Star wars episode VIII: The end of the Jedi
The galaxy is in turmoil. As the Republic and First Order struggle to hold off the onslaught of the Greartok, dozens of worlds have already fallen to the alien race and have been transformed into machine worlds void of any other life.
With a galaxy wide invasion, the Jedi knights and Knights of Ren are spread thin as they desperately try to protect their people from the alien invaders. With loss after loss, the Republic struggles to rally its fleets and recruit new allies to join in their fight to save the galaxy from the Greartok.
Chapter 1: A desperate escape
Poe held his throttle up hard as his E-wing made a sharp turn up with two beam weapons after him.
He heard a familiar beep.
"I know they're after us BB-8, you just have to trust my piloting skills."
BB-8 chirped.
"Not helping buddy." Poe said as he saw a pair of republic A-wing fighters get torn apart by beam trackers.
"Hang on!" Poe shouted.
All around Poe was a massive fleet battle dozens of republic ships facing off against a large task force of Greartok ships including two carrier class ships.
The Republic fleet had several frigate class vessels, some corvette sized ships, five mediator capital ships and two carrier vessels. Also with them were over a dozen of their newest cruiser class ships.
The cruiser vessels were around the size of their frigates. They were grey and blue looking almost like capital T's from the front but with a more cylindrical center that extended back into a tail with guns on the bottom fin and the front as well as the sides. Leading the fleet was another much ;archer super cruiser. It was over three kilometers long with a mon calamari design.
Poe saw another three A-wings get blown apart as the beam weapons got closer.
BB-8 beeped.
"I know the last time we shook them off easier. Yes the E-wing is better than the X-wing, I guess the Greartok upgrade their weapons too buddy." Poe said as he made a sharp bank and then dropped straight down before spinning. His craft making such sharp movements that the beams crashed into each other.
"We got up, Rogue three, four , and ten, form up behind me. Rogue two and seven, draw out their fire."
Three other E-wings came behind Poe's ship as another two flew past them several beams following them as BB-8 locked in where the Greartok ships were.
"Let's go!" Poe shouted as he and his wingmen opened up, destroying four Greartok ships.
"Captain Dameron!" Poe heard over the com link.
"Admiral i'm here."
Wedge stood on the bridge of the super cruiser looking out at the battle as another of his ships was enveloped by the Greartok fire and destroyed.
"Captain we need to get the fleet out of here, more Greartok ships are dropping out of hyperspace."
"Admiral we have to stay, if the Greartok take this hyperspace lane they could reach Hosnian prime."
"Poe, there are drones aboard my flagship. We aren't going to win this fight, First Senator Leia has authorized us to make a tactical retreat. Now clear out those combined craft so the Ackbar and the rest of our fleet can get out."
"Yes sir." Poe said reluctantly.
" Alright Rogue squadron new orders. Let's clear a path for the fleet to withdraw."
"We're going to run!?"
"I don't like it either rogue- four, but we have our orders from Admiral Antilles. We need to save the fleet to fight another day." Poe said as his E-wings flew behind him.
Onboard the Ackbar dozens of drones were inside the hanger battling scattered groups of republic troopers taking cover behind destroyed fighters. The drones swarming out of three boarding craft that had latched onto the hanger.
Three republic troopers saw a squad of their comrades in front of them get overrun as the drones swarmed over them and gunned them down before turning to them.
"We need reinforcements!" A sergeant showed before a door from the upper walkway opened up.
As several flying drones came further in , a series of blaster fire hit the four drones and shot them out of the air.
The troopers saw a mandalorian in white and red armor with a skull emblem on his helmet as well as series of black notched across parts of the armor and a sheathed blade on his left arm. The mandalorian had a jet pack on as he fired his blaster carbine, gunning down several flying drones.
The Mandalorian was joined by two others, a young mirialan man in a brown armored robe and a young human woman wearing a black suit of light armor over her chest and abdomen with black trousers with boots and black shelves with gauntlets. There was a hooded cape around her shoulders that went down half of her back with black cloth coming over the front of her waist.
The young woman had a cyan lightsaber ignited as the other Jedi's lightsaber glowed a whitish blue.
The young woman had a very determined look on her face as she quickly made her way through the hanger, deflecting blaster bolts from the drones on the ground before cutting the drones apart one by one.
The other Jedi took a more defensive stance as he effortlessly deflected bolts back at the drones, using the force to pull a few to him as he cut them down.
As the young woman cut down another drone she saw several flying drones form together into large hornet like beasts. The three hornets unleashed a hail of blaster fire that ripped through a damaged X-wing and killed five men hind it. The mandalorian doing his best to fight the three beasts off.
The young Jedi woman saw several republic troopers breaking down in cover, some whimpering or crying from the terror of the Greartok.
the Jedi took a deep breath as she held her hands out at the soldiers.
"You're braver than this, you're soldiers of the republic, sworn defenders of your people. You have the courage of a Jedi." she said as the troopers felt their morale and confidence replenish. The men and women got up and concentrated their fire at one of the hornets, hitting its wings as the creature fell to the ground before the Jedi woman leapt into it and cut apart the remaining drones.
The mandalorian hurled two devices into one of the hornets as it continued to fire at him, the devices letting out some king of liquid all over the drone beast before the Mandalorian flew under it and unleashed his flamethrower before the liquid ignited and burned the drones apart.
The second Jedi deflected blasts from the third beast before reaching out at a damaged X-wing. He used the force to activate its weapons , two blasts hitting the beast and tearing it apart before the Jedi pulled the surviving drones into him as he cut them down.
The troopers began chanting in relief as the two Jedi and mandalorian met up.
"Admiral we've cleared the hanger." The Jedi woman said over the com link.
"Rey, there are still more Greartok in gunnery station four. We need to blast our way out and those guns need to stay online."
"Yes admiral. Arkanes, Taul let's go." Rey said as the other two nodded.
They rushed down the halls of the super cruiser before reaching the gunnery station.
They saw a squad of dead republic troopers and crewmen around the guns with none other than a Greartok over them. The Greartok standing almost nine feet tall with yellow and brown armor, synthetic wings on his back and an insect like helmet. In each hand was a strange looking gun.
"Of course it had to be a Greartok." Taul said as the alien shouted at them in his language.
The Greartok flew up and fired its guns as the three scattered, however, the blasts hit the ground as Taul opened up at the Taul, trying got hit his wings. Rey and Arkanes leapt at the Greartok who knocked away their lightsabers with his arms and feet before they noticed something moving in the floor.
Rey saw a glowing energy ball burst out of the ground as Taul fired a grapple around her and hurled Rey away. The energy exploding around where Rey had beed.
"Watch the ground!" Taul shouted as Arkanes saw one of the glowing balls following him in the ground as the Greartok fired another one into the ground.
The three scattered as the energy balls followed them. As one came up, Rey used the force to push it back at the Greartok who kicked it at Arkanes.
The alien Jedi dove away before glaring at Rey.
"Sorry." She said as the Greartok fired two more into the ground.
The three kept try to avoid the blasts as Taul hurled two devices into the beams behind the girth.
Arkanes tried to use the force to pull the Greartok down, but his powers had no effect on the alien who slammed into the ground and knocked the three off their feet.
The Greartok shouted as he fired two more blasts that burned through the ground at the Jedi and Mandalorian.
Rey looked at Arkanes , using her force powers to tell him a plan , the other jedi knight nodding as the two balls burst up. Arkanes using the force to pull them back at the Greartok who prepared to knock them back.
Rey used the force to take control of a fallen blaster and fired at the blasts, the two exploding as the Greartok was forced back before the two devices sprayed him with the same liquid as earlier.
Taul flying closer as he unleashed fire into the Greartok who was engulfed in fire.
Taul shouted in excitement before he saw something else. A metal gauntlet reached out and grabbed his leg before hurling the Mandalorian into the two Jedi, knocking them back as they saw the Greartok walk forward, his armor preparing itself despite his wings melting off.
"Rey you killed one of them before." Arkanes said as Rey held her saber up.
"I have an idea." Rey held her hand out at the Greartok.
"You want to follow us, Jedi are far more valuable than guns."
The Greartok shouted as he ran after them.
"Run." Rey said as the three ran and were followed by the Greartok.
"What the hell are we doing?" Taul asked.
"Securing the ship." Rey said as they approached several escape pods.
"Their weapons aren't lightsaber proof." Rey said as Arkanes nodded.
The Greartok reached them and prepared to fire. Taul fired at his guns, the alien moving surprisingly fast and with great agility as he kept his weapons safe before Arkanes hurled his lightsaber forward and guided it as he sliced the guns in half.
The Greartok shouted as he saw Rey holding her hand at him.
"You want to get me." She said as the Greartok shouted and leapt at her. Rey dove forward and under the Greartok's legs as he crashed into an escape pod, Rey using the force to activate it.
The Greartok got up just in time to see the Ackbar get farther away as the pod flew into space.
Rey let out a relief breath as she sat down.
"Admiral, the ship is secure." Arkanes said.
Wedge saw more combined craft form from ships launched from the closer Greartok carrier. The combined craft unleashed their blue blasts into two of his capital ships, the mediators' shields shattering before the blasts burned through their hulls and tore them apart.
"Captain Dameron clear us a path now!" Wedge shouted.
Poe saw four combined craft tear apart another republic t-shaped cruiser as two of his fighters flew around them.
"Targets marked, Rogue squadron move in!" Poe shouted as he flew under the first combined craft, firing up at the center and destroying it, the combined craft breaking apart as three of Poe's other E-wings tore through the side of a combined craft and hit the center, making it break apart.
The rest of Rogue squadron tore apart three Greartok craft that revealed themselves after shooting down six A-wings.
A T-shaped cruiser came up with two frigates beside it, the three ships combining their fire into two more combined Greartok craft, tearing them apart.
"We've got an opening!" Poe shouted.
"All ships move through that gap!" Wedge shouted as his fleet rushed through the hole in the Greartok formation. He saw the closer Greartok carrier try and close the gap but Rogue squadron cleared up the Greartok craft on its port side.
"Sir they're in range." An ensign said as Wedge smiled.
"Fire!" The Ackbar unleashed its many turbolasters and ion cannons, dozens of blasts hitting the Greartok carrier, its shields buckling before the blasts tore it in half.
The crew of the Ackbar chanting as their fleet cleared the Greartok task force.
Just before this happened Rey's head shot up as she saw from the windows of the doors around the empty escape pod hole. She saw the second Greartok carrier and felt a sharp pain in her head.
Inside the Greartok carrier, a Greartok Warmaster stood and watched the Republic fleet flee.
"Jedi! " Rey heard in her head as she held it.
"Sir all ships are clear!"
"Gun it!" Wedge shouted as the Republic fleet jumped to light speed.
The Warmaster roared.
"Follow those ships!"
"Warmaster, our orders were to secure this space, we need to begin preparations for the rest of the fleet."
"I don't care I!' Moments later a sphere of liquid metal appeared in front of the three Greartok on the bridge.
The metal began to shape itself into a head as the three aliens knelt.
"Great Onimi." The warmaster said.
"Yok-vor, have you completed your mission?" The head said in a powerful voice as Yok-vor grunted.
"We have secured the space you ordered us to, but the enemy fleet has escaped. We should persu-"
"No, they are irrelevant, you must continue the operation as ordered. Deviating from the plan will have serious repercussions. Am I clear Warmaster?"
"Yes, great Onimi." Yok-vor said as he raised his head.
Rey still held her head.
"You can't escape me forever Jedi, I will find you!"
Rey tried to breath as Arkanes put his hand on her shoulder.
"Rey are you alright?"
She sighed.
"He was there, I could hear him in my head again."
"Well you did kill his brother. I don't blame him for being a little obsessed with you." Taul said.
The three went to the bridge where they saw Poe and Wedge.
"We shouldn't have run like cowards." Poe said.
"The Greartok had a steady supply of reinforcements, it wouldn't have done the republic any good to lose another fleet." Wedge said as he saw the Jedi and mandalorian approach.
"Outstanding work securing the ship you three."
"We do what we can admiral." Arkanes said.
"Sir , First Senator Leia is trying to contact us."
"Put her through." Wedge said as they saw Leia's hologram appear.
"Wedge, you made it." Leia said relieved.
"We lost around forty percent of the fleet, including two capital ships."
Leia shook her head.
"Enemy losses."
"As many as usual, but we also got a carrier. That's something, but even with as many losses as their taking, the Greartok are showing no signs of fatigue. Our fleets are taking too many losses, even in engagements we win or escape." Wedge said sounding very concerned.
Leia took a deep breath.
"I understand, get your ships back to a safe world, the senate will want to hear about what happened."
The three joined Poe in the officer's club as they saw the republic officers looking less than optimistic despite having escaped.
Taul saw a republic officer crying with two others trying to comfort him.
"Is he ok?"
"His cousin was on one of the capital ships that was destroyed." Poe said as he cleaned up BB-8.
"I know I never fought in the rebellion, but I think I'd rather be fighting the empire." Arkanes said.
"We can't give up, the force has guided us this far. Even when the galaxy was at its darkest, the Jedi returned." Rey said.
"She's right. We are going to stop the Greartok, we're going to find a way to stop them." Poe said sounding determined as BB-8 chirped.
"I will admit, these aliens are definitely worthy warriors, even Mandalore himself would have a challenge fighting them." Taul said as he put a few notches in his armor.
"By the way, I know that Greartok you connected with on Icean has still been giving you trouble, but have you been able to get anything useful out of him?" Taul asked.
"Nothing that will help us, just very vivid descriptions of how he's going to kill me and what parts of me will be his trophies."
"Interesting." Arkanes said.
Taul smiled and laughed.
"Who knows, maybe he'll turn out to be all talk."
"Feel free to fight him yourself if he does come."
Taul smiled.
"Oh I will." He said as he sheathed his blade.
Rey smiled and shook her head.
"We could use a few more people like you Taul."
"If every republic trooper was like me, this war would be over."
"Well they aren't." Arkanes said.
"And that's why we're still fighting."
Author's note
The First Order and Republic are fighting for their lives against the Greartok, we meet Yok-vor's master, but keep in mind Onimi may just be a title, not a name
Taul hasn't left his Jedi friend yet, and Yok-vor hasn't forgotten what Rey did on Icean.
So until next time,
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