Location: Near X-Wing Crash Site, Thyferra Jungles
Objective: Behind Enemy Lines
Allies: Galactic Alliance, [member="Tiland Kortun"] | [member="Coren Starchaser"] | [member="Noah Corek"] | [member="Cedric Grayson"]
Enemies: The Sith Empire, [member="Kala Maedrin"] | [member="Kuraii"] | [member="Vahliath Imperious "]| @Vandra
Equipment: Life Support Suit with
Blast Vest, Twin Lightsabers,
Glie-44 Blaster Pistol, Medkit, Signal
Flare
The Jungle
Outside of Xucphra City
After several attempts at protest, Flight Officer Askrima had at last begrudgingly allowed [member="Tiland Kortun"] to support him so that the wounded pilot's limping would not slow them down as much. The additional weight his life support suit added would have caused significant strain in even a well conditioned heavy trooper, but this strange old man wandering in the woods proved his bonafides to Arix by assisting the wounded Padawan without complaint or seeming even to break a sweat.
And yet the two had hardly spoken but a few words to each other, for every time the old man opened his mouth speak Rogue Four shushed him or urged him to simply keep moving. Whether the elder Jedi knew little about starfighters or simply hadn't observed the extent of the X-Wing's damage, Arix found himself in a position of having to save Tiland in a sense now from the dangerous environment the Anzati had unwittingly entered.
There was a deafening noise behind the two Jedi, and when the shockwave of the reactor's explosion caught up with them Droid found himself once again airborne, only this time without a ship to keep him there. All sensory input dropped out at once, save a now throbbing physical pain in his ribcage to remind him that he was still alive at least, and when his cybernetic implants restored themselves in a haze of static he found that he didn't recognize his immediate surroundings. And he couldn't find the old man.
Arix heard the sounds of ignited lightsabers carry on the night wind, and the tell tale cries of battle off in the distance. In his current state he was not exactly in ideal condition to be rescuing anyone, but the Anzati Jedi had helped save his life and for all Droid knew he was out there somewhere wounded by shrapnel from the explosion, or fending off a gang of Sith, or worse. So instead of setting out away from the wreckage and back towards Xucphra City, the Jedi ace turned around and began to retrace their steps.
The moment he emerged from the treeline and into the clearing his downed fighter had created, more of a crater really, the cyborg Jedi's danger sense kicked in. Both lightsabers were in his hands and activated before he had even clocked that he was not alone. Identical blue crystals powered both cores, and their glow played off the flaming wreckage all around them in a shimmering radiance. Their wielder wondered for a moment if his optical implants were malfunctioning, as a slab of hair and muscle rose out of those flames.
"Of all the luck..." he mumbled to himself, before bashing his sabers together in a spray of sparks as he called out to [member="Kala Maedrin"],
"I would ask you to surrender, but we both know you won't."
As deadened as his senses were with so much of the pilot that was artificial, he had not yet detected [member="Kuraii"]. But behind them both, on a hill overlooking the crash site, the young Jedi could see with his enhanced vision more Jedi and Sith battling one another, their forms occasionally highlighted by stormy weather. Just as he suspected, his crash site had been a beacon for Knights on both sides to rally around. The longer he stayed here, the more dangerous it was for him. He was wounded, more Sith could swarm his position at any minute, and there was still no sign of Tiland. But that same injury also meant his chances of outrunning the hulking form before him were drastically reduced, and so his course was set.
