Rebel Scum

[Kira Yamato]

This time Kira did frown, but thankfully he was in front of her so she didn’t actually see the frown. That was another thing that bothered him. She said she didn’t like to go out of her way to help people, but wasn’t that exactly what she was doing just now? And besides that now it was sounding like she almost regretted it. The more Kira spoke to her the more on guard he became. Part of him was tempted to stop and ask what exactly it was she was really looking for in all of this, but he didn’t. Not yet at least

”Reven and Kissira.” he said each name looking over his shoulder to try to see if either name meant something to her. If not then, it was just as well, but if it did then perhaps he might be able to point her in their direction…..maybe. Something was off about her. He just had to figure out what. ”Know either of them?” he asked in case she decided not to show any sign of actually knowing them.

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[Ira]

Ira bit her bottom lip rather firmly while he seemed to hesitate to respond. How long had it been since she had felt the warmth of another person? And it was eating at her. She thought she had perhaps broken herself of this, but it seemed not. The temptation was so great. Self control was not something one often practiced as a Sith from her Order and she was hardly ever told no - if ever she was, well, nobody lived too much longer after telling her no generally. And despite her attempting to do her best to keep control of herself, things started coming loose.

Her aura through the Force, which had been so tightly wrapped around her to prevent others from feeling it, had begun to spread out just so slightly obeying its instincts and wanting to spread to search for prey despite it standing right here with her. The distance between Kira and Ira though left Kira right on the edge of being touched by her chilling and heavy Force aura, her hunger to feed off of emotions of others echoing deep within - for now a growl though she was certain in time it would roar as it usually did.

She looked up towards Kira though as he spoke the names. Nothing. Oh how she had hoped Mobius had arrived here. The Sith Lord shook her head. "No, sadly," Ira sighed. "It'd be nice to see a familiar face though, it really would."

[Kira Yamato]

Kira looked back not speaking for a moment before putting a bit more distance in between them before turning around to face her stopping. Making sure to keep that distance. His face and eyes both held something in them that said he suspected something of her. He hadn’t exactly lured her into a trap, but at the same time part of him was expecting her to react not too well to his next question.

”What exactly are you after here?” he asked. His voice though soft hinted at the fact she wasn’t telling him the truth. About how much he wasn’t sure, but one thing was for sure. She was hiding something about this whole thing and Kira wanted to know what it was. Even his eyes and stance were pointing at that very fact too. If she decided to start something over this no doubt she’d have the advantage, but still he was ready for however this played out.

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[Ira]

Ira continued forward a couple of more steps despite him stopping and facing her. Those last couple of steps taken softly and calmly. But she stopped still and at his question, she finally stopped attempting to control her aura or to keep it hidden; he had asked the right question to simply let her give in. Why did they always have to ask that question too? It always served as her 'go-ahead'. Not like many were actually left to tell that though. Her aura rolled out like a thick fog, heavy and dragging along the ground, a slow bone-chill wind accompanying the stretching aura, though the wind itself was hardly enough to be felt brushing save for the cold it carried. It dragged along the ground though slowly expanded, stretching out in all directions around the two and even rising. The press of the Dark Side aura she let flow, usually stole the breath away from those weak in the connection of the Force or not used to such a feeling washing over them, leaving them short of breath and gasping in some cases.

A deep desire burned within that fog-like feeling though which continued to expand, and those who stood surrounded by her aura would feel a longing perhaps slowly being pressed upon them, and if not within full control of themselves, could potentially be mistaken as simply their own feeling.

She simply smiled though, her pointed canine teeth being flashed, like a predator beginning to show its fangs. "What am I after?" Her tone changed from its once sheepish one to a a bit stronger, more commanding tone.

"You already know that answer, don't you? Can't you feel it?" Her words were like a whisper in the wind over his shoulder, sent to him through the Force, taunting and teasingly. Her smile remained in place as one of her hands moved down to her hip, resting on the black saber hilt to her right.

[Kira Yamato]

As Ira took a few more steps forward Kira made sure to keep the same distance between them before she finally stopped. The first thing Kira noticed as the bone cold chill that came. Even as he felt it he knew it was coming from her. Kira would feel his breath shorten. Part of him wished he had remained in Hallowton now. Perhaps figure out a bit more about this whole Force thing, but too little, too late now.

The next thing he noticed, was the desire that came with it, but even as he felt it Kira knew it wasn’t his own desire a left over effect of whatever it was she was doing. He pushed it away. He wouldn’t be caught in that cycle again. ”Death.” he said the one word. Pain, destruction. She wanted all of those things. Just who was she exactly? ”It was you wasn’t it? You drove the man to draw his gun?” he asked as his own hand slide to his gun. His mind was already racing ahead of the battle plotting scenario after scenario. Unfortunately most of them didn’t end well. Hopefully she’d take the time to leave, but he knew better, but he also knew she wasn’t just about to let him walk away either.

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[Ira]

"Smart boy," Ira simply replied, her smile thinning and hiding her teeth once again. "Figured it out. Yes. It was me. And perhaps more terrifyingly to you, it wasn't out of self defense or anything to get away from me. But a simple whisper." She pulled her black saber hilt from her hip though did not ignite it.

"Part of me wonders how difficult it would be to bend your very will against itself. But another part of me wants to do something else."

"But I can't let you scream of course." Her aura pulled back from spanning out and tightened around Kira, attempting to press through his body and focusing on a particularly small part of the body; the vocal folds. So much time spent pulling people apart thoroughly gave her quite the education on anatomy, and there had been plenty of research to ensure that suffering and pain was maximized. As it focused on the vocal folds, the pressing Force attempted to drive away any and all feeling from the pinpointed spot so the Force itself would leave the muscles of the vocal folds paralyzed essentially. She had forgotten how much fun using a Force Stun with precision could be.

[Kira Yamato]

The first question that popped into Kira's head was why, but given everything she had said it was obvious. The reason she was here. The reason she had come this far, wasn't to join the Resistance, but rather to destroy it from the inside out. Kira's hand still tucked on his holster he ever so slightly shifted his fingers and activated the communicator Garrus had given him. If he was going to die this would be their clue. He just hoped Garrus could figure it out.

He started it just in time for it to catch her second sentence and for him to get a reply out. ”But I'm not the one you really want. You're after the Resistance aren't you? Do you really think I'm worth the effort?” he asked taking a breath to continue before, nothing. Nothing came out after that. Try as hard as he might he couldn't force a single word out. Perhaps another Force ability of hers? His hand was ready to switch back to his gun at any given time, but that voice clip of her, my well prove to say many lifes even if it did cost his. He wasn't expecting Garrus to show up or even to respond. He hoped he didn't actually. If he did they might both wind up dead, but for now he waited taking another step back, not that it really mattered he figured.

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[Ira]

A quiet chuckle came from Ira as she listened to him fall silent. Mission accomplished and he wasn't even suffocating. Good. Because if she wanted him to suffocate, then she would do it with her hands of course so she could literally feel him die.

"I like to be thorough." And though her lips stopped moving, again, words were whispered to Kira through the Force, as if someone were standing behind him; 'And to have a little fun. Ira raised her hand, her Force aura again focusing on Kira and pressing against his body firmly as she began to close her hand, seemingly holding onto something though nothing was in her hand save for the Force which threatened to take hold of Kira's body and if her grip was strong enough on him, Ira would pull him closer to her.

[Kira Yamato]

And that was all Kira needed. When she answered him he switched back. Garrus better not let that fall through his hands. Kira did his best not to turn around as he heard the voice. Doing so could prove to be quite fatal at this point. Was this really what she considered fun? Senseless killing? Even as she closed her hand he was already moving putting more space between them pulling out his gun. He guessed there was nothing for it now. He quickly fired off two well palced shots. Both aimed for the two lightsabers hoping he could knock them away before she drew them.

[Ira]

The first shot took her white hilt from her hip. The second hit her hand, causing her to release her black hilt. Her grip on him was lost for now and he was released from the Force's grasp for now. She raised her right hand to her mouth, despite the glove hiding the blood flowing from the wound in her hand, bullet buried between her thumb and index finger of her right hand - a slight bump showing where it was. She shuddered a bit. It had been a while since she had felt such pain. And all she could do was simply smile, and that smile showing even through the air, that chill dancing with excitement.

She simply licked the wound at first, while calling her white lightsaber hilt to her left hand with the Force and ignited the lightsaber, the black blade hissing to life, its low hum could be clearly heard. Her hand remained at her mouth though during this time. If one watched carefully, there was a flash of white - her teeth - dragging along from the metacarpal between the thumb and index finger until she pulled her hand out of her mouth.

Well that tasted strange. What was it that had been embedded into her flesh? Something metal. No matter. Ira spat out the bullet as well as some of the blood she had taken out. "Cute," she muttered, realizing her thumb no longer wished to cooperate too much. Silly thumb. That would not stop her though.

"Oh dear, looks like I'll have to use this hand for something else then," she mumbled raising it again. White electricity danced down from her right shoulder to her hand before it arched across towards Kira.

[Kira Yamato]

Kira never stopped moving even after his hit connected, but whats worse it seemed that one bullet had missed it's mark. It had hit her hand, but still one had missed miserably, but still he kept circiling around her, trying to figure out a way to end this woithout him ending up dead. As her lightsaber started to again veer towards her hand she would find it again be intercepted by another bullet. One lightsaber was enough to deal with. It was then that this white energy came down on her arm. Instantly he could tell it probably wasn't good. He quickly moved to cover behind one of the buldings, but before he fully reached it the energy made contant. Fortunatly Ira's own earlier spell kept him from crying out. With any luck to Ira it would look as if it had missed just barely. When he had taken cover in a corner about a 1/6 of a circle length before he had been stopped.

He reached back and picked a flash gernade giving it a two count then throwing it waiting till five before moving out again taking aim a little higher then her hilt this time aiming to knock the active lightsaber from her hand from the force of the blast is at all possible. After that he'd figure out the rest, but for now that lightsaber was more of a threat to him then anything else.

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[Ira]

Ira watched her target disappear behind a building. "Tch," she lowered her hand and called her second saber back to her right hand, not moving her thumb but using her fingers to hook the black hilt lightsaber onto the waist line of her skirt. However, it seemed that as soon as she got her saber in place, a decent amount of force hit her left hand followed by a blinding light. Her white saber fell to the ground though the blade did not disengage.

A low and almost feral sounding growl escaped from Ira as she closed her eyes. Her aura immediately pushed out and ran over everything allowing her to see through the Force itself. Red lines ran all about both her hands, it was simple enough to see this way. Treatment would have to be done later. For now, at least her left hand still was functional. Again, the white hilt returned to its owners hand.

Ira raised her right hand, pulling on the Force to try to use the very building which he had hidden behind against him; literally by attempting to push him into the building's wall.

[Kira Yamato]

Nine shots until he had to reload. Nine shots that could potentially change the course of the fight. As he started out he noticed her still calling her lightsaber back, but how? He quickly fired two shots stopping the first from coming back while at the same time shotting the second from her hip as he suddenly felt a wave push him back, but instead of fighting against it he choose to make the best of it. Triggering his SEED mode. He wasn't going to die here. Flipping so his feet met the wall pulling out a gernade as he pushed off the wall tossing the gernade and as it approached her he shot it using his hand to land as he shot it out of the air causing the stun gernade to explode right near Ira. Pushing off his hand to land back on his feet as he aimed another shot at her leg for a clean cut through. Five shots left.

[Ira]

Ira kept her eyes closed for now. She was growing tired of her sabers being kept from her hands and it was beginning to irritate her to a good degree. Finally she hardened the Force around her skin, serving as a second protective layer of skin for the time being. Not like she needed to have them in her hands anyway. For the love of - Well, her, according to some people - she had used the Force before to use her sabers. What was so different about this time?

The second saber ignited on the ground through concentration of the Force, a brilliant white blade hissing to life. Her aura swept around and collected the sabers, lifting them from the ground in a circular motion. Ira folded her arms as the sabers hovered in the air next to her. With the grenade approaching, the saber to her right lowered somewhat.

The force of the explosion from the grenade expanded only for a second or so though before it seemingly collected into a dense sphere roughly the size of the grenade itself and it was quickly sent back towards Kira. But his shot made contact still though it met that barrier around her skin. It was enough of a defense to prevent it from breaking skin and causing too much damage, much like a bullet proof vest would do in most situations.

Ira took in a deep quick breath as the bullet made impact and slowly let out a quiet breath, a chill running down her spin. Was it her or was it warm here? Probably just her.

Without further hesitation, the white blade lightsaber moved forward towards Kira, launching towards him in the same manner a thrown spear or javelin would fly through the air, finally she took hold of her black blade lightsaber with her left hand and started towards her target, finally opening her eyes though still allowing the force sight to meld with her normal vision.

[Kira Yamato]

Kira eyed as she lifted the sabers through the force, however before he could respond to it he say the energy itself stop forward. What? he thought to himself his eyes widening just a bit, but just as quickly as it happened he recovered from it never stopping his momentum as the explosion head in his direction. Three grenades left. Best make them count. Though to be honest he wasn’t surewhat good they would do. Already he was backing away as the energy approached rolling to the side just in time to see the lightsaber coming at him.

He quickly adjusted his hands onto the ground pushing off just in time for it to nick his arm, her own spell, still keeping him silent, but she wouldn’t get a follow up attack with it, because at the moment his hand left the ground he had already dropped his gun grabbing onto the hilt of the lightsaber pulling it with him his grip on it iron. He had already almost had a weapon taken from him through the Force before and he didn’t mean to give this one back to her. He picked up the gun he had dropped with his other free hand as he passed it firing two more shots. One at the lightsaber in her hand, another seeking to pierce her barrier again.