It is no use, Rianna. They are swarming in from all sides, pushing into you. No matter how quickly you cut them down, there is always more to take place in the mob.
Xavier moves to assist you, dodging a mortar, and experiences the same fate. You have no idea where these soldiers are even coming from! It's almost like they're springing out of the ground.
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Rallo flinches mildly when you full-on punt between his legs. In addition to some damage done, it greatly aggravates the Sith Lord.
"Is it so hard to believe?" Rallo asks. "Allow me to enlighten you, Jedi."
Rallo applies more pressure to your lightsaber blade and it begins to crack along the point where it bends the most. The cracks seep sparks and light.
With one swift chop, he smacks the side of his hand into the curved back of the bend and the blade snaps in two... at which point, it explodes in a violent burst of white-hot plasma.
You are thrown by the explosion and your scaled body set aflame.
Galder is frantically firing at the troopers engulfing Rianna, trying to help clear her a path. He is having the same difficulty; there are just too many coming from all sides. At this point, no matter where she turns, Rianna's lightsaber just comes into contact with soldier armor and flesh.
They're not even trying to harm you, Rianna... they're just crowding you in.
Your soldiers are engaging troopers trying to advance on the Temple, since the Sith appear to be closing in at improbable speed.
Nothing about this is natural. Something is off about all of this, and you all sense it keenly.
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Dak, you try to put out the flames, but Rallo advances on you with an outstretched hand. The flames appear to intensify at his command.
"Call a retreat, lizard, and I won't burn you alive," Rallo snarls.
"There is something seriously not right about this..." Rianna comments quietly as she continues to try and clear a path out of there, slightly unnerved by the fact that they're not even attacking her, just getting in the way.
She would simply use Leaping to get out, but she's not abandoning Brath in there.
Xavier- you move to do that, but now the detonator is a banana.
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Rianna- you would likely just land in the midst of more troopers.
They are starting to pile into you, tripping over the bodies of their fallen comrades and stumbling blatantly into you regardless of whether or not your lightsaber is in the way. Shortly, you'll be buried beneath a mass of Sith soldiers...
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Dak- you try, only to have Rallo reflect the shove back at you.
"Call the retreat!" Rallo yells.
"That's a pity..." Rallo says.
He clenches his fist, and the flames consume Dak rapidly and wholly, leaving nothing left of the Jedi Master but a pile of ash and burnt scales.
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Roughly at the same moment, Rianna finds herself waving her lightsaber around at absolutely nothing. What were you fighting for? There's nobody here.
Brath is just as bewildered.
"What were we doing?" he asks.