"Stop the ship... I'm gonna board the ship and take out the assassin... while ya'll escape." Rueben said. "Get the kids to Courscant... and I'll meet you there very soon."
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Luke looked around... he was the last Jedi still in the Temple. He decided it was time to go to Korriban and help Rueben and Kala, so he jumped in his ship and took off.
Kala heard what Rueben said, and she narrowed her eyes. "No! I'm staying with you!" She ran by his side. "I don't want you to get hurt again." Kala eyes grew into sadness. She'd do anything from letting Rueben get hurt.
Monica, on the other hand, sat down, frightened. Her eyes were full of terror. "Why is this happening? Why?" she thought to herself. Like she said before... maybe they were brought here for a reason.
The Assassin tried his best to dodge the fire from the Millenium Falcon. That deflector shield was starting to get irratating. One of the blaster fires from the Millenium hit the Assassin's shuttle. He looked ahead. There was an asteroid field. This ought'a be interesting, he thought to himself.
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Han looked at the Asteroid Field ahead.
"Han!" Leia stared. "Please no! This is the second time I've witnessed you go into an asteroid field!"
"Yeah!" Han chuckled. "But the same answer as before! He'd be crazy enough to follow us, wouldn't he?"
Leon walked over to Monica still feeling weak his legs wobbled as he crouched infront of her.
" Monica don't worry every thing should be fine im sure of it there Jedi they must be able to do something" he said confidence in his voice though deep down in side him he felt like they were doomed.
Monica looked at Leon. She stopped trembling, and smiled. Her eyes, watery with tears, began to gleam. "Thank you, Leon. I'm... I'm sure the Jedi will do somethin' too." She looked over to Rueben, Kala, and the others. Everyone seemed to figure out how they were to take 'The Assassin' down.
" No prob," Leon said siting beside her he looked over to Ruben, Kala and the others trying to hear what there plan was to take out there attacker.
Han did his best to try and dodge the asteroids, relying on his scoundrel luck.
"You are psycotic!" Leia said to Han. Han chuckled.
"You know it, ya' worship!"
"Leia? You coming with us?" Rueben asked. "HAN! Stop the Falcon... let us board the ship!"
Rueben looked at the Assassin's ship through the window... trying to decide where to enter the ship.
"Stop the ship? We're in an asteroid field!" Han argued. "What if an asteroid hit us?"
"Han, just do it!" Leia persuaded. Han considered it.
"Alright. But if my ship gets smashed, YOU smashed her!" Han glared at Rueban.
"It will not be my fault." Rueben said, using the Force to try and persuade Han. "It is the Assassin's."
Rueben shoved his helmet on his head... his lightsaber in hand. He used the Force to heighten his eye sight so he could see a weakness in the Assassin's ship. THERE! Rueben thought to himself.
Kala ran by Rueben's side. She caught him by the shoulder. "I usually don't do this, but..." she gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then smiled. "Friendship kiss," she said, staring into Rueben's eyes. Kala smiled nervously.
Monica turned to Leon. Then she asked, "Ya think we're gonna make it out alive?"
((How can Kala kiss Rueben on the cheek? He's got a helmet on.))
Rueben turned to Kala and opened his mouth... but turned away. He left the Falcon and created a Force field around it, so nothing could touch it... even an astroid. Rueben reached out for the Force and pulled the Assassin's ship next to the Falcon before leaving the Falcon. The helmet would last him for a little more than the time he needed to enter the Assassin's ship. He jumped onto the Assassin's ship and entered it.
((ha ha ha, that's hilarious!!! :D))
The Assassin sensed someone on the exterior of his shuttle. No doubt it was Rueban Shan, the man he injured back at the Temple. And it was no doubt he was seeking revenge. The Assassin turned it to auto pilot, and acticated the security droid to take care of Rueban.
((Oops! My bad. I thought he... never mind. :D ))
Kala looked out the view as Rueben left in the Assassin's ship. She sighed. "Rueben is the best friend I ever had. I mean, if there's some way..." she paused and looked down. Monica looked at her. "Someway what?" she asked curiously.
The young Jedi turned to Monica and smiled faintly. "Oh... nothin'." She reached out to Force to contact Rueben. "Shan? You doin' ok down there?" Kala said, through the Force.
Monica turned to Leon again. "So..." she said, smiling, "How did you get here in the Star Wars galaxy?"
I'm fine... but I sense a disturbance... I feel... Luke, he's coming... tell Han to protect the Assassin's ship so long as I'm on it. Rueben said.
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The Jedi came tumbling out of hyperspace... converged on the spot the Falcon was... ready to destroy the Assassin's ship. Luke Skywalker's ship came out of hyperspace, and he took lead of the "search and rescue" party.
Kala ran beside Han. "Han! Rueben just told me to tell you that you have to protect the Assassin's ship, so as long as Rueben's on it." She then reached out to the Force to contact Luke. "Luke. You guys gotta stand down. Rueben's on the Assassin's ship, looking for him. Don't shoot the Assassin's ship."
She glanced out the view, and saw Luke's ship and the rescue party.
Luke got the message from Kala.
Rueben you've got three hours to get rid of the Assassin. Or we fire on the ship... with you on it... or without. Luke said.
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Alright Luke... I'll get rid of him. Rueben said.
Rueben saw the droid the Assassin droid had sent after him.
You have got to be kidding... Rueben thought. A droid is nothing for a Jedi.
"An interesting choice of words, "protect the Assassin's ship". But okay!"
Han reached for his communication comm-link.
"Luke! What ever you do, don't destroy that shuttle! Your friend Ruebans onboard!" a small asteroid hit Han's ship, making him outraged.
"RUEBAN, WILL YOU HURRY UP AND KILL THIS GUY?" Han yelled through the comlink.
((Hey Rueban! Just so you know, please don't kill the Assassin just yet. I have further plans for him, you see! You can still duel, however!))
((I wasn't going too... besides you can't kill another person's character unless that person gives you specific permission to do so.))
((True that. :D ))
As a small asteroid hit the Falcon, Kala looked up, and shook her head. "Tsk-tsk. Pitiful. If we get struck by another asteroid, I'm gonna get really mad." She looked back at Han, who was getting more upset that his ship was hit by one of those rocks.
"Well... not as upset as Han." She chuckled to herself quietly.
The droid came at him, firing it's blasters. His lightsaber activated, and he dodged it's blaster fire. Rueben jumped over the droid and ran to the bridge of the ship, then he shut and locked the door.
"Well... well... well... look who we have here. The Assassin possibly?" Rueben said, taunting him.
After teleporting to a new planet he seemed to have appeared in metallic room with many crates and tools. "Must be some kind of storage room, or something." He looked around for a door but couldn't see one so he started feeling the walls for something like a switch of somesort. After a while of searching he sat down and became angry.
The room suddenly started shaking and rumbling, making Darrick jump up to his feet. The room then made him fly across the room slamming against the wall. He fell to the metal floor dazed and confused. "What's going on. Where am I and where are Xander and Monica?" He started screaming then, "Monica! Xander! Help me!"
(Darrick is inside the Mil Falcon.)
Monica, through her head, heard a cry for help. It was Darrick. She then jumped up, and gasped. "Darrick!" She ran around the Falcon to find her best friend. Finally, she found him.
"Darrick?" She placed a hand on his head. "You ok?"
The Droid would have been no match for Rueban, as he is a Jedi. The Assassin deactivated the droid. He stood up from the chair to face his next victim.
"I would have thought by your Jedi Training you wouldn't look for me driven by revenge!" he paced closer to Rueban. "That's the dark side!"
" I woke up here," Leon replied to Kala then watching Monica jump up and run off he followed her to her freind.
" Is he ok?" Leon asked looking over monicas shoulder.
Darrick ntoiced one of the walls start to seperate. Monica walked through with Leon right behind her. "You Ok?"
Darrick looked at her weird, "Yes I'm Okay. Just had no clue how to get out of this here room. Where are we? And what is all the shaking for, is the building collapsing?"
Monica answered, "We're on the Millineum Falcon." She looked back at Leon, with a worried look on her face. "Great. Now he's hurt bad. We gotta get him back to the front. C'mon. Help me carry him." She helped Darrick up, carrying one arm around her neck.
"It's ok, Darrick. We're here."
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Miss Stone walked up the stairs to her house. When she opened it, she turned on the lights, and placed her purse on the hanger pole. She was tired. Sitting on her sofa, Fluffy, her cat, jumped on her lap. Miss Stone chuckled quietly.
"Hello, baby girl." As she stroked her cat's fur, Miss Stone wondered if it was right to give Monica the locket. "Oh, she deserved it. Besides... she might be the right one to save everyone." She stretched her arms out, yarned, and fell to sleep.
"Revenge? Oh no... it's not about that." Rueben said. "It never was... I will not kill you... you will serve the Jedi."
Rueben's double bladed violet lightsaber light up, just the same way it had before he had attacked the Assassin the first time.
Kala was wondering if Rueben was okay on the Assassin's ship. If anything happened to her long time friend... the Assassin was going to regret for what he did. But Kala meditated alone in a room, trying to keep peace within herself.
"Oh, Rueben. I know we're friends, but... I care about you too much to get hurt. Hm. Amazing, isn't it? That... a friend can like another friend?" She said through the Force, that even a Jedi might hear. She closed her eyes and looked down.
The Assassin drew his blade and counter attacked Rueban. He made a few swipes and a mixture of flurries with his sword. The two clashed blades together.
"I will not serve Jedi. Nor do I serve the Sith. I believe in neither religion nor side of the force. What matters is how you use it!"
The Assassin Force Pushed Rueban against the wall.
Rueben got up off the floor.
"WHAT?!?!" Rueben said aloud.
What Kala had said had caught him off guard...
Yeah... you do realize that now ain't the time to be tellin me... I'm kinda in the middle of a battle with the Assassin. Rueben replied to Kala.
Kala shot her head up, and gasped. "You heard me?!" she said to Rueben. What could she do? Kala told her secret to Rueben through the Force... on accident! "I'm... I'm sorry, Rueben." She began to cry silently.
"My head hurts a little Monica, but you don't need to help hold me up." He forced her arms off him. He then stumbled around and was grabbed by Monica again. " Okay maybe its worse than I thought. Oh and by the way, isn't the falcon a ship that Han Solo uses? Along with Chewbacca?" Loud enough for Han to hear himself.
"Forget it... I'll deal with you later." Rueben said to the Assassin. "Or Luke will kill you whenever I get off this ship."
Rueben smiled. Ok... Luke fire when ready. Rueben said jumping outta the ship and back onto the Falcon.
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"Artoo... tell the other Jedi that they can fire at will." Luke told his droid.
The Jedi's ship began to fire up... when they saw an escape pod jetison from the ship.
The Assassin must be trying to escape... follow it down to Korriban. Luke told everyone but Han and the current crew of the Falcon.
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((Temp Character, you can kill him... but I was just keeping from killing the Assassin.))
"Sir... I fired the escape pod so that they would think that you abandoned ship." An akward looking man said.
Monica helped Darrick on the passeenger seat and nodded. "Yeah. Han and Chewie..." suddenly, she was interrupted.
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Kala ran to Rueben and hugged him. Finally, when she letted him go, Kala looked down embarrassed. "Guess you know my secret now, huh?" A tear came out of her eye.
"Don't ever say that name again." Rueben told Moncia. "It upsets Han more than just about everything. Chewbacca died several years ago, now Leia is the Co-pilot of the Falcon."
Rueben turned to Kala.
"Truth be told... I always knew... I was just waiting for you to admit it. Ever since the day I met you, I've known... remember when we first met, in the Jedi Academy." Rueben laughed.
A Gizka hopped up to Rueben, and licked the back of his leg. He bent down and picked it up.
"Lily... I told you to stay in my room at the Temple." He said.
Monica looked at Rueben. "Oh yeah. Sorry." She smiled sheepishly.
Kala rubbed it off. "Aw, that's ok, kid. Ya didn't know... or forgot." She turned back to Rueben.
"Yeah. I remember. When we were little, I came to you, saying 'Hi! I'm Kala! You're kinda cute!' Then I added with a blush, 'For a friend!' " She laughed, and nodded.
"Hey, Lily! How ya doing, girl?" Kala said, smiling.
"Thank you!" The Assassin impaled his sword through his assistant. "But unfortunatly, you are needed no longer!"
The Assassin took the wheel of his ship and plotted in the coordinates for his next contract to kill. He took his shuttle to Corelia.
As Monica sat down by the view, she kept staring at her locket that was in her hand. How can a little thing like this... have such great power? Suddenly, she remembered what might've been building up inside of her... The Force.
Yes, it was strange. But amazing. Monica looked at the her friends, wondering if the Force was building inside of them as well.
After Leon had helped Darrick and Monica he sat back next to monica who was staring at the locket she had got from the shop. No one can ever no how I really got here and yet... I feel as if I should as if im endangering everyone by not saying anything... He thought to himself but quickly felt the coldness of Tulak near and forgot the idea of saying anything.
Monica turned to Leon, almost forgetting everything. She asked with a concerned look on her face, "Hey? You ok?" She placed a gentle hand on his back. Strangely, Monica could feel... coldness when she touched him. But she didn't jerk her hand away.
"The Darkside is near... something I haven't felt since the second destruction of Telos, well the second attempt anyway." Bastila said, appearing before Rueben and the crew of the Falcon.
"What?" Rueben asked.
"Do you remember the stories I've told you about Revan and I?" Bastila asked.
"Yeah... Revan left the Republic in search of the true Sith... to destroy them." Rueben said.
"Well... yes... but that's not entirely the truth." Bastila said. "Niether one of us left the Republic. We went into hiding, and Revan hid our presence from the darkest of all Dark Lords, Darth Nihilus. He could literatley suck the Force from all living beings... he even tried to kill Jedi Master Atris and the Jedi Exile, and now... I feel the Darkside rising again, just about the same way he was..."
"That's impossible... the Sith have been destroyed... they were destroyed by Master Skywalker and Master Korr." Rueben said.
"Yes... that is true... but do you remember how Marka Ragnos' nearly came back to life?" Bastila asked. "Well other Sith Lords could do the same... even the darkest one of all."
Leon began to feel weak as Tulaks hold began to get stronger his eyes became covered by a wilky white haze making him apear blind as his hole body began to shiver he fell to the floor his body shaking.
" Remember our agreement apprentice," A cold voice said in Leon's now throbbing head as a migraine began to take hold.
" Do not tell them about me it is important they will try to stop you they would all be afraid that you would become more powerful then them and hold you back..."
Monica held Leon. "Hey? Hey! Leon, what's happening to you?!" She grew afraid... and shocked. "Guys! Something's wrong with Leon! Come over, quick!" She turned back to Leon.
"Hold on, Leon. Whatever's trying to hurt you, don't let it get to you!"
"It's too late." Rueben said. "The Darkside becons to him, but if you can have him resist it."
"We will all try to stop it." Bastila said, using the Force to crawl into Leon's head.
Rueben turned to Han.
"Go on ahead to Courscant... the Jedi will catch back up." Rueben said.
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"Sir... the pod was empty." A Jedi told Luke.
"You mean he escaped?" Luke asked.
"No sir... we believe the pod was never inhabited." The Jedi replied.
"Great... guess I'd better go tell Rueben." Luke said.
"That was what I intended on doing any way" Han smiled.
He ran back to the cokpit and punched in the algerbraic coordinates for Coruscant. He then charged up the Hyperdrive and shot off into Hyperspace...
"Well, we oughta' be ariving at Coruscant in a couple of hours, so I guess we can lay back!"
Leon activated the green lightsaber he always did in the vision he began to strike at Tulak but each attack was matched with a perfect defence. That is when she came Bastila apeared infront of Leon jsut before he was lost forever she stopped Tulak in his steps and Leon returned to the light never to be disturbed by Tulak again... Her hoped
Leons eyes returned back to there normal colour and his body began sto stop shivering Monica was near her face full of worry. Leon stared then just Grabbed hold of her hugged her held her close he knew that when with her. He was safe.
Monica held him close to her. "It's all right, Leon. We're here. Don't worry. You're safe, among friends." She could feel the darkness in him... being driven away. Things were getting a little weird. But no matter, because Monica was worried that her friends might turn to the darkest force of all...
The Dark Side.
Leon sobbed into Monica shoulder he felt so scared. So weak and yet he could still feel the power he had been taught deep inside him waiting to be triggered. He kept sobbing until slowly he calmed down and began to feel tired and then he slept still in Monica's arms.
Monica rocked Leon to sleep, after he sobbed. When he did fell asleep, she worried if the dark side held into him still. She had much to learn of the Force herself. As Leon started to feel scared, Monica felt scared as well.
She looked at the others, with tears in her eyes.
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Kala looked into Rueben's eyes. "D-did you feel the same way about me?" she asked, after her feelings were admitted. She glanced down, sighing unsteadily and afraid of what his answer might be.