The Clouds Align For Battle
Chapter 27: Gathering a Gale
I own not those situations I borrow from Disney Properties, Lucas, Mechalich or Thomas Benjamin DeMayo. This is a dramatization from my mind on a character created from the meld of table gaming and so on. Special thanks to ideas Drew Karpyshyn and Tim Lebbon fermented. Special thanks to Morihei Ushiba who formed Petre with his wisdom. Like any mind construct this is an exercise and my own work building on other ideas from the past.
This is a Zeison Sha story, set in what is known as the Star Wars EU.
Shanev
BBA
A salty haired man, clone wars vet, failed gambler stood where he belonged now. That place was back on the bridge of the Raven, a clone wars derelict that had just been floating with its twin the Crow in an asteroid field. His old ship was lifting off Gitrazin, his third and last stop of the day after asking for and taking volunteers to man it. Well, non droid volunteers he thought looking around at the sheer magnitude the "salvage business" Jahn insisted Ashla begin, had turned up.
"Well if you know where to look and who to sell to.." he mused as most of the "workers" on the wide array of "space garages" that now numbered fifty, financed by Maz and the boy who bought his gambling debts and counselled him on how to give his problem to the Force.
"You are doing a mind trick on me?" Malcomb asked.
"No, you are, it will have more power and last because it is your choice, your trick." DAMN! That kid was a cool breeze in the hot dessert of life.
"Captain Bax." Reported his newly drafted volunteer XO "What course?" he asked looking at the wide array of obviously dusty salvaged droids running the ship, indeed still fixing it.
"Shanev of course, to evacuate or … like we discussed." and he started to leave the bridge.
"Captain where are you going?"
"I am going to fix the damn guns, I know the shields work, I need the guns to at least POINT to do a decent bluff! Preferably be able to shoot more than once!" and the Old Gambler went to begin working. "Call me when we get there and make sure the bridge crew is spiffy and the recordings are ready for transmit!" with that he walked away. "I sure hope that boy knows his shit." He muttered heading to the gunnery deck.
On Shanev Jannma led a tired Ni'ko on a swift pace running around the mountain toward the hanger in it.
Jahn finally got his breath back as his swirl rejuvenated him and his enviro suit recharged its oxygen. He switched over to filtered external air as he slammed the faceplate down getting up checking all his senses and gear. When all was clear he began a repulsor aided speed route out of the grove and up the mountain to drop down on the other side.
Ash and the Puffy crew continued their unopposed artillery bombardment at an angle that neither the Aggressor or any AT-ATs could get guns trained on. "Just one more line to frag, turret gunners continue taking out that infantry."
Kae sat in the unfamiliar "wingman slot" as Shay took over the aerial battle single handedly shredding the opposition fliers with her changing throttles spinning guns and thrust vectoring. STANG! It was all Kae who thought she was the better pilot, could do to hang with her! But in a full second pause after firing a "duck" Shay left for her as her copee Starkey handled the other 17 controls to help her hang with "Pinky" she started wondering, where the hell intruder 3 was.
"sweeping port 263 vector 150 pitch." Came Shay's meditation voice on coms just after she started the maneuver alerting "allied" craft to get the hell out of her way.
Shandra in intruder wing three, did the calculations aided by her cybernetic implants, watched the ARC 170S head toward the anti aircraft fire from the Aggressor.
"Oh my! A Suicide Run!" she transmitted to her Starkey unit "We will cover it."
"Very good ma'am, I doubt we could keep up with Shay right now as Kae is even beyond capability."
"You and that link! Transmit our regret when you have a chance."
Der'n and Lyi had their hands completely full, dodging crossfire, in full combat with the lead inquisitor and his handpicked minion Sha, if it was not for the crazy difference in styles and the crossfire they both had to defend against, this Dark Jedi would have killed him six times over. Lyi however was holding her own and controlling her foe expertly as Shanev snipers kept the stormtroopers pinned in the hanger.
Jahn crested the mountain ready to drop down to the battle. "Well, someone has to do it." he thought not liking the feeling of death that was Shanev. "Para sa iyo ang aking Asawa Ko" he said as he launched off the precipice the winds surrounding him as he fell.
The Crow and the Raven emerged from hyperspace above Shanev Malcomb barked "Start recording and get that video ready!"
"Sir! the Aggressor is still in atmo!"
"Great." Moaned Malcomb "Prepare the Starboard broadside and fire one round when the solution and aiming is ready." He said beginning to pace "Those damn things have crazy shields and damn heavy armor! I hope like hell the barrels last for another shot."
"THAT GANKING VIDEO BETTER BE GANKING READY!" he roared.
Shandra roared along taking hist on her shielding before she followed the ARC down below the ray shielding and she targeted and fired her missiles to take the emitters down.
Captain Per Diton was readying to drop her first bomb when the missiles from the amazing swoop winged attack craft shot underneath her outracing her to the shield generator controlling the dorsal of the Aggressor as shots from the large attack ship tried in vain to find purchase.
"We have GOT to get more of those!" she shouted to her wizzo who nodded in agreement head still down on his scope.
Jannma crested the ridge catching a glimpse of something she felt was Jahn falling down the mountain at a death defying rate. She rushed to her brother's aid.
Lyi Chinwe continued her death dance with the Kadiliman as they both felt the tide turning with the large swirl descending rapidly and another Force user coming up the hill.
"You have yet to have to face more than one of us before traitor, I have faced two of you before, they died."
"You have not beaten me yet."
"I will not have to worry about crossfire much longer." She replied confidently letting a blast go one way and a slug her opponent had to parry the other.
Ni'ko saw Jannma duck and dodge her way toward her brother and he let the Force empower him.
Toss your diskblade
So Ni'ko launched his diskblade into the storm troopers and the blaster fire immediately reduced as bucket heads started falling.
Jahn fired his six retros on the EVA suit to slow him just enough to land with a shocking bang behind two crates behind the stormtrooper platoon behind the crates the Troopers fired from behind at Shanev and Zeison Sha.
Without crossfire Loran the high inquisitor literally disarmed Dar'n who fell back and roled without screaming in typical Yanab fashion which paused the inquisitor a moment as the gale Jahn had gathered in his descent blew everything and everyone else out of the hanger.
Captain Per Diton
