Waking the Bear. [Mando/Sith]

[A 'den]

Relay Station
@[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Verz Horak & @[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Hutuun'Kyramud & @[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Ashin Varanin & @[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Darth Apparatus & @[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Halik Falkosi

A 'den now had a taste of metal in his mouth from Ashin's lightning. A 'den stayed quiet when the male Sith started talking, ignoring everything he was saying. The moment when Kyr submitted to the Sith, A 'den mind was blown. He was happy when Kyr started to attack the Sith. Seening explosives didn't work against the Sith, A 'den threw two modified subsonic grenades at each Sith.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

RELAY STATION
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

A truly ludicrous scene played across Ashin's mind's eye, and she acted on her intuition. As five or six grenades came her way -- accompanied by a shotgun blast and some flechette gun fire -- a massive chunk of the floor ripped itself up, forming a very temporary shield. Shrapnel whined around her, and concussions deafened her, driving her to her knees. The lightning around her gauntlet dissipated harmlessly.

She stood at the edge of a brand-new hole in the floor -- and Halik's explosives struck the floor behind her. This portion of the building decided to surrender its structural integrity, and Ashin fell through what remained of the floor. A durasteel I-beam struck her right shoulder as it, too, fell. The Force protected her, and the plate armor held, but the impact numbed her sabre arm thoroughly. She glanced up and back, through the conjoined holes in floor and exterior wall, just as Halik's first bolts warmed her armor. Hissing a curse, the deafened Dark Master took a long sidestep through the rubble to put herself directly underneath the band of merry Mandalorians. The remains of the floor gave her a little cover against Halik.

And sometimes the simplest solutions were the best.

She filled her lungs for another Force Bellow, grateful that the leftover Forcebreaker compound had wafted out the hole in the wall.

This particular shockwave was directed straight up. The floor beneath the three original Mandalorians bucked up, bulging and cracking, attempting to drive them head-first and waist-deep into the fortified ceiling. Apparatus would be at the edge of that sudden uprising-- he could take care of himself.

 

[Soeht]

Relay Station
@[member="Verz Horak"], @[member="A 'den"], @[member="Ashin Varanin"], @[member=Hutuun'Kyramud], @[member="Halik Falkosi"]

When Halik's explosive darts exploded, the gust of wind threw back the Darth's black cape - reveal ebony hued armor. He managed to stand his ground, though, without moving. Yet, the floor definitely began to gave way where the explosion occurred. The structure of the relay station seemed to weaken by the minute. The Mandalorians might not even need to use the charges to complete their objective.

"Yo҉u co̴ul҉d̡ ͞have b̀e͏e͝n҉ ͝u̷se͢fu̢l,͡" snarled Darth Apparatus in response to Hutuun'Kyramud.

A multitude of grenades flew toward the Darth from Verz Horak and A'den. At the same time, Hutuun'Kyramud charged at Darth Apparatus. The Sith Lord motioned his lightsaber blade forward - as if bracing for Kyr's assault. Flames poured out of the Mandalorian's gauntlets toward the Darth.

Swiftly, Darth Apparatus twisted his left hand up. A telekinetic force acted on the grenades tossed at him and pushed them up toward the ceiling. Whether through an impact detonation or by time delay, the explosives blew up. This had the potential to pose severe consequences for both Darth Apparatus and Hutuun'Kyramud.

Within the enclosed environment of the relay station (ignoring the breach Halik peered through), the effects of the grenades were amplified by a great degree. The shockwave all the grenades made bounced off the ceiling and walls. Insufficiently protected eardrums could be ruptured. The shrapnel from the fragmentation grenade threatened those with exposed skin and thin armor.

Considering how Kyr charged toward Darth Apparatus with the intent to get within melee range, the Mandalorian would have been placed in as much danger as the Sith Lord.

In the instant after the grenades exploded, enough force struck Darth Apparatus to make him take two steps back. Several metal shards struck him. His cloak and hood were shredded in some places. Yet, there was no blood to be seen.

One other effect of the grenades would have been detrimental to Kyr, though, beyond the immediate repercussions to his health. Due to the multitude of explosives and the indoor environment of the fight, the potent shockwave had roared through both combatants much like an extremely powerful gust. Just as blowing out a candle, the explosion blew away the flames coming forth from Kyr - if only in the instants that the air rushed around him.

Darth Apparatus had also swung his lightsaber forward to meet the plasma blade with Kyr's Ultrachrome blade. At the range Kyr was at, the Mandalorian would have been able to see several pieces of metal embedded within the Darth's crimson mask.

Then, the Sith Lord threw out his left hand toward Kyr. Immediately after that, a powerful telekinetic force attempted to strike the Mandalorian in the chest. It had the strength to knock the man several meters back. The apparent intention was to get the Mandalorian away before he could relight his flamethrowers. Also, as the flow began to buckle up toward the ceiling just in front of the Darth due to Ashin's actions, it could have further endangered Kyr.

 

[Verz Horak]

Relay Station
Insert subliminal message here

As Verz ran towards his target, several things happened at once. The Dark Jedi jumped down a hole in the floor, several grenades exploded, and the ground tried to kill him. As the floor buckled and shuddered, a horrible keening wail could be heard. Just great. More Force screaming. He dived off of the craking area of the floor and fell with a thud, his momentum carrying him down the same hole the Dark Jedi jumped down. There she was, screaming like a cranky two year old. She was, it seemed to Verz, vunerable for a moment while she screamed. He pulled out his slugscatterer and fired, spitting a fireball of lead pellets flying towards Ashin.

 

[Kaia Za'tire]

@[member="Val'Ryss Zankarr"], @[member="Ryori Za'tire"]

Not long after when Ryori had left to go fight, she found herself going off to seek one of the other Dark Side Forces she had felt. Of course, this was all a training ground for her, and it was truly her first battle to participate in. To say she was nervous was an understatement, but she managed to keep her composure. As Ryori had nearly left out of sight, Kaia maintained her stealth, and with a calm manner, she traversed the grounds, looking for her own target.

She had hoped she'd catch the Apprentice off-guard, but much to her avail, she was found out. The entire battleground was covered with combatants, both living and dead. The ones living maintained their composure and fought valiantly against one another, and the ones that were dead, would occasionally be used even as a shield or an obstacle against their opponents. The entire battle was gruesome, but there had to be an end in sight.

Up ahead, she'd spotted a strange motion, and a feeling coursed through her strongly. It was clearly a powerful Force Push that had knocked a lot of, not only bodies, but debri in a large cone-shaped flurry. In that moment, Kaia dropped her stealth, knowing she'd been found--most likely by the growing power of the Force, as it got closer to the Sith Apprentice--and reached to her right shoulder, with her left hand and pulled a hilt from the small holster. Tapping a button on the side of the hilt, the double-sided staff had emerged from the hilt, expanding to be at least 5 feet in length--two feet on one end, two feet on the other, and one foot of a hilt. Each end of the staff had opened up on two sides, and a large cortosis blade pressed from inbetween.

With another tap of a button, the vibrostaff began to vibrate quickly and Kaia took her stance. Her right leg was forward, and her left leg was back, and she held the staff in her right hand now, prepared for anything. A sly smirk spread across her lips when the Sith spoke to her, "Well, it's a good thing I wasn't intending to hide for long." She snickered slightly, maintaining her footing and showing nothing but complete confidence in her abilities now.

The battle was going to be tough, and she was prepared for this.

 

[Tefka]

@[member="Darth Moridin"] @[member="Anaya Fen"] @[member="Jaxton Ravos"]
Capital

Teferi's eyes grew large, larger than a bantha whelp, at the whip, and his brow furrowed as if angered.

"YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH," he screamed, and began bouncing along the ground, thrashing against the light whip with his own green lightsaber, clashing against the red. The yelling never stopped, his eyes always locked on the Emperor's face.

"BruuuuaaahHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

@[member="Teferi Efreet"]
Moridin looked at the small green thing with an eye of slight surprise. Perhaps the Little green alien had finally gone insane. The Emperor shrugged, and then flicked his wrist again. The Lightwhip turned back for the briefest second, and then the tip began to coil around Teferi's legs. At the same time Moridin moved up his Sith Sword.

He used the force and conducted it through the blade, slicing at a rock and then launching the two boulders towards the Grandmaster.

 

[Zalen Zennoch Ziad]

@Teferi @[member="Darth Moridin"] @[member="Anaya Fen"] @[member="Jaxton Ravos"]

Zalen made his way into a fierce battle and found himself near the Emperor and his hand. They were fighting two jedi, one of which was fighting the Emperor as an equal in skill. This little green sentient was without a doubt an extremly powerful Jedi Master. Zalen moved forward slowly through the piles of dead soldiers. No one would bother interfering with the Emperor's fight and to be honest Zalen had no intention of being the exception. Zalen set up a holodisc recorder and began to record the fight. Zalen had never seen such a level of skill and he had no intention of not documenting it for his own personal educational gain. Zalen left the recorder where it was to examine the fight as he left the battlefield entirely.

 

[Halik Falkosi]

Relay Station

To say that the least, the area where the Mandalorians were was exploding quite a bit. Explosions were bringing the floor down, the Sith had fallen down a floor just as intended. However, an explosion up from the lower floor seemed to follow that. Then there were the explosions at the ceiling. If much of this side of the building did not just outright collapse Halik would be surprised. He could not imagine that it would last much longer at all. To be quite honest, he could not imagine that fighting in that part of the building would do the group any good, and if things delayed much more then the hole could disappear amid a ton of rubble. He doubted that would be too much of a problem for the Sith, but even his brothers in armor would have some issue with that. No, that would do no one good and it certainly would aid in the mission.

The mission, he thought as he closed the distance some more. The objective was to knock out the relay. Obviously long lasting damage was not intended but alas in war quick decisions had to be made. Shifting his focus, he looked at the main relay systems at the top of the building. Completely disabling the systems would be as simple as destroying that. Without even a thought he targeted the system's base and primed the missile in his jet pack. Once done he told it to launch. It quickly arced through the air before moving towards the relay. The explosion would likely send a series of explosions down the building through the technical aspects of it. The effects on the already weakened wall were unknown to him.

He transmitted over the comm to the Mandalorians inside. "Get out of the building through the hole now." He also primed more wrist mounted dart explosives which he shot into the wall even lower. Once his friends were out he would trigger them and hopefully bury the Sith within.

 

[Reyven Samoth]

Capital City
@[member="Kamon Vondiranach"]

"That's the thing, Jedi know nothing of control. They only know of denial. That's why you are unable to handle it when you have even the slightest bit of emotion. You think you're having some kind of breakdown." He chuckled at the Jedi. They were so full of themselves.

He grinned beneath the mask, watching the Jedi charge him before sliding into him. His staff came down to block his legs from being attacked by the saber in the sweeping arm, and allowed his feet to slide back as the Jedi came into contact with them. However, instead of falling face-first onto the Jedi, he brought his knees down towards the Jedi's abdomen, both 'reinforcing' his knees and boosting his descent with the Force. He kept his free hand loose and ready to block in case the other saber came into play.

 

[Daxton Bane]

@Ryori Za'tire @Disciple @Ket Vander Veld @Darth Apparatus
Also in vicinity: @Darth Talos, @Val'Ryss Zankarr @Kaia Za'tire @B'Arin Graad

Spaceport

Sensing the presence of his former Master, Daxton knew that the time for toying with the Jedi was over. Since neither of them was willing to strike first, Daxton formed a tentacle of force, sending out a Force Push against the weakest point in her defenses that he could see via Shatterpoint. Invisible to the naked eye, their would be no warning as the Force blasted her like an invisible weapon with enough force to rupture bone and pulverize concrete.

As soon as the first Force Push attack was launched, he began sending more and more in a rapid escalation attacks, powering his way through her defenses and ending the threat of this Jedi once and for all.

 

[Kamon's OOC]

Capital City
@[member="Reyven Samoth"]

As expected, his move brought the Sith downwards. The difference was that he came down on his own trajectory, and not the one Kamon was aiming to put him on. Split second thinking brough him into his side so that Reyven's knees largely missed him, but the Sith's legs still fell into his side, which admittedly hurt like hell and he was sure that one of his lower ribs had just cracked, but it wouldn't be the first time that had happened. He couldn't remember how many broken bones he'd had over the course of his life.

With the Sith down, Kamon clipped one saber back to his hip before reaching for one of the Sith's legs. Enhancing his hand with the Force, he moved to grab the leg, with the intent being of flipping Reyven down onto the faceplate of the mask that he wore. If they were going to a ground game, then Reyven was going to have to deal with Kamon's Echani side more than his Jedi side. That meant he was going to go for submission holds, but first he needed to get the Sith's face in the dirt, so to speak.

 

[Darth Hauntruss]

@[member="Kaia Za'tire"]
[In the vicinity: see previous post]
[Spaceport Battlefield]

"Well, it's a good thing I wasn't intending to hide for long."

Val'Ryss watched the woman smirk and exhume an attitude of confidence. In response Val'Ryss ignited the lightsaber-shoto (short-blade) in her left hand and began to close in through a slow approach. Her approach was calm, worryingly so. It held no essence of anger or overt passion, it was cold and simple, Val'Ryss was merely walking towards the woman. With both her hands raised high and extended to reveal Val'Ryss' complete arm span. Abruptly she stopped only a few feet away from the woman- Val'Ryss wanted a good look. Her golden-eyes with their dark red veins surveyed the Dark Jedi, until they ended with locking in a gaze with the Dark Jedi's own eyes. Her lips began to move and she whispered some words at her opponent, "The girl is confident. Ah, but the girl is also uncertain...mmm...I see now."

Val'Ryss closed her eyes and with the force hissed words of darkness to the young woman, "The girl should use her fear and let it guide her to defeat this one." Her words lingered within the force until they were ended by a streak of red lightening. In the convening time the message was being sent Val'Ryss whipped her other hand into activity and with it the hilt of her lightwhip erupted violently forward. The red serpent slithered across the space between them at the Dark Jedi. But its path would be unexpectedly changed as the hand that guided swerved into a new position. With a flick of her wrist downwards, the red force-whip drastically changed its path from the centre of mass to an immediate dive to remove her opponent from her legs.

 

[Reyven Samoth]

Capital
@[member="Kamon Vondiranach"]

He was quite satisfied with the crack he heard before hitting the ground on his knees. It wasn't his main target, but a hit was a hit. Not a deciding factor, though.

He felt the grip on his leg and the blades of his staff were shut off as he dropped that hand to the ground, resting on his knuckles to keep from falling flat on his face as he was 'stretched out'. His head turned to the Jedi. If he wanted to grapple, they could. However, he was decidedly prepared, given the crushgaunts, for hand-to-hand combat. "Bad choice."

His metal-clad hand lashed out, aiming to grip the Jedi by the throat. Hopefully he'd be too distracted by his own moves to notice. If he could only hit with the blow, though, that would be fine. The tips of the gauntlet's fingers were sharp enough to inflict damage on their own.

 

[Lance of Dreams]

(OOC: ...SO MANY 'NADES!)
Collapsing Relay Station.
'Nade Spam Squad, and Sithies

As the second set of grenades came, "-Verz what are you-" Boom. Just as he planned to engage and burn the Sith Lord explosions started to burst everywhere. Although he couldn't hear, apparantly Kyr started a trend and A'den started to adhere to his demolition tendency's and throw several grenades as well. How wonderful. Although Kyr's ears were protected from the brunt of the explosions, the ones that had been done in close range were brutal. Kyr's flames died completely with the shockwave. As his blade meet the Darth's, he was immediately repelled and sent several meters back. Mean while, with his ringing ears, migraines from the explosive pressure, and the wind knocked out of him from the force, what was better it appeared the very ground was trying to eat him. It began to crack and collapse, as an intenesify and inreasing ringing began to emminate from below.

He didn't know it, but it was Ashin and her scream. Although Kyr wanted to fight to redeem his ludicrous actions in even thinking about temporarily standing down to a Sith, there was no point in dying in this place if they were pretty much garaunteed to live. More explosions sounded, in the form of ringing within the Tusken's ears, as Halik destroyed what remained of the relay station, and the wall Ashin had made a whole in earlier was beginning to collapse, or was already collapsing on its own. Verz was firing at the source of Ashin's screaming. To end all the madness Halik finally gave the order to evacuate the building. If he believed in any, Kyr thank god. He got up, ignoring his lost gear and yelled at the top of his lungs to leave the Sith to die, the Relay Station was taken. Even though it was taken in such a way that it wasn't exactly favorable. But at least the job they were sent here to do was essentially completed.

He took mental inventory of what he had left. No more grenades, both swords lost (a big loss really), one of his Flechette pistols was lost. What did he have left? He had an 8-gauge shotgun that managed to stick with him these past three Invasions, two Beskar Knives, and a Flechette launcher on his back along with the remaining Flechette pistol he didn't lose. He lost all that within a matter of moments! Within a matter of seconds really as the entire building was collapsing due to the explosive Mandalorian intervention. He also had his flame throwers he reminded himself, but he was dissapointed in their lack of use and poor preformance. Also, upsettingly, Verz managed to gain gear. Mandalorian Crushgaunts off of one of the dead. Had he no respect for them? He had plent arsenal left. It was unnessisary, though he supposed he couldn't blame him. Those gauntlets were useful to a Mandalorian, esspecially in a War against lightsaber users. Regardless of his losses, he lead whatever troops stayed and survived out of their, assumingly with Verz and A'den, leaving the two Sith behind. But they weren't quite out of the door yet.

 

[A 'den]

In Mist The Chaos At The Relay Station
Siths and Suicidal Mandalorian Squad

A 'den was glad that he wore ear protection even while wearing a buy'ce, as he was only partially deaf from the grenades exploding and other explosions. As the floor started to buckle and collapse, unbeknownst to him caused by Ashin. A 'den started to move to the exit as he heard Halik ordering them to get out and said, "Yes sir." His 25 kilogram pack of explosives and explosive substances was ripped off from the explosives that were going off all over the place, its content spread out about the control center and the room below.

 

[Tefka]

Central Park @ The Capital City
@[member="Darth Moridin"]

The acrobatic green Jedi, no longer hindered by his physically frail body but instead strengthened by the will of the unifying Force, jumped out of the Emperor's obvious trap before the lightwhip could coil around his legs, landing several feet away.

Two boulders came at him, and in a display of masterful channeling of the Force, the Jedi redirected one boulder away from himself and caught the other. At least, it appeared as if he had caught it... there were several inches of space between Teferi's wrinkly green fingers and the boulder's granite face. It began to spin, rapidly, and was sent back in the direction of the Sith Emperor at full force.

 

[Soliath Devin Talith]

Central Park @[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""] The Capital City
@[member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""][member=""]Teferi Efreet
Moridin flicked his wrist again, this time the lightwhip jumped back towards him. The snake like blade wrapped around the spinning hurled rock and sliced it into a dozen different pieces. In the next instant Moridin's own palm came up, stopping the remaining projectiles and sending them away. For a brief few seconds the Emperor rested, allowing the lightwhip to coil at his feet as he deactivated it and placed it on his belt.

A second passed, and then Moridin flashed forward. He moved with the force imbuing every fiber of his being. He closed the distance between himself and the Grandmaster in the blink of an eye. He appeared before the Grandmaster and immediately lashed out, he sliced his Sith Sword towards the aliens torso and used his empty hand to grab towards the aliens leg.

 

[Sirella Valkner]

Plant Dome
@[member="Emberli Garett"]
“Yes,” Sirella laughed a little to herself, “because no Mandalorian has ever lied. And certainly there has never, in the history of the galaxy, been a Mandalore who manipulated people.” She turned over onto her side and stared into the slits of Mandalore’s helmet. “You’re as foolish as my son. Honor? Nearly every army says they have honor, serve with honor. But you know what? Like the rest of this galaxy they are just a rabble rousers shout away from anarchy. And when they start to lose their petty wars men default into animals. Savage and cruel.”

 

[Carbon]

Plant Dome
@[member="Sirella Valkner"]

Emberli took a few short strides towards the plant Sith and stopped in front of her before crouching down low. "I am a man of honor. Do not confuse honor with an inability to do what is necessary. I won't shoot you in the back, but I will crush your skull and put your homes to the torch."

The visor locked with her eyes once more. "I will destroy species and planets to get what I want - and nothing will stand in the way of that. I am honest. I back up my word. That is integrity, and from it spouts honor. Honor is a subjective term, at times. Old fashioned honor got people killed; smart honor makes you a force to fear."

There's a grin somewhere under that helmet. "But you and I can agree on one thing. When your back is to a wall, anything goes. And you Sith are dangerously close to taking us to that precipice." Emberli was a pragmatic man, like most Mandalorians.

Honor was good and well until it held you back in a deadly fashion. He wouldn't let his people die; even if that meant being less than the Mandalorian ideal.