Center for Planetary Defence and Security.

[SK]

*SK had been looking for any oncoming Vong to come chasing at him since the fall of the building. With his lightsaber still lit, he then walked into the next building and then deactivated his lightsaber and knealt down on one knee and tried to catch his breath.*

I swear, all the Vong will die. Glow, sweetie, I'm gonna come for you. No matter who or what, I will make it to you. I have to destroy the Vong first, but I will make it to you...

*He then took a deep breath, and looked at his right leg to see how badly wounded he was. He saw a deep cut down his shin, but nothing that the force or adrenaline couldn't help him with stand.*

*He then started walking along the first floor of the building, when he heard footsteps in the next room. He then tried to feel them through the force, but was unable to get anything from them which then made his next decision made easier for him. With a quick flick of his wrist, he activated his lightsaber and a red blade is seen coming from the hilt of the weapon. He then squared himself up, and went into a Form V Djem So stance awaiting his enemies*

[Emanon]

Falling face first down a dark tunnel was not something he did everyday, but this time it saved his life. Still hearing the building falling in on itself, Volk was glad to be alive.

Seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, Volk could finally see what he was in. Some sort of ventilation shaft connecting to one of the sinkholes. That meant it was a long fall once he exited the tunnel. Pulling his grappling hook just as he leaves the tunnel, he throws it against the rocky walls edge.....

[lotvashai]

The pinnacle in the darkness, that had seemed so far away at one point, had opened out into a dazzling whiteness as argent light poured in from the worlds blazing primary. Patterns danced across the ceiling of the cavenous space now, in random lines and blotches that symbolized the liquid that reflected the gas giant's rays.

As Lotva Shai drew closer to the edge of the mouth, she could see the large expanse of the sinkhole and the water it contained, across the way from this, she would find the path that lead deep into another chunk of Utapau's crust, and to the hidden enclave where she and some of the others had toiled for the past Klekket or so in preparation. A sense of relief washed over her at that knowledge, that her suffering was just a minor setback, and the delicious pain that assaulted her nerves was just but another thing to be overcome. She could return, see to it that she shapers fixed her up after a cleansing, then speak with the priests about her son's ongoing decontamination. He was, after all, the last living connection she had to his father, and while emotional pain was nothing uncommon to her species, far from it in fact, it was one of the most perplexing things to attempt to embrace. Where did one begin with that after all? Physical pain was tantamount to their pantheon, it was palpable, there was cause and effect - but how did you begin to embrace a pain you could find no cause to? And even in doing so...how were you supposed to embrace what you could not effect.

She knelt at the edge of the cliffside, peering down into the deep blue depths of the water below. Waiting for her eyes to adjust to the sunlight, she dilligently checked over the wound in her shoulder again, it still did not bleed severely, there were upsides to being wounded by weapons that hot...she surmised, this was just one of them.

Placing a finger against the pressure point beside the masquer's 'nose' she applied the correct ammount of force and waiting as the creature began to unstick it's self from her form, pulling out cillia by cillia from her pores, until disappearing down the neck of the uniform she wore, before reappearing to pool at her feet. Discarding the creature in the cave, she shed the uniform she had stolen also, and once more turned her attention to the wound. It would hold....it would have to.

Prefferably, she would have liked to adorn herself with a cloaker, but that wasn't an option here and she wasn't being weighed down by deadlife, not when she couldn't have full use of her left arm, so the less she had to cause drag, the better...and thankfully for her, her species were relatively streamlined in figure. Besides, the water wouldn't be cold enough for the inset of hypothermia to set in.
Without further hesitation, she took a brief run up, then jumped free of the cliffside cave, plunging in to the water below.

[Lord Zairon]

((Ooc: meh I should probably post leaving...))

As Lady Athena's TIE Phantom landed near where Sir Zairon had landed his when he had first arrived on the planet he thanked her before he tried to get out. She frowned when she saw him collapse upon jumping out of the shuttle and quickly jumped out after him.

"Why can't you just ask for help..." She mumbled as she helped him up giving him support for his injured leg. "Let's get you to the Lordi and heled up..." She said as she helped him get into his TIE Phantom. Once he was inside and powered up she ran back to her ship before the two lifted off and headed back to the Lordi.

On the way they met up with the other two Tie Phantoms containing the other two Imperial Knights.

[Emanon]

Seeing the grappling hook attach to the side of the sinkhole, Volk still free falls for 10 feet before being yanked to a halt. Slamming against the rocky wall, he gets disoriented for a sec, before looking around .

First he looks up, then all around.

"Great, stuck on a fiber-cord wire up against the side of a sinkhole in Utapau..." He mutters.

Releasing the grappling hook, Volk free falls the rest of the way down, using the Force only at the last instant before hitting the water. Holding his breathe until he resurfaces, he starts to swim to the waters edge to get out. Stepping out of the water pulling off his Grey Jedi robes, he looks around to see where he was....

[SK]

*SK then awaits for the Vomg to approach him. He waits for the first one to come around the corner, when he then suddenly springs into action and with his lightsaber immediately cuts the first warrior's head off. The dead vong's body then went limp and the other 3 Vong's then turned towards SK and took up defensive positions across from him. The warrior in the middle then said something to the other two that SK could not understand what they were saying, but then the other two started to scream in a sort of battle cry that he had deard before when he fought against the first Vong's on this planet. He then went back into a defensive position awaiting for an attack.*

*The middle Vong then charged at him, and quickly SK brought up his lightsaber and blocked the oncoming Amphistaff hit towards his chest. The warrior then spun his weapon around and tried to land another strike towards SK's right shoulder blade, but quickly SK countered the attack, and using the force, he unclipped his lightsaber from his belt, and ignited the short lightsaber and hurled it at the exposed armpit of the Vong, and scored a hit, which then dropped the warrior to the ground. He then stepped on the Vong's face as he walked over towards the other two Vong. He then smirked and called the lightsaber back into his hand, and clipped it back onto his belt, and then pointed his saber's tip towards the floor, and with all of the hatred that he had for the Vong, SK then charged right at the other two without a moment's hesitation.*

[lotvashai]

Pain as profound as any could be, assaulted her nerves as she attempted to make the crossing, once she had done so it was easy going from there on out and with this as her focus she had thought it would have made her task a little less of a struggle. But life was pain, pain was the only constant and Lotva Shai knew that more than ever now. Everything was a challenge, and she was greatly hindered by the wound to her shoulder, which practically rendered the arm useless.

The gnullith she had applied to her face, however, would breathe for her, should she fall beneath the waters surface for some time, and at the worst case - she could walk the distance. She did hope it would not come to that, however.

Continuing on, she had already made considerable headway, enough so that she would never hear the sound of Volk hitting the water behind her.
Her only regret in this being, that she would never have been able to witness the result of her handiwork, she did not like leaving things, particularly things involving Jeedai, to chance - they always had a habit of surprising you where you least expected, nor wanted it.

Continued in the Enclave thread. worldofstarwarsbeta.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=utapau&action=display&thread=244&page=3

[SK]

*As SK charged at the two remaining Vong, he then used the force to speed himself up, and in one quick move, he immediately jumped towards the one on the right, and with his lightsaber aimed down vertically, he went for the weak spot in the armor and stabbed the Vong in the neck dropping him instantly, but as soon as the Vong dropped, the other one blindsided SK and gave him a powerful kick in the ribs which sent him flying to the other side of the room.*

*SK then got himself up, but the remaining Vong had then charged at him and tried to stab him with the amphistaff. SK then dodged the blow, just barely, but was then hit in the face by the Vong's free hand, and was again sent flying. Still reeling from the kick to the ribs, he got up very gingerly. The Vong though, said something in his native tounge, and SK could not understand what was said, but could understand the last part..."Jeedai" he knew all too familiar that this pathetic lifeform had called him a Jedi. He then stood up on his two feet and activated his double edged lightsaber, as two red blades are seen coming from the hilts.*

*The Vong then made a howling sound and charged directly at him, his Amphistaff spinning in his hand, SK then spun his lightsaber as the blades were creating a circle of light, then the Vong met SK, and their weapons clashed. SK was parrying as many blows as he could, but the warrior was doing just the same, but clearly had a strength advantage over SK. The Vong then went low and tripped SK, which then sent him to the floor, and now looking up at the warrior, he then brought his lightsaber up to block the final blow. He did block it mostly, but part of the staff did penetrate his robes and stabbed him in the left arm. With pain now flowing through SK's system, he then decided that it was enough, and unlocked his lightsabers, and still on the floor, he then took the lightsaber in his right hand and stabbed the Vong in the foot, then with his left saber, he then jumped back up on his feet. And with a roundhouse kick, sent the Vong back a bit, while his foot was then still stuck to the ground by the lightsaber. SK then blocked the Vong's attempted strikes, then finally SK went for the Vong's right arm, and severed his hand from the weapon. As the staff dropped, SK then called for his other lightsaber, and quickly used both sabers in a scissors cut, and chopped off the head of the remaining Vong which then dropped the warrior's lifeless body to the ground.*

*Winded and in pain, he then knelt to one knee and tried to use the force to heal his body, but he was too weak for that. With one good arm, and the force draining out of him, SK then goes in search for Volk and his ship so he can get the hell off that planet.*

[K'litch Vang]

"Stinking Infidels! No honor at all." Vang says as he watches the infidels escape with what was left of his group and suddenly turns and plants his armored fist through the wall in disgust. He thinks about how this day will be seen as a glorious one to the Yuuzhan Vong and the Yun'o but how the infidels will say it is a crime against the galaxy. Their two faced and blasphemous teaching seem to mutate and allow dishonorable actions "And they wonder why we try to destroy their ways..."

As Vang then turns his attention to the scene around him, he takes a count and evaluates the situation. Out of the six squads that he marched in with, only three survived intact. The other squads are wiped out or have wounded. As much as Vang sees the vicroty of his action around him, he can't help but feel slightly like the day was a failure. That Knight had picked apart Vang's fellow warriors with his bombs and Jeedai tricks, things that didn't make Vang pleased in the slightest.

Pushing these feeling aside, Vang continues his assesment of the scene around him. There were no visibly living infidels in this area. Vang and his group has finished their sweep of the area and Vang notes the losses to killed ratio as a favorable one for the Yuuzhan Vong forces. Vang raises his arm and motions to his group to move back towards the Enclave. Little do Vang and his fellow Yuuzhan Vong know, the Enclave has some unwelcome visitors.

[SK]

*As SK continued to look for Volk, he still could not feel his apprentice anywhere. He continued walking towards his ship however, still cloaked, he knew exactly where it was. Still injured though, but using the force to help him like a crutch, he had finally made it to the area that his Infiltraitor was left. He continued on his way when from behind him, there were a couple of voices not too far from where he is. He then stepped up his pace, when he had heard a battle cry of sorts. He then turned around to see a couple of Vong running out towards him. Quickly he ignited his lightsaber, and a red blade was seen coming out from his hilt and got ready for them two.*

*The two Vong were running as fast as they could and saw SK standin in a crouched position. The bigger of the two started to shoot thud bugs towards SK as the smaller one continued his charge, spinning his amphistaff in hand, until he met him and launched himself into the air towards SK and attempted to cleave him in half with a powerful strike upon his head.*

*SK started to deflect the oncoming bugs, when he looked up to see the other Vong coming down upon his head. Immidiately he blocked one more bug, then jumped and rolled to the right. To avoid the strike. As he came out of his role, he then used the force to speed himself up and launched himself at the Vong, and delivered a jump kick towards the Vong's head, which connected and dropped the Vong to the floor. He then used his quickness and flipped in the air and away from the bugs, and with his lightsaber aiming down towards the Vong, stabbed him in the neck. He then finished the kill and cut the Vong's head off from his shoulders and kicked the loose head away from him and stared at the remaining Vong.*

*Upon seeing hs comrade meet his end, the Vong then charged at SK, with his staff aimed towards the Sith. In a quick move, the Vong unleashed his staff as it turned into a snake like creature and attempted for it to wrap itself around the Sith's neck.*

*Seeing the snake like creature coming for him, SK knew all too well now that these warriors seemed to use their staffs as an extension of their bodies. Quickly he sidestepped the snake and used his lightsaber to cut the snakes head off. The saber connected, but did not cut off the head, but weakened it a bit. He then dashed towards the Vong using force speed, and came up to the Vong, but his leg started to act up again as he was weakening. As he made it to the Vong, his leg had finially gave way, and the Vong noticed it, and with one blow from his fist sent SK flying in the air and back a few yards. On the ground, SK saw the Vong oncoming. Knowing that he was too weak to defend himself, he looked for anything to use against the Vong, and at that second he saw pieces of shrapnel lying on the ground by his ship. Using the las bit of energy he had left, he used the force to lift the shrapnel and hurled them at the Vong. Several pieces flew in the air, and connected stabbing the Vong in several places dropping him immediately.*

*Weakened and bloody, SK then used the remote in his pocket and opened his ship's hangar door. Crawling, he finally made it aboard his ship and closed the door, which then continued to keep his ship invisible in it's cloak. He then crawled onto the bed in his ship's tiny med bay, and activated the med droid to administer treatment to him. As the droid came out, he then closed his eyes and the fell into a deep meditative trance while the droid started to attempt to heal him from his injuries, so that he would beable to fight again.*