Chapter 1
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Kyle slowly came back to consciousness. He was aware of a splitting pain in his head. Slowly, he opened his eyes. He stared up at a white light that shined down from the ceiling.

As he became more aware of his surroundings, he realized that he was lying on a bed in the middle of a sqare room with cream colored walls. His naked body was covered with a thin, white sheet.

"Where am I?" Kyle muttered. He stood up, letting the sheet slip to the floor, and walked around the room. The walls were quite bare, except for a door in the center of one wall. Kyle walked over to the door and banged on it. Nothing happened.

He walked back over to the bed and sat down on it to review the facts. And that's when he had a disturbing realization - THE ONLY THING HE REMEMBERED WAS HIS NAME...

Rather than strive to recover elusive memories, Kyle instead focused his mind on finding a way out. He first examined the bed, and determined it was solid metal with a thin matress attached to the top. He followed the contour of the room, and found no vents or seams in the off-white wall panels. Then his gaze settled on the light.

After a quick calculation, he climbed up onto the bed and examined the light's protective panel, holding a hand up to shield his eyes. Finaly he found where it was bolted, and with great concentration he managed to work the bolts out of the panel. The protective metal covering slid easily off the light, revealing the wiring. Kyle used the metal panel to smash the light, surrounding himself with momentary darkness before the emergency backup lights bathed the room in a soft red glow. Working quickly, Kyle pulled the wiring and the generator from their casing, and set them at his feet on the bed.

Hopping down from the bed, Kyle moved to the door panel, activating the touchplate with a swift stroke of his fingers. As he expected, the door did not respond. Kyle then used the metal panel from the light fixture to smash the touchplate, revealing the hidden wires and mechanisms behind it. Carefully hooking the light's power generator to the door mechanism, Kyle connected the wires, and the door slid open with a soft hiss of defeat.

Kyle didn't have time to celebrate his success. He immediatly wrapped the thin sheet modestly around his waist, and stepped softly out into the brightly lit hallway...

- Neb

The hallway extended for several yards before ending in another door. The walls were lined with more doors exactly like the one Kyle had just exited. Closer examination revealed that each door had a small status panel on it, which seemed to be monitoring human beings inside.

Kyle shook his head, and tried to clear his thoughts. He unconsciously began using a Jedi calming technique, which suddenly brought back a rush of memories: "I'm a jedi, where's my lightsaber?, How did I get here?, JAN!, Jan?."

"Jan?", Kyle shook his head. Who was Jan? But at least now he remembered something about himself now - he was a jedi, and if anyone could figure out what was going on, a jedi could.

Suddenly there was clank of metal against metal from the other side of the far door. Thinking quickly, Kyle ducked back into the room he had broken out of, and pulled the broken door shut...

he could hear filtered voices speaking, and the the sound of plastiod boots agianst the metal floor. Stormtroopers..... Kyle paused, and reflected the fact that he remebered this term, but as the door slid open, and revealed the to white dressed men, his amnesia took over. He knew that the men in white where stormtroopers, but all else was blank..... where they good or bad? should he be afraid, or releaved? what should he do....

Kyle didn't wait to find out. As the two armored men examined the jury rigged door panel, Kyle ducked behind the bed and waited, the metal panel in his hand. In the dim red emergency lighting, Kyle could just make out the rifles the two men held in their grasp. They spoke briefly to one another, and then one of them turned and walked briskly down the hall. Then the remaining Trooper raised his rifle, and slowly began to walk towards Kyle's hiding place.

Moving swiftly, Kyle rolled out from behind the bed. Startled, the trooper snapped off a shot that sizzled into the wall where Kyle had been seconds before. As he stood, Kyle flung the metal panel as hard as he could at the white armored trooper, smacking the unfortunate soldier across the helmet, knocking him out cold. A few seconds passed, and then the alarm sounded, drilling at a terrible pitch into Kyle's ears.

Kyle worked quickly, stripping the body suit and armor off of the trooper, and replacing them with the sheet. Donning the armor himself, Kyle lifted the unconscious trooper onto the table. Examining the gun, Kyle discovered the stun setting, and then ensured the soldier would not wake up for a long time.

Switching the weapon back to normal fire, Kyle prepared to meet the squad of stormtroopers that had now filled the hallway outside the room, all of them with their weapons trained upon his only exit.

- Neb

(sorry for this non-story post, but I was just stunned that Neb actually writes on hte interactive story board. Just outta curiousity Neb, have you read either The Shadows of Darkness or the Neverending Story thread? Or are you only interested in stories relating to JK? Any of you can start reading either of those stories...maybe I should take a crack at this story sometime...)

Kyle took a deap breath and walked out of the room.

An officer stepped forward. "TK-S32, what happened in there?", he asked. "I had a slight problem with the prisoner - but it's all over now, I stunned him", Kyle answered.

The officer's eyes narrowed. "You had better not of hurt him - that one's special. That's why they haven't been doing any of the experiments on him yet." The officer brushed past Kyle and entered the cell.

Kyle knew that he didn't have much time before the officer realized what had happened. He started making his way toward the door.

"Hey, where are you going, we still have the rest of our patrol", a stormtrooper said, stepping to block his exit. "I, uh - have to use the refresher," Kyle said quickly. "What?", the trooper said incredulously. "You have a built-in waist collection unit you fool!"

Kyle roughly shoved the trooper aside and ran to the door, turned around, and sprayed the hallway with a burst from his rifle.

The troopers were caught off guard, and three of them went down, hit by blasts from Kyle's gun. The remaining three troopers scrambled for cover in the open cell. Kyle heard a muffled "What the hell?" from the officer, but didn't wait to hear more. Turning around, he opened the door and ran through it.

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You can run - But you'll just die tired...

As Kyle ran down, he entered a docking bay, he stopped for a moment and look out into space, he knew he was onboard a starship.

He heard footsteps and quikly ducked behind a console and tightend his grip on the blaster. The door opened with a his and stormtroopers walked in the docking bay.

''nobody here'',said a stormtrooper as he looked around the small bay. The stormtroopers left and Kyle came to a rest.
he concentrated and then stood up.

He looked around, but there was no ship in sight, where could I possibly go to, tought Kyle. The door opened again, Kyle jumped back. An officer walked up to Kyle...

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Solo

''What are you doing here, trooper? You know this area resticted since the last attack'', the officer said. ''Sorry sir, I'll go right back to my unit.'' ''What unit?'' ''U...uhh...''. Kyle made a quike move and without thinking blasted the officer.
''That alarmed those troopers, better do some fast thinking'' Kyle looked around and found an airvent. He reached for it and unscrewed the screws with his blaster. Again footsteps came from beyond the door. He quikly crawled into the ventilationshaft.

He slowly moved without making to much noise.
Filtered voices came from the docking bay, they found the officer. The shaft was rather narrow, Kyle manouvered through it not hitting the walls with his suit. He stopped at a grate and looked throught it. He saw another docking bay, except this one was full. Between the ships with two panels on the side, which Kyle hardly remember, stood a ship he had seen before.

He opened the grate en stuck his head out. ''nobody in sight'', he said to himself.
He crawled out of the shaft and jumped on the ship. suddenly voices arised above the noise comming from the engines, ''Who's there?'' Kyle leaped of the ship and took a look around a corner. Two men in black suits look around. Two other men where busy connecting wires somewhere in the wall.

One of the black dressed men walked to Kyle no seeing him. Kyle quikly put on the helmet he had taken off. The man now saw Kyle, ''What are you doing here?'' ''I was told to inspect this docking bay, one of the prisoners has escaped.'' ''Very well.'' The man walked back and notified the others. Kyle walked back to the ship and then to the black men. ''Who's ship is that'',he asked. ''Why do you have to know that?'' ''Maybe if that's his ship he could already be in it'',tryed Kyle in an attempt, knowing it was a stupid answer. The man look at Kyle and waited a moment, ''It was picked up on the planet below, it's called...'', again the man waited, checking Kyle, ''The Crow or something!'' Kyle shocked, The Crow, he thought, where did I heared that before?


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Solo

"The Crow! The Moldy Crow! That's my ship", Kyle realized with a start. A flood of memories suddenly hit him. "The Alliance, I'm with the Alliance", he remembered about the Empire and the Alliance now.

Kyle walked up to the Crow and ran his hand along it's sleek side. "Hey, what do you think you're doing", the officer yelled. "Get out of here!"

Kyle blasted the officer and moved toward the ship. Suddenly, another memory cut through him like a knife. "JAN!" Whoever this person was, he could feel deep affection for her - love. And he knew that she was on this ship and in danger.

Turning back toward the corridor, Kyle realized that he couldn't leave until he'd found Jan.