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Chapter 8: Grievous


Infiltrating Grievous' flagship, Invisible Hand, was surprisingly easy for the quartet. This actually provoked comments, as they ran through the corridors.

"Hey! I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade or anything, but isn't this just a tad too easy?" Fleur inquired.

"Hey, yeah!" Anakin exclaimed, promptly stopped running, and proceeded to ponder the situation. Fortunately, Flynn was aware of his surroundings and also stopped, until he was propelled forward again by Fleur running into him. Further up the corridor, Qui-Gon glanced around, then stopped running, realising that no one was following him.

Walking back to the trio, he was just in time to hear Flynn say, "I sense a trap."

In response, Fleur grinned and asked, "Next move?"

Flynn grinned back and replied, "Spring the trap!"

Qui-Gon couldn't help but think that these two were definitely in their element; nothing could or would faze them at the moment.


A shimmering wall of light materialised, causing Qui-Gon to come to an abrupt halt. Now that they were travelling two abreast, they didn't catapult each other forwards when they stopped.

"Ray shields!" Anakin announced unnecessarily.

Qui-Gon didn't have to wait long for the inevitably sarcastic reply. Fleur answered almost immediately with a sarcastic, "No! Really?"

Flynn, however, looked at Anakin, whose idea it had been to simply, run onto the bridge and asked, "Do you have a 'Plan B'?"

Anakin seemed to think for a minute before saying, "Well, they're going to have to send some droids to release us. We can easily get rid of them and make out way to the bridge."

Flynn merely raised an eyebrow at him as Magna-Guards, droidekas, battle droids and super battle droids all appeared in the corridor where they were trapped.

Anakin took the hint and said, "Ok, 'Plan C'. They take us to the bridge to be 'processed' by Grievous. Qui-Gon can pretend to negotiate with him long enough to distract him, allowing us the opportunity to escape!"

"What about him?" Flynn asked pointing a thumb at Qui-Gon.

Anakin looked thoughtful for a moment before saying, "Well, if they don't kill him, I suppose we could always come back for him. If we have time that is!" he added, almost as an afterthought. He then flashed a grin at Qui-Gon, who mock glared at him in return.

Flynn decided to make a play for gaining Anakin's trust and said, "Ok, fine by me!"

Fleur, never one to be outdone, added, "Yeah! The old geezer would probably just slow us down anyway!"

Qui-Gon turned to them with a shocked look on his face. "You two are supposed to be on my side!"

Anakin answered before either of the other two had a chance, "The qualifier being supposed!" This caused Flynn and Fleur to snicker.

Qui-Gon was about to answer, but at this point, they were interrupted by one of the Magna-Guards saying; "Hand over your weapons!"


"So you are the famous Jedi! General Jinn and Commander Skywalker." Grievous paused, then, to have and recover from a coughing fit, before continuing. "Your lightsabers will make an excellent addition to my collection." He looked past them, to where Flynn and Fleur were standing. "And, you two! When the Count finds out you betrayed him, you will pay, Traitors!"

Qui-Gon spoke, fulfilling the role that the others had assigned to him in the corridor. "Not this time, General. And this time, you won't escape!"

Grievous was quick to reply, with, "You are mistaken, Jinn! For it is you who will not escape!" While he was saying this, Qui-Gon was hard-pressed not to smile as he saw both his and Anakin's lightsabers detach themselves from the inside of Grievous' cloak, where he had put them earlier. They were soon followed by two others for their entourage.

Grievous only noticed that they were gone when a fire gold lightsaber appeared at his neck, or what comprised his neck, and Flynn's voice saying, "Very true, General. We won't be escaping, because we already have!" He paused, seemingly contemplating something of interest, before adding, "Or, at least, we're part way there!" He topped off his little speech with a winning smile.

Grievous muttered something along the lines of, "Pathetic Jedi scum!" before ordering the droids on the bridge to dispose of them. So, as the droids charged up their weapons in preparation for disposing of the Jedi, Qui-Gon indicated, with his eyes, which of them was to take which group of droids. Anakin was assigned to take out the battle droids and the droidekas; Flynn and Fleur were to dispose of the super battle droids; and Qui-Gon took the Magna-Guards to task.

About five minutes into the fight, Qui-Gon was joined by Fleur, while Anakin and Flynn went after Grievous, who had been watching the proceedings with satisfaction clear in his yellow reptilian eyes. Qui-Gon looked around for a split second in amazement at the neat piles of scrap metal that were once droids. He was rudely brought back to reality, however, by a near miss from one of the Magna-Guards. Cutting through his own opponent, Qui-Gon turned away from where it was falling to the ground in pieces, to join the fight against Grievous, trusting Fleur to be able to take care of the remaining Magna-Guard.

Grievous was a strong opponent, and as soon as Qui-Gon joined the duel, he took two more lightsabers from his cloak. Four lightsabers against three wasn't really fair by Qui-Gon's standards, although he had been willing to put three against two. Abruptly, he was distracted by a cry of pain. Fleur had been struck twice on her right leg by the Magna-Guard and was now on her knees. Flynn and Anakin had disarmed Grievous, who was making use of their distraction and escaping. Flynn was now running towards Fleur. Qui-Gon took all of this in within a split second of time. Nonetheless, the thing that stole his attention was the remaining Magan-Guard, now armed with a blaster. As it fired, time slowed down…


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