The droids attacked first, but Seyje dodged it as an array of bullets flew through the air where she had been standing. She leapt at the first one closest to her and was about to slash its legs off when a jolting pain shot up her side. Seyje hissed and side-stepped away, using her twin lightsabers to shield her body. Glancing down, the Sith was shocked to see two thin laser marks across her hipline left by the second droid.
Those machines were able to anticipate where I was going to be? How?She didn't have time to think about it as she jumped to the left to avoid the bullets being fired at her feet. With a snarl, Seyje leapt at the wall near the second droid to try and use it as leverage for an attack – but to no avail. The first droid spun and blasted the wall before she got there, causing the Sith to freeze up and fall to the ground. She spun on the ground to protect herself, but not before a few more lasers grazed her arms and legs.
Damn it! It's like these droids know what I'm going to do before I actually do it.
Seyje rolled to her feet and slashed out at the metal legs in front of her, but the second droid stepped back to avoid the weapons and instead fired a few shots across her exposed shoulders. She cursed herself and instead jumped back to the edge of the room where she started.
Quinn was staring at her in shock and had yet to fire a shot from his own gun. With a flick of her wrist, Seyje disarmed him and threw his weapon across the room. He did nothing to retrieve it.
At the motion, both droids simultaneously walked towards her and fired. The Sith leapt up, avoiding the blasts, and flew over their heads to land behind the droids. She spun and jumped forward, hoping to catch at least one of them by surprise, but the droids were faster than she anticipated and turned, whacking her out of the air with their metal arms.
Something cracked as Seyje was thrown to the floor with a loud thud. She drew a sharp breath, clutching her lungs. At least one, if not more, of her ribs were broken. The floor around her burst into a flurry of lasers once more, and the Sith was forced to move.
This battle was not going well for her all at. Her usual method of quick jump attacks wasn't working. Seyje couldn't even scathe the droids, much less destroy them, and here she was with broken ribs and burns all across her body.
There's got to be a way to penetrate their defenses. But how?!
She decided the only way she was going to make it out of this was by doing something either totally different or totally insane – the latter seemed more sensible in this situation. The Sith sheathed a lightsaber and leapt at the second droid. It stepped back quickly, firing shots, but they were deflected while Seyje continued to advanced towards it. The droid stumbled, and just as Seyje was about to severe off its head, it collapsed in on itself and rolled across to the other side of the room. The first droid imitated the movements until both stood in front of the doors they came through. Seyje froze, stunned by the droids' capabilities. She snarled in frustration at the machines.
I am a Sith, damn it, I should be crushing those two hunks of metal with ease. Why is this so hard?
With a determined growl, Seyje rushed forward at the droids. The machines whirred and buzzed, collapsing into balls and rolling away from each other to opposite sides of the room. However, Seyje hesitated only a moment in the middle of the floor and saw her chance to make an attack. While the second droid was still rolled up, she leapt at it and landed on one of its legs. Surprised, the droid opened back up and tried to fire, but she was too close and the bullets missed, hitting the floor instead. Seyje took the chance to slice off the blasters on the droid's arms, then grabbed the droid's protruding shoulder piece and flipped her body over until she was standing behind its head with both feet on one of its legs. She winced at the pain in her ribcage, but ignored it.

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SWTOR: The Davire Legacy
Science FictionA collection of short-stories about the Davire sisters, written at varying times from 2014 to 2021. I tried to post them in a somewhat chronological order, but they were not written in that way. I had always thought I would write a full fledged sto...