It was a beautiful and quiet night at the Jedi temple on Coruscant, but the calmness would turn into a night of death and destruction because Anakin Skywalker was now a Sith Lord called Darth Vader leading Clone troopers into the Jedi temple. The mission that Darth Vader had was to wipe out the Jedi because with the Jedi gone his master, Palpatine, could rule the galaxy without any trouble.
As Vader and the Clone troopers of the 501st marched into the temple, a human Jedi padawan, Petro looked down from a meditation tower. He watched them with confusion and then turned to his five friends. "Clones are marching into the temple and I don't know why?" he said with unease.
Petro's friends and fellow padawans were a female Tholothian named Katooni, a male Ithorian named Byph, a female Rodian named Ganodi, a male Nautolan named Zatt, and a male Wookiee named Gungi.
Zatt looked at his friends with a look of fear and sorrow. "I feel something, but I just can't tell what it is!" he explained as he joined Petro. He could tell that everyone felt the same way.
"We should ask one of the masters why the troopers are coming here!"
Ganodi steeped up and pointed toward the door of the meditation chamber. "Let's go see Master Skywalker," she said with assurance trying to make her friends feel less worried. "He may know what's going on." the young Rodian lead her friends out of the chamber.
The six padawans walked down the hall, hearing other Jedi talk about the clones coming into the temple, but then the whispers were replaced by the sound of blasterfire and screams of death. "What's going here?!" shouted Katooni pulling her Lightsaber out as well as her friends.
"Beats the heck out of me!" exclaimed Zatt trying to stay calm. Plumes of black smoke filled the hall.
Just then Anakin Skywalker stepped out from behind the smoke. The six Padawans felt relieved and approached the former Jedi. If they had knew that Skywalker had turned to the dark side they would have run, but they did not know that until it was too late. Vader drew his lightsaber and struck down Byph.
"BYPH!" screamed Ganodi in horror and unbelief as a group of Clone troopers joined Vader.
"Kill the Jedis!" ordered a clone captain. The soldiers raised their weapons and aimed at the five Padawans, but Vader raised his hand to halt the execution.
"I will deal with them myself!"
Petro, Katooni, Ganodi, Zatt, and Gungi looked at the Dark Lord with anger and sorrow. They had been friends with his padawan, Ahsoka Tano for a long time before she left the order and now her master was their enemy. They didn't want to fight Anakin, but they had to do it in order to survive. They ignited their lightsabers and were ready to fight.
Vader looked coldly at the five young warriors with his laser sword at ready and waited to see which one of the padawans would attack first. He then sensed Petro's anger and want of revenge against him for killing Byph.
You'll pay for this traitor!" snarled Petro.
His great hatred for Vader impelled Petro to lunge at him savagely, bringing his sizzling blade down upon Vader's. But effortlessly, the Dark Lord deflected the blow with a defensive turn of his own weapon. He then shoved Petro back and kicked him in the chest sending him to the floor. Katooni then rushed Vader, but he was to fast and avoided her attack and smiled evilly at the young Tholothian. "I'm surprised and impressed young one!" mocked Vader as he faced her.
Katooni smiled back with anger. "You'll find out that I'm full of surprises!" and with that she swung her lightsaber.
The lightsabers clashed in Katooni and Darth Vader's hands, but the Dark Lord was better trained in lightsaber combat. Zatt helped Petro to his feet as Ganodi rushed at Vader. However, the Dark Lord blocked her attack and mocked the young Rodian. "Better luck next time. Oh, I forgot, there won't be a next time!" and he knocked Ganodi's weapon out of her hands and sent it flying away. A slash of Vader's lightsaber blade at Ganodi's feet made the youth jump, but just before Vader could striker her down Zatt pulled her out of the way.
As Vader raised his weapon to strike them both, but Petro blocked the Dark Lord's attack. Gungi tried to get Vader from behind, but he stuck out his hand and hit the Wookiee with a force push sending him into a wall.
Perto and Katooni then stood side by side facing Darth Vader. "Zatt, Ganodi, Gungi!" yelled the young human padawan. "Go to the hanger, find a ship and get out of here!" he ordered not taking his eyes off Vader.
The clone troopers moved in to stop Zatt, Ganodi and Gungi, but Katooni used the force to bring done some pipes that hung above the clone troopers. The troopers had no time to get out of the way and were crushed, but Vader only looked at his pray with anger and determination. Nothing would stop him from killing these padawans.
As Petro and Katooni fought with Vader their three friends made their way through the burning temple. It was awful because everywhere there was clones and Jedis fighting and dying, but there were more clones, and it was a losing battle for the Jedi. Rounding a corner that would lead them to the hanger, the three friends came to abrupt halt. So did the twelve Clone troopers marching toward them with weapons ready.
"It's them! BLAST THEM!" ordered a clone major.
Zatt drew his lightsaber quicker than the clones who raised their weapons and attacked wildly. The young Nautolan struck the clone major in the neck decapitating him. Before the rest could fire, Gungi ran his lightsaber through a trooper's chest and chopped off another trooper's left arm off. Ganodi forced three clones back with a force push attack. The clones were no match for Zatt, Ganodi, and Gungi.
The young Rodian looked at dead clone troopers. "Let's hope they didn't destroy any of the ships." and Ganodi's hopes were not crushed because there were a few ships still in good condition and she was a pilot. However, there was one ship that caught her eye was an Corellian XS Stock Light freighter.
"That's our ship guys!"
The three pawans entered the Corellian freighter and made the ship ready for takeoff. Ganodi sat in the cockpit with Zatt who was flipping one switch after another. Gungi felt that they were all still doomed, but the young Rodian would not give up on trying to save her friends, well what was left of her friends.
Zatt activated the main power system and the ship started up. "Are we ready to leave?!" he asked with a weak smile. Just as they were lifting off the young Nautolan spotted Petro and Katooni making their way toward the freighter, but Petro was hurt bad, but at least they survived their fight with Darth Vader. "Gungi, open the main hatch and let then in!" he ordered.
The wookiee ran to the main hatch and let Petro and Katooni into the freighter, but he then caught sight of Vader and a squad of Clone troopers entering the hanger. But there was no need to worry because Ganodi and Zatt got the freighter up and running almost until they lost power.
"We just had a burn out!" gasped Ganodi as she tried to help Zatt get the ship's power back on.
"We're all doomed!"
Katooni joined her her friends in the cockpit. "Would it help if I got out and pushed!" laughed the Tholothian sarcastically, but she was really scared.
Darth Vader looked at clone trooper carrying a rocket launcher. "Destroy them!" he ordered with a growl.
As the clone trooper with the rocket launcher got his weapon ready to fire, Petro entered the cockpit and looked at the controls. "Come on you piece of junk! FLY OR DIE!" he shouted slamming his fist down on the main control panel. The freighter came to life and then he smiled at Ganodi and Zatt. "We call that the Corellian touch!" he said with a smile of pride.
Zatt the activated the ship's shields. "Shields are up" he laughed as the clone trooper fired his rocket.
The rocket did not damage the freighter. The shields did its job, but the five padawans were still in danger. Ganodi smiled and turned to Zatt her copilot. "Punch it" she shouted.
The freighter's engines roared. And everything behind the craft was blown away in the fiery exhaust billowing from its thrusters. The freighter blasted its way out of the hanger and away from Darth Vader who stood among the clone troopers. The Dark Lord turned to a clone sergeant with rage burning in his eyes.
"I want that ship," he hissed and began to walk away. "And make sure to kill those Jedis!" he added without even looking back at the troopers.
For about two hours the Corellian freighter flew through the city and inside the cockpit Ganodi sat with her copilot Zatt. The Nautolan was checking the ship's systems, and everything seemed good. Inside the cargo bay Katooni was tending to Petro's wounds, but Gungi sat on some crates in sorrow. In fact, all of them felt bad because their home the Jedi temple was destroyed and a good friend was dead, but most of all was that Anakin Skywalker had become their enemy.
Katooni patted Petro on shoulder and smiled weakly. "You'll be alright, Petro," said the Tholothian trying to hide her sorrow. Before the Corellian could answer, Zatt walked up to his friends with a smile.
"You can all stop worrying about the 501st clone troopers," he said with a laugh. "They'll never find us because our Rodain pilot Ganodi will get us off of Coruscant." he said with assurance.
Gungi raised his arms in joy. The Wookiee's friends smiled in agreement. But the joy didn't last because Ganodi's voice was heard over the ship's intercom. "Zatt, get up her!" she ordered.
The Nautolan rushed to the cockpit and took his seat next to his Rodain friend. "We got company!" she gasped. Zatt looked out of the cockpit and to his horror he saw three ARC-170 starfighters coming in for an attack.
"Shields up, Zatt!"
Zatt was too late in activating the ship's shields because a fourth fighter blasted them from above. The power was gone, and the ship was going down. Ganodi tried her best to keep the freighter in the air, but it was no good. She grabbed the intercom. "Brace yourselves!" she screamed.
Inside the cargo bay Petro, Katooni, and Gungi grabbed hold of anything that they could use to brace themselves. The ship crashed through two building and then struck the ground level of the city. Civilians ran to avoid the freighter as it crashed through the streets, but it finally came to a halt. One of the ARC-170 starfighters radioed for ground troops to check out the wreckage.
Within minutes members of the 501st moved in and searched the wreckage but found nothing. "They must have survived and fled into the city!" a trooper said in amazement. The clone commander turned to the rest of his platoon. "Find them and destroy them!" he ordered pointing at his men.
With that the hunt for Petro, Katooni, Ganodi, Zatt, and Gungi began.
The five Jedi padawans are in a jam. Will they be able to evade the 501st and get off Coruscant. It could be then end for these Jedi outlaws.