Chapter 11

"Sir, we're coming out of hyperspace." An Imperial officer proclaimed to Jayko as they neared their destination.

...

"Sir?"

Jayko was present in the bridge, but he was unresponsive. "I sense movement in the force." He said. He thought for a moment, then concluded his thoughts with, 'The wraith! No!' "Commander, pull out of hyperspace now! Tell the fleet to follow!" And the commander hastely did so.

Soon, the star destroyers all emerged from hyperspace in deep space, not a planet in sight. Jayko rushed up to the window and looked around. 'Well nothing's around. Did we get away?' He waited, then thought, 'We did.' And at that instant, all the Republic ships surfaced in sight, shocking Jayko greatly.

The Republic ships immediately started firing and dispatching fighters forward. "Deploy every fighter we have and fire all we've got!" Jayko commanded. Then battalions of TIEs, V-Wings, Y-Wings, and A-Wings were launched out into space, all firing at each other.

"We're coming out of hyperspace?" Aang wondered.

"Yes, I just said that. Here we go. Three... two... now!" Anson said as he pulled the ship out of lightspeed. And they then saw the initiating attack, the star destroyers and Correlian shuttles, the Republic "wings" and Imperial TIEs.

"Woah." Jo said. "Cool." He felt everyone's faces on him. "I hope we win." He then added.

"Have you never been in a big space battle before?" Anson asked.

"Well a few days ago, I participated in one like this, but it was not nearly as large as this." Jo replied.

"I see."

Aang went forward and activated the comm system to contact Rye. "Team, is that you?" They heard.

"It is. We're in the odd-looking, old Imperial shuttle."

"I see you. Board the command vessel, we have your starfighters."

"Understood." Then Aang stopped and pointed to the command vessel. "Get us there."

Anson quickly piloted the ship through the edge of the battle field, and docked with the ship. Aang, Jo, and Exar dashed out and were met by the ship maintenance crew chief.

"Are you three alright?" The crew chief asked.

"We're all good. Where are our ships?" Exar replied.

"They're al right there." The crew chief pointed along the wall, where their three ships were lined up. "We've completely refueled and repaired everything according to Lieutenant Governor Calfan's orders."

"Good for us." Aang said as he gestured the team to follow along to their ships. As quickly as they had arrived, they had hopped in and joined the battle; Anson followed along. The trio flew up by the bridge and looked throught the window and saw Rye. Rye saw them salute -while grinning at him too- and he couldn't help but salute back with a laugh. The three fighters went down to join the battle.

Jayko saw the newcomers enter the field, then said, "I know those ships." He acquired his macrobinoculars and observed the pilots when he could. "Those are the Jedi!"

"Hello boys! We're baaaaaaaaaack!" Jo shouted as he started blasting at TIEs all over.

"Concentrate all fire from this ship to those three fighters." Jayko said. "The bland gray ball, and the old, old-Republic-looking ones."

"Yes sir."

Aang and Exar had to quickly avert their positions to avoid getting blasted. "Jo! Watch out!" They both shouted through their comm system.

"Wha- Woah!" Jo barely avoided the blast that came his way, then continued to avoid several more.

"Hey guys, anyone else notice any special features installed in our ships?" Exar asked.

"Like what?"

"Enhanced shields?"

"We got what?! That's aweso- watch out!" Jo continued flying around the lasers. "Hey guys, ever notice something strange about these battles? Space has no atmosphere, no air; there should be no sound in space, yet we hear the blasts and explosions."

"That is weird."

"I guess someone thought it'd be boring, and decided to add sound."

"Jo, what are you talking about- WHOO" Exar asked, blasting down three TIEs in a second.

"I'm saying, certain things are... messed..." Jo mouthed the word 'up', sensing another sith presence. 'Why this again?' He thought for a moment 'Ben's son!' "Guys! Ben Solo's son is onboard the lead destroyer."

"Worry about the dozens of TIEs targeting us right now." Aang said.

"TOO LATE!" Aang and Exar looked over and saw that Jo's ship was shot and that it was leaking. "I'M GOING ABOOOOOOOOOOOARD!"

"We're right behind you!" Exar shouted as he and Aang followed Jo to the star destroyer. Jo pulled up just in time as to not crash into the docking bay. Exar and Aang quickly landed beside him. All three of them jumped out at the same time.

"Jo you alright?" Aang asked.

"Um, yeah, but right now..." Jo pointed ahead in the docking bay, to the stormtroopers piling into the bay. The whole team was not only shocked, but worried as well. Stormtroopers stopped coming as fifty had entered the room.

"I thought we'd taken care of these guys on Kamino."

"Apparently not. We were too late."

"Well let's get this over with." Exar said, stepping up as the troopers cocked their guns.

A commander stepped up and ordered, "Stay where you are, or we'll fire."

"Fire all you want." Exar said, slamming his hands on the ground and creating a force repulse, pushing half the brigade to the ceiling and back down.

Then the rest started firing. Jo flew up with his lightwhips emitted. Aang quickly ignited his lightsabers and defended himself and Exar. "Exar, what was that?"

"It's the metal arm! I'm not used to using the force with a prosthetic."

"Well get your lightsaber and fight."

"Right." Exar pulled out his blade and helped deflect the lasers back at the troopers.

Jo took out a grenade from a slab on one of his arms and threw it down. One of the stormtroopers spotted it in time and shot it in mid-air, knocking Jo off balance and to the ground. "I forgot who these guys were clones of, for a second."

The fight was short; nothing too different happened throughout the fight. In due time, the room had been disposed of stormtroopers. The team briefly rejoiced. "That's record time." Jo exclaimed.

"Don't get excited, yet. There's still an entire battle to win." Aang reminded.

"Where do we start, though?" Exar asked.

"Let's go where the force takes us."

"That's 'Aang' wrapped up in one line. Speaking of which, why did invincibility cross the road?" He waited a moment, " 'Cause Aang was over there."

"Really Jo?"

Jayko -standing in the bridge- heard not the battle, but gave his attention to the force. Ever since Anson's ship arrived, Jayko had sensed a shift in the force. Not a shift, but a presence. A presence of not a person, but an object, an artifact. "The holocron is here. Ha! Erk would never have seen that coming. But who has it?"

"Sir?" The star destroyer's commander announced his attendance. "A Jedi trio just wiped out one of our best squads in one of our docking bays."

"They have it." Jayko said. And with a swish of his cape, he immediately turned and headed out. As he strided out, he was followed by two bulky and heavily armored troopers.

{See chapter on Archive of Our own to see the design [which I own no rights to (this is a fanfiction)] I use for the heavy armor troopers}

"If you see anything, alert me immediately." Jayko ordered.

"Yes sir."

Rye felt, what he would call, a disturbance. He too sensed the holocron, and wasn worried. He commed Jo and immediately said, "Jo! Answer!"

"There was nothing to answer to, master. What is it?"

"You have the holocron?"

"Yes."

"Where is it?"

...

"Jo? Where is the holocron?"

"I... think I may have left it on our new friend's ship."

Then, Rye heard other voices on the other side. "What?! Jo why didn't you give it to the Republic forces when we got our starfighters?"

"It didn't occur to me. I was in the heat of the moment of being back in Republic arms, you know?"

"Well as long as Anson's on our side, we won't have any problems."

"Think again, Jedi." Jayko said maniacally. The Jedi jumped and Jo clipped his comlink to his belt. They watched his bulky guards step up and activate their electrostaffs. "You will never escape me." Jayko then said, activating his red lightsaber.