Kill Anybody For No Reason...

[Damocles]

Several droids were shooting at one another, one droid was hit exploding on contact. "Lost left defensive perimeter" One of the droids called out before it was shot in the head exploding as it hit the ground. Several flying droids flew over head bombing several others, one of them landed "Airraid, how does it look?" One of the droids asked "Not good, those cons have broken most of our defensives, they are making a push for the core of the system" he replied.

The command droid sighed heavily "We lost a great advantage when Sumitpo died." He looked up "Fortify the defensives we have to hold this line!"

[MikDaTv]

Deeper in the crust of the planet, a cave containing a long dormant chrome portal became active. There was a flash of light and suddenly a figure was on the ground. He wore a black cloak with a suit of impressive robotic prosthesis and powered armor. His helmet had a yellow mirror finish to it and even if you could see past the visor, he pulled the black hood of his cloak down over his head so that seeing under it would be difficult.

He pushed himself up into a sitting position and and grunted. "I'm getting too old for this. Ok where am i."

inside his helmet, a female voice spoke to him. "If you can get outside, i might be able to get a location through stellar cartography."

The man shook his head a little to clear his thoughts then stood up. "Ok, get outside. Should be easy enough. Keep an ear out for traffic ok."

The female voice in his helmet responded quickly. "I am picking up an extensive amount of wireless communication on multiple frequencies, channels and levels of encryption. i would say multiple systems and individual droids talking to one another."

"How many?" The man asked.

There was a pause before the female voice returned in his helmet. "Hundreds of different communicating individual systems. And that is only what i can detect from within the cave here."

"Ooohhhhhhkay. Lots of computers, maybe lots of droids... probably advanced enough to have a starport." The man said. "lets go say hi."

[MikDaTv]

The man climbed his way out of the cave, using his robotic arms to pull himself up a steep incline that the cave dead ended into. It was a long climb but he got through it all right. He rested a moment at the top to catch his breath. He had gotten out of shape during his time off and the nanobots can only do so much to keep him in shape. He wasn't used to this kind of physical exertion.

He stretched his neck a little bit and looked up at the sky. "Oh, well what do you know... overcast. Even if it was night outside we couldn't see the stars."

"If you can get within range of a public network I may be able to access the holonet and ascertain our location through it. Otherwise, I suggest you find someone and ask them." The female voice said.

"Yep, find someone. How hard can that be?" The man asked himself. He looked around. The cave he climbed out of seemed to be surrounded by garbage. There was scrap metal and junk parts all over the place as far as he could see. He appeared to be in some kind of valley but instead of a valley formed from the terrain of the planet, it was a valley between two huge star cruisers that had to be at least a kilometer or two long. The man didn't recognize their class or type and they looked like they'd been there for a long, long time.

"Looks like a junkyard planet." he said to himself mostly.

"or merely a junkyard on an otherwise normal planet." Responded the female voice.

Jor shook his head. "no, no no no. In this universe, all the planets only have a single climate type remember. There's jungle worlds and desert worlds and snow worlds and crystal worlds and city worlds and yes, Junkyard worlds."

The female voice came back with a mocking tone. "I believe your daughter would disapprove of you being so closed minded."

The man shifted a large piece of scrap metal aside to clear a path to walk on even ground. While he lifted he answered the voice in his helmet. "I believe my daughter has the experiences of an eight year old in an 18 year old brain. She's been to what, 5 different planets?"

"ah... I see." The voice said. "if you like I could tell her you said that."

"don't you dare!" the man said. "If I go down I’m taking you with me."

"I doubt you would be able to access all of my bac...... standby.... i am detecting weapons fire. straight ahead. duck!"

The man ducked hard and a huge blaster bolt whizzed over his head. "whoa! Who the hell is that!"

"I am detecting multiple droid signals in the vicinity. They have begun actively scanning us... receiving a communication. patching it through."

The female voice was replaced with a gruff but synthesized voice that the man recognized instantly as being that of a droids. "Halt, who goes there?"

"I'm not a threat!" The man answered. "I'm just lost. I'm trying to figure out how to get off planet. Actually i'm trying to figure out what planet i am on."

"Weapon systems powering down but not deactivating." The female voice said. "I believe they no longer view you as a threat."

"You are a biologic entity, but we did not detect you until several minutes ago. How did you get here?" The droid asked over the com.

The man pointed back over his shoulder with a thumb. "It's a long story. but there's a cave back there with uh.... well. hell i don't know. It's a thing, a big round silvery thing. i came through that."

There was a long pause on the com. The man figured he just fried the droids logic circuits by using the word "thing' to describe a critical piece of information. When the droid finally did answer, it was accompanied by a movement ahead of him. The droid stood up from it's hiding place and said "A thing? this will need to be investigated. meanwhile, we must ask a question. Are you here for the Core?"

The man shook his head no. "I'm not here for anything. i just want to find a space port where i can find a ship that has a hyperdrive."

The droid approached and the man could see it was a large load lifter droid that had a shortened laser cannon from an X-wing bolted onto one of it's arms. "That may be difficult. Paths to the starports are blocked by deceptidroid forces. They are pushing for the Core. You would have to pass their front lines to get to any kind of transportation out."

The man stood back up from his position behind cover. "Is this planet at war? What planet is it?"

The droid cocked a head to the left and studied the cybernetic man in front of him. "It is the droid civil war. You are on Raxus Prime. Who are you?”

The man thought about it for a while then answered. “I’m Roberts. The Dread Pirate Roberts. Who are these Deceptidroids you speak of?”

“They are lead by a rampant AI. He controls his droid forces and is constantly pushing towards the Core System of Raxus Prime, a sentient AI computer that represents the will of the planet itself. Thousands of droids over thousands of years have combined themselves into the Core’s system. It controls nearly the entire surface of the planet.” The Droid explained. “I am Power Lifter, an Autodroid who serves the Core. We are trying to prevent the Deceptidroids from reaching the Core and corrupting it’s systems so that their leader can control the entire planet.”

The man looked around and examined the junk landscape around him. Indeed it did look like a war zone, and not just because it was a junkyard. Fresh weapon scoring littered the place and craters left from bomb explosions dotted the area all over. “Well Power Lifter, it’s nice to meet you. It looks like if I want to get off this planet I’ll need to help you. Where’s your commanding officer?”

[Damocles]

A large hover craft made its way towards one of the defense towers it was being fired on taking heavy damage. Inside the alarms were going off and things were beginning to smoke "Status report" A growl of a voice called out "Sir...our systems are failing rapidly, as well as the drive, all of our weapons have over heated" the helsman reported.

The large droid in the back stood up it had a cannon its right arm. "Is that all? We can handle more than that I want that core!" He yelled "Drive us directly in, hit the burners and fly down their throats!" He yelled "But...but sir thats suicide" Another droid said from behind for being blasted away by the bigger droid. "Anymore objections" the larger droid asked. "No none sir at all" the helsman replied as it began to pilot the vessel towards the tower.

At the tower the AA batteries fired several more shots "Are they nuts, they're going to ram us" one of the droids called out as it began to retreat. The hover craft slammed head on into the tower causing a large explosion with a lot of damage on both sides. Droid bodies came flying out of the explosion and several more went scattering. On board the hover vessel JPG stood up "Alright move out, we're close now, once we're in that library then this planet is mine!" he yelled heading out his two droids following him.

[MikDaTv]

The Romulus exited hyperspace over Raxus Prime. The war on the planets surface could be seen from space. Large clouds of smoke from thousands of chemcial fires filled large sections of it's atmosphere.

"I am cloaking the ship." Shard said from his station on the bridge. He'd taken over for the helm, prefering to fly the ship himself. He was too large to sit in the chair but he could stand behind it and plug into the console directly with his Astromech computer plug attachment.

To everyone outside, the ship faded until it was invisible. It dropped off of all sensors, both active and passive. Shard turned the ship to head into a dcsending orbit.

"Cloak on, stealth systems engaged. We have 3 hours before we need to vent the sinks." Shard reported. He unplugged from the helm but not before making sure the bridge crewman had full control of the ship. "We are on a course that will take us over the brunt of the fighting on the surface. Where would you like to land Master Hellion?"

Realizing that he had fallen into the position of padawan so easily, he quickly corrected himself. "I mean, i will be landing us shortly. I will attempt to find us as friendly a landing zone as possilbe to drop us off, then have the ship take off and provide support from the air."

Shard turned around to watch the viewport. As the ship decended through the atmosphere, more of the battle on the surface became clear. Huge wastes that had been devistated by massive explosions and perpetually burning chemical fires on the surface dotted the landscape.

Shard reached out with the Force. Because he was a Shard, he was already very adept at sensing EM fields. This ability was magnified a hundred fold through the force. With it he could sense droids through the force like no other Jedi could, a trait which Zordon and tha rangers had found useful many times. He sensed many droids on the surface, some of them were protecting a specific location, while others seemed to be bent to the will of a single program.

During his search he felt the spark of a biological being though. an actual sense in the force, rather than an individual EM field. he turned back around to face Drake and Roshi. "Masters, i feel a person down there. Strong in the Force. Do you feel it as well?"

[Damocles]

JPG and his two deceptidroids Brawl and Barracade made their way through the Autodroids library firing on anything that moved. "Sir why are we doing this exactly?" Brawl asked "Do not question me!" yelled JPG firing again killing an Autodroid grunt "If you must know, having the core of this planet will give me the sufficent power I need to absorb a force usser into my systems" he replied. Barracade looked up "How exactly?" he questioned "You will see, Soundwave what is the current position on our men!" He questioned over the radio.

"They are ready to attack on your word Lord Galvatron" a voice replied over the radio.

Meanwhile on the Romulus Drake still set with his eyes closed as he listened to what Shard was saying. Roshi was sitting behind Shard he laughed as the young man asked where they should land. It seemed that he was still used to taking orders and not giving them. Roshi stood up when the view of the battles on the planet came up "This is bad, wonder what exactly is happening down there?" he asked himself.

Drake's eyes opened and he stood up going over to view it as well "An all out war" he said to himself "Shard, word of advice, land somewhere there's no shooting" he told the young jedi who probably already figured it out. "Once we're on the ground you can see whats the deal and decide how to go about this" Drake and Roshi's eyes widened sightly "Yeah I feel it to, a tramendous power level like no other" Drake said, "I wonder who it is" Roshi added.

[MikDaTv]

30 minutes later, the Romulus swooped down low and touched down in a clearing. The Junk in this area had been blasted aside by a large enough explosion that it left a large enough area for the cruiser sized ship to set down. The huge boarding ramp in her belly extended and Shard walked down the ramp. "The last sensor readings we took said that the bulk of the fighting was a mile south of us. This entire area is surrounded by droids pressing inwards and artillery shelling has devastated most of the infrastructure." He said.

"I think we should head in a southern route and see if we can get ahead of the advancing forces to see what they're after." Shard suggested. "What do you think Masters?"

* * *

The Man was led by Power Lifter into a huge domed structure that was flanked on all four corners by huge defense towers, one of which was on fire. Power Lifter lead the man through an underground tunnel into the domed structure. He looked around and wondered where all this stuff had come from. He hadn't seen any of it on his last trip to Raxus Prime, although admittedly he hadn't spent much time here before.

"Just ahead of us is the Combine. It's a chamber at the center of the library which houses a huge elevator that travels down into the planets crust. That is where the Core is located. Right now the deceptidroids are pushing their way towards it. Their leader wants to corrupt the core for his own reasons." Power Lifter explained.

The man nodded his understanding and continued to follow the large droid. The sounds of combat filled the hallways of the library. The sound of blaster bolts and explosions echoed down the hallways from every direction. As they entered the Combine, Power Lifter stopped and saluted another droid. "Sir, Power Lifter reporting from scouting duty. I found this life form in my sector. he says he wants to help."

"Fool, don't you realize he could be a Con Spy!" The command droid yelled and pointed a very large laser cannon directly at the man.

Roberts didn't flinch, he just stood there and looked down the barrel of the large weapon. After a second or so of having the weapon pointed at him, the man lifted a hand and stuck his finger into the end of the barrel. "Well, if you’re going to shoot, go ahead."

There was a long pause and then suddenly an explosion ripped through a nearby doorway. Autodroids spilled through, firing back down the hallway. Roberts pulled his finger back and rushed over to the hallway entrance. Blaster fire was pouring through in walls of fire. "Hold! Hold the line!" The man yelled as he ran over. In a moment, his lightsaber was in his hand and it's bright green blade extended before him.

The man smiled. it had been a long time since the full brunt of the Force was with him. he was glad to know that his time in retirement hadn't dulled his sense to it. he deflected a blaster bolt off to the side with his lightsaber and ducked behind a piece of the door that had been blown up. His blaster pistol came into his other hand and he blind fired a few shots over the top of his cover, sending bolts of scarlet death down the hallway back at the attackers. "Form a defensive line here at the door. Blast anything that comes at you!" The man yelled to the other droids.

The Autodroids rushed forward to comply, forming a line of defenders, all returning fire with their various weapons. Roberts was in the middle of them, returning fire with his own blaster pistol and blocking shots here and there with his lightsaber. He turned back to the command droid. "i don't suppose you have any reinforcements available!"

[Damocles]

Drake walked off the boarding ramp and looked around, the place was disasterous as normal wasn't sure if it was from the fighting though. Drake looked over at Shard when he began to speak about what their course of action should be. "It would be best to try to cut them off, though we should send someone to find out exactly whats going on, we have no intel we don't even know if the forces we're cutting off the ones that need help or the ones that will shoot us on sight" he said.

Roshi nodded in agreement "I'll advance the opposite way of the advancing forces to run recon, the rest of you go ahead with Shard's plan...we'll regroup southwest of the advancing forces in about 5 hours, if anyway finds a better place then send the coordinates" Roshi said and with that he turned around and ran off. "For an old guy he's still pretty fast" Drake said turning back to Shard "Lead the way buddy" he told him.

JPG, Barricade and Brawler made their way to the lower levels of the library. "We'll need to secure the key to the core before we get to their precious Combine" JPG ordered of his two deceptidroids. "Screamstar, give us immediate airsupport, clear out those streets so that our soldiers can provide a proper destraction" He ordered over his com link. "Negative I am not sacrificing my men for this" Screamstar replied. "You idiot, do as I say or I will have your metal used for a mere speeder" JPG growled.

Screamstar stuttered in fear "Sir understood." Outside several bombers flew towards the streets leading up to the library and began to fire missiles at the troops out there.

[MikDaTv]

If Shard could frown, he would have. Recon was usually his job. Being able to fly was usually his greatest advantage as a scout but he figured that since he was in command it wouldn't be proper for him to do any scouting alone. He nodded to Master Roshi "Very well, Master Roshi, let us know if you find out anything interesting."

"Everyone else, lets Roll Out."

[Damocles]

Drake looked over at Shard "Right behind ya" he said as he started to follow him.

In the air a few stealth jets flew by "This is Screamstar, we've located what appears to be a landing party of some type. Orders?" he questioned. JPG, Barricade and Brawl were in the middle of firing on some of the Autodroids "Track their movement if they seem out of place take them out, we can't afford for anyone to get in our way now!" he ordered. "Understood" Screamstar pulled up followed by his two other jets.

Drake looked up he couldn't be sure but it felt like they were being followed.

[MikDaTv]

((OOC: I'm not exactly sure where we were going with this. It's been a while because a very specific person has decided to just not post at all. So i'm just going to wing it))

Shard lead the group along the path he had previously outlined until they reached the library. The huge domed structure loomed before them and Shard could see no entrance into the place that wasn't already surrounded by weaponized droids. His scanners were picking up weapons fire all over the place. "This is a dangerous place." Shard said. "I don't know if we want to risk having to fight our way through one of the main entrances."

[Damocles]

Drake came to a stop when Shard said that there were weaponized droids outside the library, he noticed the parts of all the other droids as well. Seemed like that air strike they just saw had taken them all out. "There has to be another way around, look for it" Drake said as he moved around to the side of the wall, Drake started to make his way around the building till he found some ruble, it looked stable enough should be good for climbing. Drake motioned for everyone to follow him as he climbed up to the roof of the building across from the library.

"Well now looks like we got the high ground" Drake said "Drake" Roshi said over their communicator "What is it?" Drake replied.

Roshi was outside the enemy camp looking at all the droids being outfited with weapons "Seems like the attackers are about to go for a full scale assault, so either they found what they were looking for there, or is just about to slaughter everyone" he said as he started to fall back "I'm coming to meet you and your position" Roshi ended.

JPG smirked as he picked up a key "So Zeta, seems you could not hide this from me after all" he said to another droid who was at his feet. "Prepare for a full scale assault Screamstar, eleminate this place and everyone here, I have the key to the core" he said started to leave the library with Barricade and Brawler.

[MikDaTv]

Shard was surprised when Drake took the lead. He had thought he was in charge of this mission. Maybe he was just used to being in charge. Shard followed him though, making sure that where he climbed there was ample support for his greater weight.

"Careful Master, i'm picking up weapons fire on my scanners all over the place. I' not sure how we're going to get into this building." Shard said. The library was huge, and the sound of combat was all around it. bombs were going off in the distance and Shard's wireless airport suddenly lost the signal of a few other networks. Something drastic was happening. "I suggest we find a way in soon though, before they decide to start bombing us. You think our lightsabers can cut through the outer wall?"

[Damocles]

Drake looked around when Shard suggested they try cutting through the walls, he knocked on the nearest wall to see how dense it was. "Hmm good question" he said, "Why not give it a try..." Drake said not wanting to sound too commanding, he just took the lead to get the higher ground, if Shard had an idea then Drake would listen it was his mission after all. Drake looked up "What do you think we should do Shard, if we called in our own airstrike we maybe able to clear up the front of the...wait something's coming out"

In the entrance of the library JPG, Brawl and Barracade made their way out of it "Kill anything left in there" He ordered the rest of his men "The key shall lead us to the core, it isn't far away now" he said as he turned into a tank. "Follow me my fellow deceptidroids, follow me to glory" he called out as the rolled off with the other two following.

Drake crossed his arms "Wonder whats at the core of the planet, well sounds important none the less" he said.

[MikDaTv]

"I think thats a question worth answering, and i think that droid might just be the one high enough on the food chain to answer it for us. Lets follow him." Shard said. The library itself no longer seemd to be the focus of the assault, instead, this droid had started talking about the Core, which sounded... well... important.

"Master Roshi." He said, broadcasting it on his com frequency. "There is a large droid moving away from the library at hight speed. We're going to follow it. Try to scout their path and let us know where they're headed."

Shard jumped down from the rubble. Hopefully by chasing this droid down they'd get some answers.