Asakura Chronicles
"So... this is what again?" Anakin asked, looking a small hologram, showed by D.1 through its eyes and at the same time annoying both Obi Wan, Tom and Ahsoka looked at him as if they were pissed at him, obviously. They were standing between the black desktops as D.1 showed a big hologram of a round object, floating above the group
"Anakin, you need to pay more attention. If we're going to succeed on this mission, then we have to learn everything about the enemy is planning and what they intend to do with this battle station and fast. Otherwise we're going to get caught before we can proceed" Obi Wan lectured Anakin
"I know! I just don't understand why we need to learn everything about this battle station. Last time I remember, we were here to find and destroy the droid factory!" said Anakin
"That was because we thought the droid factory that was making the holographic assassin droids was on Corusant. However, that's not true since the assassin droids were made here in this battle station and then they were teleported from here to all over the galaxy through teleportation pads. And since this battle station serves as a Separatists base and as a secret droid factory, the mission has been transformed into a infiltrate and destroy operation into a infiltrate and gather info operation" Tom explained
"Info that can tell us more about this place, its strengths and its weaknesses and it needs to get into the Republic so we can plan a strategy to destroy both the battle station and the droid factory. Better than destroy it out there where we can make full scale attack then in here where its heavily guarded and is hard to get to place to place in a battle station this big" said Obi Wan
"Okay, fine!" Anakin pouted
"Sigh... D.1, sorry but can you please explain your new findings on the battle station? And this time, try to explain it in small words so that Anakin can have a better chance at understanding it" said Tom while Anakin glares at the young Jedi
"I will try my best, Master Asakura" said D.1, enlarging the hologram of the round object which appears to take the appearance of a moon
"The battle station takes the appearance of a small moon which has been secretly made by the Separatists under order by Separatists leader, Count Dooku. The plans for this battle station was secretly made Geonosian Industries" D.1 started explaining
"Geonosian Industries? But that would mean..." Obi Wan said
"Poggle" Anakin finished Obi Wan's sentence
"That is correct. You see, Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser, along with the Creator, the one who created the Holographic Jedi Assassin droids, have created many inventions for the Separatists, such as the Kaleesh cyborg, General Grievous, Subjugator class heavy cruiser, which was equipped with a large ion cannon, the Malevolence and the Defoliator, which was a weapon designed to destroy organic matter while leaving machinery intact"
"The one who was in charge of the weapon was Lok Durd, who said the weapon was made by his own design and took all the credit, even though I was the one who made the design! Mine..." D.1 mumbled the last few sentences and notices Tom, Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi Wan giving the droid a strange look
"Uh... eh hem! Now, shall we get back on the battle station?" D.1 said
"The battle station, also known as the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, was given a unofficial name which was made by high up officials among the Confederacy..."
"Who cares what its called? I thought we're learning about the battle stations' weaknesses and all that" said a annoyed Anakin
"Even though the nickname it was given is... the Death Star?" said D.1
"...maybe" Anakin replied
"I'm almost afraid to even ask why its called that" said Obi Wan
"Unfortunately, I have no information on why the Separatists gave the battle station that name"
"Then why did you even brought it up?"
"I thought if I tell you the name, it would give you another reason to learn and gather more information about the battle station because of the name" D.1 replied
"It is a ominous sounding name for a battle station. Please continue" said Tom
"Very well. Please look at the hologram for a moment" D.1 then splits the hologram of the Death Star to show the inner outings of the battle station
"The Death Star is 160 kilometers in diameter. At the heart of the Death Star is a gigantic hypermatter reactor, which possess an output equal to that of several main-sequence stars. Within this chamber burned a reaction of prodigious proportions, fed by stellar fuel bottles lining its periphery"
"Hypermatter? What's that?" Ahsoka asked
"Hypermatter is a form of particles used in hypermatter reactors of starships and immense battle stations, kinda like one the we're in. Its unusual properties allowed vessels to produce the phenomenal amounts of energy necessary for their operation" Anakin explained
"Well well... check out the big brain on Anakin" said Tom, who was actually complementing Anakin
"What General Skywalker said is correct" said D.1, who switched the Death Star hologram to a hologram version small particles that were contained in a type of reactor core of a starship
"Hypermatter is a tachyonic matter that exists in hyperspace. When constrained by realspace, charged tachyons were annihilated as they accelerated to infinite speed within a reactor. The hyperdrive adjusted the faster-than-light hypermatter particles to allow a ship to jump to light-speed without changing its complex mass and energy. The hypermatter reactor cores are turned confined by fusion systems" D.1 explained
"Hyperspace... wait! Are you saying that this battle station this big can go into hyperspace?" Obi Wan asked
"Correct. Facilitating the Death Star's realspace propulsion is a network of powerful ion engines that transformed reactor power into needed thrust. To keep the battle station in secret and become more deadly, it needed to be mobile. Using linked banks of 123 hyperdrive field generators tied into a single navigational matrix, the Death Star can travel across the galaxy at superluminal velocities. The incredible energies harnessed by the station combined with its great mass gave the Death Star magnetic and artificial gravitational fields equal to those found on orbital bodies many times greater in size"
"Hunh. The Separatists are being quiet careful with this Death Star experiment" said Anakin
"Yeah. Not only did they made this battle station to look like a moon to disguised itself, but they also added over a hundred hyperdrive field generators to make a quick get away" said Tom
"Whatever their trying to hide, its got to be big. Why else would they go to such extremes?" said Obi Wan
"They really don't want this droid factory to be found" said Ahsoka
"That's not quite what I meant. D.1, go back to the Death Star hologram" said Obi Wan as D.1 switched from the hypermatter reactor core hologram to the Death Star hologram
"D.1, how big did you say the Death Star is?"
"About 160 kilometers in diameter"
"As I thought. This battle station is too massive to be keeping just one droid factory. That alone can't be enough to go through so much into putting several hyperdrive generators which is enough for a entire fleet of starcruisers"
"You think there's something else here that their making that they don't want anyone else to know" said Anakin
"That makes sense. And its got to be really big if they don't want anyone, including their own soldiers, to know. D.1, please continue" said Tom
"Very well" D.1 replied after splitting the Death Star hologram in two
"Splitting the station into two equal hemispheres is a huge equatorial trench approximately 503 kilometers in length for the Death Star. This area of the station housed most of the major landing bays, drive thrusters, sensor arrays and tractor beam systems. Halfway between the equator and each pole were two supplementary trenches"
"The Death Star is divided into 24 zones, 12 per hemisphere, each controlled by a "bridge". To further organize the immense amount of activity aboard, there are specific "sectors" denoting function. These included the General, Command, Military, Security, Service, and Technical sectors"
"And which sector are we in now?" Obi Wan asked
"Since we are in a prison station, I'd say we are in the security sector, which is located here" D.1 pointed at the Death Star hologram which has a small red blinking dot on the left hemisphere
"D.1, put the hologram back together and highlight the locations of each sector" Tom ordered. D.1 put back the two hemispheres and placed five more different colored dots on the hologram
"The general sector is the one highlighted in blue. The command sector is the one in green. Military, yellow. Service, orange. And technical, brown. The closest sectors near the military sector are the technical and military sectors"
"Do you think one of them has more information on this battle station?" Ahsoka asked
"Probably. If they have a technical sector, there must be some designs and new technology they could be using for battle or to upgrade the Death Star" Anakin replied
"And there's a military sector which could mean their are some information on their armed forces and maybe about the droid factory or why they want to keep this station in secret" said Tom
"Then its settled. We need to split up into two groups for the two sectors. Me, Ahsoka and D.1 will go to the military sector while Tom and Anakin will go to the technical sector" said Obi Wan
"What?! Why do I have go with him?!" said both Tom and Anakin in unison
"Anakin, your exceptional mechanic, which makes you more qualified to go to the technical sector because of your experience with machinery than any of us" Obi Wan replied
"That explains why he has to go, but why do I have to go with him?" Tom asked
"Someone needs to keep a sharp eye on him and keep wraps on him. Plus, navigation is one of your specialties"
"Don't worry master. I will put the coordinates of the technical sector, as well as our rendezvous point, which is?" said D.1, who then looked at Obi Wan
"Hm? Oh! That's right. D.1, where do you think is the last place in this battle station will the enemy last think to look at?" Obi Wan asked
"Probably at the... here it is! At deck 69 of sector N-One" D.1 replied, pointing at the white blinking dot on the Death Star hologram
"Why there?" Ahsoka asked
"It is a resting area where the battle droids go to replenish their energy. Since the Death Star is in high alert, thanks to us, no one will have the time to go there and relax"
"Alright! Everyone knows what to do, their designations and what group their in. Now we..."
Bang! Bang!
"Open up! Open this door!" A droid like voice came from behind the elevator, banging on it
"Sounds like reinforcements have arrived. Took'em long enough" said Anakin
"Quick! Everyone get scareced! We have to make this room look like we haven't been!" Obi Wan
"We first need to get rid of these droids!" said Ahsoka, pointing the large pile of what's left of the droid squadron that was guarding the prison
"I think I know where we can both hide and get rid of the destroyed droids" said D.1
"Are you almost done?" said a voice behind the elevator door as it slowly opens
"Almost" said a second voice
"Hurry up! The General is getting restless"
"Almost there... got it!" The door slides open and a squad of commando droids jump out of the elevator shaft to the floor and started scanning the area
"The Jedi are not here. General Grievous will not be pleased to here about this" said a commando droid
"Neither are the soldiers who are guarding this part of the sector" said another commando
"Worry about that later. Just get the elevator in control and deactivate the forbidden elevator music of the Droid Apocalypse" said a third commando as the entire shuddered after hearing that. (Their talking about the song of Darth Vader singing 'Baby')
After deactivating the song and got the elevator working and in ten minutes, the door opened as General Grievous and a small battalion of droids and manga guards, with electro staffs in hand, march out of the elevator as the commando droids salute to the general
"What is the situation captain?" Grievous asked the commando droid in the middle of the squad
"General, we have scanned the entire sector, yet there is no sign of TA-175, his squad unit or the Jedi he has reported" said the droid
"WELL FIND THEM, ESPECIALLY THE JEDI! JEDI DON'T COME UP AND TURN INVISIBLE! GRAAAAHHHH!" The cyborg yelled
"The Jedi are invisible?! Where?! WHERE?!" said a panicking battle that is standing behind the general. Grievous turned around and grabbed the battle droid by the neck. Grievous then walked little towards the elevator and with his free robotic hand, forced opened the door and then...
"WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!" The battle droid screamed as it falls down the elevator shaft
"Now then..." said Grievous, turning around see the other droids. He then points to three other battle. "You three..."
"Yes sir?"
"Stay here and find out as much as you can what the Jedi have been up too and what their after! They might have left clues here so I want every nook and cranny checked for clues, understand?!"
"Roger roger!"
"The rest of you come with me. If the report of the Jedi that has been recently captured was Anakin Skywalker is true, then that must mean Obi Wan Kenobi must be nearby, grah ha ha ha! Now let's go!"
Somewhere nearby
"So even Grievous is here huh?" said Obi Wan said while inside a dark room with Anakin, Ahsoka, Tom and D.1. In the room almost half of their bodies are in water and surrounding them are small piles of garbage while pieces of the piles are surfing on the surface
"So that's the infamous General Grievous I heard so much about huh? I imagined he'd be taller" said Tom, smirking
"Remind me again why we're here hiding here before the stink completely melts my eyes" Ahsoka asked
"It was D.1's idea" Obi Wan replied
"It is better than getting blasted and cut down by General Grievous, is it not? Plus we found a place where we can hide the battle droids we've destroyed" D.1 said
"You kidding me right? This is way worse than getting attacked by Grievous! I could think up a better plan than this!" Anakin retorted
"Anakin, keep your voice down. Your going to... hold on" said Obi Wan
"What?"
"Let me get this straight. You could've thought of another plan that doesn't involve getting ourselves getting envelope in some stench, right?"
"Yeah?"
"Interesting. So why did we crawl in a sewer, under a shielded city so we could blow up the shield generator? I'm assuming you had a better plan at that time?" Obi Wan questioned Anakin
"Well... ummm..."
"Yeah! Or that time when we had to travel through a fuel line when we were on a rescue mission on Lola Sayu. And that time when we were looking for Artoo on that scavenger ship. Well Master?" Ahsoka protested
"Uhhhhh... how about we get out of here before Grievous finds us" said Anakin, heading towards what appears to be a door, while ignoring Obi Wan and Ahsoka as they rolled their eyes
"But that door is locked" D.1 said to Anakin, pointing at the door
"Then we'll just have to make it unlocked" said Anakin, activating his lightsaber
"I don't think that's such a good idea Anakin" Obi Wan commented
"You must listen to General Kenobi. That door cannot be opened by a lightsaber" said D.1
"Just shut up and watch" said Anakin as he thrusts his lightsaber towards the door and...
BOOM! Electrical sparks covered the exit and when his lightsaber made contact, Anakin was repeled backwards, slamming him towards a wall, making a bang noise
"What was that?" said Grievous
"It sounded like it came from one of the garbage chutes in the lower levels" one of the commando droids answered
"The garbage chutes hunh..." Grievous stand there, rubbing the lower part of his mask. He then turned around and walked the other way of the hall
"Follow me. We're heading back" He ordered the droids
"Roger roger"
(Five minutes later)
"General! Did you find the Jedi?" one of the battle droids that was monitoring the computers on the black desktops asked
"Quiet! Speak when your spoken too!" The general retorted
"Okay! Jeez, aren't we grumpy today" said the battle droid
WHAM! The battle droids head was smashed by Grievous' fist, silencing it
"OOM-177! Switch camera S-14 to GC-7!" Grievous ordered
"Roger roger! Uhh... but sir. Isn't camera GC-7 show one of the garbage chutes?" the battle droid asked
"Just do it!" Grievous yelled, intimidating the droid by showing his fist
"Y-yes sir! Switching camera S-14 to GC-7!" The screen went static for a moment then it showed the room where Anakin, Ahsoka, Obi Wan, Tom and D.1 are.
"Ahhh! There you are Kenobi! And it seems you brought Skywalker and company as well! Hahahaha!" Grievous then turned around and pointed to the other battle droid
"OOM-175! Activate the garbage crusher in garbage chute number seven!"
"Roger roger!"
"Hahahaha! I have you now Kenobi and Skywalker!"
"Anakin! Anakin! Are you alright?" said Obi Wan as Anakin slowly opens his eyes
"Uhh... what..."
"Master! How many fingers am I holding?" Ahsoka asked holding up five fingers
"Uhh... twenty seven?"
"Anakin, on a scale of 1 to 10, how ugly would you say you are?" Tom asked
"Uhh... I... am not going to answer that" said Anakin
"He's alright" said Tom "Can you get up?"
"I... think so. What happened?" He asked as he slowly gets up
"You tried to find a way out of here. D.1 and Obi Wan said no, you didn't listen, the door fought back and you flew across the garbage chute" Ahsoka explained
"Uhh... how long was I out?"
"Not that long. I'd say a minute or two. Right now D.1 is trying to hotwire the controls to see if he can get the door open" said Tom, pointing to D.1 who was messing with the wires that are next to the exit
"How long did he say it would take to open it" Obi Wan asked
"Probably ten minutes. He has to be careful or we'll might end up getting electrocuted here... or worse" Tom replied
"Oh great. Seems like business as usual" said Anakin finally getting up
CLANG! The walls surrounding them are slowly started to move towards them closer and closer
"What's happening?!" said Ahsoka
"It would seem the garbage compressors that are use to crush and dissemble the trash have activated" said D.1
"We can see that!" Anakin yelled
"Activated from an outside source" said D.1
"Grievous. He must've found our location. Everyone, grab something that we can use to slow the compressors. D.1, continue on making the door open" Obi Wan ordered. Tom grabbed his lightsaber staff and raised it between the two compressor walls as they move closer and closer
Back at the prison
"Hahahahaha! Revenge is so sweet!" Grievous laughs while the Jedi are getting closer to be squished by the garbage compressors
"Speed things up! I want to see the slow and agonizing death of Obi Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker and soon! Understand?!"
"Roger roger..."
Vvvvvrrrrroooommmm
The lights from the room, the controls and the computer screens shut down, darkening everything in sight
"What happened?!" Grievous yelled
"Its not... working!" said Anakin, using the Force to slow down the compressors with little success, while Tom uses his lightsaber staff to get it between the walls and Obi Wan and Ahsoka use their strength to slow the walls down. Also with little success
"Keep trying! If we don't find a way out of here, we're gonna be a lot thinner!" Obi Wan yelled
"Does this really look like good time to joke at a time like this Obi Wan?!" Tom asked while struggling with his staff
"Do you want me to help? D.1 asked
"No no no! You just find a way to open that door and quick!" Tom replied
"I almost have it" said D.1
"Well hurry!" Ahsoka yelled as she and the others are being close to getting crushed
"This is it! I love you guys so much!" said Anakin, hugging Ahsoka, Obi Wan and Tom
"I love you too Master!" said Ahsoka
"Same here!" said Obi Wan
"I don't love any of you! Now let go!" said Tom, trying to struggle out of the group hug
"Auuugghhhhh!"
"Yaaaaaahhhhh!"
"Gaaaaaahhhhhhh!"
"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS SCREAMING ABOUT?! I TOLD YOU TO LET GO OF ME!"
CLANG! The room was glowing red and the walls stopped in place, saving the group from certain death
"What? Hey guys! It stopped! We're gonna live!" said Tom
"Oh my god! I thought we were all gonna die here!" said a relieved Ahsoka
"Whew! Well that was a close one!" said Obi Wan
"Auughhhh! We're all gonna die here!" said a still panicking Anakin, who is still group hugging the others
"Anakin! Let go of us! Its over!" Obi Wan yelled
"Gaaaggggghhhh!"
"Master! Listen! We're not going to die!" Ahsoka also yelled
"Hold on. Let me try something" Tom moved his left leg forward and backward until...
WHACK!
The heel of Toms boot is thrust into Anakins crouch, making him bend over on his knees, covers his area with his hands and made a quiet ow and releases the others
"Y-y-you jerk! Why would you do that?" asked a pain ridden Anakin
"You wouldn't let go of us, even though we told you" Tom replied
"Yeah but why kick me in my crotch?"
"Well actually, it's something I learned from Senator Amidala" Tom remembered back while he was kicked in the groin by Padme back in Courusant and the pain that came with it
"What?! I'm seriously going to have a talk with her when we get back! I swear I'm gonna... hey... the walls stopped moving" said Anakin, finally noticing the walls standing still
"Yeah. That's what we're trying to tell you" said Obi Wan
"But... what happened?" Ahsoka asked
"I can answer that" Everyone turns around to see D.1, standing next to a power box while Anakin slowly, yet painfully gets up
"I was able to deactivate the garbage compressors by sending a electro magnetic pulse through, short circuiting not only the crushers, but also the controls that activated them. And..." The exit door swiftly slides opens, showing their way out. "...I also opened the door. The ones who activated compressors should be having technical difficulties right now"
"Everything is going haywire!" One of the battle droids yelled as everything in the control room either blackened or is covered by electrical sparks
"Graahhhhh! What's happening?!" Grievous yelled
"Sir! It seems an electro magnetic pulse is interfering with the controls. The controls are not responding" said the second battle droid
"Well fix it! We can't lose sign of the Jedi! If we don't..." The lights and the controls in the room came back on, with no spark in sight
"We gain control of the room. We're back online" said the battle droid
"Uhh... sir? The Jedi are nowhere to be found on the screen" said another battle droid who is looking at screen
"WHAT?!" Grievous looked at screen which showed the garbage chutes that Anakin, Obi Wan, Ahsoka, Tom and D.1 were in but nowhere to be found
"GRAAAAHHHHHH! WE LOST THEM!" yelled Grievous, slamming his fists on the panel
"General, Count Dooku is calling from the holographic channel. He said's he wants an update on how the search for the intruders are progressing" said the battle droid
"Tell Count Dooku I am unavailable! You two stay here! Everyone else, come with me!"
"Roger roger"