Disaster Strikes

The Imperial fleet came out of Hyperspace not too far away from their target while they waited for the scouts to return and give their report before the attack began. Jaira was awaiting their arrival on the bridge and observed as communication for clearance to board the bigger out of the four starships.
"My lord the scouts are on their way up to the bridge," Admiral Tarkin informed her stoically.
"Very good Admiral," Jaira said acknowledging that she had heard him. It wasn't long before the two scouts were kneeling in front of her. "What have you got to report?" she asked.
The two stood back up and looked at each other before turning back to her with worrisome looks.
"My lord, this Enclave is impenetrable and its defences have been magnified since the last attack."
"Magnified how exactly?" Jaira inquired curiously.
"Well for one we could not find the entrance for the entire time we were down there and I think we know where the occupants of two other Enclaves have gone," the other scout explained, "There are hundreds of Masters, Knights, Padawans and Younglings down there," he added.
"Excellent," Jaira said, happy with what he had just said.
"It would not be a very good plan to attack the Enclave yet my lord."
"Well that is where you are wrong," Jaira stated in a dangerous tone as she frowned slightly.
"But my lo-," he didn't get to finish as his head became relieved of his body in one swift strike of one of Jaira's red bladed lightsabers. The other scout tried with all his might to not react and to just stand there until the Empress released him.
"Get him off my bridge," Jaira scoffed and the man scrambled to drag his friend's body out through the door.
"My lord, are we proceeding with the plan?" Admiral Tarkin inquired.
"Yes prepare the fleet to approach the planet, I will go prepare the landing party," Jaira ordered as she stalked out of the room and down to the hangar.

"Remember protect the droids, I want as many Jedi alive as possible and make sure no Padawans and Younglings are injured in the fighting," Jaira made the main statement of her orders very clear once again. Then the lights turned red which signalled for the Army to get ready to jump out of the dropship hangar doors. The starships were hovering as low as what was possible with the forests below being so thick so the Sith Army had to drop down into the trees and climb down to reach the forest floor.
Khaki balanced on a branch as a Knight passed underneath him and he signalled for the others to stay in the treetops. He followed the Jedi at a steady pace hoping he would lead him back to the Enclave which would make the attack much easier. This idea turned out to be a success and as the entrance closed behind the Knight, Khaki dropped to the ground and approached it with a few other Sith following him along with a few droids.
"Mark my position. I have found the entrance and know how to open it," Khaki said into his communicator and then sensed hundreds flocking to his position. Soon enough there were close to three hundred Sith gathered around the entrance and all of them worked together to open the entrance. The entrance in question was a tree that could be lifted up out of the ground to reveal a tunnel that led into the massive temple-like building a few metres ahead of them. It only took a few minutes for the Sith Army to rip the tree out of the ground and throw it off to the side to reveal the tunnel which they swarmed through and into the Enclave.
The occupants had obviously been going about their day to day activities as they were all shocked by the sudden appearance of hundreds of Sith and droids swarming through the door and into the entrance hall. This moment of shock allowed the X5-S9 droids to knock a fairly large number of Jedi unconscious who were then put in restraints. It wasn't long before children were running away screaming and those who were old enough to fight had activated their lightsabers. The Sith numbers however were too much for the few that were there and each Knight and Master had been surrounded by at least three Sith and two droids. Padawans had gathered in small groups back to back with twice as many droids and fewer Sith.

Meanwhile on Coruscant, Master Yoda was meditating in the High Council tower when the holocomunicator started to beep urgently. He answered it to find Master Ogantu on the other end and the Grandmaster immediately sensed that something was amiss.
"Master Ogantu?" Master Yoda asked and the Master replied in an urgent tone.
"I don't have much time Master Yoda. We are under attack," Master Ogantu revealed, "They just swarmed into the Enclave, I don't even know how they found the entrance," he added.
Master Yoda sighed heavily, "Get the young ones out you must," he said in a very sad tone.
The other Master knew what the old green Master was thinking and that it was too late to evacuate all the occupants.
"Please send help to us Master Yoda," Master Ogantu pleaded.
"Send help I would if I could," Master Yoda said gravely, "Know what to do you do."
"Yes Master," Master Ogantu forced out as he farewelled the Grandmaster and the communication ended.

"Padawan Lekita!" Master Ogantu called to the student as the boy ran past him with a few Padawans and Younglings.
"I need you to complete an evacuation of all the Padawans and Younglings," he ordered and the Padawan nodded in reply, "Make sure you leave the atmosphere on the opposite side of the planet."
"Yes Master," Padawan Lekita said as he took off down the corridor with the others and they managed to reach the emergency hangar without any problems.
The two groups split up evenly and entered two separate ships, the Younglings gathered in the passenger hold while the Padawans attended to different posts. Some were in the cockpit while others manned the guns and Engine room.
"Everyone ready?" Padawan Lekita called and he got resounding answers from the others and then the hangar doors were open and their ships were up in the air. Luck was not in their favour however as one ship was shot down and the others were about to turn around to help them when Padawan Lekita gave them what seemed likely to be the last order they would receive from him.
"No get out of here!" he yelled into the communicator and he watched as the other ship turned back around and was followed by three fighters.
"Come on Nick, we aren't far from the secret bunker. We should get there quickly before this ship is overrun with Sith," Jessica said as she led the way out of the cockpit and helped gather the Younglings to head off.

They all sat huddled together in the bunker trying to remain quiet with five Younglings under the age of three years old and twelve who were older not including the seven Padawans. It was difficult as they could do little to calm the younger ones and prevent them from crying especially when they had now been in the bunker for two hours.
"Maybe they all died in the crash," a voice suddenly said from outside somewhere.
"Don't be stupid, there were no bodies at the site," another voice scolded much closer to the door.
Nick and Jessica held their breath hoping that the Younglings would remember to keep quiet as the Padawans now could not talk without giving their location away to the Sith who were outside the bunker.
"Where would they be able to go anyway? There is nothing out here but forest," the first voice said.
Then one of the younger children began to cry softly and Jessica frantically put a finger to her lips to signal her to be quiet.
"Marley shh," Karita pleaded as she picked the four-year-old up and cradled Marley in her lap in an attempt to stop her from continuing to cry.
"Did you hear that?"
"Shut up, would you, I am trying to listen for them," the second voice growled.
Nick stood up, careful not to make any noise and approached the door to peek out the small crack in the stone but he accidentally kicked a rock.
"I think these kiddies are playing a game of hide and seek, come over here Sackari," the first voice said from right outside the door.
"Get ready," Nick mouthed to his fellow Padawans as he activated his lightsaber. The other Padawans followed his lead and stood between the entrance and the Younglings defensively. Then the door was blasted away from the wall and all but three Padawans streamed out of the Bunker, the other three stayed in the doorway.
"Hello boys and girls," Sackari greeted, "Come with us and I promise you won't get hurt," he added trying to act friendly.
"Never," Nick replied confidently as the fighting broke out.
It did not last long as the Sith had those droids with them and one by one the Padawans were all knocked unconscious, Nick was the last one to get stunned.

A/N: I have decided to post the remainder of this book. There are only 3 more chapters after this one.

Ashlyn Dubreas.