Lordess Chronicles

# 11

The Final showdown Pt. ½

" " = Talking

' ' = Thinking

(" ") = Talking in different language

(' ') = Thinking in different language

Timeline: 2 months 2 weeks after the end of the Sith Rebellion

Time left before Republic forces arrive: 6 hours

Linora looked around the holographic map of a planet, and when Fiona said it was surrounded by asteroids, she really meant it. Somehow, for a reason that no scientist has been able to explain, asteroids were all over the planet, covering the planet's surface from space. Due to no heat from the sun being able to get in, the surface is mostly ice and snow. The only way in is either by blowing the asteroids apart, which would give their position away, or, if the information they have is correct, send in the right code for the Crimson Blades to activate some big tractor beams on the ground to move the asteroids away.

Fiona Solusar stood next to her, her arms crossed. To the left of her stood F4-T6, Garen, and the Yuuzhan Vong creature, which has decided on the name Chomp a half an hour ago. To Linora's right was Womp rat, Korvas and Lyra Hunt, and a hologram of Pok. "Alright, here's my plan." Linora started.

"We will destroy a part of their asteroids, allowing us to get in. There is no way to get in without them realizing it eventually. Getting rid of them with the tractor beams will take too long and they will pick it up with their sensors. Korvas will lead Pok's fighter's in, attacking them from above to try and weaken their shields while our men are dropped off in whatever we can find that have big guns, and keep the men safe in zero degree temperature. Once Korvas gets in, he will drop me and Fiona off in the tallest tower, but he won't stop. We'll jump out since our part is a stealth one. When he lands, he will then drop off Garen, a few of Pok's soldiers, and F4-T6. They will download the evidence needed to prove our innocence, and to also distract the guards inside their base. He will also release Chomp, who will go off and distract more of the guards so then Garen won't be facing off their entire force."

Linora pressed a button on one of the holo imagers, and the map zoomed in towards the South pole, where a base with a wall and a ray shield appeared. A arrow pointed to the tallest tower where Fiona and Linora will be dropped off, and then to the court yard where everyone else will be dropped off. "Our schematics of it are very damaged, but as far as we know, they have added upgrades. What we do know is the turrets on the top of the walls, and the shields are like the droideka's of the droid army during the Clone wars. We can't shoot in, but anything can come out, including their blaster fire."

Pok nodded his head. "Good, good. This is a good plan, Linora, but what do we do about the shields?" Linora anticipated this, and was glad of thinking of this. "The shields will stop us from shooting in, but with a shield covering something this big will cost a lot of power. To keep it up after a barrage of bombardments and the attack from the ground vehicles would cause them to give out additional power to their shields, allowing them to possibly lose power from some of their defense systems to keep you out, and hopefully the defense systems inside the base. They must have a huge generator to keep it up so then the freezing cold won't get in freeze the base. Eventually, there should be an opening that we can take to get in."

Pok sighed. "We have four sub-zero carriers, but they can only last for about six hours in those conditions." He looked over at Linora. "The Republic may be able to help us, so we could count on their help, but that is only if they get the evidence needed." He looked over at Fiona. "Also, what about Abraxis and Bree? What will you do with them?" Linora sighed.

"Well, we'll cross that bridge if we have to. If their main computer has everything stored there, then they should have what Abraxis and Bree are doing. We need to focus on proving our innocence, and if we do that then Abraxis and Bree will be hunted down by the Republic and not us." Pok chuckled.

"Give them a taste of their own medicine, I like it. We'll get there as soon as possible, so please leave a few of the bad guys for us."

"You'll more than likely get there sooner." Fiona said. "From what our scanners tell me, you're only about ten minutes ahead of us, so you can start your attack early. We'll join you all as soon as possible."

Pok nodded, and then cut the transmission. Linora let out a sigh a relief, unsure whether or not her plan would actually have been accepted, glad that it was. It was the best she could come up with in the time she had to think of a plan, but it is the best one she has. Fiona walks up to Linora, and then places a hand on her shoulder. "Well, this could be our last night together. How about we have one last night of fun?"

Linora placed her hand on Fiona's. "Well, it will help me relax a little."

Fiona plant a kiss on Linora's neck as the rest of the crew leaves them. "That is true."

Tyro Taa couldn't believe what he was hearing. He was only a quarter of the way through Linora's side of Linora's story, and already the council is yelling that it is a lie, blasphemy, or something along those lines. Tyro Taa tried to silence them by pressing the silence button, green lights appearing on all of their desks, but no one silenced. Well, not that Tyro could tell anyways. Pressing it three more times in hopes that will silence them, he finally gave up and slammed his hands on his desk.

"SILENCE!" Tyro yelled, silencing everyone in the room. Now he has their attention, and he WILL make them listen. "I thought we were a DEMOCRACY! Are we not supposed to hear both sides of a story, look at the evidence, and then make our final decision! From the sounds of it, you all have already decided on who is guilty and who is innocent without looking at all the evidence and all sides of the story! Now, if you won't listen to Linora's side of the story, then I have some advice for you!"

Tyro spot's Gaz Skywalker and Ozan Stari standing at the Jedi's seat to his left, and knew that, on the rare few occasions that they come to these council meetings, it is because they want to watch and make sure that the council is going to do the right thing. "You all can pack up your gear, return to your home planet, and retire from life in politics because, damn it all, if you all are going to be like this for every case, then just let your planet vote for some sensible senators that give a damn about listening to the evidence and doing things the way they're supposed to be!"

No one spoke up. The entire council didn't know how to respond to Tyro's outburst, and while he wasn't sure it was the best thing to do politically, it was the best thing to do for the innocent. Calming himself down, Tyro continues to tell Linora's story, and not a single senator made a peep.

The Blood Angel came out of hyper-space, Linora seeing Pok's capitol ships firing at the asteroids covering the planet. They left an opening just big enough for two squadron of fighters to squeeze through without running into each other, and that is all the space that the Blood Angel needed. Korvas Hunt brought the Blood Angel in, checking the ships systems. "Womp Rat, this is Korvas. The stealth field isn't working. What's going on?" Womp Rat quickly answered back.

"Well, by the looks of it, judging from the smoke and the small fire on the side, my guess is that it has short circuited. You activated too soon after leaving hyper-space." Korvas swore under his breath as the Blood Angel flew through the opening into the planet's atmosphere. More like hell, now that Korvas has a clear view of what's going on.

AA guns and anti-vehicle guns along high walls are firing at their allies, and while they are doing considerable amount of damage to the shields, the defenses look just as strong. "Korvas, we're ready down here." Fiona's voice said, coming over the com link. Tell us when to go."

Korvas looked over at Lyra, his pregnant wife, and then back at the battle before him. He has his own secret plan. If they couldn't win, and he can't get anyone on board, then he and his wife will fly away somewhere nice, like Corellia or Wayland. Maybe even Daylioussa, if they can afford it.

Lyra press a few buttons, and Korvas felt the ship fire off three proton torpedoes at the ray shield. When all three hit, Korvas brought the ship up, avoiding the ray shield. It was still up, but the Blood Angel wasn't giving it much time to rest or relax as she let the turbo-lasers start firing at the shields.

The ship shook as it is hit by the AA guns, and then Korvas a complete one eighty to start diving back at the shields. Lyra fires more torpedoes as several of Pok's ship come in behind her, doing the same thing. When all the torpedoes hit the ship, a small opening appeared. While the fighter's pulled up, the Blood Angel dive head first through the opening. Korvas quickly brought the com link up, yelling into it, "We're in!"

The loading ramp opened up, surprising Linora at how warm the air was. The Crimson Blades must have kept the area inside the ray shield warm so they those on patrol outside won't freeze their asses off. Linora and Fiona watch as the Blood Angel steer to the right, and then start circling a tall tower. Linora and Fiona both jump out, falling towards the roof of the tower.

Upon touching down, the two lovers rolled forward. When Linora stood up, her lightsaber was in hand but wasn't turned off while Fiona pulled out a XK-60 sniper rifle she had on her back, her newest FR-38 sniper rifle folded up and in her backpack, which is also contained with multiple explosives for sabotage. Linora quickly walk up to a hatch, staying low to the ground, and then activated her Lightsaber. When her blue blade popped out, she stuck the blade into the hatch, and formed a square along the edges.

When finished, Linora kicked the middle of the square, letting it fall to the ground below. Linora jump down, careful to make sure that she didn't make any noise. Linora motioned for Fiona to come down, and soon felt Fiona's presence next to her. "Our first stop is the turrets power generators. Take those out, and our land forces won't be harassed as much." Fiona nodded her head, and then took the rear as Linora took the lead, her Lightsaber turned off but not her fighting spirit.

As soon as the Blood Angel touches down, Chomp leapt out. He ran towards the giant, massive front doors, and head butted them. The doors fell to the ground almost like they were a tree in the way of an angry Rancor. Garen, F4-T6, and several other troopers that they picked up on a rendezvous on the way here all ran, or rolled, out. The seven troopers quickly made a perimeter as the Blood Angel lifted high above them towards the opening that the Crimson Daggers haven't been able to close yet. Once the Blood Angel was out back in the open and started to avoid the AA guns laser fire, Garen lead F4 and the seven troopers towards a side door.

Garen didn't know any of the pass codes, and he didn't have Chomps brute strength, so instead he did the next most logical thing. He shot the controls. As the doors slid open, F4 let out a low moan. ("You would've taken too long, and we are on a tight time table.") Looking back at the seven troopers, he motioned them in, growling at them. As they all pile through the doorway, Garen went in last after F4 as the droid slowly went in. Garen knows that their presence will not be kept secret for long, and due to how much security this base might have, he rather not be around to see what their full force feels like.

Jessica let out another loud groan as she felt another contraction come. Joe Charr held her hand tightly, hoping that Jessica can deal with the pain. The doctor helping Jessica through all of this is a tall, broad Ithorian with a white doctor's scrub on. ("Remember, keep breathing, Mrs. Stari. I can almost see… Yes, yes! There's the head!"

"I KNOW YOU CAN SEE THE HEAD! I CAN FEEL IT COMING OUT, YOU IDIOT!" Jessica yell's at the doctor, unable to cope with the pain. Jessica looked over at Joe, wishing that it was Volcano there and not him.

Joe smiled at her, saying, "Almost there, you just have to go a little bit farther." Jessica groaned again as the Ithorian spoke. ("I've got him!") The Ithorian stood up, a baby with patches of black hair on the top of his head. Jessica let out another groan as she felt another contraction. The second baby is coming, and it isn't any less painful than the first.

Jessica lost track of time as she pushed her second son through. When the pain stopped altogether, Jessica was only too happy, but what made her even happier was hearing the twin's crying. Jessica looked at her second son, a few strands of blond hair on his head. She reached out for him, and smiled the biggest smile when she felt the Ithorian doctor put the baby in her arms. She brought the baby closer to her, letting the doctor's assistants, two female Rodians, one a dark green while the other was a light green and slightly smaller, do what was necessary.

("What are their names?") The Ithorian doctor asks as he walked up to her with a datapad in hand.

She looked over at the baby with the black patch of hair, saying, "He's Drago." The Ithorian quickly wrote it down as Jessica said her second son's name. "He's Avix."

The Ithorian finished putting down the names, and then pocketed the datapad. ("I'll upload these unto the database.") He said, but Jessica didn't hear him. Her entire mind was set on Drago as Joe handed him over to Jessica, and Joe got to hold Avix.

Avix and Drago continued to cry, so Jessica decided to sing them a lullaby. "Sleep my little Avix. Let your dreams take wing, and one day when you are big and strong, you will be a noble…" She stopped. The next word was going to be Sith, but she decided against that, and instead replaced it with the word, "Jedi."

Linora cut down a Mon Calamari engineer, letting his corpse full upon the many corpses of the engineers that lay out on the ground. Fiona was planting the third charge unto the generator, and then backed up to the door, Linora leading the rear. Linora shut the door, and the two lovers quickly ran.

Linora felt the ground shake as the packs went off, effectively eliminating the AA guns and the anti-vehicle turrets. "That should give them the edge they need, now let's go and deal with Groex." Linora said as she and Fiona ran down the corridor, killing any of the security forces that tried to stop them.

Linora reached out, and sensed Groex Gal just two floor down, and he isn't lightly guarded. Now that she thinks about it, maybe she should take a detour instead.

Chomp ran down another hallway, expecting more security, just like the previous hallways, but was glad when he saw no one in there. He already killed enough of these security and their guns, he just wants to get farther in, distract them even more by how far he's getting into their base.

When he turned another corner, a massive door stands in his path. Chomp didn't slow down, ready to head butt the door. Chomp screech to a stop when the doors open up. Chomp slowly approached the door, his head low and ready to pounce or jump back. When he past the doors, he jumped forward when the doors closed behind him, the noise scaring him.

"Ah, what an interesting species you are." A feminine voice said over the loud speakers. "You will be fun to dissect later." Chomp looked around the tall, white room that he is now stuck in. Other than the door he just came from, there are five other doors that a Gorog can squeeze through. "I've never seen your species before, but I want to see what you can do. Here's a little test." One of the doors opens up, revealing a Rancor standing and ready to kill.

'I can easily kill it!' Chomp thought, sending his thoughts out towards the origins of the feminine voice.

"An telepath? How interesting, and your skin is made of something tough enough to stand against laser bolts, so I'll make sure not to go easy on you." The four other doors opened up, revealing even more rancors. "They haven't been fed in such a long time, and they are very, very hungry." The feminine voice snickered, and then said one last thing. "My children, it is time to feast."

Groex Gal watched as the fighters in his hanger bays flew out, going through the shields after the enemy fighters. To his right is Abraxis Carlon, and behind him is his apprentice, Bree Alder. Groex look over to his left, where his battle coordinator was. "What do you think we should do?"

("Send all power from areas of our base that isn't required to our shields. We need to keep them out of here at all cost, and keep our shields up.") The coordinator said, not looking away from the holographic image coming from the small hand-held holo-projector. The coordinator is a Kitonac, and while he may not look smart, he was the one to choose the location of this base and its defenses. Not only that, but he has also been able to help with coordinating almost all of the recruiting. If Groex had to retreat from this base, or even have one person live out of his entire organization, he will take his coordinator.

"Groex, I sense…" Abraxis grinned. "We have a few intruders. Other than the wookie's assault squad and the weird animal running through our base, I sense they also sent in a small stealth team, which consists of that troubling Fiona Solusar and… my old apprentice." Abraxis looked back at Bree before saying, "Let's go show them what happens when they interfere with our plans.

Bree only smiled, and followed her master out of Groex's chamber. Groex would normally argue for the two Jedi to stay if there is an enemy Jedi in there, but it would probably be better for him if he let them get the drop on the other Jedi before they get a chance to give them any surprises of their own, like taking out the shield generator. This should be an interesting turn out.

Garen, F4-T6, and the five troopers with them all ran into a barely lit room, F4-T6 surrounded by three of the troopers. Garen spun around, and quickly locked the door. When he turns around, and his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he saw two other doors that lead into the room.

("You two,") Garen growled at the two troopers that weren't guarding F4. ("Lock those other doors!"

"Yes sir!" The two troopers reply, and then ran off towards the door.

Garen expected the room, seeing a few tables, which Garen thought was used for food, but his stomach tightened when he saw the blood on them. The Crimson Daggers probably tortured people near the main terminal so they could record the information. F4 was already hard at work when Garen ordered the two other troopers to close the door, one arm dug into the socket on the front of the terminal.

"Garen, the doors are locked and sealed!" The two troopers said as they ran over to him.

("Good, now all of you, except for you F4, I need these table put on their sides against one another in two lines! If they do break through those doors, we are going to need something to stop their laser bolts from hitting us and F4!")

All of them saluted, and started to turn tables over, carry them, and then set up the barricades. Garen split the five men into two groups, the three with the big guns in the front while Garen, an trooper with a sniper rifle, and another trooper with a rifle in the back. ("F4, how much time do you need for download?") Garen said in a low growl.

F4 made a series of low beeps and clicks, turning its head towards Garen. ("I'm not sure we even have three minutes. Surely they know we're here by now!") Garen brought his head over the table as the sound of fists knocking on the door. ("We definitely don't have three minutes.")

Linora and Fiona ran down the hall, Linora using the force to keep her footsteps silent and Fiona was naturally gifted at being stealthy. Linora could feel Groex's prescence nearby. All they have to do is go through a room on their right that is coming up, down a hallway, and at the end of that hallway is Groex Gal, the man who will die for what he has put Linora through.

Linora stopped running when she reached the door, and pressed herself against the wall next to it as Fiona did the same on the opposite side. Linora's Lightsaber, which is still deactivated, is pressed against the panel, and then the blue blade popped out, slicing the panel. Linora jumped in front of the door, her Lightsaber poised to deflect blaster bolts while Linora stuck her head and her XK-60 sniper rifle around the door, ready to shoot anyone who thought of taking pot shots at her girlfriend. The room waswhite and big, big enough to hold two drop ships. Multiple lights shined down from the ceiling above, but what surprised Linora the most wasn't how white it was, or how bright it seemed to her, but who was waiting for her on the other end.

Standing tall and proud, his hands on his hips, stood abraxis Carlon, Linora's old master, and behind him stood Bree Alder, his new apprentice. Bree smiled widely as Abraxis only grinned. He then spoke in a low, menacing tone, saying, "Welcome to my new home, Linora."

Korvas swore as the group of old Tie Fighter's flew in behind him, firing at the Blood Angel. The Tie's obviously had illegal upgrades done to them, which explains why they're doing hell to the Blood Angels shields. "Lyra, fire at those Ties!" Korvas ordered ass he steered the blood Angel around to give Lyra a better shot. "Got it!" Lyra yelled over the sound of the turbo laser's firing.

The laser's hit all three Tie fighters, but not before two of them could launch three proton torpedos. The first two hit them directly, taking out their shields. As Korvas steered the Blood Angel hard to the left to avoid the last one, the ship shook as the proton torpedo hit the wing. Korvas and Lyra screamed as the Blood Angel started spinning out of control towards the snow below.

Korvas quickly looked over at his pregnant wifes stomach, only one thought on his mind. He unbuckled his seat, and stepped infront of Lyra's chair. When the Blood Angel hit, Lyra hit her head on the back of the chair losing conscience as the darkness took over, and a small, cool breeze came in from the outside.

To Be Continued In # 12 The Final Showdown Pt. 2/2