STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Holocron

"I can do them because..." Rallo says, but he is interrupted by Rianna running him through once again. "Oh, really, we're going to keep doing this?"

He grabs your lightsaber blade and begins to crush it between his fingers. It very quickly starts to crack and flicker.

Rianna is going to quickly deactivate her lightsaber before he can break it.

You flip the switch and the hilt begins to make a strained, whining noise that you have never heard before. The blade does not turn off and continues to crunch like glass in Rallo's hand.

"Are you going to knock this off?" Rallo says. "Otherwise you can join your friend in his apparently permanent death."

"Let go of my lightsaber! How are you even holding on to it - there's no physical blade to grab!" Rianna says, trying to pull it out of his grip now.

"There is if I say there is!" Rallo says. "What are you all finding so hard to understand about this? I created everything you see!"

"Except us," Galder says, pointedly.

Rallo responds by yanking Rianna's lightsaber out of her grip, then out of his chest. He tosses it away somewhere, and it explodes like a grenade.

"Except you," Rallo says. "How about you explain that to me? How is that I cannot do anything to you, like I can to your students? Or the soldiers?"

You notice at this point that your soldiers are simply missing.

While this is going on Xavier tries to reach out to Master Dak with his senses.

"Perhaps first you should tell us where we are?"

...Rianna's a bit pissed about that.

"How can we explain it? How are we supposed to explain any of this? None of it makes the slightest bit of sense!"

You sense quite clearly that Dak is dead, Xavier.

"That is because you will not allow yourselves to see it," Rallo says. "I am supreme."

"You're a monster," Galder says.

"Only because you won't accept the truth," Rallo says. "That I am GOD."

Xavier's face drops sensing the demise of his friend.

"Wait a minute I'm trying to think here," Xavier pauses

"If you are god then you could bring Dak back. As far as I know we've always been here. But you said this is your first time ever seeing us like you've played this battle out a million times before."

"No. You're not. You are completely mad!" Rianna snaps back, lashing out with a Combat Push.

Rallo frowns at that comment, Xavier... and you feel odd about that comment as well. That feeling of deja vu sweeps over you once again, as it does Rianna.

Rianna, of course, is too busy trying to attack Rallo to dwell on it. He just reflects the push and Rianna falls to the ground.

"What did you say to me?" Rallo asks Xavier.

"What are you talking about?" Galder also asks Xavier.

Xavier sees Rallo frown and hates the feeling deja vu.

"That I've always been here?"

Then turns to Galder, "I don't know all I know is that he makes it sound like he's fought that battle a thousand times over in different ways re-creating everything afterwards, and I keep getting this feeling of Deja Vu."

"I've gotten it too..." Rianna says as she picks herself up off the ground...again...

"Why would he do that?" Galder asks. "We've never fought this battle before. Vorkuta was abandoned until we established the Temple here..."

"I don't know...this entire situation is insane," Rianna replies.

In any case, Rallo appears to be storming off, away from the Temple.

"Where do you think YOU'RE going?" Galder asks, raising his gun again.

"I have some thinking to do," Rallo says, glumly. "I'll be back, don't you worry..."

Galder tries to shoot Rallo, but his gun is now a corkscrew.

"Get back here and fix this mess you've made!" Rianna shouts, going after him.

"This situation is insane." Xavier reaches back into his memories to try and see what he can remember about the battle.

Rallo vanishes into the gloom of the jungle... but his soldiers are starting to swarm angrily on the edge again, ready to launch their attack.

"We should retreat to the inner sanctum," Captain Trad advises. "It's dangerous out here..."

Galder casts a curious glare at Trad, then nods.

"Let's check on the Hopefuls," Galder says curtly.

"Fine," Rianna says, not particularly wanting to face down all of these soldiers on her own and unarmed.