Authors note: I tried to make my vision of The Sun Gods armor as pictorial as I could but it was very hard in words to describe, so just compare them to that of the soldiers of ancient Rome in a crossover with Palpatines bodyguards. Shouldn't be that hard to picture…so Roman Soldiers and Palpatines bodyguards, got it…good.
The Story of forgotten Jedi Owen Sun
Chapter 40: The Call of Home
David looked into his sons eyes. "You do what's in your heart son and you'll do fine, I love you Owen" said David as he hugged Owen and kissed him on the head.
Lena then still crying heavily came back over. "I love you Owen, don't ever forget that and know that you can always come home, I love you so much" as she picked him up and hugged and kissed him.
Lena finished hugging Owen as the Jedi cruiser door opened.
"Come Owen, it is time we left" stated Arca.
Arca and David shook hands and then both Jedi made their way into the cruiser, Owen walked over to the door and before he got in ran back to his parents. "I just wanted to hug you one last time mom and dad" Owen then looked to his parents. "I love you mommy, I love you daddy"
Owen then ran over and got into the cruiser and waved goodbye one last time from the door as the cruiser sped away off into space.
With a shake of his head his memory faded. Its how everything started…Owen remembered very little from his youth but he never forgot the last time he was on his homeworld, saying goodbye to his parents and leaving his entire life behind was probably the toughest thing he ever had to do…the act had left its mark.
Owen and the invasion fleet had been traveling through hyperspace for a tedious amount of time. "How much further?" he asked opening up a channel to one of the assault ships.
"Still a ways away Sir" replied the ship Captain.
Even with the new hyperspace routes cutting traveling time almost in half Solar was still a very long trip away for anyone. "Captain I want you to increase your speed, tell the rest of the fleet as well" ordered Owen.
"Understood General" obeyed the ship Captain.
Owen remembered what he saw on the news feed, the City of Light was in ruin and the CIS were killing everything in sight. He mourned for his helpless people as he pictured them dying in the streets being sweep aside like they were nothing, but more so for his family as he hoped for their sake he wasn't too late.
The previous memory of his parents hit him hard. "Will I even recognize them, it's been so long…some 25 years now" he thought.
"What am I going to say to them?" he wondered.
The notion quickly abated though as he recalled his vision, how was it that the thought long dead Sun Gods had emerged now. The radical faction and its leader Seth Solaris were dealt with long ago, who would have the power to threaten now and reignite the flame of this dead ideal?
In any case his vision was clear and he wasn't about to sit and watch on Coruscant while the government is overthrown and his people are enslaved regardless of the councils stiff warning. Owen was not going to allow a second generation of his people be ruled by these racial fanatics.
He shuddered as he remembered the first attempt at power by The Sun Gods. "I know you're with me Master" he thought channeling the long since departed Master Arca.
Meanwhile on Solar.
Deep within the City of Light the leading men in The Sun Gods namely General Kade met with the droid Commander in charge of the invading CIS army inside the hidden Sun God headquarters.
"This is not what we agreed to!" shouted the General in command of the Sun Gods.
"I am following my orders" replied the ranking yellow striped droid Commander in his mechanical voice.
"Damn your orders, we had a deal…you would be able to take as much lithium energy as you wanted in exchange we would get control of the planet" reminded General Kade.
"You've eliminated all resistance but your droids are still laying waste to our world not to mention the damage to the city, it's in ruin" continued the Sun God General.
"It is inevitable that the Republic will come to defend one of their worlds with their clone armies, we are setting up defenses and fortifying it for when they do arrive" defended the droid Commander.
"You're going too far, by the time your through we won't have a planet to rule with!" shouted General Kade.
The droid Commander resorted back to his programming. "I am following my orders"
"Stupid droid, why couldn't the Separatists send someone more capable" scuffed Kade.
"When we have secured the planet completely my superior shall come" assured the droid Commander.
"Until then you will stay out of the way or my droid army shall crush your men" threatened the droid Commander.
Suddenly the large doors of the Sun God conference room barged open, all eyes turned to the door.
Leading the way were four heavily armored bodyguards and in the center was the new Sun God leader.
The Sun Gods needed a leader, that's just the way things were or their movement would have never been able to reestablish itself. But they couldn't just have anyone lead them to survive they needed the founder and leader of their ideal, they needed Seth Solaris. But Solaris was killed at the hands of Master Arca a long, long, time ago.
It's almost as if they needed a clone of him or at best a direct descendant from his bloodline. One that would carry on in the struggle and keep the Sun God ideal alive, one that would inherit his character, fanaticism, and above all his leadership. But unfortunately for them Seth Solaris had no such heir and it appeared The Sun Gods had died along with him…that is until shortly after he was killed they discovered Seth had indeed impregnated a Solarian woman before his death.
They eventually found the woman and discovered everything, Seth had selected one beautiful women out of a delicately chosen few to carry his seed allowing the Solaris name to live on, his name. Very few knew about this as he had kept it a secret until he seized power and taken Solar fearing someone would kill the women carrying his seed terminating all hopes of his reign forever. And the few who did know about it were killed in that final battle when all of Seth's men were crushed in one fell swoop.
But not all of Seth's men were killed in the battle, a few escaped unnoticed otherwise none of this would have happened, eventually when the women gave birth several months later they took the child to be raised in their Sun God influence and ideals. They had named the child 'Saul' and for the rest of his life he would be known as 'Saul Solaris', the future savior of his people.
As the years went by they continued to imbed in him the idea that he was to be one day Leader of the Sun Gods and carry on his father's name, he had also been trained extensively in all types of combat from a very young age. Saul had come to be quite good with the sword as he trained over the years, he was no doubt now one of the greatest swordsmen in the entire galaxy and Saul would certainly be a match for any Jedi with the blade. As his skill grew he began to despise weakness and had no problems with killing, in Saul Solaris' eyes everything was inferior to him.
When he became old enough he went looking for his mother, once he found her Saul killed her fearing she would lead the Sun Gods former enemies to him, a testament to the murderous nature the few surviving Sun Gods had instilled in him.
His spiked jet blond hair and murderously piercing blond eyes almost lit the room up as the imposing Saul Solaris made his way in, a scar ran from the left side of his forehead down through his eyebrow and eye stopping almost in the middle of his cheek, an unfortunate accident from his training as a child. Saul's rare golden plated armor lined with a touch of dark blooded red leather moved as one with him as his mere presence sent chills through the droids programming.
Saul and his bodyguards slowly made their way towards the droid Commander passing by the large picture of his father Seth Solaris that loomed over their headquarters. "Gentlemen, what seems to be the problem?" asked Saul in his despising tone.
"Forgive me Leader Solaris but this Commander in charge of all the droids currently on the planet is laying waste to the City of Light, everything is in ruin, even the capital" informed the Sun God General bowing respectfully to his Leader.
"Humph, we have made a deal with the Separatists General, let's not forget that" replied Saul.
He began to pace around the droid Commander with his droids and Saul's bodyguards keeping a close eye. "He does make a valid point though Commander, after you've left and gotten what you wanted what will there be left to rule with" stated Saul.
"Your priority doesn't matter, we assured you control of the planet not in what shape it's in" replied the droid Commander.
Suddenly out of seemingly nowhere Saul's blade shot from it's holder on his hip and before his photo receptors could calculate what was happening the droid Commander had a sword to his throat. In the blink of an eye Saul's hand had pulled his uniquely crafted sword out of his holster and had it to the droid Commanders throat before any of them could do a thing, he was just that good. "Maybe now you understand who you're dealing with!" stated Saul.
Blasters from all around the headquarters rose to one other, the CIS and Sun Gods were at a standstill. "Don't think that a flick of my wrist could end your programming" threatened the Leader of the Sun Gods.
"We had an agreement, I expect you to uphold it" began Solaris.
"You get all the lithium energy you need while we get Solar…you've already done enough destruction to bring an entire civilization to their knees, no more harm will come to our world" continued Saul.
"Now, you can either agree to the terms of our initial deal or…it's going to get messy in here fast" he finished glaring around the room.
The droid searched for a decision, Commanders were given special programming allowing them to think outside the droid box in situations like this, the droid Commander took one last look around the room calculating the risk. "And let's not forget that we haven't given you the location to where the lithium energy is, you could spend a lifetime scouring the planet and still find nothing" reiterated Solaris.
That negated the droid Commanders priority objective to which he was a slave to, an unfortunate result of his programming, Saul's key remark had made its point. "Very well, we will agree to your terms" he finally agreed.
"I will order my forces to stop all demolition to the planet" the droid Commander added.
"Good" Saul said lowering his blade and returning it to his holster.
All Sun Gods and CIS droids in the room then lowered their weapons.
"We will continue to patiently await for the Republic to arrive, after you deal with them we will show you where the lithium energy is finalizing our agreement" reminded Solaris.
"Roger, roger" the Commander agreed leaving with his droid entourage.
General Kade then approached Saul Solaris. "It has been a few days now, are we still following the plan my Leader?" he wondered.
"To a tee, when the CIS go to retrieve the rare energy from the mines we will destroy them all at once with a few well placed charges, they'll be buried alive" replied Saul.
"Any who do survive will be liquefied by our lithium weapons" he added.
"But my Leader what if a few manage to escape with the energy, if they did think of the consequences" pointed out the General.
"I know what your getting at Kade if the Separatists got away with even just a little of the energy they would be unstoppable, even the vaunted Army of the Republic would be nothing but a border skirmish, they would conquer the galaxy in mere months, and after its all said and done I doubt they'd have a problem with returning to destroy us…but you needent concern yourself, I know our ally well" assured Solaris.
"Even if they did escape with some they have no idea how to harness it, don't worry General not a fragment of lithium energy will leave our planet and not one droid shall be left intact, I promise you" finalized Saul.
The Leader of The Sun Gods began to think of the irony. "The lithium energy brought us together as allies, but as enemies it shall tear us apart" he commented.
"As always my Leader I marvel at your genius, it is a pleasure to serve you" bowed the General Kade.
Every one of Saul's men excluding his personal bodyguards left the room. He stared up proud at the picture of his martyred father Seth Solaris. "I will bring us victory father…I swear it" he thought.
"Solar and the rest of the galaxy shall soon bow down to the mighty name of The Sun Gods, nothing can stop us, nothing" Saul thought fanatically.
Meanwhile just half a parsec away in hyperspace.
"General Sun Sir, you wanted me to inform you of our progress towards our destination" began the ship Captain.
"Go ahead Captain" replied Owen.
"It's now less then half a parsec away, should be just a few minutes now" the ship Captain informed.
"Thank you Captain that will be all" replied Owen leaving the transmission open.
Nothing was heard except the cold silence of space until.
"Uh Sir, this may be a good chance to inform the invasion fleet of you being in charge" suggested the ship Captain.
Owen let it sit in the air for a moment. "Alright Captain, open up a channel to all assault ships" he ordered.
All assault ships channels were opened as Owen cleared his throat beginning to speak to the entire invasion fleet. "Attention all clone forces this is Jedi Knight Owen Sun, I know you expected to be under the command of Jedi Master Fisto but things have changed, I will be leading this army to Solar so effective immediately you are all under my command, if everyone follows there orders and does what there supposed to do this will be taken care of in no time, General Owen Sun out" he ended cutting the transmission.
The introduction was short and brief but Owen had different things on his mind right now as he prepped himself mentally for seeing his homeworld and his family again for the first time in over two decades.
Suddenly as they shot out of hyperspace the faint glow of Solar became visible in the distance and as Owen got closer his heart beat faster and faster, he then began to have trouble breathing, was he even ready for all this?
He remembered the last time he saw Solar, being only 5 seeing the planet from space when Arca took him away in the Jedi cruiser so long ago. The memory came with plenty of emotional baggage as Owen closed his eyes and lowered his head clinching his jaw as everything came flooding back to him.
Owen collected himself steadying his breathing as his Jedi Starfighter was now right on top of Solar, the eerie yellow glow of the planet was as inviting as could be looking down on the place he once called home so long ago. "I'm home" Owen thought.
A clod chill ran down Owen Suns spine as he continued to glance down at his homeworld below.
But he was abruptly interrupted as the ranking ship Captain of the invasion fleet had spotted the lanky CIS capital ship on the far side of the planet. "General Sun we have located the Separatist forces" he interrupted.
"It appears to be a CIS capital ship" added the ship Captain.
Owen noticed the large ship right away from his cockpit window. "I see it Captain" he replied.
"From our scans several droid armies are already on the surface…it's odd they only came with one capital ship, I think we all expected more" pondered the ship Captain.
"They had no need to come with more, Solar is not a warlike planet and it's people are peaceful by nature, you shouldn't be that surprised Captain, all the CIS had to do was walk right in" Owen replied setting the Captain straight.
"More could be on the way though, I suggest we hurry" he added.
"Yes Sir, I'll inform all assault ships to engage" replied the ship Captain.
Suddenly a group of enemy fighters began advancing on their position. "Wait, forget the assault ships and scramble fighters now!" Owen issued quickly as the menacing group of fighters screamed towards them.
"Yes General Sun" agreed the ship Captain following the chain of command.
He quickly put on his headpiece to communicate easier in the fighting.
Owens Jedi Starfighter was the only fighter currently in space so right away the enemy fighters went after him. Dodging from left to right he avoided the deadly fire from the pursuing CIS fighter group, finally several Republic fighters flew in from behind to give their Jedi General a hand. With a quick few opening shots the ARC-170's had taken four enemy fighters down. The Separatists fighters immediately split off into three separate groups, Owen quickly gave his orders. "You four take the group on the right, the next four go after the one on to the left, the rest of you follow me" he commanded.
Leading the way Owen went after the slick moving droid tri-fighters, moving right in on top of them he fired a few cluster missiles their way turning the first three enemy fighters to Bantha fodder. The tri-fighters then let loose an array of fire with their homing rockets and two unsuspecting clone pilots were blasted to space dust as their fighters were destroyed instantly. Owen waited patiently as his Starfighters crosshairs centered right on them, as soon as it lined up he quickly pressed on the trigger destroying two more tri-fighters. Glancing to his left he noticed that the last four explode as the versatile ARC-170's had finished off their portion of the enemy fighter group. "Nice job pilots" complimented Owen.
"Thanks Sir" replied the ranking clone pilot.
Only a handful of enemy fighters remained out of the CIS fighter group but that was the least of their worries as suddenly a squadron of CIS strike bombers winded right by heading for the assault ships. "Pilots look out, we've got bombers" cautioned Owen.
"You five go help out those fighters having trouble with the enemy fighter group, the rest of you with me, were going to destroy those bombers before they can do any damage" issued Owen.
"You heard him clones, lets go" replied the ranking clone pilot.
Streaming his highly maneuverable Jedi Starfighter in behind Owen took out the first bulky strike bomber, four more followed as he continued to chase them all down through space. He couldn't get all of them however as a few broke through dropping their heavy payload on the assault ships below. "Get after those bombers!" he ordered fearing the destruction of the invasion fleet.
"Right away Sir" replied the ranking clone pilot.
"Captain, report" demanded Owen.
"A bit of damage to our engines Sir but nothing serious, make sure they don't land any more hits or we'll be in some trouble" reported the ship Captain.
"You got it, out" ended Owen.
Owen brought five Z-95's with him to take out the threatening strike bombers. "Take those five on the right, I'll get the ones in the center, go!" he ordered
In a flash he tore right into the surprised bombers knocking six out of the sky with two separate cluster bombs, blasting after the final two Owen got his fighter right under them and locked in his targets, with a simple punch of his trigger his Starfighters twin-barrel laser cannons found their mark and annihilated both bombers. "Got em" he praised.
The frenzied fire seemed to stop and in space above Solar it was quiet again.
"Sir the final few enemy fighters and bombers are bugging out" reported the ranking clone pilot.
"Captain what's the status of the assault ships, is there any damage?" Owen wondered speaking into his headpiece.
"Nothing critical Sir, a few systems are down but we can get them back up in no time" informed the ship Captain.
"Looks like we held off their first strike" stated the ship Captain.
"Yeah, now it's our turn" replied Owen.
"Captain I want you to deploy some more fighters and go after that capital ship" ordered Owen.
"What about the other assault ships?" the ship Captain wondered.
"Take them with you for support, when I give the order we'll begin the invasion…understood" implied Owen.
"Understood Sir, but where are you going?" asked the ship Captain.
"I'm going to go scout out the CIS ground forces on the planet, see what were up against" informed Owen.
"Alone General?" questioned the ship Captain.
"No…pilot you and your men are coming with me in case we run into any resistance" ordered Owen to the ranking clone pilot.
"Whatever you wish Sir" agreed the ranking clone pilot.
"Okay, let's go" ordered Owen as they began to descend towards the planet.
"Best of luck General" wished the ship Captain as he watched via radar their disappearance into the atmosphere.
Shooting past the eerie yellow glow of the planet on entry Owen emerged through the atmosphere and into the blue sky's of Solar. As his Jedi Starfighter broke through the clouds Owen was blissfully shaken as he saw the City of Light below. "There it is…my God, there it is" he thought.
Owen again was hit with a rush of emotions as his memories of the city came back to him. "I thought I had forgotten everything but I remember…I remember everything" he thought smirking recalling the city he grew up in.
Refocusing himself Owen noticed one of the clone pilots in his v-wing get a little to close as they flew far above the skyscrapers. "Don't get too close pilot, were here to scout not engage" Owen cautioned.
"Yes Sir, sorry Sir" understood the clone pilot.
Continuing to peer down at the city below he began to see the devastation of the CIS attack, a section of sky scrappers were a burning wreck, many buildings on the surface were toppled over, and rubble and debris lay in the streets everywhere. It was hard to see the true extent of the damage because of all the dust and debris in the air from the destruction, the Separatists had almost reduced the city to ash. Owen shuddered as he looked down at the mighty city, the force only knew what has happening on the surface.
All of a sudden as the dust and debris cover ended Owen was shocked to see how low they were flying, the dust in the air had thrown them off and now they were highly exposed. They quickly turned their fighters around and left the open area. "I hope they didn't see us" Owen said to himself.
They continued to scout through the air doing their best to remain inconspicuous avoiding radar, the ranking clone pilot then noticed a large concentration of Separatists vehicles moving down one of the main roads in the city. But Owen was distracted by the glorious House of Laws as he spotted it down below, he marveled at the historic structure as he remembered everything it stood for. "It hasn't changed a bit" Owen said as it was surprisingly unharmed.
"Uh Sir, I'm seeing a large concentration of CIS forces on that main road down there" the ranking clone pilot interrupted.
He began to glance down at it. "Looks like their headed somewhere" Owen stated.
"Maybe getting ready for our attack" he added.
"Could be Sir" agreed the ranking clone pilot.
"Well, we shouldn't waste any time, I'll contact your Captain and…" Owens words were cut short by an interrupting beep on the scanners.
"Wait a second General I'm getting a low frequency signal on the scanners, something moving deep in the city down below" the ranking clone pilot informed.
"Is it a ship?" asked Owen.
"Yes, a few actually, probably nothing though…they appear to be too small for any kind of Separatists vessel, could just be some civilians trying to escape" suggested the ranking clone pilot.
Swiftly he was hit with a rush of the force jarring him to his core…something inside Owen told him to follow those ships.
He remembered the last time he had a rush like this with the force, he was on Foundry about to land when suddenly the same something told him to turn back, but he didn't and the price he paid was severe. Owen wasn't about to let it happen again…
BOOM!
Returning him to reality one of the Republic fighters next to him exploded bursting into flames. "Blast it, what was that!" shouted Owen thrown back by the explosion.
"Enemy fighters Sir, closing in fast!" the ranking clone pilot informed.
"Damn it, we must have been spotted…take evasive maneuvers!" cried Owen.
The Republic and Separatists fighters engaged each other back and forth in the air for a few minutes until Owen remembered the rush with the force he had, glancing down at his Starfighters radar he noticed the low frequency signal getting weaker, if he didn't go after them now he'd lose them for sure, Owen quickly made his decision. "Pilot I want you to forget about the enemy fighters and return to the invasion fleet in orbit, once you're clear tell the ship Captain to begin with the ground invasion of Solar, I want the House of Laws taken first" he ordered flawlessly.
"I'll link up with the ground forces later…you get all that pilot?" questioned Owen.
"Uh, y…yes Sir, I'll inform the Captain of your orders" the ranking clone pilot replied.
"Good, now get moving!" commanded Owen.
As Owen and the group of fighters went their separate ways a few of the alerted enemy fighters came after him as he made his descend into the City of Light following the weak signal. Owen dipped and turned his Jedi Starfighter every which way dodging the heavy fire, it wasn't until he hit the smoggy depths of the city that he lost the unrelenting enemy fighters.
He continued to traverse his way through the narrow passageways and small openings of the depths of the city while all the while navigating through the blinding smog. The signal was getting stronger though, wherever it was leading him to it was well hidden.
After several minutes of traveling the blinding smog gave way and he found himself in what appeared to be an underground dwelling of some kind. Owen silently set his Starfighter down on top of the dwelling which looked similar to that of a factory, peering one last time down at the signal on the radar it was blinking fast indicating that whatever kind of vessels he was chasing had set down inside the factory.
Getting stealthily out of his cockpit he made his way across the noisy metal roof, Owen was hearing a lot of commotion down below inside almost as if there was a large gathering going on. He eventually found a hole in the roof to look down from, gazing inside Owen could see about a thousand well armed men assembling for what seemed to be a speech or something as there was a stage with a podium in front of them.
Shockingly they began chanting as a lone man approached the podium with what appeared to be his bodyguards.
The chant increased as he stepped up on the podium, it was almost deafening even for Owen being so high up. The lone man simply held out both his hands and the endless chanting stopped. "He's obviously in charge" thought Owen.
The leading man began to speak. "My friends…my allies…my comrades…MY BROTHERS!" he cried cocking his fist in the air as the crowd of men roared in response.
As the cheering came back down again the leader started back up. "We have come far in these last several years…we have overcome, sacrificed, and triumphed over much to arrive here today"
"But it is all in the name of our cause…our cause is what gives us strength, our cause is the foundation upon which we stand, and our cause is what's brought us here today" the leading man continued.
With each fanatic word Owen became more concerned.
The leading man continued. "My fathers dream shall be realized…my dream shall be realized…OUR DREAM SHALL BE REALIZED!" he cried causing an uproar in the crowd again.
"Wait a minute…father?" thought Owen questioning the last comment.
Without delay he pulled out his optics from his belt, peering down below at the crowd of men and then to the speaker Owens fears were confirmed, it was The Sun Gods…reborn.
His blond eyebrows frowned. "What are they up to?" Owen wondered with concern in his tone.
"All this must have something to do with my vision" he added to himself.
Owen continued to listen to more.
"…but my brothers are time has come and nothing, not even the vaunted Republic shall stand in our way…with our lithium weapons Solar and very soon the entire galaxy shall be ours" the Sun God Leader continued.
"And with the newest ultimate lithium weapon I can assure you VICTORY WILL BE OURS!" shouted the Sun God leader once more.
Suddenly in the corner of the factory next to the crowd a light came on highlighting what looked like the weapon he was referring to all covered up. With a nod of his head the enormous sheet that covered it up was pulled down revealing an astonishing new weapon. It had the look of a normal artillery piece only ten times bigger, the long barrel of the gun glowed with a flickering blue hum, a result of the lithium energy no doubt.
The crowd of Sun Gods fell deafly silent staring up in awe at the wondrous weapon.
"Perhaps a demonstration of its remarkable power is in order" stated the Leader of the Sun Gods.
A stolen super battle tank was unexpectedly wheeled in. "Show them" he commanded.
"Yes Leader Solaris" saluted his number two in command.
"Solaris, oh no…this can't be" Owen thought.
General Kade then punched in the target on the weapon as the barrel began to lower.
Owens hands came to his face as his eyes couldn't take the sudden rush of blue energy as the colossal weapon fired at the super battle tank literally turning it to ash.
He couldn't believe it, the weapon had vaporized almost any trace of the vehicle at all. Owen then began to worry, if they indeed had these powerful weapons The Sun Gods could wipe out anything they wanted, maybe even an entire planet. The shockwave of sudden information went straight through him as he imagined what they would do to the galaxy. "No, I can't let that happen, it must be destroyed" he thought.
"So you see now the true extent of what we can do…NOTHING CAN STOP US!" he shouted.
The crowd of Sun Gods began to roar and started chanting again. "Saul, Saul, Saul, Saul, Saul…" they chanted.
"Saul?" Owen thought.
"So its Saul Solaris…Seth must have had a son or some type of relative" he thought.
"I can't worry about that now I've got to find a way to destroy that weapon" Owen continued thinking.
"Hmm, I can't take them all now that'd be suicide…I'll wait until they leave" Owen said glaring down at the spectacle below.
But suddenly catching him completely off guard Owens leg went right through the hazardous rooftop sending fragments of metal flying down below. Everyone including Saul Solaris looked up at the struggling Owen Sun trying to see what was happening, Saul then pointed upwards at him. "An intruder, kill him!" he ordered.
Quickly every Sun God down below grabbed their weapons and starting firing up at Owen, luckily for him he was too far up for most of the shots to do any damage as he tried to struggle his leg out of the hole. General Kade immediately got himself over to his Leader. "Take some men and get up there now!" Saul ordered.
Following his orders Kade grabbed four men and went after the mysterious intruder, Owen continued trying to pull himself out of the hole but his leg was wedged in the roof good leaving him almost defenseless. In just a few minutes General Kade and four of his men had found the intruder still stuck and scrambling to pull himself out. "There he is, FIRE!" shouted Kade.
As plasma splashed all around him Owen gave up his struggle. "Forget this" he thought.
Pulling his lightsaber from his belt he cut a hole around his leg in the roof being extra careful not to sever his own leg off, as the burning metal gave way at last freeing him he began to block each shot aimed at him. Advancing closer to the firing Sun Gods Owen cut into the first one sawing him in half, twirling his blade back round he spun it into the next soldiers gut. Owen then picked up another Sun God and held him in the air with the force, promptly he was thrown off the factory. The final Sun God soldier in front of General Kade slowly backed up as Owen advanced towards him blocking each menacing blaster shot, with a swing of his blade he cut the fleeting soldier in two maiming him from his neck slanting down to the right side of his chest.
Seeing his four men cut down in front of him Kade was a bit shell-shocked, but as his eyes refocused he fired all the shots he could muster at him. Owen simply blocked each violent shot and sliced Kades blaster in half then with a thrust of his hand he pushed him back. "So much for the welcoming party, I've got to get out of here" said Owen.
Retreating back down the roof Owen hopped back in his Jedi Starfighter, meanwhile on the other side of the factory roof Kade had landed hard from Owens fierce push. Shaking off the cobwebs he looked up and noticed the intruder who was obviously a Jedi begin to take flight in his ship, instinctively General Kade made his way over to the ships nearby. "You men get a ship and follow me!" ordered Kade to the five Sun Gods.
Owen was already in the air when he noticed three blips on his radar. "More of them, blast it" he cursed.
Turning his Starfighter from left to right Owen did the best he could avoiding the laser fire but flying through the depths of the city's narrow corridors proved difficult for him as it prevented him from evading all the fire.
Glancing at the layout of the Jedi's vessel on his ships computer screen in front of him General Kade speedily gave his sensible orders. "Aim for the Jedi's engines" he commanded to the two other vessels with him.
With a swift blast to his engines Owens Jedi Starfighter began to sink deeper into the city depths as the direct hit had grounded his fighter. The three pursuing Sun God ships followed the Jedi's long smoke trail as he attempted to land.
Owen had no choice his fighter was overheating, he had to land it now or it would explode. So making a hasty landing he quickly got himself out and ran inside the nearest building. The three Sun God ships chasing him all landed next to Owens Starfighter and slowly made their way within following the Jedi inside.
Stepping inside the nearly pitch black building General Kade split his men up. "You two go that way, the next two that way, you stay with me" he directed.
"Stay close and keep your eyes open" he added as the four men made their way deeper into the dark building.
The brief noises they heard in the dark only made the soldiers more and more trigger happy, suddenly looking to the left one of the panicky Sun Gods thought he saw the Jedi. "There he is!" he shouted.
In a hail of fire the room was lit up until General Kade corrected the trigger happy soldier. "What are you trying to do, get us all killed!" he scolded.
"You almost shot three of your own men!" he added.
"Sorry General Kade Sir!" apologized the Sun God soldier.
With them all bunched together a hidden Owen Sun made his move, every one of them looked up hearing a low hum of energy, all they could see was an eerie yellow glow in the dark. "What the hell is that?" wondered one of the Sun Gods.
"It's the Jedi, shoot him!" commanded General Kade.
Owen flipped into the center of them and began cutting them to pieces, in the end only General Kade and one other Sun God soldier remained. Tossing his blaster rifle to the floor the psychotic Sun God charged at him with a violent overhead slash, Owen simply moved his head aside and drove his lightsaber into the soldiers gut. The Sun Gods eyes shot wide open as he fell to the floor dead.
It didn't take long for him to notice General Kade by the lightened doorway, with his other blaster in hand he opened fire. "Die Jedi!"
Owen parried the blaster fire and steered one of Kades shots back towards him hitting him in the chest, his golden Generals armor took the brunt of it as he retreated back outside. Making his way past the severed body parts of the dead Sun Gods Owen cautiously went back outside and used the force to sense where the Sun God General was, right before Kade could open fire again he discovered his location.
Blocking each shot Kade became more and more infuriated. "Why won't you just die!" he cried.
Owen deflected two more of General Kades own blaster shots towards him knocking him to the edge of the building, as Kade got up to fire again Owen extended his arm forward throwing the Sun God General off the building and down to his certain death.
Satisfied Owen got back in his cooled down Jedi Starfighter and left.
But a few levels below a banged up General Kade was still alive, throwing his cracked armored chest plate away Kade struggled his way back to one of the ships. "You haven't beaten me yet Jedi" he stated.
Meanwhile on the other side of the city.
The clone invasion force had begun their attack at the behest of their Jedi General and in just a few short hours they had seized the House of Laws, finally in orbit the fighting was growing more intense as both the Republic and Separatists fought savagely for air superiority in space above Solar, the chaotic space battle was far from being over. Owen opened up a channel to the assault ships in orbit. "This is General Owen Sun does any one copy" he began.
"We copy General, go ahead" responded the ship Captain.
"How's everything going?" asked Owen.
"We've made some steady progress Sir and begun our attack on the CIS capital ship...both fleets are engaging each other as we speak" reported the ship Captain.
"What about our ground forces?" Owen wondered.
"They've already taken the House of Laws and set up a command post, their standing by waiting for your orders" informed the ship Captain.
"Good, I'm on my way there…keep up the fight in space Captain, if we destroy that capital ship the droids on the ground will be useless" replied Owen referring to severing the droids from their core
"General Sun out" he ended.
Making his way to the clone forces on the ground he encountered little resistance, finally he arrived setting his smoking Starfighter down in front of the House of Laws. Right away Owen was greeted by the clone Commander. "General Sun, I'm glad you made it" he greeted.
"What's our status?" asked Owen.
"Well as you can see we've seized the House of Laws as you ordered, I set up defenses all around the structure as the Separatists have been counter attacking almost every half hour…it hasn't been easy but we've held the remote area for now" reported the clone Commander.
"Forgive me General but do you plan to continue our attack any time soon?" wondered the clone Commander.
"Yes, gather your forces and prepare" replied Owen.
"Yes Sir!" saluted the clone Commander enthusiastically.
"Oh and General when we seized the structure we rescued several prisoners from the CIS" reported the clone Commander.
Owen clinched his jaw remembering his almost forgotten parents. "Where are they?" he asked.
"They were cramped in a small jail when we found them so I moved them to a large underground cellar down the street…to keep them safe from the fighting" the clone Commander informed.
"They were generally women and children…most of the men were killed" he added.
A small piece of Owen began to ache inside as heard the news and peered around seeing all the strewn corpses. "Thank you Commander that will be all, ready the clone forces for our attack" Owen ordered with a small hurt in his tone.
"Why would the Separatists do this, Solar is a peaceful planet why slaughter them like this…I fear all this must be connected somehow" thought Owen referring to The Sun Gods and CIS.
"Of course Sir and I'll have my engineers fix your ship right away" finished the clone Commander.
Moving down the street past the death and destruction Owen arrived at the cellar, a clone trooper saluted as Owen opened the door making his way down the stairs inside.
All throughout the musty cellar children, women, and very few men took refuge, some were sleeping others huddled with what was left of their families. The surviving Solarians looked like they had been to the other side of the galaxy and back, their once blond hair was covered in dust and debris from the CIS attack.
Mild tremors shook the cellar from the explosions deeper in the city, another CIS counter attack no doubt.
Owen made his way through the dirty, defeated people like an angel, his mere presence was a beacon of hope for them. Passing by a coughing old man, fatherless family, and a bandaged up man Owen came across a helpless child no more than three or four standing alone glaring up at him, going to one knee he wiped the dust and dirt off his face. Starring into the child's worried eyes Owen asked a pertinent question. "Where are your parents?"
The child didn't respond at first. "Its okay son" Owen said placing his hand on the boys shoulder.
"M…my mommy and daddy are gone" said the helpless child.
"What do you mean?" asked Owen.
"Once all the firing started they left me with all these people, they told me to stay there and wait for them while they went to get the rest of my family…but they never came back" explained the small boy.
Owen cringed shutting his eyes knowing that they probably didn't make it, wanting to do anything to help he offered the child some of his water. "Thank you Mr." thanked the boy.
"Rest easy son, you're safe now" Owen assured patting the boy on the shoulder.
Owen arose continuing his trek throughout his people.
In the corner a lone women you had gotten on in her old age bundled up tight trying to keep warm in the dank cellar when suddenly she noticed a man making his way through the crowd of people. The clean robes he was wearing told her that he wasn't just any ordinary Solarian, and as she glanced at his handsome features and shoulder length blond hair she saw something in him almost as if she knew who he is or who he was…it was something in the face. The old women then noticed a lightsaber dangling from his belt. "He's a Jedi" she thought.
She knew very little about the Jedi, only what she remembered from the two that had saved Solar so long ago.
Even as he passed her she couldn't stop staring at him, she gazed at his face trying to place the mysterious Jedi. But as he turned to help a woman to her feet she got the full look of his face, it took her a few seconds to place but suddenly it hit her. "Lena, he must be Lena Suns boy" she thought.
She got to her feet as fast as her old legs would allow her and starting pushing her way through the mass of people, finally after elbowing her way past a few men she grabbed at the Jedi's robe. "Owen" she said.
Owen turned around surprised. "Excuse me"
"Are you Owen Sun?" she asked desperately.
He furrowed his blond eyebrows. "Do I know you?"
"No you don't but I need to know, are you him?" she asked again.
"Yes, I am Jedi Knight Owen Sun…I came with the Republic to help" Owen answered.
She looked at him in amazement. "So it is you"
"Excuse me maim, but may I ask who you are?" Owen wondered befuddled.
"My names Marla…Marla Osirus, I knew you when you were just a child" she answered.
"A child?" Owen questioned.
"Yes, you were so young then you probably don't remember…I was a close friend of your mother" Marla replied.
"She would be so proud of you" she added.
That last bit of information raised his curiosity. "You knew my mother?" Owen questioned.
"Oh yes, I knew her quite well, we were good friends until the incident three years ago" Marla replied.
"Incident, did something happen?" wondered Owen spiking his concern.
Marla's hand went to her face. "Oh…my dear boy I thought you knew" she said in distress.
"What?" Owen wondered frantically.
"Owen I'm so sorry to have to tell you this but your father is dead" Marla revealed.
Owens entire world seemed to fall apart…he was crushed to the core.
Struggling with his emotions and how he learned to control them as a Jedi he responded a torn wreck. "How did it happen?" Owen barely muttered out.
"Oh Owen I don't think any of that matters now" Marla replied concerned for him.
"He was my father…I deserve to know" Owen said barely holding himself together.
"Well, I only know what I heard from the news reports…an explosion of some kind, that's all I know" Marla revealed.
"That's it?" Owen wondered wanting to know more.
"You must understand that after it happened your mother was inconsolable, she wouldn't talk for weeks, Lena never spoke of it with me, ever" Marla continued.
"And after weeks turned to months and months turned to years we lost contact with one another" Marla finished.
"I don't blame her…I can't imagine how she felt, David was her life" she added.
Owen was white pale as the reality of it sunk in.
"Are you okay Owen?" Marla asked worried.
"Yes…(clears throat) I'm fine, do you know where my mother is?" Owen asked fighting back his emotions.
"No, I'm sorry Owen…the last place I saw her was at their old residence on the west side of the city" Marla replied.
"Thank you…for everything" said an emotional Owen.
"Give her my best" Marla finalized as Owen departed.
Getting out of the cellar Owen turned round the corner past the guarding clone trooper to have a moment alone by himself.
He tried to hold it all together but the memory of his father was too much as his back slid down the wall and falling on his rear Owen began weeping quietly to himself.
After several seconds Owen wiped the tears from his eyes and brushed himself off, walking back over to the House of Laws his grief soon turned to concern as he was determined to find his mother. "General Sun Sir we are ready and waiting for deployment" greeted the clone Commander.
"There's been a change of plan Commander, you will have to lead the attack by yourself" started Owen.
"What?" wondered an overanxious clone Commander.
"Flank the positions the Separatists are counter attacking from" continued Owen speed walking over to his fighter.
"But Sir won't that leave us a little spread out, I don't think I have enough officers" explained the clone Commander.
"Then use them wisely…once you've flanked and destroyed their counter attacking forces spread out and attack the rest of the city" finished Owen.
Owen hopped into his Jedi Starfighter. "But General Sun Sir, where are you going?" wondered the clone Commander trying to figure out these new developments.
"Don't worry, I'll be back soon, just remember my orders" assured Owen.
With that an emotional Owen Sun took flight in his repaired Jedi Starfighter on coarse for his old home, it was a long shot but Owen somehow knew deep down that his mother was still there and still alive.