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Chapter 24: Trip Back to Coruscant
In the middle of the city of Rwookrrorro, the capital of Kashyyyk Jedi Master Mark Alan Zane and Jedi Padawan Rachelle Hunter finds themselves trapped on one of the higher bridge that is part of the many bridges that connect the trees of the city together, with a Sith on both side nearing them. To be exact they are in the widen middle of the bridge.
"Okay Master how are we going to get out of this one. It will be a good time for one of those bright ideas you usually have. Even if it is a crazy one!" say Rachelle as she tense her body preparing for a fight that will await them. She tries to think of something that will get them out of here.
Mark eyes dart around and then lands on the bridge that is underneath their feet. He smiles at a thought enters his head. Mark look up and notice he will not have enough time to cut it, so he will have to use the Force to break the bridge. "Grab hold of the railing and make sure you use the Force to keep us and this part of the bridge balance." whisper Mark.
Mark focus on the Force while Rachelle use the Force to keep balance and hold on tightly to the railing. Then a 4 loud snaps echoes through the jungle. Then the 4 bridges that connected to the widen part fall down along with the center rounded part. Darth Vader and Darth Destria falls to the ground much faster then Mark and Rachelle.
Rachelle lost focus a bit from the strain and the part of the bridge they were standing on was going uncontrollably down to the surface. Mark was trying to control the now uncontrollable fall, but he was too late when they smashed into the ground hard. The bridge they were on shatter like glass.
Both Rachelle and Mark stumble and fall down. The Sith approach them. "Master! We need to get out of here!" shout Rachelle as raises her hand and a bright light appear above her hand. Darth Destria screams in pain as a Force Ability named Force Blindness blinded her. Mark uses the Force to kick up a wild dirt storm around blind Darth Vader.
They run out of the city. "Captain Kia or Captain Rex come in. We need an LAAT to pick us up. I activating my homing beacon." say Mark as he press a button to turn on his Comlink on and another button to activate his homing beacon.
"Master wouldn't Force Blindness work on Darth Vader?" ask Rachelle as they run. They were meeting with Blasters firing at them, as they run through the jungle. Mark slashes through a trooper in black armor. He uses the Force to summon a vine for him and Rachelle to grab. They swing until they got on a bridge. Mace Windu was there dueling a group of Dark Jedi. Mark and Rachelle knock them off the bridge when they swing onto them.
"Let's get going Master Windu. Chancellor Skywalker and Leia is safe from the Sith now. They should be on their way to Coruscant." say Rachelle as she disarmed another Dark Jedi and knock her out by slamming the bottom of her Lightsaber hilt.
"I think you show up at the wrong spot, Mark. This area is pack full with Dark Jedi. Where's Vader and Destria?" ask Mace. "They are in the heart of the city. Let get a move on before they can find us." say Mark. Mace nod shortly as he took off running with the mentor and student duo.
A group of Dark Jedi along with Darth Destria approach behind them on the bridge. Rachelle spins around and uses the ability Combustion to explode up the part of the bridge an LAAT with Obi-wan, Anakin, Yoda, Shaak Ti, couple of clones and some Jedi Knight appear beside them. Mark, Mace and Rachelle leap into the LAAT.
The hatches on both sides close and they rose up into the air where an Attack Cruiser is. Once on the Attack Cruiser the Attack Cruiser raise into space. Mark walk to the bridge where people were meeting. "I want casualty and damage reports." say Mark.
He knows this have been one of the hardest battles that the 3rd Legion has faced. He can guess that it might be close to the hardest. "We lost 5 Attack Cruiser, and 10,000 men that were on those ships. We did some damages to them sir." say a Clone in white armor with yellow shoulder pads.
Mark look at the viewport of the Attack Cruiser and notice the space was litter with damage ships. He sees an half an Attack Cruiser floating vertically through space and bunch of Clones body. The Force gave him a warning. "Get away from this planet right now! Vader is coming!" shout Mark.
"Full speed get out of the gravity pull of the planet and kick it into Hyperspace to Coruscant!" shout Captain Kia. Mark walks of from the bridge and drop into a chair in one of the rooms.
On the J-type Star Skiff that is in Hyperspace toward Coruscant. Leia is eating happily with her mother. In Padme eyes she can tell that Leia have been starved slightly during her captivity. "Mommy thank you!" say Leia very happy as she looks at her mother with widen eyes. "For what?" ask Padme.
"Coming to get me." say Leia lightly as she return to eating the meal that was out in front of her. Padme smile slightly now knowing what her daughter is referring her thanks to. She was thanking her for saving her from Darth Vader. "You really got to think your Uncle Mark. He was the one who came up with the plan to save you. If it was not for him, things might not turn out the same way." say Padme.
When she says this, she stops and thinks. This is not the first time that Mark help save her family or protect them. Over the years since the Clone Wars, Mark had been there for them starting with the trouble that Maxus Zane caused them during 19 BBY. Her family owes Mark a lot. Then again, who in the Republic does not owe Mark; after all he saved the Republic from being burnt to the ground.
After her meal, Leia went to play with some of the games that Padme keeps aboard the ship for them to play. Padme does not mind, she is just more than happy to be able to have her daughter back. Maybe they should change Mark's nickname from Hero of the Republic to Master of Distraction, because the distraction he made on Kashyyyk was a top grade one.
She knows she have beginning to doubt him over the past couple months due to her being worry about not getting Leia back. She knows getting her little girl back cost a lot of lives and she feel guilty about that. Her guilt is not as bad because she know Mark warned the other Jedi who came along that it would be dangerous.
Then she remembers Rachelle was laying on the ground when they left. She wonders if her best friend's student is fine. She did provide a distraction by shooting at the ground in front of Rachelle to stop that Sith from coming near her.
Padme hears a crashing noise down the hall and she walks down and finds Leia sitting on the ground with bunch of games around her. On top of her heard was a box cover for one of the games. Padme put her hand up to her mouth to hide her smile. Leia look so silly with the look of innocent on her face and a box on top of her head. "Did Luke or Daddy put these away? They weren't stack!" say Leia as she shakes her head and the box lid fall off her head.
Padme is just glad that Leia is not emotion traumatized by the events. She knows her little girl was tortured, but it seem not to bother her. Padme bends down and help clean up the mess. Rather it was from being poorly stack or Leia eagerness to have some fun, she did not care how the games fall.
For the next couple of hours Padme play games with Leia until she has fallen asleep. Padme picks her sleeping little girl up in her arms in walk into the bedroom compartment. Usually Leia like to sleep in sleeping bags on the ship, but Padme put her on the bed and lay down next to her. She reaches over on the wall to kill the lights. Besides all the small dim lights around the room, the only bright light is coming from the viewport for where all the stars light been stretch out in to strips makes a constant light. That light fade away as the viewport was tinted.
Mark ought to being feeling really tired through all the events that had gone on today, but he is restless, despite being slightly tired. Besides the crew on the bridge, most of the people aboard the Attack Cruiser are fast asleep or relaxing.
Mark walks to the bridge where he found Captain Kia sitting in a chair. He has his helmet off but his blaster rifle not that far from his hand. Once a Clone have there armor on it does not seem to bother you, but once they have the helmet off and are around other Clones without helmet it does get eerier that everyone looks the same. Maybe that is why some Clones change their hairstyle or have facial hair to make them look different among the other Clones.
Since the ship in Hyperspace Mark watch by a Clone who was playing with a deck of cards with another Clone. He looks up with a sheepish smile on his face. "I do not blame you. Go head." say Mark waves his hand. He would have been doing the same thing. Once you are in Hyperspace there is nothing you really have to do to control a ship besides watching readings.
Mark walks up to the viewports, and put his hands on his hips. That is another bad part about being in Hyperspace. Everything is white. Mark have a rating of which is better to fly when bored. Fly though a planet, that is the less boring because of all the things you see. Space comes in second, because you got several of stars and planets to see in the distance. Then up in front is Hyperspace, you literary cannot see anything but whiteness. Maybe a few specks of black here and there, but still there is nothing to see out of the viewports as you are traveling though Hyperspace.
"Hey, got a question would one of you guys mind following me to bed and hitting me with the butt of your rifles to knock me out?" ask Mark looking at them bored. "Ah, we are not going to do that sir. Maybe you should take your Lightsaber and hit yourself along the head with it." say a Clone who looks up at Mark. "Okay, it was just a yes or no question. Well you have fun with whatever you can manage to have fun with on a warship in Hyperspace." say Mark waving as he walk out from the bridge of the ship.
Mark walks back into his room and notices Rachelle was looking at him. "Master are you having a hard time falling asleep?" ask Rachelle. "Nah not tired." say Mark. Rachelle eyes narrow slightly when she heard this and sense that he is not being honest with her.
"Master I know you for 5 years now. I know when you are lying and when something is bothering you." say Rachelle. Mark shakes his head and let out a long sigh as he sits down on his bed, which is across the room from Rachelle's bed. He looks at her in the eyes.
"Maybe I have taught you too well." say Mark as he looks at his Padawan with a slight smile. With that smile, Rachelle knows that her mentor is proud of her. She laughs slightly as she rubs the back of her neck.
Mark crosses his arms. "I was just thinking about how difficult the war will be." say Mark. "How do we know, maybe Darth Vader will just give up." say Rachelle. Mark laughs at this. With his knowledge of the Sith and their hatred for the Jedi, he highly doubt that he will give up on his quest to kill off the Jedi Order.
"You wish a Sith would want to think like that. No, all they're focus on is taking out us, the Jedi Order, and ruling the galaxy." say Mark as he looks up at the steel gray ceiling that is slightly darken due to the lights being off. The door slides open and a Clone Trooper walks in. "Sir, we got a problem, we detected three unwanted visitor on the ships. Our security cameras spotted that two of them were caring a Lightsaber." say The Clone Trooper.
Mark and Rachelle stands up. "They must have been Force Sensitive to be able to get aboard without us noticing before. All the LAATs that pick up all of our troops, someone would bond to notice them unless they used the Force to hide themselves." say Rachelle as they follow the Clone Trooper to the bridge.
It seems like everyone on the bridge look ready for action. Mark went to the Holoprojection pod and pull up the Security recordings. Right away Mark notices that there is a male, a female, and a little boy. The, Mark is guessing, the parents were wearing a light brown robe that have a forest green look to it and seem to have small white armor on the arms.
Mark looks at the Clone Troopers. "Stand down. I have a feeling that they mean us no harm. Come on Rachelle, let go pay our visitors a visit." say Mark as he walks away from the Holoprojection pod and out from the bridge. Mark activates a handheld computer that is hook up to the security device.