A/N: I would like to give another special credit to my muse, editor, and partner in crime, Bobbius Maximus, for helping me write the battle scene in the previous chapter. It would have been incredibly difficult to do so without his help, so many thanks, Bobbius Maximus. I always appreciate your helpful insights while writing.)
Back in an abandoned listening post on Yavin
"You imbecile! How dare you retreat like that!" Jadis screamed at General Otmin.
"A thousand apologies, my lady." General Otmin quietly said as he bowed before Jadis.
"Believe me; you are so lucky I don't kill you right now." Jadis snarled.
Jadis was fuming at everyone right now for several reasons: they had retreated from the surprise attack, several of her ogres had been done away with, and her head wolf was lying dead on the ground outside of the Jedi Temple. The one person she was the most furious at right now was Boba Fett, mainly because he had been the one who ordered everyone to retreat in the first place.
"And as for you, you spineless coward—" she started to fume before she was met with Boba firing a couple warning shots from his blaster.
"Might I remind you I don't take too kindly to being called a coward." he hissed.
General Otmin promptly stomped over and stood his guard in front of Jadis, determined to protect her as he raised his battle axe up. Unfortunately, he soon realized how little good that would do as Boba fired off his blaster again at the battle axe, searing the top of it clean off. The general quietly crept away as he picked up the broken top of his precious battle axe and began to figure out a way that he could fix it. Jadis, meanwhile, was still fuming mad.
"And another thing: I had no idea these brats and their family would be armed with these so called light guns and light swords! And you didn't even warn me about it!" she screamed.
"I tried. You simply refused to listen." Boba quietly said.
Jadis just glared at him as she sat back in her chair and crossed her arms. How dare he boss around the former queen of Narnia! He had absolutely no authority to do this! But Boba bossing her around was the least of her worries right now; she had an even bigger problem to deal with.
"Now we have to go back out there and go after all of my enemies again." Jadis grumbled.
"All of your enemies? Who are they?" Boba asked curiously.
"Well, as you may already know, three of them are those Solo brats. The others are the four current kings and queens of Narnia and some of their loyal servants." Jadis said.
"You shot one of them!" Ginnabrik exclaimed.
"I did?" Boba asked, sounding very surprised.
"Yes you did. The one you happened to shoot was King Peter, who happens to be High King." Jadis replied.
Boba sat down in his chair, completely stunned. He could not believe that he shot a king, even if that king was an enemy of Jadis. Jadis noticed Boba shaking his head in disbelief and reached over to pat him on the shoulder.
"If it's any consolation, you did a good job. With the high king out of the way, things are starting to get easier." Jadis said.
"The king is dead! The king is dead!" Ginnabrik chanted.
"Yes he is, Ginnabrik. Now, what do you suggest we do next?" Jadis asked Boba.
Now Boba was a quite cunning bounty hunter, as he had seen a lot of action in his days. He knew that if a surprise attack didn't work, there was always another option that one could use to attack something or someone. Right now, he believed that option would work best in the revenge plan that he and Jadis wanted so badly to put into action.
"Here is what we do next: we infiltrate the Jedi Temple and use a direct attack from the inside." Boba said.
"You mean to say that we sneak inside the temple and attack there?" Jadis asked.
"Yes, that's what I just said." Boba replied.
"Will that even work?" Ginnabrik asked.
"Of course it will, if everything goes according to plan." Boba said.
"We must sneak inside unnoticed if this is to work, you know." Jadis replied.
"I realize that, and I know the Jedi Temple like the back of my hand." Boba informed Jadis.
He then went on to explain how he knew of a secret back entrance to the temple that was supposed to be used as an emergency escape when a situation inside required such an escape. But in their case, it would be a perfect way to sneak inside the temple and spring a direct attack from the inside.
"And just how do you know about this secret entrance?" Jadis demanded to know.
"The place was abandoned for a long time before it became the Jedi Temple and I took it upon myself to do some exploring." Boba simply replied.
"Ah, that was good thinking. Now tell me, how should we go about this new attack?" Jadis asked.
Boba explained to Jadis how this new plan would work: They would send the ogres inside the temple along with General Otmin to serve as a distraction to the Solos and their family and friends. Once everyone was distracted by the appearance of the ogres and dealing with them, Jadis and Boba would sneak inside and make their move.
"But what about me, my lady?" Ginnabrik asked.
"Ah yes, you. I have a special role for you." Jadis said as she grinned smugly at the dwarf.
"Really? What is it?" Ginnabrik asked with excitement.
"Since you are the smallest of us, you get to go after the smallest of the enemies." Jadis replied.
"You mean…?" Ginnabrik started to ask.
"Yes, you will go after the smallest queen: Queen Lucy." Jadis said.
Ginnabrik laughed evilly, thrilled that he finally got a special role in his queen's plans. And it was going after one of the royalty of Narnia, on top of it. He couldn't wait to try out his dagger on little Lucy this time after using it on her older sister as he was quite certain she would be even easier to take down that Susan was.
"General Otmin!" Jadis called out to her minotaur general.
"Yes, my queen?" General Otmin asked as he came forward.
"Rally the remaining troops together and inform them of our new plan. We have a lot of work to do." Jadis said.
"Yes I will, my queen." General Otmin replied as he bowed before his queen.
Watching the general go off to inform the remaining wolves and ogres of what the new attack plan would be, Jadis, Boba, and Ginnabrik felt a surge of excitement. Despite their defeat earlier, they were quite confident that the Solos and their Narnian friends would be caught off guard this time and would be wiped out without any problem.