Jenso sat cross-legged in his cell deep in meditation. Upon arriving on the Death Star, they had been searched, but his mind-control made the stormtroopers think they already had checked Jenso.

Jenso sat up suddenly, he had felt Admiral Mardici's ship drop out of hyperspace. He stood up and flicked his arm, his lightsaber falling into his hand. Gathering the force, he launched an immense force push at the door, causing it to be blasted off and slam into the cell across from it. Jenso stepped out igniting his lightsaber. A blaster bolt came at him from behind, but he moved his lightsaber behind him knocking it into the stormtrooper who had fired at him. He leapt into the control center and took down two officers with a swipe of his lightsaber. Another surge of force energy launched a third into the wall where he crumpled to the ground. He killed another who was reaching for the comlink. The last fired at him and met his end at Jenso's lightsaber.

Jenso deactivated the lightsaber and moved to the computer. He accessed the cell controls and opened every holding cell on the battle station. Not only were Contruum's marines released but every captured Rebel and any other prisoner was on the loose. As they grabbed weapons from a weapon's cabinet, Jenso said, "Team's get going."

Mardici was surprised that he didn't receive a challenge from the Death Star. His shuttle was loaded to the maximum with soldiers from Contruum. Mardici set the ship down in the hanger, which was deserted and lowered the boarding ramp. The troops charged off and headed for the nearest door. As Mardici ran off, blaster pistol drawn, he realized why the hanger was empty. Blaster fire echoed on the hallway. A couple stormtroopers retreated into the hanger where they were taken down by the marines. The next second the liberated prisoners ran in. "Admiral Mardici? Good to see you." One said upon seeing him. "Jenso left orders to take you to the forward command post. Come with me."

Team One was lead by the marines' captain. He picked off a pair of stormtroopers then ducked behind cover as a few fired at him. The Death Star was clearly loaded with troops, as they had already killed a huge number yet more kept coming. They didn't know where the firing control center was, but they knew the direction of the turbolaser and assumed it was in that direction. A marine right next to him went down. The captain rose up and shot the offending stormtrooper. The hall was clear. "Move forward!" He yelled. They cautiously advanced. The next hallway was also empty.

"Which way sir?" One asked.

"Let's go left." At then end of the hallway they turned left and had to duck back as several shots came they're way. The captain pulled out a thermal detonator he picked up off a dead stormtrooper, armed it and threw it into the hallway, several stormtroopers yelled and the floor shook as it exploded. They charged in firing. The stormtroopers must have known they were coming as all of them were behind cover. Not only that, but reinforcements were charging in from across the hall. "Take cover!" he yelled, but his marines were falling in large numbers. "Target the reinforcements!" he yelled, then fired at the stormtroopers who were already in the room, while his men prevented any reinforcements from entering. Just as the captain finished off the last enemy, the reinforcements fell back. The captain looked at his men. They were down to half strength. "Let's move on." As they entered the room the reinforcements had come from, he knew they'd found the firing control room, but this room had more stormtroopers then all the one's they'd encountered so far. Everyone, marine or stormtrooper dived for cover as the room exploded into blaster fire.

The captain sent several rounds towards a cluster of troops, killing them, but he knew it was no good. His troops were to worn down and they were far out numbered. Though they slew several, one by one his marines fell. The captain was the last to fall. As he did he hurled a grenade towards the computers that controlled the turbolaser. It exploded over the computers, damaging them, but not critically. As darkness fell he thought I hope the other teams are more successful. Then he died.

Jenso led Team Two. They encountered stiff resistance, but with Jenso leading them, they suffered few casualties while Jenso was practically a one man army, cutting down stormtroopers and knocking shots back into the defending troops. "Sir, I just received word that Mardici is at the Command Post. He's made contact with all three teams." One of his men said, running up to him.

"Good."

"There's a problem though. We've lost contact with Team One."

"I would have been surprised if all of us succeeded. Fortunately, that was a contingency measure. We're most important. How's Team Three doing?"

"The hanger is secure. They're prepping every starfighter they can."

"The Rebels will be happy to get those. Let's continue." Only a few rooms later they reached the bridge. Jenso leapt through the room cutting down officers while his men eliminated the stormtroopers. "Hold fire!" Jenso yelled as they aimed at the remaining officer. Jenso spun through the air and cut his weapon in half, then flicked his lightsaber to the officer's throat.

"I won't tell you anything. You should just kill me."

"Actually you'll tell me whatever I want you to." Jenso passed his hand in front of the officer's face, forcing the officer to obey. "Access the schematics to the Death Star." The officer bent over a computer and brought them up. Jenso signaled one of his men, who quickly downloaded the info onto a file. Jenso decapitated the officer then deactivated it. "Where's the self-destruct?" he asked.

"One moment." the rebel replied, looking over the ship's design. "Umm, sir, we have a problem."

"What?"

"The ship doesn't posses a self-destruct." This news crashed over Jenso. He stood, rooted to the spot. "What should we do, sir?"

Jenso thought a moment, then said, "Only one thing to do. Download a second copy of the files, we have to fall back."

They met no resistance until they reached the command post where Mardici and his guards were pinned down. Jenso quickly eliminated the stormtroopers. Mardici stood up saying, "I'm sure glad to see you. Is the self-destruct activated?"

"No. There isn't one. We have to fall back. We have a copy of the ship's plans though. Send it to the Rebels, maybe they can find a weak spot on this thing." As they fell back they started receiving reports that the Empire had brought up a huge number of stormtroopers.

Upon reaching the hanger, a rebel ran up to Jenso. "We don't have enough fighters for everyone yet. And we heard about the troops to, we won't get out of here on time."

"Get everyone on the transport or in the fighters. I'll hold off the stormtroopers." He turned to Admiral Mardici. "Don't wait for me."

"What? Jenso what are you talking about?"

"I can't hold their troops forever, I have to go on the offensive. Some may get behind me. As soon as everyone's in a fighter or on your ship go!"

"Jenso, we need you. The Rebellion needs you."

"Just do it." Jenso ignited his lightsaber and ran to the rearguard.

Mardici stood frozen with shock. He shook his head and said, "Come on, into the fighters." Over the next several minutes more and more troops appeared, soon all were loaded up, about 50 in all.

"Sir, shouldn't we be leaving?"

"In a moment, I want to wait for Jenso."

"Sir, look!" Mardici did, rocket troopers were entering the room.

"Everyone go!" Mardici yelled, lifting his ship off. A missile missed him by millimeters. They flew through the airlock and raced off. The Death Stars anti-fighter guns opened up on them, but they got through, as did several fighters. After about 10 minutes, Mardici's Star Destroyer came into view. "I wish Jenso hadn't sacrificed himself." Mardici said sadly. "He was not just an officer to me, but a good friend."

Jenso knocked a stormtrooper off his feet with a force shove and knocked back a couple blaster bolts. Sweat dripped off his forehead into his eyes. He wasn't sure how many stromtroopers he had killed, but it felt like millions. For every one he killed, another took their place. Jenso stopped attacking, he had felt Mardici's presence leave, his Star Destroyer had entered hyperspace. His lightsaber held defensively, Jenso stared straight into the eyes of the stormtroopers and said, "You have failed. You can kill me, but the mission is won. The Rebels beat you for the first time." He leapt forward his lightsaber a blur, but stormtroopers were behind him as well as in front of him now. A blaster burned into Jenso's back, he fell to his knee's and managed to kill one last stormtrooper before he fell to the ground dead.

"My lady, we just received a transmission." Princess Leia opened her eyes. She followed Captain Antilles to the bridge. "It was just a data file." He brought it up. It displayed a spherical battle station.

"That's the Death Star." Leia said. "Where did it come from?"

"No idea, but we should get this to Alderaan."

"All right take us into hyperspace." All of a sudden, a ship dropped out of hyperspace in front of them. An Interdictor cruiser headed for them. "Get us out of her!" Leia yelled.

"We can't. They've activated they're gravity well. We can't leave the system."

"Bring up the shields and arm the weapons."

"Are you crazy? We can't fight a Star Destroyer."

"All we need to do is hold them off." Leia quickly left the bridge, heading for where she'd left R2-D2.

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