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 Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:22 am
"You got it!" as they finished the pass Azure reached over and hit the button detaching the cable. "Cable detached."
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:29 am
The speeder shot away from the colossal AT-AT, now entangled in the tow cable. With a thud, the giant war machine fell to the snowy ground with a crash. "We got 'im!" Zendia whooped. "Now, to get back to base, and off this snowball!"
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:30 am
"definitely sounds good to me." Owen said, looking back to Kefka for conformation "Sound right to you boss?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:53 pm
Orrin finished loading the rest of the Xwing's droids up and hopped into his own fighter. He was going to evac with another transport, and get a head start towards the rendezvous point.
Slowly, the ship warmed up, as the Transport took off. Orrin was surprized, since another took off as well. Now it was one fighter to one transport. How to defend them, Orrin didn't know. As long as the Ion Cannon still worked, the transports could survive.
But off in the distance, small black dots grew larger, and Orrin did not like what he was seeing develop.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:23 pm
Whatever else one could say of the Empire, they were certainly tenacious. Scarlet bolts filled the air from the oncoming AT-ATs.
"We're almost there," Zendia said back to Azure.
However, her speeder shook. And with it, the starboard side was twisted with fire and smoke. "We're hit!" she cried out. Taking a moment to adress Azure, she declared, "Ok, there's a fairly soft bank of snow nearby. I think the old man pointed it out on patrol one day. I'm going to try to land us there. However, I can't guarantee a smooth -"
And sure enough, the speeder plowed into a somewhat soft snow bank, skidding across the surface.
Zendia promptly popped the canopy. "Ok, we're going to make a run for the base. It's about half a click away. Ready?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:25 pm
Seeing Zendia Go down, owen said a quick "Sorry" To Kefka, and dropped his altitude, executing a quick 180 degree turn. Slowing his altitude, he flew over Zendia and Azure's heads, saying over the Comm "Get going ladies, I'll cover you." If the commlinks in their helmets were still working, they'd hear that, he knew. I hope they hurry he thought, as he blasted the troopers headed for the crashed speeder.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:48 pm
Zendia tapped Azure on the shoulder. "Let's go!" she frantically cried out.
However, she could not tend to Azure for long, despite Owen's speeder harrassing a squad of stormtroopers.
And so, an iron grip clamped on Zendia's shoulder. "We meet again on this iceball, Rebel," snarled a woman's voice. Sure enough, Zendia observed a fair faced woman in a walker commander's uniform, with a blue pauldron. To be sure, said uniform's plasteel parts were scorched and dented, with a few rips in the fabric parts. "I commend you for your craftiness, taking my walker out of the fight, but it's over, Rebel!"
"I think not, Imperial butcher!" Zendia snarled in response, wrenching her way out of the woman's grip, turning about to land a solid punch in her face.
As the woman stumbled to the ground, Zendia drew her blaster. "Say goodbye, Imperial barved vrelt," However, as she prepared to fire, nothing happened.
The woman drew her blaster in response, but then noticed that Zendia's blaster would not fire. "I see your blaster has malfunctioned," she noted. Tossing her own weapon to the ground, she said, "Then, we'll do this the old fashioned way," she declared, assuming an unarmed combat stance.
"Bring it, b***h!" Zendia snarled. "This is for Alderaan!" she cried out, throwing her weight into a punch.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:05 pm
((ouch... Zendia's pissed.))
Orrin watched as the black dots grew larger and larger. They grew struts, and vertical shafts. The Empire had struck back. Even with the Ion cannon taking the destroyers out, the launch bays had no such problem. Fighters, Bombers, everything was there. Closing in on him and his transport.
Orrin broke off, remembering past times in speeders at home. "Let's dance." he said to himself. Formations don't help much past first encounter, as the TIE pilots found their wingmen getting destroyed one by one, and finally the leader met with laser fire.
Orrin had long since had an itchy throttle hand. A pair found him as a target, but even they were suprized when he pulled back on the stick, chopped the throttle, and twisted the rudder. Suddenly, they found themselves face to face with fire, bolts hitting struts.
Orrin blasted the throttle to maximum, as more continued to appear on the scene. Every one he shot down, another formation found itself in the fray. Orrin had only one choice left, play to his stronghold. He dove in altitude, TIEs chasing as hard as they could, as the crafts went into a straight dive. Orrin pulled up right too close to the ground. He felt the tips of the engines scrape, as he banked left and punched the throttle even harder, though it wouldn't go any faster.
The TIE pilots were slightly smarter. They knew that if they stayed far enough out of range they could maneuver easier, and still bake the Xwing with fire. Bombers had appeared on the scene, making Orrin worried. Surely the retreat order had been placed already, since more and more transports were firing up. The only thing left was to vape as much as hard as he could. A pair of blasts charged up in the quad cannon, and let loose towards the moving target, hitting the bent wing, and blew the strut clean off the bomber.
That maneuver may have cost one bomber, but Orrin paid for it through being blasted twice on the wing. It wasn't too strong, but it was quite a sturdy warning. Orrin muttered a low groan, as he smacked himself for such a stupid mistake.
"Y-wings may have shields, but I'd give it all up for a bird which could do some faster damage..."
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:33 pm
(( Nelo: yep. The cat-fight I've been itching to play out ever since I had Mordranna elude to it in Shards. ^^;; ))
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:17 pm
((That's Mordranna? Hmm... you know that they both survive... who will win?))
After the surging groups of troopers had been pushed back, Owen turned the speeder around, at a controlled pace this time, deciding that Zendia could manage for herself. "I'm taking us back to base, boss." He said to Kefka, zooming over the frozen landscape. "We're needed more at the transports now, the generator's a goner if they try attacking again, there's nothing we can do. Orrin's already back, and with luck, Z will be soon."
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:06 am
(( elvis: most likely a stalemate. And, your guess is correct. The officer that's on the receiving end of Zendia's wrath is none other than our future Jedi Master. 3nodding No worries. All shall be played out in time. ^_^ ))
Zendia and the Imperial officer traded punches furiously.
"You should run home, little girl," the officer said, strangely, without a hint of malice. "The battlefield is not a playground,"
"I know it's not a game!" Zendia growled, driving her knee into the woman's armored stomach.
In response, the woman dodged at the last second, taking Zendia's knee into her palm. "You are a skilled fighter," she commented, as if giving praise, or at least a grudging admiration. Still, she gave an open handed chop to Zendia's shoulder.
"I'm not finished with you yet, Imperial scum!" Zendia cried out, nursing her injured shoulder with one hand, throwing a punch with another. As the woman reared back, reeling from the punch, Zendia landed several successive punches. As she did so, she named off her family members that have perished on Alderaan. "This is for Veron, my little brother!" she snarled with one punch. As the woman fell to the ground, Zendia then fell upon her. "And, this," she snarled, her fist ready to strike, "is for Thraken, my father, whom your filthy kind have wrongfully imprisoned,"
The woman blinked. "Did you say Thraken? As in Thraken Starsinger?"
Zendia nodded. "As in a man you wrongfully imprisoned merely for speaking his mind. Speaking the truth." she said, with only slightly less venom than earlier.
The woman seemed to have gained a burst of energy, almost effortlessly pushing Zendia off of her. "Your father spread dissent about our Emperor, and receives his punishment." She shook her head. "As for Alderaan, I'm sorry for your loss. But don't believe the Rebel propaganda. A meteor storm destroyed it, not this Death Star the Rebels would have you believe,"
Zendia looked to the woman. "You're even dumber than you look, if you buy that! I know of folks who have seen your Death Star. I was at Yavin when they destroyed it!" She glared vibro-daggers at the woman. "I'm only sorry that it wasn't my proton torpedo that slew that horrible thing,"
The woman merely stared back, with a curious expression. "You honestly believe this Death Star business?" Still looking on, she then made a statement that Zendia wouldn't expect, as though she'd gained some form of insight. "You have honest eyes .. just like him,"
"Like father?"
The woman merely nodded. "I will independently investigate the truth of your claims." She then pointed back to the speeder, where Azure lay unconscious. "As for you, tend to your friend there,"
"Is this a trick?" Zendia stared at the woman, not believing what she'd just heard.
The woman removed her helmet. Despite her injuries and cuts, she was rather attractive, with raven black hair that came just to her shoulders in waves. She then smiled at Zendia, though it seemed pensive. "I don't believe in trickery. I prefer, a good, straight-forward honest fight. I swear this, by my name, Mordranna Brunhildt," She then waved around to the scenery. "I see no reason personally for me to detain you. However, the others may not see things my way."
"Now go,"
Zendia merely walked back to the speeder, helping the unconscious Azure back to Echo Base. Once Mordranna was out of sight, she called the rest of the squad through her helmet speakers. "You'll never believe the damnedest thing that just happened,"
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:14 am
Pulling the speeder into the hangar back at Echoe base, not far from Zendia's location, Owen heard her voice over the comm. Pulling himself into his X-wing for the first time in months, he made sure that it as well as the old, standard rebellion issue R2 astro droid was in it's socked before he replied. "What happened Zendia?" He asked as he began the preflight sequence. "And why arent' you back yet?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:18 am
"Long story," Zendia replied, explaining the last five to ten minutes. "Tenacious imps," she sighed. "Anywho, I trust Rusty and Sapphire have the X-wings warmed up?"
(( I debated whether or not to let Padme say something during said fight. But then, I kinda got on a roll there. ^_^;; That said, we'll see if she has anything, and then get off the old ice ball! XD ))
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:24 am
"Yours at least." Owen said, looking behing him at his droid R2-D18. "The hunk of junk they gave me isn't worth Bantha spit. At least you made it out of there. See you at the rendezvous point." Lifting off, he flew outside the hangar to meet his transport Ship. "I strongly suggest any laggers get off planet now." Owen said, as his X-win and the transport ship exited Hoth's atmosphere.
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:30 am
"Yes," Zendia said, still carrying Azure. "You awake there?" she gently asked the twi'lek pilot.
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