You Got Something I Need (Siobhan)

[Coryth Elaris]

@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

Coryth felt a little surprised at how Siobhan had reacted to her, she expected something a little more ... battering ram than what she was getting. But given the sheer magnitude of what she was throwing out, one couldn't be too surprised. Leaping upwards, with the force aiding her, her invisibility dropped in an instant. With a quick salto backwards, she landed to the ground some distance away and now clearly visible.

Eyes flicked across the scene of sheer devastation and destruction that they had done in the room(s) as it seemed they were now started to press into surrounding spaces. Just as long as I don't have to clean it up. She thought to herself.

She glanced as the droids came out to play, from where the beam had smashed open there door. Oh how I loathe droids. Invisibility was no good against them, not in this setting. That and she was running fast out of energy, for she simply would not be able to keep up at the level that she had been working at for much of the fight.

Even worse when she realized the droids were shooting stun bolts. Blaster shots were easier to deal with, stun.... not so much. Her hand went numb as one of the shots collided with her forearm. Uselessly from elbow down her left hand fell against her side. Leaving her with only her saber in her right hand for defense. With the force she pulled her saber back up into her hand. Annoyed by the situation, the little redhead was fast running out of options. "Just had to be droids, didn't there?!" Her hatred of them showing oh so clearly.

All she was really left with to fight against them was telekinesis. Angry, and without even the standard wave of a hand, one of the droidekas just imploded on itself as Coryth lashed out with an anger she was hardly even aware she contained. But that action greatly depleted what little energy she had left, running on empty, it was only a matter of time before the woman would no longer be of use in the battle.

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Coryth Elaris"]

It was pure mayhem that reigned now, just how Siobhan liked it. She could feel the hatred the little redhead was feeling at the sight of the droids, saw her get hit in the forearm by a stun bolt. If Coryth was pissed off then Siobhan was enjoying herself. She felt a burst of adrenaline and the strong rush that combat always made her experience, getting stronger the greater the odds were. Combat droids and droidekas advanced upon them, firing volley upon volley of stun bolts, more difficult to block than conventional rounds for some reason that escaped Siobhan.

Her bionic leg had been struck and she went down, but the electronics saw her through. As her lightsabre fell out of her hand she lashed out against the machines with a force repulse that sent droids smashing into the already damaged wall, then, raising her flesh and blood hand, a strong current of ionised energy shot out from her fingertips and travelled through the air towards the machines. The smell of burnt circuitry and electronics filled the air as a droideka, its shield already damaged from the impact of being smashed into a wall, exploded and droid parts flew through the air, with the ionised current jumping from it to strike two more machines, leaping from one to the other as they were fried.

Beads of sweat were dripping down Siobhan's forehad and temples, the exertions of the training exercise were taking their toll on her, but the expression on her face made it clear that she was enjoying herself. She dove as the droids sought to circle her, trying to cut off any escape route and blast her with stun bolts, augmenting her speed with her powers as she sought to dodge the hailstorm, then cried out as one droid tossed a concussion grenade into the fray, knocking her off her feet and sending her flying into a pillar, which soon found itself perforated with bolts as she came to and rolled out of the way. White hot pain shot through her and her vision grew hazy before her training took over, though her body ached and she was bleeding.
She stretched out with her powers to call her lightsabre towards her, but one of the combat droids, being tactical minded, leapt into its path and the unignited blade clattered to the ground. Siobhan grit her teeth, looking annoyed, but that gave fuel to her powers and as she raised her hand she blasted the offending droid with one ioen salvoe, making it explode messily with a loud bang. Droid parts rained upon her, as it was close and she clenched her jaw as her face was hit by parts of circuitry, burning her cheek. Two droidekas were lifted off the ground into their and brutally smashed into each other before crashing into the walls. The devastation was a beautiful sight to behold.

Siobhan emerged, her lightsabre flying into her hand and the magnificient blue blade igniting with a a snap-hiss, breathing in. She was starting to feel tired, the exertions and the bolts were taking their toll on her. They were clearly reaching the end game and so she had to end the fight. Her own energy levels were depleting, so now she would see how much more Coryth could take.

With her shoulder struck she had to draw on the Force to maintain her edge and put strength in her muscles. But seeing Coryth she charged, moving so very fast even as the machines fired, throwing up wreckage to serve as cover. As she got some breathing space she concentrated, sweat dripping down her temples, with a clench of her fist she grabbed the heavy door she had ripped out earlier and lifted it off ground, aggressively hurling it towards Coryth with her telekinesis with great speed. Siobhan crossed the distance, coming at the Jedi healer from a different angle she launched herself high into the air and bounced off the wall, spinning in mid-air as her blade hummed and made a powerful downward strike.

 

[Coryth Elaris]

@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

It was pure chaos everywhere. The little redhead struggling to keep up, having taken cover for a moment behind a crate. She was small enough and it seemed Siobhan was taking the brunt of the droids attacks. The concussive grenade, now that was new and unexpected. She should have known. Should have known. But she was growing tired and fast. There was only so much she could do. A grenade hurled over her crate landing just to her left, she leapt but not fast enough thrown some distance away, landing with a hard thud across the floor. A quick check, and she was ... only partly sure nothing was broken. Least not yet.

It was about that time, another droid advanced on her and at this point, she was flat pissed. The expression seen in her face so clearly a mile away. This was the dangerous Coryth the one that teetered on that edge, drawing in dark powers. Lashing out, she merely took the droid lifted it, and threw it to the far wall with a resounding smash. Nothing bit little pieces fell to the floor, and a nice sizable hole was left in the wall from what she'd done.

The door Coryth saw coming before Siobhan had even launched the attack, expecting it. She let her throw it, with the force she repelled it, aiming it to crush more of the droids with a little luck. Once she release it the girl turned a hair too late. The strike hit her across the shoulder and she sheer force brought the redhead to the ground. For a moment, she just blinked. Didn't move. Didn't say a word, just blinked. Painful as it was, and Coryth already panting for breath, this wasn't to last much longer. Not at all. Coryth's eyes moved, slowly. She saw what she wanted. With only the gesture of a couple fingers, it looked like really she was just trying to find her way to her feet, she ripped a chunk of the ceiling down with hopes to bring it down on Siobhan. She couldn't have all the ceiling dropping fun after all!

Coryth only barely managed to get out of the way, extremely weakened and pushed beyond her breaking point the redhead collapsed a little ways away from the mess, laying on her back just panting. There was nothing left, the rage had been all that she had left, and all spent in that final move. It was over, and she knew it so Cory just lay on the floor, without a word trying to catch her breath.

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Coryth Elaris"]

Coryth was brought down, the duel was over. She had done well, bloody well, actually held up against Siobhan in a telekinetic duel. No hits with her sabre, but then Siobhan was not the greatest lightsabre duellist anyway. Proof that one should not piss off a redhead, which was obvious anyway. Beyond that it showed she was not the fragile, delicate thing to be protected and shielded that the nonperceptive might think of her as. But then someone who had deep scars like her had to possess some form of inner strength or else she would have been unable to cope. Certainly not joined Omega Pyre...or asked to receive training from the most brutal Force Master this side of the Galaxy.

Siobhan saw Coryth being seemingly passive as she dropped down, lightsabre still in the force warrior's hand, then felt a prickling in the Force, just before the chunk of ceiling came falling down. Siobhan was already moving, trying to dodge the incoming onslaught, the lightsabre cluttering to the ground and deactivating as she gazed upon the falling chunk. No words spoken, no frantic gestures as she focused upon the chunk and caught it in mid-air, just as it was hovering above her head. Exertion was clear across her face but she caught it nonetheless. A small chunk hit her left arm and she felt it go dead but then with an act of will she threw the falling ceiling chunk forward with her mind so that it crashed into the wall before her, though parts of the debris came flying back and were hurled across the room. A large hole was left in the wall.


Siobhan staggered, clearly off balance and with her leg hurting. All around her the entire training room had been wrecked. Doubtless whoever got to cleaned it up would curse their name. It was littered with the wreckage of battle droids, parts of the ceiling, a door and a broken beam, not to mention crates and weapons. All strewn across a room that looked like a bomb had exploded. Siobhan grunted from the pain she was feeling, then looked down at Coryth. Suddenly, without any prompting, Siobhan burst into laughter, wiping some sweat off her face. "I could use a drink. More than one maybe. Now that was fun. Good work, kid. You did real well."

 

[Coryth Elaris]

@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

Coryth didn't move her body in the least, only her eyes as she looked up to Siobhan. Already she could sense the broken ribs, that she knew and much other damage. "I tell you what, come to the infirmary, let me patch up the ribs, the cuts, the leg and anything else that I broke in the process and then I'll buy you whatever drink you wish, as much as you wish." She said with a soft but tired smile.


"It's been too long since I've stood against a force user, at least I can sorta hold my own. You had me with the blade not once but twice in a position that would have killed, so it needs work. Needs more training." Coryth assessed quickly speaking more to herself that Kerrigan.


Slowly Coryth groaned as she sat up very carefully among the destroyed room. Eyes moved around surveying the sheer damage and how much of it done by her hands. Honestly a bit of a shocked expression came onto her face. It was a bit hard to take in what she really could do when pushed. She sighed, heavily at that and slowly got to her feet, aching all over. "Honestly, didn't expect to last as long as I did. Just ... pure rage at the end was all I had left. I walk a fine line between light and dark, walk on the edge of a very sharp blade. One day, I will fall and I certainly hope there is someone powerful enough to destroy me before I do great harm to the galaxy."

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Coryth Elaris"]

Despite everything and the evident pain she must be in, the difficulty to stand upright, Siobhan seemed in a remarkably good mood. "You get yourself patched up as well. I'm used to getting a beating," she said in jovial tone. "It does need training, yeah, but you did hold on your own. Solid TK barrage," she said approvingly. Coryth could clearly pack a strong punch with telekinesis and her rage could fuel her, but it seemed she tired out rather quickly. But there was power there, strength that many would not see on first sight, which could cost them dearly. "Like the illusions. Was pretty lost against them," she said honestly. Siobhan was the sort of force-user trained to make waves and not read the ripples, so she was not experienced in dealing with mental tricks and illusion powers.

She frowned at the next words from Coryth. "Hey, don't think like that. I ain't a fountain of wisdom, but nothing's inevitable and the moment you think that, battle's half lost. You got people around here to whom you matter. Seriously, do you really think I'm stable? Oftentimes it just my rage driving me once everything's burnt out. I don't believe the darkside's some entity ready to pounce on naughty Jedi, but I know it's there. I have come close to falling...many times. Stare into the abyss too many times and the abyss stares right back into you," she said honestly. Sometimes it felt like only Tegaea kept her balanced.

 

[Coryth Elaris]

@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

"Thanks" She said softly. Holding up against Siobhan wasn't an easy task, and impressive feat for someone so unpracticed against her own kind. "Makes me feel a little better about it all." She managed a weak smile, "Come, let's both go get fixed up, don't think anything is broken on my end, but I can sense your ribs without even laying a finger on you."

Coryth turned back to Sio as she had started for the door. "Kerrigan, ma'am .. I've fallen. Completely fallen. Nearly lost completely to it, searched to kill my own fiance, killed an entire town of people to find him. I'm not proud of it, but it happened. He nearly killed me in the end, but staved the final blow, held back and gave me a chance. One I didn't deserve."

She sighed, "You know I see the future, yes?" She asked but didn't give time for an answer from Siobhan. 'I've seen the fall, many times, many ways. It happens in my nightmares every night. It's been getting firmer, the details sharper. When that happens ...." She trailed off going quiet for a moment. "It means it's closer to the event, when the details start to become solid, less things change in the visions I know it's closer." Another sigh, "It's why I don't sleep well. Those visions I cannot control in my sleep. I am weak there, and they creep in."


Sad eyes looked to her Colonel, "I do not know when, but soon I will fall. And I do not know if I can be saved this time. Only love stopped me last time. I don't have that same safety net I once did. Fiance dead eleven years now. Hevana .. I don't know what Hevana is to me, but I don't think she could stop me if what I saw came to pass." Another hard sigh, "Only about thirty five visions of the hundreds I have had, have not come to pass. This is a future I fear. One that shakes my very core, because I know the damage I am capable on that side."

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Coryth Elaris"]

Siobhan was quiet for a few moments. This was something she honestly did not know how to respond to, especially because deep down on a certain level she did share Coryth's fears of falling. There were differences of course. Siobhan was not a moral person, but then dealing out death was her job. She had gotten used to war and making the hard choices - like dropping a roof on her troops. Moira's interrogation methods had been authorised by her after all. Moreover, she really enjoyed combat.

But sometimes she felt herself slipping...Omega allowed her to harness her skill for and love of carnage in a productive way. Tegaea kept her balanced. "I fell once...very far. I murdered two Jedi, stole a holocron. Got exiled for it to some snow and ice planet, guard the colony...till pirates hit it and abducted the colonists. Pursued them, made them pay...guess that was my way back into the Order," she said cynically, evidently not believing she had earned it. One might add that she left out the fact that she had been possessed by an ancient Sith Lord called Shadow and he had warped her mind. Not an excuse, but an explanation, but far as Siobhan was concerned she had been weak.

"I've come close to falling fighting the Bando Gora. Done things I'm not proud of," she said. But equally things she did not regret.


"I couldn't count Hevana out like that. She is...very tough," she continued. Perhaps the soldier had not told Coryth about her anti-Jedi training yet, in which case it was not Siobhan's role to do so. "Beats me in hand-to-hand actually. And, yeah, you got visions and I don't claim to understand how that works, but doesn't mean anything is inevitable. Moment you think that, that's what it becomes. You got people who believe in you. Hell, Hevana thinks the world of you," she sighed, turning serious. "If the worst comes to pass, I'll make sure you get stopped. I know what the feeling's like," she said honestly.

 

[Coryth Elaris]

@[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

Coryth shrugged, "Maybe I worry too much. But just seeing the training room, if that power was uncontrolled, unchecked, I shudder to think of what I could do." Raze towns in the blink of an eye ...

Wandering on, Coryth remained quiet. It didn't take long till Coryth had them at the Infirmary. "Yeah, Hevana's something else. That's for sure." The woman, had never told her about the anti-force user training. Had she, it might have calmed some of her fears. Some, but not all. "But I appreciate you saying that, being willing. I don't want people to suffer on my behalf, on my actions. Push comes to shove, their life or mine, that's another story. Killing in defense I can deal with, admittedly not well. But I can manage."

She walked into one of the treatment rooms, expecting Kerrigan to follow her. Opening cabinet's and drawers she started gathering a few things. Sio's injuries, it didn't matter how bad Coryth was hurt, others came first. "Go ahead, take a seat. Healing myself is ... a complex matter. You, not so much." Didn't take touching Siobhan to know exactly where she was hurt, Coryth just knew on an instinctual level. Felt it. That she was not actively doing, something her mind did of its own volition.

The infirmary was Coryth's realm, healing her realm. It showed, with how quickly she grabbed things, and then waited for Siobhan to get on the table. "Will need your shirt off. Kinda hard to wrap ribs otherwise. Will heal them still but they'll be weak, will need to be braced for a bit. Sore too." She said softly, calmly and gently as any good healer would.

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

@[member="Coryth Elaris"]

"It doesn't have to be one or the other, you know. Power like that...can be controlled. I mean, I'm not the perfect example of self-control, as you might've noticed. If you anchor yourself, find a reason it's worth using for, learn to harness it," Siobhan said, admittedly a bit awkwardly. Normally she would say that anger could be a weapon, but she figured that would be misplaced here. Oftentimes she let her own anger drive her, give her the fuel she needed to carry on Moreover, Siobhan did not exactly consider herself someone who could dispense words of wisdom beyond advice on how to smash things, which sort of would not help here.


She obediently followed Coryth into the infirmary and sat down. Normally this would have been the moment for Siobhan to make a lame quip or some cheesy innuendo about the doctor wanting to get her out of her clothes, but it seemed something stopped her. Perhaps she was trying to be responsible for a change? That would probably remain an illusion. "Sure. I'm used to a bit of a beating," she said, quickly stripping off her shirt, under which she wore only a sports bra, which by the way held a rather generous bust. However, more of import to the examination were the countless angry bruises and scars, playing battering ram had its price.