The small team of four made their way into the stronghold's foyer with relative ease, which was surprising to all of them. With the knowledge of it's master being gone now, it was a cake walk for them mostly since, security was light, and despite there only being one prisoner here. That was why they figured it would be easy for them as no one would be able to chalk up that anyone would be crazy enough to attempt such a rescue, at least Megrybo was sure of it.

He noticed Jaelynne smile as she finally felt Sea's presence, but she knew all too well that they needed to continue on with saving him and continued to check the coordinates for the security room. Unfortunately, but sadly expectedly, they ran into two droids and a single trooper who were not at all expecting them.

"Halt! Who are you and what are you doing here?" The trooper asked, raising his blaster rifle at him. Upon closer inspection it would revealed that the blaster was a Czerka CZX-4 model, because of course it would be.

Rather than try to explain their presence, they had no choice in eliminating the trooper and the droids swiftly. They made it seem like they would talk to the small patrol and in the next moment after they took out their weapons and cut them down quickly. Jaelynne struck first by taking out the droid on the right side of the trooper with a simple saber toss and Meg followed suit for the other droid, and as for the trooper well Krofu and Budaru worked fast to ensure that he wouldn't scream for help, while one covered his mouth the other slashed the man's throat with a vibroknife. In only seconds they were clear.

Staunching the blood that had splattered from the trooper and the messy oil puddles that had been made from the droids, the four dragged the bodies to a nearby service shaft and shoved them down it. They figured it would be a while before the bodies would be noticed and thankfully their team would be gone by then. Once the panel on the shaft was shut closed, the four moved on to the security room down the hall and to the right. It both made sense and didn't for such a room to be located on the same floor as the entrance, but for a building such as this it wouldn't be unlikely as well. It was just lucky for them.

Megrybo begun hacking into the mainframe to disable the emergency security resources and alarms that would happen if one was ever tried to be pulled. In the meantime Jaelynne and Krofu got to work on shutting down most of the major systems, mainly the surveillance and communications. Budaru was thankfully stationed at the doorway clearly being on lookout for any more enemies that could pass by. They each did their jobs within the planned three minutes as they intended and moved on afterword.

Their next step was to recover the armor for Seakata, which sadly they would have to back track for on the other side of the floor. Tage's coordinate point lead to a rarely used utility closest for the cleaning droids, it was a somewhat perfect place to hide it really. With the armor secured and taken, Jaelynne pulled the armor bag out herself and slung it over her shoulder. The closet door shut silently behind her as she did so.

From Tage's instructions alone, there were two very alternate places that Marr would be holding Seakata in. The first was a room several floors down, and the other being several floors up. The lower level location was situated in the holding cells and was the more likely. Tage suspected that the staff might house Seakata while Marr was away, but that the upper level was where he had discovered that Marr preferred torturing and kept the Jedi. There was always the possibility that he could there as well, but anything was up for debate.

They had decided early on after Tage had first given them the intel that the four would split up into two groups to cover ground much more faster. Meg would be accompanying Krofu to the upper level, while Jaelynne would go with Budaru to the lower levels. The first group who would find Seakata would signal the others to meet up at that location, get Seakata dressed in the armors and leave after that.

Unfortunately they only had fifteen minutes left to locate and extract Seakata before they would be detected. The four nodded understandingly to one another before they quickly split up and bolted for their destination's. Meg and Krofu ran towards the upper elevator on the east side while Jaelynne and Budaru went west to the lower level elevator.

Meg and Krofu had unsurprisingly ran into two sets of guards on the upper levels. The two of them figured that Seakata had to be up here after all considering it seemed unlikely to have so many guards on such a small floor.

The first set of guards had caught them off guard considering the short amount of time it took to just encounter their enemies. They were able to recover their momentum and dispatch the two guards, and then finally the two security droids that were with them. Meg carefully neutralized the droids temporarily while he and Krofu handled the two guards after words. When the two guards were finished with, they both overcharged their sabers and stabbed the droids, frying their circuits and immobilizing them in seconds.

The seconds set was unfortunately a pair of Dark Honor guard's and were a fair bit more challenging. Thankfully they were both much more vigilant than before and saw them first while masking their presence. Krofu silently and skillfully motioned for Meh to take the one on the left and that she would take the one on the right. Unleashing their sabers, they soon Force Leaped to their surprised targets and a brawl commenced just moments after.

Meg made a quick frontal slash assault on his target, but was parried to his dismay. Meg back off and came at the guard again, once more being blocked and or parried from his slashes. For several moments they continued parrying back and forth before Meg suddenly and purposely changed his attack, which to no surprise caught the guard unaware. Where as before when he would leap forward to strike him, this time Meg leapt past him and turned around to stab both of his sabers into the guard. The guard with some surprise for Megrybo dropped immediately, almost completely void of life by the time he hit the ground.

Krofu had managed to land a strike her target on the first blow, but soon found out that this guard was very proficient in Force Lightning. After getting what she felt was the shock of her life, seeing her armor smoking, but thankfully still intact, she brought up her saber and tried to decapitate the guard only to be blocked sadly. The guard as expected tried to shock her once again, but she evaded it this time, and took the opportunity while the guard was distracted to come from the right side with a sweep upward of her saber. She catched the guard up the side of his body, and quickly she whipped around to the other side before he could recover to land the final fatal blow to the head.

By the time the two had finished they realized that time had slipped beyond what they expected it to, so they decided to push forward quickly to the room the guards were standing in front of at the beginning of the fray. Within just a few short moments the door opened, and they walked in hoping that Seakata was in there.

Sadly he was not in there, and it appeared no one was in there as the room was completely empty. It baffled both of them as it made no sense to guard an empty room, but they figured it may have had been the torture chamber that Sea was in at one point. With a final look between the two, they raced back out and down the short hallway to the elevator. Once they got off the elevator, they ran to the other side and got into the lower level one...hoping they could get to their friends in time.

The elevator ride as they both understood would take some time for them to reach the others. In total there was over eleven floors they had to take down, and with most of the lifts power being used by other components it was definitely slower than usual. It just bit at their nerves for having to probably wait as their friends were probably fighting right now.

Meg felt Jaelynne's force fluctuate and he already knew that she was fighting. It worried and concerned him now that both Jael and Budaru could probably well be in over their heads in a fight. He knew very well that the two could have been walking into a trap after what had happened to both himself and Krofu on the top level. This entire situation was dreadful really considering everything that was going on at the moment.

Everything at the moment was rather concerning and fault worthy as they knew very well by the time they entered the elevator. Both of them understood very well that the emergency systems for the facility could kick in at any moment from now if they didn't get Seakata by the time they were out of the lift. This would turn south at any moment sadly.

He knew very well the anxiety and frustration that was building up within this entire situation, and it did little to keep Meg calm during the ride. "We need to get to them...fast!"

Krofu pursed her lips, nodding tightly and thoughtfully knowing full well what he meant. She had felt it too. Their friends were under attack downstairs and were possibly outmatched. This was almost becoming a disaster for the ending at least that's what she believed.

The elevator seemed to crawl slower than they had thought and it was to possibly due to Meg's frustration as well as the fact that they had to travel over double the amount of floors to travel to. Krofu put a hand on his shoulder for just a moment, trying to reassure him. He was wound up he shrugged it off. Thankfully she understood his concerns.

"She is with Bud...it will be fine I assure you. They can hold them off until we get there. Don't worry and just keep calm." She assured him with a fairly confident smile.

Meg wished he could be as confident as she, but he had trouble where Jael was concerned. If anything were to happen to her...well there was no telling what he would do.

Though he couldn't even finish processing that thought because it would drive him crazy if it became a reality.

******

It didn't take much longer for the two to arrive at their destination, but only a few minutes later due to everything that was going on around them. The situation outside the elevator doors weren't all too well either. 

Several bodies littered the floor, evident that Jaelynne and Budaru had already dealt with a good chunk of the guards within the level. Although it was clear that there were two troopers left and only one Sith, they had very little time left. So naturally the moment that Megrybo noticed that the one wounded Sith was making his way towards Jael, he launched at him and caught him by the shoulder. The Sith as expected whirled around and howled, with murderous intent clear in his eyes as he made his way to battle Megrybo.

Jaelynne he knew was grateful for the assistance since she was understandably busy dealing with the remaining two troopers. Although she was worried for Budaru who she knew was injured from his battle with the two Sith prior. Krofu thankfully had ran over to check on her friend who she understood was seriously injured in this moment.

"Are you okay?" she asked upon reaching him, concerned as she watched Bud go to his knee, clutching his side and breathing rather heavily as well.

"Pfft. This is nothing. I've had so much worse than this. I'm just more tired than anything. Those two Sith gave me a hell of a workout." Budaru said as he grinned tiredly and arrogantly. 

Krofu smiled, shaking her head at her friends usual sarcastic attitude. She looked over her shoulder quickly to see Megrybo slamming his saber into the sith, while Jaelynne decapitated the last trooper. The room was now clear and secure, thankfully.

"Time has almost run out. We have to get him now or never. He's behind that door, I can feel him stronger than I could before." Budaru said, standing back up slowly as he nodded toward the door behind him.

Megrybo and Jaelynne rushed over to both Budaru and Krofu, thankfully Jaelynne had retrieved the armor bag she had dropped during their fight just moments before. They all approached the door and Budaru nodded to Jaelynne to proceed. She gave him a grateful smile as she input the security code to the door and yanked it open rather quickly.

Not a moment later, a tranquil and meditative half-naked Seakata greeted them as if it were just another ordinary day. It was a typical Seakata thing too expect from him, or that's what Meg thought at least.

"Hey guys...what took you all so long?" he said weakly, attempting to stand up finally.

Jaelynne rushed forward soon after, "Master!" She cried as she caught him just before he would have pitched over onto the floor, and he would have considering the state he was in.

Meg was certain that this was being difficult for Jaelynne to process just from looking at the man. Seakata could barely even be recognized from his appearance alone. His hair was a stock-white and his face had aged horribly. There was old and new scar tissue all over every exposed part of his body and were probably in places they couldn't and wouldn't want to see regardless.

"My god, what did they do to you, man?" Budaru said in disgust as Jaelynne quickly got him dressed.

"A lot of torturing, ya know the usual." Sea said tiredly and weakly. Although his gaze moved towards Megrybo and a light grin etched it's way onto his face. Meg already knew what was coming even before it left his mouth, "Eh, I feel like I understand why you wear such closed equipment now, Meg." He finished with a light laugh.

Meg wasn't at all phased by what Seakata said, rather he was amused by his expected sarcasm and joke. Even he was offended then he would need to suck it up as he was the one who would be helping Seakata to the shuttle. That was something he wasn't upset about at this moment, and he doubted he would be.

******

Tage had hoped that this would make up for his 'misdeeds' where Jaelynne was concerned according to his dear brother. As he watched them get back onto the shuttle with their rescued compatriot he laughed heartily, envisioning the absolute rage and shock on Marr's face when he found out his prisoner was gone from the most fortified place in all of Imperial Space with a small exception of Korriban itself.

Upon the group arriving he noticed that Seakata was aware that he was there and it was obvious that a awkward conversation was being held by both he, and Megrybo. It seemed his brother would have a lot of explaining to do to Seakata concerning the fact that Tage was the one who brought him here in the first place. How joyous for his brother, he thought grimly.

Tage had ensured that all the bases had been covered. As they had come out with a weak Seakata, he had a medical bed and droid he reprogrammed at the ready for their cover story. Thankfully for them they didn't require it at all. No one bothered to notice a single damn thing. As Tage had scrambled the surveillance feeds from the time they approached to the time they exited the Citadel completely, no one would be the wiser that he had helped. Even if he was suspected of being linked with the incident it would not matter regardless. His staff would vouch for him by saying he was in his office with his two friends the entire time during the ordeal, and how stupid they were considering none of them knew of the secret exit that lied within his office.

The only two that could say anything were his friends, the real Harlon and Iaonara. Despite knowing of their utter loyalty to him, he could not take the risk and chance. So while he was waiting for them to rescue their Jedi friend, he had made a call to a bounty hunter to freeze his dear friends in carbonite and bring them to his secret home on Yavin-4. Frozen people could not tell tales, after all and that was thankful for him. There would be a 'crash' documented of the shuttle on the off chance anyone came looking for the somewhat annoying Sith, which he highly doubted.

Someday, when or if he was already in power, he would unfreeze them and give them the chance to submit and accept his power or he would strike them down as was the way of the Sith.

Today had ended up better than he had expected for all of them, and he could not help but to smile as the shuttle launched rather quickly after they were all loaded in.

They had earned a victory today, and that was something that Tage knew his brother and his friends needed, at least for right now he thought gleefully.