Chapter 56
The transport with Padme, Leia and Luke on board finally reached the Spaceport of Naboo and despite all the initial doubts, the former Queen and Senator was glad to be back home after all these years. The three took a few minutes to take in their surroundings, Leia and Luke of course were looking forward to see a lot more of their mother's homeworld in the next few days and slowly but surely both were starting to realize that this whole thing was really happening and not a dream. What they didn't know was that two Agents from the Black Sun had been watching every move of them, since they had left the transport at the Naboo Spaceport and one of them contacted the third Black Sun Agent on the Planet per Holo-Communications Device:
„Indigo Beta this is Alpha Leader, the target is on the move and will reach your location in about twenty minutes." The third Black Sun Agent was ready to strike and according to the Mission Leader, the time to act got a lot closer as the target had left the transport at the Naboo Spaceport and would reach the chosen attack point shortly. „Alpha Leader, this is Indigo Beta, everything is ready to carry out the assignment over and out."
Meanwhile back on Coruscant Chief of State Mon Mothma had requested an emergency meeting of the security council of the New Republic Senate, because of the big loss of lives on their side after the recent surprise attacks on a couple of outposts in quite a short amount of time. She had a very concerned look on her face as she entered the meeting room together with one of her consultants: I kind of still feels like yesterday that was elected into office and no matter how much I try to forget about it, I still have so much doubts when it comes to solving this crisis without comprimising this new democracy in the process. One way or another she would end this war, even if it would be a rocky road for all of them before they would achieve this goal.
She took a moment to look at all the present Senators in the room, some of them were humans like her but there were also a lot of aliens present and all of them were willing to defend this democracy against any threats from the outside. Of course she had known from the start how big the burden of this office would have been and no matter how big the crisis would be, she wasn't willing to give up anytime soon. As Mon Mothma had finally sat down at the head of the table she began the emergency meeting by handing over the word to Admiral Ackbar after she said:
„Thank you for coming to Coruscant on this short notice and as we have a lot of urgent matters at hand to discuss, Admiral Ackbar will give us a current battle report from the frontlines."
Ackbar just nodded in response, walked towards a big screen in the middle of the room, which was positioned right next to the big long table and then began his report:
„The recent attacks on our outposts have hit us hard and we lost a lot of ships in the process, but we are right in the middle of planning a strike against one of the outposts of the forces of Grand Admiral Thrawn."
As expected Ackbar looked into the faces of some skeptical Senators, but he was determined to convince them to trust him on that. Of course nobody said that this whole thing that he had planned would be easy to accomplish, but if there was one thing that they couldn't do then it was just sit back and do nothing, because that was the thing that would play right into the hands of Grand Admiral Thrawn.
„I know that the majority of you is concerned if we have enough man power to counter these attacks and let me assure you, this is one thing that definitely isn't a point to be concerned about. As we speak the New Republic Military is busy with putting together a strike force, which is strong enough to go up against the weakened rest of the former Empire."
Krall Praget, the Senator from Edatha who was the chairman of the Council for Security and Intelligence listened to every word of Admiral Ackbar and after listening to his little speech, Praget was sure that Ackbar had proved once again why he was the right for the Job and nobody else. Of course Tolik Yar believed every word that Ackbar said, but there was still a big thing that bothered him a lot right at this moment:
„Of course I would never doubt your abilities as a leader Admiral, but there's one thing that concerns me a lot. Looking at the huge loss of man power we had recently, I can't help but ask myself if we have someone in our own rows that secretly works for the enemy?"
Padme, Luke and Leia were just about to board another transport, which would bring them to their first destination of their trip to Naboo the Lake Country as a cargo container exploded directly in front of Leia. Luke, Padme and also all the other people that were near the point of the explosion hit the floor too as they were hit by a couple of pieces of debris.
Luke kind of had some bad feeling the moment right before the explosion, but he sadly hadn't been able to pinpoint from where the danger did come. As the vision of the light side of the force was clouded in some kind of way.
Meanwhile Durga and the Sith Lord looked at the display of the erupting chaos at the spaceport of Naboo, both of them seemed to be very pleased with the result of the attack.
„So it begins, the end of the New Republic and the new Jedi Order. Soon the Sith will rule over the galaxy once again."
Despite a loud whistling tone in her ear, Padme wasn't able to hear anything at all at the moment and what concerned her even more was that she wasn't able to move away from her current position. Some pieces of debris must have buried me here, I just hope that Leia and Luke are okay because I don't know if I could endure it if anything would happen to them in my pressence.
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