Xen-Que Poleb

Xen-Que began to convulse, his body was beginning to have a reaction to the pheremones. His mind became a death trap, locking the feelings Xen-Que was trying to bury. Though his last secret was safe from Alora, he was not safe from her. His breathing was faint and very little. This appeared to have been the result of refusing to give into the pheremones. "I will do..." he sputtered, as his words became barely audible, "...nothing... for you, seductress." Xen-Que continued to do his best to resist her, but his mind was overflowing with fantasies, and it was now, unfortunately, a matter of time before he was broken.

Xen-Que was feeling intense pain in his mind, but he refused to allow his mind be broken so they could discover his other secret. He lifted his head and wearily opened his eyes, still completely white, "Ancestor Spirits... Yhlacdun Cbenedc, keja sa cdnahkdr..." He tried to focus, and he was able to regain some strength as he attempted to free himself from the cross. He looked at Alora, "I will never betray my brother... I will protect him like I always have done, even from myself."

Xen-Que did his best to shake his head in protest, "No... never; I'll never turn to the dark side!" The pheremones went into Xen-Que's system as Alora walked up directly to him. He lost his voice and could no longer speak. He was being ripped apart inside. The combined torture and the impossible lust was almost too much for him, but perhaps not enough to turn him. His eyes rolled back into his head and he began to slip out of consciousness.

Xen-Que turned his face away from Alora, trying his best to resist her. He allowed her to dig up his feelings and allow Kakuto to discover the truth about Hou-Jo, he had to keep his feelings buried for the sake of another. He smirked, "What... what do you hope to accomplish by... doing whatever you're doing to me?" His blood was beginning to boil, he was feeling unexplained desire for the mistress of the Sith. He closed his eyes and focused on shutting himself away; for the sake of his family.

Xen-Que grinned, thinking up something he thought to be amusing, "So how is it being the Sith's village bicycle? No wonder the Sith are dwindling in number if you're the best they can get around here."

Xen-Que pooled his willpower and with what little strength he had left, grabbed hold of his weapon and sent it flying at Alora, slitting her wrist, blood dripping to the floor. He then mustered what physical strength he had, lifted his head and spat out at her. "Whore!"

His eyes widened... he couldn't have! Alora's seducting ways had appealed to his feelings, feelings being something he always kept buried deep down inside himself. She pulled out his feelings, and Kakuto was able to read them... discovering his connection to Hou-Jo. Perhaps he was mistaken. He looked up at Kakuto and struggled to speak, "What... what did you call me?"

The lightning coursed it's way through Xen-Que's body, but to the Dark Lord's surprise, it coursed through harmlessly. Xen-Que got to his feet, despite Force Lightning was being thrown into his body. He jumped up into the air over the lightning and punched Kakuto in the chest, with a fist charged with lightning, sending Kakuto reeling as his heart skipped a beat. Xen-Que dropped to one knee to rest a bit and lifted his arm up to call his weapon back to him. Despite being lodged into a wall, the caelstum would return to it's master regardless, but his powers faltered for some reason, he couldn't focus on it. He took a deep breath so his nostrils to catch his breath, but he pulled in nothing but pheremones. Xen-Que slowly looked at Alora again, who was scantily clad in her choice of clothing. He walked over to her this time and looked into her eyes. She was, in some way, calling to him. His eyes strained and he slowly turned away, having a new type of motivation to defeat Kakuto now; Alora. He went to face Kakuto, hoping he didn't have enough to time to recover from the previous blow...

Xen-Que jumped to his feet, though he felt pain in his body, he was a servent of the light and was able to put aside, to a certain extent. His blade went into combat with Kakuto's, and the duel began. As Xen-Que would recover from the damage done by the Dark Lord, his technique would become less flawed as he would be able to focus more on the battle. Xen-Que pushed Kakuto back toward his throne showing superiority in swordsmenship. He was able to knock Kakuto down and pointed the tip of his weapon at the Dark Lord's neck. But he had to look. He took his eyes of Kakuto for a moment to look at Alora, because for some reason, he felt a lustful desire for the strange woman.

"Oh I don't think so." Kakuto may have thought he had the advantage, but he was weary with lust from Alora's temptations and was arrogant with his foe. The scar on the Blademaster's face disappeared, something that puzzled the Dark Lord, having not encountered a Blademaster for a long time, if at all. Kakuto was not expecting the blast, but soon there was a bright light between them, and Kakuto was hurled across the hall as the ball of light was thrown into him. It began to materialize, it was the Blademaster's weapon, the caelstum. Kakuto landed on the floor, the weapon having penetrated his armor, but not enough. Kakuto could feel the tip of the sword touching his flesh. Kakuto used the Force to push the weapon out of his armor to keep him safe, but no sooner did he make the attempt, Xen-Que began to use the Force to push the weapon in deeper. Kakuto was fortunate the weapon did strike his chest, but just below at his stomach. Either way, if the weapon went in deeper it could kill him. Xen-Que's hand began to shake as he focused to use the Force to shove his weapon into the Sith's stomach to kill him. However, such a use of the Force was limited in Blademasters compared to a Sith Master. Kakuto overpowered Xen-Que and the weapon flew out of Kakuto's armor. Xen-Que quickly reversed his push to a pull, bringing his weapon back to his hand. Xen-Que stepped back, putting his blade in a defensive stance, yet, something was distracting him now...

A modified V-wing entered the Mimban system, despite the best efforts of the defenses. The ship lands near the location of the Dark Lord and Xen-Que, Ty'kaa Blademaster. Alora was trying her best to seduce the Dark Lord once again when the door of the room collapsed into his quarters. Alora and Kakuto would not have time to react, as with the simple wave of a hand, Alora was thrown to the other side of the room, hitting the wall hard, with little to protect her from the impact as she was dressed with very little clothing. He walked into the room so that he could speak normally. "Kakuto Ryu, Dark Lord of the Sith. I have heard of what you did on Borleais... and I am here to avenge the death of a Jedi you killed there." He looked over to Alora, "I hope I'm not interupting anything."

Xen-Que used the Force to pull the metal out of his chest and to heal the puncture in his lung. There was blood, however, that was still inside his lung. He could still breathe. He used the Force to pull other metal fragments toward him. He quickly shaped them into a metal rod. It wasn't a mechanical leg, but it would provide him with more mobiliztion then just one leg. He pulled some dirt out from the trench to create a tunnel of dirt that went down considerably and torward the location Avararda's Force message. He got down into the tunnel and created a barrier to keep the dirt from caving in on him. He was moving slowly but surely. ((1))

Xen-Que dropped to the ground, in a lot of pain. The agony was a lot for Xen-Que to try and withstand. He looked up and saw SEED rushing him. He closed his eyes and his Caelstum appeared in his hand. He opened his eyes and pulled a few to him. He got on his tiptoe and used the Force to spin himself in a circle, mowing down the SEED that came for him. He almost lost his balance, but he gained it again. He used a violent Force push and the SEED most of the SEED that came for Xen-Que stopped dead in their tracks, causing sever internal organ damage, killing them. Xen-Que was then pushed into the trench by Dhan-Jaroe. He screamed in pain as his knee hit the dirt in the trench.

Xen-Que was hit bad, but after recovering from the surprise, he began to evade the turbolasers. He flew down to the mists of the SEED that had yet to get inside of buildings. He flew low to the ground and hovered like a landspeeder. His ship flew into the troopers as they fell back. Hitting them in the midsection, instantly paralyzing and leaving them for dead. After killing a bit of their own, the Dropships realized what he was doing and picked their shots instead of just shooting at Xen-Que. Xen-Que turned the ship around and the jet engines blew straight into two troopers as their faces got holes burned through them, and suffered severe burns in their chests, Xen-Que flew away from them and back to evading the laser fire. The shields were working vigorously to recharch, but Xen-Que got hit yet again on the back quarter. He used the Force to aid his ship in flight, but the laser fire was getting dangerously closer. Dhan-Jaroe was succeeding somewhat in drawing fire away from Xen-Que, but it would prove not to be enough, Xen-Que knew he was going to go down. Once he got away from the dropships, he turned to attack them head-on, with full front shields. He launched several energy bombs into a dropship, lowering it's shields. He then launched two missles, sending the ship down, crushing a building with SEED troopers inside. SEED had fully fallen back into a defensive stance, but not without their losses. An entire dropship and roughly 200 SEED troopers had been taken single-handedly by Xen-Que. Xen-Que tried to get away from the dropships again, but as soon as he turned tail and fled, one last laser hit him, disabling his ship. Xen-Que immediately emptied his entire magazine of missles and ejected from his ship. He landed and directed the missles toward the dropships. Only two or three missles hit any of them, and none of them disabled the shields in the process.

The Yahda flew to the surface. His ship launched several energy bombs until the reserve was empty. He backed away a bit to allow the tubes time to recharge. He began to pick off troops with his duel quad composite lasers, to allow Dhan-Jaroe more space to land on. "I will help bomb for as long as I can, you guys give them hell!" The nearby SEED soldiers were in disarray, making it easy for him to kill them. Even though attack and death was not in Xen-Que's nature as a Blademaster, he was doing it to protect, and apparently a Jedi needed to be rescued. Xen-Que's ship's energy bomblet tubes had recharged. He pushed and held in the launch button. Instead of sending out several bombs at once, he combined the energy to launch one big bomb. He flew away from the landing site and dropped it into a mass of SEED. He quickly fell back away from the belly of the beast, however.

The Yahda exited hyperspace outside of the planet Ryloth. Ever watchful of a particular Jedi that was apart of this attack, Xen-Que's Ty'kaa nature to protect was about to come into play once again. His ship flew up to the Mediator in which Dhan-Jaroe was in. Xen-Que was going to guide this team down and help them. It was to risky for Xen-Que to aid the other team. He made contact with him. "Master Kenobi, this is Blademaster Xen-Que. Do you require assistance?"

Xen-Que arrived at the Jedi Dojo. He easily found Velhart's presence and sought the young teenager out. He eventually found him, sitting idly in quarters, doing nothing. "Where is your master, Hou-Jo?" He didn't allow Velhart to answer, "He left this place, and now he is dead. I want you to clone him. Be sure that he is cloned promptly and as soon as possible. The Jedi probably need all Jedi available to them if they ever hope to strike a comeback." Xen-Que turned around and left.

Xen-Que brought his ship down to the planet and landed it beside of BLCKCLONE's ship. He jumped out of the ship and walked over to those collected, "I can tow the ship, my ship is capable." He used the Force to to tie a few ropes from his ship to BLCKCLONE's. He then activated the mini tractor beam to ensure it stays in place. "You should probably get him out of here ASAP." Xen-Que promptly went to his ship and got inside, not saying another word.

Yahda hovered silently over the planet of Bodgen. It did not appear that he would be needed at all, at the current moment. He idly sat in orbit of the planet...

Xen-Que shook the images from his mind, "We obvioulsy have some use for us. It would seem that perhaps he could allow us to use the Force, but the Force permeates from living things, and this world is mostly void of that. It would appear that I am of particular value because I have the power to ressurect the fallen. Is that why you have sought me, perhaps? Not to be self-centered."

"My skills aren't attached to my body, but my weapon is." Xen-Que turns toward Kakuto to hear about his suggestion.

"How can the essence of this world be impervious to the Force? No matter how hard I've tried I cannot summon my caelestum. It must still be bound to my physical self. It doesn't make any sense. Perhaps it could seem that the absence of the Force is but an another illusion of the Dark Jedi. If they could make you appear to have obtained God-like powers and allow you to wield increased Force powers, could they not also take away all of our power? Would it seem that perhaps we can still use the Force and our minds are being manipulated to make us believe that we cannot?"

Xen-Que walks back towards Raynuk, "So, is this the doing of a lower Dark Jedi, or is Crimson behind this?"

"I didn't know that the Dark Jedi were behind it. I wasn't told about the Valley by a Dark Jedi. Had I known the location was disclosed by the Dark Jedi, I would've left and taken as many with me as possible. I don't blame you for my being here, but if you Sith weren't so damn lustful for power, this probably wouldn't have happened." Xen-Que turned around again and went to find someone.

Xen-Que glared at Kakuto, "I would have gone to the Valley of the Jedi in hopes that I could increase my powers which would destroy my enemies, and the location of which being disclosed by a Dark Jedi? You think I would do the same? I think not. I have had many an experience with the Dark Jedi already, and I do not trust them, didn't when I first encountered them. The Dark Jedi do nothing for the well being of others. No, I would not do what Raynuk did. I guess his poor judgement and lust for power is how he lost his position as your leader. This is not the time for fights, and we can't have mediocore Sith running around thinking that they are all powerful and that they can solve this whole thing overnight. So you stay on your side of the line, and I'll stay on mine." Xen-Que backs away from Kakuto to keep an eye on him.