A Vision in Battle
The ship dropped into the planetary atmosphere. Their welcome was a sky filled with laser fire, explosions and burning ships, plummeting to their deaths. The Empire forces were trying their best to repel their enemies, however, the rebels continued coming with dogged determination.
The purple ship continued to drop even when a ship adjacent to it was transformed into a shower of burning debris and pieces of flesh.
"That was close!" Dyna said.
"I know," a sweating Buck said as he steered left to dodge another shaft of destructive energy.
"We're almost at the landing site," Dyna smiled. "You're not as bad as I thought."
"What?" Buck said. "You thought I was bad."
"What do you think, old man?" Dyna nervously joked.
"I'm not old!" Buck said as he and a couple of other ships landed on the ground.
Buck unbuckled his seatbelt and checked his blaster.
"Okay," he said. "Here's the plan...? Dyna?"
A light beeped showing that Dyna was already out the space ship door. She was not alone as she was accompanied by more rebels, charging out of their respective ships. With a war cry they charged at the barricaded stormtroopers with guns firing.
/
Major Ton-Iki looked out at the scene before him in disgust. He brushed his black hair back and gave a huff of indignation. He was wearing a general's uniform and had neatly combed hair over a fair skin with a mole on his nose.
"Where are my reinforcements?" Ton-Iki asked his second in command, a battle analysis droid.
"Major, Empire forces are spread out thin within the mid rim," the droid said, "the likelihood of them arriving to assist us is low."
"So I guess this just became a fair fight." Ton-Iki said. Ton-Iki withdrew his pistol. "Then let's fight!"
/
Dyna dived back behind cover provided by the ship, Diversity, before firing back but the orange skinned Twi'Lek's shot deflected against the Stromtroopers own cover. The stormtrooper that she was aiming for was hit by someone else.
"Careful, little girl." A man wearing blue goggles said, with a sniper rifle in hand. "Or you'll get hurt."
"Who are you tell me that!" Dyna huffed at the stranger but he just continued running forward and deeper into the battle.
Jumping over the stormtrooper barricade, the rebels killed most of the imperial soldiers. The man with the sniper rifle used the butt of his gun to hit a stormtrooper, sending his helmet flying away. Seeing the opportunity, Dyna shot the unprotected stormtrooper in the head, ending his life.
The man looked back and smiled before moving forward. Dyna was about to follow when she was stopped by a frantic voice from her communicator.
"Dyna! What the hell are you doing?" Buck angrily said.
"Uh... rebel stuff?" Dyna said innocently as she fired back at a few trropers.
"You were suppose to wait for me so we could do this together!" Buck shouted through the communicator.
"Oh calm down, old man." Dyna said. "You always hold back. This is our chance to prove ourselves to the rebels and we can't do that staying back."
"I'm not an old ma..." Buck was about to say until he made an effort to take a deep breath. "Dyna, just come back ple..."
Dyna cut the communicator off. "Sorry, Buck." She rushed forward with the rest of the rebels on the ground.
/
Ton-Iki was firing the rebels, taking out some of them but they would not stop coming.
"Sir, the west anti-spaceship cannons have been destroyed by rebel forces, the droid said. "Rebel ships will now be able to land there."
"Damn it, droid!" Ton-Iki said. "Give me solutions not prob..."
A round ball bounced onto their position. Ton-Iki dove away before the grenade detonated, killing most of the stormtroopers who were near it and were never warned.
"Damage do-do-done by grena-grenade." The battle analysis droid said. Rebels shou-shou-should be upon us in T-minus 5...4...3...2..." The droids head was blasted open by a blaster fire before the rebels rushed over the barricade.
Ton-iki angrily kicked at the droid. "I told you to give me only good news."
/
Dyna jumped over the barricade and began shooting out with her blaster. She noted a fair skinned man with black hair and a mole on his nose sneaking away from the action. She knew from his uniform that he was of a higher rank then the stormtroopers in armour.
"Talk about painting yourself with a big red x," Dyna said before she chased down the major.
Four more rebels saw this and also gave chase along with Dyna. As the major ran away to a space ship that he would use to escape, he was cut off by two more rebels.
Gritting his teeth, Ton-Iki was pressed back until he saw a storage room. The storage room had a curved structure that almost looked like a cylinder with half of it submerged into the ground. Ton-Iki retreated into the storage room and closed the door.
The rebels ran o the door and slowly approached.
"Heh, you're here too, huh?" The man in the blue goggles said when he saw Dyna.
The Twi'Lek girl pouted at him as she studied his face. His fair skin was fair and ashy. He wore a brown leather cap that hid his ears and have straps falling from either side of his face.
"Don't get in my way," Dyna simply said.
Two rebels approached the door and pressed the button, making the two slabs of metal that made the door to slide apart. The rebels entered with blasters pointed forward.
A black pod-like droid with one red glowing eye dropped from the ceiling.
Beep. Beep. Beep beep. Beepbeep. Beepbeep.
The rebels realised what the beeping sounds from the droid meant.
"Bomb!" One of the rebels shouted, prompting the others to scatter.
The pod exploded violently, sending fire, smoke, shrapenal and a shockwave in all directions. The rebels were forcefully scattered around the explosion.
Dyna slowly got up, her ears ringing from the explosion. She looked around and saw that her companions were all still shaking off the effects of the explosion. The other rebels checked on the leading two who had not stirred since the explosion and Dyna knew when the rebel checking them for any vital signs shook his head sadly, that they were dead.
"Cowardly bastard!" One of the rebels cursed, "using a BOMB LIKE THAT."
"We are on his home turf and we don't know what his got up his sleeve," one of the rebels said, "we should retreat and call for reinforcements."
"We back off now and we'll never catch this guy." The man with the brown cap nd goggles said.
"Yeah but you saw how he tookj us out with those bombs," the rebel argued, "and we don't know how many more he has."
"You chicken?" Another rebel said.
"Hey, shut your mouth!" Another rebel complained to the last speaker.
"You're not ranked above me so I don't see how you can give me orders!"
"Now now, kids. Let's not fight each other." The man with the goggles said.
"Who you calling kids?" Another rebel said. "I'm older than you!"
The assembled rebels began arguing amongst themselves about what they should do and also throwing in an insult whenever they could.
Dyna placed two fingers in her mouth and blew out, causing a high-pitch whistle that silenced the rebels.
"We don't have time for this!" Zya said. "Now, I suggest we split up. You who suggested we call for reinforcements should go and do that and anyone who wants to follow should follow him. The rest of us will stay here and ensure that the general doesn't escape before reinforcements show up. Okay?" Dyna did not wait for as she marched forward.
"Who made her leader?" One of the rebels said.
"I don't know but I'm following her," the man in the goggles said with a smile.
One of them went out to call for reinforcements while the other three followed Dyna. In total, four rebels, including Dyna, were hunting Ton-Iki.
The building they were in had sections existing on multiple floors connected by archways made of steel. The rebels had ot also look up and in front of them to ensure that no attack came their way from any blind side.
There was a sound of an explosion before the lights in the building went out.
"Bastard, he's taken out the power." One of the rebels said as emergency power came on, dimly lighting the building.
"Can anyone pinpoint where the blaster fire came from?" Dyna asked her companions behind her.
"I think I know." One of them said before they took the lead. The rest of the group flowed him as he weaved through the structures in the building, getting closer to the source of the sound.
Another pod-like droid appeared suddenly around a corner. Dyna raised her blaster too late as the droid got off a shot that landed in between the lead rebel's eyes. The only one of the group who raised his gun and fired at the same time that the droid did was the man in the goggles wearing a brown cap. His shot landed directly i the middle of the droid's big red eyes, causing it to fall from the air and clanked on the floor.
"Damn droid!" The man in the goggles said as he lowered his rifle.
Dyna checked on the rebel on the floor, confirming that he was dead.
They heard the sounds of footsteps around the corner and jumped to action as they followed. When they rounded the corner, they saw the general running away. He turned around and fired his blaster, along with the three droids hovering around him, at the three rebels, forcing the rebels into cover.
Dyna dove to the left and hid behind a huge cylinder like machinery while the other two dove to the right, hiding behind different machines.
Dyna waited for the rapid blaster fire to die down before she would take aim. The fire ended but when she was about to jump out of her hiding place to make her own return fire a ball bounced by before it came to a stop between her and the other two rebels.
Her eyes widened when she realised what she was looking at.
"Grenade!" Dyna shouted before jumping away as the grenade detonated. A plume of destructive fire spread out, causing structures from above to crash down with a force that would crush anything below them.
Dyna pushed herself up from the floor as she looked beside her at the carnage caused by the grenade. There was a mountain of steel and scrap where she had been before. She was about to call out to the other two rebels when one of them beat her to it.
"Hey, Twi'lek girl! Twi'lek girl!" The man in goggles shouted.
"My name is Dyna!" Dyna said annoyed. "I take it you both are okay?"
"Yeah, we're fine." He said from the other side. "How about you, Dyna?"
"I'm good." Dyna heard footsteps hurriedly getting away from her.
She looked above her and saw Ton-Iki making a run for it with four droids orbiting around him.
"I see him!" Dyna said. "I'm giving chase!"
"Wait! Don't go at it alone!" The man in the goggles shouted out. "Dyna? Dyna! Stupid girl, let's go!" The man in the goggles led the other rebel along the mountain of steel separating them from Dyna.
Meanwhile, Dyna was in hot pursuit of Ton-Iki who was running along an archway above her. She shot at him but her blaster fire missed the moving Ton-Iki by inches. He looked down and back at the dark orange Twi'lek chasing him.
He shot back at her, forcing Dyna to zig zag to avoid the blaster fire while returning her own.
One of the hovering pods disembarked from his side and headed for Dyna. Shee shot it on its way to her, causing it to explode.
The explosion rocked the archway that Ton-Iki was on as the droid exploded close to his position. The archway buckled before it dropped off its supports and headed for the ground below in a nose dive.
Ton-Iki had to abandon his blaster and jump off the archway where his two remaining droids caught him and slowed his descent to the ground.
Meanwhile, the archway smashed into the ground, sending a shockwave that displaced the blocks that made up the ground Dyna was running on, throwing the Twi'lek off balance and onto her butt. The archway had landed standing up and was now falling down, bearing on Dyna who was still on the ground.
She rolled out of the way just as the archway slammed loudly onto the floor. She got on her feet and continued running forward.
A droid came from the corner, closer to her outstretched hand. Dyna instinctively pulled the trigger of her pistol and a shaft of energy skidded against the droid causing a shower of sparks and fire to come out of the droid's side. The fire caused her to drop her gun and the droid tackled her back and up as its spherical body caught on fire from the damage that Dyna had inflicted. Dyna was rising higher up as the flaming droid lifted her further into the air.
Beep. Beep...
Dyna could hear the droid beeping, signifying that it was close to self-destructing. She hit the droid repeatedly but it was determined to take her out with it. She looked down at the ground blurring past her and getting further away as the droid took them higher.
The intervals between beeps became shorter and shorter, notifying Dyna that it would not be long before the droid blew up.
Gritting her teeth, Dyna was able to get herself under the droid, freeing herself from its trip to oblivion. She flipped as she fell and kicked the droid away, helping it on its way.
The droid exploded above her as she plummeted to the ground. She thrust her arms out to brace herself for the fall before she landed on the hard ground below with an "Oof!"
Dyna forced herself back on her feet. Other than the pain of falling, she was not hurt. She continued forward where she passed the fallen archway and arrived where she had dropped her gun. She searched the floor for a little while before she found it.
Sparks came out of her pistol before it electrocuted her, forcing her to drop it. Dyna was now without her pistol. She looked ahead at where Ton-Iki had probably gone. The place had even worse lighting then the rest of the building, with parts of it completly sub,erged in darkness. She knew she could not go in there with no weapons while Ton-Iki had his droid and who knows what else.
Dyna reached for her specially made gun holster. She uncapped a cylinder –like section of her gun holster where her remaining weapon was hidden. She produced a cylindered piece of technology that was white with two silver stripes at the top and one thick one at the bottom. The dark orange Twi'lek twisted the item while pressing a button and a green blade of energy erupted from it with along with a halo of the same energy at its base. This was her lightsaber!
This was a weapon she was reluctant to use. This was because of her lack of skill when it came to wielding it. Buck had taught her about using blasters and other weapons, fighting hand-to-hand and flying ships but he had no knowledge on how to use a lightsaber and the only person Dyna knew who could have taught her how to use it was gone.
Dyna had learned that a lightsaber in the hands of an unskilled and untrained person, in her hands, was dangerous not only for the enemy but for the wielder of the lightsaber and any of the wielder's allies and friends. However, as she walked slowly into the mostly dark section of the building, she knew she had no choice but to use ther ancient weapon.
/
Dyna stalked through the building. There were huge inactive, cube machines all around her, partitioning the space around her. as she silently stepped through the area, all she could hear was the green lightsaber at her side, humming peacefully.
A red eye peeked from behind a machine at the Twi'lek girl walking through the makeshift halls. It scanned her in its enhanced red-hued vision and directed a point of fire at her head. However before it could fire, the Twi'lek turned a corner. The droid hovered towards the corner, preparing to fire as soon as it also turned the same corner.
When the droid reached the corner there was no one there. It scanned to ensure it had made no error before hovering on, down the hall.
Unbeknownst to it, Dyna had hidden behind another hallway, keeping her deactivated lightsaber nervously close to her chest. When she heard the droid coming she rounded a corner, ensuring it did not see her as it passed on by. Dyna came from behind her hiding place and approached the hovering droid from behind as quietly as she possibly could. When she thought she was close enough, she re-activated her lightsaber.
The droid suddenly turned around, aiming its blaster at Dyna. Dyna had to dive out of the way as a red shaft of deadly energy rushed by her.
The droid gave chase, assuming that Dyna was running away but she instead waited for it and when it was close enough she swung at it with her lightsaber while grunting in exertion. The swing was badly executed and instead f slicing the droid in half, it passed through its lower part. White sparks sprang from the wound inflicted by the lightsaber and the droid spun out of control, forcing Dyna to duck down as it landed behind her with its red eye fixed angrily at her.
Dyna watched the droid before she heard someone approach from behind her! She turned around too late as Ton-Iki kicked her in the chest.
Dyna flailed back and nicked Ton-Iki in the face with the lightsaber, eliciting a scream of pain from the man as he backed away. The lightsaber rolled away from Dyna's hand as she hit the back of her head hard on the floor in her fall...
Dyna found herself in the cosmos before she came to a place with three moons partially eclipsing each other. Below the moons were huge tents and in between the tents on dusty pathways and roads was a myriad crowd of different races, walking about and speaking to beings in the tents or just walking about. Amongst the bustling crowd one figure stood out. It had on a beige cloak with its face hidden in the darkness created by the cloak's hood. The figure raised its hand which was hidden beneath the long sleeve of the beige cloak, however a cylinder made of white with two silver forks at the base and a few bronze bolts could be seen peeking out from the sleeve before a green blade erupted from it...
Dyna was suddenly back in the dimly lit building, lying on her back on the floor.
A disfigured Ton-Iki angrily pounced at her from above and she reached out to the side before her hand came upon her lightsaber. She brought it to her chest, facing away from her, before she activated it. The green blade shot out and Ton-Iki was impaled on it before his body slumped on her lifelessly.
Dyna grunted as she pushed the man off of her. She breathed heavily as she looked down on his body.
"Dyna!"
Dyna heard someone call her name and looked to the source where the man in goggles and the other rebel ran at her position. He stopped right in front of her and stared at the lightsaber burning green in her hand. Dyna noticed this and immediately deactivated it.
"I-I killed him." She said, sounding as bewildered as she looked.
"I guess it was either him or you," the man in goggles said.
/
They left the dimly lit building and stepped into the bright world outside. the sky was scattered with the few Empire ships that had escaped the rebel attacks.
"Hey! We won! We won! Woooooo!" The rebel that was with Dyna and the man in goggles happily shouted before he ran to celebrate with his other comrades.
"Well, we did good." The man in goggles said.
"Yeah, even if we lost a few men." Dyna said.
"They will be remembered and at least their sacrifice was not in vain." TThe man said. "Your quite good, Dyna. I'm surprised I've never heard of you."
"Then you must be out of the loop," Dyna playfully said as he walked forward, leaving the man behind her. she stopped mid-way and looked back. "Oh, I didn;t catch your name."
"Eziland Stolop but most people call me Ezi." The man said removing his goggles to reveal his green eyes, which he used to wink at the young orange Twi'lek girl.
"Ezi, huh?" Dyna said. "It was nice fighting beside you Ezi but next time, don't get in my way." She said before walking off.
Ezi smiled at the cheecky Dyna. "Likewise lass."
/
"Dyna come in. Dyna, are you okay?" Buck spoke through the communicatorbut could not reach Dyna. He was beginning to think that she had been hurt as there was no reason she should not be able to contact her as the battle was over and the rebels had won. "Dyna?"
"Yes, I'm okay Buck." DYNA FINALLY ANSWERED.
"Oh, thank goodness!" Buck breathed a sigh of relief. "Why haven't you been answering your communicator?"
"Oh, you know: I was too busy sticking it to the Empire to worry about my communicator."
Buck opened his mouth to say something but she cut him off.
"You can scold me when I'm there. I'm on my way, over and out."
Buck breathed another sigh, but this one was of frustration.
"It's hard being a parent, huh?" A voice said.
"I'm not a pare..." Buck smiled when he saw the green Twi'lek in front of him. "Kisto, the rebel."
"Buck Johnson," Kisto said as they shook hands.
"So, it looks like our tip paid off." Buck said, nodding to the sight around him.
"Yes, this was an important mission. Winning today allowed us to procure some much needed resources." Kisto beamed. "We can scavenge food, weapons and even credits at this facility."
"Yeah, just do it before the Empire strikes back with more of its forces." Buck said.
"The Empire is spread out thin right now." Kisto said. "We should have a few more days here."
"So, since I gave the rebels the tip about this poorly defended facility with many valuable resources, I guess that means I and Dyna have earned our way into the rebel alliance." Buck said.
"Uhm... no." Kisto said.
"What do you mean no?" Buck shouted. "Look around you. Without me this wouldn't have happened. I don't understand how what we've done today doesn't earn us a place in the rebel alliance."
"Well, the rebels have recently found out about your history as a Stormtrooper." Kisto informed him.
"But that was years ago!" Buck retorted.
"Yes, but the rebel alliance is still fragile, so they are very reluctant to trust." Kisto said.
"But I gave them this tip," Buck complained. "I think that makes me deserving of their trust."
"Welll... technically I gave them the tip." Kisto said.
"You passed off information I procured as your own?" Buck said, outraged.
"Well, remember Buck, the alliance doesn't trust you yet and the fact that you wanted two percent of what we got here makes you look suspicious." Kisto said. "So if I told them that this tip was from you, they would have not done anything about it. But they do trust me and my sources which is why they acted on it like this when I told them. But don't worry, I have a meeting with the bigwigs and I'll tell them your my source and hopefully that wil be enough."
"Pfff, I doubt it." Buck said. "My history as a Stormtrooper has practically put a black mark next to my name as far as the rebel alliance is concerned and the two percent is more to pay my contact than me."
"Funny, I never thought you wanted to be a rebel let alone be affiliated to the rebel alliance." Kisto said after a moment of silence.
"Yeah, for the longest time I didn't want to be a rebel but then she convinced me," Buck nodded to the dark orange Twi'lek that was coming their way. "I trid to give her a normal life but... it seems like this is the path she wants to follow."
"And your happy to follow her on it?" Kisto said as he looked at the approaching Dyna.
"Someone has to protect her," Buck said before Dyna arrived.
"Kisto," Dyna said.
"Dyna! Wow! You look much older!" Ksito said looking at the girl. The last time he had seen Dyna she was barely waiste height but now she stood almost even with him. "You have grown into a beautiful lady."
"Th-Thanks!" Dyna blushed.
Kisto smiled at her before turning to Buck. "I'll talk to you later, Buck." Kisto said before he turned to Dyna and kissed her hand before saying goodbye.
Kisto's actions did not go well with Buck at all as he watched his back dissapointedly.
"So, what did K-Kisto want?" Dyna asked shyly.
Buck got the feeling she was blushing.
"He was just telling me that we may not get into the rebel alliance." Buck said.
"What? After all of this?" Dyna said.
Buck nodded solemnly.
"Then forget the rebel alliance!" Dyna said defiantly.
This caused Buck to raise an eyebrow questionable.
"Well... at least for now." She said feeling slightly embarrassed at what she had said.
"What you have other things we can do?" Buck said. "Are you going to allow me to enrol you into a career school like I've always wanted to?"
"No, I have an even better plan." Dyna said before she walked into the Diversity, their spaceship. "I'll explain everything once we get in the air!"