[Solved] To spoil the seed

[EmilyHuene]

"Give back my Lightsaber. Your lesson is over"

Without a sound Aeryun looked down for the saber and reached for it. She missed by an inch, but her nail brushed over the metal frame. She then corrected herself and lightly scooped it up into her palm. The metal felt so cold and distant, even though it could produce a beam of pure heat. She figured it was mostly because of the dark feelings attached to them. Aeryun would never forget what transpired here today.

Once she had the saber in hand she reached for the cuffs and gripped the unforgiving chains in her hand. She rose to her feet and slowly closed the distance between her and Lynn. Aeryun returned the saber and was thankful to let go of the weapon. When she had her saber, she felt complete and alive. This saber just add her hate everything about herself.

As soon as the saber was gone from her hand Aeryun felt better, but the feeling did not last. The cuffs still needed to be put on and Aeryun found it painstakingly difficult to put her hands back in the bindings. She worked slowly, unless someone did them for her. Her heart clicked and stopped momentarily with each lock of the cuff fitting to her wrist. Finally she was bound and all of her determination and willfullness left her. The only thing she wanted to do now was break down and cry. Aeryun forsaw this happening quite soon....

 

[Lynn]

Taking back her Lightsaber and ensuring that the handcuffs were set correctly, the Sith waved at the line. This caused the Guards to undo the chains around the civilians knees and have them lead the kinda lucky ones back to where they came from: Either the cells where they would wait for their death sentences or back into the hospital where their incurable illnesses would take them sooner or later. None of these details she would tell her captive, due to obvious reasons.

"You failed" she spoke to the downsized Jedi "You lack your mental centre and thus are way too easily swayed to any direction. Would I have wanted to, I'd have you made a 'Sith' in no rime. One of the mindless ones, being cruel for crueltys sake and waddling back to the light side based on some shiny arguments. Right now, you are useless either as Jedi or as Sith without you knowing where your Priorities lie. Get that in order, or you will break youself trying to fit anywhere. If you ask me, you should consider the light side, as I heard you will be able to life, love and laugh. But until you actually grow up to be anything I have no interest in you. Get back into your cell and cry like a baby or whatever you Jedi do to cope with deaths you could neither prevent nor are really responsible for. You will remain there until you are released, your Ship remains my property and will remain here as my personal backup. I suppose there is no sense in changing rhe codes as you are unfit to do anything on your own"

The tone was harsh, but with some valuable Information... Would she somehow manage to escape, and eve reach her vessel, she could use it to escape, the air defense would need to be overwritten in order to shoot at it, since it is registered as a Sith's personal ship. Valuable time to escape.[/font]

 

[EmilyHuene]

As Lynn adjusted her prisoner, Aeryun felt a content feeling knowing that the rest of the people on the line were being set free. She was relieved to hear no one else would die today on her watch.

"You failed...You lack your mental center and thus are way too easily swayed to any direction. Would I have wanted to, I'd have you made a 'Sith' in no time. One of the mindless ones, being cruel for cruelty's sake and waddling back to the light side based on some shiny arguments. Right now, you are useless either as Jedi or as Sith without you knowing where your Priorities lie. Get that in order, or you will break yourself trying to fit anywhere. If you ask me, you should consider the light side, as I heard you will be able to life, love and laugh. But until you actually grow up to be anything I have no interest in you. Get back into your cell and cry like a baby or whatever you Jedi do to cope with deaths you could neither prevent nor are really responsible for. You will remain there until you are released, your Ship remains my property and will remain here as my personal backup. I suppose there is no sense in changing rhe codes as you are unfit to do anything on your own"

Aeryun listened to her captor criticize and humiliate her. She was just put in an impossible situation, how could she have reacted differently? Had she stuck to her beliefs then Lynn would have butchered the civilians. No Jedi would suffer their lives so foolishly. She had trouble believing her priorities were out of whack, but maybe Lynn was right about that. Her training was as about as informal as they got. She didn't have a true master. Aeryun was taught by other students, people her own age and younger. Of course she would have trouble sticking to anything.

Her head was hung low. She hated herself. How had she fallen so low to even consider thinking she could fight in this war? Clearly she wasn't ready. But then Lynn said something that really confused Aeryun: "You should consider the light side, as I heard you will be able to life, love and laugh." Aeryun stopped walking to look at the Sith. Did she hear that right? Was this Dark warrior telling her to stay true to the Light? Was she being hypocritical, or was there more to this story?

It gave Aeryun a lot to think about as she was marched back to her cell. She didn't realize it, but she almost walked herself there. Her feet just kind of found the right way; guess she memorized the path already. Back in her room, she moved to the back wall and slid down to her butt. Her saber still rested on her bed, but she didn't feel the need to cling to that right then; Lynn's comment about how Jedi cry really made a pit of anger in her stomach.

But there was something still very strange she couldn't shake about Lynn. Why would a Sith choose the Dark side, and then praise the Light? Maybe she hated the Jedi as much as she did the Sith. Maybe she wished she could turn. Then it gave Aeryun an idea. She'd been told of a famous story, one told through out time. A story of Vader. A Jedi who turned Dark, who was a symbol of evil in the galaxy. He'd done unspeakable things. Yet, there was good in him. All it took was the right person to try and convert him. Maybe Aeryun could be that person for Lynn. If history showed the Jedi anything, it was that anyone could be converted.

Aeryun stood up and grabbed her saber off the bed. She went to the door and pressed her ear to the frame. Aeryun would find a way out. There had to be a way. She wouldn't wait here to be sold or killed.

 

[Taruna]

Aeryun's lack of sight now was an advantage. Not being able to see usually heightens the other senses, and her luck did not end there. She was Force sensitive too, which meant she could see more then a blind normal being would. Also, it was not that hard. From the entrance, it was twenty five steps ahead, then to her right. There, a door was waiting which apparently needed a passcard. Fifteen steps later, a turn left and three steps ahead and she was in her cell. Which was opened by a seven digit key. On keys that had each their own nuances of sound.

There was a guard patrolling more or less exactly every thirty minutes and the small hissing sound told her that the cameras was reacting on movement. They could easily be tricked by being too fast or.. ironically too slow for their electronic brains to pick up anything. If there were any other people, they were suspiciously silent, but there -were- other people around. Like in the cell to her right, as the occasional seldom occasions told her when the said other person went to the loo. Maybe she could establish contact?

 

[EmilyHuene]

One passcard. Seven digit keypad. One guard. One motion sensored camera. Maybe this escape plan wouldn't be too difficult.

Aeryun moved away from the door and sat in the center of her cell. She crossed her legs and rested her hands in front of her against the ground. If only she could somehow use the Force to push the keypad numbers. She could likely figure out the code from what she remembered; the Force would give her a intuition on that too. They taking out the camera or the guard would be the next step, but she was confident she could overcome that one with little effort. Her biggest challenge right now was getting the cuffs off.

That's when she heard the toilet flush. She thought about it for a second. Last night she'd been so preoccupied with her own troubles she wasn't paying attention to anything else. Maybe this other person could get out and held her. Maybe she could talk this person and walk them through escaping.

Aeryun would then try three things. First, she'd try to contact the other person. "Hey roomie!" she'd shout out first. If he couldn't hear through the walls, she'd try again. If there was a vent in the room, she'd try shouting through there too. Second, she'd try out a few of her Force powers. Would they shock her if she tried mentally communicating with her next door neighbor? Would they shock her if she tried camouflaging herself? She'd never tried it before, but she had time to spare. Maybe she could work it out. Aeryun needed to know exactly how these cuffs worked and what her imitations were.

Lastly, and this would happen after (or during) she talked with the guy beyond the wall, she would try to break her cuffs. Not sure what exactly would happen, she started trying to smash them against the ground. If it ended up shocking her, of course she'd scream from the pain. But with some recovery time, she'd try again. This time, she'd try to use the Force. It couldn't be that bad right? With the shock trying to prevent hurting oneself, maybe she could get used to the feel. Maybe she could learn to take the pain while using the Force to add speed and power to her thrust as she tried to break them.

 

[Taruna]

The roomie did actually answer, but he somehow managed to speak with strange pauses, and usually when Aeryun did something distracting.

Trying to reach out mentally gave her a small zap, immediately interrupting her concentration. Same was for the telepathy. The best idea was the idea o crashing the cuff against the ground, as they already activated before the arms were low enough to build enough momentum, making her muscles contract involuntarily and taking away a lot of the oomph needed to damage them. At this point, it was clear that the shocks were directed.

The biggest fun was the attempt to crash the cuffs with force support, what ended in her being shocked until she lost consciousness and at this point, she finally heard the voice, which was strangely familiar but too muffled by the permacrete beton to identify so far "You awake? Hello? Did you manage to grill yourself?"

 

[EmilyHuene]

Hearing that the man next door could hear her, she got immediately excited with the news. However, she had an objective to accomplish. She started off asking him his name. And what he'd done to get in the dungeon. She wasn't paying the most attention to him, since her mind was being occupied with the constant static shocks right to her brain. It hurt like hell, but she couldn't give up.

Trying to break them by natural means was harder than she thought it would be. With each pain she had to stop and recover. But she wasn't out yet. Aeryun's confidence continued to push her to her limit. And her limit soon came before she realized it. By attempting to use the Force while breaking the cuffs she sent herself into a screaming fit as her body was shaken to its core by the electrocution. She didn't remember anything else after that.

***

Groggy. Disoriented. Confused. Aeryun opened her eyes as she heard a voice talking to her. She felt too weak to pick herself up, so she compromised in simply rolling over onto her back. Her sides were stiff from having lied on them for however long she'd been out. She clearly had not succeeded in escaping, and that left her with a strange disappointment. Aeryun started to feel like she would never escape, not by her own means. It was a low point in her day.

"Leave me alone," she said to the voice.

 

[Taruna]

"Yeah, Good idea valley girl" the voice answered with a slight tone of annoyance "I'll just check in to another hotel.. oh, wait. This is not an hotel"
a slight clanking was heard "I am in the same boat as you, so leaving you alone is not an option. Soo.. did the self execution give you any insights aside of that you are more like a primate then a Jedi right now? How about using the lockpick I hid in the mattress to get rid of the cuffs rather than hurting yourself with them?"

A short pause followed "Unless that was your goal here, in this case please go ahead, hearing your whimper and screaming all night is what I always wanted to have for my last days..."

 

[EmilyHuene]

"Yeah, Good idea valley girl...I'll just check in to another hotel.. oh, wait. This is not an hotel"

Aeryun's head began to come back to her and she tried rising from her position She heard something clinking against another and she searched around for the source.

"I am in the same boat as you, so leaving you alone is not an option. Soo.. did the self execution give you any insights aside of that you are more like a primate then a Jedi right now? How about using the lockpick I hid in the mattress to get rid of the cuffs rather than hurting yourself with them?...Unless that was your goal here, in this case please go ahead, hearing your whimper and screaming all night is what I always wanted to have for my last days..."

"Lockpick?" she breathed the word out of her mouth. How had she not sensed it before?

Aeryun groaned and crawled over to the bed and began to feel around for it. This of course was more difficult than she realized because she couldn't seem to get any bearings on it. Not having the Force sucked! But eventually she found it and breathed a sigh of relief that the man had been telling the truth.

Once her prize was in hand, she began to start fumbling with the key. It was difficult since she didn't know exactly what she was doing, but so long as the cuffs didn't freak out on her, forcing another episode upon the poor Noorian, she'd be alright. Finally, after a loud clink filled the room as the cuffs fell off her wrists, Aeryun was free once more. She rubbed at her wrists to get the feeling back in them before scooting over to the wall where she could talk with this person.

"I uh... Thanks."

Suddenly she was having trouble finding the right words. Her bindings were free, so she should be thrilled right? She could escape. But then what? The uncertainty of her options seemed to hold her back. Plus right now she was feeling a little less than optimistic about her own abilities.

 

[Taruna]

"Atta Girl. I hope you did not already open them without having a plan how to actually get out of here. Otherwise you're in trouble now. Once opened, you won't get them back closed" the voice answered, and somehow it was clear that the one on the other side was not a mere prisoner.

"If I may introduce myself.. former Governor Eskon, thrown into jail for not sending my men into their death. What's your crime? Sneezing in public?"

 

[EmilyHuene]

"Atta Girl. I hope you did not already open them without having a plan how to actually get out of here. Otherwise you're in trouble now. Once opened, you won't get them back closed"

She blinked several times and poke the now open cuffs on the ground at her feet. "I....wait what?!"

She grumbled and stood up and screamed loudly through the wall, "You could have told me that sooner, Mister know it all!"

"If I may introduce myself.. former Governor Eskon, thrown into jail for not sending my men into their death. What's your crime? Sneezing in public?"

As Eskon introduced himself, Aeryun felt a little embarrassed she had no idea who he was. It wasn't like her to remember details or anything that dealt with history. So when he mentioned him needing to kill people, she realized the courage he must have had. He refused to follow orders, refused to kill people. Aeryun had four deaths on her hands now.

She would get on the bed and pull her feet up to her chest. "I may have killed some people." She didn't feel like explaining the particulars. "But that's no important. My cuffs are free. I can use the Force. We're getting out of here. If you have a plan, let's hear it."

While she spoke, and while he answered, Aeryun would press her ear to the wall separating them and begin to focus. She'd listen to the walls and the vibrations. She let the Force influence her mind and paint her a mental picture of his room and the man on the other side. She began to look for clues and escape paths. If there was a weakness, she would find it.

 

[Taruna]

It needed a few seconds before the answer came trough to her "In the last four years I did nothing but plan and attempt to flee. Each time I failed at an unexpected detail. You are not on a Colony, you are in the waiting room for a vast subterranean high security jail and once you are down there, even your precious Force will not help you anymore. All they wait for is the Sith to depart. Lucky you."

A pause emerged to let the gravity of what he said sinking in and then he added "If you want to get away with all your parts where they belong... Check the toilet. And no, they did not dare to clean it for the last five inmates at least."

 

[EmilyHuene]

"In the last four years I did nothing but plan and attempt to flee. Each time I failed at an unexpected detail. You are not on a Colony, you are in the waiting room for a vast subterranean high security jail and once you are down there, even your precious Force will not help you anymore. All they wait for is the Sith to depart. Lucky you."

"Lucky me," she would say with a roll of her eyes. She went to the door again and listened for anything from the outside. She was beginning to doubt herself, and she couldn't let that happen. She had to escape now and get it down. If she failed...no...she couldn't think about it. Failing meant there would be no second chances. Aeryun had to escape.

"If you want to get away with all your parts where they belong... Check the toilet. And no, they did not dare to clean it for the last five inmates at least."

Aeryun repeated his words slowly, out loud. She had a horrible taste in her mouth as she turned to where the toilet way waiting. One might be glad that she couldn't see whatever mess would come up if she went that route, but with her blindness came more hyperactive senses, her nose especially. No. That would be just upright torture.

"I swear to god," she would say as she turned to face the toilet. "This had better not be a joke."

Aeryun closed her eyes and held her breath. She backed as far as she could from the toilet and then held her arms out toward it. Taking a deep deep breath, carefully, slowly, she began to break the toilet off its hinges and shatter the dome of the bowl. Aeryun didn't know much about pluming, but she knew not to just rip the whole thing out by its roots. She kept any liquids she could down in the pipes and forced a bubble over the top so as not to let it spill over like an erupting volcano. But that didn't stop the smell from reaching her. She wanted to hurl. So badly.

"I really hate you right now," she said to the man, though it wouldn't pass through to him.

And then, she began to reach with the Force, feeling out with her senses for whatever object lie waiting for her.

 

[Taruna]

Well, the toilet was breakable. Wich actually applies to almost everything that's created by humanoid hands or in a fabric. And the way Aeyrun could break it, it was quite thorough and a lot of broken off splinters and parts fell to the floor.

Of course, Aeryun was not the first one doing so. Some of these broken off parts could be quite well used for tools or even weapons, not exactly as sharp as a vibrosword, but one may wonder how easy humanoid skin is cut, bruised, penetrated and peeled off by 'not that sharp things'. Which brought a logical conclusion. If this happened before, there's a protocol preventing any worst case scenarios. And those protocols were made by Imperials, which would make them swift and efficient. Within seconds, a hidden sprinkler system went off, just for a second and poured everything, including the walls and ceiling in a small layer of water. Perfect conduit for a small electric shock, isn't it? And since a shocking system was already in place, it went off as soon as the sprinkler were done, shocking the entire room for as long as it took for someone attempting to jump and get back again.

 

[EmilyHuene]

As soon as she broke the toilet the sprinkler system came on and sprayed the room and her too. She stood there, frozen, almost comically. Seriously? Sprinklers? There wasn't a fire or anything. So what was going on?

"There's no fire!" She shouted as if to some unforseen eye in the sky.

And then it hit her. The room was surged with electricity and her body seized once again in spasm. Would the poor Jedi never catch a break? Her body screamed out of reaction and then she hit the ground as all of her muscles relaxed on her.

Her head was spinning. Her body was in so much pain. Aeryun wanted to cry and give up now more than ever. She'd been so close. So close to escaping only to be stopped by a stupid fire alarm.

No. That didn't make any sense. Why would a sprinkler system go off and then shock her? How would that help put out a fire? Someone had done this to her. It only made sense. Someone was clearly watching her from some hidden camera she hadn't noticed.

The question Aeryun was now asking herself was, "Why did they attack her now, and not when she got free of the cuffs?" Maybe they weren't actually watching her at all. Maybe it was just an alarm rigged to the toilet of all things. But it got her thinking. If someone wasn't actually watching, then maybe they didn't know she'd gotten free. Maybe they would come for her to check on the alarm. If they even saw the alarm went off. That meant, the door would open.

Aeryun struggled to stay conscious as she lay there on the wet floor. Slowly, she managed to roll over and sit up. She only had so much time. Like her life was depending on it, she began to pool the water in the room to her, collecting it in her hands. Once she gathered it up into a solid ball, her other hand reached for the shackles.

She faced the door and waited. The second that door was open she'd throw the water at the person then whip the cuffs at her captor. Hopefully, the cuffs would ignite and spark just enough to catch the person so she could escape.

 

[Taruna]

The door opened as predicted by the Padawan but it was also clear that there were a lot of people waiting on the other side of the door. As she hurled the water at the first one, and was about to get ready to follow up with the shackles, a short, but hefty shock was created, directly followed by about twelve men in really heavy.. and isolated armor using their body mass to create a wall and flood the room to restrict movement. They knew how to handle a Jedi prisoner apparently. The fact that they had shields, shock batons and shock lances did not make it much easier.

How much electricity can one Jedi endure?

 

[EmilyHuene]

So her planned was flawed. At least she tried, right? Aeryun valiantly tried to hold her own. She managed to hit one of them over the head and she was pretty sure she broke another man's arm with one of her kicks. In the end, it didn't really matter. But Aeryun was proud of herself for at least trying. Lynn would soon understand one thing about the young Noorian, she'd rather die than go out without a fight. Aeryun would continue to struggle, to fight, to survive. Her friends and loved ones were counting on her. She would break from this prison. One way or another. That's what she told herself at least, before her body once again lost consciousness to the shocks. She hoped when she woke up, life would give her a second chance. That's if she even woke up at all....

 

[Taruna]

Oh, she would wake up again. That was for sure. The excruciating headache was the best proof of that, feeling like someone was pouring red glowing needled into her forehead slowly.

But this time she was certainly no longer in the cell, as she felt some soft padding in her back, her hands and feet were somehow constrained and the bright light of the ceiling was hurting her eyes. She also could tell that she was not wearing anything aside from some kind of shirt that could be closed by some stripes on the side and she also could feel that she was connected to some machines.

Even not really conscious, the Norrian would most probably notice something wrong. It was the fact that there was white walls all around her, no window, one barely darker white door. It's been a room of about two meters each wall, about two and a half meters high. She saw things. In colors.

 

[EmilyHuene]

Painful excruciating pain. Her headache was killing her. As she opened her eyes she was met with painful white light. She squinted and turned her head to the side. She groaned and grunted as she tried to adjust to the feeling. She tried to raise her hands up to cover her eyes but they were held down by something she couldn't see. She struggled with the restraints to test her mobility, and if not for her pain she would have tried harder.

Even though her eyes burned and they couldn't adjust, she continued to try and force her eyes open. How was this possible? She could see. The light was so blinding yet she couldn't look away. She had to see everything. She scanned the room and tried to really get a feel for the bed she was lying on and the machines somehow connected to her. She needed answered. She needed an explanation. It had to be a dream. It had to be some ruse to trick her into giving up. But having her sight returned...it was too good to be true....and she didn't care.

Her eyes teared up and joyful tears ran down the sides of her cheeks. She couldn't believe what was happening. Aeryun pushed past the pain and just let herself enjoy the feeling of sight again. She knew something was wrong. She knew she should still be afraid and that she was someone's prisoner. What she couldn't get herself to focus on the moment. She could see.

 

[Taruna]

It did not need long until the door opened and a woman entered the rom. She was joung, what was not visible by her look but her stance and voice. The looks seemed to prove otherwise, as her skin was pale as ash and wrinkled like a grandmother.

"Ah," she announced, talking into a headset and pressing a pad on her white, bloodstrained coat coveing her from the neck to the floor, like a child playing doctor "The subject is awake and apparently capable of seeing me."

She closed her introduction with a smile in her direction as fake and cold as an faked smile could be, and then some. Turning her head to the door she just came trough five steps before a young girl entered, her dress being white and seemingly overloaded with belts. Belts to prevent her bare feet making steps larger then a few centimeter, belts constricting her arms and binding them close to her slim frame, even belts preventing her to spread her fingers. Belts binding her voluminous and knee long black hair. The only thing that could not be belted was the mouth-constriction and her intense big grey eyes wich stared at Aeryun from the moment the gir entered the room.

"This is Annex. She's an extraordinary success in my experiments and capable to hyperenchant any sense, as well as circumvent it's shortcomings." She paused and added "As long as I want it, that is." And just like that, the headache as well as the young norrians sight was gone again, leaving even her force sight dull and weakened for a good while.