Out of the Frying Pan

[Seth TraSven]

Seth stood in an obscure location in the corridoor outside the Discussion Chamber listening to Garrett Blade as he addressed those in attendance. He waited in a narrow, dimly lit passage, focusing a constant veil over his Light Side presence to remain undetected within this intricate nest of Dark Siders.

Eventually garrett emerged from the room in which he once spoke and Seth stepped out to meet him, "So, how did it..." before he could finish the question he dived back into the dark passage as he saw Lady De'Ville approaching, assisted by Pierce Tondry. They had not seen him.

From the shadows he whispered, "Go meet them, I'll be fine here!"

Garrett acknowledged his request with a simple nod and left to engage the two approaching individuals. Meanwhile, Seth took one last look down the corridoor then dissapeared along the narrow passage, deeper into the lions' den. Soon he came to a turbolift and entered in order to avoid two approaching gaurds performing their regular security routine. The turbolift suddenly began to descend, deep underground towards the maximum security prison block.

[Garrett Blade]

OOC:Sorry about this Psy, but this is happening at the same time as the other thread De'Ville started, so technically you're in the Discussion Chamber! Sorry dude!

IC:

*As Garrett greeted Lady De'Ville and Pierce, he subconsiously reached to the nearby wall and fiddled with a security terminal, which disabled all security camera's at TSO. he did this within seconds, without even turning away from De'Ville and Pierce, who were just turning to enter the Chamber...*

[Live Wire]

*LW was fed up with the bickering and walked out of the discussion chamber....DeVille Jeseth and Morgan we're being tended too and there wasnt much else for her to do. She headed towards her quarters for something to drink*

[Seth TraSven]

Seth didn't hear the transmission made by Lord Psychic and continued deeper into the Prison block carefully looking out for gaurds and surveilance cameras. When a gaurd patrolled nearby, his small influence over the gaurd was enough to make the gaurd see nothing but shadow as his silhouetted figure crawled against the walls.

Finally, he came to a long corridoor in which there was five gaurds standing outside numerous prison cells, all armed, however they idly stood chatting from their appointed posts. Seth thought the element of suprise would go wasted if not implemented in this situation.

So carefully he made his way along one side of the corridoor, and silently stood outside the first cell door he came to, the corridoor was dark and infrequently lit by dim red beacons. His face and upper torso were hidden in shadow from the gaurd standing outside a cell on the other side of the hall, at a horizontal anhgle from where Seth was standing.

"Hey, it's pretty dull working down here innit?" questioned Seth to the gaurd. At first he looked suprised but then relaxed.

"Woah! I didn't see you there kid. You new?"

Seth nodded and the gaurd answered, "Well, it ain't bad once you used to the guys down here. Allow me to introduce you, what's your name?" he asked.

"I'm Sí Trom'Vag, new recruit from the South" came the reply from the Jedi. As the gaurd was about to respond, Seth interrupted, "Oh and let me guess, you are..."

Seth hesitated, there was a brief moments silence, then suddenly a knife was sent straight through the gaurds skull and impaled him against the wall.

"...you're dead!" came the whispered answer.

The dead gaurd dropped his heavy blaster rifle, and the two nearer gaurds were startled at this. So Seth, taking advantage of the situation, crouched down and picked it up, they saw him and he said, "Damn I'm clumsy! Sorry about that guys!"

"You could've blown our heads of with that then, be more careful recruit!" came an angry voice down the corridoor, the man was completely oblivious to the death of one of his colleagues.

After picking up the rifle, Seth stepped out into the corridoor and they saw it was a moment to late as he said, "Don't worry, I wont miss this time!" and with that the nearest two gaurds were shot down by two sift blaster shots. Their flawing bodies were then propelled through the air telekinetically into the other gaurds behind them. All four crashed to the ground and Seth ran towards them, igniting his lightsaber as he did.

The two gaurds struggled to get free under the weight of their dead friends, they attempted to get to their blaster rifles and shoot down the approaching attacker. Unfortunately for them, they were too slow and and with two swift motions Seth impaled his bright, white blade through the body of one of the corpses, impaling the living gaurd underneath and doing the same with the other, killing the two remaining gaurds instantaneously.

Damn! Security will be much tigher soon. I better hide in one of these cells he thought and with that opened the nearest cell and entered.

[Jeseth Cloak]

Jeseth paused for a moment as he exited the main entrance into the discussion chamber...

Something... A presence I've not felt...

Nonsense. He narrowed his eyes, continueing on way to his ship.

[Lady DeVille]

ooc: Ok, LW, are you in the Chamber, or in your room?! I'm confused! /ic:

[DarthDarkCloak]

[Nupraptor]

OOC ~ Out of the Frying Pan, into the Trout.

[Garrett Blade]

*Garrett listened to what was going on in the council room, keeping his eye on a nearby auxiliary computer terminal. He noticed something, and decided to see what was going on down in the prison level. Nobidy was paying enough attention to what Garrett was up to, so he took advantage of his situation. He looked on the vid-com screen. There was Seth about to enter one of the cell-rooms. Trust him to pick DDC's cell - the very cell guarded by several Cyborg-Wookiees. Garrett quickly keyed in the neccessary protocols and commands. Suddenly, the Wookiee's run-time program shutdown, and the Wookiee's fell limp where they stood. Garrett slowly rejoined the scene in the council room inconspicuously, still keeping his wits about the security terminal...*

[Seth TraSven]

Backing off into the cell, closing the door before him as he did, Seth suddenly bumped into something, recognisably a large figure and he turned quickly to meet a huge wookiee towering over him. However, this particulart wookiee was standing limp, it had numerous mechanical implants about it's body which he found peculiar.

A Cyborg-Wookiee! he thought to himself with relief as it was deactivated, as were the rest of the large creatures in the room.

Carefully he moved around their large frames and surveyed his surroundings, to his right was a large console partially active and to his left a typical maximum security prison chamber. This particular cell was dark, shadowed, still. The forcefield was nevertheless still standing before him.

Seth started as he noticed a silhouetted figure crawl about to a stance wearily within the darkness. His eyes readjusted to the darkness and somehow seemed to partially recognise the individual.

"Tell me," he said to the prisoner, beginning to pace back and forth before the cell, "Why are you here?"

There was some time between the question and the answer, "I was imprisonned for returning here; I am the Prodigal Son of TSO and I this is my forgiveness, I guess my life was spared."

The voice seemed weak, drained somewhat and croaky, whoever it was, he had just woken up. Seth pondered on this for a moment the said, "Very well. What would you do were I to release you?"

"Whatever pleases me!" came an almost instant answer, the voice now gaining strength.

"Well, if I scratch your back, will you scratch mine?" question Seth, his tone was calm and controlled. Dark Cloak nodded.

"Excellent!" exclaimed Seth in the same quiet, undetected voice.

- - - - - - - - - -

Some time later, the same robed figure leaves the prison cell, his Jedi robes blending in with the dark surroundings as he moved up the corridoor whilst the prisoner patiently waited in his cell, in the darkness, in the cold, alone.

[Garrett Blade]

After a few minutes of listening to the arguing, Garrett slipped back over to the security terminal. He noticed that Seth was no longer in the cellblock. Figuring it was safe to do so, Garrett re-activates the Wookiee's, who stand upright again as their programs restart. Since their system had been rebooted, he gave them new orders; to stay at least three metres away from the cell itself until further notice, yet remain on guard there. He punched in the clarification code, then rejoined the madness in the Discussion Room...*

[DarthDarkCloak]

[Seth TraSven]

Minutes after Cloaks departure and Seth sat in the corner of the prison cell, his silhoutted figure didn't seem to alert the wookiees. He watched them carefully, something was different about them; they weren't paying any attention to him.

That should be plenty of time now! he thought to himself and quickly stood up in the cell. Hesitating momentarily, then making a decision he simply walked out of the cell. The forcefield had been deactivated the whole time and no-one had noticed so Seth was free to leave.

The wookiee's don't seem to see the Jedi as a priority as he walked between them over to a computer terminal where he attempted to access the internal systems environmental controls however there was a Level 4 Clearance Code. Seth grinned.

"Security Clearance GARRETT-THETA-NINE-ZULU" he answered.

_ACCESS GRANTED

Moments later and the entire Detention Level was suffocated in thick smoke and steam making it almost impossible to see. At that moment, Seth stepped out into the corridoor and used his previous knowledge of this corridoor to locate a ventilation shaft above.

Using his lightsaber to burn it open Seth climbed in and began negotiating his way through the darkened tunnels. Soon he was navigating his way about the upper levels and caught a glimpse of Cloak raiding he Armory through a metal grill in the vent.

Several more minutes had passed and Seth was finally able to exit the main building by dropping out of the shaft and jumping into a river which bordered the facility. He had taken a large intake of air the moment before he was submerged under the fast flowing water. For the majority of the swim he managed to stay close to the river bank, always under water so that he wasn't seen by any surveilance.

It wasn't long until Seth had came to a fork in the rivers flow and taking the right bend he was lead straight into the moat that surrounded the Sith Palace. Finally, with his back pressed up against the palace wall in the moat, Seth listened in on a report from a security post on the bridge above.

"Confrontation...escaped prisoner...Sith called Cloak...large dragon...powercut...escape...moments ago" were the only words Seth managed to pick up but with that he juxtaposed the information into a suitable story and knew that Cloak was still keeping TSO busy for him. Thanks to Garret no doubt.

With that, Seth took one deep breath and dived deep underwater where he entered a small passage which allowed him to enter the palace unseen. The drainage system was narrow and fast flowing but the Jedi managed to grip onto the sides and shimmy along underwater. Eventually he was able to surface in the sewers underneath the palace.

Climbing out of the water, Seth rested, gradually gaining his strength once again and he sat cross-legged whilst looking over a plan of the Palace. There had been drawn onto it a route, courtesy of Garrett Blade once again, which he studied carefully.

He began gathering focus on the task at hand, checking the equiptment on his person including the numerous mines and then he relaxed. He knew what must be done, he knew the route, now to challenge his own abilities, his breathing slowed, his conciousness fell into the living force around him and instantaneously he pinpointed the numerous life signatures about the palace above.

Now!

Suddenly the crouched figure dissapeared and was nowhere to be seen in the sewers, moments later he was near the top of the palace, his movement so fast, light and colour became blured. Everything around him seemed to slow as he moved, that is apart from him as he placed the mines en route to his destination.

Finally, Seth came to the door and he quickly swiped a clearance card through a scanner outside and the door opened, an automated voice said: Welcome Lordess Live Wire.

Seth swiftly made his way through the rooms and finally came to a room outside which two gaurds stood. They immediatly aimed to fire but were telekinetically turned to face each other, blasting themselves in the chest at point blank range. They died immediatly.

Seth enetered the room in which a young woman nursed a baby girl. She saw the intruder and shrieked with fright causing the child to begin to cry. Seth walked over to her and before she could react, she was influenced to hand over the child and then passed out.

Seth took hold of the child caringly, immediatly the child fell asleep at the Jedi's touch and with a moment to think, he turned to the window and leapt out of it from the top floor.

[Lady Vader]

*LV sat in her quarters, packing a few things to take with her back to Byss... she often made the trip back and forth and had gotten quite used to it... she was just closing her traveling pack when a monumentous disturbance in the Force slammed into her*

*she gasped, blinking... wtf could that have been? she'd encountered plenty of disturbances before, but none like this!*

*she immediately dropped what she was doing and ran to her door... popping out of her room, she glanced down both sides of the hallway... everything seemed fine... and that's what made her even more nervous than she already was*

[Live Wire]

*LW was walking with shenraun when she sensed a change in Ariels mood.*

Thats strange.

*LW made a call up to the guards at her room. When she got no answer she changed direction.....she kept paging her room and broke into a run with shenraun not far behind her.

as she reached her room she saw the door slightly open. As she walked in she saw the bodies of the two guards. she ignigted her saber and broke the door to ariels room in. The maid was on the floor unconcious and the window to the balcony was open.

LW let out a shriek heared through out the palace!*

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


*she set of the alarm system and locked down the palace and surrounding grounds. She walked over the the wall terminal and sent a message over the PA system*

I want all troops on alert! someone just broke into my room and kidnapped ariel! I WANT THEIR HEAD!!!

[Shenraun]

*the dragon pounded behind LW as she took off into a mad run down towards her room*

*he followed her through the two massive doors leading her to room, but couold not follow through to the smaller door that led to the childs room*

*he watched as her tension climbed, and nearly took a step back at the gut wrenching NO echoing through the palace*

*he didn't need anyone to tell him what had happened*

*sticking his large head through the small doorway, he sniffed the area, catching the faint almost disapated scent of a Force user*

*roaring, he removed his head from the small doorway, and stepped out into the hallway, making his way to the large window at the end of the corridor*

*once reaching it, he plunged through it, breaking the glass, and spreading his wings*

*he flew off, in search of the perpetrator that had stolen the Amazon's child*

[Lady Vader]

*LV had time enough to come to a screetching halt outside of LW's room when Shenraun came tearing through... she watched him run down the hallway and jump out the large window at the end... she shook her head... she was going to have to put exits in the palace for his use*

*running inside, she found a fuming LW, staring at Ariel's bed... LV tensed, anger seeping through her veins... who would stoop so low as to steal a child?!*

*she heard a soft half mew-half snarl behind her as Iesis came trotting in, propping herself on the baby's bed and sniffing the covers*

*she placed a hand on LW's shoulder*

We'll find the one who has taken Ariel, and we will not be merciful. Death will be the punishment for this crime.

*her other hand folded into a fist*

[Iesis]

*the black Correllian panther sniffed the blanket, catching the scent of the baby and a human*

*she and the baby were close, having played together, even having let the child pull at her ears*

*she would find her friend*

*having had her fill of the scent, Iesis pounced outside of the room, trotting down to the lower levels to the garden*

*once there, she climbed a tree next to the wall, jumped onto the wall, and into another tree on the other side*

*she began to look for the scent when she reached the ground*

[Jedah Lynch]

Alarms screeched and guards ran around with blasters in hand searching intently, the voice over the comms was that of Live Wires saying something about a kidnapped person? Someone named Ariel..Lynch had no idea who that was. But the tone in her voice and the security measures taking place spoke volumes.

Looking about the Sith moved downward a corridor as he seeked any more information on this if not aid in some way.

[Live Wire]

*LW clutches Ariel's blanket to her chest. She would pay whatever price to get Ariel back and to have the body of whomever took her laying at her feet. She remembered the ships in orbit and walked over to her computer terminal.

She hailed the Saussa'Ira'Ira' and informed them of the kidnapping*

any assitance you can give us in locating them is much appreciated!

[Keerrourri Sarrtarroa]

At first, Huntress Captain Reiarru wanted to answer the call of battle herself, but she hesitated. She knew the importance of this trade agreement, and she also understood that if there was anything that could be done to bolster relations between the Pride and the Sith Order, then Emissary Sarrtarroa would wish to handle it personally.

Reiarru turned to a subordinate, her teeth bared in action-readiness

What arrre the coorrrdjinatesss of the Oorrrrrru'Gurrrrrre'Gurrrrrre'?

Sensor officer: The Oorrrrrru'Gurrrrrre'Gurrrrrre' jisss 22 ljight jyearrrsss awajy, Huntrrressssss Captajin!

Reiarru pondered a course of action, and turned to the communications officer.

Sssend a prrrjiorrrjitjy hajil to Emmjissssssarrrjy Sarrrrrrtarrrrrroa jimmedjiateljy!

Within moments, the face of Keerrourri Sarrtarroa could be seen on Reiarru's screen. She saluted him with the fisted right hand over her breast.

Emmjissssssarrrjy, we have a sssjituatjion herrre on Corrrelljia that rrrequjirrresss jyourrr attentjion.

Sarrtarroa's face is stern

A sssjituatjion? Verrrjy well then, Captajin. jI wjill arrrrrrjive at jyourrr locatjion ssshorrrtljy.

The communication terminated, and 22 light years away, the Cizerack flagship turned towards Corellia, and jumped into hyperdrive.

[Lady Vader]

*LV had already started moving towards the entrance of the palace... she had already put all of Corellia's defenses on alert for location of a human Force user carrying a child... she'd sent out descriptions of the child, and had even sent out the fighter squadrons under her command to do a low altitude search for any unauthorized ships in the vicinity*

*they would find Ariel*

[Seth TraSven]

After leaping out of the bedroom window some twenty stories high, Seth quickly fumbled about with his utility belt, whilst carefully holding the sleeping baby in his other arm. He took from the belt a device which he had been given by a good freind on a mission in the past. He looked up as he fell and fired some sort of a grappling hook onto the balcony of the room below the one out of which he jumped. He continued to fall, a thin wire continuously unravelling out of the bulky instrument, which he now aimed to a building not to far in the distance. He punched a second button, a red one and suddenly a high powered projectile was launched from the device. It soared through the air at speeds which matched laser fire, a immensly long yet thin wire accompanying it.

As Seth watched the projectile fly of into the distance he clipped a hook on a chord from the device to his belt a closing his eyes he gripped the child tight. Suddenly he felt an increadible amount of pain in his mid-section, the air inside him was quickly forced out as his face turned pale. He had stopped falling but the belt had jerked against his waist increadibly hard, he was gasping for breath and began his slow decent, as the device had formed some sort of zipline and he slided down from a height of roughly twelve stories high to a height of about two stories high. As he slided down the rope his velocity increased gradually as he neared this building.

Soon he was right before it, still two floors high and he was going to collide with solid wall if he did not act fast. Quickly, he held the child close as he disengaged the hook from his belt and he fell. He launched himself forward and crashed straight through a glass window as he fell, it was a hanger bay.

A pilot running to his fighter was suddenly forced to the floor by a tremendous weight, he was knocked unconcious as his skull smacked against the cold, hard floor. Slowly, Seth climbed to his feet, checking on the baby who was still fast asleep in his right arm. His left arm had been damaged as he had to put all of his weight on it as he fell onto that pilot.

"Thanks!" he said to the unconciouss individual on the floor, then quickly began to move through the maze of fighters that were being prepared for take off dragging the unconcious body with him.

Finally he came to Garrett Blade's Infiltrator and leaving the body hidden behind a stack of crates, he walked over to his military protocol droid and after speaking to it for a moment, it went inside the ship to prepare it for take-off whilst he made his way back to hide behind the crates.

[Green Squadron Leader]

*Green Squadron Leader Jason Reeves sat in the cockpit of his TIE Defender, he started up the engines and prepared for take-off. He turned to the comm-link and opened a channel with Lady Vader, Commander of the TSO Fighter Squadrons.*

"Ma'am," he says as he salutes, "Qreen Squadron are ready to go. We will all be out there within minutes."

*His attempts to quell her worries failed, her face still angry and frustrated. She simply acknowledged him with a nod then deactivated the channel. Once his co-pilot had joined him, the Defender took off accompanied by the other eleven TIE's and began surveying the area around the Palace and the main Hanger Bay.*

[Keerrourri Sarrtarroa]

Out of the cold blackness of space, a behemoth-sized vessel of war sprang from the dreamlike vortex of hyperspace. Its angular surfaces gleamed, casting light from the Star of Corellia itself. Dressed in red war-paint, the predator of the cosmos hungered once more, its myriad weapon systems fully powered. The two Korri-class battlecruisers soon parted, letting the Flag of the Cizerack Pride pass forward. From the vessel of war, a message came, awaiting the Siths' reply. Emissary Sarrtarroa sat calmly in his command chair, with an air of poise and deft purpose.

"Now jissss the wjinterrr of ourrr djissscontent; made glorrrjiousss sssummerrr bjy thjisss sssun of Yorrrk."

Sarrtarroa smiled confidently.

The Oorrrrrru'Gurrrrrre'Gurrrrrre' ssstandsss bjy to assssssjissst jyou jin jyour hourrr of need.

[Live Wire]

*LW sent out a gneral announcement to all ships arround correllia and all personel*

No one is to leave this planet! Even if the ship has TSO markings and clearance codes no one is allowed to leave! If a ship tries to force its way off planet it is to be disabled and captured. Do not destroy it! I repeat! Do NOT destroy it.

If you discover the person or persons who have taken her shoot to kill! However do not jepordize the safety of the baby Ariel.

*LW ignited her saber and headed down to the hanger bay to the lightnings strike*

Im heading into the air....anyone who has a ship can join me.

That bastard wont make it off this planet alive.

[Lord Psychic]

*Lord Psychic, starting to feel stronger, heard what was going on. He then headed toward the hangar bay.*

Psy (to himself): I have no clue who Ariel is, but whoever did this will surely pay.

*Psy got into his Defender and flew up into the atmosphere, seeing several other ships in the atmosphere with him. He then enabled the cloaking device, as well as shadowing his presence so that nobody with Force sensitivity could notice him.*

[Morgan Evanar]

Anyone with even a smidge of above average force sensitivty could have picked up on Live Wire's fury. Morgan had gone tearing off twoard her room as soon as the alarm and announcement had sounded, and now he was skittering off twoard the landing pad where the White Rhino Tea was.


Morgan found his folded headset in his coat, and put it on as he ran.

"CAD, prep for a mad scramble. I need to be up in about a minute. Save some juice for the ion cannons, it looks like we will need them."

As he tore through the halls, he was grateful he had dropped what many would consider a small fortune for high-grade, high-load power regulators.

He skidded around a corner, and began taking the stairs whole landings at a time.

"CAD, you better have that ramp down."

[Keerrourri Sarrtarroa]

Huntress Lieutenant Jaerrourra turned to Sarrtarroa, her teeth bared in battle-readiness.

Emjissssssarrrjy, jI am detectjing dozensss of vesssssselsss ljiftjing off frrrom the planet'sss sssurrrface!

Sarrtarroa raised an eyebrow, approaching the Lieutenant's computer terminal. Sure enough, numerous launches were being registered on the surface. Sarrtarroa steepled his fingers together, pondering a course of action. The Sith Order stated that no ships were to leave the planet, yet it seemed that multiple vessels were now attempting to do so. It was time to unsheath the claws.

Huntrrressssss Ljieutenant, sssend a messssssage to all of thossse ssshjipsss, and orrrderrr them to rrreturrrn to the sssurrrface, orrr rrrjisssk bejing ssshot down.

As the message was sent to the ships, Sarrtarroa turned to Huntress Gunner Seelorri.

Prrreparrre all gunsss to fjirrre. jIf the ssshjipsss do not turrrn back, we wjill pluck them frrrom the skjy. Tarrrget all vesssssselsss engjine sssjyssstemsss!

[Lady Vader]

*LV made a mad run to the hangar bays once she'd received Green Leaders message... she'd heard the message received from the Cizerack fleet and LW's message to them*

*skidding to a halt outside of her Advanced TIE Interceptor, Blood's Shadow, she connected a direct link to all TSO squads*

This is Lady Vader. All ships return back to base! I repeat, all ships that left the surface return back to base! The Cizerack forces have been orderd to shoot any ships leaving the planet.

*she heard several confirmations as the squads that had left the surface began to angle back to their respective bases*

*she began to climb into her TIE Interceptor, switching to a highly secure channel to TSO's Black Hole fleet*

Black Hole fleet. This is Lady Vader. I want Ebony Orb positioned at the South pole, and Gaping Maw positioned at the North pole. My flag ship, Shadow Hunter, will remain near the Cizerack command vessel. Once in position, I want all squadrons launched. Disable any ships leaving the planet.

*she started her engine, cloaking, and heading for space at high velocity*

I myself will lead TSO Avenger Squad. I will need to board my flag ship before leading the squad out.

*she heard a confused question from the Captain aboard her flag ship*

Nevermind, Captain. It's a long story. Just do as I command.

*she got confirmations from Black Hole fleet, and switched frequencies yet again*

Roebuck, this is Lady Vader. We're gonna need all the ships you can spare right now placed at strategic points around the planet. Order your ships and squads to disable any ships leaving the planet. I myself am heading to my flag ship under cloak. Out.

*she sighed... it'd been a long time since she'd flown, and it felt DAMN good to be back in the cockpit*

[Live Wire]

*LW borded the Strike and prepped it for takeoff. She sent a message up to the Cizerack warships*

Myself and Morgan Evanar will be taking off in our ships to patrol the grounds. We will not be leaving the atmosphere, I repeat we will not be leaving the atmosphere. I am transmitting our ship ID's over a secure channel. Our two ships are not to be shot down!

we will attempt to disable any ships trying to escape. Callibrate your sensors to scan for the lifesigns of a baby human female.

*LW ended her transmission and she saw Morgan heading up the ramp to his ship. She didnt need sensors....she would be able to sense if Ariel was on a ship....before she took off she searched for her presense in the force...Ariel wasnt far but her sense was weak as if she was unconcious or injured. LW hoped for the best and shot out of the hangar bay*

[Keerrourri Sarrtarroa]

Huntress Lieutenant Jaerrourra turned to address the Emissary again.

Jaerrourra: We arrre recejivjing anotherrr messssssage frrrom the planet. We arrre bejing asssked to grrrant frrree passssssage to two of the Sjith Orrrderrr'sss ssshjipsss.

Sarrtarroa gestured.

Verrrjy well then. Clearrr the two ssshjipsss, but prrreparrre to ssshoot down all otherrrsss.

[Lady Vader]

*LV sailed through space while cloaked and was beginning preparations to dock in the hangar bay holding Avenger Squad... she opened a channel to the Captain aboard Shadow Hunter*

Captain. Have Avenger Squad on stand-by for immediate take off once I enter the bay. Vader out.

*she dethrottled once she got near the ship and entered the hangar bay... the bay itself was large enough for a ship to hover and turn to face the bay's opening... and she did just that, at the same time decloaking*

*she remained there and hailed the Cizerack force*

Cizerack force, this is Lady Vader aboard Shadow Hunter. I am ordering my flag ship, and two other ISD at the poles to release their fighter squadrons to scour the planet for any escaping vessels. I myself will be commanding the squadrons, but leading Avenger Squad. Do not shoot any ships leaving vessels already in orbit above the planet. They are friendlies. Out.

*with that LV singnaled all squads*

All TSO squads. Launch and set your scanners to scan for a vessel containing two life forms, one being a baby female human. If the ship is found, do not destroy it. I repeat, do not destroy the target. Disable only. We want the ship captured, and it's occupants alive and unharmed. Vader out.

*all TSO squads that were contained within Black Hole's vessels launched, with LV leading Avenger squad... they began to scan and search the planet for escaping vessels of any sort... they woud find baby Ariel*

[Green Squadron Leader]

*Upon hearing LV's transmission, Jason signals for his squadron to return to their hangers and so, the perform a 180 degree turn and head back to the hanger bay*

[Pierce Tondry]

After making sure Lilaena was finally sleeping, Pierce left her room and headed to TSO's main messaging area. He typed a short message in for Lilaena, then sent it.

She would find it when she awoke.

He walked towards the exit, and was stopped by TSO guards. "You are not cleared for leaving."

Pierce frowned. "What's with the lockdown?"

"You are not cleared for that information."

Pierce's frown deepened. "I have a very important mission to perform, as of now. Nothing will keep me from it, do you understand? Who do I have to contact or kill to get off this rock???"

[Seth TraSven]

As the squadroons of fighters circled the hanger bays frantically, waiting for clearance to land, an Infiltrator-class vessel soars out of the main hanger bay. It's engines screaming at full power as it blasts into the midday sky, it begins to climb and as it does the pilot notices the large dragon creature following behind whilst the fighter squadrons are in hesitation whether to follow or not.

The dragon begins to roar and as it does is met with a short burst of turbolaser fire from the rear turret, it swiftly dodges the volley except one bolt hits its right wing and it begins to flounder about in the air, struggling to maintain altitude. Whilst this happens the ship launches a concussion missile in front of it, then performs a slight swoop and allows the missile to perform a u-turn and impact on the dragons back as it dives after the vessel.

The creature screams and begins to fall, whilst the Infiltrator once again gains altitude and then suddenly cloaks. It had been heading to break the atmosphere on it's last known trajectory but now was invisible to sensors.

- - - - - - - - - -

As this was going on, Live Wire found a message in her ship, Lightning's Strike, which read:


Catherine,

If you cherish Ariel's existence you ought to let me leave the planet.

Seth TraSven.

xxx

[Lady Vader]

*LV swung her ship around knowing that her sensors would only show her what was physically there... she'd have to keep her Force senses alert for wrecklessly leaving vessels... and there was a good chance this thief had a cloaking ship*

*she singled her wing*

Leiutenant, take charge of the squad. Make a net of the ships and scan for engine trails. I'm going under claok.

*she got an acknowledgment and went into cloak*

*at that moment she started seeing things... she was getting a message from Shenraun... the dragon was persuing an Infiltrator-class ship, heading out of the planet's atmosphere... krasst! the ship was firing upon the dragon... if he so much as hur--... she blinked as she felt the wash of pain go through her as Shenraun was hit from behind by a missle... she saw through his slowly closing eyes as the Infiltrator went under cloak, and then he lost consciousness and plunge towards Corellias sea... she snarled... she knew he'd be fine, but this had only infuriated her more*

*she opened a channel to all orbiting ships*

All ships. Target is heading out of atmosphere under cloak. I am attempting to lock unto him using the Force. Once I have done so, I will attempt disable of his cloaking device. Out.

*her cloaked Interceptor roared towards the planet as she searched through the Force for the hidden ship... for the mind controling the hidden ship... for the child being held captive by the person with the mind controling the hidden ship... she opened herself fully to the Force, letting it's power seep into her... her eyes took on a far-off look as she traced the living patterns of seen and unseen things in the universe... she narrowed the search to that of around the planet... looking... looking... loo--... something in the corner of her min made her vear her ship suddenly to the left... THERE!! coming out of the atmosphere now into the low orbit of the planet*

*with a snarl she opened up her ion cannons, seemingly firing at open space... he was good, dodging all her shots... fine, lets add a bit of difficulty... while still firing the ion cannons on her advanced Interceptor, she opened up her torp tubes and let out one ion missle... it streaked blue across space, moving about, yet remaining on the target's tail... as he ivaded, one of the stray bolts of ion fire streaked across his nose, making the ship spark slightly... not enough juice to paralize it*

*she was getting frusterated and used the Force to buck the ship upwards, letting the ion missle collide against the hull where the cloaking device resided at the nose of the fleeing ship... the ion missle exploded, sending sparks flying around the ship and knocking out it's cloaking device... only then did she decloak herself*

*she opened a channel to the ship, still fleeing, but unable to claok*

Unidentified Interceptor. Stand down or be brought down by force.

*the ship didn't respond... she shot a warning ion shot across his cockpit, but he still did not slow down... damn it, this guy meant business*

[Green Squadron Leader]

*The Infiltrator shot out of the hanger bay at an increadible speed and at that moment Captain Reeves knew that was the ship and he couldn't turn down the oppurtunity, even if it meant he was hit by the fire from the ships in orbit of Correlia. He had his duty to which he felt obliged and honored to carry out and so broke away from the circling fighters and accelerated after the fleeing ship.*

"This is Captain Reeves to Green Squadron. I'm going after that ship, I am not ordering you to follow as you would be risking your lives but if you wish to join me then do so."

*Suddenly the rest of Green Squadron broke away from the ships near the hanger bay and followed Jason on his ascent. inside his cockpit, Jason smiled at the loyalty of the rest of his squadron. He was nearing Lady Vader's ship now, Defenders were much faster than any other TIE and he soon locked on turbolasers and began firing, as did the rest of his squadron*

No! Stop! We cant destroy the ship, fire about the Infiltrator in order to frighten the pilot but don't aim for it.

*The turbolaser volleys errupted about the ship, never impacting as they closed in on it.*

[Seth TraSven]

The ship was thrown about as the volley of ion blasts exploded about it when finally it suffered a direct hit. The pilot of the Interceptor was extraordinarily skilled, she had uncloaked the ship.

The deflector shield was angled appropriatly so that it was enforced at the rear but strong enough to break the atmosphere. The pilot could do nothing but to continue reaching towards the atmosphere, when it finally reached space but the Interceptor was on it's tail and catching fast along with the TIE Defender squadron not far behind.

[Keerrourri Sarrtarroa]

Huntress Gunner Seelorri kept her keen blue eyes fixated onto her sensor readout, ready to bring the Oorru'Gurre'Gurre's weapons to bear on the suspected target. Suddenly, her systems got a lock on a craft not cleared by TSO control. It was rising up rapidly from Corellian airspace. Seelorri snapped to attention, her clawed fingers quick at work to fix a lock on the ship.

Seelorri: Emjissssssarrrjy, we have ssspotted an unauthorrrjized vessssssel ljiftjing off frrrom the planet'sss sssurrrface. Ssshall we engage?

Sarrtarroa sat up in his seat, snapping his fingers to bring the questioned vessel up on the main screen. As he scrutinized the ship, it suddenly faded from view.

Seelorri: Emjissssssarrrjy! Thejy appearrr to have usssed sssome kjind of cloakjing devjice! We have lossst them!

Snarling angrily, Sarrtarroa ordered sensors to be intensified within the area around the ship's last known coordinates. A few TSO TIE's began to fly by, then a couple of unexplained weapons discharges could be seen, highlighted by the enemy ship getting blasted out of cloak by a decloaking TIE fighter. The ship was close...moving dangerously near the Oorru'Gurre'Gurre'. Sarrtarroa stood, snapping his fingers to the communications officer.

jI want an open channel to that sssjip, now!

Within seconds, it was done, and Sarrtarroa stared at the image of a Hyuu-mann male on the view screen. Smiling slightly and exposing his canines, Sarrtarroa nodded.

Grrreetjingsss enemjy vessssssel. Welcome...to the end of jourrr jourrrnejy.

"O! forrr a Mussse of fjirrre, that would assscend; The brrrjightessst heaven of jinventjion."

Sarrtarroa raised his right hand slightly, snapping his fingers. With that subtle movment, the myriad of 90 ion cannons on the Oorru'Gurre'Gurre' sprang to life, firing at once towards the fleeing vessel.

[Admiral Roebuck]

The moment the Infiltrator left Correlia's atmosphere it was met by an enormous volley of ion blasts accompanied by the ion cannon fire from the Oorru'Gurre'Gurre, several of the blasts were direct hits, rendering the engines useless ofr the time being. The rest of the volley narrowly missed Lady Vaders ship as it followed the Infiltrator out into space.

Roebuck looked on from the ground as the four Victory Star Destroyers and Imperial Star Destroyer he strategically organised about the planet in orbit, did their job efficiently. The ship had been incapacitated and was now caught in a tractor beam, being gradually pulled in, towards the ISD.

[Lady Vader]

*LV's cockpit shield darkened as the volley of ion blasts from the Cizerack ship came towards the fleeing Infiltrator... it was all she could to to keep from being hit herself... but, lucky for her, soon the Infiltrator was dead in space, being pulled in by one of TSO's ISDs*

*she angled her ship, Blood's Shadow, to fly just above and behind the Infiltrator as it was tugged in by the tracker beam... she would be there when the theif emerged*

[Live Wire]

*LW saw the message on her screen just as the ship cloaked. How could this bastard threaten the life of an innocent child? She stared for a moment at the name on the screen and she felt as if her blood had run cold and had started boiling all at the same moment. The message was addressed to Catherine....no one knew that her real name was Catherine!

Somehow the sight of it infuriated her...how dare this son of a bitch address her in such a personal manner!! How dare he steal Ariel! She smashed her fists into the strikes computer console.

For the first time LW had to admit to herself that she was scared....was she risking Ariel's life by pursing him? Should she force his hand? damn it!! She didnt know what to do. She opened herself up to the force hoping to get a sense of the small child. She found the tiny mind somehow in the mass confusion of everything and sent the baby a message

I love you

She sensed the man in the ship with her and she could feel his anger....not directed specifically but just anger. She wasnt sure how to react but she felt her own anger well up inside her.

she activated the strikes communications system and sent a transmission to the ship.*

"unidentified ship....I dont know who you are or where the hell you came from but if you harm that child I'll personally make sure your death is slow and painfull! I want to know who you are and why you feel you have the right to come in here and kidnapp my child!

AND HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW MY NAME!!!!!"

*LW felt herself becomming irrational and cut off her message. she activated the slave to LV's infiltrator. Within minutes the Claw would be airborne and heading to the Strike*

[Morgan Evanar]

The juiced up White Rhino Tea shot past the Strike as they broke the atmosphere. Very little of the original settings and regulation system was left in the Tea, and she burned like a laser for the tractored ship.

Even through space, he could feel Live Wire's fury twoards the unknown kidnapper. She was pissed.

The extra boost Morgan had dumped into the Tea's engines had worn off, but he was already within weapons range of the offending ship. CAD angled her so both Ion Cannons could be effective, and he closed in.

[Green Squadron Leader]

*Finally Green Squadron broke the atmosphere and entered space, only to narrowly avoid being hit by an enormous volley of ion cannon blasts. He saw that the runaway ship was dead and was slowly being taken in to an ISD via a tractor beam.*

"Ah great! He's caught, oh well, I wish we coulda' got him, right Tai?"

*The question was directed to his co-pilot, who nodded revealing a thin smile underneath his helmet, the rest of his face hidden undderneath it.*

"Hey, let's get closer! Angle the deflector shield so that we can be safe if we get close to the ship as it's being pulled in, I wanna get a good look."

*His co-pilot nodded again and turned away, punching in numerous calculations and Jason let him take control of the ship for the time being after his exhilerating work*

*His ship came in close to the ISD as it pulled in the Infiltrator, Jason attempted to wave to Lady Vader from his cockpit but she was too busy focusing on the ship.*

"Oh well, that's that!"

*Said Jason, looking out of his window he suddenly notices a new type of ship. An enormous one that he'd never seen before.

"Wow! Look at that, it must belong to that clan that we're negotiating with."

*His co-pilot looked out of the window, then turned back to him*

"Yeah. Can we get in closer to get a better look?"

*Jasons face looked puzzled, Tai sounded different*

"Hey have you got a sore throat?"

"Yeah, it's been killin' me all day!"

"Ah! Sure take us in closer Tai"

*And with that Tai broke away from the tail of the captured ship and moved further into space where the alien ship was and they began surveying it*

[Seth TraSven]

The captured ship was finally inside the large hanger bay in the belly of the ISD, it was filled with hundreds of troopers and numerous officers and a holo-image of Admiral Roebuck from the surface.

It was slowly positioned and it's engines were shut down, it finally came to a stop and the final sound echoed throughout the enormous opening. It was silent. Several troopers neared the ship.

Suddenly, the Infiltrator exploded with an enormous blast, the fireball consumed the entire hangerbay and ripped apart the ISD from the inside, windows at the sides of the ship were blown out or shattered by the force of the explosion. Most of the capital ships major systems were down and it began falling towards Correlia.

There was chaos.

[Green Squadron Leader]

"Oh my God!"

*The ship was rocked by the pressure wave from the explosion as it neared the alien ship, for a moment the co-pilot lost control.*

"What the hell happened?"

"Looks like there was a bomb on that Infiltrator!"

"Damn! Surely this guy wouldn't have killed himself! They're either both dead or him and this child are somewhere else."

*He pondered on this frantically, bewildered. Whilst the co-pilot calmly regained control of the ship which began to fly further out again, between the alien ship and the plummeting ISD. He contued to ounch in commands.*

"Hey! Where are you taking us Tai?

...Tai!!"

*Suddenly he came to his senses as if an overwhelming influence had been lifted from him, he saw in his co-pilots arm, a child, a baby girl. He gasped with fright as he realised the truth, but it was too late.*

"You! You're....you're....the guy!"

"No my friend, I'm outta here!"

[Seth TraSven]

The pilot of the ship, Jason, took out a blaster pistol and as he aimed it at the intruder, Seth looked at him briefly and the pilots neck was instantaneously snapped and he fell limp, dead.

Quickly Seth pulled a remote of some sort from his clothing and turning a key he then pressed a button on it which activated the mines he'd laid earlier whilst in the Palace.

Suddenly, twelve remote mines planted at strategic points about the Sith Palace exploded, ripping through wall, concrete and anything else in their way, the sides of the building were, in places, ripped apart from the force of the blast.

Hundreds were killed as the Sith Palace began to lose stability and began falling to the ground, it was catastrophic.

At that moment, with a grin Seth activated the hyperdrive and the TIE Defender blasted off into hyperspce to the co-ordinates he'd been inputting.

Seth and the baby Ariel were gone.

[Live Wire]

*she didnt know where to look first....the ISD exploded.....the castle exploded......and she saw a ship slip into hyperspace.

She sat there stunned starring at the destruction around her. Her first intstinct was to take off after that ship...shed tracked a ship through hyperspace once before....a long time ago and she was tempted to try it again....but as she saw the castle lying in ruins she knew that she had no such personal luxury. She hoped that Ariel would be okay.

LV's infiltrator had gotten out of the hangar before the explosion ripped through the palace. She hailed the ships around the planet.*

"This is Live Wire of TSO requesting assistance...our palace has been attacked and we need aid getting our people out! Any and all assitance is appreciated"

*she ended the transmission before her voice cracked...she felt like she lost everything. Some used to make jokes calling her the compassionate sith....and it was true she was quick to trust and to give second chances. A cold determination came over her and she felt nothing but hatred and anger in her heart. She would find the people responsible and make them pay with their lives*

OOC: -DO-NOT-SWEAR--DO-NOT-SWEAR--DO-NOT-SWEAR--DO-NOT-SWEAR- I dont even know where to start. Time for another thread???

[Lady DeVille]

ooc: sounds like it /ic:

[Live Wire]

OOC: thread closed...continue in next <a href=http://pub23.ezboard.com/fthesithorderdiscussionchamber.showMessage?topicID =426.topic>...Into the Fire</a>