The Second Tau Empire

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Grand Admiral Ferox
"Ah! Yes, hello, and thank you! I am here for diplomatic reasons. And as for the operator, well, according to the message I received, they are all busy. I'm not exactly sure who I should speak to about politics and trading, but, whoever that may be, will you bring me to him/her, if possible?" She then realized how impolite she was being. "Oh, I'm sorry, I am Grand Admiral Ferox of the UFA." Just then, Ferox, as well as the bus driver, swore they say something slip past them, but quickly disregarded it.

Tharix
"Well... huh." He wasn't sure how to reply to that, so instead he did a good ol' 'huh'. "Well, I wish that worked too-" He began, but was suddenly cut off. "Found you..." spoke a voice, shortly fallowed by a loud fizzle sound.

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"Found you..." He spoke as he ignited his crimson-black lightsaber. "Tharix, you little traitor. Here I was, thinking you being held captive by the Taus, not being employed by them!" He paused. He was outraged. "You little, idiotic, TAU-LOVING, TRAITOR!"

Tharix
"D-Darth Martyrus..."

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
He stood silently, before reaching for a up-until now hidden weapon.
He did not dare aim it at anyone due to fear, but it was now visible.
A rather large, cut down bolt-action rifle, modified to be a pistol.
"You people never change."
He opened his mouth to say something... before laughing to himself instead.
"I have no clue who you are, but get away from Tharix."

Maya
Maya heard the commotion outside the house, and decided to investigate.
She pat Phil one last time, before grabbing her favourite engraved shock lance from a panel in the wall by the door and headed out.

Bus driver #563
"hmm, probably best to speak to the empress about that stuff.
I'll drive you there, quicker than the tube network."
With that, he turned and re-entered the bus.

Drakador_Chaos
"You must remember! You spoke via picnics or something to that feather!"
He pointed at the feather, even though the Anhysbys probably realised where it was.
The obvious lack of public knowledge on psionics was, admittedly rather hilarious, and ended in most people mispronouncing it.

Drakador_Chaos

Jenwuf
"Picnics? Feather?" ...the voice sounded even more confused than before, even though due to a lack of facial expression it was sometimes diffcult to tell...
...it turned towards the pedestal the soldier pointed and started looking at the feather, ignoring the soldier that was still in the room as if having lost interest in him...

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Darth Martyrus
He looked at Akio... well, moved his head in his direction, really. He had no eyes, but he didn’t need them. He used force vision to see. He wasn’t actually all that skilled in lightsaber combat, but the force... he could easily take out an entire small fleet using it. However, due to the influx is psionic energy around New Tau, he had to focus almost all of his force abilities into seeing. “And what exactly do you think that will do?” Asked he mockingly, pointing to the pistol-rifle. He chuckles slightly. “How cute.” He then turned to Tharix. “So, Tharix, which would you prefer... death, or imprisoned for life, hmm?”

Jenwuf

Drakador_Chaos
"Well, just wait there, ill go get the others to help you out of this place"
Very quickly, he left the room...

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
He chuckled.
"What? You immune to 5 metres of muzzle flash and a bullet that tumbles through the air, therefore causing some nasty internal bleeding?"
He readjusted his aim and sighed.

Maya
"Hey! What is going on over there!"
Maya called out, slowly approaching them.

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Tharix
He stood there, frozen. For once, he had no plan. He literally didn't have any idea on how to get out of this. Suddenly he heard Maya. He felt horrible. Horrible for putting the two Taus in a position where they could get killed.

Darth Martyrus
"Go ahead. Shoot. Try me. See what happens."

Grand Admiral Ferox
"The Empress? Alright. Then please do bring me to her," Spoke she. "Alright men, on the bus!"

Drakador_Chaos

Jenwuf
...it appears the Anhysbys did not even take notice of the soldier leaving, currently tyring to find out what would be so special about this feather thing...

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
"A-Alright... I-I will!
I swear I will! Just get away from him and I won't!"

Maya
She walked quickly approaching them...
Turning the shock lance on, making sparks fly from its ends.

Bus driver
"so where you people from?" he spoke loudly back into the bus as he accelerated away from the landing pad.

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Darth Martyrus
"Then shoot. Go ahead. Right between the eyes. Come on, you can do it." Spoke he, mockingly.

Tharix
"As you wish." He spoke as he pulled the trigger. He, while Martyrus and Akio were distracted, was able to pull his blaster pistol out. The laser was fast, and, for a moment, it looked like he was going to hit. Then it didn't.

Darth Martyrus
"Nice try Tharix." The laser was suspended in the air, as if it were frozen it time. It then started changing direction, and aimed at Tharix. "Come on, did you really think it would be that easy?" The laser flew right into Tharix's foot.

Tharix
"GAH!" It hit him, and he stumbled for a moment before regaining his balance. He was obviously in pain.

Darth Martyrus
"So you choose death, huh?" He started walking towards Tharix, menacingly.

Grand Admiral Ferox
"Well, actually, we are from the Furnacia Dwarf Galaxy. We only just invented an FTL drive powerful enough to get us to this Galaxy."

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
"Why can't life be normal... just for a while...
Why do I always have to be subjected to this."
Akio seemed more upset than worried. At this point.

Maya
"Hey!"
By now Maya was very close to them.
"What is going on!
I want an awnser!"

Akio
He started to walk quickly towards Martyrus, gun not-quite aimed at him right

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Darth Martyrus & Tharix
He was right in front of Tharix now, and he swung his lightsaber, but he missed, as Tharix ducked and rolled to the side, ending up standing next to Maya.

Tharix
"That is a sith! His name is Darth Martyrus, and in very powerful in the force." He glared at the sith.

Darth Martyrus
The sith realized that Akio was behind him, and he spun around, swinging his lightsaber towards him.

Tharix
"He never liked the Tau, and was against me trying to create pea- AKIO DUCK!"

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
Akio ducked out of the way as quickly as he could...

Maya
"What's a sith? Looks like a concert goer waving a light-stick around to me."
Clearly, she had not noticed the laser be redirected mid flight.
"HEY YOU!" she shouted at Martyrus
"Come fight me! Not Aki!"

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Darth Martyrus
"You must have a death wish, little Tau." Spoke he, with great prejudice. "Fine then." He desided to slightly sacrifice his vision, as so that he could scare her off. He stretched his free hand out at her, and lightning was ejected from the tips of his fingers, just enough to be unbearably painful, but not to kill. He did that for a mere second, and then threw his lightsaber at Tharix.

Tharix
He jumped out of the way to escape the plasma of the lightsaber.

Darth Martyrus
The lightsaber came flying back, via the force, and in one fluid motion, he grabbed it and swung it upwards towards Akio, and missed by only a few centimeters.

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Maya
"Y-you... think... that... will... stop... me?"
She began walking slowly in a combat stance towards but around him, in an attempt to surround him on at least three sides, one Akio, one Tharix, and one her.

Akio
After seeing Martyrus electrocute Maya, he felt he had no choice, he aimed his pistol with deadly precision.
Pulling the trigger of his pistol, the rifle round was forced out of the barrel at lightning speed,
Due to there being so little barrel, the bullet began to tumble instantly, and the muzzle flash was large enough to reach Martyrus just after the bullet would...

The recoil from the gun, would mean he is unable to dodge anything for a moment.

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Darth Martyrus
Using the force, he was able to dodgethe bullet, but the muzzle flash? That hit. It hurt a bit, but Martyrus was a Sith. A simple muzzle flash wouldn't phase him. Realizing that he could use this to his advantage, he jumped at Akio, holding up his lightsaber to impale him... but... it didn't happen.

Tharix
"NO!" He jumped into Martyrus, pushing him away.

Darth Martyrus & Tharix
They landed hard. Dust was kicked into the air. The dust settled... And there, triumphant, was Martyrus. His lightsaber was shoved right between Tharix's shoulder and heart. Tharix's eyes were huge. Martyrus pulled his lightsaber out of Tharix, then he slowly got up and started moving towards Akio. "YOU'RE NEXT"

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
There he stood, in slight shock, accidentally cycling the bolt twice, sending a bullet to the ground unnecessarily.
"H...how could you...
Why! What did he do to you!"

Maya
Maya launched herself towards Martyrus very quickly.
Her lance pointed straight at him, sparks flying from it.

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Darth Martyrus
He simply pushed her away with the force. "Idiot. You don't get it, do you? I can see everything. NOTHING escapes my sight!" Spoke he, proceeding to not notice, and step and slip on Phil, who had exited the house out of sheer curiosity.

Tharix
He was barely conscious when he saw Martyrus stumble. He reached for his blaster pistol, held it up, and fired into Martyrus's leg. Tharix proceeded to then flop his arm back to the ground.

Darth Martyrus
"GAH!" He was hit, but not badly.

(Now was Akio's Chance.)

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Akio
"Well done ~~should have gone to specsavers~~"
With the same precision from before fired his "pistol" right at Martyrus.

Maya
The push almost made her electrocute herself with the shock lance, but she was otherwise ok

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Phil
Phil sat there, pleased with himself.

Darth Martyrus
He held out his hand to use the force, and stop the bullet, but was a bit late. Sure, it stopped... after it had already entered into his hand. "GAHHHHH!!!" He was in agony. His lightsaber deactivated, and he grabbed it with his other arm. He then quickly got up and ran- no, sprinted away, disappearing in the distance. (He gets to his ship and escapes.)

Tharix
He was lying there, unmoving, eyes still open. Everything seemed to go in slow motion.

Jenwuf

MaxwellCharlie
Akio & Maya
The two look at each other and smile at having survived before turning to Tharix.
"Oh god, Tharix! Are you ok...
Maya we need to get him to a hospital, look! He has a hole in his chest!"
"I noticed, hang on ill get the car, that should be quicker"
"Ok... Tharix, we are going to get you to a hospital...
Crap this is bad."
Akio, put his arm up to his jaw, and bit down on his shirt's sleeve before tearing the sleeve almost clean off the shirt.
He proceeded to tear it again down its centre to make two pieces, tied them together at the ends to make a longer piece. The Tau proceeds to wrap it around Tharix's chest, and therefore also the hole in Tharix's chest, to try and prevent infection somewhat from the chemicals pumped into the air to simulate real atmosphere... and more importantly to protect him from the possibility of being infected with the Hart-Eter parasite from particles of fluid too small usually to let them live till they reach the lungs, but definitely capable of direct infection through cuts.

MaxwellCharlie

Jenwuf
Tharix
The worst part was, he was still awake, and could feel his heart palpitating. He could feel the internal bleeding. He could still feel the sting of the lightsaber cutting into his flesh. He looked at the two Tau's, and said the darnedest thing. "Are y-Cough Akio, are wheeze you alright? Maya?" He paused. His voice sounded slightly gravely. Of course it did, the heat would have been intense enough to radiate up into his vocal chords. He cleared his throat. It hurt. A lot. But he hid it. "Is Phil ok? Were there Wheeeeeeze any casualties? Is Marty-Cough. Is Martyrus gone? Dead?"