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"They're not robots, but if nothing's changed since Anakin Skywalker's day, they are clones. All the same, yet not quite."

Then the tank came out from the foliage, knocking aside park benches and streetlamps and making Ryshel go pale.

"I knew it," she said, barely audibly. "It's a trap."

Another two tanks came in from different directions, and they were almost completely cut off, and beyond outnumbered.

"Cat, on the right! You and Switch get outta here, now! Kadea, hop on with Cat. Don't argue with me...they're after all of us but I won't let them have any of you!"

Ryshel watched them take off, and though a few stormtroopers took off after them, she was sure Cat and Switch could handle that many. She disabled the comlink in her helmet and took it off briefly to show her face.

"Leave them out of this! Take me and let them go."

An officer emerged from the tank directly in front of her and walked towards her with a blaster pointed at her face. "That isn't for you to decide," he sneered curtly. "Lord Altman will decide that. For now, you are instructed to give me your lightsaber and fall under arrest."

Though her strong will beat against her inside, she calmly handed over the weapon and smirked as the officer quickly and nervously snatched it before backing away quickly, trying to look like he wasn't afraid of her. In fact, she could feel the fear in all of them, despite the fact that there were so many of them and only one of her. They steadied their blasters and shifted nervously when she dismounted.

Good, she thought smugly. You'd all best be afraid.

She walked towards the officer and raised her hands, following him onto the huge Imperial tank and taking a seat. He tied her hands behind the chair, and she resisted the urge to laugh out loud.

Like that would stop me if I really wanted to do anything.

It was easy to be smug around all the pansies who called themselves Imperial soldiers, but it was a whole different story when they finally reached the heart of the city. Her smug pride all but melted as the hatch slid up and she was face-to-face with not only her old friend Lord Altman, but his dark master.

"We've been waiting for you," he said in a terribly pleased voice.

Switch turned foward and Kadea released the handle bars all to happily. Switch, switched the craft off of auto piolet "you did good." She said after a long moment. Tehy emerged from teh tunnle into the merge lane coming onto the outgoing traffic flow. Switch led teh way now, either Cat could keep up or she couldn't right now they where heading into teh main area of the city. They could see teh troops that had taken Ryshel making there way down teh speed way just ahead of of them, and they fallowed at a safe distance. As she drove Switch tapped into her own connection to teh interenet, serching files for anything related to one Lord Altman. "Who are you?" Sh ewhispered to herself.

"My name is Kadea Ishikawa and never have me drive this thing again." She said still seeming pale. Switch laughed, and ran a hand through her unhelmeted, spiked hair, "Acctually I was talking about our friend Lord Altman, but it is nice to finally have your name. Both my friends and enemies know me as Switch." She said in her computer mind she was running a check on this Kadea charecter. All she got was a criminal file, that simply said that she carried a strange weapon called a katana, and was armed and dangerors and there was a hefty price on her head but know reason why. Switch knew most people on Zefta carried a weapon of some sort, so why was this girl with her strange metal stick so dangerous. "What are you wanted for?" She questioned her hand brushed her pistiol which she wore at her hip. "Wanted?" Kadea questioned her voice muffled by teh helmet. " You are wanted by Lord Altman, Cat explained something of you to me but not much." She said. "Oh, well I don't know if Cat told you, but I'm not from this time. I am from teh late 2600 hundreds in teh futile age of Japan. I was an assasin and a samuri one of teh only female samuri's of teh time." She explained feeling Switch stiffen slightly. Switch's serch shifted from Kadea to teh futile age history, soon she knew all she needed. "Well Kadea we will do what we can to help you return to your time." She said after reading over the history files. "Domo Origato Diamustao." Kadea spoke in her native tounge. " Huh?" Switch was fluent in many languages but not anchient Japanese. " Thank you." Kadea translated. The bike reved and sped down teh speedway Cat close on their tail. A short while later the pulled off teh highway after the armor brigade and into teh political area of teh city , Switch fallowed the armored tank for awhile until finnaly the brigade pulled off at a hugh darkly colored sentorial building. Switch passed by it, turned around, and pulled into a building someway down teh street. The building was old, but large and appeared to be an old tmple of sorts. "Come." Sh esaid kicking the kickstand down. Shje drew her pistol and walked into teh building. "This is the old Jedi Temple, we may be able to find some information on our friend from here, or if we are lucky contact another jedi and get there help. For now we can stay here." She led Kadea past the condemed sign and into teh moss covered depths. Cat fallowed pistols held in her hand.

Switch, brushed some moss away from the worn stone of the building. Old text that had once been ingraved here, now washed away with age and corosion was now barely readiable. But to her computer eyes teh text folded out, it was a history of all that had happen to the Jedi since the stormie rebellion. Kaea stood nearby, her sword in hand, shifting around, her eyes trying to take in all at once, Cat stood next to her looking over the text silently. Switch scanned over the records, sevrel times they metioned an mysterious galexy but know reson why. As she reached the end of the history, it abruptly cut off, and a patch of moss covered a badly blasted, rock. Switch ran her hand over the rock and a small hidden, old, memory file appeared. It held an image of a man in Jedi garb speaking, his arms folded into his robes. " We are...effort....return....Lord Altman's forces....many jedi dead....planning.....slaughter....younglings.....Dagobah.....Hoth.......Mos Eislie.....Tatoine..........all overrun......master Garth fallen........Last contact made...... from his room......another must rise to lead.......restore Jedi order...........Help.....Disoni.......other jedi still alive........contact....cut off....Disoni.....most recent contact had was 11/34/5050.....Ryshel.....gone missing.....inform Disoni.......she will be missed......." Then the transmission died. Switch serched for a plug in in hopes of downloading the messege but couldn't find one. "Obviously, we are supposed to find this Master Garth guy's room and attempt to find a contact somehow. Because us three are not enough to break into that fortress. We'll need help." She explained. "What if it's a trap?" Cat demanded her finger twitching on her pistols trigger. "Well then we'll just have to find out won't we." Switch said holding her SMG's up. "Oh here by teh way , I grabbed some on my out, there is extra in the bag." Cat said tossing her a full clip of SMG round. Switch glanced towards the bulging bag on the back of the bike. "Whatelse do you have in there?" She questioned with an arched eyebrow. Cat just smiled toothily "Oh just a few toys" She said eyeing the bulge of the small compact, heatseeking, guided rocket launcher she had brought. Switch stared at her for awhile longer, grinning, she headed farther into teh temple towards teh room. Switch noted as she walked that the mysterious galexy Disoni had been mentioned sevrel times.

Switch crouched low on one side of teh door of teh office, while Cat stood back pressed to the wall on teh opposite side of teh door. On Switch's signal Kadea kicked open the door and Switch and Cat stormed into the room, pistols ready sword drawn. There was no one there. The room was overriden with plant life, teh back wall was crummbling and light shone through the cracks, to illuminate an old meditation chair. A once grand window that had outlooked the city was in ruins and glass reflected the light into rainbow patterns on teh wall. Suddenly the door slid shut behind them, Switch whirled pistols leveled, Cat and her back to back pistols ready, Kadea stood off just slightly staring behind them, her sword poised. Switch fallowed her gaze,a nd found her gaze locked on the man that had appeared out of no where, dressed in jedi robes behind them. HE raised a hand, and the guns flew from her and Cat's hands, the sword fallowed suit. "Who are you? " He demanded calmly, as though nothing had happened. "The better question is who are you, and what are you doing in an old Jedi temple?" Switch demanded, her pistol was still at her side and she made a move to draw it, but just a quickly it joined the others across teh room. " My name is Master Chris Windu, and I live here. Now then what about you? Why is it that I come to my home to find three women pointing guns at me and invading my privacy." He questioned patiently. " You live here?" Switch seemed doubious, arching her eyebrows and looking around teh room. " Awful big mess, isn't it?" She questioned, she still hadn't answered his questions, but he didn't seem to notice. "Yes, this is my home, I was sent here by teh Jedi council in Disoni to help aid the rebellion." He explained not bothering to rephrase his questions. Switch nodded, "How do we know you are who you say you are?" Kadea demanded, she had been silent until that point. " Until we meet up with another Jedi you don't, you'll just have to trust me." He said calmly. "We?" Cat posed. "We, what? We aren't going any where?"Switch added. "Well I'm afraid that at this point you have very little choice. The stormiie patrol, wil have noticed your bikes and will soon be apon us. Now we can work together and further our own goals through that or we could do it your way and stay and be killed." He said, taking a step foward, his arms folded in the heavy material of his robes. Switch and Cat looked at each other, finnaly it was Kadea that spoke. "Hand me my sword, and I will stand with you, but understand I do this not for you but for a friend who has recently given herself over to those barbarians in order to save us." She explained, he stared at her a long moment and finally nodding he bent took her sword carefully by the blade and handed it to her hilt first. " Your friend made a noble sacrifice, a very Jedi thing to do, I hope you can repay her." He said watchiing as she took the sord carefully back in hand. "She is a Jedi. You wouldn't happen to know her would you." He looked up at her and his eyes twinkled with rief amusement. "Do you know how many Jedi there are in this world?" He questioned, straightening. "Well I was under the impression that there where only a few." Kadea said simply, she was toying with him, and he knew it. " Quite right, now what's this girls name?" He questioned. Kadea shrugged, "I was hoping you could tell me," she said. He smiled shortly, " How should I know?" He questioned walking towards the entrance. "Jedi have mind abilities, do they not, I was reading some of teh anchient writing in there, very similar to my own, if you do have theses so called powers why don't you tell us?" SHe demanded he had his back turned now, a test for her, she knew, she slid her sword into it's sheath with dilibrate slowness. "That is not how a Jedi's power works, her name is Ryshel, I know because I came looking for her, she sent a distress signal some time ago from her ship that led us here, i've been looking for awhile." He said simply. "Are you coming? or are you just going to sit there and gawk?" He questioned and with another wave of his hand brought the guns he had taken over to their owneres. With that he walked away, his back turned to them. Cat and Switch stared at each other then at Kadea and slowly fallowed. "But what about Ryshel?" Switch questioned catching up to him. "We will save her, don't worry but not from here, we need to leave before teh stormie troops catch up to us." He said heading straight for their bikes. "I was hoping I might catch a ride with you, I can direct you to a safe place not far from here." He said. "I thought you said you lived here." Switch chimed in mounting the bike, with Kadea. "I did, until you showed up, and gave it away, now there is a secondary safe house they don't know about and we may run into some of your old friends there Captain Switch." He said as Cat revved her motor. Switch gawked, then nodded and as Cat pulled out onto the quite rode, she fallowed after, trusting that this man had to be who he said.

((We are the only ones keeping this caht alive right now....>,<