Log:Jedi: Breaking Through

The Jedi release people from a Sith prison.

OOC Date: February 27 2023
Location: Ophos
Participants: Rey, No-Koh Kenobi, Qutha Buvu Pah Yuun, Zev and Galen Dawnstar

Rey leads a group of Jedi through a maze of twisting tunnels deep beneath the surface of Ophos, a remote planet in the Outer Rim. Their mission is to infiltrate an old mining complex that has been converted into a Sith Empire prison. Her lightsaber casts an eerie glow on the rough walls as they move cautiously, their footsteps echoing in the darkness.

Rey pauses at an intersection and turns to face the others. "Our contact's information seemed to be right," she says, her voice barely above a whisper. "We're on the right path."

She deactivates her golden saber's blade, and closes her eyes to concentrate. She reaches out with the Force, sensing for any signs of life beyond the thick wall that blocks their entrance to the complex. She can feel the faint traces of movement, but it's hard to make out any specific details.

Her eyes slip open again, and with a light exhale, Rey nods once. "We need to get through that wall," she says, gesturing towards the imposing barrier in front of them. "Can anyone cut through it?"

Several of the Jedi step forward, their lightsabers igniting in unison. Rey steps back, watching as they work together to carve a hole in the wall. It takes several minutes, but finally, the last chunk of rubble falls away, revealing a dark, foreboding space beyond.

Rey takes a deep breath, sensing the danger that lies ahead. But she's determined to see this mission through to the end, no matter the cost. With a nod to the others, she steps through the hole in the wall and into the heart of the Sith Empire's most secure prison on the dusty, rocky, world of Ophos...

On the other side, darkness looms, heavy and foreboding.

Noki Kenobi takes up a position ahead of the group, but away from the action itself. Devoted to scouting and listening, she takes a kneeling stance by one wall and watches out into the darkness with a focused expression. Wrapped warmly in a heavy spacer's coat, Kenobi pulls it tight which makes the collar stand up slightly around her neck. Long auburn hair hangs freely, curled behind her ears casually and out of the way. "Nothin' yet," she says back, indicating nothing was coming their way.. yet.

More than a decade since he'd been able to see through the force and he still wasn't used to the darkness. That primal, inborn, fear that his people communally suffer gnawing at the back of his thoughts.

'Shouldn't be able to see'

But he does and when Rey calls for aid he is forward with the bright blue energy blade extending to set to the work she requests, face set and the lines carved there deepening, "Reckon this's gonna be sommat as we ain' bein' 'spected... Mayhap naught here but conven'tial guards?"

Behind him, at his feet a small BD unit gives a mournful sort of chirping sound, looking up at the zelosian at his work.

"Whut're we gittin up to, Miss Rey? Reckon we'se too deep in t'worry 'bout secrecy breaches... tell you what." Qutha quips while the darkness yawns before him once the wall is opened.

Yuun has cut his hair low and still he's older but still youthful, the dark skinned Jedi Knight is more towards the rear of the group for right now, his lightsaber is in hand and his attention is watchign the rear, making sure they aren't getting caught unaware. He does look to see how the cutting is going, "Remember when cutting, to work in unison." he says in a low voice. He then looks back teh way he came. There is a black droid clipped to a harness on his back, hearing the droid beep at him, he nods, "Go ahead." he says to the ID-10 Viper Droid as it detaches from the harness. Neo hovers nearby also aiding in keeping watch

Only recently relocated to the main Order base on Tempes, Zev has come along on the mission because a rescue needs to be a top priority. The young Lepi can be heard tapping one of his feet on the stone repeatedly as the hole gets cut open.

With his lightsaber having been destroyed during a recent mission, he's taken up a training stunsaber until he can get a replacement crystal. His ears twitch towards the darkness, listening for anything inside of there, "I'm not hearing any alarms yet, that's probably a good sign."

Rey ends up standing not too far from where Noki is, her own saber held deactivated in her left hand. She adjusts the strap of her leather satchel and nods once to Noki before she draws in a breath. When the hole is cut open, the dark gap within has her headed toward it. She walks past Zev. "That's good... so far." She quietly notes.

And inside that gap in the barrier, Rey sweeps through and within it. The others assumedly to follow...

They're inside the prison complex now. They're in a storeroom, just like their strange pudgey contact had said his map would lead them to. They'd met him on a smuggling space station four systems over from Ophos, and he'd been the key to the Force sensitive prisoners getting word out to the Jedi Order... could it be a trap though? Traps had become all too common place in the past 15 years...

The Jedi Order had lost many good members to them, in fact. What had seemed like strong leads on new members, had only lead to existing Jedi never coming home again... but such was the way of things. They had to keep trying to expand, they had to try and stay on some level with the Sith, who were operating throughout the galaxy now with near impunity.

Inside the dark store room, Rey passes between a series of metal shelving unites, all lined with droid parts, and different sizes of containers sealed-up. She passes her eyes over them idly before she steps out on to a grated floor panneling. Her eyes dart back to her companions then.

"There's a doorway." She says just above a whisper. "Do any of your droids have slicing abilities?" She asks, as she approaches its panel, seeing the red light upon it indicating the passage out of the store room is locked...

Those with good enough hearing might hear the sounds of the ventilation systems kicking on, and a rush of 'clean' air flowing through the Ophos prison outpost... but otherwise, the facility still seems entirely quiet.

"No need, I think I can manage this.." Says Kenobi, who takes to the panel with a quiet focus. Removing it briefly, she begins the slicing process, successfully achieving access after a few moments of working. Rising back to her full height and gesturing, the auburn haired knight grins a crooked grin, "All done, Master Rey." Kenobi dusts her gloved hands off showing a touch of pride at the completion of a small task.

Rey steps to the side to let Noki slip in. She nods once to her as she steps around her to the other side of the doorway. Her eyes sweep over the door once more before she looks back to the others. "Be prepared for anything." Rey whispers loud enough for all their ears...

When Noki issues the proper slicing techniques the door splits from one corner to the next, then pulls itself open with a hissing of hydraulic mechanisms. Outside is a dark hallway with light panels stretching across the floor, and ceiling respectively. Two more doors can be seen on either side of the visible hallway's opposite wall.

Rey's head ducks out in to the hallway, looking right, then left, before she motions the others through. "Lets go..." She says, stepping out in to the corridor now.

She takes a left, based on her provided-directions she'd been given. Up ahead is an intersection of hallways, with a shadowy blanket covering the visible spectrum, though red lights dot the panels beside every doorway down the corridors, making them fairly easy to spot.

"The prisoner section is just this way." Rey says, pointing up ahead and to the right at the intersection.

"Lets hope, anyway..."

Galen looks around as he holds down the rear guard of sorts being one of the last to step through the hole in the wall Stumpy his little BD droid is perched on his left shoulder peering out into the darkness. With a quick glance around and the sense of danger all around Galen reaches down to his belt to unclasp his lightsaber the weight resting comfortably in his hand. A quick glance towards the panel as Noki slices through to gain access to the next area before he starts to follow along with the rest of the Jedi.

Yuun sees teh team starting to move. "Keep spaced out so you have room to maneuver, don't bunch up." he says. His voice low and he looks to Sentinal and nods to his droid and it moves ahead to where Noki is, "Sentinel can help slicing or keeping watch as well as keep silent." he says to the others as the droid moves with a programmed quietness to it. Yuun on the other hand is also keeping a vigil behind the team.

The group moves down the corridor at a quick pace, Rey looking back over her shoulder when she hears Zev speak of hearing a camera system. "Maybe it's droid eyes..." She says, "But either way, we have to move fast."

They all turn down that corridor, following the directions given by their contact.

Soon they reach a set of stairs at the end of that next corridor, and Rey starts down them, each step lined with a white and red strip of light that casts their varying hues across her form as she rapidly descends them in to the next area. Now, they're in a larger chamber, with a computer station at the center of it. It's a guard station, but there's no guard posted at the heart of it.

Someone might have a bad feeling about this.

Rey pauses, and looks around, the larger chamber lined with doorways. All of them have those crimson hued lights beside their frames. "This is the holding area. It's quiet though..." Rey says. "Spread out, find the door numbers we were given." She instructs. "Four-Alpha. Bravo-Two. Eclipse-Nine, and Delta-Seven." She reminds them as she moves to the guard station. "I'll.. I'll try and get them open."

Quickly, Rey sets her saber down beside the terminal and starts to work to unlock the doors. But she's locked out, there's an audible buzz, followed by a warbling noise. "I think I set off an internal alarm... Can you guys slice the doors?"

Just as she says it, the white lights in the corners of the room sweep to red, and begin to pulse as a thrumming alarm starts to audibly buzz around them all.

With alarms blaring, and lights making a transition from normal to red, Kenobi urges herself to remain calm. Alarms were intended to induce stress, make those in violation make mistakes. When Rey calls out for others to try to slice the doors, Noki takes it to mean computer slicing! Silly Kenobi. The alarm induces a sense of urgency and Kenobi is locked out of her terminal after a mistake. "Damn." She grumbles, taking a step back to look for indications of the cells.

Little paddle claw like feet of the BD unit move up Qutha's cloak and then to his shoulder once they reach the terminal. Frowning when No-Koh cusses and motioning towards Delta-Seven, looking to the little one on his shoulder, "Do me a favor, Bother?" head canting to one side and watching the little droid hop to work.

The cerulean glow of his saber illuminating a tattooed face in the darkness,

"Oh bother..." the droid turns to look a him again, chirping and clacking its foot against the panel, "No not you..."

The sight of the young lady in rags makes the zelosian's face twist and he extends a hand, "I'd he'p y'if y'let me, ma'am..." no declarations, only offers given.

With the information for teh doors that needed to be unlocked, Sentinel moves forward. It stops at Delta-Seven and it's pincer arms move over and it's data-spike plunges into the socket and with a few moments, even with the alarms goign off, the droid continues slicing until the door unlocks. Yuun moves towards where Sentinel is, hearing the alarm going off, Yuun moves as if nothing is going on, "Come on." he says to those in the cell and gestures for them to go where the rest of the Jedi are.

There's a sudden sound as all the lights change that makes Zev jump slightly, before the alarms start going off, the Lepi pinning his ears back against his head as the loud siren rings through, "I'll try to get one of the doors."

He quickly rushes down one of the hallways, rushing past several doors until he finds one of the ones Rey mentioned. He quickly pops the panel off of the door, and takes a knee, turning off his saber for a second as he tries to slice into the panel and only gets a buzz and a few sparks for his effort, "Drek." He mutters under his breath, as he glances over at the others down the hall, "Might need to borrow one of your droids for a second!"

Galen glances over at Stumpy, "Lets go find our door and get it open. I'm sure it's a trap but we have to at least try." The little droid hops off his shoulder and starts to walk next to Galen as he comes up to Bravo-Two and the Knight points at it, "This one looks to be ours Stumpy. Lets see what awaits us behind dour number two" And as Stumpy causes the alarm to go bzzt bzzt bzzt, "Or not." He glances over at Zev, "Soon as I can get this door open Stumpy will head over to help. Seems the encryption is a bit stronger than expected."

Two doors open, the others do not. Qutha finds a teenager behind his, a Human girl with a series of strange black and dark purple tatts on her cheeks. She's quick to rise up and rush toward the door. "Who are you?" She asks in a deeply accented voice, but when she sees others out in the guard station helping, or that's how she interprets it, she steps out of her cell. When she sees two of her friends being let loose by Yuun, she moves to hug them, the other two doing the same back to her.

Rey watches this exchange, then looks to the others buzzing at their door panels. She has an anxious expression fall across her face.

"Keep trying, we have already set off---"

A blaster bolt bursts in the darkness, the sound bouncing around the prison chamber! The sound of clicking, clanking starts to grow louder from the top of that staircase that the Jedi had arrived at!

At the top of it, a tall security droid stands, holding a blaster-arm up aimed down at them! While two more droids arrive, flanking it on either side, and raising their blaster arms up as well!

"Intruders! Intruders!" The droids start chanting, as they open fire!

Danger manifests, and a droid initiates its blaster arm and fires toward Kenobi. She rolls into a tumble and ducks behind cover. The first shot missed and the second struck the solid object she made it behind. Surfacing from behind her point of cover, she shoved her hand outward, releasing a wave of telekinetic energy, but the droid's magnetic locking feet mechanisms kept it firmly in place.

Noki isn't willing to draw out her lightsaber yet, they still had doors that needed to be opened. "Which ones?" Noki called, realizing after the fact, she should've asked, where. The bit of chaos they were in made it difficult to see for all the sparks.

"Names Q-" cut off when the young lady rushes off to greet her companions, the chuckle cut off as well when Rey gives her warning. A sigh issuing from his chest when the reality of circumstance comes rushing back in and is only confirmed further when blasterbolts begin hailing down around them.

"Oh-Bee, keep at it!" turning towards the source of attack and he begins walking towards them, mouth moving again as the mantra of the Whills runs across his thoughts and his saber flips around in an elegant arc - held point up a moment as though to salute the droids he approaches before his stance changes. Left hand a loose fist behind his back, turning and holding his saber as though it weighed down by the angle he holds his wrist.

"H'ain' likin' this... droid or not..." mouth a line and he lunges, brow popping up when the automata dips back and away from the strike, "Oh dear..." the dance coming to Qutha leaning back and twisting away from a close range blast, and another. Hood dropping back from his head with burnt cloth marking the line of it before he slashes in a sweeping figure of eight.

The security droid falls and the zelosian has no time to check his work of the glowing pieces clattering to the floor while spinning to one side and then the other - lightsaber held to send one of the bolts into the floor. "Welp!"

"Sentinel, assist the others. Get the last door opened so we can go." he says to his droid. Sentinel tootles and moves off quickly, going to the door and it uses it's dataspike again and spikes into the dataport. This time it doesn't take that long at all and the doors unlock.

Yuun wasn't close to the prison droids, though for a well trained Jedi Knight, Yuun starts walking towards the droids. The droids begin firing towards him, though Yuun simply side steps each shot, though knowing that they need to get going, he sprints in towards the droids.

He sees Quatha moves in to attack one of the prison droids, a slight nod goes to him. Though as he nears the other two, he moves right between them. His bright electric blue blade comes to life as his blade slices through droid two.

The arrival of the droids gets Zev to leave the door panel alone. The droids were much better suited to getting it open than he was. He might not have his usual saber, but he can at least use what he's got. He leaps past towards the droid, since it's shooting past him at Galen. Sometimes being smaller pays off.

He wheels around with the stunsaber and slashes the droid across the torso, sending sparks flying across it as its systems overload. He follows up with a downward slash across its back and it shorts and shuts down, "Gonna have more company soon I bet. We got everyone?" He calls back as he turns around.

Galen's saber hilt comes up and before he can even depress the button to ignite it Zev had taken care of the droid shooting at him with the other two dropped by the other Jedi, "Well done." As the prisoners start to trickle out Galen points back the direction the Jedi had come in using a fairly calm and collected voice despite having just been shot at a few times, "We're here to rescue you. We're short on time though so if you could please gather in the middle of our little group here and travel back along this path we'll get you out of here in no time."

Rey is right there with Galen when he reaches the prisoners. They had been horribly freakd out by the blaster fire by the droids, three of them screaming in fear at the sight of it. These people were all dressed in rags, local garments to some planet that would appear to be very low-tech. This whole complex seemed to unsettle them as they huddled close together. Galen's words offered comfort though, and the largest of them, a male with the same odd tattoos on his face speaks something in a unusual language to the other five. He nods to Galen.

Rey searches their faces, before she motions to the stairs where the droid remains are still charred with glowing heat from the sabers of the Jedi who cut them to shreds, one of their blaster arms was even rolling down the stairs slowly like a slinky set loose for its maiden slinky voyage.

"We have the code for one of the base shuttles. But we have to make haste..." Rey says as she starts toward the stairs again. She passes by the other Jedi, and nods to them. "Good job. Lets go."

She's already skipping over the remains of one of the hulking guard droids, and starting down the corridor again.

When they reach the intersection they'd first come in through, they take a right, not going back the way they'd come, but instead making for one of the prison complex's hangar bays.

"It's just up here!

It's not but a second after Rey says that another blaster bolt erupts, this time from behind them, as the droids sent to the store room alarm were now arriving and spying the Jedi at the far end of the corridor! "Intruders!" One of them shouts as it extends its blaster arm and fires again!

"Keep going!" Rey shouts, apparently not wanting to engage with the droids. They make it to a large set of doors that spread open in to a half-complex, half-rocky cave, turned in to a landing bay. It's filled with black sleek shuttles that are parked in berths along one wall.

Behind them, the pursuing droids continue to try and catch up!

Among the last through the door, Kenobi is looking for a terminal to close off their pursuers and buy a bit more time. Wordlessly and calm, the Jedi Knight is quick to begin typing out on the screen, engaging a common slicing technique that results in the hatch slamming shut behind them and cutting off their pursuers. "I cut them off, Master. Next step? Get off this bloody rock.." Noki pivots in place, the tails of her long flight-coat flaring briefly and she closes the distance to the group with urgent steps.

Walking backwards, letting the ebb and flow of the Living Force guide his steps in the wake of the others making haste for escape, Qutha's saber whirls in a pinwheel of cerulean when blaster bolts continue to sing after them. The little BD unit that had hung back to open doors leaping to sit in the hood that was down, peeking over the orchardist's shoulder and tweedling nervously.

"Hush naow..." mid-rim accent thickening while he struggles against the urge to concentrate, to simply let instinct and the subtle nudges guide him in his pace. "Ain' naught but a li'l bump'n th'road..." brow creasing and he is forced to fight his body's nastic responses to the flash of light that shrieks past his head, singing a lock of his hair with a sweet green-wood scent rising from the smoking strands.

"Oh dear."

Coming through the doors with the others, making sure there are no stragglers left behind. Yuun looks around and when Noki goes to start workign on the doors. He grins, "Good thinking." he smiles to her. His lightsaber deactivates, Sentinel moves to hover next to Yuun. He is about to say something else, he has to quickly move to evade the incoming blaster bolts that were fired on them. "I iwll get us a ride outta here and have Sentinel deactivate the security and tracking systems." he says as he moves towards one of the sleek black shuttles.

Zev jumps ahead, bounding past the blast doors with plenty of time for Noki to lock them down, "Hopefully those droids can't get back through, should buy as a few minutes. Nicely done." He's not relaxing, of course. Those droids will cut through sooner rather than later, "We'll cover you while you get it done." He responds to Yuun, turning back around to face the doorway as he backs off from it.

Galen's once again started to pull up the rear a glance back towards the droids chasing them once again before he pivots after going through the blast doors preparing to ignite his saber when the doors close... "Well that takes care of that." Arm with saber lowers again as he pivots back around to trot after the others.

The droids in the corridor are joined by four more that all start to rush for the hangar. The two new pairs both fall in beside the first pair, and they all begin to lay down a barrage of blaster fire!

But Noki has the doors sealed before the bolts can sweep through the doorway, and the red super heated gas just impacts against the durasteel, bursting in to flowers of glowing sparks!

The doors seal shut with a thwump, the prisoners stop shouting in fear, and Rey is there to comfort them with soft words. "Come on." She says. "We have a shuttle prepared for you..." She says, her eyes going to the row of ships. "That one there." Rey says to Yuun. "The Ziago." She notes its markings beside its large entry ramp.

Dashing up the ramp, Rey reaches the boarding code panel. "I have the code. Let me type it in..."

She holds her saber clutched in her right hand, her left going to the panel where she starts to work in the code that their contact gave her...

Suddenly, the hangar goes dark, the lights are shut off, and a burst of energy surrounds Rey's left hand, as she was typing the code in, a security measure is tripped, it locks Rey in place, with metal brackets grasping her wrist from all sides, each one encased in a magnetic shield. Rey cries out in shocking pain, but the shock only worsens as a wave of dark emotion rolls across the Jedi within the hangar.

The door to the shuttle opens up, and two black robed figures stand there, waiting. They see the Jedi. They see the captured Rey, and they ignite their red lightsabers!

"You've come to your doom." One of the two Sith warriors says through a metalic voice vocalizer on its mask!

Rey's saber ignites in her free hand, and she raises it up to defend herself from a strike, before the two Sith rush out of the ship!

The growling of lightsabers fill the hangar now, and the Prisoners scatter for cover behind cargo crates resting near the foot of the Ziago shuttlecraft!

At the arrival of two Sith, fear became an easy emotion to share. They certainly incited it with their presence alone. The over encompassing feeling of the dark side manifested like a sickened stomach, twisting and pulling to evoke dread and hopelessness. To combat this fear and inspire her own defiance against the darkness, Kenobi draws her lightsaber out in response, activating the hilt to produce an emerald blade that stretched out by 1.2 meters in length and hummed with even the most subtle of movements.

"You force this conflict. Now I must respond." Sliding into her Soresu stance, Kenobi commits to her action. "I will do what I must.."

"Oh bother..."

Qutha's face is drawn and the BD unit mimics his words in a low toned buzzing whistle. Brow knitting, emerald gaze from Rey, to her hand, to the sith and to the blade in his hand. A momentary glance is spared for Oh Bother "Reckon better hop down ifn' yer hoppin'." already walking with purposeful stride for the masked Sith.

The droids response is to bunt the side its head against his, tweeping at the person he claimed during the years of Sith occupation. "Right, 'gether then, reckon."

His attention turns back to Rosh, turning as he goes into a side-stepping approach, "M'One wit' The Force... n'The Force is whit' me..." wrist and arm twisting when crimson swings for him, light flashing when sabers connect and the dance begins. Qutha turning a tight circle with his saber angling a into a sweep that singes cloth before he is battered backwards, cerulean blade locking again and again with the crimson that seems to be ever there to deflect his attempts to sweep past guard or dip in feints with the goal of striking wrists or hands.

"Is it?" the rasp of distorted snarl comes back at him as sparks continue to fly,

"Everything is as The Force Wills it!" face close to mask when sabers lock, again.

When Rey calls out the ship, Yuun and his droid rushes over to it. Rey knew the codes so he doesn't get in her way, but when the Sith make their presence known, he hears the clashing and the two Sith rushing off the ship. "Someone go help Rey and get our passengers on the ship, not everyone has to fight!" he calls out to the Jedi. "Sentinel get in there to see if you can release her." he ddidn't want to say Rey's name or title, he didn't care if they saw her face, they may not know or what, but for now he will keep that to himself.

Yuun then sees Qutha rushing off towards the two Sith, he will need to talk to people after this. He quickly moves after the other. For now they needed to take care of them and as Yuun moves in his blade activates, and he comes in swinging High, mising, then low catching the Sith across the mid-section of the Acolyte. Yunn tries to push his advantage, but his blade is caught on the Sith's red blade.

They're almost out of there, all they need is to get that shuttle open. Zev is still expecting the threat to come from the door that the droids are behind, so he has his back turned to the shuttle. He hears the snap and then Rey's call out. Then there's a twitch of those rabbit ears as the pair of red lightsabers his and ignite. Oh hell.

Now Zev did say he'd cover Yuun, and he intends to keep his word. He follows after Yuun as he moves to engage the Acolyte, staying behind the human by a few steps, moving around to one side, as his grip changes on the stun saber, bringing it around so it's angled behind him, before he leaps, using his natural jump to get above the Sith, swinging the white blade down after he lands, trying to use Yunn's clash with the Sith to his advantage.

Galen looks at the two red sabers that ignite and head towards Rey and just sighs as his saber ignites, "Stumpy see if you can't help Rey. She's a bit tied up at the moment and I think we'd all appreciate it if she wasn't." Then he raises his hilt the blue blade igniting with a snap-hiss as he closes his eyes and takes a moment to center himself before pressing the attack with Qutha on one while Yuun and Zev engage the other. As the sabers begin to flash and clash sending flares of light when parried and the humm of the blades begin to fill the hangar he shakes his head a bit giving a quick glance around realizing a bit slowly that this was a trap.

The Darth is quite large, beneath those black robes, while the Acolyte is lithe and more manueverable, but even for him these Jedi are well trained, and more capable than the Acolyte had expected. But even still, the Sith warriors fight with surprising efficiency. Their strikes are fast, very fast, and very surgical in nature...

This was the way of things now, all these years after the fall of the Republic, the death of Luke and Leia Skywalker, the rise of the Sith Empire, and the seemingly endless hill that the Jedi had to ever-struggle up to get as far as they'd come. But in a moment like this, it showed how it could all change on the edge of a coin. Rey was trapped, and even with the help of the droids, the trap she was snared within didn't seem to be anything but custom-designed specifically for this scenario...

Darth Rosh takes a chance to separate himself, and his voice barks something within his mask. "We have her! Get the Shuttle in the air!"

It's only a second later that the Ziago rumbles to life, its rear-facing engine pods burst blue light out ehind them, as the shuttle rises up off of the hangar deck. Rey's feet drop out from beneath her, her yellow saber dangling in her right hand to her side, as she's hanging by her left arm now clutched in those shielded clamps!

Five feet... ten feet... fifteen feet... the shuttle starts to rise, and spin to face the open doors a hundred yards away at the mouth of the hangar...

The Darth and his Acolyte re-engage the Jedi, trying to keep them busy and, if possible... maybe cut one or two of them down for good measure!

Noki joins in on the fight against the Darth hoping that numbers will overwhelm the Dark Lord. When she swings in, it's timed with the other two, and she steps in accordingly, twisting into the dance. Her attacks are shamefully battered aside, the brute strength of each blow sending Noki stumbling off to one side to recover her stance. Worry and concern have etched itself on her expression as her gaze angles up toward Rey.

A salute of his blade when Galen joins the fray with him, the saber coming back from a near strike from Rosh that Qutha uses for momentum to wheel around in a pirouette that sends the hems of his cloak flaring out and the BD unit into the back of his hood with a nervous whistle before his little blocky head pops back up again.

Looking to the rising shuttle, a thought goes out - delayed by the crash of the crimson saber against his again and again, forcing Qutha to continue his backward pace. A corner of his cloak gone, the sting of the heat against his cheek, but ever he keeps the whirling of his saber in motion. Resisting letting his blade lock if he can, trying to use the sith's momentum to fuel his own when what looks like a wild overhead spin of the glowing blue comes around. No-Koh's last thrust giving an opening for Qutha's next.

Reflected off of crimson to begin with and driving against the side of the other's arm sending smoke rising and a hiss from the vocalizer grill. It's a momentary victory before Quth is driven back again.

Yuun is still engaged with the Alcolyte, he hears the engines whining as the shuttle is lifting off. His breathing is calm and he allows the force to flow through him as he continues to fight. Having gotten a feeling of how the Sith fights, Yuun starts to put pressure on the Acolyte. His strikes were coming in fast and heavy, using intricate strikes to confuse his opponent. Yuun is able to cut diagonally along the Sith and finish with a horizontal strike across the Sith's chest. Yeah this was a test, one he knows they will keep coming against.

Zev uses the stun saber to block the lightsaber blow from the acolyte, but is knocked backwards from the force of it, being disengaged from the fight. This turns out to actually be a good thing, as Yuun is able to take advantage.

When the shuttle starts to lift off, Zev shakes his head, "Oh no you don't!" He calls out, as he gets a running start and leaps, planting his feet on one of the other shuttles and flipping off, turning in midair to land on the ramp, looking to Rey, "Hang in there."

He quickly ducks inside of the shuttle, trying to find whoever is piloting it and make them stop piloting it. Or at the very least take over the controls from whoever is remote controlling it.

Galen looks over as the shuttle begins to take off and just shakes his head a bit offering a salute towards Noh-Koh and Qutha with his saber before he steps back from the engagement with the Sith his free hand reaching out and using the Force to grasp the shuttle, "We're fond of our Master. I'd appreciate it if you didn't try to abscond with her that would be great."

Rey's grip on the force-field shrouded clamp was slipping, and the pain coursing through her arm made it difficult to hold on any longer. She dangled precariously off the side of the Sith shuttle, her golden-bladed lightsaber clutched tightly in her other hand. The shuttle was hovering twenty feet in the air, its engines roaring as it strained against the Jedi's efforts to keep it grounded, the Pilot's locked away in the cockpit, keeping them from Zev's assault...

And worse yet, Darth Rosh leapt in the air to rush in to the shuttle. His lightsaber sweeping toward Zev! "Begone from here, less you face your end!" He barked at the very jump-capable Jedi! His saber then swept over to the form of Rey hanging from the boarding ramp. "Or maybe I'll just end her here and now..."

With her companions, fighting desperately against the two Sith below on the hangar floor. Their lightsabers clashed in a deadly dance, the blades blurring together as they battled for supremacy.

Rey gritted her teeth and tried to summon her strength, but the pain was overwhelming. She knew she couldn't hold on much longer. The shuttle was beginning to rise, pulling her further away from her friends and closer to the darkness that awaited her on the other side.

With a fierce determination, Rey made a decision. She ignited her lightsaber and held it up to her arm. The golden blade glinted in the harsh light of the hangar as Rey steeled herself for what was to come. In one swift motion, she brought the blade down and sliced through her own arm, severing it from her body.

For a moment, everything was silent. Rey felt the rush of air as she fell, her body tumbling towards the ground below. But then she hit the hard metal of the hangar floor, and the pain hit her like a wave. She cried out, tears streaming down her face as she clutched at the stump where her arm had once been...

But she was alive....

The door behind the Jedi opens up then, and the 8 guard droids come rushing in, raising their blaster arms up to fire again!

The six prisoners are all rushing for the line of other Sith shuttles parked along the various berths, eager to find cover from all of this.

Rey is not left abandoned to her pain on the ground level. Soon a familiar face is over her, taking hold of an arm, and pulling Rey up into a fireman's carry (where she is situated over Kenobi's shoulders). The red head grumbles, taking on the weight, but through her influence of the force, and adrenaline from the fight, she steps off to find a shuttle. "I've got you, Master! Just hang on, we'll get you out of here."

Noki moves quickly for one of the shuttles to board, and find a seat to deposit Rey. It was time to cut their losses and get out of here! Bringing up her comm-link, she says as much. <<"It is time to go. I have Master Rey..">>

Yuun sees what happens and as Rey is picked up by Noki and the others moved to help, this was good to see. Quickly looking to where the prisoners were, Yuun took off after Noki and heading to the shuttle that they were boarding. Sentinel is pretty damn quick and it latches onto the harness on Yuun's back as he waits at the landing ramp. <<On our way.>> he calls back into his comm.

Zev thought he had a good plan, until the door to the cockpit is sealed, and when he turns around to see if he can help Rey, finds himself looking at the wrong end of a lightsaber, "Hey I want to be here even less than you want me here!"

The blade turns away from him and towards Rey, who makes an impossible choice and falls away from the shuttle, Darth Rosh and Zev. The Lepi is shocked for a moment, but realizes this is his chance. He switches off the stun saber and dives between Rosh's legs, using his smaller form and the momentary distraction of Rey's action to his advantage.

He reached the edge of the ramp and jumped, getting clear and falling after Rey, landing and having to roll a few times, but getting back to his feet after a few moments, rushing for the shuttle that the group had commandeered.

Galen watches as Rey falls to the ground and gets snatched up by No-Koh then his attention goes back up to the shuttle he's holding with the Force, watching Zev bail out as well, "Well you're not needed here anymore. Begone." And with that his pull turns into a push and the shuttle that had been straining it's engines to escape now has a bit extra oomph pushed along with it as it zips away, "Good." As the security droids start to enter the hangar with them he starts to run towards the shuttle, "I think we've overstayed our welcome."

As the Jedi board the Sith Prison Shuttle, they find it in lockdown mode, but the security codes are nothing for the droids that they brought along. The BD-units quickly make swiss-cheese of the security lockdown, and soon the single laser cannon comes online too. Its used to pepper the incoming Prison Guard Droids, blasting them apart in a shower of metal and sparks!

The droids go flying backward, as the shuttle is piloted by the Jedi up in to the air of the large prison hangar...

Inside the passenger compartment, the rescued prisoners huddle together on the benches along the bulkheads. They watch the Jedi with uneasy stares, each of them unsure of what had just happened, where they are, and where they are going. Rey sits not far away, clutching her arm across her abdomin as she focuses on the Force, willing herself in to a meditative state. She thinks of her family, her husband, her children. She whispers something softly under her breath, her brow covered in a sheen of sweat from the focus of willing the pain aside, willing the Force to balance her mind, her body, her suffering trying to push its way to the forefront of everything.

The shuttle's engines rumble as it soars out in to the atmosphere of Ophos, leaving the prison behind, whilst Rosh's shuttle flies off in an opposite course for the other side of the planet itself...