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// Chapter 14 - Running For It 
// Story: The End of Time 
// by Leondude 
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Our heroes went into their attack positions while Laeyoon walked towards them with his new lightsaber in his hand. Rather than make the first move like he always did, he instead deactivated it and picked up Jaesa, who was unconscious from her fight with Luna, in a bridal position and walked back to where he was. Twilight, assuming Laeyoon cared for Jaesa and had a sense of camaraderie for his allies, the latter of which being not entirely true, moved to a non-threatening position. She looked towards Starlight Glimmer and the unconscious Captain Goodking before looking back to Laeyoon.

"Since your allies have already kicked the crap out of us," Laeyoon said while looking at Twilight "How about we postpone this until we're all better and I bring everyone else with me?"

"No, but I will give you the choice to surrender."

"Surrender? Have you met me? One does not simply be appointed The Emperor's Wrath by surrendering. In fact, the reason I keep coming back after every fall is because I am so consumed with rage at the thought of anyone besting me. You think you have won, but just you wait when I have returned!"

"But what about your friends?" Twilight asked.

"If you think that my allies will convince me to bow to the likes of you, then you are gravely mistaken," Laeyoon said, "We all have our reasons to fight, loyalty to the Empire for Pierce and Quinn, bloodlust for me, Jaesa and Broonmark. I have no idea what Vette has to gain from fighting you if we meet again but I can think of a good reason."

Given how Vette was the only sane member of Laeyoon's ragtag crew, Laeyoon had difficulty thinking of a reason as to why Vette would fight. Maybe it's gratitude for Laeyoon freeing her from slavery the same way he freed Jaesa from the lies of the Jedi. Laeyoon then noticed the unconscious Rainbow Dash on the floor and turned to Pierce.

"Pierce, would you kindly hold onto Jaesa for me?"

"As you command, my lord."Pierce took Jaesa's unconscious form from Laeyoon's hands.

"Thanks, mate."

Laeyoon then used the Force to lift Rainbow Dash up and pulled her towards him, igniting his lightsaber and plunging the blade into her abdomen. The shock was enough to wake Dash up.

"No!" Twilight shouted

"Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo cried out.

Laeyoon deactivated his lightsaber while allowing the awake but wounded Rainbow to fall onto the floor, with everyone immediately running towards her as she did so. Rainbow convulsed in pain as her friends surrounded her, concerned for their friend's health.

"I don't know what you guys are worrying about," Laeyoon said callously "I didn't stab any of her vitals. One hour in a bacta tank and she will be as right as rain."

Starlight looked up at Laeyoon and glared daggers at him. She then charged up her magic to subdue Laeyoon, but Laeyoon just rather casually gave her a Force Push that knocked her off balance, the magic shooting at the ceiling as she did so. Laeyoon turned around and made his way back to the docking bay.

"Come Pierce. While they heal their allies, it's best if we heal ours. So that way, when the time comes, we will have an even match to the death. Us lot against them lot. Sounds fair, does it not?"

Captain Goodking took a quick glance at Laeyoon casually strolling off, with Pierce following him while carrying an unconscious Jaesa.

"Uh...guys?" Goodking said "The bad guys are getting away."

"Leave them," Luna commanded "They are mere grunts."

"Yeah, well those 'mere grunts' could be good leverage!"

"You did see Kronos thrash the horn-headed one like a ragdoll, right?" Luna asked.

"Maybe they might know something about Kronos' plan."

"The horn-headed one knew nothing about what Kronos was planning."

"You know, I'm hearing 'the horn-headed one' being repeated a lot and nothing about the big guy accompanying him!" Goodking said.

"Since it's clear that the big one is subservient to the horn-headed one, chances are he is as clueless as his superior," Luna said.

"You know what, while you guys patch up Rainbow Dash, I'm gonna go after them."

Before anyone could plead with Captain Goodking to not go chasing after Laeyoon and Pierce, Goodking raised a fist and ran after them while letting out a battle cry. Meanwhile, further down the corridor, Laeyoon and Pierce are having a lovely chat.

"Do you think this Kronos fella could be trusted, my lord?" Pierce asked.

"I trust him just as much as I trust Darth Malgus," Laeyoon replied.

"So not much then."

"Depends. Do you trust Malgus?"

"Not really. There's a rumour going on that he's something of an alien sympathizer," Pierce said.

"Ahem."

"Oh, no offence, my lord!"

"None taken."

They continued walking nonchalantly down the corridor until they heard the sound of an incoming roar. Laeyoon turned around and noticed Captain Goodking charging right at them.

"Oh kriff. Pierce, run!"

And with that, Leayoon and Pierce immediately legged it to the docking bay as quick as they could. When they finally arrived back to their ship, they paced impatiently as they waited for the door to open.

"Come on, you bloody thing!" Laeyoon said frustratedly "My HoloNet connection is faster than you!"

While waiting, they noticed Goodking was now running after them on all fours and was no longer doing an overdrawn battle cry. Soon enough, the door finally opened and they ran into the ship as quickly as they could, with Pierce accidentally hitting Jaesa's head on the way in.

"Sorry, Jaesa," Pierce said.

The door slowly closed up, but not before Goodking hopped inside of the ship and leaped onto Laeyoon, who had just sat down in the pilot chair's. He slammed Laeyoon's head into the control panel a few times before he chucked Goodking off of him and onto the control panel. Captain Goodking pounced on Laeyoon as they both rolled about taking turns grabbing each other by their throats before rapidly swatting at each other with their arms.

"Get your stinking hands off me, you darn dirty alien!"

"You said the words out of my mouth, just replace 'darn dirty alien' with 'damn dirty ape'."

"Racist!" Goodking slammed Laeyoon against a wall.

"Oh, for kriff sake! If you think that's racist, just wait until you see the rest of the Sith Empire."

As the pair continued to slap at each other's hands, they failed to notice the hyperdrive going off, resulting in them flying into the back wall as the ship flew off and spun around without a pilot.

"I think I'm gonna be sick!" Goodking said.

"This is your fault!" Laeyoon shouted at Goodking.

Soon enough, the spinning eventually ceased with a sudden thud and the two being violently thrown into the front window of the ship. After that, they then continued their slap fight until they noticed a Sith Lord staring at them through the window with an unamused expression. The Sith staring at them was a human male with blue eyes, a small pointy beard, a red facial marking on one of his eyes and short, dark brown hair. His face was slightly ravaged by the dark side but not to the same extent as Malgus or Baras.

"He started it!" Laeyoon and Goodking said simultaneously while pointing at each other.