Shadow's Odyssey 2: The Chaos Continues

Shadow could see his doom approaching, but he was just too tired to care. However, the approaching droids seemed to ignore him. Shadow watched as the horde of enemies marched straight past him. Either they thought he was dead, or-

Shadow felt a metal arm aggressively pick him up. The Grievous android held Shadow up and turned to its companion. "Tell Lord Sidious we have Shadow."

Or Sidious wants to kill me himself.

Petro saw the wave of droids sweep over Shadow without pause. He wasn't sure why they did this, but it didn't make him feel any better. The droids opened fire on Petro. He deflected the blasts as he ran, not slowing down at all. Once he got close enough, he began hacking and slashing his way through the droids.

Petro approached the first walker and jumped onto its right front leg. He cut through it with his lightsaber and when the great machine faltered, he jumped to the next leg and cut that off too. He leaped to the third leg and with it gone, the walker fell onto its side.

Petro dropped back to the ground, now behind the advancing army. The two androids took notice. They dropped Shadow and drew a total of eight red lightsabers.

Petro lifted his own. "I always wanted to destroy General Grievous, but I guess you knockoffs will do."

"What do we do now?" Luke asked.

"We keep breaking robots, obviously." Knuckles replied.

"How? We barely have anything to fight back with." Omega said despondently. "Our enemy has every single advantage possible. Superior numbers, superior weapons, superior droids… all we have now is three laser swords. Our defeat is inevitable."

Most of the people there agreed, though they didn't dare say so out loud. But Bo-Katan disagreed out loud.

"We don't need weapons!"

"I am certain that we do." Omega countered.

"True warriors don't need weapons!"

"But we are not true warriors. We are three injured peacekeepers, a politician, a bounty hunter, a spy, and a mediocre guardian."

"Hey!"

"You are the only true warrior here."

Bo-Katan shook her head. "You are a true warrior too. I saw you fight at Iego. You racked up more kills than anyone else."

"But that was when-"

"What did I just say? True warriors don't need weapons! They only need their fighting spirit! And I've seen more fighting spirit in you than I've seen in entire armies. That's something that none of those other droids out there have. That's why we are going to win."

The sound of clanking metal began to echo though the halls as the enemy droids marched into the temple. Everyone tensed in preparation. Omega walked out to the front of the group and stood ready.

"Bring it on."

Petro wished he had chosen to study a more defensive form of lightsaber combat. He had chosen form seven, Juyo, a fast and aggressive style but he failed to anticipate the day when he would be forced to blocked eight lightsabers at one time. He could use his Force Lightning on them, but attacks were thrown his way so fast he didn't have time to use that ability. He was constantly backing away, trying to create distance but the androids refused to give him a moment to breathe.

Shadow lay on the ground, watching Petro struggle against the onslaught of red sabers. It was obvious that he was going to lose this fight. He knew he had to do something, but he had already spent all his energy. Shadow needed a weapon, any weapon. As he looked around, he saw a Mandalorian exit from the walker that Petro cut the legs off of and flew towards the temple to continue the fight. The hatch was left wide open.

Shadow slowly began to make his way towards the downed vehicle. Once inside, he was faced with a confusing lack of buttons.

"How do you drive this thing?"

Two orbs formed around his hands. The remaining legs of the walker began to move as Shadow moved his arms around. He moved his arms around some more, trying to figure out which motion controlled the cannon.

Petro dropped to the ground after blocking yet another strike. His stamina finally reached its limit. The two androids stood above him, ready to deliver the final blow but paused when they heard an explosion behind them. They turned to see the damaged walker firing randomly in all directions.

This distracted the android for a moment and that was all Petro needed. Summoning his strength, he quickly got up and slashed through both the androids with one big swing. Petro collapsed again along with the pieces of his foes.

The droids tried to push into the room where their enemies were held up, but only a few could get through the doorway at a time. This allowed them to be easily picked off, but as easy as it was, they just kept coming and coming.

The Jedi slashed them apart with their lightsabers, Bo-Katan ripped their heads off with her bare hands, and Omega and Knuckles steeled for good, old fashioned punching.

"Keep fighting, we can win this!" Bo-Katan shouted.

But then an explosion rocked the temple.

"What do we do about those walkers?" Leia asked.

"I don't know, we'll think of something later!"

The temple shook again.

"I don't think we're going to survive until later!"

Shadow steadied his hands. He was finally getting a feel for how this thing worked. Petro had already defeated the two Grieviouses so he turned the cannon to aim at the other Umbaran walkers. Shadow lined up the shot and fired.
He scored a direct hit and obliterated the walker menacing the temple. He aimed at the final walker but discovered that he was out of ammo. To make matters worse, Shadow saw the walker he was aiming at was turning its cannon towards him.

But before it could get a shot off, the Millennium Falcon swooped down from the sky and unleashed its laser cannons on the walker. The walker's ray shields couldn't take the beating and gave way and the walker exploded into flames.

Shadow sighed in relief as his commlink beeped.

"You guys defiantly owe me money for that one."

Chewbacca's growl rumbled in reply.

"Yes, I know you took the shot, but my flying allowed you to do so!"

Shadow let the two bicker with each other as he sat back to continue regaining his energy.

Sidious observed the battle with scowl on his face. Wiping out the small, insignificant group should not have been this difficult. He turned to his last remaining Grievous android.

"I want every last solider, tank, and ship out on that battlefield! Now!"

But the android's attention was directed at the scanners. "My lord, we have incoming ships. Thousands of them."

"That's impossible." Sidious looked at the scanner for himself. But to his surprise, the scanners did indeed show thousands of ships dropping out of hyperspace. "Who are they? Where did they come from?"

"The ships appear to be from a variety of different planets. They appear to be coming from everywhere."