Fate, Fateful and Fated

==The Jedi Temple,Coruscant==
To Sophiia, the hallowed halls of the Jedi Temple always seemed to be filled with light, life and majesty. As if the walls themselves were the embodiment of the order's beliefs. Serenity seemed to exude from all who walked amongst them. For one who walked into darkness for her order, returning to the temple was like a sacred cleansing. The summons from the Council of First Knowledge had come in the late morning, so the afternoon sun bathed the Tower of First Knowledge in its light. The Council only called for their shadow agents when a mission had been found for them. Otherwise they generally allowed the Jedi Shadows to exercise their autonomy, leaving them to train and become masters of their craft.
She entered the turbolift to the council chamber, the thrill of a new mission filling her with righteous energy. She felt so in tune with the force when her missions were handed down, her purpose to remove the darkness and evil of the galaxy. After two years in the field, she was being given tasks with a greater degree of difficulty. Her fervent hope being that she could prove herself worthy of the order and her role.
As she reached the entrance to the council chambers she removed her lightsaber, her most prized possession. She placed it on the plinth below the six others on a higher level. The etiquette had always been that no lightsaber should be brought into the Council Chamber unless the council themselves requested it. It was a sign of respect to their learned masters, rather than an a lack of trust of subordinates.
The doors of the council chambers slid apart and when one of the council members gestured for her to enter, Sophiia took her place in the centre of the chamber. "Welcome Lilyhelm, we have your next mission for you." She watched as her former Master floated a Holocron out into Sophiia's hands. "We created this holocron especially for this mission, in which you will find have unrestricted access to all the information this council has on the topic." Sophiia was slightly shocked, the council normally restricted information when sending a shadow into the field as a precaution. To give her an unrestricted access to information meant that the mission was of vital importance.
"We have been following clues that state an ancient threat has resurfaced. There have been rumours that there is a group trying to find an ancient superweapon. It was designed by the Sith to corrupt light side force users, but it was abandoned after they discovered it affected all life. A planetary scale weapon that caused the midi-chlorians to develop 'madnesss' in any exposed to it. Midi-chrorians infected with the madness drove their hosts to homicidal rage, driving them to kill anything living around them until they eventually died." Sophiia's blood ran cold, a weapon with the power to attack the midi-chlorians themselves could destroy the jedi, the sith and all life in the galaxy if replicated. "We must find the weapon first and destroy all traces of it. This weapon must not be allowed to exist. Follow the information, gather more and find whatever remains of it before whoever is looking for it finds it." Sophiia bowed to the council and tightened her grip on the holocron. "It shall be done masters, I will not fail you."
==The Decetan System, Outer Rim==
Cain was meditating in the hold of his ship as it drifted through the the void of space. The vessel he sat aboard was the Kom'rk Transport, called the "Haa'it" the Mandalorian word for 'vision'. Cain usually just called it The Vision when discussing it with others, speaking Mando'a seemed to make people uncomfortable. He floated through the air, his body being levitated by the force as his senses reached out into the future.
His gift of prophecy filing his mind with is, was and could be. Since he'd first learned of looking into the future, he'd been able to reach far beyond others. He could see past the points of certainty deep into the the realms of potential events. In the deepest states of meditation he could see the future and its many twisting branches as he sifted through the possibilities appearing before his mind's eye. He'd caught a glimpse of something a few days before, something he had never seen. He allowed the present and future to flow through him and into oblivion, no mind could hold onto all the knowledge of all possible futures. He had been feeling a shift in potential events, something terrible was coming its effects spreading like a stain across all futures.
Cain dropped suddenly and sharply to the floor, gasping for air and trying to reel in what his power had shown him, nothing. Yet more than just not being able to see but an absence, an absolute absence of all things. No life, no forcore, no light, no dark; true oblivion. Cain's blood was running cold as he dragged himself to the cockpit, he could not allow this event to come to pass no matter the cost. He activated the pilot droid and programmed in his destination, Eriadu. He'd traced the vision back to its focal point the familiar streets of Eriadu's Black Market.
Cain took a seat in the co-pilot's chair as the droid came online "ASP-2, Automatic Star Pilot online. Course to Eriadu plotted. Estimated arrival time, 2 galactic standard days." He closed his eyes and listened to the hyperdrive spooling up. The path of the future was shifting more than he'd ever seen it, he'd have to hope that two days would be soon enough. 
He leaned back in the co-pilot's chair as his body ached from the fatigue of his exertion within the meditation; channeling all possible futures through one's mind, sifting through them to find one particular thing through the mass of potential outcomes was a mammoth task. 
==Eriadu City, Capitol of Eriadu==
Sophiia slipped through the quiet streets in the twilight before dawn, her cloak and cowl conceal her identity and appearance from those who might be passing. Her journey to Eriadu aboard the refugee transport had been uncomfortable, yet a necessity for her missions. She had the authority arrange passage with a Republic Cruiser. Yet Republic transports chartered by the Jedi Order were so easily traceable and for a clandestine operation that was not a viable option. So she had been forced to spend two days holed up in the bowls of the refugee transport.
She wanted to use her powers to speed up her journey, but couldn't afford to give away her identity. She could sense eyes watching her as she came within two blocks of her destination. She was on her way to find 'Vau Tong' the most influential information broker in the Outer Rim, if anyone would have access to what she needed it would be 'Vau Tong'.
She reached out her senses finding the people watching her with her mind. She sensed five presences with their attention fixed on her, all of which were gathered around a single building. She had her target, the only place in the whole area with such tight security had to be the nest of the Vau Tong.
She kept walking silently as she felt the eyes watching her until she stepped inside an empty doorway, she was sure no one watching could see her. She drew on her strength and projected an illusion of herself to stand before her. The illusional figure was her size and dressed in the same all covering robe she was, she made it start walking down the street in the direction she had been headed.
She felt the eyes watching for her follow her illusion and smiled. She waited a few moments then walked in the other direction, using her illusion to shift the colour of her robe from brown to green. Feeling much more free to move she headed directly towards where the eyes had been watching her. 
As she reached within two blocks of the building she stopped her illusionary duplicate, making it shimmer and vanish. She felt the panic of the watchers as they tried to spot the person they'd been following. It was too late. Sophiia stepped into another doorway, reaching out with the force and sensing her way through the building. There were dozens of people inside and a strange dark feeling reaching out from within. The darkness sent a shiver down her spine. Something touched by the dark side was inside.
She stuck her head out to survey her target. The two story building stood clear of all the others surrounding it, with a thirty foot ring of space separating it from the nearest cover on all sides.The Vau Tong were obviously extremely cautious about letting people get too close.
The five sets of watching eyes that had been following her belonged to guards stationed atop the compound. She could sense their unease at having lost track of the unfamiliar figure. They were all on high alert.
Even with the powers at her disposal trying to sneak in now would be asking to be caught. Too much was riding on her mission to take stupid risks. She stepped back into an alcove arch and removed her cloak, her flowing pink hair cascading across her shoulders. She threw her cloak into the air making it hover, then catch the edge of the alcove spreading out cover it like an awning. She sat cross legged on the floor, reaching behind her to lift a small droid from the back of her belt and laid it on the ground. 
With a few quick presses she activated the droid and it whirred to life. The droid unfolded itself from its cube like position and stretched its legs out to its normal size. Sophiia had always loved how her droid looked like a small flightless bird, the musical tones it made only serving make it more bird like. As its start up sequence completed the droid tilted its head to the side and bleeped quizzically. 
Sophiia sighed "Why do you ask me that? You know full well why I shut you down when I'm in disguise." The droid bleeped back quickly in a harsher note "You always do something to draw attention to us if I leave you on!" Sophiia replied "Remember Corellia?" The droid made a noise like a raspberry and looked away. "You know exactly what you did EV-1! It made the whole thing collapse on top of me!" EV-1 let out a long low whistle noise. "I know you didn't mean to E-V, but that's not the point." EV-1's head lowered sadly. 
"E-V, I turned you on because I trust you to do a job" the little droid perked up and wiggled with what only could be interpreted as excitement. "The building in the square, I need you to find a way in." The little droid scampered off only to begin floating through the air before it got past the cloak. Sophiia using her power to levitate the little droid. "E-V, the way in needs to be big enough for me." The droid made a long undulating whistle "Yes, ooh." Sophiia said rolling her eyes. 
Sophiia lowered the droid back down and it scampered away. She settled into a meditative post whilst reaching out with her mind. It was time to probe for weaknesses. 
== Spaceport, Eriadu City ==
The Haa'it got a lot of strange looks from the locals as Cain descended from within. It was rare for a heavily armed Mandalorian Fighter/Transport to appear anywhere other than on Mandalore. It was even stranger to see an unarmoured man, obviously not a Mandalorian soldier, casually strolling out of it. Cain was used to drawing a lot of eyes when he landed, but he was sure that no one would be able to get past his security traps and the ship's automatic defences. 
He walked to the Dock Master a particularly lazy looking Weequay, laid back in his with his feet on his desk. The man looked barely awake as Cain approached to arrange the docking fees. "That's a fancy ship you have there stranger, its going to be 20 to keep it there. No credits, no docking." Cain gave him an unimpressed glance before sliding the credit chip across the desk. "I suggest you warn your friends over there, not to let their curiosity get the better of them." Cain said flatly gesturing behind him to a group dirty looking creatures walking closer to The Vision. "My ship isn't friendly towards uninvited guests, they may not survive the encounter." He deepened his tone on the last words to make his implication clear. The Dock Master waved his hand non-challantly in their direction and the dirty creatures scattered.
Cain made his way out of the port, letting the visions from his prophecy fill his mind. It would be laborious work to find the building he was hunting for. He began looking for high ground from which to gain a vantage point. He had hoped he would be able to do so on his descent from orbit, but whilst safe and comfortable The Vision drew a lot of attention. A slow fly past would send every major underworld group running for cover and the figures he had seen in his visions were fairly obviously not law abiding citizens.
He spotted what looked like tower that stood high above its neighbours. He took a spiraling staircase, heading up to the higher levels of the area. If he could find a path to his vantage point, perhaps his search would be shorter. As he reached the top of the staircase he felt a flash of vision reach his mind, as the vision filled his mind he reflexively followed his training spun to avoid what he saw. As his mind returned to the current time, he saw that he'd avoided a man crashing into him holding a box he could not see past.
Cain sighed following his previously planned route; he remembered the amount of times as a child he'd had to live through being hit with something twice in a row, the first in a vision and the second for real. It had taken him years to develop the skill to react to his visions before he got it, now it was second nature. His body avoiding harm without effort, as the split second visions hit. It was if he could feel the force trying to protect him.
As he reached the base of the tower he saw the path he needed to follow. The building was a residential block by its appearance, so barring external security access shouldn't be difficult.