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After the ship had taken off, Kai had slowly and carefully searched for a space he could call his own for the journey. He wasn't looking for a room, not in the same way Dante had picked his, more of a large closet. He needed time to think, to reflect, not to sleep. And so, after finding an empty bit of ground in the engine room, the Jedi Knight had been quiet happy to sit down and relax.

And this was how the bounty hunters would find him, if they searched the ship, as Kai simply hadn't moved a muscle since he had sat down. His Lightsabers, combined to make one single double-bladed weapon, lay across his knees with his hands resting on the center of the hilt. He could feel those aboard the ship, those on the ship waiting to attack, but he didn't feel worried. The Force didn't signal the death of his friends, his brother or himself. Things would happen as they were supposed to.

I'm begining to feel like a stone. Although he looked deep in thought, lost perhaps, those words echoed inside of the Jedi's mind as he conjured up an image inside of it. He relived the last couple of months of his life in quick motion, bringing to the surface the lessons he had learned from the Force Witches and his time in one of the Jedi Enclaves. It was there on Dantooine where he had found the crystal that was now inside of his Lightsaber. Things do change rather quickly while a war is being fought.

(lol!)

Feeling his brother approaching, Kai spoke several words slowly and carefully; making sure that his pronounciation was perfect. He hadn't learned everything he could have from the Force Witches yet being able to conjure a globe of light, exactly like the one that now floated in front of his face, was one of the things he had been able to perfect.

"Next time, please don't pilot your stolen ships into the 'arms' of a bigger ship."

A lopsided grin pulling the left corner of his mouth upwards, Kai opened his eyes slowly and watched his brother. The globe of light remained, making it hard to see the face of the Jedi Sentinel and picking out the white in his robes, but in truth he probed more with their bond than with physical images. Things had changed between them, quiet drastically he thought, but time was never on the side of the Jedi.

"Or at least drop me off on the nearest planet first, I'll make some friends while you guys battle it out in the stars."

Waiting for his brother to sit down, Kai closed his eyes once again and sent him an image of himself, standing in a slight crouch with his left leg forwards. The white blade of his two lightsabers purged his robes of color, one held horizontal across his face while the other vertical slanting across his chest. "Ready?"

After examining the engines, Cole pulled his comlink close to his lips and sent a message to Dante. "She's in bad shape, but nothing we can't fix withe the proper parts and tools. We could probably find what we need in that cruiser. So, what's the plan?" he said as he sat on one of the consoles. He felt the ship finally stop moving and heard the docking mechanisms applied. Whatever it is they're going to do, I guess now's the time to do it.

((hope you don't mind moving this along again... seems like we've been in that tractor beam forever... sweatdrop ))

"Yeah, remind me to talk to Cole about the whole 'piloting us to our doom' thing. It gets old fairly quickly."

His fingers deftly followed the intricate curves along the hilt of his Lightsabers, moving round and 'round in patterns that never quiet seemed to have a start or an end. It had taken him a long time to forge just the outside of the hilts, a far step up from the first he had crafted.

It was just then that Cole sent a message to Dante, just loud enough for Kai to hear in the cramped space with no noise coming from the broken engines. Grinning slightly, Kai rose in one fluid movement, unfolding his legs and lifting himself with them at the same time, and walked over to an intership communication system on the wall. He had fortunately caught his Lightsaber lightly in his left hand as he rose, preventing it from falling to the floor, and now reattached it to the white belt at his waist. Pressing the button to speak to everyone, his words began to echo inside the ship.

"Plan? The best of plans only survive until the first encounter, ask any soldier. If those aboard the ship refuse to settle this peacefully then attempt to disarm them before resorting to a lethal blow, try to locate any spare parts."

Through the Force he suddenly felt Lookle, purposefully the Jedi Knight realized as he put a physical location to the feeling. At the ramp yet, seemingly, inside of a ventilation shaft. Letting go of the 'send' button, Kai turned to Dante and shrugged.

"Seems like Lookle's waiting for them, shall we?"

Without waiting for an answer, Kai strode away from the engine room and towards the entrance ramp. When he arrived he purposefully put himself below the angled metal of a ventilation system.

Dante smiled at his brother, nodding as he rose from his seat on the floor. Dante reached onto his belt as the brothers walked to the door, pulling his great sabre from his side and following after.
As Kai and Cole headed to the exit Dante headed for the cockpit. "I'll be right back." he said, jogging slightly.

Dante pressed a finger down on the comunications terminal. "Fallen Angel, This is the Emperial ship 'Reaper' Release us before we are forced to radio in for back-up."

"Reaper... we know you're not an emperial vessel... We're going to collect the bounty on you... Jedi.... and we know your transporting one of our pieces of cargo... Triskal... if your listening, we're coming for you." a voice replied.

Dante's head lowered and he looked up again at the terminal. "Fine... you know who we are... but you don't know what your dealing with."
Dante slammed the ships comunications turminal off and walked purposefully off towards the exit.

"Here we go again Kai." he muttered as he ignighted his great sabre, turning a small ring to bring the blade from 3 meters to 2. "May the force be with us all." he said, raising his hand and force pushing the button to lower the loading ramp.

Triskal heard the voice and recognized it instantly. She chewed nervously on her left thumbnail while racking her brain for a way to fight or escape. Who was she kidding? That voice belonged to Xalyn.

She removed her blaster from it's holster on her thigh and checked it to make sure it'd give her at least a dozen shots before needing to charge itself again, then followed Cole to meet up with Dante and the rest. She met Dante in the hall and bumped into him because she hadn't been watching where she was going.

"Ugh." She grunted and fell back a step. "So what are we going to do?" She looked at her blaster with a forlorn regret. "I don't have a saber still and my blaster's only good for twelve shots before it needs a twenty minute recharge."

Triskal sighed, visably relieved by his help. "Thank you, Dante." She said quietly as she quickly retrieved a fresh blaster and then took off, walking quickly for the elavators. She pressed the second floor and then found the room he had directed her too. She decided on the saber that Lord Duku had once owned and then returned.

"All right." She said, though she had to close her eyes and will herself not to be nervous. "I'm ready when you guys are." There had never been a time that she wished that she'd finished her training with Master Yoda more. There would be no escaping Xalyn this time. It was face him or die. She wasn't going down without a fight.