Star Wars: Battle of the Lylat System
Chapter 2
Vader's personal hanger bay was empty as it normally was, not a soul was aloud in it except for the great Lord Vader and all those he permits to enter. Right now, standing alone was Darth Vader's apprentice, codename Starkiller. His real name however was Galen Marek, the son of a Jedi. Vader had found him on planet Kashyyk in the home of Jedi Master Kento Marek, his father. At the time Galen was only 7 years old but Vader knew he could become the most powerful force user to ever live, so Vader took Starkiller as his secret apprentice and here he stood, ready to kill all Jedi who survived Order 66, as Vader wished.
Starkiller pulled his hood up and hopped into the cockpit of a TIE fighter. The imperial fighter craft was ugly, having square vertical wings and a little ball the represented the cockpit. Starkiller engaged the engines and took off , following the trail of the Jedi fighter that had fled from Vader. Starkiler set the craft to autopilot, knowing the trip would be long and went to sleep. Dreaming of the day Vader had saved him, and killed his father who had been more evil then he could possibly imagine.
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The young boy sat, cowering in a corner as his father and the man in the black armor fought. Light sabers clashed, swinging so fast Galen could not even see them half the time. Galen was only 7 years old and had never seen his father duel before, nor had he ever seen a Sith. Now he was witnessing both and of course it was going for the worse. Vader swung his saber upward and knocked Kento's saber away, now Kento was on his knees in front of Vader.
"Where is your master!?" Vader yelled, his voice menacing and dark.
"You killed my master years ago." Kento said through heavy pants. His breathing was heavily labored from the fierce duel he had with Vader.
Vader raised his light saber, preparing to deliver the final blow. He swung down and all of a sudden his weapon flew from his gloved hand. Perplexed, Vader turned side to side, wondering what had just happened until he saw him. Galen had used the force in fear and anger, not on purpose, and snatched Vader's light saber away and now held it as if it was his own. Vader starred at the young boy, sensing his power. He never knew the son of a Jedi could become as powerful as he was at this age.
"A son…" Vader said as he starred in amazement.
"Run!" yelled Kento and Vader snatched his light saber back and struck down Kento, ending his life.
Vader approached the young boy, towering over him. The boy had collapsed onto the ground and was now crying for the loss of his father, Vader had no sympathy for him but only cared about how strong he was with the force. Vader could sense that he would become the most powerful force user to ever live.
"Rise young one." Vader said but the kid continued to cry. The dark lord grew tired after a while and lifted Galen off of the ground using the force, "I am your master now, I will train you." he said and suddenly a group of storm troopers entered the home of Kento and one of them fired a shot at Galen.
With lightning speed, Vader drew his saber and deflected the blow, sending it back to the trooper and proceeded to kill the rest of them, killing them all with ease. After all were dispatched he returned to Galen and walked him toward his Imperial shuttle.
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Starkiller awoke and removed the ship from autopilot, now wanting to pilot it himself to stop himself from falling asleep. He did not wish to see his father be killed even though he was an evil Jedi according to Vader. He turned on the cloaking device and sped through the galaxy.
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Fox walked down the main hallway aboard the Great Fox, blaster now clipped to his side and headset on. He had docked with the small Jedi fighter that had been spotted in the Lylat System and now was ready to investigate. The fighter was strange, unlike anything he had ever seen and the life-form inside was that of a human. A race believed to be extinct.
Eager Fox went into Falco's room. Falco was sitting on his bed playing with his blaster.
"Ready to investigate?" Fox said
"Every time you see a new type of fighter you get all jumpy." Falco said, "This is going to be boring anyway, why do I have to come?"
"In case whatever is in that thing is hostile." Fox crossed his arms over his chest.
"Whatever." Falco holstered his blaster and the two made there way down to the hanger, Fox and ordered the beautiful Krystal to remain in her room. Fearing for her safety. She did not take kindly to it, claiming she could fend for herself and Fox knew she could but then again this fighter was indeed foreign, and not of this system. Fox was taking all the necessary precautions.
The two entered the bay and Falco stayed back, leaning against the wall. He yawned and waited for Fox to go on with his investigation. Fox drew his blaster and moved very slowly toward the craft, making now noise at all.
He was maybe 20 feet from the craft when the cockpit hissed open, steam rose from the inside and a human male leaped a near 20 feet in the air and landed 15 feet from Fox. The human drew two tube like objects and hit a button on each; soon they emitted a green beam of energy that resembled a type of sword. The beams glowed bright green and the human spun and took a fighting stance, as if he was ready to strike down Fox.
Fox held his fire but Falco did not, he took his spot off of the wall and fired at the new character. Each shot was dead-on but they were all deflected and sent in different directions from the green energy bladed swords. Falco finally stopped when one of the blasts came back and grazed his arm. Falco dropped his blaster and clutched his shoulder grimacing in pain.
"Who are you?" Fox said, his blaster trained on the newcomer.
"The big question is who are you?" he said, not lowering his two light sabers.
"My name is Fox McCloud and right now you are aboard my ship." Fox replied.
"Don't care, where am I? What system are we in?" the human asked.
"The Lylat System. I am lowering my weapon now." Fox reholstered his blaster.
The boy deactivated his light sabers and clipped them to his belt, "My name is Mimco Pann, son of Jedi Master Pann." he said and walked toward Fox. He was considerably taller then fox, maybe by 2 feet but it didn't matter. Fox was the captain of this vessel and he deserved respect.
"Let's go and talk Mimco…" Fox said and the two walked down the catwalk of the docking bay, Falco followed behind, heading to the medical wing to tend to his wound.
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Vader walked down the brightly lit hall way of his Star Destroyer, the halls were empty at the moment. All of his troops tending to the building of the Death Star, the first moon sized Space Station and most powerful piece of weaponry in all the galaxy.
The dark lord entered the navigation room, 5 men stood around the virtual map of the galaxy, each wearing identical uniforms.
"Lord Vader, we have lost track of the Jedi fighter. It dropped off of the scanners." said the admiral, Vader saw him as an insolent fool who did nothing but annoy all those around him.
"Double your efforts…" Vader towered over all of them, now approaching the virtual map.
"Lord, it is gone, the fighter just dropped off the scanners there is nothing we can do." the admiral said.
"Are you saying that you have done all you can?" Vader asked turning toward the admiral.
"Yes." the admiral replied and crossed his arms.
Vader raised his hand and the admiral grasped at his throat. Vader curved his fingers ever so slightly and the admiral dropped to his knees.
"Then I have no more use for you admiral." he said and the admiral spat up a white foam and died.
"Leave…" Vader said and the rest of the ones in the room ran, fearing for their own lives.
Vader hit some button on a nearby keyboard and a virtual display of Starkiller's TIE fighter came up, he was nearing a system that was un-named by the map and seemed to be completely blank. Vader zoomed in on the system and but his hand above it.
"I have you now Mimco…" he said, learning the young Jedi's name through the power of the force.
Vader replaced his hand at his side and the virtual map was replaced with a hologram of his master, Darth Sidious.
"Lord Vader, I sense that Master Pann has been dispatched off. You have done well." said the emperor.
Vader knelled, "I have actually failed you my master. Pann's son escaped, he could pose a new threat toward the empire."
"Don't worry my friend, soon he will meet his end however I do wish that you come and see me on the Death Star. We have many thing to discuss." The emperor smiled.
"Yes my master." Vader stood when the hologram vanished and left the room, heading for his hanger bay. Vader knew his master would want to speak with him about the elusiveness of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Vader knew that there was nothing he could do but he had vowed to destroy his former master one day and exact revenge on him. Vader clenched his fist and traversed the empty halls of the Star Destroyer.
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Starkiller starred with a perplexed look on his face at what was before him, it was a large elegant ship. It was white and had a large red animal painted on the side, from this range though he could not make out the drawing but he could sense that Mimco was aboard the ship.
Starkiller was just out of range of the Great Fox's scanners, making him impossible to detect. He was following it in silence, preparing to attack.
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Mimco stopped in the hallway of the Great Fox and grabbed McCloud's shoulder.
"Increase your speed…" he said, his eyes now closed.
"Why, there is no need, we are making great time as it is." Fox said and shrugged Mimco off of his shoulder.
"We are being followed. I can sense him." said Mimco.
"No, our scanners would have picked up anything following us. We are perfectly safe, besides, no one would attack us anyway we look too much like a civilian ship." he said and began walking again.
"Mr. McCloud you do not understand soon we are going to be attacked by someone, I can not tell who or what it is but I do know the attack is going to happen." Mimco said and opened his eyes, starring at the vulpine.
"I told you, you have nothing to worry about Mimco now come on." Fox said and they continued to walk down the hallway. Mimco biting his lip the entire way.
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Starkiller radioed in to Vader's Star Destroyer, this would please his master very much now.
"Lord Vader, I have found Mimco, he is aboard a strange vessel but I have him now." Starkiller said
"Good," Lord Vader replied, "Dispatch of him and bring me his light saber, the death of this young Jedi will be a great step forward in the true end of the evil Jedi." Vader said and the com link went down.