Chapter 11 The Plan

Early in the morning Dan got up and headed out of the camp. He hopped aboard one of the many speeder bikes and headed out. The only thought in his head was "Am I going to make it out of here alive" but he didn't show any emotion as he rode off into the distance of the vast Tatooine desert.

Later that same morning Nate and Steph got up and went through the normal inspections of the troops. Afterwards they met up with commander Jángo to continue planning battle strategies.

"You can stop firing the artillery commander." said Nate.

"But sir." Said Jángo, "The artillery is the only thing keeping their shields in check. If we don't continue the will come out to get us."

"Logical commander." Said Steph. "But I don't think you want to be questioning your commanding officer do you?"

"No ," Said Jángo snapping into a salute. "I'll get on it right away."

"Good" Said Steph and turning to Nate said "and we should be on ours."

Dan's POV

The mission wasn't didn't seem hard but it was going to be complex. He had to race across the endless Tatooine desert in search for one little speck on the hostile world. It was tiring but a Jedi knows few boundaries. Dan kept on going until he did find what he was looking for. A great temple in the middle of the desert, Boorka's Palace. Now the hard part was over. Now he needed to get into the temple, get to a terminal and enter the false data, all without being caught.

"Can't be that hard, can it?" thought Dan. So he quietly snuck into the temple, and he found a terminal and started to enter the data when from behind he heard a click and felt a blaster to his head.

"Hagwa doopee. Kapa tonka!", said the bounty hunter.

" Ap-xmasi keepuna!", said Dan throwing his hands up trying not to get blasted.

Steph and Nate's POV

Now Steph and Nate were heading out toward the Separatist base. The artillery would have been a good cover to keep the Seps. hiding while the two Jedi approached but they realized this after the fact. The approach was hard enough for a simple espionage.

"I thought you said this would be easy!" yelled Steph slicing a droid patrol in half.

"This is easy!" yelled Nate back crashing two droids together with the Force.

"This is NOT easy!" shouted Steph crushing another droid to bits.

"Well then suit yourself!" Nate shouted back taking out the last of the patrol with a carefully aimed saber throw.

"Do you really have to show off?" asked Steph.

"No", Nate answered with a grin, "but it sure is fun."

The next part of the mission went smoother, sneaking in some underground tunnels used for smuggling attracted little attention from the droids on the surface. The hard part is that it was total darkness. The Jedi

didn't want to attract any attention to themselves so they didn't use a glow rod, they relied fully on the Force. When they did reach the shield room they noticed that there was some light streaming through, a cover and a ladder up. When they got up there Nate was the first one to start acting.

"I'll go take care of this," he said igniting his lightsaber.

"No," said Steph stopping him in his tracks, "there are alternatives to fighting."

"Must you take Obi-Wan's line?" asked Nate.

"No," said Steph with a weird grin, "but it's fun."

With that she pulled out some thermal detonators and used the force to push them toward the generator. Then they both jumped down into the tunnel and started to run back to base. As they were doing so Nate reached for his commlink.

"Jángo you there copy?" he said into his comm.

"Yes sir" replied Jángo, "what are you orders sir!"

"The shield should be dropping soon," shouted Nate into the comm. "when they do I want a full charge against the Seps. Base. You got that, all out attack."

"Yes sir, will do sir," replied Jángo as Nate cut off the comm.

"We need to get back to base," Nate said to Steph.

Steph agreed with a silent nod. So the two of them ran even faster to reach base. When they got there they almost immediately turned around and headed back to the Seps. base to help in the attack. When they got there they noticed that the clones had done a good job at keeping everything under control. All that there was left to do was clean up and the head back to base.

As they headed back to base they expected to see Dan there, but they didn't which worried them. So they took one of the Gunships and headed off in search of Dan.