Here's the next chapter. To answer something of yours browneyedalbino, half of the stuff you said is already being used in my fic…for later stuff. The other half is actually stuff I never thought of. Thank you for the ideas. This fic will be inspired by an idea of yours. Also, Psionicnemesis (and thank you for still reading my stuff), the first few stuff won't always be long. I'll try to get more longer fics, but it's not guaranteed. Length isn't always everything; the most important thing is how it's set up that makes it a good fic and that it's a desirable length. I've seen a good number that are much better than mine, but I'm still near their level (but they'll always be ahead of me).

Disclaimer: I don't own Star Fox, Yugioh, or Star Wars.

Dark Side Rising

Chapter 4

Ambush

Morning came as Serenity found herself on the hard metal floor of the hangar. She looked around to see that no one was around in the hangar, except for a tired Joey. She went over to him and looked into his tired eyes as he was lying on the metal floor. His eyes appeared heavy with sleep as he was on watch with the others last night.

"Joey, are you okay?" Serenity asked.

"Yeah, I'll…be…fine," Joey mumbled.

Serenity stood up and walked to the tail end of the ship as the gigantic hatch was still open to the forest. She stood there as the calm wind kept blowing onto her face. Bakura unexpectedly walked up behind Serenity, but she had no surprise in her mind.

"Beautiful day, isn't it?" Bakura asked.

"Yeah, I haven't had time to enjoy the view since last night," Serenity said.

"I just wanted to know what the Jedi life is like since, well, Yami and I are going to be trained."

"It's not an easy path, but I can explain most of the basics now."

"Go ahead."

Serenity stood there and kept thinking about what there is to tell him, but not everything will be accurate since she's only studied under the Jedi arts for a year. She stopped her trail of thought as she thought she heard something behind some brush.

Bakura looked at her and asked, "Is something wrong?"

"I thought I…"

Serenity stood there, cutting herself off from speaking anymore. Why she did that was because she saw something behind the brush this time. Bakura stared at her and wanted to know what was bothering her.

"What's wrong?" Bakura questioned.

"Take cover. I think we have some visitors," Serenity replied.

She pulled her lightsaber out slowly from the belt clip on her side and activated it. The blue blade began to resonate from the hilt as the lightsaber was humming as the light shone brightly. Bakura began to back off slowly, hoping that he doesn't get in the middle of crossfire. Tristan and Duke finally came down from being on the bridge after they had a layout of their next task. They kept looking at Serenity as she stood there with her lightsaber in front of her at an angle pointing up to the right. She looked to her left and leaped backwards into the hangar as a red bolt of energy barely missed her. As she landed, she saw more red bolts flying towards her, or at least the projectory was meant for her when they missed. Serenity started to block whatever shots she can block as Tristan and Duke kicked down some metal crates to use as small cover. They began to fire over the crates as Serenity dove back behind the crates with the other two as Joey did the same. Bakura got behind the crates with them and took cover.

"Serenity, why didn't you sense that earlier?" Duke yelled.

"How can I if I'm not a fully trained Jedi you dimwit!" Serenity responded in a high tone. "Besides, they're machine, and it's hard to sense them!"

More shots began to hit the metal crates as they had to take more cover. Seto came from the bridge, but didn't come down to take cover. He took cover behind a girder and began to fire around the corner of it.

"You all stay up there while we take care of things down here!" Seto yelled into a comm. unit.

Serenity saw more blaster fire going to them instead of Seto as Seto kept firing around the corner with his M-16 automatic trigger. Serenity saw that the troops of droids were still advancing on them as more of the droids were coming up what they think is a ramp that the enemies set up. The droids were going down one by one by their shots as Tristan, Duke, Joey, and Seto were all firing at the enemies. Serenity opened her comm. link and began to talk into it.

"Peppy, what are those things?" Serenity asked.

"Those are Battle Droids. Unlike Stormtroopers, they can be mass produced without a problem, but they're more flimsy in the armor endurance," Peppy explained. "Your lightsaber will cut through them with no problem. The M-16's should take them out with ease."

"Yes, we already know that, but don't you guys have sentry turrets?" Tristan asked.

"We may have some at the top crate on the starboard side of the ship."

"Okay, I think I see it," Serenity confirmed.

Serenity looked to her left as the crates were on the right side of the ship. She began to reach out into the Force to get the crate at the top as more heavy fire began to slowly sear away at the crates they were behind. As she was able to get it off the top, the other crates that were stacked underneath it began to topple down. As they did, everything in them began to fall out of the crates, including a whole bunch of Sentry turrets. Bakura looked over to see a pair of katanas lying on the ground. They appeared to have been sharpened and maintained as they were lying on the ground. Bakura began to run out between crossfires and finally got to the katanas. He began to run into enemy lines as he had the katanas spinning in slow circles around his sides. As he got up to one of them, he had both katanas in a reverse hold and made a pincer motion as they cut the droid in half with ease. He turned around and began to slash at the many Battle Droids that were still left standing as they began to take fire to Bakura. Bakura ducked the blasts as the shots were heading straight for their own.

Serenity was able to get an opportunity to get up and run to the enemy lines to gain an offensive advantage. As she got to them, she took a powerful leap up and began to do a front flip as her body twisted around to face backwards while she was stabbing down as a Battle Droid. As she landed, she stabbed backwards into a droid that was aiming for her. As the droid began to malfunction, Serenity whipped her lightsaber out of it and slashed at a couple more of the droids. She looked over to see that Bakura was doing just fine as he already managed to dispatch half of the invading droids in the hangar.

Bakura saw a group of 3 droids beginning to open fire at him, but he began to dodge each blast as he was slowly approaching them. As he got to them, he began to quickly spin as his katanas were spinning in a diagonal motion around as Bakura's arms were outstretched. The three droids were then sliced in half as they fell over on the ground. Bakura looked out to the fields as more droids were beginning to get onto the tail end of the Great Fox. Bakura looked over to Serenity as she did to him. They both made a quick nod and began to charge into the enemy lines. Seto looked around the corner to see the two beginning to run to the enemy lines as the droids were beginning to open fire once again. Seto couldn't believe his eyes as they were dodging blaster shots.

"Damn it, are those idiots trying to get themselves killed?"

Bakura had his katanas outstretched and made the same quick spinning motion as he hit seven droids. Serenity already got up to the lines as she kept slashing away at the Battle Droids as they were being cut down with ease. Before she could continue her march up, she saw something flying at them as it came down at an angle. She went off of the tail engine and landed outside of it as Bakura did the same as well. As the object hit the hull on the tail engine, an explosion followed it as many droids fell off of the engine in pieces. The Battle Droids turned around as the sound of a lightsaber was activated as a droid fell over. Serenity looked over to see the green blade of a lightsaber as a Cornerian stood there, ready to do battle with the droids.

"Fox, when did…"

"Serenity, not now!"

As the Battle Droids began to open fire on Fox, he began to block every shot that came at him with his lightsaber, deflecting them back to as many droids as he can hit. As the Battle Droids were being distracted by Fox, Bakura was able to sneak up behind a number of droids and attack them from behind with the katanas he's using. Serenity did so as well as she took one quick horizontal slash at a few droids. Tristan, Duke, and Joey got to the opening and began to fire around the corner with their M-16 assault rifles. In no time, the droids were easily dispatched. Fox deactivated his lightsaber as Serenity did the same as well. Bakura stood there with the borrowed katanas pointing down.

"Bakura…when did you fight like that?" Serenity asked.

"I guess I should tell you guys something," Bakura said. "I actually have been studying skills on swordplay ever since Fox left."

"So you've been training with swords just for the heck of it?" Fox asked.

"Yes, but I don't know why I can fight like that."

At the walkway that Seto was standing on, everyone else came out of the bridge to see what was going on down below. Yugi looked down at Bakura as he was very curious at the situation now.

"Yugi, what's wrong?" Yami asked.

"Nothing, I'm just wondering what's going on with Bakura," Yugi said.

"Well, it's definitely not the evil tomb robber; I know that much for sure."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, besides, I'd be able to feel the dark energy coming off of him if it was."

"I'll trust you on this one, Yami."

With that, Yugi began to focus in on Serenity as she stood there, looking up into the sky. She can sense someone there, waiting for something.

"Who is that? I know it's a strong evil energy, but I also know that it doesn't belong to both General Scales and Dessan. It's like there's a third person there."

Fox looked over to Serenity as her curiosity was easy to pick up. He also can sense the energy, but he doesn't recognize it from anyone that he knows of, yet he feels that it's someone familiar. He can't understand why, but he has that gut feeling that it's someone he knows in some way.