Chapter 7
Hello again to the fanfiction that's secretly important for the continuity of another franchise that is not mentioned here.
A/N 22/6/2016: This chapter has three major changes due to things I've realised, one is that based on the Sky Lion's acceleration, it's maximum speed would be around 1060 km/h, not 1120 km/h, which is the average speed of an F-Zero machine, so the paragraph that stated the latter speed was changed. Details on Zoda was also improved along with my backstory for the Automatic Robots (Now called Two-Feature Robots), being told by Falcon. Other than that, usual grammar changes and stuff.
All that was seen at the night was the glows of headlights from four F-Zero vehicles, each packed near each other, but far enough to glide through without any crashes.
The famed Blue Falcon was at the front, with it's partner vehicle, the Sky Lion, just behind it. The Orange Eagle and the Yellow Hornet were just trailing behind the two blue vehicles.
Their drivers, which were: Captain Falcon, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano and Obi-Wan Kenobi, intended for the destination Port Town, the birthplace of Falcon and the main base for universal traders, bounty hunter and apparently all the scum that is in the universe.
Samurai Goroh and Don Genie were no different.
Anakin was still seething at the fact that Goroh kidnapped his wife… well, secret wife, but wife nonetheless. He wanted to crush that Samurai once and for all, and… he had a plan for that. Whatever Falcon planned, he would find a way to make sure the his plans worked.
His plans always had worked, despite Obi-Wan calling them 'half-baked' and 'acted on impulse'.
During the course of the Clone War, the Chosen One was forced to make plans every time he was not with a superior, and thus, had to learn how to win battles by strategic planning. So, he had. Managing to win every battle he was on with his legion, the 501st. The best thing was that there were little to no casualties with his plans.
Now, he made sure the Sky Lion glided smoothly at 700 km/h, the recommended speed when going through civilian streets. Despite F-Zero vehicles went more than that to the level of 1120 km/h, which was the highest speed the average F-Zero vehicle could go without Boost Power.
With boost power, it's speeds were a lot, it's booster class was 'A', the exact same as the Orange Eagle, the Sky Lion was similar to the Orange Eagle, but with stronger body and being heavier. So, the Sky Lion's body was B, boost was A and grip was C. Other than that, it was exactly the same as the Orange Eagle.
The Jedi Knight wondered when would be the time he would reveal the secret of the Orange Eagle.
Ahsoka sensed her Master was in deep thought, and looked at the cockpit of the Sky Lion, and seeing that he was looking forward, driving with no words, silent as the barren landscape of Dytherum, a planet back in the Tongruta's home realm which once had a Separatist outpost, with a factory owned by the Droid Army, that building had been destroyed by Jedi Knights Adenan Kornen and Faro Sheekano, who had both been Padawans back then. Since then, there had been no inhabitants on the planet.
The internal speakers of the Orange Eagle crackled, as Ahsoka heard Anakin's voice, "Yeah, Dytherum's literally the Silence of our home galaxy."
Unfamiliar with the location, Ahsoka asked, "Silence?"
"Silence is a planet with a special atmosphere, which filters sound, and the waves don't go very far. Scientifically proven that 120 dB, which is the total decibels made by the jets of an F-Zero vehicle, only travels the radius of a 30 cm. It's been a course in the original F-Zero, also for the first season of F-Zero X, after that, races were cancelled there." Anakin recounted, as Ahsoka smiled gently
"Interesting", was her comment to that
It was a few kilometres travelled, before Captain Falcon slowed down his vehicle, as Anakin slowed down too in order to not get knocked by the tail of the Blue Falcon. Ahsoka and Obi-Wan did the same, as the Sky Lion had two motors on it's sides which were very dangerous to get bumped by.
"I think it's time to tell you what I'm planning." Falcon told them, as they now travelled 500 km/h, two hundred kilometres less than the speed they were going
"Yeah. What's the plan then?" Anakin asked, as Ahsoka's musings faded, to now hear Falcon
It was a momentary silence, before Falcon started voicing his strategy though the microphone in his machine, "So we all go to the facility where Senator Amidala and her employees are being held, Ahsoka, before any of us enter, you will utilise stealth to plant bombs around the facility's main corridors."
The Captain managed to change the screens of the other three vehicles, thanks to an access code made by Anakin, which was compatible with select vehicles with special receptors, Falcon installed one on the Yellow Hornet. The Sky Lion and the Orange Eagle were built with it.
The image Falcon transmitted was the schematics of the entire facility, with four, large corridors being highlighted with the colour red, Ahsoka guessed that's where she would plant the bombs.
And she was right, when Falcon continued on with his plans, "Ahsoka, the corridors you plant the bombs are highlighted on your screen. Listen up now, you three, our aim is to arrest, not kill Samurai Goroh and Don Genie"
"The main aim of a Jedi is to not kill, that would not be too hard." Obi-Wan added in, as Falcon nodded
"Yes, so I'll enter the facility through one corridor, on the bottom.", the red highlights were gone, and replaced with a single, deep blue highlight on the bottom main corridor, showing the place where Falcon would enter the base through, he continued, "When you hear explosions, that's when you guys enter through the corridors highlighted with your machine's colours", the top corridor was highlighted a light blue, while the left corridor was highlighted orange and right yellow. "That is the plan."
"Basically, we explode, then enter." Ahsoka stated, as Anakin laughed, Falcon frowned, not knowing how to reply to the young girl's comment.
The few went along for minutes, as the facility came closer to view, Anakin recognised it from one of his previous adventures, when he had been chasing a criminal with alliances to Zoda, a criminal mastermind who plotted to take over the world and replace it with his own 'Zolorkian' Government, and was also an F-Zero racer for some reason. He had succeeded, and earned a plentiful bounty from that mission.
Though, that was about three years before.
The four realised that driving like they were was boring, at least to Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, who were used to excitement all the time, due to the war they participated in. The tongruta voiced this out to her former Master.
And, the Chosen One's reply was, "Hmm… I agree, just driving is kinda boring, why not we race to Port Town, it's only 75 km away from us, that should only take a few minutes."
"Yeah… great idea." Ahsoka smiled, as she contacted Obi-Wan and Falcon
"We should race to Port Town, it's only 75 km to the entrance of that town." Anakin told the two, immediately after they connected to the call
"Race?" Obi-Wan asked, suddenly nervous, but Falcon was happy to race, especially before a tremulous period such as the mission to rescue Padmé
"Last one there's a rotten egg!" Falcon exclaimed, as he accelerated fast, using Boost Power to zoom ahead, Anakin and Ahsoka following in hot pursuit.
"Force knows I'm not going to be the rotten egg!" Ahsoka exclaimed, in third place.
Obi-Wan realised that he needed to join the race in order to keep up, and mumbled, "Sith, is this really necessary?"
The Yellow Hornet booted ahead, as Anakin used his superior piloting skills in order to get ahead of Falcon, who smiled at the younger man's skill. He tried to get ahead of Anakin, who was making it hard by being right in front of the Blue Falcon.
Ahsoka found an advantage while Anakin was blocking Falcon, she had space to go through. She boosted ahead, but her former Master saw that, and laughed in response, as he activated his own booster and got ahead of the Tongruta's orange vehicle.
"You're getting too good, Snips!" Anakin exclaimed, mostly proud of his former apprentice
"But no one can beat the symbol of F-Zero!" Falcon laughed, as he used his own booster to get ahead of the two racers.
Obi-Wan activated his booster, to get ahead of Ahsoka and Falcon both, he was now focused on beating Anakin, in order to finish this race. Ahsoka saw Obi-Wan, and became a bit worried due to the fact that she was now last.
All the racers stayed bunched up together, trying to find an opening that they might be able to utilise, to go in front of their opponent ahead. Captain Falcon found an opening, and so used his booster in order to go ahead of Anakin, who swerved in order to avoid the famed Blue Falcon.
The facility was in view, as Anakin knew that the race would have to end soon, but Falcon gave no openings in the race, so he knew that 1st place was not for him this day.
Obi-Wan and Ahsoka were fighting for third place, Captain Falcon finished the race by going through the entrance of Port Town. Anakin groaned, as he went through the entrance. Ahsoka went through the entrance only a few seconds later with Obi-Wan closely behind.
"Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, you know what to do." Falcon smiled, trying to be motivational, Anakin smiled back along with the two Jedi.
"Right. I'll go to the back corridor, while Obi-Wan takes the right and Ahsoka takes the left." The former-Jedi now Bounty Hunter replied.
"And, Ahsoka, take these bag of small bombs. They'll adjust themselves to the right place once you put them anywhere near the entrance of the corridor." Falcon handed Ahsoka a bag full of bombs. "Good luck, Anakin's pupil."
Ahsoka was motioned forward by Anakin, as she was confused by what Falcon meant, by the bombs 'adjusting themselves'. She forgot her thoughts, once the entrance was seen. The Tongruta took a bomb out of the bag, it was small, and flat, it also had multiple LEDs attached to it.
The bomb was placed on the ground, by Ahsoka, who almost jumped when it sprang out legs, walking further into the corridor, the former-Padawan looked at the bomb in interest, Falcon came up to Ahsoka, in order to explain what happened.
"That was a two-feature robot, programmed to do two things, in this case, move and explode. Basically, they were used by the military for 300 years, until this guy… Tyler… stole a bunch along with his friends. I acquired some from him. Apparently scientists are hoping that these things will replace energy bars in the future." The bounty hunter told her, who looked confusedly at Falcon
"Why? Aren't energy bars efficient?" Ahsoka asked, already knowing the convenience of healing energy through one area.
"Robots would give extra protection to the vehicle, and you wouldn't have to focus on staying on the energy bar. A two-feature robot can also connect to anything, even an F-Zero vehicle, so potentially, the vehicle may be able to make the robot get off them when needed." Was Falcon's answer, as Ahsoka nodded, and put five more bombs.
It took a few minutes, for Ahsoka to travel around the base with her Orange Eagle, and place at least ten bombs per corridor. She found that the bag became empty once she put five bombs on her corridor, where she jumped onto her vehicle, and waited for Falcon's call.
Meanwhile, inside the facility, many were not aware of the four racers planning to rescue the Republic Head of State, her children, employees and friends that were inside the cell. But Padmé Amidala was waiting on Falcon and Obi-Wan Kenobi, when a few guards came in and escorted the prisoners out.
"Do you really believe this… Falcon will rescue us?" Sabé, a friend of Padmé who had a case of wrong place, wrong time, asked.
"I have full faith in it, I have this… feeling… he will." Padmé stated, before the guards sharply told them to be quiet.
Padmé had full faith that Falcon would come back and rescue them, and she hoped that her faith was not misplaced.