"I'm present!" an ever-too chipper voice announced. Limwen groaned.

"Secretly, I agree with you," she whispered, bending toward Sholi. "But it can't be helped. One of my cousin of sorts--the one that got kidnapped--brought her along."

"My basket is discombobulated, though," Chaos frowned, heaving it up and around for everyone to see, incidentally knocking an innocent and un-important bystander into a neighboring pool. She presented it to Myrddin.

"Fix it please."

"Chaos, later," Neíhudir said.

"IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED!!!"

Aleena reluctantly let go of the sorceress' ankle and the woman climbed to her feet. She twitched nervously, clearly ready to get out of there.

"The Geangrai are attacking the palace. They're going to kill us all," the sorceress hissed and then twisted her hands in an arcane gesture. Her hands began to glow with a ghastly green light.

Myrddin's hands shot up and the green glow was absorbed back into the sorceress. She flew backwards and landed in a pool with a loud splash.

"What was that?" Brutus asked, his hand on his lightsaber hilt.

"She was trying to use some sort of death spell. She was trying to kill us."

"Okay, now that we've got that little drama over, can we discuss what she said? The Geangrai are the ones that kidnapped Ordana and the others. We have to go to Orran.

"This could be your only chance," Lynda added. "No one in all the galaxy remembers where the Geangrai homeworld is. They succeeded in erasing even my memory of it, an incredible feat to be sure."
--------

Hailey/Enyo laughed scornfully,"Cute speech. Face it, you're going to die."

The Sith meditation sphere dropped out of hyperspace, into the Orran star system, and Enyo was shocked by the battle going on all around her. The Star Forge's defenses were slowly being destroyed by the Autobots. The New Dawn was entering the atmosphere of Orran with a trail of escape pods streaming behind it. Her anger, normally carefully controlled and focused was enough to make her lose control of Hailey for a split second.

Hailey screamed in horror and fear. She leapt to her feet and started to run for the doors of the throne room. Enyo savagely clamped down on her anger and seized control of Hailey again.

"Enough of this foolishness," Enyo/Hailey said and drove the obsidian dagger into Hailey's chest. Hailey staggered a few steps and collapsed forward. With her last burst of strength, she pressed her hand to the hand-scanner and opened the doors.

-------

Allyn shrugged at Juriel and continued sprinting for the escape pods. He wondered vaguely why he seemed pursued by Drama.

"No!" Yelled David, he turned and sprinted to the limp body of Hailey Lyrus and picked her up before running out the now open doors. He sprinted through the palace towards the hanger, as he approached it; burning pieces of the New Dawn were already pummeling the palace "SCRAPP TAKE OFF!" he yelled at the droid in the cockpit who obeyed as David got closer to the X-wing.

David then jumped up onto the wing and laid the limp body of Hailey in the cockpit “dead” he thought “dead, she saved me with her last breath, there was still good in her” he looked out the hanger opening and said to the sky “I will kill you Enyo and with one stroke, I shall have two revenges taken care of”

Emere saw that a couple of escape pods were left, but they were disappearing fast. The escape pod closest to him could hold about four people- so said the label. Emere figured he could cram a couple more in.

He pulled the open lever down. Nothing happens. "Blast." Emere cursed. "The mechanism on this one must've blown somehow." He pulled open a side panel filled with glowing orange buttons and punched in a code. With a hiss the escape pod door came open.

"Okay, let's go!" He called to Arin. Maybe he should be doing the martyr thing- staying here to die and letting another go in his place. But Emere figured that he didn't have time to be sentimental and think about it, and they needed to go now.

"Grief," Arin muttered, clambering in behind Emere. "I hate flying. Thanks."

~~

Chaos gasped.

"You just....ignored me????"

"GO, GO, GO, GO!" he yelled to the droid who piloted the X-wing out of the hanger as a large chunk of the New Dawn smashed down on the hanger sending a huge explosion through the hanger which they barely exscaped. David who was standing on the wing got away with the hair on the back of his head being singed, Scrappy piloted the craft away from Enyo but David stopped him "We are going to meet her head on, S-foils to attack posistion!" He jumped onto the top of the X-wing body and drew his lightsabers "Lets finish this Enyo!" he said as he waited for her to enter the atmosphere. "Stay in the Atmosphere, just below the ozone layer so that I can breath" he said to Scrappy.

Ordana hurried through the maze that was the Star Forge. The Empress droid was just a little ways ahead of them, but right at the moment Ordana wasn't terribly worried about the crazed former ruler. Instead she was worried about the large, well-armed droids marching out of compartments that lined the hall. They looked a bit like giant mechanical bugs and had both blasters and grenade launchers as well as flame throwers.

(OOC: Jumping ahead a bit. And wouldn't David freeze to death that high in the atmosphere? )

As the last of the escape pods broke away from the ship, the New Dawn tore into the atmosphere of Orran. The ship began heating up, adding to the stress inflicted by the pounding the orbital defense platforms were unleashing on it. It slowly began to rip apart, pieces flying off and melting from the friction as gravity increased the ship's speed. Finally it slammed into the ground, not far from the palace. Pieces flew off in all directions, tearing through parts of the palace complex. The shock wave from the ship's impact tore through the palace at the same time, causing most of it to buckle and collapse. Adding to the chaos was the fact that the Menagerie was broken open and monsters from a thousand thousand worlds spilled out into the freedom of the outside world. It was into the burning chaotic mess that Brutus emerged when he traveled through the Orran pool. The others who had chosen to travel to Orran were right behind him.

Enyo navigated through the firefight, relying on both excellent piloting skills and the Force. She realized by now that her Empire was crumbling beyond any hope of repair, but there were other worlds. Worlds in which no Jedi had interfered in her plans, no Geangrai had survived the vampire wars.

As Enyo entered the atmosphere of Orran, she detected the approaching Force presence and frowned in distaste. She had had quite enough of rogue Force users for now. Maybe she would just find a nice planet comprised of non-Force users to dominate. That would make for a pleasant change.

"What the heck is that thing?" Warpath wondered aloud as he caught sight of Enyo's Sith Meditation Sphere as it entered atmosphere. "Looks like an eyeball with wings. What is wrong with this galaxy?" He was distracted by flashes of turbolaser fire streaking across his fighter's bow, and quickly banked back into the fight.

VACS reached the escape pod bay just as the last pod was being launched. The ship shuddered violently as it hit atmosphere, and VACS began to panic. The last way he wanted to die was by burning up in atmosphere in a wrecked organic's ship. He began to claw at the escape pod door desperately. When that failed to yield any results, he let loose a barrage of bullets on it from his arm-mounted gun. That, too, failed.

"Aw poo," the diminutive Autobot muttered as flames rushed towards him.

Solarflare arrived behind Brutus and the others and looked in awe at the destruction around them. He looked up and saw a flaming piece of debris hurtling towards the group.

"Heads up!" he shouted and whipped out his pistols. He riddled the debris with laserfire until it was shattered into tiny pieces which merely peppered the group rather than crushing them painfully.

Oh come on! We just had to arrive during a great catastrophe!” said Shono before he knocked to the ground by the shock wave “Nah I don’t want to know” as another piece of derbies flew toward them he lifted his arm and let loose all the fire power he had. Ranging from blaster bolts to a small missile, the results were the same as Solar’s. He grinned and stood up “come on lets go”

(( David: Its complicated I'll explain))

David could feel the force begining to flow back into is body for another fight, someow he knew it was the only thing keeping him from not freezing. The force wanted him to survive the cold, the force had a plan for him.

The elves entered the pool after Brutus, presumably accompanied by the whining Chaos and the poor bedraggled Sholi. All were aware that their weapons would need serious alterations before being able to stand against these Force users, and instead knew that their advantages would be mainly from the mind--and other sneaky elf characteristics.

The escape pods began to land on the surface of Orran, most a safe distance from the remnants of the palace complex. Others were caught in explosions or ripped apart by flying debris. Terrified and traumatized Geangrai spilled out of the pods that landed safely. They soon discovered that Orran was now being overwhelmed by an army of monsters just as interested in fighting each other as they were in ripping unlucky humanoids apart.

Enyo fought back waves of extreme anger as she guided the sphere closer to the surface. She could see there was little to salvage and that the path from her still-intact private hangar and the Menagerie was littered with rubble, monsters, and enemies.

Enyo landed her meditation sphere and clambered out. She ignited her lightsaber and strode out into the fray, cutting down unfortunate Geangrai and assorted monsters that got in her way.

Brutus reached out with the Force, desperately trying to sense Ordana or even Enyo. He thought he could feel Ordana, but her presence was distant enoug that he couldn't be sure. Enyo's presence was much closer and he clamped down on his own presence, trying to prevent her from detecting him.

Corvan emerged from the Orran Fountain, only to be attacked by a huge bird-woman hybrid. He rolled away from the creature, firing his blaster with pinpoint accuracy. The creature shrieked in agony and collapsed to the ground, quite dead.

"So do we have a plan?" Myrddin yelled over the cacophony of monster bellows and explosions. "Or should we just go back? This isn't what I was expecting."

The Time Lord wizard had just blown a large hole through the middle of a rancor when he heard a disturbing cry.

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Myrddin paled visibly and searched the skies for the source of the cries. He spotted the familiar shapes of a trio of Daleks above him and threw up a quick shield. It was fortunate for the group from Dittotopia that he had done soe, because the Daleks descended from the skies and began firing their weapons at everything in sight

"What are those things?" Aleena asked as she fought off a mob of Lilliputians.

"Daleks, the eternal foe of my people," Myrddin said, grimacing at the over-the-topness of that statement.

Myrddin shifted the Variform from the staff form to the sword. He soared into the air and slashed the sword through the lead Dalek. The two halves fell to the ground and were trampled by a herd of goblins. Myrddin quickly dispatched the other two Daleks and then floated back down to the ground.

"Got a plan yet?" Myrddin asked sarcastically.

"There!" yelled David "GET ME DOWN THERE!" he said to Scrappy, Scrappy turned the X-wing around and went towards the hanger at full speed again and the fighter went skiping across the floor till it crashed it into Enyo's meditation sphere.

David jumped off the craft before it crashed and landed with a roll before he stood up and ignited his lightsabers again "You need to learn how to land" he said before running into the fray, slowly cutting his way towards the sith.

"No, not really" Said shono as he was jumped on by a troll, he kicked it off over his head and sent it smashing into the fountain "Whoops"

Solarflare couldn't help but watch the chaos all around him with a sense of... well, he wasn't quite sure what he was feeling. In the few hours since Mek died, he had pretty much shut down his emotion centers as much as possible. But he was certainly registering some degree of disgust as he viewed the senseless carnage. After Myrddin destroyed the Daleks, he finally snapped out of his reverie and activated his comlink.

"We could use some help down here," he said to any Autobot that happened to be listening.

No sooner had he finished speaking, then he heard a distant, unbroken scream rapidly approach from above. Looking up, Solarflare saw a small, flaming chunk of metal twisting and spinning as it fell. It smashed into the ground in front of him, leaving a relatively tiny crater. A very charred VACS scrambled out of the crater and stood shakily.

"Someone stop the ride, I'd like to get off now," the Autobot scout said dazedly, and promptly collapsed.

"VACS?" said Shono as he kicked a kull away "What the heck, are autobots just falling from the sky's now-a-days?" he said before tearing a hole through the belly of the kull with his blaster.

David took down another monster before he was close enough to talk to Enyo "Turn around sith" he said venomously.

Hurtling down, down, down, through the choppy sea of atmosphere. Emere grabbed for something, anything that would keep him from bashing against the walls of the escape pod. They'd had to eject from the ship as quickly as possibly and hadn't had any time to secure themselves with any kind of crash webbing.

Emere had used the force to pull a few strands of webbing down for Arin to grab before they hit atmosphere, but he himself was busy bashing himself against the sides of the pod. Finally, but still unexpectedly, they hit the ground. CRUNCH went the pod. Red lights lit up around the circumference of the pod, casting an eerie glow on everything. Emere simply sat for a moment, his body confused at the sudden change- one minute it was bouncing around and the next it wasn't.

He shook his head to clear it and pulled himself up, even though his body was telling him that it would be better to rest. A mild concussion was what he'd suffered, probably. No matter. Time to go. "Arin!" Emere called out, his eyes falling on the elf.