Forceful presence
A crossover between Mission Impossible with GP characters and Star Wars (episode 3 before Anakin 'turns')
Don't own either Star wars or Mission Impossible just having fun.
Chapter 1- Didn't see that coming
It is an unsettling time within the force , the war with Count Dooku and the droid army continues. Groups of smugglers are taking advantage of the Jedi's focus on the war impeding legal trade in many ports. On the planet Rysis they have obtained total control of the port stopping medical and food supplies from being dispersed . Unable to stand by and do nothing while her people suffered, Senator Lila Morrins went to negiotiate a settlement. Now she has disappeared. The Jedi council fears that sending official jedi representatives will just worsen the situation leading the smugglers to take desparate and perhaps fatal action. So they have sent a trio of highly trained covert Jedi investigators to deal with the situation.
Jedi Master Benji Dunn adjusted the final approach vector on their ship then sat back and let Rysis control take over. Beside him sat best friend and fellow Master Ethan Hunt. In the back was Ethans former padawan , now elevated to full knight status, Jane Carter. Usually jedi travelled in pairs but Master Yoda had decreed that the covert nature of their work warranted a break in tradition.
They were casually dressed with light sabers well hidden, nobody was going to look at them and scream, Jedi.
With the ship now safely docked they disembarked to begin their investigations. Ethan further consolidated the illusion they were just 'ordinary people' by putting his arm through Jane's. The port was a grey unattractive place, not on any top ten tourist list. Ships flew in and out every few minutes filling the air with a constant drone that at first assaulted the ears. The not too pleasant aroma of fuel hung in the air clogging the nostrils and prompting a sneeze from Benji.
They walked slowly through the port giving everyone present opportunity to study them fully. "Do you feel it", Benji whispered to Ethan. It was like a dark cloud in the sky on a sunny day giving a cold shiver down the spine, someone was carefully checking them out. Pretending to be studying one of the other craft Ethan quickly found the culprit. He was a tall hooded individual who was seemingly 'accidently ' standing in the darkest part of the port. "Could be one of the smugglers", Jane noted. They continued to walk and act normally and soon Ethan felt suspicion lift,nobody would be screaming Jedi any time soon.
"We'll make our way to the administration offices first" , Ethan told them. The 100 story sky scraper in front of them was the main building in the port, where offices and dwellings coexisted .
The administration offices were well signposted. They were greeted there by a short squat man barely 4 feet in height, he had round bugging eyes and very large ears. He reminded Benji a little of a human version of master yoda. The jedi master however would never be as afraid as this man was now, sweat beaded his forehead and his fingers laced and unlaced together constantly . He would not look directly at them ,his gaze roaming from wall to window to floor. Ethan said nothing just letting his cloak drape open a little so that his lightsaber was visable.
That made the administrator even more pale, "it wasn't my fault", he blubbed out as he backed away. Holding up is hands in a what he hoped was a soothing gesture, Ethan told the man, "we are not here to accuse anyone we just want to find the senator". The administrator still cowered stuttering out , "I had no choice, they are everywhere".
"Who is everywhere", Jane crouched down and smiled softly at the frightened man. "The smugglers ,that's who. You won't see them unless they want you to, but they are down there", he pointed to the port . "Your senator was down there spouting off about the evils of smuggling and got intercepted. Her aide tried to intervene but they managed to subdue him and took him as well. I am guessing they probably took them to the undercity".
"The undercity", Benji asked."It is what we call the lower levels, beneath the port. There are dark secluded places there you can hide for years if you want to", the administrator replied.
"They cannot hide from jedi", Ethan remarked.
Leaving the administrator with a stern warning not to mention their presence the team made their way into the undercity. Before them was a maze of dark tunnels where pipes carried effluent and other unpleasant things away out into space. Each tunnel had barely enough room to move.
The feeling of fear was everywhere down there making it difficult to pinpoint a specific trouble spot.
But soon a strong tremour of fear was felt leading them down a particularly dark passageway. "I sense our quarry are hiding near the end of this tunnel ",Ethan remarked
They kept going softly forward in the gloom until Ethan saw a faint light ahead. He stood still attuning both his eyes and his jedi senses. There were at least 8 people present but only one clear impression of panic. Inching forward while keeping behind a large pipe for cover Ethan finally saw their quarry.
Two large men with guns stood watching a small delicate looking woman that had to be senator Morrins. On the other side of the room two men stood by a prone figure who Ethan guessed must be the aide. From the lack of movement from the man Ethan guessed he must be unconscious. In the front of the group were another two smugglers who stood blocking any access to the prisoners.
Extracting the two prisoners from their predicament was going to be the most difficult part for Ethan and his team. He did not want either the senator or the aide to be used as a shield against any attack.
So a frontal assault was not going to work unless they had a major distraction. "Focus the force on the overhanging pipes", Ethan told Jane and Benji.
They all concentrated their minds manipulating the metal in the pipes. One pipe sprung forward hitting one smuggler in the face, the others all turned toward him.
In that moment Ethan , Jane and Benji rushed forward. Only momentarily startled the smugglers quickly trained their weapons upon the group and began to fire. The darkness lit up with the coloured hue of three lightsaber as the bolts were deflected.
Realising who they were up against one smuggler aimed his fire toward the senator, Ethan quickly used the force to divert the blast then pulled the weapon from the smugglers hand.
While he was busy subduing the man, Benji and Jane were engaging the other smugglers. They were using a low pipe for cover shooting out blasts that were easily deflected by the lightsabers.
One smuggler grabbed the senators aide roughly around the neck, pulling him close to his body. "Stop" or I'll strange him", he boomed. "Just let him go", Benji sent out a strong force suggestion expecting the man to immediately let go. All he got however was a laugh," nice trick Jedi but I've spend years training my mind in all forms of resistance". Now all of you drop the lightsabers", the smuggler pointed his gun at the aides head to emphasize his point.
Knowing they had little choice Ethan, Jane and Benji dropped their weapons. The sabers were kicked away. "What are we going to do with them", one smuggler asked. "Jedi are much more important bargaining chips that one little senator", another one remarked. "Yes, but not as easy to control",warned the largest of the men. "We have the upper hand now",the smuggler who had the aide in a neck lock remarked. He was about to add a further comment when the previously limp aide suddenly sprung to life and hit his head backward against his assailant. Then he locked his own arms around the smuggler and threw him over his head. Ethan was very impressed and guessed the man must also double as a body guard in addition to his duties as the senators aide.
Taking advantage of the distraction, the three jedi used the force to call their lightsabers. Ethan found however to his dismay that his had rolled under a pipe and was firmly jammed. He settled for hitting one smuggler hard.
The blaster bolts flew around with Benji and Jane easily deflecting them. Ethan found his opponent good at hand to hand. He was much larger than Ethan throwing him over his back and into a corner.
Ethan landed easily and found himself right next to the senators aide who had also been thrown.
The aide offered him a tight lipped grin as he jumped to his feet then launched himself at the smugglers again. He was certainly not one for cowering in the corner like the senator. She sat hunched over with her hands over her face.
Benji and Jane's quarry kept low and moved slowly across the room using the low pipe for cover. Guessing their strategy was to get to the other smugglers and use force of numbers to win the battle Benji used the force to throw a few rocks their way to stop them.
Ethan meanwhile was jumping high over his smugglers head to land behind him and kick him firmly in the back. The man doubled over and fell to his knees. Glancing slightly sideways Ethan observed that the aide was in trouble lying on the ground and trying to avoid being kicked by rolling over.
Another kick by his assailant distracted Ethan again. He jumped up and landed firmly on the mans head then rained blows hard staggering him again. Reaching for the mans hands Ethan hurried to subdue him so he could help the aide . As he watched the man reached out one hand trying to find some sort of weapon he could use against his attacker. His hand came out of a crevice in the rock with something that would be less useful to him than a pebble against a rancor, his lightsaber.
With his assailant subdued Ethan was about to call his weapon to his hand when he felt a burst of power through the force and the blade of his saber ignited. The startled smuggler jumped back quickly then put up his hands.
The other smugglers realized then that things were not going well and they too placed their hands up high on their heads. It was over.
"Good plan igniting your blade", Benji told Ethan as he joined his friend. Looking over at the aide, Ethan spoke the words that he knew would shock them, 'it wasn't me, it was him".
Now three pairs of eyes turned to regard the aide who still held Ethan's ignited lightsaber. Benji moved his own lightsaber down into block position ready to counter any attack from the aide. But he felt no malice projected at him simply a strong feeling of shock.
Looking like he'd had swallowed something distasteful the aide disengaged the blade of the lightsaber then held it out to Ethan , "here take it", he insisted.
While Benji and Jane were tying up the smugglers Ethan questioned the aide, 'you used the force to ignite that blade', he accused. 'Yet I don't ever remember seeing you at the Jedi temple, so who are you".
The aide just stood looking him and did not reply. "Who are you", Ethan added a prompt through the force. He felt power strong and channelled hold against him and found shock surface, this was man had not merely touched the force by accident. His degree of control spoke of a strong force ability.
However all the man would say is "I am nobody". Ethan frowned knowing that was not true. He wondered why the council had no informed him that another jedi was on Rysis.
Benji finished tying up the last smuggler directing him into a small group with the others. "Right lets take them to security ", he suggested.
Ethan checked over the senator noting that she was more frightened than injured. "You have a very interesting aide", he remarked. "Not many senators have a bodyguard who wields the force".
Lila stared at him and Ethan knew she had no idea what he was talking about. "His name is William Brandt and he was born on Rysis, he's no Jedi", she protested. "How long has he worked for you", Ethan asked. "Only about 6 months", she stated. "He was recommended by another senator who said he had very good instincts that would come in handy in politics. She was correct as he always seemed to know when people were lying ." But he simply can't be a Jedi, you would know right?" It was an interesting question and Ethan found himself needing an answer.
He waited until they passed a communication terminal then he contacted the Jedi council.
"We have rescued the senator and subdued a group of smugglers. They can be dealt with either by the council or by local authorities". Ethan took a breath, "we also discovered that the senators aide William Brandt is a force user". He sent a image of the aide to the council watching as Yoda and the rest of the masters studied the image. He was expecting to know details of the mans identity soon but was stunned when Yoda stated, "not known to me the image or name is". "Yet he is definitely quite strong within the force", Ethan reported. There was a small debate amongst the council then Yoda stated, "bring him to the council you must. Solve this issue of identity we will".
"Yes Master Yoda", Ethan agreed. He looked over at the aide who had been watching what he was doing. A sharp spike of fear blasted forth from the man and he turned and ran quickly away from them.
Benji reacted the quickest using the force to pick up a stone and hit it against William Brandt's head.
He dropped motionless to the ground. Ethan knew they were going to have to use force binders on the man as he obviously did not want to be taken before the council. He began to wonder why.