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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 1841684" data-attributes="member: 10079">Chapter 36: Towards the LightThe day of waiting for Akan and Shadow came and went. True to his word, Voort was preparing to leave at dawn the next day. Jen had sat by the comm for a long while, hoping to hear something. Voort had waited an extra hour to appease her, but once they’d continued to hear nothing at all he’d said only once that he was leaving. Jen sighed, but got her blaster and a couple other things together anyway. She’d said she would go...and she was going to.    After getting an air cab to a smaller, but tightly populated area of the planet, Voort found a fast and inconspicious airspeeder to ‘borrow’ for the time being. Jen sat back in the small speeder, looking over the mess that was Coruscant. After the invasion of the planet, many of the buildings had been destroyed and clean up efforts had lasted for so long that many people forgot exactly how things were damaged. Though most of that was done with now, the more industrial areas weren’t nearly as crucial to be completely perfect. So, as the speeder passed out of the main city and along the smaller(but still very high up in relation to the planet’s actual surface) buildings of the industrial district, Jen started to worry slightly about being noticed. There wasn’t anything out there but them.    As they passed over a large conduit of sorts, Voort started to bring the speeder down. Voort seemed lost in his own thought, not paying attention to anything but his flying. Honestly, Jen couldn’t blame him. She watched out the viewport, trying not to think and just let herself be calm. She had no idea what she was really getting into here. She was just along for the ride...why, though? She didn’t know. All she did know was that she was going, and there wasn’t any turning back.    The speeder was turned onto its side as they dove down below the first level of the small buildings. Jen looked around, seeing how tight this really was. Voort had slowed down the speeder to more easily make it through many of the turns he was taking. How was he navigating like this, though? There were no landmarks of any sorts...memory, then? A good memory, obviously.    “Punch into the comm unit ‘four seven five alpha nine’” Voort said, suddenly interrupting her thoughts. Jen jumped slightly, then put in the number sequence with a smile on her face. She was getting nervous about this. She hadn’t even really had to deal with a long tension like this...its why she enjoyed being a scientist. Not a minute after she’d put in the code, a small hangar bay door not far in front of them opened. Inside, it was empty.    Jen raised an eyebrow at that, “He didn’t change the codes?”    “Oh, he probably did,” Voort said as he slowed the speeder and set it down, “But we’ve still got about twenty levels to descend. This was an old private hangar I used that Isard and Sadrak had no idea was so close to them. If they did, it wouldn’t still be here.”    He got up, and exited the airspeeder, looking around the small, dark, and long unused hangar. When Jen had caught up behind him, he started over to a turbolift, “This used to go all the way down...somehow I doubt it still does.”    Nodding, Jen stepped into the turbolift him and...waited. It was about the only thing one could do on such a long journey down. She wanted to say something about Akan and Shadow, but wasn’t sure that was the best thing at this point. Voort looked distant then, focused on something she wasn’t aware of. Part of her felt out of place in all of this. Voort had reason to go after Sadrak. Shadow especially did. Akan well...he seemed to be in the same ship as Jen at this point. Just going along with the others. Though, to Akan, it was likely that he’d go out of his way to get rid of an Imperial like Sadrak.    With a fairly loud noise, the turbolift came to a halt. Voort looked around a moment, then to Jen, “It took us all the way down...”    Jen took that as a bad thing, and drew her blaster pistol before standing out of the way of the door. Voort had his lightsaber in hand as he did the same. Then, the door slid open, revealing a long, dark corridor with a few emergency lights here and there. Empty. Eerie, too. Slowly, Voort stepped out into the hallway. He motioned for Jen to follow. Jen stepped out into the darkness, keeping close to Voort as they moved one step at a time.     They moved like this for what seemed like an eternity, turning corners and all the while Jen expecting something to jump out at them. Nothing did. Somehow, that made it even more worrisome. They didn’t speak at all, partly from worry that it might alert anyone to their presence. Voort knew that if Sadrak was here(which he was suspecting more so with each step), he was already aware of them. Jen didn’t know this, and didn’t need to. But she’d soon know they weren’t completely alone. If the light at the far end of the corridor didn’t tell that to Jen, nothing would.</blockquote>

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