Trade Federation Battleship Darkvenge
Bridge
Vicelord Siv Kav looked unimpressed as the strange ship that Gunray had called him and the Keeper to deal with. It barely looked armed compared to the one control ship left here but Gunray ordered two ships here to destroy it.
Well fine, he would get rid of it in under a minute and humiliate Gunray while he was at it.
"Order the Keeper to launch half of its droid starfighters. Three groups will attack the ship and the Naboo fighters while the rest defends our ships and tell Dofine to transfer command to me." Kav ordered.
"Yes sir. Do we launch our starfighters as well?" The Neimodian officer asked.
"No. We'll keep them in reserve." Kav replied. "In case they have more friends."
Enterprise
Bridge
"Captain, I am detecting over seven hundred droid fighters being launched from one of the battleships." Spock reported. "They are splitting into three groups and vectoring towards us and the control ship."
Kirk turned to Uhura. "Have they responded to our hails?"
"Negative sir." Uhura shook her head.
Kirk looked at the screen, seeing the fighters approaching while the Naboo fighters were already struggling against the control ship and its own fighters. "Uhura, begin transmitting on all Trade Federation frequencies and on long range. Might as well, give the entire Trade Federation a taste of Naboo culture."
Spock looked at Kirk, having deduced this would be his reaction when all attempts for a peaceful contact failed. Deciding it was a logical approach Spock nodded to Uhura who was already prepared.
"Transmitting." Uhura said, activating the transceiver.
Just as the droid fighters came into a range, they picked up a transmission on all frequencies used to direct their movements and give commands. Their own transceivers recognized the frequencies as Trade Federation but what they heard was not a new order.
It was music.
Naboo's national anthem, showcasing its peaceful and enlightened nature. The signal was loud, practically droning out all other orders and caused the droid ships to begin flying in disarray, falling out of formation and some even crashing into each other. Some just kept on flying, even flying past the Enterprise and out into deep space.
Darkvenge
Bridge
"WHAT IS GOING ON?!" Kav shouted as loud music began playing over the speakers. "TURN THAT OFF!"
"WE CAN'T, VICELORD! IT'S BROACASTING ALL OVER THE SHIP!" The Neimodian operations officer reported. "IT'S ON ALL CHANNELS! EVEN THE DROID CHANNELS!"
"IMPOSSIBLE!"
Not so much.
The Neimodians were overconfident in their ability to control their droid workforce but while their computer network was advanced the upgraded duotronic computer system of the Enterprise was a revolutionary advance in computer power and speed with greater accuracy for Starfleet in the Milky Way and was much superior the massive Central Control Computer installed on the Lucrehulk class Droid Control ship. In fact the multi-spatial wave being transmitted didn't stop with just the fighters or the speakers of the Trade Federation ship. The entire droid crew onboard either staggered, fell and even shut down from the sheer noise blazing in their command modules that eventually overloaded and short circuited. In the hangars droid fighters collapsed and fell from the starfighter racks and broke into pieces along the floor.
"Do you hear that?" Bravo Two asked, hearing the music playing and watching as the droid fighters began spiraling out of control.
Roc Olie smiled, attaching his comlink to his ship's communicator. "Sounds like it's working. All of you, broadcast from your comlinks and hold out."
The Naboo fighters began broadcasting just to help further disrupt the Trade Federation's command signals and sure enough it was working. The droid fighters fell into complete disarray, spinning, shutting down and even crashing into each other. The turrets on the droid control ship fell silent, having been operated by droids along with most of the ship.
As this all happened Anakin's fighter flew into space above Naboo as Artoo beeps a worried concern. "It must be taking us to the other ships."
"The Autopilot is searching for what other ships?" Anakin asked.
Artoo beeped and whistled. "Hurry and override the autopilot."
"There is no manual override, Artoo. You'll have to rewire it or something."
Artoo chirped. "Fine."
It took a mere second to take the ship off the autopilot
"Look! There they are! That's where the autopilot was taking us." Anakin's fighter flew towards the Trade Federation Battleship.
As he did he spotted another ship moving towards the other three battleships. "Whoa."
It was beautiful.
A ship with a saucer attached a cylinder shaped hull and two pylons attached to what looked like engines. Despite the seeming frailty of it the ship was like a work of it as it moved and Anakin couldn't look away.
"Anakin, turn around and take the ship back." R2 beeped.
"Go back? Qui-Gon told me to stay in this cockpit so that's what I'm going to do." Anakin said, angling the fighter to continue its approach.
Vuutun Palaa
Bridge
"Sir! The central computer is overloading!" Tey How reported, experiencing the same loud music playing as on the Darkvenge. "We are losing connection with our droids!"
"Impossible!" Dofine sputtered, hands clasped over his ears. "Will you shut it off?!"
"It's tied into the ship's speaker system. We have to cut power."
"Do it!"
Tey How did so, causing the music to decrease in volume but it was still heard. "Sir, it's still broadcasting through our droid control system."
"Get them out!" Dofine barked.
"I can't! It's on all frequencies and broadcasting all over the planet!"
Dofine paled as that meant the droids were no longer receiving orders and they would be completely defenseless. "Reroute everything except life support through our transceivers!"
Tey How did so but it mattered little. In fact the Central Computer was beginning to overload itself and short circuit, sparking as it overheated and causing a small series of explosion.
"The Central Computer is overloading!" She shouted. "We have to shut it down!"
"No! If we shut down we'll be defenseless!" Dofine argued.
"We are!"
The argument was cut off as the main bridge consoles started to short-circuit, making the officers jump back as many circuits sparked and blew.
Great Grassy Plains
OOM-9 decided to send in the wheel droids and gave the signal. Hundreds of wheel droids rolled out of the transports and headed down toward the battle. They slowly roll through the deflector shields, then transform themselves once they get on the other side. The Gungans blasted the wheel droids with energy balls.
The destroyer droids blast many Gungans. Jar-Jar's clumsiness worked for him in the battle. He gets caught up in the wiring of a blasted droid, dragging the torso around with him, the droid's gun firing randomly, accidentally blasting several droids in the process.
"Dumb droid…"
Then suddenly the droids all seemed to malfunction, seem even short circuiting as they staggered, collapsed, knocked each other down and fell apart. The tanks and transports started moving erratically as well, some even slamming into each other and exploding.
"Whatsa dey doing?" Jar-Jar asked.
"Da control ship has been destroyed!" Captain Tarpals realized.
"Deysa all broken!"
The Gungans cheered.
Theed
Hangar
Three swords are crossed in an intense display of swordsmanship. The Jedi and the Sith Lord fought their way across the narrow bridge of the Theed power generator. Darth Maul jumped onto the bridge above them. The Jedi followed, one in front of the Sith Lord and one behind.
They continued their sword fight.
Palace Hallway
Padme, Captain Panaka, Eirtae, Sabe and their troops were trapped in a hallway by battle droids.
"We don't have time for this, Captain!" Padme said, pulling out her comlink.
Just as she did the droids suddenly started malfunctioning, dropping their guns and staggering around.
Padme looked at her comlink and pressed it, hearing the anthem of her home planet and realized what was happening. The Enterprise must have disrupted the droid's control network like they said!
"Go!" She shouted to her captain and men.
They rushed forward, shooting down any droids in their way.
Space
Naboo Orbit
Enterprise
The three Trade Federation ships were essentially dead in space by this point. The Central Control Computer had overloaded and only the temperature control system was keeping it from blowing. The disruption signal transmitted by the Enterprise and the Naboo ships had stressed the control computer to the point it couldn't handle it anymore and had literally burnt out. The droids had all shut down, leaving the skeletal Neimodian crew to rush to try and pick up the pieces before they were blown out of the sky.
"Mr. Spock, what's their condition?" Kirk asked, seeing the three ships having gone silent.
"Dead in space, Captain. Our signal overloaded their control system it appears. The main ship is on minimal power with life support still functioning. All droids appear to have completely shut down." Spock reported. "Our long range broadcast has appeared to affect all battle droids on the planet as well."
"Then I think we've pretty much done all we can do at this point." Kirk said, leaning back in his chair and letting out a relieved sigh. "And the Naboo ships?"
"Picking up a transmission from one Bravo Leader, Captain." Uhura replied. "He is sending us his thanks and gratitude."
"Send my compliments, Uhura for the bravery of him and his pilots." Kirk replied with a small smile.
Spock frowned as he looked at his scanner and picked something up. "Captain, one of the Naboo ships is signaling us. It appears through droid binary language."
"What do you make of it?" Kirk asked.
"It appears to be R2-D2. His fighter is occupied by…Anakin Skywalker." Spock answered.
Kirk glanced at his science officer, wandering if he had heard right. "The boy is in that fighter? Why?"
"Unknown sir but the life sign is that of a boy around Anakin's age." Spock replied.
Kirk frowned, turning to Sulu. "Mr. Sulu, lock onto that ship with a tractor beam and have it brought into the shuttle bay."
"Aye sir."
Anakin was caught by surprise when a blue light latched onto his fighter and started pulling him and R2 towards the strange ship.
"AH! They got us, R2!" He had been caught by surprise so bad that he gripped the control throttle and fired the ship's forward blasters. "Take this!"
"Anakin, wait!" R2 beeped,
Kirk frowned as Anakin's fighter started firing. The ship's navigational deflectors easily shrugged off the blasters which were less powerful than laser cannons.
"Navigational deflectors are stopping those blasters, Captain." Spock stated.
"Uhura, warn him off." Kirk ordered.
"And this!" Anakin squeezed the trigger, firing two proton torpedoes at the ship.
"Anakin!" R2 beeped, having not expected Anakin to fire the torpedoes.
"Captain!" Sulu shouted, everyone watching the Naboo fighter fired two torpedoes.
"Evasive action! Shields!" Kirk shouted.
The tractor beam was released just as the ship moved, missing one of the torpedoes but the second one collided with bottom sector of the saucer section. The proton scattering energy warhead collided with the hull and created a large blast. The ship's shields had not been raised in time and the entire ship visibly shuddered from the blast. The bridge's lights dimmed from the force of the blow. The ship's duranium hull took the hit from the torpedoes and luckily was strong enough to prevent a hull breach along with the tritanium built into the ship's bulkheads, able to withstand teratons of explosive force along with the structural integrity field.
"Damage report!" Kirk called out over the alarms blaring.
"Heavy damage on decks five through seven." Spock reported. "No hull breaches, Captain but there is extensive damage to the hull. Those torpedoes used a high-proton scattering warhead, releasing clouds of high-velocity proton particles. Less damaging than a photon torpedo but we still felt it."
"We sure did." Kirk muttered, narrowing his eyes at the view screen. "Tractor beam again and if he fires, set phasers to stun."
"That will not be necessary, Captain. The fighter's engines are shutting down."
"We're free, R2!" Anakin happily said, having regained control of the fighter. However Anakin soon found the ship had shut down. "Hey, what's going on?"
"I shut down the engines." R2 beeped. "You fired on the people who just helped save the entire planet!"
"What?" Anakin gaped.
"Those were the same people who beamed away." R2 explained as the Enterprise locked its tractor beam onto the fighter again.
Anakin was silent as the ship was pulled into the shuttle bay.
Naboo
Theed
Power Generators
The laser sword battle continues on the small catwalk around the vast power pit. Darth Maul kicked Obi-Wan off one of the ramps and he falls several levels. Qui-Gon knocked the Dark Lord off another ramp, and he landed hard on a ramp two levels below. Qui-Gon jumped down after him. The Dark Lord backed away along the catwalk into a small door.
Qui-Gon followed as Obi-Wan runs to catch up. The Sith Lord, followed by Qui-Gon, entered a long hallway filled with a series of deadly rays that went on and off in a pulsing pattern that shot down the corridor every minute or so. Darth Maul made it down several walls of deadly rays before they closed. Qui-Gon was one wall away from the Dark Lord.
Obi-Wan was just starting into it and was five walls way from Darth Maul. The Jedi had to wait until the next pulse to advance down the corridor. Obi-Wan was impatient and paces, waiting for the wall of rays to open. Qui-Gon sat and meditated while Sith Lord paced impatiently.
Throne Room
"Viceroy, your occupation here has ended!"
Nute and the others are stunned to see Padme, Sabe and Panaka enter the room. Their droids had completely shut down for some strange reason and they had been frantically trying to contact Captain Dofine to find out why they had shut down but Dofine could not answer.
"Now, Viceroy, we will discuss a new treaty." Padme said once the Nemoidians were surrounded.
Padme activated a view screen set into the wall.
The image of Ric Olie in his starfighter was visible on the view screen. "Mission accomplished, your Highness!"
Everyone in the room cheered, except for Nute and the Neimoidians.
"Impossible…it's impossible…" Nute muttered in complete shock.
Padme snatched the treaty up from the desk before the throne.
She ripped it in half and flings the pieces at Nute's face. "There is your treaty, Viceroy! Sorry I can't sign it."
Nute's eyes closed tightly. He lowered his head and held out his hands in surrender.
Power Generators
The electric rays cycled as Qui-Gon sat meditating. The wall of the deadly rays turned away, and Obi-Wan started running toward Qui-Gon and the Dark Lord. When the wall between Qui-Gon and Darth Maul opened, Qui-Gon was in a split second fighting the Dark Lord with a ferocity not seen before. They moved into the area at the end of the corridor called the melting pit, a small area that is mostly made up of a deep hole. The electron ray gates began to close.
Obi-Wan tried to make it to the melting pit but was caught one gate short. He slid to a stop just before he hits the deadly electron field. Qui-Gon and Darth Maul battled around the melting pit as a frustrated Obi-Wan watched. Darth Maul eventually caught Qui-Gon off guard. The Sith made a quick move, bashing his lightsaber handle into Qui-Gon's chin, and ran him through.
"NNNOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Qui-Gon gaped for a mere second…
And then vanished.
Darth Maul frowned, seeing Qui-Gon's robes fall to the floor that was seemingly the only thing left of him. He placed his foot on the robes, trying to see if there was some sort of trick before he turned to smile coldly at the horrified Obi-Wan who began to shake with rage.
Enterprise
Bridge
Spock suddenly froze, taking in a deep breath as he fell back on his chair which was noticed by Kirk. "Spock?"
Theed
Power Generator
Obi-Wan screamed as the pulsing electron gate opens, and attacked the Sith Lord. The young Jedi was relentless in his assault on the Dark Lord. Obi-Wan and Darth Maul used the Force to fling objects at each other as they fight. Darth Maul seemed to have the upper hand as Obi-Wan grew weary.
Overcome with hatred, Obi-Wan lashed out at Maul. He succeeded in slicing the Sith Lord's double-bladed lightsaber hilt in half, leaving Maul with only one blade. However Darth Maul remained in control and caught Obi-Wan off guard and Force pushed Obi-Wan over the edge of the melting pit. Obi-Wan is barely able to grab onto a nozzle on the side of the pit.
Darth Maul grinned evilly at Obi-Wan as he kicked Obi-Wan's lightsaber down the endless shaft while Obi-Wan dangled helplessly from the nozzle.
Enterprise
Shuttle Bay
Anakin watched as his fighter was brought into the shuttle bay and R2 extended the landing gear. Security officers surrounded the ship and the cockpit opened. He slowly came out, watching as the man named Kirk slowly approached with Spock next to him.
"Well, young man. You seem to have had a busy day." Kirk said, calm but there was a hint of anger as he spoke that he managed to keep control of. "You stole a fighter and fired on my ship."
"I didn't know it was you." Anakin quickly said, feeling about what he had done.
"Maybe so but I'll be speaking to your mother and Qui-Gon about this and about allowing you to come along with them to fight a war." Kirk said, looking to the security officers. "Until then, you will be confined to guest quarters. I sincerely hope there won't be any more trouble."
R2 popped out of the fighter and wheeled his way over as he beeped which was translated. "I'm sorry. I told Anakin to take the fighter back to Theed. I would have taken control of the fighter but I'm not a pilot droid so I don't have any experience flying. Please allow me to assist in repairs here since it's the least I can do."
Kirk stared at the droid and slowly nodded. "All right. Just note that you will be with security or Scotty at all times. We're lucky we didn't suffer any fatal casualties."
Naboo
Theed
Power Generator
Darth Maul taunted Obi-Wan by slicing at the edge of the melting pit. He was clearly enjoying this, wanting to drag out the moment of victory. Obi-Wan closed his eyes tightly, relaxing, meditating.
The Sith Lord frowned, wondering what his opponent is doing…
At the last moment, Obi-Wan jumps up out of the pit, calls Qui-Gon's lightsaber to him, further throwing Darth Maul off. The young Jedi swung with a vengeance, cutting into the Sith. Maul started to laugh…then realized he couldn't draw a breath. Silently, Darth Maul tipped backward, falling into the melting pit, visibly splitting into two halves as he fell.
Obi-Wan deactivated the lightsaber and rushes over to Qui-Gon's robes. "Master…"
"It is all right, Obi-Wan."
Obi-Wan's head shot up, seeing the ghostly image of Qui-Gon. "Master?!"
"I'm all right…As far as one who is dead can be." Qui-Gon looked down at himself and then back at his Padawan. "Obi-Wan, I'm afraid my time has passed."
"No…" Obi-Wan looked distraught.
"Before I go, promise you will train the boy." Qui-Gon said, his image slowly starting to fade.
"Yes Master." Obi-Wan nodded sadly, struggling to keep himself from breaking down.
"He is the Chosen One. He will bring balance." Qui-Gon's voice echoed as he vanished. "Train him…"
Obi-Wan was left alone in the chamber, feeling his master's presence in the Force even after he died.
He didn't move for a quite some time.