Ahto City, Manaan, A Few Days After Last
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suitably_heroicThey had barely escaped Malachor V with their lives. The planet had already been unstable, but it had begun to implode as they left. It'd been a rocky ride -- a really rocky ride -- through the world's caverns and ravines up into the sky and away.
It was a testament to Atton's sheer stubbornness that he didn't pass out until the rocky part was over.
They found out later that the collapse of the planet was Bao-Dur's doing-- his last act, to undo the last echoes of his first one. There was a silence now in Meetra's head where once these echoes had lived. She was thankful for it. Malachor V had been harrowing, mentally as much, if not more so than physically. She needed the quiet.
They had come here to Manaan as soon as they'd been able. Atton was in a bad state - clinging on to life more tightly than he had been when she'd left him to face Kreia, but still flickering back and forth. He hadn't regained consciousness, either, and so when they got to Manaan, they transported him from the med bay to a health center nearby.
This was the planet the kolto came from. It was the best they could do for him. The best she could do.
Considering what she was about to do, she knew it wouldn't be enough.
Meetra looked up at him in that tank. It made him look fragile, partly because the fluid colored his skin an ugly pale white, but also because of the various wounds decorating his chest. He really had come close to losing that arm... but he hadn't quite gotten there, and thankfully, the flesh was starting to knit together again already.
She let out a sigh.
"So, might I ask where you will be going next?"
Mical had been there for some time already; Atton might have not thought fondly of him, but he had no issue with the man. It felt only right, considering, especially when not listening to his counsel had led to their rather embarrassing defeat at Kreia's hands.
"I need to find Bastila Shan," Meetra said quietly. "She might know where Revan is."
She'd told the others about her plans to leave. Atton... Atton wouldn't have taken it well even if he'd been in the best of states, and he hadn't exactly been that. And... she could admit here, in the privacy of her own head, to some cowardice about telling him in the first place. Where you go, no one you love can come with you.
Kreia had been right. Painfully so.
"Do me a favor," she said, and shot Mical a look. "When he comes out, tell him I'm sorry."
"This is goodbye, then," Mical said, after a moment.
"Yeah," she replied.
Then she turned around and walked out of his life. Just like that.
ACT ONE
ACT TWO
Dantooine
Nar Shaddaa
Onderon, Part 1
Korriban
Onderon, Part 2
ACT 3
[[ nfb, nfi, ooc-okay. oh god, i really am done. some plot details ganked from 'Revan' by Drew Karpyshyn, a novel I mostly like to ignore because it is TERRIBLE. ]]
It was a testament to Atton's sheer stubbornness that he didn't pass out until the rocky part was over.
They found out later that the collapse of the planet was Bao-Dur's doing-- his last act, to undo the last echoes of his first one. There was a silence now in Meetra's head where once these echoes had lived. She was thankful for it. Malachor V had been harrowing, mentally as much, if not more so than physically. She needed the quiet.
They had come here to Manaan as soon as they'd been able. Atton was in a bad state - clinging on to life more tightly than he had been when she'd left him to face Kreia, but still flickering back and forth. He hadn't regained consciousness, either, and so when they got to Manaan, they transported him from the med bay to a health center nearby.
This was the planet the kolto came from. It was the best they could do for him. The best she could do.
Considering what she was about to do, she knew it wouldn't be enough.
Meetra looked up at him in that tank. It made him look fragile, partly because the fluid colored his skin an ugly pale white, but also because of the various wounds decorating his chest. He really had come close to losing that arm... but he hadn't quite gotten there, and thankfully, the flesh was starting to knit together again already.
She let out a sigh.
"So, might I ask where you will be going next?"
Mical had been there for some time already; Atton might have not thought fondly of him, but he had no issue with the man. It felt only right, considering, especially when not listening to his counsel had led to their rather embarrassing defeat at Kreia's hands.
"I need to find Bastila Shan," Meetra said quietly. "She might know where Revan is."
She'd told the others about her plans to leave. Atton... Atton wouldn't have taken it well even if he'd been in the best of states, and he hadn't exactly been that. And... she could admit here, in the privacy of her own head, to some cowardice about telling him in the first place. Where you go, no one you love can come with you.
Kreia had been right. Painfully so.
"Do me a favor," she said, and shot Mical a look. "When he comes out, tell him I'm sorry."
"This is goodbye, then," Mical said, after a moment.
"Yeah," she replied.
Then she turned around and walked out of his life. Just like that.
ACT ONE
ACT TWO
Dantooine
- In which the intrepid crew lands and meets Sith apprentice Visas Marr
- Atton has a heart-to-heart with their new crew member and we learn about Darth Nihilus for the first time.
- After spending some time stuck on the ship, Atton gets to run around the ruins of the Jedi Enclave, and meet Mical, the guy he hates more than anyone on the planet.
- In which the crew meets an ungrateful Jedi Master and saves the town from mercenaries.
- Meetra and Atton talk. The Hawk takes off for Nar Shaddaa.
Nar Shaddaa
- The crew of the Ebon Hawk arrives on the Smuggler's Moon. Meetra finds out about Atton's past. Conversations are had and failed.
- Meetra tries to have The Conversation again, the day after Atton gets roaringly drunk with Sparkle. It goes swimmingly.
- Meetra and Atton do some odd jobs, Atton quizzes Bao-Dur on his chances with Meetra.
- Atton plays dumb and catches a Twin Suns.
- Mira the Bounty Hunter shows up. With her help, Atton and crew manage to break into the ship of a mob boss who's holding Meetra captive, and has been sending bounty hunters after them for weeks.
- After Meetra tracks down Jedi Master Zez Kai-Ell, she and Atton talk about Atton's background again, and this time, he's willing to try learning how to use his Force sensitivity.
Onderon, Part 1
- Atton crash-lands the ship on Onderon's moon, and winds up having a fight about his autonomy with Kreia after Meetra leaves.
- Atton fights with Mical about the amount of interest he keeps showing in Meetra.
- Meetra returns from Onderon noting there's nothing left they can do for now, so they'll be going to Korriban next. They also happen to pick up a stray Mandalore.
Korriban
- Mira and Atton banter about his GIANT FREAKING CRUSH. Then they land on Korriban. Atton's not happy to be back.
- The crew runs into Darth Sion for the second time and winds up bravely running away. Also, the Jedi Master they came to find is already dead.
- Meetra goes on a vision quest; Atton deals with so much psychic interference from Korriban that he actually has to call Anakin to help ground him. Don't ever mention that again, Anakin.
Onderon, Part 2
- Meetra and crew plan to help Master Kavar take back Onderon from the Sith.
- Atton and a small team assault the Tomb of Freedon Nadd. He finds out he's better at fighting off the dark side than he used to be.
- The Ebon Hawk makes a quick stop on Citadel Station to refuel. Atton finds out that Mical's a Republic spy and feels very vindicated, but Kreia won't let him tell anyone. Then Sparkle shows up with pop tarts and the day gets a whole lot better.
ACT 3
- The crew goes back to Dantooine to talk to all the Jedi Masters they saved. Except the Masters try to kill Meetra, so Kreia kills them and then takes off with the Handmaiden. Oops.
- Kreia arrives on Telos, where she convinces Atris to accept that she's fallen to the dark side.
- ...except that doesn't quite take. When Meetra confronts Atris, it seems to have mostly just made the old Jedi Master angrier.
- Meetra saves the Handmaiden - now known as Brianna - from herself. Then everyone returns to Citadel Station just in time to save it from a Sith siege.
- The peanut gallery (ie, everyone but Visas, Mandalore and Meetra) sit back and watch as a group of Mandalorians takes on the Ravager, and Meetra kills Darth Nihilus.
- The Ebon Hawk takes off for Malachor V. Atton begins to lose his mind.
- The Ebon Hawk crashes into the planet. Atton winds up wandering around its surface, feeling Very Very Bad. Then he finds the others - minus Meetra -, who promptly get their asses kicked by Kreia.
- Atton's strategy of bravely running away only holds out for about five minutes, when he bumps into Darth Sion and gets the crap kicked out of him - though he holds his own for a while. Then Meetra shows up and kills Sion by talking.
- Mira keeps Atton's sorry ass from dying. Meetra takes on Kreia. Everybody escapes the planet but Bao-Dur, who is very dead.
[[ nfb, nfi, ooc-okay. oh god, i really am done. some plot details ganked from 'Revan' by Drew Karpyshyn, a novel I mostly like to ignore because it is TERRIBLE. ]]
OOC!
Date: 2014-07-21 06:19 pm (UTC)For your next trick, you'll be wrestling bears?
Re: OOC!
Date: 2014-07-21 06:24 pm (UTC)Re: OOC!
Date: 2014-07-21 06:25 pm (UTC)Some small bears and some big bears? :D
Seriously, speaking as someone whose canon catch-up is basically two paragraphs of "oh, and this happened", I am incredibly impressed.
Re: OOC!
Date: 2014-07-21 06:32 pm (UTC)