Fiction Activity

Competition
Red Fury: For the Prize
Textual submission

Five Sadowan commandos were dispatched to retrieve an ancient artifact, but they had to work with a Jedi from scholae palatinae. They would follow their orders, the Foxtrot may even be useful to them if they can work well together. The white armor of the five troopers moved quickly and quietly as they traversed down the corridors. THey stayed low and tactically cleared rooms as they passed to make sure that no one snuck up behind them. The pointman rounded a corner and was quickly jerked by his throat and shoved into a wall. THe other four raised their blasters and one barked "Freeze! "
"Sadowan I see..." The cloaked man said "...forgive me, I expeceted a fellow Force user."
"Another commando replied "Sorry to disappoint, but they are all busy."
The Palatinae man replied "I guess there are fewer than I though, but at least they could have spared that beast Buurenaar."
The lead commando, who was destinguished with a pauldron, replied "Too bad he's dead. He could have done this on his own."
The Dark Jedi was silent for a moment before saying "We should get going."
The commandos nodded and the six head out with the Force user in front and the troopers followed in a stagard formation. It was unnurvingly quiet as they amde their way until the Dark Jedi held his hand up and said "We need to go to the right and then circle back around to the left."
"Why?" a Sadowan soldier whispered?
"So we can avoid conflict and keep the element of surprise."
"Force sight sure is a nifty trick" the commanding trooper said "Let's follow gentlemen."
The six of them circled around the way the Dark Jedi suggested and continued to follow him and his Force sight. They found the room with the artifact rather quickly, which they also though was weird, but they grabbed it and decided to hurry out. As they grabbed it a piercing alarm sounded and the distance the six of them could here boots echoing loudly in there direction, so they ran toward the exit until the Palatinae Force user bolted down a random corridor.
"Where are we going?" A commando shouted.
"Trying to gain some distance, looks like they are trying to cut us off. And some of my allies are this way."
"Good idea we can help each other out." the commando said weary of the Dark Jedi's plan.
They reached where the Palatinae forces should have been, and the Force user looked around for a moment before saying "Damn it, let's just get the hell out of here. We won't catch up."
And so the group turned again, luckily they weren't far from a hangar and reached it in a few minutes. The six of them rushed a ship and almost all skid to a stop at the sight of a group of pirates. Blaster bolts flew back and forth a lightsaber hummed through the air, explosions echoed in the room, and blood was spilled. The Sadowan commandos and the Palatinae dark jedi slowly made their way around to the closest ship. Two commandos ran inside to man guns and provide cover. A thermal detonator was lobbed at them, so one of the commandos ran over and kicked it back, but as his foot hit it the device exploded sending chunks of him everywhere.
"GET ON BOARD NOW!" the leading commando shouted and double tapped the Palatinae on the shoulder to let him know it was time to go. The Dark Jedi stood at the ramp blocking blaster bolts with his lightsaber as the ship slowly lifted off until the door shut and it rocketed off.
The leading Sadowan commando removed his helmet and looked to the Dark Jedi "Glad you came, we made a pretty good team."
"I didn't figure it would be so easy, it feels like a trap." The Dark Jedi replied.
"Let's just get this thing back and let our bosses figure it out. We've done our part." The commando propositioned "There is no need for us to risk anything else."
The Palatinae nodded in agreement "Sounds like a god idea."
They docked with the Covenant and reported to both Locke and Xenmordin.