A.N. Another long chapter! It'll have to be, since this is before the last.

The Sith are here and they've conquered Earth. What'll our heroes do next?

Enjoy!

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Chapter11- Liberating Bueno Nacho

A parade of men, clad in white uniforms, armed with the strangest shapes of rifles, and masked in a color striped airtight helmet that expressed no emotion to the observer, marched down the streets of Middleton.

Hiding behind a small wall, Kim, Ron and Master Dan both peeked at the invasion. Kim, not being able to handle any more, sighed and sat back behind the wall. Ron and Dan noticing this did the same.

"I can't believe it," Kim moaned, "how did this happen? They came out of the blue!"

"Interesting choice of words!" Ron remarked as he watched more of the enormous vessels descend from behind the clouds.

"The Sith are behind this atrocity! They must be stopped!" Dan exclaimed.

"How do you know that?" Ron snapped, his face expressed the sore feelings he had.

"Could you think up of anyone else with such a great army?" Dan inquired.

"Well…I could think up of a few!" Although he would suggest the one off the top of his mind, but the certain one could offend their one trusted ally. Or at least they have no choice but to trust him.

"Let's forget about this now!" Kim broke in, "We have more important matters to get to."

"What do you suggest we do, my red-headed friend?" Dan asked, "We've lost communications with your colleague as I recall"

"We can still use the LAN-line!" Ron suggested.

"Good call, Ron!" Kim cheered.

"Land mine?" Dan wondered, "You intend to blow these clone-troopers to oblivion? How will that help?"

Kim and Ron both with their eye-lids half closed gave each other the most dumb-founded look.

"What?" Master Dan could not help but feel utterly humiliated, but that feeling was quickly blown off when Kim and Ron grabbed him and tugged at his shoulders to follow them.

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The group snuck past a group of the invaders and continued into the park.

"Okay, Ron, you still have your motor scooter ready on the other side, right?" Kim reminded.

"Boo-yah Kim!" Ron cheered, "I think I know what you're getting at!"

Dan heard everything, but he wasn't listening.

"And the pay phone is right at the front!" Kim explained with enthusiasm, "If we time this right, we should be able to contact Wade and ask him to meet us somewhere."

"You're kidding right, Kim?" Ron complained, "Meet Wade? Since when could we just ask Wade to meet us!"

"Since the world was taken over by aliens!" Kim argued.

"These are not aliens, my immature friends," Dan added, "They are cloned humans, trained in the ultimate forms of hand-to-hand combat and military strategy, the Sith would never accept to deal with aliens unless it is in their best interests!"

"Right, Kim why are we keeping this guy? Honestly!" Ron snapped.

"Ron, we could use his knowledge and wisdom!" Kim advised.

"Sure, like it's really helping our self-esteem!" Ron complained as he crossed his arms.

Kim giggled at Dan's grumbling to Ron's remark.

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From behind the gate, where the gang entered the park, they could see Bueno Nacho and the pay phone near its entrance.

"Okay, remember the plan?" Kim whispered.

"Right, let's do this!" Ron urged.

"Are you two serious?" Dan held them back.

"Why? What's wrong?" Kim complained.

"Well for one thing," Dan pointed at the platoon of clone-troopers spread through out the Bueno Nacho premises, "The place is crawling with armed clone-troopers!"

"And really are they ever un-armed?" Ron questioned, resulting in a cold stare from Dan.

"It's no big, Dan!" Kim laughed, "Ron and I do this all the time!"

Master Dan unsure of the trouble the two were getting themselves into felt there was no other way.

"Very well," Dan sighed, "I don't know why you two are keeping me tagging along with you!"

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Captain Jolly, clad in his black and fresh smelling, Imperial uniform inspected the colorful restaurant, known as Bueno Nacho, surrounded by his lackeys in white uniforms, they searched the area for any hidden weapons caches that could aid the resistance against the invasion.

"Sir," a trooper approached him, "We've found someone, he was hiding in the kitchen!"

"Take me to him!" Jolly ordered.

These troopers have seen a lot of action in the clone wars, which is because of their ruggedness that Jolly deals with them with such brutality. Besides it is part of Imperial protocol to handle your lackeys with roughness if you wish to see loyalty. It is offensive not to show formality and ignore regulation. Many of the troops are still dressed in their worn and torn uniforms. Others had no choice but to put on the new, uncolored uniforms, designed especially to take the fight against the newly formed rebellion. It is in fact more suitable for street fighting such as now.

Captain Jolly entered the rummaged kitchen, tables were flipped and drawers were emptied onto the floor.

At the back, held against the wall, was a nerdy-looking human. Skinny, freckled and afraid, it was clear from now that it wouldn't take long for him to crack.

As captain Jolly approached him slowly, the fearful character trembled even more.

"What are you going to do to me?" he cried.

Captain Jolly gave off a boastful laugh.

"It's more of what I'm going to do to you, than what it is you're going to do for me!"

The teenager covered his face as Jolly stood over him with his hands folded behind his back. Slowly his right hand crept forwards to him and held the boy by his wrist.

"Ow! Ow! Ow!" The boy moaned.

"Strange," Jolly insinuated, "Apparently only humans dominate this planet."

An evil smirk appeared across Jolly's face and then he threw the poor boy across the kitchen and he landed on the table.

"Umph!" the boy hit the table hard and tried to escape but nearby troopers held him tightly on the table.

Jolly walked over to a kitchen top and picked up a sharp object.

"hmmm, this looks interesting!" Jolly slowly walked over while giggling to himself, "Perhaps I do have questions for you, my boy!"

"Ask me whatever you want…just don't hurt me!" the boy whined.

"For starters tell me your name" Jolly asked in a plain voice.

"My name is…" Before he could finish his name, Jolly charged at him with the sharp object towards his face.

"Ned!" he cried, "Ned! Ned! My name is Ned!"

"Good," Jolly stood back over the table, "It's great to see you're cooperating with little struggle! The Empire appreciates people like you!"

"Now…on to business…have you spotted any nearby weapons caches? Or perhaps resistance fighters? Or heard any tellings of our coming?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about! You people freak me out!" Ned snapped.

Jolly raised his weapon with a grunt and was on the verge of plunging it into Ned's chest when blaster fire was heard coming from outside.

"What the?" Captain Jolly pulled out his blaster from its holster and ran out with the rest of the troopers.

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"Blast her!" Kim somersaulted over the battle-hardened, armor-wearing soldier and kicked him over from the back. When she turned she was greeted by another similarly dressed trooper, except he had a shiny, plain black and white armor who swung at her with the butt-end of his gun.

Ducking in the nick of time, Kim kicked the weapon out of his grip and with the second leg kicking him in the face, completing a back flip.

Her quick recovery, allowed her to peek a glance towards Ron's direction, who by now had dodged at least a hundred laser blasts targeted at him as he ran across the field towards the safety of a flower bed.

"Nothing to it, eh Rufus?" Ron managed to speak through his panting.

The naked mole-rat climbed out of his pocket and nodded in agreement, but quickly turned to face the Bueno Nacho entrance when he gasped and pointed at it. Ron looked up to find a platoon of troopers dashing out of the entrance, lead by a man who was dressed in mere black clothes and wielding a blaster pistol.

In panic Ron hopped out from behind the flowerbed just in time to catch Kim as she was about to be overwhelmed by the clones.

In the mean time Dan was standing at the phone booth hitting several buttons.

"I do not understand this primitive technology!" he whined.

Dan picked up the head phone and placed the mouth piece in front of his face.

Does a hologram appear through this, perhaps?" His puzzled state twisted to annoyance.

"A little help here, Ron!" Kim suggested as she faced her adversaries.

"I was about to tell you the same thing!" Ron moaned as he nudged her shoulder. Kim peeked behind and found that Ron had lead a platoon towards them, completing a circle of clone troopers where they stood in the middle.

"Oh, great Ron!" Kim yelled, "Do you have any idea how embarrassing this is!"

"Not as embarrassing as what's about to happen to you!" the black uniformed officer stepped out from the crowd and placed his blaster in its holster.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kim snapped back.

The officer unclipped his belt and threw it aside. He then unbuttoned the top of his shirt and took up a fighting stance by raising his fists towards his face and hopping in place.

"Come on!" He taunted, "Fight me!"

Kim merely had her hands on her sides and knelt to one side.

"You're kidding…right?" she chuckled.

"What?" the officer retorted, "Afraid old Captain Jolly lacks the skill to pound a little girl?"

Ron's eyes widened, "You really shouldn't have said that, dude!"

"I'm an officer! I say what I please when I please!"

"Captain, You're going down and your ship is going down!" Ron warned.

To confirm Ron's remark, Kim snapped into a kung fu fighting stance.

"You familiar with the Mantis Kung Fu?" Kim taunted.

"Mantis…huh?" Before the captain could raise his fists back into position, his face had received a powerful blow from Kim's air kick that could forever remain a marker.

Once Captain Jolly stumbled up again and wiped his lips, he took another blow to the stomach, which winded him to the ground, only to receive a hit punch to the face that sent him staggering back to the crowd of clone troopers that held their officer in place.

"Sir," one of them suggested, "she's beating you to a pulp, sir"

A giggle-fit erupted among the crowd of clone troopers. This resulted in the captain snapping into a frenzy of rage.

"Enough!" Jolly spontaneously pushed the clones away and walked over to the now smirking Kim.

"I don't know who you are, or what you think you're playing at!" Jolly prodded, "But you've humiliated me…and for that you will pay!"

Jolly then paced over to a clone trooper who handed him his blaster pistol.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Kim remarked.

"Well then," Jolly took aim, "You don't know me very well, do you!"

Before he could pull the trigger, Kim yelled, "Draw!"

His blaster was then snatched away from his hand by Kim's grappling hook.

"Kim," Ron called, "Hold on!"

As Ron launched his grappling hook onto the giant Naco, Kim held on.

"Too slow!" Kim teased as they both took off.

"Fire!" The captain ordered.

Before the clones could even take aim, Kim and Ron flipped through one of Bueno Nachos windows.

"Ned!" Ron called, "what are you still doing here?"

Ned, hiding under one of the tables, eyed Ron with great irritation. But that quickly changed when the windows and walls began to explode to the sounds of blasters.

"Grab him and let's go!" Kim cried.

"Where's your do-gooder now, Kim!" Ron teased as they sprinted into the kitchen. Just as they opened the back door a line of troopers stood ready to fire. They turned around and found others behind them.

"Come on Dan!" Kim whispered, "Where are you?"

Just as Kim and Ron winced when the clones cocked their guns, a loud snap hiss was heard that was followed by a series of cries and screams.

Kim and Ron looked around as one clone by another fell in agonizing pain to the sounds of humming and electrical sparking. Finally piles of white armor lay on the ground smoking in deathly silence.

A robed man stood guard out the back door wielding a blue glowing sword that hummed. The hilt was metallic and black with two red switches on the side. He flicked one of the switches and in an instant hiss the glow disappeared.

"Dan?" Kim slowly walked up to him, "What happened?"

"I'll explain later!" Dan snapped, "We must move quickly! More are coming!"

"Over there!" Ron pointed towards Captain Jolly, who staggered a few steps backward and leapt into a desperate sprint for his life.

"He's getting away!" Ron yelled.

"Leave him for now, we must go!" Master Dan insisted.

"I'm with Dan on this one Ron!" Kim acknowledged.

"Me too!" Ned vouched.

"This tanks!" Ron spat as he kicked the ground with his foot. When he spotted Dan examining his scooter, Ron dashed over and slapped his hand off it.

"You do not touch my baby!" Ron snapped.

"There's no time Ron, hop on everyone!" Kim jumped on and sat at the back, while Ron steered. Ned hopped between them, but was pushed aside by Dan, who made himself comfortable in front of Ned, much to Ron's discomfort.

"Quickly, they're coming!" Ned pointed in the direction of Bueno Nacho behind them, where almost a battalion of storm troopers, escorted by a couple of land speeders, arrived on the scene.

"Go boy! Go!" Dan yelled in Ron's ears.

While aggressively grunting, Ron twists the accelerator and the scooter moves.

Ned notices the land speeders beginning to gain on them, struggling to hold on, he pulls on Dan's hood to regain balance.

"Not the hood!" Dan yells and Ned gets nudged and bumps into Kim sitting behind him.

"Hey," Kim shouts, "watch it!" and she nudges Ned over onto Dan.

"Stop pushing me!" Ned cries.

"Go right, my speedy friend!" Dan points in the direction, but Ron ignores him.

"You missed it! I said turn back there!" he complains.

"I know what you said, but I'm not going to listen to you!" Ron snaps, "Leave me alone!"

Ron felt Dan's disappointment, but he didn't care, he focused on the safest place other than Bueno Nacho.

"They're getting closer!" Kim pointed out, "This thing is too slow!"

"Here!" Dan stretched his arm out, wielding his weapon, over Ned's head.

Kim tried to stretch hers as well. Ned, lowering his head, felt extremely uncomfortable with this and slowly began to loose balance.

"Grab it already!" Ned whined, but suddenly blaster fire erupted and lasers began to zoom past their heads.

"Look out!" Dan cried into Ron's ears, causing Ron to wince and almost loose control of the scooter. The zig zagging caused all passengers to hold on to each other, except Ned who had been lowering his head at the worst possible moment.

"Careful Ned! You're almost…" Before Kim could finish what she was saying, Ned toppled off the scooter and held on tightly to Dan's robes.

"May every burrito go sour in your callous hands!" with that said, Ned's grip was lost and his fate was left uncertain to the on looking riders.

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Within the deep chambers in the great palace, Darth Sidious sneered at the wonderful knowledge the hieroglyphics bared.

"You understand what they say?" Darth Vader asked as he stood watching his master.

"As I told you earlier, lord Vader," he explained, "To understand the great mystery one must study all its aspects!"

"And in this case…"

"It is the ancient Sith" Sidious interrupted.

"I understand, master" Vader concluded.

"The knowledge we can muster from here will aid us considerably!" Sidious added.

"I see, master"

"We must collect every piece of information this palace wields, Vader"

"Will do, master"

"Are you listening to anything I'm telling, you Vader?" Sidious questioned.

"I am Master!" Vader sighed and then whispered to himself, "Sometimes I wonder if my situation improved at all…"

"I heard that Vader!" Sidious snapped.

Vader merely sighed.

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When given the chance, Dan twisted around in his seat and handed Kim the hilt of his sword.

"Here," he said, "use this!"

"What?" Kim held the object in her hand, "How?

"Activate the sword and deflect their blasters!" Dan instructed, "It's our only hope of getting away!"

"Uh, okay," she stared at the object in her hands and grimaced.

Kim sat backwards on the scooter and placed her legs up so that she could crouch facing their pursuers.

Flicking the red switch on the hilt the blue glowing blade appeared with a snap-hiss and Kim held it tightly with both hands.

A clone trooper riding one of the landspeeders pointed towards the blade.

"Look over there! It's a Jedi!" he exclaimed.

"Blast her!" another ordered.

With that Kim was overwhelmed with volleys of energy beams.

"Deflect them Madam Possible!" Dan instructed.

"I told you to just call me Kim!" she screamed and raised her weapon.

With a wave she deflected a couple of shots.

"Cool!" Kim excitedly noted, "It works!"

She continued to swing the sword and blocked several shots.

"This is not practical," she complained, "we need to take those things out!"

"Focus, girl," Dan insisted, "And find it you will!"

Although she couldn't help but feel disturbed by Dan's recent instruction, Kim spotted a large gun on top of each speeder.

"I think I've found it!" Kim grinned.

When the large cannon fired, Kim immediately lifted herself high enough to reflect the shot, low enough to not fall off. The laser backfired and hit the vehicle causing it to crash into the other and the other. All were left dysfunctional. Clone troopers hopped out of the wreckage raising angry fists.

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When things seemed to have calmed down and Kim deactivated the weapon and turned back towards the front, Dan stretched his hand out to Kim. Kim placed the weapon in his hand and smiled.

"It's an interesting weapon," she stated.

"It's a Jedi's weapon." He explained, "A civilized weapon, for a more civilized age"

"Right," Kim nodded, "What do you call it?"

"It's a lightsabre" Dan smiled.

"Phew!" Ron laughed, "I would've thought it be called something like a 'Laser sword' or an 'energy blade'!"

Dan frowned and then returned to speak to Kim.

"Or how about a 'fusion reaper'" Ron interrupted rubbing his chin as his interest level went up, "Yeah that would be cool. Oh! Oh! What if we could…"

Ron's head suddenly received a blow that silenced him.

"Ow!"

"Pay attention to where you're going boy!" Dan lectured.

Ron scowled as he rubbed his head.

"I know exactly where we're going old man! Now quit telling me what to do!"

"Oh really, Ron?" Kim pointed to the sky, "Then what's that?"

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Aboard the Denominator, Captain Snooty observed the city of Middleton, flying at a low altitude.

He was then interrupted by one of the bridge officers.

"Sir," he stood at attention, "We've received a transmission from a Captain Jolly, sir"

"And?" Snooty inquired.

"He says He's found a Jedi, male, old in age"

"Anything more?" Snooty asked.

"One of his lackeys say that he spotted another Jedi, female, young in age"

A sudden frown erupted on Snooty's face.

"Location?" Snooty walked and leaned over to a scanner computer panel.

"Directly below us, sir"

Snooty stood back up in bewilderment.

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"That Star Destroyer is going to transform us into a pile of Bantha fodder if you do not go faster boy!" Dan yelled.

Ron placed his finger in one ear and rubbed it frantically.

"If you don't quit doing that, you old fart, I'll send you flying into the next eon!"

Dan crossed his arms took in a deep breath and repeated to himself the Jedi code.

"Well," Kim mumbled as she looked up into the dark sky, "At least they don't realize we're right under them, they haven't fired a single shot."

"Knowing our luck?" Ron grumbled.

As if it was timed, the whole landscape before their eyes, was transformed into the lava fields of Mustafar.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Ron cried.

"Steer boy! Steer as if your life depends on it!" Dan ordered as he tugged on Ron's shoulders

"My life is depending on it!" Ron yelled back, "Kim! Make him stop!"

Before anyone could take another breath, the scooter was sent soaring over a low bridge before a spectacular explosion blew into a scorching junk piece.

Ron was the first to fall on his stomach crying, "Not the face!"

Kim came falling on top of him shrieking. And Dan landed swiftly on his feet.

"Hurry! Before they hit us again!"

Kim and Ron were swept up onto their feet and the whole group ran for safety under the bridge.

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A.N. Next chapter will be the last!

Look for the sequel coming soon.