CHAPTER 15

CONFRONTATION

Dorian and Jay listened. They could hear noises coming from the stairway that they were standing by. It sounded like footsteps.

"More driods," Dorian said through Jay's hand.

He nodded. The blond Padwan took his hand off Dorian's mouth and slowly crept toward the stairs.

Maya and Rie had almost reached the bottom of the stairs when they heard what sounded like footsteps below them.

"Droids?" the Twi'lek said out loud.

"Could be," Maya agreed.

"We'd better get ready."

Two lightsabers burst to life.

"Did you hear that?" Jay asked.

Dorian nodded. "Lightsabers," he said. "I think we're about to run into some Sith."

Jay brought his lightsaber into battle postion. "Let's kick their butts!"

The girls had nearly reached the bottom of the stairs by then.

"Here they come!" Jay said.

Dorian raised his lightsaber.

"Okay," Rie said looking ahead. "I don't see anything..."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Dorian and Jay charged onto the stairs, their lightsabers raised above their heads... only to discover that the people they had taken for Sith were Rie and Maya.

"AAHHHHH!" the girls screamed, wipping out their lightsabers just in time to deflect the ones the boys held.

Then the four just stood there staring at each other.

"GUYS!" the girls screamed the same time the boys screamed. "YOU!"

The lightsabers deactivated.

"What are you doing here?" they asked in one voice.

"What do you mean what are we doing here?" Rie demanded. "We're all here to save Master Yoda."

"We could have killed you!" Dorian yelled.

"Yeah, like you'd kill us," Maya scoffed.

"They might not but we will," a metalic voice cut off any farther conversation.

The four Jedi Padawans looked around.
"Roger! Roger!" an army of battle driods said as one as they aimed their blasters at the Jedi.

Palpatine was through with words. "It's time for your days to end!" he said. "Permamently!"

From where Esore watched her eyes grew big. What is Luke doing! Why isn't he helping Mater Yoda?I have to stop that Sith before my Master gets killed!

The red lightsaber came down.

"NO!" the girl screamed, crushing the tree roots and wipping out her lightsaber as she fell.

Crimson met snow white purity.

Palpatine stared down at the girl with amethyst hair and eyes who had come out of nowhere and deflected his blow. "What! Who are you!"

Jay and Dorian stood with their backs to Rie and Maya. The four scanned the ocean of battle driods hoping to find a weak shatter point. They saw none. They were surounded.

The black blank eyes of the driods reflected yellow, green, blue, and purple. The colors of the Padawan's activated lightsabers.

"So now what do we do?" Rie asked looking over her shoulder at Jay. "One false move and we're lunch meat."

"I don't know," he replied. "We can't just stand here though. I wish Esore was here. She'd be able to think of a way to get us out of this mess."

"We don't need Esore," Dorian hissed. "We can get out of this ourselves."

"Like how?" Maya asked.

Dorian raised his ligthsaber. "Like this!"

He ran straight into the throng.

"Esore!" Yoda exclaimed in surprise.

"Don't worry, Master," she said not taking her eyes off the Sith in front of her. "I won't let him hurt you."

Palpatine stared down her blade at her face. "You're Esore?" he demanded.

The girls' eyes filled with surprise. "How do you know my name?"
"My new apprentice told me."

"Your new appre-"

Esore dodged the blow of a flying blue lightsaber. In doing so she'd grabbed the hood of Yoda's robe and pulled him along with her.

The other three Padawans watched Dorian's green blade whirl expertly as he plowed his way through the driods. They soon realized that he couldn't fight them off on his own.

"We have to help him," Maya shrieked when she saw him narrowly dodge a blaster bolt. "He'll be killed if we don't!"

For once Jay felt he had to help Doprian. Though he didn't like the brown haired boy very much he had to do it. It was the Jedi way.

"All right," he said, lifting his blade so its purple light reflected off his retinas. "Let's go!"

Blue, Purple, and Yellow joined Green.

Driod parts flew everywhere.

Esore stared up at at blue blade. "Ohmigosh!" she exclaimed. "I can't believe it! How could you? Why did you?"

Luke Skywalker stood over her and Master Yoda who were crouching on the floor. Sidious stood behind him.

"Because," Luke said pointing his blade in her face. "I don't want to be around him anymore."

"Why?"

"He is foolish in the descitions he makes. He let you become a Jedi. He raised you! He's become attached to you. Attachment's not the Jedi way." Skwayler raised his lightsaber. "If I kill you he'll break!"

Luke's blade came sailing down at her face. She screamed. The lightsaber stopped inches from her skull.

The new Sith blinked. "Hey, how'd you get free?"

Yoda stood in front of Esore. he was suddenly free and held his green ligthsaber which no one had been obserbant enough to take from him. The green blade held the blue one back.

"Kill her you will not," he growled his puples glowing in a strange way. "Harm her in any way you never will!"

Sidious was about to do something when the wall behind him burst open. "What!" he exclaimed. He turned toward the wall. Four Jedi Padawans burst through it. "There's more!"

Dorian looked over his shoulder to see who had spoken. "Look a Sith!" he exclaimed, sighting the cloaked Palpatine. "Let's get him!"

"Dorian!" Esore screamed. "DON'T!"

The brown haired Padawan ignored her. He charged at the Stih. "Time to die, evil one!" he yelled.

"Padawan!" Yoda yelled. "YOU MUST NOT!"

Too late.

Raising his lightsaber in battle postion Dorian Flan of Corellia came at Palpatine.

IMPALED!
Esore screamed at the ex-Chancellor's crimson red blade pierced through Dorain. It went in an area between Dorian's heart and his shoulder. The girl saw it sticking out the other end!

A/N

Well what can I say? I never thought this chapter through before I wrote it. I was in a hurry to get the story done and just sat there and wrote it on the paper. When I was done I previewed it thinking it was going to suck. Actually I think it's pretty good. Heh. But that's just me.

Well I'd like to hear from you. If you have anything to say about this chapter or the last let me know. I'll be waiting. Just please don't flame at me okay?