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[...] - Cortana speaks through the speakers
{...} - Cortana's Private chat with the chief
/.../ - and Cortana replaying voice message or message
"Comm lines"
(-) - this show the other end of the communicator, so it goes from one end to the other until further notice.
|...| - Astromechs speech/ intelligible talking of varies species
Halo: A Galaxy Divided
Chapter XII: Destroy The Malevolence Part IV
(Location… Hyperspace; Senator Amidala's Ship)
The Senator from Naboo was both excited and irritated, excited because she had the opportunity to shorten the war because of the banking clan's desire to leave the separatist alliance all she had to do was do what she did best, negotiate, however her irritation stemmed from the fact that Chancellor Palpatine had insisted she take an armed guard with her, she didn't want to scare the banking clan's representatives with armed soldiers however the Chancellor was adamant so she compromised as long as they weren't clone soldiers, he agreed and he asked Jedi master Rahm Kota if he would spare some members of his militia, he only had two men available they were Valon Soturi an Echani warrior and Trouw what really surprised her about him was that he was a Wookie seeing as they mostly stay on their home world.
"My lady, are you sure the information from Chancellor Palpatine is reliable?" asked the droid who accompanied her to help with the negotiations.
Padme looked at the droid that Anakin had given to her as her wedding present of course she like most of the Naboo never viewed droids as objects to be owned.
"Of course 3 P-O it was secretly given to him by the supreme executive of the Banking Clan himself." She assured the droid, a scoff from behind her drew her attention and she turned to see one of her bodyguards who was currently cleaning his weapon an E-5 carbine and gave him a hard look "You have something you want to say?" she asked barely restraining her hostility she didn't really hate the man she was just frustrated that she had no choice but to bring him and his comrade along.
"With all due respect my lady it seems a bit too early to celebrate." Valon began "for all we know this could be a trap and just because the "supreme executive himself gave the Chancellor this message" doesn't mean it's genuine." The Echani stated as he finished cleaning his weapon and put it in a holster on his back.
Padme could see his logic but she was willing to give the banking clan the benefit of the doubt.
"I must say that's a very pessimistic point of view." The golden droid responded.
"When you've seen what I've seen you tend to be a little "pessimistic". Valon responded curtly before a small smile broke through his serious expression "I hope this is the real deal but I learned a while ago it's always good to prepare for the worst possible scenario." he said.
Padme could not deny that this man had a point "I can see why you were chosen for this assignment." she said "Look I'm sorry if I was difficult earlier…" she started to apologize.
"It's alright I get it, you don't want to spook the Clan's representatives, I've done this before plenty of times; Just make sure that the sources are viable in case something does seem out of place."
Suddenly the console beeped Padme turned to the console, "We're about to come out of hyperspace." she informed the others.
"I'll go wake up… OH KRIFF!" Valon exclaimed as the ship got out of hyperspace right in front of a massive droid battle ship that was heading towards them.
"OHHH!" 3 P-O screamed
"This isn't right! That's a droid warship, we're in the middle of a battle." Padme said.
'Really? I never would have guessed.' Valon was tempted to say but kept it in "Ok just calmly fly towards friendly forces." he said instead "I'll go wake up Trouw. Use this to contact me if needed" he said, as he handed her a Comm link and ran from the cockpit to the crew quarters.
(Location… Malevolence; Section Secondary Command Center)
Grievous snarled like a barely restrained beast as he attempted to track the Spartan's location on the ships monitors "WHERE IS HE!" He roared in frustration as he brought his arms up to smash the monitors.
"General there's a… AH!" The unfortunate droid never got to finish his sentence as Grievous turned his wrath on the droid by tearing it apart piece by piece, as he was doing this Dooku's hologram appeared and he silently watched as the General tore the unfortunate machine apart 'if he shown this much ferocity on the battlefield there would be more dead Jedi' the Sith lord mused to himself, finally Grievous stopped and finally noticed the Count's hologram.
"Grievous, what do you think you are doing?" Dooku asked knowing the answer would not please him.
Grievous at this point had lost all sense of respect, "I AM HUNTING DOWN THE DAMN SOLDIER THAT BOARDED THIS SHIP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OLD MAN?!" He shouted at him.
"Watch your tone, General." Dooku said dangerously his eyes turned sickly gold.
Grievous had held his 'tongue' before Dooku, he had already learned that from another's experience. One of the separatist that had worked for him had yelled at him for some unimportant reason, Let's just say that the man was begging for the sweet embrace of death after the Count was done with him in fact as far as Grievous knew Dooku still tortured the man in his free time.
"What is the situation with the Malevolence?" his glare still held firm.
"The ship has sustained extensive damage."
"General, listen closely. I have arranged a trap which will give you an advantage over the Jedi."
"My lord, I assure you that is unnecessary they haven't even fired at the ship yet they're too concerned they may kill the Soldier within this ship."
"Well this will give them even more reason to stay their hand General." Dooku grinned, "heading towards you is a very important galactic senator. Take her hostage and kill her protectors."
"As you wish, my lord." The General bowed his head. Count Dooku had vanished from the projector leaving Grievous to continue out his mission; One of the Droids reported in to the General.
"Sir we're scanning a small ship off our bow."
"They're here earlier than expected; no matter, target the ship with the tractor beam and bring the ship in." Doing as ordered the droids tapped on the console and begin bringing in small ship.
(Meanwhile on the Republic Ship)
As soon as Anakin had boarded Obi- Wan's ship he immediately set to work on the Twilight to prepare the boarding operation to save the Spartan; The plan was simple, Anakin and Obi-Wan would sabotage the ship while Master Plo and Ahsoka would look for the Chief. The plan was made by none other than Anakin Skywalker, even though the plan was very straight forward they had questions but time was limited. They had brought along Rex, Cody, Boost, and Sinker as backup to watch the Twilight incase the droids got a little too close for comfort. Everyone had finally entered Anakin's ship.
"Alright, is everyone ready?" Anakin asked.
"How do you plan to get us over there?" Obi-Wan asked, Anakin smirked.
"I installed sensor jammers on this ship so I could perform reconnaissance if needed." Anakin informed causing Ahsoka to blanch.
"It took us forever to install." She exasperated mockingly she than smiled; "but it was worth it."
Suddenly the console pinged "Huh it's the Admiral." he said and pressed the button "What is it Admiral?" Anakin asked.
"General Skywalker our sensors picked up a ship coming out of hyperspace." Yularen reported.
Anakin immediately became concerned "Enemy reinforcements?" he asked.
"No, the signature is that of a Naboo ship." Yularen informed.
"What the blazes are they doing out here?" Kenobi asked; knowing this, complicated things.
Anakin went from concerned to worried in a heartbeat "Admiral get a hold of that ship." Anakin ordered.
"General, the ship belongs to senator Amidala. She said she was here on a diplomatic mission; it seems like she was set up."
"That's just great now we might have a hostage situation if Grievous captures her." Ahsoka stated.
Plo decided to step in, "Admiral contact the Spartan and inform him of the situation if he can get to her before Grievous does, they may yet survive." Plo said.
"Yes, General."
(Location… The Malevolence; Section...?)
Since the Spartan had escaped the bridge from enemy's weapons fires, he'd began running down corridors of the ship taking out Droids that were in his way; It had been a while now that they had traveled and encountered resistance though few considering that many of them were trying to repair the ship. They had traveled down to a section of the ship which uses Hover trains.
{You have no Idea where you're going do you?} Cortana asked as John began boarding the transport.
{I know where I'm going.} He responded back but before she could make any retorts she had picked up a message from Admiral Yularen.
{Chief, we might have a problem.}
Picking up her distress he wondered what was happening, {What's the situation?}
{The Admiral had messaged me, apparently a Senator from the republic exited out of hyperspace and was caught by a tractor beam and was brought aboard the Malevolence.}
{Wait, why would a senator come here?} He began thinking that there was something wrong with the situation itself.
{We'll find out when we rescue the senator down in the hanger. Better hurry Chief before the grumpy General gets to her first.}
Cortana set a waypoint to where the senator's ship was located and began moving down the train. Noting that they need to go down a couple of sections to reach the hangar he began jumping down on the next train as it speeded by. Although with his impact on the other train caught the attention of several droids that were on as well. He took cover behind some crates as the B1 and B2 Droids were firing at him.
Taking out his pistol he popped out of cover and aim his pistol at the B2 and fired at its joints. let it be known that the pistol he used was equipped with anti-armor bullets and the one's he preferred since they were best used against foes that used shield. but with the materials that the B2 used were strong and they could take those shots if they were shot amongst its chest, but since the Bullets impacted the joints on the legs were shattered leaving the droid to hit the floor with a thud. John fired at the other B1 hitting one on the head and disarmed the rifle from another.
{Alright the next train just came out, you need to go before we lose it.} With that warning he rushed out of his spot and ran straight into a B1 as it was hit full force of the one ton Spartan. He jumped off the edge now in the air preparing to land, that is before the train took a left leaving him falling on another cart. {Okay that didn't work out as planned, no matter, stay on this one I'm trying to access this trains controls and change its course.}
Time was of the essence, while waiting for Cortana to do her thing, another trolley was slowing down next to their transport. There were several droids on the platform and began taking shots at the Spartan who began evading while returning fire. his shields flared from his back as he looked behind him seeing another transport with multiple droids, John was now facing a two-front battle his shields gradually depleting. Putting his sidearm away, he picked up two of the E-5 Carbines from the supply crates he opened, picked up two of them, took aim one blaster pointing at the droids on his right the other on his left and continued the fire fight.
(Location… Malevolence; Section... Hangar)
Senator Amidala worked feverishly on the console of her ship trying to get out of the enemy ship, but no matter how much effort she put she got no results. Valon sat in the co-pilot seat trying to help but he had no luck either.
"You were right this was a trap and I walked right into it." Padme said somewhat crushed.
"You didn't know that we were going to emerge in the middle of a battle beside this is far from the worse scenario that could have happened." Valon assured the senator.
Padme silently thanked the man before she had an idea, "I'm going to set the ship's engines to explode."
"Oh my." 3 P-O said surprised that the senator would go to such extremes and turned to leave the room accidently bumping into Trouw on his way, "Oh I'm terribly sorry." he apologized
The Wookie waved off the apology with a grunt and turned to the people at the controls, │What should I do?│ Trouw asked.
Valon turned to face him, "Take the droid out of here we'll catch up with you." He said.
Trouw grunted in acknowledgement, prepared his Bowcaster, turned and left dragging the protesting droid behind him.
Padme worked as fast as she could after about 40 seconds she had set up the trap "Done let's go!" She ordered.
Valon nodded and followed the senator grabbing his staff on the way out Padme led them to the landing gear room and climbed out the ship that way after leaving the ship they ran for cover at the edge of the room thankfully avoiding detection of the droid personnel who were distracted with other things. They got behind cover and found the other two members of the group. Peeking out of their cover, they saw one of the entrances open as a green armored figure walked into the hangar walking across the room eyeing the droids as he walked towards the ship apparently discussing with the droids, passing them the humanoid walked into the Naboo ship, Valon cursed. The trap was meant for General Grievous.
Speaking of the General, the cyborg walked in and headed towards the craft, they hoped he at least be in range of the trap, but it was not meant to be as the 7ft humanoid ran out of the ship like a bat out of hell, catching the General's surprise. He was about to order the Droids when the ship exploded, he was pushed back from the force of the explosion, he was facing the opposite side when he was standing up. He was about to turn around until he noticed the group that hid behind the crates.
"I think he sees us!" 3P-O exclaimed frightened.
"I think you're right." Valon said and pulled out his carbine while Padme pulled out her pistol and Trouw armed his Bowcaster.
"Senator!" Grievous called; "if you come out and surrender I will give your body guards a warrior's death."
"You're going to kill us any way so what's the point!" Valon said.
"So be it! Droids attack the armored soldier I will take care of those fools." he shouted and charged the senator's position drawing two of his lightsabers as he went, Valon and Trouw fired at the charging bio droid who either dodge or deflected the bolts as they came.
"Fall back!" Valon shouted as they turned and ran down the corridor.
John was beginning to wonder if his luck was running out, he found the ship only to find it rigged to blow up on him, he then found himself in another firefight with some of the droids shooting him with fire hoses surprisingly, and the people he was trying to find were being chased by the infamous droid general Grievous.
{Oh don't worry John at least we found them.} Cortana said reassuringly; {besides I think they can hold off General Grumpy long enough for us to arrive.} she said.
"I hope you're right." John said as he broke off from the fight and ran down the corridors after them.
Valon and Trouw took up the rear and fired back at the general hoping to slow him down unfortunately Grievous was still gaining on them evading their shots. Valon taking a few more shots began thinking of what to do. They would not be able to outrun the General and hoped that maybe they would be able to get a shot to wound him, they soon reached a platform that was not connected to anything, they were effectively trapped, they turned and saw the General walking towards them like a Nexu cornering its prey.
"Nowhere to run now, I'll give you one last chance. Surrender senator and I may end your guards lives relatively painlessly." The General chuckled darkly with his hand behind his back as four battle droids stood by next to him aiming their weapons at the group.
Padme looked at her two bodyguards for a brief moment she didn't want them to die and no matter what they did they would do just that but if there was anything she knew about them is that they would do whatever it took to make sure she lived she steeled her resolve and fixed the general with determined look.
"You don't know these men like I do, they would rather die than for me to willingly give up and I wish it didn't have to come to this but no deal." Padme said.
Grievous eyes narrowed dangerously, "As you wish." he said calmly "Droids kill them." he ordered coldly the droids went to obey and fired Padme ducked behind cover as did Trouw, Valon was about to when his gun was shot out of hands he looked up and saw Grievous holding a blaster thinking quickly Valon rolled out of the way and pulled his staff out as he did so, he charged the droids as he did he pressed a switch on his staff when he did the ends of his staff glowed white and it crackled with electricity he deflected any bolts that got to close for comfort greatly surprising the general whose eyes narrowed as he studied the Echani two of his droids were shot by the Wookie and the senator already Grievous took a step back as the man reached the line and with his staff smacked the two droids off the edge of the platform Grievous pulled out his lightsabers and ignited them "I must say I didn't know a Jedi would be protecting the senator." he said eager for a challenge.
Valon raised an eyebrow and cocked his head his silver eyes full of question "What makes you think I'm a Jedi?" he asked but didn't lower his guard
Grievous in turn studied him "Perhaps you are not a Jedi but there is no doubt in my mind that you are force sensitive or you were cybernetically enhanced but I highly doubt it." Grievous declared.
He could see the Wookie tense in surprise and if Grievous could have he would have smirked "So I am right." he chuckled.
"I'm surprised you got that from just watching me fight." Valon said neutrally.
"Of course, not many can block blaster bolts." Grievous said "But enough of this, time to die." he growled and attacked.
Valon parried the attack and countered by bringing the end of his staff and hitting the General in his mask Grievous was surprised by the blow and blinded by the glow it created he Growled and launched himself at the Echani with a kick Valon didn't get out of the way in time and was hit square in the chest suddenly Padme shot a bolt at the bio droid who dodged it, she fired again and he deflected it into Valon's leg "Ah!" he exclaimed but found that Grievous was bringing his blades down on him again, he blocked the strike and found himself in a lock with the general, Valon was about to heave him off but the general separated his arms grabbed Valon by the throat and wrestled his staff away from him picked him up and brought him up to his face "You should have taken my offer Senator." He said and stabbed the man through the diaphragm "because now he will die a slow and painful death."he growled and threw him towards the rest of the group Valon groaned in pain as he landed with a thud.
"My goodness" 3P-O exclaimed as he saw the graphic scene.
Trouw roared angrily and shot at the General which proved fruitless.
Padme got out and dragged the man behind cover she tried to do something to help him "I'm so sorry." she said worried.
"You were only trying to help." Valon said weakly while holding his wound, with death looming above them they really didn't have a chance now; while they had hoped that they would be able to find a way ultimately it proved futile.
"Not if I have anything to say about it." They heard a male voice.
They looked behind the cyborg and saw the same green humanoid from the Hangar holding a cylindrical object in his right hand. Grievous Turned around to face the Spartan with a glare, growling at him like a rabid animal.
"And finally we meet face to face." No words came to Grievous, "I will enjoy tearing you apart, soldier."
"You can try," If one were to listen carefully they would have heard the small smirk when the Spartan said that, this caused the General to run at him blades raised to cut down his opponent. he expected him to dodge but instead he moved faster than he expected and he was grabbed from the chest and lifted off the ground throwing the general behind him. It was no easy feat to lift someone that weigh at least 350 pounds for a normal man but what the group witnessed was incredible.
The man, shouted at them to shield their eyes as he dropped the cylinder device near Grievous who was back on his feet looking at the cylinder that rolled near him. The Group did as they were told and a bright flash and a scream came from no doubt the General. they opened their eyes as the man approached Valon with a grey cylinder that held a cross; tensing at the approach with the tube.
"What is t-that?" Valon asked nervously.
"Biofoam, this will hold you over till we get you some medical attention." With an understanding nod from the injured, the tube was put in the wound and began filling it with a foam like substance, Valon hissed in pain but soon relaxed as if the wound was never there.
"Who are you?" The senator asked.
"No time, I'm here to get you out of here. get on the train."
"What train?" she asked in confusion as one of the hover train was speeding by.
"Jump now, I'll carry your friend." Hearing the roar from Grievous, whom recovered from the flash bang began to head towards them. not being told twice by the green giant, the Senator pushed threepio whom managed to bump off the transport and landed in the other, the rest began jumping down landing on the roof of the cargo. Grievous was not far behind as landed a couple carts back.
"Just stay on this transport the Jedi should be here soon." not giving them a chance to speak he sprinted towards the General with another device in his right hand.
Activating the energy sword, he brought his sword forward and swiped at the General whom blocked with his first blade; sparking at the contact and countered with his second causing John to back step to avoid the blow. He ducked as Grievous tried swiping where his chest would be, John having the advantage aiming to stab the General's chest. Though the General saw this coming and jumped over the Spartan before the blade reached him, preparing a strike to the now exposed back at the Chief. But John caught on quickly turning around and blocking both blades that came at him, the cyborg had a surreal amount of strength compared to a Sangheili or a brute probably higher in Chief's opinion. He felt that the General was just testing his mettle and seeing how well a fighter he was; in truth he was never one for close quarter combat that was Fred's area of expertise.
Grievous suddenly broke off from the engagement John took a brief respite and studied the General "I must say that this fight was invigorating." Grievous complemented, John didn't respond and kept his guard up waiting to see what the cyborg would do, "But I'm done holding back perhaps if I kill you, Dooku would forget all of the failures of today." The former Kaleesh growled as he separated his arms into four each taking another lightsaber and started spinning them in a continuous. Thinking quickly, he began looking for any weak spots that he could use to his advantage, perhaps if he hit the base of one of his blades with the blaster he acquired with enough time he could disarm him, but that was a very difficult spot considering the General might be able to block the shot. It was a risk and hopefully he would be fast enough.
Doing the unexpected he threw the energy sword which collided with the lightsabers making it fly through the air, time seemed to go slow as he grabbed both blasters from his sides and fired two bolts at the General's mechanical claws, it seemed to pay off as one of the bolts hit the lightsaber disabling it and the other hit his claw. Time began going faster again taking his advantage he ran up to the cyborg and pushing with all his strength he shoved the General off the train.
Grievous let out a scream as he fell and landed on another train going in the opposite direction in which he got back up fast on his legs and glaring hatefully at the soldier. Now that they were in the clear he reached for the energy sword that had landed earlier on the cart as the two blades were stuck to the transport and clamped it on his side now equipped with a blaster he headed out going to the senator's position.
A/N: Surprised I am too, either way we are nearing the end of the Malevolence and I am currently figuring out what to have our main hero's do in the future. I hoped you enjoyed this chapter cause I won't be able to read the reviews cause of class in the evening. I'll see you all next time!
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