10 Chapter 10
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AN: This is an alternative Universe. For Star Wars it is a mix of Disney Cannon and Legends Cannon. There will be things that may have been sped up, slowed down, removed completely in the timeline. I'll try to keep it as close as I can.
"Speech"
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Chapter 10
JW had taken the speeder as instructed and wondered if William's plan would actually pan out. It was both logical and illogical which played merry hell on his droid brain.
~Flashback~
JW stood in the front of the holotable in the conference room of their new base. He had analyzed the data on the planet, the prison facility and the main government building that held his objectives. According to the data the chance of the two pulling the prison break and retrieving the target's family without their destruction was less than 5%. He felt that they would need a sizable force to take the two objectives and survive. He noticed that William was unconcerned and couldn't fathom why.
William inspected the holograms of the prison and Government building and smirked. He noticed JW was his usual quiet self but was keeping a very close eye on him.
"If I didn't know any better, I would think you were concerned about our chances of success, my friend." William stated as he took a seat and pet the little droid who was rolling around his feet.
"The chances of the successful competition of our current mission with our current resources is about 5%, Will. For us to succeed and survive we would need more military assets, namely more operatives on the ground."
William threw his head back and laughed. The little droid at his feet mimicking his actions by throwing his little head back as well and chirping happily.
"There is still much for you to learn, JW. It seems I will have to enlighten you. Looking at our current situation, anyone else would agree with your accurate assessment but you have not taken into account one of if not the most important resources at our disposal. Well two actually, the first being Hydra, the second being the one resource that 90% of all organics share but few utilize effectively."
JW tilted his head in confusion, he knew that the silly and rambunctious little droid was one of, if not the best slicer in the galaxy at this time but he knew the little droid was not able to slice and effect the organics in both the prison and the government center directly. His processor could not figure out why William was so confident or what this other resource was. William put the water bottle he had been drinking from down and answered the unasked question.
"I have been planning this since my incarceration, Jay. The first thing I had Hydra do when I arrived on the pirate base was gain access to Vallt's holonet and from there the little guy wormed his way into all of the data systems on the planet. With his help I was able to compile a list of people. This is where that second resource comes in. That resource is… greed.
Organics no matter the species all have a few traits that droids rarely develop. One of said traits is greed. The list I compiled was of every crooked individual in key places that would make this next operation run smoothly. Hydra has been bribing and blackmailing key figures in the government center, prison, planet security and logistics departments for the past few months. They have all been very well compensated for very minor bits of information and access.
With this new bit of information can you figure out our plan?"
JW's eyes flashed as he accessed the new files. He then used the new information to try and put together the plan William had been alluding to this whole time. He realized that with this new information their chances of success had increased to 87%.
"I see, you wish to either bribe or blackmail key people at both sites and have them bring the captives to us. That does sound more effective and feasible but per my calculations it will be very easy for anyone to trace this incursion to us. Is this not a stealth mission?" He asked.
William's smirk grew bigger at the question. "Exactly! We will dress up as Death Watch and any and all evidence will be laid at their feet. We will of course cut Camera feeds and such but a few will be able to capture our images and the Holonet trail will lead to a few Death Watch hideouts. We will free our targets, cause mayhem for both The Republic and Separatists and frame the terrorists that have been a pain in our collective asses. In essence we will kill three birds with one stone. Everything is taken care of.
We will commandeer two speeders, one you will take and meet with our contacts at the government building. You will collect our targets. I will meet with our contacts at the prison and then collect him and put him on a speeder to take him to the ship. I will then cause a diversion at the prison and then when all of the attention is on the prison we will make our escape.
JW realized that although he had one of the most advanced repositories of knowledge on the behaviors of organics he still had much to learn.
~Flashback End~
JW had arrived at the designated point, He was met with two security guards, a woman in her mid to late twenties and an infant that had been bundled up and was being carried by its mother.
"This is them, I take it?" JW asked in his new voice. He had used the voice of one of Pre Vizsla's men that Hydra had obtained from its data mining efforts into Death Watch.
"Yeah, It's them, Lyra Erso and child. You got the credits?" The scrawnier of the two security guards asked.
"I just need to verify their identities and the credits are yours." JW used a hand scanner to verify the identity of Lyra Erso. Hydra confirmed and JW nodded. "Looks like everything is on the up and up. Here are the credits, pleasure doing business with ya, boys."
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Lyra Erso had been scared when two unknown guards had taken her and Jyn from their room and were led through service corridors to an out of the way landing pad. She had imagined that she and her daughter would soon be killed. She had been trying to come up with a plan to get out of her situation but she had run out of time. She saw a speeder land on the pad and a tall Mandalorian stepped out. He scared her because she knew that he was part of Death Watch. Being an archaeologist digging on remote worlds you learn to stay in the loop on the most infamous slaver operations and how to bargain with them.
She had begun to lose all hope but then she was thrown off by the level of scrutiny that the slaver was displaying to verify her identity. Slavers normally didn't care who the prisoner was as long as they could be sold. Something was off and that feeling had caused her to tighten the hold on her baby and slowly step further away from the guards.
"Looks like everything is on the up and up. Here are the credits, pleasure doing business with ya, boys."
That had been the moment it all would have gone to hell, if it weren't for one minor thing.
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JW was monitoring the guards closely and noticed how nervous they were. He had used his connection to Hydra's systems to quickly scan comm frequencies. He realized that the two guards had decided to double cross him and keep the credits. There was a team quickly converging to his position, he had 180 seconds to get the targets out of there before the noose closed in around them. He noticed the guards slowly reaching for their weapons but he was much faster. JW used a page from Cad Bane's playbook and quickly drew the blasters at his hips and put blasts into their heads.
He turned to the now visibly frightened woman and her child and spoke in his real voice.
"Apologies for scaring you and the little one but my master is trying to break Galen Erso out of prison and we must leave now if we wish to meet them on the ship."
Lyra's eyes widened in shock, she was momentarily flabbergasted by the events and new information by the droid in Mandalorian armor
"Ma'am, we really must hurry, we have 120 seconds to get out of here before the authorities arrive." JW explained as he gently led the shocked woman into the speeder.
Lyra snapped out of her shock and allowed the droid to lead her into the speeder. The droid quickly jumped into the pilot seat and they took off at the fastest speed possible to the outskirts of the city near the prison.
---At the Same time With William---
William and Hydra had made it past the outermost wall and would soon meet their contacts near a copse of trees that had been planted near the outer edge of the Prison to make it seem more humane. William shook his head, prisons by definition are not places that would inspire humane imagery. He and Hydra hid behind the trees and waited for the contacts. They watched as two men walked out of a maintenance entrance and walked towards the trees. Both men seemed slightly jumpy. William imagined that Galen was thinking he was going to be disposed of in the tree line and the guard thought he was walking to an ambush. The thought made him laugh.
When the two men arrived at the designated spot, William came out from behind the trees. His sudden and silent appearance scared the men.
"Calm down, I'm here for our business transaction. I just need to verify that this guy is the guy I'm after and you get your credits." That calmed the guard down but it had the opposite effect on Galen. He used a handheld scanner to scan Galen's face and verified it was him. It was all for show but he didn't want to tip his hand too early. "Alright man, looks like everything checks out." just take the cuffs off him and hand him over and the credit chip is yours buddy."
The guard was sweaty from the stress that he had been through and quickly uncuffed Galen but held him in place and stuck out his hand. William gave an audible sigh and shook his head, "What is this galaxy coming to if people are so distrustful of made deals." He then placed the chip in the outstretched hand.
The guard inspected the chip and put it in his pocket in relief but did not let go of Galen. His eyes now full of greed. William and Galen noticed what the guard was doing and both tensed. Galen in fear and William trying to not laugh out loud. William had been prepared for this but it was still funny to once again realize how predictable greedy people were.
"Look man, you have the credits, I'll be taking the prisoner now, so you should let go."
The guard took a deep breath to steel his nerve and put on a condescending sneer. "Yeah, b-but now the price has changed. I want d-double. If not I will call the other guards and say I caught him and you breaking him out of prison."
William clenched his fists in a show of "frustration", "Listen here you Nerfherding dick, If you wanted to change the price why didn't you let your contact know that before all of this. I'm not the people who hired you and they only gave me a credit chip with the amount you had agreed with and my pay. I don't have enough to pay double. Is this your first time doing this?! You always raise the price before the handoff, not afterwards because otherwise you don't give the other party enough time to get you the money. You kriffing moron!"
The guard was now becoming nervous not only because the scary Mandalorian was getting upset but also because what he said made sense. He then had a moment of clarity and replied with more confidence than he felt.
"Well then give me your pay and you can get your employers to pay you. Do it or I sound the alarm."
William made a show of how frustrated he was to give his own credit chip to the corrupt guard but if they could see underneath his helmet they would have noticed he was struggling to not laugh at the moron who was demanding more money from the armed bounty hunter while all he had was a radio. He decided to stop playing around and get Galen to the ship.
"Fine you milk drinking nerfherder!" he threw the other credit chip at the now smiling guard. The guard caught the chip and pushed Galen towards William.
The guard gave one last sneer and walked away, he turned over his shoulders and called out one last time, "Pleasure doing business with you." He walked towards the entrance, the boys at the bar would love the story of how he got one over on a Mandalorian.
William grabbed Galen and pulled him as they quickly made it back to the wall. "Alright Galen, listen up, I am getting you and your family off world. My companion has already freed your family and is on his way to our ship. I need to know, can you pilot a swoop bike?"
Galen Erso was shocked and very distrusting of his new captor but once he mentioned they had his family he knew he would comply. "Yes, I know how to pilot a swoop bike."
The two had reached the wall and William secured Galen to a grappling gun set to bring him up the wall. "That's great news, Galen. You will use this to get over the wall, on the other side you will find a swoop bike with the coordinates to the ship. You will take the swoop bike and get out of here as fast as you possibly can, as soon as you hear my signal. Are you with me, Galen?"
Galen nodded and used the grappling gun to make it to the top of the wall and nodded one last time and repelled down the other side.
William decided it was time for the fun part, the distraction. Hydra, who had been quietly hiding on his back, popped his little head over William's shoulder and bounced around excitedly.
"That's right little buddy, time to go cause mayhem."
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William and Hydra had run back to the maintenance entrance that the guard and Galen had come out of and quickly disabled the lock. Hydra had complete control of the systems so it was fairly easy to get inside. They wandered the halls on their way to the main generators. They found the generator room and snuck inside and planted "poppers" or EMP charges. They made their way out of that part of the facility but as they were passing some rooms William heard a scream.
William was very familiar with that type of scream. That was the scream of someone who was feeling unimaginable pain. He walked towards the small window of the room as if in a trance. As he looked through the window, the sight of it caused his heart to beat faster and his vision to start to go red. He knew he was losing control of his emotions and that his rage was being fed into the darkside. He was losing control of himself, the last coherent thought he had before his vision went red was to order Hydra to make sure all alarms and coms were jammed and would stay that way until he left the prison.
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If anyone could see underneath the mask they would notice that Williams' already red eyes now had acid yellow rings around the irises. A clear sign of Darkside use. William was experiencing an almost out of body experience, he was trapped inside his body as the Darkside controlled his body. He was watching as his body was on autopilot and just knew that even with all of his meditation he had not dealt with the PTSD from being tortured and it had come back and bit him on the ass due to being triggered. He tried to take back control but deep down he knew that he wouldn't be able to stop. So he used the last remaining part of his will and forced his body to not use anything that would tip off the Jedi. He could only watch in morbid fascination as his body went on a destructive rampage
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William activated the poppers and the lights went out and for a few moments darkness fell. The backup generators kicked on and red emergency lights bathed the prison in a red glow. It was almost as if the universe was foreshadowing future events. William took the lightsaber hilts from his sheathes and engaged the blades. He silently entered the room. One of the guards noticed that there was one more body in the room than before the lights went out. Unfortunately for him he didn't get a chance to say anything before he was forced choked into silence.
William snuck behind one of the three remaining guards in the room and as they watched their friend fall to the ground clawing at his throat he slashed the guards throat. To the guards it seemed as if a shadow bathed in red glow flashed from one man to the next. To William it felt like everything was in slow motion.
Once the first body fell gurgling he struck the other two with his fists. One guard got punched in the throat the other received a kick to the knee which caused a loud crack from the knee bending backwards. As the guard fell he was caught by their assailant and stabbed twice underneath the armpits puncturing his lungs and heart.
The last guard still recovering from the punch was bent over trying to catch his breath but before he could take his first breath blades were dragged on both sides of his neck causing a large spray of blood. He promptly dropped to the floor and watched his vision fade to black.
William didn't need to worry about the man that had been strapped to a medical bed because he had died a few seconds after the door had been opened. William walked out of the room and wandered the halls some more. He had found more rooms and more guards who seemed to be at a loss as to what to do with the power outage and jammed communications. They never stood a chance against a Force enhanced killer in a blood rage.
William watched in horror trapped inside his body as he killed the guards. He was hoping to snap out of it soon, he felt his body become more responsive to his attempts to wrestle control of his body back. He moved on to another part of the facility and entered the armory where a squad of five organics including the corrupt guard and three security droids were arming up.
The Force was feeding off of the fear the organics were feeling, it was a mixed blessing for William because the fear fed the Darkside but it also fed his own power. He was using it to continue the fight for control. The droids were the first to notice his entrance. The first droid to bring his weapon up to aim at him was quickly neutralized by his thrown blade right into the neck with so much force that it decapitated the droid. The other was shot. William had drawn his blasters and taken out the droids in quick succession. The organics were too stunned by the violence and had hesitated, it proved to be the last mistake they would ever make.
One of the stunned guards lost sight of their attacker only for him to appear directly in front of him. The frightened guard attempted to raise his weapon in time but William had captured the arm that held his blaster and pointed the weapon at his buddy while he fired it. His buddy was shot in the hip and gut. He didn't get a chance to feel remorse for shooting his coworker because he had been pulled closer to his assailant in almost an embrace but he had a blaster barrel directly over his heart and felt the pain of the shots for a few seconds before he died.
William had pulled the body close and shot him in the chest and used the still twitching corpse as a meat shield. The remaining guards had been knocked out of their stupor and opened fire on the Mandalorian but just ended shooting their dead coworker's back. The retaliation was swift; a blaster poked out underneath the corpse's armpit and opened fire. The overweight guard was shot in the chest three times and once in the head. The other two guards jumped behind some storage lockers for some cover and quick respite from the madman shooting at them.
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The corrupt guard was hyperventilating, he recognized the assailant as the Mandalorian he had just ripped off. He knew that he was there for payback so he attempted to dig into his pockets and get the credit chips and hopefully negotiate with him. His hands were shaking so bad that he couldn't get into his pockets.
When he was finally able to get his hands into his pockets and retrieved the chips he looked up and noticed his buddy was no longer across from him and the room was silent. He shakilly picked up his blaster and took a peak around the lockers and noticed the Mandalorian was gone. He hoped that he had left due to the fear of being surrounded by the other guards that would be arriving to arm up. He let out a shaking breath and quietly searched for his buddy. He walked over to the other lockers and saw he wasn't there. He then moved on to the last set of lockers in the room and slowly poked his head out to see if he was there.
He didn't notice anyone there either and took a step forward but slipped, he fell face first into a puddle. He tried to stand but his hands slipped on the liquid and fell face first again. He couldn't tell what it was because the lights made everything look red. He shook his head and took a deep breath. He was still frightened but was hopeful the Mandalorian had run away already. He raised his head from the floor and then noticed a pair of armored boots in front of him.
The corrupt guard's bowels loosened at the sight. He hoped it was just his buddy's boots and slowly looked up. He was ecstatic to see it was just a pair of boots that had been left by the locker and let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding. He finally stood and let out a nervous chuckle. He shat himself over a pair of lousy boots. He would never live it down when the other guys found out he thought. He tried to take a step but slipped yet again and almost fell on his ass, but he was caught by someone.
"Oh thank the Force, Lev! I thought you were dead and that madman was going to kill me."
He received no reply as he was helped onto his feet. He imagined his friend would have said something about the smell but in a room full of blood and corpses the smell of his shame would go unnoticed. He turned his head and felt his body go cold. Staring down at him was the visor of the Mandalorian. It was splattered by blood which in the light looked black. He was going to try and negotiate with him but something strange happened. The Mandalorian's visor was suddenly splashed by some more black liquid, Then everything went to black.
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William watched as the corrupt guard fell and bled out. He had finally gained control of his body but it was already too late. He had killed everyone he had come across and now he had to get the hell out of there before he was caught. He deactivated the blades and put the hilts back into their sheathes. He bent over and collected the credit chips that had fallen from the guards hands and ran out of the facility. He would have to find a way to deal with his PTSD because he would not let the Darkside control him like a puppet EVER again.
