A few second's after the tanks had been delt with a soldeir ran into the room and looked the reactor over. She stratched her head several time's before finding what appeared to be out of place; she knelt down next to the device and opened a side panel: the numbers on the digital display, however, was in a language she didn't understand. "Shit! I don't know how much time we have left; it could be an hour or just a few minutes!" she shouted to no one in particuler and then opened up another panel.

Her frustration grew when she discovered that all the wires where the same color; all one hundred of them. Panic begna to fill her voice as she searched for the right wire - but an audio sound soon occured. "I'm open to any idea's!" She shoutted as she continued to try and disarm the bomb.

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Tiskus wandered over to the device and looked at it. He spotted something the soldier overlooked: a heavy cable leading from the device to the reactor. With a growl he ‘gently’ pushed the soldier aside and gripped the device, with one foot on the cable. The cyborg then ripped the device off the floor, as the horrified soldier looked on, causing the cable to snap off the device in the process. With the power cut off from the device the timer stopped, then faded away.

“Kad kive seconds left. Kave a nice day.” Tiskus said as he handed the device over to the soldier, who just started babbling.

The soldier just stared for a few seconds. "Now why didn't I think of that...." she said and then shook her head.

Lavality smiled weakly; she, like Trazu, was also tired. "What's.... our status?" she asked a sergeant who was marching a group of enemy soldiers toward one of the now four hover tanks that occupied the large chasim.

"The battle above still rages but the space battle has been won; we lost a few frigates but the enemy lost more. Most of the enemy ships gave up." The sergeant said and sighed. "It has been reported that a shuttle craft did blast through the hanger bay doors so it's possible some of them did escape; but we'll deal with them soon." the sergeant grinned and walked away.

Lavality smiled and watched the sergeant as he disappeared behind the hover tanks. "I wish I could say this was over but my gut is telling me it's only started." she said and sighed. "Now that this thorn has been delt with; I feel I should address the 'other' issue." she said under her breath.

She got up on one knee and managed to stumble away. Her mind was a constant thought core; everything MIknak had said to her was constantly repeating itself. She made a mental note to have her DNA cross checked with Asri's once they got on board a Hospital Ship.

After a couple minutes she turned her head toward Asri. "So, what are you going to do with that head?" she smirked.

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Asri grinned. “I figured I get it mounted so you can hang it on your wall.” She said. She felt movement and looked down as Trazu struggled to her feet. “You should rest hun.” Asri said to him, concerned.

“I’ll rest once we are back on friendly territory.” He said as he stumbled toward one of the crystals. “I want to take some of these crystals with us.”

“Why?” Asri asked him, not really seeing their importance.

“These crystals are used to make lightsabers.” He explained as he started working on freeing the crystal from the wall. “After the rise of the Old Empire the Jedi Order lost many of the mining sites for these, either to destruction or simply lost knowledge. I do not know how many sites they know about, so I figure collecting as many of these as we can here will be of great help to them.”

“And give you an excuse to visit your son eh?” Asri said with a smirk.

To that Trazu simply smiled.

Lavality smiled. "Thanks." she said and watched as Trazu began to work on freeing a crystal. "Corporal!" she shouted and a corporal came up to her. "Get a flatbed down here and start extracting these force crystaols; but treat them gentally." she said and the corporal nodded and rushed off to relay the orders.

"Perhaps the Jed Order can use these; provided they haven't been tainted much by Miknak." Lavality grumbled and looked away.

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The Force is neither good or evil Lavality.” Trazu said as he freed another crystal. “It is the person that is ‘tainted’. At most, there would be a hint of Miknak’s malice ‘vibe’ in these, but I sensed nothing of the sort when we were using them.” The next crystal he removed was a nice purple shade. After studying it a moment he found it was the prefect size and shape for his saber and he pocketed it.

“Going to replace your saber crystal?” Asri asked as she finally started removing her K’Zur.

“Been meaning too ever since I turned away from the dark side.” He said.
“Part of the reason why I haven’t yet is because it’s such a pain with these large claws of ours. Besides, a red saber is only used by those on the dark side and I do not want to be associated with that by mistake.”

As they started harvesting the crystals, Tiskus, knowing his claws were a bit unsuitable for such a delicate task, headed back up to where the battle was. To help ‘speed up’ the end of the surface battle.

Lavality nodded. "I know that; just saying though." she said and wathced as Tiskus began to leave. "Ma'am, one of our squads is encountering heavy resistance at corridor four, apperently it leads to a records room." A corporal said as he handed her a report. "Tiskus?" She said and watched as the cyborg was walking away. "Not an order but a request; can you give our troops a bit of a 'hand' in getting into that room please? Thank you." she said.

After a few minute's a flatbed had arrived along with several soldiers who got put with shovels. "Use your hands you idiots." she ordered and the shoulder nodded and tossed their shovels aside and began to carefully dig the crystals out.

After some time she managed to find a yellow crystal, a nice yellow crystal at that. She looked it over and decided that she may as well change her's out as well considering her's was a greenish color that was particulerly common.

"I think it's best we head up to the medical ship in orbit." Lavality said. "There are a few things I want to check into." she said and hoped on board the flatbed.

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"Kik Pleasure…” Tiskus said with a broad grin and started off in the needed direction at a jog.

After watching Tiskus run off Trazu nodded in agreement with Lavality. “I agree. I have the mother of all headaches and I think we could all use a bath and a nice long nap.”

“A massage sounds like a good idea as well….” Asri said, giving Trazu a wink.

He looked at her with a faint frown. “I’m in need of one more then you at the moment dear.” He said, to which Asri just giggled.

Lavality smiled and pressed her back against the flatbed as it drove off and onto a lift.

In the record's room the soldiers had been having difficulty breaking through not only the seperate defense system which wasn't connected to primary system, but also because the enemy here didn't seem to care that they had already lost the battle.

But with Tiskus's arrival that quickly changed; turrets bent in every which direction littered the hallway as he made his way into the records. His presence alone caused many of the enemy soldiers to just throw down their weapons and surrender.

A computer tech soon arrived and examined the room. "This is certainly a records room." he said and walked over to a console. "Damn... how much information have they been collecting here." the tech said in disbelief as he saw research data pertaining to genetic manipulation, cloning, and other projects.

As he went through the data with one hand, his other was accessing the primary records for Miknaks lab while it did take awhile he finally crapped the code and was in. "Amazing...." he said although it appeared he was more horrified than amazed though. What he was looking at where test data for various subjects who had been injected with many different virus's to see how they would react. But at the same time the tech discovered information related to Lavality and where her DNA came from - Asri. Howeer he dug deeper and found more information, his findings caused him to press the back of the chair.

"What's wrong?" A soldier asked upon walking up to the console. "This ain't over..." the tech said. "What do you mean?" the soldeir asked confusingly.

The tech merely shook his head and dumped everything on the core into several mobile drives. "I want this information collected and brought back to our ship." he ordered and the sergeant turned. "You heard him!"

As the tech walked away he tapped his pad and more information appeared. "This, however, is something I must show Lavality personally." he said and made his way to the shuttle craft.

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Several minute's would pass before the group was onboard a Medical Ship. The ship resembled a large nebulon B2, except it had some 'additions' including a larger hanger bay and two more engine pods.

On board medic's tended to the wounded that had been being brought in for hours now. Lavality hadn't realized his long they'd actually been on the planet. "Ten hours?" She said in disbelief when she checked the mission time. "We'd been so busy we hadn't even noticed the time." she shook her head and walked off the shuttle.

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“Only ten hours?” Asri mused. “Feels like it’s been days….”

“I certainly feel like I’ve been through a meat grinder…” Trazu grumbled, rubbing his still aching head.

“If you hadn’t pushed yourself so hard….” Asri started to chide.

“If I hadn’t we’d be all dead now.” Trazu snapped. “We had far less time then what that announcement said we had.”

“Someone’s grumpy….” Asri teased.

Trazu snorted. “I’m sore. I’m tired. I…” He sniffed himself. “I stink.
And I’m hungry. What do you expect?” He looked her over. “You need a bath too…unless you think Miknak’s blood will become a new fashion statement.”

“Oh Ziss no.” Asri said with a look of disgust. “I have better taste then that. The freshener will be one of my first stops….”

“If I don’t get there first….” Trazu adopted a mischievous grin before taking off.

“Oh no you don’t!” Asri yelled after him as she took off, hot on his heels.