The Clouds Align For Battle

Chapter 28: Wins and Losses

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

Captain Per Diton rolled on full throttle to begin her run and switched the shields main focus to the rear as she pelted over the Aggressor as the Intruder pulled alongside. Sharona and Per Diton waved before they resumed their scans on this pass over the Aggressor, this time a bit higher but still low on the ship to confound the gunners on board.

Two TIE fighters received emergency orders to intercept the "attacking flight" as the last 20 out of the hundred originally continued trying to bring Shay, Kae and their ten helpers down so the Aggressor could abort the landing and make for space.

Shandra was using the wide array interface and her cybernetics to keep a good handle on the battlespace and saw the two TIEs begin a strafing run at them. The enhanced interface showed her the probabilities and she fired off a burst message Someone has to sacrifice might as well be someone like me for whom it means so much. End the Slavery we submit to, Jahn Boy to Starkey before skewing the wing guns and nosing up just slightly catching a TIE bolt dead in the head smashing the canopy but sparing Per Diton.

Starkey turned the Intruder to engage the two TIEs and drive them away as the ship attacked them with no canopy rattling their nerve, turning them away.

Captain Diton was concentrating on the command station and the engines. This particular ship had wrought so much misery on the people of Shanev. It guarded Zygerrian slavers who brought farm workers and laborers and had brought over 100,000 regular army troops with 25,000 storm troopers who in Shanev tradition had "fed the predators with predators". After the Sha who had arrived early, then the Diskblade Alliance and finally the Liger turned the tide. This was to end this and hopefully, the DBA would free the Twi'Leks of Ryloth who had suffered the most in the galaxy under slavery.

Her first bomb struck the command center solidly rocking the ARC and the Aggressor stopped its liftoff. She swooped toward the engines at the stern dropping her second bomb and disabling one main drive making the ship a sitting duck before she swooped away hugging the majestic trees toward the farms and the garrison the Liger crew left a smoking ruin two days ago.

Leron, held his place with the Force letting Dar'n be blown clear just as Jannma had circled around avoiding the flying bodies and now turned to face the man who wounded her brother.

"I am called the Liger and you are" She said with her hands behind her back, like a diskblade toting Sha would approaching a Jedi with hostile intent.

"Have you faced a real Sith before?" Leron asked using his lightsaber to mutilate Der'n's arms lying on the ground, just for effect and to savor any emotion from the Sha before him.

"I'm still waiting to face a real man." She looked around arrogantly "I thought Sparky might do but he had a fatal flaw in his training. I might have to look somewhere else, judging by your ability on my way up. In sparing I usually beat Dar in six seconds, you look like two." She taunted and his anger rose.

"Not a wise choice to make me angry." He replied.

Lyi Chinwe finished Pao off turning toward the Kadiliman and she turned toward Leron as Jahn trotted out toward her and was waved by to go check on Der'n by Lyi.

"Save your strength imp, we have an issue with your presence." Jannma said to him.

"Who is the bounty hunter?" Leron asked. Looking at Jahn as he went behind Lyi.

"Child of the Jedi" Jannma taunted "and to get to him you have to go through me."

Leron charged lightsaber swinging as Jannma raised her two and surprised him with the same swift move that ended her first opponent.

"Yes Lyi, the Bernal riposte works very well against their training, so Butterfly knives might be a best option but maybe something longer."

"I do not like to be in as close and elbow noses like you do but, we shall make sure we practice that as well as the "kai valley volley" for Mintran's heretics." Lyi grimaced "This is just the start."

"We need to be able to free your people." Jannma said solemnly "You have been here longer, but we both need to go down the hill and stop the Shanev from slaughtering survivors."

Malcomb turned to his gunnery officer "Fire one starboard broadside on the assault ship." The Raven fired and the turbolaser rain struck the Aggressor hard, and the secondary explosions shook the land for kilometers ending the battle of Shanev.

Malcomb turned in surprise to the videographer "Did we get that recorded?"

"Keyhole shot, looks good."

"Have maintenance check every gun and connection, we may have to fire again soon enough."

Jahn reached Der'n who recoiled at the way he looked like a bounty hunter and flipped up his face mask and took off his gauntletts.

"Jahn?" he said weakly to the return nod and Jahn went into rapture looking over his arms missing with two odd sized cauterized forearms bruise battered and bleeding. The bleeding stopped and pain eased as Jahn reached into his possibles bag for a bandage and salve.

Der'n somewhat of a healer as well asked the question. "Cybernetics."

"I have an in with someone who will not make you a slave to debt." Jahn said.

Per Diton helped her wizzo out of the craft sky high with tears of emotion flowing jumping and dancing where she landed. "We did it!" as she gathered him in a hug and his neck suddenly bent at an odd angle and his death rattle began, she wheeled reaching for a blaster when a diskblade swept off her head.

Akumi smiling at her fortune boarded the ARC fighter, checked that it had hyperdrive (this one did, that was how the DBA got it there) and did it have DBA codes (it did as well) she could use to get away. She climbed in not bothering with a flight suit as she was strong in the Force. She took a deep breath and fired the engines rising toward space with the wings folded. When she broke Atmo she saw TWO clone wars era star destroyers, heavily battle scarred and obviously just newly recommissioned.

She waited for the hail she was expecting and receiving none waited for the cheap computer the DBA installed for the ferry to calculate the jump to Kratovas. While she waited she wondered what how her intel would be received. Then the computer chimed after two minutes and she jumped out of system.