Star Wars: The Jedi Chronicles:Enter The Shadows (Books 1-4)

Chapter Seven: Cody

Just as Shain is finishing his briefing out of nowhere a black blur comes barreling though and steps in the middle of their holo-map. He runs right into the cave, yelling.

Shain: (knowing who it was) Zacar, you idiot! (He turns toward the group) CHARRGEEE!!!

The kids get up and follow, as does the rest of the army. The teens get up and follow Zacar into the tunnel leading through the battle field. Zacar wastes no time going right up the middle. Mandalorians start firring at the Jedi.

Shain draws a new blue lightsaber he had started building after Eve had thrown both his sabers off the edge of Cloud City into the depths of Bespin. Nathan just follows in the wake of Zacar, who is using a green/blue combination. Zacar’s fighting style is very aggressive.

He gets to about the center of the field and just stops, giving them about half the field. Two of the clones with the smaller pack run out to the far left and far right of the field. They pull out a small rectangular shaped box.

They pull down the three legs, stand on them, then jerk up on two handles. The shield generators extend and turn on, stretching across the whole field. In the distance, Shain can see Cody standing inside the control area in the hill, looking at them with a pair of binoculars.

Cody Staricha: So, Shain brought some clones and rebels, did he?

Bree Hozack: Perfect. When will we take them?

Cody: We’ll let them have their troops for a few weeks, and then we will take them!

Scene change: It’s been four weeks since the fighting has started. Shain’s troop numbers haven’t dropped since the fighting started. Michael’s army has taken several causalities.

Cody: It’s time we take them.

Cody stands in over the battlefield and looks over them. One of the snipers sets up to take a shot at him. A black and purple shadow or fog over takes the field, then vanishes into thin air.

Sara: What was that?

The sniper shifts his blaster over to Michael. Anthony’s battle meditation allows Michael to sense the shot. Michael pulls his lightsaber around behind his back, deflecting it. He turns around.

Michael: Watch it!

He looks over his army and his own troops are slaughtering the Sith and Jedi that are with him.

Michael: Fall back!! Our troops have turned on us!

The Jedi and Sith are back-tracking, trying to maintain the ground they have gained so far and get rid of the troops behind them, but they are trapped out in the open. Cody starts raising up a third army from the ground - these troops are Jedi and Mandalorians from the Mandalorian wars.

They rise up from the ground. The Jedi and Sith slaughter them before they can do any harm, as they are retreating to the back of the field, killing their former allies. A few of the Jedi pick up some sniper’s and assault blasters and start firing back toward the ray shield as Cody’s men try to jump the wall.

Two sith take out the clones who had the bigger shield and set it up just beyond the smaller shield to slow down the assault. Both Michael and Shain’s group have suffered this fate. It’s now been three and a half months since they started this war.

Shain now has two weeks and three days before Doom’s Day, and is going into panic mode. He has no contact with Michael, ‘cause Cody has jammed all communications. It’s cold and dark out. The battlefield is quiet and almost everyone is sleeping.

Shain: Look, it’s December. We can’t continue fighting out here; we need to get to Cody, and fast! Any ideas?

Jordan: What if we had a drop ship pick us up and drop us off  closer to Cody?