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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 3733079" data-attributes="member: 10079">Chapter 511: One Way OutTobias got to his feet and spun around, barely remembering to bring his lightsaber up in front of him. But, thankfully, Tokarr was having to deal with Venda, who was much better at this lightsaber thing. Her green blade easily parried a strike from Tokarr’s blue weapon, and Tobias couldn’t help but be impressed. Of course, there was the fact that Venda was a fully trained Jedi Knight and Tokarr had barely more training that Tobias...but that wasn’t something crossing his mind.    A leg sweep from Tokarr dropped Venda to the ground hard, but she rolled to the side to avoid the downward strike of the Miraluka’s lightsaber. Having hesitated long enough, Tobias charged in again, not at all feeling ready to fight but also not wanting to just stand around watching. But before he could reach Tokarr, the Miraluka spun around, swinging his blue blade in a long, horizontal arc that was exactly the kind of thing Tobias remembered Jyren calling an amateur mistake.     Doing exactly what he remembered Jyren teaching him, as it was something Toby had done when he’d first picked up a lightsaber, Tobias spun inverted his blade and gritted his teeth as he used all his strength to parry the swing. And then Tokarr pulled his weapon back to attempt an attack from another angle. Tobias then did what Jyren had done to him years ago, and when Tokarr left himself open, Tobias reached his free hand out towards the Miraluka and did one of the few things he was good at with the Force...he hit Tokarr hard with it, sending the surprised former-Jedi flying a few meters before landing on the ground on his back.    “Well done,” Venda said, as she was now back on her feet and right next to Toby. As Tokarr was getting up, she motioned towards the boarding ramp, “Get in there and find whatever you can. I will hold him out here.”    “But-“ Tobias didn’t have a chance to argue, as she had stepped in front of him and the loud clashing of lightsabers was overwhelming anything else he would have said.    For a short few seconds, Tobias watched the blur, and even to his untrained eye, he could see that Venda had an easy advantage. She could definitely hold Tokarr off better than he could. So, blue-green lightsaber lowered to his side, Tobias turned and ran to the ramp and up into the shuttle.    The sounds of the lightsabers below, Tobias did his best to focus. The shuttle’s interior was...sparse. He walked up into a large, open cargo area with large dark spots near the center that might have once been the location of seats. There were various doors on either side that likely housed small compartments, and one directly at the back of the shuttle for...well, Tobias assumed it was access for maintenance on the engines. He turned to see the cockpit, and ran around the ramp and into the small, four-seat-holding section of the ship.    He deactivated his lightsaber but kept it in hand, as he looked across all of the various consoles that covered all of the cockpit. What was he looking for? Nav...no...communication...no...flight logs...no...wait. There was a datapad sitting in the co-pilot’s chair.    Navigating through the other chairs to reach it, Tobias grabbed the small object and, after a moment to find how to activate it, did his best to figure out what was on it. There were diagrams, information written in an alphabet he’d seen all over but couldn’t read, and a few images that he recognized as some kind of chemical structure. It seemed like what they were looking for, though everything on one little datapad seemed a little too convenient. Inheriting a little extra suspicion from Marix hadn’t been a bad thing.    So Tobias pocketed the datapad and looked around the cockpit for something more...there had to be more...    A series of loud clanking sounds drew his attention, and Tobias turned to see Tokarr coming up the boarding ramp. A quick glance outside the viewport showed that Venda was...on the ground near the trees. Oh Gods...    “Get away from there!” Tokarr’s voice was filled with rage, so much so that it felt like the air around Tobias was tightening.    He turned and reactivated his lightsaber, blue-green blade coming to life in the confines of the small cockpit. Tokarr’s blue blade was still active, and the Miraluka was charging straight in, weapon raised and not looking like he noticed at all that there was barely enough room within the cockpit to move, let alone swing a lightsaber.    Sparks flew as the blade cut through consoles and durasteel bulkheads and Tobias barely managed to raise his weapon in time to catch Tokarr’s wild swing. The two blades held against one another as both pushed hard to gain an advantage, a bright white spot where the two lightsabers held together. And through the crossing of blue and blue-green, Tobias could see Tokarr...his face a portrait of rage and the cloth that covered empty eye sockets half burnt in more than one place.    It was then that Tobias knew there was only one way this was going to end.    But Tobias wasn’t sure he could kill again.</blockquote>

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