an enemy fighter, so we'll release the decoy fighter and, while she is docking, we'll destroy the decoy and leave trace amount of female Trandoshan DNA."

Her officers liked the idea, even more so now that they most of the disruptive elements have been removed. "Ma'am, just got a priority message from Monik, was sent just a minute ago via an admirals channel. We have a Dark Jedi on base, in the hanger bay, engaging our forces."

"A Dark Jedi? Impossible..." Lavality said while walking over to the comm. panel, sure enough an image of man wearing a darkened robe with a light sabre appeared. "Ok so that is a Dark Jedi; but who the hell allowed a Dark Jedi on board?"

"No clue ma'am, but if this is true, then our plans are in jeopardy. Prep a gunship for take off, load up several torpedos and get me four sharp shooters to control the turrets." Lavality ordered as she left the bridge

Headquarters, Hanger Bay

Monik hid behind several crates, but his cover was disappearing fast as the Dark Jedi was using the blaster fire to worn away everyone's cover. He bolted from spot and into a smaller bay, it was useless firing at him since it wasn't causing any damage - what it was doing was slowing him down.

"Keep firing!" Monik ordered through the squad comm's.

A marine screamed when the Dark Jedi's light sabre severed his arm from his body, sending the limb flayling in the air and landing with a 'thud' on the ground.

Monik chose this point to come out his hiding spot and tossed two granades, which the Dark Jedi just motioned his hand and caused both nades to fly harmessly to his right.

He snarled. "Bastard...." Monik said and hefted his repeater and opened up.

As he fired he took several steps back; but the Dark Jedi just kept going, using his light sabre to block and deflect most of the shots.

Finally his repeater over-heated; belching smoke from several vents. He snarled and tossed the burned out weapon onto the ground and took out a carbontis katana and began to engage the Dark Jed in a duel, all he had to do was buy their guest a little more time.

Outside the station

Several check points had now been cleared as a gunship flew past several asteroids with weapon emplacements built into them; some distance behind the gunship it's command ship went in via another path, one used by ships larger than a frigate class.

"Gunners at your station!" The pilot aboard the gunship shouted.

The battle had intensified; a full on revolt was now in progress on the station. Security officers loyal ot Lavality, and those loyal to Miknak, fought it out on various decks.

In the hanger bay the battle had also gotten worse - the Dark Jedi wasn't moving much, but he was making life difficult on the security detail that had arrived.

For Monik, things were getting worse. "The station is in an uproar, civilian sectors have been sealed off but the fighting is just getting worse." He heard an officer shout over the blaze of blaster fire.

Suddenly the doors to the hanger bay began to close; Monik turned and noticed that there was a lot of activity in the conning tower. "Shit.." he said and was about to bolt for the conning tower when something unexpected happened.

As the doors were about to close shut; they edges began to turn orange, then red, then hot white, then a second later they blew apart, spewing hot molten steel across the bay, several of those peices impacts into the Dark Jedi, he was able to only reflect a few of them but wasn't able to get to a larger peice which slammed him into a wall, bones crushed under the weight.

Outside in space a gunship loamed just behind the force field; the ship, roughly twice as long as a typical fighter, ignited it's engines and moved through the force field and into the bay. Everyone had stopped fighting and wondered who's side the gunship's crew were on, the answer came when the Dark Jedi forced the debris off of him and tried to grab the gunship with the force.

Four of the six turrets on board suddenly came about and released a volley of blaster fire into the Dark Jedi, pulverizing his robe and pelting him into nothing more than a burnt cinder.

The Gunship moved deeper into the bay; now that it's alliegence had been verified, those loyal to Miknak opened fire on it, but the attack was futile as the gunships crew turned their attention to those who were firing it. The vessel then moved up to the two only entrances to the bay, covering them.

On board, Lavality looked around. Where the hell is Asri.... I didn't even see a fighter leave... she could sense Asri, but she couldn't tell 'where' exactly she was.

Meanwhile, outside in space, a Crescent Reten fighter, with only a cloaking drive and an AI core and the basic equipment needed, remained cloaked until the escape fighter was to appear.