The one under the city

Lana: Blast it all! Deactivate the one under the city!

Luminara: That is the right choice Lana. The council will be proud of you!

Drek (stepping away from the console): Bomb deactivated, Trench's code really worked. Now, let's get out of here!

Lana: Masters, I...!

Kota: Go, do not die with us for no reason!

Drek (grabbing your hand): Come on, we have to leave! Now! The schematics are on my datapad, I know the fastest route out, but there's little time remaining! I have secured a channel to them, if you still have anything else to say, you can on the way out!

You nod in acknowledgement and begin running to the shuttle bay to find a transport out of the base. The corridors are empty, it seems the droids have already evacuated the place. In the hangar, there are a few shuttles left, you get into one and Drek pilots it out of the building. While flying, you contact Luminara once again with the ship's communicators.

Lana (melancholicly): Masters... I...

Luminara: There is no need to say anything Lana, you did the right thing.

Kota: The **** has other plans for you and it planned to end our story here. Do not grief us, we shall soon be one with the ****.

Lana: ...

Drek: Half minute until the explosion...

Kota: Time to say goodbyes then. May the **** be with you three.

Luminara: May the **** be with you.

Lana: May the **** be with you...

Luminara: Lana, if I may have one, final request...

Lana: Anything!

Luminara: Please, tell Barriss how much she meant to me. She was my favourite padawan, I might have been harsh on her from time to time, but I did it all for her own good. Tell her I am proud of her, I have always been proud of her. I know she will become a great Jedi one day.

Lana: I will tell her!

Luminara: Thank you!

You hear the explosion through her comlink, seconds before you see it for yourselves. The blast is spreading a few kilometers in all directions, you too have barely gotten away from its range. It sends out no wave of fire of anything, it formed a huge, rapidly growing ball of energy, before collapsing into nothing in the blink of an eye. All that's left of the lake and the base at its bottom is a gigantic crater. All has been vaporized on the atomic level, not leaving a trace of anything caught in the radius.

Ranvi (shocked): Such... destruction...

Lana (angrily while looking at the crater): To Mustafar with this! I killed them...! It was my call, their deaths are my fault!

Ranvi (placing her hand onto your shoulder): Lana... You were in an impossible situation...!

Lana: Yet still, I ordered the deaths of two Jedi Masters! No Jedi would do such a thing!

Ranvi: They asked you to allow them to do this sacrifice, you have only heeded their words! You did what you had to do!

Lana: There must have been an other way to save them...! Maybe we didn't look hard enough...! If only there had been more time...!

Drek: There were no alternatives Lana... It was them or the citizens... Now that Trench has fled and his base is gone, the battle on Atzerri will be included within weeks. This is the goal Kota and his men had been fighting for for some time now. You helped them achieve it.

Lana: This is Bantha poo! Yes, we might have won, but at what cost?

Ranvi: All battles require sacrifices, as they cause casualties for both sides, no matter the good intent of the generals. This time, our casualties may have been higher, but the overall deaths were lower. Think about all those families you have just saved today! They may not even know it, but they live to see an other day, thanks to you!

Lana (going to the back of the shuttle, out of the cockpit): I need to be alone right now...

Ranvi (watching you leave the room): Lana...

Drek: She will cope with it. She just hasn't decided about a **** toll this high so far. I'll run a schematic on the city and give her an almost precise number of people she had saved today in exchange for those, who died. The numbers should convince her! At least a little...

Ranvi: I don't think that's what she needs right now...

Drek: Yeah... Maybe you are right... I'll send her that report later...

When you get to the base, you see mourning soldiers left and right. They all grief the general's passing, but are going to honour him by finishing what he started here. Agent G appears in front of you, as he has something important to share with you.

Agent G: Lana, Ranvi, Drek. Nice to see you in one piece! May I have a word with you three? In private?

Lana: Sure.

You head to a secluded area before he gives Drek a small data storage device.

Drek (taking the device): What's on that device?

Agent G: What I'm going to tell you must remain between us. At least for now. While you were away, I found a very strange encrypted transmission sent to Trench's capital ship, from Coruscant. It was sent some weeks ago, using top level separatist encryption.

Lana: What was transmitted? Who sent it?!

Agent G: I don't know who was the one sending it, but it came from the Republic Military Headquarters, where only the generals of the grand army can enter. I tried pulling some strings and had someone looking at the sent transmissions, but it was thoroughly deleted in Corucant, we didn't find a trace. The message contained General Kota's base locations, detailed maps and strategies about his plans and proposed advances on enemy lines. Whoever sent this was clearly sabotaging his battle here!

Drek: How did you find this message if they erased all traces of it?

Agent G: Our relay station picked it up, alongside thousands of other messages, but it wasn't considered important at the time, due to coming from our side of the war. I dug it up recently and as soon as the decryption finished, I knew we had a traitor in our top ranks.

Ranvi: We can't keep this between us, a full scaled investigation must be done to find the culprit!

Lana: No, we must keep it a secret. If we announce we have a general ranked member in our ranks, who betrays our cause, the level of trust in our army will collapse and demoralize many, causing way more problems than this single message. Maybe our suspect will repeat this or make a mistake and we can catch him.

Agent G: My thoughts exactly. Stay sharp, I'll keep you updated should I find anything else! At the meantime, Drek, I ask you to keep that data somewhere safe, where nobody from the Republic may access it! Just in case...

Drek: Sure thing, the Jedi temple is impregnable both physically and cyberneticly!

Agent G: Excellent. Be well, all of you! We will see each others again!

Ranvi (as he leaves): I'll go and visit the medbay before we return to Coruscant... I do hope they can get Trench's "seeds" out of me, before they do any harm...

Drek: I'll come with you!

Ranvi (embarrassed): Eh, no, sorry, I prefear to do this one alone now! But I appreciate the gesture!

Drek (scratching his head): Okay, then, I'll be at the... ship and... doing... stuff...!

Lana: I'll meditate on what has happened today... See you later guys.

Some time later Ranvi returns to the ship, frustrated, while you two are already on board.

Drek: What's wrong? Did they manage to do "that"?

Ranvi: No! They run all sorts of tests, but concluded that no current technology may extract his sperm from my body now...! Fools, and they call themselves doctors...! They advised giving carrying these seeds, until they are big enough eggs that they too could remove physically! What nonsense! I do love nature, but this is too much even for me, I'll carry the eggs of no other species! But I have a backup plan. If technology can't help me prevent this unwanted "burden", I'll ask Mother Talzin to help me, I'm sure she'll have a spell for that!

Drek: Oh boy, one more place I don't seem to be allowed to follow you...

Lana: Do you need me to be there with you?

Ranvi: No, I'll be fine, just drop me off there, I'll take one of their spare ships to get back to Coruscant when we are done!

Upon dropping Ranvi off on Dathomir, she immediately seeks out Mother Talzin to help her with her problem. You leave right after she sets her foot on the surface and head straight to Coruscant. At her fortress, she meets the young Merrin and Morgan Elsbeth, playing with a doll on the floor.

Ranvi (kneeling to them): Hello Merrin, Morgan! How are you?

Merrin: Hello Ranvi! I haven't seen you in a long time!

Morgan (enthusiastically): Hi Ranvi! I have just learnt a new spell from the elders, can I show you? Also, I'm getting quite skillful with the bow, we should compete sometime!

Ranvi: Sure Morgan, I'll meet Mother Talzin and I'll see what you can do! I'm tingling with anticipation! Oh, is that a new doll Merrin?

Merrin: Yes, my mother has given it to me last week! It is my new favourite!

Ranvi: I settle my business, then we should play a little when I'm done!

Merrin and Morgan (joyfully): Yeey, we're looking forward to it!

Ranvi (later, at Talzin's room): Mother!

Talzin (hugging her): Ranvi, my child, you have finally arrived! I have foreseen your arrival!

Ranvi: Mother, I have a serious problem...

Talzin: Speak no more. I know what has happened, I keep an eye on my most prominent sisters. Come, we have already prepared everything, the ritual could begin as soon as you are ready!

Ranvi: Thank you mother!

Talzin: To tell the truth, I was expecting you to be first seeded by that human boy, rather than a Harch! Or even by a Nightbrother, as dictated by our traditions!

Ranvi (embarrassed): Mother, let's not talk about such things, please!

Talzin: As you wish, but do know, that when the time comes, you too will have to bear the burden of becoming a mother! According to our prophecy, your daughter will be the most powerful of our kind at her time!

Ranvi (bored): Yes, yes, the prophecy...

Ranvi is laid onto a table, with 6 elderly Nightsister witches surrounding her. They all chant magic words as some green **** energy fills her body, causing it to levitate and paralyzing her entirely. The energy lifts her robe, revealing her bare bottom, then rushes into her body, through her pussy to cleanse it from the inside of all things, unwanted by her. Shortly, the ritual is complete, the energy exits her body the way in entered, slowly putting her body back onto the table.

Ranvi (looking at her belly after sitting up): Wow, that was... Bizarre...

Talzin: My child, our magic is art, you will learn to perform such techniques in the future too. But for now... You did promise Merrin and Morgan to play with them, didn't you?

Ranvi: Y-yes, thank you for cleansing me of that...! Thing...! I'll look for them right away!

Elderly Nightsister (after Ranvi leaves the room): Great Mother, why did you not tell her about your new visions? The visions about our destruction? Why keep up the deception of all our sisters, save the elders?

Talzin: They are not ready to face the concent of such powerful visions. They cannot change the course of the galaxy on their own in time. Let them enjoy their time, while they still have some. I prefer them having it joyfully, rather than fearfully, if the outcome is inevitable. But I do see hope for some of them yet... I will go and meet the Mountain Clan tomorrow, even if their peaceful ways prevent them from helping us fight our battles, they could help those left behind by carnage.

Not knowing about the impending doom of the Nightsisters, Ranvi and Merrin joyfully play together, before she joins Morgan for an archery contest.

Meanwhile on your ship back to Coruscant, while you are meditating in your quarters:

Valare: Well well, that was an eventful mission! You were chased by a bounty hunter, participated in an orgy of sorts, killed off hundreds of thousands of people... You would shame many Sith by these achievements!

Lana: Your comments aren't required right now...

Valare: Which disturbed you the most? The orgy? I don't think so! The deaths? Well, people die all the time, especially in a galactic war! Maybe that bounty hunter slipping away from you? At least you weren't killed!

Lana (opening your eyes and stopping the meditation): Shut up!

Valare: By the way, there had been numerous bounty hunters sent after you so far... Have you counted? Not so many Jedi gets to be sent so many bounty hunters after and lives to tell the tale! Be proud girl!

Lana: That's one compliment I could do without, thanks...!

Valare: At least you haven't gotten to be sent the Genoharadan after.

Lana: That's just a myth, nobody has ever found any proof of them!

Valare: Oh your naivety always surprises me! My little friend, you are so wrong, it's hurting me. Of course they are real, they just haven't left anybody alive to tell the tale about them!

Lana: Than how do you know?

Valare: Trust me, I know what I'm saying!

Lana (suspiciously): Sure... Wait, how is it that we are talking to each other now?! I was only thinking when I was talking to you earlier!

Valare: Oh, so you noticed? Maybe some of my power has returned to my spirit while travelling with you. My lightsaber is in good hands, I have known it for some time! It is possible that when you use the ****, while having it around causes some **** energy to return to my spirit. But that wouldn't be enough on its own... Probably the strong dark side **** energy of Dathomir allowed me to take shape once more. Even if temporary as it may be...

Lana (closing your eyes to continue your meditation): Just because you are a ghost with an appearance, won't change the fact you are only a long dead Sith lady...

She smirks and moves to give you a slap on your ass. You are unbalanced of your meditating form and fall forward, with your face hitting the floor.

Valare (laughing): Haha, I was looong waiting for this to be done! You had that coming for some time now!

Lana (angrily): You little...!

Valare (disappearing): Remember girl, don't die on me anytime soon! Now that I have real hope of returning once more after a few millennia, I truly need you to stay alive to make that happen!

Lana: Who said I was going to resurrect you, huh?!

Drek (entering your room): Lana, are you alright? I heard some blunt noise and you were talking, is there a problem?

Lana (lying): N-no, I was just... Having a hard time processing this mission's outcomes and how to tell the council about them...

Drek: Yes, I understand the feeling... We will be arriving to the temple within an hour, we should put together a report by then.

Back at the council meeting the masters were shocked to learn about the loss of two masters. But they had sensed something like that, just didn't want to acknowledge the fact, until it was proven. Although saddened by the losses, thy were proud of you, that you have made the right choice and saved so many lives. You have advanced towards being a great Jedi one day, none can deny that.