Zane's Accident

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• Story By: Zane ZyCrusis
• Summary: The story that tells of how Zane was kidnapped and taken to the fiery lava planet of Mustafar. It then tells of the events that occur that eventually lead to the accident that leads to his bionic eye, part of his face, and other limbs.

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Chapter One:

The Boring Beginning

It all started shortly after I was taken in by a fairly rich and very wise Scholar. He soon got me my own business with computers, and we found easily I was brilliant with them. I was making quite a bit of money, and business was doing quite well too. On one especially good day I decided to take the rest of my weekend and go on a short 3 day vacation.

I made sure my everything in my office was locked up and secure, then before I walked out I set my security alarm. It was top of line security system, and the latest in Secure Technology. With that I took the elevator down to the Security Floor, to resume the nightly lockup. The Security Floor, as you may have guessed, is the floor of everything in the building that had to do with security was ran, carried out, etc.

I walked up to the scissor door (you know the door that split into to, and receded into the walls when opening, then shut again once you go through)and then put my head up to the tining camera which would scan my iris. After that I scanned my palm, and finally used a voice password before the door opened. These doors were used everywhere in the building so that only selected personnel can get anywhere around the building.

Next it was time to activate what I called the "Night Droids." These droids were the various droids which some were not really people friendly, unless they were programmed to. They were droids like Guard Droids, which had hundreds of features which would easily keep any building safe. Then the Cleanup droids, the maintenance droids, and any other droids we needed. All the droids were programmed for specific duties and could go anywhere programmed without tripping the alarm, unless they were in the section in which they were not designated. With the push of a button all the Night Droids were activated. After activating these droids, I then it was time to deactivate the people friendly droids used during the day.

Finally before I walked out I checked everything inside the building, and out, using the security cameras to make sure nothing seemed out of place. Finding nothing, I walked out and headed for the front doors. Before leaving the building I set the security alarm for the whole building, then walked out to my hover-car, and then headed home.

I had had a long day, but it had been a good one. Still it was nice to be able to go somewhere and unwind, and also just to relax. After kicking off my shoes, I decided to order take out. Then I decided to take a look at some short vacations available on my Holo-Top Z41. It was very nice, and was a gift from the gracious scholar who was nice enough to give me the life I had, even if it wasn't the best one ever. The Holo-Top Z41 was a small half-sphere which after pushing the small button would project a Hi-Def, full color holographic screen and keyboard/laptop like mouse.

First I decided to check out my stocks, which happened to be doing ok. I was making a little, but insignificant amount of money. I was never very good with the stock market anyways. So I decided to then go ahead and start checking out the vacation packages available. But before I got to far my food was here. Soon getting up I answered, and feeling pretty good that day handed the guy the credits, plus a nice tip as well. Now that I had my food I could finally eat, and still check out the vacation packages.

It took all the till I was done eating, and finished a few episodes of my favorite t.v. show, till I had found anything I even wanted to consider doing, or paying for. But at last I had at least found a few options that I wanted to do. Out of all of the choices I liked I decided to select a package where you rented a Luxury Class ship, which also happened to be a good traveling ship to, as long as you didn't travel too much. I would have several droids ranging from butler, guard, cleanup, chef, maintenance, etc. I would also have all the supplies I needed, my own personal crew to make sure I was at home during the whole trip, and several other things as well.

It wasn't a fancy vacation or anything, thats not really what I was looking for. I could at least relax, make up my own rules, do whatever I wanted, and most important, have fun. I put in my credit line number and paid for it all, then booked a limo to take to the space port where the ship would be docked. I checked a few things, then shut the computer off and went to bed.

Chapter Two:

The Action Begins

The next morning I slept in, and it was not till my alarm bot woke me up did I wake up. By that time I didn't have to much time till I was supposed to be to the space port, but the way I saw it was oh well. After getting ready I packed everything, and at breakfast in time for the limo. It was kind of nice having somebody else put your things in a car, I usually proffered to do it myself though. After everything was loaded I got in the car, and decided to take a nap. This is where the real story begins, and this was one of the biggest mistakes I made in my life.

I had dropped my guard 100%, and I was however surprised to find when I woke up that I was not at the space port where I was supposed to be. I was in fact, not even on the same planet I had been before, I was on Mustafar, the lava planet. I was not happy, but before I could even say one simple word, I was kicked in the stomach, and laying on the hot ground of the fiery planet. I got up, dizzy and with a bunch of dirt in my mouth. I quickly spit it out, and took a look at my kidnappers. One was big and burly, probably the one that had kicked me in the stomach. Another was small and ratty, I bet he was the one that devised this forsaken event. The third was a man I had known a long time ago.

He was a very rich man on my home world, and also a friend of my stepfather's as well. He snickered as I looked to him. Finally the fourth one, this one was small, but well built, and very muscular. I knew instantly he was an assassin by his clothing, and the weapons he carried.

"What the hell are you doing!" I screamed in fury.

"What does it look like squirt," replied Darren, by stepfather's devious friend, and business partner.

"Why am I here? I am supposed to be at the space port so that I can go on my vacation. Instead I am stuck on this stupid firey pit!" I screamed.

"Can I silence him boss?" asked the big burly guy.

"No, not just quite yet," replied Darren.

"What am I doing here Darren?" I questioned, venom in my voice.

"Well maybe because you destroyed your father and I's plans to get us off that stupid planet, and into our own penthouse with billions of credits each," Darren said, his voice now showing aggression.

"What are you talking about?" I said, now trying to figure out a way out of this.

"I am talking about how you killed your stepfather, then left without even a simple goodbye to anybody," replied Darren.

"Ok, how was I supposed to know you and my stupid stepfather had some business plan to make billions,plus what the heck does this have to do with me?" I questioned, annoyance clearly showing in my voice.

"Well, it doesn't matter, your father left everything to me anyways. To answer your question by the way, since he is dead, that kind of canceled the money making part of our plan. So now I am going to hold you for ransom, and take everything you have," Darren said, clearly enjoying every minute of watching my face.

I was now officially ticked off, but I decided then to take action and see if I had any chance of getting out of here. They had a ship not far from here, and that was my ticket out of here. The problem was I had 4 against me, and only then only me. Four against one, those were not pretty odds. The only weapon I had was a Trandoshan Suppressor Pistol, and a couple of other guns. They had a variety of weapons and a lot of man power.

In other words their was a very good possibility Zane could get his but killed. But Zane was willing to take that chance, nobody would ever hold him captive. Well it was now or never, and Zane chose now. Quickly he stood up and kicked the first guy in the mouth,and a sickening crunch resulted, then blood poured out. The ratty guy dropped to his knees, and Zane kicked him right in the back of the neck, instantly breaking it.

"One guy down," muttered Zane.

"Get him!" yelled Darren.

The assassin was the first one to reach him , and Zane knew if he wasn't careful he would be dead in minutes. Swiftly he shot the Big burly guy in the stomach with his pistol. Zane didn't bother to look, for he knew exactly what was happening. The guy would drop to his knees in excruciating pain, and then right on q the screaming started. But Zane had his own problems, a highly trained assassin who specialized in killing victims within minutes, and leaving no traces, among many other things as well.

If Zane knew Darren, then the vane old man would stay clear of all the fighting, for the man knew nothing about fighting whatsoever. That's why he hired all the different types of men to do the dirty work for him. That's one thing you can always count on about Darren. Zane now focused all his attention on the assassin, for he would have to if he was going to survive.

Zane dodged a blow, and threw back one of his own, and nailed the assassin right in the chest. Zane then took this extra few seconds to act and then gave the attacker a high kick to the face, knocking him to the ground. Zane then went for another blow, but before he could the assassin tripped him, knocking Zane to the ground as well. The battle raged on for a while, Zane slowly growing tired, but slowly edging towards the ship.

Chapter 3:

The Accident

Zane was finally almost to the ship before the assassin finally noticed his plan, but by then it was already to late. Zane bolted to the ship, and busted open the door. Then rushing to the comlink Zane activated it. Zane quickly sent message of where he was, and his whole situation. Apparently Zane had a lot of luck for he was able to complete the whole message before the assassin finally opened the door.

By the time the assassin opened the door, Zane planted his foot in the guys chest, sending him spinning off. Zane could not start the engines because he didn't have an access code to access the control panel, or anything that could start the ship. Most ships like this were equipped with a bunch of technology like this, at least in around the empire.

Zane's luck didn't last long, and the assassin got up and hit Zane with a blow that knocked the air out of him. Zane coughed, and tired to regain air, but before he could another blow was landed right in his stomach, then his ribs, and before long, Zane fell to the ground unable to move for the moment. Zane slowly slipped back into a fatal state where your mind was awake, but your body would not respond at all.

It was not long before Zane was able to regain control of his body, but by the time he had, he had been dragged to a river of lava. Zane waited till the last minute before revealing he had regained control. Zane swiftly tripped the assassin, and shot Darren right in the jaw. Instantly Darren screamed in pain, and dropped to his knees. Zane then shot the big burly one right in the left center part of his chest, and the big guy dropped.

By the time he hit the ground the big man was dead, the impact had given his heart so much pain it stopped almost immediately. With one big thud the guy dropped to the ground, dead as a door nail. By this time the assassin was already upon Zane, going for his second blow. Zane turned around and went to shoot the assassin, but he gave Zane a huge kick to the chest, and Zane dropped the pistol almost as soon as the blow hit him.

Then the assassin jumped a few feet into the air, aiming right for Zane. Zane had no time at all before the kick again hit him in the chest, this time knocking him into the into the lava. Zane put his right had and both feet into the lava, and within seconds he jumped back out safely onto the ground.

Unfortunately by this time Zane had no right had, and no forearm, his feet were mostly burnt up and his shins had very bad burns. The left side of his face had had gotten spatter from the lava, his eye was completely burned, and parts of his face was now blackened and burned in some spots. Zane was only able to shoot the assassin in the same place as the big burly thug, and then slowly slipped half way into unconsciousness.

As Zane laid there he soon became aware of Darren. Zane groaned as Darren kicked him in the ribs. Zane could hear the old man laugh, and tell him how long he had waited to get a chance like this. Zane was unable to do anything about it, and could only groan as Darren continued to beat him.

Zane's vision in short flashes, giving him only short bursts of pain, and the sights of Darren beating him. Zane soon started to remember the times of when his step father beat him, and a growing anger started to swell inside him. Although Zane could still do nothing, he was beginning to feel his body again. This was not any better for with each part of his body starting to come back, an unimaginable amount of pain followed it, and Darren was definitely not helping.

Zane struggled to move, and with each movement only caused an even greater amount of pain. Zane was starting to think that he would die right now from all the pain he was experiencing. But unfortunately he was not that lucky, and Zane kept on living. Darren seemed to be getting tired of beating him now, and Zane would soon have a chance to try to get up.

Soon Darren showed signs of stopping, and Zane was starting to be able to move, and still be able to bare the pain. Finally Darren stopped, at least for the moment, but that was all Zane needed. As fast as Zane could he rolled over, and grabbed his gun. Zane waited a minute for the pain to pass, but now it was only growing stronger. Darren gave Zane one last kick to the head, and it was all Zane could do to aim right at the mans chest.

Zane slowly slipped into full unconsciousness, and as he did he watched Darren fall to the ground dead or unconscious. It was around this moment Zane passed out.

Chapter 4:

Bionic's, Cybernetics, all that fun!

Zane woke up for the first time inside a room with tones of mechanics. Immediately he noticed burning and immense pain all over his body, and it was past unbearable. Zane screamed out, and was silenced by a drug he was not familiar with. But that did not stop the pain. Zane began to go into uncontrollable convulsions, and eventually his body almost went into shock. Before that happened Zane heard 2 voices.

"Doctor the patient's body is about to go into shock," said a medical droid.

"Thank you med-bot, administer anesthetics please," replied the doctor.
With that Zane was out like a light bulb.

Zane awoke for the second time inside a room that was a little different than first room. The room had tons of medical droids all zooming around him cleaning his wounds, and stuff. But Zane soon noticed a sudden sharp pain, and several itchy spots all over him. As he looked down, he saw what exactly it was bothering him. His right forearm down was all mechanical.. His feet were mostly mechanical, and his shins were enhanced with bionics and cybernetics because of extreme burns.

But something felt odd about his face. Zane reached up, and soon discovered a horrifying truth. The left half of his face had a lot of spots which were now mechanized. Plus Zane could see a 100 times better with his left eye, plus see in different types of vision and more. He could see inferred, then it switched to night vision, then through several other things as well. It seemed to now be just now being programmed or something for Zane's left eye was going berserk. Suddenly Zane felt extremely tired,( because he was just given drugs), and fell back asleep.

It was not till much later, in fact 4 days later that Zane once again woke up. Zane awoke fully replenished and felling excellent. His vision now seemed like nothing had changed, although he knew his left eye would never be the same. Zane was hooked up to a breathing mask which allowed his new Bio-Lung to breathe. When they were operating they had found complications with his lung. Zane's torso was untouched, but his left lung(probably from the immensely hot air) was severally damaged.

Zane tested out the new bionic and specially enhanced limbs, but found no problems. Zane's wounds had been healed 100 percent, and then rebuilt with the latest and most hi-tech mechanics/bionics, cybernetics, etc, invented throughout the galaxy. He was a walking hi-tech robot, only an actually living being. Zane did like one thing, and that was the power that came with the specially enhanced limbs. Everything about him was now 100 times better.

Zane waited till they came for him then allowed them to take him to the front gate. As he walked out to the limo that would take him home, Zane ZyCrusis walked out a new changed man. Part him, his appearance as well as his personality had died, and been rebuilt. He was now colder, his personality darker, and he would never be the same. Zane felt safer now that he had what he had. As he got into the hover limo, he knew even if this limo was full of assassins, they would be no match for him. With that in mind, he went home.