Chapter 20

Jof

Jof Favrem, Col. Smith and Lt. Heinkel ran once the door to the lift opened up. The Colonel and Lieutenant shot any personnel they saw as they ran while Jof blocked their blaster shots. "Turn left here," Jof yelled over her shoulder and they made it to the three Main KDY Destroyer-1 Ion Engines. Lt. Heinkel took one look at them and whistled, "We're gonna need more C-4 for that thing." "We won't have to destroy the actual engines, just the fuel lines. After that we need to make our way to the secondary engines to cripple this ship for good. I'll get the fuel lines, cover me," Jof told them. Col. Smith crouched down and pointed his gun towards the hallway they passed while Lt. Heinkel remained standing, "Don't take too long. We don't have unlimited ammo." Jof nodded and headed further down to look for the fuel lines.

She just dodged a blaster shot and Force pushed the shooter back into a wall then ran along until she found the fuel line. Jof focused on the Force and threw her lightsaber in a spinning arc. Sparks exploded as the ion molecules that powered the engine left the fuel lines with nowhere to go. The Star Destroyer shuddered and Jof turned off her lightsaber as soon as it returned to her hand then braced against the floor as the floor started to shift. Come on…turn on the backup engines. Jof felt the incline decreasing and began to wonder if she had misread the schematics she had sliced, if she had shut off all the engines by mistake.

Her fears dissipated as alarm systems went off and the floor began to right itself again. Jof crawled on hands and knees to the Delta Force soldiers who were both sprawled on the floor. "You could have warned us about the floor shifting," Col. Smith angrily said. "I apologize, I assumed that the backup engines would turn on immediately, I was mistaken," Jof told him, "We need to get to the backup engines and plant your explosives so that we'll have time to reach the escape pods. Once we're there, we need to detonate the explosives." Col. Smith huffed and said, "Alright, let's go." Just then a stormtrooper ran up behind him and yelled, "Freeze!" Lt. Heinkel and the stormtrooper shot at once, the stormtrooper fell to a shot in his head while Heinkel fell screaming to the ground at his wounded arm.

"SHIT!" Col. Smith yelled as he helped up his wounded comrade. Jof ran over to the fallen stormtrooper and searched his body, and found his medpac. Jof took it off him and went back to Lt. Heinkel. "There are medical supplies in here to treat your injury," she told him. "Treat him, I'll cover," Col. Smith said and let Lt. Heinkel down. Jof tore open the medpac and pulled out a stim-shot. "This will help to ease the pain," she explained as she found the appropriate vein and put it in. "You're pretty knowledgeable in…everything," Lt. Heinkel said through gritted teeth. "I was a Chronicler; I had access to all kinds of knowledge. Almost everything I learned was only theoretical before the Empire rose up," Jof explained as she pulled out a bacta-patch. She tore off Lt. Heinkel's sleeve and applied it to his wounded arm. "That should help, but your arm won't be usable for a while," Jof told him as she helped him up. Lt. Heinkel shouldered his large slugthrower rifle and pulled out his sidearm with his unwounded hand. "I'm not dead yet," he said as they walked over to Col. Smith.

"That gun won't get through their armor and you know it," Col. Smith told Lt. Heinkel. Jof used the Force to summon the fallen stormtrooper's blaster to her. "You can use this one handed," she said as she handed it to Lt. Heinkel who put his own sidearm away. The three of them made their way through the halls at a slower pace than before. They soon ran into ten stormtroopers, forcing Jof to shield Lt. Heinkel and Col. Smith while the soldiers returned fire. "We gotta go faster," Lt. Heinkel pointed out and they jogged through the halls. Jof could sense even more stormtroopers around the next corner and said, "There's too many up ahead, we don't have enough room to fight." "We got grenades; can you do your…thing and move them to the hostiles?" Col. Smith asked. "I've never done something so complex before, but we have no choice," Jof told him. Col. Smith and Lt. Heinkel took out their grenades, 10 in all. Col. Smith explained, "You pull the pin, here, and release the grip. Then you got four seconds before they explode."

Jof nodded and carefully let all ten grenades to the floor and used the Force to roll them down the hallway. She could sense the stormtroopers and telekinetically pulled the pins and rolled them the rest of the way. Jof opened her eyes just in time to hear ten thunderous explosions go off all at once and followed by the screams and groans of the few survivors. The three of them ran through the hall. Jof had to close her eyes at the sight of the mutilated and some still conscious stormtroopers. Lt. Heinkel finished off the few survivors with his confiscated blaster and they moved on, finally reaching the fuel line to the backup engines.

Col. Smith helped Lt. Heinkel get out plastic wrapped blocks and tore open the plastic. "This is C-4?" Jof asked as he handed some of the blocks to her. "Yeah, it's the most stable explosive in the world. And these," Col. Smith then showed her electrical devices, "are the timers. Put these on the C-4 then we need to get the Hell out of here." Jof used the Force to apply the explosive material to parts of the engines that couldn't be easily reached in 30 minutes and turned on the timers. "Let's go!" Lt. Heinkel yelled and they ran out of the Engine Rooms.

Sam

Danny's copy held Sam and Tucker tight as they invisibly flew through the Star Destroyer. Sam and Tucker were both on edge, barely breathing as they spotted all the white armored stormtroopers running around. The copy whispered to them, "Guys, I got Jazz, and she has a lightsaber. Once we tell Jof what happened, you need to get out of here." "Danny, I'm not leaving you," Sam whispered back. "Sam, for once in your life; listen to me. This is serious; I can get out of here with Jazz and my parents no problem, but I don't know if I can make enough copies for you, two, Jof, and the Delta Force soldiers too. It-" the Danny copy suddenly disappeared and Sam and Tucker fell on the floor.

"What the Hell!?" one of the stormtroopers yelled and pointed his laser at them. "Stop right there!" Suddenly the ship shuddered, making everyone fall on the floor. "They did it!" Tucker yelled as he struggled to get up. The ship felt like it was starting to dip as Sam and Tucker got up and ran. "WAIT!" the stormtrooper yelled, blasting lasers at them as they ran. "Use the Fento-sphere!" Tucker yelled and Sam took hers out and turned it on. A half-sphere of green energy surrounded her and Tucker as they ran on. They ran into a stormtrooper and he was knocked out of their way! "We're a hamster wheel of doom baby!" Tucker yelled in excitement, then tripped and started to slide the other way.

"Sam!" Tucker yelled and she helped him up just in time to avoid another laser shot. "Crawl!" Sam yelled as they proceeded on their hands and knees through the hall as stormtroopers struggled to shoot them. Lasers bounced off the energy shield as they slowly made their way through the hallway.

"How much longer will this thing last?" Tucker asked after they were halfway through the hall. And just like that it switched off. "Does that answer your question?" Sam asked. Suddenly it felt like her left thigh was on fire and she screamed in pain. "OH MAN!" Tucker screamed as he saw that the floor was level and stormtroopers were getting up. Sam screamed still, all she knew was the white hot searing pain in her thigh. Tucker quickly dug his own Fento-sphere out and activated it just in time as more lasers bounced off the energy shield. Tucker looked all around and hugged Sam tight and said, "I think this is it Sam." Sam gritted her teeth and grabbed onto his hand. "Call…Danny," she gasped through the pain in her leg. Tucker got on his phone and screamed, "DANNY! HELP! WE'RE SURROUNDED!" "I'M COMING!" Danny yelled back.

Just when it seemed the energy shield would fail they heard a strange humming sound and the stormtroopers yelled, "It's the Jedi!" The loud bangs of guns went off as they heard stormtroopers scream and the energy shield finally shut off. There stood Jof Favrem stabbing through the last stormtrooper and one of the Delta Force soldiers carrying his wounded comrade. A second later Danny flew in carrying Jazz. Once he landed he clutched his chest and Sam saw he was wounded too and that Jazz was in an Imperial Uniform. "What happened?" Sam asked, feeling lightheaded. "I was shot," Danny told her as he made his way to her. "Are you alright?" "Leg," Sam gasped. She numbly watched as Jof took out a box and stuck a needle in her leg after tearing off her legging then applied some pad to it. "That's all we can do now. You need to get out of here, we have 20 minutes until the backup engine explodes," Jof explained as Danny lifted Sam up bridal style, being extremely careful about her leg.

They all ran, except for Danny who flew so as not to disturb Sam's leg, to the escape pods then Jazz grabbed her head and yelled. "What's wrong with her?" the uninjured Delta Force soldier asked. "Pain, I can sense Mom and Dad's pain! They're torturing them!" Jazz screamed as she fell to her knees. "We don't have time! Damn it!" the injured Delta Force soldier yelled. "What about Ramos and White?" the other one asked. Jof bowed her head for a minute and said, "I can't sense them…I'm sorry, they're both dead." "We can't leave them here!" Danny yelled. "We won't," Jof said and turned to the Delta Force soldiers, "You need to take Lt. Heinkel and Sam and Tucker out of here. I'll take Jazz and Danny. Once we have their parents, Danny will get us out of here." The uninjured soldier nodded and Danny helped Sam into the escape pod, laying her down on her stomach.

"Danny," Sam said as she grabbed his hand, "Be careful." "I will," Danny promised with a kiss then left. The Delta Force soldiers got in the escape pod and the door closed, next thing she knew, they were falling through the air. After a minute everyone in the escape pod felt a slight jolt. The uninjured Delta Force soldier opened up the hatch and said, "Well, we're back on Earth." Lt. Heinkel got up and looked then said, "Yeah, and the Air Force is all gone." "What about the engine?" Tucker asked as he helped Sam up. "They got 15 minutes, if they're not out by then…" the Delta Force soldier shook his head and helped Sam out of the escape pod.