Cry Havoc, and let loose the Strills of Waaaaaar! (Mandalorian Dominion of Bastion)

[Briika Munin]

Briika watched helplessly from the front passenger seat of the stopped speeder as her vod'ika was in the gripes of sure death, then [member="Ralize Darkfeather"] did something she couldn't believe. The dark-haired spitfire saved [member="Kad Tor"]'s life with a brilliant display of some Force power it seemed. Wow… The emerald-eyed mechanic was Force-senstitive?! Who'd a thunk, but that didn't matter as Bree was forever in Ral's debt.

Slipping over into the driver's seat, the blonde medic gunned the throttle sending the speeder to their location up ahead most likely giving [member="Kable Detta"] a whiplash in the backseat… She wasn't the only vod who had a lead foot and drove with determination.

"Kad! Ralize!" Briika shouted as she exited the vehicle running over to their aid. It was evident that her husband would have to help her get them to the speeder. "Kable... Carry Ral to the speeder while I get a pressure dressing placed on Kad's leg to control the bleeding, then we gotta get out of here."

Bree grabbed supplies from her medpack, then quickly began dressing the shrapnel wound on her brother's left thigh, pausing for a moment though with bacta gauze in hand to gaze through her darkened T-visor at his visible face. "Gods Kad'ika… I thought I'd lost you. Don't ever do that to me again!"

 

[The Hound]

[member="Ordo"]
He immediately dropped the one known as 'Kad' to the floor, the slugs thankfully interrupted by Ordo's armor. Now he had this man to deal with. He could feel it. The Force running through him. He was the man he had felt earlier, and now he knew it was not someone whom had come to aid him in his defense, but one of the attackers, a Mandalorian. Taking a step back, he twirled his sabers to his sides and crossed them in front of him, creating a plasma crevice for the man's beskad to sit nicely. His blades zipped and zapped in protest under the weight of the blow.

He was strong, physically stronger than anyone he had ever faced before, he also didn't know where his skills lied in the Force. He would have to dance a while to find out.

Swinging to the left, he sought to disarm the man, though he expected it would only allow him time to disengage his combatant and asses the situation further.

 

[Kad Tor]

An eternity could hav passed when Kad heard [member="Ralize Darkfeather"] return the words he had spoke only several minutes before. He smiled, wide, as he captured her for another kiss, completely ignoring the fact they were on a battlefield and cannons were still exploding around them. This was the stuff of legend. Two Mando'ade finding their love for each other in the heat of battle. Songs would be sung, and stories told of this moment someday. It would be told to their ade someday, as it would be this moment. Kad would always recall as the one where he knew that Ral was meant to be the woman he would fight aside for the rest if his life.

"So that was cool what you just did," Kad said with a chuckle. "I guess that means you can use the force huh?"

[member="Briika Tor"] came running out of the speeder quickly. Kad had never seen her run so fast in his life. At least he knew she still cared enough to run like that for him. What he had done might have been foolish, but it got the cannons down quickly. The stubborn Mando'ad wasn't going to promise Briika anything. He just looked at the black T-visor of her helmet knowing her pristine blue eyes were hidden behind it.

"No promises Bree'ik, he said wincing slightly as she dressed his wound with the metal still wedged in the muscle of his leg. "You would have still had your riduur. Your concern is for him now ner vod'ika."

That's right. He knew, and he let her know he knew. The verd had two weeks to figure out why she never came home. It was because [member="Kable Detta"] and [member="Briika Tor"] had made their riddurok.

 

[Kable Detta]

[member="Briika Tor"]
Kable felt the anguish in himself when he saw Kad crumple to the ground. Though, he didn't show it. He was a veteran of many combat engagements and that had steeled his nerves against locking up, adrenaline took over.
He used the momentum from the inertia cause by the speeder's sudden stop to launch himself out of the speeder and start running towards [member="Kad Tor"] and the recently revealed force user [member="Ralize Darkfeather"]. He didn't question his wife's command, as she was the expert here.
He let his rifle hang from its sling, then he bent down and hoisted Ral over his shoulder and trotted back to the speeder. He laid the young mechanic in the speeder and scanned the area. It was a good thing he did, they had incoming.
He leveled his T-Visor at Ral "Are you good to drive? We are about to be overrun"

 

[Nolan Detta]

Tumbling down to the steps of the palace until he slammed to the ground at the bottom, Nolan was dazed, the adrenaline was wearing off, his leg began to burn with intense pain, he started to hyperventilate. He rolled to his side and pulled a bacta-stim and plunged it into his leg, he felt the cold medicine flow through him as it made its way through his veins up to his heart then down to where his foot was. He hated the Silver Saber wielder. He felt an intense rush of rage build over him, until it exploded out of him in a massive burst of Force energy, detectable by any Force-sensitives nearby, like a shock-wave. He had accidentally activated his comm to the open Mandalorian channel, broadcasting his blood-curdling cry of anger and pain. He slammed his fists into the ground, cracking the duracrete beneath him. Empowered by the Force powers he had unlocked in his fit of rage, his strength had increased enough to crack the duracrete, produce a shockwave, but completely drain him physically and he collapsed back down onto the ground. He lay on his back, eyes up at the erupting sky from the dogfights overhead. He felt himself slipping into a deep sleep, and then all at once, blackness...

[member="Ordo"] @Kad Something (The Cathar) [member="Kad Tor"] [member="Briika Tor"] [member="Kable Detta"] [member="Ralize Darkfeather"] [member="Turin Val Kur"] @Anyone I forgot

 

[Ralize Darkfeather]

[member="Briika Tor"] [member="Kad Tor"] [member="Kable Detta"] [member="Nolan Detta "] [member="Kad Kando"]


She didn't have time to do much other than smile at Kad and steal one last kiss before Briika and Kable got to their sides.

"Oi, Kable, what am I, a sack of vegetables?" The mechanic managed a grin and poked the mando'ad in the back as he carried her back to the speeder. Still uncertain about moving on her own, she was truthfully glad he was able to do it. Tiny she might be, but wearing beskar? Ok, fine, so it was beskar made to fit her tiny stature. Give a girl a break.

Blinking, Ralize sat up after he put her down, not seeing what he did as she was busy staring down at her hands. She'd...she'd saved Kad. And for him, she'd have done anything. Risked anything. But this...secret-that-wasn't-a-secret-anymore...it got people killed where she was from.

For once, however, her hands weren't shaking. And she was...perfectly calm inside. Like the eye of a storm, charged with energy...it was...like the last pieces of her that were missing had fallen into place with Kad and her sensitivity.

Her head shot around towards the road as Kable posed his question. "Oh, I can drive. Don't you worry. If you can help Briika get Kad into the speeder, I've got just the thing to delay our new friends." Ralize replied with a smile, the impending troop arrival giving her a renewed rush of adrenaline and energy. Fingers flew across the controls of the speeder, bringing it back up until the engine was ready to roar. Sliding out of the driver's seat, she opened the doors for the others and surveyed the approaching troops and vehicles.

Out of the trunk of the speeder, she retreived the Z50 grenade launcher she'd had stowed there almost since her arrival, loading it with a clip of four fragmentation grenades. Bracing herself against the speeder, she took a deep breath and as she exhaled she pulled the trigger. Four breaths, four exhales, four trigger pulls. Four frag grenades dropping and exploding in the midst of the troops, killing some outright, wounding others, and creating enough havoc to slow their approach.

As the weapon lowered, the excruciating bellow of rage came across their open comm channel, loud enough that she heard it from her buy'ce that was on the seat behind her. But more than that, she felt it. And she knew who it was, all of the sudden, like a bolt out of the ether. "Get a move on! That....that was Nolan! Palace...we need to get to the palace...frak..." her voice trailed off as she tried to make some sense of the overload of information pouring through her senses. The beginnings of a headache threaded through her awareness, but she stubbornly refused to let it take hold. Tossing the Z50 back in the trunk and slamming it closed, she hopped behind the controls and waited for the others to get in.

 

[Kable Detta]

[member="Ralize Darkfeather"]
Once the mechanic was situated, Kable ran back to where [member="Briika Tor"] was treating [member="Kad Tor"].
Briika was truly a gifted medic, Kad was already well on his way to recovery.
He looked at his wife and spoke to her through their helmet comm <I know it's not ideal, but we have to move him>

Turning his attention to Kad he spoke to the wounded beskarsmith. Kable's voice would sound slightly mechanical as it came through the helmet speaker.
"This is gonna hurt vod, but we are gonna get you outta here."
Not waiting for a response, he grabbed Kad by the arm and pulled him into the sitting position as he squatted and rolled the man onto his shoulder. He was definitely heavier than Ralize, but Kable was able to carry the weight, but he moved slowly.

As Kable carried Kad towards the speeder, his ears were filled with the screams of his brother over the comm frequency....

 

[Kad Kando]

As soon as the Force-user dropped him, Kad rolled away and fired a three shot burst from his repeater at his enemy. He made a quick scan around him to see Nolan just hobble around the doors. Finally somewhat at ease, he turned around to join the fight. Ordo's orders changed that. The Cathar snarled in fustrastion but growled out, "elek, al'verde". He turned and ran out to follow Nolan, who he caught up to just in time to see him tumble down the stairs. Flying down the stairs He quickly assesed the situation. Nolan's leg still looked horrible. At least he put some bacta in his system. He was extremely pale and unconcious. Kando reached into his med pac to grab his kit....that had been scattered by Nolan's jetpack. "Haar'chak!" , he hissed to himself. Nolan's leg would be in trouble if he didn't get medical treatment. The Mandalorian switched over to open comms. "This is Kad Kando, Initiate under Ordo Be Ar'klim. In need of medical assistance, one of our vod is hurt bad." he said, then turning off his mic momentarily he turned to Detta's unconcious form and growled "I'm stunning you if you pull another stunt".
[member="Ordo"] [member="Kable Detta"] [member="Ralize Darkfeather"] [member="Kad Tor"] [member="Turin Val Kur"] [member="Briika Tor"]

 

[Briika Munin]

"You would have still had your riduur. Your concern is for him now ner vod'ika."

So her sibling had figured it out… Sometimes it was like [member="Kad Tor"] and her were in each others heads, and they weren't twins either nor Force-sensitive.

"Elek…. [member="Kable Detta"] is my riduur, but you are ner cyare vod'ika. You will always be my concern till I have no breathe left in me. Now hush, I'm working here."

And with that said, Briika gave her brother a bacta-stim, then nodded to her husband that Kad was ready to go. The shrapnel would have to be taken out later in better conditions. She brought her "Kath Hound" up to cover them as Kable carried the injured dirty blonde beskarsmith to the speeder, but the imminent threats had been taken care of by the actions of [member="Ralize Darkfeather"]. The petite mechanic was certainly mandokarla. Her vod'ika had chosen well.

They were almost to the speeder when pained screams of [member="Nolan Detta "] came over their comms and sent a chill down Bree's spine. She saw Kable falter a step as he to heard his brother call out in agony. Helping him, they quickly got Kad into the speeder next to Ral, then the medic answered the call for medical aid.

"[member="Kad Kando"], this is Baar'ur Briika Tor. Responding to your location now."

Briika grabbed her husband's gloved hand with hers, giving it a comforting squeeze, then pulled Kable with her into the back seat, not letting go of him.

"Punch it, Ral!"

 

[Ordo]

[member="Turin Val Kur"]

Ordo felt the resistance of the sabers as his beskad pushed against them. The man was strong but the force likely had a hand in that. When the man pushed Ordo's blade to the his left Ordo let it move and stepped in swinging his left fist at the man's jaw.

 

[The Hound]

Smack!

The sound of metal on flesh rang out in the throne room of the late Fel Emperor. Turin was thrown to the floor violently from the heavy fisted attack and landed on the ceramic surface with a thud and a grunt. Both of his weapons deactivated with, their white blades extinguished. But he wasn't on the ground long, with a quick Force push he tossed himself onto his feet and with a snap hiss his weapons were active again.

Spitting a bit of blood from his mouth he inhaled and thrust his arms forward, expelling a powerful Force Push in Ordo's direction.
[member="Ordo"]

 

[Ordo]

[member="Turin Val Kur"]

Ordo had incredible strength with the force but telekinetic applications of it were something he had yet to learn. The push struck him with the strength of a Reek onthe charge and he was flung several meters through the air and embeddable into the duracrete wall.

Ordo quickly pushed him self out of the wall and lifted his arm to fire a dart filled with a liquid form of Xenon which besides being great for fueling ion drives can in the contained dose knock out a nerf in seconds.

 

[Kad Tor]

Kad was being stubborn, but he knew better than to argue with the one patching him up. The Mando'ad was very much in pain by the time he had gotten on his feet again. Being his stubborn self though he was never going to admit he needed the help he had received to get to the speeder. He felt useless though, and when he heard [member="Nolan Detta "]over the comm, he knew this mission had been a costly one for the small family that was forming. When [member="Briika Tor"] told [member="Ralize Darkfeather"] to punch it, he couldn't agree more. Kad like Nolan, and he was concerned about [member="Kable Detta"] as well.

Switching to a private comm channel, one that he had set up with Ral, Kad decided they needed to finish the conversation they had started earlier. They loved each other, Briika was not coming back home, and almost dying had Kad no wanting to go back home to an empty yaim.

"Briika and Kable took their riduurok just before coming to Bastion," he said breaking the ice. "It seems I have this large house all to myself, unless, maybe you might want to live there instead of that appartment above your shop?"

This was going to be an interesting conversation. The setting made it so. It was the same setting many Mando'ade had pledged themselves to each other in. How much forward was this relationship going to go? That was the conversation that would happen while they fought the remaining battles.

 

[Kad Kando]

Kad sighed. Finally he could get back into the fight once Nolan was taken care of. "Aknowledged, Tor. Make it fast." he growled. The Cathor snapped off his helmet and and scratched his ears. He had to figure out how to support Ordo before charging the throne room again. He didn't want to end up like Nolan. Kad slid down against the wall and began to reload his repeater. As his blaster whirred back to life, he took his revolver and emptied the the cylinder. He sighed as he reloaded it one round at a time. All he could do was sit here and wait....
[member="Briika Tor"] [member="Kad Tor"] [member="Nolan Detta "][member="Ralize Darkfeather"] [member="Turin Val Kur"] [member="Kable Detta"] [member="Ordo"]

 

[Nolan Detta]

In the blackness of his mind, Nolan felt the Rage building inside the depths of his mind. Like a firestorm he felt the Rage tear through him, an image of Keldabe on fire appeared, Nolan say himself as a younger man, over the burned corpses of his whole family. Fire surrounded his mind, nothing could be seen but the red, orange, and yellow blaze that now fueled his soul. Then, like a tsunami, a wave of pain, anguish and hatred. He roared back into consciousness, his normally emerald eyes were now a green and orange flame exploding from his iris, behind the T-visor. His mind a wash of Rage, Pain, Anguish, and Hatred. He was obliviously to the rest of the world, blindly he lifted himself into the air with the Force. He remained in the air at about ten feet off the ground.

[member="Kad Tor"] [member="Kable Detta"] [member="Briika Tor"] [member="Kad Kando"]

 

[The Hound]

The low vibrating hum filled the room as Turin flourished his blade, melting through the dart and splitting it into unequal haves with a snap sizzle. He didn't know what had been launched at him, it didn't matter. The planet was lost, and there were no doubt more Mandalorians coming to secure the palace. He needed to get out of here, but he doubted the large Mandalorian would just let him waltz out.

Sighing heavily, he deactivated his lightsabers, holding them at his sides as he closed his eyes in concentration, allowing the Force to flow freely through and around him. Small amounts of dust and little specs of debris rumbled and bounced before beginning to gather at the man's feet.
[member="Ordo"]

 

[Ralize Darkfeather]

Ralize only waited until they’d gotten Kad into the front seat beside her, before she tore off her glove and her hand found his. She squeezed it tight, wishing that neither one of them were wearing their buy’ce. There was so much that had been said – so much that still needed saying. It was practically a Mandalorian tradition to do things the way they had in the middle of a battle.

She didn’t need to be told twice as Briika and Kable got themselves into the backseat and told her to punch it.

Letting go of Kad’s hand, she tore off her other glove, needing to feel the controls beneath her fingers. She’d been blocking her gifts and denying them for so long that once she let them free to save Kad, she couldn’t contain them anymore. Bright emerald green energy danced across her skin as her fingers flew across the controls and took firm hold so she could steer.

“Don’t worry, Kable…I’ll have us there in no time flat. Nolan…” the mechanic blinked, trying again to sort through all of the information flooding her senses. “…he’s hurt…I can’t tell how badly, but he’ll…he’ll be fine. I can feel it.”

She was starting to sound like a jetii, she mused, and winced at that realization. Some of them weren’t so bad…E’vi’s sister was one, after all, and she seemed alright. But the rest…she’d have to ponder that when she had the time.

All of her concentration went to driving the speeder, pushing it as fast as it would go and using what energy she could to bolster herself. The energy was a heady sensation, so much so that she almost didn’t hear him speak to her on the private channel he’d set up between them.

The speeder swerved a little more than it needed to, going around a bend in the road, as his words finally sank in. Ralize shot her head to the side to glance at him, but her helmeted gaze did not linger, it went right back to the controls and to the road.

“Are you sure, Kad’ika? I mean…I…” she sighed noisily as she tried to gather her thoughts, and found them scattered to the four winds by her pounding heart. Her mind failed her right then, but her heart and soul knew what they wanted, and the Force…even it knew and let her know in no uncertain terms.

“I would rather make my home with you than anywhere else.” Ralize added softly, pressing the speeder to go a little faster as they neared the city and she fell silent.

The mechanic knew the shortest route to the palace thanks to her time spent in the palace motor pool, used that knowledge now. She pulled off the main road and took one of the smaller side streets into the city proper, speeding as fast as she dared. Which was considerably faster than was anything remotely approaching safe.

But Ralize’s path and steering was uncannily perfect. Chalk another one up to her newly freed abilities.

In short order, she pulled up in front of the palace steps where the Cathar – now that was an interesting but not unwelcome sight – sat beside a prone Nolan.

Who was floating about ten feet in the air and radiating so much pain and rage that she could taste it.

Ralize pulled her helmet off and shot Kad a glance before she vaulted over the door and caught up to Briika and Kable. “Let me see if I can’t get him down…” she said, stepping closer and gazing up at Nolan’s form.

She closed her eyes and stumbled her way into the space in her mind where the energy was always the strongest. A sigh passed her lips as her eyes opened again, glowing a bright emerald green as she shivered with the energy she could feel rippling through her. Without knowing what she was doing, she reached out to Nolan and tried to get through the mire of rage, anger, and hatred that surrounded him.

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[member="Nolan Detta "][member="Kad Kando"] [member="Kad Tor"] [member="Briika Tor"] [member="Kable Detta"]

 

[Kad Kando]

Kad was about to load the last round in his revolver when the back of his neck began to crawl. He turned to see Nolan Detta levitating off the ground. he leaped to his face and shouted out, "NOLAN!! Hey since when could you use the Force? But seriously get down before you land on your stump!" Inwardky Kad was reeling from the turn of events. He had a -oh manda I'm about to say this- a bad feeling about this I guess you never know, he thought to himself. The sound of a speeder came to his attention. He turned to the craft and waved it away. "Stay clear, Nolan's gone all Force-y. And he doesn't have a good track record today.", he said into the comm in his gauntlet.
[member="Ralize Darkfeather"] [member="Nolan Detta "][member="Kad Tor"] [member="Briika Tor"] [member="Kable Detta"]

 

[Ralize Darkfeather]

Ralize half-smiled as she heard Kando speaking into his comm. Glowing green eyes flicked to her Cathar brother as she nodded.

"Don't worry...seems I went all Force-y today too...stars preserve us all, he's so angry..." she whispered, her voice eventually trailing off as she returned her concentration to Nolan and slowly drew closer. The maelstrom around him was palpable and even visible in some respects, to her senses. Dark colors swirled around a warm, bright core she was almost positive was Nolan himself.

//"Hey Nolan...it's Ralize...it would be fantastic if you could levitate yourself back down again...before I have to figure out how to push you down..."// she thought at him, catching her lower lip between her teeth as she concentrated, wondering how she would even begin to manage that.

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[member="Nolan Detta "][member="Kable Detta"] [member="Kad Kando"] [member="Kad Tor"] [member="Briika Tor"]

 

[Kad Tor]

Well, everyone else ran to where Nolan was, [member="Ralize Darkfeather"] clearly much more recovered from her exertion of energy than Kad was from his injury. The shrapnel was still in his leg, it would be removed once they boarded whatever ship was supposed to get them back to their home world. For his part, the Mando'ad was still stubborn, and even though [member="Briika Tor"] would likely have fit over it, Kad got himself out of the speeder and limped his way to where the rest of the group had gathered.

Ralize was doing something "Forcey" when he arrived. Her gloves still off, Kad's left at the speeder as well, allowed for the goran to take one of her hands into his. Regardless of how petite she was, and her hands matching the proportion of the rest of her frame, it just felt natural to be holding her hand. If anything it was to give her confidence that she could help get [member="Nolan Detta "]down, though in his mind, he had no clue how this would all work.

"You can do this, Ral'ika! You already saved me today, so I know you can do this!"

[member="Kable Detta"] [member="Kad Kando"]