"We have about 20 minutes till we get there," Leia said to Han as he dodged some fire from a headhunter that they accidentally ran across.

"No problem," Han said as he gripped the controls a bit tighter. "Come on you two, hit something."

"We trying general," Tyria said from the upper gun well, while Meewalh was manning the lower gun. "But we seem to have pick up a few more friends."

"Right," Han said with a tight voice. Getting past the main fleet in space went better then he had thought when Tahiri first proposed it, but now they had to deal with the stragglers as they tried to reach Tenel Ka before the bright boys upstairs caught on.

"There just police so far general," Kell said from the communication/engineering board behind him.

"They're not the ones I'm worried about," Han said as he tried to give his gunners a better shot. "Sooner or later someone upstairs is going to decide that we were part of the diversion."

"Don't worry sir, we will be there and gone before they make that connection," Piggy said from the main hatch where the rest of the Wraiths were preparing to make their assault.

"Anyways, I have the perfect charm to make sure we won't be discovered," Elassar said.

"Why can't you find one to help me find a date for the down time?"

"There are no magical charms, spells or drinks, that is that powerful, Socket."

Leia and Han exchanged glances; Leia's was one of humor while Han just rolled his eyes. From what he has seen, the new Wraiths were just as bad as the older version. This rescue mission was not changing his views much either or his feeling about his adopted daughter. Only she could come up with a crazy plan to save Tenel Ka and any other surviving family members. When he mentioned as much at the briefing, Kell and Elassar both made cracks about her really being a member of his family, they just didn't know about it. Tahiri for her part didn't seem to mind his consent questioning, for some reason she seemed top be losing up around him … at least he hoped she was.

"The signal is coming in stronger and they seemed to have stopped moving," Kell said breaking his train of though.

"If that is still her," Han said peeking at the scanner with Tenel Ka's location.

"We'll know in a few minutes, don't worry so much." The very confident voice of Tahiri came over the intercom.

"I'll worry if I want to," Han snapped back, "this is crazy you know."

"That is why it will work, who would expect anyone to use a freighter to do a high speed ejection in a war zone." Han just rolled his eyes at the foreword view screen as the other Wraiths put in their two credits to their boss's plan. The idea was to allow the Wraiths to jump out of the main hatch, use their repulse packs to slow their decent. Han, meanwhile, will fly away to draw off any troops in the area until they called for extraction. Then he would fly in low and slow so they could jet back into the ship. Crazy, he called it, a move worth of General Solo and the Wraiths Piggy called it. "Besides General, I can already feel Rayner down there. This is the only way to get in and out fast enough to do the job and protect my people; as well as you two."

"She is right Han," Leia said with a sigh. He knew she was no happier about this then he was, especially after Tahiri somehow ran out of time to explain to them and the Wraiths what happened to her during her vision. "I can't feel Tenel Ka yet but Rayner is coming through like a sonic blast."

"The good news is I don't think he realize that we are on the way," Tahiri said which Leia and Tyria both agreed with.

"I still got a bad feeling about this," Han said grumbling.

"TIME!" Kell yelled out and Han heard some cheering over the intercom.

"What," he asked as Leia gave him an equally confused look.

"Doc is the winner," Piggy said as Doc cheered and as the rest gave her a round of good nature complaints. Tyria told Han he needs better sense of timing.

"What," Han repeated as he dodged some in coming fire from rooftops.

"We had a bet going how long it would take for you to say 'I have a bad feeling'. By the way, if you had waited another 3 minutes I would have won." After Han had to put up with some teasing from Leia, Kell had some real bad news, "Piggy, I have that signal on frequency 089-34."

"We are only 5 minutes out," Leia reported as the Wraiths discussed this new development. So far, this mystery comm signal was baffling to both the Wraiths and the many who work on the hyper-signal relays. A non-directional, non-recorder able signal should not and could not exist without lighting up every receiver in this part of the galaxy. Han had also felt that if Wedge hadn't also witness this strange event, many would still be ignoring it. However, since it was Wedge that seen it, many were more incline to believe him. Leia suddenly grabbed his arm as she went white, "Han, Jacen is there and he's hurt!"

"Confirm, no change Charm Boy and Doc will take care of him." Tahiri said in a very commanding voice that Han never heard from her before, "we'll get him Captain. Please remember the plan or else you could risk everyone lives here."

"Right," Han said with a tight voice as he dropped down to tree level. This palace was located deep in a forest/park area. The police skimmers were still hot on their tails as Meewalh and Tyria keep them from getting to close or cute.

"Don't worry Captain, we know our jobs," Leia said after she announced two minutes until drop.

"Never doubted it," Tahiri said with a warm and cheerful laugh, "my family won't let me down today."

"We're heading in and it is hot," Han said as he saw the night sky light up in blue flashes over the center of the large palace complex. He raised the Falcon slightly higher as the Wraith went through the finial check. Han also kept an eye on his wife to make sure nothing has happened more to Jacen.

"General, we are go! Tahiri said as Leia let out a small gasp.

"What?"

"Tahiri, he knows your coming!"

"I know we are jumping …NOW!"

As soon as Piggy announced that they had all cleared, Han banked to the port to draw away the headhunters on their tails. When Meewalh reported that all six headhunters were still in pursuit, he asked the question that has been on his mind. "Is Jacen hurt bad?"

"He been knocked around but he seems to still be strong, knocked out but strong."

"That's my boy," Han said with a crooked smile.

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Tenel Ka reached over to grab her light saber while keeping her eyes on her former classmate and friend. Jacen Solo had tried to talk to Rayner Thul for the first hour or so but his rants as well as the disturbing sensation she was getting through the Force made her realize that it was fruitless to try to reason with him. Jacen Solo, being the kind of man that he was, refused to believe that he could not reach Rayner Thul. Therefore, they tried to reach him, which only made it more possible for the rebels to reach the palace to help him take them down.

Now it was just she and Rayner Thul, Jacen Solo was alive but unconscious and many of her supports were dieing slowly and painfully. She had felt many such deaths since this rebellion started earlier this week. What had started out as a normal workday turned into a fight unlike she had ever face in her life. A fight where her grandmother was missing and her own father died helping to defend her from the rebels. It was unclear to her just who had launched this attack against her government, even those they had captured were unclear just whom was behind this coup. For days her and her supports had fled from one defeat to another without any hint as to how her enemies were able to know where is was and her plans to stop them were. However, when Rayner Thul showed up a few hours ago to attack her, in her mind the picture came very clear.

His desire to destroy her, to kill her in simplest terms, was so strong that he didn't seem to care who else died to quench his thirst for revenge. How many children cry tonight because of a mistake we made years ago? She thought with a heave heart. The decision to go after the voxyn was a decision that she agreed with and now, the danger they posed to Jedi and the galaxy at large was too great to ignore. The decision to send them instead of the masters, whom wouldn't have had done much better in her opinion, was one that she could live with. No, they made a mistake by not providing enough security to protect the injured Rayner Thul against the Night witch and her apprentice that brought them to this.

"LOOK AT ME WITCH, LOOK AT ME," Rayner Thul said as she slowly stood up while also keeping a mental eye on Jacen Solo. Rayner Thul, once a hansom boy was now a damaged and disfigured shell whose anger had burned brightly and fiercely.

"I have Rayner Thul, I am sorry you were injured as badly as you were," Tenel Ka said honestly. "Again, I wish …"

"YOUR FAULT, ALL YOUR FAULT JEALOUS OF ME YOU ALL WERE …"

"No, Rayner Thul that is not truth."

From the left she heard explosions and the sound of an approaching ship, while she thought nothing about it but Rayner Thul had a far different reaction.

"DIE VEILA DIE!"

A black saucer shape ship flew overhead as several objects fell from the ship. Reaching out to with the Force, Tenel Ka could feel Leia Organa-Solo and another Jedi in the Falcon as well as the familiar presence of Han Solo. One of the falling figures was harder to read, it seemed to be playing hide and seek or else it was just so weak that it was just naturally disappearing. Rayner Thul reached out and shot more of his Force Lighting at the falling figure and at her as well. Being caught off guard was bad enough, but Rayner Thul ripped her light saber out of her grip when she hit the cobble stone pathway.

"DIE VEILA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" he screamed as he lit up both light sabers. One of the ghostly figures had also lit up a light saber and engaged him in battle. She watched as the small form hit the ground and did a somersault over his head swinging the light saber at him in a very control and elegant manner. While the two combatants charged at each other, Rayner Thul still screaming at the top of his lungs, more figures dropped near her and Jacen. Tenel Ka upholstered her pistol, wondering if they were truly friend or foe.

"Easy Queen Mother, the cavalry has arrived," one of the unknown said as he took off his pack. Tenel Ka saw that he was a Devaronian of mid to late years, with a few odd bit of jewelry around his neck. "Sit back down so I can exam you before our taxi gets back."

"Boys set up a perimeter, keep out any bad guys," a young female said as she check on Jacen Solo.

"Do I get to blow up anything," one of them asked as he pulled out his blaster rifle and scanned the surrounding area.

"You might have too, Socket. Doc, we have a group of about 30 heading in from the west."

"Where," the one who had asked if he could blow something up as he moved to the other man's position. "You mean those guys coming up behind that building."

"Yes, question is are they friendly or not?" He said as he adjusted his stance and gun.

"Who are you," Tenel Ka asked in her most authoritative voice.

"Queen Mother, do you have any friendly forces in the area," the woman asked from her spot over Jacen Solo.

Tenel Ka hesitated for a fraction of a second as she received a feeling through the Force from Leia Organa-Solo and the other Jedi to trust these unknown raiders. She sent back a impression that she was not sure but they reminded her that the attacks from Rayner Thul against the third Jedi, that she could not feel, were growing even more erratic and as was his anger. She reached out to the party that they had seen coming, "No, they are not here to assist."

"Right," the one who had the long rifle said while firing a single shot. Tenel Ka felt a single life snuff out. The rest of the group seem to hesitate for a second as the man screamed out but then continued to moved forward to get to her. He fired again, this time hitting one who sent a flash of astonishment before being snuffed out. "Socket, if you wouldn't mind helping."

"Are you sure you going to leave me anyone to kill," the one called Socket said as he unloaded something from his pack.

"If you weren't so slow," the third one said as he watch to the North and East.

"Charm Boy, can you help me sir," the one working with Jacen Solo asked then turned to Socket, "remember don't get carried away!"

"Who me," the Socket said flashing her a grin as he bent down to work on whatever he had.

"Again, I must ask you just who you are," Tenel Ka asked as she made her way over to Jacen Solo. Behind her, she could feel two more lives snuffed out as the sniper did his deadly trade.

"Is there something wrong with the scanner," the older male asked ignoring Tenel Ka.

"That is possible," the young woman said, "either way I think he is suffering from electrical shock and is unconscious. Recommend we have the Falcon land to load him. The packs may not be the best way to get him out of here."

"My scanner agrees with you," the older man said as he looked over the stirring form of Jacen Solo. Tenel Ka could feel Jacen Solo waking up from the blow to his head he received. "Queen Mother, if you could let young Solo here know we are the god guys before he wakes up."

"How am I to know that if you refuse to tell me who you are," Tenel Ka said as she reached out with the Force to calm Jacen Solo down as he regains his senses.

"One thing at a time, your grace," the woman said as she turned back to working on Jacen Solo. As she worked, she asked Socket what was taking so long.

"Genius should never be rushed," Socket said from behind them.

"Show me one and I won't rush him," the quiet one said from his spot.

"Tell that to the bad men who want to bad things to us," the Devaronian said as he watched his scanners some more, refusing to take his eyes off them as he worked on Jacen Solo.

"Ready, range."

"100 meters west by south west."

"Right, fire in the hole!" Tenel Ka tore her eyes away from Jacen Solo as he dropped a single bomb into a tube. The bomb flew out making a small whistling noise towards the outer garden wall where the rebels seem to be hiding behind. "Grab them if you got them!" He screamed as he ducked down. The rest of his team, taking the hint also ducked and pulling Tenel Ka down with them.

The explosions, she was pretty sure there were more then one, sounded more impressive then the little bomb seemed to be capable of.

"Impressive," Tenel Ka said when she peeked up to survey the damage. She was amazed at the extent of the damage; the garden wall had a huge section missing, as were several trees behind the wall. Also the nearby servants quarters, behind the trees was destroyed and on fire. No return fire was coming from that direction. An area of about 25 meters was destroy and clumps of dirt also started raining down on them.

"What was that," the female asked the smiling young man.

"Oh just a little treat I made back when I was 14 in chemistry class," the man said seemingly very proud of his work. "I would have brought something stronger but we didn't have anything on hand when we left."

The woman and the Devaronian exchanged glances and just shook their heads.

"Team One are you are right?" A strong male voice said over a comm that they had on their wrist.

"Doc to Team Two; affirmative, your prodigy decided to play with his toys."

"Uh right," the voice sounded as dumbfounded as they had when they asked him what he had just done. Socket still seemed enormously pleased with himself. "Tell him that that blast could be seen for miles and as attracted the attention of some of those headhunters that has been chasing us." Socket's grin seemed to slip some as he heard that as well as the rest of the news, "Also there are more back up on the way. We were wondering if you were ready to pack it in."

"Stand by," she said while glaring at Socket, "you just have to show off don't you." Before he could say anything else, she turned back to the others. "Charm Boy can we lift or do we need to have the ship land?"

"If we can we should have the ship land," Charm boy said holding out his scanner at the two combatants who had worked their way down the hill towards the lake in the middle of the compound.

"Might be hard with those headhunters flying around," the sniper said as he took aim at one of those headhunters flying over the area that Socket just blew up.

"Can you hit them?" The quieter member said as he also drew on the returning aircraft.

"Maybe," he said but not very confident.

"We still have ugly down there to deal with," the one called Doc said in a musing voice. Suddenly she whipped around and asked Socket if he had anymore of those 'toys' as she called them.

"You bet!"

"Doc, what do you have in mind?" Charm boy asked in an amused voice, from his tone alone Tenel Ka could tell he had already guessed what she had in mind.

"Oh you're serious." Socket asked but sounding more excited as he talked. "Yes, I'll have it ready in a minute."

"How do we warn Peacekeeper without our friend down there finding out?" The quiet one asked, turning with a grin on his face.

"If Rat was still with us, she could just think about it …" Doc got quiet as if sharing a pain with the rest.

"I could warn Peacekeeper," Tenel Ka said, "I am assuming that Peacekeeper is a person who is also a Jedi."

"Well, yes but no offence your majesty if you tell her then Rayner can also hear it." Doc said while staring at the other two combatants.

"Truth," she said simply.

"Maybe," she started to say as her bag lift up and smacked her in the chest. "Was that you?" When Tenel Ka denied it, the others chuckled.

"Guess that is your answer," Charm boy said with a grin.

"Guess so," Doc said rubbing her chest. The sniper took a shot at one of the air cars; the pilot was dead since it crashed almost immediately. "Good shot Snip. Ok, Socket send one of your toys towards Peacekeeper, everyone else get ready. Doc to Team Two; come in hard when you get the signal."

"Rodger, what signal?"

"You'll know when you see it."

"FIRE IN THE HOLE," Socket screamed as Doc pushed her down, while Charm boy covered Jacen Solo.