Dagmar stepped into the large Imperial Bank and looked around . All around him were symbols of Imperial power and wealth . Over to his right stood a huge art gallery filled with images of Emperor Palpatine . He stepped inside and stared at a lifesize statue of Palpatine from his days as a senator . The statue appeared to be made out of living ice and was quite priceless . Any other man would have thought about what he could have done with that sort of money . Dagmar couldn't have cared less . Pulling his lightsaber off of his belt , Dagmar stepped over the short partition surrounding the statue ." And now to attract some attention . Now how may I improve this priceless art piece ? " he mused . A quick slash of red light and Palpatine no longer had a right arm ." Oh much better, but maybe this will be even more so ." Dagmar laughed gleefully , chopping the top of the statue's head off ." Ah, this just keeps getting better and better ." he chortled . " Stop or die ." a commanding voice rang throughout the room . Dagmar turned to see a group of stormtroopers aiming their rifles at him . Bad move . " Nobody points weapons at me . I am Dagmar , dark lord of the Sith . Fear me ." He shouted . No visible response besides the release of safety mechanisms on those blaster rifles ." I warned you ." he roared, leaping toward the stormtroopers, his lightsaber knocking blaster bolts out of the air . He landed in the midst of the Imperials and whirling , cut down over half of them with the first attack . A trooper with a repeater blaster fired and tried to get Dagmar in his sights, carelessly sweeping the blaster around, blasting bits of slag from the walls and the artworks . Dagmar reached out in the Force and ripped the man's consciousness from his body , quite literaly tearing the life out of the man . He then absorbed the energy and used it in a long burst of lightning from his fingertips and killed the remaining stormtroopers .Dagmar picked up a small hand grenade off of a dead Imperial and activating the detonator, threw it back inside the art gallery as he walked out . The resulting explosion sent bits of flaming matter sailing past Dagmar as he stood in the doorway and surveyed the citizens inside the bank . To the frightened people inside the large front room, Dagmar looked like some sort of demon as he stood in the door with the explosion and fire behind him .At first they thought that the fire was reflected in Dagmar's glowing eyes, but then they saw that he the fire in his eyes was fueled by his insanity . " Its playtime ." Dagmar said in a childlike highpitched voice that was no less dangerous for its appearance .
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Rorn and Don jogged through the jungle . Luke had said to get some excercise before the meeting that night so they had gone for a run . As they ran , a sound began to get louder. Not a natural sound of the jungle but a sound of machinery . Rorn slowed and pulled Don into the bushes just as a sort of exoskeleton plodded by, a stormtrooper piloting the thing . It was like a giant droid with an open front . Smaller than the AT-ST's, it was lurching through the jungle at a rather speedy rate . The stormtrooper was sitting on the front of the torso and had two joysticks, with which he was making it move . Two large repeater blasters rested on the end of each arm . Don reached for his lightsaber only to remember that he and Rorn both had left their weapons back at the Temple . He looked over at Rorn and saw him crawl into another bush . Don followed him and saw a small encampment filled with stormtroopers and a couple more of those exoskeleton things . Rorn crawled around behind a stormtrooper and slowly stood . Grabbing the white helmet he twisted the Imperial's neck until the man collapsed . Rorn tossed the blaster rifle to Don and took the trooper's vibroblade . He motioned to DOn to follow him and slipped inside a free-standing tent . Grunts and a single groan emerged as he took care of the inhabitants . Don sidled inside as Rorn picked up a rifle of his own and peeked out . A large Imperial in different armor from the others walked out of a large ship and stood on the exit ramp giving a stormtrooper sergeant orders that Rorn couldn't hear . Rorn gapsed as he recognized one of the weapons hanging from the commander's belt as a lightsaber . This strange stormtrooper was either a Jedi or a ... Sith , Rorn didn't even consider the possibility that the Imperial had simply killed a Jedi and taken the weapon . Rorn ducked back inside and whispered to Don what he had seen . Don answered by flicking the safety off on his blaster . Rorn grinned and did the same before looking out and scoping out the locations of all the stormtroopers . " Ok, we're gonna need some bigger weapons and soon if that guy is a Force user ." Don nodded and began to size up each Imperial as to number of weapons and what types . He noticed several troopers carrying imperial repeaters and pointed them out to Rorn .Rorn grinned and reaching , grasped their minds and subtly suggested they enter the tent . As each walked in , Don would grab their ankles while Rorn twisted their helmets and tossed them to the side . Now armed with bigger guns, Rorn stepped out and blasted a group of troopers into oblivion . All over the camp stormtroopers fired at the tent . A few wary troopers walked forward and nudged the tent flap open , revealing the bodies of three dead Imperials . The culprits had flown and left ... a imperial issue thermal detonator . BOOOOOMMMMM .
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Stcomm felt the ground shake and then heard the explosion . He walked angrily out the doorway, thinking Those idiotx have gone and blown themselves up . He stopped as he saw every stormtrooper in the camp pointing their guns at . . . a hole in the ground . Stcomm stomped cautiosly up to the smoking crater and stared at the remnants of white Imperial armor . He pulled out his pistols as he turned and faced the rest of his garrison . Stcomm gasped as four more troopers collapsed, smoking holes in their armor . He whirled and fired at a pair of dark shadowy figures behind at tent , nearly hitting one but missing by millimeters .
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Rorn fired at the tall stormtrooper and watched him jump behing a large piece of machinery . " Quick , into the ship ." he whispered to Don .
******************************************************************Stcomm stared at the two people behind his ship and thenfired a long burst from his blasters and dodged as they fired back while running into his ship . " Get them ." He screamed, shaking in fury .
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Rorn jumped inside a cabin and felt the hot edges of three furrows in his shirt . That stormtrooper had'nt missed him by much . Don came in and looked around ," Wow." he said . Rorn looked with him and saw hundereds of weapons on the walls and in racks . And on the far wall , a rack of lightsabers . Rorn grabbed one and tossed another to Don . Acitvating them, a green and a blue blade sprang out . " Lets get busy ." Rorn said, letting the green glow light up his tatooed face .
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Stcomm froze as he heard the sound of lightsabers." Everybody get ready ." he shouted through his helmets amplifier . Two blades appeared, blocking every laser sent their way . One by one troopers fell as blaster bolts were deflected right back at them . One Jedi leaped behind a tent into a swarm of stormtroopers and Stcomm smiled, thinking that was the end of that Jedi .Finally, only the two Jedi and Stcomm were left . Stcomm raised his blasters, just to have them ripped away by the Force . He went to his last resort and grabbed his lightsaber .
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Rorn watched the Sith , he was sure of it now, activate his lightsaber and then Rorn attacked, Don at his side . The sith blocked his first blow awkwardly and retaliated with a slice at Don's knees, which was blocked easily . For all of this guy's prowess with pistols, he could barely use a lightsaber , Rorn thought . And then with a blast Rorn was thrown backward, a secret weapon in the Sith's armor had grazed him . Don attacked with a vengeance and cut through the top layer of armor on the Sith's breastplate, destroying the weapon .The tall Imperial retaliated with a shove of his shoulder, knocking Don back a few feet , but he didn't suceed in knocking Don down . Don leapt up and sliced at the Imperial's weapon hand, taking it off at the wrist and with another slash , the sith fell, two feet shorter than before . Don knelt beside Rorn and saw that the wound was barely a burn, but had succeded in knocking Rorn unconscious . Don picked Rorn up and threw him over his shoulder . It was a long walk back to the Academy .
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Slintronius stated in surprise . STcomm's death was reverberating through the Force, he had failed in his mission to destroy the Jedi Temple .
Posted by Nate at June 14, 2004 05:30 PM