Hey everyone! I got a new chapter for you. I wish I could have posted sooner, but I've been busy with some other writing. I hope you enjoy it.
Agent-M-0167: For this Parody/Fusion Fic, Dusty and Sinjin are basically taking the place of Han and Chewie. I hope this short chapter satisfies you.
Challenge King: Thanks. I thought Beck's portrayal was a bit of what he would be like if he wasn't attached and could embrace the role of a ladies man. It's war and war is bloody and violent.
Fanfic-Reader-88: Unfortunately, innocent people always get caught in the crossfire. They were all running off, he just got out first.
illusorygentleman: It is Galaxy WARS so there has to be some action. Jade is still Jade underneath the professionalism, which I think is a part of her character anyway as the Victorious character is the most focused one for their profession. Nameless, faceless people die in war and it is tragic because they have people that care for them.
Rating: High T Violence
Chapter 5: Part Where We Escape
The quintet made it out the back and started running behind the building to make it for the hangers. Benson had took the lead then stopped at a corner and looked around, phaser pointed low ready to bring it up and drop anyone that would try to round the corner. He took the quickest of peeks around to see red body armored troopers spreading out to secure the surrounding buildings. High pitched whining streaked overhead, catching their attention of the Imperial bow looking fighters soaring overhead to give the troopers complete air supremacy.
Once he saw that their direction was being ignored, he led them the short gap between the buildings to run by the back perimeter of the next building. They did this leap frog maneuver several times until they finally reached the end of the last building then took a quick dash along the side until they reached several cargo containers to crouch behind them. They watched as the Skolean security traded phaser fire with the Imperials' blasters on the open runways and landing pads. They were putting up a pretty good fight in trying to hold the spaceport as the Red Skynauts were disembarking from their troop transports dominating the center of the runway and trying to secure the spaceport. However it was only a matter of time before they would be overrun from the sheer numbers and heavier firepower.
Dusty whispered with his blaster held to the side of his face while glancing between gaps in the containers, "They're trying to take the spaceport to—"
Benson picked up, "—establish as their beachhead to easily move men and material in while cutting off escape." He spat out in disgust, "We have perfect timing."
The freighter captain spat out, "I don't believe in luck and I don't intend to live out some Imperial occupation and you don't want to either, so you still have that ride with us if you want."
Benson idly commented as he continued to watch the firefight, "We can't pay you now, not yet anyway."
Dusty looked to the furious expressions on Jade's face who wasn't even looking at him and whispered in an apologetic tone, "It's on me for forcing you to let that girl die back there."
The lovely doctor turned her head to look to him with a surprised expression as her anger faded for a second.
Dusty didn't give her the time to further think on it as he motioned with his sidearm to their right. "Sinj, you're going to take them and circle around the long way to the Falcon. You're going to steal one of those Federation airspeeders to make it."
His companion asked in concern, "What are you going to do?"
"Something very, very crazy to give you a chance to make it." He patted his friend on the shoulder then instructed, "Go!"
Sinjin didn't get a chance to move as Dusty holstered his weapon then stood up and started making a surprisingly quick dashed towards a parked wheeled fuel truck, faster than a human should have made the run. The idea ran through Benson's mind that the freighter captain could have some physical augmentation, which in the Federation would have been quite illegal.
Sinjin motioned with his carbine and then started making a run in a crouching position to the abandoned hovercar. As soon as he reached it, he smashed the passenger window with the butt of the carbine then reached inside to unlock the door. He slid inside and opened up the underneath panel under the steering wheel. He pulled some of the wires out and tried to hotwire the vehicle.
The three officers kept lookout to see that no one had noticed them while he went about his work. However it was taking too long in Jade's opinion and she complained, "How did he figure you were going to use the hovercar if you can't hotwire it?"
He snapped back, "I'm not exactly familiar with your technology."
Shapiro rattled off what sounded like pure technobabble, but apparently the first mate understood it and soon the hovercar came to life. Sinjin let out a laugh and slid into a sitting position and the others climbed inside.
Dusty climbed up the side of the cabin, opened the door and slipped into the driver's side seat. He quickly glanced around to see if there was a set of keys. He finally found them stuffed in the sun visor of the vehicle; apparently Skoleans liked keeping their keys in the same place as various types of humans. He started the vehicle, he pressed the accelerator and turned the wheel to pull the vehicle out of its parking spot.
Apparently the Skynauts and Skoleans were willing to leave the truck alone as they weren't interesting of setting off a truck full of fuel in the middle of their fire fight. However, the truck caught their attention as Dusty turned the vehicle towards one of the Sentinel-class landing craft and floored the accelerator.
The fuel truck barreling towards one of the shuttles certainly started catching some of the troopers' attention and started opening firing. Several shouts punched through the windshield, but missed the driver while others hit the engine block. The acceleration cut out on the truck, but the continued rolling forward at the landing craft.
Dusty found that this was the opportune time to push open the door and throw himself out of the truck and rolled against the ground to break his fall. He rolled onto his hands and knees just in time to see some troopers dodging out of its way and it colliding against the transport shuttle.
A giant fireball and billowing smoke shot up and consumed the troop transport and the troopers still trying to exit it as it was doused with the volatile fuel, lighting the night sky and drawing everyone's attention. Flames quickly spread to a neighboring transport and started engulfing it.
A fortunate trooper that hadn't been caught in the fire or explosion approached Dusty with his rifled raised.
Dusty reached to his belt and pulled the silver cylinder away from his belt.
Apparently the trooper recognized the object and immediately raised his weapon to look down the sights, but he wasn't fast enough as Dusty activated the object and a blue beam emitted out of the end. He swung upward in a diagonal, slicing the trooper in half from his right to his left shoulder. A half of a trooper collapsed on either side in a cauterized gory mess.
Dusty blew out a breath through his teeth and stood up.
A few other troopers that weren't trying to flee for their lives from the burning transports or fighting it out with the security forces that witnessed the killing paused for a moment at seeing the space cowboy holding the elegant weapon from a more civilized time. Unfortunately that pause cost them their lives as he held up his left hand and the next moment they were off their feet and flying into the air… right into the consuming fire.
They were instantly engulfed in flames and started cooking in their battle armor with their dying screams filled the air.
Dusty ignored their screams as he turned away and tried to spot the hovercar.
All during this time, the hovercar glided across the outskirts of the landing strip without much noticed until the troopers heading for the surrounding hangers to secure them noticed the hovercar cutting in front of the hangers.
Some troopers noticed the speeding hovercar and started firing wildly at it as their visors were still trying to compensate from the massive fire blinding their lenses.
Benson was in the backseat and took Shapiro's phaser then stuck his head and arms out the window. He started dual firing the hand phasers as fast as he could pull the triggers. Most of them went wild in the effort to just get them to stop firing, but the occasional beam struck a trooper.
Jade grabbed hold onto the back of his neck collar to hold him from falling out of the car. Her grip was so tight on him that her pale knuckles were ghost white. She shouted a few profanities at Freddie for what she saw as a boneheaded move however effective it was to get the troopers from firing.
The hovercar swung around to its left and started flying past in front of several more hangers until Sinjin brought it to a stop in front of a certain hanger.
The four scurried out of the right side, using the hovercar as a shield. Benson continued to fire off his phasers at any trooper that dare tried to approach while the other three dashed to the entry door of the hanger.
Sinjin desperately typed on the keypad, but the system kept rejecting his code, either due to him messing up typing the code that he remembered or the system was on lockdown due to the attack.
Jade instantly became impatient and shoved the curly haired young man out of her way with a shout, "Move!" She took several steps back, pulled out her phaser from inside holster on the left side of her leather jacket, cranked up the setting then fired into the handle/locking mechanism. It exploded in a shower of sparks and blew a large hole in the side of the door and frame. She step forward and kicked the door open. "That's how you open a door in a hurry."
Sinjin blinked and muttered, "Will you marry me?"
The doctor knotted her brow and glared at the first mate. He swallowed and turned to dash inside with Robbie on his hills. Jade remained outside and shouted, "Freddie!"
He fired a few more shots then made a dash to the door while she brought up her hands to level her phaser and started shooting at the troopers. As soon as he dashed passed her, she slipped behind him.
The pair stopped about a dozen feet in front of the battered ship and Jade spat out in disgust, "She looks like a piece of junk!"
Sinjin ignored her as he was nearly to the tramp freighter. He pulled out a remote and tapped a button, causing the loading ramp to drop along with the door opening.
Benson motioned his head towards the ship and shouted, "Come on!"
She didn't argue and started making a dash to the ship with Benson right behind her.
Sinjin ran down the short corridor to the cockpit and immediately started flipping a few switches on the wall and the main console, causing various lights to come on in the cockpit, and then he dropped in the right seat. He shouted over his shoulder, "Strap in!"
Benson remained standing, but passed a quick glance to Jade, obviously ordering her to follow the first mate's instructions with just a glance. She didn't argue as she took the seat behind the man from the other side of the galaxy and strapped herself into the seat.
Shapiro to the second backseat and asked in a near panicked voice, "Who's going to open the hanger?"
Sinjin chuckled as he tapped a few more controls, "I am."
The repulsor activated and the ship lifted off the ground and the landing gear drew into the ship. Once the ship was high enough, the ventral quad laser cannons opened fire in a sweeping motion from left to right. Of course the hanger doors were never intended to take that kind of firepower, so they were utterly blasted to pieces and the beams continued through to the outside.
The hovercar was hit with several bolts and exploded in a spectacular manner and creating another fire on the landing strip. The vehicle was not the only thing struck as the dozen or so troopers that were just about to reach the hanger were practically vaporized as the lasers swept the area.
The Falcon raised her shields and plowed through the hole and any remaining debris in her way. She flew in the direction of the landed transports or what were left of them as two had been consumed in flames. Sinjin brought the ship to a halt about a dozen meters and to the left of the furthest transport in an effort to spot Dusty.
The sandy curly haired spacer muttered, "Come on Dusty."
Jade shouted in utter disbelief and pointed as she was the first to spot Dusty, "There he is!"
The sight she was shocked in seeing was that a few troopers that decided to challenge him as he was trying to flee from the remains of two of the transports were being cut down with what looked to her as a blue energy blade.
Sinjin shouted over his shoulder to Benson, "Can you shoot?"
Benson realized exactly what he was asking and took the second pilot's seat and took the control yoke. The first mate slaved the quad gunnery controls to the yoke and the targeting screen to the center display. The starship commander took a moment to get a feel for the control and targeting then opened fired. He swept the cannons in a half circle several meters behind Dusty to persuade any approaching trooper to the freighter captain that would not be a good idea.
Dusty dropped to the ground as the landing pad started being pocketed and sending debris out.
The Falcon lowered and landed several meters away from the flames then lowered her starboard shields.
Dusty was on his feet in an instant and made a dash towards the ship. He quickly reached the lowering ramp then ran up it. As soon as he was in the corridor he shouted, "Sinjin, take off!" He smashed the button to bring the door down and bring the ramp up just as the freighter lifted further off the ground.
The freighter took off like a shot in the air as all her shields were raised. She was immediately noticed by several TIE fighters and started giving chase.
Sinjin uttered as Dusty reach the door to the cockpit, "Cutting it close there captain."
"I told you I was going to do something crazy," he retorted and tapped Benson on the shoulder to signal that he needed to get up from his seat.
Benson immediately complied and they awkwardly switch places. Dusty took control of the yoke while the Star Fleet captain grabbed hold of the seat Shapiro was seated behind the freighter captain.
Dusty switched the yoke back to flight controls and shouted to Benson, "Give Sinjin the coordinates to where you wanted to go. We got to get out of here real quick once we got out of the planet's gravity well."
Benson grabbed Sinjin's shoulder and started reading off the coordinates he had spent the last six days memorizing. The first mate quickly typed in the coordinates through the keypad. The starship commander hoped that the universal translator was correctly translation the numbers to the first mate and that he was properly tying them into the computer. He started reading them off again as the ship suddenly shook. He ignored it and continued to double check the coordinates.
The Star Fleet science officer shouted, "What was that?!"
The space cowboy shouted out as he yanked the control yoke and leveled the leveled the ship off for a moment then dove down then back up in a steep climb, "Fighters on our tail! They don't like us running away!"
The rocking stop as the ship had greater acceleration and finally broke out of the atmosphere and turned into orbit.
Benson took a sharp breath at the sight in front of him: Four or five dozen Imperial vessels of various classes were in various orbital distances from the planet engaged with about an equal number of Star Fleet and Skoleos space naval vessels. Green turbolaser bolts, orange and blue phaser beams and bolts, orange photon torpedoes and various colored plasma torpedoes filled the space between the opposing fleets.
A star destroyer fired a broadside and shredded a trio of starships into fireballs, but a half a dozen Star Fleet vessels and several Skoleos vessels had been able to swing around to the stern of her and poured everything they had into her. About four dozen torpedoes and two dozen Gorn supplied Skoleos plasma torpedoes impacted against the rear shields. The combined energies of the various weapons (mostly thanks to the plasma torpedoes similar that of the Romulans that blasted apart several outposts along the Romulan Neutral the previous year) overwhelmed the shields and several torpedoes were able to get through along with the follow up phaser fire.
The back half of the mighty warship instantly consumed in flames as the engines were blown apart then seconds later the shockwaves spread down the center of the ship until it reached it's hypermatter reactor then setting off a small supernova.
Dusty snorted out with a soft laugh, "It looks like your Star Fleet is giving them a fight… I haven't seen something like this since the end of the Clone Wars."
Benson clenched his teeth that he couldn't be part of the fight, but fighting wasn't their mission, but escaping.
Sinjin called out, "We have more fighters inbound!"
Dusty glanced at the sensor screen to see about a dozen fighters turning their attention to them. "Split everything between the shields, engines and life support."
Sinjin shouted as he looked at his instruments, "They're raising a planetary shield!"
Just as the words were leaving Sinjin's mouth, the Imperial fighters collided and disintegrated against it.
"Sithspit!" Dusty shouted as he pushed hard on the control stick and the Falcon pitched hard down and away to her starboard back towards the atmosphere then pulled up to stay above the outer atmosphere and between the shield. The fighters that had been pursuing them from the planet caught up with the Falcon, but they weren't quick enough as they crashed on the inner side of the shields and died just as quickly as their comrades.
The freighter captain quickly ran through the options in his head as they were trapped literally a rock (the planet) and a hard place (the planetary shields). He uttered in mild disgust, "There's only one way we're going to get out of here… how's the navi-computer with those coordinates?"
Sinjin shouted, "No! Absolutely not! You want to try to jump into hyperspace while inside a gravity well?!"
"No, but I'm counting on something else." He pushed the throttle and the freighter accelerated around the planet in the very low orbit.
Benson asked in healthy concern, "What are you going to do?"
"I'm counting that they can't raise the entire planetary shield at once and maybe…" He didn't finish as he was trying to thread the needle while splitting his attention to the display showing him the edge of the atmosphere and that the shields were dissipating above them. However, they were strengthening as they rounded the planet.
The shields were rising in sections above the atmosphere and the Falcon was pushing her engines to outpace them. He throttled more then pulled hard on the yoke and the ship pulled up hairs of a second before that section of the planetary shield raised.
Dusty blew out a breath as he had pulled off the maneuver while Shapiro shouted, "That was insane!"
"No kidding," Dusty spat in disgust with himself. He looked to Sinjin and snapped, "Has the navi-computer finished with those calculations?!"
"Yes, but…"
"What?"
"We have to finish rounding the planet near the battle."
Dusty gritted his teeth, but for the most part remained silent as he pulled on the control yoke and the freighter turned hard to starboard as she maintained her orbit. The ship flew for about a minute over the day side of the planet without drawing any type of fire from the planet then finished rounding the globe to see in the distance the battle continuing to wage.
As fortune would have it, the tide of the battle was turning to the favor of the Skoleos and Star Fleet as more of the Skoleos' National Navy started returning from further out in their star system and the planetary weapons were being brought to bear on the invaders. It was one thing to attack and overrun colonies, but entirely different thing to overrun a planetary nation with a star navy.
Sinjin shouted, "We're clear to jump."
The freighter captain grabbed the throttle control in the center divider pushed it forward. The next moment the star field on the other side of the cockpit window started to stretch similar to a ship jumping to warp then twisted into a whirling tunnel of blue as the ship jumped into hyperspace.
Author's Note: So they got off the planet, now they just have to meet up with Princess Tori. I hope to have a new chapter out seen in the next few days. Thanks for reading, OneHorseShay.