Fall from Grace.

By Lt. Cmdr Master/ Dream 3-2/ /MC-80 Intruder/ IW/ NI/ IWRangers XO {DSC} {MSM} {IS} {MoS} {Master Writer 2^nd Class}

"You know after taking me all these places its going to be hard finding a place to go on our Honeymoon" Kristy said next to Master as she was lying on the extended couch.

"I’m sure I can find some where, how bout Mon Calamari or Kothlis or even Hapes" Master replied next to her.

"What’s our final stop before going back to the Intruder"? She asked. "Now its my special pick, its not as exotic or romantic in its own right but special none the less, Onderon" Master replied moving close to her and kissed her on the cheek. "That name sounds familiar to me, what’s so special about it"? she asked returning the kiss.

"All set"? Master asked Kristy who was busy grabbing her things from the ship. "Yep, just let me throw my stuff in the back of the speeder".

She put her two bags in the back of the X-33 landspeeder which Master had hired. She jumped into the seat next to Master. "Here, I wanted to save this till we were married but I couldn’t help but give it to you" Master said giving her a small box. Kristy smiled the opened it up, inside was a ring, it had diamonds in the sides as well as some ruby’s, but the band itself and the main jewel were the most spectacular part. "The band was made by a Ithorian, Sondon Feddon made especially for you, its consists of a gold alloy but is also half Bafforr material from the trees on Ithor, one of its kind, perfect just like you" Master said. Kristy kissed him in a long passionate kiss.

"I love it, what’s the sliver of jewel in the center"? she asked.

"That was my own contribution, it is a sliver of the Coursa Gem from my Lightsaber blade gem, where ever, you see when a jedi creates a saber he empowers it with the force, therefore where ever my saber is I can sense it, so with that part of the gem on the ring, I can sense where it an you are" Master replied, "Trying to keep a leash on me are you" Kristy said joking, she put on the ring hen said "I love it, I cant wait till we are married"

"Same with me, Alright lets go then" Master said powering up the repolsers after kissing her.

"Thank you for your hospitality Lady Kira" Kristy said as she showed them to their room.

"I thank you, but it is nothing, anything to partly fill my dept with Master" Lady Kira replied. "What dept would that be"? Kristy asked. Master smiled "ill tell you a bit later, on my behalf I thank you Lady Kira, consider the dept paid". They stopped out side their room. "On the contery, I do not consider the dept paid, nor will I for such small things, I will find a way to repay you and you will know what it is when the time comes, I will let you rest" Lady Kira bowed low after speaking then left them before Master could so another word.

"Almost ready" Master asked impatiently from inside a supply store waiting for Kristy. "I thought Jedi were suppose to be patient people" she said with a smile and kissed him. "Yea well, no one can stand getting supplies with a woman not even jedi" Master said smiling. "You Jedi, so reckless, two more minutes" Kristy said laughing.

"Alright then" Master replied as he looked over a few things near the back of the store as Kristy started to get some last things and she went up to pay with the credits Master had given her.

"STAND WERE YOU ARE, DON’T FU*KEN MOVE OR YOUR DEAD" rang out through the store. Master’s head looked up in that direction to see a human male pointing a high powered blaster rifle at the clerk, he was wearing some sort of Clan symbols. The clerk started handing over the credits in the register. "Don’t move or you're dead punk" Master said coming from behind the robber as he pulled out his own blaster. To Master’s horror the robber grabbed Kristy and put her in front of him so Master couldn’t shoot. "You put it down or she is dead, I’ve got an itchy finger lately" he said threatening with the rifle. "Shit" Master said to himself. Master held out his hands and put the blaster on the floor and kicked it towards him. "Its gunna be ok baby, alright man no one is going to try to stop you". "You shouldn’t have tried" the robber said with a grin and he pulled the trigger.

"You are clear to land Vornskr, welcome back" the tech officer said over the comm unit. Master shut down the comm and landed the ship on the flight deck, techs ran to secure the ship to the deck. Master opened the hatch and walked out towards SA Kevin’s office.

SA Kevin had just finished signing some papers when there was a knock on the office door. "Enter" Kevin, said looking up, he put the papers he was signing in a envelope and decided he would finish them later. Master entered the office and sat in the chair opposite Kevin’s desk. "Good to see you respecting rank as usual Captain, good to see you back, ready for duty I see" Kevin smiled at Master’s lack of salute and uniform.

"You can't be serious"? Kevin said shocked. Master spoke for the first time upon entering Kevin’s office "I have never been more serious in my life". Master looked up at Kevin looking away from his fingernails leaving scratches in his hands. "What the hell happened after you spoke to me on Dathomir"? Kevin said trying to figure out what brought this all on. Master took back the data pad for a moment, hit a few buttons then gave it back. There is a news article shown the headline said it all, Young women gunned down in robbery in front of soon to be husband. "How"? Kevin asked standing to look out the view port behind him. "There was a robbery, I tried to stop it, I walked away she didn’t" Master replied with very little emotion in his voice. "That’s a cold way to say it" Kevin said turning to face Master. Master stood and the chair he was sitting on fell backwards, Master erupted "Well that’s what happened, I’m not giving you some sugar coated crap, the truth is she had a gun pointed at her head and that son of a bitch blew her head off, and with all the powers I have in the force none could help me, I held her in my arms while I felt the life slip out of her, when the medical droids came and said it was to late I begged them to try any way, hell I’ve never begged in my life before then, they ignored me and asked where I would like the body to be brought, do you know what that does to someone, you just saw the person you loved, the person you were going to marry killed before your very eyes while you could do nothing but watch as he pulled the trigger, then the medical droids ask where I would like the body taken, life is fu*ken cruel and there is nothing that can be done about it" Master noticed he was shouting at the top of his voice, Kevin deserved more than that, he was also tapping into the dark side as he spoke un-knowingly. Master calmed himself I’m resigning and that’s it".

MC-80 Intruder.

Master sat alone in his own thoughts thinking about what to do, it was obvious that Kevin didn’t want him to go, the others would try to stop him as well but it was his choice and his alone, his mind was made up nothing could change that. Narm walked in and had a look around and headed over and sat down next to Master. Master had his Captain rank insignia in front of him on the bar and had a bottle about to hit it, Narm caught on straight away. "Master, what the hell are you doing, please don’t tell me your going to resign"?

MC-80 Intruder.

"Oh god, no wonder Master is beating him self up" Narm said, he was sitting in the same chair Master was about an hour ago, learning the news that Master had told Kevin. "He is going to leave over this, he thinks it his fault" Kevin said. "I know, he was in a bad state down in the bar earlier, you should have seen him Kev, I have never seen him this bad" Narm replied. "What can I do, he wants to leave, there is no way I can stop him and you know it, if I sent troops in to hold him he would plow through them as if they were nothing but cardboard" Kevin said worried. Narm stood, "I'll stop him, he wont hurt me".

"You hope".

"He wont, I know him that well".

"All right, give it a shot, Good luck" Kevin said giving in.

Narm walked out looking for Master.

There was a knock on Masters door in his quarters, he ignored it, instead he fingered a blaster in his hand. Narm walked in apparently annoyed with knocking. "Come in, sit down, thanks for knocking" Master said sarcastically. "I just heard from Kevin what happened, no wonder you’re a mess" Narm said. "Well I'm sure you would be too" Master replied. "He isn’t going to let you leave, he will use force if need be" Narm said sitting down. "He knows as well as you and I do that armed guards cant stop me" Master said half gloating. "Master, you have to stop beating yourself up over this, its not your fault. There was nothing that you could have done" Narm said. The anger inside Master boiled and Narm flew backwards into he wall where he was pinned a few feet above the ground, Master walked up to him.

"You have no idea what's its like, I saw her die, I saw her as that animal pulled the trigger, I held her as I could feel the life slip away from me and in all of that there was nothing I could do, so don’t tell me it wasn't my fault". Narm could see Master was using the Dark Side but that was the least of his worries for the moment. Master let him go and Narm dropped a few feet to the ground. Master went back and sat down "You have no idea what its like" Master said calming down. "Don’t I"! Narm said. Narm reached into his pocket of his flight suit and pulled out a photo scan and tossed it to Master where it landed next to him, Master turned and picked it up and had a look.

It showed Narm with a women together, they seemed very happy. Master looked up at Narm. "Who and when"? Narm smiled "You didn’t think ive been in Intruder Wing my whole life, her name……was Elly, we were lovers for a time". Master sighed "What happened"?.

MC-80 Intruder

The coffin was on a conveyer belt which would move it into space.

Master addressed the present troops, he noticed a few, Narm, SA Kevin, SA Stan, Mac, Hippie and a few others which wanted to say goodbye, they held respect for her in her help in the Hive Virus incident. "Kristy was special, special in her way she helped a few of us combat the Hive Virus, Special in her help that I had on Courscant and most of all special to me, I dare anyone to say something different. Many on board the ship didn’t trust her when she first arrived, I mean who would trust a New Republic Scientist on board a Intruder Wing starship, but she proved her self to the Intruder Wing time after time. I loved her for every breath I took, may she rest in piece and may god be with her."

The Coffin started to move along the belt, through the airlock doors then the outer doors. It moved slowly away to float the galaxy for the rest of eternity. All the people present saluted as it floated out of the Intruder. They turned and went back to their duties.

"Thanks guys, been a pleasure, I can take it from here" Master told the SF guards.

"Sorry Sir, we have orders to keep you in your quarters" the Lt. said.

MC-80 Intruder

The Vornskr was in sight, none had yet questioned him, then no one knew SA Kevin had confined him to quarters. "Take the direct approach I think" Master said to himself, making sure his blaster and lightsaber were still at his belt he walked off towards the ship. The guards didn’t see him slip into the open ramp. In the cockpit Master hit a few switches powering up the engines. It was lucky the engines were fairly quiet other wise the whole bay could have heard them. Now there was only one problem opening the bay doors.

Master made his way to the command tower in the hanger. As soon as he entered the room two guards on the far side of the room pointed there rifles at him. "Hey Chill guys, ive got orders from SA Kevin" Master said. One of the guards walked towards him, "What orders"? the guard said. "These orders" Master said as he pulled out his blaster and stunned the two guards. "Now open the bay doors so I can get the hell off this crate" Master told the operator. He nodded and hit a few switches which caused the hanger doors to open, space could be seen.

"That’s good" Master said turning to leave. "Oh wait one more thing, cant have you raising the alarm, don’t take it personal" Master said turning with a grin as he pulled the trigger lancing stun blasts around the room.

Narm was using a Access Terminal near the simulator room. Hippie came up behind him. "What you doing" Hippie asked.

"Looking for something"

Hippie looked it showed Command Access.

"Since when did you get command access Narm"? Hippie asked.

"I don’t but I know Kev’s password so that helps, anyway I’m looking for something that I cant access" Narm replied.

"And that is"?

"Where Kevin confined Master after Kristy’s funeral, he wasn’t in his quarters" Narm replied.

"But wait a minute I saw the guards taking Master towards his quarters, he should have been there" Hippie said.

"Oh shit, " Narm said punching in a few more buttons then grabbing his commlink.

"Kev, need a commando force to bay two" Narm said.

"And the reason behind this"? Kevin replied.

"Master has escaped and is going for the Vornskr, he might already be gone" Narm said.

"Commandos are on their way, stop him Narm" Kevin said.

"Will do Boss" Narm said cutting the connection.

Narm and Hippie ran down to Hanger Bay two just in time to see the Vornskr exiting the bay. It turned to fly over the ship, as it did Narm could see Master looking at him, then the Vornskr jumped into Hyperspace designation Unknown.

To Be Continued……………………