Jynn studied the planet carefully. It was a large gas giant, obviously uninhabitable to most, if not all, life forms.

Well, she thought in exasperation, this was a huge waste of time and fuel.

She started inputting coordinates into the ship's nav computer, preparing to make another hyperspace jump, when a few sensors lit up and words began flashing on the screen.

HYPERSPACE EXIT DETECTED

Jynn canceled her current heading and checked her radar. A Trade Federation Droid Control Ship had just dropped out of hyperspace.

"Lovely," she muttered. She felt something - no, somebody, bending his attention on her, somebody who was very strong in the Force. "Oh..." she said. "It was you."

Well, she thought, if he's strong in the Force, I should be able to communicate with him. She concentrated, trying her best to send a message to him.

"And who exactly are you?"

((Actually, now it's just one Trade Federation Droid Control ship. We captured it, so, yeah.))

Cyphon felt small blips in the force hit him, he could easily tell it was coming from the ship that they had just seen off the stern of the ship.

"And who exactly are you?" came the message.

"I am Cyphon Destan, or Master Cyphon, the first grey jedi...who may you be?" he sent in reply, easily using the force to comunicate.

"Sir, we've finally activated regular engines, we're closing in on the ship. What should we do sir? We dont have many guns on this ship, they were all mostly shot off" said the low ranking officer that was controlling the menuvering and space movments console.

"Stop at around 100 ft. from the ship, that may be close, but at least if this person is an ally, enemy, or otherwise, we can use fear tactics to keep them at bay" said Cyphon in response.

"I am Jynn," she sent in reply, "one of the last of the Jedi Order." She watched as the Droid Control Ship approached steadily. "Incidentally," she said, "You might want to back off a little. You might have the best pilots in the world flying that thing, but a hundred feet is nothing one way or the other for a ship that size, and I would prefer to avoid a collision."

"Also," she said, with growing suspicion, "how exactly does a Jedi of any kind come to align himself with the Rebel Confederacy?"

"Pull back two hundred feet" said Cyphon to the maneuverings officers.

"One of the last of the Jedi Order? Strangely enough, that's not true. You see there are over 100 surviving jedi, though most are knights, saddly, very few masters, and padawans survived, while there ranks are bolstered even more, due to force adepts we've picked up. Vader, will be the father of the New Jedi Order, as I have ordained him" he said explaining the situation with the jedi to her through the normal force manner.

"As for us being on a Rebel Confederacy vessel, that's because we were in a battle three days ago, and we took boarding actions against this ship, and thus captured it" he said this through the comm this time to her ship, so as to make things easier on the both of them. "If you dont mind, we're going to tractor you in. It's a ways out from the known galaxy, and I doubt even you know what's in the dark vastnesses of space beyond the known galaxy" he said to her.

"There are over one hundred Jedi remaining, right," Jynn responded over the comm. "Unfortunately, that's a lot less than there used to be. If we were a separate species, we would certainly be listed as highly endangered." She sighed.

"I don't mind if you tractor me in, although I usually prefer landing under my own power. And, by the way, who exactly is this 'Vader' character you mentioned?"

"Vader, is Anakin Skywalker" Cyphon said to the stranger. "If you wish to land on your own power, then fine. Just dont try any funny business, or we will be forced to ram your ship" he said to her. "Corpral, inform me if you see anything, funny outside the ship" he said to the low ranking officer standing a short distance from him.

"Yes sir, I'll do that sir" said the Corpral. (I know Corprals aren't really officers, but by George I'm making this one an officer!) Cyphon turned and walked off the bridge, and headed for the hangar bay, passing by Shadow he said, "follow me, we have visitors to welcome." Soon they arrived at their destination.

Anakin Skywalker? she thought. Interesting choice for "father" of the Jedi Order.

Jynn executed a perfect precision landing in the hangar bay, checked her lightsaber, just in case, and stepped out of the ship. Two men stood waiting.

Well, she thought, I don't sense any imminent danger from them.

"Computer, initiate lockdown procedure," she said into her com-link. The door of her ship closed behind her and locked.

"Greetings," she said to Cyphon, extending her hand.

Cyphon saw the young lady come out of the vessel, someone he really wasn't expecting to see. But showed no surprise either way.

"Greetings," she said to Cyphon, extending her hand.

He looked down on this strong but small figure of a woman, he lifted his hand, and grasped hers. He almost felt he would envelop her hand in his, he gripped firm, but kindly, and then let go. "I am Master Cyphon Destan, the first grey jedi, and this is my cohort, Master Shadow Gravemind, former jedi knight" he said introducing Shadow and himself. "Welcome aboard, we hope your allegiance is with us, and that you enjoy your stay" he said smiling. "Now tell me, what brings you to this forsaken place?" he asked her.

"You brought me here... at least, I think it was you," Jynn said. "I felt something drawing me to this place a while ago. As for my allegiance, we'll see. I don't just fly around the galaxy pledging myself to other people's causes."

She looked around the hangar for a moment. "Nice to meet you, Shadow," she said politely, then, turning back to Cyphon, "I sense a great number of Jedi. Who exactly do you have here?"

"We have about twenty-five Jedi aboard, not counting us or the force adapts Cyphon has trained." Shadow said answering her question. Shadow was a bit curious about the force drawn subject, but he didn't press it. If anything, this area of space felt devoid of the force. Shadow was a bit on edge at the feeling since they had dropped out of hyperspace. Not because of the empty feeling itself, but because it felt familiar.

"Well, that's quite a few Jedi," Jynn said. Shadow looked slightly tense, probably for the same reason she was. "Doesn't it feel a little strange around here?"

Cyphon turned to Shadow, "you feel it too, its very familiar to me as well" he said, sensing Shadows more inner workings. Cyphon turned back to Jynn, "yes, I drew you...I felt you, from a long distance away....you are strong....very strong....I wanted to see, and know who you were. So I reached out...you are like someone I know...you are like me..." he said this auspiciously. "You walk the path I once did...and still do...you are very untamed in your skills though....I know this is an on the spot question, considering I just met you. But I think it's time I took up another grey apprentice...the grey jedi order has been gone too long...would you be willing to have me train you...teach you the ways of the grey jedi?" He asked her stern faced, and serious. "You dont have to answer that now...just think on it...I would greatly appreciate it" he said smiling. "Now, come, let us show you around" he said motioning for them to get moving.

Jynn was slightly surprised by Cyphon's offer. How does he know about me? she mused. Oh well. Time enough to figure that out later.

She followed Cyphon and Shadow out of the hangar.

They went around the ship for awhile, showing her all the rooms and such, and eventually ended up on the bridge. "Well, that's the end of the tour...hope you enjoy your stay" said Cyphon smiling.

"Sir! You might want to see this!" said one of the men at their stations. Cyphon walked over to the station, his eyes widened, his pupils shrank, and his hair stood on end.

Cyphon trotted to the main viewport, "Oh...NO!" He said this, his words seeming to get caught in his throut.

(Mens chorus in the background-:lol:-little humor for you Rex!) There, coming around the gas giant, was the thing Cyphon feared the most...an enormous ring-world, with a ship graveyard orbiting it, came slowly around the planet. Cyphon turned to Shadow, a look of fear, that almost seemed to be a look of pain was on his face.

"I feared this would happen..." Cyphon said, in an almost trance-like state.

((Wait a minute... is it... This should be interesting.))

"Oh... No!" Cyphon gasped. He turned slowly and looked at Shadow, a devestated look on his face. "I feared this would happen..." he said.

"You feared what would happen?" Jynn asked, cutting his thoughts off abruptly. "If you're afraid of this place, then why exactly did you come here when there are thousands of perfectly normal and safe (depending on your definition) places to travel in this galaxy alone?"

Shadow didn't notice Cyphon's and Jynn's comments as a wave of memories stone walled him at the site of the ring world. He remembered now- The Jedi had wiped his memory because... They were damaging his mind. The memories were to much for him mind to handle. They didn't want Shadow to get hurt, so they removed his knowledge of his past. Why though? Sure, it might've- Wait.

The memories of his last time here, as it turns out he was, began to pour through and he felt himself wrench at what he saw. The dreams he had been having he just assumed were nightmares and always told himself to forget them when they ended... they were real. These incidents seemed to be enough to damage someone's mind, but not quite enough to- Wait, what was he seeing now? The memories had ended at the end of his time here and now he was seeing things that couldn't be his own memories.

His heart felt heavy at what he saw next. He saw... children taken from their homes and made into the ultimate soldiers, an atrocity committed as he saw a defenseless planet's surface turned to glass and he knew that there were millions of people on its surface. It was the first of many. And it was at the hands of the ships that now hung dead in the massive ship graveyard in the thousands.

He saw dozens of planets suffer the same fate as their defenders could not hold against the invaders. He saw a campaign from the defenders to retake the first planet lost succeed, but they outnumbered the invader fleet three to one and they lost two thirds of their own fleet. It was a morale campaign of sorts and the losses were never disclosed.

Even the ultimate soldiers could not turn the tide of the war. They were only useful on the ground, not in space where the real fate determining battles were going on. Then he saw a battle in which they actually defended the planet, but the invaders weren't trying to take the planet. They were trying to get something off it, and they might have succeeded, depending on how you looked at it.

Then later, the biggest defender stronghold with 8 giant projectile cannons and 100 to 150 ships was attack by a fleet of invader ships with over 300 ships, with more coming. The defenders fought valiantly, and so did the ultimate soldiers on the ground, but they were ultimately wiped out, save for one ship that made a random jump to try and lead the invaders from the planet, so that another system with their homeworld nearby wouldn't be discovered. It carried the last ultimate soldier. And they came across another ringworld like the one Shadow was now staring at. Though it was a bit smaller than this one, it was about the size of Coruscant.

After being a set of objectives and missions, including being betrayed by the monitor of the ring and discovering its purpose, the ultimate soldier destroyed the ring. He returned to the homeworld and was awarded, while the invader in charge of keeping the ring safe was punished and given a chance to redeem himself.

After another turn of events, with the homeworld being invaded and an uprising within the invaders, they both ended up on the ringworld on which Shadow had been and was at again. Then he saw the death of an invader religious leader, the betrayal of the second chanced invader, the Gravemind speaking to the soldier and invader about the rings purpose, them both being sent to stop the ring from being used, and the prevention of the ring being activated by the invader along with the help of a defender.

This is why the Jedi had wiped his mind. It was too much for a child to handle, and the memories were put into his mind. He felt more, but they weren't ready to come yet. He could only say one word at the moment.

"Halo."

Jynn stood silently, looking through the viewport at the ring-planet, and waiting for Cyphon's reply. She could sense the turmoil in Shadow's mind as he stood behind her, and she wondered what could be causing him so much inner pain. Suddenly he spoke, just a single word, but a word that evidently held great meaning for him.

"Halo."

I wonder what that means, Jynn thought. She stared again through the viewport, trying to fathom the strange planet and the Jedi's even stranger reactions to it.

((Dont go rushing too far ahead of yourself Rexraptor2000, remember, this is an infinite universe, Halo's history isn't quite the same, its going to be a little...different, but only a little :) ))

"You feared what would happen?" Jynn asked, cutting his thoughts off abruptly. "If you're afraid of this place, then why exactly did you come here when there are thousands of perfectly normal and safe (depending on your definition) places to travel in this galaxy alone?"

"We couldn't help it! We were forced to jump, and couldn't come out for three days, our course led us here!" Said Cyphon, waving his hand toward the scene. "Do you think I wanted this? I didn't, and I never do!" Cyphon said, barely holding back his anger, which was alot considering he hadn't released his anger in a long, long time.

Cyphon calmed, he looked over at Jynn, "sorry, I haven't felt this way in a very long time" he said weakly. "I...we, fear this place because it holds secrets, dark secrets, but they are not secrets of the dark side. Oh no, this place, at least what dwells in this place, is absolutely devoid of the force, so devoid, it's almost an opposite version of the force..." Cyphon said staring into Jynn's eyes, his eyes filtering between colors.

"This place is...tainted...and should be, and should have been left to sit here...but...something tells me we were meant to come here..." Cyphon said, a look of curiosity, and concentration coming on to his face. "Yes...and I believe you are also a key to all this...I felt you for a reason...I brought you for my own curiosity...but maybe there are deeper forces behind your coming...and our coming to this place as well," said Cyphon staring hard into Jynn's face, almost seeming as if he were trying to find something in the depths of her mind, or concious being.

"Shadow, this place may be a place of horror for the both of us...but we must...explore this place, and with the help of Jynn, we can do that. Her ignorance of this place may be our salvation and redemption. It could also be a way for us to put bygones behind us...once...and for all" said Cyphon looking at Shadow. He walked up next to Shadow so only he could hear, "I feel your trouble with this place...I've felt something hidden in you for a long time...I only hope you can overcome whatever has ressurected, and help us do what we must do...I know what you're thinking, 'how does he know of my troubles with this place?' I've known something dark was hidden in your past since the moment I met you...the jedi aren't as good at hiding secrets, as they once were...I only hope your willing to face your past...for all our sakes," said Cyphon, his face emotionless.

Turning to an officer he said, "take us in orbit around the ship graveyard, we need to get a closer look at those ships before we land on the planet." "Halo...I thought I'd never have to lay eyes on such a place ever again," said Cyphon sadly as the grone of the ships engines could be heard taking them forward.

"If we have the time Cyphon, I would like to vist the remains of a Republic cargo ship in the graveyard and board it alone. I have something I need to see on there. It should have an emergancy transponder signal coming from it, rendering it easy to find." Shadow stated.

"No need to use the transponder" said Cyphon craning his neck and looking downward out of the viewport. "It's right there," pointed Cyphon at the Republic Cargo Ship floating at the edge of the Graveyard. The ship they were on coming to a halt at the edge of the Graveyard, the vastness was more fathomable, and all anyone could say was, it was huge! Thousands of ships lay in orbit around the giant ring.

"Do what you must Shadow, for now I will take some troops, and explore one of those ships," said Cyphon to Shadow. Turning to Jynn he asked, "would you like to come with me, as I said we need you for this, it would also keep you from boredom, please, aid us in this endevore."

"I would be honored to come with you," Jynn replied, "and also very glad of the opportunity to be 'kept from boredom.'" She smiled to keep her growing apprehension from showing in her face. "Things have been a little slow lately."

"Good, come with me" he said with a smile, and turning to leave. Suddenly he stopped and paused in thought for a moment, then turning back to Shadow he said, "may you put your past behind you, and 'May the Force be with You'" he said with an emotionless face, then turned back to walk off the bridge.

Soon they had entered the hangar where two Imperial Lander Shuttles, a Lambda Shuttle, and a Trade Federation Droid Lander stood ready to depart. Cyphon trotted up to Brutas and bowed his head in hello, and asked, "are the troops ready to depart?"

"Yes, ripe as rain they are, wot" said the old storm trooper.

"Good," said Cyphon in response. Then, signaling with his hand, Jaken and Vok appeared from their cloaking, "All of you are coming right? Good, glad you're willing," said Cyphon to the three, "oh, and someone will be joining us; gentlemen, this is Jedi Knight, Jynn, we found her not too long ago" said Cyphon introducing Jynn to them. They all bowed in a respectful hello.

"Well, good, another Jedi to bolster the ranks, hope we get to keep her, seeing she's a stray and all," said Brutas with some dry humor, and a little chuckle on his part.

"She's not a dog Brutas, she can make her own decisions, and she at least has manners, unlike you," said Cyphon in her defense, this recieved an indignent humph from Brutas, but he quickly got over it. Jaken and Vok didn't say anything, but Vok started figiting, and Jaken nudged him with his elbow, but Vok just turned quickly and disapeared onto the Lambda: Jaken looked down and shook his head, then walked up the ramp after Vok.

"Haha, don't worry about Vok, he gets nervous around women, Jaken keeps trying to get him out of his shell, but he always dissapears when Jaken trys to get him to talk," said Cyphon to Jynn. "Come, let's get a move on," he said to Jynn and Brutas, as they walked up the ramp.

Jynn followed Cyphon up the ramp, half-smiling at Brutas.

"So I'm a stray Jedi, eh?" she said. "Can I consider the fact that you wanted to keep me a compliment?"

Brutas stood up straight, and puffed out his chest, "wot, yes, a compliment indeed, quite right, wot!" Said Brutas, with an air of pride on his look. Cyphon just smiled and shook his head, many of the soldiers on the shuttle would get up and bow their heads in hello when Jynn would pass, many started figiting and fumbling with their rifles.

"Don't worry, they look scared, but they're more nervous of you than anything else," said Cyphon explaining the men's strange actions. Cyphon motioned to a seat where Jynn could sit, and headed up to the cockpit. He nodded to the copilot, then turning to the pilot he asked, "are the men on the other ships ready?" The pilot nodded. "Good, tell them to follow tooth-sweet, and get into formation when clear of the ship," Cyphon ordered the pilot to tell the other ships.

Soon the Lambda Shuttle was lifting from the hangarbay floor, and heading outside into the ravaged, metal-covered vastness of the ship graveyard. The other three vessels soon followed, and entered into a loose formation, as they headed for a large alien vessel closest to the Trade Federation ship, some distance above the sundered Republic Cargo Vessel that Shadow was headed to.

"May you put your past behind you, and 'May the Force be with You'." He said with an emotionless face, then turned back to walk off the bridge.

When you think the past is behind you, it always appears in front of you when it shouldn't, Shadow thought as he left the bridge also and headed for the hanger on the other side of the ship. When he reached it, he boarded an old clone gunship from the beginning of the Clone Wars. He fitted on a vacuum suit, since no ship in the massive graveyard had life support anymore, and neither did the cargo ship.

He then got into the cockpit and flew the gunship out of the hanger. He then headed for the cargo ship. After reaching the cargo ship, he had to blow open the hanger bay doors due to them being closed down. After landing in it, he exited the gunship and headed for the bridge.

Jynn sat still, with no sign of her inner turmoil showing, beyond the fact that her left hand fidgeted with her lightsaber at her side - fingers alternately stroking the smooth metal, flowing along the curves, tracing the simple ornamentation on the hilt, then grasping it firmly as though an enemy had somehow materialized on the ship.

Her eyes slowly defocused as she drifted into recollection. It had all been so perfect back then... never mind the occasional political struggle or brush with Xendek's allies. But before that, ah, that had been the ideal life. Back when she used to have speeder races with Kai Lin, never mind the fact that she never won, back when they used to spar with light staffs, back when she had beaten him for the first time, before she had ever understood the purpose of the duels, when she still wondered about his odd methods...

"No, no," said Kai Lin, with a genial laugh. "You hold it this way, always at the base of the staff, always."

"But why, exactly?"

"Because... because holding it in the middle is a bad habit to get into... trust me."

"I don't get it."

"You will," he had said. "You will someday."

She still wished she hadn't gotten it, wished she had never understood, wished there had never been a need to. But there had been.

"You could have told me you were a Jedi," she whispered inaudibly. "I wouldn't have cared. It wouldn't have made a difference. Just because you thought you failed before..."

She snapped back to reality as they approached the ship, releasing her lightsaber from the iron grip with which she had been holding it. She was doing it again... heading straight for what everyone seemed to think was certain trouble - voluntarily. Sighing, she looked around the room at the faces of the soldiers.

I have a bad feeling about this...

Cyphon sat staring at the men, wall, basically anything, but when his gaze became fixed on Jynn he could sense something, something troubling her, or causing her a light sense of grief. He wasn't sure what though, so he forgot about it for the moment; turning he saw the ship approach the open hangar of the alien vessel.

With a light hiss the Lambda Shuttle (http://massassi.yavin4.com/sw_img/acgshut.htm) touched down smoothly on the hangar floor. A short section over, in the same hangar, but different loading section, landed one of the Lander Crafts (http://massassi.yavin4.com/sw_img/acgland.htm) shortly there after. One hangar over the other Lander Craft set down, while the Trade Fed. Lander (http://massassi.yavin4.com/sw_img/acgdrop.htm) set down in a larger, more open spaced hangar.

Cyphon got up and pulled a latch overhead, a bulky, but light fit pressure suit came out of a compartment overhead. Cyphon pulled it down and quickly slipped it on over his clothes; looking over he motioned for Jynn to do the same, while the other troopers just put their helmets on, because they were wearing specialized pressure armor, bulkier than normal armor, but smaller than most pressure suits. Cyphon slipped his lightsabers in small compartments on his suit, and nodded for Jynn to do the same. Cyphon then put his helmet on, and grabbed an oversized blaster rifle from a rack on the wall; he waited for Jynn to get her helmet on and said through the comm, "lightsabers are of little use in the vacuum of space, even though they're usable, we wouldn't be capable of properly wielding them; so get a blaster off the wall, or if you have your own blaster, use it."

Soon the ramp opened and the air could be felt getting sucked out. The men trotted down the ramp, and Cyphon followed after; many of the men from the other ships had congregated within the area, nearly a hundred soldiers, not counting personnel, were there. The pilot from the Shuttle walked up to the edge of the ramp and set down a large turret, he got behind it and stood there, while the copilot wielded the controls to the Shuttles frontal ball turrets, they knew better than to be caught unprepared for conflict, just incase. An engineer ran up the ramp and mounted the turret, while the pilot went back up front to use the controls for the Lambdas rear turret, thus ensuring double the protection from the rear.

Cyphon signaled for the men to get quiet, then spoke, "you all know what to do, spread throughout the ship, locate key systems, and positions, and hold them, until personnel can start scanning and repairing. Main objective: Find life support, and power systems. Good luck everyone." Cyphon turned to Jynn, "you ready?" He asked.

Jynn checked her blaster and hefted it to test the weight.

"As ready as you are," she replied.

It was dark inside the cargo ship, with the exception of Shadow's flashlight providing some illumination. There were signs of battle, scorch marks on the walls and sharpel embedded in the walls. All of the doors were either blown open or already open without conflict. There were no bodies, although there were burnt piles of ash, but plenty of wreckage from machines that Shadow remembered all to well. On the way to the bridge, he stopped in the dorms. He stood in the middle of the hallway for a moment, remembering his times here as a child.

Keep on moving Shadow, he thought to himself. He was about to continue on when he remembered that the room to his left was his room. That was an interesting coincidence. There are rarely coincidences in the force, Shadow had once been told. But what about a place devoid of the force?

He had to pry the door open to get into his room, and found that it was exactly the way he had left it. There were a few toys, holodisks lying about, a dejarek set lying turned over. Shadow was messy when he was young, as most kids are. He went over to his desk, where there was still some unfinished homework, and opened a secret slot which contained a single holodisk.

He activated it and saw a holoimage appear of himself as a child talking. There was no sound in space, so he could not hear the holodisk, but he knew what it was most likely about. It was most likely about how homework was boring, and how he wanted to feel solid ground beneath his feet again. Shadow smiled to himself. It was as if he was looking at a different person, considering that was before he had been at Halo and had his memory wiped afterwards. After about ten minutes of listening to it, he turned it off so he could listen to the rest later.

He left the dorms and finally arrived at the bridge. He went the control console and beneath it, opened a hatch with a bunch of switches and wires in it. These types of ships had an emergency generator in the bow of the ship incase the main core was taken offline, so that life support could still function.

He began to activate the generator with his new knowledge that his father had taught him.

"As ready as you are," she replied.

Cyphon nodded, which was difficult in the tight round helmeted suit. He lifted the blaster, and took about two minutes to tinker with the rifle, to set it to his liking. He motioned with his hand for them to move out.

Around eight clone marines, four Imperial marines, Brutas, and the Shadow Trooper twins; Jaken, and Vok, followed after Cyphon into a small corridor. The other soldiers went off in their own groups.

The corridor was simple, small, and desolate; many panels had been blown off the wall, wires, and cables could be seen from the cealing, like an enormous beast had been dissembouled, and it's organs hung from it. Cyphon bounded forward, the lack of gravity making him come close to hitting his head on the roof. After some time of navigating the corridors, they came out in a brig-like area, though no doors could be seen, they could tell this was the detention area.

Cyphon walked forward, looking around, he signaled that it was safe. "Sir, power system found, personel are already here, power will be on soon, what should we do?" Came the voice through the comm to Cyphon. "Hold position, get power online" said Cyphon in response.

As Cyphon finished talking, he saw something in one of the detention rooms. Trotting over he stared down at a strange sight. "Jynn, get over here," he said through his comm to Jynn.

Jynn walked swiftly over and stood next to Cyphon.

"Well?"

"Look," said Cyphon pointing; on the floor lay a corpse, a strange alien figure, huddled in the corner, tall, multy jawed creature. It's armor still well intact, showing the beautiful blue sheened armor, though it had slight hints of age, such as underlying rust.

"What do you make of that?" Asked Cyphon.

Jynn knelt slowly beside the body and ran her gloved hand over the armor, examining it thoroughly, then turned the body slightly to get a better look at the creature.

"I don't know," she said. "It's like nothing I've ever seen before."

Cyphon knelt down beside her and did likewise. "It's not any known species, that's for sure" he said, while thrusting two of his figures into a hole in it's side. Retracting his fingures, and wiping them off, he put his hand on it's head, and concentrated. "It's only 12 years old, this battle...this graveyard, happened rescently," he said taking his hand off the corpses head.

Then a noice could be heard, and lights started flickering on. But something a little unexpected happened, the cell's 'door' reactivated, and it wasn't a door. It was a wall of plasma energy, that switched on, trapping Cyphon and Jynn inside, the really sad thing was, the door interfeared with comm systems, the worst thing was...the men that had been following Cyphon had left to explore a neighboring detention block very far down the hall. "Oh...this isn't good," said Cyphon, realizing the full perspective of what just happened.

((If you're talking about when my character was here, that was 19 years ago. If not, then I'm not sure what you're talking about.))

Shadow grunted in approval as the emergancy generator activated and screens began to flicker on in the bridge. He felt gravity settle in and air blow through the vents with the lights flickering on. He waited for a moment for the life support screen to confirm that it was safe to breath the air and then took off his helmet.

The air tasted odd, but the air filters on this vessel were much older than any of the new vessels today. He looked out of the view port at the vessel that Cyphon and Jynn had went to and saw that lights were flickering on all over its surface.

Not good, Shadow thought. Shadow remembered being on one of these vessels once, and he was running for his life during that time.

Have to make sure the vessel is clean so the Flood doesn't escape, Shadow thought and put his helmet back on. He could come back later, but right now that vessel couldn't jump into slipspace until it was clean of the Flood. He went back to the hanger and flew out of the ship. He then went to the Covenant ship and landed in the hanger, to be greeted by a clone.

"Sir! We were not expecting you, Sir." the clone said looking a bit confused as Shadow exited the gunship.

"Where are Cyphon and Jynn?" Shadow asked.

"They headed down that corridor." The clone said pointing towards the entrance of a hallway across the hanger. "If you'd like, I can send some clones with you to find them as they have n-"

"I'll be fine trooper." Shadow said cutting him off. Shadow definatly knew the corridors of this ship. He headed down the hallways and corridors in search of Jynn and Cyphon.

((As I have previously posted, dont get ahead of yourself Rex, the Flood, have little way of gaining access to ships this far out from the center of the graveyard, and most of the bodies the flood use as host would have already bloated, and blown up, thus making it impossible for them to pilot any ships that far out; I'm pretty sure that the Flood cant survive in the vacuum of space either, no parasite could, unless I'm wrong. Second, the 'war' happened six years AFTER your ship was attacked by the Flood, so how would you know what the interior of a covenant ship is like? Third, how do you know what the Flood's name is, you haven't heard their name mentioned before, have you? See, this is what I was saying, history of Star Wars and Halo are mixed, making the history of Halo, quite a bit different, so dont get too far ahead in your asumptions; plus I had a purpose behind being trapped in the detention cell. So please, I ask you with kindness, to slow down, and try to change your above post, please! See nineteen years is too long, I wanted there to be...no, I cant tell, that would be ruining the surprise for you Rex, and everyone else! So just wait will you!!!))

Cyphon had been sitting down, just letting his mind wonder, hoping they would be aided soon. ((and not by Rex!!)) "So, what do you think of our situation, Jynn? You think we'll die of some cause or another in this cell?" He said this to tease Jynn a bit, so as to lighten the mood, or at least cause her to get in a mood of her own and either: chew him out, or have her get frustrated, or have her get scared, mad, or just have her talk, because he felt anxious, and wished to have something to sate his growing apprehension, and lack of contact, because it had been three hours, and Jynn hadn't said anything, which made Cyphon nervous, because he didn't know if she had a fear of enclosed spaces, or being trapped with the opposite gender, which is one of his small fears now come true; and he didn't want her going insane and killing him, or have her go into a breakdown, because he didn't know how much torment she's gone through, and he didn't want that torment being unleashed on him.

All this passed through Cyphon's mind, which made him realize; the combonation of his fear come true, and the lack of talk, and the enclosed space with a dead body were getting to him, and he needed some interaction, or just plain action, or HE would be the one going insane! Cyphon sighed, and glanced at the meter for air on his suit: 45%, that's what the meter read, and that also proved one of the reasons for his twisting mind.

"Well," Jynn said, "at least someone found the power switch." She clicked several buttons on her comm again, but only static came through.

"Sithspawn," she muttered between her teeth. "Well," looking around, "I'm sure we can find a way out of here somehow. Whatever this cell was built to hold, I doubt it was tested on Jedi." She laughed mirthlessly. "Who am I kidding?"

She started pacing up and down the room.

((I suppose this is what happens when not enough infromation is exchanged so that the other doesn't mess each other up. I had thought that the war had happened a few hundred thousand years before since Cyphon is so old. I had a little side story involving 2401 Peninant Tanget, but I suppose that most likely won't happen. I won't get ahead of myself again.))

((It's okay dude, you can still have your 'side story', just a little later, actually, a bit later, but not too much later, you understand? But it's okay, I can understand getting a bit too caried away with a subject you like so much :D !!))

Cyphon watched Jynn pace until he couldn't take it anymore, getting up he grabbed her shoulders and shook her a bit, "STOP, AH! I already have problems with being in situations like this..." Cyphon calmed down a bit, "see...I...have...a...fear...of...um...never mind," he sighed at last. "Grrr! AAHH!!" Cyphon lifted his blaster rifle and started opening fire on the plasma shielding. Most of the shots just got absorbed, but some bounced off, and started ricocheting off the walls. Cyphon turned and pulled Jynn down, and covered her, shielding her, one shot hit the plasma shielding again, and dissapated, while one shot hit Cyphon in the side, and the last hitting him in the back. Cyphon got up groggily, and staggered, and said, "sorry...for..." and at that Cyphon passed out, the air in his pressure suit could be heard hissing out of the holes made by the blaster shots.

((Hundreds of years old and still throwing tantrums, eh?))

Cyphon dragged Jynn to the ground as blaster bolts ricocheted off the walls.
"No!" she gasped as he tried to shield her with his body. "Bad idea..." She felt Cyphon's body jerk twice as he was hit. He got up, mumbled a vague apology, then fell to the ground.

Oh no oh no, she thought, pressing her hands over the holes in his uniform in an attempt to stop the bleeding and loss of air, which was vitally important considering their position. Kriffing hell, couldn't they have gotten the life support to work while they were locking us in? Glancing at Cyphon's suit readouts, she noticed that the air meter had dropped to a dangerously low level.

She closed her eyes and breathed steadily, trying to stabilize Cyphon's condition with the Force, but the art of healing had never been something she was proficient at. Must be why they always die, she thought despairingly. Everybody always dies.

Focusing, but with rapidly waning concentration, she sent a desperate message through the Force to anyone who happened to be listening.

Somebody get the hell over here!

Cyphon floated in the empty uncociousness of his mind, then he realized something odd, from the outside world, one last waning memory, in space...air doesn't hiss when it comes out...because you cant hear in space! Jynn...dont worry about the....air....' he sent this message with the last of his concious being.

((No one save us, this is an important moment! Got that! I'll post that moment later though, I'm being rushed right now.))

Edit: - ((You guys realize I cant post that moment without one of you posting first, I can't double post you know! I said dont save us, I didn't say don't post at all. Sheesh. :lol: ))

((Sorry. I thought you were going to edit your post or something. I know you don't hear noise in a vaccuum, Jynn is just panicking. [Although, this is Star Wars. I seem to remember the Death Star making a great deal of noise when it exploded... lol.]))

Jynn...dont worry about the....air.... Jynn heard Cyphon's message and relaxed slightly, her panicked mind slowly calming down. She checked the readout on her suit.

"Oh good, we can breathe in here." She checked Cyphon again. Still, if his air ran out, the suit itself would end up suffocating him. She checked the atmosphere one last time, and removed his helmet.

((You told me not to worry about the air, so it's your fault if something awful happens now. Actually, I'll just edit it if you want me to.))

((Hundreds of years old and still throwing tantrums, eh?))

((You wanna explain your meaning!?))

Cyphon felt no more from the outside world, and he hoped in his unconcious being, that if Jynn was uncapable of saving him, that he hoped he'd join those who had gone before in the Force.

In the outside world something odd happened, a dark figure could be seen standing outside the plasma shielding, staring at Jynn and Cyphon. Then it scampered off, towards the front of the detention block, and up onto a platform with a flickering holopanel, and pressed a holo switch on the screen. Soon the shielding dissapated, and the room was open to the outside once again. The room seemed to be empty, as if no one had been there, then from around the corner popped a small creature, short in stature (http://www.the-junkyard.net/users/wiredfilms/E3/grunt.jpg), and wearing a strange tank on it's back. It stood there, studying Jynn, it seemed unsure, but not afraid, and held a strange, purple colored (http://www.tgsn.co.uk/needler.JPG) device in it's hand.

((OK, Cyphon just grabbed Jynn by the shoulders, shook her, and then started firing his blaster into the plasma wall, even though he knew it would be futile. Tantrum. I wasn't referring to you personally.))

Jynn turned her head and glanced at the creature, then looked back at Cyphon. She wasn't sure how extensive the damage was, but his bleeding had stopped at least. She stood slowly, picking up her blaster from the floor beside Cyphon, just in case, and turned to face the strange alien.

"Who are you?" she asked in a non-threatening tone. Although she wasn't certain if the alien understood Basic, she was willing to at least make a stab at communication. She reached out with the Force towards the creature and tried to make it understand.

I don't want to harm you...

A orange-hued Jedi Starfighter known as "The Avenger" was being flewn by a lone Jedi, Alex Skyrider, and his droid, R3-T5. He had previously survived Order 66, and know was more mature, and knew he couldn't take on the Empire alone. Suddenly, he noticed a ship on his radar, and by the readings, it looked like it was in trouble.

"R3, plot a course to that ship, i want to see what's up."

"Yipe," went the creature when Jynn spoke, looking as if he had been shocked for a moment. The creature was unsure of Jynn, and though he showed no signs of it, he was rather scared of her due to her wearing a big bulky suit of armor, and the sound of her voice going through the helmet was different from her normal voice. After awhile the creature held the device up at Jynn, and collecting it's bravery, approached slowly, making a noice that sounded like growling; trying to intimidate her, though it sounded more funny than threatening. He stopped at around two feet from her, he stood even shorter than Jynn; around 4 ft. in heighth, and seemed to be sniffing her, "you enemy?" It finally said.

"No," Jynn replied. "I'm not an enemy. But my friend has been... badly injured," she continued, bending over Cyphon and examining him for any signs of change in his condition. "Is there any way you could help me bring him back to our ship so he can get medical attention?"

She wasn't sure if she could trust this creature, but it hadn't made any hostile moves, other than aiming what she was supposed was some kind of weapon towards her, and she could hardly blame any living being for practicing basic caution. Besides, with the way things had turned out, she really had no other choice.

The small alien looked over at Cyphon when she mentioned him, and walked over to him, looking him over. "He hurt?" It asked, as if unsure of what she said. "You take scary helmet off, me help," it said, glaring up at Jynn, unsure about who was under the large suit. "Throw down weapons too," it said after studying the large 'stick' in her hands, finally figuring out what it was.

Jynn sighed. She had a feeling she might regret this, but there was nothing else she could do in the situation. She put the blaster carefully down and took off her helmet, pushing a strand of hair that had escaped its fastening back from her face.

"There," she said, slightly annoyed but not letting it show in her voice. "Are you happy now?"

The small alien put his weapon at his side and grabbed the blaster rifle, then fumbling with it for a moment he figured out how to hold it. At this he scuried off and outside the room without a word.

Cyphon groaned, then turning in his unconcious state, he let out a horrible screem of pain, and lay still. His face contorted with pain, and his mind filled with horrid dreams.