Dr Midnight
Explorer
Lexo and Woonie arrived in the second level and walked to the controls to the wookiee detention area. They walked along a catwalk over a vast, seemingly bottomless pit. They came to the controls and Lexo raised his hand to lower the lever when they heard a modulated voice from behind them.
"Halt! What are you doing there?"
They turned to see a lone Stormtrooper approaching them. Lexo thought quickly. "What are YOU doing? Were you not notified that the Grand High Inquisitor is making a visit and inspection of the facilities?"
The Trooper looked them over and thought a moment. "Why would the Grand High Inquisitor be wearing bearskins? And... why would he have a wookiee companion helping him to... deactivate the wookiee detention collars?!" The panicked Stormtrooper raised his blaster rifle... too late. Lexo cracked him in the neck with his force pike, then gave a mighty kick to the Trooper's midsection. He flew off the catwalk. Woonwooken's arms flashed out and grabbed his helmet securely between her paws. The Trooper fell out of it and plummeted into the depths below, screaming all the way. Woonie turned the helmet around and placed it on her own head. She grunted and strained... and the helmet broke as the other one did. It fit over her head horribly. Her pink bow grew from the top of it like a flower. She looked at Lexo to be evalutated.
Gronk?
"No, I don't think the disguise route will work this time either. I think we'd better get moving. If anyone heard that scream, things are going to get hot pretty soon." Lexo pulled the lever down and a humming noise was heard as the wookiee detention collars powered down. They went back downstairs.
Approaching the door, they saw a group of Stormtroopers rounding a distant corner. "That's them... blast 'em!" The Troopers raised their rifles and began firing. Lexo and Woonie dodged blaster fire and ducked into the wookiee room, then slammed the door shut behind them.
In the training room, Darth Xell was leading the Force Troopers in their lightsaber technique exercises. "Feel the Force," he said. "Feel it guide your hand. Feel it control your hate. Feel your hate well up inside of you, like a boiling cauldron. The Force brings you above all things. They will fear you for it. They will hate you for it. You will kill them for it."
The window above the room on the opposite side shattered inward, and a man in brown robes flipped over himself five times. He landed in a crouch with a double-bladed lightsaber in his right hand. He eyed Xell with a dangerous look. "Your teachings are like venom."
The Troopers all turned with surprise, not knowing what was happening. Darth Xell merely lowered his lightsaber and struck a casual stance. He watched as another man in black robes jumped down beside him with another lightsaber. "Oh my," Xell said. "I really was hoping you'd stay up in that little room a while more."
"We'll not allow your corrosive way of the Force to be taught to anyone else."
"Oh? See what my way of the Force has wrought. Feel what true power is. Attack!"
The Force Troopers ran towards the two Jedi. T'ek spoke nervously. "Zybor, I hope you had a miraculous plan when you jumped down here..."
Just then, an odd whirring sound came from the walls. Everywhere, training droids- small spherical repulsorlift blaster machines- were raising up to about three meters high. Dent smiled down on them from his place at the control panel above the training room. He focused their attacks on the Force Troopers and Darth Xell, then turned their power knob from STUN to SUBDUE.
The tiny training droids can be little more than an annoyance at their lowest settings, but at their highest, they can easily render a target unconscious. They buzzed around the room like a cloud of hornets, firing down at the Troopers. They raised their sabers and began hurriedly defending themselves against hundreds of bright red bolts of blasterfire. Xell stood still and let his gracefully sweeping lightsaber repel every single attack without effort. He watched the Troopers as four of them managed to attack the Jedi.
Zybor and T'ek let their lightsabers fly furiously around them. The red, green, and blue blades flashed about, wreaking large sparks and jarring contact noises. The Troopers were very good. They lasted for about twenty full seconds. In the end, T'ek cut the last one down as Zybor was approaching Darth Xell. "Give up," Zybor said. "You can't win this one. We have a very powerful team covering us from the room above."
"I know," Darth Xell said. "That's why I said I was hoping you'd be up in that room for a bit longer. You may have been able to help them when the Stormtroopers I summoned raid the room. Too bad..."
Zybor's eyes widened, because he knew Xell was telling the truth. At that moment in the control room, Dent and Uschi heard the sounds of dozens of feet approaching the door. Dent whirled around and pulled Uschi with him into a supply closet. R5 followed and the closet door shut just as the door to the room opened and commands to surrender were shouted. In the dark, Dent wondered how he could possibly get out of THIS one. He backed up against something and bumped it. He put a hand on it to steady it, and almost immediately he felt his heart lighten. He knew what it was he had found.
The Stormtroopers filling the room did a quick search, then looked at the door to the supply closet. One jerked a thumb at the door, and the others raised their blaster rifles. They slowly approached it. One of them put his hand out and touched the panel. The door slid open to reveal Dent and Uschi holding E-Web blasters. The startled Trooper had only a moment to gawk before he was blown backwards- along with four of his companions- through the window into the training room. Dent leaned into the kick from every blast and laughed as he obliterated Stormtrooper after Stormtrooper.
Woonwooken and Lexo shut the door quickly behind them and looked to the wookiees. They were watching them with glittering eyes. Woonie walked straight up to one of the wookiee slaves and pulled the collar in two pieces away from his neck. He blinked- he hadn't exploded. The room went up with growls and screams of wookiee excitement as seven foot tall beasts everywhere stood up and ripped their bonds free from the walls.
Just outside the wookiee detention area, a modest force of roughly thirty Stormtroopers had gathered to capture or kill the two intruders they'd seen enter the room. They were not prepared in any way for what they saw when they opened the door. Wookiees washed over them like a sea of fur. Arms were ripped from sockets. Armored bodies flew like confetti. Helmets were gingerly removed... and placed atop wookiee heads far too large for them. The helmets were crammed on and broken, as Woonie's was. The wookiees and Lexo swarmed through the halls, collecting rifles and helmets from shattered bodies as they went. "To war!" Lexo cried, rallying his army. "TO WAR!!"
"Halt! What are you doing there?"
They turned to see a lone Stormtrooper approaching them. Lexo thought quickly. "What are YOU doing? Were you not notified that the Grand High Inquisitor is making a visit and inspection of the facilities?"
The Trooper looked them over and thought a moment. "Why would the Grand High Inquisitor be wearing bearskins? And... why would he have a wookiee companion helping him to... deactivate the wookiee detention collars?!" The panicked Stormtrooper raised his blaster rifle... too late. Lexo cracked him in the neck with his force pike, then gave a mighty kick to the Trooper's midsection. He flew off the catwalk. Woonwooken's arms flashed out and grabbed his helmet securely between her paws. The Trooper fell out of it and plummeted into the depths below, screaming all the way. Woonie turned the helmet around and placed it on her own head. She grunted and strained... and the helmet broke as the other one did. It fit over her head horribly. Her pink bow grew from the top of it like a flower. She looked at Lexo to be evalutated.
Gronk?
"No, I don't think the disguise route will work this time either. I think we'd better get moving. If anyone heard that scream, things are going to get hot pretty soon." Lexo pulled the lever down and a humming noise was heard as the wookiee detention collars powered down. They went back downstairs.
Approaching the door, they saw a group of Stormtroopers rounding a distant corner. "That's them... blast 'em!" The Troopers raised their rifles and began firing. Lexo and Woonie dodged blaster fire and ducked into the wookiee room, then slammed the door shut behind them.
In the training room, Darth Xell was leading the Force Troopers in their lightsaber technique exercises. "Feel the Force," he said. "Feel it guide your hand. Feel it control your hate. Feel your hate well up inside of you, like a boiling cauldron. The Force brings you above all things. They will fear you for it. They will hate you for it. You will kill them for it."
The window above the room on the opposite side shattered inward, and a man in brown robes flipped over himself five times. He landed in a crouch with a double-bladed lightsaber in his right hand. He eyed Xell with a dangerous look. "Your teachings are like venom."
The Troopers all turned with surprise, not knowing what was happening. Darth Xell merely lowered his lightsaber and struck a casual stance. He watched as another man in black robes jumped down beside him with another lightsaber. "Oh my," Xell said. "I really was hoping you'd stay up in that little room a while more."
"We'll not allow your corrosive way of the Force to be taught to anyone else."
"Oh? See what my way of the Force has wrought. Feel what true power is. Attack!"
The Force Troopers ran towards the two Jedi. T'ek spoke nervously. "Zybor, I hope you had a miraculous plan when you jumped down here..."
Just then, an odd whirring sound came from the walls. Everywhere, training droids- small spherical repulsorlift blaster machines- were raising up to about three meters high. Dent smiled down on them from his place at the control panel above the training room. He focused their attacks on the Force Troopers and Darth Xell, then turned their power knob from STUN to SUBDUE.
The tiny training droids can be little more than an annoyance at their lowest settings, but at their highest, they can easily render a target unconscious. They buzzed around the room like a cloud of hornets, firing down at the Troopers. They raised their sabers and began hurriedly defending themselves against hundreds of bright red bolts of blasterfire. Xell stood still and let his gracefully sweeping lightsaber repel every single attack without effort. He watched the Troopers as four of them managed to attack the Jedi.
Zybor and T'ek let their lightsabers fly furiously around them. The red, green, and blue blades flashed about, wreaking large sparks and jarring contact noises. The Troopers were very good. They lasted for about twenty full seconds. In the end, T'ek cut the last one down as Zybor was approaching Darth Xell. "Give up," Zybor said. "You can't win this one. We have a very powerful team covering us from the room above."
"I know," Darth Xell said. "That's why I said I was hoping you'd be up in that room for a bit longer. You may have been able to help them when the Stormtroopers I summoned raid the room. Too bad..."
Zybor's eyes widened, because he knew Xell was telling the truth. At that moment in the control room, Dent and Uschi heard the sounds of dozens of feet approaching the door. Dent whirled around and pulled Uschi with him into a supply closet. R5 followed and the closet door shut just as the door to the room opened and commands to surrender were shouted. In the dark, Dent wondered how he could possibly get out of THIS one. He backed up against something and bumped it. He put a hand on it to steady it, and almost immediately he felt his heart lighten. He knew what it was he had found.
The Stormtroopers filling the room did a quick search, then looked at the door to the supply closet. One jerked a thumb at the door, and the others raised their blaster rifles. They slowly approached it. One of them put his hand out and touched the panel. The door slid open to reveal Dent and Uschi holding E-Web blasters. The startled Trooper had only a moment to gawk before he was blown backwards- along with four of his companions- through the window into the training room. Dent leaned into the kick from every blast and laughed as he obliterated Stormtrooper after Stormtrooper.
Woonwooken and Lexo shut the door quickly behind them and looked to the wookiees. They were watching them with glittering eyes. Woonie walked straight up to one of the wookiee slaves and pulled the collar in two pieces away from his neck. He blinked- he hadn't exploded. The room went up with growls and screams of wookiee excitement as seven foot tall beasts everywhere stood up and ripped their bonds free from the walls.
Just outside the wookiee detention area, a modest force of roughly thirty Stormtroopers had gathered to capture or kill the two intruders they'd seen enter the room. They were not prepared in any way for what they saw when they opened the door. Wookiees washed over them like a sea of fur. Arms were ripped from sockets. Armored bodies flew like confetti. Helmets were gingerly removed... and placed atop wookiee heads far too large for them. The helmets were crammed on and broken, as Woonie's was. The wookiees and Lexo swarmed through the halls, collecting rifles and helmets from shattered bodies as they went. "To war!" Lexo cried, rallying his army. "TO WAR!!"
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