CHAPTER TEN: BATTLE ABOVE BESPIN
Fay looked at Suven, as he stood bowed over the holotable studying the map displayed, it made her heart race, the way he talked with the commanders that were under his command, same thing.
"So, who provided this intel?" Suven looked up from the holotable and watched the two commanders "We did, general," the two looked at each other in confusion, he didn't know? "Commanders Gadi, Solo, I chose you two for a good reason I see," the commanders, both human, smiled proud "Good to hear, tell me general, how'd a kid like you end up as general?" Han Solo, he and Chewbacca, a wookiee, were rescued from the imperial prison on Cato Neimoidia.
"Answer A: I'm twenty, I'm no kid, and answer B: I'm the Chosen One, apparently a good tactician, and a good leader-" "-Understood?" he added with a commanding voice, "Yes sir!" the two commanders straightened their backs and salutes.
"So, what are we going to do about the planet, we can't just throw in the Alliance Queen, too much civilians," Fay chimed into the conversation "Well, since their fleet exists from mainly frigates, we can send Y-wings to take them out, but I worry those TIE interceptors will be too much for the Y-wings, they're too quick, and even though the Y-wings can take quite a beating, it'll be too much for them," "What about we reinforce the Y-wings with A-wings?" "See, that's the point, where do you think those frigates are for?" Fay sighed thinking "And the X-wings?".
Suven let out a sigh of despair "We're still recovering from Cato Neimoidia, we can't spare them," "How about frigates, sir, won't they beat those interceptors?" Gadi Dedan knew the answer, too quick.
"We'll use the MACCs, they're quick, good defense and turrets, they may be big, but if we stay close to a Nebu, they won't get a chance to hit!" Suven's face lit up "'cause the towers, see, right there, that's why I love you!" he said encouraged, Fay blushed smiling.
"Shall I brief the squadrons?" "Yes Gadi, general Solo, you stay here to help refining the plan," Gadi left the room.
"Sir, our scanners indicate a small rebel force coming our way, orders?" the imperial officer looked at the cloaked man
"What force?" the man growled "One Nebulon-class frigate, two corvettes, and a few fighter squadrons," the man remained silent.
"Milord?"
"Let them come, we'll crush them like a fly!" he formed a fist and growled "Y… yes, Milord," the officer left fearful, the lord was angry, and you did not want to be around when he was angry.
The frigate exited hyperspace, flanked by two corvettes and sending fighters to engage the enemy at the very moment.
"Okay Rogue squadron, form up, I know you're a it new with the controls but you'll get the hang of it, frigates, beware, only engage the star destroyer, our Nebu back the Y-wings up," Suven looked at ArSeven and sighed, another fight, of course, it was war, but he hated to leave Fay, even though she was on the Sundered Heart, one of the frigates, it felt like she was far away.
The fighter suddenly separated from the group of MACCs and went for the star destroyer leading the Imperial fleet.
ArSeven made some confused noises "Yes, we are going the right way, we're gonna go to the star destroyer and break things," Suven smiled and steered the old X-wing to the star destroyers hangar.
"Okay, we've got strict orders not to hit the bridge, for now just focus on the heavy turrets, we'll be nothing but space debris if we don't take those out first anyway,"
"Yes commander," the captain turned to the controls and told the gunners.
Fay looked at the Y-wings flying past the front screen and sighed, again Suven was going to do things a normal Jedi couldn't achieve in a lifetime.
The fighter touched down in the hangar and Suven jumped out of the cockpit with his lightsabers activated.
Actively humming the blue saber slashed a burning wound across the first unfortunate stormtroopers chest, then another stormtrooper fell at the second blade.
A few seconds later the hangar was empty, only two stormtroopers and one pilot had been the unlucky ones to be there, and now the hangar was empty "Sev, stay close to me, something is wrong here," the lights flickered a few times and then went out.
"Well, that ain't going to scare me away, they'll have to do a little better to manage that," he closed his eyes and walked through the blast door, entering a long hall.
Two stormtroopers came towards him "Hey, you!" "Stop it, surrender!" two blue beams of light rose up behind Suven "Jedi!, kill him!" the two started shooting, but, unlike others, didn't come running, instead they were moving back, and, they were aiming.
Suven twirled the sabers around him, they were shooting rapidly, but before Suven could take them out, an explosion occurred on the spot the troopers stood.
The smoke cleared and Suven watched the damage.
"Commander!" Fay grabbed a nearby console and pulled herself up, they'd been hit, and hit hard "What happened?" "Eh…" Fay rubbed her stomach, she'd fallen on a ledge "What?" "Eight star destroyers just came out of hyperspace!" ay, we need to end this battle and retreat "Tell the ships to return to the Tranquility,".
"Our shields are gone!" fear made her stomach hurt even more
"Get a shuttle, abandon ship!" she said, fully knowing that the little blockade runner couldn't hold her own against a star destroyer without shielding.
"Suven, get out of there, now!, I… I'll wait for you as long as I can, but please hurry!" "On it!".
But it wasn't going to be easy, he was trapped in the hallway because of the blast, and he wasn't alone, someone was Force-cloaked near him.
Arseven had returned to get the ship ready, and then the hallway had collapsed between them, Suven had no one to back him up now.
His lightsabers were already activated, the person cloaked was very good and definitely a threat to him.
The sound of a lightsaber activating was behind him and he turned around, suddenly the three blades crossed, two blue ones, and one red lightsaber blade from the person, entirely dressed in black, he had a mask over his face.
The man used the Force to toss a few pieces of debris at Suven, he stopped them and tossed them back at the man, who evaded them with ease and threw his saber at Suven, he evaded it, but the blade did hit his sash.
Again the blades crossed, Suven looked around, a maintenance hatch!, he charged a Force wave and send it towards the man, then he ran for it, jumped down the hatch and closed his eyes.
"C'mon Suven, hurry!" Fay looked at the star destroyer and bit her lip
"Sir, we need to get to the Tranquility, if we wait, we'll die!" it was true, and no matter how much she didn't like it, they had to leave, now.
She stepped up the boarding ramp and looked at the door, silently hoping that Suven would come through that door just like he'd done eight months ago, but the door didn't open.
"Fay!" Wedge pulled her on board just in time for the ramp had closed entirely
"Thanks Wedge, I'm sorry," "Don't worry, he'll make it, he'll do it somehow, he always does!" I sure hope so… he thought silently, remembering the Hoth asteroid field, where Suven had held his breath for the time needed to be rescued by him.
Then he sat down behind the controls and steered the shuttle out of the hangar, just in time before the Sundered Heart met her end at the hands of an imperial star destroyer.
Suven landed on the metal floor, okay, I lost him, next move? The stormtroopers ignored him completely as they were running to the fighters in the hangar.
"Pilots and marines, we are going down, this is not a drill!"
down?, what? Suven ran across the hallway to the hangar.
A loud whistle caught his attention, ArSeven was hovering in the X-wing and waited for him, Suven ran to it and jumped into the cockpit.
"Sev, get us out of here!" the droid again whistled and took the ship out of the hangar.
"Commander, the last squadron has boarded the ship, we have to leave!"
"No, not without Suven, just a little longer!" the captain looked wary at her.
Then she felt the presence of Suven on the ship "Now, captain, lightspeed!" the captain nodded relieved and pushed the lever, again that delighting tunnel of blue stripes.
"General Dara!" commanders Solo and Dedan came towards him, with faces pale as snow
"Han, Gadi, what's wrong?" their faces nearly screamed it "We've been hit the moment the Tranquility jumped to lightspeed-" terror showed up in the two their eyes "The ship is practically pulling itself apart, we just might make it, if…" Suven nodded, he understood, this was going to be either a close call or a complete failure.
The three man started running out of the hangar.
An alarm sounded and the ship's crew was terrified.
Then a loud explosion was heard, and the seemingly endless tunnel of blue disappeared with a shock going through to the bones of the crew of the imperial star destroyers.
"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK, I REPEAT, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK, ABANDON SHIP, ABANDON SHIP NOW!"
AN: phew, that was weird, had to make so much stuff happen and yet struggled putting it all together, I promise the next chapter will be better, I've got some ideas ready for a while, so that's why this chapter may have been a bit hard to follow, but it'll be explained a bit better later on, I hope, now enjoy! please Subscribe review comment.
PS: i picked Bespin and Yavin I randomly, unlike Cato Neimoidia, Coruscant and Kashyyyk, no further meaning to it, just so ya know, okido?