ChiYou growled.
"Hathor's forces are too worn down for us to see Hathor and Baal fight to death. Jedi Windu, I reemebered seeing your ship to have many of its weapons on the sides as well. Since your ship's portside is facing the Baal's fleet, may be it can hold against Baal until I can call my ship to help us here. AutumnStarr, contact Mitra and tell her to bring the entire fleet here. Only that amount would stop Baal."
"I shall do that now True One" AutumnStarrs voice said over the comm, then came this, "Mitra...Can you keep Baal at bay?"
"Sadly I cannot,for Dura'teek has been damaged, however...I will do what I can"
Bast was not very happy at those words, "What do you mean Mitra?"
"all tri-star weapons are offline, shields however are still online."
"That's both good and bad" Jack said.
"What do you mean?" obi- Wan asked.
"If she can't fire, we're sitting ducks" Jack replyed
"what about secondary weapons Mitra? can you run those?"
"Sadly I can to a limited range, Bast." Mitra said, "However, if I can route the power to one gun I might be able to take out a ship or two."
"Not a bad thought" Jack said. Bast agreed. "Mitra...do it." Bast said.
ChiYou added.
"I can set the auto pilot on board my ship to blast any of Baal's ships but as the battle progresses, it will not be recognise the difference from Bast's fleet and Baal's."
Then ChiYou changed channel to match Mitra's.
"Mitra, this is ChiYou. You have driven my ship before. After you do whatever you can with the Ha'tak, board my ship and use it to fight off Baal."
"Understood, ChiYou!"
Then ChiYou turned to Mace.
"Jedi Windu, we must ride your LAATs into the lybrinth into which Hathor entered. It is made by Haphaestus, thus will be filled with many machines that would hinder us, but the corridors are large enough to bring the LAATs. We must go now!"
Then Mace turned to Obi-Wan.
"Master Kenobi, you and young Skywalker must hold our positions here so when we return, the Dark Striker can leave immediately."
"I understand, master Windu. May the force be with you."
"May the force be with you."
"Let's go! Come AutumnStarr."
"we shall take my ship" AutumnStarr said saying in Anthrofeild, "Si ni tri,ni to fa." it was the Recall code for her ship, when spoken into a comm it would lock onto the unit in AutumnStarr's hands, the ship blasted out of Dark Strinkers hanger bay and landed nearby.
"you shall follow me Jedi, however...if your guys are as good on the ground in ship-to-ship combat...please cover me"
"Yes ma'am" the Clone driver of the LAAT that Windu and ChiYou and SG-1 were in said, "Beta's three and four provide cover fire for front ships..."
"yes sir" came the reply from both LAATs.
"I have weapons of my own...however, they need to recharge their Naqardria power." AutumnStarr said as she enterd her ship.
"you want somebody to fire the other weapons on your ship?" Jack asked as the LAAT he was one landed to emty of troops.
"If you wish to come along, you may do so." AutumnStarr told Jack as the two entered Dark Bast.
"OK...shall we go?" Jack said sitting down in the co-pilots chair.
"ChiYou...are you ready to go?" AutumnStarr asked.
"Let's go."
Then they were off. Flanked by two LAATs, and with Dark Bast in the forward position, the four ships flew deep into the Grey Claws Mountain Range, and they entered a massive monolithic cave-like structure. The hallway was dark and old. The headlights of the LAATs barely gave them enough lightings to not to crash into the walls.
"Careful, there will be booby traps from this point on."
Undoubtably, there were corpses of dozens after dozens of Hathor's Jaffa, killed by the defensive mechanism and booby traps.
"AutumnStarr, land your ship here with the head pointed outward. We will ride the LAATs from here. Let's leave the Dark Bast here as an emergency escape..."
Before ChiYou could finish his sentence, one of the guarding LAATs burst into flames when the defensive mechanisms fired on it. Fortunately, the other LAATs turned on their shields just in time.
"I'll teleport you to my location now!"
Then ChiYou tapped something on his wristband and AutumnStarr appeared right in front of him with a flash of light from ChiYou's teleportation.
Just before ChiYou teleported those inside Dark Bast did the following flashback takes place
"That I shall do, front outwards." AutumnStarr said. Seeing the portside LAAT get blown away.
"Whoa! that was bad." Jack said getting up. "You guys think we will be walking back?"
"Hopefuly not O'Niell" Bast said holding out a hand for him to take while stepping onto the center LAAT, "the Anthrofeilds built this range to defend from attacks to the planet...AutumnStarr, do you know the way from here?"
End flashback
"Sadly I know very little of this place, Mother" AutumnStarr said. "ChiYou...you have hid the ship we are after here, is there a way around this traps?"
The LAATs continued to push forward and Mace used the force to deflect few projectile weapons.
ChiYou nodded.
"There is a service path through which Hephaestus and I escaped after building this place. However, we have to go another five hundred meters to get to the entrance of that tunnel."
Then Mace asked the Clone pilot.
"Pilot! Can the shields hold for next five hundred meters?"
"Barely, general Windu."
The LAATs barely made it, indeed. At about 490m, the pilots decided land the burning LAATs, with the ship on fire. Mace, ChiYou, Bast, AutumnStarr, Jame and the SG team stepped on to the ground and the LAATs lifted up to return when they were shot down. Fortunately, nine clones survived the fall and gathered around Mace.
"What now, snakehead?" asked O'Neil.
"There! That small ventilation shaft is actually the entrance to the service path."
