Chapter 72
Of course their opponent wasn't going to give up on his plan that easliy, so he shifted his focus to the other woman Padme Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo and Senator back in the days of the old Republic according to the research that he did. Two guards then got a grip on Padme and he knew very well, that he wouldn't need to threaten her with harm as the Queen instantly replied:
„This is a thing between me and you, she doesn't anything valvueable so leave her out of this!"
The leader of Space Pirates could grin in response, but he was also kind of angry at the same time as the Queen was continuing to waste his valvueable time with this non sense:
„Don't think you think that I know what you're tyring to do here? If you you're not willing to give me what I want then I have take it in any way possible, so do your thing guys and we will see how long the Queen can watch her little friend suffer."
But before the two guards on board the Space Pirate Cruiser could get to work, the intercom next to the door signaled that there was an icoming call from inside the ship. Larkin wasn't pleased by this interruption but then he finally stepped over to the console and spoke into it in a agressive tone:
„I hope for your sake that you interrupt my important business with the Queen of Naboo for an important reason!" When you wanted to work under Peter Larkin, you really needed to have a strong personality to be able to handle his authoritan stlye of comand and he also wanted to work with nothing more but the best of the best people that you could hire.
„We are about to have company, as a couple of New Republic Fighters are approaching our position."
It didn't surprise Larkin one bit that the New Republic Military was coming to get back the Queen and her new friend but of course he wasn't about to give up his new caught prey this easily and so he said: „Activate the deflector shields and get the weapon systems ready, as we are going to give them one hell of rude awakening."
Of course it didn't go by unnoticed on the bridge of the New Republic Light Cruiser, that the Space Pirates Ship had activated the Deflector Shields and the weapons system.
„Blue Squadron get ready for battle, but don't forget that our first priorty is to save the hostages so the enemy ship can't take too much damage."
„Understood Captain." Came the conformation from the Blue Squadron Leader Pete Richards and then everybody watched the battle between the small fighters and the big cruiser on the Screen of the bridge. As expected some of the X-Wing Fighters were lost during the battle with the cruiser, even if the fighters had the advantage when it came to maneuvering but the other remaing ones had been able to destroy one of the deflector shield generators and some of the blaster canons.
As the ship was heavily rocked by one hit, Padme and Queen Mairayn decided to take the initative at the same time, as both of them were able to catch their opponents off guard with a surprise attack and that resulted in the fact that they were now in a much better position as they were a couple of minutes ago.
Padme instantly grabbed the blaster of one of unconicious guards and then asked Queen Mairayn: „You ever used one of these before your majesty?" Queen Mairayn of course had used a blaster in the past during the little training that she did with her Chief of Palace Security but that was such a long time ago that she wasn't so sure if she would be still able to use of one these properly:
„I did have a long training with a blaster with my Chief Security, but that was such long time ago that I don't think that my shooting skills are that good."
„Ok then just stay right behind me and everything will alright, okay?" Padme replied and also kind of hoped that she didn't forget how to use a blaster, after finally waking up again from her long sleep inside a stasis pod. Slowly but surely the two women then left the holding area to make their way to hangar of the ship, as this was there only way to get off it.
Meanwhile Leia had been able to land her little Naboo Cruiser on board of the New Republic Military Cruiser, of course avoiding to get right into the middle of the on going battle between the X Wings and the Space Pirates even if that had been easier said than done. Yes it was hard to just sit at the sidelines, not being able to do anything to help her mother out of this mess but in the end she was aware of the fact that it wouldn't have helped her mother one bit if she got captured too. At the same she also was very confident that her mother would get of this dangerous situation, what may seem to be impossible but in the past her mother had always came up with some kind of solution.
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