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There is a world outside the bunker.

Yellow sky, yellow earth. Black mountains and silvery spray on the wind.

The mountains form a crescent. In the hollow, a shining lagoon with an elevated conveyex track running straight across to the far side, the opposite end of the range. Somewhere over there is the operating base but it's hidden behind a vast dust cloud, streaked with lightning. An ionised dust storm.

Mirror Team can see all this because they hang from the top of the hyperwave antenna. The cooling shaft obviously ran all the way up its middle.

Jix has fallen seven or eight metres from the top vents, onto one of the huge rings encircling the antenna. On his belly and leaning over the edge, he holds onto a dangling Amos with both hands gripping the ex-marshal's ankle. Below them, a vertigious drop to the mountainside.

Above, J.B. shoots from the vent as if propelled by a muzzle blast, a plume of fiery destruction from inside. She immediately sees they're a bit higher up than expected, at the top of the antenna, some 600 metres in the air.

As J.B. aims for a soft landing (probably on the same ring as Jix and Amos?) the antenna shudders, the shudder intensifying.

And Amos thought he was getting too old for flying up the antenna.

Everyone's comlinks crackles:

«We're at the hanger. It's about to get hot. There's at least one EG-5 Jedi Hunter here. Winta out.»

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Jix

He keeps his body spread, increasing the contact with the ledge and maximising the friction to help anchor him in place. He doesn't waste words, never has, just holds on hard, determined not to let go of Amos. Either Amos will do something to help or Jelly Bean will be along to help.. or he will let go. But he is not there yet.

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Amos

Hanging upside down with only a view of a tremendous drop below him, Amos's head pounds as the blood pools toward his head.

"Well damn....."

He looks to see how far a drop it is to the next ring.

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[Ghosted for Phoenix Prime]

Jeleasi'Beni

She shot out of the exhaust vent and for a moment her thoughts, her emotions were vacant, silenced by the sensory experience.

After the murky darkness of the bunker, after the bright white and fury of the shaft, she was suddenly back in the natural world. And what a spectacular view!

What an immense height!

The red-skinned Twi'lek reacted, piking and aiming for a spar jutting from the side.

She grabbed it both hands, swinging into a neat, sturdy somersault.

JB nailed the landing, feet together like gymnast, not so far from Jix and Amos. On the same ring at least.

If she made it she'd first help Jix then focus on their surroundings.

There had to be a way down. She wasn't one for saying I am one with the Force and the Force is with me, that was Preach's thing. But c'mon, couldn't a girl catch a break?

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10 metres down to the next ring, though Amos is more likely to bounce off the lip and keep falling.

Jix has the strength to lift Amos but not the anchorage until J.B. sits on his calves.

First Amos's ankle, then back of his knee. His other leg can now hook over the side and soon all three are rolling over and lying face up... staring at a stormy yellow sky, Meleenium rain spattering against their visors.

Another violent shudder through the superstructure reminds them that they're still in jeopardy.

A quick assessment.

Amos. Weapons check, both blaster pistol and scatter blaster. Out of grenades. Breath mask functional. Stimmed, fighting the effects of crawler venom. Possible abdomenal injury from a blaster shot. Knee wrenched.

Jix. Weapons check. The DLT-19D was damaged upon entering the duct, the static pulse adaptors dented. It'll need a new barrel before it can fire accurately again. Three stimpacks left. Break mask functional. Armour deflective qualities reduced. Stimmed, possibly serious crush fracture above the ankle.

J.B. Weapons check. Lightsabers intact. Light repeating blaster pistol intact. Thermal detonator used. Breath mask functional. Stimmed with possibly severe burns to one arm.

They've been through the proverbial trash compacter. They're roughed up, dirty but alive.

Surveying the surroundings, Jix spots an old gravsled moored at the next ring down, wired up to a rusty old gonk droid. Even if it doesn't have power to climb, it might have enough juice to slow descent.

Amos meanwhile sees a spar jutting out from their ring. A tension cable is strung between it and a spar fixed to the next ring down. If they can climb out along the spar, they can slide down the cable to the next ring.

The antenna shudders again, black smoke billows from its top.

J.B. can hear something else above the wind and sound of internal explosions. Higher pitched.

Suddenly a great black beast emerges from the smoke, twin ion engines blowing it aside.

The TIE Echelon assault shuttle. Four heavy laser cannons on the hardpoints, a nose-mounted light laser turret and battle-ready deflector shield.

It swings around, engines wailing, red light leaking from the cockpit. Its ramp is lowered. It's dropped something off...

Slam! Metal hits metal as a droid lands on the ring with Mirror Team. Humanoid, blue paintjob, red eyes and carrying an electrostaff that crackles with violet energy. IG-100 MagnaGuard.

«Don't let them escape!» The droid is commanded, heard from its comlink.

J.B. might recall Professor Huyang's teachings: Battle droids of this type even gave Jedi General Kenobi a run for his money during the Clone Wars.

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Amos

"Oh for Kruntzer Sake!" he growled, swinging his scatter blaster around to rest comfortably in his hands and he starts blasting away at the droid.

"Get to that spar and go down the cable. I will cover you."

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Jix

"Gravsled just below us. Could work."

And he is off towards the spar and the cable. They don't have time for anything including arguing. He just hopes the cable will hold him.

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Jelly Bean

There was a moment where she felt the heavy burden of her own self-imposed mantle melt away. She never would be a Jedi. She didn't want to be the thing that Maz warned her could happen if she couldn't control herself and her emotions. But right now, she felt all of hat and none of it, and there was a weird peace in being somewhere in the greyness of it.

"No Amos... this thing won't be stopped or even held off by regular weapons, and probably not even my lightsabers... but I have an idea... You and Jix get to that sled.... get it running... circle under... maybe you can catch me."

With that said, her hands fell to her sabers. It was a Jedi Hunter... a machine so fast it could mimic the preternatural grace and control that Jedi possessed. Its armor could withstand saber slashes and even slow a piercing thrust for far longer than a Jedi could survive the counter attack.

No, the object was not to engage it directly.

"Go. This isn't suicide. I'm not even going to try to kill it... just hold it off and use's its strengths against it... Go."

JB just had to hold it off... make it focus on her. Igniting her lightsabers should force it's priority protocols to focus on her. Jump here, jump there. Just like chess. Stay away from it, on the rings. Weaken a few key places with her blades as she slashed 'errantly' on purpose. and when she gets it into a place where she can use the Force to break the rings apart. Maybe it and she would fall.

For now though, she had to make it pursue, and keep it interested in her as a better target than her team mates... her friends.

Jix was already moving to Amos' instructions. JB stood up on her toes and kissed the elder lawman on the weathered cheek.

"You better catch me," she teased lightly and just a little provocatively. It has been a while since anyone had seen this part of JB's personality.

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Amos

The old conflict between wanting to protect and admitting that she had more skills than he to delay fought inside the ex-lawman but his lips quirked just a touch at her tease.

"Watch it, I might throw you back in." he said and turned, moving for the spar and cable.

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[J.B. vs MagnaGuard, Amos and Jix vs TIE Echelon. I should have this posted tomorrow, guys. Sorry for the delay.]

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GM

The hyperwave transceiver would sway at the best of times. With an ionic dust storm a few kilometers away it would sway a lot.

But it shudders and shakes as its innards melt, structural integrity failing in an irreversible cascade.

Repair crews haven't come running from the operating base---Smoke Team must have tangled them up---and now it's too late.

GH-531 node is going down and across the sector, across the region, possibly the Galaxy, Ghidrah nodes are being burnt by 2BB-2's attack. The First Order is in danger of losing the whole system.

But someone sent the TIE Special Forces; maybe the Star Destroyer that the team evaded above Jakku? And they're expecting Force Awakened. Why else send a MagnaGuard?

J.B. ignites her lightsabers, two shoto blades, one acid green, one blue. She leaps to engage the MagnaGuard and its crackling electrostaff.

Jix meanwhile swings down over the end of the spar and grabs the cable with his legs then hands. His Verpine carahide should withstand the friction burn.

Amos is immediately above Jix, balancing on the spar when the TIE Echelon hovers into view, close range, nose turret twitching, trying to lock onto Jix.

The pilot doesn't know that the transceiver is doomed. He can't risk hitting the top secret hyperwave installation so he'll pick them off with carefully aimed shots.

Jix can feel the vibration from the repulsorlifts and in the cockpit sees the black helmet with red stripes of TIE Special Forces.

Amos has a height advantage over the TIE Echelon but his weapons won't penetrate its deflectors. What can he do?

Something slow moving should be ignored by the deflectors, something dropped or thrown, but what? Himself?

A boom from above, sounding like a blaster shot...

It isn't. It's J.B.'s lightsabers connecting with the droid's electrostaff.

They bounce off its Phrik alloy haft and the MagnaGuard swings at J.B.'s legs, forcing her to somersault backwards. The tip of the electrostaff clips a stabilizer boom, blowing it to smithereens...

The MagnaGuard advances, spinning its staff like a turbine blade. According to Professor Huyang this is how MagnaGuards overwhelmed Jedi. Pressuring them with sheer mechanical speed, upsetting the Jedi's inner calm, pushing them to make mistakes.

An electrostaff is a much longer weapon than J.B.'s shotos and the MagnaGuard knows how to use it. Intimidating, but Professor Huyang also explained that Jedi Generals learned to beat MagnaGuards by staying focused and using their surroundings creatively.

J.B. also has powers the droid might not be aware of. If she can lay a hand on its electrostaff she could short it out with the Force. Then it'd just be a big stick.

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Amos

He sizes up the situation in a moment and frees one of his hands to pull his vibro-machete and take careful aim.

"Just like skewering bo-lizards back home." he mutters and throws the activated weapon directly at the pilot of the craft. If nothing else it should startle him and throw off his aim to give his insectoid friend a chance to get away.

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[I just thought, Amos could sacrifice his precious longcoat! grin Having that stuck across the windshield might be more of an inconvenience. What do you think?]

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OOC: 1. Slow moving? Check on machete. 2. Vibro-blade should cut through the cockpit glass or whatever they use. Check!

Give up my long coat? Are you kidding?!!

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Jix

He is aware of his predicament but there is not much he can do until he can free his hands and then might have more of a priority to deal with. So, hive instinct still intact, he focuses on getting down as quickly as he can, hoping his comrades fare well.

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[Ghosted for Phoenix Prime]

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The MagnaGuard came at her full throttle. There was no time to think, her training and natural reflexes had taken over. She hadn't expected to beat it but an idea came to her unbidden, fully formed and ready for action.

When the droid carelessly destroyed the stabiliser boom, JB's subconscious must have taken note: Do not get hit by that electrostaff but also That droid isn't paying much attention to its surroundings.

The ring she stood on wasn't solid metal and duracrete. Like the rest of the tower it was a complex, assembled structure, an underlying frame with attachments... and attachments could be detached.

Using the Force she felt the floor beneath her, visualising where and how plates were fixed. And then she backed off with a flashy, acrobatic spectacle, striking the floor with her lightsabers as she did, targeting rivets, brackets. That was the ground she gave to the droid. It was not safe ground. And the moment the droid was standing on it, she Force pulled the ground from under it.

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The nose turret on the TIE locks onto Jix as it yaws, edging the transceiver out of the background. In the cockpit, the TIE Special Forces pilot stops dialling in the lock and presses the red thumb-trigger... just as something hard bounces off the canopy, crazing a deep scar across the transparisteel. The pilot flinches causing the laser cannons to strafe the main structure. Was that a machete!?

Jix slides down the tension cable, his carahide blistering. A laser bolt severs the cable and he plummets, missing the lower spar but retaining his grip on the loose cable. One end is severed, the other anchored at the lower spar.

Momentum brings him down and then swinging back up towards the sled, like a Brylark conker on a string. Jix could use his momentum to leap from the cable at its apex, try to grab onto the sled. Or he could keep hold, try to sap momentum and climb back up the cable.

Amos's situation is no less precarious. The blowback from hitting the transceiver plasters the TIE's canopy with superheated debris. Too close, the pilot rolls his craft away as it's rocked by hot gases

One of its distinctive solar wings catches the tip of Amos's spar. Sky ground sky ground. He's thrown through the air, disorientated before shoulder-planting into a hard surface. He skids, his coat snags on a protrusion--- An impulse detector, such as you'd find on a starship. The decal next to it reads NO HAND HOLD in arabesh.

That's when he realises he's lying on the roof of the TIE Echelon, its engines whining as it tries to tear free of the twisted metal spar.

On the ring higher above, J.B. fights for her life against the MagnaGuard. Her ploy makes it look like she's out of ideas, giving ground after her failed surge. She aerials, a no-handed flip, lightsabers slicing into the flooring, then steps back, guard up, all-out defence.

The MagnaGuard's feet clump as it advances for the kill. But as soon as both feet are on the section of damaged flooring, J.B. throws out her hand to the side, ripping out the floor plate with the Force. Taken by surprise, the droid lunges forwards, defenceless but saving itself from being decanted. Not from being decapitated by J.B.'s dual saber scissor-cut.

The droid's head bounces at the Twi'lek's feet and she has a second to assess her team-mates' situation before the MagnaGuard falls back on its thorax sensor. It's now clumsy, short-sighted but still armed and dangerous.

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Jix

He realises he is falling. Spends a last thought wishing his teammates well before his arms are almost jerked from their sockets as he swings, trying to understand what is going on. Wait to stabilise? Climb the swinging cable. He is never one to give a time advantage to the enemy. He needs to move.. NOW!

He starts to climb, focusing on his grip, ensuring he has secure holds before reaching for another. His whole world becomes that cable, keeping that in view and not looking at the swinging world beyond it. Focus on one task. The hive mind rises to the occasion.

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OOC: thank you for the Ghosting. That's fits the ideas I expressed in my last post very nicely. I appreciate it.

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The killing machine had it's back to a gaping opening in the ring. The time for games was over. She needed to end this quickly and help her friends. With a few steps of distance between them, JB exerted her will, through the Force to push the droid back toward the newly created edge of her ring. With it's limited sensory inputs it was less efficient, but no less deadly if if could manage a charge. She wanted to make it push against her force push to stay on the ring. Keep it occupied, while she kept distance, and then... effectively do it again... cut another section out of the ring in front of her, but not giving the machine time or the distance to lunge forward this time. Use it's weakness against it. She wasn't sure she could cut all the way through, but two blades gave her the best possible chance of success and survival. Once she moved to cut the ring, she would release her Force push... but if she had to, then she might be able to do something different with the Force next.

Only peripherally could she see her team mates, but she forced emotion away from her mind, even when she saw the cable get severed and Jix fall. Finish this task and move to the next.

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Amos

The world went flying end over end for a few seconds and ended with a painful thud as Amos landed on...something!

Glancing down, his eyes widened in shock as he realized that he had landed on top of the craft, hanging on by his coat snagging onto a part of the ship.

Taking quick inventory, he pulled his blaster pistol and found the top hatch that led into the interior of the fighter. He planned to open or blast open the hatch, shoot the pilot and get inside.

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[You're welcome PP. I try to capture your essence as best as possible. wink Resolved a couple of rounds here to keep up with the other team. Sorry for any liberties taken.]

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Amos surfs the roof of the TIE, taking aim at the crew hatch's locking mechanism with his heavy blaster pistol.

A couple of shots and the emergency over-ride triggers, springing the hatch and Amos sees the TIE Special Forces pilot look up from below, ripping his SE-44C blaster pistol from his holster.

Above and behind the pilot, Amos's first shot hits the heavy duty flight seat, his second blasts a chunk out of the pilot's helmet and careens off into an instrument panel.

The pilot is knocked out, squeezing off a burst into the overhead panels before slumping in his harness. Amos jumps in.

The assault shuttle convulses, engines straining as it tries to tear free of the wreckage.

Then the whole transceiver tower seems to drop by 10 metres as one of its subterranean levels collapses. It slams to a halt and teeters.

On the topmost ring, the MagnaGuard's shock-absorbers prevent it from pancaking.

Buoyed by the Force, J.B. isn't harmed but uses the fall and jarring impact to bury both lightsabers into the ring's floor plating. Crouched, she brings the hilts together, cutting through the lightweight floor plating. The battle droid is fast though, a well-aimed kick to the torso sending the Twi'lek flying back.

Scanning, the headless MagnaGuard spins up its electrostaff and advances, but J.B. rolls to her feet, coughing blood into her breath mask. She throws one of her shoto lightsabers.

It thrums through the air, missing the droid so completely it's ignored. But the droid isn't the target. The lightsaber slices through the last beam holding together the floor under the droid.

The tangle of metal and MagnaGuard plummet into the yellow void as the lightsaber loops back around to its owner.

Jix narrowly avoids the flailing, headless droid as it falls passed.

The Verpine has clung to and climbed the cable with the tenacity of a Wookiee. Covered now in cable-oil, metal spatter and crawler ichor, Jix limps over to where the gravsled is anchored, vaulting over the rail.

Jix cycles the power, tests the controls. Dead. What about the on board GNK droid? Flick tap! It lights up, weak and low on power. Probably used as a recharge point for other droids and tools, it could be used to power the gravsled for a very short, rapid but probably non-fatal descent. How will Jix transfer power from the gonk to the sled though? What else is lying around in the sled? Toolboxes. A pair of old gription boots. (They allow the wearer to clamp to metal surfaces, walking up walls or hanging from ceilings.) But no power leads.

Jix could use his Ultramesh. He would literally be sticking one finger in a socket on the gonk and another finger in a socket on the sled. But the Ultramesh is designed to carry a charge.

Meanwile, in the cockpit of the TIE Echelon above, warning lights flash on every panel. Sparks, smoke from the stray blaster bolts. Amos drags himself up from the floor after the tower's 10-metre drop. Stormtroopers hammer on the other side of the cockpit door and the navicomp is trying to tell him something.

Its vocoder is garbled Galactic Basic.

"M-Malfunction! Malfunct--- Initiating lightspeed sk-skip on reverse co-ordinates in T-minus 13, 12..."

This TIE is still snarled on a spar of the tower.

Mirror Team hear Winta's voice on comms.

«Where are you, and can we help?»

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Jix

He is probably in the best position to respond.

"Top of hyperwave antenna. Amos in TIE fighter, probably needs extraction. Jelly Bean on collapsing antenna. Ditto. Jix heading to ground on gravsled."

Done what he can for his companions, he shrugs mentally, braces himself and prepares to be a living (hopefully) conduit.

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Jeleasi'Beni

JB wheeled around, knowing the Magna Guard was no longer a threat before her shoto blade returned to her grasp. She didn't even need to see it as it came back at her from behind. Ignore the pain, ignore the btaste of blood. She saw Jix finding a route of escape. It would be... her hand snapped outwards to her side as the blade spun itself back into her grip.She could feel the power of the Force coursing through her, around her, and she was enveloped within and a part of it all at the same time.

She couldn't hear the computer voice that Amos was hearing on the inside, and, if she heard the comm chatter from the other team or Jix's response she didn't respond. Without hesitation she sent blades blades flying again to cut the spar cables to free the TIE with Amos in it. That would give him a chance to control the craft. But what of her own escape from the collapsing antenna array?

Her blades would find her again. She leaped into the air, somersaulting to land atop the Tie, as though she were going to ride it like a sand wave across the Y'frateni wastes of Ryloth. Bring the blades to herself from there.

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Amos

If he survived he would congratulate himself for taking out a TIE assault shuttle with a machete and pistol.

Hearing the countdown from the navicomp, Amos felt pretty sure staying on board wasn't the best option for his continued survival.

Through the TIE's slitted windshield he saw Jelly Bean jump from the tower and heard her land on the roof.

"Good luck!" He said to Stormtrooper's on the other side of door, jumping and scrambling up through the top hatch.

As soon as he could, Amos grabbed Jelly Bean's shoulder, making sure he got her attention.

"This thing's gonna lightspeed skip in ten seconds." He yelled over his headcomm, looking around for Jix and hopefully the gravsled.

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Jix jams his fingers into the power sockets on the droid and sled. Energy pulses across his Ultramesh and the sled's controls light up. Quickly set hover mode, finger back in the socket, and release the docking clamp with a kick.

The sled drifts, juddering as its repulsors starve. Jix feels the heat building in the Verpine circuitry of his armour, looking up for his Hive-mates.

Above, with barely a second to spare Amos and J.B. have little choice but to jump.

J.B.'s lightsabers have cut the TIE Echelon free of the transceiver tower, giving them line of sight to Jix's gravsled.

It will be a leg-breaking fall to the hard deck of the gravsled. J.B. might be able to soften the landing with the Force if they cling onto each other.

Inside the TIE cockpit, the Stormtroopers reach the door from the cargo bay and rush in, F11-D blasters readied.

It's now or never for Amos and J.B..

[This feels like an appropriate moment for a pithy exchange of dialogue.]

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