The Voices Inside (Closed RP)

[Rain13]

Rain looked up at the MAKURA, a ship that was heavily based on the infamous SLAVE I. She brushed her ice blue hair back behind her shoulders and sighed.

“This is it?”

The young pilot of the ship glared at her.

“What’d you expect? A royal cruse ship?”

Rain returned to glare to the bounty hunter, Ame Hikari.

“Can that thing even fly?!”

“It can fly with the best of them! If you don’t like it you don’t have to go…”

Rain blinked and shook her head.

“in that case...it’ll have to do.”

The Sith knight wanted to go on this trip, even if it meant going in something that looked like a flying junk yard. She was only expecting to be away for the weekend, so she had already left a few messages to her master and close friends saying she’d be gone, but hadn’t given any reason.
Rain handed Ame her pack and the bounty hunter left to go find somewhere to stash it onboard. It had been a week since Ame had given her a data pad that had changed her life practically. It basically had confirmed the fact that the people she knew as her parents weren’t her parents at all. In truth, Rain didn’t have parents, it helped knowing that Ame didn’t either. Both of them were the lone survivors of a project that was not only twisted, but complicated. All Rain knew was that she was finally going to be getting some answers to the questions that had arisen in the past few months of her life.
It wasn’t long before Ame came back and nodded.

“Well, let’s get going. I actually have some place to be at a certain time. You’re just access baggage, my friend.”

Rain glared and Ame again.

“Cut it out.”

If the mercenary kept up this kind of attitude she’d probably end up getting into a fight with her, and that was one thing the two of them didn’t need.
The two girls boarded the ship and soon they were on their way. Their destination, Iridonia.

[Ame Hikari]

::Few min later::

"Ya know Rain..I'm not really going to be that busy...ya think I can come with you? Sis?"

::Rain glares at her::

"I know you hate me calling you that. But come on! Besides, who knows what it'll be like there. And I mean, I wanna find out who'se in your head as much as you do!"

::Messes up her hair.::

[Rain13]

Rain fixed her hair and once again glared at Ame.

“Fine, you can come. On one condition! You NEVER call me ‘Sis’ again.”

Ame started to laugh and then nodded in agreement. Rain shook her head and looked out at the stars that whizzed by as they headed to her home planet.

“Ame? You know more than I do about these things. In the data pad you gave me it never said why Pluvia did what she did. I'm afraid of meeting her, I mean she's my..err..our mother in a way.”

Ame sighed.

“You shouldn’t think about those things yet, not until you actually see her.”

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums sat in a large leather chair in his quarters deep inside TSE HQ. He was reading the data pad that he had picked up in the bar after Rain had dropped it. He couldn't believe what it said. He didn't know if he should ask her about it or not. I mean I shouldn't even have this., he thought. He leaned back and closed his eyes. Thoughts of the past week running through his mind. What had happened in their spar. The fact that when she regained consciousness in the medbay she didn't remember anything of the last bit of their spar. Nothing seemed to make sense, and now this. He had so many questions and almost no answers.

Suddenly he was shaken from his thoughts by the beeping of an incoming message on his comm. panel. Getting up he slowly walked over to the panel, tossing the pad onto a table. Hitting the accept button the screen flashed to life. It was a message from Rain. Sums only got to the part where she was leaving on a trip before he turned and headed for his room.

Grabbing a black rucksack style bag from his closet he quickly threw some clothes out of his drawers and into it, not only his usual black fatigues and tank top, but some regular civilian clothing as well. Walking out to the main room Sums put the bag on the table where the data pad laid. Grabbing the pad he stuffed it into the side pocked of the bag.

He was about to leave when something caught his eye. Putting the bag back down on the table Sums reached up and grabbed his two sabers of the weapons rack where they had laid. laying them on top of his clothes he quickly added his Sith Knife. Looking at the polished box at the bottom of the rack Sums thought for a moment, he really didn't need them. Heck what was he thinking, he didn't know what he would need. Taking the extra 30 seconds that it took him now he strapped both of the holsters for his desert eagles to his thighs. Opening the box he quickly slid the clips into the pistols and holstered them. Grabbing the bag he slipped it onto his back before leaving his room. Turning to the left, and heading in the opposite direction of the elevators, Sums quickly came to the door of one of the Sith Lordess'. Hitting the chime he waited for her to answer, hoping that she would be there.**

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: The Sith Lordess sits at her desk in her private quarters at TSE HQ, going over various training materials for her apprentices. She smiles as they are all progressing quite well. A beeping noise resounds in her room as she has an incoming message from someone. She walks to the comms table and sees that the message is from her first apprentice, Rain13.

Upon reading the transmission, Dara's brow furrows as the message says Rain has gone away suddenly and will return when she can. That was it, no other details. Now Dara found that to be uncharacteristic of Rain and wondered what was wrong. As she sat deep in thought regarding this, she suddenly heard the chime to her quarters and walked to the door to see Sith Summoner out of breath and packed to leave for somewhere ::

[Rain13]

It wasn't that long before they reached Iridonia. The MAKURA landed in a rather calm spaceport. Rain got up to disembark when Ame grabbed her arm.

“You’re not going out like that are you?”

“What do you mean? This is how I always dress…”

Ame shook her head.

“You’ve got to be kidding me. We want to blend in. Not look like a couple of outsiders.”

“Ame, we are outsiders.”

“Not really. We’re both from here. We might as well look like it!.”

Ame grabbed Rain again and took her to one of the back rooms and held up some brown hair dye.

“oh no! I’m not dying my hair! I’ll wear my hood up if I have to.”

Ame frowned and sighed.

“Fine…but you aren’t going around dressed like that.”

She threw Rain some of her clothing. It was a pair of brown pants, and a simple, sort of tattered, low cut, green shirt. Rain sighed, she hated wearing colors. She reluctantly changed, cliped her weapons to her belt and then threw her long black cloak on and put up the hood.

“This work?” She asked Ame sarcastically.

“Yeah, it’ll have to do.”

The two exited the ship, there were a few other persons in the hangar, but not many. As they exited the hanger Rain looked around, it had been a while since she had seen her own planet.

“So were are we going anyway?”

“A place called Wolke Labs.”

[Sith Summoner]

**A look of slight relief washed across Sums face as the door slid open and Dara appeared.**

Great your here. Did you get a message from Rain?

**Dara nodded and said that she had. When Sums asked if Rain had said anything more than that she was going away, Dara said that she hadn't.**

**Sums sighed heavily**

I thought as her master she might have said something more to you than she did to me. Mind you I didn't completely read the message I got. Here take a look at this.

**Sums shrugged off the bad and pulled out the data pad. Handing it to Dara, who took it and read it over quickly. As he figured it would Dara's face dropped as she read the words written on the pad**

"Were did you get this?" **She asked**

Rain dropped it last night in Rama's when she was leaving. Normally I don't do stuff like read other peoples data pads but what I saw there..... well I read the whole thing. Anyway, I don't know if she's in trouble or not, but she's said some things to me over the last little while that makes me rather uneasy about this. I'm going after her. As her master, and both our friends I thought I should at least give you the option of coming with me.

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Dara took a moment to consider how serious this matter truly was. Still a bit in shock she looked at Summoner and nodded gravely ::

"You're right, Sums. We need to go after her to make sure everything is alright. I wouldn't want her to be in danger if this information got out. A clone of Maul would be something sought after I believe."

:: Dara began to gather her things as she still spoke ::

"All this time, the dreams, the memory loss... she was so troubled. Why wasn't she told about her identity? I just hope we are in time to help her if she runs into anyone not wanting her to find out about her past. Is your ship ready to go?"

:: Dara turns to the comms desk and sends a few messages to her apprentices, her mentor and her master, to aprise them of where she will be, and then turns back to look at Summoner ::

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums nods his head as Dara asks about his ship.**

Ya, she's always warmed up. Part of the job I guess.

**After Dara had sent her messages and grabbed some things the pair took the elevator up a few levels to the underground hanger. Sums walks over to one of the techs in the area and double checks that his modified Corvette Shadow Blade was indeed ready for departure. Finding that it was, Sums lead Dara on board and the pair strapped in. The ship lurched suddenly as it began its movement towards the large elevator that would take it to the surface. During the trip to the surface Sums had R2-D9 run a search for the coordinates of the planet Iridonia. D9 beeped and whistled signifying that the coordinates where locked in the nav computer and ready to go. Nodding, Sums slowly eased the ship off the ground and into the air. Seconds after they broke through the atmosphere they shot into hyperspace. As he sat in the pilots chair staring out at the streaks of light, Sums found himself again unconsciously playing with the brass bullet hanging from the necklace around his neck.

[Rain13]

Ame had known right where to go. She led Rain through a few streets, avoiding crowded areas and the like. It wasn’t long before they came across a larger building that was painted a drab gray. Ame smiled.

“Well, here we are!”

Rain looked at Ame questioningly and then back at the building before they entered. The main hall was badly lit. There was a reception type desk to their left and a bunch of doors to the right. Ame looked at the desk and muttered something about that being “odd”. Rain didn’t pay much attention to what she had said, rather she was looking at a tank that was in the middle of the room. It seemed vaguely familiar. As Ame saw what Rain was looking at she chuckled.

“Looks familiar, doesn’t it? Only…we always saw it from the inside…looking out.”

Rain stepped, reality was brought back her and she sighed. Ame then led her to a door that was farthest to the right and opened it. It was a long hall, with doors on either side. This hall was also dim. Light was scattered and some areas of the hall were pitch black. Ignoring the feeling of dread that seemed to flow from the darkest areas Rain continued to go with Ame, this time the two of them walked side by side.
They hadn’t gotten very far when suddenly Ame made a small gasp and suddenly fell to the ground. Rain’s eyes widened as she spotted the dart in the back of Ame's neck. She quickly grabbed her saber from her belt and turned on both ends with a snap hiss sound. The purple light flooded down the hall way and illuminated a tall person dressed in red and black robes. But, before she could attack the man she felt a pinprick in the back her neck, a dart had hit her from the other side. She glared at the man before her and tried to yell something at him, but couldn’t. Everything had gone black.

[Kahmir Shekrina]

"Kahmir Sarin, awaken." A voice called to the mostly unconcious Rain. "I have a few... questions for you."

[Rain13]

Rain opened her eyes slowly. She was sitting in a chair and could feel the cold metal restraints that kept her there on her skin. She looked up into the face of the man infront of her and spoke to him in an angry tone.

"I think you have the wrong person.."

[Kahmir Shekrina]

"I assure you, Kahmir," Rain's middle-aged captor started, while walking over to a nearby table and plucking up a long cylinder. "I have the right person. This lightsabre design confirms it."

The man depressed a button and the two purple darksabre blades shot out. "Although its not the same as your old sabre, lost on Naboo." He said as he shut down the twin darksabre and set it down. "Now, for starters, what are you doing in this body?"

[Rain13]

Rain glared at him.

"What are you talking about?"

She looked around, remembering what Ame had told her a few days ago. The thing about the souls that were inserted into the 20..the 20...only Ame and herself were left. She turned to the man again.

"Where's Ame?!"

[Kahmir Shekrina]

Shekrina looked over the young girl, a small grin playing on his face. "The other is of no significance to me, Kahmir. Only YOU are." Shekrina said in a quiet voice. "Now, as I had asked, what are you doing in the body of Rain # 13?"

[Rain13]

Rain kept her eyes on the robed man in front of her.

"I told you...I am not Kahmeir. That was my grandfather."

She took a deep breath, keeping her head held high, hoping he didn't know about the cloning.

"You have the wrong person.."

She fidgeted slightly, testing the restraints.

[Kahmir Shekrina]

"Enough of your childish games, Kahmeir!" Shenkrina shouted and backhanded Rain13 across the face. "I will have the answers I want, one way or another."

[Rain13]

*Rain winced she focused on the pain, like she was taught to and turned her head back to Shekrina.*

"Don't you listen?"

*She spat some blood at him*

"This will get you no where."

*She slumped slightly in the chair. Ame had told her she didn't know whose soul it was that Rain had ended up with. It was guaranteed it was a Sith, but from what she could tell, apparently this man knew about it as well, and thought it to be that of whom she least expected. Her mind was thinking at 100 thoughts a second, but her face couldn't seem calmer, despite the situation. Her eyes burned with hate as she kept them locked on the man who had hit her.*

[Kahmir Shekrina]

Kahmir Shekrina backhanded her again, harder this time. "Kahmeir, I'll have what I want, regardless of your struggling." He said as he landed a second blow. "No matter how long it takes."

[Rain13]

*Rain felt some blood start to trickle from her nose. Her eyes narrowed as the glared at him.*

"What is it that you want?! How am I supposed to answer you when I don't even understand what that is?"

[Kahmir Shekrina]

"You know exactly what I want, Kahmeir." Shekrina growled. "Leave this useless body, join with me. Or I will force you from that body."

[Rain13]

Rain kept her eyes locked with his. They remained cold as her anger swelled. She looked over at the table quickly, spotting the sith dagger Dara had given to her upon her promotion. She smiled and turned back to Shekrina as it came out of it's holder and flew at him, cutting him in the side and then going into the shadows. She kept her grip on it with the force, ready to bring it back at him if needed.

"Go ahead! Try it! It won't work because you are wrong!"

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Dara's thoughts were on her apprentice while en route to Iridonia. She glanced over at Summoner who seemed to be lost in his own thoughts. He was nervously playing with a necklace as he monitored the controls ::

"Sums, is something bothering you? You don't seem quite yourself."

:: Summoner looks directly into her eyes and then looks away. Dara knows enough not to pry and drops the subject. She looks at her display and sees Iridonia coming up on the long range sensors ::

"Looks like we better get ready. We don't know what might be out there."

:: Dara and Summoner rise from their seats and head to the storage area. She sees him pull out two satchels of explosives along with some motion detector and tripping wire. She smiles as he is obviously used to these kind of missions. Dara readies her smuggling tools and has not used them in some time now. She packs her lockpicking tools, her signal scrambler, her modified scomp link access and a couple of thermal detonators. She looks at Sums who raises an approving eyebrow and then they return to the bridge to prepare their descent to the planet's surface ::

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums and Dara walked side by side down the streets of the city. Both were wearing backpacks that stored their gear. Dara had decided to carry all her weapons, while Sums decided on his less conventional, at least for a Sith, pair of pistols and Sith Knife.

Sums had asked around at the spaceport, and finally after some light persuasion found that two females had been through the area about an hour and a half before they arrived. Figuring it was better than nothing the Sith pair went in the same direction.

Now they were walking through the streets. Most of the reactions they were getting were strange, but that was understandable. Every couple of blocks Sums or Dara would stop and ask a merchant if they had seen the pair of females. So far they were on the right track.

Sums couldn't get some thoughts out of his mind though. Most of them were about Rain, and the potential trouble she could be in. Remembering Dara's question on the ship he thought he at least owed her some type of explanation.**

Dara. Back on the ship you asked if I was alright. Well the simple answer is no. I'm worried about her. I'm sure you noticed my feelings toward her in the med bay. Something at the back of my mind keeps telling me that something is going to happen to her, and I'm worried its not going to be a good thing.

[Kahmir Shekrina]

"Kahmeir, enough of your acursed games," Shekrina huffed. "Leave that body, and join with your rightful one."

He pulled a knife from his belt and slashed it across Rain's chest. "I will kill the girl, if need be."

[Rain13]

Rain cringed as the blade cut through her clothing and ripped through her skin. She struggled in her restrains again, staring into the eyes of the man before her. For a brief moment her eyes flickered orange and then returned to their normal color.

"You wouldn't kill me...you're too much of a coward. You realize that killing me would bring other Sith after you."

[Ame Hikari]

::Wakes up outside the city, a large gash on her face, her clothing ripped slightly.::

"grrr..baka wa hentais!!"

::huff::

::heads back into the city and sees Summoner and Dara::

Sith? What are they doing here? We couldn't have been tracked! No matter, that hiretsukan has Rain...

::runs over behind them and then pauses::

uhh...but what am I gonnan say to them? I'm sorry but one of yer fellow sith has been captured by some crazy guuji whose trying to take away part of her being? yeah right..

[Kahmir Shekrina]

Shekrina grinned. "Yes, thats right, Khameir, release your grip on her." He slashed her again. "We'll unite, and bring strength to the Sith, strength like none seen before!"

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums could feel her. Someone behind him, someone vaguely familiar to him. He waited to see if she was going to follow them, and she did. Suddenly without warning Sums spun around and grabbed Ame. In shock she tried to squirm out of his grasp but she was unable. Her squirming and making noise started to attract a little to much attention. Sums basically dragged her into an alleyway followed by Dara. Sums bent over some and looked into the girls scared eyes.**

I know you don't I? **She nodded** You were the one outside Rain's house. The one that I saw running through the woods. **Again she nodded** You know where she is don't you? **Again a nod** You better start explaining quickly. And don't try anything, cause I am so not in the mood.

**Sums let go of her arm and waited for her to speak.**

[Rain13]

Rain held back a slight scream, this was not the time to show any weakness. She smirked slightly, knowing that she'd need to go to the medbay once she got back to TSE. That was, if she ever got back. In the back of her mind she almost heard her inner child, pleading with someone to help her. She shut it off, she didn't need help. She focused on the pain, on the feeling of the warm blood flowing across her cold skin. The darkside was flowing through her, not enough so that she could break the bonds that held her down, but enough so she could prepell the sith dagger she had in her mental grasp into the back of Shekrina. She smiled wickedly at him.

"You're truely pathetic."

[Ame Hikari]

::Rubs her arm and Glares at Summoner::

::mutter:: "ja-ku"

::Takes a deep breath and stares at him::

"I took her ta see The First. But it all went wrong. The lab's been taken over by those akuma priests that were originally hired to do work with the souls. I can only guess that they knew we were coming, and want whoever is in Rain."

::Pauses::

"Anta baka? Do I have to explain everything in children's terms? They are going to try and kill her for her joined spirit."

[Kahmir Shekrina]

The now enraged Kahmir Shekrina reached back and pulled the dagger from his back. The sound of flesh tearing cutting the cool silence. With a grin, he sliced rain across the face.

"That was for your retaliation, Kahmeir." He muttered. "I'll keep going until she dies or until you join with me. But, in the end, I will have you."

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums looked down at Ame and then up at Dara knowing that the look of concern on her face probably matched the one on his.**

Okay I didn't get you till you got to "Kill her". Now that I understand, and I can honestly say I don't like it. Can you take us to this place, this lab?

**Sums again looked at Dara, not saying a word but his face said it all.**

[Ame Hikari]

::Blinks::

"Bring you there? Hrm...yes, maybe that would be good. You can help her more than I can. Follow me."

::Leads them through some back allies to the same building she led Rain to earlier and then slowly opens the door.::

"Now be careful, I dunno where she might be, this place ish pretty big and has lotsa underground passages."

[Rain13]

Rain felt weak, she didn't know why. Her mind was silent, and she looked down at the ground. She heard the man in front of her start to laugh and then slowly start to chant something in a language that sounded familiar, but couldn't be placed. Suddenly it felt like her mind was being ripped in two, she couldn’t help but scream in agony. She looked up at him, feeding off the pain and force pushed him back. He stopped chanting and she no longer felt like she was being torn. Shekrina walked back to where she was, scowling. He looked her right in the eyes. Rain immediately cringed, he was using a telepathic attack.
She screamed again.

"NO! Get out of my head.."

She closed her eyes and tried to fight back, but it was no use.


***

Rain found herself standing in the same room that had always been there in her mind. The one she had visited so many times in her dreams. She turned upon hearing a small child.

"Mother! I did it mom! I lifted that rock outside, just like you said I could!"

Rain watched as the young ice-blue haired girl ran forward and then suddenly tripped near a river, a woman dressed in purple walked over to her.

"Mom! I did it! Really I did!"

The woman glared down at the child and then suddenly grabbed the girl by the neck and held her into the river, drowning her. Rain held her head and screamed again at this site.

"NO! Don't make me remember this! Please!! I don't want to live this again!"

When she opened her eyes the girl was now older, she hadn't died. She was standing among many people, near a grave. Rain blinked and walked towards the grave, seeing the name on it, she knew who it was instantly. Rain closes her eyes and turned away.

" Why are you doing this to me?! I don't want to remember these things!"

Her only response was the laughing that surrounded her. The laughing of the mad man that was probing her mind, forcing her to remember things that she had buried deep within. As Rain looked at herself and saw that she was the young girl she had once been when her "mother" had tried to kill her.

"I understand now...she knew what I was...and wanted to kill me for it. But I didn't want to die....I don't want to die. I don't want to die..."

Rain, started to cry, repeating those words over and over again.

"I don't want to die! Mom, don't kill me, mother!! I don't want to die…I don't want to die...I don't want to die!!!"

A cold, dark voice answered her.

"Then don't die."

"I don't want to die."

"You won't die."

"I don't want do die!!!"

"I won't let you die."

Rain looked up, she was once again her older self. A man was in front of her, a man she had known all too well. She looked around, still in the room from her dreams. She stood up and grasped hands with the man in front of her.

"I won't die..."

The man nodded, and pulled back his hood. It was the man she was an indirect clone of, her “grandfather”, and the man whose spirit was trapped in her, along with her own. Everything came to her suddenly.

"I...I understand."


***

The Sith Knight looked up, her eyes filled with hate, and rage. Shekrina smiled, thinking his attack had worked.

"I understand now!"

She cried out and suddenly ripped her right arm up, breaking the restraint that had held her down, then did the same with her left.

"You were always there."

Shekrina didn't know what she was talking about but the look in her eyes was terrifying.

"You were always protecting me!"

Her hand went to the side and suddenly her lightsaber came to her hands.

"Always..."

She ignited the blades, the purple light seemed to glow brighter than ever before.

"And I will never let you down."

She suddenly leapt upon Shekrina, cutting into him with her saber. She drove it through his heart, pressing deeper, deeper, the Darkside flowing through her like a river. Never again would she find herself out of control, not remembering what had happened. She stood up and snatched her Sith dagger from the hand of the fallen priest.

"Never again.."

She smiled and called the rest of her weapons to her. Rain wiped the blood from her face and looked at it on her bare hand. She smiled evilly. She clipped her saber back to her belt and then her dagger and blade. Slowly she pulled back on the modified gloves and headed out of the room into the hallway.

[Rain13]

As Rain headed down the long hall she suddenly saw the door at the end of it open. She quickly unclipped her saber and ignited both of the ends. Upon hearing a small scream she disingaged them and laughed. The voice that belonged to the same person who had screamed spoke.

"Rain!? Is that you?! You scared me half to death!!!"

Rain walked forward, seeing Ame, she laughed more.

"Only half? Drat, I'll have to work on that."

Ame muttered a few curses and Rain shook her head and was about to laugh again when she spotted the two people behind the bounty hunter.

"M-Master Dara! Sums!"

She bowed quickly to both of them.

"What are you doing here?"

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Summoner and Dara follow Ame cautiously. They travel through a series of alleyways and hidden entrances. They come upon a large building and Ame takes them along a hidden path which leads to a side entrance. Dara sees Rain coming down the hallyway and breathes a sigh of relief. At least Ame hadn't led them to the wrong place. In her smuggling experiences, Dara found that it is not always easy to know who to trust ::

"Rain, thank goodness you are alright. You had us quite concerned. Why in the galaxy did you just rush off without telling anyone what was going on? You could be in considerable danger..."

:: Dara tries to catch her breath from their hurried trip through town to find her apprentice ::

[Rain13]

*Rain started to answer but couldn't find the words to explain why she had left so suddenly. She took a deep breath and winces, the two deep cuts on her chest were starting to be more noticed as pain shot through her body. Unconsiously she brought a hand to the large cut on her face as well.*

"I..I'm sorry I didn't give a reason for my absence. But this was something I needed to do, and it couldn't have waited."

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums had remained quiet. He didn't know what to say. And even if he did know, could he? When he finally spoke it was softly and almost without emotion.**

Cloning room?

**Rain, Ame and Dara all looked at him with questioned looks.**

Where is the cloning room?

**Rain didn't say a word but Ame pointed down one of the halls.**

Dara take them back to Shadow Blade. If I'm not there in twenty minutes, *he paused for what seemed an eternity* leave without me.

**Sums didn't say anything else as he started down the hallway that Ame had pointed out**

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Dara nods to Summoner but has a plan of her own. She doesn't leave anyone behind and that included Summoner. After they lost sight of him making his way down the hallway, Dara turned to speak quietly to Rain and Ame ::

"Slight change of plans. We are not going back to the ship without him. Now Rain, I am thinking you probably know a faster way to the cloning room. Can you take us there so we can see what he is up to? I don't want him in danger either. The group stays together... we're not losing anyone on my watch."

[Rain13]

"I totally agree."

Rain looked at Ame and the bounty huntress nodded then spoke.

"I know a few short cuts. It shouldn't be any problem."

Ame and Rain led Dara through a few doors and soon came to a room with many large tanks. Rain sighed as she looked around, this place was very familiar, but there was no time for remembering things now. Sums hadn't arrived yet, Ame had given him a longer route than she had thought.

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums finally made it to the room. It was filled with 20 of the large tanks, each filled with a light blue liquid. Walking in he looked at them, knowing that what he had come to the room for was the right thing. Slowly he approached each tank and attached a brick of high explosives to front of the tanks arming them.

He did this for nineteen of the tanks. Finally he reached the last one. Rain's tank, number thirteen. Attaching and arming the explosive, he walked to the side of the tank and rested his forehead on the glass. Pressing his hands against the glass on either side of the tank, Sums closed his eyes and spoke just loud enough that the three others could hear him.**

So this is where you came from? This is where your pain started? They brought you into the world. A world where I have found you now, and for that I will forever thank them. But they also caused you pain and suffering, and for that I will forever hate them. Never again will they bring someone into the world and cause them such pain, never again.

NEVER AGAIN!

**With a sudden outburst of anger that would have surprised even him, Sums sent a fist through the glass creating a jagged hole. Blue liquid started pouring out, and pushed his arm out of the jagged hole, the glass slicing his forearm. The blood started pouring from his arm, and began to turn the blue liquid a deep purple, but Sums didn't care. He had done what he came to the room to do. Ignoring the pain shooting through his arm he grabbed the remote detonator and started to leave the room.**

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Dara suddenly holds her hand up to quiet the other two. She hears the *clink* of explosives being attached to the tanks. Summoner comes into view as he works his way down the row, to stop in front of one particular tank. The trio hears his words and Dara turns to look upon Rain who looks back at her with surprise. As Summoner turned to leave, Dara called out to him ::

"Hey Sums, like I would leave you to have all the fun? I have some thermal detanators here that are just itching to blow something up. You guys head on out, it won't take me any time at all to toss a few here and there,.. and everywhere." :evil:

:: Dara winks at Rain who tries to smile but still looks overwhelmed by Summoner's words. Summoner, who looks noticeably perturbed at his wishes not being followed, shakes his head at the headstrong Sith Lordess and leads the other two outside while she has her fun. Dara catches up with them soon after ::

[Rain13]

Rain couldn't speak, she was still in shock from Summoner's words and finally her mind had settled and she could now fully understand what had happened to her back in the room before she had killed the priest, Shekrina. Ame looked at her and nedged her with an elbow then gave Rain a concerned look. Rain shook her head and spoke quietly so that only Ame could hear directly.

"I'll be fine, I'll talk to you later about it."

Ame knew when to not ask her anymore questions and simply nodded. Rain then walked over to Sum's side and faked a smile, like she had done so many times before.

"So, are you going to blow this place sky high or what?"

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums didn't look at her, he could feel her there, and he could feel that she was forcing her smile. He had seen her genuinely smile before, and that wasn't it. He looked down at the detonator, which was slowly being coated with the blood still pouring from his wound. Finally he spoke, his voice monotone and emotionless.**

No. Here your past, your call.

**With that he flipped his wrist tossing her the blood covered box. Walking away from Rain, he sat down on a box that was up against a wall. Grabbing the sides of his soaked tank top he peeled it off his skin and pulled it over his head. Slowly he tightly wrapped his arm the wet garment and stood up and started walking towards the way they had come in. Unnoticed to him, when he had pulled his shirt off, the necklace and bullet he wore around his neck had also come off, and was now lying at the foot of the box in a puddle blood and the blue liquid.**

[Rain13]

Rain sighed as he had walked away. She had watched as he attended his wound and had caught the glimmer of something falling to the ground as he had taken his shirt off. She turned to Ame and handed her the denotator. Rain then walked over to where Sums had sat and picked up the necklace and looked at the bullet she held in her hands. She sighed again and stuffed it into a pocket.

"Do it."

Ame grinned and motioned for everyone that it was time to go, Rain knew the other girl had a love for explosives. Everyone evacuated the building and as Ame pressed the button and the explosions were heard inside the building, She turned around to see Ame running out and yelling at the building, saying things like "Yeah, that's what I'm talkin about!" and "Now this, this is what makes life worth living, a nice big explosion." Rain shook her head and called over to Ame who was now trying to get Dara to sell her some thermal detonators. The bounty huntress stopped and then ran over to Rain.

"Yeah? What is it?"

"I'm going to be heading back to TSE with Summoner and Dara."

Ame nodded.

"Okay then, I've still got some junk ta do here, I'll contact you when I'm back in your area, okay?"

Rain smiled and hugged Ame before the bountry huntress took off running towards another part of the city, no doubt to cause some more trouble. Rain just shook her head and started to walk over to Sums and took the necklace out of her pocket.

"You dropped this." She said as she held it out in her hand.

[Sith Summoner]

**Sums turned and looked down at the necklace that she was holding. Putting his hand under hers she let it drop into his palm. Sums looked at it for a minute as if not sure what to do with it. Finally he slipped it back over his head, the bullet falling back to its place in the middle of his chest.**

Thanks.

**They waited in silence for Dara to meet up with them before heading back to the ship. Keying in the code the ramp lowered, and they boarded.**

Dara, she's yours. D9 knows the way home if you need some help.

**Without another word he turns and walks to one of the rooms in the back where his gear was stowed. Quickly changing he laid down on one of the bunks staring up at the ceiling of the dark room.**

[Dara Shadowtide]

:: Dara watched Summoner slowly make his way down the corridor and to his quarters. He was a proud man and kept to himself. His wounds were extensive yet he merely wanted to go be alone with his thoughts, which she respected. Rain then nodded to her Master and followed behind him, heading with a limp to the med-bay to have the droid tend to her wounds.

The Sith Lordess then slipped into the pilot's seat of Summoner's ship, the Shadow Blade, and set the coordinates for the TSE headquarters on Munto Codru. The ramps closed slowly and the repulsor lifts raised the ship into the sky, as it began to blaze a path into space. The stars became flashes of light as Dara hit the control to jump to hyperspeed. They were going home... to Rain's home ::