The crossfire of blaster bolts was too dangerous to even poke your hand into. I looked up and saw eight black dots in the sky. These dots quickly got bigger. They produced a mechanic screeching noise that could be heard from miles away.

The hellish silhouettes

I could see terrified pirates around every corner, sure enough, they had battled against proper military war machines like General Grievous' Droid Army, but the Confederacy did have the entire might of the galaxy at their disposal. I was looking for a ship, but I felt I had forgotten something…

Ackbar!

I rushed back to the entrance, which was swamped by the many corpses of pirates gunned down. Hondo was still alive, standing proudly with his gun aloft, he was screaming at the top of his voice.

'IMPERIAL SCUM! LEAVE THIS PLANET AT ONCE!'

His screams were cut off by another screeching noise, it sounded like back at Jedi Youngling Academy when Master Sinube scratched the blackboard with his chalk, only ten times worse. Everyone looked up, the dots in the sky had resumed, this time there were only three.

The dots approached a to lot quicker this time, and once the silhouette had taken it's shape, you could see the three ships were extremely similar to the bombers, they had two wings on either side, but there was only one compartment instead of two, and had small chambers connecting the parts together. I guessed it had been a lot lighter to make it quicker and more nimble. The fighter began to fire it's two standard cannons, causing thick green beams to scorch the ground below. The fighter began firing at the first few feet leading up the hut, and when the area was in range, it was being crippled by the amount of military power they were up against. Hondo looked around for support, and saw his last guard fall to the ground. He glanced at his collapsing empire, and ran away.

I remembered what I came back for, and searched the surrounding area for the elusive Mon Calamari. My search took me into a small room filled all sorts of junk: hats, gloves, glasses, smashed up armour, small statues of hands and heads, wrist blades and-

'My lightsaber!' I thought aloud.

There it was, the elegant weapon I had used for decades, I picked it up with both hands and twirled it in my fingers. Now I was ready, I could take the fight to Vader.

I walked out of the room, and began to make my way to the entrance, and in hindsight maybe I was a bit too overconfident. My first foot out of the room was met by a shrill sheik, and moments later, hell had ascended to the ground.

It felt like all gravity had just disappeared at that moment. I was swept off my feet as a horrible noise occurred, and it was partnered with violent shades of red, orange, yellow and a bit of black swirling round and round, instantly killing anyone who was in the centre of the explosion, and sparing only a few who weren't that close. It felt like I was flying but I had no control, as I was forced straight back into the room, and my head clashed against shelves and shelves worth of junk, then gravity came back, and I flopped to the floor.

When I woke I had the feeling I'd been sucker punched, my eyelids felt way too heavy to carry. I just wanted to be back in my office at the Jedi Temple, not in the middle of some unimportant squabble between the galactic military and a bunch of stupid pirates. My bones ached everywhere, I just wanted to go, but my frame wouldn't let me. I laid there for five minutes, and then getting up had been considerably easier when I tried. Finally on my feet, I staggered this way and that, then decided to plant my feet onto the ground like they had magnets on them. I stretched my back, my arms and my neck.I felt a lot better now, so I walked outside and then that feeling got a whole load worse.

Three stormtroopers decided to stop and recognise who I was, then run over to me and surround me.

'Hands up, Jedi!' one of them said, this one in particular had an orange velvety thing on his shoulder. All three had their guns aiming at me. 'We're taking you to Lord Vader, and we can leave this vile planet!' Velvet (as I had now called the one who spoke before) said.

I laughed, causing the stormtroopers to look around questioningly. 'You can come out now.' I smiled, causing the stormtroopers further confusion. 'I know you're here.' The stormtrooper blocking my right rubbed his helmet in question. 'Well, one of you is the spy!' I grinned. 'Take out the other two, quickly!' All three stormtrooper looked at each other.

'What?' The one on my left whispered.

'I think one of us is a spy?' The one the right wondered.

All three of them looked at themselves, Velvet raised his gun and looked around, before aiming it at the trooper on my left, who aimed back at him, the trooper on my right aimed at the trooper on my left. The trooper on my left took a glance in the trooper on my right's direction, then aimed at him. Velvet followed the trooper on my left's gaze, and traced it to the trooper on my right, then aiming it at him. The trooper on my right now had both guns on him, he aimed at the trooper on my left, then at Velvet, then back at the trooper on my left. The trooper on my right looked at the other two troops, before dropping his weapon and putting his hands in the air.

'It's not me.' He mumbled, shaking his head ever so slightly. 'It's not me. It's not me it's him!' He pointed to Velvet, and then the trooper on my left aimed at Velvet, and the trooper on my right picked up his weapon and aimed at him too.

'Eh?' Velvet questioned. 'It's not me! It's him!' Velvet aimed at the trooper on my left, and so did the trooper on my right.

'What?' The trooper on my left screamed, dropping his weapon on the floor, and throwing his hands in the air.

I took this moment to slip away unnoticed, and I hid behind the box. The two with their weapons aimed at each other, before simultaneously dropping their guns. The other trooper lowered his arms.

'Does that mean… that none of us is a spy?' Velvet enquired. 'Wait. Where's-' All three spun round and scanned the room. 'Lads, I think he went down there.' Velvet wondered before leading his brothers away from me. I slipped into the hangar, where I saw four stormtroopers closing with three pirates.

And Ackbar.

I lit my blade, and the noise it made alerted the stormtroopers; they began to start firing at me. I deflected each bolt, sending them in every direction, one came back straight to it's original firer. I sliced at the other two stormtroopers, one in the horizontally across middle and the other diagonally across the torso. I picked up the last remaining trooper with the Force and threw him against the wall, where he got knocked out. I looked at Ackbar and behind towards the ship in the hangar and behind that to the hangar doors.

'Master Windu! You're alive!' Ackbar smiled, greeting me. We shook hands then looked out at the ship. 'Do you think we'll be able to make it out alive?'

'We've just got to wait and see.' I replied.

'You!' said a voice from the left, it was one of the pirates. 'You brought these scum here! You!' The pirate raised his blaster, and fired. I reflected his shot easily, and I could here the pirate behind me readying his weapon, and when the blaster bolt came, I swung my blade behind me and I could sense the bolt deflect back onto it's firer.

A squad of stormtroopers appeared behind us at the end of the corridor. 'There he is!' said the leader. They began to fire at me and Ackbar. We made a beeline for the ship, which suddenly went up in a ball of flames.

'What!' I exclaimed, there were no fighters in the sky or bombers that could've done this. I looked behind the ship, and I could see two… things there.

These things looked like chickens, they had too metal legs, and the "head" had two standard blaster cannons on it, and two flaps just above them. It was quite big though. The things fired at me, I dodged every shot by jumping here and there. I backflipped three consecutive times to dodge the cannons. I leapt onto the top of one of them, now I had them where I wanted them, the other "chicken" fired at me, but ended up taking out it's friend. I jumped onto the top of the other walker before the cannons made contact. I jumped off of the top and held myself on with the flap, I stabbed my lightsaber into the walker, and was met with a scream that meant I had found my target. I pulled my blade out and stabbed it into the other flap, and had successfully defeated the two walkers.

There was one ship two hundred feet away that was scouring for any pirate survivors that hadn't been killed yet. Me and Ackbar ran over to the ship, we had to time our jump perfectly. We were almost there when I was cut off by a hidden force. I looked up and saw Darth Vader standing over me. Ackbar looked back to me.

'GO!' I demanded.

Ackbar kept running towards the ship. I leapt up and glared at Skywalker. I ignited my lightsaber and so did Skywalker. We clashed blades twice and I kicked him to the ground. I sprinted towards he ship with Ackbar while Vader stood there watching our escape. It was a brief fight but believe me, it's not the first lightsaber fight we'll have. The ship came over us and I leapt onto the open platform. Ackbar looked at me with wide eyes as the ship flew away. I picked him up with the Force and landed him on the platform with me. We went up to the cockpit.

'We need to leave!' I told the pilot.

'Wha- No! There's people down there!' He replied.

'How many people have you collected?' I asked.

'Only you two.' He told me.

'How long have you been searching?' I pressed on.

'About an hour.' He said.

'Then leave!' I ordered.

The pilot battled with himself for a moment or two, before he piloted it upwards towards space.

'God give me strength.' The pilot sighed.

Thankfully the ship wasn't noticed. It pulled out of the atmosphere and two Star Destroyers could be seen in wait for any escapees.

'Punch it!' I commanded.

The fighter entered hyperspace, and shot out of the area and away from the Imperials, and most importantly, away from Vader.