Double trouble

[Yuki Uramachi]

Yuki looked surprised to see Elifain, since she had not met him yet. She then glared at Cain as his shadow appeared in front of them. It seemed as if Zilfer knew the first man, and he did not seem hostile, he actually looked more frightened of Cain than she did, though she mostly held anger towards Cain, but also felt sorry for him too, but that was little compared to her anger.

"Unexpected guests all over the place. It seems today was a bad day to come to Nar Shaddaa."

Yuki joked off-handily. She then looked to Cain.

"What a surprise to see you... Alex. Last time I saw you, why you were training me and helping me defeat my darkside. Well looks like you failed to defeat yours.... Emperor Cain!"

She said vindictively. Cain and Zilfer tossed around partial sarcasm as to how happy they were to see each other again. Then Cain ordered Zilfer to 'take care of' the other Mandalorians as Cain lifted Elifain off the ground. Obviously he and Cain were not visiting Zilfer together.

"Zilfer isn't your lap dog."

Zilfer cut Elifain free and Yuki finally rested her hand upon her lightsaber as she had not before but seeing the current situation it looked as if Cain was ready for a fight. A woman showed up and Cain broke the balcony and stairway they were standing on. As the parts of the building fell, Yuki spread out her wings and she did not fall. She flew up next to Zilfer.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

OOC Well not sure if what I did is doable however i posted. XD

Zilfer sensed the mass gathering of energy, Cain this time had made himself like a beacon the source being revealed in a moment and then the next it was unleashed but Zilfer wasn't unprepared his sword shot out straight in the path of the bullet, his force energy spilling from the blade cutting through Cain's and he used it like a focal point of his barrier as the bullet would cascade in two directions around his transformed shield in that of a triangle with his sword as it's edge. He didn't have to fight the telekinesis directly all he had to do is make it unstable for Cain to control and keep focus on holding it together the rest would take care of itself.

Cain's assault on Elifain met two fronts, Both Zilfer's and Elifain's thier wills where projecting the shields around them and Cain would have to fight both their mights to get into Elifain's mind. Whether or not Cain succeeded in getting into Elifain's mind however didn't change what Zilfer did next however, he knew he had to attack the source to distract him from his assaults, it was time to fight back. Now that he had Cain's position, it took but a moment to form his next move. Closing his eyes and uttering possibly his last sentence to the group. "Fight or Flight, we need to make a decision now I'm going to try and keep him busy and weaken his powers against you. I may become trapped in his web but I will not fall as I did before." His sword was held before him and he seemed to go into a trans.

If Cain was predictable he would most likely try and drain energy from Zilfer and he knew he was taking a bit of a risk here but he made a connection to Cain's mind and began to assault it trying to shut down his motor functions and critical thinking. Zilfer was trying to put him into a cationic state, and as such much of Zilfer's defensive power was now put onto the offense. His offensive would feel to Cain of emotions he probably had never felt in a long time since his days as possibly with Sarah. The Calm, Peace, and happiness of just before drifting off to sleep, and as he did this, he began to siphon off the force energy of Cain unlike Cain's malicious Force drain he wasn't looking to take the life of his enemy just some of his fire power. Assuming Cain started to drain Zilfer they would simply enter into a game of tug o war would only distract most of Cain's attention, allowing his group to make the decision of whether the fight was worth it or not, either-way action was required soon.

[Elifain]

Elifain, now tired of this, as the missile was destroyed listened to zilfers speach, while cains attempt to get into his mind came at him. He began to absorbe the coming energy, adding it again to his shield from it and said, Onward then... to himself. He kept his forward momentum moving him towards the newest location of cains attack. He didn't worry whether or not kailani and yuki had continued following him, or stayed with zilfer.
There wouldn't be another chance to do this, their fight with cain, and with zilfer attacking him mentally, his physical self would be left open.
He drew a lightsaber, activating the blade itself, and yelled out to the civilians going about their lifes around him, Flee for your lives. Go to your homes. You don't want to be here! As soon as he was finished, he opened up an encrypted channel, to the bridge of the hellbound.
I know you have been keeping an eye on that enemy ship out there, that dropped out of hyperspace a while ago... I want you to get rid of it... on the double.
He was getting closer to cain, and would make it to him soon.
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The hellbound broke off its orbit from nar shadaa, and headed towards the enemy nebula. Since its arival, the Hellbounds sensors had all been directed at it, making sure it didn't try to pull anything in this system, and now they had orders.
As soon as firing range was aquired, dancer let out a hoot, before opening up, the 15 forward turbolaser guns opened up, full barrel, which was the equivilent of 45 turbolasers in itself, followed by the 10 ion cannons. They also threw in the 10 mass drivers, and 2 assult concussion missiles, while the ships 40 tie intercepters, 40 torrents, 21 longswords, and 16 stealth- x's deployed, the interceptors hanging back, while the torrents, and longswords charged. The stealth x's spreading out, on random vectors where they could help out the most.

[MikDaTv]

The Albatross came down low over the roof of a skyscraper. They were about a kilometer south of where they'd had to run for their lives out of the falling building. Samson tapped Hefty on the shoulder. "Hefty, we're up. Rest of you stay in the Tross and cover us."

Hefty clipped himself to the craft and fast roped down to the roof. Samson followed behind and the pair ran for cover behind an air conditioning unit. The Albatross moved off, pulling their fast rope up with Tank and Cork on the side guns. Runt was on board with his sniper rifle, waiting to mark a target.

Samson and Hefty's two man team made it to the stairwell door. It was locked with a simple electronic lock, which Hefty made useless by burning it out with his DC-15s sidearm. They slid the door open and went through. Samson put a hand to his ear to hear Runts report.

"Signal is coming from one or two levels down. I'm guessing this is a hub. it's high enough to transmit to other hubs and widen the network. It'll probably be guarded." Runt said.

Samson put his hand back on his rifle and went down a few flights of stairs, with Hefty right behind him. Hefty was their demo expert and he had enough ordinance in his pack to probably blow the top few floors off this skyscraper but thats not what they were here to do. They reached the next floor down and stacked up against the door. Hefty placed a shaped charge on it and Samson got a flash bang and an EMP grenade in each hand

They counted down together and the shaped charge blasted the door inward with a ear popping bang. next went in the grenades. Samson waited to hear both of them before charging in with DC-17 up and aimed. In the back there were two mercenaries rubbing their eyes after the flash bang had blinded them. Samson sprayed them with blaster fire.

Hefty likewise spotted two B1 battle droids at the com gears controls who had been fried by the EMP grenade. He fired a few blasts into them to make sure they stayed deactivated. After that initial gunfire, the room was cleared.

Samson pointed over to the Mercenaries. "Hefty, police their equipment. Watch for more baddies."

Hefty ran off to go search through some bodies. Samson walked up to the com gear. most of it had been fried by the EMP grenade but he wasn't looking to use any of it. He cracked open on the computers and pulled out the hard drive. He plugged it into the datapad on his wrist. "Ok Cork, i'm sending you the data."

A few minutes went buy as the download went. Cork finished receiving the data and started his process. Meanwhile, Samson put the hard drive into his pack and walked over to Hefty.

"Got quite the catch here Boss." Hefty said. "One E-11 Blaster Rifle, one Stouker concussion rifle and one E-5 blaster carbine from one of the droids. A stack of frag grenades, 2 thermal detonators and this." He said, holding up a hand held comlink. He smiled and handed it to Samson. "it's already got the encryption entered into it."

Samson smiled, this was the first good news they'd had since this crap began. He plugged the complink into his datapad and put his hand to the side of his helmet. "Cork, i'm sending you something else, should be the encryption signal after it's been decrypted. Get us online now."

In the Albatross, Cork was working on his portable computer setup. It was a super oversize datapad with long range wireless abilities and a ton of recording space. he'd been working on decrypting the data but this new information just did it for him. He uploaded the code to all the complinks in the squad. "Got it Samson, coms are up."

Samson pumped a fist, "Ok, Samson and Hefty going up for pickup. Runt, start scanning get us any info you can."

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

OOC By Kyllians request i'm posting his movements. Not sure it's going to mean much but eh, every bit counts I guess.

Kyllian decided it best to lend his power to Zilfer in a battlemeld sending zilfer some of his strength in the force so that he could combat Cain if only slightly easier. Other then that he remained next to Zilfer.

OOC and now that i'm done with that back to the regular posting order.

[Odan Thos]

The firepower of the Nebula-class Star Destroyer was a slightly weaker then the Lysander, but it was still a fairly even fight. As soon as the Lysander was in range it fired off eight assault concussion missile and prepared to fight. As the first sh turbo lasers were shot the captain was furious, "Pitch up thirty degrees roll seventy. All cannons fire at the enemy ship an the fighters." He said as the bow rose and with around twelve heavy laser cannon, twelver turbolaser cannons, and five ion cannons, all aimed at the Hellbound bridge and hangerbays. The Ship pitching and rolling made it so each different shots of the Lysander struck a different shield arc.

Angel arrived above Nar Shaddaa on board the Executor-Class Star Dreadnought. She looked out at the battle beginning and thought she was to late. She was hopping to catch the enemy's before they deployed fighters. "Order the Jack Makura to pull back at flank speed and join the remainer of the fleet and deploy our fighters. Send them to defend the Jack Makura, have them focus on the Longswords." She said. The three CR-90 blockade Runners took up with two below the Harbinger and on above it while the Lancer took up position near bow of the SSD. She figured the fast TIE Interceptors would outpace the slower Nissis-clas Clawcraft, but would thin out the Gunships so that the Clawcraft could chew them up.

[MikDaTv]

Lieutenant Ven looked over the shoulder of the ships resident slicer. Petty Officer 3rd class Gormorala had joined the Army of Light last year because she thought it would be a great opportunity to test out her skills with the computer. No computer in her school could stop her and she graduated with all A's even though she'd never passed a test or turned in a scrap of homework. Soon, computers all over the neighborhood were under her eye but it all seemed so boring. With the Army she had a chance to go up against some serious anti slicing hardware and software.

A little bit of training with the Army later and she was stationed on board it's premier stealth ship, supporting commandos in the field. The lieutenant watched her work with a little bit of awe. Her typing had to be 120 words a minute. "How much longer?" Ven asked.

"Almost there now ma'am. Nar Shadda City Logistics Control Center is about as corrupt as any other government agency on this planet and their computer is no exception." Gormorala said as she typed. She hardly even had to look at the screen.

"Copy anything you see about a Goto. He's big fish but the priority is Zilfer and the Emperor." Ven said. Yes, after reviewing the video from Gray team, the hostile man in it had been positively IDed as the one and only Emperor Cain.

"Slicing in now... covering my tracks... ok Ma'am, the cities traffic and security camera system is all yours. what are we looking for?" Gormorala said turning around in her chair with a huge smile on her face.

"Run Cain's image through the system and use the facial recognition software see if that turns up any matches. While thats running have a look at every public pad in with a 10 kilometer radius of that building that fell and look for anything we can connect to the imps." Ven ordered. It was a shot in the dark, but maybe with intel gathered by Gray Team they'd be able to get something. "Keep on it, i'm going to the bridge to establish a direct connect with you to the boys on the ground."

With that she turned to leave, letting Gormorala do her work. It was a quick jog to the bridge and she accepted the pilots seat from the trainee who had relieved her so she could command. "Coms, patch Gormorala's station into the signal with the ground team so they can chat. What do you say we head up into orbit and take a look?"

The prowler started to ascend. Together with the building collapsing and the reports of weapons fire and force users about, there was unsurprisingly a mass exodus of that area of the city. The Prowler couldn't turn truly invisible but right now that didn't matter, it was one in a crowd. in orbit they'd be able to slip away and be sneaky.

[Cain]

A dark smirk came over Cain's face as Zilfer took the bait and made the connection. Cain's will was enough to allow him to resist Zilfer's offense, but this was of little consequence. He had him now. Quickly Cain chanted the incantations for his next spell... When it was completed Cain's body twisted, a look of pain on his face. As he screamed waves of dark energy cascaded outwards, so much so that even Cain's Elites began to feel uneasy. Cain had invoked the spirit of Naga Sadow from the Sith Holocron he had with him, once the former Dark Lord joined its power with Cain's the two together had a direct line to Zilfer's mind which they used to gain the upper hand.

Conjuring from Naga Sadow's knowledge and power base now, Cain created a Dark Side Web to wrap itself around his suddenly overwhelmed victim, Zilfer. The dark strands of energy that wrapped around him would effectively sever his connection to the force, at the same time sapping the energy he had left. Should Zilfer try and resist this Cain would only up the ante...

His Elites had been instructed as what to do when Cain reached this level. They contacted the three Elites that remained with the shuttle, informing them to make preparations. The Emperor would need them soon.

[Elifain]

Elifain, who had been running for a while now, added to the short flight from the falling building, sensed the release of naga sadow in the force, which showed exactly where cain was, a building before him, on even ground with elifain. He smirked, as he lifted his right hand, and reaching into the bag on his side, to collect one of the many orbs in the pack.
He quickly released the trigger on his right hand index finger, launching the concussion rocket into the wall of the building, making it collapse, making a hole slightly bigger than he himself was, and showing two slightly surprised gaurds, and a meditating cain.
He sprinted toward the hole, throwing two luma grenadees in to flash and disorient the sith in the room,and steal the shadows from it, while his helmet kept him from being blinded by polarizing, before hoisting a Verpine shatter rifle, with his left hand, and a orb in his right hand, before squeezing off 3 explosive rounds,1 normal round and 1 incediary round at high velocity without even a whisper, towards cain. Even with the force, stopping the projectiles would be extremely complicated, even without fighting a mental battle.
He added to them, by including them on his force protection, before they left the barrel which he kept over himself as well, and seeing they weren't flying past any ysalamiri till they went through, it would be hard to destroy them. by the time he pulled the trigger down fully, the first bullet would be reaching its target, the rest were overkill, but still just as deadly.
Most of the rounds were fired at cains chest, his center of mass, but the final bullet was aimed specifically between his eyes.
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The captain of the lysander wasn't surprised by the imperial vessiles decision to retaliate, and called out, All crew, brace for impact. All available interceptors, take those missiles out before they make it here! All forward turbo-lasers open up in the general area of the missiles, get as many of them as you can! turn us to port. Launch tubes 1 through 4 of proton torpedo's aimed at that ship!
The ships cut to action, within moments, the 40 interceptors moving to engage the assult missiles that had been aimed to it.
The crews jumped to their duties, The forward guns kicked to firing, while the ACP system prepaired for anything that got by.
The ship accelerated, and began turning away from the executor, that had dropped out of hyperspace, durring the begining throws of the battle, but as the front guns lost the angles needed to fire, the port side turbolasers opened up, continuing the barage.
The shields took fire, and so, as the ship turned in its course, to get away from the executor, the drained shield had a moment to recharge, as the next shield started taking the hits, until they were out of the direct fire.
Expecting the nebula's guns to open up on them again, The V-19 torrents hit the acceleration, boosting as fast as they could to the ship, before opening up with what little missile fire they had.
The longswords followed behind the V-19's, with their concussion missile loads prepped, as the Interceptors turned back to rejoin the lysander.

[Kyllian]

sry, im txting from my psp:

kyllian braking meld with zilfer, follows elifain, force senses for the source of cain's pwr. finds holocron.

then, absorbs both of his light sabr power cells and redirects elifain's explosive shot at the holocron while using all of the power cell power to speed up the shot, reinforce the shot with layers of force fields

also, he caves in the ceiling, after the shots from eli and kyllian make impact, focusing the falling materials towrd cain and the holocron

(hope cain dies)

[Yuki Uramachi]

Yuki felt sick to her stomach as Cain released Naga Sadow. After Elifain and Kyllian's attacks on Cain and his holocron, Yuki brought up her hands and made a crack in the ground where Cain and his guards were standing just big enough to distract him while the building is also falling on him. Then once she had done that bit of help in distracting Cain, she focused her mind on Zilfer's and used calm mind and well as battle meld to help him fight off these evil attacks on his mind.

"I am her to help you Zilfer. I will always be there for you so there is no way that Cain can ever make you feel alone again. He has no power over you unless you let him!"

Yuki tried to keep Zilfer thinking that he had friends, people who cared about him. After this all she could do was give him her power in battle meld, to fight Cain off with.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Zilfer was now battling Cain alone on the plane, in his head he stood along a vast and empty plane facing Cain, and visa versa. It was when he summoned Naga Sadow that things started to turn to his favor, however Zilfer calmed himself, Cain may have just upped his game but panicking wasn't going to solve anything. (Calm Mind II) This feeling of calm helped him fight against Cain's increased offense however it wasn't lasting forever as the tendrils of the darkside began to form around his shield at first they where unable to get through his force protection however it began to drain away as Zilfer battled Cain out mentally. It was this time he knew he would need help, and he opened himself to all his comrade who would listen.

"This is Zilfer, I am fighting the Emperor upon the City moon of Nar Shaddaa where he has already began his slaughtering rampage. Come, or lend me your strength if you are able." said Zilfer accompanying the mental nudges with the images of what had happened to the poor people in the building Cain had demolished. It had been sent out to those who he counted among his friends and allies, Kyo, Moonfire, Tycen, Jor, Revan, Yuki, Kyllian, and even Elifain. At first there was nothing as the joint effort of the dark lords began to win. "Come on... you helped me before, don't fail me now..."

Suddenly Zilfer felt something, a boost in strength as a hand dropped on his shoulder. "Finally decided to listen huh? You friends are your strength, never forget that Zilfer." said a tall man with dark features and white wings spread behind him. It wasn't soon after that Yuki joined in with a meld of her own offering her millenia old assistance to the pool of force power. At last the tide was turning again and the tendrils of the dark side were beginning to be forced back, and yet another voice filled the air.

"Trying to fight the Dark Lord by yourself again Zilfer? Come on, I don't want to have to save your ass every time." said Revan as his strength nearly doubled the power they controlled. "Shall we show him the strength of faith?"

Zilfer smirked at this, as they faced Cain across the way in this mental image. Outside the tendrils that had been trying to absorb Zilfer disappeared and in it's place a light blue light began to illuminate from him. He turned the assault back onto Cain, shutting down his mind again, piece by piece, filling him with feelings of friendship and peace. Washing over the hatred, and anger within Cain and Naga Sadow it was their turn to expel the darkness. With the power and knowledge of those around him, and the will of the force backing him, Zilfer had a wave of light emanated from him much like Cain's own wave of darkness had came from within him. The forces of Light and Dark where literally at war.

"She still loves you, if you would only listen..." said Zilfer who's voice would project into Cain's mind along with the image of a woman holding a flower. He was unsure of whether he could reach anything within Cain or if the image of Sarah would only delve him further into madness. Most thought him to far gone but there was hope in trying, and he held on to fool's hope. All of this while Cain was being distracted outside himself with "Sensory Details." It would be a wonder if Cain could fight both wars at once.

[MikDaTv]

The Albatross carried Samson and the rest of Gray Team in a lazy circle around the commotion. The building that had been destroyed had attracted local emergency services but they were more concerned with getting the people who could afford a nice fat bribe out before they even considered heading down to the lower levels.

Samson wished they could do something but they weren't firemen, they were soldiers and they had a mission. The holocom device started blinking and Samson threw it down onto the deck of the HH-234. Petty Officer Gormorala appeared. "Team, i have something for you. Traffic Cam just picked this up. This landing pad is registered as occupied." She said as the image changed to that of a landing pad here on Nar Shadda. "But the camera obviously tells us it's empty. Also, records show that it became occupied half an hour ago, not long before someone tried to demo the building out from under you."

Samson shook his head slightly. It wasn't a lot to go on but then again they didn't have a lot in the first place. Runt raised his hand. "I may have something." the Sniper said.

He checked his compass and turned to the team. "The merc network we sliced has some chatter about an explosion a few blocks away. Might have been caused by a rocket of some sort... mixed facts. It might be nothing but its both within proximity to the disaster site, and PO Gormorala's landing pad."

Samson sat down. Two possible targets, two possible missions, but he wasn't willing to split his team up. It took only a moments for him to decide. "Pilot, get us near that landing pad. Hefty, take that concussion rifle. Runt, stay on board the Tross and find a nest to do your thing. Everyone else, pack extra hand grenades and launchable grenades, we may need them."

The HH-324 veered sharply as it course corrected towards the landing pad. The pilot engaged the stealth mode to silence the rotors and took them low and fast over a skyway towards the landing pad.

[Darth Hades]

OOC:Sorry for not posting

bic: Rusade after leaving the catina finally knew where to find Zilfer. it didn't matter now anywhere as he felt the force strong now. The darkside was strong. He felt Elfain and as two others. the battle had started and he was missing out. He stole a speeder and after several minutes later arrive by Elifain as he was destroying some buildings. "I'm with you" Rusade yelled as he zoomed by jumping off of the speeder and next Elifain. "Sorry I'm late."

[Cain]

(OOC: Wow, love you too, ron. xD)

Fortunately for Cain, he was not blind. He hadn't forgotten about Elifain and the rest of Zilfer's merry men whom he could still detect clearly through the force as they approached his location. He still wanted to give as much of his attention to Zilfer as possible, however, so he wouldn't be able to grant his guests a spectacular death of any kind. For now a simple barrier was raised around the building to keep Elifain and company out and repel their force powers.

Meanwhile, Cain stood in front of Zilfer. This Cain however was not the one that sat on Nar Shaddaa, he had gray silvery hair, his body was covered with scars and lesions and he had two mechanical arms. The ghostly figure of Naga Sadow towered behind him, "Hehaha... don't waste your breath, Lord Nanashi. The petty weaknesses you still cling to are your own. I have no such vices. You've underestimated me for the last time... and your presumptions will lead to the death of all those you claimed to be your friends. Goody bye, my young apprentice."

While the inner Cain was giving his little speech, the real Cain chanted the Invoke Spirit incantations again to summon forth a spirit from the tome his apprentices had recovered on Tishi. On the plain of consciousness where Cain and Zilfer stood yet another dark power began to rise, far more insidious then Naga Sadow or Cain. The man stood upright, massive black wings unfolding from behind him.... and one glowing red eye.

Cain's power spiked again, this time more then before, he cried out in pain as his body struggled to contain it all. Flooding the meld his victims had made with despair and the pain his body was enduring from the dark side, Cain would use the sudden disorientation to end his guests outside. The force was then molded and slammed down around their necks (that's Rusade, Yuki, Kyllian and Elifain) like a bear trap to snap them and end their lives quickly. As for Zilfer, the Dark Side Web was powered up again with new vigor.

"Hmph! You're not the only one with Mitsukai on your side," the inner Cain croaked, "With Atsuke's power to use at my whim... you will experience the full power of the dark side."

Meanwhile, having been signaled by the other Elites, Cain's shuttle had taken off from its landing pad, mingling in with the rest of the traffic on Nar Shaddaa and awaiting its next orders.