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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 1842952" data-attributes="member: 10079">((Change of plans...going with multiple smaller updates for this one.))Chapter 37: Laughter in the DarkThe light seemed to grow as the they approached. It wasn’t a trick of the eye. In fact, the light level was increasing. Jen was gripping her small blaster pistol tightly, a bit worried at the echoing noise of their footsteps. It was unnerving. Without a doorway to the room they approached, it was easy to see how large it was. Along the back wall was a set of tables, consoles, and large tubes. The ceiling was domed, at least twenty meters above them. At the center of the room, Jen looked all around her. The light level cast a strange white glow over everything, especially the tubes that seemed to line all of the walls.    Voort was still moving forward, slowly and cautiously. He stepped down five or six small stairs towards the end of the room, looking at a console near the wall. Approaching it, he noticed that someone had stopped in the middle of their work. A genetic structure was on the screen. Stopped, though...why? No, not stopped. Showing off. Titus turned around to see Sadrak standing behind Jen at the large open entrance to the room. He was wearing a heavy looking red and black set of armor. Or at least, clothes styled like armor.    “Ahh, Titus,” Sadrak smiled, the voice behind her causing Jen to nearly jump out of her skin, stepping back closer to the steps and aiming her pistol at him. The black haired man chuckled as a disturbing glow seemed to grow out of his eyes, “Now now. Patience. We can’t start the show without your pets.”    Voort had started moving forward, and it was obvious he was about to activate the lightsaber and attack. He didn’t get far enough to even hit the lightsaber’s switch. Sadrak’s arms was extended, and the lightsaber shot out of Voort’s hands. Sadrak caught it, inspected it a moment with an amused look on his face, then simply tossed it off to the side. There was a silence as the three of them stood waiting for one of them to move. But nothing came of it. In a moment, Sadrak’s smile returned and he tilted his head to the side, “Ah, good. A little late, but they’ve made it.”    The Inquisitor stepped to the side to allow Jen and Voort a better view. Sure enough, Shadow and Akan could be seen making their way towards them. When they caught sight of the situation, they stopped. Akan looked to be reaching for his lightsaber, but Sadrak easily put a stop to that, using the Force to yank the hilt of the weapon into his grip. After another amused inspection, Sadrak tossed the weapon away. When Sadrak reached down and pulled a small weapon from a holster on his belt, Jen and Akan both did the same thing. Jen fired her blaster pistol at Sadrak. Akan took another moment, seeing as he had to draw the weapon, but also fired. Sadrak simply held up his hand, both blasts absorbing in a bright flash.    A sudden invisible fist slammed into Jen, sending her sprawling back and down the steps. Voort had tried to stop her from falling, but did no good. When he moved towards Sadrak, another wall of nothing hit him, forcing the man hard against the back wall before he collapsed to the ground. Sadrak smiled, and turned to the two Alraxians, “Now that they won’t be a problem. Let us get this underway, shall we?”    In a flash of movement, Shadow started at Sadrak. She was half through a morph when Sadrak raised the weapon, and fired it. But not blaster shot rang out. Instead, a short wisp of air, and a gasp from Shadow as something hit her. She tumbled to the ground, body never finishing the morph and instead reverting back to her Alraxian form. Akan felt a sharp pain through his...mind. Not body. Then, nothing. It was like the link completely disappeared. Not like before with her so far away...but truly gone. He tried to run to her to do something, but an invisible force slammed him to the side into the wall.    With a quiet laugh from Sadrak, Akan felt blackness cover him.</blockquote>

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