Sith Civil War: Chapter VII - Death to all Traitors

As Gra'tua heard the sabers ignite, he pulled his instinctivly as he nodded to Malice, igniting his with a cracking hiss. As he raised his free hand and let force lightning rain upon the Mon Calamari before raising his saber to defend against one of the jedi that had risen to fight. --- Tarna gritted through his teeth, "Five on your port, two on starboard!" He then fired his main cannons at a bomber to quickly destroy it. Tarna was turning about when the cruiser's guns blasted the Liberty. He shook in his seat as the corvette got bounced around. Tarna gunned his engines and flew directly at the cruiser.

He activated all turrets and spun wildly, avoiding any incoming laser blasts that could have destroyed his shields. He came around on the cruiser's side and blasted the shield generators for the hanger. The air flew out of the hanger as blast doors moved over to seal it shut. Tarna gunned the Liberty's engines and made it into the hanger before it sealed shut.

As he landed, soldiers in rag-tag uniforms surrounded his ship. He walked down the boarding ramp slowly and commanded, "Bring me to your so-called Sith Master."

As the blast doors shut, Adenn was thrusted out of his cockpit and landed next to the Shadow Protector. "Leaving me out of the fun?" He asked as he watched men gather around them. "I think the're afraid," he said as he mapped out the area, the extrasensory organs twitching on his head as he did so.

He then opened his eyes as a man approached them and signaled for them to follow. "Keep your wits about you." The Kel'dor said as they walked.

Darth Barad-Dur used the Force to jam all comlinks in the room, then advanced on Ben Skywalker. A young Jedi padawan leapt forward, saber drawn. He attacked, and Barad-Dur easily blocked the blow with one blade, and cut open the Jedis' belly with the other. Again he advanced.

Another Jedi, wielding a double-bladed blue lightsaber jumped forward, twirling the saber around. Barad-Dur sidestepped the thrust and stabbed. The Jedi was not so easily killed as the padawan, and knocked it aside with his own blade. He then attempted to cut Barad-Dur legs out from under him, but was forced to leap back as Barad-Dur cut down, cutting the hilt in half.

Barad-Dur then slashed with both lightsabers. One hand of the Jedi flew across the room, and his head dropped a few feet away from him. The body swerved in place before dropping to the ground.

As Barad-Dur dropped Kovar to the ground, Malice smiled as he knew it was the moment he'd been waiting for. He immediately turned his head to the right and spotted two Jedi Padawans still frozen in shock at what had just happened. He quickly pushed towards them. With blazing speed he grabbed the nearest Jedi's throat and lifted him into the air. The lesser Jedi struggled as Malice tightened his grip, slowly crushing the boy's neck.

The other Jedi quickly drew his lightsaber and rushed towards Malice, as he did this Malice drew his large mace that had been strapped to his back. The Jedi swung his saber towards Malice's chest, but as he did so, Malice swung his mace towards the Jedi's head with twice as much speed. As the blunt object made contact with the skull of the young padawan the sound of crushing bone echoed through the room and the rest of the body fell to the ground.

Turning his attention back to the Jedi in the air, Malice realized the struggle had ended and he dropped his motionless body to the ground. Now Malice placed his mace back onto his back and drew his lightsaber. The crimson blade cracked as he walked towards the exit of the control room. He remembered the Jedi formation in the hangar when they had arrived and he would meet them head on.

With only four Jedi in the room left standing, Barad-Dur Force threw the two lesser Jedi over their control panels. He walked up to Ben Skywalker, and lashed out. Skywalker deflected both blows with his three-bladed lightsaber. Skywalker spun his lightsaber around, one blade extended towards him, the others spinning around. Barad-Dur spun his own lightsaber around.

Skywalker began to attack fast and furious, driving Barad-Dur back merely with the fact that he had another blade. Barad-Dur let himself be driven back, slashing with just enough strength being thrown into the slashes that they deflected the blows.

He leapt back suddenly, and threw a blade at Skywalker. It barely missed him, spinning as it went. Skywalker smiled as lunged forward.

"Your over confidence is your weaknes-"

A brilliant blue blade stuck out from his back. He fell forward, a look of complete shock on his face.

Durango was already running, trying to escape with all possible speed from the destruction that awaited him. Barad-Dur called his blade to his hand, then cornered the MC. His hand pulled out a blaster, and Barad-Dur smiled.

"That is no lightsaber," Barad-Dur smiled, but had to bend back in suprise as a silver blade shot from the muzzle.

The lightsaber went down, and Barad-Dur dropped and rolled away from it. The Calamari leapt forward, stabbing down, but was kicked hard in the stomach. As he fell back, Barad-Dur jumped up onto his feet, and slashed with both sabers. Durango swiftly tired in his efforts to save himself. In ultimate desperation, he threw the command chair, which was cut in two by Barad-Durs' blade. Barad-Dur returned the favor by descretly moving a body in the retreating Jedi's way, and he fell backwards. Barad-Dur was upon him, and stabbed down, with both blades, one going through the neck, the other through the heart.

Tarna walked with Adenn down a long hall, led by the soldiers. At last, they came to the bridge. They walked in to many soldiers at computers and officers walking around, giving orders. Nero turned around and looked at the two men. He then chuckled and said, "Tarna, my old friend."

The Onderonian stared blankly and gritted, "Nero, you haven't changed much...biting off more than you can chew." Nero's expression quickly dropped as he realized his old ally was not here to negotiate. Tarna looked around at the bridge "I see you now have the Madman. I guess that means you killed your father."

Nero smiled once more, "It was his time, sadly. As you know well, the Flying Madman is a true power in space.  You said it yourself the first time I let you take a ride." Tarna snappd back, "We were apprentices then. You have fallen down a twisted and idiotic path."

Nero looked at Tarna and sighed, "Nothing personal, old pal, but it's just good business." Before Tarna could reply, Nero was flying through the air, blue blade flashing. The Shadow Protector drew his twin blades and knocked Nero aside in mid-air as the yellow blades crashed into the blue one.

All around, the officers aimed at Adenn as the bridge erupted in blasterfire.

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Barad-Dur used the Force to throw the two remaining Jedi as they stood up from behind the consols, knocking both out cold. He then stepped over to the security consol and typed in several commands. At once alarms blared in the ship as the defense turrets in the ship opened up on the Jedi and renegade Sith in the ship. He knew Malice would not be killed, he was too clever for that.

As the guards open fired Adenn started batting away the rifle fire with his twin blades. Red streams could be seen flying back into the gaurds as they continued to fire at him. All most as soon as the blaster fire had begun it had ended. The last guard was floating in the air, grasping for his throat untill a large snap could be heard as the mans neck broke. Adenn then turned his attention to the renegade that had attacked the Shadow protector.

He was soon behind this false sith, force lightning extending from both of his fingertips, heading for the mans back. "You shall die." His black eyes continued to eye the rebel. "Where is this Ithorian?" He asked Tarna as they delt with this scum.

"If you kill Nero, we won't find out!" he shouted at Adenn. The Guardsman stopped shooting Force Lightning and hauled the false Sith to his feet and threw him against a computer. Tarna chuckled slightly at Adenn's vigor, then walked over to Nero.

"We both know damn well that you're not going to win this one. Tell us where Klar is and I may ease your punishment by the Emperor," Tarna snarled. Nero, exhausted and hurt from Adenn's blast, laughed and whispered, "Screw you." Using the Force, he pushed a button on a panel across the bridge.

Suddenly, the Madman listed horribly and the ship started hurtling towards the gas giant Bespin. As Tarna ran over to the manual controls, Nero chose the moment to headbutt Adenn and call his lightsaber to his hands. Igniting the blade, he turned on Adenn and swung his blade.

Tarna ran over and jumped in front one of the piloting consoles. He silenced the alarm klaxons with a push of a button and pulled his hardest on the controls, trying to level out the Dreadnaught cruiser. The ship, however, continued to hurtle towards Bespin.