Tipoca City

[SK]

The firefight comes as quickly as it started. His troopers were doing what they could against a well organized mando troop. With them checking their sights, Tank aims diretly towards a soldiers helmet, hoping to knock him down, while Priest then activates a thermal detonator and throws it in the direction of the mando troops coming up the side.

SK sees Zairon coming towards him, but had no idea that the man was carrying a blaster. As the hot fired was towards his kneecap, he then brought his lightsaber down, and like a bat swing, uppercutted the shot up and towards the sky of the Kamino. He then brought his lightsaber back up in a defensive positon just quickly enough to block Zairon's slash at his left shoulder, by keeping his saber close to his body and chest, he then looks Zairon in the eye, and then disengages, as he hops back and holds his saber across his chest still.

"So...you are the best that the Empire could have come after me? What a pity, because if I am worth as much as the bounty is on my head, then I would have expected more, than a amateur duelist come after me. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers...and unfortunate for you...now DIE!!" He said, in a tone loud enough for them both to hear, as the thunder is heard, and the lightning crackling down all across the skies.

The sky then started to turn dark, and black, and all the light you can then see, are the blaster bolts being exchanged from one side to the other, and the lightsabers of Zairon and SK. Lightning then comes down once again, and only half of SK's body is shown in light, while the oher half you can only see his red eye staring straight at Zairon, then as the lightning dissipates, he then becomes a black figure.

With his right hand, SK then calls up the force, and attempts to grab Zairon in a force choke, and attempts to raise him into the air. "This is where you die, young one..." He then attempts to throw Zairon off the platform and onto the one below, and then runs and leaps into the air, with the tip of his lightsaber pointing downwards in a stabbing position, hoping to stab his straight through his chest, as soon as he lands on the platform.

[Lord Zairon]

"You aren't worth the bounty on your head. We just wanted to make you feel all happy and welcome." Zairon said as he disengaged after his first attack. "To be honest, a used condom is worth more than you are. At least it was useful at one time." Zairon is then thrown back and onto the platform below. He had been distracted by the lightning and prepared to block a physical attack. He swore at himself for his mistake as he hit the ground below. Then he saw the shadowy figure decending towards him and rolled to the side as the lightsaber missed and impaled the ground where he had just been.

He smirked hearing the sound of the Sabers entering the atmosphere. "NOW it's challenging." Zairon said as he got to his feet. "Beating you was too easy, now the challenge is beating you before the rest arrive." Zairon says as he swings his left gripped hand up and opens it as if to throw something at Starkiller's eyes. However, once again it's a distraction to cause Starkiller to focus on his left hand. As the left hand comes up, the right hand swings up in a diagonal cut from ground-to-sky aimed at Starkiller's left thigh. As the attack finishes he brings the extended left hand back in, then shoves it straight out once again this time hurling a force push in an attempt to hurl Starkiller towards the chasm hoping to either knock Starkiller into the railing very hard and knock the wind out, maybe crack a few ribs, or hurl him over the deeps into the water. Worse case he'd at least send Starkiller flying to another platform similar to what Starkiller had done to him. Payback was a bitch.

Either way, as he finished with the force push he quickly turned and looked for the blaster he had dropped when he'd be thrown and saw it. Drawing the blaster to him with the force he fired it a couple times as he dashed afters Starkiller since his lightsaber was currently out of range.

[SK]

A smirk then crosses his face, as he realized that this one, had moved away quickly. He knew that this one was skilled, but he will soon end in a bodybag, like everyone else. He then brings his saber back up, and across his body from right to left. He the sees Zairon throw something with his left hand, but does not see anything, and knew right away, it had to be a distraction. He then immediately saw the saber come up towards his left thigh, and with his saber, he blocks it down, and atempts to push Zairons saber away to the left, as he was gonna take advantage of the open space to Zairon, but that was when he was pushed from a powerful force push that sent him flying to the railing.

He then hit the railing hard enough, that he lost the grip on his lightsaber, as it fell into the watery depths that was the Kamino worldwide ocean. He then got up, and felt there was a little pain in his back, but nothing to be worried about too much. He then gritted his teeth, and unhooked his double edged lightsaber, and ignited one side of the lightsaber, as a red blade was seen coming from the hilt. He then Blocked the couple of shots that were coming his way, and then as he saw Zairon coming in, he then looked back at the railing that he had hit, and quickly cut out a piece of the rail, and using the force hurls it in Zairon's direction, while dashing behind the rail, and then jumps up to of his feet, and aims a flying kick aimed for Zairon's head, as the rail was only suppossed to be a diversion, in order for him to gain an upper advatage and to land the kick, and to give distance between him and Zairon, so that he could recover a bit from that blow to the railing.

[Lord Zairon]

Zairon starts to duck the railing then gets an idea as he sees Starkiller behind it jumping to deliver a flying kick. Instead of ducking or blocking the railing and the kick, he uses the force to throw a power push at the railing piece, throwing it back at Starkiller in order to protect himself from the railing, as well as stop Starkiller's forward kicking motion.

Using the railing as a bullet to hit SK once again he sees the new lightsaber is longer than normal. Evaluating it quickly, he suspects it to be a double bladed lightsaber and frowns. He'd have to be careful of that one. He had never battled against one before and with only one end lit, he'd have to make sure to not be caught off guard.

Realizing that delay would only give Starkiller time to recover Zairon decided to press his advantage. Between the impact that Starkiller had hit the railing in his back and the new strike he had thrown with the railing for Starkiller's front, the little injuries would be a distraction.

Zairon hurled his lightsaber like a spear at Starkiller's head while he aimed low with the blaster and fired for the man's crotch. He realized it was a "low blow", but it was mainly to keep the man moving and distracted. Plus any lethal attack being thrown at a man's pride and joy would add distress and awkwardness.

[SK]

As the rail is sent back to him, he had no idea that he would have done that, and it took him by surprise, but not totally, as he used his lightsaber to slice through the rail, and cut it into two, as he landed on his feet. He then saw the oncoming lightsaber being hurled at his head, and using his reflexes let the saber fly past his head, till the hilt was seen, and with his lightsaber, he then cut the hilt of the saber in half, and then activated the other end of his double edged lightsaber, as the red blade came from the second part of his hilt, and blocked the oncoming laser blast aimed for his "man parts" and then spun to the left.

As he came out of his spin, he then lifted up one hand, and with the force, he attempted a force grip around Zairon's body, and pulled him over to him. As he pulls him close, he then spins his body, and with his right foot, attempts a roundhouse kick to Zairon's chest, then followed it up with a slash from one end of his lightsaber, in an uppercut swing, down from his groin up to his head, in order to slice him in half, and end him.

[Lord Zairon]

Zairon swears and quickly holsters his blaster. His lightsaber had been destroyed before he had gotten a chance to pull the trick that had allowed him to beat the last sith he had dueled. Now it would be a lot tricky. Still, he had one more plan. As he got pulled forward, he ducked the kick and lowered his left cortosis shield gauntlet into the path of the uppercut. The force strained his arm, but he blocked it without taking a bad hit. Realizing he'd need to move in quickly while he was up-close and had one end of the blade deactivated, he pushed forward and grabbed the the hilt of the lightsaber with his right hand in order to lessen the lightsabers maneuverability, speed, and power. Then with his left hand he swung up at Starkiller's right wrist in the attempt to strike the nerve in the Sith Lord's hand and cause him to lose his grip on the lightsaber. He also kicked with his right foot at Starkiller's heel hoping to cause the man to lose his balance so that he could gain the advantage in the grapple.

Without a lightsaber, Zairon hoped this grapple would disarm his opponent as well leaving either Zairon with the lightsaber or leaving both of them weaponless. He knew a prolonged grapple would be bad, but at the same time the unexpected deactivation of the lightsaber and his quick grapple and strikes would hopefully let him get the advantage.

[SK]

As they were both struggling with his lightsaber, he then saw Zairon try to hit his right hand, and allowed it to do so, but it didn't flinch, because if Zairon had done his homework on him, he would have realized that his right hand was an artificial one, or else he would have thrown let go. He then felt the kick come to his shin, it knocked him back a bit, but he did not budge from the hold, and woould not dare let Zairon take the upper advatage. He then looked him right in the eye, with hatred coming from his stare.

He then pulled the lightsaber closer to him, and with his head, he attempted a headbutt to Zairon's head, in an attempt to get him to release the hold on the saber, and then with his left hand, he then used a very powerful force push to Zairon's chest, in an attempt to finally have him release the hold on the lightsaber, and to send him off the platform and into the watery depths of Kamino.

[Lord Zairon]

Hearing a metalic ting as he hit the right hand he frowned. It was artificial great. He thought to himself as he felt something smash into his head. He stumbled backwards and was then thrown off balance and sent flying backwards over the platform. He barely reached out to grab hold of the platform, but the wet slippery metal had nothing to hold onto. He only succeeded in slowing down his decent. "Shit...shit...shit..." He mumbled to himself as he slid off and started falling towards the ocean.

"It's raining, Jedi." He heard a voice say as something grabbed him. He looked up and saw the T-mask of one of the mandos that Grainne had sent to help.

"Great timing, I'll have to personally tip you once we end this fight." Zairon said nodding at a platform across from the one Starkiller was on. "Land us there." Zairon said.

The jetpack trooper landed them on the platform and Zairon reached out in the force and started twisting metal supports. Sweet dripped from his brow. Even being the most skilled of the Imperial Knights this was tough work. One support holding up Starkiller's platform snapped. The soldier saw what he was doing and fired a wrist rocket at another support.

As the platform tipped and started to sharply lean towards the ocean, turning that platform into a cliff into the depths of the ocean, Zairon mumbled, "Have a flamethrower ready...this won't take him out, he'll jump."

"Got it." The soldier said as he prepped a flamethrower in case Starkiller tried to jump up onto the platform they were on instead of plummet into the ocean. "You could probably use this." The man said drawing a beskad and handing it to the knight. "Know how to use a man's weapon or just those little pretty laser swords?"

"I got it." He said gripping it and realizing the weight and balance. "We were trained in swords before we were trained in sabers."

[SK]

As the platform started to take a tumble, SK then cursed to himself, as he knew that he owuld need some quick thinking, because they would assume that he would jump. Just then, he saw one of the Mando troopers that was flying about, trying to take out Tank and Priest, and then used the force, and gripped the Mando soldier, and pulled him down towards him. He then deactivated his lightsaber, and the Mandolorian soldier probably was not even thinking about it when he got yanked, so he came down towards him, and SK then jumped on the Mandolorian. the Mandolorian trooper then tried to hit him off, but SK wouldn't have anything of it, as he then ignited his lightsaber, right into the troopers neck, killing him instantly.

He then started to fall towards the ocean, when he pressed a button on the jetpack, and then it started to fly up towards the air. As he was going up farther from the water, and closer to the platform that was falling, instinctively, SK lifted up the dead mandolorian's arm, and was pressing buttons into the direction of Zairon, and what looked like another Mandolorian trooper. He pressed all the buttons quickly, as blaster shots were ringing out, along with a rocket that was intended for them.

As the jet pack had gone up to the platform that he was originally at, where Tank and Priest were both holding their own, SK then leaps off of the dead Mandolorian trooper, and lands right in the middle of the guards, and using the force, he calls upon a powerful Force repulse, as he extends his arms, and unleashes the power of the dark side to all that were on platform, trying to not only knock them out, but also blow them all off the ledge unconcious.

[Lord Zairon]

"..." Zairon sits there for a moment watching in shock at the sheer ridiculousness. As the rocket fires at him he redirects it with the force and lifts his left hand, deflecting the lasers with the force.

"Alright...games are over." Zairon says annoyed as he watches Starkiller land and use the force to blast a large part of the original platform.

Zairon closed his eyes and when he opened them they almost seemed to glow with sheer determination. He was drawing on the force at full power now. Even Lord Ire had been kept unaware of the scope of his power. Due to the high draining nature of going full power with the force, Zairon tended to use it in limited amounts. But he was determined to end it quickly and with a bang.

Drawing on full power he hurled the sword, not at Starkiller but at the floor near him. As soon as he threw it he force jumped towards Starkiller his hands going back and spread out like an eagle. However, what they were really doing was drawing on massive amounts of force energy. The leap that only took a few seconds to make seemed like minutes as he continued to draw on the force. As soon as he landed he hurled both hands forward and hurled an insanely powerful force push straight ahead with both hands. The sheer massive power behind the force push dented parts of the floor and blew open the door to the cloning facility as if it were made of paper. He could only imagine how hard it would hit Starkiller.

With the sheer power behind it, the force push would probably knock Starkiller through a wall and into the very center of the cloning facility. But he didn't care. Going through walls would at least weaken the man. Realizing once his adrenaline ended the Imperial Executor decided to keep blasting while he was at full strength. He ripped two segments of the platform's floor and hurled them after Starkiller into the cloning facility before grabbing the sword from where he had thrown it and racing into the building after him stepping over rubble along the way.

[SK]

As he gets pushed into the cloning facility, he hits the glass walls, and then slams hard up into a wall. He then sees the the pieces of the platform coming at him, from where Zairon's positon was, and then brought up his hands, to block the oncoming debris, and to slow it down. He had done so successfully, but the debris was still covering him. He then closed his eyes, and gathered the force once again, and with yet another powerful repulse, he blew away the debris, but the force move had actually also damaged the bottom floor of the cloning facility, as the pillars began to crumble, and the supports were coming down.

Tank and Priest then moved out of the way from the cloning facility, and then they began to fire upon Zairon, with thier blaster rifles, but they were now out in the open.

SK then ran out of the facility, and then stood there, looking straight at Zairon, as the building behind him came tumbling down, he then activated his double edged lightsaber again, with both blades coming out of opposite ends, and walking towards Zairon, as the dark side of the force was now more than ever, swirling itself inside of him, as the anger and hatred he had for this man, was taking over. His eyes now started to burn red even more, and with each step he took, the power of the darkside was being felt by all, as the platform began to tremble.

[Lord Zairon]

Zairon gets annoyed with the two guards of Starkiller's and waves his hand across tossing the two over the edge and into the water as if backhanding a fly.

As he watched another building take severe damage a part of him considered how much damage they were going to do and the negative consequences for it. However, that part was pushed aside with the determination to succeed at taking this man. He knew he was supposed to take the man alive, but holding back was just going to get him killed. He'd not go out of his way to kill Starkiller, but he wasn't going to hold back.

He looked at the man as the sith walked towards him. This man had to be getting worn out also. With the sheer force the man had been nailed with in that last force push, Zairon was surprised the man was still going. However, he had to admit a form of respect for the endurance this man had. He was starting to wish he'd not run ahead so fast. Had he waited for Shadow this fight would probably be over.

He wasn't doubting his ability to beat Starkiller, but he knew it would be difficult and could swing either way. Shadow would have guaranteed victory. Still, what was done was done. Hopefully Shadow would follow the debris and chaos the two had caused and arrive soon. If not, the Sabers were probably landing by now and would begin heading in his direction.

Zairon's left hand once again reached down for his blaster, he flicked the gun to stun. He would have preferred kill, but he had his orders. However, this time he wasn't going to just swing and shoot as separate motions. He was going to press and not give the man time to recover. He'd wear down this older man, then defeat him.

Dashing forward Zairon feinted for Markon's head in a vertical cut, but snapped his wrist and flicked it into a right to left horizontal cut aimed for Starkiller's left arm. He then pulled back with his sword bringing it closer to his left hip and thrust for Starkiller's inside line aimed at the dead center of the man's stomach.

The first strike had been to set up the second. Zairon realized a simple cut set up wouldn't work, thus he had hoped that by feinting, preparing, and then attacking he'd get the opening he needed.

At the same time as the thrust went for Starkiller's stomach, Zairon thrust the blaster up and forward point blank at Starkiller's face and pulled the trigger quickly hoping to stun the man.

[shadow]

As soon as Ire told Zairon that he was to go with him, he nodded his head and turned to find Zairon already running down the corridor with the Mandalorian troops. Smirking slightly, he begins to jog lightly down the corridor making sure he stays back some ways to not get in their way.

As he approaches the exit to that part of the building, he suddenly staggers feeling the entire complex shaking. "Hmm, seems like the fighting has started already. Must be one hell of a fight to feel it clear from here." He mutters quietly as he takes his lightsaber into his hand.

He slows his pace as he starts to see debris and rubble. He pauses long enough to get his bearing and sees that he emerges on a landing above and to the left of where he can see Zairon and SK fighting as well as the Mandalorian troopers. "Oh that's just great. I knew I took a wrong turn in this blasted city." He silently ignites his lightsaber and a red blade emerges from the hilt.

He slowly creeps out onto the walkway trying to stay concealed, positioning himself parallel to the fighters and then drawing into the Force, leaps into the air to jump the gap between the platforms and lands slightly behind and to the right of SK.

[Grainne Fett]

Pacing in front of the view screen, she turns to the Commanders. 'Thankfully, the cloning facilities have been shut down and cleared out." Kal comes behind her and places his hand on her shoulder, "Grainne, the boss did good with that one. He could not see another one be made." Nodding, she keeps her eyes on the fight.

Commanders come forward with the paperwork on Starkiller's ship that has been salvaged. "I want that ship to be gone over with a fine tooth comb. Even if you thing is the most minute detail, I want to know everything "

[Lord Ire]

Ire, continuing to sense the insanity of Zarion's battle with Starkiller grow by leaps and bounds, isn't blind to Grainne's actions in wanting her former friend and comrade's ship. He remembers her words from before, she's probably looking for a clue to find Starkiller's family. Keeping a solid stance and not even turning to look at Grainne, Ire begins to talk small with the Jedi and Mandalore.

"Why are you looking for Glow?" Ire says the name of Starkiller like its familiar, like he knows her. That's impossible, how would Ire 'know' Glow? If his mind was easily read there might be a hint of deception and wrong doing on his part, lucky for Ire that he shields his thoughts from prying minds. "Is she important to the Jedi?"