Strike of Fire (open)

[Allen]

Allen ducked to the floor as he saw a blue lazer shot were his head was. He rose from the ground slowly and thought to himself 'that was to damn close.' He heard then he could walk forward and so he proceeded. he lowered his hood and stepped into the light. there were 3 mandalorinas there. Allen looked at each mandalorian and then spotted mandalores helm. Allen placed his right hand over his heart gave gave a respectful bow to mandalore and rose up. "Its a honor to meet you mandalore great work on the invasion I have yet to see any civilian casualties very good." Allen then felt a familiar force presence coming close to were he was. 'Damn that women she will interfere with my plans i had better hurry up.'

"Your group and I have a common goal the destruction of the empire and I come to you with a request please join with me together we can take the empire down and rebuild it like the old days of the republic though with a few modifications of course such as myself being the chancelor and I would allow the mandalorians a seating in the senate of course." Allen smiled and looked at mandalore "If you join me and if we are successful i will allow the mandalorians to reclaim over half of there empire you can take them by any means and of course as a bonus ill tell you the location of mandalore the firsts burial chamber were mandalores the firsts dark saber along with his armor is located."

[Zilfer]

"If you want to destroy the Empire you can join us, however don't be foolish as to think a few trinkets will secure your position as chancellor. We may not even build the republic back again, but instead replace it." said Mandalore as Coin and Sword kept their weapons ready. It wasn't too hard to see from how the man was dressed that he indeed looked like a Sith. "Prove your worth with us, and you'll be trusted among us. You two, get these men to the surface."

Coin and Sword nodded before moving the Imperial tacticians out of the bunker towards the elevator, and followed soon behind them was Mandalore who gave a sidelong glance at Allen. "Well come on, and if you think you can find Mandalore the First's grave then your welcome to try. We know it's located somewhere on Mandalore itself. Just no funny business or we'll throw you out on the nearest Imperial planet with a tag that says 'Mandalorian bait'." said Bermfad as he continued on forward towards the elevator. Once they arrived they would take the elevator up to check on Roland's and Ash's progress with the battle. Most of the troops should surrender for their commanding officers had been captured.

[Elifain]

As the 6 invaders made it back to the elivator, they could tell that the slicers had had their share of fun. every so often, there was a high yield satchel charge, that would be enough for most any military instalation, while every so often were set Thermal dets that had yet to go off.
Roland whistled, as he saw the preparations finish up, before one by one, they started to head back to the elevator, the mandalorians playing security moving in behind them, until only roland and one of the slicers remained. The man nodded his helmed head towards Roland, before handing him a switch, and saying, The switch is for you to flip, vode. Before the man turned and entered the elevator.
Roland joined him a moment later, and the elevator started to raise. As they neared the ground floor, Roland flipped the switch, and a loud thump could be heard from down below, as well as a quake.
The elevator made it up, before the lines began to snap, and the mandalorians who had infiltrated the base emerged from the dust, just fine. other than a few bumps and bruises.
Mandalore, Can you hear me? We have destroyed whats left of the imperial forces on this end, and we are returning to your position, momentarily. He said, over his suits com channels, that was encoded to the mandalorians.
He looked around, a smirk on his face, as the Besuliik who had brought them in, came back, and the 2 CAS armor systems moved to regroup with them.

[Zilfer]

As the elevator began it's ascension, Bermfad wondered when his gear would start working again. The EMP had taken it's toll on most electronics underground including his suit. He made a mental note to check in with the coms once he was top side. The elevator opened to a war torn building and as he walked into the streets Coin, and Sword lead the Imperial commanders to a holding area. Mandalore walked up to one of the communication officers, who saluted once he saw who approached him.

"Greetings Mandalore." said the comm officer. Bermfad ignored the formalities for the moment as he turned to look at the comm center that had been hastily prepared here.

"Does your communicator still work?" asked Bermfad wondering if that EMP hadn't hit topside like Sword, Coin, and the mysterious third member who's name escaped Mandalore at this moment. "Yes, Mandalore who do you need to contact?"

"Roland, I want to know how things went on his end." said Mandalore as he turned to the communicator, and the comms officer gave his chair to Mandalore. "What channel are we on?"

"Battle channel, with battle code. Roland was on not a moment before. He reported being done on his side and returning to our position." said the officer. Bermfad nodded as he turned the com on for a moment to rely a message.

"Things are done within the Main City, we are going to have to address the population, it looks like most of them remember the Mandalorian wars, because they aren't out here cheering for us. Let's change that shall we Vode?" said Bermfad as he hung up the mic, he had done it on the open channel so not only Roland would get the message. He heard a few battle cries throughout the crowd as he turned and made his way towards the center of his men. With a slight motion he had a technician come over and he pointed to his helmet.

"It was hit with EMP, see what you can do to fix it. Get everyone back to formations I won't want them wondering around aimlessly. All it takes is one scared citizen and we could have a careless dead mando on our hands." said Mandalore as he looked around at the controlled destruction that had just taken place here.

[Allen]

Allen resisted to roll his eyes at mandalore and listened to mandalore as he spoke. Allen thought to himself 'hehe if i join up with them that'll piss of that one mandalore that i met on illum and ill have the mandalorians support all i have to do is prove my worth." Allen pushed his hair back and looked at mandalore "as you wish mandalore I will prove myself worthy of being with you and your soldiers." Allen placed the hood of his cloak back up and walked towards the elevator. "I shall personally present you with darksaber of mandalore for you to have a token of good faith." allen rode up in the elevator and stayed in the corner silent like he wasn't even there he followed mandalore obediently and waited for his next orders. "im sorry to interrupt mandalore but i have a ship near the planet and i was wondering if i could bring it down to the surface if i brought it down it'd be shot down so i need your authorization for you to allow your ships to allow it to enter."

[Sir Lord Ash]

Akira's curiousity got the better of her and left the hallway leading to the room Mandalore was in. She was outside, the other side of the building from where Intrepid was, and watched the fighters, Mandalorian fighters, race over the city. She didn't sense Mandalore ariving next to her until she turned and saw him there, and overheard his conversation to get communications up.

Mandalore, If you need communications, Intrepid, my ship, is nearby. The battlenet is live if you need contact with your men.

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She didn't acknowledge the sith he was with. If she did, she would be tearing him apart.[/center]

[Elifain]

Roland, the 6 basilisk war droids, and the 2 CAS systems, made quick time towards the capitol of Alderann. Around the road, could be seen the remains of the battle, a few tanks in flames, dead infantry, who had been running towards the capitol, and were cut down by the speeders, or the tanks that they accompanied. Needless to say, the imperials didn't have a fun time.
As roland watched, The drop ships from the hellbound began to move about the city, picking up concentrations of the bridgeburners, the few that were there, and the other members of Elifains personal army.
Roland watched as one such transport dropped down before him, and lifted the two CAS off the ground, before heading back towards the Hellbound. With that, most of the forces that roland commanded, along with the numerous armors were gone, and his small detachment of soldiers under mandalore remained.
It took less time for the basilisk to travel towards the main city, once the CAS were gone, and within moments, making it to the impromptu base of operations for the mandalorians.
Roland dropped down, his basilisk landing, and him jumping down from the droid, his armor showing patches where a blaster bolt had been deflected.
He looked around, before asking one soldier where mandalore was, and after a quick set of directions, made for him in a jog.

[Zilfer]

Mandalore turned to Allen for a moment lifting an eyebrow. It was surprising that Allen's ship had gotten past initial scans of the area. There had been slim to no ships in the area. "Sure land it somewhere beyond the city limits however, I don't want anything flying in the air above me now." said Mandalore as he turned to Akira, she offered him a way of communication to his men, and as much as it was appreciated he had already left orders with the man on the comms. "No, I don't need to talk to my men, but rather the people of this planet and city."

Mandalore walked over to his CAS hopping up on it and switching the speakers on the system to expel his voice maximum volume. "This is going to hurt my ears...." said Bermfad half smirking to himself as he clicked the speakers on and the loud empty noise filtered out of the CAS.

"Good evening Citizens of Alderaan. I suspect by now most of the planet knows of the Mandalorian presence upon the surface of their world. Whether you believe it or not, we do not come as murdering savages in search of conquest. Our problem is with the Empire itself, and not the people of it. We will gladly leave your planet should it be your wish. This is Mandalore, leader of the Mandalorians. Not a single Mandalorian would dare offer resistance to my order to leave. On the other hand I also offer a measure of protection should you allow some of us to stay. You can rule yourselves as it was in the republic, and we will fight battles that come to Alderaan. Your planet is beautiful like the forests of Dxun and Mandalore, but the Empire will bring you down if you choose to shun us. The ballets are in, make your choice," said Mandalore as he clicked his CAS off. He looked over and some of the Mandalorians had hacked into systems to project a live video of him. It was clever, and he hadn't thought of it but he was glad his men were watching out for him.

Bermfad hopped down from the CAS and walked back over to Allen, and Akira. He rubbed his ears as he approached them and then almost yelled ridiculously emphasizing how loud the CAS speakers had been in his ears. He of course did this on purpose as a joke.

"Think they heard me!!!!" yelled Bermfad before crossing his arms and looking at the many buildings in the city. Many people had gathered before the windows, and some where looking out the doors of the buildings. "And now we wait for their answer...."

[Allen]

Allen bowed infront of mandalore before turning around and riased his arm to his mouth. Bring in the ship outside the city though I'll be boarding momentarily send out my speeder with a soldier on it." A voice soon responded over the raidio "Yes sir right away." Allen saw the same mandalorian and smiled and thought to himself 'uhh im not gonna enjo working with her.' Allen then turned his head and covered his ears when he heard mandalores voice echo throught the city. He listened and smiled and as soon as mandalore was done talking he wathed the sky for a sign of his ship.

Minutes passed then allen saw the front of his ship entering above. Allen then saw his ship land he then ran off and reached a wall he looked at the wall and used a force push and made a large hole through the wall and stepped through it and made his way towards his ship. After a little bit of walking allen saw a speeder coming towards him it was one of his men Allen waved him down and soon the speeder arrived. "Head back to the ship ill be on board soon expect company." Allen then turned the speeder towards the city and drove towards were mandalore was. He got off the speeder after a while of traveling when he finally reached mandalore."What are your orders mandalore would you care to join me on my ship for some refreshments i have a fully stocked bar."

[Sir Lord Ash]

All Akira had to do to block out the loudness of Mandalore's voice was cut the sound entering her helmet, and was fully sealed in silence, save for her own soft breathing. She remained silent and unmoving until Mandalore made his way back over. A smile cracked on her face, unseen behind her mirrored visor.

I think you should try it again. I couldn't hear a damn thing in this bucket.

Wrap around vision allowed Akira to look at Allen without anyone knowing. A sigh exited her as the sith spoke.

Sorry to sink your boat, but I dont think he has plans to sit down and drink. I can tell you, though, that I wouldn't be caught anywhere near you, unless I was ripping off your head.

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She didn't care what Mandalore thought of her. She was normally quieter and didn't like to fight, or even talk about death, so it was easy to assume that Allen really got under her skin.[/center]

[Elifain]

Roland stood back, after approaching Mandalore, while he was giving a speech, to the people of Alderann. When he stepped back, asking if those around him thought that the civies heard him, Roland laughed outloud, drowned out by his helmet, but didn't respond. His eye, however, cought a few mandalorians in the area wearing the markings of the bridgeburners, 5 warriors in all, mixed around the clearing, either clearing rubble, or other strenuous acts.
Roland looked towards Mandalore again, tilting his head a little to the left, in a quiet questioning motion, but didn't speak as of yet.

[Zilfer]

It took awhile for the answer to come through but within the next ten minutes a group of six people exited a nearby building and headed for Bermfad. He nodded to them, and it was about this time that his helm had been fixed. As hey approached he decided to keep it at his side instead of on his head.

"It seems most are in favor of taking your offer, the Empire has all but created despair on this lovely planet. Most of us look at the forests of this planet and know it's the only thing keeping us going under the oppression of the Empire." said the man who seemed to be leading the way. Bermfad smiled looking around at the planet life around, they did take pride in that he saw. "The terms of the agreement so I understand is you are to be our military?"

"Indeed, we'll leave politics up to you. While you won't have direct command of us, we will defend you against any onslaught the Empire would give against you. You have my word as Mandalore." said Bermfad as he turned to Roland motioning him to come forward.

Meanwhile in the background the Bridgeburners Coin, Sword, and Dice made their work seeming busy except for Sword. "Think Elifain's going to kill us?" asked Sword who was facing outwards watching the exchange with Mandalore, as well as keeping an eye on Roland. It was hard to tell for he never shifted his body to look at either of them only his eyes.

"Not if Elifain doesn't find out we went out on our own," said Dice as he messed with a small vibroblade flipping it up into that air and then down. "Wasn't it said that the best defense was a kick ass offense? I say we took out the head guys before this could turn into a shit fest."

"I don't know if Elifain's going to see it that way," said Coin who was currently repairing a speeder that had crashed. "Guess we'd better send that report."

"Yeah send it now, make sure to make it accurate." said Sword as he went back to looking out at the gathering.

"Someone with an army could be very political...." said a Bith towards the right of the lead man. Bermfad knew he had a point but he didn't want any doubts.

"If I had come to take your planet by force and rule it, would I have not just nuked your planet from the skys? Why risk my men? For the glory of battle? The Glory of battle dictates that we fight with our full force, and the first of it would be our ships. I don't come here to threaten you or rule you. You must understand we have a mutual enemy. The Empire, my grandfather and the Mandalore before me saw to it that the Mandalorians will never ally with the Empire, and they will never ally themselves with a sith." said Bermfad, and it seemed the Bith was satisfied upon his answer. 'Good, because there's not much else I could promise him.'

As roland approached Mandalore turned to him, and he replaced his helm back upon his head. "Make sure some men and forces are left here to save guard this planet. I'm returning to Mandalore. I'm going to invoke the journey to the tomb of the first. A journey that every Mandalore must make at some point in his life." said Bermfad as he nodded towards them.

[Sir Lord Ash]

Akira stood in the background of the conversation, mainly keeping track of it, and recording it, as it comes down to it. Her Jedi training allowed her to be a decent negotiator, but she was way to rusty now. She wouldn't attempt it these days. She turned to look towards an arriving CAS runner. She felt the strange pull of familiarity coming from it, but she couldn't name it.

She could as soon as the canopy was popped and the man inside jumped out. He greatly resembled Ash, but was shorter, and his hair didn't have its white streaks from the darkside stress. He casually walked up to Akira.

Hey, long time no...

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Ash didn't get a chance to finish talking. A large, metal fist collided with Ash's face, sending him not only away, but up as well. After a couple of seconds, he landed pretty dam far away, head first, into the ground. A burst of rubble and dust accompanied the landing. Mandalorians, civilians, and even some captured Imperials with a good sense of humor laughed at the site.

With a grunt, Akira turned around and stomped off towards Intrepid, which gently cruised around the capital building and landed right near them. Ash faking his death was below anything she could think of.

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Ash lay in a pile of himself, limps stuck outwards in odd angles. His head was half buried in the ground, face up. He was woken up from sharp pokes in his stomach. He pulled his head from the ground to see a trio of kids standing over him, stick in their hands.

Boo.[/color]

With a scream, the kids took off running away, earning a chuckle from him and some nearby people. He stood up, rubbing the dust from his hair, and began his walk to Mandalore, which took longer than he thought it would.

That hurt. Don't be on the receiving end of a punch like that. Lucky for me my neck broke my fall.

To add to the comic nature, there wasn't a scratch on him, or bruise on his face where he was hit. Hell, his clothes were still in good condition, save some dust. A grin was on his face, which still didn't seem right still.[/center]

[Elifain]

Roland nodded, and cut a bow, before turning towards his men, and laying orders. Those here, would remain here for guard purposes, as well as the two ships under his command. He watched as the soldiers there rushed about their duties.
The Hellbound, however, sent a message, most of its men being shipped onboard, informing mandalore of their departure, before launching off back into hyperspace, and making full speed to kuat.

[Zilfer]

Mandalore looked over at Ash as he walked back to them. He raised an unseen eyebrow beneath the helm, but outside it seemed that his gaze remained fixed before turning away. He motioned through Mandalorian Sign, to gather up those who were leaving onto the Q-carriers.

"Well those who are leaving climb aboard, I ain't got no time to be wasting. Alderaan's planet is beautiful but not like the girls back home." said Bermfad as he gave a small salute to some of the Mandalorians staying behind. "Roland, and Ash I'd like to congratulate you for a job well done. I'll be relying on you two in the future, now lets go home."

With that Bermfad headed back into the Q-carrier and began to head off. The captured Imperial's fate, was something he left up to the people of Alderaan, whether they faced death or redemption was completely up to him. Either way he would have no blood stains on his hand, his armor already had the stain enough. It wouldn't be long before most of the fleet had jumped into hyperspace headed on an outward vector towards home.