A Star Wars Story

Ops's grin could not be seen behind his mask as Menos approached with the two Jedi's lightsabers. He could feel his power had grown... and he knew he had done the deed because he could feel the emptiness left in the Force where the two Jedi had been before. Menos knelt before him and offered him the two sabers on the floor. Ops lifted his black gloved hand and the lightsabers rose into the air. He pulled back a section of his cloak, revealing twelve hidden lightsabers, his own being on the opposite hip. The two sabers moved towards him and clipped themselves to his belt.

"You have done well, my Apprentice," Ops's voice echoed as he spoke to Menos. "While you were gone I had my other apprenti do some research on these so-called... Sith...."

The grimace on his face when he said the word was unseen by the mask, but able to be heavily felt throughout the ship.

"While our own power is massive... It cannot hope to match the... the Emperor's armada of Star Destroyers and troops... Even my own power, great as it is, cannot defeat their army. I have devised a plan... And part of it includes slowly taking planets from Empire control... With the Empire having no real enemy, save for some Rebel groups scattered in the Outer Rim, we will have to recruit as much as possible... Only needing Kamikazee troopers. My legion of Sith, along with my new Apprentice, being you, will be more than sufficient to defeat Vader and Sidious."

Ops made a harsh cough at the name.

"Chosen one indeed..."

After a few moments, Ops seemed to drift back to reality.

"The first world we will take is Polis Massa. Strategically, it is the best place to start. Having a hospital world on call is a neccessity in war. We are already on course and should arrive in a few hours. Prepare yourself."

As he turned to walk away, he gave Menos one last glance.

"In the meantime... Recite the Sith Code to yourself in your room. It will help you channel your Dark Power to become stronger. I shall be in my chambers, do not disturb me."

Ops walked away from him. As he went down the hall of Praesentia, one of the Twi'lek apprenti approached Menos. She was tall, green, and the black leathered uniform she wore was tattered and torn, strangely in places where the male eye would be tempted to follow.

"Mmmm..." she said as she fluttered her head tendrils at Menos. She then walked down the hall towards her quarters, shaking her rear to entrance Menos. She knew he would be unable to resits. She anticipated his arrival in her room and readied her lightsaber. She grinned slightly as the thought of becoming Ops's successor filled her head.

 

"Droid 2 to master, a dozen squads of Tie Hunters has entered Polis Massa space and there heading for the station. What are your orders?"
Jet thought for a few seconds about his plan of destroying the Tie Hunters.

"Droid 2 foucs all fire power on the star destroyers. JoeBro, GhostBusters, ChillyBilly, and venomviper starviper squadrons follow me and engage the Tie Hunters. Droid 2 try get a singal out to fellow mandalorians for help."

 

Ronian landed next to the man, sighing. "Stupid droids. Get!" he waved them away, blasting at them. He turned back to the man he was chasing. "Well, well... Those droids did something good for once." he picked the man up. "You're coming with me." Ronian dropped the man off at a bounty shop, then opened up his comlink. "Jet, this is Ronian. What system are you in?"

***

Anakin sat back, feeling around the Force. So much had happened since John went over to the dark side. Sometimes, he tried figuring out what made John that way. Which brought Anakin to his senses about himself. How close he had come to turning over himself. That is past now. Wait... Something is wrong. He felt John nearby, but he couldn't pin-point him.

 

"Ronian? is that you? Can't talk engaging star destoryers and Tie Hunters. Get here fast and bring your droids. Droid 1 has a tracking system in him so I could aslways find you in a emergency. reroute it to find me. also don't forget your lightsaber, there are sith and jedi all here! ahhh!..."

 

Ronian chuckled. "Jet, you know I don't do droids. But I'll do it just this once so I can find you. Hey!" he shouted to one of the droids. "Which one of you bucket-heads is Droid 1?" Droid 1 raised its hand. "Good. I want you to find out where Jet is, then prep the ship for take-off." Ronian looked at the comlink, then activated it again. "I'm only using the droids because you gave them as a gift." His ship, code-named Avenger, came flying up. "Okay, upload the codes into the ships navigation and get away from me."

 

Menos looked at the woman and in a few moments went down the hall. As he approached her door he could sense her malice towards him. So that's how it is. Menos blasted the door off against her, pinning her to the wall. "Next time try and hide the hate. Maybe you'll actually surprise me then." Menos left for his own quarters and sat on his bed in a meditative pose. He had the door closed but made sure to keep his senses tuned to it, incase another would-be apprenti tried to attack him.

 

Jet ship was hit and was hurtling towards polis massa, jet sent out a message,"continue you your orders, all questions must be over my comlink!" Jet than ejected from hit starviper, lucky for Jet his mandalorian can recycle the air in his suit for 20 minutes. Jet grappled hooked a Tie Hunter and pulled himself to the cockpit and ripped the hatch open and shot the pilot, Jet then flew the Tie Hunter to space station and jumped out. Jet landed on a window and cut a cirlce big enough for him to fit through and smashed it. air was pushing in his face and everything. thing were also getting sucked out. Jet fought the force of the air and got in, a second before the metal sheath blocked the hole.

 

Ops vision in the Force was as clear as space is empty. He saw a fierce battle ensuing on their destination. He sensed the Emperor's servants. He also, strangely, felt a slight Dark presence. It was not a True Sith, sure enough, but it was tainted... Not to heavily to be turned. He could sense a great deal of turmoil within the soul he was searching on Polis Massa... Along with having not to bad of a connection to the Force. Still, as it was, the man he was searching was no match for his Apprentice. He searched the boy's mind, tracing memories and thoughts in an attempt to find his identity. And he found it.

John... echoed in his mind.

Their was another presence their... This one definately a Jedi. And... Their was a strong connection between herself and the Darker one... Definately family. Caedus's grin was unseen beneath his mask as he thought of how clever he was. A Jedi and a wanna-be Sith... On the same planet... At the same time he was going there.

How marvelous... he thought to himself.

As they continued nearing Polis Massa, his senses became filled with more and more soldiers battling. He could already tell the stronger of the two Forces was the Empire, but he also felt a strong resonance of Force power coming from the other side. Along with feeling the Dark thoughts inside them, their Force sensitivity led him to one conclusion about their identity.

Mandalorians...

He went up to the cockpit of Praesentia and gazed out the viewport as they whirled through hyperspace. He made a silent nudge as they reentered normal space, coming upon a vast space battle over Polis Massa, just as he had foreseen. The apprenti quickly reacted to his nudge, activating the cloaking device on the ship. Noone was able to see their ship... And because it was powered by the Force, it would not show up on any sensors. The quietly and quickly made their way towards the medical platform in the main area of the Planet. They landed, cloak still active, and put out the landing walkway. Ops strode off the ship, his apprenti following him without a word. As he stepped onto the astral soil, he could feel a strong current in the Force, which lead to the medical center. He glanced at the space battle ahead, and lifted his black gloved hand, as if reaching into the sky.

His apprenti did the same. There were three Star Destroyers there, in the traditional Armada setup, each underneath the next.... and an uncountable amount of Tie Fighters. Ops sent a blast of Force power into the Star Destroyer at the top of the fleet, the apprenti doing the same. The ship buckled and cracked as it quickly took a turn downwards. The Destroyer's bottom smashed into anothers bridge, killing the controllers, and causing another downward spiral into the Destroyer below that. Ops gave another glance, seeing that the Tie Fighters were still giving the Mandalorians a bit of trouble. He initiated a stiff burst of Battle Meditation, the Mandalorian ships beginning to speed up, their shops becoming more accurate, their manuevers becoming much more flush and rapid, while the Tie Pilots began listing lazily, crashing into various structures, most just seeming to drift into space.

Ops turned towards the medical center, when one of his apprenti questioned him.

"My Lord, why help them?"

Ops replied dryly, "Because we are building an army... And the Mandalorians are a strong race of fighters."

He then strode towards the medical center, sending a whisper through the Force to Menos to get off the ship.

He made his way into the main control center of the medical building, the few guards who attempted to stop him choked on ozone as ightning blasted them out of existence.

 

Now what? Menos got up and did as he was told, getting off the ship. As he did he looked around, noticing the Star Destroyers expolding all over and the small fighters destroying the remaining TIE fighters. Sure knows how to make an entrance doesn't he? Menos walked through the facility until he was right behind Ops. He kept his guard up despite Ops killing whoever got in his way. The apprenti behind him were glaring at him. A few struggled to hold themselves back while others were being held back. Aww... and I thought they liked me. Menos let out a cold laugh.

 

Ops heard Menos's slight laugh. He turned and looked him in the eye.

"You have felt the same presence on this station as I have, did you not? It is true... There is a full-fledged Jedi here... Along with a peice of false Sith-trash. I will wait for you here until you return. Go, and make the True Sith's presence known however you deem neccessary."

 

"What? Again with the weak work. I'd rather you just go and I follow. The Jedi master seems to be the only one that could challange me but, as I'm sure you can sense, she weakend right now. Besides, why bother them? You want to recruit an army. Why send me to cause trouble that may put off a few potential allies?" Menos knew he was right. He was just waiting for Ops to admit it, because he wasn't going to bother killing off a few weak Jedi when a Sith was already there fighting them.

 

"Mmm..." Ops muttered into his mask. Menos was right after all.

"You continue to surprise me, my Apprentice. You know you are True Sith, and you dont want to stoop to the level of being my pawn when you have already become so much more... Very well... I shall leave the decision to you. What should our next action be?"

Ops surprised himself with the considerable amount of trust he gave the boy.

 

"By all means, continue what you came here to do. Recruit some warriors or kill them for refusing. That was your original intention now wasn't it?" Menos smiled, "Just I suggest you try to convince them instead of just saying join or die."

 

Jet rounded the corner and stopped in his tracks as he saw quite a few people in black cloaks. Jet than went back a round the corner he came and laid againest the wall. Jet got a transmission over his comlink and said, "computer what is it?"

"Master the star destroyers have been destroyed, but not by us. our force radars givin to us by the Aing-Tii discovered force waves that had killed the star destroyers and a force technique that gave our fighters increased movement and shot accrucy. it seem the waves and the other force technique came from the space station sir."

"Thank you computer have all fighters return to the ship and bring the ship for pick-up, jet out." jet thought to himself, Were all goin to die on this god forsaken rock, we've got jedi, an army of sith, a exile jedi, and an army of droids who know lightsaber combat! yeah were all goin to die. jet started running to the room where he knew the jedi was in. Jet open his comlink and called,"Droid 2 meet me outside the room of the jedi female, jet out." Jet continued to run as fast as he could.
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Ronian could make out Jet's ship drifting around. He could also make out a huge fight going on. Jet, what have you gotten yourself into? "Jet, this is Ronian. I see your ship. I need to know where you're located now. I don't think everyone here is friendly." he called on his comlink. Someone started shooting his ship.
"Hey! This is expensive! All power to thrusters! We're going to give them a run for their money!" he shouted, twisting his ship through the air.

 

"Ronian! thank goodness your here! I'm on the station... wait? are you saying someones shooting you?" great more imperial forces must have come. "tell me Ronian, how many star destroyers? well that doesn't matter, I'm on the station with a whole freakin army of sith jedi and two robots! also make sure your wearing your anti force mandalorian armor givin to us by the Aing-Tii, Jet out"

"ship to master we hav..."

"yes I know we have mor imperials my brother is faster at telling me than you! now how many ships."

"it does not look good master, we have 7 star destroyers and 2 Interdictors."

"damn! with those Interdictors we won't be able to hyperspace out of here! computer your foucs is those ships, go into cloak mode and reappear next to those Interdictors and blow the crap out of them!"

 

Ronian sighed. It was just like his brother to rush into things without scooping it out. Ronian flew his fighter into the station dock and landed. Sith started running up at him, their lightsabers activating. Sorry guys. Not today. he thought with a smile, ejecting himself out and to the door. Right when he landed, his ship exploded. Before they could blink, the Sith were hit with debris. Ronian ran out the door and started cutting down everything he saw. After a few minutes, he saw Jet fighting. "Jet!" Ronian drew his blaster and shot at a droid. "Missed me?"

 

Jet turned around and flicked Ronian in the face and said," What were you thinking? running down the hall cutting down things? yes we've got sith and jedi all in the same place, and they don't get along, but this is still a hospital, where hurt people come! you pretty much ran down the hall cutting medical droids that should be helping people! You also shot droid 2! lucky he got shot in his amror plating so he's fine. I know you don't like droids, but if you looked closey you could have seen he was one of my droids! I know what you were going to say, 'but you were fighting him' I wasn't. we were arguing!" Jet cooled down a little and started speaking more calmly,"Just like old times Ronian, it's great to see you. I'm here to help a Jedii get off this space rock and back to mandalore, so check for friendlies and follow me to the girl."

 

Ronian just stood there until Jet got done talking, then shot a Sith coming up behind him. The Sith fell to the ground. "You were right Jet. Just like old times." he smiled. "So, are you going to lead your 'followers' to the Jedi or now?" he sheathed his blaster and drew his vibroblade. "I'm waiting for you."

 

Menos stopped the wreckage of the exploded ship before it hit him and Ops. As most of the apprenti were killed by the very debris he was levitating, Menos decided to just drop it on the survivors. "Ooops. Looks like you need more slaves, Ops." Menos laughed and began to sense everything he could. "And it looks like you're gonna have to smash some more Star Destroyers. Doesn't seem like you'll find any allies here but me so I say we get out a safe distance and destroy this rock. What do you think?"