Convergence Infinites: The Clone Wars

Sixteen

Cross and his team, being forced to find areas to cut down how many enemies he took at once. He was skilled, but there were over a dozen enemies and their weapons had fields on them that protected them from lightsabers and other energy weapons. His own armor was taking a beating wherever he could afford to let it but he was also taking several heavy blows where it was more thin. Several of the bodyguards went after Atticus, who tossed a grenade at them and ducked behind the firing console. The blast killed several and disoriented more but the fight was still on. Atticus stood to immediately get hit by two blaster bolts. His personal shield collapsed and his armor was looking pretty bad. To make matters worse, he was, once again, running low on ammo for his weapon. Installing the last full power cell, he blazed away at the console that the warlord was hiding behind, literally melting it to slag with the fire as he marched up to it. When the power cell was expended he threw it at the warlord as he stood to return fire and then charged, grabbing the Advozse and slamming his helmeted face straight into his opponents forehead, just below where a horn protruded. The Advozse laughed, grabbed him and returned the favor, cracking the helmets visor. Atticus staggered back and tried to draw his blaster pistol but the warlord was on him, using his hands and feet to wrench the weapon from the soldier's hands and kick him to the ground. Atticus rolled and came up, catching his opponents leg and slammed him against two of his own bodyguards who were running to his aid. Atticus ripped his helmet off and dove for his blaster, using it to kill the two guards before the warlord was on him again. Cross was in a corner, fighting the last three with all his skill and endurance. It looked like it was going to be a rough fight for both of them until Tol and Kadrian ran back in. Atticus opened fire on the warlord while Tol cut down two of the remaining bodyguards. The Advozse warlord, distracted by Atticus's blaster fire, was pummeled by Cross who didn't stop until his opponent was on the ground. The soldiers booted knee was on his enemies throat. Through a constricted windpipe, Cross heard the warlord wheeze, "Supreme Warlord - I have failed you."

Suddenly, one of Atticus's grenades rolled from the warlord's hands. "Get down!" yelled the soldier and was about to dive on it when Tol used the force to pull Dren to himself and then shielded them all three of his teammates from the plasma and shrapnel with the force. The four CIS heroes looked at each other. "Is everyone okay?" asked Cross

They all nodded but it was clear that Atticus had taken a beating. Kadrian strode over to him and ordered. "Sit down. I'll work on you while they set the homing beacon and rig this station to blow."

Cross knew better than to argue with Kadrian especially when he got this certain tone in his voice that reminded the Dark Acolyte of their one-time instructor. Cross sat down in a cross-legged stance and steadied his breathing into a meditative rhythm. Kadrian placed both hands over top his friends and settled into a meditative state of her own, using the force to locate and accelerate the healing process of his old friend's injuries. Tol went to the fire control console and used it to hack into the internal systems of the ship. "Okay so it's pretty straight forward. I'm going to shut down the cooling units for the tractor beam, the anti-gravity cannon and the power generator. Once it's down, I'm going to activate all of them. The anti-grav cannon will push whatever it holds away while the tractor beam tries to draw it in. Each will over heat quickly along with the power generator, causing the whole thing to explode spectacularly."

Cross cocked a dark eyebrow. "That's straight forward."

Kadrian flashed him a grin. "Well the process is straight forward. It will give our evac shuttle about a half hour to get us or else we die too. I'll put safe guards up so that only the very best slicers will be able to shut it down in time. If you have any traps you can lay to slow them down, that will only help."