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[member="Elayne Saedaris"], [member="Nima Tann"], [member="Valiens Nantaris"], [member="Tempest"]
Location: Santaissa, near the Lion's Gate spaceport,
Objective: Mercilessly exterminate
all traitors.
As a matter of fact everything was going the way the loyalists wanted. It was the rebels who were outnumbered and now largely found themselves encircled as assault walkers arrived, their heavy footfalls enough to seemingly make the earth shake. Many rebels fought to the last out of desperation as the loyalist Angelii charged, others threw away their weapons in surrender and were captured, though they must have known that there would be no mercy.
For soon enough they were put up against the wall and shot dead, if the loyalists did not just hew them down with the sarix after capturing them. Thus was the price for treason. Putting them on trial when the planet faced an imminent apocalypse would be absurd. Gunships swept through the sky, providing air cover and mowing down the last pockets of resistance.
And where was Kaida? Well, as a matter of fact she was not with the main group at this point. One of her officers had taken over there. There were still scattered rebels out there and she did not intend to let them survive. Moreover, she had heard gunfire in the distance and cries of pain, felt what she believed to be a familiar Force Signature. As much as Kaida at times found Elayne far too snarky and unruly for her own good, she was still her slave...err, Angelii! Focusing intently, after having pulled out the bullet in her leg with telekinesis and frozen her wound, the Seraph drew upon the Force and wrapped her body in a cloak of light as it were. Bending light itself around her to cover her body and to organic beings, she literally vanished from sight as she got closer to the area of the disturbance.
So it came to pass that she appeared just after Elayne had sought cover behind a trash dumpster and been shot through the hip. Two traitor Angelii charging her, two others seemed to be momentarily out of the game, though for how long Kaida could not determine. There were not ordinary rebels, they were former battle sisters of hers, which made their crimes even worse. They would die.
They had perhaps a split-second to realise what was happening when Kaida suddenly dropped the cloak and in the same moment a telekinetic blast rippled from her being and swept towards the traitors.Then she squeezed the trigger of her Mark One Bolter and fired. The sharp crack of the gun was matched by the percussive
crump of an explosion a second later.
Both traitors were thrust back hard as the bone-crushing blast impacted upon them, and the pyromancer was gunned down by the bolter, though she lived long enough to send a jet of fire towards Kaida. Willing the pain inside her body to be ignored, the Seraph dived to the side and dissipated the flame with her own power, then fired again.
However, her second opponent was made of sterner stuff and, on top of that, a cryomancer as well! Through her will the molecules in the air were manipulated, the temperature dropped rapidly and a wall of sheer ice blossomed to life, shielding her as the rounds impacted, for she was skilled at barriers. Now that Kaida could get a good look at the woman, she recognised her. Her name was Tiayth Ilir.
"I remember teaching you that trick, Taldir. I expected you to be on the side of the common people, not the one percent who abandoned your sister. But I suppose being the pet of the puppet Queen and of a Yedai corrupted you," the traitor Angelii spoke hatefully, though there was also a strong note of sadness in her voice.
"I don't have anything to say to traitors." Kaida ceased firing as she concluded it was ineffective, then braced herself when ripples resonated through the Force. As a matter of fact she braced herself just about quickly enough because Tiayth advanced the ice wall like a massive battering ram with all force and velocity of a speeder collision. Gauntleted hand curled into a fist Kaida drove it forward, smashing into the wall with her will as if she were an icebreaker. A protective bubble sprang to life around her as the broken wall crashed against it. As the ice broke, water swept across the ground in droves.
"Not even to old friends? I took you under my wing when you returned to the Angelii, when many thought you were unfit to join us. We fought together at Gehenna, at Sullust. For what? The puppet Queen and that Kerrigan queen are leaving everyone except puppets behind. You used to have a mind of your own. Now look at you, you're just an automaton. You may as well be dead," Ice spikes, ice spikes everywhere! Rage washed over Kaida like a tidal wave and she lashed out with a stream of very sharp, super fast ice spikes that seemingly manifested out of thin air and shot towards Tiayth with something almost equal to a railgun shot - in the same moment as the rebel let loose her own salvoe of icy projectiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxiCRFpi_TA
The result? Well, it looked sort of like that. Both were weaving and dodging through the hailstorm of almost weightless, but massively accelerated projectiles that came shooting through the air. Time seemed to slow for Kaida as she pushed her body beyond its limits, using the Force to give strength to her increasingly tired muscles. A stab of pain shot through her leg at the exertion. A reminder that her body was aching...she ignored it. An ice spike shot past her face so closely it almost touched it. If only she could get closer at her opponent, for she had the impression that they would only stalemate themselves in a purely cryomantic duel....
Just as Kaida was about to launch herself at her, there were ripples in the Force...too late for her to shield herself though. The third Angelii was back in the game and, unfortunately for Kaida, she was an electromancer. Inferior to her in power, but Kaida was worn from past battles and her focus was split.
In the same moment as she weaved through the volley of ice spikes, a blast of lightning shot her way and, reacting just about quickly enough, Kaida lifted a dead Angelii, letting her armour absorb the lightning. However, as she sent the body flying towards her opponent a massively accelerated ice spike tore through her battered armour and pierced clean through her abdomen. Kaida cried out, doing her best to maintain concentration and ignore the pain, but before she could do anything bolts of blue lightning electrocuted her and she fell to the ground.
The electromancer approached her, blasting away with electricity, while at the same time the water in the air was growing heavier, dense crystals wrapping around her legs making it harder to move. If Tiayth had tried to fully encase her with ice, that might have ironically worked as a shield and in any case been counterproductive because you could not freeze a cryomancer to death. However, she was only summoning ice to immobilise her legs, leavng her helpless aganst the electrical judgement. With every movement she made the binds seemed to tighten, until they were like phrik chains. Her legs felt sluggish and weak, unable to affect anything. Their efficient teamwork would have made Kaida proud if it had not hurt so much.
Pain, so much pain flooded her. Her wounds from the earlier battle had been barely healed, now they were made themselves known once again. Aching muscle, pain at being forced to fight her battle sisters...she caught herself. It did not matter. They were traitors and would die.
The lightning cascading across her chest was like a baptism. Ignoring whatever words the traitors might be speaking, she finally managed to draw upon her Sciia and violently lashed out, breaking the ice. But she was not done yet, for the pieces of ice along with all the pool of water around her was shot towards the electromancer.
Cries of pain were heard as the rebel suddenly realised what it fel like to electrocute yourself...and unlike Kaida she was less experienced at tanking it. A telekinetic hail of debris was tossed towards Tiayath, who batted away most of it, but then as she retorted with bolter fire, Kaida suddenly vanished from sight completely as she bent the light around her to render herself invisible. Clearly enraged Tiyath let loose with an omnidirectional blast of telekinesis.
Kaida caught the edge of the blast, but could just about maintain her cloak. Pain did not matter, though the strain was strong. Soon she was behind Tiyath, yellow lightsabre sweeping down in a blaze of justice and pure wroth. Perhaps it was luck, or perhaps her technique was not refined enough, but Tiyath seemed to sense something.
With Kaida coming from behind at a speed enhanced by the Force, all she could do was dive to the side and roll to her feet. However, pain shot through her as the lightsabre sliced through her back, causing a momentary distraction long enough for Kaida to exploit by ramming her Taegis shield into her, smashing her opponent into the ground, head-first.
A horrible pressure was exerted upon Kaida's lung as terrible power suddenly came crunching down upon it...ouch. Breathing became difficult and painful, but Kaida was simply too enraged and pumped up with adrenaline to bother about the agony, even though the heavy shield crumpled to the ground. Quickly she was upon Tiayth, but rather than end it quickly she rammed her ice-covered fist into the woman's masked face.
"That's for the Eldorai you killed...that's for betraying your battle sisters." The cold in her body had been intensified to the point where it could shatter metal and so the visor broke. Then she punched her again and again, Tiayth vainly tried to kick her off but Kaida held her down before she finally broke her neck.
