The New Jedi Knights: Fate of the Force
Chapter 11: The Stealth Mission
By MagicMansion
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars, Han Solo, Chewy, or Luke Skywalker. My characters are Jarrod, Josh, Kyle, Victor, Shawn, Mary, Abby, and Rebecca.
It was late evening, and Luke was sitting down with the other Jedi; as he listened to Shawn and Rebecca recount their battle to the rest of the Jedi. They listened with great interest, seeming like they thought they could learn something.
"And then," Shawn said. "We finished off the last storm troopers and came back here."
There were ooh's and aah's among them. Then Josh looked at Luke.
"Master, when do the rest of us get to go on a mission?"
"Right now," a man said as he came in.
"Excuse me," Luke said, smiling as he got up. "You can't just barge in here and take command of my Jedi without my consent first."
The man looked at them all. "I don't know." He leaned next to Luke to whisper, "they seem pretty worthless to me."
Luke smiled. Han Solo had always been a good friend of his, and liked to joke around a lot, maybe too much sometimes.
"Everyone, I trust you know who this is," Luke said.
They all nodded.
"Good. Take a seat Han."
Han pulled up a chair, and put his feet up on the table and leaned back.
"So, what exactly do you need one of my new Jedi for?"
"Well, I was thinking about making a point of refunding some gold I'd given to the Republic after the Empire fell."
Luke smiled. "So, you want my Jedi to help you break open the doors, defeat the droids, and use the Force to lift the gold into your ship?"
"That's about the size of it."
Luke smiled. Han smiled back.
"We got word that the Separatist Empire is going to be buying plans for a new starship to add to their fleet," Han said. "It is supposed to be able to battle an entire fleet of Star Destroyers by itself. As I said though, they haven't bought it yet, so they have no idea what the plans are like. We figure if we can get to the plans before they're bought, we could put a dent in the Separatist Empire's plans."
"Sounds logical to me." Luke looked at his pupils. "Does anyone want to go on a stealth mission?"
They looked at each other.
"Sorry," Shawn said. "Beckie and I are taking a break from this one."
"Agreed," she said.
Josh shook his head. "No way, I want action."
"Looks like Victor and Kyle are going," Jarrod said. "I'm with Josh."
"Sorry Josh," Mary said. "I could learn something from this one. I'll go with."
"Okay," Han said lazily. "Let's get going kids."
He started to get up, and fell backwards on the chair. He got up, and looked at everyone smiling at him.
"I meant to do that."
Everyone laughed. Mary hugged Josh, Kyle said goodbye to Abby, and then Han, Mary, Victor, and Kyle left.
Han took them to a hangar in the middle of Coruscant, where the Millennium Falcon was sitting.
"Chewy, we've got our Jedi. Luke was happy to hand them over."
The Wookie looked at him and growled something.
"What do you mean the hyperdrive is leaking again?"
Han ran to the ship, and got up on top with the Wookie. "No no," he yelled. "That's not the hyperdrive, that's the fuel. Come on Chewy, I expect you to take care of this ship, not annihilate it. Lando took care of getting it close to that already."
Chewy growled something at him.
Han turned and pointed at the Wookie. "If you think he's a better pilot, then go with him, I don't really care. But you won't board my ship with an attitude like that."
The Wookie growled again.
"Just seal the fuel line and get the tank refilled. I'll be back in fifteen minutes. Fifteen! She'd better be ready to take off by then."
The Wookie growled at him.
"Don't get smart with me Chewy."
The Wookie laughed.
"Come on kids. We've got to go request our fuel tanks get filled."
The Jedi followed Han to the desk of the hangar. He requested a fuel refill, and the alien at the desk told him something.
"What! For a refill? That's ridiculous."
The alien muttered something.
"I'm not paying that much for a refill. It's a scam. Guys, can't you tell this guy to lower his price a little?"
Kyle smiled. "Sorry Han, we're forbidden to use our powers for personal gain, even our friends' personal gain."
"Well, you might not have a problem then, because if you don't, I won't be very friendly anymore."
Kyle rolled his eyes, and stopped Victor from going after the alien. He walked up and paid the alien with some credits Luke had given each of them. The alien thanked him, and told a droid to refill the Falcon.
"Don't think you're on my good side," Han told Kyle as he fixed his robes and headed for the hangar. Kyle just smiled.
After ten minutes, Han, Chewy, Kyle, Victor, and Mary were in the Millennium Falcon. The ship flew out of the hangar, and out of the atmosphere.
"Hold on everyone."
Han hit a button, and the ship jumped to light speed.
After an hour, Han brought the ship out of light speed.
"Okay everyone, wake up, we're here."
The Jedi had decided to meditate in the back of the ship during the trip. They got up now, and returned to the control cabin.
"Ok. I really hope this stealth thing works. If it doesn't, you three will be busy while we get the ship powered back up."
"What do you mean by that," Victor asked.
"Well, even if the stealth doesn't work, it'll still drain the power out of the ship."
"Oh great."
Han hit a button, and flew to the planet in front of them. They saw an Imperial Star Destroyer circling the planet, and the ship managed to fly right under it.
"Well, it seems like it worked."
The Falcon landed in a forest about two miles from a heavily guarded building. None of the guards seemed to notice the ship.
"Okay," Han said. "Let's get going. It'll be a long walk."
The group began walking through the forest.
"So, Luke's said a lot about you guys already," Han said as they approached the building. "Says you learned everything a lot faster than he did."
"I guess so," Kyle said. "But we trained like 12 hours a day."
"Don't complain. You've got a good master. Luke, he had one heck of a time training under Yoda, or so he says."
"I don't think Master Yoda would be a bad teacher."
"Hey," Han said. "Don't look at me. I've never met the little guy. I'm just saying what Luke told me. Okay guys, hold up."
Everyone stopped behind some tall bushes. Han peeked over and counted four guards at the main doors, and saw one at each corner of the building.
"Han," Kyle said. "This building doesn't look too big. Are you sure this is the right one?"
Han looked at him. "The building is underground. The plans are in a room at the bottom."
"Oh."
Han stood up, and the human guards looked at him.
"Hey, you. Who are you?"
"Name's Han Solo. Pleased to meet you." He picked up his blaster, and quickly hit all four of the guards.
The other two came running from the corners, and Han hit both of them as well.
"Ok kids, let's go."
They ran up to the door, and Han put in a code at the keypad.
"Oh boy. The code doesn't work."
"Jee," Victor said. "Where's Shawn's scrambler when you need it?"
"Move," Kyle said. He ignited his green lightsaber, and stabbed it into the center of the giant sliding doors. The doors weakened, and Kyle deactivated his lightsaber, and pushed against the small section of door. It fell in, and Kyle reignited his lightsaber. Victor and Mary walked in next, and did the same. Han and Chewy came in last, and pulled out their blasters.
"Hey! Intruders!"
Han looked at the guy, and blasted him. He lifted into the air and fell on his back on the floor. Another two guards came around the corner, and fired a few shots. Victor and Kyle deflected them while Han shot back at them. Those guards fell over after being hit.
"So much for stealth," Victor said.
"No. The guards up here are very few. They won't know we're here yet," Han said.
They walked around, hiding whenever they heard footsteps. They got into the duct system, and got to a long drop.
"Come now," Han said. "This is going to slow our mission down."
"Not necessarily," Kyle said. He and Victor handed Chewy and Han their extra grappling lines. They all found something to tie them too, and began their descent down the long duct.
After a few minutes of going down the duct, they heard footsteps.
"Guys, we must be near the bottom," Kyle said. "I'm dropping."
"What? No," Han said, but was too late.
Kyle pushed off of the wall, and dropped down. The four heard a crash, a lightsaber igniting, and a few laser blasts. The blasts stopped quickly.
"Ok guys, everything's clear," Kyle yelled.
Everyone dropped down, and landed next to Kyle.
"Well," Han said. "That was easy," he said, pointing to a small container with blueprints for a ship in it. "I thought it would be a little harder."
Suddenly, three doors opened up, and storm troopers rushed in and pointed their weapons at the group of five.
"Drop your weapons," the one said.
Han and Chewy reluctantly put their weapons down, and the Jedi dropped the blasters they had picked up from some of the guards.
"Hands back," the commander said as the storm troopers tied their hands.
The group was led to a large elevator, and the commander of the squad hit a button to call it.
"Uh, guys," Han whispered to the Jedi. "Why don't you get some lightsaber action in here?"
"Hey, quiet," one of the storm troopers said. The Jedi remained silent.
The elevator finally got to the bottom floor, and the storm troopers pushed the group in, but were only able to get four guards in. The one guard hit a button, and the elevator started up to another floor.
Kyle looked at Victor and Mary, and then nodded. Han looked confused, but the Jedi backed into one of the corners, the storm troopers not watching. They put their backs to each other, making a triangle. Han heard lightsabers igniting, and the three Jedi pulled their freed hands out in front of them, and each took out a storm trooper. Kyle kept his lightsaber at the fourth storm trooper's neck while Mary and Victor freed Chewy and Han.
"Take us to the floor with your commander on it," Kyle demanded.
"Yes sir," the storm trooper said worriedly.
He hit a cancel button, and then hit another floor. The elevator kept going, and Kyle saw they were approaching the floor they were headed to. Kyle took the trooper's gun, and handed it to Han.
"Stay here," he said. He cut open the top of the elevator, and the three Jedi jumped up on top.
Kyle looked up, and saw their floor approaching. He jumped up very high, and landed perfectly on a ledge that was the floor the elevator would stop on. He cut the doors in half, and used the Force to push them into the hallway. A bunch of storm troopers looked at him, and picked up their guns.
Kyle Force threw a few back, and deflected the other shots back. Mary and Victor jumped up to join the fight.
Han was growing nervous. The elevator had slowed down, but Han heard laser blasts, and he wasn't sure where the three Jedi had gone. The elevator stopped, and the storm trooper laughed.
"You've fallen right into a trap," he said. The doors opened, only to reveal the three Jedi standing there, waiting.
"I don't think so," Kyle said. "Your pals weren't any match for us. Now take us to your master."
"Fine," the storm trooper said angrily. He walked down the hall, as the other storm troopers watched.
Han, Chewy, and the Jedi were acting like prisoners, so the storm troopers had no idea that their fellow troop was actually the one being commanded.
Finally, the group got to a door, where the storm trooper entered a code. The door opened, and the group walked in. The door shut, and the Sith they had fought on Noomi was standing in the room, speaking to some other humans.
"You," Kyle said. He brought his hands around from behind his back, and the other two Jedi did the same.
The Sith looked at them, and smiled. "Well hello there young Jedi. Here without your master this time?"
"As a matter of fact, we are. But that doesn't mean we can't defeat you."
"We shall see," the man said.
The humans left the room quickly, and Han and Chewy backed into a large weapons storage closet; all of them knowing what was about to happen. The Jedi and the man took their robes off, and the Jedi ignited their lightsabers. The Sith did the same.
"Well now, are you ready for your lives to end," the man asked.
"Hardly," Kyle said as he leapt over to the man.
The two lightsabers clashed on their first hit, and the duel began. The two attacked and blocked each other's lightsabers. Han and Chewy could tell what was an attack and what was a block as they watched the duel.
Kyle attacked the man, who blocked, and attacked back. Kyle blocked this, and went for a high shot. The man blocked the high attack, and went for a low attack himself. Kyle went for another high attack, and both immediately noticed the attack coming for them. The man ducked to avoid Kyle's attack, and Kyle jumped over the man to avoid his attack. The man turned his duck into a roll, and turned to face Kyle again.
The man reached behind himself to block the attack made by Mary, who had snuck up behind him. He turned, blocked another attack, and threw Mary back with a Force throw.
"Please," he said. "Females were never meant to carry a lightsaber."
"I'm not female though," Kyle said as he attacked the man.
The man spun around and blocked Kyle's attack, and made an attack of his own to Kyle's side. Kyle blocked this, and spun under his own lightsaber, catching the man off guard. He pushed the man's lightsaber aside, and swung his own up towards the man's body. The man jumped over Kyle, the two lightsabers still clashing during the man's flip. He landed perfectly, and the duel continued.
Kyle got the offensive for a minute, the man backing up with each attack. Kyle struck high, low, to the side, spun and struck again, whipped his lightsaber around his body to try and confuse the man, attacked low again, and then from the side. No matter what attack he used, however, the man blocked it.
After a minute of being on the defensive, the man went to the offensive, and Kyle found himself being backed up even faster than he had backed the man up. Victor watched and saw a quick fix to this. He threw a piece of metal at a door keypad, and the door lifted up. Kyle heard it and backed through the door. He found the hallway to be very narrow in width and short in height.
Victor took notice too and followed the two in to join the duel. He ignited his double lightsaber, and began his series of motions: attacking with one end, blocking with the other. He tried to put extra pressure on the man, but whenever he did, the man pushed Kyle back just as fast.
It seemed however much the two Jedi attacked the man, he was ready for it. He blocked a strike from Victor, attacked him, reached back to block Kyle, attacked Victor low, blocked him high, spun to block Kyle's attack, attacked him back, turned to block Victor's first attack, whipped his lightsaber around his body to attack Kyle, blocked Victor's second attack, and attacked him back.
As the duel proceeded farther into the small hallway, Kyle looked over his shoulder briefly. He didn't get enough of a look as he fell off a platform they had backed onto. His lightsaber slipped out of his hand as he grabbed the edge, and the lightsaber landed on a platform below.
The man turned all his attention to Victor, and turned to begin a series of attacks on the Jedi. Mary watched from about 10 feet behind Victor, since she had no way to get to the other side of the Sith. The man seemed extremely skilled with his lightsaber, even against a double lightsaber.
The man seemed to have more offense now that Kyle was hanging on the edge of the platform, away from the duel. He attacked Victor's side, which Victor blocked with one end. The man attacked from above, and Victor swung his other end up to block. Victor swung the opposite end up towards the man, but he blocked that attack. He attacked on a diagonal to Victor, who blocked that attack, and came in from the same diagonal with an attack, but from below. The man blocked this attack as well, and did a powerful attack at Victor's arm. Victor used this as an opportunity, and spun his double lightsaber in front of him rapidly, using the man's attack as a starter.
The man backed up for a second, unsure of how to counter this. Victor walked towards him, still spinning his double lightsaber in front of him. The man smiled, and attacked suddenly in the opposite direction of Victor's spinning lightsaber. He struck powerfully, and Victor's lightsaber stopped dead. The man brought his lightsaber down on Victor's blade, and made a cut on Victor's hand.
"Ah!"
The man kicked Victor back, and took a swing with his lightsaber, but was only able to put a cut on Victor's other arm with it.
Victor fell to the ground, holding his arm and hand.
"It's a shame really. You would've made a great Sith," the man said.
The man lifted his lightsaber up, and went to strike, but it was caught on something. He looked over his shoulder, to see Kyle holding the man's lightsaber back with his own.
"You will not kill my friend," Kyle said.
"Ah, so you would like to die instead of him?"
"No one is dying here but you."
The man turned, the two lightsabers still crackling as they remained together. The man drew his back, and attacked straight forward with it.
Kyle blocked the attack, and attacked the same way back. The man blocked the attack, and swung down for a low attack. Kyle jumped with just his legs, and attacked the man's right arm. The man blocked it, and pushed Kyle's lightsaber into the other wall. Sparks flew everywhere, illuminating the hallway.
Mary knelt down next to Victor. "Victor, are you ok?"
"Yeah. I'll be fine, help Kyle."
"Ok. Don't move."
She picked up her comlink, and called Han.
"Victor's hurt. Come and take him back to the Falcon. Kyle and I will try and finish this guy off."
Mary ignited her blue lightsaber, and ran down to the duel, and attacked the man. He blocked her attack quickly, and threw onto the floor with the Force. He kicked Kyle, and threw him back, landing Kyle right back to hanging on the edge of the platform.
"I will not fight a girl who doesn't deserve her powers," the man said angrily, walking quickly up to Mary.
She backed up, feeling around for her lightsaber. It had skidded back to Victor, who couldn't manage to reach it.
"Now young Jedi, you will die for becoming a Jedi. My master says females are never worthy of being Jedi."
"Hey you jerk," Han yelled as he came down the hall. He fired his blaster at the man, who blocked it with his lightsaber. Han fired several more shots, and then everyone heard a lightsaber.
Victor had managed to pull Mary's lightsaber close using the Force. He had tossed the lightsaber to Mary, who kicked her legs up to jump up. She attacked the man with all her might, and she forced him back to the edge of the platform.
"Come now, you wouldn't really push me over the edge," the man said nervously after Mary disarmed him.
"No," Kyle said as he reached one hand up. "But I will."
He grabbed the man's leg and pulled him down. The man fell, but caught onto Kyle's foot.
"Let go you jerk," Kyle yelled.
"Kyle!" Mary yelled as his hands slipped a little.
She took the blaster from Han, who was helping Victor. She went over, and started firing at the man. He swung from side to side, avoiding the shots. Kyle kept slipping more and more with each swing. She finally fired on one side, the man avoiding it. She fired again on the same side, and the man's momentum kept him swinging. She hit his shoulder, and he let go of Kyle, who also slipped off. Mary quickly grabbed Kyle's arm, and Chewy came up and helped her lift Kyle up onto the platform. He summoned his lightsaber up.
"I don't think we'll be seeing anymore of him," Kyle said. "Come on, let's get out of here. The plans were a trap."
"Obviously. They knew we would come assist the Republic," Mary said.
Kyle and Han carried Victor out of the base, and to the Millennium Falcon with no opposition. They laid him down in one of the cabins, and took off for Coruscant.
Well, another chapter done. Keep reviewing please. I will continue updating.