Star Wars : The New Sith Crisis

Close Call ( continued )

Keldor rose slowly, his exoskeleton's joints clicking against each other . He was not known for courage, espechially when he had a blaster pointed at the middle of his face , so he complied with Don's orders . Rorn backed away from the Auqalish thug , that his blaster was covering and stood back to back with Wik . Don motioned for Keldor to back towards the nearby rent-a-hangar shop and into a run-down doorway . Wik and Rorn backed out of the group of thugs, leaving the various weapons laying on the ground . As they got about eight feet from the crowd of scum, Wik pulled a tiny projection device of some sort out of a pocket and threw it onto the ground in the middle of the goons . A momentary flash of light left the thugs blinking and then as one, they dove for their respective weapons . Rorn ducked instictively as a flurry of different colored energy bolts shot toward them . Wik remained standing and smirked as the enery darts struck an invisible force field and were directed right back at their sources .The motley assortment of aliens was decimated by their own fire .Rorn looked up at Wik with an obvious question in his eyes . Wik smiled as he deactivated the device ." My own invention . Combination of lightsaber and shield projector technology . Very effective ." he said . Rorn grinned and said," Next time, tell me before you pull something like that ."

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Keldor sat inside the small freighter as it lifted up off of the ground . Reaching inside the tiny tool-belt he carried, his skeletal fingers caressed a button, call ing a small fleet of fighters . He scanned the inside of the cockpit anxiosly, trying to see if there was anything that might aid his escape , but the only weapons were those that were strapped to Don's belt . He began to shuffle forward and then dived back into his seat as a warning trill came from the small droid now entering the cockpit . " Do not even think about it . My weapons are fully charged and cocked ." Keldor recognized a pair of Blastek DL- 60 blaster pistols, modified to fit the droid's tentacle arms and pointing right at him . Keldor slumped and shook his head in defeat while inwardly he was plotting his hanging of Don's head on his wall .

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Rorn watched his sensor scopes. Merely seconds ago he had caught a signal going out on a coded transmission . It could'nt be good . He flipped the switch that released his blade-craft from the larger ship , and eased it away . On his long range sensors , Rorn finally spotted a small cluster of fighters heading toward the trio of ships . " Bogeys to the left ." he called into the comm as he angled his fighter toward the incoming fighters . Wik's Vorsoth V-43 gunboat swung around and accelerated to Rorn's side . Rorn hit a small button-panel and linked all four of his laser cannons to fire at once . He then shoved his engine power controls all of the way forward, accelerating to insane speeds . Wik hit a special fuel injector's activation switch and his gun-boat came up and flanked the blade-craft .

The first of the fighters came up, firing red blasts at Rorn's engines . Rorn twisted his controls and felt his blade-craft respond, diving around and beneath the bearers of death . His black-gloved hand gently sqeezed the firing controls just as the enemy fighter flew into his cross-hairs . He blinked at the brightness of the explosion and flew toward the next fighter . Rorn reached under his seat to the newest addition to his fighter and pulled hard on a lever .

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Wik gasped in surprise and stared as ahead of him , Rorn's blade-craft shimmered and dis-appeared , leaving nothing, not even a blip on his sensors . He gasped again as red darts lanced out from nowhere and impaled another fighter . " Your not getting all of them ." He muttered, gritting his teeth as he pulled a trigger, activating twin rapid-fire blaster cannons on each wing of his gun-boat . The furious assault of blaster fire destroyed three fighters in a row and damaged a fourth before Wik let up on his trigger .
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Rorn realized what Wik was doing and grinned . He switched over to proton torpedoes aand let out a pair of glowing projectiles that slammed into the remaining two fighters, mere milli-seconds before Wik's laser fire struck them down .

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Keldor moaned as he realized that his last means of escape was gone . " Yeah , I figured you did that ." Don said, glancing back over his shoulder at the captive Givin . " Now you are going to answer some questions, before we see how long you can breath in vacuum , and your Givin vacuum powers don't work if your stunned ." Don grinned, pointing his blaster at Keldor .

Posted by Nate at July 4, 2004 06:39 PM