Avoiding Capture wasn't so easy...

[Rae Anne Jarrus]

Location: Coruscant
Time: 13:30
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Alexandra had given up on her brother for a month before deciding that she just couldn't live without him for some reason, But then for another reason, she got the feeling like she could do something. Something was calling out to her and she had to find the source of what was calling to her and where her feeling was taking her. As Alex would usually do, she ambushed an enemy's landing site and she made it set in her mind to grab a small ship. Unlucky for her, someone fully armed with a gun was coming her way and little to her thinking too much, there was also someone behind her and they both made her move forward into the light. It was time for a new plan. "Alexandra, Alexandra." a Mandalorian said as he walked forward with his gun still in hand. He was well known to Alex and she hated anytime he was near. He flirted with her and even when she punched him to try to get him to stay away, he was still a stupid lunatic when they were around each other. "You never quit do you darling?" he asked in his British accent.

Alex looked at him, cracking her knuckles as she glared at him. "You're damn right I never give up. And apparently knocking you upside the head did nothing to make you any smarter." she retorted. All he did was shake his head coming closer and closer to her as she put her hands on her sabers and warned him. "I swear if you come one step closer, I will claim this to the Order as you attacking me and I will go full Jedi on you." she said quickly and forcefully. Apparently he was still the same moron because he then pulled his helmet off and pulled her close and kissed her.

When the man kissed her, she stepped on his foot, hard, pushed him away and then ignited her lightsabers and started talking again. "I warned you. And you were dumb enough to ignore it. So why don't you save your life and your men's lives and get out of here before I trim you to pieces." she suggested even more forcefully than before. "Fine, fine we'll leave. Men leave her be, she's leaving anyway." he said as he and all of his men then turned around walking away.

She smiled to herself once they were gone and then she looked round for a small shuttle before finding one and boarding it. Alex went to the front of the cockpit and looked under the control panel for a blue and red wire that would stick out so she could pull them so Mr.Creep-o-lots wouldn't follow her to her destination. Afterwards, Alex sat in the pilot's seat and set coordinates for Coruscant before then taking off and reaching her destination not too much longer. One thing she recognized was an interesting force presence here.

Was it her long lost brother? Or was it someone else wanting to apprehend her?

@Shoggoth
@Kenico

 

[Shoggoth]

On a stray moon in the L-8 sector.

She hadn't learnt anything from being there. Not a single document nor holocron had emerged from the rubble, and outside the snowstorm was still in full effect. It howled in the wreck of the old star destroyer. Everything went to shit as soon as she had landed on the surface on that damnable moon. It began with the snowstorm that hit her like thunder from a blue sky. Iris thought that landing the Interceptor near the wreckage would be a bad idea, if debris came loose from it while the storm raged it might destroy it. So the decision was to land further away on the glacier. Which turned out to be the worst decision, she watched it slide off the edge and fall into a ravine with all the hopes of ever getting off the moon. She thought at least.
She had walked around in empty halls for a few hours without finding a single document. What was there to do.
Find a distress beacon somewhere, which she did after a time searching in the utility bay.
She had hunkered down next to the distress beacon which she had set up on one of the the command consoles. Now she faced the wait for someone to pass the moon by close enough to catch her signal and maybe decide to stop and 'lend' her their ship.
Nibbling on a frozen piece of bread she stood up, pulled the zip of her jacket all the way up to her nose, and pulled the hood over her ears.

Someone had to hear the signal.

@Rae Anne Jarrus

 

[Kenico]

The Pilgrim came screaming out of hyperspace, flying into the outer world of Coruscant. XO was at the controls, ensuring that Owen had a smooth ride. He had been up all night, meditating, training, reading more of Master Korbin's Journal, and other activities to keep him from being over excited. He had got a lead, his FIRST TRUE LEAD in over a decade. He let out a sigh as he sat up from his berth, grabbing his clothes and made his way to the bridge. He sat in the main pilot seat, scooting over XO while he whistled a good morning to Owen.

"Morning to you old buddy" he responded, groaning from the morning stretch and chuckling by XO complaining about Owen sleeping in and letting little old him pilot the Pilgrim.

"Well unlike you droids that need a tune up ever now and then, we humans need to sleep and relax" said Owen. The little droid looked at him with the expression...if you could see it...of "Really?" He then proceeded to start whistling and beeping. Owen listened intently, frowning as XO pointed out that Owen had not a relaxing almost downright peaceful sleep in Ten years, nor has he relaxed in the same time frame. Owen sighed as he looked up at the menacingly large planet wide city, standing back up while patting his droid, "Set us down somewhere remote, I don't want any trouble while I find Luka...I really hope he's here XO...I...I really do" He said as he entered his quarters once more...

The Pilgrim sat down on a landing pad near the floor of the City, its newly fixed ramp lowered perfectly as Owen stepped down as if in succession. He stood there, his green cloak swaying in the wind, covering his weapons and tools along with himself. He looked around for a moment before checking his holodisk, revealing Luka's picture, or at least what he looked like by now, and his comm.

"XO keep the ship on lock-down...And if what happened on Corellia goes down again, don't let the fools get a chance, just take off and get out of here ok?" he told his droid, hearing a few confirming beeps and whistles before finally throwing the hood over his head. As soon as the ramp closed, Owen was hit, not by the sight of Coruscant, but by something else...What the? Is...Is someone here?

 

[Rae Anne Jarrus]

Everything was so weird at the moment. She sensed more than one force sensitive who seemed to most likely be someone who was around where she landed. Alex stood on the ramp of the ship admiring the area, her eyes for some reason drawing to a man in green robes. She looked past him for a second before realizing green robes. He had to have been the force sensitive she sensed. Who knew? She shook the image from her head before turning around and going to the front of the ship to check out the engine.

Leaving the ramp down, Alex moved forward until a blinking red light on the dashboard and she stopped for a second before shrugging and checking it out. It was apparently a distress signal coming from one of the moons. It turned out to be the abandoned ice moon. Wonderful. Sighing, Alex flipped some switches, turning on the engines and hit a few buttons, punching in the moon's coordinates.

Less than a few minutes, she arrived to the frozen planet as a heavy snow storm roared through the planet and it took a few seconds until she saw the flashing beacon and landed beside it, before hopping out into the frozen terrain to find a girl curled up next to the beacon with her hood pulled over her head. "Hey, get on board, you'll be warmer." she yelled through the piercing winds.

There was something about this girl that didn't feel right, but she offered anyway.

 

[Shoggoth]

Iris was awakened by a loud crack from the sky. Removing the bindings from her face she couldn't see a thing, only feeling the sharp wind in her face. She had wrapped her robes around herself and allowed the snow to bury her alive, trying to keep the warmth under the snow. Which had worked until now. The sound of a craft soaring through the air caught her off-guard. A red light in the sky circled her position, before it approached her.
Soon after the ramp dropped, a young woman jumped onto the glacier and approached her. "Hey, get on board, you'll be warmer."
The headlights of the craft bathed her in white light. Iris pulled her hood further down in front of her eyes and leaned against the beacon as she stood up. She felt frail, her legs were trembling beneath her. Leaning against the wind she managed to get on the ramp and pull herself into the shuttle, resting onto the wall next to the exit.
She had planned this while she was lying in the cold. In her hand she had a syringe, filled with paralyzing toxin.
And as the woman locked the door behind them, Iris slid the needle into her neck and pushed down the piston.
@Kenico

 

[Kenico]

"AGAIN! Another dead end again!?" he roared out as he made his way back to the Pilgrim. He sighed as he moved up its ramp, plopping himself down in a chair as the ramp closed. He sighed, looking up at the ceiling as he attempted to make sense of it all...but that wasn't the only thing of sense. As the ramp and airlock made a clanking sound indicating it was locked, Owen felt a disturbance in the Force, his eyes darting left and right while staring up at the sky.

What the? he thought to himself. It was the same presence he felt before, only this time, he felt danger. He jumped to his feet, moving towards the cockpit and slid into the pilot's seat. He began clicking and scanning, hoping that it was all just some silly false alarm. He looked at his comm, noticing that there was a distress signal for one of the moons. Without thinking he sat the coordinates, taking off and heading towards the beacon's signal.

It did not take him long thanks to the Pilgrim's speed, landing a about 100 meters from the beacon's location. As he stepped out of the ship he noticed not one but two more ships in the direction of the beacon. He bundled up in his cloak, stumbling up to the first ship he saw and began banging on the entrance.

"H-Hello?! Is anyone in there?!"

(OOC: Sorry for the short reply, nothing I can do till I link up with you guys :D)

 

[Rae Anne Jarrus]

Secretly using the force without the other girl knowing, she made the beacon so anyone could easily scan for it. Alex walked near the girl, to help her on board, not even realizing she had a syringe in hand. When Alex went to close the door and lock it, it was successful, but that success wouldn't be for long. She started to go back to the door as she heard someone banging on it, only to next feel a cold painful needle in her neck.

She froze not knowing what to do, other than letting a scream escape her lips and the word "Help." come out quickly when the needle was inserted. Alex then felt the serum start to seep through her body as she felt dizzy and her world went black as she landed on the floor of the ship with a thunk.

There was no escape.

 

[Shoggoth]

Slowly pulling the needle out of the girl's spine, Iris released her grip from the girl's shoulder and let her fall on her own. She knew she was dealing with a Jedi but refrained from ending her until she was certain the man on the other side of the door wasn't accompanied by anyone, and/or knew the girl. Sticking another syringe in her toxin container held in her utility belt, she filled it with a new paralyzing doze.
She walked over to the dash board and turned off all the interior lights, rendering the cockpit completely black. Relying on that the man outside didn't have a headlight she leaned against the closed door. With the syringe in her left hand and the lightsaber in her other, she pressed the switch opening the door to the cold and dark blizzard outside. Using her force to guide her she could feel where he was, right in front of her maybe stepping back from the opening door?
As quickly and silently as she could, she jumped down on the ice into a crouch and swung her syringe in repeated horizontal slashes trying to connect with his neck or arm. With her right hand behind her ready to ignite the saber as a form off backup response defense.

@Kenico

 

[Kenico]

Owen sensed a jarring presence in the Force, feeling danger signals fire off as he watched the ramp fall. One look at the woman and he realized there was trouble. He took a step back as she swung what appeared to be a syringe at him. With a flex of his hand and application of the Force, he crushed both the syringe and the needle. Owen eyed the woman as he moved quick, bringing an open palm into her open torso, hitting her with full force before giving her a swift kick to her abdomen to push her back from the ship, getting her away from the ramp so she couldn't escape. Without a thought he pulled his comm off and roared into it.

"XO get out of here!" the command was, and within seconds the Pilgrim was flying off. Owen placed the comm back on his belt, reaching for his lightsaber and yanking it from its hook. Another Snap-Hiss later and his blue blade was glowing in the dying blizzard. Soon clear skies were present as Owen stared the woman down, his blue blade glowing in the night. He kept his back to the ramp, making sure she couldn't bolt for the ship she was just on. It was then that she finally ignited her crimson red saber, his eyes widening but his mouth went from silent to smirk...maybe this wasn't a fruitless journey after all...

"Sith" He said out loud as he assumed a stance of aggressive defense.

 

[Shoggoth]

Iris sure wasn't expecting a force user. And most certainly didn't expect the force to betray her in sensing him. She was caught of guard as Owen crushed the syringe in his and and delivered two perfect strikes to her chest and abdomen. Adapting to the situation as she felt his foot deliver the blow to her abdomen, she used the momentum of the blow trying to regain balance in a roll back in the snow. Her left hand was now filled with scattered pieces of glass, but it didn't stop her from using it to support her recovery. with her left hand in the snow and her right hand on her saber. She flipped the switch igniting the black cored crimson blade. The synthetic crystal inside the handle was an unstable one. The blade was more like a soaring fire than a real shape, but it kept itself within the restricted frozen barriers of its nature still creating a proficient blade.
Her head was lowered looking down into the snow as she lifted herself up by her knees. She wrapped her bindings around her head to hide the face in case he had not gotten a good look at it. Now on two feet she positioned her left foot forward with her right hand at a thirty degree angle downwards, and her now slowly paralyzed and scarred left hand on her back. It was useless to her now. But she didn't care. Determined was what she was.
She had to escape with that ship and had immediately regretted leaving it. It left her no choice but to remove what stood in her way. And it seemed that she even had to go aggressive, even if it was against her preference of a defensive stance.

With a snap, the air around her vibrated as she dashed towards her opponent using her guidance of the force to carry her speed. As she was within his reach, she crouched in the snow using her momentum to lean right with her upward slash of her right hand towards Owens face. If their sabers locked she would use her position of beneath her opponent to deliver the impact instead as an elbow to his chest.

@Kenico

 

[Kenico]

Owen watched his opponent, catching a whiff of air as he saw her dash forward. He watched carefully as she slashed upward, switching his hands grasp so as to snap his blade up against the blade. What he was basically doing was performing a makashi deflection, sending the blade aside as he side stepped to her left, backing off to prepare for his next move. The fact that her left hand was now not working did not go unnoticed as he brought his blade down.

"Tell me. I must ask, Sith.." He said as he prepped himself, "May I show you a picture of someone?" he asked as he charged at her, moving his saber in swift deflecting moves while adding power behind each attack. At that moment, during a break between assaults, he pulled out a holopad and revealed the Face in it's recording.

Spoiler: Familiar Face

"Have you seen this man? He should be among your kind?" Asked Owen, his face showing that he was more concerned with this question than their actual duel, "His name would be Luka" He finished, bringing his blade up for when she attacked.

 

[Rae Anne Jarrus]

Slowly, Alex's head throbbed as she came to, her vision blurry. Sitting up, she realized that it was pitch black in the cabin of the ship and she had no idea where she was until she felt her way to the cockpit and sat down in the pilot's chair flipping switches and finding the lights for the cabin. Switching the lights on was a good thing, but it didn't feel great regarding her head ache and being out for a while. "Oh, god." she cursed as she was blinded.

An ice cold wind blew through the ship, making Alex turn around in her chair and she stumbled up realizing that the ramp was down. Walking to the doorway, she realized something. There were two different color hues outside of the ship, one being a thin blue line that connected to a person and the other a red flaming and dark fire.

Looking back to the blue saber, she saw a man dressed in green, along with familiar sandy brown hair.... wait.. she recognized everything about this man. The green robes, the sandy blonde hair? It was definitely the man she had docked near back on Coruscant. And then looking to the red fire like saber, a dark energy emitted from it revealing to be the woman who knocked her out in the first place. Man, Alex really regretted helping her. But hey, she thought she was helping someone in distress which is what she was always taught to do. It was always steal from the rich and give to the needy.

This woman was sure as hell not needy. And Alex got to feel the experience of someone who wasn't a needy person.

 

[Shoggoth]

After her first launch at him, Iris understood that she couldn't be attacking like she would other wise without her left arm. It was a faulty technique she had never tried out since she was a defensive fighter. Taking a few steps back after their first clash, she assumed a different stance. She put both her hands on her saber after she had started to regain the feeling in her hand, placing her right leg forward pointing towards Owen, and her left leg bent almost to a kneel. her arms reached out behind her diagonally with her left thigh, she had turned her wrist with the hilt upside down in her hands letting the blade follow her arms upwards. The tip stopping at shoulder height. It was an adapted stance from quarterstaff footwork, giving her a centered balance at her feet. A way of making it hard for the opponent to move her, and giving her momentum to hold defense from behind.
Owen pulled out the hologram of a man she had encountered in the halls of Korriban before.
Though he probably expected an answer from her, she didn't care.
She only waited for him to pose an attack or flee. Fleeing how ever would be futile. If he decided to pull her focus from her, she would cut him down without hesitation. He was too far away from the shuttle to be able to reach it without Iris reaching him first. She had regained her senses, and knew where his mind was. And it was not in the fight, he wanted her to answer. Iris wasn't the talkative type, neither did she understand why he thought an undercover Sith deep within the core worlds would answer any questions about her fellow cultists. She concluded that he must likely didn't know what the Sith really were. Which supported her theory on that he wasn't a Jedi. It had been clear since he didn't bear the common robes, but this only proved she was right.
She waited without uttering a word, as she felt that the Jedi inside the shuttle had regained her consciousness.
@Kenico

 

[Kenico]

Owen stared her down, eyeing her as he saw her assume what he figured to be an unmovable. He clicked the button off, placing the holo pad back inside his confines. He placed both hands on the saber, eyeing her more and more in frustration, "I've come too far for some Sith Acolyte whose pissed I spoiled her fun. Now I want to know." He said, his frustration and anger growing, "Do you...know him..." He said, holding his ground, he allowed his energy to build up. If he had to he was going to beat it out of her...He had waited ten years...ten LONG years for a lead like this...he was not going to let this one get away even if she wouldn't cooperate...

The duo stood there, like two statues as the blizzard finally died down and only small sprinkles of snow fell, like petals from a cherry blossom tree. Owen kept his eyes on the woman, his eyes, though showing frustration, were deep in focus. He could sense that the woman the Sith attempted to harm was coming back to her senses. Soon, hopefully, he would have this Sith outnumbered and he could possibly capture her, interrogate her, maybe even send her to prison for her crimes. But ultimately she was his path to Luka...

(OOC: Sorry for this one being short...and this time I don't have something to add :p So its up to you @Rae Anne Jarrus)

 

[Rae Anne Jarrus]

Walking back to the ramp, Alex gathered up enough force to at least keep her stable, but fighting would be a weakness for once in her life. As she stood at the top, she pulled both sabers off and ignited them, one being blue in her left hand and the other in her right hand which was purple. With a small look of anger in her eyes, she walked down the ramp, twirling them in a circle as she walked. She eyed the green man and continued to walk forward to meet eye to eye with this Sith, the light from the ship, surely making an outline of Alexandra.

"I see you're not one to talk. You'd rather go around black mailing Jedi with syringe needles with some poison in them and knock us all out. Well, I will warn you. You will tell us who you are and you will answer this man's question." she then got a thoughtful look on her face. "You know, I could also ask you the same exact question about my brother too. But you know what? I don't think I will because his brother is more important now including this task at hand." she said as she looked to the man and gave a short nod, hoping he'd approve. She also couldn't help but notice how extremely handsome he was. But for now, she had to focus on what was going on other than his pretty face.

((OOC: Hope that gets to the point. Couldn't think of anything, my brain was deaf.))

 

[Shoggoth]

The blizzard was long gone, but the wind was still carrying in the air.
Iris was tired of this keep up. The man was stubborn as a child, and stood fast on getting the information he craved so much. Luck had saved him from Iris' first launch, he wasn't nearly as fast as her. She wouldn't miss next time. It came to her understanding that the man didn't fathom what he was up against, as he referred to her as an Acolyte. Suddenly a cone of white light drew long shadows of both Owen and Iris, the shuttles headlights had been re-lit. It reflected in Iris' eyes, but the contours of the male in front of her soon came in sight again. Though now the female Jedi stood with them out in the snow. She had closed the gap that had been between Owen and the shuttle, opening an escape for them once again.

The soaring plasma of Iris' saber was licking up its blade, producing dancing shadows along the creases of her robes. Iris always kept her emotions within herself, this was accomplished by always keeping the force barrier surrounding her at all times. She did it to ensure that no one could preform the common force techniques on her but most importantly to keep people from sensing her. Due to her aura, force-sensitives would be able to sense her from several hundred miles away without it. Her mere presence was enough to exhaust and nauseate sensitives in the same room, if she didn't have her barrier up. The stronger her emotions where the more overwhelming her aura became. As unfair as it was for Owen to face Iris alone she decided she would at least do him a favor and show him what his odds were.

Iris closed her eyes, and the barrier vanished releasing the tidal wave of force that was her being, surrounding them, eating at them as if her body comprised the very air they breathed. Iris was intimidating them without uttering a word or moving a muscle.

@Kenico

 

[Kenico]

Owen felt it, the power this woman was remarkable. THe Dark Side called to him, pulled at him. He felt his own fears and nightmares clawing to the front of his mind. He saw the flames again, his Master lying there dead on the floor, the sillohuete of his brother standing there, smirk across his face. He felt his chest on fire as he grasped it. The Scar still burned even after ten years. He felt his own inner darkness rushing forth. He was on the verge of loosing focus when a whisper came to the back of his head and mentally could sense a light behind him. He felt a hand touch his shoulder and a man's voice utter into his ear.

"It is ok to be Angry...It is ok to be Afraid...What is not ok is your permittance to let them control you" the voice whispered as the light behind him faded. Owen sighed, taking in a deep breath and focusing, concentrating his will to push the darkness, at least around him, away.

"I am impressed of your aura...however I have beaten Sith that were stronger...You disappoint me...However I will admit you caught me and this one off guard" He said, looking at the woman next to him, recognizing her from Coruscant. He then turned back towards the Sith, his own will exerting outward to push back her darkness, "And therefore..."

He sudden tossed a thermal Detonator at the Sith, who was still in her sort of trance like state. He grabbed the woman next to him, running up the Ramp just as the detonator was halfway to the Sith. Owen didn't have time to wait, he rushed to the cockpit. He tossed her into one seat and then slid into the one next to her. He tried like crazy, clicking and pushing buttons to get this ship up. Owen stared at his controls, snarling as he had no knowledge of this model ship, "How do you start this stupid thing!?"

(OOC: @Shoggoth, thanks for the hint ;) Also in your next post, attempt to use the Force to hold us in midair...I've got a funny way of finally escaping :p @Rae Anne Jarrus, I leave you the honors of making our escape.)

 

[Rae Anne Jarrus]

Alexandra was suddenly blindsided when Iris let her guard down and the darkness flowed all around the two Jedi. Alex was staring into the Sith's eyes fiercely as she felt the darkness, the cold and the fear gather around her. As much as she fought the memories, they won in her mind. She saw her brother, the way he had refused to go to her ceremony. And then her parents, the way they were betrayed and slaughtered after being in slavery. Also taking a deep breath, Alexandra cleared her mind and focused on the here and now.

She listened to what Owen had been saying the whole time until she noticed him throwing a detonator as she was then grabbed. Alex let out a small squeak of surprise as she then coordinated with Owen getting them to run faster. As he pushed her to the co-pilot seat, she noticed he was having trouble with the controls. "If you dont know how to control something, first stay calm and second watch and learn!" she exclaimed somewhat sarcastically as she started flipping switches and hitting buttons quickly, the ship hovering in the air.

If they wanted to get anywhere, it probably wasn't going to be very easy if Owen was flying knowing that he didn't even know how to start the engines. "If you want to see tomorrow and get out of here, I suggest you take the co-pilot seat." she suggested seriously.

 

[Shoggoth]

"...and therefore..." Owen muttered as he picked something out of his pocket. Suddenly, he threw it towards Iris and ran towards the ship.
Iris peered at the thermal detonator which was now headed towards her, lifting her hand. The grenade was redirected by a push of the force sending it back towards where it had been thrown from.
The blade of her saber fizzled out as she watched the shuttle lift of in the flaming explosion of the detonator.
She just needed to wait for someone else to get curious about the beacon. If she could last her provisions of course.

@Rae Anne Jarrus @Kenico (thread end. It was a short end but I have other threads to attend to and its late. ;) )