This started as a cool idea I thought of the other day so I decided to write about it! I own nothing of Star Wars except the OC's of my creation.
Prologue
74 BBY
Orbit of unknown planet,
Deep inside Unknown Regions
The sudden slam into real space felt like getting grabbed by a rancor to most of the pirates inside their saucer-shaped vessel. Having barely escaping the Hutt clan, their small saucer ship suffered heavy damage and blew off the wrong coarse, deep into wild space and past any known planets. While not as large as many other ships in their possession, the saucer was smaller than their main mothership type and carried a crew of only a dozen, but was able to be full of a good amount of cargo and have a shuttle attached to it.
"Hondo!" Their pirate leader, Jadex, yelled towards his second in command while rubbing his forehead, "How bad are we? And more importantly, how's our cargo?"
The young Hondo quickly stood up as his boss spoke to him, then ran to a screen to check on the ship's readouts and diagnostics. "Part of our outer hull has been damaged, but it looks like our stolen hyperdrive equipment and large load of credits are relatively intact. Our hyperdrive is damaged, we could fix it however, and figure out how far we went. Our shuttle we have attached looks good, and most of our systems are intact and we should be able to fix her up in a few standard hours, if that. Our shields are recharging and will be at full power soon. " The pirate gang had trespassed into hutt territory while they were attacking a ship, and stole millions of credits, and all the ship's hyperdrive equipment for themselves. Unfortunately, the ship carried one of Jabba the Hutt's close family members, and it wasn't long until they were attacked by the Hutt's men which forced them to retreat without plotting the course correctly.
"Good, have some men check on anything else in the ship." The fellow pirates nodded and went to their work. Most didn't know how to fix much on the ship, but acted like they were doing things anyways.
Suddenly, red lights started blazing and alarms roared, sending some men in panic, while others tried to figure out the problem. The alarms continued to roar, hurting Hondo's head, which already had a headache.
"Boss!" Hondo shouted nervously. "That planet's gravity is pulling us in, and it will take me a few minutes to put full power to the engines after that jump!"
"Let the planet take us to it, hopefully, there's some intelligent life on this mudball. Maybe they can let us borrow a few things before we get out of wild space." He chuckled as he finished talking. The pirates quickly forgot about any dangers and instead starting thinking about any treasures and other enjoyable items the planet could provide them on their 'detour' into the unknown regions.
The saucer quickly descended past several clouds in the atmosphere and went towards a continental region, which seemed to show a heavy mix of forests, mountains, and deserts. They slowed down their descent when they saw a small town near a desert area.
"Sir! I've got something on my scanner! I think it's a small fighter coming towards us." A pirate yelled to Jadex, who was busy 'checking' if all their credits were in good shape.
"Only one?" He asked, still hoping they can find anything useful on this planet as they were close to the surface. "Are you sure?"
"Wait, I've got two more, and it looks like our shields are still charging slowly, but I wouldn't worry too much." He took a his first breath since he saw the small dots on their scanning systems. "But we should have some men at their stations just in case."
As Jadex walked over and looked at the screen, a sudden static-filled signal was trying to connect. Jadex widened the communication range and finally picked up the signal's source. At first, it only gave off static, but after a few moments, words started to pour through, "Unide… aircraft… wha … is you… des… tion… plea… respond… or you'll b… hot down."
"Is he threatening us?" One of the pirates asked no one in particular as he scratched his head after listening to the static-filled warning.
"I think so! Lets show them their place, kill them!" Another shouted, several other pirates agreed, all talking amongst themselves.
Jadex smirked as he thought about the terror that would soon fill the eyes of anyone that would dare go against them, and memories of multiple groups of people fleeing at the very sight of them.
"Someone get on the cannon and destroy one of them as a warning, that'll show them who can make demands!"
Several of the pirates started laughing and one ran to the cockpit where their main turret was located. The weequay soon found the three incoming fighters in his sights, they were of strange design, they each had a single long wing, a bulky cockpit and two engines. But what baffled the pirate was that they appeared to have some sort of primitive rotating blades and engines. He laughed as he fired a few shots at the leading fighter, and killed the pilot in an instance. The other two moved out of the way of the firing lasers, and tried to avoid any more attacks. The two remaining fighters retaliated, firing primitive and large slugs, most of which only dented the saucer's armor after they eventually broke through the shields.
The pirate laughed hard and thought about how hard his boss and the other pirates were laughing over the sad display from the primitive fighters. A sudden shake from the ship's hull brought him back to reality, and he saw that the fighters starting shooting off several small missiles. The hull remained intact, except one missile broke through a weakened section of the ship's armor, causing smoke and sparks to come alive.
"Blow those slug-throwing freaks out of the sky!" Jadex yelled through an open communicator. The fighters pursued on, firing back as he fired at them, soon he hit one in the wing, but as the fighter was falling through the skies, the pilot safely jumped out, deployed a parachute, and safely landed on the ground.
Back in the main deck, Jadex and Hondo were having trouble trying to reboot the shields.
"We've taken more damage than I expected, that weak missile got a lucky hit in an exposed layer of our hull." Hondo tried again to divert power, only to have a warning flash over the screen, "But our fuel cells are burning fast just to keep us in the air, we're going to have to land."
"Fine, land her over that patch of rock, it can give us some cover." Jadex backed away into the center of the deck, so that everyone could here him, "Alright boys, get ready for a fight, but more likely a massacre for these doshin' primitives."
Several pirates smiled and nodded, grabbing their blasters and prepared for what they assumed was going to be an easy skirmish until they could leave.
US Aerial Defence Base,
New Mexico
Tim Martinez couldn't even imagine how important today would be. He was on a standard flight routine with a few of his fellow pilots to circle the area around the state and back to their air base. After World War two finally ended, the United States had air force and military bases on alert at all times to make sure their people would be safe from any possible attacks.
Tim was half mexican and half caucasian, which wasn't uncommon to find in the southern regions of the U.S. and near Mexico. He had good vision and like many young Americans, he wanted to fight for his country, like his brother did. But his hope to make a mark fell as the war ended just after he was assigned to his own P-38 Lightning.
He checked for everything that he would need, his weapons were ready in case of trouble, and his radio was working fine. Just another peaceful flight.
Until a large saucer looking aircraft started descending past them, the sudden appearance nearly made Tim piss himself, a fact that he would never want to say out loud.
The 'saucer' was all he could call it, sobs he had no idea what country this thing could belong to, he tried to consult his wingmen about the matter before he tried to contact it on an open channel.
"Firefox-1, this is Firefox-3, do you copy me?"
"I read you Firefox-3," his air captain replied, "do you have any idea what this thing is?"
"I'm not sure Firefox-1, I'm going to try to contact it on an open channel." Tim decided, not dating to look away from the strange aircraft.
"Copy that Firefox-3," he paused for a moment, "Firefox-4 return to base and get a camera from the base and to photograph this, thing."
"Copy that Firefox-1, should I call in reinforcements?" The older pilot asked.
"Might as well, and get someone on the phone with Washington, they'll want to see this."
Firefox-4 turned a wide angle and headed swiftly back to the base, leaving the other three to tail the saucer.
"This is Firefox-1 to all other P-38's, I am going to try to find a signal that can talk with this saucer craft, standby over."
"Copy that Firefox-1, you are go for contact." Tim replied, trying to sound as serious as possible and not give off any worrying vibe.
Since the attempted contact would be in an open signal, Tim and his other wingman were able to listen in. "Unidentified aircraft, what is your designation? Please respond or you will be shot down." Firefox-1 took a second to wait for a response, but as he was about to try again, several strange looking flashes of light came at him, destroying his P-38 in an instance.
"This is Firefox-3 to Firefox-2, shoot that thing down! But try to evade the saucers, uh, guns!" Tim shouted. But wasn't too sure what the saucer was firing, they were slower than the bullets they fired, yet they seemed to be very bright and put Firefox-1 into a fireball.
"The fifty caliber isn't doing too much Firefox-2, I recommend we fire off our missiles, maybe they'll do some damage to this thing before it kills us."
"Copy that Firefox-3, firing in three, two," they both simultaneously took deep breaths before they pressed the trigger button, "one, missiles away!"
The two M-10 missiles soared through the sky and rammed hard into the saucer hull, causing smoke to rise from it, and revealing a weakened and vulnerable spot, the area of damaged was very dented and burnt, and it seemed to be slowing down.
"Confirmed damage, focus on that weaker section of armor, bring this thing down!" Tim yelled as he fired off bursts from his fifty caliber guns. The same pattern went on for the next minute, bursts from the P-38's turrets and a missile hitting the damaged hull. The two P-38's were mostly hard at work trying to dodge the strange firepower the saucer held. But Tim grew worrisome, for the fourth time, he was nearly hit by the red 'flashes' that killed his air captain.
"Firefox-2 to Firefox-3, I'm going in closer for a better shot." The P-38 flew from his wingman and started firing at the saucer at a closer range. "I'm going to try to hit that damaged part if I can just hit it right…" After just barely shooting off another missile, the P-38 was engulfed by a surprisingly sudden wave of laser fire, but as the P-38 started to go down, the pilot was able to eject with his parachute.
Alone, Tim felt a heavy amount of stress and anxiety coming over him until a familiar voice suddenly spoke through the radio. "Firefox-4 to Firefox-3, force that aircraft to the ground, we have armed marines moving towards us now and will be ready to secure the saucer when we bring it down, over."
"Copy that Firefox-4, stay clear of this things turret, missiles work better than the fifty cal, let's bring this thing down." They worked together with every trick and piece of experience they could muster, avoiding blasts from the saucer's cannon, firing back, and trying to keep the saucer from leaving the area.
Nobody's POV
The ship shook harder this time, in reality a few moments later but to Hondo, felt like an eternity, the alarms roared and pitched inside. The ship took a sudden turn downside and the crew, along with the ship, shook as it went.
"Hondo! How close are we?" Jadex shouted as he pulled out his blaster pistol, signaling the others to do the same. Most grinned at the thought of gunning down slug throwing primitives gave them the joy they needed to ignore any danger that could ascend on them.
"We're landing in a moment, those fighters caused some damage but our shields will kick back in a bit. After we make some repairs we'll be able to jump back to Florrum." He replied as he gave a bit of a small chuckle. "I bet these slug throwers will practically bow to us after we show off our blasters and gun them down."
The ship shook again, but lightly as they finally landed. Dirt and sand were kicked up and floated with the low breeze in the hot sun. The ramp lowered in a quick motion, and several of the pirates ran out towards some rocks for cover, while others were busy setting up a blaster turret near the end of the ramp. The sun beating down on him, Jadex held his blaster pistol in the air, waiting for any signs of danger. Most of the pirates carried pistols or cheap rifles but also had them ready as they waited for what they thought would be easy 'target practice'.
Jadex pulled out a pair of macrobinoculars and searched the area around them, until the sight of several strange looking land vehicles almost made him laugh.
"Do those things have tires? How primitive can these guys get?" He asked himself aloud. The land cars were long, with two tires in front and a sort of track in the back, and had several people inside of it. A third vehicle had a sort of turret and looked like an old tank.
"Just keep them away for about a half a standard hour or so, then this baby will be jumping out of here and back to a civilized system." Hondo shouted from inside the ship, then continued to work on the ship's hyperdrive.
Two of the fighters that were trying to shoot them down flew around the skies above them again, letting Jadex and his pirates know they were still there. Their engines were loud and they obviously couldn't be very effective in space combat, if they could be in space at all.
The fighting quickly started, slugs flew from the human's guns as they got behind the cover of the rocks and hills around the saucer.
A pirate took a slug to the face, sending blood and bone fragments everywhere as his body went limp and fell to the hard ground. Another was hit in the chest, killing him instantly. But the quick losses did not sway the Pirates, who retaliated with blaster fire.
The red blasts cut and burned through the rock the humans were using as cover for like butter, and one was hit in the arm, burning tissue and clothing. The tank drove on over the rough area and aimed its cannon at the pirate group.
"Get me a launcher!" Jadex shouted as he barely took cover from a spray of bullets.
A pirate quickly ran and tossed the launcher at his boss, who chuckled as he aimed at the tank. Firing, the rocket soared through the sky and rammed into the tank, destroying it in a heavy ball of fire and smoke.
Suddenly, the two fighters returned and opened fire upon pirates, cutting through barricades and men like wet paper with a knife. But over the sound of gunfire, Jadex could feel the all too familiar sound of engines roaring. At first he was excited that Hondo completed his task for him so they could leave, but to his anger, the shuttle that was attached to the saucer earlier had detached and started to fly off with all their cargo.
"Hondo! You bantha foddering piece of-" Jadex couldn't finish his words, as a slug tore through his chest and made him fall to the ground.
As the shuttle prepared to jump to hyperspace, preparing to leave everyone else behind, the two P-38's fired at him, causing the cargo and goods to fall onto the desert. But even with the loss of the valuable goods, Hondo, valuing his life more, jumped out of the system, hoping never to return again. Without a leader, and their goods surely out of their reach, the Pirates lost hope in their fighting and were soon gunned down by the human soldiers.
As the battle ended, government and intelligence members along with military personnel took the saucer, the alien bodies, their weapons, and cargo, to a secret base called Area 51. The soldiers were assigned to the base soon after due to their knowledge and experience against the alien beings.
Feel free to review on anything! I hope you all enjoy the story so far, and if a decent amount of people begin to read, I'll continue this and make sure to write to the end!