The Sourne Identity

[Cain]

Raiku's ship exited hyperspace over the Republic capital and eased itself onto a private landing pad not too far from the Galactic Senate. It wasn't long after that the ship from Tishi broke through the clouds and landed down next to Raiku's ship. The ship's ramp lowered and Raiku stepped down, followed by Luster with Cain not far behind.

"Wait here a moment, Sithy," Raiku said turning to Cain, "There's something I want to get..."

Pressing a button on her guantlet, the ramp of her ship lowered and Raiku hurried into the ship. Cain scanned the skyline off the landing pad, glancing at the sun setting behind the Jedi Temple off in the distance.

"Well this takes me back..."

"Got em!" Raiku shouted, emerging from the ship with a pair of binders that she quickly shackled onto Luster. Cain shook his head with a heavy sigh.

"What the hell are you doing?" Cain asked.

"Hehehe, no worries Sithy," Raiku answered with a smile. Just then a small fuzzy lizard crawled up from Raiku's back onto her shoulder and let out a low growl, "my little friend here will keep me safe."

"Ysalamir..." Cain said with a frown, "I hate those things..."

"How could you hate him!? Isn't he cute?" Raiku asked, holding the Ysalamir out towards Cain. Cain recoiled with a disgusted look on his face.

"Charming..."

"Well in any case, I guess this is good bye, Sithy," Raiku said putting the Ysalamir back on her shoulder, "You can take the Mitsukai's ship. Consider it a gift."

With that Raiku turned to Luster, extending a long barb from her gauntlet behind her index finger.

"And as for you... just be a good boy and don't give me any trouble, or you'll be dead before you even feel the sting," Raiku said, running the barb down Luster's cheek.

As Raiku led Luster away Cain glanced at the new ship, then back to Raiku and Luster. As they disappeared into the building Cain pulled his hood over his head and slowly followed the two into the Senate.

Inside Cain kept his distance, crouching down in the shadows. The Senate was empty as Raiku led Luster out onto the floor. A figure cloaked in black was there waiting for them.

"I believe you owe me some credits, Sourne..." Raiku said as the figure turned slowly, cautiously keeping its distance. Under it's cloak it's eyes were glowing red. Slowly the man pulled back his hood revealing blue skin and black hair.

"All in good time, young one," The man responded, looking over Luster, "You've done well. Take him down to my shuttle..."

"Heh, I don't think so," Raiku answered, "I'm not doing shit until you give me my money."

"Most regrettable," Sourne responded with a sigh, glancing at the Ysalamir on Raiku's shoulder, "Interesting creature that Ysalamir is, without it I doubt you'd stand much of a chance against the powers of a Mitsukai... but with it... I wonder..."

Sourne reached into his robe and pulled out a blaster pistol, pointing it at Raiku.

"How easy would it be to take you both down with a simple blaster?"

"Go ahead and try-"

Raiku was suddenly interupted by a blaster going off behind her. It hit the Ysalamir on her shoulder sending it tumbling to the ground. Startled, Raiku spun around to see Cain holding Sourne by the wrist. Pulling his blaster arm back away from Raiku's head.

"Hmph... tricky one this Sourne is," Cain said as the Sourne in front of Raiku melted away into the shadows, "Have the clone keep its distance and then finish it with a shot to the head..."

"I don't know who you are, but you should have just let me kill the girl," Sourne said with a smirk, "Taking out that Ysalamir just eroded any hope you may have had of leaving here alive."

Then in a flash Sourne vanished from Cain's grasp. The next thing he knew Sourne's index fingers were poking him in the back of the shoulder.

"Searing beam..."

The sound of Sourne's voice caused Cain to try and spin around, but it was no where near in time. An intense beam of energy blasted through Cain's shoulder and out the other side, crashing through the Senate wall and unbroken out across the other structures of Coruscant.

Raiku jumped back as the beam tore through Cain, activating the energy shield on her right wrist. Cain stood motionless for a moment before coughing up blood and crumpling to the ground.

"He's fast..." Raiku thought to herself, "That attack hit Cain before I even realized he had moved."

"What's the matter?" Sourne said softly into Raiku's ear, her eyes widening as she suddenly realized he was right behind her. Without a second though Raiku spun around quickly, creating a force whirlwind that tossed Sourne aside. He landed on his feet, sliding back and standing up straight. As soon as Sourne could lift his head ten of Raiku's darts were bearing down on him. With a flick of his wrist he deflected them with the force. In a flash he appeared in front of Raiku, his hand around her neck.

"This is the end," Sourne said coldly.

"Not yet..." Raiku gasped, turning her gauntlet. Suddenly it began to spark with electricity. Becoming charged with electromagnetism, the darts suddenly shot off the ground and back at them, embedding themselves in Sourne's back. With a groan he dropped her and melted into shadow.

Rubbing her neck Raiku twisted the gauntlets again causing the electricity to stop. She then rushed over to Cain, helping him to sit up. Barely concious, he winced in pain, grasping his shoulder.

"You should be ok," Raiku said, checking the injury, "That attack actually cauterized the wound, so blood loss should be minimal."

"You have to... you have to get out..." Cain said, struggling to breathe.

"What?"

"Go... now... he's still here..."

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Luster did not hesitate once he felt the Ysalamir die upon her back to move his arm quickly to the side activating his lightsaber through the cuffs giving off a slight hiss as they fell to the floor at his feet. His silver lightsaber humming as he saw Cain get shot through the back with a Searing Beam.

"This isn't the usual force user." said Luster more to himself then anyone else. Luster began to glow as he bended the light around him, and a few of shadow clones appeared, one beside himself, and then one on either side of Cain and Raiku. "I don't suppose he's willing to talk about why he wants the Mitsukai..."

[bruinfamer]

It was evening at Coruscant, the sun setting behind the tall buildings. It was Don's first time back on Coruscant ever since he left for boot camp. The military shuttle landed at a military outpost a few streets from the Senate Building. The shuttle landed on the hangar bay, the shuttle doors opening.

"So Don, I heard they are having us do bitch work now while they find a unit for us." said Ozzy as he walked down the ramp next to Don.

"Eh, what can you do. I wonder what type of bitch work they'll have us do. Least Streeter, Nixon, and Ward are gonna be with us, right?" said Don as they reached the commanding officer. Don and Ozzy saluted, followed by Streeter, Nixon, and Ward who followed them.

"At ease men. As of right now, you are assigned to Coruscant Security Force Omega. Cpl Don will be the leader of you all. Since you are all-" the commanding officer was interrupted by the loudspeaker.

"Attention, all military and security personnel. There has been a blast at the Senate Building. The blast has taken out numerous buildings surrounding the building. Casualties are unknown. All personel are to respond."

"Looks like that's us sir." said Don, as he and his men dropped their personel baggage and loaded their weapons.

The commanding officer smiled and pointed the men to their ship. Don and the men rushed over and the ship lifted off the ground, zooming towards the Senate Building.

Don checked his weapon and gear; His men did the same. Don made sure they had the right equipment; medical supplies, jet packs, rapels, and he and ozzy each had swords. The holoprojector in front of the men(middle of them all) showed the commanding officer.

"You men are going to be the first responders to this incident. We believe this is a terrorist attack, but aren't sure of it. Medical and fire teams are putting out fires and searching for survivors." said the officer.

"Casualties?" asked Ozzy.

"High. That blast or whatever the hell it was destroyed 20 buildings, all in one of the busiest parts of the city."

"Was there a session going on at the time of the blast?" asked Don.

"No, there was not. There may be some people in there, but we aren't sure of it."

"Don't worry sir, we'll find out. Cpl Don, out." the holonet shut off."Pilot, bring us down here."

The ship hovered over one of the balconies of the Senate Building. Don and his men dropped down from the ship. They secured the area quickly as the ship began circling the Senate Building. The new squad of Republic Troops were near the hole, the possible source of the attack. The men's main objective was to see where and what that thing was.

"Streeter, Nixon, I want you guys to check the security room. See what has transpired for the past 24 hours and check the scanners for life forms." The two men nodded and raced off to the security room."Ozzy, Ward, you're with me. Double time to the Senate!"

The three men raced down the corridors and reached the upper levels of the Senate. They entered one of the podiums and saw 2 guys and a girl in the center. There were also a few more guys down there. Don and his men weren't too far from them.

"FREEZE! Don't move!" shouted Don, his men and him pointing their guns at the people down there.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Luster heard a large shout behind him, and looked to see that the security had arrived. "Looks like retreating isn't an option any more Cain." said Luster as his silver lightsaber hummed of to the side of him, he still seemed to glow a bit from the rest as the light bent around him. "They always have to show up at the moments that are the hardest to explain...."

Luster looked over to Cain and held out a hand. "Luster purge." he muttered and Cain's arm began to miraculously heal at an alarming rate. "Thank me later, I don't know if that Sourne guys going to show up again, but we have bigger problems."

Luster looked back at the man and shouted towards him. "We can explain." said Luster. Odd were this man wasn't going to listen to a word he said.

[bruinfamer]

"What do you think sir?" asked Ozzy, his gun focusing on the man who just ignited his lightsaber."Are these people Jedi?"

"No, look at the lightsaber. Jedi have green and blue, some of them purple. You two, secure the area. I have a feeling these guys brought company. Keep your eyes open." said Don as he readied his jetpack, letting it come to life.

Don flew down towards the group of people on the ground. One man looked injured as he was being tended to by the girl. Don landed on the ground but still kept his distance from the man with the lightsaber.

"Put away the weapon now!" shouted Don. He was worried about the man who was hurt, but was concerned for the the citizens of Coruscant even more.

[Cain]

The hole in Cain's shoulder was healed by Luster, though a large charred scar still remained at the point of impact. Cain stood back to his feet, whipping the blood from his mouth. Without hesitation he unclipped the lightsaber from his belt and ignited the black and blue blade.

"Easy Cain," Raiku said, tugging at his arm, "That was a pretty ridiculous attack you just absorbed. You shouldn't be looking for a fight again so soon."

"He won't catch me off guard again..." Cain muttered back, jerking his arm away from Raiku. Cain the glanced over at Don. If this was Coruscant's defense then they should've killed him by now. It wasn't too much of a stretch judging from Cain's appearance that he was a Sith Lord. But Cain wasn't about to question any of it.

"I wouldn't worry too much about his weapon, corporal," Cain said to Don, "there are far more insidious things lurking in these halls right now."

Just then a massive surge of air rushed through the senate as a blade of razor wind slashed down at Don. Cain reached out with the force, using brute power to rip the aligned air molecules apart, causing Don only to be hit with a strong gust of wind.

"He isn't going to show himself to us," Raiku said, "We should get out of this senate. We're sitting ducks in here. In fact I'm willing to bet that the real Sourne isn't in this building at all."

Cain seemed to ignore Raiku, raising his lightsaber quickly as suddenly it was struck with Sourne's forearm. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, his arm was wrapped in electricity as he pressed it against Cain's lightsaber.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

The luster clones positioned at either side of Raiku and Cain came down with slashes while Cain held Sourne's arm up in the air, trying to give him two nice gashes in the side of his body.

Luster himself flapped his wings once sending out two powerful Razor winds that would pass eachother in an X formation just before Cain and tear straight through Sourne and pass by Cain harmlessly, assuming indeed it was the real Sourne.

[bruinfamer]

Before Don could fire, the heavy gust of wind sent him flying towards one of the pods at th ground level. He landed brutally at the wall, feeling the pain shiver through his body. He shrugged it off and readied his gun, pointing it at the arm. Don fired a single shot perfectly aimed at the arm that was shown, then fired several other rounds at where the body would be.

"The girl's right. If you guys wanna get out of here now, follow me!" shouted Don.

[Cain]

Sourne disappeared as quickly as he had appeared just as the attacks from Luster and Don were over top of him. Cain stood motionless as all the attacks passed him by. Raiku began to follow Don out of the senate but paused when she noticed Cain still had not moved.

"Cain, come on!" Raiku shouted back at him. He didn't respond. His eyes were closed as he remained motionless.

Through the force Cain could see flashes, images. The bridge of a Republic capital ship. A man standing on the bridge with blue skin and jet black hair. Out the window the planet below looked like Coruscant.

Cain's eyes opened and he nodded towards Raiku, not mentioning anything of the vision and following the others outside.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

"After you." said Luster as Raiku and Cain rushed by, his clones vanished into nothing and he seemed to look around the room for a moment as if something had caught his eye but disappeared. He had sworn he had seen a large man with a disfigured hand, but now there was no one were he thought he had seen him. Leaving the thought for now he sprinted after the others already ahead of him. The group moved through out the hallways with Luster coming up the rear as they came to the exit a large heaping mass dropped down cracking the floor beneath him. A furry attacks followed this sudden appearance as five knives shot out from the figure's hand towards Cain, Don, and Raiku, followed by a whip aimed at Luster who caught that metalic whip with his bare hand.

"Revenge...." came the low and drool voice that was Ignotus as electricity sparked along the whip electrocuting Luster. Although his reaction wasn't immediate, Luster's timely reaction saved him from a good amount of pain. Channeling the electricity through his arm he was able to quickly create an electromagnetic field, and alter the charge to repel the metallic whip and the charge upon the whip. His hand was burnt, but he would live.

"It seems, Archos' toy didn't get the memo." said Luster as he Darth Ignotus contiuned to block the way out of the building. Three figure's dropped down infected with the Anemos virus, and Luster knew the exact reason why they where here. Luster had left Archos near death inside his sith temple, and whatever this thing had of a brain could grasp some concept of revenge.

[bruinfamer]

The group stopped as a man with knives from his body and 3 human looking freaks dropped down from the ceiling. Don raised his arm, calling for support.

"Ozzy, Ward, I need you at my positon, double time. Streeter and Nixon, get your asses on out ship. Pilot, blast a hole in the wall near my location and pick us up for a quick extraction."

"ROGER THAT!" echoed all of the mens voices.

Don readied his gun and fired heavy red lasers at the 3 human looking like things, aiming for the head.

[Cain]

As the three figures dropped down Raiku sprung into action, detaching from her wrists what looked like two small boomerangs attached to incredibly thin metallic wire. Tossing out the two boomerangs they both wrapped their way around the neck of one the figures. Then by simply jerking her arms back the wires tightened up and severed the head from the figure. The wires then quickly retracted back into Raiku's wrists.

Don and Raiku seemed to be handling the three freaks, so Cain headed straight for Ignotus. Using a flash step Cain vanished into the shadows and reappeared almost immediately behind Ignotus, placing his hand on the creature's shoulder.

"You're too weak..." Cain whispered as before Cain had even finished his sentence two blades of razor wind rushed in from either side creating a Guillotine that would slice off Ignotus' head before he even realized it was Cain that had moved.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

The knives Ignotus fired passed through the air unhindered by anything and hit their targets, except for the one where cain had been which passed through the air only to collide with a solid wall, before clattering to the floor.

Ignotus charged for his primary target which was luster, force leaping into the air as Cain appeared near to him with the guilliotine. Whether or not Ignotus lost any body parts he could not tell as he came down upon Luster igniting a red lightsaber. Luster didn't spare Ignotus a second thought as his hand shot forward.

"Thunder fist." said Luster as he used Ignotus' own electricity to shoot out and blow straight through Ignotus' head as he decended with a slash. The bright flashing, impact blew Ignotus' body straight backwards into a wall where it made a crunching sound. "I suggest we get moving before any more distractions turn up."

[bruinfamer]

One of the knives hit Don in his right shoulder, causing him to stumble. Ozzy and Ward arrived. Ward poured fire at the humans while Ozzy tended to Don's wounds. Don could feel the blood in his shoulder but stood up with the help of Ozzy. Ozzy let him go and helped the fire support on the enemies. The transport ship would be there within minutes...

[Cain]

Raiku hadn't seen Ignotus' knives in time and one struck her right in the leg. Grimacing in pain she fell to the ground, grabbing the knife and pulling it out. The blood covered blade then slipped from her hand and clattered onto the floor.

Cain had started to leave when he heard the clatter of the blade and looked back. With a slight hesitation he returned to her side.

"You're going to have to be more careful in the future," Cain commented helping her to her feet. Raiku stumbled a bit as he tried to set her upright.

"I... I can't walk. Can't you heal it like that Mitsukai did?"

"Well... not exactly like he did," Cain said, closing his eyes, "That sort of thing isn't my specialty... be still."

Cain opened a connection between Raiku and himself, melding them through the force. His eyes then opened and he turned back toward one of the humans that had been sprayed with fire. His skin was completely scorched but he still had shallow breath as he struggled to cling to life. Cain reached down and grabbed the man by the neck, lifting him up off the ground. His skin tearing off under the weight of his own body as it had been burnt so badly. Cain began to drink in the man's pain and suffering, the dark energy actually began to heal Raiku's wounds as well as to give her a taste of the dark side.

When the man's pain had finally become too much he died. Cain tossed the corpse aside and then returned to Raiku, lifting her up again. She was still limping, but was now able to walk.

"There, that should hold you until we can get some medical attention," Cain said turning to leave. Raiku still seemed a bit shaken by what had just happened.

"Wha... what was that?" she asked, following after Cain and dragging her leg along behind her.

"That was power my dear, and don't you forget it."