Chapter 11
Trash Trouble
Okay, guys. Time for chapter 11. And now, my friends... Let's kick it up!
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Lynn sat alone in the center of a field. Placed right in front of her knees was a Lightsaber hilt of slightly above average length with a black grip, metallic great coating on the metal, and the points between the main part of the hilt and the two emitters being slightly thinned. Her eyes then shot open before she leapt to her feet and ignited the twin blades of her saber which, like those of her master's, were slightly smaller than the average. This made the weapon ideal for the mix of Soresu and Shien which Cal had been teaching her. Using this method, she was able to swat away the a decent number of the low power blaster bolts that had been sent at her until one manged to get by her in the shoulder and more hits soon followed.
The hits soon took their tole on Lynn, the brunette dropping and deactivating her Lightsaber before she looked to where Cal and Cere were standing.
"That's enough for right now." Cal said before signaling Lynn to follow him.
"Why can't I get this down?" Lynn asked her master, frustrated at the lacking amount of progress that the past month been shown.
"I had a block just like your for a long time. I overcame it and so can you." Cal assured her.
"What caused your block?" Lynn asked before the two of them arrived near just outside of the base to see Lincoln going through some checks on a green a white and green ship with three thrusters.
"Like I said, just like yours." Kal said, Lynn understanding his meaning exactly.
Over at the base's hanger. Lincoln, and Hera were continuing their run through on the checks for the new ships with Lisa and Lana.
"Once we knew how the crafts operated, it was simple to assist in the reformatting of them." Lisa explained.
"The reconfigured ARCs, which we've started calling 'X-Wings' may not be as heavy on the armor as they used to be but their fire rates and maneuvering more than make up for that." Lana explained before she and Lisa walked to the ship Lincoln was looking at.
"What was taken from the armor of the ARC fighters was moved along with thrusters of ships which were otherwise beyond repair to these 'M-Wing' bombers." Lisa said as her brother continued is inspection.
"Should be good for an escape after a successful run." Lincoln noted before focusing on Lisa and Lana. "How are we on making more of them?" He asked.
"We need to scavenge more parts not only to make more but to run an upkeep of what we have." Hera explained before handing a pad to Lincoln.
"Well, we do need to run some test flights. Maybe we could do them in systems with junks planets or moons. Kill two birds with one stone." Lincoln suggested, Lynn listening intently before Cal gave her a gentle nudge.
"You're gonna need someone in the gunner's seat. Maybe I can help with that." Lynn suggested, still having some difficulties looking her brother in the eye.
"Yeah. That sounds good. You could use the practice. Shootings the one sport you're lacking in." Lincoln said with a smile before giving her a playful slap on the arm.
A short time later, Lincoln, now clad in his armor was sitting in the cockpit of the M-Wing.
"Okay. Just a quick scouting trip to Raxus Prime and back. Try to avoid any complications." Hera said before Lynn hopped in the gunner's seat and Sixer slotted in to the Droid compartment.
"Don't worry. We'll be fine." Lincoln assured the leader of the Spectors before he closed the cockpit lid. "Alright. Let's get moving." He said before the M-Wing lifted off.
After a short time traveling through hyperspace, Lincoln and Lynn arrived just above a planet that one would be forgiven for assuming was a machine.
"Okay. I didn't feel anything when we finished the jump. Anything on the readouts?" Lincoln asked, getting a few beeps and wirs from Sixer.
"And looks like none of the weapons got jostled loose either." Lynn confirmed.
"Alright. All that leaves is testing reentry." Lincoln said before moving the M-Wing in to position to enter in to the planet's atmosphere. Upon entering, Lincoln checked the computers to see that all systems were in the green before they made a landing.
"Wow. That was cool. I mean I've been a ship before. But there's... Lynn tried to find the words.
"Something more pure about looking directly out at the stars. I know." Lincoln said, the two siblings smiling at the shared feelings. "Alright. Let's take a look around." He said before signaling for Sixer to stay with the ship if they need for him to give them a quick exit.
A short time later Lincoln and Lynn came to an area where they saw a group of Rodians, many of whom clad in heavy gear, and a smaller chunck of the group forgoing a good chunk of clothing in other to lift large magnetic devices. Lincoln was quick to take notice of the yellow colored TIE Fighters and TIE Landers, the former of which was modified by taking the fronts of the panels off.
"Ah. Spast. These guys are with the scrapper guilds." Lincoln said, having been told of the groups by Kanan. "It looks like we're going to have to find another place to..." He began to say before both siblings felt a disturbance in the Force before pieces of scrap began to form in to humanoid shapes around the scavengers.
"What the heck are those things?" Lynn asked.
"Force gollems. The cores inside them are used so they can be controlled from pretty far away." He explained before the two heard the unmistakable shriek of sets of twin ion engines and the two ducked down as a TIE Scimitar and TIE Hunter flew above them before the pilots, muscular pale green and a woman with wearing an black helmet with a thin T-Shaped visor which green tendrils were poking out of, both of whom were clad in Inquisitor armor.
"That's about right." Lincoln said as he and Lynn watched the two Inquisitors sliced down the gollems.
"If they're here, there has to be Jedi on this planet." Lynn reasoned out. "We'd better hurry and try to find them and get the heck out of here." She said, Lincoln nodding in agreement before they began moving.
Soon enough the two siblings arrived at a curved mountain in the middle of which stood a large structure.
"Wait a minute. I recolonize that. It's an almost exact replica of the old Jedi temple." Lincoln pointed out.
"There's something else. I can sense... not stress, but..." Lynn began to say before Lincoln nodded.
"But something that buckled under it." Lincoln said, perfectly conveying what Lynn was trying to say.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Lynn said before the two began to climb up the mountain of junk in order to reach the outside of the temple.
Upon reaching the top, the two took notice of a of an Aleena who was standing in the middle of a chamber with what looked like to be a circle of people made out of scrap metal which he was kneeling before and mumbling something that the siblings couldn't quite make out. Just then, the two Inquisitors walked in to the chamber.
"Kazdan Paratus." The larger of the Inquisitors said before he and his companion activated their sabers.
"Don't worry, Masters. I will protect you from this Sith trash." Kazdan said before he was lifted up by a set of mechanical arms from the backpack which he was wearing before igniting the blue blade of his Lightsaber pike before rushing at the two Inquisitors with the ferocity that only came from insanity only to be blocked by the famel Inquisitor before the male one used his Force augmented strength to punch him away.
Lincoln and Lynn then looked at each other before they nodded and jumped down to aid Kazden in his fight, landing in the between him and the two Inquisitors, Lincoln activating his primary saber as Lynn did the same with one side of her own saber.
"So you brought more Sith with you." Kazden growled, before going for a stab at Lincoln, Lynn taking notice before activating the second blade of her saber.
"Dude! Wait! We're on your side!" Lynn exclaimed as before Kazdan jumped to a beem above the room.
"I will not be fooled by your Sith trickery and neither will the Masters." Kazden said before lifting his organic hands up before the scrap statues began to move before pulling out weapons which resembled Lightsabers with electrical wiring wrapping over the blades and attacking the Louds and the Inquisitors as Kazden jumped down in order to join the fight as well.
Lincoln was quick to press a device on the underside of his wrist before taking his second saber off of his belt and getting back to back with Lynn as the two of them both fought off the Inquisitors and statues while they defended from Kazden's strikes. Lynn then took notice of several of the statues jumping at her young brother, effortlessly preforming the maneuver that Cal had been training her in to deflect the attacks before she pushed them back.
The chaos of keeping the scrap moving as well as his attacks on the four other Force wielders eventually became too much for Kazden to handle as the female Inquisitor got behind before running him through and spinning the blades of her saber. With Kazden dead, the scrap statues crumbled to the ground. At that point the two Inquisitors focused in their effort against the Loud siblings, going strait to attack the two of them only to be knocked on their backs by and explosion.
Lincoln and Lynn then looked up to see the M-Wing came flying in before the sibling jumped up and in to it, Lynn firing on the Inquisitors as they fled, leaning back and putting her hand over her head after they escaped the planet and went in to hyper space.
Some time later, the Loud siblings arrived back at the makeshift airfield of the Rebel base where they briefed their masters about what had happened.
"I met Kazden Paratus once. He was never the most social guy. That's most likely what added to him snapping like he did." Kanan said while leaning against the M-Wing.
"I'm just sorry that we weren't there with you. We might have been able to talk him down." Cal said, Lincoln shaking his head at the comment.
"I don't think so. I think he might have just been too far gone. His mind was just... fractured. Some people you just can't save. Doesn't mean I'm ever gonna stop trying." Lincoln said, all three fellow Jedi smiling at that statement.
"Well said." Kanan said as he popped Lincoln one in the shoulder before telling him and Sixer to brief Lisa, Lana and the other engineers on the performance of the M-Wing.
"So... How are you feeling?" Cal asked Lynn as they began to walk.
"I'm a little shaken. I knew being at war means that some people were going to die. But this was... the first time I've seen it for myself." Lynn said with a sigh.
"I know what you mean. I dealt with the same at my first battle during the Clone Wars. You're mental states about where mine was there." Cal said with a pat on Lynn's shoulder. "So how about the other thing?" He asked.
"When things went down, I completely stopped thinking about what I did and just focused on what I had to do. Then, the wall just broke." Lynn said as they arrived at the training zone.
"Good. And now that the block is gone, you can really start to grow." Cal said before igniting his Lightsaber before Lynn did the same as master and apprentice began to spar with each other.
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Okay, got a new chapter out not only before May the 4th and a couple weeks before Ewan McGregor's (and my own) birthday. Next time as Lynn grows, so too does Petro's grudge with her. Until then and as always... keep on keeping on.