Chapter 6

I couldn't believe that one of my friends has turned to the enemy. I killed the main threat, but now there was another. It would certainly be an interesting time with Mark around. He would certainly send the sith against me. The only thing we could think of was to get me back officially with the rebel army.

"Where were you all first stationed?" I asked.

"I suggest that we go back to Coruscant." Kor said.

"Coruscant it is." I said.

They launched the ship into the air and we ran from Korriban. We knew from this point on Mark will try to make our journey as tough as it could. we were just past Yavin and then we ran into trouble. There were three tie fighters that were chasing us. We ran into battle stations. I was trying to recall what Mark told me to do in emergency situations. I couldn't remember, so I ran to the cockpit. Neesh was already on the turret. I saw one fly in front of the ship. He turned to fly back in front of the ship and soon enough there was some fireworks. Neesh was a good shot, and that was a fact. After a little more flying and a little more fireworks we ended up past Toprawa. We were off course. Soon, all of the instruments froze. We were trapped. We were stuck in a tractor beam. Only a huge ship could have the power to do that. Sure enough we turned around to find that we were in a trap.

"That's a Kuat Drive yards Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer. We're in for some serious ..." I began but Kor cut me off.

"Get ready. There's going to be some violence on this ship if we're going to get off alive."

With that all three of us ran to our lockers. I pulled on my helmet, put my blaster in its holster and grabbed my vibroblade. Kor pulled himself into his Combat Jumpsuit and strapped his rifle to his back. He pulled out two heavy blasters.

"BlasTech DT-12 blaster. Restricted in a lot of places."

"That's why I keep it in my locker."

Neesh just got into his Padded Battle Armor. He too pulled his rifle on his back. He only used that for long ranged purposes, considering it was a sniper rifle. He also had a Merr-Sonn Power 5 Heavy Blaster. Then he pulled out something I didn't expect. A Verpine Shatter Gun. That was not only rare, it was illegal in many places. It also is very expensive. It shoots a small stream of metal projectiles that are held together in a magnetic field. It is also soundless.

"Where did you get one of those?" I asked.

"I've been around a little longer than you expect." Neesh said.

Just after he said that there was a sound that came from the loading ramp. I ran into the hallway and jumped up and stuck my legs out. I was held up in the hallway and it was dark enough that I wasn't noticable. I don't know where the other two went but when two sith soldiers came in the hallway, I dropped on one, and cut the other one. Of course I only knocked down the one I landed on, so I made sure he didn't get up again.

"Two down, plenty more to go." I said to myself.

I heard a yell from a soldier on the other end of the ship. I ran over there and whipped out my blaster. When I saw one soldier at the end of my barrel I pulled my trigger and he hit the ground. I rushed to find the others.

When I got to them they were smiling. We had beaten a squadron of sith soldiers. Now that I think about it a lot of things planned out in my favor in this journey. I didn't get killed, I killed some people that needed to be, and of course, I met a few people that really helped with my survival.

"Well, how do you recommend we get out of one of these things?" I asked Kor. He was after all the pilot.

"Well, there is usually a computer on the bridge of the ship that controls the tractor beam. I think it would be incredibly risky, but it's our only shot at getting out of here."

We ran out of the ship and into the bigger ship. There was a nice little welcoming party waiting for us. Of course the party didn't last long if you know what I mean. There were only three people there, so we each took one.

Kor stood near the back, Neesh was in the middle with his Verpine Shatter Gun and I was in front, since I was the only one with a melee weapon. We made our way to an elevator after taking down a few more people.

"Which level should we go to?" I asked.

"The bridge is usually on the top level."

Neesh reacted and hit the "4" button.

With a giant jump it started to move. When we got there we were once again greeted by a pack of three people. By now I was tired and I just threw my vibroblade at one, and pulled out my blaster and shot another one. The other two took care of the last one. I pulled my blade out of the chest of one soldier.

"Shall we?" I said as we walked up the ramp to the bridge.

We were just about the the door as it opened. At the far end of the bridge, looking out the window into space was none other than Mark. Mark and someone next to him who we didn't recognize. There were about four workers working in the bridge controls.

"Mith, Kor, Neesh. How nice of you to join me. This is my young friend, Kam Ramden. He is training under me. He learns well, but this will be a good test for him. Go now, Kam. Show me what you have learned."

This would be interesting.

He pulled out a vibroblade. I didn't know much about jedi and sith, but I don't think he has made his own lightsaber yet. Yet another event in our favor.

He had the whole bridge to walk towards us.

Neesh put his Verpine Shatter Gun back on his belt and pulled out his sniper rifle. He took aim but Mark was quick enough to use the force to thrust it to the bridge floor. Then he levitated it in front of Neesh's face and with one swift movement of his arm, it snapped like a toothpick. Neesh was in shock. His prized posession was just snapped before his eyes. At least he still had his Shatter Gun.

"Ah ah ah. Let the young one have a shot." Mark said with a smirk.

Now Kam was only about eight meters in front of us and Kor started shooting a flurry of shots at him. One hit his leg and he fell. Neesh pulled out his Shatter Gun and finished the job.

"Well I see that wasn't much of a challenge. He was useless anyway. Well now let's see how you prove against a more formidable opponent."

I gripped my vibroblade really tightly at that point. In a flash Mark drew his lightsaber and used the force to lunge at us, but he missed us and hit the bridge door. I used that opprotunity and swung at his back. It sliced into his back and he yelled.

"Kor! Go!" I yelled at him and he dashed to the end of the bridge. He was going to disable the tractor beam.

Neesh and I were so focused on watching Kor run we forgot about Mark. I was suddenly flying through the air and I landed hard on the bridge and I realized I dropped my blade. Neesh being the quick reflexed one he is snatched it up. Soon enough he was flying through the air too. At least he held on to the vibroblade.

Mark fled the bridge in a panicked and painful run. We saw a small ship flee the scene in a few minutes. By then Kor had finished the disabling of the tractor beam.

"Let's get out of here." he said.

I didn't have time to disagree. Neesh looked devastated.

"What happened?" I asked him. He held out his shattered Shatter Gun. It was a very fragile gun and he must have landed on it.

"We don't have time to worry about that. We have to go!" I said. "Hang on to the blade and at least you'll have something." I said as I pulled out my blaster.

We made our way back to the elevator and now there was more than a welcoming party in front of our ship. There was a welcoming mob.

We did the only thing we knew how to do. I started shooting, Kor followed the trend and Neesh charged at the croud. Neesh had taken down about four people in the end, I shot down two and Kor took out four as well.

The only thing that wasn't planned was Neesh getting shot. He was only hit in the leg so he was ok. Then another unexpected event happened. A mere officer came up behind me and took a swing at me with his longsword. I went into shock as I saw my arm on the ground. I dropped my blaster and grabbed my bleeding arm. The officer couldn't see my reaction because when Neesh was done with him his head was facing in a different direction than the rest of his body. They grabbed my blaster and carried me onto the ship. We flew away and fled to the closest planet: Bimmiel.

I knew nothing about this planet when I got there, and when I left there. The only difference about when I came and when I left was that I had an arm again. A mechanical arm.

"You only lost your forearm, so we got you the best one we could. It only costed eight thousand credits. I hope you don't mind if we took that money you got from the bounty to use towards that. We used that money and Neesh and I used the rest." Kor said. "At least it wasn't your regular shooting arm."

I was speechless. It all happened so fast. I got my forearm cut off, we left the ship, we landed on Bimmiel, and I got a new forearm.

"Thank you for doing this." I said finally.

"Ready to head back on track to Coruscant?" Neesh asked.

"I think now is a good time." Kor said.

We left Bimmiel and went back towards Yavin until we got on the Hydian Way until we hit Brentaal. From there we got back on the Perlemian Trade Route and that led us to Coruscant.

"Should we talk to the jedi council?" I asked.

"They probably already know the situation." Kor said. He was probably right.

"Let's go find the military station." I said.