STAR WARS

INTRUDER WING

Mac came to in the hall, his head hurt but he was ok, he couldn’t really remember what had caused him to be knocked out but Master was nowhere to be seen so Mac jogged to the hanger only to see Hippie and Narm both draw there guns at Master.

"Oh shiznit" Mac said as he saw what was going on, he noticed that Master was infected and what seems to be the cure had smashed against the wall. Mac ran over and joined Hippie and Narm. "Your sick Master we are going to help you, put down your Lightsaber, we don’t want this to get ugly", Hippie said "Bugger this", Narm said as he shot off some stun bolts at Master who seemed to absorb them somehow. Mac could feel it coming before it did, they flew backwards into a cargo container, Mac could taste the salty blood in his mouth but somehow had enough strength to get up as did they others, Kristy looked scared still in the cockpit. "Don’t be concerned I do not want to kill you only make sure you do not succeed in your plans, I am more open now and using powers I said I would never use again, this for instance", Master said and shot out a glowing red ball of energy at them, Mac and Narm moved out of the way but Hippie was too slow and caught the ball in his side opening a super hot gash. Hippie didn’t even look at it but got up instead as it healed and closed up quickly, Hippie looked a little sore but was ok. Mac turned and told Hippie and Narm he would be back ASAP and run out of the Hanger before Master could stop him. Masters hair stood on end and lightning surged through his body, Narm and Hippie looked at each other and went "SHIT" they moved as quick as they could and the Force Lightning hit the Hanger shield and was absorbed harmlessly. "That’s it" Narm turned to bring his Spray Stick to bear and fired a net at Master. Master ignited his Lightsaber once more to block the net but because it was not fully formed passed through the saber and hit Master square in the chest covering him in the sticky net. "Now who’s the man" Narm shouted, small electrical sparks flickered around the strands of the net and Master hadn’t passed out yet but seemed to be absorbing the power from the stunners but it seemed to do him no good, Master was fighting with everything he had to stay conscious let alone move, at that moment Mac ran back in with what seemed to be a lizard on a vast network of poles which Hippie and Narm both recognized as a Ysalamiri, "Where did you get that"? Hippie asked Mac, who replied "We had it shipped to the Intruder a few weeks ago and but in one of the lower cargo areas so it wouldn’t hinder the force users on board, that’s exactly what I want it to do to Master so he cant attack us". Master groaned but was still conscious but it looked like not for much longer with the force not helping him. Master spoke softly "Lock me up", They all turned to look at him "What did he say" Narm asked "I think he said lock him up" Hippie replied. "Well it looks like all the infected ran while Master was fighting with us so what do you say we take him down to the detention block" Narm said after thinking for a minute. Master passed out finally.

Luke Skywalker had once told him that a Jedi does not dream, but Master found himself back on his home world Dathomir he didn’t really have a clue what was going on, he knew where he was but he didn’t know why. Not until he noticed Rell the oldest of all the Dathomir witches he didn’t know what to do. "What I have to tell you is important" she said "Sit", Master sat on the familiar rug from some unknown animal. "I know you know the story of the Katana fleet but there are something’s you have not heard". Master had no idea what she was on about but continued to listen anyway. Rell spoke in a faraway voice "After the fleet came out of Hyperspace and the crew were dying, the Jedi found them they used the force to heal as many as them as possible and buried the ones that had died" Master was about to ask how and why before he got cut off by her. "You already know how, the power is inside you and you can do it and as for why I don’t need to answer that, you know why also, you come from a long line of Dathomiran witches, the power is strong in side you be true to that just like the Singing Mountain Clan is". At the time Master knew what he must do, even if it meaned the end of him.

Mac, Hippie, Narm and Kristy were outside Master’s cell not sure what to do. Mac wanted to see if Kristy could make up some more antidote, but she looked to tired too do it now, so let her rest, Hippie and Narm just didn’t have a clue what to do, Narm looked like he wanted to shoot some more of the infected personal and Hippie was slumped against the wall resting. "Ok here’s the plan, Hippie I want you to follow me to the bridge so we can stop this ship moving because Master didn’t have a chance before" Hippie nodded "And Narm I want you to stay here and guard Kristy until she feels good enough to try to make up some more antidote, Ok any problems with that plan"? Mac asked after some thought. Hippie didn’t object and Narm said nothing that was unusual for him. "Ok lets get this done" Mac said as he and Hippie walked off towards the bridge.

After Master awoke he wasn’t sure what had happened, until he noticed that he was in the Detention Block and he remembered what he had done and that brought a feeling of pain. He knew he was still infected with the Virus and he must heal himself then help his friends. So he moved into a squatting position and called upon the force, the Jedi Code that he was taught long ago echoed in his mind There is no Emotion, there is Peace, There is no Ignorance, there is Knowledge. There is no Passion, there is Serenity. There is no Death, there is the Force. Master Skywalker had taught that into him and he had taking it upon himself to learn it, but the dark side was still in his blood after the teachings of Darth Vader and he had been careful not to let it out, but the Hive Virus had brought the worst out in him causing him to almost kill his friends and wingmen and Kristy who was something special in more ways than one (You will find out why in a another story which I haven’t finished yet). Master concentrated on healing the code continued to echo in his mind and he thought when I get out of here whoever organized this project in the first place is going to regret it.

Mac and Hippie made there way towards the bridge, it was too quiet so something must have been going on and whatever it was they both didn’t like it. As they entered the bridge they expected to encounter at least some resistance but there was none, Kevin was still tied up "What happened to Kevin"? Hippie asked Mac who answered "Master happened, but not before putting a Lightsaber blade through Master’s shoulder" Hippie winced at the sound of that. "Master must of hit him hard" Hippie said to himself and he noticed the three engineer’s near the front viewpoint either knocked out or dead, what surprised him was that he didn’t care and went to check the consoles instead. "Ok, looks like we have slightly changed course from out original heading and looks like the Hyperdrive engines are warming up" Mac said while looking at the controls. Hippie was shocked "That means I think we need to stop the ship before we get anywhere populated" Hippie added. "Sounds right" Mac said as he looked up and went to the flight controls "DAMMIT, they are jammed" Mac said looking up and towards Hippie. Hippie tried on another console and got the same result. "One more thing I can try" Mac said to himself as he went to a computer, he pressed in several buttons and when it asked for a password he entered him and the computer came up saying, "Flight Options". After clicking on that he hit the Power Down engines button but it required him to enter a command password which only Kevin and Stan had. Mac thought for a minute wondering what Kevin’s password could be, having an idea he pressed in a few letters and numbers and it stopped for a minute. Mac almost shouted out in delight when it said Approved, SA Kevin on the screen but decided not to incase there was infected crew around. Mac and Hippie wondered what to do now.

Back down at the Detention Block Narm was restless he had seen a few of the infected crew go past a T-Junction near him but they hadn’t noticed them and it seemed if Kristy didn’t have any strength to move. Making a rash decision he handed Kristy his Modified Repeater and took off in search of some fun. Kristy was left all by herself but she didn’t mind she wanted some time to think, now that Narm had run off it was silent for a while and Kristy felt like having a sleep but incase there were some of the crew around she better not. After about half an hour or so Kristy heard a voice in the cell "Open up, Let me the hell out of here"! It was definitely Master’s. Kristy got up and opened the viewpoint in the cell to show Master standing near the door. Kristy wasn’t sure what to do if she let him out and he was still infected he could kill them all, but on the slim chance he was healed he could help. "Master are you better" Kristy said with hope in her voice. "Yea, I’m all better let me out, I want to help, please believe me" Master replied after a moment.

Kristy saw she didn’t have much of a choice so she let him out.

Mac and Hippie saw that it didn’t look good, they were surrounded with no place to go. It had happened soon after Mac had turned off the engines, the crew came out of every hatch and door leaving no room to escape. Hippie and Mac had started firing their weapons but soon ran out of charge so they had no hope.

Kristy hugged Master when she saw he was well and asked how, he replied "The Force showed me the way, now where is everyone"? he asked. "Narm ran off and Hippie and Mac went to the bridge to stop the ship" She replied.

"Ok this is what we do" Master said as he picked up his weapons.

Narm was in trouble he was being held up by the neck by two infected officers and they both had Vibroblade’s and were slashing at his stomach area. One of the officers stabbed his Vibroblade into Narm’s forearm just under his elbow slashing tendons and muscles, Narm knew he would need a Bacta trip for that before he almost passed out in pain. The next second both officers dropped to the floor which would have released Narm but Narm stayed pinned to the wall somehow. He slowly opened his eyes and saw Master with Kristy running up to help him. "Narm you alright"? Master asked "Depends on your definition of alright, but when this is over I’m taking a vacation" Narm said half joking, Master couldn’t help but laugh. "Come on, I can only heal you a bit I’m trying to conserve my power for the infected". Master told Narm who nodded. Master held his hands up above Narm’s cut forearm. When he had finished Master said "I have repaired the tendons but cant do the rest, you will be able to move your arm but no more and if you don’t get to a Bacta tank soon you may lose the arm, ok" Narm winced at the pain "Ok what do we do" Narm asked.

Master held up a Blaster and smiled

Mac and Hippie were about to get beaten and killed by the infected mob when there was a voice "No, they are mine" came the voice from the door, when they both looked, it was Master Hippie said "Oh Shit". A stun net flew from behind Master and hit a few of the infected, Kristy and Narm ran up behind him and started to stun as many of the infected as possible, Master ignited his Lightsaber and started slicing any weapons that the infected crew had and he threw them against the wall or something hard where someone stunned them, both Mac and Hippie had joined in at this time and they managed to stun 90% of the crew that were in the bridge. When they had all been stunned or they had crawled away, Hippie spoke to Master "How, you were pretty sick, we didn’t think you would recover"? "You underestimate the power of the force, it helped me and it can help the crew" Master replied. "How"? Mac asked. "We don’t have time to make up any more antidote because at the present time we have about an hour before the crew dies also killing Intruder Wing, so I will heal them" Master told him "There’s just one problem" Master said after a pause. "Because of the large crew on the Intruder, I don’t know if I can heal them all, I will try but it might be the end of me", Mac, Hippie, Narm and Kristy didn’t like the sound of that but there was no other way.

In one of the Below decks Master sat in a squatting position connecting to the force, he could feel the crew and knew time was short, he touched minds with the closest crew member who happened to be Jinx, the mind inside looked like hell, there were stray thoughts and a blackness that was controlling the person, it was a battle of minds and he knew it would need to be done to each and every member of the Intruder.

Hippie, Narm, Mac and Kristy sat outside the room which Master was in, he had been in there almost an hour so they knew many of the crew members would probably soon be dead but there was nothing they could do. Every 15 or so minutes they had looked threw the view port on the door to see Master sitting with his eyes closed looking like he was asleep but they knew better and that he was deep in concentration and should not be disturbed. This time however was different Mac looked threw the view port expecting Master in the same position but he was sprawled out on the floor, Mac burst through the door with the others behind him. Mac checked for a pulse not expecting to find one, but there was a very faint one with only two or so beats per minute, Master was rushed to the Infirmary.

Master was floating and he saw the wonders of the galaxy, including Coruscant, Correlia, Kuat, Ithor, Kessel and many more, his mind was at ease. Once again he was on Dathomir and Rell was in front of him. "Thank you for the help Grandmother Rell, it has continued the existence of Intruder Wing even if it doesn’t include me, for that I am happy". Rell smiled then spoke "Do not worry child you are not dead and it is not your time", Thousands of Jedi appeared behind her. "You have accomplished on board the Intruder what several could not on the Katana fleet, you are a very powerful Jedi, but with that power comes great responsibility" said one of the Jedi who somehow looked familiar. Master remembered what he had tried to do to his friends and hoped that he would never act like that again. Rell smiled "Return to your friends and live with the responsibility that you are……a Jedi".

Master opened his eyes with a smile in the Infirmary confused but the vision reminded him that he was a Jedi and must say true to the force. The Medical Droid checked his vitals and couldn’t come up with a response why Master was still alive but there he was, Kristy hugged him and Mac, Narm and Hippie were all happy to see him for Master had been at Death’s Door for about a month, Master just smiled when he heard that. A few people visited him while he was resting up including SA Kevin who said there were no hard feelings with his jaw as long as there were none about his shoulder, Master had agreed anyway both looked as good as new, Narm had not made it to the Bacta Tanks fast enough with his sliced forearm and had a Cybernetic had attached from the Elbow down, he didn’t seem to pleased until he found a way to get a hidden Blaster in it and found out he could get some time off. Soon Intruder Wing fell back into routine, Mac and Hippie went back to there normal roles, Narm had some time off (Lucky Him) and Kristy joined the staff of scientists on the Intruder, and Master went back to being a fighter pilot remembering that he was closer than ever once again to the Dark Side, and it was close enough, he had almost killed his friends and destroyed the hopes of Intruder Wing, which changes a person for the better.

Courscant, Three days later.

Two men are shown meeting in a dark place, it cannot be seen who they are.

"So the experiment was a failure then"? The First asked.

"To a certain degree yes, Intruder Wing, the NI and the Galaxy were spared of the Hive Virus, but now we have a sample of it locked deep in the vault, which is a powerful weapon against Intruder Wing and the Galaxy". The Second answered.

"How is it they survived, we were told the Hive Virus is a powerful weapon which there is no cure" The First asked.

A Jedi Spared them, it seems Intruder Wing, for it seems that they have trained Jedi working for them, they are becoming a powerful enemy and must be stopped" The Second answered.

"As must the Galaxy where our kind will once again rain supreme" the first said.

Both Men laughed loudly as the rain could be heard in the background.

FIN!

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