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sticksofthejedi) wrote2012-12-16 02:31 pm
sticksofthejedi) wrote2012-12-16 02:31 pm
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Memory 51
Memory: Final showdown with the Shadow Academy.
Received: Day 202, night
Form: Memories are tiny golden cages with doors that pop open and closed! There are seven birds made of your team stone or metal inside. Seven uses – take a bird out of the cage to receive the memory!
Summary: Luke's Jedi Academy and Brakiss' terrible Shadow Academy square off. Lots of teens fighting each other, but Jaina being Jaina, she steals an enemy fighter and handles things in space before confronting Zekk on the steps of the academy itself.
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Things open with the academy scrambling to prepare for an attack by the Imperial Remnant. Each of the kids works on something, with Jaina making sure the academy's fancy defensive shields are operating at full strength. Old Peckhum arrives in his ship, Lightning Rod, just before the Shadow Academy arrives. (The Shadow Academy is housed in a mobile cloaked station.) To Jaina's dismay, the Imperials send a stealthed TIE fighter in, which finds a slips through a hole in the shield. The pilot lands and sets about a mission of sabotage, blowing up the shield generator and beginning to infiltrate the Jedi Temple. Jacen goes to set his pets free just in case, and Jaina attempts sending a final message to Leia, only to find they're being jammed.Raspberry! Lone Staaaaar!
The Imperials fly down a battle platform, with the Shadow Academy's dark jedi trainees dropping off to deploy. Luke's jedi scatter into the jungle to hide and fight defensively. There are more TIE fighters buzzing around, bombing what they can. The hangar the tough Shadow Chaser is housed in gets bombed, so they can't deploy that; Jacen agrees to go up with Peckhum in the much less reliable Lightning Rod to re-establish a connection with the Republic. Jaina's going to go see if it's possible to get the shield back up, because if they defeat the ground forces but don't get defenses up, they're still vulnerable to air or orbital strikes. Lowie and Tenel Ka will go take on the battle platform and have a boss fight with Tamith Kai.
Generally, as the two side's jedi trainees begin engaging, Luke's capture the enemy non-lethally, while the babby dark jedi generally tromp around thinking they are super badass with lightsabers.
Jaina cross the river, uses the forest as cover to sneak over to the generator site. The generators are practically a smoking crater in the ground now, and she concludes that. . . okay that's a little beyond even her mechanical skills. But there's a nice TIE fighter parked over there! She gets her saber out and approaches, but the pilot's gone. She decides it would be a good move to take that up, infiltrate the enemy fighter formations, and see what damage she can do from there. The fighter's signature screaming engines are dampened for stealth, so the fighter's moving more slowly than usual. She joins a formation of six fighters, listening in on their chatter.
She draws on the Force; her advantage will be gone quickly once she starts firing, so she plans to disable each fighter with one shot each. She's able to take out three of them before the enemy can react and put her on the defensive. Even if she hasn't destroyed all of them, she's got the enemy focusing on her instead of continuing their attack on the ground.
Elsewhere, Jacen manages to put out his call for New REpublic reinforcements. The Imperial saboteur gets into the temple and sets up his explosives, but GODDAMNIT, JACEN'S CRYSTAL SNAKE IS LOOSE AGAIN. It bites him, putting the saboteur to sleep next to his active bombs. Tenel Ka and Lowie do their boss fight, taking out a TIE bomber and the battle platform.
Jaina's working hard to keep from being blasted from the sky in this shieldless, slowed TIE fighter. She's getting clipped, but mostly keeping the fighter intact. She pulls a Crazy Ivan and takes one of the remaining three enemy fighters out. Finally, she manages to deactivate the power shunt on her engines, getting her fighter up to its full capabilities. She decides to take the stealth fighter into space and find a place to hide so she can try coming back and try sneaking up on the enemy again. She breaks out of atmosphere, but the pursuit is managing to keep her in visual range, so the stealth outfitting aren't helping out her. That's when the New Republic reinforcements finally drop in, a hastily-assembled fleet of fast-maneuvering Corellian gunships and corvettes. She beelines for it, not even thinking about the fact she's in an enemy ship. The fleet starts opening fire on all of the fighters. She's quick to get her comma on open frequencies, calling the fleet to tell them not to shoot her; Lando and Admiral Ackbar speak briefly with her, and the fleet focuses fire on the enemy fighters. She boards Ackbar's lead ship, meeting up with him on the bridge. The fleet's pummeling the Shadow Academy, and Ackbar orders them to surrender when the Imperials bring in their own reinforcements. To Jaina's eye, the Star Destroyers appear to have been hastily built, not up to usual standards. Ackbar observes this must be what the recent raids on New Republic supply convoys were for.
Tactical Officer McUseless announces that he can't get weapons locked on the new enemy ships -- they're registering as friendlies. Jaina reminds them that an Imperial raid on Kashyyyk recently took a bunch of New Republic guidance and tactical systems. Lando's Gemdiver Station forces can still fire on them, because they're not actual military, but. . . they're not actually military. They can't hit capital ships very hard. Jaina proposes to Ackbar that if the Imperials can use the Republic's computers against them, they can turn the tables. She's going to remotely override their computers. The enemy ship's defensive systems go down, and the Republic starts tearing through the shoddy warships.
The Shadow Academy suddenly self-destructs, due to internal conflict Jaina will never know about.
The space battle over, Lando shuttles Jaina back down to Yavin IV. She tries using Jedi relaxation techniques on the way. Looks like the fighting on the ground has pretty much wrapped up; Luke meets them and she gives him a hug. She's shocked to find a little while later that it looks like while she was throwing a wrench in the Imperial's fleet, pretty much everyone else took some kind of injury in the ground battle. Jacen's not there, but she can tell through the twin bond that Jacen's okay. The Lightning Rod crash-landed, and she wants to go find him immediately; Luke says no, they need to focus on getting the injured into the temple to be better treated. He points out it's possible Jacen and Peckhum are affecting repairs and will be coming to land themselves. So they start for the temple's main entrance. . .
FINAL BOSS STAGE
Zekk steps out, bloody, muddy and ragged but blocking the way. "No one goes inside the temple."
This is exactly what Jaina didn't want: fighting the boy she likes. Still, she announces that she has to handle this alone.
Luke: This isn't a broken machine you can tinker with and fix.
Jaina: I know. I'm not sure he'll listen to me, but I know he won't listen to anyone else.
Luke: I remember thinking the same thing, when I set out to turn Darth Vader back to the light side. It's a dangerous thing to attempt . . . and success is so rare.
He lets her go forward, though. Jaina goes and addresses Zekk. The fighting is over, they just want to take care of their injured. "No. There'll be a lot more injuries if you don't stop where you are." Jaina reminds him of their friendship, asking him to come back from the dark and reminiscing about fun times they had. Remember the time they sliced a computer system and reprogramed a holographic zoo to have all the animals sing Corellian tavern songs? They got caught, but hilariously, zoo-goers had liked it enough that a singing animal exhibit ended up getting added as a regular feature. Zekk says they aren't those children anymore. The Shadow Academy had become his home, so he has nowhere to go, and the dark side isn't like mud that he can just wash off and be done with. As far as he can tell, he's go no options left. He rambles about how the people important to him -- Brakiss, Peckhum -- appear to be dead now, and he blames himself.
Jaina tells him she doesn't want to see any more people die because of him. Let them into the temple; he refuses and activates a red saber, saying something about how she never listens to him. She activates her own blade, and they engage, with Zekk grinning and rambling about how the dark side is like a disease that gets in and can't be cured. She fights defensively, and catches Luke looking on in her peripheral vision. Jaina realizes she's doing exactly what Luke warned her about: she's trying to fix Zekk, to make him do what's right, when someone has to choose and want to come back from the dark.
She turns her saber off, and tells him she won't fight him anymore. He can make the choice that's right for him.
Zekk: How do you know I won't kill you?
Jaina: I don't know that. But I won't fight you. Make your choice. (. . . ) [whisper] Well, what are you waiting for?
Luke has to put out a hand to keep Lowie from joining the fight. Zekk raises his saber, preparing a killing strike. He begins to slowly bring it down toward her neck, rambling about the dark side. Just omg guys he's crawling in his skin and these scars will not heal, nineties angry angsting.
That's when Peckhum blares a warning that Lightning Rod is coming in for its second terrible landing of the day and GET OUT THE WAY. Zekk lifts his saber away, finding out that Peckhum's still alive apparently getting through where nothing else did. He extends a hand toward Jaina, starting an apology.
And the temple blows up. Jaina dives away, hitting the ground and hurting; Zekk also scrambles for cover, but gets knocked out by flying debris. Too late, Jaina realizes Zekk had known the temple was going to blow up. He was saving them all, even if he was pretty intent on going down fighting.
Received: Day 202, night
Form: Memories are tiny golden cages with doors that pop open and closed! There are seven birds made of your team stone or metal inside. Seven uses – take a bird out of the cage to receive the memory!
Summary: Luke's Jedi Academy and Brakiss' terrible Shadow Academy square off. Lots of teens fighting each other, but Jaina being Jaina, she steals an enemy fighter and handles things in space before confronting Zekk on the steps of the academy itself.
--
Things open with the academy scrambling to prepare for an attack by the Imperial Remnant. Each of the kids works on something, with Jaina making sure the academy's fancy defensive shields are operating at full strength. Old Peckhum arrives in his ship, Lightning Rod, just before the Shadow Academy arrives. (The Shadow Academy is housed in a mobile cloaked station.) To Jaina's dismay, the Imperials send a stealthed TIE fighter in, which finds a slips through a hole in the shield. The pilot lands and sets about a mission of sabotage, blowing up the shield generator and beginning to infiltrate the Jedi Temple. Jacen goes to set his pets free just in case, and Jaina attempts sending a final message to Leia, only to find they're being jammed.
The Imperials fly down a battle platform, with the Shadow Academy's dark jedi trainees dropping off to deploy. Luke's jedi scatter into the jungle to hide and fight defensively. There are more TIE fighters buzzing around, bombing what they can. The hangar the tough Shadow Chaser is housed in gets bombed, so they can't deploy that; Jacen agrees to go up with Peckhum in the much less reliable Lightning Rod to re-establish a connection with the Republic. Jaina's going to go see if it's possible to get the shield back up, because if they defeat the ground forces but don't get defenses up, they're still vulnerable to air or orbital strikes. Lowie and Tenel Ka will go take on the battle platform and have a boss fight with Tamith Kai.
Generally, as the two side's jedi trainees begin engaging, Luke's capture the enemy non-lethally, while the babby dark jedi generally tromp around thinking they are super badass with lightsabers.
Jaina cross the river, uses the forest as cover to sneak over to the generator site. The generators are practically a smoking crater in the ground now, and she concludes that. . . okay that's a little beyond even her mechanical skills. But there's a nice TIE fighter parked over there! She gets her saber out and approaches, but the pilot's gone. She decides it would be a good move to take that up, infiltrate the enemy fighter formations, and see what damage she can do from there. The fighter's signature screaming engines are dampened for stealth, so the fighter's moving more slowly than usual. She joins a formation of six fighters, listening in on their chatter.
She draws on the Force; her advantage will be gone quickly once she starts firing, so she plans to disable each fighter with one shot each. She's able to take out three of them before the enemy can react and put her on the defensive. Even if she hasn't destroyed all of them, she's got the enemy focusing on her instead of continuing their attack on the ground.
Elsewhere, Jacen manages to put out his call for New REpublic reinforcements. The Imperial saboteur gets into the temple and sets up his explosives, but GODDAMNIT, JACEN'S CRYSTAL SNAKE IS LOOSE AGAIN. It bites him, putting the saboteur to sleep next to his active bombs. Tenel Ka and Lowie do their boss fight, taking out a TIE bomber and the battle platform.
Jaina's working hard to keep from being blasted from the sky in this shieldless, slowed TIE fighter. She's getting clipped, but mostly keeping the fighter intact. She pulls a Crazy Ivan and takes one of the remaining three enemy fighters out. Finally, she manages to deactivate the power shunt on her engines, getting her fighter up to its full capabilities. She decides to take the stealth fighter into space and find a place to hide so she can try coming back and try sneaking up on the enemy again. She breaks out of atmosphere, but the pursuit is managing to keep her in visual range, so the stealth outfitting aren't helping out her. That's when the New Republic reinforcements finally drop in, a hastily-assembled fleet of fast-maneuvering Corellian gunships and corvettes. She beelines for it, not even thinking about the fact she's in an enemy ship. The fleet starts opening fire on all of the fighters. She's quick to get her comma on open frequencies, calling the fleet to tell them not to shoot her; Lando and Admiral Ackbar speak briefly with her, and the fleet focuses fire on the enemy fighters. She boards Ackbar's lead ship, meeting up with him on the bridge. The fleet's pummeling the Shadow Academy, and Ackbar orders them to surrender when the Imperials bring in their own reinforcements. To Jaina's eye, the Star Destroyers appear to have been hastily built, not up to usual standards. Ackbar observes this must be what the recent raids on New Republic supply convoys were for.
Tactical Officer McUseless announces that he can't get weapons locked on the new enemy ships -- they're registering as friendlies. Jaina reminds them that an Imperial raid on Kashyyyk recently took a bunch of New Republic guidance and tactical systems. Lando's Gemdiver Station forces can still fire on them, because they're not actual military, but. . . they're not actually military. They can't hit capital ships very hard. Jaina proposes to Ackbar that if the Imperials can use the Republic's computers against them, they can turn the tables. She's going to remotely override their computers. The enemy ship's defensive systems go down, and the Republic starts tearing through the shoddy warships.
The Shadow Academy suddenly self-destructs, due to internal conflict Jaina will never know about.
The space battle over, Lando shuttles Jaina back down to Yavin IV. She tries using Jedi relaxation techniques on the way. Looks like the fighting on the ground has pretty much wrapped up; Luke meets them and she gives him a hug. She's shocked to find a little while later that it looks like while she was throwing a wrench in the Imperial's fleet, pretty much everyone else took some kind of injury in the ground battle. Jacen's not there, but she can tell through the twin bond that Jacen's okay. The Lightning Rod crash-landed, and she wants to go find him immediately; Luke says no, they need to focus on getting the injured into the temple to be better treated. He points out it's possible Jacen and Peckhum are affecting repairs and will be coming to land themselves. So they start for the temple's main entrance. . .
FINAL BOSS STAGE
Zekk steps out, bloody, muddy and ragged but blocking the way. "No one goes inside the temple."
This is exactly what Jaina didn't want: fighting the boy she likes. Still, she announces that she has to handle this alone.
Luke: This isn't a broken machine you can tinker with and fix.
Jaina: I know. I'm not sure he'll listen to me, but I know he won't listen to anyone else.
Luke: I remember thinking the same thing, when I set out to turn Darth Vader back to the light side. It's a dangerous thing to attempt . . . and success is so rare.
He lets her go forward, though. Jaina goes and addresses Zekk. The fighting is over, they just want to take care of their injured. "No. There'll be a lot more injuries if you don't stop where you are." Jaina reminds him of their friendship, asking him to come back from the dark and reminiscing about fun times they had. Remember the time they sliced a computer system and reprogramed a holographic zoo to have all the animals sing Corellian tavern songs? They got caught, but hilariously, zoo-goers had liked it enough that a singing animal exhibit ended up getting added as a regular feature. Zekk says they aren't those children anymore. The Shadow Academy had become his home, so he has nowhere to go, and the dark side isn't like mud that he can just wash off and be done with. As far as he can tell, he's go no options left. He rambles about how the people important to him -- Brakiss, Peckhum -- appear to be dead now, and he blames himself.
Jaina tells him she doesn't want to see any more people die because of him. Let them into the temple; he refuses and activates a red saber, saying something about how she never listens to him. She activates her own blade, and they engage, with Zekk grinning and rambling about how the dark side is like a disease that gets in and can't be cured. She fights defensively, and catches Luke looking on in her peripheral vision. Jaina realizes she's doing exactly what Luke warned her about: she's trying to fix Zekk, to make him do what's right, when someone has to choose and want to come back from the dark.
She turns her saber off, and tells him she won't fight him anymore. He can make the choice that's right for him.
Zekk: How do you know I won't kill you?
Jaina: I don't know that. But I won't fight you. Make your choice. (. . . ) [whisper] Well, what are you waiting for?
Luke has to put out a hand to keep Lowie from joining the fight. Zekk raises his saber, preparing a killing strike. He begins to slowly bring it down toward her neck, rambling about the dark side. Just omg guys he's crawling in his skin and these scars will not heal, nineties angry angsting.
That's when Peckhum blares a warning that Lightning Rod is coming in for its second terrible landing of the day and GET OUT THE WAY. Zekk lifts his saber away, finding out that Peckhum's still alive apparently getting through where nothing else did. He extends a hand toward Jaina, starting an apology.
And the temple blows up. Jaina dives away, hitting the ground and hurting; Zekk also scrambles for cover, but gets knocked out by flying debris. Too late, Jaina realizes Zekk had known the temple was going to blow up. He was saving them all, even if he was pretty intent on going down fighting.