Chapter 5:
The group ran through the stairs on the opposite side and broke out the windows to climb out and onto the war-torn street.
Two Aparoid Moths noticed them and were preparing their solar beams until the Ebon Hawk flew by and sent a Proton Torpedo into one of them, killing it.
The other Aparoid Moth followed the Ebon Hawk and tried to knock it down from the sky.
"We need to get to a landing pad for Joker to pick us up." Hide said.
"Hold him." Scourge said to Stolas.
Scourge pushed an unconscious Decorus onto Stolas and looked into an alleyway.
"We will sneak to the open area. It isn't a landing pad but we don't have a choice." Scourge said.
Everyone heard a loud humming sound and had to cover their ears while looking up to the sky.
"What is that!?" Hide yelled.
A thousand small hexagons appeared in the sky and opened letting in a large organic-robotic missile come through and heading toward one part of the city.
"That's some sort of portal ability." Ken said.
"I didn't know they could do that." Hide said.
The missile hit something nearby and a loud soundwave was heard followed by windows shattering and that zone where it hit was obliterated.
"What the hell sort of missile was that!?" Atton shouted.
"Get Joker to pick us up now, right now!" Eto yelled to Atton.
Atton got on the comlink.
"Joker, we are going to send you a ping when we get to an open area for you to land and pick us up." Atton said.
"On the way now." Joker said.
"Okay, we should-" Atton began to say.
Two Aparoid Crawlers jumped down on Atton chewing his neck out and Scourge quickly sliced both of them down.
"Atton!" Ken shouted kneeling down to him.
Atton tried to say something but all there was, was gargling blood coming from his throat and then he died.
Ken made a fist and punched the steel floor bleeding his knuckles.
Two Aparoid Moths broke through a building beside them and sent out a solar beam at the group.
Stolas immediately created a reflective magical barrier to reflect the beam back and right into the Aparoid's head killing it.
The other Aparoid sent out a gust of wind that knocked everyone a few yards away.
Snoop jumped up into the air and let out a puff of smoke that turned into a cloud under his feet and he was now flying looking at the Aparoid.
"You guy's go, I'll handle this." Snoop said.
"But-" Ken began to say.
"Go brother." Snoop said.
Ken didn't say another word and they ran to the open street to wait on Joker.
Snoop grinned at the Aparoid Moth that gave a screeching sound to Snoop.
Snoop blew a cloud of smoke at the Aparoid which numbed its wings and immediately flew right in front of its face before sending his elbow straight into its face and blowing its entire head up.
"You need to keep ahead in life my man." Snoop said to the carcass.
Two more Aparoid Moths headed toward him, one was able to knock him into a building but he quickly retaliated by leaping up in the air and putting his index and middle finger on its forehead and sent out a strange smell that knocked it down and it's solar beam shot out and hit the other Aparoid Moth instead.
Sixteen Aparoid Crawlers leaped up and grabbed onto Snoop while he was trying to knock each one way.
Snoop landed on the steel floor and kicked two Aparoid Crawlers away and blew smoke toward twelve of them that knocked them all out.
Ten Aparoid Moths headed his way and he just sighed.
"Bitch move to not fight me alone." Snoop said.
Snoop inhaled a deep breath and blew smoke out of his mouth that soon created a dense fog that shrouded everything.
The Aparoid Moths was trying to look for him and one of them found him only to be met by another elbow strike that blew it's head off.
The same trick wouldn't be played out though as the Aparoid Crawlers managed to jump on him and pin him down while eating him.
"I- am tired..." Snoop said as he died.
Meanwhile, the Ebon Hawk was heading down with the bay door opening.
One of the Otters was waving at them and Arentei ran down the bay door.
"We have-" Arentei began to say.
Suddenly an Aparoid Moth came out of nowhere and knocked the Ebon Hawk to the side and it had to fly off again.
Aarentei and the Otter that waved both fell but Scourge quickly caught them with the force and guided them down.
Octavia took a hold of the Otter while Scourge helped Arentei to her feet.
"Close one little guy." Octavia said to the Otter.
"Careful doctor." Scourge said.
"We have the virus and gift wrapped for the Aparoid Queen." Arentei said.
Arentei handed a titanium case to Ken.
"It will be safer with you." Arentei said.
Ken took it and nodded.
"I need help getting these guys off me!" Joker said on the comlink.
"Throw canisters at them?" Seroroon suggested.
"No, we are not doing that!" Joker shouted.
"I'm coming, Joker!" Barla Von said on the intercom
A Volus assault frigate flew down and shot at the Aparoid Moth that was following Joker and immediately wiped it out but drawn the attention of three Aparoid Moths that came from behind ripping apart the engines.
"Oh no, we are losing stabilizers! Going down!" Barla Von shouted.
The Volus assault frigate fell from the sky and crashed into Federation soldiers and Aparoid Crawlers on a nearby platform but it caused a chain reaction to destroy the entire street.
"Hold onto something!" Eto shouted.
Stolas created an air magic to keep everyone levitated as the street below them cracked into pieces and fell to the depths of Coruscant.
"Close-" Stolas began to say until an Aparoid Crawler knocked into him disrupting his magic.
"Call!" Stolas shouted while punching the Aparoid away.
They all was free-falling trying to grab onto one another's hands.
"I'll try again!" Stolas shouted to all of them.
Stolas created another air magic and levitated everyone while they all held hands.
Everyone took a deep breath.
"Okay, I will hover us here until Joker can hover above us and we can simply just glide in." Stolas said.
"There he comes now." Arentei said.
They noticed twelve hexagon portals appear in the sky and open with large organic-robotic missiles launching out.
"Oh not again." Octavia said.
The Ebon Hawk hovered above them and Stolas guided the air magic to move everyone inside.
Ken ran inside to the cockpit and plugged in the datapad while Yukio kept the spare in a pouch.
"Keep that one as a back up okay?" Ken asked.
"Got it, no one goes in this pouch but me." Yukio said.
"Unless they force it out of your hands." Kugo said.
Yukio just gave him a frown.
"We need to get out of here right now! Missiles are falling down!" Arentei shouted.
The Ebon Hawk turned to leave but they saw a missile hit a nearby building and the blast radius knocked the Ebon Hawk out of control and into a building causing everyone to jerk around in the ship and the Ebon Hawk fell into the lower city onto a debris-filled street and crash into a business.
A few minutes later, Ken woke up dizzy with Eto shaking him to wake up.
"Ken!" Eto shouted.
Ken groaned sitting up and seeing that the Ebon Hawk was halfway destroyed.
"We need to go." Eto said to him firmly.
Ken weakly got up but found some blood on him and saw Arentei's body beside him with sharp chunks of metal through her body.
"Oh my god." Ken said.
"Nothing we can do, we have to get out of here before reinforcements come." Eto said.
Ken limped and walked beside Eto as they walked over the flames.
Scourge was nearby rubbing his bloody shoulder.
"Scourge, you okay?" Ken asked.
"The pain makes me strong." Scourge said.
"I asked if you was okay." Ken said softly.
Scourge gave him a slow nod.
Joker crawled out from some metal and Thane was nearby getting up and helping the small Otter who waved at them up.
"Guys- guys!" Kugo shouted as he kept shaking Yukio and Riruka.
Both of them had metal in their bodies and Yukio's body was blown up from the waist down.
"Guys please wake up!" Kugo shouted in tears.
"Kugo..." Ken said.
"No! They might wake up, they have to!" Kugo said.
Thane helped Octavia and Stolas up and walked over to Ken and the others.
"Kugo." Hide said while trying to walk with a metal plate sticking halfway in his leg.
"Easy Hide." Ken said.
"It's okay dude- Kugo, dude. We can avenge them. We have the virus and we have the location on this datapad." Hide said.
"The Datapad was plugged into the Ebon Hawk..." Ken said with a sigh.
Kugo made a fist.
"Hide's right- besides, Yukio saved our asses." Kugo said.
Kugo held up Yukio's pouch with the spare datapad inside and handed it to Ken.
Ken opened the case that was given to him with the virus capsule and placed the datapad inside and locked up the case.
"Ken..." Decorus said weakly laying nearby with his body battered up.
"Decorus!" Ken shouted.
Everyone ran over to Decorus who lost his sight and blood was running out of his body.
"Ken, everyone, all of you must end this war." Decorus said softly and coughed a few times.
"Decorus, we will get you help!" Ken said.
Octavia walked to the side and tried to call for help on the comlink into a public frequency.
"No, you must go. L-leave me." Decorus said grunting.
Everyone was silent and had sad expressions on their faces.
Ken was crying while holding onto Decorus' hand.
"Eto, I forgive you." Decorus said.
Eto put her hands over her mouth in tears.
"Everyone, please, you- agh I'm in so much pain." Decorus said.
Decorus was shaking in pain and they could hear his broken bones grinding as he moved.
"Thane." Scourge said sternly.
Thane understood what he meant and guided everyone to turn around.
Scourge put his lightsaber hilt on Decorus' forehead and looked away with a single tear falling and ignited the lightsaber and then deactivated it.
Scourge didn't look back and just walked by everyone.
Everyone was sad but knew it had to be done to stop Decorus' suffering.
They walked over to Octavia who looked at them and shook her head.
"No response from anyone." Octavia said.
Stolas limped over to Octavia and put his arms around her.
"If you're scared, I'm here." Stolas said.
"I'm not- I'm not... I am scared." Octavia had to admit.
The two hugged one another and while they waited, Hide noticed a small ship hovering toward them.
"Guys?" Hide said.
They looked at the ship coming their way.
"What piece of junk is that?" Joker asked.
"It looks like a five seven eight space transport. They was recalled two years ago for safety reasons, the whole company went bankrupt." Hide said.
"May I ask how you know that?" Eto asked.
"Bought one from them for a test drive- I failed." Hide said.
The small transport landed and the main entry door opened with a thin figure standing there with covered armor around them.
"Hello?" Thane asked while he kept his hand gripping his weapon.
The figure looked at Eto.
"Are you Eto Yoshimura, descendent of Aizen Sousuke?" The figure asked, which was a female behind the clothed mask.
"I am?" Eto asked confused.
The figure walked back into her transport.
"Good, we need to have a chat." The figure said.