Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:14 pm by Arkhan Miderve
*The Jedi master attacked again, hit hit hit block block block, then he did something unexpected.*
*Regnum expected this 'master' to be better than this. Perhaps hit was a trap, but if it was, Regnum took the bait.
The Jedi had overextended his arm in that last strike for the opening Regnum had feigned.
He had played right into it.
Regnum knew of no real counter move.*
*So he blocked, grabbed the saber wrist of the alien, yanked him close, sent knuckles into the beings mouth so hard, teeth dislocated.
Then he turned the wrist and sent a foot into the jedi's gut.*
*The Jedi cried out through a bloody mouth as his wrist broke but the cry was cut short when the gut shoved all air from his lungs, and he fell back hard, onto the ground.*
*Regnum stood, towering over his enemy. Almost stunned. This jedi was no warrior for peace. He was nothing.
Foolish Jedi. Never practicing combat, always 'talking' never fighting. Training can't be matched for experience. EVER. Regnum knew that from his days before the force.*
*He stepped forward to end it as the jedi tried to grab his saber with his unharmed hand.
But suddenly the dark side screamed at him.
He spun and countered a Selonian leaping from the dark with a blade of some kind.
He was easily parried, the blade cut in two, and the creature stabbed and thown.
Two other creatures leapt to help from the side but were grabbed mid air by 2 of the four, and slammed into the ground, blades cutting off the weasels' arms, easily slain.*
MAster Slil"sLTOP!" *he slured through the blood and spittle.*
*Every selonian froze.*
*The Jedi stood.*
Master Slil "We will honor our agreement. No one interfere."
Selonian warrior"But,....master....he was about to kill you...what about reverance for life as you taught?"
MAster Slil"Don't let your warrior ways overturn you, recall what I taught you."
*The jedi stood, spit teeth out with blood, and readied his saber with his other, probably less practiced hand.
He circled.
Regnum watched. Letting him think he could win.
Intimidation, pain. This was a Jedi. He never practiced such and thus knew nothing about them.
Blasted foolish squid head.
He was about to die.*
*The Jedi Leapt forward into an over hand chop.
With one hand?
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Regnum easily parried but the broken wrist came out, and a force push was managed, barely.
Regnum staggared back as another swing from the blade came down.
Regnum blocked and fired a push of his own.*
*The Jedi flew.
He barreled into his precious selonians.
They readied for attack as they scrambled to help him up.
Regnum's troops went to high ready and the 4 ignited blades.*
MAster slil" NO."
*The JEdi master stood. Blood still trailing down both corners of his mouth.
He stepped forward hand out, and a selonian gave him his green blade which he imediately ignited.*
*He must have thought Regnum no more than a bully. A mere joy seeker.
Regnum was here on a mission. To gain power.
AND this was getting rather droll, besides the fact that that one push pulled at Regnum's rage...
It was time to end this.*
*Regnum pulled the dark side of the force into himself in droves, til he shimmered with the dark side of the force, and then released it in waves of darkness like a hurricane. Everyone would feel it. The selonians. The jedi. Everyone.
The Jedi staggered as if hit with poisonous air. The selonians all shifted and chittered. Some cowered in fear, others gave in and grew angry, especially those with sabers...
The Jedi leapt forward.*
*Regnum saw it, he was distracted. The fool.
But the jedi saw this was the end. The alien knew he had to finish it now, or the dark side would overwhelm him.*
*And so it did. And in the darkness, he didn't see the his attacks effortlessly parried, redirected, and countered.
And soon, not even then crimson blade that pierced his heart.
And as that blade pulled out, it swang to deflect another blow, sniping head tentacles, and then went back to deflecting more swings of the soup green blade.
Suddenly, the jedi seemed to stagger agian. A lul in this ability to fight.
He had suddenly realised his chest had been pierced, and probably his heart as well.
His legs fell from under him and the last attacked countered by the Sith knocked the hilt from the alien scum's hand to clatter to the ground far away.
Regnum stepped forward so see the jedi holding his chest.*
MAster Slil"Okay,... you've won, now,.... please, let them go,... as we agreed."
"No."
MAster Slil"Wha-?"
"I lied."
*Trechery is the way of the Sith.*
*Apparently this Jedi also didn't study the Sith ways as well. Probably out of some fear of it 'corrupting' him. Another mistake of the jedi.*
*And as the Jedi looked up, Regnum swung down for the kill.*
*A selonian cried out in it's alien tongue and leapt forward.*
*At least they got it now. The jedi master was helpless this time.
But Regnum wasn't.*
*A cloud of blaster bolts went out and blew the selonian half into ash and two crimson blades sliced into it's chest and suddenly retracted to two of the 4's hands, turned off and placed back on belts.
And of course the blade went clean through the squid headed Jedi's skull, cleaving it in two.
The selonians all whispered and chittered and looked among themselves unsure what to do.
But the few with the lightsabers knew. The rest looked afraid.*
*Fear wasn't in these few, ferral eyes.
Anger was.
Good.*
*They all leapt forward in unison.
Regnum welcomed them.
A long swipe sufficiently parried all their attacks that reached him.
A swing here. A reverse under the shoulder stab there. A duck and a swing.
Half were dead or dying.
Apparently seeking serenity with the Jedi made them forget how to withstand pain. Not many were truly disabled.
Another few twists of the blade, and two more were disarmed, and delimbed.
The last stood. Quivering. At low guard.
Regnum stood waiting. Then lowered his blade and placed his hilt on his belt.
The selonian was confused at first.
It stepped forward to attack, but Regnum lifted a hand.
And the selonian lifted with it.
A saber couldn't help now.
So close, yet soooooo far away.
The selonian bent backwards to it's fullest extent (that surprised Regnum) and then suddenly forward again as it's spine compressed and bent.
The creature cried out, but failed to die.
The inhuman creatures spine was still not humanoid enough to break.
So Regnum did it again, and again.
Finally a disc cracked and slipped.
Well, at least it was paralised...
Regnum decided this one would watch then, and threw it to the wall nearby.
His 4 ignited blades. He did as well.
The troopers went to high ready, barrels pointed out in many a direction.*
*That's when the rest stormed in.
Hundreds of selonians had gathered to watch during the dual.
But there weren't many in the chamber it'self, most were in the tunnels still, craning their heads for a better view.
Perfect chokepoints. If they were lucky, they'd probably trample most of their own in their primitive animalistic stampede.
This was going to be a long fight. With LOTS of killing.
And it was but of course the perfect time for Regnum to activate the experimental implants he had given to his troops.
The implants activated whenever violence or death was likely or happening. They released a specific and highly addictive mix of testosterone and adrenaline into the bloodstream and brain of the user. It was named by the scientists, a 'combat reflex'.*
*The troops were not fools. They saw their enemy numbers and no retreat.
Even the most loyal of troops has fears. Even the most intelligent and gifted, doubts. The most pragmatic and logical, superstition.
But the combat reflex however.....
would help them understand how to forget such.*
*The troopers watched the swarming selonians with some fear of the afterlife in their secret hearts, for being brutal mercs was not well regarded in any religion. And their own very painful and slow deaths in the many hands and razor sharp now protruding claws of the savage beasts.
And then they felt something else.
Not fear.
But a warmth.
A warm intoxicating feeling in their blood. Their heads suddenly were clear, free for thought. For combat.
They were suddenly ready to take on well....anything...*
*They stood, poised ready.*
:: "Engage."
::
*The troopers fired grenades into the swarm.
Blood clouded and splattered everywhere as dozens died.
Rotary cannons blasted into the tunnels.
Grenades fired from attachments closed off tunnels to have smaller doorways, and others completely off to concentrate fire on less tunnels.*
*As the fighting and death increased, so did the warm reward chemical in the troopers bloodstream.
They were deadly focused now. Hardly a single miss.
But plenty of kills each.
Regnum watched with approval and fascination.
He felt their utter calm.
The fear driven away by the chemical high.*
*Some stray blaster bolts flew from overhead by some selonians that had apparently wrapped their primitive minds around using them.
They were easily deflected and redirected into their firers.
The rest scattered.
Some grenades also suddenly found their ways up to the higher platforms.
But Regnum reached out with the force along with 3 of the 4 and the cliffs of steel or rock or dirt or garbage began to crumble.
Soon, there was no sufficient high ground.
Bodies were piling.
And the dead were beginning to outnumber the living.*
*Then a wall fell in. And the troopers shifted fire to compensate.
A flood of selonians fell in.
Regnum and the 4 waded into the surging creatures, slaughtering them .
Crimson blades swung. The force basted droves into the air only to be filled with more selonians.
Chain lighting from Regnum and one of the 4 surged into the crowds and connected more than several dozen in arcs of disabling electricity.
Blood soon began to pool and trickle underfoot as most of the selonians merely passed out from the dispersal of electricity instead of dying, and were quickly trampled by bloody claws of their denmates. The blood turned the ground to a red mud that quickly splattered as everyone sank near to their ankles in it.
The troopers began to signal they were running out of ammo.
They had come in with a full compliment at Regnum's command. All they could carry.
Their guns stared going silent, and minerature flamethrowers soon ignited in all directions as gunfire trickled off.
This caused the selonains to go into a panicked frenzy as they attempted to get the flaming goo of their thick fur.
This bought them some time as the attack stuttered.
Regnum cut through 6 selonians with a single swipe and waved his troops out.
Suddenly one rised a hind up with a cylinder and a button on top.
His thumb pressed the button.
The entire chamber leading all the way from where they entered and down through the selonians blasted with fire, and pressure.
Selonians turned to mist, ash, or bits as the various kinds of explosives wrecked a hole out.
The 4 took point around the toopers as best they could and Regnum took the lead.
Running out, they entered the tunnel as selonians still scrambled to find out what the spast had just happened.
Some explosives had blown the cliff away and had created a ramp to the tunnel they entered.
They sprinted through the crowd and up the ramp and into the tunnel cutting down new selonians along the way.
Soon, daylight.*
:: Pickup. Now. ::
*They were outside.
They immediately spun and fired the rest of the flamethrower's into the tunnel til fuel ran out.
The selonians ran into the fire and threatedned to reach the exit and overwhelm the troops but they froze at the exit.
A black twisted starship had fallen out of the sky and hovered on repulsers just above the ground.
It's dual quad laser turrets, dorsal light repeating tubrolaser, and even the small security anitpersonel cannon hanging out ventrally all focused on the tunnel entrance over Regnum's group.*
*There was a pause.
Then there was destruction.
As every cannon opened up at once.*
*After about 30 seconds, everyone was on board the ship.
Regnum droppped into the pilots seat and waited for the targeting computer to synch with the data recorded in this mask. After a second the tunnel was mapped, and he clicked the red button on the top of the firing mechanism.
A proton torpedo fired out of a tube and straight into the tunnel mouth and deep into the cave.
He waited before pulling up.
Impact. The fireworks began.
The fire started to show.
And Regnum pulled up, satisfied.
The ship pulled away as firey plumes and bloody mists from the explosive compression of air in the tunnels escaped most of the vents onto the street in a 3 block radius.
And the black ship blasted off back into atmo.*