Phantom Rebellion
Chapter 37 Storming the Castle
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything this is just a story for fun.
The Rebels arrived at Arok's palace first and parked their ships behind a bunch of large rocks. Maddie, Danny, and Tucker climbed to the top of the rock with some binoculars to look at the palace. Several minutes, later and Imperial Cruiser landed a few yards from the palace. The cruiser doors opened and out marched Bullet and two dozen Stormtroopers. Bullet signaled six of the Stormtroopers to stay with the cruiser, while he and the rest of the Stormtroopers marched up to the palace gates.
"Well it looks like our favorite Imperial is here." Muttered Tucker.
Danny looked at the Stormtroopers and noticed that two of them were carrying some metal cases.
"Looks like Arok is cutting a deal with Bullet for Sam." Said Danny.
Amorpho joined the others on the rock with some binoculars and spotted a gamorrean and a dark skinned human wearing some light armor and a helmet patrolling outside the palace.
"I do believe, I've spotted our ticket in." Said Amorpho as he signaled Tucker to follow him.
Tucker and Amorpho snuck over to a large rock near the palace and crouched down.
"So how exactly do we go about this?" Asked Tucker.
"I'll demonstrate. You deal with the human, I'll deal with the gamorrean." Said Amorpho as he changed into a large chested red haired women wearing a tight grey outfit and stepped out from behind the rock and faced the two patrolling guards.
The gamorrean and the human starred at the the transformed Amorpho in confusion. The transformed Amorpho smiled at the guards and winked at them, while this was going on Tucker crept up behind the guards from the other side, got behind the human and zapped him with a stun blast, from his blaster. The guard let out a yelp and collapsed to the ground. The gamorrean spun around and faced Tucker with it's ax raised high to attack, but Amorpho transformed into a gamorrean and spun the guard around and delivered a powerful punch to the other gamorrean's face and knocked him out.
"There we go. I got my disguise, now just take that man's outfit and will sneak on in." Said Amorpho as he picked up the gamorrean's ax.
Tucker grabbed the human guard, dragged behind him behind the rock, removed his helmet and clothes, and put them on. Amorpho dragged the gamorrean behind the rock and he and Tucker tied them up. The two Rebels then headed over to their comrades and explained how, they planned to sneak into the palace. One of the Yetiz and a human were sent out to get the two unconscious guards and put them in a small cave nearby. Maddie studied Tucker and Amorpho in their disguises.
"We need to sneak in and cause a conflict between Arok and Bullet's forces. To do that, we need to have at least one of use disguise themselves as a Stormtrooper."
"I volunteer for that." Said Danny.
"Alright, it'll be good practice for your Force training." Said Maddie.
Danny climbed onto a high rock and focused on one of the Stormtroopers by the cruiser. The young Jedi picked one and began to probe his mind a little, before slipping the solider a mental suggestion to go for a little walk and patrol the area. The Stormtrooper turned away from the ship and the other Stormtroopers and began to walk away.
"Where are you off to?" Called one of the other Stormtroopers.
"Going for a little walk and do some patrolling." Said the Stormtrooper as he walked off.
Danny watched the Stormtrooper walk away from the cruiser and head towards a group of large rocks. The young Jedi quickly made his way to the rocks and found the Stormtrooper casually walking ahead of him. Danny quietly walked up behind the unsuspecting Stormtrooper and delivered a quick hand strike to the back of the solider's neck. The Stormtrooper let out a groan as he fell to the ground in an unconscious heap. Danny went about removing the Stormtrooper's armor and putting it on. When Danny was fully dressed, he turned to see his mother, with her Jedi robe and hood up.
"Nicely done. Now let's enter the palace." Said Maddie.
"What about you? I doubt the other Stormtroopers are just simply going to let us, walk right past them and enter the palace." Said Danny.
"Don't worry, I have my own methods." Said Maddie.
The two of them walked back to the cruiser and the Stormtrooper, who seemed to be in charge approached them.
"Who is this?" Demanded the Stormtrooper as he indicated Maddie.
"I am an Imperial officer." Said Maddie as she waved her hand in front of the Stormtrooper's face.
"You are an Imperial officer." Said the Stormtrooper.
"This Stormtrooper next to me is my escort. You will step aside and let us pass." Said Maddie.
"I will step aside and let you pass." Said the Stormtrooper as he stepped aside.
Maddie and Danny walked past the Stormtrooper and headed towards the palace gates.
"How did you do that?" Asked Danny.
"The Force has great power over the weak minded. Will practice on that skill at another time." Said Maddie as they approached the gate.
A mechanical eye poked out of the gate and studied the newcomers for a little bit, before going back into the gate. The gate opened up and a Weequay waved Danny and Maddie in. The two of them entered the palace grounds.
From afar Frostbite watched Danny and Maddie entered the gates. A couple of the human soldiers were sent out to get the unconscious Stormtrooper and carry him to the cave where the other unconscious guards were. Frostbite then saw Tucker and Amorpho get let in through a gate on the Westside.
"May the Force be with you." Said Frostbite as he watched the last of the entry team enter the gates.
In the main din of Arok's palace there seemed to a small party going on, while the criminals awaited the arrival of Bullet. The room was packed with several humans, Weequay, gamorrean, Rodia, and a few Quarren. Arok sat in the back of them room, with Hotep-Ra and Behemoth by his side. The bounty hunters Arok had hired were scattered across the room on the lookout for trouble. Desiree, Star, and Paulina were walking about the crowd passing out drinks. Paulina was giving some drinks to a couple of Rodia, when Elliot swaggered over to her and placed a hand on, her shoulder.
"Hey there beautiful, how about you and me have a little fun later, when this is all over." Said Elliot with a cocky grin.
"Um...my masters won't allow that." Said Paulina as she tried to walk away from Elliot, but he grabbed her arm.
"Hey don't walk away! Why don't you give me a little kiss first." Said Elliot with an arrogant smirk on his face as he made a few kissing noises.
"She's not interested in you, so back off." Said Valerie as she walked over to Elliot and Paulina.
"Oh I know you. Your one of those lousy bounty hunters that failed to nab those Rebels after, I gave Arok that great information. Now I see your being hired on as protection, so why don't you go do your job and mind your own business." Said Elliot with a smirk, before turning back to Paulina.
Valerie grabbed Elliot by the arm and yanked him away from Paulina. The bounty hunter then began to twist Elliot's arm hard making him cry in pain and fall to his knees. Paulina gave Valerie a thankful look, before she quickly scurried away. A bunch of the criminals and bounty hunters eyed Valerie. A few were smirking and looking amused, while the Trinity of Doom and a few of the criminals glared at Valerie and prepared to draw their weapons. Valerie decided that Elliot wasn't worth the trouble of getting shot and released his arm. The bounty hunter then walked away and took a seat. The crowd lightened up and went about their business, as Elliot staggered to his feet clutching his arm and grimacing in pain. Several minutes after that incident, Bullet and his Stormtroopers marched into the room and headed towards Arok. The crowd, went silent as they eyed the Imperials. Bullet stopped before Arok and motioned for the Stormtroopers with the cases to put the cases down and opened them to reveal large stacks of credits.
"We have brought you eight hundred million credits. Now show us Chaos." Said Bullet as he glared at the crime lord.
"Not so fast, I have some terms I want to make before, I hand Chaos over you." Said Arok as he took a puff on his Hookah and blew a little smoke in Bullet's face.
"Fine what are your terms?" Grumbled Bullet.
As Arok was giving his terms, the disguised Rebels had entered the room. Amorpho pointed out some stairs that appeared to lead down to the dungeon. Tucker saw Valerie and decided to have a word with her.
"Hello again." Said Tucker.
Valerie turned and looked at the helmeted man recognizing, his voice.
"I suppose you and your friends came here to rescue your leader and you came here to try and convince me to join your little Rebellion." Said Valerie.
"That's the sum of it. I think you'd make a great addition to the Rebels." Said Tucker.
"What's to keep me from simply alerting everyone here about what your trying to do?" Asked Valerie.
"Well I figured you for a decent person and you don't really get me as being a snitch." Said Tucker.
"That an observation or what you think?" Asked Valerie.
"An observation and hey you didn't try to capture me that one time in that bar, so I have a feeling I can trust you. The offer to join us, still stands, also things are going to get crazy." Said Tucker before he walked off.
Valerie pondered over what Tucker said as she watched Arok give his terms.
Tucker rejoined the other Rebels and they snuck down to the dungeon. Two gamorrean and a Rodia stood before the door to the dungeon.
"Who are you?" Demanded the Rodia as he eyed the newcomers.
Maddie raised her hand to the Rodia and used the Force to slam him into the door knocking him out. Tucker fired a stun blast at one of the gamorrean, while Amorpho clubbed the other. The guards were moved aside and the Rebels entered the dungeon to find Sam in a cell and E3 nearby. Sam looked up at her rescue party and eyed the disguised Danny.
"Your a little short for a Stormtrooper." Said Sam.
"We're here to rescue you." Said Danny as he removed his helmet and smiled at Sam.
Maddie sliced through the cell with her lightsaber and Sam walked out. Tucker removed the restraining bolt on E3.
"Alright we freed Sam, now we just need to free those slave girls and cause a little confusion between Arok's forces and Bullet's forces." Said Maddie.
Danny handed Sam a small cloth with a couple of holes in it. Sam took the cloth and wrapped around the top part of her head. The cloth looked like a mask. Tucker and Amorpho took Sam's arms and they rushed up the stairs with her with Danny running up behind them. Maddie and E3 stayed behind to wait for the the confusion to begin. Tucker and Amorpho ran up the stairs, with Sam between them as they reached the main room. Danny showed up behind them and pointed his blaster at Tucker. Tucker pointed his blaster at Danny, while Amorpho held Sam.
"Hold it right there!" Shouted Danny.
Everyone in the room turned to look at the group.
"What is going on?" Demanded Bullet.
"We saw this Stormtrooper sneaking into the dungeon and tried to get the prisoner!" Shouted Tucker.
The criminals and bounty hunters all began to draw their weapons and point them at the Stormtroopers.
"Well I saw these two trying to plant a hidden bomb on the prisoner in order to assassinate you and our superiors!" Called Danny.
The Stormtroopers surrounded Bullet and pointed their weapons at Arok's forces. Arok and Bullet glared at one another. The Hutt careful pushed a button on his chair, making two blaster barrels point out of the arms of the chair.
"Die!" Shouted Arok as the blasters fired at Bullet.
Bullet dove to the ground along with several of his Stormtroopers. A few Stormtroopers were cut down along with several of Arok's forces that happened to be in the way of the blaster fire. Bullet and his remaining forces scrambled to their feet and began firing at Arok's forces and complete chaos broke out. Hotep-Ra pulled out a blaster and Behemoth pulled out two blaster with his lower arms and two short swords with his upper arms. Andy and Fran pulled out some very large Blasters out and set Scaredy out to attack. Scaredy pounced onto one extremely unlucky Stormtrooper and began to maul him. Sullivan and Brenner leaped around whooping as they fired their blasters. The Rebels waded through the chaos trying to make their way to the exit. Maddie and E3 came up from the dungeon and began to make their own way to the exit and they soon caught up to the other Rebels. E3 spotted Desiree, Paulina, and Star hiding under a table and quickly reminded the Jedi that, they needed to rescue the slave girls. Maddie activated her lightsaber and ran over to the table deflecting laser blasts as she went.
"Follow the others." Said Maddie as she pointed at E3 and the other Rebels.
The slave girls nodded as they quickly ran to join the others. Amorpho had now changed into a wookie and was helping clear a path to the exit. Maddie ran back to join the group and ended up bumping into Elliot. The traitor's eyes went wide as he recognized Maddie and tried to bring his blaster up at her, but Maddie was quicker and she sliced the blaster barrel off making the weapon useless. Elliot let out a whimper and tried to run away, but Sam appeared from behind and spun him around to face her.
"This is what you get for betraying us!" Shouted Sam as she punched Elliot hard in the face.
There was a loud cracking noise as Sam's punch broke Elliot's nose and he fell to the ground in a heap. Amorpho walked over to Elliot, picked him up, and tossed him over his shoulder. The Rebels were fixing to take off, when a loud voice got their attention.
"Your not escaping me this time Jedi!"
The Rebels turned to see Bullet coming at them with Z6 baton in his left hand and a Songsteel sword in his right hand. Maddie stepped forward to deal with the oncoming threat.
"Get the others out of here, I'll handle this!" Called Maddie as she met Bullet's charge.
The Rebels continued on their way to escape. A wounded Stormtrooper staggered over to a window and fired a flare gun out of it and into the sky. A mile away the other two Imperial cruisers and the four AT-AT Walkers saw the flare and they made their way to the palace to attack. Frostbite saw the Empire's reinforcements and quickly went about loading up into their own ships to attack the Empire's forces.
Inside the palace Bullet was swing both his baton and his sword at Maddie, forcing the Jedi to go on the offensive. A Stormtrooper saw the fight and tried to come to Bullet's aid, but Maddie sent him flying away with a Force Blast. Bullet took a wild swing at Maddie with his baton, but she sidestepped it and sliced the nonresistant part of the baton and made it unless, before she delivered a kick to Bullet's chest and knocked him into a table. The Imperial Hunter groaned as he pulled himself off the table to continue fighting, he heard a growl and turned to see Scaredy rushing at him. Bullet quickly pulled out a blaster and delivered three shots to the charging beast killing it as it hit the ground.
"No!" Cried Fran as she and Andy saw their pet get killed.
The two bounty hunters then began to fire at Bullet, who quickly returned fire with deadly accuracy. Andy took a blast to the head, while Fran took a blast to the chest. Both bounty hunters were dead instantly. Bullet turned away from the dead bounty hunters and looked for Maddie, but there was no sign of her. The Imperial Hunter let out curse, before going back to rejoin his troops in battle.
The Rebels had made it out of the main room and we're making their way to the palace exit, when Arok, Hotep-Ra, Behemoth, and a couple of Weequay and Rodia blocked their way.
"You will suffer for what you have done Rebels!" Boomed Arok as he prepared to fire his chair blasters.
At that moment a laser blast hit the back of Arok's chair causing it to spin out of control the blasters fired, but they ended up hitting one of the Weequay and one of the Rodia. Valerie appeared from out of the shadows with two blasters and took down the remaining Weequay and Rodia. The armored bounty hunter then fired another blast at Arok's chair causing the Hutt to fly towards a wall. Arok let out a scream before, he crashed into the wall with a sickening crash. The Hutt laid on the ground bleeding, with his eyes wide and his tongue hanging out. Arok was dead. Hotep-Ra starred at his dead boss in shock, before he tried to blast Valerie, but Amorpho tossed the unconscious body of Elliot at him and knocked the criminal to the ground. Behemoth let out an angry roar as he prepared to attack, but Maddie arrived on the scene and knocked the big alien into a wall with a Force blast stunning him. Amorpho delivered a punch to Hotep-Ra's face stunning him as he picked Elliot up again.
"We need to leave." Said Maddie.
"Thanks for the save." Said Tucker as he looked at Valerie.
"No problem, now you and your Rebel friends need to get out of here. I'll cover you." Said Valerie before she turned to the stairs and fired her blasters at a couple of gamerron that were trying to chase after the Rebels.
Tucker gave Valerie one last look before, he raced after his friends. The Rebels raced outside and, were confronted by the sight of some AT-AT walkers and the three Stormtroopers and cruiser that had been left outside. The Stormtroopers began to fire at the Rebels, but Danny pulled out his lightsaber and deflected the blast back at the Stormtroopers and knocked all three of them down. The Rebels then decided to take the cruiser. Tucker cast one last glance at the palace looking for Valerie, but didn't see her. The Rebel let out a sigh as he ran into the cruiser and got into the pilot's seat. The AT-AT walkers closed in and prepared to fire, when Frostbite and the other Rebels flew in with their shuttles and fired at two of the walkers's neck joints causing them to crash to the ground. Tucker quickly got the cruiser into the air and the Rebels took off away from the palace.
The slave girls cheered and Sam thanked Maddie and the others for rescuing her and for capturing Elliot. It was a successful mission.
Back at the palace, the place was a wreck. Less in half of Bullet's entry forces had survived the battle, the Rebels along with their leader had escaped, and several criminals and bounty hunters had escaped including Hotep-Ra. Bullet was angry and he wanted to hear some good news. The reinforcements had arrived and helped capture over a dozen criminals, including Valerie.
"Take this lot to Tartarus. Walker will at least be pleased with some new prisoners." Said Bullet.
A few Stormtroopers nodded and went about gathering the prisoners into a crusher.
To be continued.