Star Wars: A Thing Of Beauty

The Brewing Storm

After this horrendously botched mission, the remaining 43 Harrowers could all fit inside of Zorsia's ship, which is quite depressing since they came to Felucia with over 200 fighters... The mood is quite gloomy, and they're all very quiet as they spend the little time they have resting before reaching the Nexus. Marssi is in the lounge room, and her broken sofa that's missing one half somehow made it onto the well-kempt Myrewig. She is playing her Xantha again, strumming a strong and determined tune, which has a somewhat sombre tone. A storm is brewing on the far horizon, and thunder can be heard faintly in the distance. Zorsia exits the cockpit and finds Jinang sitting on the floor in the lounge room, alone and out of the way as usual.
"Its been a while." She says, sitting on the floor beside Jinang. "I feel like it's been a long time since we last spoke."

"A lots been going on, I guess." Jinang answered, making a couple of clips for his whistling bird launcher.

Zorsia sighs, feeling bad for Jinang. He just met his long lost sister only a few months ago, and she was a Republic spy the entire time... And then she knows Jinang and Gyara had something going on, and she died less than 24 hours after that started. So she knows he's going through a lot all at once. Zorsia is also not oblivious to the fact that Jinang is romantically attracted to her, or he was at least.
"Jinang?" She says tenderly, getting his attention. "... I'm -"

Suddenly Zorsia was interrupted by the Myrewig taking a hit and shaking violently, and she looks at Jinang with a brief apologetic expression before running back to the cockpit to see what's happening. There is only a single flyer after the Myrewig - a lone ETA-2 actis-class light interceptor, with yellow paint. Normally, Zorsia could easily destroy just one Jedi starfighter with her keen flying skills and her stronger, faster and heavier hitting YT-1300 Corellian ship, but this pilot who's going after them is far superior to Zorsia in aerial combat and got the drop on her, nailing the Myrewig's main jets with laserpoint accuracy. She tries to lose the attacker or blast him out of the sky - it would only take one good hit to destroy the tiny starfighter, but the pilot is so much better than Zorsia and with a few more hits, the Myrewig was crashing into the jungle... One thing that Zorsia noticed was that once she started to crash, the Jedi stopped, and on top of that, he clearly wasn't trying to blow the whole ship away, as he definitely could have if he wanted to. So the Jedi clearly wants them alive for now, which she will definitely be able to exploit...
The Myrewig plunges into the jungle, splattering colorful juices from the bright Felucian plantlife all over it, flattening down a small clearing before it stopped, perched on a crushed plume of neon orange and blue trees.
"What a wretched mess!" Zorsia shouted angrily, still inside of the cockpit beside her green, bug-eyed droid copilot. "Sharpy darling, protect the ship at all costs, I'll see if Dekker and the others can get the jets running, and Jinang and I will go kill the Jedi..."

Jinang was already prepared to fight, and she found him waiting for Zorsia by an entrance on the top of the Myrewig. The two climb out onto the roof of the tilted ship to see what they're up against.
"Be careful, Jinang." Zorsia says as they look around in the eerily quiet area. "I've got a bad feeling about this..."

The two expected an ambush, but the Jedi appeared all by himself in the flattened space where Zorsia's ship crash landed. He is no ordinary Jedi that Zorsia and Jinang could just dispatch either, but this is the legendary Anakin Skywalker - the chosen one... His blue lightsaber is drawn as he approaches the ship angrily. His master was just brutally attacked, and Jinang suddenly realized he doesn't actually know rather or not Obi-Wan is dead. He didn't kill the master himself, but fainted and never discovered what happened. And Marssi was there, and she might have just shot him in the head after Jinang passed out...
"Where's Ahsoka!" Anakin shouted, surprising the two Harrowers.

If he's more concerned about his former padawan, perhaps that means Obi-Wan is still alive. After all, Marssi isn't the sort of person to kill a man who was just spared by her friend.
"Your padawan was captured by the Separatists on this planet." Zorsia answered casually, scheming up an idea. "You're cowardly Mandalorian double agents nearly killed her, and we were trying to go rescue her. You are only serving to stand in the way of Ahsoka's rescue."

"She wouldn't be in this mess if you mercenaries hadn't stuck your noses in this fight!" Anakin snapped back. "You can't blame me for her being in danger."

"Let's stop talking about her as if she were a child!" Jinang butt in angrily. "Ahsoka is a grown woman and she decided to come here on her own! Now, you can try to stop us from saving her and get yourself killed, Jedi, or you can fuck off and stop being a nuisance."

The conversation was about to heat up, but Onyudo ambushed Anakin, attempting to splatter him with a backhand. But the Jedi jumped over the attack and took a swing at Onyudo's neck. However, the lightsaber did almost nothing. Following Onyudo's assault, Zorsia leapt into action with magic kunai, the skirt of her dress flowing through the air as she descends, trying to hit Anakin with multiple projectiles. But he blocks all of them right before having to jump out of the way of the Mandalorian giant's heavy firepower. Onyudo launches scramble missiles at Anakin, forcing him to gain further distance, running, jumping and using the force to avoid the exploding rockets. They all miss and blow up inside of the jungle, setting fire to the forest and blowing apart trees. Then Onyudo rushes the Jedi, drawing his enormous sword, and taking some lightning fast swings at the knight. Zorsia doesn't like getting too close whenever Onyudo fights, as he is extremely reckless and massively destructive, so the Chiss just tries to keep Anakin on his toes by pelting him with magic kunai while his hands are already full with the mechanical monster.
Jinang is keeping a close eye on things, staying near the Myrewig in case more Republic forces arrive, and he sees another Jedi starfighter flying by to examine the scene before disappearing away from Jinang's line of sight, certainly finding a spot to land. But that's not all: Something else entirely is lurking behind the trees, working to completely surround the area...
Meanwhile, Marssi is figuring out that the Myrewig isn't going anywhere, but she's aware of the situation outside. She feels very anxious about everything, but there's still something she could do... Marssi rounds up a couple of the toughest fighters still left in the Myrewig, and they enter the ship's cargo area where speederbikes are being kept.
"Marssi!" Dekker says, urgently following the woman into the cargo hold. "Marssi wait!"

"I ain't waitin' - I'm savin' my friend!" Marssi answered, climbing onto her starhawk bike.

"Its not that." Dekker says. "I need to come with you."

Marssi looks at the scientist and half smiles, and then she and Dekker fly off as fast as possible to try and reach the Nexus, and the rest of the Harrowers try to get the ship running again. With the Republic likely on its way and something new surrounding the scene, the only thing missing is Separatist battle droids and some Sith. The situation keeps getting worse and worse for the Harrowers - it was already the most catastrophic event in the club's history, but if they all die here on Felucia, that would likely be the end of the club, as all of the leadership would be gone... Jinang contacts K9-Base and urgently requests some kind of backup. Unfortunately, Dromund Kaas is basically on the opposite side of the Galactic map from Felucia, so more Harrowers couldn't possibly show up in time to put more boots on Felucia. But they are aware of how dire the situation is and will do whatever they can to help.

Rain starts to fall, and thunder accompanies the loud, booming battle between Anakin Skywalker and the legendary mercenary Onyudo. The giant has started using his Isogu, forcing the Jedi to really step it up a few notches in order to fight, and it's made especially difficult with Zorsia there taking lethal pot shots at him. And while they fight, Onyudo and his tremendous weaponry is making the flattened clearing in the jungle even bigger, with every missed or deflected attack ripping apart the plantlife. Jinang decides that they can't afford to wait for the Myrewig to be repaired, and calls some of the Harrowers out to try and finish this fight before it gets too bad, with just a few staying put. And that's when the new threat finally revealed itself for an ambush attack: Felucia is a super massive planet that hundreds of thousands of different species call home, including two different sentients. One is a small, unimposing and peaceful people that Jinang is familiar with, and the others are a savage, highly reclusive people that outsiders rarely see and live to tell about it. The Felucians are bipedal with arms and legs ending in four large, webbed digits, with suction-cup fingertips. Growing from the underside of each arm is a shorter, smaller arm that ended in three large more flexible fingers. Their heads consist of a large mass of long tendrils  and a pair of black eyes in the center of the tendril mass. They would have had to have crossed the planet from their home regions to reach the battlegrounds of the Separatists and the Republic, but it became clear how they were led here when Jinang saw who was leading them. His old friend from his life as a Jedi: Kal'Agur.