@[member="Tegaea Alcori"], @[member="Cira"]
The quick reaction of Tegs ensured that Siobhan got thrust to the ground before the explosion thundered throughout the chamber, heralding the arrival of the mysterious assailants.
As it happened, Siobhan did have a lightsabre on her. The Major was the properly paranoid sort who felt naked when she went out of her apartment without it. In some cases this might rightfully be considered excessive, however as it turned out she had made the right decision in this case.
Their faces hidden behind masks that resembled demonic visages and clad in obsidian armour, their attackers advanced forward, intent on wiping out the small Omega party. More of the masked warriors could be seen in the courtyard, hacking down Naboo soldiers and obviously intent on getting to the throne room, while their brethren sought to corner the Omega representatives to take them out of the equation.
Their masters might be a mystery, their intent was clear. That was all what Siobhan needed to know when she emerged from the hard ground she had been knocked onto, positioning herself in front of Tegaea. Spinning her lightsabre fast she parried blaster shots.
The assassins were not rank amateurs, upon seeing the lightsabre they tried to seek cover, making it harder to reflect shots back to them, but more of them advanced relentless, seemingly driven by some sort of fanatical fury. Siobhan surged forward, debris was thrown up with a telekinetic grip and hauled towards the attackers, but such was the attackers' onslaught that she threatened to be surrounded when she strove to pull back. A blade tossed by an attacker narrowly missed her and was embedded in a portrait when she dove sideways, blaster bolts whizzed towards, richochetting off the walls.
"Kinda swarmed right now!" Siobhan deflected shots, then ducked when a blade-wielding attacker thrust his sword out at her, swinging her blade in an aggressive strike to drive his sword away when he tried to adjust, ramming it towards his armoured shoulder before spinning the lightsabre and cloving it into his mask. She spun around in a fast motion to take another warrior down by cutting across his right arm. The assassin gave a loud, hissing sound, but despite the obvious pain attacked, striking at her with his blade before thrust out her robot hand and grabbed his throat, squeezing hard and cutting off the flow of oxygen, then thrust him forward as an improvised human shield to be riddled with bolts.
Reaching out with the Force she levitated a discarded blaster rifle of a dead attacker and she tossed it towards Tegs. A hard kick connected with the ex-Jedi's face and she was knocked back, more attackers coming at her. She seemed to pull back, telekinetically grabbing ahold of a vibroblade, using it to block attackers from the one side by meeting their blades and striking offensively with the lightsabre.
As she spun it in a circular motion, two attackers lost their heads, but then when the opposition became too much she backflipped into the air, landing several metres away from them, then when warriors came and swiped at her leapt upward into the air to slash downward. An attacker unexpectedly grabbed at her legs when she was occupied by blaster fire and she got knocked towards a round table, lying stunned for a moment and with her vision hazy as she regained her bearings. The assassin brought up his blade to strike down and blaster bolts shot towards her, but then she rolled sideways and when his sword hit the hard wall struck sideways to cleave him in half.
Dodging more strikes and wincing at the sensation of pain when a blade pierced her uniform to cut into her back, she manoeuvred herself closer to the door, then when more shooters assembled tried to concentrate, focusing on a damaged part of the wall. Stretching out with her powers, with beads of sweat dripping down her temple, she focused her powers on the table and sent it racing towards them. Quite a few attackers dodged the incoming salvoe, but a score was caught and knocked down.
She fell back and moved towards the door that would take them towards the throne room, spinning her lightsabre to bounce off rounds as red laser blasts streaked through the air towards them. The sounds of battle echoed throughout the corridors.