The Mandalorian Wars... (Page 15 of 15)

...Kot'e Te't, bridge; Mandalorian Armada...

Mandalore crushes the transmission terminal, cutting off communications with the Jedi Council. He growls. Damned Jedi! Weaklings! Never could do anything right and now they couldn't even command and control their own men?! How they managed to hold any standing in the Republic army is a complete mystery to the Mandalorian leader.

He turns to one of the Lieutenants. "Get me communications with the Jedi craft harassing our ships," he demands.

The Lieutenant salutes and immediately gets to work on one of the secondary transmission terminals. "Right away, mi Mand'alor."

Mandalore looks down at Skye, the Jedi crumpled and shivering at his feet. As all Jedi should be. He barely catches the flash appearance of a Kov'arir near her, hungering for even the tiniest taste of Jedi flesh. He smiles beneath his cold mask. "Let's give the Jedi an offer he can't refuse."

...Above Serroco...

Two Mandalorian stealth crafts appear out of thin air, their tractor beams enveloping the two remaining civilian transports which had yet to jump system. An EMP sent through the tractor beams' streams kills the transports' systems and overheats their engines. They stop moving; dead in space. Shields immediately spark and flare up along the length of the Mandalorian stealth ships. Insurance.

However, the Republic had learned long ago not to attack Mandalorian crafts with... "hostages". An assault would lead to utter failure and unnecessary causalities. It was one of the last resorts for Mandalorians. "Suicide" protocols inserted into their tractor beam systems ensured the Republic would not openly assault a Mandalorian ship to liberate a Republic captured ship.

If the Mandalorian ship were to be destroyed, the tractor beam would unleash immense pressure on the ships trapped within. In this case, the two Mandalorian stealth crafts would completely obilterate the civilian transports and all those on board.

...Meanwhile...

Jason's COM flashes again. Another contact?

...Downfall, Revan's personal chamber...

Revan stares at Alek for a moment as if she doesn't believe its really him. "Alek...?"

Suddenly, she gasps. She drops her lightsaber in horror, pulling her hand back to her and clutching it as if she'd been burned. She turns away from Alek, softly rocking back and forth. Sobbing. Broken.

As Cassus walks down the hallway he hears the faint sound of footsteps behind him. He turns around in time to see two Kal'e barely visible in the dimly lit hallway. The warriors immediately step forward pushing Cassus into the nearest room. The lights in the room flicker on and the doors slide shut behind them.

The Kal'e were by far the most intimidating and deadly soldiers in the Mandalorian army. The best of the best taken under the banner of the Neo-Crusaders and hardened by Mandalore himself. They were ruthless warriors with a demeanor which was so Sith-like it more than once caused Cassus to worry about the influence of Mandalore's Sith "allies" on the Mandalorian leader.

Cassus begins to speak but is abruptly stopped by the larger of the two Kal'e. "Mandalore is preoccupied," the Mandalorian brute begins in Mando'a. It is an archaic version, rarely used among even the most devout Mandalorian warriors. Mandalore himself rarely used it and he was the last known remaining Taung, the original Mandalorian species.

It is the perfect cover for a conversation which the Kal'e warriros obviously don't want to be overheard. Cassus struggles with the words and sentence structure, being more fluent in modern Mando'a.

"He is organizing the Republis and Jedi's retreat out system. Serroco is within Mandalorian grasp. Whether she summits to Mandalorian rule or enters the fold as another conquered world remains to be seen. But she will fall one way or another."

The second Kal'e speaks up in Mando'a, the voice soft but dripping with the same bitter venom as that of the other warrior. Cassus is taken aback. A woman? The Mandalorians always revered their women as warriors of the same caliber as their men. But to be in the Kal'e? She had to be very skilled indeed.

"However," she adds to her comrade's statement. "There are other things which more directly concern the Kal'e at the moment. It seems we have stumbled upon a rather troublesome situation. And you may be the only solution to our... problem."

The first Kal'e growls with a nod in Cassus's direction. "Sit."

...Meanwhile...

Mandalore appears in full holographic form before Jason. "Jedi..." he growls with complete distain.

...Downfall...

Revan flinches away from Alek at the first contact but calms down, leaning her head against him as she cries. Slowly her hand  moves to his face, her fingers trailing along his jaw. It had all seemed so real. So frightening. Was that... the future?

She sniffles. No... Alek would never hurt her. He wasn't a monster. And she wasn't either. Wouldn't do something horrible like that to him.

*looks around, whistling* OMG! A butterfly! 
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! o_O Spiders bite people!
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