Way of the Sith

Chapter 5 - Tatooine

The Tatooine suns burn brightly overhead as Angelus and Leia circle around the side of Jabba's palace, away from the front gate. It's hard to do it without being noticed, but they're good at that. Angelus remembers destroying this place before, except last time Vader was here. It shouldn't be hard to do it without him this time, though.

Jawas are scurrying about, and they're likely to raise an alarm, but by then, they'll already be inside the palace.

"We can go in here," she decides, coming to a stop by one of the back walls.

Leia nods, igniting her lightsaber, and stabbing it into the wall. Angelus immediately joins her, cutting through the wall in a circle. Leia kicks in the stone when they finish, climbing through the hole with Angelus close behind.

Several guards inside are already aiming their blasters and start shooting. Angelus spins her blade, deflecting the shots back at their source. A couple of them go down, and Leia lunges at the next one as he shoots again, stabbing him. Angelus finishes off the last one and they take off down the hall.

They need to get to the main room with Jabba, but taking a side route and making sure no one can sneak up behind them will make it easier.

They stride side by side down the hall, holding their lightsabers ready in front of them. Several more guards spot them instantly and start shooting. One of them retreats down the hall, probably to warn others that there's intruders in the palace. Angelus lifts a hand, yanking him back towards her with the Force before he can, stabbing him through with her lightsaber as Leia takes down a couple of the other guards in the hall.

They finish cutting their way through them, continuing forwards.

Right now they can handle it, but Angelus knows that won't last forever. There's so many here it will be easy to get overwhelmed. That's why starting out here is easiest.

If things do get too far, they can let loose the rancor. On second thought, maybe they should do that anyway. Angelus was only hesitant because they wouldn't be able to control the destruction while fighting off the guards at the same time – and it might end up eating some slaves – but if it's staying in the lower levels of the palace, it will provide sufficient distraction.

More and more guards try to intercept them, but they cut their way through all of them, pressing on for the room where Jabba is.

Angelus waves a hand, opening an entrance with the Force and the two stalk into the room. All eyes in the room immediately turn to them. "Who are you?" Jabba demands, in Huttese.

All blasters are immediately trained on them, and Angelus isn't foolish enough to think they couldn't be overwhelmed by the number of people in here. Leia is strong, but she doesn't have the experience the older Sith do. She can't overestimate either of their abilities. She knows Leia won't need the reminder, though – Angelus and Vader have drilled that into their children's heads over and over, not to let the Dark Side blind them into taking completely unnecessary and unreasonable risks, because they're blinded by the power enough to think they can handle it.

"Your rule is at an end, Jabba," Angelus warns.

Jabba's eyes narrow and he lets a furious noise. "Kill them!" he snarls, and the guards fire.

They have their backs to the door, so they can only be attacked from one direction, and they'll leave a way to retreat if they actually need to, since they cleared that area of the palace first. Their red blades move in a constant flurry of motion, deflecting the blasts back at the bounty hunters one after another.

One of them hurls a vibroblade at them, but Leia slashes it aside with her lightsaber and they keep pressing forwards. One by one, the bounty hunters and guards start to fall. None of the ones with non-blasters for weapons can get close enough to attack them right now, without risk of being shot, which makes it easier.