Across The Stars

Chapter 4 of my story, enjoy.

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Chapter 4: Revelation

Clementine grimaced as the Stormtroopers nearest her quickly forced her forwards, towards the others who were lined up.

"Clem…" Violet whispered.

"Quiet." The Stormtrooper behind her snapped, his blaster aimed at her head.

"That will do." The woman who appeared to be an Imperial Commander snapped. "I believe this is all of them, yes?"

Another Imperial solider, a young nervous looking man, nodded. "Yes Commander Lilly."

"Good." She replied before looking over her shoulder. "We have them all, Nyx."

At that moment the black clad figure approached, stepping up next to the woman identified as Lilly. She was intimidating, despite being shorter than Lilly, the armour and helmet, not to mention a general aura of menace that exuded from her.

"So...This is all them...gutter rats it seems." Nyx growled; her helmet distortions making her voice sound even worse. "We are here seeking a Jedi who is hiding amongst you, this is a dangerous fugitive and so it is in your best interest to hand them over...If you are the Jedi, consider handing yourself in. After all, if we are not given the Jedi, we will simply have to eliminate all of you."

She let her words hang heavily there as Clem realized, to her horror, they were indeed here for her and were threatening to kill everyone to force her to reveal herself. Biting her lip, nerves mounting, she shifted awkwardly, but nobody seemed to notice.

Her right hand was behind her back, touching her lightsaber, weighing her options. But then, before she could react, Marlon suddenly stepped forwards.

"Now hold on, I don't know what all this about Jedi and such is, but we are law abiding citizens of the Empire. We are here simply trying to make a living, yet here we are being harassed by you people."

Brody flinched, Marlon's temper was starting to get the better of him.

"Marlon, no." She hissed.

But Marlon didn't stop. "You come in here and threaten us, for no reason, spouting some nonsense and even threaten to kill us. Or knowing you Imperials, you're just going to kill us anyway-"

"You are so right." Nyx remarked dryly.

Clem noticed the ten and a half inch black hilt in Nyx's hand, but before she could shout a warning, she pressed the emitter switch and a plasma blade of crimson hue burst out, piercing right through Marlon's chest and out his back.

"Marlon!" Brody screamed in horror as the others froze, eyes wide.

Nyx effortlessly pulled the blade out, stepping aside to allow Marlon's lifeless body to fall to the ground.

"You bitch!" Mitch suddenly yelled, his hot-blooded nature getting the better of him.

He charged forwards, again before anyone could move. Nyx effortlessly raised her left hand and partially clenched it, levitating Mitch of the ground as he choked and clutched at his throat before Nyx slammed her fist closed, jerked her hand in the process and Mitch's neck snapped before he too dropped to the ground dead.

"Mitch, no!" Willy screamed.

Sorrow was consuming everyone and finally, horrified by what she had seen, Clem couldn't take anymore.

The Ericsons Crew were unable to move, still staring at the dead bodies of two of their members, held back by the Stormtroopers who continued to aim at them. But then suddenly they heard the yell.

"NO!"

Their shock increased as Clem suddenly charged forwards, raising, of all things, a lightsaber. The blue plasma blade flashed in the air before colliding with Nyx's red blade.

"Well, well…" She drawled. "A lightsaber, I'd say we found our Jedi."

Clem grimaced, trying to push back against Nyx's blade, noting briefly something different about Nyx's blade compared to her own. Nyx's blade seemed to have a serrated, flame like appearance that sparked energy at random intervals.

Clem had just enough time to realize. 'Her Kyber Crystal is cracked, the blade is unstable.'

But then she was caught in Nyx's force grip, lifted off her feet and slammed into one of the buildings, then another and then thrown to the ground, landing in an unconscious heap, her lightsaber now off.

"Now's your chance Garcia." Lilly said. "Finish her off, prove you have what it takes to be part of this group. Prove your father was right to put you forward as a potential officer."

The young man was shaking, swallowing, eyes wide as he approached Clem, blaster drawing. He stood over Clementine, looking down at her. His hand shook as he aimed, glancing over his shoulder to see Nyx standing, back turned, Lilly smirking as she faced the rest of those taken hostage.

After a lengthy pause he swallowed.

"I...I can't...this isn't, this isn't right." He muttered.

So then he spun around and fired twice, two stormtroopers, the ones guarding Violet, fell down, dead. He tried to fire at Nyx but she easily spun and raised her hand, absorbing the shot while Lilly drew her own blaster and fired at Gabe.

"Traitor!" She screamed.

Gabe cried out, his next shot going wild as he was hit in the right side of the stomach and fell down. But this gave Clem enough time to recover and see the young Imperial Cadet suddenly betray his allies and save her. So she reacted at once, leaping to her feet and reigniting her lightsaber, just in time as the Stormtroopers opened fire. Clem quickly began using her blade to deflect the blaster bolts, trying hard not to hit any of her friends who had just been forced down and held in place by some of the Stormtroopers. All except Violet who saw Nyx raising her arm to utilize her Force Powers again. She reacted at once and used her own Force abilities to knock Nyx off balance. But that drew her attention and she pulled Violet towards her, levitating and choking her much like she did with Mitch.

"Another Force User...but no Jedi...interesting." She remarked.

She then pulled Violet closer to her quickly and punched her in the stomach, knocking her out cold. Seeing this, Clementine tried to help her but the barrage of fire was just too intense. Seeing no other choice, not wanting to leave the young man to just be killed she quickly picked him up, pulling his right arm around her shoulders, holding his wrist with her left hand, using her lightsaber with her right to deflect more blaster bolts as she hurried as quickly as she could out of Ericsons and into the mountains of junk, off the usual paths. Seeing this Nyx growled.

"After them, kill them both, take this one aboard my ship and execute the rest."

With that she hurried away, in a different route.

Teeth gritted, Clem worked her way through the junk piles, taking care to step over various loose pieces of junk.

"Urgh, wha…?" The young Imperial cadet groaned.

She quickly noted he was recovering. "Careful, you've been shot...don't talk."

"Who...the Jedi…"

She grimaced. "Clementine, my name's Clementine."

He nodded weakly. "I'm Gabe, Gabriel Garcia."

"Okay, good to meet you, now shh, take it easy, I'm trying to get you out of here." She told him.

Inside however she felt terrible, guilty, she had just abandoned everybody else, after all they had done for her, to save herself and this boy, who was only slightly older than her if she had to guess.

'Urgh, what am I doing, I...urgh, I'm so sorry everyone, now I'm...I'm trying to get out of here, leaving you guys to die…' She thought in dismay.

"There she is, get her!"

She cringed, turning around and immediately began deflecting the blaster bolts as a group of Stormtroopers appeared on the crest of the junk hill that had been behind her until she turned, now firing down at her. But then, suddenly, high powered laser blasts struck in a strafing motion and took out the Stormtroopers. Clem gasped and then saw the Light Freighter class ship that had taken them out before moving down close enough to be hovering above her.

"What the…?" She whispered.

As she did so she saw the ramp and door at the side opening up and a dark haired tanned skinned middle-aged man clad in brown and armed with a blaster.

"Keep going!" He cried. "There's a landing zone ahead, that way, we'll pick you up there!"

He gestured in the direction and the ship began to pull away in that direction. Clem switched off her lightsaber, attaching it to her belt and readjusted her grip on Gabe before hurrying in that direction.

"How can we...trust them?" Gabe asked.

Clem shook her head. "We have no choice, now quiet, save your strength."

With that she pressed on until finally she reached a gap between the junk hills and stepped out into the landing zone area.

Although the Light Freighter hadn't arrived yet, Clem felt a small sense of relief. But that was quickly extinguished when suddenly, from above, Nyx leapt down, a simple aerial flip having her land on her feet facing Clem. She ignited her unstable red bladed lightsaber and Clem could easily guess there was a smug grin on her face under that helmet as she taunted Clem.

"Going somewhere?"

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