SEVERING THE VEINS
THE NEW JEDI ORDER | ABOVE BATORINE | SPACE STATION
Across the room, the red glow got brighter. One by one, the systems Ishida had shut down started to revive in the distance.
She launched to the backup generator without hesitation. She was impossibly fast, but so focused on reaching her destination that she was stopped just a meter away.
No shout came, but she staggered and slapped her hands against her eyes. It was ironic for a Jedi to be blinded by Light. Ringing bounced within the curves of her skull, trapped between her ears and deafening her.
The world was white, and Ishida felt strangely as though she were floating.
Ruby red sliced through the blinding white, but she couldn’t see it. Couldn’t hear it cutting through the air. The only other sense that was useful for long-range combat was, maybe, barely, smell. And the fragrance of ozone was hard to detect against her own sabre humming uselessly in her grip. In a flash of a second, she’d lost two of her most powerful senses.
But Ishida had more than five traditional senses.
Deftly following the Force’s instruction, she rotated to her right just as the red whirred past her –– almost. Unable to hear its hum, or see its brilliant glow, she couldn’t tell just how close it actually was. She felt its blistering heat rip across her shoulder and upper arm, immediately cauterizing the skin it seared through.
This time, she gasped out her agony.
Against the guard rail, she leaned to support herself and stop from slumping over. The sharp stench of burnt flesh and boiled blood stung her nose, and she took a step forward, grimacing through the shooting trills of pain that ran through her upper body. The Force reached out from her, searching, searching, searching through thin imperceivable lines that suggested the station’s shatter point. She had to hope that the convergence point she travelled along was the very same as the generator she’d had her eye on for so long.
Still blinded, the Atrisian fumbled her way across the plank to close the remaining feet between herself and the objective they’d come to complete.
She squeezed her eyes shut, and forced them open again — once, twice, three, four times to no avail. The only thing she could perceive was colour. And the red was still on.
Her touch against the buttons was clumsy, and she cursed while she felt around. Unlike Imperials, The Maw didn’t share the fascination with symmetry. The knobs, buttons and levers on this section felt completely different.
Still, she tried. The layout felt similar, but where there’d been levers before there were now dials. Ishida worked to twist them in counter directions.
Eventually, somehow, her groping managed
something and the red disappeared again.
<Attention Revenant Squadron and Midnight Actual, the station's shields are offline.> Ishida repeated through the comms, feigning a crispness to her voice she didn’t feel. The sabre burn across her body touched against the blackened skar from the Darkshear, and it was sending cold chills through her spine and muscles.
ALLIES | NJO | GA |
Silas Westgard
| Tiric Sar'andor
REVENANT SQUADRON/FLEETERS:
Constantine Oliva
| Mylo Thorne |
Shar Sieu
|
Qellene Tyliame
|
Ari Naldax
| Xarielle Pavanos
FOES | BROTHERHOOD OF THE MAW |
Vorm