Wearing:
Torchflare Armor
Armed With: Nothing.
Objective: Get Thelma out of the temple.
Days Earlier...
"Koschei fethed up..." Lynda, Demon of Jedi growled, clad in her favorite
White Dress and heels, as she showed Nathan and
Syd Celsius
the reports shown to her from a very small spy droid within the temple security force while reclined in her seat in the main hold of her
J-Type 327 Nubian .
"Well, there goes any hope we had of trying to make a deal with the Jedi..." Lynda lamented. "Our one bridge, and it's
completely smashed."
"What did you expect?! You placed her in an
impossible position." Nathan snapped coldly. "She was already having doubts. Already torn between Nature and Nurture. She was bound to be discovered. Taking herself out of the equation takes
massive levels of pressure off her emotionally and puts the Onus squarely back on
us."
"We can't afford her to stay amongst them now. When she was in good standing, we might have had a shot at bridging the gap. We could have offered the knowledge we have on House Io with better footing. But if they manage to
extract what she knows
so far? The act of having to extract the knowledge alone will make them hostile to anything we have to say."
"Unless
you come forward..." Syd offered in suggestion.
"
Not happening. They will kill
everything we are doing in the
crib if I come forward." Nathan said crossly, rising.
"And I am tired of having my hands tied when it comes to doing what I
need to do..." He trailed a moment, thinking, before turning to them.
"We extract her ourselves."
Syd raised an eyebrow, her gorgeous features instinctively revolted him.
"You want to break into a facility controlled by your bosses...and extract someone they have under House Arrest."
"If they ever discover your role, you will likely be exiled, if not imprisoned." Lynda pointed out.
"They can
bill me." Nathan replied. "But
after the wretched Cult is dead. We can't send
you, Lynda. I don't want them having any evidence an Android was involved.
"So who do we send?" Lynda asked.
Nathan looked at Syd.
"You'll do. There's gotta be
someone swimming around in that fethed up skull of yours who can get the job done. Someone who will not ring any bells. Not immediately."
Syd folded her arms. "Tall Order."
"Compared to
what?" Nathan asked.
Syd sighed. "Point Taken."
"
Your Mother shouldn't have involved a Padawan. I was
against her and Koschei's involvement from the start. Though I suppose Koschei might be useful seeing how he's been exiled...think we could get to him?" Nathan asked.
"Oh, now you don't want to just break
Jedi Law, you wanna break
actual Law. Are you
sure you're not your daughter's father?" Lynda asked.
"That's not funny." he replied coldly. "What do you suggest?"
"We could get Vera to represent him in court. He's all but guaranteed to get released if she's his attorney."
"How the feth can Vera get Koschei off on an Assault Charge? A blatant one with evidence and witness testimony?" Syd asked.
Lynda scowled despising the very sight of the woman who had so thoroughly destroyed the life of the once brave and heroic woman she had once fought side by side with at Atrisia. "My Sister has enabled some of the most ruthlessly cruel murderers, schemers, embezzler's, you name it, to walk out of that courtroom free. She's so good at it sometimes the Government will pay her
not to represent a client. Fethin' Sociopath actually holds
bidding parties over it!"
"If she's so good then we
can't send her, because then someone will wonder why the hell one of the Core's top lawyers is representing him." Nathan pointed out.
Lynda shrugged.
"Then we get him some average lawyer getting specific instructions from her through proxy. It'll all work out." she answered back. "Maxim won't do more than a month in cell, tops."
But will Maxim agree to it?" Syd asked, shrinking from Lynda's withering, bloodshot gaze.
"I think he will. He looks out for his student..." Lynda admitted. Besides, now that it's known they are vampires, they need to go underground.
"At least we know now the Order isn't going to do anything but detain Vampires or Imprison them." Nathan pointed out.
Lynda stared. "You're working with us. When they learn that, they'll look at you like you're a psychopath."
"That will be their choice. I know what I am.. I'll let them burn my entire fortune if they want. But
after..." he snapped back. "I will make arrangements for exterior extraction. Lynda, get a message to her however you can. But make it clear the instructions must be followed
exactly. As for
you..." he said, switching a cold gaze to Celsius.
"Your timing must be flawless."
That was all he said before he left the main hold to curse quietly in private at his situation.
"Can you do it?" Lynda asked Syd.
"Breaking some kid out of a Jedi temple while under House Arrest will be one of the least insane things I've done."
"I can attest to that." Lynda replied in a sneer, as revolted by the sight of her as Nathan was, despite her nearly impossibly beautiful appearance.
Syd said nothing at first and then in the blink of an eye her hand was around Lynda's throat, the other conjuring a fireball. Lynda hissed, bearing her metallic black fangs, as her own hand clamped down on Syd's throat.
"What makes you think I have to tolerate
your mouth the way I'm willing to tolerate
his?" Syd asked. "Everyone has an ignition temperature.
Everyone. Including
you."
"Schutta, in case you didn't notice, I've been burning for a while now..." Lynda hissed back, beastly strength tightening her grip ever so slightly around Syd's windpipe.
Syd narrowed her eyes.
"Maybe.
But I burned first. Remember that. And I've burned
longer..."
"Enough of this..." Nathan snapped as he walked back into the hold, having heard the commotion.
"Celsius,
release her." he ordered tersely.
"As you wish..." Syd replied, letting go of Lynda's throat.
Lynda began to lunge at Syd, a lion like roar escaping her throat as the pounce took shape.
"Lynda!" Nathan shouted. "Come to your senses!"
Lynda stopped herself, muscles uncoiling from attack position, but she didn't take her eye off Syd.
"When this thing with the Cult is settled, I will finish what you started on this ship. That is, if Nathan doesn't kill you first." The Demon of Jedha vowed.
Syd's reply sent a chill into even the Demon however, though she hid how it unsettled her behind a mask of blazing hatred on her face.
"You got a real pretty face, Lynda.
I'm sure it'll look good on me." Syd replied just as coldly before walking away.
"Insolent Hag! Your thought energy is
mine, you hear me?
MINE!" Lynda yelled, about to lunge at her again only to be physically blocked from reaching Syd, all while pointing angrily in the direction of the person she wanted to kill.
"
COOL IT." Nathan ordered, physically shoving Lynda back onto the couch.
Lynda got control of her temper but she still wanted to crush Syd's skull...
Present...
The Jedi temple loomed in the distance as Lyli Dragi watched from a nearby roof top. A lot of the real powerful types had up and left but that was no reason to get careless. She was, after all, breaking into the fethin' temple of
Coruscant.
The small, stealthed Spy Droid had given a good feed of
Thelma Goth
's routes. Strict escort to classes. It's scans had even given a mild layout of the temple itself.
Her suit would hide her presence, for the most part. Someone was paying good money to Lyli to get Thelma out. Her biggest payday yet.
Who had hired her? When had she been hired, and on what planet? Lyli tried to recall it but was too busy as she got on her speeder bike and sped to the temple, obeying all traffic laws.
This was risky. So risky she hadn't even dared bring any weapons with her, to reduce the risk of hurting or killing a Jedi. Her employers had been emphatic on that.
Strictly painless, non lethal measures. With what she was being paid, Lyli would adhere to the very letter of that stipulation.
The plan was simple. At least, as simple as it could be.
She had spent the night before carefully setting up distractions. Noise based devices and remote hacking tools that could send local systems haywire in the temple. A spy droid the size of a golf ball had used a laser drilling tool to cut in to the local ray shield network. But the extraction would still have to be done by Lyli herself...
Thelma's role was to stay in the bathroom, and use the lightsaber shoto the spy droid had smuggled in through the vents to cut a hole into another room that had proper access to a passage leading an emergency service tunnel that led close to the sublevels of the temple itself, close to waste disposal.
Lyli would still be required to momentarily hassle the ones guarding her, because they would surely hear the wall being cut into.
She was very close to the temple now, and set her speeder bike on auto pilot. Thelma should be nearing the restroom. She would find a simple mini beacon to activate in addition to the shoto. That would be the signal for Lyli to begin her own part in this...