Chapter 7: Death Star Siege Part I

Hours after their trip to Endor the republic fleet exited hyper space around the metallic planet Coruscant. And the theory they had was sadly proven correct. The Death Star was indeed there in Coruscanti space. The fleet as well and thankfully there were a few Republic ships battling it. Sadly they were losing but the already puny fleet was at half strength.

The Death Star however was not using any weapons. It seemed it could not fire anything, they found out why to, the shield it had would not allow it but it didn't really seem to bother it so much. The beings and droids inside of it were defiantly scrambling to get the huge laser operational. Anakin though had no time to ponder this quickly he got his fleet ,with the help of Obi-wan, into formation.

" Blast them into dust." Ordered Anakin looking out the window into space.

" Aye sir." Said the commanding officer. " Commence bombardment."

Seconds later bolts of laser and plasma were sent hurtling from the Republic fleet into the Imperial one. Soon after the bombardment began all the ships were floating in space and they were no longer even ships just hunks of burning and molten metal.

" Perfect." Muttered Anakin as the last ship exploded in a dazzling array of super heated gas and plasma. " It is time commander, send out the boarding parties. We are going to."

" Yes master Skywalker."

" Come on Obi-wan." said Anakin, his master nodded and followed him to the hanger.

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After the two Jedi had boarded their interceptors they took off along with a group the size of a fleet itself of transport vessels. They expected no resistance until they landed since the guns of the station could not penetrate their own shields.

" Listen up." Said Anakin over the comm. system. " We need to land together in the same section. Try to land as many in the same hanger as possible. Wait for further orders."

" But sir." Replied another voice over the comm. " Wouldn't it be better if we spread out in the place?"

" No, they have an army in there big enough to occupy three planets and not dare be resisted. Our job is only to carve a path the shield generator." Anakin said lying through his teeth. The plan was indeed to carve their way to the generator but the first chance Anakin got he was going to the control room and killing Xen.

" Be prepared we are about to enter the shield protection zone. Don't expect them to let you pass by, they can shoot us now."

And just after Anakin said that a flurry of green laser bolts flew at them. Thankfully from inaccurate auto turrets peppering the outside of the hanger bays. A few ships were hit but the bolts were not nearly strong enough to blow down a troop transport in one hit. They all landed taking up only three hanger bays and using every available inch.

After about twenty minutes they were all in the middle of the three landing platforms. They had about two legions of troops and the transports were going back to get more.

" I have a bad feeling about this." Obi-wan said to Anakin as he directed one legion to go through the door opposite the space side entranced to the hanger bay and the other through the door to the right of the bay.

" You always say that." Said Anakin once the two legions were through.

" This time though I have a good reason."

As if a cue for a play the small bangs of blaster fire began to sound. Obi-wan and Anakin decided quickly to accompany the legion that had went out the door opposite the space entrance. When they entered the hallway on the other side they activated their lightsabers and were immediately shot at by several battle droids. It appeared that legion one had encountered a few problems.

They deflected the bolts headed for them back to their makers and several charred droids fell to the ground. More droids started pouring out of a open blast door hatch at the end of the hallway. They were greeted by hundreds of laser blast from the now half legion since the others had split into connecting hallways.

Before all the droids were down Anakin had a clear path to them. He ran with the aid of the force into the small group held his lightsaber steady and literally spun three hundred sixty degrees. The circle of droids around him buckled and fell to the hard permacrete floor.

Anakin backed away from the blast door as more droids began coming down the hallway in front of him. And to his great surprise it closed. Several got through and Anakin cut each down in a kind of swirling leap. The legion was already gone from hallway and Obi-wan was still at the end. He was fighting a stray magna guard. Baffled as to where it came from Anakin ran at it and when he reached it brought his saber into an upper cut slicing the droid in half from all the way down to the groin area up and through the head.

Both sides fell down in slow motion as if the thing was still trying to keep its balance.

" I had it." Said Obi-wan nearly out of breath.

" Master I hate to say it but you exhausted all your energy."

" Yes, well it serves me right for trying that new saber form."

" Which one?"

" Yours."

" Ah yes master well mind is not for those who are physically old."

" What?"

" I said physically, at least you have a young spirit."

Obi-wan glared at Anakin, not out of anger or hate just that he could not come up with a comeback. Although it slightly irritated him that Anakin thought a man in his early thirties was old, all right mid thirties.

Anakin's comm. beeped then jogging Obi-wan out of the deep recesses of his complex mind.

" Master Skywalker." Said the voice on the other line.

" Yes general?"

" We have taken a fourth of this floor. We have a turbo lift hall in custody but they closed the blast door in front of its lobby, magnetically sealed it to."

" That was fast." Obi-wan muttered.

" Master we have been fighting in this hall for an hour."

" Really?"

" Check the timetable on your data pad." Obi-wan did so. Indeed it had been an hour since they were out of their transports.

" Time flies when you are having fun I guess."

" Yeah, fun."

Anakin's comm. chimed again.

" What?" Anakin asked.

" Sir the imps have sealed the rest of the floor off."

" It doesn't matter." Anakin stated clearly frustrated. " As long as we get the turbo lift open we might as well have access to the whole station."

" If we get it open."

" How long do you think it will take?"

" Not sure, I have techs trying to hack into their system now."

" It will take a long time to crack the imperial fire wall. In the mean time get the hanger bays secured and get more troops. We are going to leave. Now be back in an hour or two." Anakin said cutting the connection.

" Why are we going to leave?" Asked Obi-wan.

" I want to see Padmé, you can stay."

" No I'll come with you."

There you are action. Sorry it was short, cant really say I'm bad at writing it because I've been told I'm excellent. Not to worry, the next chapter will be quite short and after that come Death Star Siege Part II.