Student Jehsa Kor Ann

by Gallants

Gnarl

"So, what was that all about?" Shield asked me as the train crawled towards our destination.

"We needed answers and she was withholding them, so I got them," I stated, placing my helmet on the floor in front of me and closing my eyes to meditate. I felt the anger I had towards Mallory, you need to focus to defeat Mallory, he would not get away again. The train slowed to a stop, grabbing my blaster and putting my helmet on I followed Shield out.

"Excuse me sir," she said approaching the ticket booth, "Equestrian Intelligence Agency, Has this stallion bought any tickets?" holding up her badge and a picture in her aura

"No ma'am, but I saw em' get off the train and head straight into Ponyville, fool was mutterin' and sweatin' like a hog," he told us, chuckling, "Is he some kinda criminal or terrorist?" he asked.

"Yes sir, he's wanted for multiple crimes, thank you for your help," she told the now nervous stallion with a nod, stepping past I gave my own nod, causing him to shrink under my masked gaze.

We slowly made our way through town knocking on doors and checking with the citizens about Mallory's whereabouts, no one seemed to know where he was. As I fought the desire to force them to speak, my armor became hotter, soon a group of six mares approached us, as I removed my helmet wiping the sweat from my brow.

"Sasha?" I heard a familiar voice question, "girls she isn't a metal monster, she's a Twi'lek," looking up I saw Twilight talking to the other mares before she turned to look at me, "I'm sorry for getting in your way Sasha, is Fleur making plans for a photo shoot in Ponyville?" Twilight asked me, before being pushed aside by a white mare.

"Did she say Fleur?" she asked, "I am Rarity proprietor of the Carousel Boutique, and I would be delighted to make you a more... appealing outfit, for a good word to Fleur of course," I took a step back from the mare.

"Fluer models based purely on quality and sometimes how much the contract pays," I informed her, "and this is armor, it's not supposed to be appealing," I told her putting my helmet on, "Twilight, this Officer Shield with the E.I.A, I'm working with them on a manhunt for a stallion named Mallory Rose, red eyes, yellow coat, and he looks panicked, any of you see anypony matching this description?" I questioned, a light blue pegasus stepped up.

"Yeah I saw the guy run into the Everfree," she informed us, "what did he do?" she asked.

"Framed me for murder," I spit out tightening my grip on my blaster and heading towards the Everfree.

Officer Shield stayed close to my side as we entered the forest, she even jumped as animals scurried about us, "What has you so jumpy?" I questioned.

She let out an irritated huff, "What has me so jumpy?, It's the bucking Everfree forest, one of the most dangerous locations in Equestria," she let out stepping in front of me and poking my chest with her hoof, "I, want, to, know, why, you, aren't jumpy," she demanded punctuating her words with a prod of her hoof.

"I have a blaster," I simply told her stepping around and continuing our trek through the woods. Slowly the woods got dark enough where the night vision of my helmet was having trouble seeing past a couple of feet, this is where I started to get a little jumpy, thankfully Shield was too terrified to really notice my quick sweeps of the forest around us, finger shaking around the trigger. Moving further in, trusting my compass, we saw light poking through the trunk of the tree.

"I-I know we're super happy to see l-light, but I don't think we should go i-in th-there," Shield whimpered out, patting her shoulder I turned around, only to be caught with the sight of the fully lit forest, the trees densely grown around the path we had been following, "Oh, that's not horrifying," Shield deadpanned before taking a step towards the now lit path, quickly roots shot from the ground and began to rush us, Shield lit her horn creating her name sake eight meters away from our position, the roots tore through the magic wall with ease; turning around we ran towards the tree trunk and dived in.

I roughly stood up after we slid deeper into the earth, looking around the chamber I found myself in, I couldn't find Shield, or my blaster. Getting to my feet, I reached down to grab my dagger, only to grip air, panicking I looked at my hip and searched the area for my last weapon, only to find bare dirt. Shakily stepping forward I saw carved stone at the center, getting to my knees I placed my hand on the symbol in the center, and attempted to pull it back when a searing pain flowed my hand and fingers, fighting back the tears I watched the roots retreat in the walls, only then was my hand released. As the roots retreated and disappeared I was greeted with the sight of Jedi temple, a single statue of a Jedi stood before me, the lower half of his face covered with a mask. Stepping closer I read the inscription on the base of his statue, Alek, hero of the Mandalorian Wars, just behind the statue of Alek stood tall another statue this one of a Mandalorian, stepping forward, I saw the head of the statue move, and he spoke, "I am Mandalore the Ultimate, successor of Mandalore the Indomitable and succeeded by Mandalore the Preserver," the statue took a step toward me, "Prove your worth, Jedi," it said.

The stone in front of me raised the handle of sword stuck out, "Take the notched sword and defend yourself," the Mandalore told me drawing his sword, gripping the handle I pulled out the blade and deflected the first attack with ease.

Comments

[Thomlight Sparkle 1]

Pardon me for asking, but what kind of blaster is Sasha packing?