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The escape pod shot through space, eventually getting pulled towards Rori from the gravitaional forces. The capsual lit up the night's sky as it burnt through the atmospherem leaving a smokey trail behind it. Within a matter of seconds, the pod slammed into the ground, sliding along it at a tremdous speed, destroying all in its path. It eventually came to a stop, all battered and beaten, in the middle of a derelict city.

Sephiroth, slightly concussed by the bumpy landing, stumbled out of pod, burning his hand's on the glowing, heated metal casing, and falling to the ground. His head was pounding, even as he lay perfectly still. He just wanted to sleep it off. However, he could faintly hear voices yelling, obviously some distance away.

Hey! It landed over there!

Still very daized, Sephiroth stumbled to his feet, shaking his head vigorously in an attempt to clear it. Slowly and unsteadily, he turned around toward the direction of the voices, capturing his surrounding as he did so.

Massive buildings surrounded him, not a single one without severe structural damage. Giant stone slabs, mostly likely from the buildings, littered what used to be the road ways. It looked like exactly what it was, a warzone.

As the voices grew ever closer, Sephiroth yelled out for help.

Heeeeeey! Someone alive over here! A Jedi infact! Think you can help?!

Suddenly, the voices fell silent. For several seconds, Sephiroth did not what had happened. Eventually, the roar of a harsh breeze broke quiet. Through it, Sephiroth caught one of the people yelling again.

It's the Republic! They're back for the planet! Kill 'em lads!

There was suddenly a great cheer from the group of men, followed by the rapid click of blasters being prepared for fire. Sephiroth was certainly not in the ideal condition for a fight, but it looked like he had no choice.

He pulled his lightsaber hilt out from has jacket just has he heard three fired. He stood, prepared to deflect the shots. As he pressed the activation button, he was shocked to see, absolutely nothing.

What the......?!

An instant had flown by, along with two of the shots, one narrowly missing his right leg, and the other shooting past his left ear. The final shot slammed directly into Sephiroth right shoulder, spinning his body a half-turn just from the impact.

Argh!

Collapsing on the ground, Sephiroth's vision became blurred. He looked up at the dark sky, it only to be blocked by two human's and a rodian. Finally, Sephiroth blacked-out.

Sephiroth had not moved in several mintues, so long infact that the man helping him had returned to the table to chat with his friends. Sephiroth was lost in deep thought. The only clear options to him was to either; stay and help these guys out while looking for a way off the planet, or waiting in the possibly vain hope that the Republic might come looking for him. He knew the latter was unreasonable, leaving only the one option. Takeing a deep breath, mostly the bare the pain he would recieve, Sephiroth stood up from the bed and slowly stumbled over the people round the table.

Okay guys. I'll help ya out for a while, but you have to help me look for a way off the planet at the same time in return, yeah?

The people turned to each other, nodded rapidly with excitement. one by one, they got up and shook Sephiroth's good hand, welcoming him to the group. The rodian was last, handing him a blaster pistol after the hand shake. Sephiroth looked at it curiously before one of the men spoke up.

Yeah, you're gonna need that if ya want any hope of surviving 'ere on Rori. Hope you can use it...

All the men chuckled at the same time, Sephiroth letting out a little smile too. He knew how to use a blaster, sort of, but it had been years since he had needed to and, what made matters worse, he had mever had any practice shooting left-handed. Ah well, he would have to just make do.

Seconds later, the men prepared the depart, They loaded themselves up with all kinds of weapons ranging from small daggers, blasters, grenades, even trip mines. They then put on protective gear, camouflaged to both the urban and rural terrains. They offered Sephiroth none of this. they simply helped him back into the clothes they found him in, a bright red jacket with a white shirt. One of the humans approached what seemed the be the exit, turning to everyone.

Ready?

Sephiroth did not want the delay the group by asking where they were going, he just nodded along with everyone else.

Sephiroth was completely trapped, with only the rubble he was hiding behind as protection. He could hear footsteps approaching him, the crunching of rocks under each step. They were moving round the side of the rubble to the left of Sephiroth. Pressing himself as close up as he could, reducing his potetion target size, he pointed the gun out, ready to shoot the split second anyone appeared.

The suspence grew, the footsteps drawing ever closer. Finally, the shine from the goldern armour caught Sephiroth's eye, the trigger being squeezed, firing a single blaster bolt. There was a bright flash, followed by the lone troop flying back through the air from the force of the bolt. The corpse landed of the ground, immediately followed by continuous shots fired towards the rubble from the remaining troops.

One down...

His situation had not improved. Though he had been able to slightly reduce their numbers, they were now in a safe position, gradually wearing Sephiroth's only protection with their blaster bolts.

Jami headed off of the ramp of Fina's ship and breathed in a long, slow breath of the swampy air. He had usually tried to avoid this planet due to the political atmosphere: there wasn't one. He could sense Sephiroth's presence easily, since it was so powerful. He had felt a hint of it in orbit, but down here it was as obvious as the stars. He turned to Fina and cocked an eyebrow. "Ready?"

Fina smirked at Jami, then ran off of the ramp, both blue lightsabers in hand, blue blades ignited and ready. She was prepared to start deflecting shots if she needed to, but knew that this many soldiers were too many. She didn't even have to count how many... She charged straight toward them, a few of the soldiers turning and firing. She brought one blade up at eye level, deflecting the shot straight back... It hit the soldiers gun, disabling it. Another few she deflected with the saber in her right hand...

Getting near enough to start actually using her sabers, she started by merely going for headshots. The soldiers were pretty stunned, or atleast the few that were shooting, and especially the disarmed one. She used the right saber to slice one in half, the other to remove the disarmed ones head, and then used a force push on one of the other troops to start a sort of domino effect... or atleast cause some confusion...

Zeth saw the soldiers comming and Fina slash at them using her saber skills. He would eventually see Jami come with his skills as well, but they needed help from unexpected places. He sat back and watched, until he saw that it was starting to get difficult, no matter how skilled the two were. He fired up the turrents and begins to make a path for Fina to run to Sephiroth. The blaster bolts knocked many soldiers out of the way, making a clear enough path for a few moments.

"Fina! Jami! Go!"

Zeth remained in the blaster and began blasting more and more soldiers, trying to buy the two of them time to go and find Sephiroth before the turrent ran out of energy

Jami gave no indication that he heard Zeth, but he began to run through the ranks, allowing the Force to give him quick flashes so that he could deflect the bolts even when the men surrounded him and pelted him with gunfire. He yelled at Fina that they should go, and that Zeth had it under control. He kept moving through the ranks, not worrying about the blaster bolts since he had the Force to aid him. He sliced through rifles like butter, the job terribly easy. Gradually he noticed that the volley of shots was decreasing in number, and the powerful presence was nearer.