Distress Signal

[Zilfer]

As Bones, Rin, and the others exited the spaceship Bones couldn't help but crack a joke. "You ever wonder what happens to all that dust that gets swept beneath the rug?" asked Bones pointing outwards to the dunes of Tattooine. "Well I think you know what happens to it now."

Bones and Rin waited for Drake to lead the way, he was the reason they where here at the moment. Bones really hated sand but it wasn't just the sand. Something here reminded him of being trapped, and he couldn't pin down why.

"I don't sense anything usually here Drake, I doubt it's from the Empire.... but I've been known to be wrong before." said Rin as she pulled down her brown hood. Tattooine was so bright with it's multiple suns that she found the lighting quite suitable to her likings. Her hapan eyes were at home in this bright of an environment, while she didn't like the amount of sand and how dirty this place looked but she could live with it.

[MikDaTv]

Zordon's tank moved through the city streets of Mos Eisley. The tank hovered off the ground about a foot and gently spun around, even though the direction of his movement remained constant.

He had no set destination. He was following the secret Jedi time honored method of finding something. Wander around until you bump into it like some all powerful force in your life had dictated it happen like it was writing the story of your life for its own amusement. More than a few strange looks were cast his way. The denizens of Mos Eisley usually didn’t see a giant brain with tentacles cruise the streets in a giant tank of gas.

His thoughts wandered from subject to subject. He pondered some deep philosophical questions and made plans for what he was going to do in the future.

[Damocles]

Drake looked at everyone "Well we'll head to town" he pointed to Mos Eisley which wasn't too far away maybe a mile or less give or take. He turned and started walking, Rin was right there wasn't anything evil about what he was feeling but Drake had been tricked before. Drake continued to walk signaling his team to follow him. They would be in town soon enough and they could figure out what exactly was going on with that whole transmission and Drake's "daughter" and all this other stuff that seemed like bullshit on an open platter.

Meanwhile a few droids were walking down the street of the town they had guns. "Spread out and find the girl" one of the droids said "JPG says she cannot be allowed to get away" it continued to say as the 4 other droids with it began to search.

[Zilfer]

Bones nodded in response once again before taking up a flank guard position. They walked towards Mos Eisley, and most of the way was quite as they traveled forward. It wasn't long before they came to the sight of swoop bikes, and speeders congregating into the town. Bones could smell some of the filth in the hot air, and knew this place was the kind where criminals thrive. It was almost instinctive, and yet somehow felt like home.

"Well we're in town now, where do we go from here?" asked Bones as he took a look around, and spotted a rather unusual sight. Wandering around was a tank.... with a floating brain. "That can't be usual.... water must be like gold here and that thing must be floating around with an ore deposit."

[MikDaTv]

Zordon's tank stopped in the middle of the street when he caught sight of the droids. of course, he couldn't really see the droids. He had no eyes. but through the force he could feel the space they took up and the energy coursing through them. He could also hear every word they said, probably better than anyone else could because it was the Force that was the sound medium instead of just air.

Zordon figured events like this were normal on Tatooine. Droids looking for someone with obvious malicious intent. But this event was far from normal. This event involved a Jedi Master.

He expanded his mind to follow one of the droids, hoping that by following it, the droid would lead him to some clue on the whereabouts of it's master or the location of the Jedi he sought. As his mind began to widen it's sphere of responsibility around him, he immediately noticed the more powerful presences approaching. They had just entered the town of Mos Eisley and they were significantly brighter in the Force than most everyone else in the town.

Being careful not to lose track of the droid, Zordon reached out and touched each of their minds, rifling through their surface thoughts like a rolodex, searching for the information he sought. By searching through all these surface thoughts he quickly identified the leader of the group as Drake Hellion, the prophesied leader of the Jedi. Zordon hoped they were receptive to telepathic communication as he opened his thoughts to them.

Jedi! Know me. I am Master Zordon of the Jedi Order, here on Tatooine searching for those who are left of our once proud organization. he forced into their minds. Along with his communication he filled them with the knowledge of where he was and what he looked like so that they could quickly identify where the thoughts had come from. Be cautious, for the tides of evil have begun to rise on this world. I fear the life of a female may soon be in peril.

With those words done, he withdrew from their minds somewhat and returned his concentration to the droid. It had moved on and appeared to be running some sort of search pattern. With time, Zordon would be able to guess its approximate route through the city, assuming the Droid remained on the same pattern.

[Damocles]

Drake continued to look around until Jik pointed out the brain in the tank "Well thats something you don't see everyday" Drake said in response to this, that was until the thing started to talk in their minds, this guy, this Zordon was obviously the Jedi that Drake had been sensing from the very beginning of this trip. He looked over at the master and walked over to him and bowed slightly "So, you were the presence I kept sensing then" Drake questioned knowing the answer already. When Zordon told him that a female would be in danger soon Drake nodded out of habit "It is my daughter, or someone claiming to be her from another dimension, she is also very strong in the force though I am unsure of how well taught in using it she is" he replied before turning to Jik, Rin and Rindel, "Alright guys spread out and lets find her" he said to them.

The droids continued their search till one of them looked up as if recieving a transmission. "Sir our brothern have located the target, she is moving out of town quickly" it said, the command droid looked at the soldier one "Then let us go hunting for this fleshling" it replied marching off with the others following.

[Moonfire]

As the ship descended on the desert landscape of Tatooine, Moonfire couldn't help but smile. It wasn't quite Ruusan, but it was warm and thats all that counted. She always found it ironic how deeply she hated ice planets, yet her whole life revolved around one these days. Hurrying out into the warmth the Jedi all but tossed her outer robes off revealing the sleeveless v-necked top beneath, her forearms wrapped all the way to the elbow in white cloth. The bright sun hit her shoulders pleasantly, oh how she missed the sun.

"Ahhh..." She sighed happily before turning her attention to the mission at hand. There was a curious presence in the Force here, though Drake quickly echoed the feeling.

Hanging close to the Jedi Master, she tried to feel through the area, there was only two major Force signatures she could feel other than those present in the little group. Quickly the stronger of the two revealed himself, as lo-n-behold a floating brain. And what do you know? He was on their side. Always a bonus.

"A pleasure to meet you Master Zordon, and we're whats left of the Jedi, minus a few others who had better things to do today." The girl said to the jar, completely comfortable with addressing a brain. "I'm Moonfire Esense, though I'm sure you already knew that." She said, mildly aware that he had been picking through their brains.

Turning towards Drake the Knight "I've been sensing another Force user, not nearly as strong as Zordon here. I'm having a hard time focusing on it, feels more like a hunch than anything..."

Meanwhile on the edge of town Rain Hellion found herself in a bit of a pickle. Jumping from rooftop to rooftop, she was having a hard time hiding from the blasted droids. What was their problem anyway? Totally bogus.

Hopping from the roof between two huts, she attempted to slide into the crevice they made, shrouded in shadows. The redhead had so far avoided the droids rather well, they had singed her vest slightly, but so far no open wounds. That was good.

Now she just needed to find someway to get the hell out of dodge, it certainly wasn't pretty-making to just crouch in the shadows until they gave up and decided you must have left, droids usually were a little more motivated to keep looking than that. So bogus. Back against the wall, she kept her eyes sharp, ready to scurry away if need be.

"Dad, you need to hurry up." The teenager muttered, watching the busy walkway for anyone faintly familiar, hopeful Drake Hellion looked at least somewhat like what he did back in her universe. If he didn't, that'd be pretty bogus.

[Damocles]

Drake looked at Mooney and noded when she said she felt the other force usser "Yeah you're dead on on that one" he told her looking around. He noticed that some droids were all moving in unison, this really stood out to Drake considering that the droids weren't the same make or model nor did they look like they belonged in any particular army. "Are those droids bounty hunters?" he questioned confused "Lets follow them and see where they lead us" Drake turned back to Master Zordon he knew the Master probably caught on to what was going on like Drake did. Drake turned back to Moonfire "Lets hit it, Jik, Rin, Rindel we're all going to split up and hunt down either these droid or my daughter." he ordered moving out.

The droids pulled their guns and started to fire on Rain as she ran away from them. "Capture her but do not kill" one of the droids said as it aimed its gun to fire again.

[MikDaTv]

I am not fast enough to keep up in a foot chase, but i will extend my influence out as much as possible to provide you with whatever information i can. Zordon projected into their minds.

He began hovering his tank back towards the Command Center and stretched his mind out towards it. Shard, trouble is afoot. Transform and roll out.

Back aboard the Command Center, a lump in the corner of the cargo bay began to move. It lifted itself up from it's standby mode, parts springing out of compartments and and it's head lifting out of the center compartment. Shard walked to the ships rear cargo hatch and activated it, lowering the ramp. deep within the droid body, Shard reached out with his mind to Zordon. Understood Master Zordon.

Shard bounded down the ramp, leaped into the open air and transformed. Wings sprouting from his back, his legs locking together, jet boosters swinging back and his arms up over his head locked into an aerodynamic nose. The jet boosters on his shoulders and in his feet fired and he jetted up into the sky.

[Elifain]

Rindel followed the group quietly, through the town. She was a little surprised when the group ran into a brain in a jar, but quickly cought on to what was happening. With a smirk, as they recieved their orders, Rindel crouched down, to get her limbs limber enough to run, and set her sights on a particular droid. When the oder was given, she would be ready to chase it down, if nessicary.

[Moonfire]

Hearing the buzz of droids and quick shots of blaster fire Rain groaned, throwing herself out into the sunshine again.

"Ah fuck, ah fuck, ah fuck!" She shouted, turning about to Force push the droids. Why was there so damn many of them? As the droids tumbled backwards the red head gave a laugh, using the Force in a quick motion to propell herself into the air, back onto the top of a hut.

"Come and get me, boys." She said with a laugh, before taking out into another high speed run, jumping and cartwheeling over the dome like rooftops, a thin Force barrier taking the brunt of the blaster fire. Hopefully though, this would get somebody on her sides attention.

[Damocles]

Drake started to search the southern part of the town there was a strong pull there. He ran down the road seeing a girl throw herself out into the sun and trying to fight droids. "Hmm I guess thats it" he said to himself running over to the commotion. Several droids set up behind cover "Watch out force user inbound" they said firing at Rain. Suddenly one of the droids head's went flying with the ignition of a purple bladed light saber.

Drake landed between Rain and droids "Oh come on droids, leave the girl alone, she obviously do not want to go home with you" he joked. "Second force user detected call in reinforcments" A droid said, suddenly more droids started to show up nearing 100 of them. "Holy crap, umm guys" Drake said through his ear peice "I need some back up" he said.

[MikDaTv]

Shard was orbiting the city at a few hundred feet when he spotted the altercation. He relayed the information to Zordon who had returned to the Command Center. Zordon in turn used his powers to project the location into the minds of all the other Jedi.

Shard dropped out of his orbiting station and transformed into his human form in mid air. He pulled out his Bulldog with his right hand and transformed his left hand into it's sonic gun. 6 rockets landing amongst the ranks of the droids and exploded taking out multiple droids. He landed next to Drake and fired his sonic cannon at another droid which exploded. "My name is Shard. I'm here to help."

Shard deployed his wrist blade and ignited his lightsaber in his right hand. The red blade extended to it's 3 foot length and the mandalorian iron blade sticking out of his left wrist arced with electricity.

[Starholdt]

An explosion a couple streets away echoed through the walls of the cantina. The patrons froze for a second into silence, before returning to their interrupted conversations. Ötzi heart skipped a beat.

Blast! Have they found me? How count they possibly track me? The Damn Rodian must have talked.

Ötzi rose from his stool and began to move away from the bar. Only one exit. As he walked around the bar his server stopped him.

You planning on paying for your drink?

She placed one hand on her hip and outstretched her other hand, palm up, as if to receive credits. Ötzi kept his cool, stared into her eyes and slowed his breathing. He waved his hands as he reached out with the force, bringing them up into a shrug.

But I hardly touched it, and it wasn't that good anyways. I'm just a wearly traveler. Can't I get a pass?

Her eyes never blinked. She turned her attention to another patron and paid Ötzi no bother. He spun on his heal and marched out of the Cantina and into the streets.

It was getting dark.

A plume of black smoke pillared a few streets down. Ötzi traversed the street and ducked into a dark alley, making his way towards the commotion. As he reached the end of the ally, he slowly peered out into the street. He took it all in with an open mind. Several figures stook in the middle of the street, and a droid of some kind hovered in the air about them. A few smoldering droids lay a few meters from them, and beyond that marched serveral dozen droids of different makes and models. All armed.

This should be interesting, he thought, pulling his lightsaber out from under his robes.

[Zilfer]

Bones and Rin had gone forward following the droids, when they had been told to split up. The droids began to grow in numbers as battle began to pick up. Bones looked over to Rin, and she readied her lightsaber. Bones drew his disruptor and got ready for the largest shooting range gallery he'd been to in a long time.

Rin sprinted straight towards the droids from the outside where most of them weren't looking since they were focusing in on the center of their circle. Her green lightsaber activated and she began to cut through droids severing them or crippling them. Bones provided covering fire from above quickly giving a barrage of fire. Into the crowd from above. By the time his blaster was out some of the droids had turned their attention to him. He smirked and charged straight for them, seemingly weaponless....