Center for Planetary Defence and Security.

[SK]

*SK continued to walk down the long corridor, when he thought that he had heard a faint noise coming from the door just at the end of the corridor. He then stops and turns to Volk and raises one finger to his lips as signaling for Volk to remain quiet, and then SK turns and walks over towards the door as quietly as possible. As he is outside of the door, SK then motions for Volk to take the left side, while he will enter the right.*

*As SK then gets ready to walk in, he then deactivates his lightsaber, so that there is not that much light, and he can't be pinpointed easily. SK then looked over at Volk, and nods to him, and then slowly walks in through the door*

[Emanon]

Getting up he follows, SK down the hallway. His blaster carbine moving to cover them. At the doorway he moves over to the left, waiting for SK to make his move.

Seeing SK move in first, Volk stays back and covers him from the doorway, first checking left then right for a sign of danger.

[lotvashai]

They must have been drawing closer, the tell tale sound of a lightsaber disengaging could be heard far closer than the voices or footsteps had earlier. Good, they had been following the trail then, this was going to be an interesting encounter, which all going well, would culminate in their deaths.
Assuming of course there was two of them...and not more. Thank the gods for contingency planning, when she was done here the whole of this world would belong to them, it was still open to infiltration, but that was what she had hoped for...better sport for the warriors, and it kept the priests busy with sacrifices.

Then she spotted him, or rather his sillhouette. Backlit by the scant and near useless emergency lighting, stood the figure of a humanoid male, but only one of them - she had definitely heard one voice address another, but there had been no response...a communicator perhaps? She couldn't be sure, it could all be a ruse...or he could be completely mad. She recalled one such mad infidel she had encountered on numerous occasions, and she couldn't see this one's features clearly. But neither would he see hers. He would be armed, she knew that much, but she would appear as though she was not - her goal wasn't to attack them outright, but she knew well that her sudden reveal could startle them. She took that chance.

"I was wondering how long it would take...I sent that message over four full cycles ago." Her voice chided from within the shadows.

[SK]

*As he walked in through the door, he took a look around to see that everything was still intact. He was gonna motion for volk to come inside, when suddenly there was a female voice from the back, and SK then looked over to find a woman worker, who seemed a bit frightened, but he could care less. He then took a few steps closer to her, butnot by much, and then asked a question to her, hoping to read something from her with the force*

You there, what happened here? I am looking for answers. I am Dark Lord of the Sith Markon Starkiller, but everyone knows me as SK. If you tell me what has happened, then I may let you live.

*SK then stretched out with the force, to see if he could get a reading from the young lady, while with his right hand down by his right pant leg, away from the woman's view, he was signaling Volk to tand back, and not get involved. SK then looked back to the woman*

I am not one of those monsters out there, and I have come alone, so tell me now what has happened here, as I am going to be the only one here that can get you out of here alive, that is, if you do not deceive me.

*SK then unclipped his lightsaber, and activated it, as a red blade is seen coming from the hilt, and a red glow is now illuminating the room, just enough for SK to be able to see into the woman's location*

[Emanon]

Volk about to step in stops as he hears a womans voice, staying by the doorway he aims at her from the darkness. Looking around the room he looks for anyone else, to help Sk if there was an attack.

Noticing SK give him the signal to keep back, Volk stays by the doorway and listens. Keeping an eye on the hallway that they came from, he keeps an eye out for a trap.

[lotvashai]

Sith? Well that was unexpected, but she concealed her surprise well, not that it changed matters, they were all Jeedai to the masses - the masses that mattered anyway. But if he was what he said he was, then he would already know what she was...though not who.
So it must have served some purpose to keep up this false pretense. Though what, precisely, remained to be seen.

"Spare My life? What happened here? You do not know, is the evidence not all around you?" She asked quizically, emboldening herself in demeanour with every word she spoke.

"You discredit yourselves, I must say." she gestured casually upwards, as if to encompass the surface they no longer stood on, "And I assured them that the more worthy among you would heed such a call...but this?"

This time she really did laugh, and it was a low, knowingly ominous one at that, made all the more unsettling by the gnullith she wore beneath the ooglith masquer. "And you chose to seek this place out...tell me, what interest would the seeth have in all of this? Who might be here, hmm?"

She could not see the other one, or ones, that this SK had come with, but she knew they were there, and her eyes were far better adjusted to the dull light anyway, she had been in here ever since the initial shutdown of the worlds defences. Worldships were dark dank places at times, it came with the territory that she would find skulking around in the twilight so normal.
The subtlest of shadows showed themselves, the crumbling abominations strewn around the room, the fixtures and fittings decaying from years of inactivity...the hint of an abominable blaster's muzzle from around the side of the door frame - clever. She almost smirked.

[SK]

*SK then smirked at her comments, and then stared at her, as though he knew what she already was. He couldn't feel anything from her, and surprisingly, seeing one of the vong's in disguise did not shock him to much, as he figured they would have had to do something to conceal themselves in some shape or form. SK then took his lightsaber and brought the tip of the blade towards the neck of the woman/Vong*

Alright you, tell me vong, why are you here? I cannot sense a thing from you in the force, but that just can't be possible. how can you and your species be undetectable from the force?

*SK's eyes then began to narrow at her, and then SK spoke to Volk while staring down the Vong*

Volk, go and check out the rest of this place, make sure that IT doesn't have any kind of traps anywhere. I'll meet you back at the ship, I can handle this one from here.

*SK then walked a bit closer to the Vong, but not that much closer, with his blade still pointed towards her throat*

You will tell me now about why you have come here, and I promise you that I will make your death and quick and painless as possible.

[Emanon]

The only thing that popped into Volks head was, she was really calm, even knowing what was happening all around her. Either meant she was in shock or was the bait to a trap. Her laugh is what cemented that feeling, no one he ever knew that had survived an alien attack would attack like she did.

Without a reply to SK, Volk turned and moved down the hallway. Stepping into the first room he finds he searches around. Finding nothing but broken equipment scattered around, he kicks most to move it around.
Kneeling he finds a destroyed datapad, and looks it over. Finding the datachip, that acted as the memory storage and slips it into his own datapad.

Finding most of the info useless, he did find a detailed map of the planet, belonging to the exploration division of the Utapau Government. I would come in handy later, if he ever returned.

[lotvashai]

Her disguise had never been for the benefit of these infidels, only the ones she had needed to deceive initially, but this sith seemed to enjoy keeping up the pretense for a short ammount of time, perhaps he was foolish enough to think that she would be counter deceived as a result? Then he really needed to brush up on his skills.

"A Yuuzhan Vong crecheling would have seen through your facade," She commented irritably, and this seemed to make him drop the pretense all together - good, she preferred it this way.

What caused her to nigh on cackle with laughter next, though, was his question, his first insult she treated with all the contempt reserved for kane a bar like these. And she did mean these; the other one was still training his blaster abomination on her, making her wonder if she depressed the activation pedal for the hatch, upon which she stood, would she drop safely out of the path of one of those bolts in time?
But now she had a new and interesting dilemma, accented by the familiar snap-hiss of a lightsaber's activation, and she could feel the heat radiating off of it's blade as SK pointed it precariously at her throat.

Still she did not so much as flinch, completely unfazed by her close proximity to possible death.

"You as many questions for Seeth Lord...are you certain you are not simply overstating your honoriffic? I would have thought better of one your age - especially since you are a user of this force of yours." She mocked, shaking her head slightly taking care to avoid the blade's searing tip.

His demands, however, soured her mood almost instantly, and her eyes narrowed to darkly dangerous slits of malcontempt.

"You have no place telling me what I should do, Infidel!" Lotva Shai spat, "Nor do I want any part in your blasphemous form of sacrifice...what would YOU know of pain? What would any of your kind know? You all cower and shrink from it like brenzlits. What we want here is simple...and we intend to take it....ALL of it."

She spared the other intruder a cursory glance, he now seemed to be searching through all the debris for something. Then her eyes flicked back to SK.
"Throw yourself on your own blasphemous weapon while you still can, ignot...I will not be sparing you any suffering!"

[SK]

*SK then looked at the vong woman and he started to chuckle*

Oh you think that I am gonna just throw myself onto my weapon. so foolish of you, because obviously you think that I am one of those pathetic Jedi. No, no I feed off of pain and suffering, and pain is something that you will soon feel...real pain.

*SK then brought his lightsaner closer to her chin, and then attempted to lightly have the tip of the blade touch her bottom chin, searing through her skin, and then bringing the blade slightly above her chin in an attempt to give her a burned scar from her bottom chin to her mouth*

Pain is what feeds me my power, suffering feeds me, and death, death is what I exist for. The death of the Jedi, the slavery of all beings, the galaxy that I conquer and make it my own. Yes, this is MY galaxy and not yours. You shall remember that, that is, if you are alive long enough to know of it.

*SK then takes the blade and aims it down towards her chest*

Now before I am to kill you, I want to see your true form, and just in case you try anything funny...

*SK then took his short lightsaber from his back with his free left hand and activated it, as a blue blade comes out from the hilt and then used the force in an attempt to send the blade into her right shoulder, and stuck it there*

Now reveal yourself to me, for I want to see the face of the creature that I will kill, so that with your last image, you will know of the one that ended not just you, but your people as well.

*SK then took his lightsaber he had with his right hand, and brought it so very close to her chest, in which if she did try even the slightest thing to try and do somethng, all he would have to do, is stab her either in her chest, or stab her straight through her neck*

[Emanon]

During all this time, Volk makes use of the time he has. Mostly holo-recording the damage and junk laying around the building, for later review. Finally he goes looking for SK and the strange woman in the Comm Room.

Standing outside the room again, he waits patiently for things to escalate and listens on to what is being said.

[lotvashai]

She wasn't sure what he found so amusing, she had been deadly serious - infidels and their humour hadn't ever been something she had desired to understand precisely, sometimes it just didn't bear thinking about. No doubt they would find Yuuzhan Vong humour just as confusing. But she wasn't unsettled by any of it...it wouldn't have been the first time she was staring down the blade end of a lightsaber...or indeed any weapon for that matter. She took it all in her stride, smiling mock-pleasantly as if this were simply an afternoon strole on zonama sekot.

Sk raised the blade ever so slightly then, and she could feel it's searing heat radiating through the second skin she wore, followed shortly by the scent of burning organics - the scent of an ooglith masquer being injured was rather unique and unlike that of a smoldering humanoid. It would undoubtedly leave a mark on her own flesh, but not once did she flinch, glaring back at him with cold eyes filled with hatred - a hatred for all that were the people of this galaxy. She wasn't about to let him get any further though.

"The only thing that will be coming to an end, is yourself." She bit out dryly, "Jeedai!"

He was raising his lightsaber towards her chest as she reached into the pocket of the uniform she had pilfered, talloned hand closing around the spherical form of the trigger villip she had kept in her pocket. One deft motion of her hand and this whole place would come down around them...but she would not be with them when it did, and to ensure that, she kept her feet set firmly upon the hatch below her, just a kick away from being opened.
That was when she felt a tremendous searing pain cut through her nerves, severing them and with it slicing through bone and sinew at the joint of her shoulder. Lotva Shai did not cry out, but the look of surprised startlement in her eyes was apparent, it soon darkened into a deep set frown as she brought her right leg up slightly to strike out at the Sith Lord's knees - a breaking kick that if connected, would probably shatter something. But that was not why the Intendant had done so, of course it would be a bonus, but she had just needed the extra distance to put between herself and SK, hopefully he would drop the blade, if not...she was about to make a bad wound worse...and in that case, she would embrace that pain.

Her hand awakened the villip she had concealed from them in her pocket, just as the backwards force of her motion sent the hatch sliding open. The last thing she saw of the room before she passed through that hatch and into the darkness beyond, was the sudden flashes of light from the communications room, followed by the sound of several deafening explosions.

The weak points in the chambers structure, made by the winglings earlier, would bring the ceiling down upon them, followed by several meters worth of solid rock, sealing her off from them, and they from escape...and hopefully death.

[SK]

*As SK was about to give the woman another blow to her body, SK is then kicked on his shin and went down to his knee and saw the woman escape through the hatch. SK then got up and wanted to go after the woman, but his knee felt a bit weak still from the kick, but used the force to seal the pain. Suddenly there was a rumbling throughout the building, then the building shook violently.*

*SK then looked up and saw part of the ceiling crack, then immediatly the roof started to cave in on him. SK then brought his hands up and used the force to stop the roof around him momentarily. He then looked over to Volk.*

Go after her, now! I'll be fine, now go!!!

*SK then just started to concentrate on the middle part of the rubble that was falling on top of him. Several huge pieces started to fall around him. Still SK concetrated on the pieces that would cause him the most harm. As the huge pieces were still coming down, the floor beneath SK the ground beneath him started to crack. He then looked down, and the floor too went under him. SK then started to fall down.*

*SK then went straight down headed towards the floor. He didn't panic though as he used the force to try and slow his momentum. He then landed firmly on his feet, then immediatly called the force to him, and raised his hands towards the air at the rubble and released a powerful force repulse at the oncoming debris which had then blew away the rubble into seperate directions away from SK.*

*As the rubble had then just landed everywhere around him, SK then knelt to one knee to catch his breath. He then looked up to the sky, and then was angry at the fact that this Vong woman had tried to kill him. He then screamed at the top of his lungs.*

Run Vong, Run!!! I am gonna kill you and your whole entire race!!!

*SK then ignited his lightsaber as a Rex blade is seen coming out from the hilt, and started to walk out slowly from the rubble and ready to attack and defend anything that may come his way.*

[Emanon]

Standing there watching, Volk wasn't prepared for what happened next. Suddenly the Vong impersonator falls out with something in her hand. There is flashes all over and SK is telling him to chase after her.

The way she went was closed off before he had a chance to chase after her. So he does the only thing sensible thing anyone would do while the building is falling over their heads. He runs. Trying to get out of it before it falls on top of him.

Turning he runs out through the hallway, seeing the exit ahead. Then feels most of the power of SKs Force Repulse and is throw against the floor, sliding ever closer to his escape.

the building falling inward from the middle like an implosion, was like trying to race time. Seeing a vent in the wall he forces his way past it falling into darkness.....

[lotvashai]

She was falling for what seemed like an age, and above her the whole chamber was coming down, sealing her in and sealing the Jeedai out. The consul was unsure weather or not the other Jeedai had managed to escape or not, she had not seen him in the chamber when she had dropped through the hatch just after the infidel's master - for he was the one who seemed to be dishing out the orders - had decided to skewer her shoulder to the back wall.

Her shoulder joint burned alive with pain, the cauterized wound rendering her arm next to useless, but the wound would not bleed at least. It wasn't beyond repair, and it wasn't severed, the shapers would make short work of fixing this when she had been cleansed by the priests. Only then would she know the fate of the limb...marked by an infidel, but at least it had been in some form of combat, though she had little desire to fight that one, it went against everything she knew to not go back and check on her handiwork.

But the fall had been far greater, and when she impacted with the ground, she found herself staring up the drop and squinting into the darkness. The rumbling above continued for several moments, raining down dust and small particles of debris until finally, the rumbling stopped...and all she could hear was the faint sound of water flowing somewhere within the cavernous space she was in.

If she had judged this right, she would be close to the bottom of a sinkhole, and from there she could cross the water towards the hidden settlement, and regroup.

The Intendant began picking her way carefully along the narrow passageway, eyes still adjusting to the darkness, she wished to the gods that she had brought a lambent crystal with her, but there was no telling what lurked down here - these caves were long abandonned storage units, places for old junk and power generators to be stored. All she would find down here would be abominable decay...and that which dwelt among it.
Her shoulder throbbed with acute pangs of burning pain, curling up her collar bone and up her neck where it burst in her skull as argent as any light down here might have been. It would give her the focus she needed to continue, because getting lost down here was not an option, nor was failure.

She moved onwards towards the sound of flowing water.