The Fall | Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Chapter Thirty Six

JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER MISSION
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Alina kept her fighter close to the star destroyer, keeping in formation with the other three as they dove right into the middle of the battle, twisting and turning to avoid being hit by the crossfire. R2 beeped "Lock onto him R2" Anakin ordered "General Grievous's ship is directly ahead. The one crawling with vulture droids"

Alina huffed "Great, a nice easy mission, we should have no problems whatsoever," she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "Exactly, just like every other mission" Sylvie said, matching the padawan's sarcasm. "Oddball do you copy?" Obi-Wan asked. "Copy Red Leader" Oddball said. "Mark my position, form your squad up behind me" The Jedi Master ordered. A swarm of vulture droids flew up to intercept the four jedi and the clone squadron. "This is where the fun begins" Alina didn't need to see her brother to know he was smirking as he said those words.

"Let them pass between us" Obi-Wan instructed. The fighters flew in between the ranks of the droids, doing their best to avoid their fire. Alina winced as one clone fighter exploded. "They're all over me" A second clone pilot said "Get them off my-" his voice cut off "I'm going to go help them out" Anakin said, both Skywalkers were about to turn their fighters around but they were stopped by Sylvie "No, I want to help them too but we have a mission as do they. They are doing theirs and we must do ours" 

Anakin obeyed. Alina didn't, she refused to let a clone of her squadron die. She turned her fighter around, despite both Sylvie and Obi-Wan's protests and began firing at the vulture droid. A well aimed hit caused it to explode. Satisfied, Alina moved back into position with her Master. Just as she did, four missiles raced towards the fighters leaving a blue trail behind them. "Missiles, pull up" Anakin warned. The fighters tuned to avoid them. "They overshot us" Obi-Wan said. "They're coming around" Sylvie warned.

The four Jedi split up, each having one missile after them. Alina swerved sharply to avoid being hit and used wreckage from a separatist ship as cover. The missile crashed into the scrap metal and exploded on contact. She smirked. "I'm hit! Anakin? Alina? Sylvie?" Obi-Wan said. "I see them, buzz droids" Anakin said. Alina flew in the direction of her brother and master, spotting the buzz droids that covered her master's ship completely.

"They're shutting down all the controls" Obi-Wan said. "Move to the right so I can get a better shot at them" Anakin said "No, move to the left, I'll have a better shot from here than Anakin does" Alina said, "The mission, get to the command ship, get the chancellor" Obi-Wan ordered. "Not without you" Sylvie said firmly. Both Skywalkers siblings started blasting at the droids. they succeeded but one shot knocked out a piece of the fighter's wing. "Anakin!" Alina scolded "That shot was clearly you!" Anakin protested.

"Both of you stop bickering and hold your fire!" Sylvie ordered. "She's right, you're not helping" Obi-Wan agreed. "Sorry Master" Alina said. "I can't see a thing, my cockpit's fogging up" The Jedi Master said. Anakin moved his fighter closer to Obi-Wan's, using his wing to knock off the buzz droids. "Ani! You're only making it worse" Alina said. "I'm not! I just need a clear shot" Anakin insisted "Move your fighter to the right" he said to Obi-Wan.

"Hold on Anakin, you'll get us both killed" The Jedi Master protested. "Get out of here! There's nothing more any of you can do" he said. "Not without you" Sylvie repeated, Anakin brushed his fighter wing against Obi-Wan's again, this time he effectively knocked off all the buzz droids except one. The remaining Buzz Droid climbed onto his fighter and was about to go for R2 but the Astromech electrocuted it first, disabling it. "Yeah you got him!" Anakin cheered "That was great R2" Alina praised "Good job R2" Sylvie said "Great, R2" Obi-Wan said.

"The general's ship is dead ahead" Anakin said. R2 let out a loud scream like whistle. "Well have you noticed the shields are still up?!" Obi-Wan asked. "Sorry Master" Alina fired at the outer controls for the shields, turning them off. A blast door began to close over the opening. "Oh I have a bad feeling about this" Obi-Wan said. The four fighters were able to slip in and half land and half crash into the hanger of the ship just as the door shut.