A laugher boomed across the chasim. "Very entertaining..."

"Come out an-" Lavality said before she saw something come out of the darkness, it was a trandoshan figure, it was Miknak. "Finally you show yourself." she said before she noticed four cyborgs standing around him.

Miknak looked at her, then at Asri. "Have you often wondered why you are here?" he asked her but her response was her spitting onto the ground in front of him. "How rude!" he said as something caught Lavality's right arm. She struggled to pull back but the force was enough to slam her onto the ground, something snapped. She gave out a scream of pain. "Now... let's continue this.." he said and looked at Asri.

"That girl behind you." Miknak said. "She is quite the asset... the person you gave birth to." he finally said. Lavality blinked and looked at her, then at Miknak, she wasn't sure what to make of this.

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Asri didn’t see what attacked Lavality: the only other things in the room were Miknak and the four droids. But what concerned her more was what Miknak was saying: that bastard was about to spill the beans about where Lavality came from! She knew what she had to do and she feared it would weakened the bond of trust she had with her, but more critically the bond of trust she had with everyone she trusted in the Serendivus that likely knew about this. What was important to her right now was to keep that bastard from having the satisfaction of telling her himself.

“I already know.” Asri hissed, then looked down at Lavality with apologetic look on her face. “Lavality, this was what I was trying to tell you before we got here.” She said low enough so only Lavality could hear. “You’re a clone…a clone with T’Doshok DNA….my DNA.” She turned her attention back to Miknak, who had a malevolent grin on his face. “He created you, no doubt to groom you into a heartless assassin, but your ‘father’
Fikan took you from here and raised you as his own.” That part was an assumption on her part, but she felt it was a very good one. “I do not know why they didn’t tell you the truth about your past before, but I did know he could have used it against you as he is now, that is why I wanted so badly to tell you before, but I wanted you to have a choice to know.”

“For what he has done to you he is a dead man.” Asri growled viciously. “He just doesn’t know it yet.”

Lavality was confused, and yet angry at the same time. She looked at Miknak, then back at Asri, then right back at Miknak. "How... am I a clone? I can think on my own and-"

"Because... unlike most clones you weren't brain washed which is something I should've done in the beginning." Miknak scowled and looked at Asri. "How neive I was to think your DNA would help me, instead, it seemed to have fueled her desire escape." he said and looked one of his cyborgs.

Lavality stood there and looked at Asri, anger in her face. "You knew.... and yet... you tried to tell me and I didn't listen..." she said and looked at the ground. That was when Miknak dropped a bomb shell, "You know... I remember giving out a contract to Asri." Miknak lied. "and I remember she was 'egger' to fill it out considering it was money."

That made Lavality turn her head back toward Asri, she didn't know 'who' to believe now.

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Asri growled at such a blatant lie. “I admit to being an assassin once, but I never accepted any contract that involved harming or killing a child.”
She told Lavality. “Remember your training Lavality, the Force will tell you that he is lying. He is trying to turn you against me.” She looked at Miknak, hate in her eyes. “You assumed my passive mother’s personally would show instead of my brutal father’s.” She snarled. “Well, thanks to my lab ordeal a lot of my father’s side has surfaced…and you are about to get a taste of it!”

***

Trazu leaned against the wall to rest a moment and catch his breath. Around him the spider droid lay in pieces thanks to his handwork with a lightsaber.

The lilac eyed Trandoshan looked down the hallway warily, wondering what else could be in store for him before he found the girls. At the moment he was too exhausted to use the Force to scan ahead but what he could see with his normal vision was a natural cave system from this point on, so any traps and the like should be easy to spot.

His breathing back to normal, he started down the hallway, his saber still ignited and ready for any more challenges.

Miknak merely sneaked at the Asri. "And, may I ask, does an Akisi like you know about me?" he asked; completely changing the subject matter. "Am I here? Or am I gone? Am I real? Or fake?" he said.

Lavality sat there. Clone? But I can think on my.... I can think on my own... If I was a clone then I wouldn't be capible of thinking on my own... which means he must be lieing. she said to herself and raised her head toward Miknak.

"Ahhh.. resigned yourself to the truth?" he grinned before Lavality grabbed her second light sabre which she had hidden in my cloak; a light energy beam flashed out of the hilt and was raised up high. "Pathetic!" he said.

A humming sound could barely be heard, but the moment the sound appear Lavality flew backwards and slammed into the wall; blood flew out of her mouth. "Gah!" she grunted as pain shot through every part of her. She slid to the ground where she forced herself up onto her leg. "Bas....tard...." she shouted and rushed toward him; her light sabre ablaze.

Again Miknak shook his head; he just stood there as Lavality rushed toward him. Suddenly she fell flat onto the ground and slid across. "Gah!" She screamed in pain as she placed both her hands on her knee.

"You think YOU can defeat me?" He laughed at her and took out his Katana.

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“Lavality don’t!” Asri warned, but it was too late. Lavality had charged the man, whatever it was he was using on her took it’s toll on the girl and
within seconds she was incapacitated. For a moment Asri was at a lost as
to what to do, but then rage started to build up in her.

“You are a T’Doshok without a shred of honor.” She growled, her eyes narrowing into the thinnest of slits.

“What does an Akisi like you know of honor?” Miknak taunted.

“More then the likes of you.” Asri hissed. “You forget how are people get our jaganth (sp) points. We only get points for kills that were a challenge. You are a coward, you kill those not able to defend themselves, perform unethical experiments on even your own kind, and you hide behind your technology and your minons. You are unworthy to be by the Scorekeepers side, as you will find out when I send your worthless soul her way!”

She rushed forward then, screaming in rage. Miknak’s cyborg bodyguards immediately came forward to protect their master and Asri started tearing through them like wet paper. Miknak himself didn’t seem too concerned: he apparently was assuming he could affect Asri’s body like he could Lavality’s, a risk that was always in the back of Asri’s mind. She didn’t care though, all that mattered was to kill him and bring an end to the tyranny, end the threat to Lavality’s life and well being.

***

Trazu knew he was running out of time: he briefly felt a sense of anger from
nearby from a presence that felt like Lavality’s. She must have met up
with Miknak. On top of that though was a strange feeling that was rather familiar, but couldn’t quite place from where. That was until he found one of the strange crystal formations Lavality and Asri found in the chamber.
Despite knowing the lack of time he had, he paused to study it, even reached out to touch it. Once his hand came in contact it clicked.

Force Crystals! He thought with surprise. Expanding his senses with the Force he found there were clusters of them all over the place in this cave system. This revelation brought a concerning thought to him: had
Miknak found a way to use the crystals as a power source? A very
dangerous man if so…. He thought. One that needs to be stopped.
He already knew of course he needed to be eliminated, but with this discovery it became even more urgent.

But how to get to the girls before it was too late. With the help of the crystal he could sense Lavality’s weakened presence not far away, just on the other side of the wall in fact. He could also sense Miknak’s malevolent presence in the same chamber. Asri…well, the nano’s in her system made it very difficult to sense her emotions and thoughts, but it felt like she was fighting.

He knew Asri was more of a ‘hit and run’ fighter then he was and he didn’t know Miknak’s fighting ability. With that in mind he rushed down the tunnel, looking for a way into the main chamber.

***

The cyborgs were finished now, only Miknak was left. The cocky bastard was just grinning at her as she stalked forward. “Do you honestly think you have a chance?” He said tauntingly.

She didn’t answer, instead continuing to stalk toward him. She watched as he tilted his head in a similar manner as he did when he ‘attacked’ Lavality on Nar Shadda. If anything happened, Asri was so full of rage she didn’t feel it. Miknak looked puzzled, then a bit worried. Whatever it was he was attempting to do, it wasn’t affecting her at all. Once Asri’s civilized mind came to light with this, a very broad grin formed on her face.

“Whatsamatter Miknak?” Asri said, almost seductively as Miknak’s expression turned to fear. “Your little ‘trick’ not working on me?” She started to circle him, savoring the moment. “Not so tough without it are you?”

Miknak stared at Asri in concern but then bore a grin. "So I can do it to you, however interesting." he said and rubbed his chin before coming to the realization. "So your body is different than what I was originally told." he said and took a step back.

On the far side of the room an eight legged thing appeared from the ceiling and crawled down the wall. Lavality was sligthly in a daze and could barely make it out, but what she 'could' make out sent shivers down her spine, using her one hand that was availible to her she pulled herself across the ground and grabbed her light sabre. The beast looked at her with it's eyes and then at Asri, realizing that she was a bigger 'snack' than the person who was on the ground.

The beast walked across the ground and toward Asri, one of it's leg's raised.

Miknak then smiled. "You think I only had four guards with me? What a fool you are!" he said and disappeared, it was easy then to tell that it was nothing more than a hologram.

Elsewhere in the room,watching from a concealed balcony, Miknak bore another grin and folded his arms. "Let's see how much she'll against six of these things." she said.

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On crud…not these things. Asri thought, remembering the spider thing she and Masis fought on the Predator while on Naboo. One was a chore, but six? She didn’t feel she had much of a chance, even if Lavality somehow managed to help in her condition. She dove under the thing as it’s leg slammed down where she used to be. She thrust both her K’Zur up into it’s underside, getting a spray of smelly green blood and a painful scream as her reward.

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As he ran Trazu felt like he was going up, but strangely Miknak’s presence was getting closer. Then he found a door and he could sense Miknak right behind it. Not wasting any time, he reached out with the Force and forced the doors open, a very surprised Miknak whipping around to see him.

“You know a big tough guy like you should join in the fun in person…” Trazu said with a snarl. “Let me help you make your entrance!” He blasted the fat Trandoshan with the strongest Force blast he could muster, sending the bastard crashing through the view window.

Miknak didn't even have enough time to counter before he was launched through the, what was suppose to be unbreakable, window and down toward the ground below.

Below a spider had moved behind Asri and was headed toward Lavality; a look of fear in her eyes after what had just happened. She ignited her light sabre and raised it up, but she didn't a chance to attack as something landed on the spiders headed, slamming the head into the ground and crushing it. Lavality stared to find Miknak semi-concious; after a second or two he got up and backed away a bit.

He looked up and then back at Lavality before snarling and calling for more reinforcements. From the door's came soldiers armed with Katana's and blasters, from another door came four assault vehicles armed with repeating weaponry, but it was from door number three that two large rumbles where coming from. Lavality closed her sighs. Those rumbles sound all to familier...

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“A present…for me? Trazu you shouldn’t have…” Asri said with a grin as she finished off another spider when she saw Miknak suddenly ‘drop in’, followed by Trazu, whom landed a lot more gracefully.

Her glee was short lived however as the coward called for more reinforcements. Asri looked at all the new opponents with a look of annoyance. “This is getting ridiculous…bastard can’t fight his own fights….”

“I agree.” Trazu snarled. “I really want to kill the bastard myself, but I’m better suited to holding back all these things.” He looked at her.
“You know what to do.”

Asri smiled a savage smile and started scanning the area for Miknak, whom was no doubt trying to find his way out of the chamber. “Make sure no one hurts Lavality.” She said as she spied the fat Trandoshan slinking away.

Trazu nodded, praying his already worn body will hold up long enough to defeat all these opponents. Glancing up he saw loads of Force crystals lining the walls of the chamber. I may be able to use those… He thought as he looked at the assault vehicles. Need to get rid of those first… He positioned himself near Lavality and started deflecting some of the blaster fire. “Lavality, this room is full of Force Crystals, we may be able to use them to channel the Force to help even the odds here a bit.”

Meanwhile Asri was stalking Miknak, having to fight off another spider on the way. When she was close enough she pounced, landing on his back and forcing him to the ground. “Leaving the party so soon Miknak? How rude…especially since you’re the guest of honor!” Asri whispered in his ear hole. “You will feel every bit of pain you put your victims through before you die….” Without further ado…she started ripping into him.