Youth Wars Part III: A New Age

Chapter 10

The Republic fleet was preparing their ships for the assault. X-Wings, A-Wings, cruisers, and shuttles were all docked all over the docking domes above Coruscant.

Bennar found Calista overseeing the preparations, talking with Bree and Vustine. Calista saw him and excused herself. "Ben, what are you doing? Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Cal. I don't think we should go through with this."

"Well we've come this far. Are you sure you're alright? You were never one to back down."

"I had no idea what we were up against. This is something we cannot beat."

"Then we can't sit by and let it destroy all the Republic stands for."

"It's a him, Calista. Another sith. The one I encountered on Kamino, is nothing compared to him. When he destroys the Republic, he will be on the brink of galactic domination."

"You didn't have a problem before. Why now?"

"I don't know how, but I sensed a change in our future."

Calista seemed confused. "How?" She decided not to get too far off-topic. "If the future is changeable, who's to say it won't change again?"

"It won't because I saw it!" Bennar exclaimed, shaking her shoulders. "I saw you all dead!" His words fumbled.

        Calista saw glistening in his eyes, and she pulled him in and assured him, "I swear to you, nothing will happen to me." Calista thought about this conversation for a moment, then continued, "This sith is getting into your head. He's trying to break us apart. If we do nothing about this, then things will only get worse; if we stand and fight, then we'll have a chance of a better future."

Bennar returned the hug, and replied, "I want to go with you, but in this crisis, I have to keep the Senate intact. Things will, get a little crazy." He laughed a little, which comforted Calista.

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Bree and Vustine met with Sisbar to overview the basic plan of the attack.

"Our X-Wing squadrons will surround the sector housing the Death Star to divert all the TIEs, and the rest of the fleet will aid as a defense against the star destroyers." Sisbar summed up.

"Tidy sum." Bree complemented.

"The Jedi squad will infiltrate the weapon, using their stolen ship, to disable the shields, and the main assault will commence. It's pretty straight forward." Vustine finished.

"Wait, wait, wait. What ship are they to be using?" Bree asked.

"A stolen TIE." Sisbar answered.

"Is a TIE just going to arrive at the Imperial superweapon out of the blue?" Bree asked again.

"Actually, no. According to a flight schedule, all the TIEs are expected to arrive at the weapon soon."

"Why, exactly?" Vustine asked.

Sisbar and Bree were both perplexed at the question; Bree asked, "What do you mean, specifically?"

"I know as a fact, those TIE stations -that the stolen TIE came from- are also flight training camps for new recruits. Just new recruits. For all the stationed TIEs to be scheduled to arrive at the Imperial superweapon of all places, confuses me very much."

"That's not all." Ephraim said, stepping up to the holo-table. "I have news just as suspicious."

"Do tell."