posted 11-22-98 10:13 PM EDT (US)        

"You fool!", snarled Justin0, "You pathetic fool!"

ZoSo, surrounded by a fairly large number of very aggressive guys with sabers, seemed to be doomed. Justin0, sitting on his throne, gives us the manditory maniacal villian laugh. "You should never have followed me, my old friend...", he says.

"Yeah well, you know, I kinda' have a knack for getting myself into trouble.", ZoSo says.

"Well, I shall enjoy watching you die.", Justin says, waving his hand.

The group of saber holders close in on ZoSo, slowly. Justin0 laughs. "Hmmm... Well this is not good at all.", jokes Justin.

"Again showing your amazing misunderstanding of the situation.", ZoSo says, leaping over the head of one of Justin's saber goons. Justin's men turn around, one charges, and is met with a sledgehammer to the head. His body falls to the floor, blood dripping from his ears and nose. "Well, that worked well.", ZoSo says.

"You fools! All of you, get him!", screams Justin, standing up.

The whole group charges ZoSo...

*Back on the CRS*

The Drazenites look around the launch bay, searching for some way of escape. Speak removes the restraining bolt from Gonk using Rifter's device. "Ouch! Hey watch it! That hurt!", yells the power droid.

"SHHH!!!!", Neb shushes, turning around.

"Hey! Whose in there!", a voice says from behind the blockaded door, "Open up!"

"Damn! Everyone get ready!", whispers Entropy.

A shot rings out, and the door is sent flying, regardless of the blockade. "Oh geez! FIRE!!!", screams RBF, firing his blaster into the growing crowd of troopers.

Neb and Entropy move to another position, and proceed to open fire from there. Speak draws the spork. "NO! Speak, you won't make it ten feet before they put a hole in your cranium.", yells Taraea.

"Damn!", Speak yells, drawing his blaster, and helps RBF shoot up troopers.

Suddenly some trooper from the back lines throws a TD towards the larger group of Drazenites, settled behind some debris. The TD lands inches from FourGOM. "Oh damn!", Acinonyx yells, "We've got trouble!"

The TD's timer clicks down the seconds to detonation: 3.. 2..

posted 11-23-98 09:22 PM EDT (US)            

ZoSo lept to the side, dodging a strike from one of Justin0's goons. He swung around and brought his hammer down on the back of the goons' head.

"What's the matter, Justin0?" ZoSo yelled as he dodged another one of the goons, "afraid to face me yourself? Yeah, knowing you the very thought of it makes you wet yourself! You've always been a coward, hiding behind others!"

"SHUT UP!" Justin0 yelled, "Guards, stand down."

The guards broke off their attack and retreated into the shadows.

"So, ZoSo," Justin0 said as a suit of armor was lowered from the ceiling, "You think you can defeat me?"

"No I don't," ZoSo said as Justin0 put the armor on, "I KNOW I can beat you!"

Justin0 lowered the helmet onto his head. The armor resembled Mandalorian armor, but it was slightly different, with less weapons.

"So be it!" Justin0 yelled as the lept at ZoSo. He tackled the former dragon, sending him against a wall. ZoSo recovered from the blow just in time to dodge out of the way of a stream of energy bolts from Justin0's wrist-mounted laser cannon.

"That's right," Justin0 screamed, "run you coward!"

As Justin0's high powered wrist blaster recharged, ZoSo saw his chance. He lept at the crimelord, bringing his sledge hammer smashing into his arm. Justin0 howled in pain as ZoSo brought the hammer back up, just to send it smashing back down, this time into Justin0's chest. The armored crimelord struggled to stay on his feet, but suddenly lost that battle as ZoSo crushed his left leg with the hammer.

Justin0 fell to the floor. ZoSo lifted his hammer high above his head, preparing to drop it down on his fallen foe. Just then he noticed a large amount of blood seeping out of the armor, creating a large pool of red on the floor around the fallen body of Justin0. ZoSo also noticed that Justin0 had ceased breathing. If he wasn't dead now, he would be soon. ZoSo lowered his hammer to his side, replaced his coolant helmet, and exited the palace. Once back to his shuttle, he took off, setting a course for Drazen.

*Two days later...*

Darkness. Complete darkness. And then suddenly, an intensely bright light.

Justin0 slowly opened his eyes. He was in the medical ward of his palace, only something was wrong: He couldn't feel his right arm or left leg.

"Ah, sir, I'm glad to see you awake again!" The medical droid said in it's monotone voice.

"What happened to me?" Justin0 said in a weak voice.

"You had an unfortunate battle with the mercenary that arrived two days ago. Luckily, we were able to find you and repair your injuries.....to a point."

"What do you mean,'to a point'?" Justin0 said, a hint of fear sneaking into his voice.

"Well," the droid said, "your left femur was completely shattered, as was your entire right arm. We've been forced to replace them with cybernetics."

"What?!" Justin0 said in a voice of mixed fear and anger.

"That's not all, sir," the droid said, "you've also had three ribs broken. One of the ribs pierced your left lung. It too, had to be replaced with a bionic one."

posted 11-23-98 10:55 PM EDT (US)            

"Way I see it," Pax told the others. "We gotta find the core and blow this place."

"Why?" Jon challenged. "How about we just leave?"

"Duh!" RBF said, smacking Jon on the back of the head. "Running away is boring!"

Jon backed down. "Ok, ok, I guess I'll go along with that. So how do we find the core?"

"Easy, apparently, 4-GOM is here after all, and he can just plug into this handy dandy computer console."

"In a store-room?!"

"Hey, it's not my fault they have such an lousy security setup. Gomer? Plug on in..."

Four hours later, our heroes creep down a deserted corridor towards the power core. "I don't like this," Jeff said warily.

"Yeah," Nebula agreed. "It's way too easy."

posted 11-23-98 10:59 PM EDT (US)            

"Get up, fool!" Leia screamed, pronouncing "fool" like "foo-el"

"Gotta love that Senate talk. Never monosyllabical," Ent said, standing back up.

"Uhm, Leia, now listen-" RBF was cut off by Leia pointing at him and making a sound like "zzzit!"

"Ok, that's generally a sign of-" the pilot light finally lit, and lighting blasted RBF off his feet. He flew threw the air, grabbing the railing and nearly sailing into the power core itself. "Uhm, could someone help me here? I mean, intense pain and suffering could be here very soon for me!"

Rifter, who had been forgotten about in the past few posts, stepped forward from the group and ignited his lightsaber. "I'm really getting sick of you, PsychoChick. Why don't you just leave them alone? They're a bunch of loonies anyway." Leia looked at the saber and lept into the air.

"YIYIYIYIYIYI!" she cried as she flipped several times. She landed between Rifter and the Drazenites, pushing him away with the Force.

"That was a bit Xenic," RBF said as Acin helped him back onto the catwalk. "Now, Acin, why don't you and I make a hasty exit and figure out what to do about this thing, while they handle her? We could always go find the stormrunner and fly into the core through the superstructure."

posted 11-23-98 11:04 PM EDT (US)            

Meanwhile, back at Justin0's palace...

Justin0 was lying on the table, with the medical droid monitoring him. Outside the palace, ZoSo pressed a control. All of Justin0's droids activated a remote file that made them under ZoSo's control.

"I have to give you an injection now." said the droid.

As soon as he did it, Justin started screaming.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Was that Hydrochloric acid?" asked the sadistic droid.

Justin continued to writhe in agony, falling on the floor....

posted 11-23-98 11:05 PM EDT (US)            

Just ignore the part about the CRS.

But, not the part about the HCl.

posted 11-24-98 07:18 PM EDT (US)            

"Dammit," he said to himself, "these pain killers are doing weird things to my mind. Good thing ZoSo is ON HIS WAY BACK TO DRAZEN!"

Meanwhile, back in the world of sight and sound, and not of Justin0's twisted dreams...

posted 11-24-98 08:36 PM EDT (US)            

"Wouldn't that kinda hurt us?", pipes up Speak.

"Oh yeah.... owie...", says RBF.

"Then what ARE we gonna' do?", asks Jeff.

"Hey! I'm not the brains of the group! That's Jeff's job!", says Speak.

"Geez, then we really ARE in trouble!", chimes in Jon C.

As everyone laughs, Leia closes in on IG88h.
She grabs him, and ignites her saber. Everyone draws their weapons. "Let him go Leia!", says Rifter, standing up, "It's me you want."

"No... These fools killed my husband! They must die!", Leia yells, bringing the saber closer to 88's neck.

A blaster shot rings out, and Leia's hand is sent flying back. Everyone turns around as IG88h runs to hide behind Jeff. Who holds the smoking gun? None other than Matt Bender!

"Hiya guys! Remember me? Little 'ol me you sent to BARON'S HED FOR NO GOOD REASON?!?!?", he says, with more than a little resentment in his tone.

"Heh, oh yeah. Well... ummm... nice save!", says Entropy.

"FOOLS!", Leia yells, holding her bleeding hand, "You shall pay!"

Leia darts past Rifter, and climbs a ladder, escaping. "Ok, so now that that's over, for now, how can we blow this ship up?", asks Nebula.

"Wait a sec! I've got an idea... Hey MATT! I've got a BIG HUGE IMPORTANT job for you!", yells Jeff.

"Please, I'm not that dumb.", Matt replies.

"Damn... Oh well... I'm outta' ideas!"

"Great! Just great! So how ARE WE gonna' get of this hunk of junk?!?!?!?", asks Acin.

Just then an alarm sounds off inside the ship. Leia's voice comes over the intercomm. "Attention all personell! I have located the intruders near the power core! Engage at sight! I do not want them to get off this ship alive!", she says.

"Even better...", grunts Entropy.

posted 11-24-98 11:40 PM EDT (US)            

Spreading out, each Drazenite placed a sequencer charge around the parameter of the power core. "All done!" Wazzit called.

"Mine's set," MyShadowStar chimed in.

Activating the charge, Entropy looked up. "Ready to blow."

Looking over his shoulder at 4-GOM and the computer console the droid stood at, Pax asked, "You find out what they did with the Storm Runner yet?"

Four-GOM nodded stiffly. "They've transferred it from the Independence to a dock on the other side of the asteroid. I've downloaded the map."

"Good job. All right people, let's get the fark out of here!"

The Drazenites ran to the door, just as someone on the other side pounded on it. "Open up in there!"

Pax shrugged and stepped aside, hitting the door control. The door whooshed open, to the surprise of the troopers, and the armed Drazenites opened fire on the poor soldiers. There were enough downed NR boys to fully arm the rest of the group, and, with 4-GOM taking point, the Drazenites headed off for the Storm Runner. Eventually, 4-GOM stopped at the door to a large freight elevator. "According to my data, we simply have to travel up this shaft and we are in the hangar. So the Drazenites piled into the lift, and Jon hit the UP button.

The lift came up, not in a hangar, but in a large arena. "Welcome, fools!" Leia laughed. Joe was tied up, hanging from a hook in the middle of the ceiling. "Did you really think I wouldn't have people monitoring my own computer system? You're all fools, fools!"

"I think she has a fool fixation," RBF whispered to the others.

"Who's da more foo," Pax shouted back. "Da foo or Leia-man?"

Fire blazed in Leia's eyes as she raised her hands out to the Drazenites, catching each of our heroes in a force grip and raising them off the floor. "Urgh! Not good!" Neb gasped.

"Skywalkers suck!" AC agreed.

With a wave of his hand, Rifter broke the her grips, letting each Drazenite fall gasping to the floor. "Again you overshadow my own Force powers!" Leia snarled. "Who are you?"

Rifter's face grew solemn. "That is mystery known only to me, and my son. And it is not my secret to tell." Turning to Pax, Rifter said, "I've felt her, a path to you ship is right behind that door. Go."

Pax staggered to his feet. "What about you?"

Rifter managed a smile. "Someone's gotta to keep she-bitch busy. Go." Mentally, he added, And she doesn't know about the bombs...

Pax simply nodded. "Someone cut Joe down, lets go!"

"No!" Leia shrieked, shooting lighting out, but Rifter drew it into himself.

"You and me, here now, only one walks away."

Leia lit her saber. "Very well. But you will lose."

Meanwhile, the Drazenites ran to the Storm Runner. "Let's go, guys!" AC yelled from the hatch. "All aboard!"

Jeff paused in the hatchway. "What about Rifter?"

"Let Rifter worry about Rifter!" Fuurgh shouted from behind. "Let's go!"

"Defeated!" Leia hissed as she cut Rifter across the chest. The Jedi crumbled to the ground, pain in his eyes. "Your friends only delay the inevitable. The blood on their hands will be avenged."

Rifter gasped. "Each man is ultimately responsible for their actions. But not to you."

Leia's eyes narrowed. "There is something you're hiding, I can sense it. Tell me!" she yelled as she slapped Rifter across the face with the pommel of her saber. She hit him again, and again. "You cannot hold out forever."

Blood ran from the Jedi's lips. "I... don't have to..."

"Here we GO!" AC yelled as he piloted the Storm Runner away from the dock. Steering it around, he piloted for the exit tunnel.

"Full speed," Pax reminded him. "We've got... ulp! Time's up!"

As the corvette jetted through the slender rock tunnel, the tremendous blast could be heard behind. "Go, Go, Go!" Neb yelled.

"Must go faster, must go faster!" Jon muttered.

Explosions pocked the tunnel walls around them, as fire shot up the tunnel after them. And then they were clear, Leia's secret asteroid base cracking, then exploding in a huge... uh... explosion, with a big ole Praxis ring expanding from the fireball.

AC brought the corvette around to face the blazing cloud. Looking through the window, Pax gave a two finger salute. "See ya on the other side, Rifter..."

[This posted edited to correct for late-night writing.]

posted 11-25-98 01:00 AM EDT (US)            

Justin staggered to his feet. For the first time in months, Justin could walk again. it had taken weeks for his agents to scrounge up enough prosthetics without alerting the rebels or the Drazenites. More weeks after that were needed to fit them to his broken parts, and days after that he was dunked into a bacta tank to heal up whatever else was damaged.

The battle with ZoSo had been an embarrising defeat. But Justin had lived, and that was worth something.

His spynets informed him the Drazenites had returned to their island paradice, and that they had killed Leia and Lando... no doubt the New Republic was massing a fleet for a full out assualt on Drazen at this very moment. He expected every ship in the New Republic would be attending the defeat of Drazen...

But Justin0s time recovering had not been wasted, he had used the time to devise a new plan, a lerger plan. He was not defeated, he had mearly been wounded; temporaily stopped...

His plan, of course, was to take over the New Republic... If he could not have Drazen he would take the next best thing. All of the New Republic Ships would be at Drazen, and the Drazenites would make short work of them, Coruscant would be open and ready for taking... and he would...

Justin0 snickered happily... then glanced out the window... Gold and yellow leaves skittered across the courtyard outside, the sun was setting in the north... The world was at peace... and Justin felt something, some speck of good within him...

He shook the feeling from his body, and thought over his master plan again...

posted 11-25-98 01:04 AM EDT (US)            

A few minutes later Pug-Dog (Wrote myself back in finally.) and a few others were in their space-suits pushing the Storm Runner.
Only about a lightyear from the nearest gas station, certain members began to feel faint, and... they fainted.
Pulling the unconscious members back inside, the Drazenites talk amongst each other, trying to think of a better way to get the ship running.

posted 11-25-98 01:16 AM EDT (US)            

PUG... YOU HAVE THE WORST TIMING ON EARTH!!!
geez... okay, back to the story.

posted 11-25-98 01:25 AM EDT (US)            

Drawing together in a circle, the Force sensitive Drazenites used every bit of energy they could muster and created a Froce storm right behind the Storm Runner (Ironic, huh?) 4-GOM could almost be heard in the background laying out his plan to a very uninterested control panel. Ariving at the Re-fueling station the Drazenites (at leaset the one's awake) were astonoshed to see...

[Edited to take care of late-night writing problems]

posted 11-25-98 01:43 AM EDT (US)            

***OUT OF STORY NOTE***
(Thank you to Jon the Continuity Gestapo for correcting the very minor mistake I made)
***BACK TO STORY***

"ZoS!" Pax yelled across the station, "we though something had happened to you! Where have you been?"

"Taking care of some unfinished business," ZoSo said, handing a wad of credits to the ugnaught.

"Cut the omnious crap and be more specific!" RBF said, sounding very annoyed.

"Let's just say that Justin0 won't be bothering us any more." ZoSo said, "I had a little meeting with him on the planet Teth. I ran low on fuel on the return trip to Drazen, so I stopped here. What about you?"

So the drazenites launched into their story of their encounters with Leia, the destruction of her asteroid base, the death of Rifter, etc.

"Well," ZoSo said, "sounds like you've all had eventful weeks. What are you planning on now?"

"Well," Pax said, "after we refuel, we're going to head to.......

posted 11-25-98 02:00 AM EDT (US)            

...the stark white shape of an Imperial Star Destroyer. The arrowhead form rested inside a docking cradle. An obvious Imperial shipyard. Pax slapped his hand down on the proximity alarm cutoff, squelching the annoying sound.

"The Identify Friend/Foe tags this ship as the Rogue Star!" Acinonyx yelled.

"What kind of ship name is that?" Jonathan asked.
"I don't know, but it's definitely Imperial." the Corvette's copilot answered.
A whirring sounded over the communications system. "Imperial Corvette TR-899, we have you on our scopes. What is your business in this sector?" an Imperial officer questioned.

Pax seemed to sink into his pilot seat. Him and Acinonyx stole the Storm Runner from an Imperial deep space research facility. The only component they never scrapped was the Imperial communications equipment, seeing the devices as too valuable to dump.

Jonathan took the initiative. "Uh... er... we're delivering parts and technical supplies to the forest moon." he quoted, then grimacing for his effort.

"Corvette, this planet is covered with desert, and there are no outposts to deliver supplies to." the officer replied. "Stand down your weaponry and prepare for boarding. Resistance will be met with force."

Pax cursed and drove his ship toward the planet.

The smaller ship's passengers watched in silence as the Star Destroyer's running lights flickered on.

"We've only got one chance at this. We need serious speed!" Jeff yelled.
The Force-sensitives straigned to provide the thrust to the ship, mildly distracted by the hulk of metal and plasteel cutting across the Storm Runner's flight path.

The destroyer dealt the corvette a stream of laser blasts as it roared by, towards the nearby planet. The ship's hull screamed in protest as it contacted the thin wisps of the upper atmosphere.

The Star Destroyer veered off and entered a stable orbit over the planet, watching the blue-trimmed ship fade into the unforgiving desert...

posted 11-25-98 02:36 AM EDT (US)            

"Nothing like some ancient weaponry!" AC whooped.

"Too bad we forgot about those while we were fighting Justin0 and the J0KA," Pax agreed. "Now, let's get some gas!"

posted 11-25-98 07:07 PM EDT (US)            

"Sir, ships entering our sector," reported his comm officer, "They are using New Republic transponder signals."

"Blast, I thought the NR would go after the Drazenites for killing Leia... who has taken over the NR?" Justin asked.

"Luke Skywalker, sir." Babbled the comm officer.

"Blast. Yet another Jedi... Will those darn writers ever run out of them?" groaned Justin.

"Eerrrrmm..."

"Dont answer that, scumbag" glared Justin.

He thought for a second.

"Transfer all power to the energy shield." He glanced at his screens. "Prepare for a ground assault..."

[I just cant get it right... This message has been edited by Justin0 (edited 11-25-98).]

[This message has been edited AGAIN by Justin0 (edited 11-25-98).]

posted 11-26-98 01:44 AM EDT (US)         

"We'll, you named it Neverending Story" Answered ZoSo.

Pax decreased the throttle on the Stormrunner, and flipped a switch to bring down the landing gear. "Ahhh, perfect landing!" Said Pax.

The ship shakes.

Laser blasts are heard from outside.

Sinclair looks around. "What the hell???"

Pax looks out the window, "Looks like Justin got here before we did."

RBF looks out the window too, "What do we do?"

"I think WE should kick Justin's ass!" Yells Wazzit, strapping off the Double Barreled Bowcaster from his back.

Jeff pulls out his napkin holder, "I'm ready to kick some ass."

* * * *

"Sir, we are closing in on the Stormrunner."

Justin turns to the General, "Good, don't let them get away, I want them dead, except for the ausie, bring him to me, I'll handle him personally."

"Yes Sir."

* * * *

"Kill the bastards!" Sinclair shouts as he waves his blaster in the air. The rest of the Drazenites follow Sinclair, charging the stormtroopers. A wave of blaster fire come from the herd of stormtroopers, amazinglly missing all the Drazenites. "Haha! Look at 'em shots!" Sinclair laughs.

Jeff jumps on a stormtrooper and starts to knock him on the head with his napkin holder, while ZoSo comes up to a stormtrooper and smashes his head with his mallet. Wazzit charges his bowcaster and releases a wave of bowcaster charges at the stormtroopers. Gonk walks out of the Stormrunner, holding a concussion rifle. "Bye Bye" as Gonk fires his concussion rifle like a mad man . . .

posted 11-27-98 02:32 PM EDT (US)         

"Sir, they have defeated 14 squads of stormtroopers!"

Justin looks out of the window of his personal ATAT. "Bring in the ATATs, crush them like bugs."

"Yes Sir."

* * * *

"Hey, are those ATATs?" Sinclair points to several big things in the distance. Everyone turns their attention to the ATATs.

"Those ARE ATATs!" Gonk yells.

Taraea walks out of the stormrunner, "Come on guys, we can take 'em!"

"Doubt it" Sinclair said.

Wazzit looks at the ATATs with his binoculars. "Looks like Justin has been spending a lot of money on hardware. Those ATATs are equiped with heavy rockets."

"Your kidding . . . " RBF grabs the binoculars. " . . . he isn't kidding."

Pax looks around "Any ideas?"

* * * *

"Sir, we are closing in on the Drazenites."

"Good, fire two heavy rockets at their ship, the Stormrunner, I want to make sure they don't escape."

"Yes Sir. Commander, fire at will"

* * * *

"Look out!" Gonk yells.

Two heavy rockets zoom towards the Stormrunner . . .

posted 11-27-98 06:03 PM EDT (US)            

Remarkably, the AT-AT's were all standing in a single file line(due to Justin0's ineptitude). As the front one was destroyed, it fell backwards, and knocked over the one behind it, and so on. The last one destroyed a large portion of Justin's castle.

"Blast it! Why do they have such luck!?" asked Justin0. "Very well. Send in the secret weapon!"

4-GOM, IG-88h and Gonk(are they still with us?) were monitoring the transmissions sent.

"It seems that Justin has a new secret weapon. It sounds very ominous." proclaimed 4-GOM

The secret weapon was just behind the hill. The Drazenites stood in terror as they discovered what it was...

posted 11-27-98 09:03 PM EDT (US)            

To the dismay of the Drazenites, over the hill appeared none other than a huge robotic Faelan!

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!", Gonk screams, grabbing the fry daddy.

"Ahhh geez!", yells Aci.

As the monstrous creation creeps toward our heros, it can be seen that the huge robotic Faelan is being escorted by a battalion of FaelanJawoks! Also desernable is the figure of Justin0, piloting the huge, freakous machine. As the Faelan robot lurches ever so closer, Justin hits a button on his control panel. "Will you be my fwend?" is blasted over large megaphones towards are heros.

"No more! I can't take this damn Faelan kick everyone is on!", screams Neb, rushing the FaelanJawok battalion.

posted 11-27-98 10:59 PM EDT (US)            

A million blasterbolts, give or take a few, slew out towards the drazenites. One took ZoSo in the lung, punturing it and leaving him writhering on the ground in EXTREME pain (revenge!) Another shot cliped Speaks SPORK, making it fly off and fall into a little crevas.

"Shitttty" yelled the others, aiming their weapons up.

"FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!" yelled Jeff again.

Everyone fired. But other then little sparks eminating from their weapons, nothing happened.

"Your weapons have been rendered useless" came a loud voice, Justin, from the loudspeaker on the side of the Faelan-bot. "You are defenceless. Stand down and prepare to DIE!"

Glancing around, the drazenites found no way to escape, so they carefully layed their weapons on the ground and stepped back.

"HAHAHAH!!! After all the suffering you have caused me, your doomsday has come at last!" Yelled Justin0. "You will all DIE!"

"You said that already" pointed out 4-GOM.

"Shut-up! You will be first to DIE!" retored Justin.

"Three times" pointed out gonk.

"ARGHHHHH!!!!" screamed Justin, "You are wasting my time!!!"

Inside the Faelan-bot everyone saw Justin0's finger tighten on the trigger. The drazenites all closed their eyes and prepared to be vaporized.

Shot were heard! Searing heat washed over the Drazenites...

---

Pax was first to open his eyes. "WTF happened!" he asked.

"Look for yourself," said Nebula, pointing towards the wreckage that was a faelan-bot. "Our republic reinforcement arrived."

As if on cue, Jeff's comlink beeped. He picked it off his belt and responded "hello?"

"This is Luke Skywalker of the new republic taskforce 'Yacth', do you require assistance?"

The Drazenites looked around. Wrecage and blood was everywhere, and the traitor Justin0 was nowhere to be seen.

The Cantina Patrons shruged and head back towards the SR, grabbing Speaks Spork and ZoSos mangled (but living) body.

They flew off into the sunset, but of course... they had forgotten someone: IG88h stood in silence, the castle was largly intact and (the late) Justin0's resources were all still there. His empire could be rebuilt...

IG88h grinned, "Now i can become the main character for a while..." His electronic brain began to think up plans and plot twists... getting ready for the day he could overthrow Drazen Isle...

posted 11-28-98 03:58 AM EDT (US)         

Wazzit looks down at his drink. It has been awhile since the Drazenites have seen action, so Wazzit took the chance to go away on his own vacation to Nar Shadda. Most of the Drazenites have stayed on Drazen and watch Jeff cleave away at Drazen to finish it for December. Sinclair has taken a cheap shuttle and has run off to some other planet, Gonk has been rumored to be in Nar Shadda, but that didn't concern Wazzit. "Another bottle of Ale" Wazzit said to the bartender.

The bartender looks up at Wazzit, "30 credits."

Wazzit pays the bartender and takes the bottle of Ale. There have been no sign of Justin anywhere, but Wazzit was betting he is probably planning his next move against the Drazenites.

"Hey Wazzit."

Wazzit turns around. "Nijaan???"

Nijaan sits down next to Wazzit. "Yeah, I had to shut down the spaceport for awhile, right now I have several shuttles transporting everything back to Mos Eisley, Nebula should be on Mos Eisley in a few days. I'm going to meet him there."

Wazzit buys Nijaan a drink. "So what are you doing here?" Wazzit said.

"We'll, I have to drop off a few supplies at a friend of mine . . . nothing big."

Wazzit chugs down his beer. "Any word on Justin?"

"I wasn't around when you guys were chasing him around the galaxy, but, do have some of my own contacts, and he has been rumored to be on Tatooine . . . hiding."

"Hiding? Or planning his next move?" Wazzit gets up. "Mind if I tag along with you to Mos Eisley, I need to make a order at the Cantina there."

"Ya . . . you have your own ship?"

"Yeah, I have the Stormrunner with me."

"But I thought that was Pax's ship." Nijaan gets up too and heads for the exit.

Wazzit follows Nijaan, "Yeah, but, well, since they were staying on Drazen, I'm sure they wouldn't mind."

Just as they exited the Bar, they found Gonk walking outside, suprisingly trying to get a date.

"Hey Gonk, small galaxy eh?"

"Oh, hey Wazzit . . . hey Nijaan."

"Were headed to Mos Eisley, want to tag along?"

"Sure, lead the way" Gonk follows Wazzit and Nijaan to the hangar bay.

* * Back on Drazen * *

"My ship is gone!" Pax yells as he enters the Drazen Cafe. "Someone stole my ship!"

Jeff Walters looks up from his drink, "Are you sure its gone? Maybe you landed it somewhere else."

"Its gone!" Pax yells.

"Perhaps Gonk stole it." RBF said.

"Naw, he couldn't fly it." 4GOM says. "Maybe Sinclair did."

"Maybe, or maybe it was Wazzit" Pax says to himself . . .

posted 11-28-98 01:34 PM EDT (US)            

"Calm down Pax, it's just a ship.", says Speak, watching Jeff stand up.

Jeff walks over to a corner and cleaves off a few sectors. "There, now it looks more realistic.", he says, sitting back down.

**Back on Nar Shadda**

"You boys ready to go?", queries Nij.

"I'm ready, how about you Gonk?", says Wazzit.

"Hold on guys.", Gonk says, saying farewell to his R5 droid girlfriend, "Ok, I think I'm ready."

"Ahhh... Droid love... BWAHAHAHAHAHA!", Nij yells as he enters the Storm Runner.

"Why you little!", Gonk screams as he chases after Nij.

After a few shouts and some loud metal thuds, Gonk reappears. "Ok Waz, let's go to Tatooine!", he says.

Wazzit enters the corvette, passing by a bludgeoned, unconsious Nijaan on his way to the cockpit. "Tatooine, here we come!", says Wazzit, steering the ship out of the hangar.

** Mos Eisley, a little while later **

Neb's ship docks in hangar 37. "Ahhhh... It's good to be back in good ol' Mos Eisley!", he hisses.

He walks past a decrepit jawa, and tosses a few credits to it. "Well, I guess I should get to the cantina, maybe Nij is already there.", he thinks to himself.

** On the Storm Runner **

"Well, looks like we'll have a little time to ourselves until we get to Mos Eisley, I better go in back and make sure Nij is ok.", says Wazzit, heading out of the cockpit.

Gonk looks out the window of the corvette, staring into the blue tunnelish void of hyperspace. "Pretty...", he says, staring into oblivion.

** Back in Mos Eisley **

Justin sits back in his chair, staring at the cantina patrons, thinking, and watching. Neb walks into the darkened room, and takes a spot at the bar. "Oh no! If Neb sees me here, I'll never exact my revenge on those pitiful Drazenites!", he thinks to himself.

"Well, if it isn't the mighty Justin0!", exclaims a rather large and nasty looking Rodian bounty hunter.

"You know, you DO have quite a few bounties on your head.", he says, drawing his blaster.

"Heh, yes well, I've seemingly become quite a popular guy with the New Republic, the Empire, and those Drazenites.", Justin says, "But they all want me for different reasons. The New Republic for killing Solo, the Imperials for stolen equipment and quite a few smuggling operations, and the Drazenites simply because I forced the New Republic to level Drazen Isle."

"Exactly, and I plan to bring in all three bounties!", says the Rodian, hoisting Justin out of his chair, sticking a blaster in his back, and escorting him out of the cantina.

As soon as the pair leaves, some blaster fire is heard, and then a slow, gurgling choking. Neb steps outside, ready for anything. He looks down to see the mangled corpse of a Rodian bounty hunter, arm sliced off and esophogus crushed. "We're gonna' need a cleanup crew out there.", he says to the bartender, while reentering the cantina.

posted 11-28-98 08:22 PM EDT (US)            

"Ewww yuck... who did that?" asked Gonk

"I'm not sure... though I have a feeling--" mumbled Nebula. Suddenly he looked up, seeing someone... "Hey, thats!--"

"JUSTIN!????" yelled Wazzit.

"No, its 'NeBuLa'!!!" screamed Neb, running after NeBuLa with a wierd look on his face. "Die you name stealer, DIE!!!" Nebula preceeded to shoot NeBuLa in the back, then walked back over to Wazzit, Gonk, and Nijaan.

"So, if you guys will follow me, we'll get about our buisness" said Neb.

Wazzit, Gonk, Nijaan and Nebula walked into Chalmuns Cantina.

--Meanwhilst, on Drazen--

While Jeff started making some stoves in the kitchen, Pax and ZoSo (he was healed after the last battle, but is heavily scarred) were walking about, Zoso tried to calm the ecstatic Pax down.

"C'mon man... I'm sure whoever it was will bring it back..." said ZoSo.

"NO... WE have to GO find IT... NOW!" screamed pax... he ran off, hoped into a unfinished bus, and said to the driver, "The Hanger! And step on it!"

As the bus roared down the street ZoSo walked calmly out of the Cantina, shaking his head.

posted 11-28-98 08:42 PM EDT (US)         

Nebula, Nijaan, Gonk and Wazzit sit down at their own private booth and start to talk.

Wazzit looks at Nebula "So Neb, I hear Justin is on Tatooine, care to fill us on some info about that?"

"It's just a rumor, but I hear he is making deals with Java The Hutt."

Gonk looks up, "Java? The Hutt?"

Nijaan speaks up, "He's the brother of Jabba, a little pissy about the death of his brother."

"We'll, what kind of stuff is Justin dealing with Java?" Wazzit asked.

"I hear he is trying to get a hold of a armory of weapons, most likely to get rid of the Drazenites."

"Most likely." Gonk said.

"I also hear he is buying another Star Destroyer."

"From Java?" Nijaan asked.

"No, not sure who though, but its just rumors. Justin can be on the other side of the galaxy ya know."

Wazzit looks at the bar. "Yeah, he can. I'll be back, I'm going to make my monthly order of 3 boxes of Ale." Wazzit gets up and walks to the bartender and pays him 100 credits, asks something to the bartender, and walks back to the booth.

Gonk watches Wazzit sit down. "What did you ask him?"

"Asked him if he saw Justin, he says he saw him around the cantina today."

Nijaan looks up from his drink. "Today?"

"Yes, today."

"So I guess he's still on Tatooine? And making deals with Java The Hutt?"

"I guess so" Wazzit said . . .

[This message has been edited by Wazzit (edited 11-28-98).]

posted 11-28-98 09:24 PM EDT (US)            

Nij noticed Wazzit ducked a little lower and decided not to call Pax over. Unfourtionatly, Gonk didn't think the same thing:

"HI GUYS!!! SUP!!!??" he yelled.

Pax looked over... saw Wazzit, and walked slowly over.

"Hiya Pax," said nebula.

Without a word Pax grabbed Wazzit by the neck, and dragged him out the door.

"What was that about?" asked Gonk.

-- Meanwhile in the palace of Java the Hutt --

"Ugaa wagga wonka" said Java.

"Speak Basic you dumb hutt" growled Justin

"Fine... but it will cost you more" said Java

"Money is no object... IG88h has been good in keeping my finational status good... he makes a good second in command..." said Justin

"Good... because money is an object to me... and to the right people you will bring alot of it" said Java.

"What are you--" said Justin

posted 11-28-98 09:36 PM EDT (US)         

Pax starts to kick Wazzit in the head while he's on the floor. "Owww! I didn't scratch it damnit!" Pax kicks Wazzit in the stomach. "I would of returned it!" Pax steps on Wazzit's head. "Kick back, damnit!"

Wazzit grabs Pax's foot and throws him at the Cantina window, and watches Pax fly in the Cantina. Wazzit walks in, and is taken down by Pax. "Get off me damnit!"

Pax punches Wazzit in the face, "That was for my ship!" Pax punches Wazzit again, "That was for me!" Pax punches Wazzit again, "That was for nothing!"

posted 11-28-98 10:21 PM EDT (US)            

"Yeah, well, Pax is a tad bit too overprotective of it.", says Neb.

** Meanwhile in Java's Rancor pit **

"Haven't I seen this someplace before?", says Justin, looking for something to shove in the huge Rancor's mouth.

He runs to a small alcove, and pulls a slightly obscured switch. A dozen TDs drop onto the head of the Rancor, they explode, yet the creature seems unaffected. "Well, that didn't work!", Justin yelled.

Java's laughter could be heard from up above. Justin, his rage fueling the dark side of the force, leaped onto the head of the Rancor. He ignited his saber, and rammed it into the skull of the creature. As the Rancor reared in pain, Justin leaped off of it's head and back into Java's audience chamber. "Now, as I was saying...", he says, holding the saber up to the crime lord's throat.

** Back in Mos Eisley **

Gonk and Nijaan were administering First Aid to Wazzit and Pax, who had again come to blows over the Storm Runner. "That's it Wazzit! That's it! I'll never let you NEAR the cockpit of my baby ever again!", screamed Pax.

"Well, just for that, I DID scratch your damn ship! Look over there!", he yelled, pointing to a small abrasion on the aft side of the ship.

posted 11-29-98 01:23 AM EDT (US)         

Java looks down at Justin's lightsaber, "Maybe we can work this out, er, ummm, you wanted 150 heavy rockets, 10,000 energy cells, and . . ."

Justin turns of the lightsaber, "200,000 powercells, and a ship that can carry all this."

"I'll see what I can do, will you be on Tatooine in the next 48 hours?"

"Yes, I will."

posted 11-29-98 01:53 AM EDT (US)            

** Back at Mos Eisley **

Nijaan and Gonk finish patching up Pax and Wazzit, who, although still quarreling, managed to be somewhat peacable until Jeff and the others arrive.

"It's about damn time you guys got here!", yells Nebula, approaching the remaining Drazenites' shuttle.

"Yeah yeah, you said something about Justin being here?", says RBF.

"Well, he is more than likely with Java the Hutt.", says Pax, "but that could change real quick, knowing Justin."

"Well who else is there?", asks Cho'Koth.

"Nobody unless Kurgan moved here.", jokes Entropy.

"Ok, we'll send a team there to see if they can find Justin, the rest of us will check out the other crime bosses around here.", orders Jeff, "I want a piece of Justin, so I'll head up the Java team. Who else is coming?"

"I'm in!", yells Entropy.

"Me too!", yells Gonk.

"I guess I'll come.", says RBF.

"Well, ok.", says Pax.

"Ok fine.", says Wazzit, grabbing a case of beer.

"One more.. who will it be?", asks Jeff.

"Alright, I'll come.", says Neb.

"Ok, we'll head off towards Java's palace, the rest of you guys stay here and scout out other possible crime lords Justin may have gone to.", says Jeff.

"Gotcha chief.", says Cho'Koth.

posted 11-30-98 01:11 AM EDT (US)            

Thats when he noticed an aditional 7 swoops parked beside his. "Wha-?" he mumbled...

Thats when he noticed an aditional 7 Drazenites standing beside the swoops.

"We meet again..." said Jeff.

Justin darted past the ego-istic Drazenite and jumped onto his swoop, reving it up,, he lifted if off the ground and pointed it towards a series of canyons in the distance.

"I can lose them in there-" he thought.

But he was wrong, all 7 of the drazenites, Wazzit, Pax, Jeff, RBF, Entropy, Neb and gonk (how the hell does he ride a swoop) zoomed after him.

Through the canyons they zoomed, dodging left and right to avoid rocks.

Just as Jeff and the gang was about to catch up with Justin he dove and turned sharply to the right--

--right into the open mouth of sarlaccs brother, and explosion was heard... and a large burp eminated from the sarlacc...

Jeff and the others turned away...

"Well, I guess he's dead" sayed Gonk

"I'm not sure... but I HOPE he's dead... he's becoming a pain in the ass" said Nebula...

"Oh well, lets get outta here" said jeff.

posted 11-30-98 06:12 PM EDT (US)            

"dammit, i knew that was too easy," remarked Nebula.

The hatch slowly opened, and out of the cockpit rose IG88h!

"you poor fools," he began. "you shuold not have come here. I've been watching through the hidden camera I planted in Justin's swoop, and I am quite displeased at my associate's demise. In case you forgot, I was his second-in-command. After the ...unpleasantness with the Faelan robot, i snuck away to Justin's castle and collected his remains from the wreckage. Through some advanced process that you wouldn't understand, i brought him back to life. We had great plans for this planet, but you had to come and interfere. And now, you are going to die."

The hatch closed, and two tie bombers swooped down from somewhere where nobody could see them until now.

posted 11-30-98 06:49 PM EDT (US)            

IG88h jumped back down in the AT-ST and commanded the driver to get moving. Sticking his head up, he shouted to the stunned Drazenites, "This walker's made for walking, and that's just what it'll do! One of these days this walkers gonna walk all over you!"

But just as the walker turned around and started running, a huge-sandcrawler-but-not-esque tracked vehicle rose out of the sand, it's weapons pointing at IG88h's AT-ST. The rogue assassain droid lept to the sand below as the big-@$$ guns opened up, vaporizing the walker.

"Ha, ha! Guess whoevertheyare showed you, Iggy!" Pax laughed.

Just then, the crawler's weapons reaimed at the 7 Drazenites. A voice issued from a loud speaker, "Stay where you are, you are now under our custody..."

posted 11-30-98 09:50 PM EDT (US)            

"Bring us your droids!"

Just then, IG88h stood up.

The Jawas went wild. Running over to the dazed assassin droid, they carted him off to the SBNQEV. A chainsaw and screams were soon heard.

"Hey, guys, if we want to exact revenge on him, we'll have to buy him back." pointed out Jeff

"How much do you think it will be?" asked Pax

"About 50 credits." replied Jeff

Jeff went up to the head Jawa.

"Say, can we buy that droid you just found. We'll offer....75 credits."

"Sold!" exclaimed the Jawa. "But, you will have to bring us your droids."

Sinclair, having snuck off with the 7 Drazenites behind them, had contacted 4-GOM , and had told him to meet him at his coordinates.

As soon as they arrived, Sinclair quickly shut 4-GOM and Gonk off and gave them to the Jawas.

"Sinc! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" screamed the other Drazenites.

"Giving the Jawas the droids. They weren't much use anyway." replied the throughly inebriated Sinc.

As the Drazenites stood aghast, the droids were taken by the Jawas. Another group of Jawas carried a box out of the SBNQEV.

Jeff opened it. Inside were the pieces of IG88h, cannabilized the Jawas.

"Ewww...." said Neb.

Jeff proceeded to bury the box in the sand, where it would never be found. Then, the other Drazenites snuck onto the SBNQEV through the back door and plotted to steal the thieved droids....

[This message has been edited by 4GOM (edited 11-30-98).]

posted 12-01-98 01:22 AM EDT (US)            

Taraea Hazen brought the cargo ship to a stop.

"I still think it would be better if you were to stay back here," she yelled to her passenger in the back, "the med droids say you still haven't fully healed yet."

"I'm fine," ZoSo said from the back of the ship.

"I still don't know why you wanted to come here, the others are more than capable of taking care of this mess...." Taraea said.

"I got a score to settle," ZoSo said, straining to get up. His damaged lung, although repaired, caused him pain with every breath. "You wait here."

"Not a chance," Taraea said, "you're not just going to drag me out here into the middle of the desert without me getting to blow something up! Now let's go."

ZoSo nodded and picked up his sledge hammer. The two walked out of the hanger.

***two hours later, near the wrechage of Justin0's swoop***

"Dammit!" ZoSo yelled out, standing near the mouth of the Sarlacc.

"Are you sure it was him?" Taraea asked.

"I'm sure, look at this," ZoSo said, thrusting the remains of a bionic arm in Taraea's direction. On it it beared the inscription "Justin0 kicks ass".

"Um, ZoS," Taraea said, looking towards the horizon, "we got a problem."

"What....oh sh#*!" ZoSo yelled as he turned to see a swoop gang riding towards them. Taraea drew her blaster, and ZoSo his sledge hammer as the swoops flew in a large circle around them. Suddenly one of the swoop riders grabbed Taraea and pulled her onto his swoop. ZoSo swung at another swoop, smashing it's engine and sending it crashing into another. Just then the swoop carrying Taraea swung around and headed right for him. ZoSo tried to duck out of the way, but was clipped by the swoop, sending him falling to the hot sand.

ZoSo gasped for air, every breath becoming more and more painful. Suddenly the swoop came to a stop. The rider pointed a blaster at ZoSo, and fired. The bolt hit.

As the life ebbed out of the fallen former dragon, a huge Void-portal suddenly opened. Green light showered ZoSo. He started undergoing another transformation. He became even more human, his skin loosing the void-like texture, and taking on a pale flesh tone. Suddenly his sledge hammer began to transform. It reformed as a single bladed sword, with an extremely thin, 6 foot curved blade.

As the portal was closing, an amorphous red cloud of energy flew out of it and into ZoSo.

ZoSo stood back up, and the sword lept into his hand. He was surprised that it weighed almost nothing. He swung it through the air, slicing the swoop rider who had shot him clean in half. Then he turned to one of the swoops still in the air. A swift strike sliced off the front portion of one of the swoops, sending it and it's rider crashing into the burning sands. The three remaining swoop riders tried to flee, but not before Taraea tackled one of them off of his swoop.

As the other two sped away, Taraea interogated the captured rider.

"Okay pal," she said, "who sent you?"

"I'm not telling you shit, you stupid bi--"

Suddenly ZoSo's sword sliced right through the rider.

"ZOSO!!" Taraea screamed, "why the hell did you do that?"

"He was of no use to us." ZoSo said coldly.

"That's no reason to kill him, he could have--"

"His life was unimportant. Whether he lived or died did not matter." ZoSo said in the same cold, unfeeling voice, "Now come, we should find the others."

"Y-yeah," Taraea said nervously. Fear was not an emotion that Taraea often felt, but there was something about ZoSo that chilled her to the core. They both jumped into the speeder and took off insearch of the others.

***On the SBNQEV***

Jeff slid through the dank corridors of the SBNQEV. He came to the end of the hall, and saw Gonk and 4Gom standing, still deactivate, in a dark, barren room. As he crept in, the lights switched on, and Jeff realized he was surrounded by Jawas.

"Um, hehe," he said, looking around, and thinking of a way to get out, "hi guys, what's up?"

They chattered at him, raising their blasters.

"Whoa whoa, wait!" Jeff said, "I'm not here to steal these droids, I'm just here to.....trade for them."

The lead Jawa held out his hand, as if asking what he had to offer.

"Well I have this...." Jeff said, searching through his pockets, finally producing an old calculator, "um, pleasure droid!"

The Jawa made a quizical gesture.

"Yes, this is a pleasure droid," Jeff said, "wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean?"

The Jawa eagerly nodded and grabbed the calculator, instructing the others to give Jeff the droids.

"Thank you for your business, I'll be going now...." Jeff said.

***Outside the sandcrawler***

"Hey, Pax, get over here!" RBF said to Pax, while looking through binoculars.

"What is it?" Pax asked, grabbing the binocs from RBF.

"Look on the horizon." RBF said.

"It looks like.....ZoSo and Taraea!" Pax said.

A few minutes later, the speeder pulled up next to them.

"ZoSo," Pax said, "what happened to you?"

"Long story." ZoSo said, "I'll explain later. Where's Jeff?"

"Right here." Jeff said, emerging from the sandcrawler followed by the two droids, "now let's get off this rock."

"Just a second," ZoSo said, walking up to the sandcrawler. He walked up to a huge power cable hanging off the bottom of the crawler, drew his sword, and sliced it in half. He then picked up half of the cable (which was insulated) and thrust the uninsulated end into the mechanics under the crawler.

"MOVE!" he yelled. The other jumped into the speeder and took off. Suddenly the sandcrawler burst into flames, showering the desert with scrap metal.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ABOUT!!!?!?!?!?!?!" RBF yelled, "THEY WERE LETTING US GO!!!"

"They could have still been a threat." ZoSo said in an emotionless voice, "they had to be destroyed."

posted 12-01-98 01:49 AM EDT (US)            

"I wonder is Jeff is done with Drazen?" asked Nebula. Just after they had arrived back in Mos Eisly Jeff had announced he had had to go back to Drazen and try to get it ready for Christmas... He had left, leaving the majoridy of the Cantina Patrons nealy stranded on Tantooine.

"Hey look at that!" said Nijaan, pointing at a small child running through the street.

"What!?" asked Pax

"The shirt he was wearing, it said: 'I've visited the Justin-kicks-ass-ooine heratige musuem.'"

"Hmmm.... I wonder who took over his mulit-billion credit criminal empire now?" asked a random Drazenite.

"I dont know... I have no idea..." said Entropy.

--Later, Back on Drazen--

Somehow the Cantina Patrons had scraped up enough money to get passage back to Drazen Isle, but when they arrived, there was no sign of Jeff.

"Where could he be?" asked Gonk

"I have a BAD feeling about this" said IG88h.

Suddenly, from a loud speaker came a voice: "Stand down your weapons and step AWAY from the crack in the street."

Jeff stepped out into the road, with a crack-in-the-street-filler 3do in his hand. Quickly he inserted it in the hole and pressed F7 on his keyboard. Browsing through his brilliant custom cogs he found the correct one and attached it to the crack-filler.

"There," he said, "If sufficiant damage is applied to the crack it will explode, giving way to the sewers below... The crack respawns every 5 minutes..."

"Well that was time wasting" said Nebula.

posted 12-01-98 05:07 PM EDT (US)            

"You bastards..."

"hey!" shuoted Pax

"You left me..."

Jeff stepped forward. "We didnt leave you anywhere. We dont even know who you are."

"Left me to those creatures...."

"Creatures?" asked RBF

"In the Sebenquev...."

"Thats it.." Zoso muttered, pulling out his sword

"Wait... you can kill him later" 4Gom promised.

"Left me to those filthy jawas... they dissasembled me, placed my memory unit on a shelf, as a trophy... put my parts in that box.... I lured an old battle droid over to myself, implanted my being into its memory.. Now you will pay for my misfortune.." The droid lifted his blaster

"Hey, whats going on?" whined Gonk, still overturned

posted 12-01-98 07:46 PM EDT (US)            

"I'll let you all worry about that," ZoSo said in a low voice, "I have to go, um, work on something."

"Um, okay," RBF said as ZoSo left.

"Hey, um," Pax said, "has anyone noticed something a bit odd with ZoSo lately?"

"Yeah," RBF said, "I've noticed that too."

"Um," Taraea said, "when we were out in the desert, we were ambushed by a swoop gang. ZoSo was shot, but suddenly the void opened up, and showered him with energy. Ever since then, he's acted a bit strange."

"THAT'S RIGHT." a loud voice said from nowhere. Suddenly a small black portal opened, and the voice came out of it.

"What the hell?" RBF said, "who are you?"

"My name is unpronouncible to humans, but you can call me...........Floyd. I am the ruler of the dimension known as the void, and father of the being you know as ZoSo."

Pax glanced at RBF and raised an eyebrow.

"So," Pax said, "um, no offense, but, what's up with your kid?"

"Let me explain," Floyd said, "natives of the void are often sent out as emissaries to other dimentions, since the void is the only dimension that links all the others. But sometimes, one of the emissaries will abuse their power, and use it to try to take over the dimension they are assigned to. These void dwellers are immediately sent back to the void, and held there. Sometimes, unfortunatly, they can escape, such as when we perform an energy transfer. One such being, ZoSo's brother, escaped while we were tranfering life force to ZoSo. He now posesses ZoSo's body. But there is far worst news."

"Do tell," RBF said, looking into the portal to the void.

"ZoSo's brother, called Akeru, is bent on revenge. Seven thousand years ago, he attempted to rule this dimension. Now he wishes to destroy it. He is building a large portal to the void, right here on Drazen. When opened, it will consume this entire dimension."

"But that will mean--" Jeff said.

"...that everything in this dimension will cease to exsist." Floyd finished for him.

"So why don't we just blow it up?" Sinc asked.

"That would be unwise." Floyd said, "if you were to damage the gateway while it was in use, the effect could spread to all dimensions."

"So how do we stop this?" Jeff asked.

"That is up to you," Floyd said, "but I will give you assistance. First this."

Suddenly, energy washed out of the void and onto the drazenties.

"Whoa," Wazzit said, "trippy."

"I have just increased your strength and abilities ten-fold. You weapons are also now stronger. Now for this."

Suddenly, another portal opened, and a female figure lept out of it. She carried a sword similar to the one ZoSo now posessed.

"That is Unari. She is a Void Hunter. She tracks down rebellious void citizens. She will assist you in any way necessary."

"Any way, eh?" Sinc said in a sly voice, "hey, I'm sinclair, and I--"

Suddenly Unari swept her sword up, and brought it to a stop two centimeters away from Sinc's head.

"Point taken!" Sinc yelled as Unari lowered her blade.

posted 12-01-98 10:33 PM EDT (US)            

"Yeah, but hell, it's a different plot line from the 'ol chasing Justin0 around the galaxy, and running into JMR, Tom Servo and Crow, and Faelan and the FaelanJawoks thing.", said RBF.

"Yeah, well... Unari huh? Kewl name. So what can you do?", asked Entropy.

Unari said nothing. Entropy shrugged this off as yet another female rejection, and returned to talk with Pax. Pax walks over the Unari.
"So where will this Akeru guy head?", he asks.

"With my former experiences with Akeru, he will head to wherever his host's mind identifies as the center of power.", she says, "He is fortunately unfamiliar with this dimension, and will use ZoSo's knowledge of it to his advantage."

"Ok, so we've got one crack job on the loose with ZoSo's smarts and a no nonsense attitude on the loose.", says Nebula.

"In a matter of speaking. Yes.", Unari says.

"Ok, Ok, that is all fine and good, but will SOMEONE pick me up?!!?!?!", yells Gonk.

Unari walks over to the droid and picks him up. "Whoah... ummm... wow.. uhhh... thanks?", Gonk says, astounded.

"Your welcome.", Unari says, turning to Jeff, "So, you are the leader of these... things?"

"Well... no... actually... they just kinda' followed me home one day.... and.... ummm... well... yes.", Jeff says, somewhat reluctantly.

"Good, then I shall follow your lead until we find Akeru. But be aware that I will do anything to bring him back where he belongs.", Unari says.

"Understood.", says Jeff.

posted 12-01-98 10:55 PM EDT (US)            

***in a hidden compound deep in the forests of drazen***

ZoSo, posessed by Akeru, continued working on one of the power supplies of the gigantic portal generator. Soon it would be complete, and his plan would sucessful.

Suddenly the door to the compound exploded. ZoSo/Akeru grabbed his sword and turned to see the robot that according to ZoSo was known as IG88h standing at the door, flanked by five other assassin droids.

"We've come for you, ZoSo." IG88h said, "as revenge, I am hunting down and killing each and everyone of the drazenites, you are the first."

ZoSo/Akeru raised his sword, and his face twisted into a cruel grin as he lept at the assassin droids......

***At the edge of the forest***

"So basicly, we just have to wander around the island until we find him?" Jeff asked Unari in a sarcastic voice.

"I'm afraid so." she said.

"Hey!" Entropy yelled, pointing into the forest, "what's that?"

The group ran over to find the remains of IG88h, now little more than a torso, laying in a patch of ferns.

"What the hell happened?" RBF asked the droid.

"I was *bzzt* trying to *zzzp* kill ZoSo. He *hmmz* attacked us. The *tzz* destroyed the others, but, somehow, I *rzzzp* escaped." IG88h said weakly.

"Where is he?" RBF asked

"Why should I *zzzt* help you?"

"Because if you don't..." Pax said, drawing his blaster.

"Okay, okay," IG said, "he's in a *bzz* compound, deep in the forest."

posted 12-01-98 11:52 PM EDT (US)         

Zoso looks up from his complete Portal Generator "Did IG88h get away and tell the location of my compound?"

The assassin Droid responds, "Yes Sir, they should be here any minute."

Zoso slips a grin at his assassin droid, it was once IG88h's, but he dismantled them himself and programed them into his own personal servants. "Excellent."

* * Outside ZoSo's compound * *

"Do I have to do this?" Wazzit complained as the other Drazenites push him towards the entrance.

"Yes, you do!" Gonk yells.

The Drazenites have planned an all out assualt on ZoSo's compound, and Wazzit will sneak in and shut down power supplies in ZoSo's compound.

"After you have shut down the power supplies, give us the signal, and we'll come in and take down ZoSo himself!" Jeff explained.

"Great plan." Mumbles RBF.

Unari looks back at Jeff. "Are you sure he can do it?"

"Don't worry, he is real good at sabotage."

"Lets hope so." Mumbles Unari.

* * Inside the Compound * *

Wazzit sneaks in, and takes a peak at ZoSo and his army of assassin droids. Holy shit, Wazzit thinks to himself, he's loaded!

Wazzit sneaks through the next corridor, and takes a peak inside the room, 10 power supplies located in the center of the room, guarded by 5 assassin droids. Wazzit pulls off his double barreled bowcaster off his back, and takes out his stormtrooper rifle off his holster, and jumps into the room and fires aimlessly at the droids.

* * Outside the compound * *

"What the hell is taking so long?" Nebula said.

Jeff shrugs at him.

* * Back inside the compound * *

Wazzit walks over the fallen assassin droids, straps his double barreled bowcaster from his back and takes out 10 whiskey bottles and a sequence charger. He places the 10 whiskey bottles on each power supply and places the sequence charger in the middle, sets it on manual and sneaks out the room.

And detonates it.

ZoSo turns to the upper chamber of his compound, and grins.

* * Back outside * *

A big, big, very big explosion rings through the air.

"What the HELL was that?" Sinclair yelled.

"Its the signal, thats what!" Jeff yells, taking out his napkin holder and running inside.

The others shrug and run inside with Jeff.

posted 12-02-98 07:24 PM EDT (US)            

Suddenly the portal generator sprung to life.

"The portal is beginning to energize. Soon this dimension will be yet another conquest of the void!" ZoSo yelled.

"Not if we can help it!" RBF yelled from the door. ZoSo swung around, sword in hand, to see the whole group of them standing there.

"Forget about him!" Unari yelled, "the portal is charging! Go deactivate the main generator!"

"Just a second...." Jon said, pointing his assault cannon at the generator.

"NO!!" Unari said, "you can't just destroy it! It could cause the portal to spread to ALL dimensions! You have to disable it!"

"Okay, okay!" Jeff yelled, "we'll do that, you handle ZoSo!"

The drazenites ran towards the generator as Unari drew her sword and charged ZoSo. He parried her strike and counterstriked, throwing her off balance. She fell to the floor and ZoSo lifted his sword to bring it down on her.

"Fight him, ZoSo!" She yelled, "don't let him control you!"

Suddenly ZoSo paused, giving Unari enough time to sweep kick the possessed warrior.

ZoSo, Akeru once again in control, jumped back up and swung at Unari. She parried the swing, and they stood their with swords locked, waiting for the other to make the next move.

Meanwhile, Jeff, RBF, Pax and the others arrived at the main generator.

"Okay," RBF said confidently, "let's open 'er up and deactivate this thing."

Jeff pried a panel off of the generator, and RBF's confidence disappeared as he looked inside and saw thousands and thousands of tangled wires.

"Any one of these wires could set the whole thing off!" Pax yelled in dispare.

posted 12-02-98 07:59 PM EDT (US)            

"there is nowhere for you to run, now!" screamed ZoSo, the great blaze of evil burning behind his gaze. "It is time for you to die!" He mocked a swing of his sword, and instead turned the sword on it's side and thrust it at her chest. Much to his surprise, her hands reached out, disregarding her own weapon, and fastened with a surprising amount of strength around his wrists. As the momentum of ZoSo's push