Eye Of The Needle (Star Wars)

Chapter 98: Battle Of Coruscant

As we made our way to Coruscant, I went to my room, where T3 was. He gave me a few beeps, happy to see me. I gently placed a hand on his head. "It's good to see you too, T3. Contact Echo for me."

At that moment, a hologram of Echo appeared. Echo's brown eyes lit up when he saw me. "Storm, my love, it's so good to see you."

"It's good to see you as well, ve'lo. Echo, I don't have much time, but I'm not going home yet. The Chancellor is in trouble and it's up to Jinx, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and me to rescue him." I explained.

Echo wore a grim look. "I know. Grievous attacked the Capital of Coruscant. We tried our best, but Grievous got away, like always. He's taken the Chancellor onto his ship."

"Then we shall go to Grievous' ship to rescue the Chancellor." I commented.

"Be careful." Echo advised.

"Don't I always?" I inquired.

Echo chuckled. "Yes, you do. I love you."

"I love you too. I'll see you back home on Coruscant." I assured him.

Echo's smile widened. "I'll see you back home."

With that the hologram vanished. As soon as our fleet arrived above the planet Coruscant, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Jinx, and I took starfighters, making our way towards Grievous' ship, where Palpatine had been kid. The entire system was filled with Republic and Separatists warships, firing at one another. Anakin then contacted us through our headsets. "General Grievous's ship is directly ahead, the one crawling with vulture droids."

"Oh, I see it. Oh, this is going to be easy." Obi-Wan mentioned.

"Don't jinx it, Obi-Wan." I warned.

"You know I hate when you say that..." Jinx reminded me.

"Not my fault mom and dad named you Jinx." I teased.

I heard Anakin snicker through my headset. I then contacted through my headset. "Drak, do you copy?"

"Copy, Titan Leader." Drak replied. 

"Mark my position. Form your squad behind me." I ordered.

"We're on your tail, General Emestre." Drak informed me.

"This is where the fun begins." Anakin said.

As we flew through the battlefield of ships, several vultures droids headed straight for us. We began to lose several of our men to the vulture droids, but we kept going. I had to remind myself that they're doing their job so we can do ours to prevent myself from going back. Jinx's voice came in through the comlinks. "Missiles! Pull up!"

At once, we all pulled our starfighters up, missing the missiles by centimeters. I glanced back to see the missiles coming back towards us. My stomach churned. T3 let out several high pitch beeps. I let out a sigh. "Yes thank you for that, T3. I know that isn't good."

"They overshot us." Obi-Wan pointed out.

"Yeah, but they're coming back around." I mentioned.

With that, all four of us separated to get the missiles off our backs. I flew the starfighter higher up before spinning the starfighter around, making the two missiles that were after me, crash into one another. T3 let out a high pitch beep. I chuckled. "That's right, T3. We got 'em." 

Once we all met up with one another, we saw Obi-Wan's starfighter covered with buzz droids, ripping off R4 from his fighter. I was horrified. Poor R4. Obi-Wan's voice came in through my headset. "They're shutting down all the controls."