Zulu vs Panno

Zulu hovered down from the sky, his black Katarn armor gleaming in the sunlight that managed to leak in through the thick foliage. As his jetpack deactivated and his boots made contact with the muddy, rich brown soil beneath, his T-shaped visor altered its vision mode as it changed to display thermal information rather than visual. He picked up nothing thus far.
He kept a hand on his tool belt, an uneasy feeling in his gut. Something was going to jump out at him, as it seemed. Whether a confused Jedi that thought him hostile, a belligerent Mandolorian that considered him a traitor, or a ravenous animal whose only intention was to eat.

His visor couldn't pick up a source. His radar was showing about a thousand possible sources. Something obviously wasn't right. It could just be the jungle, enraged at his presence. The very essence of life was trying to kill Zulu, for all he knew. But mentally and physically, he remained calm, because fighting was what he did, though he hoped he wouldn't actually have to kill anything.
"Stay back!" he warned in a yell, turning around the perimeter as if searching for a definite threat. It seemed that whatever was causing the disturbance was still there. It could just be a pack of animals. But, as always, Zulu was uncertain.
He raised both of his wrists and a gunbarrel on the top of each gauntlet sparked to life, a small flame jetting out of each one. Zulu was prepared to use them.

Hearing the all too familiar hiss of a light saber being ignited, Zulu lowered his arms as the fire on his gauntlets disappeared. He placed a hand on the side of his belt, and looked around. In his sudden enlightenment, his radar system cleared up, and on his HUD, an arrow was literally pointing straight at Panno. Zulu turned around to face this direction, completely silent. With a thought, he checked his equipment status, which turned out well, and activated his personal energy shield. He became surrounded in an invisible dome of energy.

It was quite easy to detect the ivy ascending Zulu's boots. His external systems detected the foreign contaminant, so he activated his jump pack to burn the plants away. Meanwhile, as Panno sprinted toward him with lightsaber prepared to slice vertically upward, Zulu made a move that could be quite surprising; a black handle folded out of his belt in less than a quarter second, and a flat, black, katana-like blade emitted from its end. The darksaber hummed loudly and with a high pitch, its blade visibly crackling with energy. He detached the handle and held the weapon out in front of him horizontally and low, and the blade of his saber clashed with Panno's.