The Great Purge: Jubei

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

(Another sunrise brings Jubei to life, as he rises from sleep, and steps outside into the cool and damp morning air. Smiling at the time alone to himself, Jubei makes some tea, and prepares for a quiet day of meditation. Stretching out one's senses with the Force had opened Jubei's eyes to avenues that he had never seen before. Where he had seen a thread, he now saw a tapestry. Everything he had experienced he rushed to see again, with this newfound perspective. Secretly, it brought Jubei great happiness to experience such a thrilling insight into the way of the Universe. Sheepishly, Jubei now understood why it was that the Seven Masters endlessly kept vigil in their meditations. With the Force as a guide, one could see beyond the horizon, or through the painting. It was to see what was not seen, and to understand the sublime. It was these little mysteries that Jubei longed for each morning, as he began his meditations. However, this morning, a presence approached. He had a visitor.

Standing from his lotus position, Jubei put away his teacup, and prepared to meet whoever now approached him.)

[Akrabbim]

Akrabbim had been scouting the area all morning, looking for two Dark-Siders who had been causing a great deal of trouble in the area. After several hours of tracking and sneaking in shadow, he finally catches sight of them. He leaves to retrieve reinforcements, when he suddenly notices the faint presence of a Light-Side Force user. He hurries in that direction to warn this being of the Sith presence. Using Force Speed, he locates the man, deep in meditation. He tells the man about the situation.

Excuse me, sir, I would not intrude on your meditations on purpose, but there are two Sith in this area, and I think it best if you lea-

Akrabbim breaks off mid-word as he detects the presence of the two Sith, rapidly approaching. They must have seen him when he ran from cover. There was no way to escape now. He must fight. Perhaps this man would be willing to help...

Too late! They're very near. I'm afraid I will have to fight them. I understand if you wish to escape. I will hold them as long as I can. But I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

(Jubei rose to his feet, a look of concern on his face)

Jubei: I'm not interested in fleeing, but is it truly necessary for conflict to occur here? Perhaps we can help them somehow. Even though their hearts may be dark, we are not obliged to punish them for this.

(As Jubei spoke, he could see the two dark figures approach, coming over a hill)

Jubei: We must be prudent.

[Ket VanDerveld]

Ket made his way up the hill and stood there,his dark robes flowing in the breeze of the early morning air. He looked to the two Jedi off in the distance as he awaited his companion to reach him before advancing.

[Akrabbim]

I was sent to monitor these two by the Jedi Council. You can try, but I doubt it will work. I would prepare a defense if I were you.

With that, Akrabbim draws his sword and prepares for the confrontation.

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

(Jubei's eyes remain transfixed on the two approaching Sith.)

Jubei: To do so this early is a foregone conclusion. We shouldn't provoke a fight by preparing for one. However...

(Jubei's right hand gripped his cloth belt)

Jubei: ...if it comes to that, I intend to have both sides walk away alive.

[Darth Viscera]

Darth Viscera advanced from atop the hill. His lightsaber was clipped to his belt, but he did not bother removing it, for he anticipated little in the way of offensive hostile acts from the Jedi. Striding towards the wiser-looking of the two, Viscera spoke.
"Jubei SaDherat Vader, son of Master Hicchoru, please come with me. You will not be harmed, and you will be returned to your friends within a week's time."

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

(Jubei's eyes narrowed at the Sith's demand)

Jubei: Me? What do you want from me?

[Darth Viscera]

"I wish to purge you of your vile ways. You will be made pure, and allow the code to guide you."

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

(Jubei's eyes narrowed)

Jubei: The code? What do you mean?

[Akrabbim]

Akrabbim's eyes widened at the mention of Jubei's father.

Your father is Anbira Hiccoru? And yet, you are a Jedi! How? Akrabbim quickly pushes those thoughts aside. But on to matters at hand.

Akrabbim addresses Darth Viscera.

Now listen Viscera. I've been assigned the task of tracking you two down and stopping you from causing any more trouble in this region. I'd say kidnapping a Jedi counts as, "trouble."

Akrabbim positions himself between Jubei and Viscera. He raises his sword and drops into a defensive stance.

Jubei, you'll have to defend yourself from Ket. I'll take on Viscera.

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

(Jubei's eyes looked from Ket to Viscera. When he spoke, his voice rose in volume)

Jubei: Its true, he is my father...but that doesn't matter now.

(Jubei watches the Sith as they get nearer. The chances of a peaceful resolution were fading quickly. He looks in Akrabbim's direction.)

Jubei: I don't know you, but if you're a Jedi, then I'll take your word on the reputations of our guests.

(Jubei turns his attention back to Viscera, keeping a close eye on Ket)

Jubei: I have come here for my meditation, and I would like to return to my business if you do not mind. I am sorry, but I cannot go with you.

[Darth Viscera]

"And so you would ignore a chance to resolve this matter in a peaceful fashion? That is a high price to pay for your precious meditation, is it not? My own alchemy has produced a method that I may be able to use to cure you of your plague."

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

Jubei: What do you mean? What is this plague you speak of?

[Ket VanDerveld]

Ket stood next to Viscera silently,his dark robes bellowing out a bit,his hood drapped low over his brow. He made no movements,nor did he use is vocal cords in any fashion. He was here to assist his companion,period. He had no time for games,but if there should eb a fight,he would defend hismelf. But he would not kill Jubei,for the repercussions from Anbira would be harsh to say the least.

[Darth Viscera]

Viscera sighed. No one ever seemed to realize the gravity of the situation. Oh, how frustrating it often was.
"I am sorry, Son of Hicchoru, but the urgency of the situation requires me to take drastic action. Forgive me."

Summoning the force, Viscera concentrated on his goal, rather than the means with which it could be acquired. A blast of force wind hurdled Jubei backwords, sending him into a tree. Viscera withdrew a small stun blaster, and steadied his aim.....

[Akrabbim]

Not on my watch.

Akrabbim extends his hands toward Viscera, sending out a wave of Force Confusion. Viscera suddenly sees thousands upon thousands of images. Nothing complex, nothing he can fix his mind on. His mind is full of shapes, colors, horrors and visions. As he is reacting to the onslaught, Akrabbim pulls one of his shuriken and hurls it at his gun hand. It strikes him squarely in the back of the hand, thoroughly ruining his shot. Akrabbim yanks the shuriken back out of his hand with the Force, and releases his Confusion attack.

You'll have to go through me to get him. Leave this place. Now.

[Lady Vader]

*LV remained in the shadow of a rocky ridge atop the grassy knoll, merely observing*

[Ket VanDerveld]

Ket watched as the other Jedi attacked Viscera and shook his head. speaking lowly,he looked to him and growled.

This is between them,not you.

Ket put out his hands and with a simple wave,he sent the Jedi sprawling out upon the ground a good 15 feet using the force.

Leave them be,Jedi...

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

(Rising to his feet slowly, Jubei notes that the situation has already escalated beyond verbal compromise. With senses and reflexes amplified by the Force, Jubei regroups next to Akrabbim, just as Ket sends Akrabbim sprawling backwards. Not wanting either side to come to harm, Jubei tries to prevent or slow what aggression he can. Stretching out with his feelings, Jubei pulls with the Force, yanking Ket's ankles upward at a 60 degree angle. The result is that Ket is very quickly swept off his feet, knocking the wind out of him, but nothing more. Jubei prepares for the inevitable, crouching into the Calanic "Sun and Moon" form)

[Darth Viscera]

OOC: Grassy knoll? Are you going to go disgruntled marine on us?

IC:
Viscera steadied himself, using his combat sense to overcome the force confusion. He controlled the small amount of pain emanating from his hand with the force, and projected his thoughts outwords, entering the mind of the padawan.

[Akrabbim]

Akrabbim regains his feet and judges his opponents. He communicates with Jubei through the Force. *Use your weapon on Viscera. Just trust me.* Akrabbim throws a shuriken at Viscra... or appears to. As soon as the shuriken leaves his hand, Akrabbim creates an Illusion of the shuriken, which heads straight towards Viscera's chest. The actual shuriken, now invisible thanks to another Force Illusion, heads towards Ket. As Viscera is blocking nothing, the quantum metal weapon imbeds itself into Ket's chest. It does not do much damage, but it hurts terribly. And since the wound was made by a metal object instead of a lightsaber, the wound doesn't cauterize. Akrabbim prepares to use the same trick with Jubei's attack, which occurs within moments of his own.

[Jubei SaDherat Vader]

(Quickly and fluidly, Jubei pulls at the white cloth belt that is wrapped over his robe. The belt quickly unravels, revealing a long cloth with a small metal weight at the end of it...a meteor hammer. With a graceful spin and snap of his wrist, Jubei sends the weighted end of the device outward, towards Viscera's chest, in hopes that a broken rib might keep him from continuing his aggression, but not cause any serious harm. However, something caused Jubei to do a double-take. Why wasn't Viscera moving out of the way, or even attempting to block. In fact, why was he not even looking in Jubei's direction?)

[Akrabbim]

[i]As Jubei makes his move, Akrabbim concentrates on a simple illusion of misdirection. He merely makes Viscera and Ket see Judei attacking Ket. This trick won't work again, so he might as well make the most of it.

[Ket VanDerveld]

Ket looks down to hsi chest as he got up from the force sweep. He plucked the metal object from his chest and looked at it curiously. He tossed it aside,and looked to Akarbbim. Ket closed his eyes and blocked his mind with the force,his own thoughts and feeling his own,his mind a fortress not able to be penetrated by the padawans that easy. It would take considerable more concentration to affect him seriously,but even he was subjectable to certain things. Ket used his significantly hightened mental defenses to assertain as to what was illusion and what was real. Ket concentrated upon the darkside and a small orb of pitch black darkness began to eminate from his hands,growing larger and larger with each breath. When it got to about 2 meters wide,he projected it forward,and it seemed to 'explode' into Waves of Darkness that covered both the Jedi completely for a few meters in each direction,blinding them in the visual sense and disorienting them severely in the mental sense. Ket called out to Viscera through the force...

*Viscera,concentrate upon the force and get Jubei while they are blinded and dumbfounded.*

[Darth Viscera]

Trying his best to use control pain to suppress the agony stemming from his cracked rib, Viscera managed to muster a bit of combat sense, and saw through the illusion projected by his companion. He doubted his opponents could do the same, however. After all, they were simple Padawans.

Sneaking up on the blinded Jubei, Viscera smacked him on the head with his lightsaber hilt, enjoying the delicious THWACK that emanated. The wounded Jubei fell to the ground. Almost as an afterthought, Viscera withdrew his stun blaster and pumped a few shots into the body, then slapped on a pair of stun cuffs. Levitating Jubei before him, he shouted at Ket, "BUG OUT!", and began running as quickly as force speed could take him, back to the shuttle, Jubei's body hovering before him all the way.

[Akrabbim]

OOC: Since you completely ignored my presence when attacking Jubei, I'm assuming that I'm not much of a concern, so you're not paying that much attention to me. Also, since you've got your back turned and you're fleeing, you shouldn't see this coming.

As Viscera leaves, Akrabbim draws two shuriken. He holds his hands out in front of him, palms downward. He causes the two shuriken to hover inches below his hand, and starts them spinning. After a few seconds, they are whirring with speed, causing the air around them to hum. He launches the shuriken, guiding them with the Force. He aims them at Viscera's fleeing legs. They strike the back of both knees, cutting deeply, nearly severing the tendons. Regardless of the pain involved, Visera's knees simply cannot mechanically function as well. Akrabbim calls his errant shuriken back to him, and runs for Viscera as fast as he can.

[Darth Viscera]

OOC: Actually, the reason that I completely ignored your presence was because you posted twice consecutively (not counting Jubei) without waiting for your opponent to respond. In the words of the great Charley, that's not kosher.

[Anbira Hicchoru]

OOC: Actually, there's nothing wrong with that, Vis. It was just a cooperative move. I don't see why it warrants ignoring Akrabbim's move. You might be able to disregard these things as a Lord or Master, but in all sense of reasonability, you should be affected by them at first, if only for the fact that you aren't prepared to immediately confront an illusion. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\"> Just my $0.02

[Darth Viscera]

OOC: Explain why you think I completely ignored you. I posted that I was using the force power known as combat sense. That power overrides force illusions. Btw, I thought only dark siders could use force illusions?

[Akrabbim]

[i]Corran Horn used them all the time. And he was a Light Sider. And I'm saying you ignored my presence when you kidnapped Jubei. I'm not saying you ignored an attack, I'm saying, you were concentrating on Jubei and not me. As in, Viscera the character was not even attempting to worry with me, since his target was Jubei and Jubei alone. That's why I was saying you shouldn't see the shuriken coming...

[Ket VanDerveld]

Ket saw Viscera running with Jubei not far behind and grinned to himself. But that was soon disapated as he saw two shurikens coming from the waes of darkness he projected. Not wanting to have to carry Viscera and Jubei,he ran forward and dived downward as the shurikens hit him in the side. Grimacing in pain,he pulled the metal stars from his side and waited for Viscera and Jubei to be aboard the shuttle and gone. He would stay behind to make sure there objective for coming here was carried out. Ket waited until the waves of darkness dissapted so that he may finish off Akarbbim. Ket kept his mind tattuned to the force,waiting for the next moves.

OOC: no posted coming out of the waves i think...

[Darth Viscera]

Moving quickly, Viscera tossed Jubei into the shuttle, and climbed in himself, thumbing the hatch closed. Initiating the startup cycle, Viscera activated the shield grid, and the forward weapons turret. Controlling the turret remotely, Viscera keyed in Akrabimm as the target, and listened to the soft thrum of the laser cannons as they fired salvo after salvo towards the Jedi. Projecting his thoughts outwords, Viscera spoke to Ket through the force.

I am activating the rear cargo lifter. Jump aboard if you can, and I'll lift off.

Running his fingers across the console, Viscera opened the lifter doors, and hoped Akrabimm would not have a chance to stow away. The lifter doors were in the rear of the ship, and as such not were not visible to the two attacking foes.

OOC: I hope this is adequate. I ran it by Charley quickly to make certain I wasn't writing anything incorrect, but I believe it's Ket who has shurikens stuck in him now.

[Lady Vader]

OOC: Grassy knoll? Are you going to go disgruntled marine on us?

OOC: :lol: *thinks about this course of action* :lol:

IC:

*LV watches as Jubei is thrown into the shuttle by Viscera... she doesn't like how he's treated so roughly, but does not move from her position... Viscera knows the consiquences if Jubei is injured in any way*

[Akrabbim]

OOC: That'll work. Good teamwork, actually. Never thought of that one. :)

IC: Akrabbim dives and rolls asfast as he can. Though he is able to avoid the brunt of the blasts, he is still caught with debris and is even nicked a couple of times with the guns. He works his way closer to the ship to accomplish two goals. First, he has to try and save Jubei. Also, since a ships guns are made for space combat, they don't aim too well in very close proximity. As he moves forward, he keeps his eyes on Ket, knowing that Viscera will probably wait for his associate. If he can just stay close enough to him, he may be able to get on board...

[Ket VanDerveld]

Ket saw the ship flying overhead and looked to Akarbbim. He knew he would follow,but Ket knew it would be useless for him to do so. Ket concentrated on the force and pushed akarbbim a good 15 feet away. As he did,he lept upward using the force to enhance his movments and landed on the platform that was open. watching Akarbbim get up slowly on the ground below,he sent a message to viscera via the force.

You know what to do Visecera...

Ket then made his way into the cargo bay and into the secondary cargo bay. Ket locked the only door into the secondary cargo bay behind him and stayed there,attending to Jubei.

[Darth Viscera]

Of course I do...

Viscera sat at the console, ready. The Shuttle was still some six meters above the ground, its repulsorlifts whining as its ion engines powered up. He cursed the battered craft, wishing he could urge it to greater speed.

[Akrabbim]

Akrabbim gets up just in time to see the hatch closing, sealing his last chance to get into the ship.

Hmm... I can't get in. Maybe I can at least confine them to this planet.

Akrabbim draws his quantum metal katana and takes aim. He knows he cannot disable the craft, but a small hull breach will make the craft unable to enter space. He hurls the weapon with all his might, guiding it with the Force. It pierces one of the side windows, making a small hole the size of his blade. He quickly calls his sword back to him, and runs closer to the vessel.

[Ket VanDerveld]

Ket's head darted up as he heard the alarm sound.

Damn,hull breach.

Ket looked to the video moniter and saw the exact place where the hull was breached. He had taken the liberty of upgrading the defense systems a while back on this old hunk. Walking over to the window,he concentrated upon the force and using pyrokenisis,melted the glass over the hole well wnough to be space worthy again. Ket yelled up to viscera to stay on course,and so they did,entering space. Ket walked to the nava-computer,getting the coordinates for the jump to lightspeed and programmed them in,as viscera engaged the hyperdrive. Ket grinned and looked to Viscera.

Mission accomplished.

[Anbira Hicchoru]

OOC: Ket, I'm going to call ya on that. Melting glass which has lost some of its matter is a tricky issue, involving structural integrity problems with the reheating of the glass, as well as the thinning of the pane to compensate for the missing amount in the hole. You wouldn't be able to make it into space. However, you could still fly to another part of the planet easily enough, at low altitude.

[Darth Viscera]

"Well, it'll have to do," Viscera thought, looking at the readouts which indicated the window in the primary cargo room had been blown out. He was going to ditch that section of the ship once the Jedi was onboard, and looked forward to sending Akrabbimm for a ride. Now, it was a necessity, and there was no Jedi to send falling to his death. Slightly saddened by this, Viscera punched one button on the console, sealing off the cargo room from the rest of the modular sections of the ship. He punched another button on the console, and the explosive bolts fired, and magnetic interlocks disengaged, separating the primary cargo room with the busted window from the rest of the ship. The cargo section fell back to the planet, while Viscera gunned the ion accelerator, propelling the shuttle further up, into the ionosphere.

[Ket VanDerveld]

OOC: Dude,i know nothing of avionics,so sorry again :)

Ket looked on as they headed out through the inosphere,then farther into space. Ket sighed,for it would take him a while to build a new cargo bay with the modifications he had done on the one just jetisoned. He went to the secondary cargo hold where Jubei was and gave him a seditive that dulled his mind quite a bit,to the point where he would not be able to concentrate on the force (the same used on Alpha at one point),and then gave him anesthetic to knock him unconcious for the duration of the flight. The combonation was not leathal at all,nor would it hurt him when he awoke. Chaining him up as an extra precaution,he went back to the cockpit and sat silently,waiting for them to reach their destination.

[Darth Viscera]

This RP will be continued <a href=http://pub57.ezboard.com/fsithsecretorder21526frm5.showMessage?topicID=3.to pic>at the ROS</a>. Contact me if you'd like to be involved in the RP, and I'll give you access to the forum.