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[Hauron Solus]

Both of Hauron's legs were no longer held by the Sith. Their attention quickly changed to something else became apparent the moment he stopped feeling the pressure around his moved legs. But the heat from his focused flames lingered on the surface of his skin and had vaporized the scatterweave inlay on the surface of his shins and feet. The young badger's movement continued in an elvated clockwise movement around his target wondering if he would see a charred corpse in the next moments once the burst of fire was spent.

The cord from the grapple launcher faintly spiraled as it quickly unwound as fast as it could before finding purchase and anchoring itself to something. The young Mikkian was confident in his shot and had intended on dragging the Sith across the roof and possibly above it. In fact he was hungry to see the dark sider be pulled over open air. Instead of trying to use the automatic winching ability, Hauron locked the cord in place, not knowing that it had missed the dark side champion and anchored itself to the duracrete rooftop to her left at a length of four meters from where it had been fired.

This miss was perhaps a blessing in disguise for him as his wrist flame thrower ceased its projection of flames just as the woman let forth a torrent of electricity and Hauron attempted to drag what he thought had been her leg. Since the Solus did not want the dangerous lightsaber wielder any closer and the cord had only slightly overshot the Sith, he soon found himself flying up and over in a rapidly accelerated arc. The taught grapple cord was ten times the strength of durasteel and without a harness on, Hauron would have accidentally risked dislocating his arm and ended up reeling himself in closer to the crimson blade of his enemy.

The arching trajectory that the armored Mikkian found himself in was not what he had originally intended, but it would see him be yanked northward. This sudden motion would remove him from where he had been gliding somewhat predictably before and save him from the brunt of the force lightning from Vahliri. The lightning still managed to get some tendrils of electricity zapping his right leg painfully and making the appendage spasm momentarily. Short lengths of residual electricity danced from his right knee and down to his boot. Hauron gritted his teeth both from the harm the champion had managed to inflict and the centrifugal force exerted on his body as he was soon positioned above the Sith.

This arching motion would also bring the cable diagonally across Vahliri, possibly tripping her or making for an awkward closeline pulling across her lower left hip to right shoulder. But regardless of that, Hauron knew that if he did not do something, he would begin arching back towards the surface of the roof in the blink of an eye. Thinking fast, the digits of his left hand held tight to the tool and pressed the release button alongside the frame once he was just past the apex of his flight path, now four meters above the roof. This would cause the anchor to release its hold on the duracrete roof and its occupiers, the grapple began rapidly returning to its spool. All of this sudden movement was too quick for Hauron to line up a shot accurately but for now he would remain above his enemies and focused on avoiding more ranged attacks. Once free of the anchor he knew to stay above and mobile from his targets. His saving grace was that he was easily moving too fast for either Sith to make an accurate attack on him.

@Faded @Mr. Teatime @Altaris

 

[Hailee Lightwood]

It was a pity that the blaster bolts Maura deflected didn't hit their target, but the second Sith was forced to move as well at least. Why did those cowards want to keep their distance instead of standing their ground in actual lightsaber combat anyway? To her it semed like they were afraid, but they should have been...Those two cautious Darksiders were no match for the two fiery Jedi women.

Hailee had barely noticed that Maura had indeed joined the fight as her concentration had been focused on the Sith and regardless of how bad she had wanted to protect her, she was already involved in the fight now. So it was two against two now. And the odds were good. She tried to avoid any other emotions related to the younger padawans reappearance and shifted her full focus onto the blonde champion for now as he had actually entered melee range like intended.

As he charged forward, escaping her invisible grasp, she was having an advantage, because he still had to close the distance between them and so she had a bit of time to prepare for his diagonal slash and also time to attentively observe and anticipate his next move. Instead of blocking it -what might have been the obvious choice- she quickly sidestepped to the left, shifting her weight onto the left foot while she pivoted her hip clockwise about 45° degree so that his slash aimlessly soared through the air next to her. With that, she was hoping to catch him off guard, so that his own planned follow up attack couldn't have been executed as anticipated from his side.

She still kept her lightsaber diagonally and protectively in front of her body before she immediately flicked up her elbow, so that the blade was now held horizontally before she extended her hand, attempting to horizontally slash at her opponent's upper body, aiming to not fully dissect him yet, but rather to leave a painful, if not even lethal mark on his torso if he wouldn't manage to react in time. The strike was meant to interrupt the path he had carved out in his mind, forcing him to react immediately. Also, she had used the vulnerability of his unprotected upper torso to her own advantage...a dangerous mistake from his side.

It would be challenging for him to block this strike as his lightsaber was in an downward, outward position, so that the only target he could still hit in this position were her legs, but she was ensuring that he wouldn't flick his wrist or turn his blade by diagonally reaching down with her own free left hand, aiming directly at his right hand. With the Force coiled around her, she wrapped his saber-wielding hand into a tight force grip, attempting to fully prevent his arm from moving. With this force grip, she was not only intending to prevent him from using his lightsaber against her, but she was also ensuring that he would have difficulties with blocking her own attempted horizontal strike. Additionally, she was attempting to ensure he would stay in melee range, his free hand unable to use any Force powers in the best case scenario.

@Xorism

 

[Romeo Solus]

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The smartphone playlist automatically shuffled to the next song, bringing up an urban tune which brought back memories of Romeo's time during the slums of Mandalore, where he spent his leisure hours in the nightclubs and was frequented with the lower echelons of society. It was during these years that allowed the Mandalorian to develop his confident swagger, balls of steel which would serve him to this very day.

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Romeo was successfully interrupted in his planned blaster fire, the shots he had mentally envisioned never came to fruit as unsurprisingly Soleil decided to reinforce the force grip on his arm. As his limb was pulled downwards, the position of his right pistol was below his hip and unable to be fired accurately given the telekinetic hold. However, it wouldn't go perfectly as the Sith thought; every second of the maintained hold would be met with resistance. As such, this forced Soleil to expend more reserves than a simple telekinetic attack. As the arm was twisted and wrenched backward, Romeo didn't need to fight against the grip fully. Instead, he dragged his right arm with an inward rotation of its elbow joint. Muscles tensed against the invisible cables, snapping the forearm medially such that its armored gauntlet smacked against his own armored torso. Further movement at the shoulder joint was thus prevented with the arm locked against his chest, saving the warrior from a gruesome dislocation injury.

Romeo didn't wait to see if his vibro repulsor blade hit its mark or not, his left free hand instantly sliding downwards to draw his left pistol after it had released the previous weapon. Left hand passed horizontally in a short and quick movement, firing a single shot towards Soleil's right hip. @Mr. Teatime Simultaneously, the Mandalorian pressed off his left foot, leaping into the air rightwards to activate the jetpack's combat mode turbines. The next series of actions timed accordingly to when Soleil was deflecting Hauron's shot towards Romeo. Left pistol fired twice more, its shot placement reflective of the jetpack's flight pattern, in an diagonal arc from Soleil's right to his top left. As such the two shots were directed towards the Sith's belly and his left pectoral. This pattern was a cross opposite of Soleil's saber arc used in the deflection, meaning that his blade would not be in position to defend against these shots. Romeo intended to take advantage of the opportunity of the multiple threats his opponent faced at this time, as undeniably the Champion would be distracted as he swapped from the telekinetic hold to the blaster bolt deflection. @Mr. Teatime Considering the jetpack's rapid flight and change in Romeo's location, the deflected bolt whistled through air in the position where Romeo's left flank use to be.

The jetpack's rapid movement shuttled Romeo an additional 4 meters to his right; this change in position combined with Soleil's attention snapping to Hauron, shattered the hold the Sith once had on the Mandalorian. Freed right pistol fired twice wildly, the inaccuracy considering the soreness still on his right limb from the telekinetic hold. Instead of an accurate shot pattern, the shots were aimed loosely in the Sith's general torso direction. @Mr. Teatime

With both combatants isolated in his peripheral vision, Romeo's senses were on alert along with the dual wielded pistols trained on Soleil. A small smirk crept up the man's face, hidden underneath the Beskar'gam's helmet.

This was getting good.

@Altaris @Darasuum @LadyRen @Xorism @Braden @lizziie @Evan @Issachar @Sreeya

 

[Maura Starwalk]

Caelian was not forcibly moved into Wodan's line of sight, which meant Maura's free hand closed into a fist and yanked his head down toward the ground and forced the man to his knees. This did not mean that Wodan was unattended to nor outside of her range of vision. The opposite was true; Maura was paying very close attention to what the Sith was doing, especially because she had just finished shouting at him.

Because Wodan had started twenty-five meters away and hadn't started approaching until after the shots were deflected, she had enough time to react. He stabbed his spear right for her right bicep and she evaded it by quickly dodging with a forward side step to the left - almost parallel to Hailee and Caelian - causing the stab to miss her altogether. Since she didn't dodge away from her ally, his follow-up stab wouldn't be executed. Her offhand snapped to the hilt of her blade as she did this, and as the spear stabbed the air where she had once been, Maura made her move before he could crowd her in.

Her saber had been held at the ready beforehand, so as his spear came forward to stab empty air, she rotated her body and brought her saber swinging around toward Wodan's spear as he stabbed empty air. She followed through while shifting her right foot forward, causing the blade to come in contact with the shaft of his spear. She continued to swing it across the spear's length until it caught the guard by the short blade. The momentum of her swing combined with the forward momentum required for him to stab at her against the guard and her right foot pushing her further still would force Wodan forward and off balance.

Maura continued to swing even as her saber pressed against the guard. The moment her right foot was firmly in place, she put her weight into her leading left foot and swung her blade forward up the spear and toward Wodan. Her thumb slipped down and activated the second phase of her saber simultaneously to this, causing it to snap to its full two-meter length. As she swung it forward, it would cut through a path endangering the hands holding the spear and the entire horizontal length of his torso. The length of her blade now rivaled the length of his spear, and the tip of her saber would reach him even if she hadn't already been closing the distance between them.

If he tried to dodge to her left toward Caelian and Hailee, the blade would be able to cut deeper into his chest as he would move toward it. If he pulled his spear sharply upward, her blade would travel faster down the length and end with a similar result. If he lowed his spear, she would lean into the dip and cut upward, still cutting toward his arms and torso. If he managed to get his footing well enough to jerk backward, he might save his lungs and heart from an otherwise mortal wound, but still at the price of his hands.

tags: @Braden @Xorism @LadyRen @Evan

 

[Thayd Karkoza]

Thayd shielded his eyes with his hand as the thermal detonator went off, annihilating everything in its blast radius. The lower front part of the building into which Coffey (@Issachar) had run was now gone, and suddenly deprived of multiple support columns, the rest of the building was collapsing in short order. All of this was happening mere seconds after some kind of aircraft had dropped ordinance on the very same building. Suffice it to say, the total amount of sheer destruction and explosive power unleashed on that one position was difficult to overstate, and Coffey had been in the middle of it. Thayd had a sense that the soldier had survived, though in what shape he couldn't guess.

Whatever the case, Thayd wasn't about to go digging through rubble looking for Coffey, nor would he just stand around, or take a seat on the curb and wait for the man to drag himself out from under a rock and limp back into the street to keep up the pretense that there was some kind of contest between them. So as the building came down, Thayd decided to take his leave. Throughout this brief little encounter, the Jedi had sensed things happening in the distance. He could feel that elsewhere Jedi and Sith were fighting, and he judged that these were the clashes of consequence. Thayd took off running, his movements sped by the Force. He was due to arrive at one of these engagements essentially in perfect condition, more than ready to fight. The man he’d left behind him, Coffey, could not say the same.

If Coffey were to attempt to follow Thayd, he would find it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. Most likely, it would be quite a while before the soldier would even discover for certain that Thayd was no longer in the street out in front of that massive, smoking heap of rubble that had formerly taken the shape of a building. Thayd had set out sprinting before Coffey would even open his eyes again, and by the time the soldier was limping toward that apartment building, Thayd would probably be too far away to shoot at with much accuracy. By the time Coffey actually hobbled his way either to a window with a view of the street, or back into the street itself via the front door of that apartment building, Thayd would simply be gone.

To make things even more difficult for Coffey, the area had just been bombed. Airstrikes had a tendency to hamper visibility. Great, sprawling plumes of dust and smoke had sailed up in the explosions and now hung over the area, gradually drifting, settling down and casting the air in a thick haze...

As his feet took him away from the site of that encounter with Coffey, Thayd could sense where he needed to go. He had felt a surge of energy in the Force, powerful and dark... electric... coming from the place he now raced toward. He made his way there as fast as he able, cutting through alleys, bounding over walls where necessary. The sights of a city at war blurred past him until the scene he was coming into took shape in front of him as a battle between two Jedi (@lizziie @LadyRen) and two Sith (@Braden @Xorism) came into view. They were in the thick of fighting, just a short distance away from a shuttlecraft that Thayd guessed the Jedi had arrived in. So far it looked like neither side had taken a decisive advantage, but Thayd hoped to tip these scales. At roughly 25 meters away, he reignited his lightsaber, the green blade unleashing from the hilt as he took just a moment to stop and gain a clear reckoning of the state of combat in front of him.

 

[Caelian]

Caelian's clever two-phase attack didn't go to plan, as Hailee sidestepped the swing of his saber, his momentum carried his body down due to the lack of resistance. Seeing from her stance that she intended to bisect him horizontally, he was able to duck his body down below the edge of her lightsaber, its blaring heat causing the hairs on the back of his neck to singe.

Caelian instantly noticed his saber wielding wrist freeze up, as the force gripped him tightly. The tension seemingly prevented him from swinging the sword against her legs. From his crouched over position, his free hand was not affected by her vice-like grip, which allowed him to launch a surprise attack of his own. Slipped quickly under his right arm, his left hand cackled with electricity as a short burst of bright blue lightning streamed toward her left hip. Its attack would be difficult to dodge owing to the short distance between them and that she may not notice the hand's appearance in time.

The lightning if it landed would seize muscles and cause partial immobilisation until she recovered. If she didn't stop it or move out of the way, she would risk taking a serious burn injury, that could end the fight there and now.

If her concentration broke and released the tight grip on his right wrist, he would move to strike her lightsaber with his, connecting them, and allowing him to stand straight and take a fighting stance.

 

[Wodan]

Watching as Maura stepped out of his attack range, Wodan immediately relaxed his arms and took a soft grip of the spear. As she stepped forward to attack, Wodan slid his left leg forwards centering his footing, whilst twisting the shaft of the spear so the Jedi’s Lightsaber would collide into the flat side of the shaft and slide past the guard and onto the blade of the spear, as it passed the guard he would twist the shaft again locking the lightsaber on the wrong side of the spears guard. Pushing forward on the spear, he would force the Jedi’s body to twist to her right as the Lightsaber was pushed away from Wodan.

With the Jedi’s arms forced away from him by the trapped Lightsaber, Wodan had an easy opportunity to attack her open left side. Couching the spear between his right arm and body, giving him ample stability whilst holding the Jedi in place. He let go of the spear with his left hand and shot forth a blast of Force Lightning into the Jedi’s exposed right hand side. Aimed for her kidney and stomach, the lightning would burn flesh and seize up the muscles along her left hand side, partially immobilising the Jedi.

If she tried to dodge backwards or to his right, Wodan would aim the lightning towards her upper chest forcing her to block the attack, whilst swinging the couched spear towards her legs. She could only block one with her lightsaber leaving the other attack to connect.

 

[Coffey Curran]

As Coffey glared out the window, there was no Jedi in sight. Yet he still knew the direction inwhich his opponent had gone: towards the invasion force. As quick as he bolted up the stairs he came right back down, aware of his own tactical error. He assumed the Jedi would have sensed something was amiss and not just retreat back into the fray, but it seems he was not an expert on Jedi. But he knew where they might go: fighting their Sith counterparts.

With that knowledge, the soldier turned back and moved down the stairs he just bolted up, his feet barley gliding over the ground as he sped past as fast as he could. He had to get to the fighting quick, before it was too late. Even with his limp, he was trying to move as fast as he could to catch this Jedi scum...

 

[Soleil Altan]

Something about Romeo blasting chill times music just furthered his irritation at being intercepted by Mandalorians. That, and his stubborn insistence on keeping his right arm working. All the while, Sol's grip tightened further. Romeo locked his arm to his chest and Soleil's Force grip doubled down to bind it there, durasteel bands painfully crushing inward on the limb.

Sol tracked Romeo's left hand as it shot toward his second pistol, expecting an annoying shot. He was pleasantly surprised when the Mandalorian quick-drew and shot almost directly toward the Champion's saber guard. His lightsaber slipped rightward to dissipate the stun shot, feeling the force of it vibrate through his arm. At the same time, as Romeo leaped into the air, Soleil intensified his focus.

His clenched right hand arced rightward as Romeo launched himself to Sol's left. The Force grip would wrench the tightly bound arm to the right and back, forcing Romeo into a sudden and whip-quick 180 degree mid-air spin as his momentum whiplashed, easily dislocating the shoulder. Even without the two opposing forces on Romeo's shoulder, the pressure behind Sol's grip would snap the bones in Romeo's right arm. This time, his upward momentum would prevent him from simply landing to counter Soleil's maneuver. The counter-pull would also keep Romeo in place in the deflected shot's path, canceling out his evasive momentum.

Sol's grip and targeted destruction of Romeo's right arm would prevent right-handed shots as well as his sideways movement. The abrupt change in momentum and orientation would hold Romeo in place while preventing most of the left-hand pistol shots except for the one toward Sol's belly. That stun bolt was fired as Hauron's shot was bounced toward the airborne Mandalorian's unarmored back, but not at a flanking angle as intended.

Gritting his teeth and acting quickly, he dropped himself downward by relaxing his right knee and dragged his close saber guard left, using the fact it was mostly still in the way. Sol barely intercepted the stun shot to his belly, the kinetic force knocking his saber back and making it tap painfully against his left shoulder. A moment later his right knee hit the ground, now kneeling and turtled up behind his guard. The searing pain would weaken his hold on Romeo's arm, preventing further crushing damage, while the deflected shot would strike Romeo before he could build up jetpack momentum to maneuver out of its path.

He could still see Vahliri and the second Mandalorian somewhere in his peripheral vision; now the other one was flying, fuckin' wonderful.

@Altaris @Faded @Darasuum

 

[Darth Tempest]

For a brief moment, sick satisfaction flashed across the half-Annfyn’s expression - watching as those stray bolts of Sith Lightning collided with his legs and spread out across his lower extremities. Even still, it was a far-cry from the damage she had hoped to unleash upon the Solus - promptly ceasing the channeled stream of electricity the moment that the Mandalorian moved beyond its original trajectory.

Her gaze followed Hauron as the Mandalorian wildly veered northward - still attached to the roof by the blaster grapple-line. The moment that the cable began to cross her left ship, the half-Annfyn flicked her crimson saber - still pointed at the front of her body defensively - upwards and to the right. Using the tip of her blade to slice high on the line, Vahliri sliced through the grapple line before it pull across her shoulder or take her to the ground. While the excess rope would snap back up towards Hauron, the lower portion of the rope - still attached to the duracrete rooftop - would fall limply to the side.

Just as her saber sliced upwards, the half-Annfyn drew her right foot back and stepped diagonally backwards and to the left - her body moving away from the cut actor and rope further turning a full one-hundred-and-eighty-degrees in order to keep the Mandalorian in her line of sight as he sailed northward.

Upon facing him once more, Vahliri extended her left hand towards the Mandalorian once more - vicious tendrils of the Force flowing from her fingertips and coiling tightly around the same arm that he wielded his blaster. While the Mandalorian might’ve been traveling too quickly to fire at with a blaster, the half-Annfyn had no such difficulties tightening her grasp around his extremities.

Focusing her grip on the Mandalorian’s elbow and upper arm, Vahliri tore her left arm downward and towards the roof of the building - abruptly yanking Hauron’s arm and shoulder in the same direction. If successful, the Force pull would caused the Mandalorian’s torso to tilt forward and in the direction of the pull - using his own momentum and jetpack thrusters to send him sailing bucket-first into the duracrete-covered ground.

All the while, Vahliri kept her crimson saber pointed forward in front of her body - her guard raised in the event that Hauron attempted to fire his blaster at any point during her pull on his arm.

@Darasuum

 

[Maura Starwalk]

Maura intended to swing forward again after she felt the pressure from the guard, her eyes never leaving Wodan. Her fingers tightly gripped the hilt of her lightsaber, her thumb ready to extend the length of her saber to its full two meters as soon as she swung forward. The pressure never came, and her arms traveled a bit further back than she expected as he twisted his spear to rotate the guard away.

As her saber came swinging back toward him though, it wouldn't be caught on the guard Wodan had rotated back to trap her on the opposite side. Instead, Maura's saber deactivated and reactivated - a near-instant action each time - traveling from the outside of the guard to underneath his spear while deactivated, then reactivated into its two-meter phase as she followed through with her swing.

She put her weight into her leading left foot as she swung downwards to cut in a path toward Wodan's thighs. This occurred simultaneously as Wodan pushed his spear forward with both hands, so she was completely within his guard, and it was extremely unlikely he would be able to mount a defense to protect his legs.

If the hit connected, thanks to the momentum and the length of her blade, it would likely slice cleanly through both of his thighs. This all happened in one smooth motion as he extended, preventing him from ever striking her with lightning or even couching the spear in his left arm. Any action Wodan planned after pushing forward on his spear would never come to fruition.

tags: @Braden @Xorism @LadyRen @Evan

 

[Hauron Solus]

The Mandalorian did not get to fully complete his unintended arching traversal over the Sith. Instead his flight was somewhat interrupted as he felt the cable go slack and he was no longer tethered to the roof before his body moved entirely past the Champion. The instant the grappler lost its connection to the anchor on the roof Hauron’s collective mass would begin to recover and reflexively gain altitude among other things. The Solus’s flight mode was not moving at full speed but was maintaining a relatively gentle but substantial glide which began moving upwards by a meter to reach a height of four meters above the roof and would continue to increase with each moment.

Hauron rolled his body to his right as he was no longer close to parallel with the surface of the roof, instead moving in a sixty degree angle with the surface beneath him. His peripheral vision kept the Sith in view and focused primarily on Vahliri. He continued to travel north but increased upward in a more dramatic trajectory from earlier.

Having both seen and felt the end of his grapple line cut, Hauron’s quick thinking made him let go of the useless equipment as he flew. Hauron’s left hand would meanwhile move to his respective holster and swiftly begin drawing his other Westar-35 on his left hip before beginning to aim it on Vahliri. Just as the Sith was adept in their sorceress ways, the Solus was trained in quick drawing and marksmanship.

At the same time, the Mandlorian’s change in momentum and control would allow the young Mikkian to acquire a target with the pistol in his right hand. Regaining control of his forward and upward jetpack motion provided him with the stability and freedom needed to aim his blaster pistol in his right grip on the champion. The woman had slashed at his cable with the saber in her burned right arm as she kept it pointed towards her right for the moment which left her left side open momentarily until she recentered her defense, giving the Solus an opportunity which he would take instinctually. But with the fabric of the robes burned away Hauron could see she wore a degree of armor underneath. She had burns along the right limb that held her saber. The sustained injury would make deflecting blaster bolts more difficult but not impossible, however reflecting them accurately would be even less likely.

Hauron pulled the trigger rapidly twice as she turned to follow him, the first one at her left shoulder and the second at her right hip, each open place was difficult for her guard with her saber in its position let alone reflect back at him or Romeo since the crimson blade was pointed up towards her right and away from her center, having followed through with the slash along his grapple line. She would extend her left limb to make the grab, only putting it in the way of defending against the speeding plasma aimed towards her.

Hauron’s shots from the right Westar would try to interrupt her attempt to drag his right arm down. Her grab at his limb, if she chose to weather the blaster bolts, would make the warrior get pulled down only a fraction of what she had intended, once again becoming horizontal and flying sideways only with a bit more speed that would have otherswise allowed him to continue to rise into the air. Though Vahliri's attempted attack would make any shots with his right arm impossible to accurately hit the Champion until she release her hold, his left arm was not limited in such a regard. A slight dip in his airborne presence by a mere half meter was all that would happen if she chose to follow through and be combated by the powerful thrust of Hauron’s jetpack as it fought to bring the hefty warrior ever higher.

Furthermore, any following damage she received would weaken her hold on Hauron. Meanwhile, his left blaster pistol would have enough time to acquire his target and pull the trigger twice, shooting at Vahliri’s left hip and then right shoulder, opposite from what he targeted previously. The fire damage undergone earlier and the numerous shots would make the volley of bolts hard to defend as Hauron resumed increasing the distance between them both vertically and horizontally until he was a solid five meters away in both axis.

@Altaris

 

[Hailee Lightwood]

Her opponent was apparently surpised by her evasive maneuver, or at least he hadn't seen it coming in time, so that his lightsaber travelled down and the Echani followed this momentum downwards. Instead of, however, just completing the strike, he used his movement to duck her horizontal swing like a coward, the blazing, crimson shaft barely missing his head.

Her gaze never left the blonde Sith who now found himself in a crouched position, her left hand still tightening an invisible grasp around his saber wielding hand, which she immediately intended to use against him, even before the first sparks of electricity stared to crackle from his free hand.

Reinforcing the Force grip, she pushed her left hand (her arm still diagonally held in front of her body) further down and to her own right, the Force grip that was wrapped around his wrist following that Push, so that her opponent would be forced to turn away to his left, not only causing his attempted lightning to miss her body entirely, but also twisting him into a disadvantageous position to continue with a follow up attack, and additionally creating a slight distance between them.

She was convinced that, due to his crouching stance, he wouldn't be able to balance himself out in time. However, if he managed to break away from her grasp and the push before, she did not leave her body unprotected in case the lightning or his lightsaber would somehow find their way back to her. With a flick of her wrist inward and a counterclockwise rotation, she brought her own blade back in front of her, the blade held upside-down, vertically and protectively held in front of her body, potentially awaiting a lightning or a blade.

Since his lightsaber was now out of range, she quickly sidestepped to the left, the Force grip still reinforced and wrapped around his right wrist, while she lashed out with her right hand, rotating the lightsaber clockwise and attempting to diagonally slash down at his exposed right flank if he wouldn't manage to stop her.

@Xorism @lizziie @Braden @Evan

 

[Thayd Karkoza]

Thayd’s eyes had focused on Hailee and Caelian, as they were the pair closest to him. As someone not currently under attack, he sustained a high level of concentration and was able to rapidly discern the circumstances of the engagement in front of him, as well as those of the wider field of battle that they all now shared. He saw it as it unfolded right in front of him. The Sith champion, Caelian had ducked to just barely avoid the Jedi’s lightsaber. Then, with his saber-wielding right hand apparently immobilized by the Jedi in front of him, he had quickly brought his left hand under his right arm in an attempt to electrocute the Jedi with a short burst of lightning. Upon seeing the immobilization of Caelian’s right hand, the hand that held his lightsaber, it was immediately clear to Thayd that the sith was in a position of critical vulnerability, and that he could intervene to very likely overwhelm this Sith.

It was very quick. Thayd deactivated his lightsaber and brought it back to its place on his belt. At the same time, his free left hand had shot out and into it flew an E-11D blaster. The weapon had been discarded by Wodan, and was laying on the ground very nearby and as focused as he was, the amount of time it would take to reach Thayd was insignificant. As it came into Thayd’s hand the Jedi raised it into a firing position, with its stock against his shoulder, holding the weapon in both hands, all in one fluid motion. In the next moment he’d inclined his head to look through the sight as he took aim at Caelian and fired three shots.

In the course of doing this, Thayd had watched the struggle between Hailee and Caelian continue, and by his judgment the Sith was being out-maneuvered into an increasingly compromised and untenable position. When the Sith had attempted to electrocute the Jedi, she would make use of her unbroken Force grip on his right wrist to attempt turn him and his lightning away from her and to the left, which would put him in a position of having his back to Thayd. If Hailee’s maneuvers succeeded, these three blaster bolts would be coming at the Sith right when he had his back turned, although if he somehow avoided being forced into this compromising position, the three shots would come nonetheless, aimed at whatever side of Caelian Thayd was faced with. If any of these shots connected, they could cause very serious harm.

To make matters more dire for the Sith, these shots coincided with the slashing lightsaber, directed at Caelian by Hailee. This combination of attacks, converging on the Sith from multiple directions would likely be devastating and decisive.

@LadyRen @Xorism @lizziie @Braden

 

[Caelian]

Again Caelian's attempt to use force lightning to weaken his foe was foiled, with this latest attempt narrowly missing its target due to Hailee pulling him off target. The short burst of lightning ceased, harmlessly impacting the ground beside her. His momentum shifted with her push, rotating himself toward the left and away from her.

Caelian knew that he couldn't stay in a disadvantageous position for long, so he hoped to turn the Jedi's trap against herself. As he rotated to the left, he used the force to speed his own angular momentum up which would force Hailee to pick between holding his right hand or being pulled into Caelian herself. The push that she had completed resulted in a short distance being created between them, which would likely prevent her from initiating a saber attack while he turned.

The second phase of his plan would be for him to switch weapon hands during the rotation, using the force to guide the weapon from his right hand into the left, and would appear to be near instantaneous to those watching. This would occur after the left hand had fully passed the under the right during the rotation, and would give him the ability to swing the saber defensively around while taking a step back to regain his footing.

The pair of Jedi converged their attacks against him, with Thayd waiting until Hailee had commenced her slash before shooting. He sensed the imminent danger, but wouldn't react fast enough to escape entirely unscathed, as the first blaster bolt found its target and struck Caelian's right vamp brace, causing it to fall off and sending a painful ring along his arm. At the same time, he pushed back into Hailee's lightsaber with his own, attempting to block her slash attack with a left swinging down-to-up diagonal motion.

The second shot struck the armorplast chest plate, its impact felt immediately and causing its deterioration and superficial damage beneath. The third shot grazed Caelian's right arm causing a significant burn, a short distance across, and he may have lost the limb.

His own painful grunt was overpowered by the scream of his ally Wodan, the Echani turning back momentarily to see his comrade falling in combat. As quickly as it started, the fight was over. Caelian turned his head back to the Jedi in front of him as he tried to speak through the increasingly visible pain.

"I'll yield....if you help him." He certainly wasn't in a position to negotiate and neither were the Jedi obligated to help a pair of beaten up Sith, but he sure as shit wasn't about to turn down an opportunity to have Wodan owe him if they both made it out alive.

@LadyRen @Evan

 

[Wodan]

As the lightsaber’s blade disappeared from view, Wodan began to react, with no return pressure from Lightsaber the Firrerrian did not push forward on the spear. Instead he looked to move back and away from the Jedi’s enormous blade. However the midget’s giant weapon had extended beyond the reach of his natural agility, the lightsaber’s tip cut deeply into his left thigh almost reaching bone. The right thigh had it better, the blade slicing through only an inch of skin, muscle and sinew, but still completely removing any strength and stability from the leg.

Screaming in pain, the Sith Acolyte fell backwards and to his left. As the tears rolled down his cheeks he felt an immense rush of Force Energy rage inside him, burning as hot as the plasma blade. Reaching out with his right hand he unleashed a torrent of Force Lightning at the Brightly coloured Jedi.

It lasted only a few seconds however before the Firrerrian blacked out from the pain.

@lizziie

 

[Darth Tempest]

The moment that the grapple line was cut, Vahliri whipped around to face Hauron who sailed north - completing her diagonal step backwards and to the left. The Mandalorian moved in predictable flight pattern, and the half-Annfyn had no intentions of leaving her back exposed long enough to be caught off guard. Amber eyes immediately snapped towards the Westar that was leveled upon her, narrowing into harsh slits as the half-Annfyn moved to defend herself accordingly.

Just as Hauron pulled the trigger of his blaster, Vahliri drew her left foot backwards - abruptly turning her body side-face with her right foot forward. At the same time, the half-Annfyn turned her wrist in a single clockwise rotatation, bringing the crimson blade down to meet the bolt fired towards her hip. The half-Annfyn had deliberately only flicked her saber upwards to cut the grapple line instead of swinging her entire arm, and it meant that her center wasn’t nearly as exposed as Hauron assumed. Moreover, the superficial burns to her arm - while certainly painful - were far from debilitating injuries that would have prevented her utilizing her saber arm.

As a result, the half-Annfyn rapidly brought her crimson blade down to bat away the blaster bolt - sparing the damage to her hip while additionally sending the plasma back towards Hauron’s chest. Pain surged through the half-Annfyn’s upper left side as the plasma bolt clipped through her flesh - burning a molten channel across her shoulder. While the abrupt chance in stance was enough to spare her from the bulk of the damage, the half-Annfyn’s attempted Force attack made it ever-so-slightly slower than was needed to avoid taking her hit entirely. Additionally, it meant that Vahliri had to abandon the Force attack entirely - tendrils of energy dissipating within split moments of establishing.

The deflected plasma bolt would sail upwards to follow the Mandalorian - aimed to collide directly with his chest based on his trajectory. It would be especially difficult to avoid, given that Hauron was effectively moving in a straight line diagonally back and upwards. The deflection aimed to interrupt the two follow-up shots from Hauron, or otherwise disrupt his aim as he was forced to evade. In the event that the two remaining shots still went off, Vahliri kept her saber positioned to deflect - while her right-forward position would make the shot to her left hip all the most difficult to land.

While Vahliri’s saber rotated back into its forward-tilted guard, her fluted ears twitched ever-so-slightly - picking up on the sounds of combat below. She could clearly make out the sight of fellow Sith in retreat, and the half-Annfyn couldn’t help but grit her teeth in response. With her own allies falling back and pain aching across her entire body, she promptly decided that this would be a battle she couldn’t win.

Using the opportunity afforded by the deflected bolt, Vahliri turned her attention back towards the door where Soliel had originally emerged - immediately beginning to strafe towards the exit in hopes of disengaging from the battle entirely and falling into retreat. Her left shoulder dagger ever-so-slightly as pain courses from her arm, and she deliberately kept her right side and saber pointed towards the Mandalorian to defend as she escaped. Unless Hauron continued to pursue her, the half-Annfyn would make her way through the building and towards whatever transports were fleeing the planet.

@Darasuum

 

[Coffey Curran]

Coffey did not stop his approach, he couldn't. His heart was pounding like a war drum, his lungs burned like a thousand suns, his ankle was screaming for death. Yet he did not stop. He could not let the Jedi escape, not for long. He had to ensure his allies had some semblance of a chance at victory

He was a hundred meters out, blaster held high in his hands. He saw his prey and noticed they opened their flank to him. Perfect. This is exactly what he needed. The sound he knew would be covered by the battle, so he had to make his strike quick.

His finger squeezed the trigger, one fist sized bolt left from the far muzzle and flew towards the Jedi. He moved around at an arc, making sure he would not fire upon his allies, and fired a second bolt a second and a half after the first. Range would be his ally here, so he needed to make his presence known. Yet the battle began to crumble and he moved off, retreating and pulling with him a wounded soldier.

 

[Hailee Lightwood]

Hailee's eyes widened the moment her duel partner suddenly did a smart move. He switched the blade almost instantaneously to sucessfully start blocking her incoming strike again, and Hailee just knew that she had to quickly rethink her strategy.

She was assuming that the Echani would immediately try to plant his counterattack, but the offense never came. Instead, Thayd had managed to not only distract, but also hit the tall man enough to make him hiss from the pain. Hailee hated to witness such suffering, yet she knew that those blaster bolts would make it easier for her to win this fight.

However, she didn't even have to worry about her next, calculated move. Instead, the Sith seemed to react to what Maura had done to her own opponent, and as the Echani glanced over, Hailee immediately followed his gaze. She was fast enough to not only witness the gash, but also how the brown haired boy fainted in front of their eyes. Additionally, Hailee's own opponent suddenly yielded, but not in the most acceptable way.

It all happened so fast that her mouth went open, the crimson bladed lightsaber still protectively held in front of her body as she suspiciously narrowed her eyes. "You followed your Empire to Onderon to invade and forcefully overtake the planet. Now you have gotten into a very precarious situation, since you have not only started to lose the fight between the two of us, but you have been also targeted by someone else...Now you want to negotiate?". Her voice was rather icy and slightly furious, her gaze feisty. She was breathing heavily, her heart still pounding from the heat of the immense battle that had been. How audacious was this Sith even? Seeing his mate getting knocked down and suddenly he wanted to establish terms of their surrender? She kept her stance while her green eyes flicked towards the Knight in the background. 'Can you stun him?' she directly asked him telepathically, knowing that he was still in the possession of the blaster rifle the downed Sith had dropped. She was not done with this Sith in front of her...and she didn't mean this in a bad way. She would not punish him, but there was something she had to do...

However now that it seemed like the tides had changed, relief spread to her body. It seemed like they had won. They had successfully defended Onderon...The more she looked around, the more it seemed like they had actually made it. Onderon would not fall today...

@Xorism @Evan

Spoiler

Xorism and I have worked out some side plot line afterwards, so the use of the stun gun was consensual and we would exit the thread afterwards

 

[Thayd Karkoza]

Though not fatal, his shots had hit their mark and done the job. Moments earlier, Maura had delivered a crushing blow to her own opponent, and the Sith now lay unconscious on the ground at her feet. Caelian, himself wounded, had begun to bargain for their lives with Hailee. The fight was over. Well, almost. Thayd had lowered the blaster rifle and slung it over his shoulder when suddenly he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. Sensing the threat like a signal in the Force, Thayd in the next instant had turned to the right, the hilt of his lightsaber flying up into his hand and the blade reigniting to deflect one shot, and then another. The bolts were sent off harmlessly into the sky. He was a Jedi Knight and could literally bat away these half-baked pot shots blindfolded if he had to. Squinting into the distance, Thayd thought he saw the familiar form of Coffey Curran (@Olwin ) limping away in retreat. The soldier was nothing if not persistent. Thayd wouldn't forget him.

Indeed, the fighting had gone poorly for the Imperial forces and all over the battlefield they were retreating in shameful defeat. Even the Dark Lord himself, with his mighty presence, had been unable to deliver them to victory.

A moment later, the Jedi nearest to him, Hailee (@LadyRen ), projected her voice into his mind, asking him to stun the Sith (@Xorism ) she’d been dueling with. Apparently she wasn’t in the mood for negotiating. Thayd wasted no time complying. He deactivated his lightsaber, and yet again brought it to its place on his belt. Then he took aim with the blaster, set it to stun, and fired a single shot at the Sith Champion’s torso. Assuming it hit the struggling fighter, it would knock him unconscious, and that would leave only the Jedi still standing.