Chapter IV
A few hours had gone by since the last event, as the Celest entered orbit of Coruscant, the communications system in the command center beeped.
"Sir… We're receiving a message from Master Obi-Wan. It's warning all Jedi to stay away from Coruscant." Alpha7 reported to Sigma.
Once again the the communication system beeped and Alpha7 looked up with a look of concern on his face.
"Master Guin, we're receiving a hail from a TIE Fighter. I'm reading a whole shit load of them on sensors."
"Put it on screen." Sigma said and motioned for Guin to move away from the camera.
An image of a pilot inside a TIE Fighter appeared. He seemed to look around the command center of the Celest as best he could before saying, "Lieutenant Sigma, have you been debriefed yet?"
"Uh… No… We were about to head down now." Sigma replied.
"Did you carry out your orders?" The pilot asked.
"Yes… uh… of course." Sigma stammered.
The pilot raised an eyebrow and paused for a moment. He didn't seem to believe the clone. Though he was having a tough time believing a clone would disobey orders, but something definitely was off.
"Very well. Let me put my ship in your docking bay and I'll come down to the planet with you. My fighter squadron we'll escort us down." The pilot said, suspiciously.
"There is no need for that." Sigma said with irritation.
"That was an order, Lieutenant!" The pilot said angrily.
Sigma glared and motioned for Alpha7 to cut the communication, which the clone did instantly.
Kappa looked over at Guin and Sigma, and said, "We're doomed!"
Guin was just about to say something when all of a sudden the ship shook from the heavy fire of the TIE Fighters' laser cannons.
"Private Kappa, target those bastards and fire at will!" Sigma roared, jumping into the helm station and activating the ship's engines.
The Celest lurched to the left as laser fire hit its hull. Kappa practically hit his controls sending out a volley of quad lasers from the cannons, some of which impacted with two unlucky fighters, blowing them to kingdom come.
"WOOOOO!" Kappa cheered and he targeted for another fighter as Sigma piloted the Celest as best he could in her condition.
"Master Guin, the Celest is a fine ship, but we're no match for them in our current condition!" Sigma yelled as the ship shook from the fighter's fire, "We're not going to last much longer!"
Two more TIE fighters exploded from the fire of the Celest, but she too took some heavy damage. The hull plating of her bottom deck blew off, its contents getting sucked into space.
"Does the hyper drive still work?" Guin asked, clutching his chair.
"Let's hope so…" Sigma said and tapped a bunch of controls, activating it.
"We need to find Master Yoda. He'll be able to help us…" Guin said as the Celest's engines began to glow and it jumped, or rather limped into hyperspace, leaving behind a bunch of angry fighter pilots…
To Be Continued…