To save a life (ALEX!)

[Othorious]

The Vorzeichen exploded out of hyperspace, roaring towards the large blue marble, hanging limply in a sea of utter blackness. Funny, Jarod thought he would never have to go here, but hell, things change, and he could maybe even give an excuse for his 13 more days of survival. As the Vorzeichen entered the atmosphere, Jarod noticed that there was no existing landmass, only a endless, abyssal ocean, and dotting the surface of this ocean, were massive mushroom like spires of huge buildings. The ship carreened towards one of the larger landing platforms, and he quickly switched the landing operation to the computer. " Well, time to alert the passengers" He quickly stood up from his pilot seat, and exited the cockpit, and quickly strode to where Mikau had situated himself.

" We've reached Kamino, but be careful, it's quiet stormy out there..." He quickly pressed a button on the wall, and the boarding ramp opened next to it. " C'mon, we better not keep our surprise visit waiting" He motioned for Mikau to follow, and walked out onto the rain soaked platform. The wind howled around him, the rain stung like needles against his red, gray, and black cloak, and he quickly pulled his hood up. " Who could live here...it's so...gah, stormy..." He walked towards the large bridge that connected the landing pad, and the large building, and waited for Mikau.

[Alexander]

Mikau nodded and stood, grasping his cylinder under his arm. He looked out the small viewport and smiled; the young Dark Jedi loved storms, and thus Kamino was one of his favorite places to be. He opened the cylinder slightly and retrieved the only thing he had left in there: his cloak (img177.imageshack.us/img177/9059/sothegryformal.png). He fastened it over his dark green survival vest and pulled his hood up as he strode down the lower ramp.

The young man looked around and smiled and all the rain and thunder that was around him... it was his favorite type of weather. He strode towards Jarod, the waist tail of his cloak billowing in the harsh wind. "I took Ilia with us," Mikau called over the storm. "I figured they could clone her biology itself and form a clone that could... be my pilot." He chuckled quietly, the storm silencing it. "I'll have some apologizing to do." Mikau walked past Jarod, his cylinder still under his arm.

He walked towards the glass door and opened it with the Force, then proceeded to lower his hood and turn to the fellow Dark Jedi. "Let's find some authorities." He joked, and walked quietly down the white hall, his thin, black, shin-high leather boots clicking quietly down the hall.

[Othorious]

Jarod nodded and followed Mikau, but unlike him, he didn't pull his hood up, but kept it down, to conceal his identity from any watchful eyes. " So...Where do you expect to find...this authority? We're just gonna go up to a cloning lab and be like, 'Oh Hello there, We need you to clone this mutilated body, or else'?" He nudged Mikau in the ribs and laughed, " I truly don't want to cause too much trouble...yet...but maybe I'll leave them a parting gift, ya know, for their services..." He chuckled at his own joke, and continued to follow Mikau down the blank white hallway.

[Alexander]

The hallway corridor opened into a larger room that was still empty. All around the two men were viewports that lead into the giant cloning factory itself. In the center of the dome-like room were some floating chairs, and a white table in the center. On opposite ends, there were two more hallways. Mikau looked down both as they entered. "Hmmm..." He said to himself while deciding which one to take.

He smiled and chuckled a bit as he was nudged. "You forget, my friend, I brought with me a lightsaber." He flicked his hilt that was concealed on the inside of his cloak, reminding Jarod that they would probably be getting a clone for free. "I suppose that the Kaminoans have a central hub or office, and that's what we'll find. Though I doubt it's anywhere near here... we'll have to take a hallway. Should we split up or go together?" Mikau looked again down both as he walked towards the center of the room.

[Othorious]

" We should split up...but I got some extra comlinks here in my cloak, so we can contact eachother if we find anyone" He reaches into his cloak, and produces two comlinks, and hands one to Mikau. " I'll take left, you take right, keep your guard up, and be careful..." He turns to the left hallway and quickly sprints down it, leaving Mikau along in the blank white room. He continues to run, the scenery never changing, but he soon reaches a bend in the path, and quickly slides to turn, and runs into a pair of longed necked creatures. " Oh! Who are you!?" The creature on the left inquired, and Jarod replied by saying, " You must be the natives of this here establishment, I'm looking for a person who can clone me a body...I hope you two are some of them...otherwise It would have to get nasty..." He edges towards the two, who back off slowly, " I'm sorry, but we're not cloners, but...if you let us go, I'll tell you where some are..." " Good, So...where are they? " The creature bobbed it's neck nervously, " They're down the hallway, first door on the right, you can't miss it! So...will you let us go?" " Yeah...Sure...release you...from life" Jarod quickly grabs his new saber with his right hand, and quickly activates it's crimson blade, sending it straight through both of the creature's tall necks, their faces froze in terror. " Hmph, Thanks for the info! " He quickly deactivates his blade, and sprints down the hallway.

[Alexander]

Mikau smirked as Jarod rushed off down the other hallway, and he stuffed his commlink into his cloak pocket. He continued to walk slowly down the other hallway, constantly looking outside. The hallway he took seemed to be lifeless, but there was, however, a door on the far end that probably lead to somewhere important.

The young Dark Jedi walked forward to the door and slid it open with a wave of his hand, proceeding into the next chamber. It was a small white dome, probably just another entrance, due to the fact that the door on the end of the room lead outside. "Hmm..." Mikau thought momentarily. He walked over to one of the floating chairs and set down his cylinder and removed his cloak... it was getting too warm for him.

Mikau sat in the chair for a moment to concentrate. He closed his eyes and simply relaxed, trying to find a source of life somewhere near him. Sensing nothing anywhere near, he grabbed the cylinder, and proceeded back outside without his cloak... that which held his commlink. He had forgotten it.

Outside, Mikau was back into the stormy weather. Rain pouring down on his head, he looked around for somewhere to go. To his left and right, there were more landing pads that lead to separate buildings...all of which were smaller, though. What he needed was a cloner; or rather, someone important. He proceeded to his left, as the smaller building could possibly contain life.

As he slid open its door, Mikau walked into the building and shook his hair of the rain. He set down his cylinder again and shook his shoulder around: his arm was beginning to hurt. After a few seconds of perusing the room before him, Mikau picked up his dead pilot and continued forward.

Eventually he came to a door that lead into a large, dome-like chamber. Before him, a large-eyed, long-necked Kaminoan stared at him with a glassy look, sitting at a large white desk. In front of the desk, there were two floating chairs like he'd seen earlier. One was empty, the other contained a figure cloaked in dark red with a lowered hood. This other man met Mikau's confused eyes with a look of hate. Mikau shut his mouth and 'hmph'ed, then kicked his container.

The Kaminoan spoke first. "Who are you, and how did you get here?" it said, with a monotone and dangerous sounding voice. The other human in the room slowly stood, holding back his cloak as a defensive regard towards Mikau. The boy grit his teeth.

"My name is Mikau Verkaline. I come from the planet Felucia, hoping to have ones so genius as yourself... reconstruct my pilot in a cyborg-like form." The Dark Jedi explained honestly, folding his arms.

The Kaminoan smiled with pleasure, then turned to the man in red. "You may leave now," it said assuredly. "We will contact you when your project is finished." The Kaminoan smiled and escorted the red-robed man out the door, back into the waiting chamber. He gave Mikau one last evil look before he surrendered and left. "Now..." The long-necked creature said, "What is it that we can do for you, honorable Jedi?"

Mikau scoffed and looked down, only to remember that he'd forgotten his cloak, therefore his lightsaber hilt was in full view. Maybe that's why the man had looked so awfully at me.... Mikau thought to himself. He addressed the Kaminoan with a low bow. "I'm no Jedi, but I do come in peace." He rose and tapped with two fingers the cylinder that contained his dead pilot. "I... there was an accident with my pilot, and I could only salvage her head and torso. I'm willing to pay for it, but I desperately need a clone of her vital organs placed into a cyborg-droid like being. Are you capable of this?" Mikau asked kindly, unfolding his arms.

The Kaminoan smiled pleasantly at the Dark Jedi. "Yes, I see. Not a Jedi, I understand. Well certainly. I am sure that we can help you. You can leave that here, and out work will be finished in a day's time."

Mikau was impressed; only a day? That would be fairly quick... Now, he'd either have to come up with some credits, or kill the Kaminoan afterwards. The conflicted young man was fine with either. He nodded slowly to the Kaminoan, and proceeded out of the chamber. Thankfully, he noted, Mikau did not see the red-robed man in the waiting chamber. He sighed with relief, and walked back into the storm. He jogged across the landing pad through the storm, and back into the room where he had left his cloak.


Gone.


"Damnit..." Mikau breathed to himself, thinking that the only possible explanation was the natives or the mysterious man that gave him a hateful look. He thought about which way he should go... Back outside, or down the hallway towards where he and Jarod split up.

However, and alarm sounded. The lights in the room dimmed, and the blaring of the alarm caused Mikau to pull his hilt from his waist and ignite it. His cyan blade illuminated the room he was in well enough to see with no trouble. He sighed to himself, and continued down the blaring hallway, lightsaber turned backwards.

[Othorious]

Jarod continued down the hallway the recently deceased Kaminoan had told him to go, and it seemed farther down than it should have been. " I think they were pulling my leg with those directions..." He continued down the blank hallways, occasionally hearing voices up ahead, but never truly seeing whos voices they belonged to. He reached another bend in the hallway, when he suddenly saw another cloaked man, " Mikau I fou-" He instantly stopped, that was not Mikau, the cloak was all wrong, Mikau wore black and gray, not red. " Heh You! Stop right there! " Jarod quickly sprinted after the cloaked man, who suddenly turned the otherway, and ran!

" YOU COWARD! GET BACK HERE!" Jarod chased the man through the hallway, around bends, until the man leaped through an open door, and out onto a empty platform. Just after the man leaped through it, it closed, but Jarod would not give up easily. He extended his right hand, and blew a hole in the door with the force, allowing him to leap out onto the platform. " Heh...Where'd he g-" Jarod was sent spiraling forward, as the whole platform began to shake. " What the hell!?" He managed to leap up to his feet, but the platform lurched again, and started detatching from the building, sending it and Jarod hurtling downwards. Jarod looked down to see the sea swiftly approaching, and he had to do something quick! He used the force to help himself run along the near vertical slope of the platform, and force jump towards another platform, in hopes that he could reach it. He did not. He missed the platform by several meters, and fell down, towards a small section of bridges and catwalks. He managed to land on a small bridge, but he had no idea where he was now, " God Damnit...This day is getting better and better..." He quickly brushes himself off, and runs up to one of the white doors, and opens it with the force, running back into the massive facility.

[Alexander]

Mikau picked up his pace, lightsaber in hand, when he saw the red-cloaked man and Jarod proceed out the door. Mikau grit his teeth and watched Jarod go out, but stopped himself as the entire platform began to break apart. The young Dark Jedi looked up to a taller tower and saw the red-cloaked man standing there, arm extended. "The Force?" Mikau breathed to himself. Surely such a magnitude of power indicated a very powerful Jedi or Dark Jedi... possibly even Sith, though the chances were slim indeed.

Mikau stepped out slowly as the platform fell, and watched as Jarod landed at least safely on the walkways below that specific platform. He sighed, deactivated his lightsaber, and used the Force to leap over the next walkway where the red-cloaked man could see him. Mikau folded his arms, lightsaber hilt still in hand, and called over the storm to the man. "Have you seen my cloak?" He screamed, flashing the red-cloaked man a toothy smile. "I've lost it, and I believe you're the only logical explanation..."

The red-cloaked man said nothing, but fell gracefully from the tower he was standing at to the walkway directly opposite Mikau. The two were a good 80 feet apart, and the lower walkways were another 60 feet below them; right where Jarod had landed. Surely, Mikau thought, he would be back quickly to aid in what was about to happen.

Realizing that a day's time would have to go by before the new Ilia would be ready, Mikau decided he would either fight or run. There was no sense staying here, but he needed his commlink and cloak back. Then again... the Kaminoans probably wouldn't want him back if a fight brewed so closely outside.

As the thunder and rain clashed overhead, the red-cloaked man pulled two saber hilts from under his garb, and held them opposite each other at low-handed guards. He ignited one after the other: red, then red again. Typical. Mikau thought as he unfolded his arms, flipped his hilt around backwards, and ignited its oppositely colored cyan blade. For a few seconds, as the rain continued to come down, there was a standstill.

Subsequently, it was the red-cloak that made the first move. He leaped high into the air, easily spanning the 80 foot difference, and Mikau cracked his knuckles and took a step back. He summoned the Force to flow freely through him, then into his arms as he extended them both to create a wild Force push towards the man. Unable to block it in the air, the red-cloak fell back further on the walkway than he started.

"Dangit..." Mikau said, taking a few steps forward. "Well, fine!" He screamed out, and kicked off the landing with the Force, floating through the air, down towards the red-cloaked man...

[Othorious]

Jarod sprints through the halls, quickly dodging surprised Kaminoans as he headed to where he last saw the cloaked man. "He better still be there..." He arrived at the door he burst through, and noticed Mikau fighting the man! "Heh! Better save some for me!" He unhooked his red saber, and neatly concealed his cloak, other saber, and satchel inside the hallway, and leaped onto a catwalk above Mikau, and quickly activated his saber. He watched as Mikau attacked the cloaked man with a swift kick from above, but alas the cloaked man easily dodged it, leaving him open for Jarod to attack. Jarod leaped down, landing 10 feet behind the man, spinning around, attempting to impale his opponent as he rushed forward. The robed man easily blocked the attack, and sparks flew as red saber clashed against red saber, "Remember me?" He pushed the robed man back, right as Mikau begun his assault!

[Alexander]

OOC: Muse for the post brought to you by www.youtube.com/watch?v=oADtFkUzfCo, which is also Mikau's theme. ;D

IC:
Mikau sighed with relief as Jarod appeared as backup. The man they were fighting was no ordinary opponent, nor was he at their skill level. He was far above it. Mikau's trajectory would need to change if he wanted to avoid sabers and Jarod, however...

He cleverly used the force to change position in the air, and landed in front of the red-cloaked man. Mikau came up with his arm, bringing his saber behind it. The red-cloaked man easily moved one saber from the lock with Jarod to now create a saber lock for either of his blades. Mikau turned to Jarod and nodded, then looked into the hood of the red-cloaked man. He saw no eyes; the dark shroud effectively covered them. He did see, however, and older face. A beard and a mouth that smiled with as much malice as the other two Dark Jedi had combined.

Then the mysterious enemy pushed forward on Mikau's saber lock, and Mikau broke it off. He leaped backward through the air and back onto the walkway he was originally on. He screamed at Jarod, "Get out of the way!" Mikau quickly turned and outstretched his arm, reaching out towards a tower with the Force. Closing his eyes and concentrating hard, he summoned a shroud of Force around the object and broke it clean off. He lurched it forward through the air, hoping Jarod would move out of the way, or jump. ((hint hint xD)) The tower slammed hard into the walkway the red-cloaked man was on, but as it began to fall he jumped down to the lower walkway and began to run. "No!" Mikau called, deactivating his saber. He ran and jumped off the walkway with the Force and fell through the air down to the walkway the man was on.

[Othorious]

Jarod quickly leaped after the man, narrowly dodging Mikau's attack. "Come back here!" Jarod landed behind the man, and quickly gave chase, but the man sensed Jarod, and nearly severed his head off! The man quickly stopped, and activated one of his blades, which Jarod almost ran into, but at the last second he dropped down, and slid past the man. "Dirty Tricks Huh?" He quickly leaps to his feet, and activates his red blade, and moves in to attack the man. Their blades clash in a flurry of jabs and slashes, either side not wanting to give up, but the cloaked man quickly gains the upper hand, thanks to Jarod's handicap, and breaks his defense, and force pushes him into a small weather vane. "Damn..." He reactivates his saber and moves to attack the man while hes busy with Mikau, who arrived only seconds ago!

[Alexander]

Mikau shot a look back up towards where Jarod had been to see if he had regained himself since being smashed into the weather vane. While he was distracted, however, the red-cloaked man ran past him, pushing Mikau out of the way. The boy fell back off the walkway, almost falling down to the roaring ocean. He caught the side of the walkway with one hand and yanked himself back up using the Force.

Unfortunately, during that time, the red-cloaked man had made his escape. Mikau watched in awe as the door to one of the giant facilities slipped closed and he also caught a glimpse of the red cloak. Mikau dashed forward and blew through the door, breaking it clean off its hinges, with solely the Force. He jumped over the door remains and noticed that he was actually in one of the cloning facilities. Mikau barely saw the red-cloaked man sneak through a door above, high on a breezeway. Mikau jumped over some of the cloning pods, using them to propel himself higher through the air. He caught onto the wall and kicked off of it, landing nicely on the breezeway with a tuck-and-roll. He deactivated his lightsaber, and walked slowly up to the door the red-cloaked man had entered.

The young Dark Jedi opened the door slowly with the panel as opposed to just destroying it. He twirled his hilt around a couple times while in his hand, and walked through the door. Inside, it was a simple white (like most of the rooms) high-domed room with no chairs; only viewports, which gave a great view of the roaring ocean. Mikau, however, did not see the red-cloaked man.

With extreme caution, the boy approached the viewports and clasped his hands behind his back, hilt still in hand. He shut his eyes and reached out with the Force, concentrating on any living presences in or near the large-domed room. He felt something, and his ears perked up, and he barely activated his lightsaber in time...

Seemingly out of nowhere, the red-cloaked man had dashed towards Mikau, and hammered straight down with both blades. Catching it just in time, Mikau held his lightsaber horizontally to block both sabers, and pushed against the saber lock with the Force. With equal Force, the other man did as well.

[Othorious]

Jarod quickly leaped up from where he was smashed against the weather vane, and gave chase after the cloaked man and Mikau. He swiftly followed Mikau through the blasted open door, and attempted to continued the chase, but a quick burst of blaster fire caused Jarod to quickly duck into a different hallway. "Damnit, I'll have to catch up later!" He looked into the other hallway, to see three white clad soldiers, armed with heavy blaster rifles, move into the intersection, scanning each hallway. " Awh Damnit...I didn't know Kamino had a armed force..." He quickly leaped out from his hiding spot, narrowly avoiding a large volley of blaster fire, and quickly sprints down the hallway Mikau went.

Blasterfire screeched towards Jarod, but he managed to leap away from the soldiers, and onto one of the cloning platforms, red saber activated, deflecting the blasterfire back at them. He heard someone scream, "NO! DON'T FIRE! THAT'S EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT!" Then a whush of air, and he sees a large rocket careen towards him, smashing into one of the cloning platforms, sending shrapnel everywhere! The shockwave caused other platforms to become unstable, and collapse, including Jarod's. "Woah! Holy shi-" Another rocket screeches into the air, slamming right under Jarod's platform, sending shrapnel, and Jarod, upwards! Jarod was blown upward, flying aimlessly through the air, and smashing into a large window, flopping limply onto the white floor below. "Arghh...Damn my luck..." He slowly staggers to his feet, and quickly starts to limp down the nearby hallway, for he could hear the heavy marching of boots approaching.

[Alexander]

While saberlocked, Mikau heard a loud crash outside, then locked eyes with the red-clad man, in order to show him that he would not be distracted again. The red-cloaked man chuckled deeply, then Force pushed Mikau back into the viewport. He was lucky the glass didn't break.

Mikau slammed hard against it, his saber deactivating and flying elsewhere. Fortunately, the young man regained himself quickly and rolled out of the way before two red sabers came down vertically and struck the ground. Mikau summoned the Force through his left arm and sent the man flying into a viewport. He hit it with a thud, and fell to the ground. Mikau stood and walked slowly over there, all the while picking him up with the Force and slamming him into the wall opposite the viewports. The red-robed man growled and coughed a bit before Mikau lifted him into the air again and threw him into the floor.

Quickly, the young Dark Jedi pulled his saber to him with the Force and ignited it. The red-cloaked man did the same for both his sabers, then brandished them in a taunting manner. Clearly only barely affected by the Force slams, the red-cloaked man discarded his red cloak to reveal a very tall, muscular, bearded man with intense, sickly yellow eyes. He chuckled again, and approached Mikau.

The boy, raged as ever, met the charge of the once-red-cloaked man and threw his saber viciously onto his two. Mikau began to draw back and continuously beat his saber down onto the man's two, causing a constant clash of sparks every time he did. Mikau leaped backwards, and the yellow-eyed man dashed forward, striking Mikau viciously in the leg.

Yelping with pain, Mikau fell back. He was able to hold onto his saber this time, but he could not move whatsoever. The yellow-eyed man flashed a toothy smile but exchanged no words. He simply walked calmly towards Mikau, who grit his teeth in anger. In one last attempt, Mikau summoned all the Force he could to flow through his being and energize him just enough to use another powerful Force push.

The young man got really lucky. He surged both arms out while lying on the ground, and the yellow-eyed man was taken by surprise. His two red lightsabers left his hands, and his body flew into the viewport, cracking the glass. Mikau took a knee, his arms still extended, and pushed more, yelling in anger. The man tried to reach out to save himself by grabbing onto a sill, but he could not. The glass cracked and broke more, and eventually, shattered; subsequently, the yellow-eyed man was hurled out the window and down, his sabers following him. Unfortunately, Mikau couldn't tell if he lived or not.

The young man crawled quickly over to the door of the room and peeked out to see a good lot of guards rush down an opposite hallway... completely armed. "Damn," Mikau breathed. "Get out of there, Jarod..."

[Othorious]

"This sucks..." Jarod continued to quickly limp down the hallway, the sounds of marching soldiers growing ever closer. "Damn Damn Damn Damn..." Jarod quickly forces another door open with the force, and quickly ducks in, closing it behind him. He cautiously watched as the soldiers quickly ran past the door, their thundering footsteps growing ever so quiet. " Phew...That was a close one.." He started to laugh, but then turned around, and his laughter and smile quickly faded. Standing before him, was another squad of armed soldiers, their blaster rifles trained on him. " Uhh...Oh...sithspit..." "Drop your weapon!" The solder in front of him moved closer, motioning him to drop his sabers, which Jarod did reluctantly. " Alright...you win..." He tossed his sabers aside, and dropped to his knees.

The soldiers moved in to apprehend him, when suddenly one of the soldier's rifles discharges, sending a blasterbolt into one of the soldiers near Jarod. As the soldiers turned towards the soldier, Jarod extended his right hand, and snatched his saber with the force, activating it's red blade, and leaped up from his kneeling position. The soldiers barely had any time to react, as the crimson blade slashed through them, severing arms, heads, legs, and even severing them in half. Only one soldier remained, but before he could discharge a shot, Jarod sent him hurtling through the nearby viewport with a quick forcepush. He sighed, and slumped back against the wall, and snatched out his comlink " Computer, I want you to take off, and circle the platform at a safe distance of 1.3 miles, and wait for my instructions..." He shut off the comlink, and watched the dazzling lights of the cloning center.

[Alexander]

Mikau slowed his breathing down from all the excitement as he watched out the broken sliding door for the soldiers to disappear. From the sounds the young man heard, he could only assume Jarod had taken care of some of them. With all the willpower he could muster, Mikau stood and held his left knee, massaging it gently. He grit his teeth in pain and proceeded back out to the breezeway.

As the storm roared over him, the boy sighed with relief. He saw no signs of the red-cloaked man, so he could only assume him dead. Mikau proceeded through the door, back into the cloning facility. He attached his lightsaber to his belt since he felt safe enough, and his Force senses indicated nothing of malice anywhere near.

Noticing a rather disturbed door, Mikau walked slowly over towards it, still holding his left knee. He pushed it open and looked at Jarod, injured and slumped against the wall. He looked at the dead bodies as well, and chuckled with surprise. "Nice work." The boy said, taking a seat next to Jarod. "...They said it would take a while to clone Ilia; probably a day or so. We could come back whenever, though. I don't intend on paying them..." his voice trailed off and he too watched the amazement that was the cloning chambers. "What will you do now?"

[Othorious]

" Hehehe...Well, when we first arrived I didn't think there'd be this much trouble, but it's been fun so far!" He slowly staggers to his feet, a slight limp in his right leg. " So...a day huh? Well, I guess we could hold out until then, Then maybe we could, I don't know...screw around the Galaxy for a few more days, then I can return to my master..." He leans back against the stainless steel, pondering his options. " Alright, Here's the plan, we stalk around the facility, and if they finish the cloning process with your pilot, we'll depart off this blasted water world, and maybe to somewhere more...well quaint. Sound good?"