"Asmodeus is… Extremely attuned to the Force. He told us that he had only started training himself for a few months since he was lost in the desert, eaten by the Sarlacc and then willingly left to follow the guidance of the Force. The guidance which led him to our ship when he was on the verge of death. His natural talent for Force manipulation is beyond anything I've ever seen before."
"Power can be tempting, but there is always a price to be paid for recklessly abusing the Force." Yaddle spoke out, "However… I'm sure you've already heard this lecture many times before."
"Master, I've 'given' that lecture many times before." Kikha smiled wryly, "Everyone knows, yet when that power is right in front of you. All you need to do is 'take it', even Jedi Masters might not be able to resist the temptation."
"But you were able to resist that temptation, correct?"
"Yes, Master Yaddle… Many times." Kikha sighed and felt a little embarrassed, "The boy was talented, but he was too old. It's not just about age, but about maturity. He already had a firm mindset and goals. Perhaps that was why he could resist the allure of the Dark Side while still borrowing its power? Regardless, in my altered state of mind, I made some questionable decisions…"
"Master, it's not your fault that we got stranded." Daesha added on the side, "The course we plotted was fine. We just happened to get intercepted and involved in a random pirate attack on some Trade Federation Ships. If we didn't leave quickly, we might have died then and there."
"I know that, but it's no excuse. I should have reported to Master Windu about my altered state. I could have also requested more time. Although our situation was dangerous, it was nowhere near as dangerous as what we experienced…"
"Please, explain what actually happened. In order. Try not to leave anything out that might be of importance." Adi Gallia spoke from behind them, since they were mostly facing Yoda and Mace Windu on the right side of the room.
"We survived escaping into Hyperspace within an asteroid field, but when we left Hyperspace our T-6 Shuttle was severely damaged…" She looked at the expressions of the Masters, but no one seemed to care about the loss at all. After all, it wasn't 'their' money.
"We were running out of time. Although we were lucky that life support still existed, we lost most of our water supply and given my condition, it didn't take long before I was extremely dehydrated. We… Survived. We made the absolute most of what little resources we possessed. However, we were still running out of time and the parts we needed to repair the ship weren't available in the scattered debris around us. I… Was too weak to function for most of that time."
"I was doing repairs and Asmodeus was moving the ship." Daesha skipped over the blowjobs, handjobs and cunnilingus, "It took us several weeks to make it to the derelict Lucrehulk. Then we got lucky and happened to have a cookbook onboard that taught us how to prepare Mynocks."
"Mmmn. With you, the Force was."
"Yes, Master Yoda, I said the same at the time." Kikha smiled and revealed her fang-like teeth, "It only took me a few days to recover once we had enough food. Then… That's when the three of us left the ship behind forever. Again, I'm sorry Master Windu for losing the shuttle."
"There are countless shuttles, but only so few Jedi." Mace Windu shook his bald head, "You mentioned a disturbingly large amount of combat droids on that particular Lucrehulk vessel."
"Yes, far more than necessary for just fighting off pirates or cartels. Fortunately most of their droids are limited to requiring a central control hub. Our only difficulty at first was dealing with the overly aggressive Mynocks. Then… We met a strange droid. Something from thousands of years ago."
"Suspected to be an HK-50 Assassination Droid from the Old Republic Era." Mace Windu read the datapad and looked back up at them, "It tried to incite Asmodeus to turn against you. Although it failed, the droid did manage to escape."
"The HK Droids are apparently extremely dangerous and devious." Kikha shrugged, "I don't regret letting it escape. At least not yet. In fact, if it didn't escape, we might have died…"
"The Force is our greatest ally." Mundi spoke seriously, "It often helps us, even when we don't ask."
"I believe so as well." Kikha nodded to the elderly man to her left, "The power to the sphere was returned and so was the artificial gravity. However, the atmosphere was still nearly a vacuum. We were ambushed by Droidekas and then even more B-1 Battle Droids. Asmodeus was almost killed in the first moment when his helmet was partially destroyed, though he managed to use the Force to prevent his air from escaping."
"He managed to do that while also deflecting blaster bolts?" Plo Koon was a little surprised, as were some of the other Masters, though they remained silent.
"He… Tried his best. He was hit several times. Eventually we made an opening in the wall and escaped through it. The other side was an arsenal with very few guards, so we were able to use those weapons against the enemy. Then we made our way into an airlock leading to a command deck. We used our lightsabers to cut through and found a living Neimoidian man. Unfortunately, he was killed by one of his own droids before revealing any information to us."
"I thought he said something about… He thought that Deus was 'Maul'. A man that calls himself Darth Maul. Asmodeus mentioned 'seeing' Darth Maul hiding among the ships that were fighting before we escaped into Hyperspace back then." Daesha spoke quickly and a little nervously, but she had calmed down a lot compared to the beginning.
"The man named 'Darth Maul' is a notorious mercenary who appeared on Coruscant several times in recent years." Adi Gallia actually had a vast covert intelligence network on Coruscant, the capital of the Republic, so it's not surprising that she would have heard of him before. However, she never really paid it much attention.
"We can discuss this 'Darth Maul' at another time." Mace Windu looked at the datapad again and said, "Explain what happened next."
"We found something… Something terrible." Kikha had to take a deep breath as her tentacles writhed in discomfort and anxiety, "There was an object. An egg of some kind. Supposedly it was a piece of technology from tens of thousands of years ago. During the Rakatan Empire."
Hearing that name, even Yoda and Yaddle didn't seem to remember anything. The Jedi and the Republic kept the Rakata homeworld, Lehon, under quarantine for thousands of years after Revan destroyed the Star Forge. It wasn't until the Dark Age of the Republic that the quarantine was basically gone. Now days, nobody even knows it exists.
"The egg tried to control and devour me. Fortunately Asmodeus knocked it out of my hand before it was too late. But the egg had already consumed the body of that Neimoidian and had plenty of energy. I rushed to the captain's control panel and found some shuttles with hyperdrives in a hangar bay on the opposite side from where we 'landed' within the ship. Then I initiated the self-destruct program as my helmet shattered and I was knocked out into space."
"Umm, Master was busy, so she wasn't really there when Asmodeus and I were fighting the Rakatan monster." Daesha quickly explained while gesturing with her Lekku and hands, "It wasn't that much of a fight though. The creature was like a Droid, but also organic. It was very strange and disturbing… Asmodeus said that the Rakatan Empire was wiped out by their own Force-based Technology that relied heavily on the Dark Site and evil rituals."
"Can you describe a bit more what these Rakatan or Rakata creatures look like?" Mundi asked, but before the girls could speak, Mace Windu activated a hologram that projected an image. The egghead, the eyes on the side near the bottom, along with the small mouth down there. Overall though, it really wasn't that strange looking compared to a lot of Species.
"I've never seen this Species before." Yaddle looked across the room, "Have you?"
"Hmmm, long ago, I did. In a vision, perhaps."
"The creature was able to use the Force and we barely escaped to the hanger. At the last moment as that creature was chasing us, the HK Droid appeared and attacked it briefly. Those few seconds were enough for us to board the shuttle and escape. Then I waited to make sure the ship actually self-destructed and the artifact was destroyed. At least, neither of us could sense its presence anymore."
"A wonderful turn of events. Aside from the loss of a T-6 Shuttle and a bit of suffering, you've both learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way." Plo Koon chuckled, though his eyes were covered by metal and most of his face was also obscured by the breathing apparatus.
"Yes, we're all very happy to see the two of you return safely." Yaddle chortled as she looked towards the purple Twi'lek with a smirk on her wrinkled green face, "We just didn't expect there to be three of you."
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