Of Metal and Monsters (OPEN)

[Nightender]

Alindra followed. Already she was surprised at the effort .925 had taken in locating the youngling before pursuing him. Remote surveillance was something the war droid should be commended for. She stayed a few steps behind .925. There was no telling what might happen.

Another surprise came as .925 infiltrated the youngling's training and, upon being discovered as an outside threat, blamed the activities on malfunctioning software. Alindra felt a little naive and lucky when she thought about that particular fact. The war droid could have been taking her in when they first encountered one another.

Moments later, things calmed to a slight degree. The Bothan seemed quite irritated, the youngling was breathing hard. Alindra glanced at both of them, then at .925. Come what may, Alindra was pleased. "Very good. I'm quite pleased with that performance." Glancing back at the two males, she said, "Carry on."

[Foxfire]

.925 moved them away from the training room to a common room. Very few beings were in the resting area. If any was wrong with the room .925 could not tell, but some thing was disturbing the other Sith. .925 scanned and found the cause. It was the noghri he had curled up in a ball near the return air.

.925's scans could detect a energy disturbance around the noghri. This was not a problem the problem came when things started to levitate and sparks of energy arched from his person.

How mighty that one must have been but look at it now. I have seen little of this 'Force' you call it. But it seems like that one is have trouble, maybe that one needs a debugging to correct the errors in it's self.pausing to processMy lady I am going to have to protect you from other of these force users.. yes? If that is the case then I have a request for an immediate upgrade on my sensors to detect better in areas of all energies and minor movement. These are high level scanning scout droids parts. Maybe my learning program will be able to process the minor effects of your force energies and others to give my self a better response time to protect you in the future.

.925 continued to watch the noghri go through another convulsion, in the process blasting furniture with a force wave and lighting.

It seems to be getting worse I suggest we leave before he becomes a problem.

[Nightender]

"I give you full latitude to gather any supplies and components you need to fulfill your duties. Consider it preemptive work toward defending me and my sister."

Alindra felt the weight of her lightsaber--the long lightsaber shehad constructed with Cadyren's help. There were pieces of vehicles, droids, speeders, almost anything imaginable. She just had to do a better job of finding parts since she wouldn't have another Jedi to rely on. Of course, she didn't need a Jedi since it was .925 who needed upgrades and continued maintenance.

"If you like, I can show you a parts yard and we can check there for any supplies." She held out her lightsaber. "I got all the parts for this there."

[Foxfire]

.925 listened carfully. With a nod .925 agreed to go to the junk yard with Alindra.

This would be well with me my lady. Many parts of advanced scout droid are offten over looked, for scout drones are eyes and ears but nothing in between as you humes would say. .925 turned to exit the lounge to make for the junk yard with Alindra at the led.


(OCC-sorry for the short post but used up much MUSE-aline on another post.)

[Nightender]

"At least you know what will and will not work." Alindra had been afraid that the war droid would be useless in figuring out what was required to get it running more efficiently.

As they entered the junkyard, Alindra glanced at her new protector and asked, "What do I need to look for? I'm not the most technically-minded person, so I'll need your help."

[Foxfire]

.925 pondered the question for a thousand micro seconds, which for a droid is an eternity. He came to chose three types standard-long range, assassin, and a mechanical scout.

Raising a holo-projector in his hand he showed the three types.

My lady these are the three. If they are here I should have no problem incorporating them into my system.

.925 waited for ten seconds for Alindra to set in her mind what they looked like. He turned and started his search. Taking only five minutes to find the first, a standard long-range. The droid's condition was poor but the internal parts were more than good, they were still new. The sensor part was designed for deep jungle scans.

As he scrounged around to remove the scout droid he found a astromech droid that had been buried under a pile of other metal to heavy and deep that not many would have taken the effort to dig for. .925 stood the droid up-right and scanned it. to his surprise he found a compartment that held what looked like his master's saber hilt.

He quickly riped the astromech open and retrieved the saber hilt and another sensor plate for wide energy sigs. He wanted to get this new find to his lady as soon as possible. The hilt was curved with very ornate markings and a republic manufactured battery cell. The battery still held a minor charge.

My Lady. Might this help with your saber?

.925 held out the Jedi saber hilt, hopping that it would be of some use to her.

[Nightender]

Taking the ornately marked hilt from .925, Alindra marveled at its design. Her smile shifted into a grin before she turned back to the droid. "This is excellent, .925. I have just the use for this."

Alindra nodded, reassuring herself. "Yes, this will do quite well." She moved the aged hilt in her hand, getting a feel for how it would feel. "My love showed me a cave filled with crystals, a few of which were gold. They need something special to go in. With a little work, this could prove to be most fitting."

Alindra licked her lips, moistening them in the severe environment. There would be more for her soon. "Good work, .925. Perform your upgrades when you see fit."

[Foxfire]

.925 turned and went over to a pile of outerdroid casings and removed his armored chest plate and his internal sealing plates. He pushed a side the few wires that was in the way and found the mainframes scanner ports and installed the sensor plates.

.925 could feel power slowly divert to those plates.

My Lady Please be careful. I have to go off-line to rest my scanner systems to confirm them. It will take two to three minutes. Once done I shall once again take up protecting you.

.925 powered down. Time slowly crawled by as he cooled off and his scanning systems reset. On the power up .925 found his new parts to be what his master would need. The new sensor data was impresive. From micro dust particals to minimum energy levels far with in the temple.

My Lady I hoped you did not wait to long. My sensors are on-line would mind if I took sensor reading of you going through your Jedi paces?

[Nightender]

Alindra waited as .925 shut down. He'd seemed concerned for her safety--as was his duty. It made Alindra laugh a little once the war droid had shut down and she made a point to help him do his job. She sat with her back against a slight wall and kept her senses alert.

As she anticipated, it was unnecessary. By the time a few minutes had passed, .925 had upgraded and Alindra was still unharmed. With an amused tone, she tilted her head and wondered how much it enjoyed its nap.

"What did you want to see? Anything specific?"

[Foxfire]

For a droid the answer was obvious.

I would like to try to register your force powers if that would be good. I do not want what happened in the training center to happen again especially when I'm guarding you, my Lady.

.925 would try his best to protect her, but not being able to help or being restrained beyond arms reach was not an option he was considering at the moment. The scanning equipment that now installed into his system would give him that edge. Any thing that moved or emitted energy he could see. He had to already adjust the sensors for the energy caused by the dust in the air was hampering some of the visual details of the junk yard.

He to found he could adjust and set for certain frequencies, of energy. When he looked upon her he could already see the bio-energy sig of her body but it was off colored by a second energy. He needed to know if this was the force signature.

[Nightender]

"That makes sense, .925. I'll start with a basic focusing exercise and go from there."

Alindra took a few steps away from .925 and sat down, crossing her legs. She closed her eyes just before she held her fingers like claws before her shoulders. A sensation started to grow around Alindra, the faint energy of the Force reaching out to hold her. A moment later, she reached deeper into herself and tried to make the Force move in and out of her as though she wasn't there. It was peaceful and she hated it.

Hate and darkness rose from Alindra's heart. The true nature of her spirit was revealed, though she didn't know or care if .925 would be able to tell the difference. All that was important was that she obey the ways of anguish, pain, and suffering, enough where she would carve out her own destiny.

In that instant, she imagined the natural darkness and hate all creatures shared. Her eyes opened in a blaze of yellow. The color of her irises had completely shifted in that moment, embracing her true self a little further than she had before. Without trying, Alindra rose to her feet and ignited her lightsaber. She started to move through some basic attack moves, though, for her, that also meant dancing with the dangerous weapon. During the attacks, Alindra would extend her hand as though it was resting against a wall. The Force would erupt out of it in such a way, if someone had been standing in front of her hand, they would have been knocked away.

She turned, looking at her guardian. She dashed forward, pushing the Force to make her legs work harder. Just before she collided with .925, Alindra leapt into the air, soaring up quite a distance before allowing herself to fall backward.

Part of her wanted to run forward and use the Force to tear the arm off .925, but she knew it would get her nothing in return. Instead, she turned her head and allowed her body to calm itself. Taking a deep breath, she asked, "How's that? Need anything else?"

[Foxfire]

As Alindra ran through her motions .925's sensors were on full scan. Taking every bit of data that could be, from outside sources to Alindra's own physical energy output. He was simply impress by the amount of energy that a force user could harness around themselves. The energy flowed and swirled to her simple unspoken words. The energy in his sensor fields flowed and gathered. Some of the energies were pulled from the environment some from the air, still others were pulled and formed from a third source that his sensors could not detect. .925's sensors were constantly filled with the kaleidoscope of colors, each showed different levels and sources. The colors were almost to numerous for any hume mind to comprehend.

As Alindra slowed and turned to face .925 he thought it would be the end of her demonstration. Then in a blinding burst of speed she bolted toward him. At one point her energies was starting to focus at his arm then pulled back to vault over him. She landed and turned and asked if anything more was needed. He knew that from his limited data of force users behavior and mixed with his extensive combat info that he should let the demonstration end there. What bothered him a bit was her unintentional attack that she withdrew at the last second. He would have to watch her and other force users from now on.

No my Lady that is enough information for now. I will continue to gather the info from the others and compare and process. For more information was what you did every thing your abilities allowed? If so could you tell me what you did so that I could break down the information into relative order and classes of areas of force uses.

[Nightender]

It hadn't occurred to Alindra that she might have to describe types of Force power to someone. But the more .925 made her think about it, the more she realized she would have to one day tell her sister in order to make Laira understand what it meant to be Sith.

"The Force is an energy field that surrounds all living things. It binds us all together and feeds our instincts. When someone feels hunger or hate or rage, that is the Force. To use the full power of the Force, one must focus on their instincts and emotions, surrendering to them fully."

Alindra ignited her lightsaber and started moving it around her body. "The Force tells me where my lightsaber blade will be as I move it, that way, I will cut through my enemies and not some part of my own body."

She jumped over .925 and shut off her weapon. "When I manipulate the Force, I can tell it what I want it to do. That jump I just made was me telling the Force to make my muscles stronger and make the air. I can even tell the Force to do things outside of my body."

Her bond to the Force began to wrap around .925, lifting the war droid a meter into the air. Alindra smiled at her protector as she did this, waiting to see what his reaction would be.

[Foxfire]

.925 listened and watched as Alindra jumped. His sensors caught the sub-levels of energy of what .925 would call the force. The twin mixture of subtle energies. He marveled at how living beings with force powers were like droid with higher up-grades. When she landed he could also see the force rise from the ground and slow her landing ever so much.

He saw to the energy being directed at him. He wondered if she was going to again threaten his physical well being. The energy wrapped around him and started to block the new sensors he just switched to a higher level and his visuals came back and now he was feet off the ground. Words were not at a loss for him he said calmly.....

Fascinating. A living tractor beam very convenient. But what about.......

He started to respond about the stronger forces and the subtle mental powers and uses, when a energy surge erupted at the far end of the Sith temple complex well away from every thing else.

pointing in the direction of the disturbanceSee there that... that is also what I would like to record and study.

[Nightender]

Alindra was pleased that she had made the war droid stronger. It surprised her that .925 had seen so much of what she was doing, but she knew little about droids. .925 Appeared much more an investigator than Alindra had expected. From her lead, the war droid had locked onto a disturbance erupting from the far side of the Temple.

"Come on then," Alindra told .925, putting her lightsaber away. Not caring about nonexistent feelings from the ward droid, Alindra started walking off, leading the expedition toward the disturbance.

It's not like she had any other plans. But it was only fair that she do something .925 wanted to do.

[Foxfire]

(Occ- last post for Thread. Moving to Caging the beast.)

.925 was some what surprised by how his master acted. He surmized that she wanted him to have all the data he needed. He though would have need for even more than he had at the moment. An infant in the womb had more knowledge then he about the Force. If he was going to protect her from others like her he would need every nano-bite of data to do his job.

As she turned he checked him self. All parts working every progam was cynked and ready. He may have a little knowledge about his master but he knew from his data-banks that she was a low one on the list of monsters here at the temple.

-Finito-