Indiana Jones and the Sith Stone
Posted by: Darth Danno 04.16.08 12:01am

The light from above disappeared quickly as Indy continued his descent into the Shadowlands. He knew the further he dropped, the sooner he'd hit bottom, and there was no way he could survive a fall from the altitude he fell from. He needed to slow his descent, but in the encroaching darkness, it became harder and harder to see anything at all. He blindly groped about, hoping to latch onto something, anything at all. Unfortunately, nothing was within arms reach. Maybe, if he could just get his whip wrapped around something, it could save him, but he couldn't crack it while falling, and even if he could, he wasn't able to see anything to latch it on to.

"Well... this is it," Indy thought. "This is how it ends. I never thought my luck would run out on some forest floor of an alien world. I just hope I... "

"WHACK!!!"

Indy clipped something! Fortunately, he had the wherewithal to flail out with his arms and grasp onto whatever it was he had hit. A branch! He had clipped a branch, and a rather large one at that! He was lucky he didn't land directly on top of it, as the force of his fall probably would have cracked a few ribs at the very least, or at the most, caused him to sustain severe bodily injury such as a concussion or spinal trauma.

Jones glanced down. He was close enough to see the ground, but still too high up to drop down safely. Even if he attached his whip around this branch, it still wouldn't put him close enough to the ground. Going back up was completely out of the question. Then he heard a sound that didn't ease his mind. His sudden meeting with this branch apparently was more than it could stand, as he could hear and feel it breaking away from the tree. It snapped, but luckily for the Professor, it didn't snap all the way through, rather just hung at a precarious downward angle.

"At least I'm getting closer."

As if the branch could hear him, it finally gave way, and he completed his descent. The good news was that something else broke his fall, the bad news was, it was the hard ground.

"That wasn't... too bad." Indy said as he tried to rise and shake the cobwebs out of his head. He glanced down and saw his hat lying next to him. He picked it up and placed it back on his head. "Now to find a way ouuuuu... "

The ground rose up to meet him once again.

He awoke sometime later with a splitting headache, and every joint in his body cried out in pain.

"I guess it really isn't the years, it's the mileage. Ughhhhhh."

He unsteadily got to his feet, rubbing his head with one hand, and his lower back with the other. How long had he been out, or what should he do next now that he was safely on terra firma? He continued looking around, took a few tentative steps, and walked smack into another tree. He stepped back, and realized this tree was orange. Looking again, it became clear this wasn't a tree, but the garb of a very large, very angry Trandoshan with its blaster rifle leveled directly at him.

"Oh crap."

Then the Trandoshan noticed his fallen comrade, who had dropped into the Shadowlands along with Dr. Jones, lying a few feet away. He swatted Indy out of the way, and then stomped over to determine the condition of his fellow slaver.

Indy hit the ground with a thud, but fortunately remained conscious this time. "Just what I needed, more aches and pains."

Indy got to his feet as the Trandoshan knelt by his compatriot, and determined by the way the body was grotesquely positioned on the forest floor, that the two of them would never go on a hunt together, at least in this life. The Reptilian hunter rose, and turned his attention back to the other recent visitor to the Shadowlands... who now was nowhere to be seen.

Indy was moving as fast as his injuries would allow. Hindering his progress was also the incessant darkness that surrounded him, in addition to having no idea where he was going. He just knew he needed to put as much distance between himself and that ugly lizard back there. He ran until it felt as if his lungs would explode. Now he needed to find a place to hide and recoup while he figured out what to do next. Surely Honj and the Wookies knew he fell, and would be on their way down here... unless they assumed the drop had killed him, and that there was no point in pursuing the issue. But they had to come down here to rescue the young Wookies. However, their descent in the basket would take a lot more time than his did without it. As he continued his train of thought, he ascended a good-sized mound and came directly upon the center of the Trandoshan camp! Eight of the nastiest, meanest-looking slavers all turned their attentions his way, and they weren't looking to invite him to their evening meal, unless it was as the main course!

Darth Danno