"Wade." He said. " There's so much I want to tell you, so much I want to
say."  Wade put her finger over Xander's lips.  It was then the young Jedi
knew that she had already known what he was going to tell her.

" I know." She whispered.  Slowly they leaned towards each other, they were
just about to kiss, but something felt wrong, they both stopped.  Xander
began to look around the peaceful setting.  Suddenly there was a great gust
of wind.  Everywhere large red Kromagg vortex's were opening, manta ships
were flying threw by the hundreds. A Kromagg invasion had just begun.
Soldiers by the thousands were entering the once peaceful field.
Without warning a laser blast struck Wade dead center in the back.
"NOOOO!" Shouted Xander.  Wade's face became blank as she gave her lover one
last look.  Her lifeless body slowly began to fall to the ground.  Xander
caught her in his arms.  Slowly he lowered her to the ground.  "Don't die,
please don't die." He cried.  But it was no use; death had taken her.  In a
split second Xander's entire world had been shattered, he had cared more for
Wade than he should have.  The young Jedi a master of his emotions could not
control the love he felt for this once special woman.  And now, she was gone
forever.  There would never be another one, not like her.  More soldiers
were getting closer.  Xander was completely surrounded.  An angry rage was
quickly filling the young Jedi.   He leaped too his feet with his light
saber in hand.  A fierce growl was his only verbal response to the
approaching soldiers.  It was now Xander's turn to strike.  He began to lash
out at the soldier's. The dark side was taken control of the once noble Jedi
his anger had taken complete control of every movement he made.  The
resistance put up by the Kromaggs was futile their dead bodies were piling
up.  Death lay everywhere you looked.  He was too powerful for them.
In blink of an eye all the other soldiers had vanished.  Xander was
confused by the disappearance of his enemies, and yet the fiery anger still
burned inside him.  He was cheated of his revenge.  Xander could do nothing
but growl savagely.  An uncomfortable silence fell over the field.  Seconds
felt like hours, as Xander waited for the Kromagg's to strike again.  He
became impatient.
"I knew you had it in you." A mocking voice called from behind breaking the
silence.  Xander turned quickly ready to strike.  Darth Caine had a sinister
look of satisfaction on his face.   " Nice to see you don't disappoint." He
grinned evilly.  Xander then realized what he had done.  He had struck out
in anger.  He'd given in to the dark side of the force.  He had become like
his double, an agent of evil.  Quickly his emotion grew.  It was a
combination of fear, and anger.  Fear that he had fallen to the dark ways,
and anger that he allowed him self to act the way that he did.
"Xander, how could you!" A familiar voice called from the side.  It was Jedi
master Zem-ch.  There was a look of great disgust on his face.  "You failed
me, and you failed yourself."
There was a bright flash of light and Xander found himself standing before
the Jedi council.  Surrounding him were all the council members.  All with
looks of great disgust with at there once pupil.  Wade then appeared before
Xander.  It was a haunting image of her ghost.
"You failed me Xander, and now I'm dead." She said coldly.
"What was I thinking, choosing a boy to do a mans job, what a fool I was."
Arturo shouted out.  Xander felt out of control, he didn't know what was
real, or what was illusion.
"I have to focus." He whispered to himself.  He closed his eyes to
concentrate.   Suddenly Xander felt a calm feeling.  His mind was beginning
to ease.  The anger had left him, it was then he had realized it was all a
dream a trick of some sort.
  Slowly Xander's eyes opened.  He awoke to find himself bound to a Kromagg
examination table on the manta ship.  He was just being transported off the
previous world.  Immediately he began to contemplate his escape.  The
soldiers were not aware the Jedi was now awake.  Xander seized this moment
to make his first escape attempt.  With the force as his ally he went to
work on his escape.  Suddenly the controls to the ship began to go out of
control.  The panic stricken Kromaggs had no idea Xander was behind it.
They nervously communicated back and forth.  With the help of the force the
straps that once held him down were now loosening, they then fell to the
floor.  One of the soldiers noticed Xander was now free.  He rushed over to
stop the Jedi.  Quickly Xander sat up and quickly did a back flip.  He
landed perfectly on his feet.  Incredible fear struck the Kromaggs.  They
had underestimated their foe.
  Three soldiers went to grab the Jedi.  He turned and looked at the
approaching Kromaggs.  Xander held up his hand.  The soldiers went flying
back and smashing against the control panel.  The ship went spiraling out of
control.

Xander had not realized the ship had already slid straight into Kromagg
prison world # 6.  This was the world in which the Kromaggs held all
prisoners with sliding knowledge.   The ship went crashing threw the wall of
the mighty prison.  Ship was now a complete wreck.  Wires were sticking out
everywhere.  Shrapnel and busted glass cluttered the floor.  All on the ship
were now dead and yet some how Xander was unharmed.  With his lightening
fast reflexes Xander escaped the wreck once called a ship with out a
scratch.
Now inside the prison walls he would have to work quickly.  He knew because
this was a Kromagg controlled world that would mean there was sliding
equipment.  He had to find a way off this world, and most important he had
to find and save his friends.  He ran down the halls of the prison, there
were no guards in site anywhere.  He thought to himself that it was quiet
strange.  He had gotten to a room labeled sliding equipment.
"That's strange." He mumbled to himself.  " Why is that written in
English?" He asked himself.  But there was no time to ask questions.  He had
to get going.  Suddenly a Kromagg alarm went off.  He had to make his escape
as quickly as possible.  Once inside the room he saw the Kromagg scientist
in charge of all the different type's of equipment.  It took only a few
moments of Jedi persuasion to get the scientist to assist him.  There was no
time to waste the guards were getting closer. The scientist informed him
that the devise they gave him would automatically take him to the location
of his dark counterpart.  It was the best chance Xander had. But it was just
to easy, he thought to himself.  Time was not a luxury though, so he
activated the vortex.
Immediately he jumped through.  The vortex had taken him directly where the
scientist told him it would.  Directly to Darth Caine.  The startled Darth
Caine was quick to respond.
"Ha your to late Jedi, I have what I need, your home world coordinates, so
long sucker." Darth Caine shouted as his pulled out a timer.  He opened a
vortex and leaped through.  Xander stood still and folded his arms as he
watched the Sith jump to safety.
" Oh my goodness we have to stop him!" Arturo yelled.
"Yes we can not let him get away." Wade added.  Xander just stood there and
began to look at his two friends and sighed.  It was almost amusing.
"Quickly Xander what are your home coordinates I don't remember." Arturo
asked loudly.  Xander began to shake his head and laugh.  " What's your
problem man!" Arturo shouted.  Xander had closed his eyes and began to
focus.  He allowed the force to take full control of his body.

Xander opened his eyes, and not to his surprise he found himself in a
Kromagg lab. Automatically he began to look around the lab.  Xander smiled
with satisfaction when he saw the disappointed looks one the Kromagg
scientists.
"I told you it was to easy!" A half-breed scientist shouted to his colleges.
"Very weak." Xander insulted the Kromaggs.  It had all been a Kromagg trick,
a way to exploit some type of fear inside the Jedi and to obtain his home
world coordinates.
" You think it's funny?" A scientist asked.  There was a look satisfaction
on Xanders face he had ruined the weak plans.  Suddenly serge of electricity
flowed through his body.  It instantly knocked out the Jedi.
"Bring him to his holding cell, we will have another chance at it."  Science
officer Gemini said.
Unsure of how much time had past Xander woke up for real this time he felt
his head was pounding.  He was in a Kromagg holding cell.  It wasn't much to
look at.  The walls were clear, and if it was bright enough you could see
across into the other holding cells.
"Whoa man, you really pissed off those Maggs." An obnoxious voice called
from the cell across the hall.
"Excuse me?" Xander asked.  The dark figure then leaned towards the light.
He was a young man somewhere near his mid twenties.  His hair was shaven
right down to his scalp and he appeared to be clean-shaven.
"I said you really pissed off the Maggs." He repeated himself.
"Are you a prisoner?" Xander asked the young man.  The young man began to
laugh.  Xander did not find the situation very amusing.
" Well duh! Do you think I want to hang out here, man your not to bright."
He answered him.  Xander did admit to himself the question was a bit stupid,
but he wasn't going to tell him that.
"My name is Xander, who are you?" He asked.
"Well my name's Conrad, but you can call me Bennish." The young man answered.
"Very well, Bennish." Xander said.
 

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