Assassination: New Republic President Fey'Lya

[Darth Chrono]

The Correlian light battle cruiser Scarlet Claw streaks through the illuminated night sky on Coruscant. Its nose is glowing a harsh amber, the ship entered the atmosphere at too extreme a velocity. Regardless, the kamikaze craft opens fire on the city below.

Within seconds, the city's automatic defenses are on the craft, rocking it slightly from its murderous course. As if ignoring the damage, the ship plunges forward, headed straight for the former Imperial Palace.

Suddenly the ship pulls into a barrel roll, careening into the palace's shields violently. The entire ship becomes engulfed in flame, and explodes upon impact with the palace.

Maintenance droids are on the crash almost as it collides with the dominating building.

But in the inferno, nothing notices two figures shedding fire-retardant suits and slinking into the palace's shadows. The Sith have arrived.

[Lady Vader]

*LV drops both of their fire-retardent suits down a small shaft so as to keep it hidden... don't want any evidence someone is here*

that was almost too easy *she wispers softly to her partner*

* a ferral grin creeps upon her lips as she anticipates digging deeply into the unwary prey's inards with her claws*

*both slink silently down a corridor towards the elevator shaft, so as to ascend to the top royal level*

[Darth Chrono]

"With the Republic, it is all to easy, they have grown soft since signing a piece deal with Pellaeon's Empire. I just received a message... it is as if the Jedi are nowhere to be seen, they are afraid to attack us. All goes well..."

Chrono finishes snapping on his armor and boosts up the elevator shaft aided by his limited telekinesis and weak power boosters in his boots. Behind him, Lady Vader claws her way up.

Sensing when the security cameras will detect the Sith infiltrators in advance, Chrono hurls his metal shuriken with deadly accuracy.

He smiles to himself, "I will save the Cortolis stars for you, Jedi..."

[Lady Vader]

*LV chuckles as she watches the cameras spark and shatter*

*she shakes her head*

you certainly have a way with machinery, Chrono...

*she keeps clawing herself up towards the shaft opening above*

*Chrono reaches the door first and waits for LV to join him*

*as LV reaches the door, Chrono gestures toward it*

Chrono: ladies first...

*LV smiles and obliges by sticking her claws through the crack of the doors and slowly pulling one side open, while precariously hanging with her other hand... easily, she swings inside the sparsly lit corridor, landing noislessly in a low crouch, scanning the area*

*when she senses all is clear, she gestures towards Chrono and they both move on*

[Darth Chrono]

As the two step forward, Chrono grabs Lady Vader by the waist and side-steps, narrowly avoiding a salvo of blaster fire. As his suit collides with the wall, three shurikens whip out from his hands, and he is rewarded with two screams.

"AARRRAGGHH!!"

"My beautiful face!"

"Fools, never underestimate the Sith. Our ways are many, and dark... Your weak minds could not grasp the sheer immensity of the Dark Side," Lady Vader, catching her breath, nods her agreement.

"Sith warriors, comes out with you arms raised high and your weapons at your feet!" The New Republic Guard superior officer shouts.


Chrono sighs, "The rabble never learn, do they?" Moving as a rolling shadow he ignites his lightscythe, and as soon as the five guards, one of the injured cradling his bleeding eye socket not counted, can target the armored Sith, he has leapt into the air. The lightscythe swings in a wide arc, beheading three warriors and mauling the chief.

Chrono bounces into the shadows beyond the fightened guards and grins beneath his mask, "A present for a deliciously evil lady?"

[Lady Vader]

*LV laughs maliciously, kicking one of the heads aside*

no survivors...

*LV grabs her electric whip, and setting it to full power, lashes at the mauled chief, relishing in his cunvultions as his limp body hits the floor smoldering... the guard with one eye left, widens his other eye in terror... the last remaining healthy guard brings his weapon to bear and starts shooting wildly*

*LV flips, slides, and dashes, easily avoiding the pining shots... she comes close to the shooting guard, and as she does a back flip to avoid another shot, kicks him forcefully in the jaw, sending him sprawling*

naughty, naughty boy... now is that anyway to treat a lady?

*LV sends a blinding blast of Force Lightning at him, frying him in an instant*

*near her back, she feels a wisper of wind as a knife comes sailing for her back... she instantly whirls around, impaling the wrist holding the knife... the one eyed guard drops the knife and howls in pain... then sneers at LV*

what? are you still trying... well, I suppose I can commend you for that...

*without another word, she sends the claws of her free hand through the mans gut, wrenching out intestines... she let's go and drops the bloody corpse to the floor*

wow... and I didn't even crack a claw...

*she smiles evily, turning back to Chrono, who is thanking the maker she doesn't have any reason to hate him*

come on Chrono, dear... we've got a meeting with a dog...

Chrono: right!

*knowing now that the building is on alert, both pick up the pace towards their intended target*

[Darth Chrono]

"Indeed... we seem to be near-surrounded..." Chrono slices an 'X' in the nearest huge plexiglas window, smashes the pane completely, stepping out ondo the sill and hoisting Lady Vader up.

"No way to go but up, eh Chronos?" She grins, fully prepared for the laser blasts that Chrono deflects with the glowing blade of his scythe.

"Up indeed... we're a little more exposed out here." With Vader on his back, Chrono boosts himself up three storeys, his thrusters kicking into a glass pane and shattering it.

Within seconds, the two are ready and able to deflect any dangers...

...In a room full of the elders of the New Repuclib Conversation Committee.

[Lady Vader]

*LV launches herself up and over Chrono's shoulders, flipping, and landing on a table surrounded by some of the elders... officers and guards in the room immediatley yell "GET DOWN!" and open fire... instantly reacting, LV whips out her doubled bladed lightsaber and begins deflecting bolts, smiling as one of the bolts hits a guard dead center on his forhead, killing him before he hits the floor*

*she sees from the corner of her eye Chrono having his own fun*

*she jumps down to the floor, and flips out of the way of a cross fire, at the same time detaching her lightsaber at the center, creating twin sabers... one of the guards goes pale*

didn't see that one coming, did ya?... let's see if you can predict...

*she swings towards the guard with her sabers, one going one way and the other going the other way, slicing him twice, making three pieces*

THAT!

*she laughs maliciously as she keeps deflecting bolts... a guard, noticing his blaster is empty, leaps on her back... she snarls and digs her claws deep into his back, ripping him from her and sending him sailing towards Chrono*

PRESENT! *she yells as the guard hits the floor just inches from Chrono's boot*

*she sees Chrono taking care of things on his side, as she notices she has two more heading towards her... with a mighty leap, bouncing of a wall, she lands on one of the guards heads, making a loud crack come from his neck, and slashes at the other's face with her claws*

*the guard she landed on had his neck broken with the impact, and the other holds torn flesh with his hands... suddenly he begins to choke and gurgle*

*LV looks at her claws*

oops... musta let some poison seep through... well, that close to your brain, you won't have long...

*she smiles sweetly at the guard, then kicks him in the gut, sending him crashing against the wall, snapping his back*

ah damn... too hard... I wanted the poison to do the job... oh well...

*she watches as Chrono takes care of his playmates*

[Darth Chrono]

Chrono's scythe cleaves through peace delegate after peace delegate, and his heart dnces with savage glee, he has never truly cut loose in a bloody swathe like this.

"This is wasting time!!!" Lady Vader shouts out. The entire room seems to freeze, and the fat Wookie impaled on the lightscythe slides down the cold metal shaft. The blood seeping between the joints of the armor and onto Chrono's hands jerks him from his daze, and the room returns to normal.

Lady Vader gasps... the room did freeze, as if nothing had the will to move but her. This Darth Chrono was a mystery even to her.

"You're right, let's get going," Chrono admits, shaking the Wookie off and dashing from the room behind Vader, dropping one of his three thermal detonators behind him.

[Lady Vader]

*both run at a full tilt, searching for the room where their quary resides*

*an explosion is heard and felt as they turn a corner*

*LV thinks back to what happened back in the previous room, and gives Chrono a sideways glance... she thinks to herself, "I wonder what the hell that was all about?"... she shakes her head, "later"*

*as they both swing around another corner, they run into a trio of guards heading towards the explosion*

*as she runs, LV swipes at one of them, slicing him from shoulder to groin, spilling blood everywhere... she leaps over the other two, leaving them for Chrono*

[Darth Chrono]

"Always wanted to work on my short game..." Chrono mutters to himself, viciously swinging the scythe at the guard ducking low. His head flies past Lady Vader, and he can hear her chuckle.

His ego fueled by arrogance, Chrono fails to notice the viscera of the guard Vader dispatched, and slips on a large chunk of small intestine.

Ina flash he is in the air, catching the twirling scythe at a crazy angle and using it to slice open the back of the guard.

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Elsewhere, Borsk Fey'Lya can feel the hate emanating from the Sith duo as they approach.

"They've come for me, you fools!" Borsk shouts out.

The guards nod, and Borsk feels a sigh of relief, knowing that his guard is on the case.

[Lady Vader]

*LV stiffles a small laugh as Chrono picks himself up after his slip up*

uh, yeah... careful for the ichor... it's kinda everywhere...

*LV clears her throat as Chrono softly laughs sarcastically*

*he then smiles at her*

Chrono: come on... we gotta find Fey'Lya before he sends the whole brigade after us...

LV: oh come on... that would be fun!

Chrono: yeah, I know... but we don't have the time...

*LV snaps her fingers in disappointment, and both resume their quest for the Bothan*

[Darth Chrono]

As Borsk Fey'Lya's troops escort him through a hall, eight highly trained Royal Guards in near-perfect formation, the lights turn dim and a message is piped through the speakers:

"All New Republic dignitaries are to be guarded around the clock... there has been a rash of assasinations..."

"Now you realize this, idiots! Who else has been assasinated?" In response to Borsk, the chief Royal Guard logs into the InfoComp in the wall...

"Chelch Dravvad and Wedge Antilles are both dead, Ponc Gavrisom is mising..."

"Damn! Let's get a move on, then! I want to be out of this palace, with those Sith around!"

The lights fade even more, becomes a somber blue tint. Two screams emanate from the front and back guards. In front of Borsk, a small green light emerges, illuminating a fearsome armored figure.

"Your angel of death has arrived, President Borsk Fey'Lya."

[Lady Vader]

*LV, having silently crawled on the ceiling, and silently dropped behind Fey'Lya, comes into the errie blue light*

well, well, well... look what the cat dragged in...

*Fey'Lya whirls around, wide eyed, only to be greeted by a widely grinning LV*

*he looks her up and down and visibly swallows*

*she winks at him*

meow...

*then, all hell breaks loose*

[Darth Chrono]

A guard moves between Vader and Borsk. As she guts him mercilessly, another comes out of nowhere, one Chrono had presumed dead when his shuriken pierced his chest.

In a flash the lightscythe cleaved the guard, but Borsk managed to kick Vader in the stomach and flee onward, two guards following him closely.

As Vader and Chrono returned their attention to the corridor, they saw the three oncoming guards, battle-hardened and willing to die fighting for their president.

The two nod to each other and Chrono bolts after Borsk and the other two guards, as Vader turns to face the captain of the guard and the two others, a devious smile painted across her lips...

[Lady Vader]

*LV gestures with her finger towards the captain*

you want a piece of me... *she wispers seductively* then come get me...

*the captain gestures towards his companions and they both charge towards her... in a blink of an eye, LV does one relovution, igniting her saber and making them two*

*she shikabobs one guard, and lashes out with the tip of her boot towards the other's face... the holed guard goes down with her lightsaber still in him, cleaving him... the other holds his broken face, unable to see... LV gives him a nasty shove towards her free lightsaber, seperating his top section from his bottom section*

*she faces the captain*

now, it's just you... *she smiles evily* and me...

*the guard snarls and whips out his blaster... LV instantly grabs his blaster from his hand with the Force*

uh-huh... mano a mano... come on big boy...

*LV deactivates her lightsaber and clips it back at her side... the guard lunges at her, she sidesteps him and pushes him into a wall... he crashes into the wall, snapping his neck with the impact*

*LV shakes her head*

they just don't make em like they used to...

*she takes off after Chrono and Fey'Lya*

[Darth Chrono]

Chrono smirks under his faceplate as he rounds a bend and hurls himself bodily into the air, performing a sommersault and swinging his blade on a hard right angle, the steel butt of the shaft breaking the guard's jaw before the blade eviscerates him.

"Damn fool," Chrono notes absent-mindedly, hurrying on. He soon finds himself in the core turbolift room, the one shaft that leads from the top of the building to the murky depths of the planet, unpopulated by conventional forms of life.

One guard stands in the center, ready to die for his president. Above him, the lift shows Borsk's descent...

"I don't have time for you," Chrono snidely snarled, hurling a shuriken between the guard's eyes and killing him, "I sense... a tremor."

He wedged open the turbolift doors, and suddenly got an idea.

[Lady Vader]

*LV comes to a skidding halt, lightly leaping over the guards body*

*she looks at Chrono*

did he get into the turbolift???

[Darth Chrono]

...but alas, Chrono is not there. Lady Vader peeks down the shaft, and sees only inky blackness.

"By Exar Kun... he didn't go down THERE???" She asked, feeling unnaturrally worried for him.



Miles below, Borsk Fey'Lya emerges fom the turbolift in the foundational core of the Imperial palace, far below the sewage dump, and he fights back the hideous odour invading his nostrils. Wiping away a foot-thick of wet dust, Borsk receives an odd sense of satisfaction knowing that the palace was built over a lowly pet shop.

Behind him, a thud boomed out in the turbolift. His eyes darted to the shaft, and that familiar green glow greeted his vision...

[Jedi Knight Katarn]

Kyle being on a diplomatic mission to talk with fey"lya hears the hustle and bustle outside of his room, he opens the door and steps out as Fey'Lya runs into him.

Kyle: what is going on?

Borsk explains about the sith...

Kyle: alright get out of here and i will see if i can slow them down.

may the force be with you
Fey'lya continues his escape

kyle ignites his ls and waits

[Lady Vader]

*LV watches the empty blackness down below*

*stretching her hearing, she can hear Fey'Lya panting*

boy, this is gonna be messy... I love messy...

*LV begins to scan the area, making sure no more guards come... and if they do, she will deal with them*

[Jedi Knight Katarn]

you can ignore my last post...boy you guys post fast...2 before my 1..oh well

[Darth Chrono]

>>>OOC: Kyle- Your post is horribly out of date and makes no sense considering what's happened. Sorry buddy, but we have to ignore it.<<<

IC:

The suit approached steadily, a gleaming sentinel in the dark. To Borsk, the motion seemed somewhat... wrong.

He whipped out his blaster, emptying five shots into the approaching behemoth.

The blasts cut clean through to the other side.

Finally, Borsk was backed against a wall, and lost control of his bladder. The suit loomed over him devoid of any personality.

Borsk emptied his blasters into the chest. A few sparks, but no spasms of pain and blood, as there shood have been.

The hand reached up and ripped off the faceplate, revealing a thermal detonator and triggering both it and a prerecorded message.

"How does it feel to be killed by a ghost, Fey'Lya?"

"You- you aren't even in the suit! that's impos-"

BRKOOM

[Jedi Knight Katarn]

ooc. no problem, i should work on my speed typing. :)

[Lady Vader]

*LV hears and feels the explosion far below*

*suddenly, a guard comes tumbling from his hiding spot behind a corner as the building shakes... LV sends a blast of Force Destruction his way, illiminating him without thinking*

*then she feels the heat*

*the flames are barreling up the shaft towards her*

*she swears heavily in her native language and wonders where Chrono is... did he screw her?*

*she makes a sudden dash for any exit in the area*

[Darth Chrono]

>>>OOC: Think nothing of it, dude :) It's just too bad nobody came along earlier, this was the only one where Jedi intervention didn't need a really GOOD explanation.<<<



Lady Vader runs across the chamber toward the ext, and is shocked when it explodes in front of her. Has the fire reached her from another lift?

No... even as the intensity of the heat grows, she can see a ship behind the dust, and realizes just how close to the outside this section of the palace is.

"Are you just going to wait there? Hurry up! This place is gonig to blow, and we don't want to be on planet when the chain reaction starts," Chrono's familiar voice booms out from the ship, a heavily modified YT2000 cruiser painted as black as the cold depths of space.

Gritting her teeth, Lady Vader hops up the ramp, feeling it lift below her, and she can feel the ship speeding out of the atmosphere, rocked by small blaster fire directed at the Sith's ship.

And then she feels it.

The Imperial Palace is being rocked at its very foundations... one half of it will likely fall in on itself- the chaos created would create a devastating domino effect on Coruscant, but she guessed the structures weren't that weak.

Pouting, she made her way to the @#%$pit, where Chrono, completely out of costume for the first time to Vader, was punching in the hyperdrive coordinates as an Interdictor cruiser began targeting the ship.

As the stars fade into magnificent white lines, she asks him, "Why on earth did you pull that stunt?"

"I want to make a name for myself," Chrono grins, scratching his stubble, "the man who crippled a republic before he ever became a full Sith. I'm sorry you were endangered in the process," he beamed, his eyes twinkling, oozing natural charisma.

Her anger turned to rage, and she slapped him, leaving the @#%$pit and heading to her cramped quarters.

"Oh well," Chrono muttered to himself, "It's best that she's irritated at me. No Sith should be regretful for his actions, right? Yeah... bah. The day is done, and the day is won, Grendel's plan worked like a charm."

The Obsidian Blade hummed through hyperspace, on its way home.

END

[Lady Vader]

EPILOGUE:

*LV sat on the cot in her quarters, still simmering over Chrono's actions*

boy... Grendal's really gonna get a BIG bill from me... his apprentice can use some training in manners towards Sith elders... not to mention a Sith lady...

*then, she chuckles softly to herself and actually smiles*

still... that stunt he pulled worked... I guess he was just being a Sith... and I did get out with my skin intact...

*LV shakes her head and chuckles again*

gotta hand it to those 9 lives...

*she sighs and looks at her chrono*

well, we've got a couple of hours till we get home, so I might as well get some rest...
all in all, it was a good day...

*she lays back in her cot and begins to close her eyes... at the same time, she sends a small Force Kick-in-the-pants at Chrono reminding him not to mess with her again... in her minds eye she sees him jump slightly, look around and then grin and shake his head... LV smiles and dozes off into a light sleep for the trip home*

THE END

[ReaperFett]

please, please PLEASE tell me you haven't just killed off an interesting EU character? Please tell me you havent!

[Lady Vader]

ummm... yeah... as of 24 hours ago, Fey'Lya is dead...

didn't know there was actually someone out there that cared for the Bothan... kinda surprised me actually... everyone I know hates his guts (and I'm not just talking about Sith here... I know a few Jedi that disliked him also)...