"What do you think it does?" Traitin asked.
"It would be safe to guess it's a giant super weapon. Probably an incredibly outsized turbolaser." Kentra replied.
"Can we blast it?"
Kentra shook her head. "We can try but it won't do any good. With my eyes, I can see that thing pretty well and its quantum armored. Indestructible from the outside."
"New plan." Cryos announced. "We split up. Kentra and I go to the planet after Yamna. The rest of the landing party goes to the new Death Star."
"Cool name. How'd you think of it?" Traitin asked.
Cryos sighed.
"I don't know if that's a good idea," Kentra said. "There are millions of troops down there, and intelligence suggests up to a dozen dark Jedi."
"Don't worry, I haven't been relaxing these last ten years."
"Alright, let's go." Kentra switched on the autopilot and headed over to the airlock. "Pahrac, you're in command. Fly the ship down to the Death Star and find some way to destroy the core. At the very least, that will take the main weapon out of commission."
Cryos grabbed Draco and joined Kentra in the airlock. A press of a button cycled the airlock and seconds later, Draco was flying them to the planet.
Traitin, Pahrac and Mazzark looked at each other.
"The way they work together its like Cryos never left." Pahrac commented.
"So now what?" Traitin asked.
Mazzark blinked something.
"Do you know what he said?" Pahrac asked Mazzark.
"No… Cryos is the only one who can understand him."
Mazzark slumped over in exasperation. And pointed at the front window, where a flight of tie fighters was swooping in at them.
"Evasive!" Pahrac screamed at the autopilot and they swerved out of the way just in time to avoid a volley of laser bolts. He slithered over to the control panel and turned off the autopilot. "All ships:" He announced. "We are to engage the fleet. Forget about the landing mission, our job is to keep the enemy fleet and especially the Death Star from escaping."
"So how do we get in?" Traitin asked.
Mazzark jumped up onto the control panel and started hopping on the keys, spelling out a message on the screen. Find a rout and, I'll get us in. He wrote.
"No offence," Pahrac said, "but you're two inches tall. I don't understand how you can help."
"I've seen him work." Traitin said. "Don't underestimate him."
"Fine…" He pressed some buttons and the scanners went into action. Within seconds, a map of airlocks and landing bays appeared. "I see a small landing bay, minimal guards. Sound good?"
Mazzark nodded and the ship accelerated.
They swooped into the landing bay, flying directly into a volley of small arms fire.
Mazzark scurried over to the airlock and leapt out, directly onto the face of the closest person shooting at them.
A quick jab with his tail and the man was down. Mazzark somersaulted through the air to the next.
As they spotted him they began to shoot wildly, killing several of their own troops.
The tiny Lalz easily avoided the blaster bolts and continued taking out the men. In the space of only a few seconds, the several dozen troops were unconscious from Mazzark's stings or dead from their own blasters.
Pahrac landed the shuttle and slithered over to the tiny alien. "You… you completely demoralized them. That was phenomenal!"
Mazzark gave a nod of his head, acknowledging the compliment.
"I have to apologize for my first assessment of you, when I first saw you, I thought Cryos had brought back two useless creatures, but I see now that he only brought one."
"Hay!" Traitin protested.
But before they could continue the argument, more soldiers appeared at a far door and started shooting.
Pahrac fired an acid spitball at the door's control panel and the door automatically closed, as per safety precautions.
"Come, we must go." He slithered to a wall and used another acid blob to eat a hole. "Watch the edges, there's still enough acid to burn you." He warned as he slithered through.
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Cryos and Kentra rode Draco to the planet. They encountered little resistance as Draco's organic structure was not overly detectable to scanners. Draco's piloting guided them to a spectacular crash landing into a sewage treatment plant.
"I'm going to kill you, Draco!" Kentra screamed and launched herself at the tiny lizard. (Who had somehow managed to clean himself off when he shrunk back down to his smaller form, leaving only Cryos and Kentra covered in filth) But Cryos held her back.
"Don't waste your energy," He told her. "you'll need it later."
Imperial Tower still served as the capital building. And luckily, it was only a few miles away. Unluckily, however, those few miles contained more guards and dark Jedi than most armies.
Cryos opened a storm drain and dropped down, Kentra was a moment behind him.
"I can't see." He muttered.
"I can, just stick close." She responded.
They walked through the darkness for a time, until Kentra suddenly froze. "Uh oh…" She said.
"Uh oh? Uh oh?!" Cryos demanded. "What's the Uh oh?"
"We aren't alone." She said, and shoved him out of the way of a lightsaber that suddenly appeared and slashed through the air where they had been standing only moments ago.
Three more lightsabers blinked to life, illuminating the dark Jedi holding them.
"Go on without me, I'll catch up when I'm done with these guys." She said.
"But how?" Cryos asked. "They have lightsabers!"
"So do I…" She said and pulled the hilt of a lightsaber from her pocket.
"Kentra ignited the lightsaber with a snap-hisssss sound, but no blade appeared. She raised her saber and suddenly Cryos could see it. The shadow of her blade, silhouetted against the other lightsabers. Her saber was black.
"Its made from the only black cousora gem ever found." She said proudly. "No one besides me can see it in the dark."
"Are you sure you're going to be ok?" Cryos asked.
"Don't worry, Luke Skywalker's been training me. I'm one of his top students."
Cryos gave her a leery look, but nodded and ran down the long dark tunnel.
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"He is coming, Master." The Dark Jedi student in the Imperial Tower reported.
"Yes, that is to be expected." The dark voice echoed from the shadows all around her. "Have you had any progress on how he can be defeated?"
"None, Master." She reported. "He saves millions without serving the light, and he kills without falling to the dark. I can't understand it."
The voice growled. "Continue your meditation. I have one more surprise in store for him before he gets here."
The room grew lighter as the presence left, busy elsewhere.
"The Dark side is strong," She cloaked student murmured. "but I don't know if anything is strong enough to stop him…"