Lost in The Elements

[Misty]

"Me neither," Misty agreed with a nod. "That's why I talked them into waiting before they came out." "Are you a Jedi?" Sansa asked him, changing the subject again. Misty had only used his lightsaber in the observation post. She had used the title Commander when dealing with the Peace Brigaders. She didn't think she was famous enough to be known my sight, especially with all the cold-weather gear she was wearing. More so because all reports said she was thirty one and to human standards she looked seventeen.

 

[Misty]

"What makes you say that?" she replied out of curiosity. "Isn't that a lightsaber?" Sansa asked, gesturing towards the cylinder attached to his hip and the other ones on the belt. Misty gave a tight smirk, slightly impressed she had recognized it in such a location. "Yes, it is," she responded. "And yes, I am." Sansa remained silent for a few seconds. "Can't you just kill everyone in the barracks with a wave of your hand?"

 

[Misty]

Misty couldn't help but burst out with laughter. "If only but no not quite," she answered. "If a Jedi could kill with a wave of their hand, we would have already won." Before Sansa could say anything else, Misty received a comm. It was the pilot of his transport, telling him that she had arrived at the prison complex, and was hovering in place. She told him to stand by.

 

[Misty]

While she had been chatting with Sansa, Misty had been going over his plan in his mind. She was sure that Lieutenant Grienn wasn't planning on surrendering. However, she wasn't quite ready to slaughter them all based solely on what she felt through the Force, and Sansa's opinion. She flipped his comlink over to broadcast to all of his troops, and the transport. The terrible feeling from down below was in his stomach. The tightening of his gut had him worried.

 

[Misty]

"This is Misty. The barracks blast doors will be opening in a few moments. If anyone sees droids, or is fired upon, then everyone, including the transport, is cleared to return fire, is that understood?" There was a chorus of acknowledgments. Misty made sure the transport crew understood, as they had the most firepower. It had a pair of starfighter-grade laser cannons, and a concussion missile launcher. Far more than enough to deal with thirty guard droids and as many Peace Brigaders. Once she was sure everyone knew what to do, she told Sansa to contact the other Peace Brigaders again.

 

[Misty]

"Alright Lieutenant Grienn, my troops know that you are surrendering, you can come out," Misty said over the comlink. "That took quite a while," she replied. "I hope you weren't setting up an ambush?" "Not at all," Misty lied smoothly. "My communications equipment simply isn't working properly in the cold." "I see," Lieutenant Grienn answered. "Well, if you're ready then, we are coming out, unarmed, please don't shoot us."

 

[Misty]

"We're standing by," Misty replied cheerfully. The instant she finished talking, she let go of the transmit button, and turned back to Sansa. "Can you make the blast doors open faster?" she asked her. "I—I don't know," she replied, looking at the controls. "We've never tried to find out." "Well, if they try to close the doors again, make sure they open all the way," Misty instructed her. "Yes master jedi," Sansa responded obediently.

 

[Misty]

Misty really wanted to be outside in the fight with his troops, but she knew she could do more here. She did start putting his overcoat and hood back on though. A moment later, she heard the transport's laser canons shooting, and a few seconds later, its concussion missile launcher. At the same time, she felt the Peace Brigaders in the barracks dying. Even though they were the enemy, it was hard to feel so much death through the Force.

 

[Misty]

The shooting was over in about twenty seconds, although it seemed like much longer. Finally there was silence. "We're going in to check for survivors," Sergeant Vikkors announced over the comlink. "We're with you," someone else added. "Let's go," Misty told Sansa, gesturing towards the door with his hand and reeling a little while the equipment went on.

 

[Misty]

By the time they made it outside, several more troopers had moved into the barracks. Misty had no trouble smelling parts of at least a dozen guard droids scattered about the oil an burning metal pungent, along with quite a few bodies. She activated his comlink, and began issuing more orders. The soldiers were going about fully trained and in practiced movements that were a good thing to have.

 

[Misty]

"I want the transport on the ground as close to the prison as you can get. Leave two people in the observation post and the E-Web by the command center covering the barracks. Sergeant Vikkors, once your team is finished clearing the barracks building for threats, let me know. Lieutenant Koflan, let's start loading up prisoners. Leave the Peace Brigaders for last," Misty instructed them.

 

[Misty]

There was another chorus of acknowledgments as they began obeying him. Then Misty turned to his prisoner. "Barracks," she told him, gesturing towards the open blast doors with his saber. As they walked, Misty reached out with the Force to see if she could sense any Peace Brigaders still alive in the barracks. By the time they reached the barracks, Misty was pretty sure there weren't any left alive.

 

[Misty]

The transport set down with its ramp just a few meters from the prison doors. In minutes Lieutenant Koflan had it filled to capacity with rescued prisoners. It took them nearly three hours to get all of the prisoners, plus the Peace Brigaders, onto the passenger liner. Misty had his troops salvage as much of the weapons and equipment as they could from the barracks and command center. She had also had his two demolitions troopers blow the control room up so it couldn't be used again.

 

[Misty]

Misty waited until the very last transport to leave. It was the smaller one she had arrived on. Besides him, with Sansa, the other eight Peace Brigaders they had captured, and his special-ops troopers were aboard. There were also some containers of equipment they were taking from the prison, including one with several hundred sets of binders, stun cuffs, shock shackles, and even slave collars.

 

[Misty]

As they took off, Misty had the pilot blast the observation post into twisted wreckage. Then she had him shoot through the open blast doors of the command center, just to make sure the Peace Brigade couldn't use the place again. The large gaping hole in the ground collapsed as a sound came from below. The jedi padawan had a look on his face and turned to stare as hovering over it brought thick shadows to the scanners but in the force.

 

[Misty]

In the force she felt it and spoke to one of the Peace Brigaders in the ship. "What is down there?" His voice was more of a growl as she could feel something down there and throughout the operation it had been twisting in his gut but now the man spoke a little scared. "We don't know we never went down there, no one does it eats everything and we keep it sealed." That got the jedi masters attention as she opened the door and looked down with a crouch.

 

[Misty]

"What are you going to do?" It was Sansa and Misty looked over to her while speaking to the pilot. "I'm going down there get them to the ship and get out of here. Inform The Silver Jedi where I am and to send a ship. Whatever is down there we can't have getting loose." The pilot gave a nod of his head as Misty jumped wrapping the force around him while she came down. The force cushioning and slowing the fall until she felt the temperature change entering the depths of the cave.

 

[Misty]

The ship headed up and decloaking from the white current a slender woman in white robes stood in the transport as they headed for the passenger liner. Misty and two dozen commandos had rescued just over two thousand prisoners from a Peace Brigade prison, and hadn't had a single injury, much less lost anyone. Arya moved and sat silently contemplating that. For the first time since the beginning of the war, she had been on a mission, and no one had gotten killed. After a few seconds, she began smiling and leaned back

 

[Misty]

"Hey who are you??" Sergeant Vikkors asked from the seat next to her. "I am syn's master," she said with a half truth, quickly covering her eyes with her shawl so she wouldn't see her face. "I'm fine," she said in a clipped tone that stopped him from commenting further. The Fallanassi master would oversee the ship taking care of everything and make sure the jedi's master of the order got the information. A ship would return as needed.

 

[Misty]

Slowly the jedi padawan felt herself touch the ground and a small impact crater formed that sent a thundering crack through the cave. His saber coming to his hand and the smells had changed. There was dead stuff down here, the smell of rotting meat decomposing slowly in the damp air filled the cavern and she could sense something was up ahead. The flesh on his arms and hairs standing warning of pradators, of things out there searching.