<font color=red>"Ahh Anacron, my good friend,welcome. I take it you had little trouble reaching this place?

<font color=blue>"Very little, the planet is in a state of disarray, it was easy bypassing the outer security. Is the ship ready?"

<font color=white>Kronus nodded.

<font color=blue>"What of Janggar? Is he . . .taken care of."

<font color=red>"Janggar proved more resistant to Kronus's powers than I first anticipated. However he was incapacitated long enough for me to Inhabit this body and construct the planetary viel."

<font color=white> Anacron's brow furled and an uneasy tension grew across his face.

<font color=blue>"But you promised he would be out of the way?!"


<font color=red>"Patience my friend. Janggar has awoken and is on his way here as we speak. It will not be long until he is out of our way permenantly."


<font color=blue>"I pray that you are right, he has tarnished my father's name long enough, when Janggar is done, the I will be able to take back the Sienar name and restore it to its former glory."

<font color=red>"I trust you've brought along the Captain?


<font color=blue>"Mangar is in the holding cells, his mind was never quite the same after the Yavin Incident. He seemed to grow more bent on Janggar's destruction after that."

<font color=red>"Excellent, he will make a perfect candidate for testing my dark powers upon."

<font color=white>The fighter that took the centre stage of the hanger caught Anacron's eye.

<font color=blue>"So this is it? It looks magnificent. And the pulse drive is operational."

<font color=red>"The initial test runs have surpassed our original expectations. It is beyond anything we could have hoped for. Soon, it will embark on it's maiden voyage, it will be a historic event indeed."

<font color=blue>"What of the Holocron's location?"

<font color=red>"It lies outwith this Galaxy, far beyond the reach of conventional intersteller travel. That is where the holocron of the Sith is located, that is where I believe that the dark Jedi came from. A place of unimaginable horror. Oh how I long to be at the heart of it all!

It took all of ten minutes for Ren to escape the cargo station and arrive outside Sienar towers.

It was extremely strange that he was seemingly allowed passage through the energy viel surrounding the planet, it was as though a hidden force was beckoning him deep down into the bowels of Sienar corp. Ren could sense something or someone in the research facilities deep under the surface, at least he thought that it was him that was sensing it.

<font color=yellow>...........................


<font color=red>"He's here."

<font color=blue>"What?! Are you sure?"

<font color=red>"Absolutely my friend. He is much more punctual that I anticipated.I would suggest you leave now if you do not want to get involved in any uneccessary combat.Go back to your ship and after I have dispatched Janggar I will rendevous with your ships in orbit. Then we will continue on our journey."

<font color=blue>"Very well Master. Give that @#%$ one from me."

<font color=white> Anacron left without delay leaving his dark master to confront Ren.
A sinister smirk washed over the Dark Master's face, his quarry had arrived.

<font color=yellow>........................

Ren came up to the last door in a long security corridor leading into the main research bay.

<font color=lime>"This is it, whatever did all this to me is beyond this door."

<font color=yellow><font face=Machine ITC TT>"Please Enter voice authorization code"</font face=Machine ITC TT>

<font color=lime>"Computer recognise security clearance Janggar Beta six four four zero Sienar."

<font color=yellow><font face=Machine ITC TT>"Confirming . . .

Identity confirmed

please proceed . . .

Mr Janggar."</font face=Machine ITC TT>

<font color=white>With a ear piercing hiss the door in front of Ren opened in a haze of white coolant clouding his view.

Ren placed a foot in the room, then another, gaining his ground.

Ren stepped out of the thick viel of gas to find no-one in the room. Either Ren was dealing with spectres or someone was playing an awfully dastardly trick on him.

Then he heard it.

<font color=red>"Ha ha ha ha,Ha Ha ha."

<font color=white>A strange inhuman laughter coming from somewhere in the room.Taunting him.

The laughter grew louder.

<font color=red>"HA Ha HA AHAHAHA HA HA!!!!"

<font color=white>Ren Drew his saber and ignited the orange blade.He tried reaching out with all his sense but to no avail.

<font color=lime>"Show yourself! Whoever you are, I'm not afraid to fight you!"

<font color=red>"Your thoughts betray you young one, the fear his stirring inside you, it's scent is on the air. And it is all too clear.

<font color-lime>"What do you want?"

<font color=red>"The question is, what do you want?"

<font color=lime>"What are you talking about?"

<font color=red>"What do you want Ren? Do you really want to continue in this dreary existence, this pointless endevour of what you call a buisness? You call yourself a Jedi, I find your ability to simply abandon your faith very troubling."

<font color=lime>"What?I didn't abandon anything!I'm still a Jedi."

<font color=red>"Believe what you want young one, but the truth is you don't have, nor have you ever been a Jedi.You are a mockery to the force, the dark or the light would be disgraced to have you dwell withing it's being.

<font color=lime>"Stop it!!"

<font color=red>"Oh, hit a nerve have I? Why coudln't you have stayed in the dimension that I created for you? At least there your efforts would have amounted to some sort of meager existence worthy of recognition, maybe there you could have gotten rid of the disgrace of a life you lead here!"

<font color=lime>"Damnit! If you're not going to show yourself then I"m going to find you!"

<font color=white>In a fit of anger Ren began swiping furiously with his saber, cutting up equipment and instruments around him in a melee of destruction.

<font color=lime>"Get out here!!<font color=white>Screamed Ren insesantly.

<font color=red>"Very well!"

The Master appeared abrubtly in Ren's path, eyes awash in a sea of Red energy.

<font color=red>"You wanted to see me, now you will."

<font color=white>The master lashed one of his hands out towards Ren, unleashing a blue hail of force energies into his chest.

The blast launched Ren across the research hanger and into a pile of equipment. Ren lay clutching his chest which had been burned, almost charred by the bolts of force lightning.

<font color=red>"You are such a fool to beg for your own destruction. It is only fitting that I aid in its completion. Fool, powerless young fool."

Ren hobbled onto his hands and knees, attempting to regain his ground, blood spurting from his mouth from internal bleeding. He tried to get up but the master shot another force bolt into his chest sending him slumping to the ground in a smoking pile.


<font color=red>"You worthless maggot, I don't even know why I bothered to lure you here. Perhaps for me, the chase was far more enjoyable than the kill."


<font color=white>The master input a series of numbers into a console next to him, engaging the launching sequence for the Pulse Fighter. The clear transparisteel canopy slid open to the craft and the master clambered aboard.

<font color=red>"Anacron, this is your Master, prepare to fire on my position on my order."

<font color=white>Suddenly the Master was knocked into the back of the cockpit by Ren. With the Master off balance, Ren picked up a small fuel canister and struck the dark demon in the head, knocking the life out of him.



But wait!

The Fighter Canopy began to close around him,he had to stop it, but it was too late, the launch cycle was in progress. Ren gathered his strength and strapped himself in the pilot seat, and got ready for what was going to be one hell of a trip!

The Hyperspace fighter blasted it's way into the upper atmosphere at high velocity.

One the bridge of the Dauntless, Anacron saw the streak of Ren's fighter flying up from the glowing energy barrier of M'haeli.

"Ahh, my Master approaches, send a communique to him, tell him that he will be brought in now."

"Sir the fighter is not acknowledging our hails and is moving away from us at high speeds."

"What?! Lay in a pursuit course, activate all weapons, and prepare the tractor beam!"


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Within minutes of breaking into the atmosphere, it had become pretty evident to Ren that the Master's henchmen had figured he wasn't at the helm. Turbolaser fire rocked the fragile fighter from side to side. His shields wouldn't protect him at this rate.

Then it hit him.

The craft was built around his experimental hyperdrive, if he could use it now, he could escape.



Ren flicked back the cover to the PulseDrive activater, he drew in a deep breath, before depressing his thumb onto the button.


A beautiful hum surrounded the area, and a flash of light consumed the surrounding craft.

Time, space, everything around seemed to freeze.

The stars smeered themselves across space so slowly that it felt like one could reach out and grab them.


Then a bright light appeared ahead, and the fighter shot into it, sending Ren into the back of his seat, tensing every muscle in his body.

Then he passed out.

“Track that jump!” The voice barked across the otherwise silent bridge. Three people jumped at once, and began to hit their controls franticly. They were silent for several seconds. Slowly, one of the technicians turned, facing his commander.
“Sir, we were able to track his jump… in a way… It appears he has jumped… well….”
“Jumped out of the galaxy sir.”

Silence reigned on the bridge. Weapons one coughed rather loudly, and science two shifted uneasily.

“Explain…”

“His entrance velocity… was almost three times that of the fastest hyper drive available today… He will cross the galaxy barrier in almost five minutes. There is no chance that he will abort the jump before then, as the lunge from standard drive to an the extreme hypervelocity speed such as he experienced would send a hutt into oblivion. In other words, there is a 110% chance that he blacked out.”

“Can we follow him?”

“Possible. We’re working on it now…”

“Proceed then.”

Katta stood, and turned to his only passenger. “It looks like we will have a delay, miss Cora.”

Cora brushed back her hair nonchalantly and gazed up at the monitors. "This is going to be a very interesting part of my trip," she thought,"very, very interesting."

She placed her hand on her blaster and turned to Kas.
"Well, sir, I'm ready whenever you are."

Kas nodded to Cora. Interesting trip indeed.

"Sir, we have some news."

Turning, he motioned for the man to go on.

"We have been able to pick up some Ionization traces, as well as other leavings by the experimental hyperdrive. Give us twelve hours, and we can modify ours to work in essentially the same way."

"We don't have twelve hours"

"In that case sir, I request permission to take a shuttle hyperdrive and modify it quickly. It will take thirty minutes, will be 80% unstable, and will carry two people."

Kas thought about it for a while, then nodded his assent. Turning, he spoke to Cora.

"I assume you will wish to accompany me?" At her nod, he left for his quarters.

Cora aftering watching Kas leave, went down to her bunk where she gathered up clothing, weapons, and general necissities. She then packed her clothing and necisities in a small totebag and changed into a flight suite. She attached all of her weaponry to a belt, put her hair up, and then sprinted down to were the shuttle would be.