The New Jedi Knights: The Fate of the Force
Chapter 10: The Second Assassin and the First Battle
By MagicMansion
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars or Luke Skywalker. My characters are Jarrod, Josh, Kyle, Victor, Shawn, Mary, Abby, Rebecca, and General Titanus.
The night after the sniper attack was quiet in the Jedi Temple. Everyone was asleep, except for Shawn.
He had missed a training session because of his wound that afternoon. He decided it wouldn't hurt to do a late practice session. He got up, and grabbed his lightsaber. He walked to the training room, and set it up to practice deflecting lasers.
He ignited his lightsaber, and a few lasers began firing at him. He blocked all of them, and then began deflecting them at targets on the walls. After a few minutes, he used a remote to turn it off. He turned to face Rebecca.
"I knew you'd be here," she said.
"Oh?"
"You were upset that you missed the training session. I know you well enough to know that."
Shawn smiled and put his forehead against her forehead. "I know you know me. I personally just want to get my training in that I missed."
"That's what I said," Rebecca told him.
They both turned to look at the hall.
"Did you hear that," Shawn asked.
"Yeah."
The two left the training room, and crept silently through the halls. They passed the main door, and saw a large section had been taken out of it.
"Looks like something snuck in," Rebecca said.
"But what?"
The two continued through the halls, but saw nothing suspicious until they got to Kyle's room. A small hole was in the bottom of the door.
"That's too suspicious," Shawn said. He walked to the door, and put his scrambler on the keypad. The door lifted, and Shawn saw Kyle and Abby sleeping next to each other, and the baby asleep as well.
The two Jedi walked into the room, and Shawn took out a small light. He pointed it around the room, and Rebecca did the same. He looked back to his two friends, but it seemed nothing was around. He could still see them breathing steadily. He looked over to the baby, and saw what he was looking for.
A small droid, which looked like a scorpion, was crawling up the side of the crib. He hoped his abilities were ready for this task. He ignited his lightsaber, jumped over the bed, and slashed the small droid, just barely hitting it so as not to hit the crib.
Kyle and Abby sat up quickly.
"Shawn, what are you doing," Kyle said.
Shawn didn't answer. He was looking at the droid, where a small green light had turned red.
"Get up. Go to Mary's room." Shawn picked up the little scorpion droid. "Look for one of these little guys. And hurry. I don't think they're on a stealth mission anymore."
Shawn and Rebecca ran out as Kyle got up, and Abby got up to comfort her awoken daughter.
Shawn ran to Josh's room, Rebecca to Jarrod's, since the two were right across the hall from each other. Shawn put the scrambler on Josh's door, and then tossed it to Rebecca so she could do the same. Both doors opened, and Rebecca tossed the scrambler to a passing Kyle, so he could open Mary's door.
Shawn entered Josh's room, and saw the little scorpion on the ceiling above Josh's neck. Shawn used the Force to pick up a pen on a table, and speared the small droid with it. It fell silently onto Josh's bed, motionless.
Rebecca found Jarrod's crawling up his sheets, getting closer to his neck. She jumped on the bed and hit it away with her lightsaber. Jarrod sat up.
Kyle had gotten Mary's door open, and had quickly stepped on the little droid that was scurrying along the floor.
Kyle, Jarrod, Shawn, and Rebecca met in the hall. "What about Victor and Master Skywalker," Jarrod said.
Shawn and Rebecca ran to Victor's room, Jarrod and Kyle to Luke's.
Shawn and Rebecca found another scorpion droid in Victor's room, and quickly slashed it into two pieces.
Jarrod and Kyle found a problem at Luke's room, however. A large scorpion droid, the size of a small dog, had its tail in the door. They heard a bunch of the little droids crawling into Luke's room.
Jarrod ignited his lightsaber, and destroyed the large droid, and then cut the door in half. He kicked it down, and the two ran in, lightsabers ready. They found the scorpions scurrying around the room, but didn't see Luke anywhere. They slashed and stabbed the little droids, and after a minute had finished off the last one.
"Where's Master Skywalker," Jarrod asked.
Luke flipped down from the ceiling. "I'm ok guys. I sensed them coming in, so I hid in a hole in the ceiling. Those little things go by feeling their way around, so they didn't know I was up there."
The group met up back at Kyle's room, after waking Josh and Victor up.
Shawn picked up the first of the little droids, and handed it to Luke. It was barely damaged; only the power wire had been cut.
"Nicely placed Shawn," Luke said. "Hm, a SAD."
"SAD?"
"Scorpion Assassin Droid. They carry lethal poison in their tails. It doesn't surprise me that someone tried to use them on us. They're stealthy little bugs, but their carrier is loud. Who heard it come in?"
Shawn and Rebecca put their hands up. "I was up doing a little training. Rebecca had just come to see how I was doing, and then we heard a noise. We saw the main door cut open, and then found the small hole in Kyle's."
"Well," Luke said. "I'd say this one wasn't after Kyle though. It was most likely after the youngest target it could get."
They all looked at Abby's daughter, who was in her arms.
"She was most likely targeted because of her age, and because she possesses the Force. Luckily Shawn and Rebecca were up; otherwise we might not be talking right now. Okay, let's clean these little guys up, and we'll figure this out tomorrow morning."
They walked to each room, and carefully cleaned up each of the little droids. They locked them in a sealed titanium container, so even if they started up again, they wouldn't be able to get out. Then the Jedi went back to bed.
The next morning, Luke began inspecting one of the scorpion droids, searching for a possible way to trace it to its owner. But a droid flew in and landed on the table he was working at.
"Sir, we've got a problem. Apparently a planet in the same system as Noomi (the planet the Separatist Empire used as a base, and where the Jedi had been a few days earlier) is under attack. It belongs to the Republic, we've already checked. They're asking for assistance. We've sent a clone army there to assist."
"Ok. I'll be there to help them as soon as I can."
He put the SAD back into its container and called for Shawn and Rebecca. He told them the situation. They got to their fighters and flew off to the planet. When they got there, they saw a large battle already in progress. They landed their fighters in a base near the middle of their forces. When they got out, a clone with yellow markings on his armor came up to them.
"General Skywalker. We are currently pressing the Separatist Imperial Forces into a circle. We came at them from four different cities, and they never expected it."
"Good job commander. Keep up that strategy." Luke looked at the battlefield. He saw a large mountain, with cliffs all around, and snipers in the cliffs. "Commander, is there a way to take that small mountain?"
"Negative sir. Every ship that has approached it gets sniped down."
Luke nodded. "Get me a ship then."
Rebecca got into the transport part of the gunship, Luke got on one of the wings, and Shawn got into one of the pods on the side, but kept it open.
"Pilot, don't go straight at the mountain. Circle it," Luke told him.
"Yes General." The pilot flew around the mountain, the snipers firing at the ship. The three Jedi deflected the shots away from the ship, and back at the snipers. After circling the mountain five times, all of the snipers were gone. Luke and Shawn got into the ship.
"Commander," Luke said into his comlink. "I want to gunships of snipers up on that mountain as soon as possible."
"We'll begin loading immediately."
The ship with the Jedi flew back to the base, and passed two other gunships on the way, full of snipers. They watched as the ships hovered next to the cliffs and unloaded the snipers. After landing, they saw their snipers begin to take out the enemy droids and storm troopers.
"Good job commander," Luke said as he walked into the base.
"Thank you sir. It seems the Separatist Imperial forces are backing out. They are loading their ships up, but we're taking those out as they take off."
"Very good. I trust you can finish this yourself?"
"Yes sir. Wait. There's an Imperial Star Destroyer entering the atmosphere."
"What?"
The radio crackled. "Ah, commander. I trust your general is there with you?"
Luke grabbed the radio. "General Titanus."
"You do remember me. I sent you a little present. I won't take no for an answer, I insist you take it. Have a nice day."
Luke looked through the window, and saw the Imperial Star Destroyer pointing straight down at the battleground.
"Commander, get me a ship. We need to get on that Star Destroyer."
A gunship landed next to the base, and the three Jedi got on.
"Pilot, take us up to that Star Destroyer, and shoot open a hole as close to the control room as you can. We need to pull that thing up so it doesn't crash into the battle."
"Yes sir."
A squad of TIE fighters met them on the way, but the many weapons on the gunship took them out. The bubbled clones cut a large section of the Star Destroyer's armor out, and the three Jedi jumped into it when they got close.
The three ignited their lightsabers when they got in. A few battle droids were walking around, but they were easily taken care of.
"Come on you two. We've got to get to the controls."
The three ran through the halls, destroying what few droids were on the ship. They finally found the control room, but a problem came around the corner.
"Destroyers," Shawn yelled.
Two of them had turned the corner and unrolled. They put up deflector shields and began firing. Shawn and Rebecca began deflecting shots.
"Master, what do we do?"
"Keep them busy, and cover me."
Luke began a fast walk to the doors to the control room. Shawn and Rebecca followed him, still deflecting shots. Luke got to the doors, and cut one off. He moved it with the Force, and threw it at one of the destroyers. The door went through the shield and cut the droid in half. Luke Force threw the few droids guarding the door, and then cut the other door off, and threw it at the other destroyer.
The three Jedi ran into the control room, and met up with battle droids protecting the controls. After deflecting the shots back to their shooters, no one was left in the control room.
"Master, can you land this thing?"
"I sure hope so," Luke said, grabbing the main controls and pulling back on them.
The Jedi felt the ship immediately begin to pull up, but as they watched out the front window, it didn't look as though they were going to make it.
"Master, turn towards the middle of the battlefield. All of Separatist Imperial Forces are in that big circle. We can aim the ship at them, and have a gunship get us."
"Call for a ship."
Luke turned the Star Destroyer to its own troops and droids on the ground while Shawn called for a gunship. They were getting close to crashing into the ground now, and a gunship finally appeared in front of the Star Destroyer's window. Luke threw a table through the window, and the three Jedi got out and onto the gunship. The gunship flew up, and everyone watched as the Star Destroyer crashed into the droids and storm troopers.
"Nicely done sir," the pilot said.
"Thanks. Get us down there so we can take care of what's left."
The gunship landed near a line of storm troopers, and the three Jedi went in, deflecting shots away from the clones, and slashing at the storm troopers. After nearly an hour, Luke slashed the final storm trooper.
The clones and the Jedi looked around.
"Wow," Shawn said.
"We won," Rebecca finished.
"Yeah. But I don't think that was their only army. Commander," Luke said into his comlink. "Get the clones packed up. We're done here."
"Yes sir."
The three Jedi got back into their fighters after being taken to them in a gunship. They flew out of the planet's atmosphere, and went to light speed to get back home.
Well, that's it for the first battle. More to come next chapter. Please review.