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Author Topic: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 8/28/09. check it out! Chap 28 up!!
masterjedi343  5168 posts
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Date Posted: 3/9/08 6:20pm Subject: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 8/28/09. check it out! Chap 28 up!! - Date Edited: 8/28 2:45pm (33 edits total) Edited By: masterjedi343
Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign

author:Masterjedi343

genre: action/AU

key words: Abyss Vader Luke

Summary: For readers: part two of hopefully 3 saga. Abyss and Vader are reigning with the Star Forge. They seem to be unstoppable. Then they decide to invade Coruscant. Is this really a good move on their part? And what will come of Luke and the others? And how will they bring this threat down? Find out in this sequel.

this of course is a sequel to the first story i wrote. that can be found here. You might want to look over the 1st one before starting on the 2nd.


~~~~~~Chapter One~~~~~~~
War. It covered the skies of Coruscant for a second time. But this time it was not a distraction. It was a full invasion. Vader sat on his throne in the lead Command Ship The Sliver . This plan couldn’t fail. They had started taking over the smaller planets, like Endor, and slowly worked their way inwards. But after they took Endor, Tatooine and Dantooine, each with strong resistance. On Tatooine, all of the criminals fought together to try and push back the Forge’s Troops. But they were all killed as the planet was finally taken over in less than twelve hours. Then they decided they would just go for the big meat. The Capital.

Why not? Abyss asked.

“It’s dangerous going for the capital. We don’t know what’s defending it.” Vader argued pacing back and forth in their private bedroom. She looked at him and smiled. “Vader. The Sepritists got to Coruscant. Why can’t we?”

“That was a distraction though…”

“It doesn’t matter. Once we win the space battle it is only a matter of time until the streets of Coruscant are ours. Then we can rebuild it. Build statues of ourselves on the corners. Have thousands of soldiers marching the streets.”

Vader smirked “We can turn the senate Arena into a gladiator field for our entertainment.”

Abyss laughed. “We can do anything we want. We will have complete control of the Capital!! The forge will remain safe where it is now and we can take supply ships and forces back and forth as needed.”

“You seriously want to invade Coruscant then, Abyss?”

“Look around you Vader…we have taken over several planets already. The only planets that have kept us at bay, because we want them to is Naboo, and that Hutt dump…Nas Hutta. There is no reason to take Nas. Naboo is a treasure. We will take that in time as well. Because nothing CAN DEFEAT THE FORGE!” she stood up raising her hands as if asking for forgiveness. “We are undefeatable Vader. Our forces are in the millions and over. What force will challenge us? The Imperium has failed. They had two million. And they lost.”

“Yes they did…but…” Vader trailed off not knowing what to say. Abyss seemed to have more control over him now then ever. Although they ruled as equals she seemed to have a little more dominance in the decision making.

“What about Kamino Abyss? Why don’t we attack them?”

“Im waiting for the right time Vader. I have everything under control.” She smiled rubbing Vader’s cheek. He smiled slowly feeling the love flowing. Even if she was Abyss he still felt the same about her. He loved her still. He was Vader now and she knew that and loved him. However, sometimes he did wonder if she remembered their old identities or if they were like a faded memory.


So here Vader was now, in the present day. With a force of about two and a half million. Abyss had said that would be more than sufficient to take over Coruscant. So here he was now, watching his fighters engage the enemy, and winning of course. Fighters dog fighting around his Capital ship, wings snapping off and slamming into others. Utter Chaos. There was not one blank space above Coruscant’s skies. Capital Ships engaging the Elite Destroyers and the opposite. Fighters dodging cannon fire from the planet surface and fellows.

There was barley room to maneuver those fighters. They were zipping and out every which way it doing twirls which to rival Vader himself, with laser fire criss crossing everywhere. Vader couldn’t tell who was winning as he continued to watch.


Vader closed his eyes slowly, then opened them again sighing. Hopefully this was a good idea. Stop Doubting yourself. You are Lord Vader. You are going to win this day. You are going to crush the remaining Imperial forces easily. He would have loved to get out there and fight…kill some of the enemy, but he hadn’t gotten used to the controls of his fighter with his new body arms. They felt very jerky and tight inside the cockpit. Even though Vader’s Capital ship was the most heavily protected, including a full legion of Sith Troopers, he still felt uneasy.

“What is the force trying to tell me…” he kept whispering to himself. “What is it…”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Another Invasion? What were the chances of it being invaded a second time in Master Ask’loks time? True he was almost nine-hundred and twenty years old but only one other time had Coruscant been invaded. Which was when Palpetine had been captured by General Grievous. That time it had been a diversion. This time it wasn’t. And this time he would have to make amends with the Imperial Commander of Coruscant. Leading Commander Hares Leopold had agreed to meet with Jedi Master, alone in his office. Ask’loks had been running from the Imperials on the planet for the longest time, and killed so many storm troopers he had lost count.

Ask’, during the clone wars, was on the Jedi Council. But after a horrible battle on some distant planet where his troops were completely overwhelmed and he was injured, he was returned to the Capital. Then he was on planet when Grievous invaded the planet. He helped fight off a lot of the droids but the Chancellor was still taken away. After that incident he tried going back to the war…but he wasn’t allowed.
Yoda said that he was meant to stay here. To fulfill something greater. What that meant was a mystery. Although Yoda had great wisdom. But he still had no idea what he had meant. What good could come from staying on Coruscant?

Now he knew. When Order 66 was given, he was sleeping. But when the Jedi started dieing in the temple he was up immediately planning on going to help. When he headed out that day as fast as he could, he couldn’t leave his house. Infact as soon as he stepped outside his home he fainted. And somehow woke up inside again, and the battle seemed to be over but the smoke streamed from the temple for several months a reminder of the fate that traitors of the Empire would get.


Now he saw what Yoda meant. He was meant to stop this battle. Since Ask’ was a Master of Battle Meditation, he could turn the tide of the fight that was going on right now. People on the streets were staring up at the skies watching the flashing lights as Capital ships slowly drifted by. The Elite Star Destroyers looked like they were having one hell of a fight. Even for them. There were continues flashes of red and green light. Explosions were lighting up the sky. Usually you couldn’t see outside Coruscant’s moons. Today was clear and everyone was watching wondering what was going to happen.

Ask’ was cleared for entrance into the Imperial Command Center but he was nervous only because he was the only Jedi on Coruscant. And he was sure either Vader or Abyss was on one of those Command ships and they would find him.

Ask’ made sure when he got into the cab that he flagged down that he was wearing the pass to the Imperial Commander Center.

“To the I.C.C., take me please.” Ask’ said lightly from under his hood looking up at the cab driver.

“Are you nuts?” The driver asked his eyes straying outside to where the battle was then went back to him. “Do you know what the I.C.C. is?”

“Indeed. I do. I have a appointment. I was invited.”

“I can’t go in there. My cab isn’t allowed. The guns will shoot me down…”

“Then drop me off the closet spot you can.”

“Fine.” The Taxi driver nodded and took off into the air taking a sharp left towards the Imperial Command Center.

The Imperial Command Center was in the center of the city planet, with very thick walls around it. It was basically built like a ultra fortress, with the Imperial Seal smack dab right in the middle of the gates where they opened in the center.



The driver slowly approached the front gates and stopped when Imperial Troopers surrounded the car. Ask’ payed the driver and got out lightly lifting the pass high enough for the troopers to see.

One of them nodded to the other troopers, glanced up at the battle then motioned to someone on top of the Gate where there was a tower. There was a green flash and the gates slowly opened. As soon as it opened, all the small Jedi Master saw were Storm Troopers. Thousands of them standing and in formation. They must be waiting if the attack gets through and a invasion force comes. Glancing around more he saw that all of the fortress’s guns were pointed skyward at the battle still flashing. The battle seemed to be covering half the sky now. Obviously no civilian traffic was going through. Was that part of Vader and Abyss’s plan? To attack planet wide? Certainly they wouldn’t be smart enough to do that…but they could have a large enough force to cover the entire planet. Basically a blockade.

But Ask’ was about to change all that. As he was escorted into the giant entrance hall he saw what looked like a command room far to the left as he entered. Soldiers were rushing around handing papers back and forth and pointing to a screen talking. Ask’ couldn’t make out the words but he was sure they were giving orders.

Ask’ was lead into a large circular room where the Commander was sitting behind a desk. He looked grim.

“Thank you Master…Ask’…I know the Imperium has been…a…ah, big impact on your life…but I assure you. If you help us win this battle. Then that will change. We cannot let this force get through the Capital. We must, at all costs win this fight. And you, Master Ask’ are the only one who can help. The future depends on this fight.”

“Understand this I do.” Ask’ said nodding. “Help I will. Make sure we win I will. Show me to the room.”

~~~~~~~~~~
“XX-354, turn take a left. There’s fighters on your back-”

“GET THEM OFF MY BACK!! Ahhh I’m-” There was static from that comm and other panic came through.

“My left wing is damaged…and…Dammit I lost my controls!!” There was a faint yell and a explosion then static.

The comm on the Imperial Command Ship was almost exploding with battle chatter. This wasn’t turning out to become a very good fight. The fight had been slowly spreading across space all day, and now the fight had thinned out. But there were still very tight dogfights dodging in and out between ships. Turbo laser fire locked with each other only a hundred feet away blasting apart the ships as they slowly drifted by each other blasting apart windows and parts of the ship sending both side’s soldiers out into the coldness of space.

~~~~~~~
Vader watched the massive intense battle grinning from ear to ear. Sure this was a struggle but as soon as the space battle slowed the invasion would be fast. Sure there were enemies waiting on the planet but did it matter? They were Imperials. Clones. They were nothing.

The battle was intensifying slowly. Vader could tell the imperials were putting up one hell of a fight. He watched as a star destroyer was blasted apart by his own forces. It split in half sending one piece plummeting towards the planet. It was close to the planet when it snapped in two and so it fell faster. The other side continued to twirl helplessly in space as the fight went on.

~~~~~~~~~
Captain S’tang of the Forge’s forces took a sharp left and dove towards a TIE engaging one of his fellows. Unlike the clones of the Imperium, the forge produced original beings. Which meant that Captain S’tang looked nothing like his other fellow soldiers.

S’tang’s face was sunken in and had long hair tied into a pony tail. But he had to cut it off so he now had short black hair. His nose was short and squat. His eyes were a dark blue and seemed to change color with his mood.

Right now they were a neutral blue and reflecting the flashing lights of the battle. He was concentrating very hard right now taking the yoke to the left into another dive blasting off a TIE’s wing. It spun rapidly and slammed into a Star Destroyer.

Flames burst from the top of the Star Destroyer as the dogfight that was swarming around the Destroyers was blasted into oblivion by the flame.

“Private Strewing.” S’tang said loudly into the comm link over the battle chatter and tremendous noise as he dove again battling a lone TIE fighter and blasting it to pieces again.

“Yes sir?”

“How far have we pushed forward?”

“Not nearly enough to start our invasion Sir…the Imperial’s are holding their own. I think Abyss underestimated them.”

“Perhaps…but that isn’t likely. Turn to point 053, I’ll be there to cover you.”
“Roger that.” he titled his fighter bringing his wings tilting at a angle just avoiding enemy fire. He glanced back seeing about four TIEs on him. “I need backup, at point 0.21, left sector. Their gaining!!” he avoided more enemy fire twirling his fighter in a barrel roll.

There was suddenly blaster fire from behind him, and he glanced back seeing that someone had relieved him. “Thanks.” He said into the comm slowly. “That scared me.”

“Another close call Captain.” The private said laughing. The two joined back into the chaotic battle.

Neither side had gained or lost ground.

~~~~~~~~~~~~
“As you can see Master Ask’ our fleet is holding its own…but I don’t think it will be for much longer…and definitely not if they bring in reinforcements…” He watched the flashing dots moving around the screen. He cursed loudly. More red dots, which were the enemy had just arrived at the edge of the screen. The red squares were the capital ships and the smaller circular dots were the fighters. As soon as they got close, the dots began swarming into the already massive battle. Glancing back at Ask’ he looked grim. “You know the situation now.”

Ask’ nodded and walked to the center of the crowd lifting his arms towards the map and closed his eyes. “Help you I will. But much quiet I will need. And concentration.”

Slowly, he closed his eyes focusing on the battle taking place in space. He began letting the force flow from his hands into the Imperial forces, willing them to win. Concentrating harder he willed them to be able to fight together, and win together. But someone else was there.

Vader. Hopefully Ask’ wouldn’t draw too much attention by using this tactic. Because he knew he may be a good Jedi…but his lightsaber skills, even though they matched Yoda’s were nothing compared to Vader.

This was not the time to think about that, he accepted his destiny if he had to face Vader and lets his force flow through all the ships. He could feel the will of the Imperial’s fight rise. And the other side began to fall and get sloppy. Continuing to watch he saw the fight beginning to thin slowly. But the enemy came back strong and forced Ask’ out of the Meditation.

Ask’ wasn’t sure what that was…but he dipped into the force again going into the Meditation again. “Fight Imperials. Band together and win!” once again he began tapping his force letting it flow into the troops raising their moral.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Suddenly the battle shifted. The Imperials began forming unstoppable formations, and although the Forge forces tried to push them back, the Battle Meditation was working, faster than Ask’ had predicted.

~~~~~~~~~~~
Captain S’tang was suddenly inspired, and knew exactly what to do to win this battle. “All fighters…begin to form formation Tactic defensive 5! Red group break off into tactic formation. Blue group formation behind me and Tactic Alpha one.”


“Roger that Sir.” Came the same response. They flew into their respected formation blasting all of the fighters out of their way, not one of their getting hit. They twirled at the same time, and defended each other perfectly.

They slowly began to push the Forge’s force backward. What a wonderful day!!

~~~~~~~~~~~
“Lord Vader…our forces are falling back-”

“NO!!!” Vader roared running forward to stare at the drastically changed battle. They were moving in formation. The enemy was actually not lose, but moving as one force, in groups beating back his superior forces!!

He yelled angrily and the floor cracked underneath him.

“WHY!?” he screamed looking around as if the answer would come out of the shadows. But he was asking the force. “Tell me how to fight them! How did they suddenly gain this advantage!!” He almost fell over as his ship quaked for the first time during the battle.

“Because…” A voice hissed back slowly. “They have a Jedi with them!”

“A Jedi? NO! they are suppose to be dead!” Vader roared to the voice back. He glanced around, his hair matted. He looked utterly madd. The officers backed away. They obviously thought he had completely lost it since they couldn’t hear the voice.

“Vader…listen to me. The Jedi on the planet knows battle meditation. Your second wave of reinforcements are coming but they wont stand long against this technique. I know because my wife Bastila used it against the Republic. You must find the Jedi and kill him before you lose this battle. You mustn’t lose!” Revan spat into his head.

“I know I know.” Vader said loudly to himself trying to wave Revan on. “Can’t you distract him? And where is this Jedi?”

“I have no idea…I cannot go near the Jedi…his light force is too strong for me. But you can find him. Check in the Imperial center. Perhaps he is in there.”

Vader nodded and the Commander approached him then saluted him. “My Lord. Our reinforcements are arriving. Orders?”

“Send them around the other side. Send the ground forces in.”

“Aye, aye sir.” He nodded and saluted then left. Vader turned his attention back to the battle. The enemy had seemed to have sudden new heart and were continuing to blast the forge fighters out of the sky.

~~~~~~~~~

S’tang dove upwards taking his yoke stick pulling it towards him. He flew over a Star Destroyer where the turrets were. They swiveled and turned firing at him. Suddenly four Forge Fighter Bomb classes A4 came streaking behind his own fighter and began bombing the top of the Destroyer where the turrets were. They were blasted apart and stopped working.

S’tang grinned and took a hard left, the TIEs following not making one mistake. “Dammit…” He took another sharp left and the TIEs followed him again. A right taking himself over a forge capital ship. The TIEs followed even with full guns blazing from the forge ship it didn’t hit the TIE fighters.

In fact the guns accidentally hit two forge fighters chasing two TIEs over their own ship. One was hit square center and the other one was hit on the wing. Then suddenly. Vader noticed it was happening everywhere. All of his ships had started firing on his fighters. Everywhere fighters were spinning out of control, turrets turning on their own to target their friendly pilots and blast apart dead center.

They were slowly moving towards the other side of the planet, there was no battle here. Vader walked to the front of the ship watching his fleet began releasing the trooper pods. Turning around he marched to his own shuttle. He was definitely going to kill this Jedi. He glanced at the commander. “Get these fighters to help ours now! Im taking the ground forces to the planet.”

“As you wish my Lord.” The soldier said saluting. The Dark Lord went into the hanger and boarded a shuttle. He watched the force slowly moving towards the planet. Thousands of the invasion ships were now getting into the atmosphere. “Any time now…” he said slowly. And then he saw it. A flash and one of the cargo ships exploded sending parts everywhere. Suddenly there were flashing dots all across the place where they entered.

Vader watched angrily as the ships began to crack under the anti air craft fire. This wasn’t turning out to be very good. This Jedi would pay dearly.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
On the planet was hell. Anti air craft fire poured into the air where the enemy was flooding from. Troop carriers filled the skies. Sergeant Ra was on one of the leading carriers. He was checking his altitude watch. But it was still too late for them to jump. More anti craft fire slammed into other ships around Ra’s. The door shield blocked most of the debris but it slammed into others behind them and they broke apart spinning into the atmosphere.

The battle Meditation began effecting the troop carriers now. The ones behind Ra’s slammed into each other and exploded spinning the pilot out of the ship and spiraling down through the clouds. Ra grabbed onto the grip that was on all of the carriers. There were about nineteen other troopers with him. They were probly scared but they were merely toys in Vader’s invasion.

“Approaching 500,000 feet sir. Our carriers are taking heavy damage. Mostly by our own!” The pilot spoke turning around and yelling over the flak fire and turbo laser fire. “Orders?”

“Were waiting till we reach at least 100,000! We can’t drop any lower!! When we deploy we will aim to land on buildings. The anti craft guns are too much!”

“Roger that sir.” The pilot said turning his ship from left to right rocking slightly to avoid the fire. The sky was filled with blasts, and the exploding carries, one by one. None of them seemed to be coming through the wall of fire…


Suddenly the green light went on that meant go to jump. “100,000 FEET BOYS LETS GO!!” Ra yelled and motioned with his thumb and leaped out of the craft, falling free style. Nineteen other troops fell behind him as they flew towards the buildings.

As one, they pulled the parachutes and the wind caught them as they flew back into the wind. “All crew members, aim for that building.” Taking out a laser cylinder, which was essentially a landing flare he tossed it at the largest building, and it landed. It began spinning very fast creating rapid colors and flashing red.

The other troopers nodding and came in towards that building.

Ra landed first. By tucking and rolling. Then the next troop landed. Captain Tusso. Then three privates landed after that. R’tar, Heth, and Harr. Turbo laser fire was still pouring into the sky and the carriers were now falling out of the sky rapidly slamming into buildings and exploding. Slowly though, other soldiers began floating down from other carriers. Ra went to the edge of the building looking around in the sky for the other privates.



“I don’t see them guys…they probly landed somewhere else. Alright.” He turned around facing the other soldiers. More had landed on the building. Other troops were now landing on near by buildings and setting up positions. Ra took out his binoculars and pressed them to his helmet. They clicked into place and grabbed the binoculars. His hands were free now to move to the zoom and zoom in towards the Imperial Command Center.

“Alright boys. There’s the Command Center. Vader is heading there now probly. I don’t see his shuttle but im sure he wont be too much longer. When we see him. We will meet him at the gates. Our mission is to take the center over. If we take that. Then we will have the advantage.”

“What about the Senate?”

“That doesn’t matter right now.”

“So…how far is this building from the Center?”

“two hundred miles…”

“Your not serious…those streets…” He took out his own binoculars and zoomed in on the streets. “Are filled with Stormtroopers…how the hell are we going to get two hundred miles?!”

“Calm down private. I promise we will make it. There are several hundred other troops around on the building. We will team up with them and fight our way in.”

~~~~~~END CHAPTER ONE~~~~~~~~~

 

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geno  283 posts
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Date Posted: 3/9/08 8:48pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/08/08. check it out
Well hate to say it but Master Ask’lok is in a deep pile of trouble should Vader find him, since he the only reason the Imperium forces are actually making a dent in Abyss's and Vader's forces.

Good start, please add me to the pm list for this story should you have one and look forward to more

Since the story was moved, I figured I would move my reply and update it a little

 
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Date Posted: 3/10/08 8:38pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/08/08. check it out
i definitively will be having a PM list

 

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Date Posted: 3/11/08 7:55pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/11/08. check it out
~~~~~~~CHAPTER TWO~~~~~~~~
Vader sat down in the shuttle waiting for the landing. He opened his eyes his chest heaving. The shuttle entered as fast as the ship would go into the atmosphere using the force pulling back on the throttle and using the force as a shield around the ship. “He will die…he will pay for this. Pathetic Jedi!!”

Turbo lasers slammed into the shuttle but they bounced off it. Setting the shuttle down in the middle of the street. Almost at once Stormtroopers swarmed around it. The door slowly opened. All that was seen was mist issuing out and then a bright red lightsaber blazed to life. He sprinted down the ramp slashing at the Stormtroopers. Surprised by this they began firing at the flash that flew out of the shuttle.

The flash was so quick that they were caught off guard. They tried firing but they were too slow. He twirled around slamming his saber every which way he could, into heads, chests, slashing off arms and legs…anything he could reach was gone.

The troopers recognized Vader and activated their backup weapons. New to the Imperial army. A sword that had the same properties as a lightsaber but not exactly one. It was a type of metal that would be able to fight a saber in one to one combat without breaking in two. The Vibroblade could do this but this metal was much stronger and it was attached to the soldier’s arm.

When he made a fist, it swung out into a long blade about six feet long. Which could be used for hand to hand or a last resort. But they were no match for Vader’s skill. No matter how many of them were there. They ran at him slashing their swords at him but he either grabbed their free arm after ducking and then stabbing them in the chest or just ran through the crowd cutting off limbs.

Vader leapt into the air. Stormtrooper fire followed him as he landed again and thrust his hands out to the side. The troopers around him were thrown backwards in all directions from the wave. He stood up laughing lightly. What a workout this was. He glanced back upwards. The fight was still going on. He had to stop playing and get there.

Using the force he sped through the crowd of troopers again. Laser blasts followed him but they hit other troopers and they fell from their fellows blast.

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“Lord Vader is nearing the gates Commander!” One of the troopers yelled running over to him.

“Defend the best you can until he breaks in…Master Ask’…” He said turning towards the small Jedi Master.
Ask’s eyes were closed his hands still out moving his wrists around his palms facing the map. The dots were now in syncrination and blasting the enemy back. This was good.

“Yes, Commander?”

“Are you almost finished?” The Commander asked. He sounded nervous.

“No…our battle is only half one. You must defend this Center…the ground forces are landing and forming up at the south end of the…” He fell silent muttering silently. “Rodian district. Fifteenth level.”

“Alright.” He turned to the comm and began speaking to the ground troops outside then turned back to Ask’. “Their checking that spot out now. Are we winning though? The space battle?” The Commander asked glancing at the map.

“Yes…we have the advantage. If you can keep Vader away for forty minutes…then we will win and Vader will be forced to retreat.”

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Ra made his way slowly down the stairs of the building they were on. More carriers had started to arrive in the atmosphere. The sky was still ablaze with battle and more parachutes were appearing slowly drifting down, occasionally being punctured and he fell to his death.

Ra and his team slowly stopped at the entrance to the building. He motioned to R’tar and he moved and slowly opened the door his rifle in front of him his night vision on as the dark clouds and smoke were blocking out the sun. the streets were empty. Usually the hustle and bustle of Coruscant were always out. There was always at least a thousand residents on each section. But right now it was empty. And eerie.

All that sounded was the distant sound of blaster fire and turbo laser guns aimed at the sky and other Forge Soldiers engaging Stormtroopers on the ground in other parts of the city. They slowly moved down the street moving from building to building. Ra looked around and saw more Forge soldiers landing.

“Lets wait for these to land, and we will move out.”

“Yes sir.” all said at once.

The soldiers, about sixty of them landed on the ground and loaded their weapons and gathered around Ra who had a holomap out and was in the center. “Alright boys…this is where we are.” He pointed to a spot on the map. Then he moved the map with his finger. Live video flashed by and he stopped at the Imperial Center.

“This is where we need to be. Two hundred miles away…”
“Are you kidding?” One of the soldiers asked half laughing.


“No.” Ra said seriously. “If Vader can take the Center before we get there…then we can get rides to the Center…if not we will have to fight our way in.”

“Well he’s on his way now isn’t he?”

“Yes. And knowing him he killed everyone. Lets go boys. Load up. Its gonna be one hell of a trip.”


~~~~~~~~~~~~END CHAPTER TWO~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

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geno  283 posts
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Date Posted: 3/11/08 10:02pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/11/08. check it out! Chap 2 up
That is going to a long walk not to mention the battle to keep Vadar at bay

Thanks for the pm and look forward to more

 
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Date Posted: 3/12/08 8:27pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/11/08. check it out! Chap 2 up
update tomorrow guys

 

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Date Posted: 3/14/08 7:28pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/14/08. check it out! Chap 3 up!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CHAPTER THREE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vader stopped at the entrance to the Imperial Center and glanced up. The turbo laser muzzles was still pointed up and firing away at the landing crafts. This would be helpful to Vader. Using the force he leapt high into the air onto the giant wall. Troops yelled and ran towards Vader firing.

He growled and laughed stopping them in mid air. Then suddenly tossed them into the turbo laser fire. The soldiers were incinerated instantly. Vader glanced over the crowd of troops. Every inch of ground was white Stormtrooper armor. Vader slowly grinned slowly putting his lightsaber away and lifted his hands spread wide out.


First he pointed his palm towards the turbo laser next to him, and made a fist. Instantly that stopped working and the loud blaster fire was farther away. He had crushed the giant gun so the entire muzzle was tangled into a know and squished. That wouldn’t work anymore.

Vader decided to have some fun next. He leapt into the air and landed in the center of troops kneeling. Suddenly he stood up and slammed his hands out wide. Thousands of troops flew backwards slamming into each other.

Again he did it and before the troops knew it the pathway was clear. “This is too easy…” Vader said slowly.
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Blaster fire suddenly filled the Coruscant streets as Forge and Imperial forces met. The Imperials were coming from the north, and the Forge the south. The two armies suddenly spotted each other and began opening fire on each other letting turbo laser tank and cannon fire open up on each other. The buildings were so close that they exploded and crashed down on both sides.

The battle was so intense and focused that the blaster fire that missed the troops were burning their visors. While the battle was intensifying Ra lead a sniper slowly up to a roof top near the enemy side. Pointing down into the midst of the battle using a special cloaking device used only with the sniper soldier armor he pointed out the Commander to the sharp shooter.

Slowly he took aim twisting the sites around a bit to get a perfect head shot. But there was too much chaos. Troops were running back and forth down their side and the tanks were firing from the back trying to slam into buildings by the Forge sides.

“I can’t get a fix on him sir…” The sniper whispered blending back into the environment.

“Dammnit…fine. Plan B.” He grabbed a advanced mini missile launcher and aimed it at the leader. “Ready…Aim…”

Suddenly out of nowhere the building collapsed. Ra yelled and leapt off the building and activated his emergency jet pack. The Sniper wasn’t so lucky and his camouflage turned off as he fell into the now fighting crowd that was fighting hand to hand combat with vibroblades. The sixty or so Forge forces fighting against thousands of Imperials…wasn’t a good idea for sudden hand to hand.

The Forge forces were slashing at the enemy but they were retreating slowly. Then the reason for the building collapsed revealed itself. Forge forces were swarming the streets and bombing the city. Thousands of fighters flew over head; TIEs following close behind or in the mix.

Ra blew his horn to sound the fall back. But most of his forces were fighting with their blades on both hands this time. In a time of desperateness then the Forge Forces had a option of fighting with one vibroblade or two. If they wanted two then they just squeezed their hand into fists and blades popped out from the top of their wrists.


More Forge troops were making their way into the battle joining the fight. The battle had drawn back again and was back to a intense fire fight. The space battle over head had now resumed in the atmosphere and flak appeared from the ground to stop the Forge forces. They broke apart spinning and slamming into a building every now and then.


Dogfights were just as intense if not more in a atmosphere than in space. Because of the gravity involved now the maneuvers became less daring but the fighting was fierce each Sith Fighter and TIE trying very hard to kill each other.

The skyline of Coruscant was ablaze, buildings were burning and crashing to the ground as fighters swarmed dodging enemy fire from behind, around and below them. Fighting in the streets was just as huge. Neither gave or took ground.

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Ask’ had lost concentration. He knew Vader was getting closer and he gave up trying to concentrate which is why the enemy had suddenly broken through. He turned around closing his eyes. Vader hadn’t come inside yet but he knew the fight was coming near.

He looked at the Commander. “Im sorry…Commander but I can’t hold back them any more…fear I do that this battle…will be lost. I must lead Vader away from here…”

“I have a idea Maser Ask’!” The Commander blurted out suddenly. He stopped Ask’ lightly and began typing on the computer fast. The screen flashed and turned green. “Take him to the artificial Gravity room. There are hundreds of stairs and platforms and…if we long him in there he will never get out. The room is gigantic.”


“Good…lead him there then I will. Find it alone with the force I will. Make sure its on when I lead him in there. Then turn it off.”

“What if he gets out Master Ask’?”

“He won’t. Not alive anyway.” Ask’ said seriously. “Now show me the room?”

“Of course Master. Its through the barracks which is down stairs.” The Commander said lightly picking up his speed. The building suddenly shook and both of them stopped. That wasn’t good. “We must move faster!”

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Vader was slashing down bodies left a right. But they were trying their best to keep him from getting through. But he was going no matter what. The problem was they kept jumping at him as soon as he reached the door. And the fighting outside the center had increased ten fold. The atmosphere was filled with anti fighter flak and the sounds around him were yelling and blaster fire.

Again he slammed his arms backwards and the troops flew off him. Activating his lightsaber he twirled around slashing the troops around him in half or stabbing them in the chest, kicking at them or flipping over them and then slashing them.

The troopers wouldn’t stop. They kept running at him and firing. He could tell what they were doing. They were slowly trying to encircle him to shoot him down like they did so many Jedi at Order 66. He wasn’t a Jedi.


He yelled angrily, and waves of force slammed around him in 360 degrees. Everyone flew backwards. Lifting his hands in the air, the soldiers lifted into the air then began shocking them. They yelled and went limp.

Letting them fall to the ground he turned his attention back to the door.

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As expected the zero gravity room was quite large. There were double blast doors that locked when you went in. The entire room was light up with florescent lights and there were hundreds of staircases and bridges and platforms with a large control keyboard set into the wall where a computer sat.

Ask’ limped over to it with the Commander’s help. “This can be activated by the outside?”

“Yes Master. We have the controls and can turn it completely off then back on at will and close the blast doors. If you lead Vader in here. He will not get out.”

“How positive are you on that…”
“About seventy five percent to be honest Master Ask’…he is Darth Vader after all.”

“Then I have to kill him. If you are not one hundred percent sure of this facilities ability then I can’t let him live any longer…”

Suddenly a soldier burst onto the Comm on the Commanders shirt. “Commander!!! Vader’s forces have pushed back our line…and Vader himself is trying to get inside again.”


“Alright…activate Plan C Private Tekkins”

“Roger that Sir. Tekkins out.”

“What is Plan C?” Ask’ asked looking up curiously.

“A advice…clone. Very advanced actually. He can kill Jedi.”

“Vader is not a Jedi…”

“Let me explain first. Now Plan C…which is a clone has been trained in the highest fighting program ever. He knows hand to hand combat with his hands tied and blind folded. And he knows weapons combat…but the best part of this is that he has his own similar lightsaber. Not one exactly but a staff…similar to the famous General Grevious’s body guards except much stronger and the blades can cut through anything.”

“So…it’s a fake lightsaber?” Ask’ said slowly.

“Yes…and it will be Vader’s match.”

Ask’ didn’t have the heart to tell them it wouldn’t.

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Vader could sense it was coming. Then the doors opened and a man about his size in Trooper armor with a flowing red cape marched out. He took from his back a staff and twirled it around once then activated it. Blades sprung to life on either side. At first Vader thought they were real lightsaber blades. But they weren’t. They resembled vibroblades but they were glowing blue and humming.

Then suddenly the strange Soldier was right in front of Vader. He had to back up to avoid the sudden onslaught of attacks from him. Twirling that thing around made Vader back up and become on the defensive. This guy was good. Whoever he was. At least until Vader figured out his form.


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With Ask’ not helping, the ground forces were pushing the Imperial forces slowly farther and farther back. Most of the buildings in the lower section they were in had completely collapsed. The city was almost litterly on fire. More and more buildings were crashing around the Imperial forces and slamming into TIE fighters and troopers.

The horn for the Imperial force retreat sounded loud. It was a very low and loud noise. The front lines of the enemy forces broke and they scattered everywhere. Forge bombers swooped down easily blasting the enemy down like rag dolls. Half the battle was won.

Ra and his men fell back towards the back of the line as thousands of Forge troops raced ahead yelling and firing at the enemy. “That wasn’t too bad boys now was it.” Ra asked looking at the others.

“Considering we only lost about forty percent of our force…no. But they did put up a good fight. One of the best I think.” R’tar said shouldering his rifle.

“What do you mean by one of the best?”

“I mean…every other planet has put up tiny resistance. we expected a big resistance from Coruscant and we definitely got it.”

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Vader and the soldier twirled around spinning and slapping blades as they circled each other. Every single move Vader made, the other copied him. They were going move for move. Could he possibly be reading Vader’s thoughts or moves? Can a clone DO that?”

Or maybe he wasn’t a clone at all? His movements were going faster and faster now and the two spun around leaping over each other the blades slamming into each other and sparks flying everywhere.

Vader twirled his saber glaring at his opponent. He knew he wasn’t human. The mask slowly split open then slid back into the head. What was behind was a sensor and a machine face. It was a droid. The droid let out a cold metallic laugh and slid the staff into two parts. His wrists spun around bringing them into a defensive position.

Vader growled and leapt at the enemy. The droid backed up and jumped backwards twirling around. The Sith couldn’t get one hit inside the defenses. Obviously the Imperium had spent some time on this machine because he seemed to resemble General Grevious’s fighting style. Hopefully he didn’t have four arms.

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The Imperial troops began to fall back to the outside Imperial Center in front of the gates. The Forces of the Forge continued forward ruthlessly cutting down the clones. The gates opened and the troops fell back into the fortress. About half of the front lines of the Forge ran inside before it slammed close and they were all in the crowded court yard of the Center when they stopped to see Vader and the droid fighting. They were in the very center twirling faster and faster. The droid leapt over the Sith tossed half of the staff in the air and caught it with its foot.

“Great…another Grievous…” Vader sighed bringing his saber into a defensive stance. The droid tossed the saber again catching both halves of the staff in a foot and a hand and spun around, then switched the opposite foot and hand.

Suddenly Vader saw a opening and slammed a force push into the droid. He flew backwards but stopped and his chest opened up and turbo lasers slid out. They suddenly unleashed a burst of fire filling the spot where Vader just was. But he had moved.


The droid turned its head again and let out another blaze of turbo laser fire. It slammed into the crowd and they scattered and began skirmishing among each other. The two Saberists were now among the other soldiers fighting with vibroblades now.

Vader went in for a side attack at the droid, but his entire body shifted by bending backwards his feet taking control of the blades and his hands holding him up as he glared up.

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“I am ready. Lead Vader in here…”

“As you wish Master Ask’.” The Commander said turning to his comm link. “Alright lead the droid inside to the zero gravity room…Vader will follow him.”

The private at the controls nodded and pressed a button and the giant doors protecting the inside hallway slide open. He attacked slashing at the droid again but he was doing back flips now deflecting each attack. A blade sliced off part of Vader’s coat. he had tried again to cut the dark lord in half.

Vader was getting tired of this game. He glanced around and saw giant pillars and statues of Palpetine everywhere. Using the force he moved the statues to fall down on the droid. The first one missed him by several inches but the second one slammed into his head and he dropped half of his staff.

Lightly, Vader kicked it into his hand and cut in half before continuing. He could tell the droid was wearing down. It was getting one hell of a workout to say the least. But it wouldn’t last much longer against Vader.

He was the best Jedi there ever was and now the best Sith. He slipped further into the darkside and suddenly slammed his foot on the ground. Seismic waves suddenly erupted under his foot shaking the droid. Lifting his hand with the force the droid lifted into the air. He tossed the droid back down the hallway. It got up and began sprinting down the hallway into the barracks, past the bedrooms and straight into the zero gravity room which was completely in the dark.

Vader crushed the droids body then sensed a trap as soon as he stepped in but it was already too late and the doors had slammed shut. Glancing around he activated his lightsaber and it instantly lit up the area. Seeing a control on the wall he flicked his hand towards it. The lights slowly activated and flashed to life.

Suddenly a green blade illuminated the shadows. Vader turned around quickly activating his own saber. Then they shot at each other and began fighting as fast as they could exchanging blows and twirling a round, Ask’ leaping around like Yoda and Vader turning to match his speed and attacks. Ask’ forced him backwards on the defensive and leapt forward, but Vader moved out of the way as he leapt off the wall.

With a flourish, Ask’ gave the signal to the watching camera, and the room began to hum loudly, it flashed and the room became weightless. It even surprised Ask’ as he began spinning around.

Vader yelled angrily trying to move through the air. But all he was doing was spinning in the air over and over again. Suddenly Ask’ shot forward using the force but was stopped by a equal amount of force by Vader. They twirled around twisting locking blades. But they floated away from each other in opposite directions.


With a grumble Vader stepped onto the wall and kicked off shooting towards Ask’ who was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of his enemy. Finally Ask’ stopped himself in mid air with the force and began dueling Vader with as much skill as he could muster. The blades became flashes of light even in the zero gravity.

Ask’ knew this was a bad idea to fight Vader, the greatest Sith, not to motion pilot and duelist…but if he was going to die he would die honorably. They slammed into each other and their lightsaber flipped out of their hands and went spinning away.


They both went for their own sabers, but they only grabbed the very edge and they went spinning faster. Vader kicked Ask’ in the face then tossed him into the air and flew after his saber.

Ask’ yelled and stopped himself. Glancing around he saw a staircase above where Vader was flying to grab his saber. Using the force he ripped it out of the wall and sent it flying down at Vader.

At the last moment Vader moved out of the way, landed on the ground and shot up into the air grumbling to himself glancing back down without his lightsaber.
Ask’ followed.

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The Imperial Command Center began to quake. The Forge Fighters had broken through the defenses finally and began to bomb the outside of the facility. The fighting outside began to move inside and the workers inside joined the mob. Guns were being used but they were only pistols and the crowd was so large and even though the hall was so large it was getting cramped and they had to ditch their weapon for their back up vibroblade.

Eventually the Imperial forces began falling back and the Forge soldiers took up defensive positions and began using their rifles again as the crowd thinned out shooting down the retreating forces.

Ra was standing at the back stepping over his men and Imperials alike. It was not a pretty site. The place stank of battle and blood. He glanced up watching the enemy flee. “Kill the enemy. Don’t let word get out that this place has been attacked. Also…” He turned around searching through the soldiers as they lined up slowly in formation. “Sergeant Roman!”

“Yes Sir?” Roman asked turning around to face Ra.

“Make sure we take over all of the media resources…this can’t get out that we have won here. Got it? Even though we have the place for now…I think if word gets out then we will be attacked almost instantly. And stop all civilians from leaving or entering the atmosphere.”

“Our Capital ships are taking care of that Sir. The debris is everywhere…no ship can get through. It’s like a damn asteroid field. And ill get right on the media.” He grabbed a squad and they followed him out the doors.

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“You will not WIN Vader!” Ask’ yelled as they threw punches and kicks. Even though Ask’ was small, his hand to hand combat was right on with Vader’s. They twirled around in the air and the soles of their feet slammed into each other. They kicked off of each other and Ask’ did something he had been hoping he wasn’t going to use. But he had to.

Force Lock. It bounded the opponent as if ropes had wrapped around his entire body and were keeping his limbs together. This was a very hard maneuver to keep and Ask’ hadn’t got the hang of it yet but so far it was holding.


Vader yelled out in surprise at the immense power this Jedi was putting out. He pushed back on his own power the darkside flowing out from his body and slowly begin to litterly burn away the white power. The bind sparkled and flared and broke apart because the dark energy was too strong. Vader’s eyes were glowing red, and red mist was swirling around him. Ask’ swallowed and tried again. But this time he grabbed another stairwell and brought it off the wall slamming it towards Vader but he stopped it with the force by holding out his hand. Force slammed back into it stopping it in mid air. Making a fist Vader crushed it and tossed it to the side. It floated away lightly.


Both began looking for their lightsabers, running their hands over the air. Out of the debris flew one saber. Both saberists saw it and threw their hands out. The saber stopped in the middle of the two struggling between them.


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The Forge Fighters and soldiers had finally taken over the main media center of Coruscant. And they had resumed the bombing of the Imperial Center. It shook the entire building. The fight inside had slowly died off. The imperials who had surrendered had been ordered to be killed. And Ra had contacted Lady Abyss with the good news.

He slowly knelt down and looked at her towering head. It was covered with a hood. “This better be good Commander Ra…”

“It is Lady…it is indeed! We have taken the capital!!”

Abyss’s voice changed. “Really? And where is Vader?”

“Fighting I think…I don’t know where he went.”

“He can handle himself…but well done Commander. How many of our forces are lost?”

“Forty five percent Lady…” Ra said slowly not looking at her.

“Don’t worry. I am not mad. You did well. Reinforcements will be on the way immediately. Your troops will all be rewarded for this victory.” The communication ended and Ra smiled. She was pleasant today.

He turned to the soldier next to him. “Go find Vader. He must tell us what to do next.”

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The gravity room shook again, and Vader kicked Ra into the wall who slide down onto the staircase. Once more it shook, then the light flickered and the gravity turned back on suddenly. Vader was caught off guard and he grabbed onto a pole as he slide down and stopped himself with the force. Sighing with relief he leaped off the wall and landed on the ground glaring up at the small Jedi. Lifting his hands high into the air he send the battle debris flying at the staircase where Ask’ was.


At the last moment he leapt off and free fell. But Vader wasn’t done yet. He yelled angrily and released a vicious attack of lighting straight into his tiny body. It flashed white and then Vader stopped the torture and let him fall but stopping him inches from the ground.


Vader shook his head staring at the tiny Jedi. “Pathetic. You are worthless. Jedi scum!” Once again he underestimated his enemy.

With all his might, Ask’ slammed Vader back against the door. It created a dent. Ask’ stood up roaring, or the best growl he could do as he repeatedly slammed Vader into the door denting it more and more.


Gasping for breath he couldn’t move as his head and body were slammed into the very hard metallic door. Suddenly the door flew off its hinges and Vader rolled backwards and against the wall.

Ask’ stormed out of the room his nostrils flaring. “Let you leave alive I will NOT!!” Vader smirked and got up his back throbbing in pain and a headache. Slowly the giant door lifted and it flew towards Vader.

Thinking he leapt out of the way he relaxed a bit but the door slammed into Vader hard again. And again slamming him back to the ground each time he got up. He was starting to get annoyed not to mention bruised.

Standing up again he stopped the door with the force yelling with concentration. Both began exerting enormous amounts of energy into the pushes. They were equally matched. Then a slightly stronger push from Ask’ made Vader slam into the wall. The force of the metal door hitting the wall broke it and Vader ran into the hole.


They were in the barracks.

~~~~~~END CHAPTER THREE~~~~~~

 

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Date Posted: 3/14/08 9:59pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/14/08. check it out! Chap 3 up!!
I wonder what is going to be left of the building once Vader and Ask get done fighting. Abyss was happy that they had the captial though I think she was wondering why Vader didn't report the success though she seemed to understand the fact he was fighting somebody and having heck of time with it.

Good update, thanks for the pm and look forward to more

 
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Date Posted: 3/15/08 12:30pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/14/08. check it out! Chap 3 up!!
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Date Posted: 3/21/08 8:39am Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/14/08. check it out! Chap 3 up!!
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Date Posted: 3/27/08 1:17pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/14/08. check it out! Chap 3 up!!
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Date Posted: 3/27/08 2:01pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/27/08. check it out! Chap 3 up!!
~~~~~~~~~~~CHAPTER FOUR~~~~~~~~~~~
Vader and Ask’ had began fighting in the barracks twirling and twisting around inside the small quarters, Ask’ leaping on the beds and Vader slashing through them then sending the pieces after the small Jedi. Barley he dodged them because of his size and skills. But that didn’t stop Vader from trying his hardest to continue to throw the beds at him.

One, finally actually slammed into Ask’ and he yelled rolling into the floor. Vader reached his hands up to the roofs and yelled collapsing the roof. Ask’ using speed, got out of the way just in time. But he was slammed to the floor by Vader’s force. Struggling to get up they suddenly clashed sabers slamming red against green. Good against Evil. Right vs. Wrong. This battle would litterly decide the fate of the Capital.

Although the forces had taken most control of the planet…there was a small hope. Pockets of fighters and troops were still fighting their hardest. If he didn’t win…then the Imperium would collapse completely. No pressure at all.

A roar of the force blasted Ask’ back as he stood up smashing breath from his lungs, leaving him swaying, half stunned. Vader stepped towards him and lifted his blade for the kill.

Ask’ waited and moved out of the way at the last moment as he stabbed. He hit the wall. The Jedi slid under Vader’s legs and leapt up towards the larger man leaping off the ceiling towards him.

The Sith dropped his saber and grabbed him with a force grip. Ask’ stopped dead in his tracks dropping the lightsaber.

Vader grinned.

Think quickly…I must!” Ask’ thought to himself.

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The Imperial forces had broken up. The Imperial Command Center was over half destroyed what with the cannon fire and blaster fire covering the walls, and bodies everywhere. The Forge Soldiers had taken the front hallways and over the holo room. The fight had moved down the side hallways and smaller fight fights broke out. But the Imperium was giving still a fight.

Ra’ however, was interrogating one of the top commanders of the Imperium forces. Leading General Stoke. He was bound in a chair and his nose was bleeding. His face was hit again with a pistol whip. “Tell me again…how do I access the private FILES?! TELL ME HOW TO ACESS THE HOLONET!!”

“NO!” Stoke yelled back. “I refuse. I assure you I am the only one who knows it. You will not force it out of anyone else. And what private files?”
“You know what files I mean.” Ra’ growled taking a chair and sitting in it to face the bloody man.

“No…I don’t. I have no idea what you mean by secret files.” Stoke said slowly and calmly. But he did. The files they were looking for were not only for the holonet that went out to the entire galaxy, it controlled the traffic in and out of the planet. It controlled the entire cities bank system…and…not that it was needed…it had the key to the biggest underground chambers in the entire galaxy. A full other world was below the streets at night. Criminals, and refuges, Rebels. Who knows what was taking place right down there now? Among that it had a complete Bounty Hunter league and a Smugglers den.

Ra’ sighed slightly and took out a different nozzle for the pistol and changed them and set it to stun but on its highest setting. He press the gun to his prisoner’s chest and squeezes the trigger.


Electricity flew through Stoke’s body and he yelled arching his back falling over to the ground.

Ra’ growled angrily and pulled the gun away. “We will let Vader deal with him.”


Stoke swallowed lightly. [I]My…this is a bad situation…”

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Ask’ struggled in the grasp coughing and looking around as Vader activated his lightsaber and said grinning evilly. “Goodbye.”

As he raised his blade, Ask’ focused his force onto the durasteel plates inside Vader’s metal wrist. Then forced them to begin to burn and grind back and forth. This would force Vader to drop his defenses, as well as the lightsaber.

It worked. Vader yelled and Ask’ dropped to the ground and grabbed his own lightsaber again with the force and ran at Vader using all of his power forcing it into his blade. Vader dived under the Jedi’s attack doing a roll and using the darkside as a aid, kicked the smaller being straight into a wall far across the hall.


Ask’ hit it hard and slumped down panting. He went for his lightsaber but he glanced at Vader who had just sliced it in half and was shaking his head. “That was fun while it lasted my friend, but its time I moved on!” And slamming Ask’ back again he lifted the giant heavy steel door and sent if flying at Ask’. But it missed him on purpose. It s slammed right above his head and stayed there.


With his free hand he lifted the Jedi with the force, flicked his wrist and the Jedi slammed into the ceiling. He kept doing that until he thought of a unique way to kill this poor Jedi Master. Stabbing him in the chest was fun but he wanted this runt to just disappear. He wanted to extinguish this life in a exotic way.

Having made up his mind he slammed Vader slammed Ask’ back into the wall keeping him still and lifted the giant door again brining it towards him then slamming right back at Ask’. There was a yell and a crash and nothing.


With a swish of his cloak, Vader turned around and disappeared down the hall smirking. That was definitely too easy. Walking farther down the hall he noticed that soldiers were running towards him.

“Lord Vader. Your assistance is required up front.”

“The enemy is defeated?”

“Yes but we can’t shake out where the secret files are from one of the commanders.” The soldier said wiping his forehead of sweat.

“Very well.” Vader said in his drone. “I will see what I can do. Where is he?” The soldier led him into where the map room was. The hallway was decimated and pillars and bodies and laser bolts scattered the area. There were holes in the ceiling where he could see his victorious capital ships entire the atmosphere.

His eyes moved back down to the soldier being interrogated and bent down lightly. “What is your name soldier?”

Stoke didn’t say anything glaring at Vader out of his one good eye. He was determined not to say anything.

“Hmmm…” Vader scratched his chin mulling over the situation. He looked straight into the mans eyes. He wasn’t a clone. But it wouldn’t be too hard to get him to talk. Pulling out his lightsaber he placed his hands over his head and waved it over his face. “Tell me the codes to the secret files.”

“NEVER!” Stoke shouted. The hum of the lightsaber sprang to life and came inches away from his neck. “Tell me…” Vader growled his eyes glowing almost with fire.

“No. I am the only one who knows the codes. I refuse to give them out.”

“Hmmm I see. So you want to be a hero do you?” Vader said smirking. He brought back his mechanical fist and drove it straight into Stoke’s nose. It burst again and blood began pouring out. He yelled but couldn’t cover his nose because his hands were bound.
“I will make you feel intense pain if you don’t tell me. You have no idea what im capable of!!!”

His answer was a spit to the face. Vader growled angrily and closed his eyes placing his fingertips on the top of his head he let lighting flood from his head into the victim who was screaming at the top of his lungs. But it wasn’t flowing into him. It was lighting searing into his brain, and forcibly drawing out the information.

Very very painful. But effective. And the victim died after because of the brains information litterly being dried up. It was like a sponge when its taken out of water. The brain dries up. It worked. Vader stood up and kicked the guys chair over. Stoke didn’t move when the chair fell.

“You have the information Lord Vader?” Ra’ asked looking at him then at the body.

“Indeed I do. Tell the soldiers at the holonet room the code is 342324798. Make sure you connect it to every holonet in the galaxy. Everyone will know what has aspired today!! THE BIRTH OF THE SITH IMPERIUM!!”

Ra looked at Vader and smiled. “It’s all set up for you my Lord. The holostand in the briefing room has been connected to the entire Holonet except for a few systems.”

“But it is to the once Galactic Empire? Every System?”

“It is, my Lord.” Ra said nodding and bowing. Vader grinned and followed Ra down to the briefing room. It was a fairly small circular room with steps around the entire room and the holostand in the middle.

Vader stepped on it. And it glowed. Ra gave him the go ahead that he was live.

“Imperial Galactic Residents. You may or may not have found this out by now. But for the past four days, your capital has been under siege from my new Sith Army. Your capital has fallen, after heavy resistance that is, to my forces…” He grinned slowly and laughed. “Because of this crushing defeat the Galactic Empire has fallen. Palpetine is dead. Noone is left. Your soldiers are dead.

Your old ways, and life is dead. It is time to accept my wife and I’s new policies and empire. Any resistance at all will result in the death sentence. Every system will have my soldiers on planet and in the atmosphere. Starting with this planet I will have planet wide quarantines. No ships will enter or leave the system. All aliens will be found a put into camps.

If you resist the authority, that is resisting the troops on planet, then you will be arrested. One more for now…when the citizens see either myself or my wife Abyss or both of us, they must kneel and wait for us to tell them to rise.”
He grinned closing his eyes and pulled down his hood slowly to reveal his red eyes. “That is all for now. The new government will be set in place immediately. Goodbye my followers. And Long Live The Sith Imperium!”

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The holoimage shown around the galaxy flickered and disappeared. Han Solo was staring at the flashing image of Vader watching the image flicker then die after Vader had finished speaking. He was speechless. Vader was brave enough to invade the center of the empire and now the Imperium had fallen. In less than a week! Just what the hell could they, meaning him, Luke, Leia, and Chewy, plus two droids do against a entire new empire? Vader’s force was unstoppable for one reason: resources. He had plenty of resources and supplies, troops, and fighters.

The rebellion had nothing. He was working off the planet everyone was staying on, Utupah, only because of smuggling supplies, like illegal weapons, back into the system. Right now he was talking, or rather waiting to meet a Hutt named Jaquoo.

He was sitting in the bar in the Hutt’s base when the broadcast had come on. Everyone in the bar had stopped moving and the music had ceased Tatooine’s was mostly aliens or travelers stopping in for a pod race or a drink. Now that Vader said all aliens would be put into camps, tatooine’s spaceports would be empty.


A squat Rodian came out from the back motioning towards Han Solo. Taking this as his cue, he got up and followed him to the back where Jaquoo was being fed by three slave girls. Pushing them out of his way he glanced Han and motioned with his hands. Han approached cautiously.

Jaquoo spoke crisp Huttese. “Baqo Dum Amba Solo?” knowing a name was a sign that the Hutt liked you. “Your highness, I am under the impression that you have select weapons for sale?”

“O Pan hiel for weapons?” The Hutt changed over to basic surprisingly. “Have lots of weapons I do. What kind do you need?”

“Assault Rifles and armor.” Han said lightly sitting across from the Hutt. It would be time to make his move soon. But not yet.

“Plenty of those I have!” Jaquoo grinned his laugh booming off the walls. “Why you need weapons?”

“To fight.”

His laugh stopped and became serious. “You plan on fighting the new Imperium?! Dangerous Solo, to be fighting on your own.”
Han laughed watching what he said. “Well it’s a job. I wont give up, that’s for sure. The Sith Imperium wont last long with your weapons. Anyway…how many do you have?”

“Solo…” The Hutt looked like he was serious now. More than ever. “I have a small force…maybe of five hundred men all together, bounty hunters, etc. I want to fight with you. I don’t want these new rules to take place. If they do…I will be forced to go into hiding.”

Han looked at him. It was true. Since he was a Hutt…he would definitely get sent away. But. Hutts also had a reputation. Deception. If you didn’t pay them their share then they would send their Bounty Hunters after the person who didn’t pay them. Solo knew that all too well.

“Alright…what do I have to lose anyway?” Han shrugged and shook the Hutt’s hand. “And have your men bring the supplies out to the Falcon. I’ll be waiting.”

The Hutt switched to Huttese again holding out one of his fat hands, men flanking him. Han had purposely forgot to pay him. But this wasn’t going according to plan. Han didn’t know the Hutt wanted to team up. “Wanta dah moolee-rah?”

“Don’t worry Jaquoo…you will get payed. I will pay your soldiers who come on the campaigns with me to send the money back. Alright?” Han was jittery and nervous. What if this plan didn’t work?

Suddenly the place shook and blaster fire started outside. Jaquoo glanced up and started cursing in Huttese. They had found out his base!!! Then he guessed it. He was going to blame the new guy on this.

He pointed his fat finger at Han and looked at the men flanking him. “Kille Hima!”

Han cursed and took out his blaster and shot one of the men in the chest as a battle roared over their heads. The base shook as it sounded like fighters were flying over. More blaster fire and the firefight upstairs sounded like it was moving towards where they all were. Taking this advantage, as the Hutt made orders to his soldiers to protect him instead of killing Han, ran for it. Out the back way and into the light towards the private Star port. Part of the base had been blown apart and soldiers were lining up. It looked as if someone was going to arrive soon.

Well Han certainly wasn’t going to be around when they arrived. Forgetting about the weapons he dove into the pilots seat and hit the buttons and took off into the air setting the course for space and not Utopah yet.

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And just who was the one heading for Tatooine? Why it was Abyss coming to visit the Hutt about the same reason Han went there. To improve the soldiers ability to fight, as well as give them a even higher advantage in weapons tech.

When they had copied the weapons she would have the Hutt and everyone inside the base killed.

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Bursting out of the system and into the coldness of space Han sighed deeply. He had, again escaped barley. He made sure noone was behind him before he punched in the hyperspace coordinates for Utopah.

~~~~~~~END CHAPTER FOUR~~~~~~~~~

 

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Date Posted: 3/27/08 10:49pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/27/08. check it out! Chap 4 up!!
Well Abyss and Vader got the captial totally and have scared the holy crap outta of the rest of the galaxy. Now we have Abyss going after the Hutts.

Thanks for the pm, good update and as always look forward to more

 
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Date Posted: 4/5/08 7:36am Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 3/27/08. check it out! Chap 4 up!!
update soon guys

 

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Date Posted: 4/5/08 7:55am Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 4/05/08. check it out! Chap 4 up!!
~~~~~~~~~CHAPTER FIVE~~~~~~~~~~~
Vader was at the top of the world. He couldn’t be happier at this moment in time. The Emperor’s old palace had been remade. The old chair was destroyed and pillars of Palpetine were blown apart as Forge fighters flew overhead celebrating with fireworks. The new chairs that were made sat high in the palace down a long hallway and up a small flight of steps. Vader could glance down at the person he was talking to or, if he liked them could tell them to approach up the steps. Or if it was his queen, she would sit next to him.

But she had business elsewhere at the moment. She didn’t know this surprise that had taken weeks to remake. The old Jedi Temple was remade into a training center for the Sith Soldiers that had come with Vader from the Forge. The Imperial Center was remade to the Sith Imperium and the old sign of the Empire was changed.

The few aliens that were running around free were immediately captured and taken to the large jail there. Vader was there to talk to them personally.

“You aliens, are freaks of nature. And for that you will work. Some of you will stay here. Some will be shipped off to spice moons, and some…“ He belted out a deep hollow laugh that sounded inhuman. “Some will get the hardest job of all. Mustafar. You will work there sweating and working the mines on there and collecting the minerals. You are a plague to the new Sith Imperium.” Glancing at the guards he motioned to them. “Take them away. Cells one and two stay here and three and five go off to Mullinist. Four goes straight to Mustafar. Understand?”

“Yes, My Lord.” The Guard said bowing.

With a swish of his cloak, Vader disappeared. He had something to discuss with his wife.

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The plan had worked. Abyss had taken over the Hutt’s palace in about two hours. Which was considerably short. There were pockets of resistance (surprisingly even though they had taken control of the planet before) elsewhere on the planet from the local law enforcement but that didn’t matter right now. She had taken what she wanted.

Four Guards escorted her down into the Hutt’s throne room.

Jaquoo looked up and began to talk but he was silenced by her hand. “Silence Slug. I demand to know where you are keeping your large scale and very dangerous weapons.” She glared at the slug and he glared right back before glancing around.

“Fine…” He said slowly in Huttese. Since she couldn’t speak the language, Vader had built her a translator that would read up on her mask that she always wore. And she could speak back in Huttese even though she didn’t know how.

Ah the wonders of technology. At least Vader didn’t lost that skill. Jaquoo turned around and began slumping towards what she assumed was his back store room area. Inside were tons of stored boxes. The room was nearly covered with them. Red boxes with numbers on the side and then a number pad square in the middle of them.

She slowly walked in and pressed her hand to a box and opened it with the force. The top opened and peaking inside she saw the box full of rifles. She grabbed one and inspected it. It seemed to be very advanced.

“What…is this?” Abyss asked looking up.

“The prototype RTR model. It will litterly disintegrate the target. Nothing will be left. The beam is so concentrated that if shot in the arm then it will melt the skin off of you. The fire fights we’ve had with those…have been fun.” The Hutt let out a booming laugh. “But they grow too hot in the handle and trigger…and they can’t be used for hours and hours. Plus it takes a long time for the capsules to heat up to that capacity.”

Abyss could only grin. “Show me.”

The Hutt seemed taken back a bit but nodded and looked at his guard. “Go get a prisoner and lets give this lady here a good show.” The guard obeyed and went down stairs and brought back a woman who was wearing ragged clothing. No way. It was a mistake. Or the light playing with her eyes.

She stared back at Abyss coldly. It was definitely her sister Sola. The Hutt roared with laughter when he saw who the Guard had brought. “What a delight! She will be loads of fun to watch burn! Make sure the setting is on low. Let’s make this Lady Sith feel the prisoners pain so we can make her happy.”

The guard nodded and tied Sola up stuffing a rag over her head and grabbing one of the guns that was by the fire and the nozzle was glowing green. He pointed the rifle at her head and turned on the scope slowing the high pitched noise to a low rumble.

At the last moment Abyss grabbed the gun. “Not this prisoner. Pick someone else.”

The Hutt looked instantly annoyed. “What? Why? What is wrong with this slave!?”

Abyss’s eyes glowed as she glared at him. “Don’t ever question me!” Her eyes darted back to Sola who seemed confused even though she couldn’t see her sisters face, she could tell Sola was upset, angry, and relieved.

Why did she STILL care about her sister? Abyss was not related to Sola, and she was sure that Sola didn’t think of her as a sister anymore…so why did it matter if she died? She let everyone else die. So why was it so hard to watch her sister die?

The Hutt growled lightly mumbling to himself. “What importance is she to you?”

“None of your business!” Abyss was nervous now. And the Hutt laughed. He had found a weakness. Sith HAD no weaknesses. It was time to let her sister go. She was in her way for the last time.

She had made up her mind and grinned at the Hutt who seemed taken aback. “Because…I want to watch her DIE!!” Abyss screamed suddenly, her voice full of a black void and hate. “And I want to watch her face.” She lifted the face cover off with the force and grabbed the RTR pointing it her former sisters arm. “Any last words prisoner?”

Sola nodded, tears streaking down her face and lifted her head up. “Mass Teri rok Padme’ Teek om ton mon sisters.”

Abyss who was about to pull the trigger paused again hearing these words. They had learned the ancient Naboo language when they were very young. And that was the first thing they had learned to say to each other, and always said when they left each other. “ I love you Padme. We will always be Sisters.”

This was the last straw. It was either pull the trigger, or let those memories of childhood come sweeping back. Or perhaps they wouldn’t? She couldn’t decide what to do, her hand was shaking slightly as the Hutt and the others watched on rubbing their hands and watching greedily.

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Vader cursed and paced back and forth in the royal chambers. It turned out that Abyss was still busy. What could she be doing that took so long? Was Tatooine really that resistant? No something had to be wrong.

Returning to his throne, he closed his eyes and brought himself to the action of where Abyss was. A very powerful dark power technique. He saw Abyss pointing a gun at…Sola?

He had thought that she had died long ago. But here she was staring face to mask with his wife. He didn’t care much for Sola but why was Abyss hesitating? Sola was weak and deserved to die.

“ABYSS!” Vader roared and she jumped, knowing that he was watching now. “Do it. Destroy the last remnants of your old family. She is a useless weight pulling you down from true power!”

“I already have true power!” Abyss roared back to nothing. Jaquoo looked more confused now than ever. She gripped her fist and slammed it into a pillar. It cracked and fell in two on the ground.

“What will killing Sola have to do with gaining more power?”

“Sola is part of your old self. Luke, and Leia. They don’t matter anymore. Sola is a part of Padme’s family. Padme is dead. isn’t she Abyss…”

She nodded slowly gripping her fists whispering to whoever was invisible. She raised the gun slowly pointing it back at her sister. “Your right Vader…if I kill Sola, then my past will completely be eliminated and nothing with stop me!!!”

She yelled releasing a sudden sonic boom of dark energy. It shook the building and then was sucked back into her as he yelled again pointing it at Sola’s arm now. But she couldn’t feel anything coming from Sola. She wasn’t scared to die.


So why couldn’t she do it? She had to force herself to do it. Squeezing the trigger slowly she didn’t look at Sola when she did. There was a blast and a blood curdling scream. Abyss looked back and saw Sola’s arm on fire. Or It looked like it. It was blood red and it looked like the shot was moving up and down her arm. And it looked like she was in real pain.

Sola’s screams stopped as she went into shock. Abyss felt a rush of adrenaline rush through her body. Sola was knocked out cold with a missing arm. It definitely had burned it away. Perfect to show everyone she wasn’t someone to be pressed.

Taking out her lightsaber she marched slowly towards Sola, came closer to her whispering into her ear. “This is to end your suffering Sister…”

Then she heard Sola whisper faintly. “It’s not I who is going…to suffer Abyss…”

Abyss growled and pushed the saber to her sister’s stomach, and activated it. Then it was done. She had killed her sister. Or Padme’s sister. If Sola would have joined her then it would have been different. But she didn’t.

Abyss turned around back to the Hutt. “This is Impressive. Im going to buy up the supplies. Also…I need something else built. Do you know anyone that can do large- scale things?”

The Hutt looked curious before he grinned. “As in Star ships?”

Abyss nodded slightly.

“Perhaps My Lady. For now you can buy all of these here for your army.”



Abyss’s main plain had been to take the weapons and destroy the Hutt…but now that she had this idea. And the Hutt knew someone that could do this, she couldn’t kill him. At least not now.

Finally she realized that Vader had been trying to contact her. She took out her comm link. “Vader?”

“Yes, I was trying to contact you for the last two hours.”

“Sorry, I was a bit distracted. I went to Tatooine and convinced a Hutt to sell us his supply of weapons. They will come in handy later. Also on top of that…I have a idea that I must discuss with you privately at the Capital. The Hutt said he could help.”

“Really?” Vader asked curiously. “Interesting. I will see you when you return then. Vader out.”

“Abyss out.” She turned around and nodded to the Hutt after paying him and walked out. Why did this idea suddenly come into her head? It was ingenious. A capital ship that could suck up life force and channel it into dark side energy. Oh it was indeed a successful day.

~~~~~~~END CHAPTER FIVE~~~~~~~

 

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Date Posted: 4/5/08 2:26pm Subject: RE: Darkest Path Series II: The Dark Reign posted 4/05/08. check it out! Chap 4 up!!
Well so much for Sola, shame though she was murdered by Abyss since Abyss even if she doesn't believe it was Sola's sister. Nice rifle that be, I have the feeling the Sith are going to have a lot of fun with it. The new ship idea Abyss had is very creepy sounding but look forward to reading about it more.

Thanks for the pm, good update and of course I look forward to more

 
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