Private Into the Rabbit's Hole

[Darth Angonous]

"Please enter the security footage though the Holodrive," the Holonet AI said to Rowena Arenais . "In addition please enter your six digit access code."

A draft bristled against Agnogous' bald head turning to the source, he an open window complete with deep claw marks. Carefully evading the mauled corpses and looked down. Only to spot a tail heading to the bottom floor. "No," he muttered. "Rowena is down there!"

Without hesitation, the Sith Lord ran as fast as he can hoping that he could intercept the creature before it attacks Rowena Arenais.

 

[-Shelved-]

Access code? Oh great....

Rowena gave the desk a visual search. Surely there was something written down for new employees, right? Using the napkin, she opened the desk drawer and found some papers within. She rummaged through them and saw what appeared to be the right set of digits. It was worth a shot, so she punched the code in and waited as it processed. A smile graced her features as her access was granted.

Closing the drawer, Rowena started looking for the right file, oblivious to Darth Angonous and the creature that he was hunting. Her focus was entirely on the terminal in front of her. "Now were are you....?"

 

[Darth Angonous]

Rowena Arenais accessed the terminal and the display screen popped up showing the droid's last memory before the attack. "So what's going on?" A female voice asked. The screem shows the perspective of the Droid that Angonous destroyed, he is at the forest following a human female with brown hair and green eyes. She looked worried as though she was expecting some bad news, she approached two males dressed in security armor. One was a Zabrak and other was Duros.

"It's not good," the Duros said. "So those anomalies that our scanners picked up. It turned out we've learned a terrible truth."

"What truth Jarak?" the female said impatiently. "Out with it already, we can't let the customers wait for their rooms,"

"This whole resort," the Zabarak said. "Was built under a Rakghoul colony, we've managed to kill the scavengers but judging by our tests they've been digging towards the surface for years now until-"

There were sounds of screaming coming from the resort. The female gasped taking a few steps backwards while the droid took out his blaster rifle whirring to the direction. "That's coming from the resort!" she said. "That means-"

"We gotta get the customers out of there!" the Zabrak said taking out his blaster pistol. As he did so, a Rakghoul leapt from the shadows and began to devour him. The woman screamed as the ground shook beneath as more Rakghouls came out from the ground ripping her to pieces. "Go Droid!" Jerack said firing his pistol at the Rakghoul. "Go to the resort! Protect the people! Treat anyone as hostile!"

The recording came to an end and as soon as it was finished, a loud bang was heard near Rowena, the metal door was being dented as more loud bangs accompanied it.

 

[-Shelved-]

Rowena watched the video with baited breath, shutting her eyes snd turning her head away from the carnage. She was able to hear it though, and it wasn't until the video was over that she carried the file over to the reporting program after reopening her eyes. They needed to shut down the energy fields and get out of there.

The loud banging on the door caused her to jump, and the straw hat fell off her head to the desk. She picked it up swiftly and plopped it back onto her head, before looking to the door that appeared to being under attack.

She moved back to the stairs, retaking her position where Darth Angonous told her not to move. "Ang! Come back down here, quickly! Something's trying to get in!"

 

[Darth Angonous]

Angonous heard the noise the moment Rowena called to him, "Rowena!" The Sith Lord yelled igniting his Lightsaber "get behind me quickly!" He held his Lightsaber close to his chest. "Turns out this place has been infested with Rakghouls!" He told Rowena. "Stay back and don't let any of them touch you." Although there has been advancements in how to combat the Rakghoul plague, their plague was still deadly. One spore could from a Rakghoul could infect trillions across the galaxy.

The door was almost busted open, Angonous expected to be the predator that was prowling in the upper levels but as the metal door was pushed open, about 4 smaller Rakghouls poured out roaring at Angonous and Rowena. The Sith Lord took the initiative leaping towards the nearest creature and bisecting it.

Rowena Arenais

 

[-Shelved-]

Adventures weren't her thing. Staying in luxurious palaces, estates and conducting business in meeting rooms and courts were her thing. And what could she do against Rakghouls? Bore them to death? They'd kill her before she'd get the chance.

Rowena stayed behind Darth Angonous as instructed, yet she gave him space as well, for surely he'd need it in a fight. Her eyes widened at the sight of the creatures that forced their way in, yet she kept her own horror in check. Yet barely.

"I hope your lightsaber doesn't run out of batteries!" They'd be hooped if it did.

 

[Darth Angonous]

"Lightsabers don't have batteries!" Angonous shouted hoisting a Rakghoul up from its feet and hurling it towards the wall with great velocity. The Rakghoul was reduced to a red and chunky paste as soon as its entire body slammed against the marble wall. Channeling his rage, Angonous raised his Lightsaber over his head slashing the other Rakghoul through the head.

The last Rakghoul managed to slip by Angonous and headed straight for Rowena, its claws flashing. Angonous reached out to the force pulling the creature away from Rowena and was impaled by the Sith Lord. "Are you okay?!" he asked.

Rowena Arenais

 

[-Shelved-]

Well that was good news. Lightsabers didn't have batteries. Which possibly meant that they could remain on for a long time. Did they work underwater too? It was silly that her mind wandered, focusing on a bunch of different scenarios, yet that was how her mind worked. It was how she functioned.

Yet her calm composure was gone the moment that the creature lunged at her. She gave a little cry out in shock as it took hold of her right arm. When Darth Angonous used the Force to throw the creature back, it pulled Rowena along with it momentarily, until she had stumbled and fell forward into the dirty floor. Of course the most that she was worried about was her perfectly white outfit that was now ruined or at the very least quite filthy. She brought herself up to her hands and knees and looked to her left arm, noticing a stain of red growing on the white fabric of her sleeve. "I'm....I need a...med kit." What knowledge did she have of first aid? None whatsoever! But perhaps Angonous knew enough to keep her from bleeding out.

 

[Darth Angonous]

Angonous rushed to Rowena's side angry at himself that he allowed the creature to even touch Rowena. Yet his fear was that the creature could've infected the Rowena and based on the small red circle on her white dress it looked like the worst happened. However upon further inspection, it turned out to be a piece of strawberry jelly. It turned out that Rowena just landed on a strewn of spilt jelly, Angonous examined her arm there was no scratches on neither there nor her entire body. "You have the flair for the dramatic lady Rowena," Angonous said helping her up to her feet. "Don't worry about your white dress, I'm sure that you have something in your purse that can get rid of your stain."

It seems that Rowena was more distressed about her white dress being stained than the fact that she was nearly fell victim to a Rakghoul's touch. It was quite a relief really, better to have her focus on something trivial. "Your dress is actually still stark white," Angonous smiled placing his hand on Rowena's slender shoulder in attempt to calm her down. "Except for that small stain which I'm confident that you have something to take of it."

But still back at the matter at hand, the Rakghouls are still prowling around and they need to disable the rayshields if they want to get out of here. "Stay close to me as possible," Angonous said. "And if there's a fight be where I can see you. Don't go out alone."

Rowena Arenais

 

[-Shelved-]

Flair for the dramatic? Well she was a Lady, wasn't that her job? Darth Angonous ' comment about what may or may not be in her purse caused her to smirk and roll her eyes. "I don't exactly carry a bottle of bleach in my purse, you know." If her dress was stained, than that was what needed to be used in order to fix it. Still, the jam might be able to come off with some soap.

Her dress was dirty, she was no longer looking her best and that annoyed her. "I'm dirty. What a nightmare this resort is. It's surely not going to get a good review from me." Not that it matter. The place was destroyed as well as it's reputation, along with what looked like most of the employees.

At his comment of staying close and staying visible, Rowena tilted her head to the side a little. "And do you have eyes on the back of your head? You keep telling me to stay behind you during fights, and now you want me visible....So which one is it?" She didn't want to give the Rakghouls any chance of attacking her again.

 

[Darth Angonous]

Angonous raised an eyebrow when Rowena said that she was going write a bad review of the destroyed resort. "I'm pretty sure all those people who've been eaten alive or infected will greatly appreciate your feedback." he said while still looking over her dress." It's actually fine," he said. "I mean it's still white and besides you can hide the spot it's not like anyone could see it."

Oh who was he getting, they were in danger right now and Angonous is arguing with Rowena about the cleanliness of her dress? Even if it was dirty who cares?! Still it Angonous much rather her worry about that even though it does sound ridiculous upon further thought. "Stay back and stay visible," Angonous said a bit annoyed that they are still at the bottom floor. "Yell if you're in danger though."

Just then another door was bashed open and five more Rakghouls came pouring out of the place. "You know what to do!" Angonous said activating his Lighsaber.

Rowena Arenais

 

[-Shelved-]

Rowena didn't look fine, she was dirty! But circumstances being what they are, she'd have to just shove that all aside and focus on them getting out of there. Not that that was entirely up to her, but still, it was better than them just waiting for the inevitable to happen. Although truly with his lightsaber, she was quite confident that Darth Angonous would get them both out of there.

"Yell? I don't yell! I project!" Honestly, the way that Angonous treated her like some average woman was deplorable at times.

The other door busting down with the creatures coming in drew her attention away from herself momentarily. She moved behind the desk and back to the holoterminal, hoping to get back to sending that video off to the authorities. It was about the only way that they could reach out for help. And hopefully she was doing enough to stay visible to her bodyguard.

 

[Darth Angonous]

"Project?!" Angonous yelled while force pushing two Rakghouls out of the way while beheading a third. "By the force what do you mean project?!" Rowena had layers upon her but it was like finding layers of a fruitcake. There was just some that were particularly curious, he didn't know why Rowena went to the Holoterminal but right now his focus was on the remaining two Rakghouls who circling him.

"May I ask what are you doing?!" Angonous asked as he saw more Rakghouls showing up. "Hopefully not looking up on where to find bleach!"

"Video at 5 percent," the AI said. "Please wait until the meter reaches 100 before sending submit." The video upload was extremely slow perhaps there could be some way to speed it up. Or mess it up in Rowena's case.

Rowena Arenais

 

[-Shelved-]

"I take it that you have never been to the theatre!" Just how uncultured were the SIth?

Darth Angonous seemed more focused on what she was doing, rather than hacking the creatures to pieces. Everyone had their priorities, and for once Rowena's wasn't on her appearance. "I'm trying to get us help!" There could be millions of those Rakghouls coming and he certainly couldn't continue on like this forever.

The AI's comment caused her to frown. Why was it not working right? She slapped the thing out of frustration for the stupid hunk of junk that it was. Did anything work properly here? She started looking for some wires or switches, something that could do something to help. Aha! It looked like a cord was pulled out from some of the debris. Using her already dirty sleeve to help, she gathered up the cord and plugged it in.

 

[Darth Angonous]

Angonous had been to the theatre a few times in his life, he actually found it interesting seeing all the production that went into them. Then again it sounds like he's not as a big of a fan than Rowena. "You know I've heard differently!" Agnonous said frying a charging Rakghoul with force lightning. "It was called emoting not projecting or whatever the hell you call it!"

"Upload at 100 percent," The Holonet AI said. "Video sent to the authorities, thank you for your submission and we advise that you stay at your location while the authorities look over the evidence."

"Well at least we know that reinforcements are on their way!" Angonous yelled killing three Rakghouls simultaneously with a vertical slash. Just as he did so, an infected human Rakghoul was seen above Rowena crawling and roaring before dropping down to attack her.

Rowena Arenais

 

[-Shelved-]

The Force lightning startled her. Rowena had never seen such a thing before. Sure she had heard some stories, but they were just...stories.

"Tomato tomoto!" Was it really that important right now? Darth Angonous needed to focus on creating a huge pile of Rakghoul bodies while Rowena waited for the holo terminal to work properly. She kept her eye on the uploading meter, breathing a sigh of relief as the file was sent to the authorities. "Oh thank the fates..."

The sudden roar caught her attention. Rowena looked up in time to see the creature dropping. Upon instinct she sidestepped out of the way and threw her straw hat at it. "Ang!!" She moved out from behind the desk and over towards him.

 

[Darth Angonous]

It's strange that the Angonous and Rowena are having a back and forth while the world around them is crumbling. People are dead, torn apart by beasts which tormented the galaxy for generations. Yet Rowena cared most about was her dress which wasn't even dirty at all. Angonous managed to hack off one of the Rakghouls hind legs as it leapt for him. The monster howled with pain the Sith Lord ended its suffering with with saber through its head. As he did so, Angonous heard Rowena cry out to him as he witnessed a human infected with the Rakghoul plague rip Rowena's straw hat and made a beeline towards her.

Wasting little time, Angonous force pushed the remaining creatures attacking him while simultaneously twisted his body to hurl his Lightsaber towards the human attacking Rowena. The blade chopped the monster in half, yet as soon as the top half hit the floor it continued to scurry after Angonous. With a bellow, Angonous leapt into the air over Rowena and slammed his blade against against the creature's skull. The blade split his head in two as the Sith Lord heard the blade sizzle against his rotting flesh.

"Are you okay?!"Angonous grabbed Rowena's arm gently pulling her head against his chest. "You know that's what I meant when I said yell if you see something." he smirked.

Rowena Arenais

 

[-Shelved-]

At least the straw hat was enough of a distraction to buy Darth Angonous the few seconds needed to destroy the horrid creature.

Rowena ducked as he lept over her, for the last thing that she needed was to be accidently struck. And fortunately for them, the creature was finally destroyed.

Angonous pulled her towards him and as her head was pressed up against his chest, she could hear his heartbeat moving fast. The adrenalin and battle seemed to have gotten his blood pumping and for a moment she just stood there leaning against him. "Yes and I'm fine, thank you..." Rowena cleared her throat a little and then took half a step back. "Help should be arriving soon. Are you sure that you're up for holding the fort for a little while longer?"

 

[Darth Angonous]

There was an awkward tension between Angonous and Rowena when they hugged each other. His heart was beating but it was because from this angle, Rowena looked absolutely beautiful. Based on Rowena's reaction she seemed to have the same conflicted feelings. "Good," Agnonous said. "But we still need to bring down that ray shield otherwise they can't enter."

The Rakghouls that Angonous force pushed had recovered and began to rush towards the both of them. "I've fought in many battles!" The Sith Lord said putting Rowena behind him and igniting his Lightsaber. "I've helped conquer planets against the very best soldier in the galaxy! These monsters will be no different!

Rowena Arenais

 

[-Shelved-]

His voice seemed to take on a softer tone when he was close to her. Or maybe that was just her imagination. This was an unusual situation that they were in and it called for a wide range of emotions and reactions to happen. He was strong and brave and....

...an annoying Force User that just likes to get under my skin! Pull yourself together! Be poised. Be graceful. Be a proper Lady!

This was not how she wanted to spend her days; always in physical harm in a building that was pretty much gutted from the inside. She wanted to be back in the seat of luxury again. And she was sure to have herself properly pampered as soon as Darth Angonous got them out of this mess.

"Couldn't they go under it if they had to?" It seemed logical to her. Why wouldn't they be able to just dig like these creatures did? Especially if there was a chance that they couldn't find or reach the security building. At the moment they couldn't even leave this one.

Rowena stepped back as he took on the monsters again, though she didn't step away too far. It was better to be close.