Teachings of a Different Kind
Chapter 3: The Challenge/ Ch3
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAt the edge of the system a hyperspace disturbance was detected by the advanced probes, it was massive. It spanned over three miles wide; the length could not be seen until the ship arrived… but overall, it looked to be a large vessel by any standards.
The ship that exited hyperspace was magnificent, it was shaped like the tip of a spear and was curved along the edges like an elegant sculpture, it was a Super-Star-Destroyer, but it resided in a class al its own, it was a world ship, one of massive proportions. It has been said to traverse the voids between worlds since the time of the first Jedi Sith civil war… over thirty thousand years ago. It was a tannish bronze color with many steel covered sections where damage had been covered over with Durasteel. The world ship was around three miles wide at the widest point and was over seventeen miles long from stem to stern.
As it floated in space the inhabitants of the world ship scrambled to get their fighters and other ships into space, they were here for one thing and one thing only, the resources of M-3.
“well, I’ll grab my things and get ‘Vet’ out of the socket and we’ll be set to go.” I jumped up to the cockpit and dropped my books on the seat as I swung up to help pull ‘Vet’ out.
“Well, I’ll start getting things out of the storage compartments.” I nodded absently to ben and got ‘Vet’ out of the socket. Right as I was about to tell Ben to grab a hover sled, the inboard Comms blared with Leia’s voice.
“All hands this is Master Solo, we are under attack, this is not a drill, we are under attack. All hands report to battle stations, Wing commanders are to scramble all fighters, I repeat this is not a drill, get your Shebs!” Well, there is the anger I was waiting for…
“I’ll meet you out on the stars, Ryan… May the force be with you…” ben said before running back to the corridor to get to his ship.
“Always!” I gave him a lopsided grin and jumped in my fighter. I got it far of the deck and then shot off into space. I swooped down and into the swarm of allied fighters getting in formation for the incoming enemy. As I got into position I had noticed that there were a few Mon Cal Nebulon-b heavy cruiser present, I had noticed them earlier but failed to truly acknowledge them.
We all sat there for a moment, waiting for the enemy to appear, and then all hell broke loose. Out of kriffing nowhere their fighters, corvettes and frigates appeared in our midst… it was truly disheartening to see so many enemy blips suddenly show up on your radar… trust me it sucks.
I weaved through the dance and left none of the enemy alive in my wake… their ships were like paper to my advanced plasma throwers. It was pathetic though, to see my allies being torn to bloody shreds by the sheer amount of fighters the enemy had. The few frigates and corvettes I saw were of a design pattern that you would have seen in an old war vid of the Jedi civil war, these guys were flying relics far older than some star systems… and they were massacring us. As I flew through the mass of death and destruction, the deaths on both sides were affecting me greatly through the force, but I dared not let it interfere, I had picked up a few stragglers and had organized a decent fighting force. We were trying to get out of the mass so I could go in and get more snub fighters, we were going to need all the help we could get.
“OK, guys, I need you to go clear away the enemy fighters from one of our Mon Cal cruisers, we will need a base to operate from… this is going to be tricky so don’t throw your lives away needlessly.” They gave a few assenting calls and took off towards one of the cruisers.
I swung back around and dove back into the fray; I loosed a few shots with every chance I got, hitting many of the enemy fighters as I went by. As one exploded I knew what kind of fighters I was looking at, it had finally snapped in my head.
“Kriffing A-wings! They have Aurek A-wings, kriff… this isn’t going to end well.” I knew that even though they were out dated by several millennia I knew they could out turn some, if not most, of our fighters.
Chasing several of the enemy A-wings I gained a few friends, I had about nine tangoes on my back that I couldn’t scratch and the ones in front weren’t making it any easier.
“This is Ryan Reiks; I am in need of some assistance…” I let the sentence trail off as I began to unload on the fighters in front to me, not caring anymore where the shots went. I zeroed in on one of them and nailed it several times on the far left wing, making it catch fire and then explode when the fuel tank finally caught.
“Sithspit… this is getting out of hand…” Right as I was about to bow out and make a beeline for the edge several blue lances came flying all around me, they were the shots of alliance x-wings.
“Heard you could use some help, so I delivered, now stand back and be amazed!” Bens all to welcome voice crackled over the comms, the laser fire was playing havoc with our instruments.
“About kriffing time you Sithspawn! We need to get a section cleared so we can get this shit back in order.” I pulled hard to port as a volley of laser fire came barreling at me, I rolled back on course and fired volley of laser fire right back at the offending fighters, hitting several of them on the nose, making several of them explode instantly.
“Ryan, we need to give the ‘Adad’ enough time to get its hyperdrives warmed up, the rest of the fighters are going to station themselves around our remaining Nebulon-b heavy Cruiser, it was smart thinking on your part that we even have one left… You and I will be taking several hyperspace capable fighters and keeping the rest of these sleemo’s off the ship. Clear?”
“Yeah, let’s go frag some of those bastards.” I banked my ship up into the right and saw five enemy fighters coming down on one of our cruisers and right into my sites, I depressed about his unlike controls and just let the guns go peppering them with hundreds of rounds. After taking care of the mine continued on dotting the laser rounds left and right jinking and juking in and out of enemy fire. Everywhere I looked, I could see our fighters losing the overwhelming odds of the Aurek fighters.
“‘Vet’ I need you to send a message, telling all incapacitated fighters to meet me at sector 23 – 02 – 05. Also send a message to Ben, tell him that we will defend what we can, but that he needs to get the rest of the students away.” R4 sent the messages that I requested.
We got the sector there were around 35 different fighters waiting for us most of the different states damage ranging from wings missing to misfiring engines some were even missing the tips of their fighters. I organized our remaining forces into two different groups spreading out the damaged fighters among the operational ones. I knew, for a fact, this was going to be a suicide run, but I will be damned if I let the students get caught.
“Brothers in arms, this day we fight to save the lives of many hopefuls… We may fall, but many will rise in our place. For the Galactic alliance, for the force!” Plans for additional speech garnered many cheers for my fellow pilots. We all knew we were going to die but we’re going to do it for those below and those above.
I let the spear tip of fighters straight to the heart of the enemy formation we cut through them like butter, destroying hundreds of them as we passed through, sadly the we lost almost half of our ships on the first. As we exited the enemy formation they all turn to chase us, hundreds if not thousands of laser bolts went flying past us exploding all around, our numbers and did down the low teens, we were quickly die now.
“All right, the rest of you split up. There’s only about 14 of us left somatic make this, okay I have to go up at half you go down, the rest of you with me, don’t leave my side you got me.” Six of my fighters pulled up while five of them went down in the remaining few stayed with me pulling hard to starboard. We got the enemy forces split up and chase after the three groups; my crew pulled a double helix and came back on the enemy. The four of us let loose with everything we had decimating the forces we chase them down, the man at the front of the mass of enemies were slowly being picked off one by one.
By the time we had told them all only three of them remained so I had them join our group is be came back round to take on the Aurek fighters that were chasing down my second squad, it took us less than three seconds to get there. My second squad doing an absolutely marvelous job holding off the enemy, and had somehow gotten them balled up and were using just plain incredible maneuvers to just decimate them, spinning around them going over and underneath some just firing away, it was inspiring to say the least.
With our combined firepower, we took down their forces for more manageable level. During this entire fiasco, at least that is what it would be later called; almost all of our forces had gotten away. There was a Nebulon-b cruiser waiting for us… That is until the enemies, what I have come to know as a, world ship made it to the battlefield and unleashed its full firepower on the ship destroying it almost instantly. I looked down at my display to check over how many men were still left, there were about seven left. Throughout the entire battle had been ignoring pinging is my ship, it was letting me know that I had received a message; I knew it was from and I didn’t need to know what it said, I already had a feeling that I wouldn’t like it.
I had what was left of my men form up behind me, we made an arrowhead formation and aimed ourselves right at the heart of the fleet. “Men… It been an honor serving with all of you… May the force guide you and give you a peaceful death.” We shot off towards the enemy formation at high speeds dotting every single one of their shops as we came within 100 yards of their first ship… We all open fired simultaneously cutting a swath through their entire force, like a lightsaber through butter. As explosions got ever so closer, our numbers became fewer and fewer, until there was just me and the two pilots next to me.
As we kept on our course, first the man on my right slammed into one of the enemy fighters, both of them incinerating instantly. Then me and my remaining fighter split in the opposite directions, he going into oncoming enemy fire, while I went out and open space and turned back around.
“Well 'Vet', it’s been a pleasure serving with you, but I think it’s time for us to destroy all these kriffing bastards, don’t you…” I asked of my astromech, his answer appeared on my display.
“Yes, I do believe it is time for them to die.” I laughed heartily as I read his message, it was to the point and delivered exactly what I wanted to say myself and did say myself.
“Well then , Vet, I would like you and incentives to take over the ship while I concentrate… Just be sure they don’t hit us too much. I grinned evilly as I will look at the masses fighters frigates and several cruisers sword towards us. They will never be able to harm another civilization again. I zoned out as I meditated… Not even paying attention as the ship moved about keeping the enemy from hitting us I was too keen on meditating and concentrating my force energy. If what I was about to do worked; then we would be able to get out of there with our lives and end all of theirs.
Was going to create something that has not been seen in over 10,000 year’s… A force induced wormhole… It has the capability of destroying an entire planet if used incorrectly and seeing as I am the only human here, and the forces against me are so great and so evil that this is accurate use of my power, that I will use it. When I opened my eyes, they were glowing gold with all of the energy that was coursing through me; it is only thanks to the teachings of my master and all of the Masters before and after him that I am able to control this power. To have such control over the force and not be killed when I call upon is a testament to their teachings.
The warm opened up in front of me soloing space and all color into it… It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen the colors are magnificent everything from black to white from all color to know: was an my ship leapt right into the middle of it and disappeared. I do not know what all happened after I entered the wormhole, all I can hope for is that those bastards paid for what they did.
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This was my last moment before ending up in the Gaian system... in a different dimension... I will up date my journal when ever i get the chance...
Good luck to whom ever finds this...