Star Wars : The New Sith Crisis

Strike ( Rambo lives again )

Ric stood out side the tall structure and a wry grin twisted the corners of his mouth slightly upwards . Slintronius had really under-estimated him this time . Even before his recent transformation, Ric would have been able to infiltrate this base .He flexed his hands slightly and his grin broadened as the short claws on his knuckles, elongated, sliding out, a drop of blood squeezing out at the source . Stepping up to the wall, Ric slammed his fist into it, driving his sharp claws deep into the metallic armor . Twisting them , he began to scale the tall outer wall .Ric snarled in annoyance as he came to a shielded window , touching it, he felt his skin sizzle . Ric pulled his hand back, and let the burned skin heal , before stabbing the steel/bone claws back into the armor plating and avoiding the window . As he finally cam up to the top of the wall, Ric paused and telepathically scanned the area for guards . There were several but all could be persuaded to look in another direction , it only took a little bit of manipulation .He grabbed the edg of the wall and flipped over . Landing in a crouch, he immediately noticed the one danger the Force had not alerted him to the presence of . A sentinel droid awakened as Ric flipped into its sensor field and began to turn its head to see the intruder . Ric sprinted forward and using his knuckle-claws, ripped into its head, causing the visual sensors to wink out . Ric glanced around warily, checking to see if any guards had noticed . He took a quick second to cause a memory lapse in a suspicious guard and then dropped into a crouch and moved toward the nearest guard .Ric stealthily moved along the top of the wall, easily avoiding security cameras and sensor scans . Moving up, he grabbed a guard and tossed him over the outer edge of the wall , after he knocked him unconscoius .The next was easily killed by a cut to the head from a throwing star from Ric's belt . After stealthily , taking out all of the guards in such a fashion, Ric moved to the inside of the compound, finding a few more guards . He blasted one with a ball of Force lightning and on another he used a Force choke . Ric took a thin knife from his belt and propelled it through thr back of a commando who seemed to be out for a smoke . Ric growled under his breath as he recognized the insignia on the man's uniform .Slintronius had brought out his best men to protect him . He grabbed the commando's Force-pike, utility belt and his blaster rifle, deciding to use every option he had to bring down the Sith Elite Guard .They were they equivalent of the old Imperial Guard .( The guys in red robes who protected Palpatine .) He walked around the corner and came face to face with a commando wearing a ysalimiri nutrient frame on his back . Ric brought up the blaster rifle and shot twice, killing the commando and the ysalimari . He bent and grabbed the automatic blaster, dropping the rifle as he did so .He could use the added firepower . Ric had his new multi-weapon, but wanted to prove to himself that he was deadly with no matter what weapon, he chose . He could feel several gaps or holes in the Force ahead, so he paused and pulled a explosive grenade from the arsenal he had took from the commandos . Pulling the pin, Ric tossed it around the corner as he jumped out and begin to fire at the commandos . Four men, fell under his furious onslaught, and the others were killed by the grenade . He dropped the empty auto blaster, and raised the Force-pike, ready for combat .

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Star Destroyer Commander Titoner Hellgivin sat in his command chair, viewing the droid before him . Before he had left, Commander Gronard had asked him to find the best, most agile droid in production and secure several units for inspection . Hellgivin knew he had done good with this droid . The Q14-D12 ground assualt droid was the best of its type . It was capable of moving with faster reflexes than humans, and was used as a gladiator droid among the wealthy . It was capable of swamp, desert , snow and forest travel along with just about any city . He stood and gestured for the two techs controlling the grav-cart to push it into the turbo-lift and followed it .

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Ric clenched his hands around the Force-pike, its long , vibrating handle feeling foreign in his grasp .He could feel the guard droids around the corner, their sense of deadliness radiating outward, even though their presence was un-touchable . Ric slid along the wall slowly and glanced around with one eye . Immediately, he was rewarded with the whine of blaster-fire, as the deadly bolts streaked through the place where he had been just an instant before , but he wasn't there . His Force-pike was thrown into one droid , while Ric kicked another's weapon toward the next droid, blasting it into nothingness . The Force-pike flew back to his hand and its quivering blade sliced through a droid's power pack . Ric spun back toward the disemboweled droid as he heard a rising whine . He cart-wheeled backward as the droid's damaged power-pack imploded, destroying the remaining droids . The alien Sith peeked back around the corner, marveling at the destruction wrought by a single power-pack .Suddenly, he felt a rising danger in the Force and ducked , feeling a large hairy body pass completely over him . Ric jumped up and stared at the large animal rising from the floor where it had landed . He recognized it as a nek battle dog, bred for its savagery,durability,strength, speed and cunning . IT by itself would be a formidable opponent, capable of killing normal men , but Ric was the best of the best and a Sith . His multi-weapon slithered slowly down his arm and shaped itself into a short spear , Ric's head rose as he sensed more nek's behind him and ready to strike . He felt a dog jumping at his back and he leaped straight up , flipping and cutting at the beast as it passed beneath him . Ric landed in a crouch and immediately went into a sweep kick, releasing the blades in his boot toes at the same instant . The dog he kicked at whimpered as the blades cut into its legs, but then it leapt at him, baring its teeth in a savage howl . Ric raised his multi-weapon and let the nek dog impale itself . Pulling his weapon out of the body, he turned to see no less than five re-maining nek dogs, one wounded, and all angry . Ric commanded his multi-weapon to change and dodged as the dogs began to attack . He cursed himself as his weapon flew to the other side of the room, knocked from his hands by the dog's furious attack . Now he was really ticked off . Ric went down in a poised crouch and let out his knuckle claws as far as they would go, baring his own teeth, he snarled in the same feral way as the neks . AS one the dogs lunged at him, and he at them . He knocked aside swipes of clawed paws for the most part and then as the last dog, the wounded one leaped past him, his claws reached out and sliced deep into the dog, cutting it nearly in two . Ric back-flipped and landed on top of another dog and snapped its spine with a twist of its legs , then leapt at another and locked his fangs in its back , while driving his claws home in its body . The last two dogs, he grabbed in the Force and slammed their bodies together and tossed them out of the window . Ric stood panting, his claws, teeth and clothes splattered in blood . He winced as his wounds closed up and healed and then summoned his multi-weapon to his hand . Time to kill Slintronius .

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Slintronius cursed vibrantly as he felt his killer nek dogs fade out of the Force . Gronard was coming for him and would not hesitate to run his multi-weapon's lightsaber through Slintronius's mid-section . A lightsaber flew to his hand from a long case of shining weapons .Trophies, Slintronius had taken everyone of the weapons from a fallen foe, and he knew that Ric would do the same with his own lightsaber . He gasped as the metal on the blast door suddenly grew two rows of four gleaming metallic bone claws . The claws dragged down slowly and cut through the heavy metal . As Gronard came slowly through the door, forgetting his multi-weapon's lightsaber mode in his rage , Slintronius felt a arm pull him back .He stared at the red-skinned arm , holding him in a vise-like grip and looked up to see the cloaked figure of Darth Rakar, former ruler of the Sith . Awoke from stasis, Slintronius had inserted a Force-mind control nexus in the Sith lord's mind . If Darth Rakar refused to do Slintronius's bidding, his abilities and his Force sensitivity would leave him, forever .Rakar shoved Slintronius toward a waiting turbo-lift on the far side of the room . Slintronius frowned as he watched the black-clad figure move toward the door, and then he had another thought, Maybe Rakar would kill Gronard ! " Kill him and I will release you, Darth Rakar ." Rakar acknowledged this with a curt nod as the blast door buckled under the abuse of Ric's claws ."

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Ric Force-pushed the remains of the blast door from the frame and the first thing he saw was a hug black cloak, its dark folds hiding the face of its wearer and behind him, Slintronius, ducking into a turbo-lift . Ric flushed in rage at the sight of his enemy and leaped forward, his mulit-weapon trans-forming into its lightsaber mode ." Coward, come back here and fight !" he screamed futilely as the black cloaked man moved in front of him with a sliding motion and the turbo-lift doors shut with a resounding clang, obxcuring Slintroius's smirking features from view . " I am Darth Rakar . Prepare to meet your doom ." the Sith in front of Ric said as he dropped the cloak, revealing a torso that stopped at the waist and was connected to a sort of repulsor setup . The disk shaped mini-speeder was attached to Rakar's body in place of a normal man's legs . His skin glowed red, revealing him to be of another species . The floating Sith reached beneath his arms to a set of holsters and pulled out matching lightsabers with curved handles . Crimson blades ignited and the battle began . Ric gasped as Rakar's hand glowed and a sphere of crackling energy began to grow from his wrist, and then firing at Ric , who jumped to the side and rolled away from the growing energy sphere, which destroyed much of the wall behind Ric with a large explosion . Rakar shot toward Ric on his repulsor unit, his lightsabers lowered and ready for the kill .Ric's multi-weapon came up from where it had fallen and propelled by the Force , flew toward Rakar .Rakar batted it aside easily and came after Ric, who began to leap to the side, trying to avoid the slowly gaining eminent death . Ric moved torward a wall and ran along, when reaching a certain part he leaped and flipped over Rakar, who sliced upward with his lightsaber, and landed next to his multi-weapon . He scopped it up, activating the blade and lunged back at Rakar . A smile played briefly across Rakar's lips as he blocked , sliced, blocked and struck out again . Ric was is full Sith mode, his multi-weapon moving as a snake , flexible, writhing, his hands moving deftly up and down, regaining his grasp after each blow .Rakarshoved Ric back and flew up to the ceiling where he slashed into a large pipe revealed during the explosion .Hot water poured through, covering the floor with a rising level of the boiling liquid . Ric flipped out of the water and slammed his claws into the wall, holding himself out of the rising water . Darth Rakar laughed, the sound echoing hollowly off of the walls and fired a long blast of lightning at Ric, carving canyons in the duracrete walls . Ric caught the crackling energy on his lightsaber blade and deflected it to the side . With a visible effort , he vaulted up and over to a cat-walk near the ceiling . As he landed he twisted to the side, his mulit-weapon coming up in a defensive position as Rakar flew slowly, directly throught the stream of boiling water coming from the ceiling ." Nothing like a hot shower !" Ric shouted, firing his own lightning at the water, shocking the Sith from another time into near-unconsiounsess . Rakar gasped in pain, knowing he could have thrived on the heat from the water, but the electric shock had taken him by unawares . Ric leaped toward Rakar, his multi-weapon up and preparing to cut into the other Sith's body, trying to kill, while the other was still un-ready . At the last instant, Rakar's lightsabers lashed out at the same instant and sent Ric's multi-weapon spinning into the water . As the crimson blade struck the water, it shorted out and sank to the floor . Ric used the Force to hold Rakar's lightsabers out away from his body and jumped at him, kicking with both feet aton his chest and back-flipping away . Rakar was thrown into the water by the force of the kick, but as his lightsabers hit the water, they only sizzled and didn't short out . Rakar grinned nastily at the shock on Ric's face ." My own invention, new flux inhibitor ." he said, rising out of the water . He tossed one of the lightsabers at Ric who caught it in a surprised manner ." I am not without honor . I can not kill a weapon-less opponent ." Ric activated the curved-hilted lightsaber and said " You should have killed me when you had the chance . Your sense of honor will be your downfall ." Rakar grinned and said " It has not failed me yet ." Ric felt the mind control trick that Slintoronius had used on Rakar and said ," I can free you from Slintronius, but if I do, you must swear yourself loyal to me .Loyal but not a slave ." Rakar's mind leaped at this chance to be free and he answered," Upon my weapons, I will be loyal ." Ric knew this was the highest oath that Rakar could give, his life being of no conseqeunce to him . He felt around the nexus of whirling Force energy inside Rakar's mind and began to twist and pull . Finally with a last wrench, the sense of Slintronius's control faded in Darth Rakar's mind . Ahh, it feels so good to be free , Rakar thought . Together, the two left to find Slintronius . . . and kill him .