Byss- Outisde landing platform
Anakin, Ahsoka and Luke had made a safe entrance into the outer area of the Byss facility. The guards and security protocol measures though were another story as the three soon found out the old hag of an Emperor had a tightly knit lockdown on the joint. Looking through the force, the elder Skywalker was able to sense that the exterior of the first level held around five troopers and three magna guards. Anakin hadn't seen magna guards since the waning days of the republic. It seemed Palpatine wanted to be cautious. Anakin looked over at Ahsoka to convey his plan first.
' Snips we're taking out the two magna guards on the east and west sides to the entrance of the place. '
' I'm already on it, Master.'
Looking at Luke, his father spoke through their bond. ' Son, think you handle the the three troopers stationed by the south entrance while me and Ahsoka deal with the magna guards on the east and west sides?'
' I believe I am more than qualified to take out a few troopers, dad!'
' Very well then, Luke. They are all yours..' Anakin spoke up before cutting the connection. As he did Luke began to form a plan of attack as he stealthily crept his way and used the force to move a few crates nearby to topple over one another. He wanted to attract the troopers attention subtly as to not trigger the alarm on the the facility ..just yet. His father was adamant this was a stealth mission until absolutely necessary to reveal themselves to their enemy. Ever the oblivious the troopers looked at one another in disbelief and one checked out the situation.
" Did you see the crate move ?"
" No I guess you're imagining things.." His partner spoke up.
Luke suddenly manipulated the crate to drop again with a louder sound from his position. " Now I know you heard that noise." The first trooper responded. " I'm going to go check that out. " With that the first one headed off to Luke's position and was dealt with a swift and decisive hand to hand combat manuever to take him out. After the troopers two and three hadn't heard back from their friend, they decided to respond to the issue themselves. Luke smirked with a knowing smile. His saber was ignited as the green blade lit up the view of the troopers and before they could call for back up the young Jedi used a strong force push to send them into the wall for a easy knock out.
' Dad..the three troopers are taken out on my end how are you both holding up?' Luke sent.
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Ahsoka Tano smiled as she saw her target, ever the enthusiast for adventure the Togruta ignited her twin blades to bait the guard into a battle. The magna guards used to be some what of a challenge for her back in the day as a young padawan but now that shouldn't have been too big of an issue. Anakin smirked as he saw his target as well on the west side of the door. As if in sync both Master and Apprentice began to engage in a battle with their droids respectively as the guards lit up their weapons. The trick was to ins the opening in the droids as the two Jedi made short work in under five strikes with the guards.
Anakin Skywalker nodded to Ahsoka as he recieved his son's message 'Good Luke, now get into position like we planned.. meet me over in the corridor while Ahsoka gets to the security center.'
' Sounds good be over there in a moment.' Luke responded.
Turning to Ahsoka, Anakin smiled at her " You already know how best to do this job from experience. Get us into the main cloning facility. I know that it will be heavily guarded but also kept under detailed surveillance. As long as you can navigate us through the weakest areas of guard detail we should be fine and leave a pretty decent mess behind."
Ahsoka smirked at him and shook her head " You two just better be careful, reckless Skywalkers." With that the Togruta took the comm link from the bag of supplies they gathered and a cloak to head for the security center. Luke had arrived to his father's position as the two men made their way through hallways and corridors before arriving at the second floor elevator. Using the force the two made it into the entrance. " Now we wait on Ahsoka from here..." Anakin told Luke as the pair we're coming up to the third floor of the building.
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Piett and Veers had done a great job with their part of the mission as both men were seen talking to a few officers in the security center. Anakin had given the two a special code for clearance that was used when he was Darth Vader. He had hoped the cover story the two held would be sufficient enough to bring the needed distraction the team wanted to cover their skins.
" We were given specific instructions by the Dark Lord himself. He wanted us to come to the facility and retrieve information regarding Project Zoolan and deliver it to the High Minister himself. It was given to me as a mission only a short while ago from a higher up. I have the authorization code 396454." Piety spoke up and handed the card to the Officer.
" Wait a moment while I check this out." The officer eyed Piett skeptically before leaving to the desk.
Ahsoka stood by and snuck past the desk while the officer was busy with Piett. She came up to a enclosed area where the cameras were held for surveillance and came across three men in uniform guarding the complex. She looked around as the Togruta used the force to knock two men into the other and then proceeded to make short work of the third by hitting the man straight up. After a few minutes she locked the three in a closet next to the room, and proceeded to hack into the system searching the base for the quickest route for the two Skywalker men. Ahsoka knew her time was limited as the guards wouldn't be held up all day with Piett and Veers but she could handle herself well regardless.
Pulling out her comm after getting the system open the Togruta contacted Anakin " I see a pathway on the left corridor from your position that should take you to a bridge once over it there will be a stairwell that has one guard at each entrance, get past them and you will then come across ten men stationed in the exterior of the cloning facility. I'll be there to meet you for the party once I get the doorway open for the cloning facility entrance or get a clearance code for us to enter the door.. It appears to be sealed off and needs a access code so unless you want to alert the entire place for a welcoming party I suggest you hold tight for a bit while I crack this code. Tano out. "
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Anakin recieved the message as he pulled into a closed storage room to retrieve it without suspicion. After hearing Ahsoka and the plan she held he looked to Luke with a small smile. " It looks like we're going to have some fun after all, son. We have a party of ten men ahead of the exterior to the cloning lab, think you can help your old man? " He smirked towards Luke.
" Do you even have to ask, all this sneakling around is starting to get to me. I'm glad there's some action somewhere close by." Luke rolled his eyes as he chuckled to himself.
Shaking his head, Anakin smirked towards Luke jokingly stating" Well you're about to get wish, let's hope you live up to my expectation of those skills"
" More than live up to it, old man. I sense you may be losing your touch!"
" Luke Skywalker you wish that would happen...but it's not." Anakin stated with an easy voice.
With that the two Skywalker men made past the bridge in order to get to the exterior of the cloning facility. A few men were taken out with the force by Luke and Anakin but other than that not too much opposition was met as Ahsoka had insinuated. Still both men felt a stirring in the force as though what was going to be facing them would change their lives drastically. Luke eyes his father with a knowing look as they pressed on towards the meeting place.
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Ahsoka had found the clearance code for the two and downloaded a schematic of the facility to her comm device as she heard an apparent knock on the door for a routine inspection with th guards supposedly on duty- before the Togruta took them out.
" Hey Jeq and Karr everything alright in there ? you both were due for break ten minutes ago. " The Security official stated.
Ahsoka looked up with a start as she quickly hid in the closet, she cloaked her signature in the force as the apprentice acted fast. Just then two officials entered the room as Ahsoka stood by in the closet. She attempted to use a mind trick on the guards and gathered the force as she peered through a crack in the doorway of the closet.
' You want to check the break room again.. The guards may have left just before you arrived.' Ahsoka spoke with the aid of the force enhancing the influence of her words. Before long the guard turned to his friend and spoke a bit dazed." Come on they may have left for the break room before we arrived let's go check." Ahsoka breathed out a sigh of relief as she passed both Piett and Veers along the way to the south exit to head along the ventilation shafts to get to the Skywalker's position the quickest way. Piett and Veers apparently did well as the guard had their story check out and both were sent along with an escort to their respective ship at the landing bay. The pair would leave and meet up with team at the extraction point where Leia would pick them all up at.
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Just as Ahsoka stated there were around ten guards posted outside the lab facility exterior. It wouldn't be too much of a problem to take them out for the two Skywalker men. The only concern both held was trying to remain stealthy with presence on the compound but since they were so close- it was now or never. Anakin motioned to Luke to take the left side while he took the right as the men approached the guards. They were too priority clearance guards and were trained at the academy in all forms of combat even how to deal with force sensitive beings.
Stepping into view Anakin ignited his saber and spoke aloud " Let's make this easy on you all and just move out of our way" he smirked.
Luke stepped into view as well " I would quite agree with him on that we're in a bit of a hurry. "
The guards looked on the alert with their weapons in hand, some pulled Vibroblades, others blasters and retractable staff's. Anakin used his saber to go in for an offensive manuever on each man his few guards who came up to the elder Skywalker didn't phase him as he was able to cut down and disarm five men with his signature form five manuevers and a force blast but Luke however was able to hold his own with some difficulty. The younger Skywalker managed to cut down three guards but force pushed the last two into the steel reinforced door. As the alarms blared off around five others came and a specialized gas was released into the compound Ahsoka flipped out from above the air ducts and smirked at her former master. " Looks like I have to rescue you again, old man."
" I don't know whose old but we had everything under control"
" Says the guy who tripped over a motion sensor detector light. Now everyone knows we're here Skyguy."
" Well that's fine we wanted to blow the place up anyway..right?!" Luke chimed in. The gas had started to pour into the room as specialized guards came with breathing masks to handle the force users. Anakin and Ahsoka slipped into a breath control rythmn using the force and Luke was signaled to find the quickest way in as Ahsoka showed him an image of the clearance code to get inside the lab mentally. Ahsoka ignited her white sabers and went to work on three guards while Anakin force gripped the other two. The Togruta held pleasure in the field work after so many years as she came down with ease and grace with her lightsabers disarming and subduing the men. Within a short while and two force pushes later by the master and apprentice team, Luke Skywalker signals the two over with the door unlocked by his hacking skills and the trio hurried inside to await their fate.