Quay's Rescue Part II (The Attack)

[Grand Moff Hiern]

As I sat in my office I heard a commotion going on and went to investigate what was happening. One of the guards ran by as I walked into the passage. "You there, What is going on?"

"It seems that the shipyards are under attack Sir," he replied.

"Attack, here? I don't believe it! This is getting much better than I planned for," I said excitedly. I walked over to the main comsystem and opened a channel. "All pilots to your fighters. Kill the intruders!"

[Nawn Erdon]

Immediately I led our group out of hyperspace and found us exactly where we needed to be, right above the shipyard Eridun. “Group status,” I ordered.

“Group two, we’re meeting with some resistance by cannon fire and are taking them out as we head to primary target.”

“Group three we’re doing the same. Watch that tower Briggs! Take it out! Stay tight and stay on me!”

This Commander Erdon, to all fighters and fighter groups. Lock all S-foils and put your shields to full front. That’ll hold those cannon blasts off.”

Immediately my fighter group began to experience the same from the Eridun as I locked in the Seth‘s S-foils. I saw everyone in my group doing the same. “Everyone stay tight and follow my lead.” I shifted my shields to full front and looked at my scanner and saw everyone pulling in around me to defend the Seth. I looked down at my targeting computer and hit a switch to bring the viewing unit up in front of me. As I looked at it I saw a flash and an explosion as Creed’s fighter was hit from behind.

Lorian called in. “That was Creed sir. We’ve lost him.”

[Argos Ewan]

I listened the ships speaker intently and heard Creed's ship get taken out. I slammed my first to the bulkhead. "Emperial bastitches! We just lost a fighter already!"

[Quay Rakai-Ewan]

The Force jolted Quay from her near comatose state. She looked over at Tony, who was right beside her. "They're here..." She whispered.

[Gideon]

Rifling silently in his helmet, Gideon rechecked the computing capacity of the HUD, the targeting systems, and the various readouts of the potential fire vectors and maximum range array. Once everything checked out for the tenth time, he began to slowly and methodically go over his weaponry: the dual Westar 34s with dallorian-plated overlay, checking their fire vectors and rangefinding; once finished, he rechecked the ammo capacity, to find the gas cartriges full, and ready; once finished, he did the same for the EE-3 blaster carbine. Once done with that, he went over the various gadgets contained in his armor, finishing by extending his vibroblades housed within the knuckleplating of his gauntlets. With a very light and almost undetectable hum, the rasp of metallic sliding, the blades extended outward, the eight inch, razor-sharp blades glistening in the artifical light. With almost absolute silence, the blades returned to their housings. Gideon returned his stance, arms folded behind his back, just underneath the flowing, black cloak. His armor seemed to absorb the light, making him stand out in the light, but in the darkness, he would be unseen. In his armor, Gideon was a menacing sight.

Gideon was ready. He wasn't itching for battle, for combat, for conflict; he was merely calm, cool, collected. Ready.

Flexing his right arm, Gideon continued to wait. His time would come. His enemies would die.

[Tony Maxwell]

"And not a moment too soon," Tony replied as the ship shuddered underfoot and the wall reverberated. He was not sure what was going on, he was no ship expert nor did he ride in them often, so he had no idea if the rumbling under his feet ment the ship was moving, stopped, or exploding. Heck, for all he knew giant tentacled monsters were invading from the moon of Bakura. He hoped this was not the case. He wondered how Quay knew so well that they were here. But that didn't matter. Tony lifted up a silent prayer to any deity listening that they allow the rescuers to get in here before Quay got worse...

[Jace Keller]

I held the cigarette between my lips as the information was forwarded to me. As quickly as my fingers could work, I punched in the coordinates for our location as the engines began to fire up. This had to be the smallest jump in history.

"Attention, standby for hyperjump, standby for hyperjump." I announced as I flipped a few switches. I watched the lights come on across the control panel as each engine started up, it seemed to take forever as I counted down.

"Four...three...two...one..." I hit the switch and starlines flashed for a mere second, then stopped...we were directly beneath our target. I flipped on the tractor beam to get as close to the Lynx as possible.

The mechanism for the docking ring deployed as I studied the range from our ship to the Lynx. I raised our ship closer as the docking ring made contact with the Lynx. A screen flashed to my left, acknowledging that the soft dock was sucessful and that it was now pressurizing.

The seconds that ticked by seemed forever and everything just appeared to be going very slow.

Pressure stablized. I smiled for a second as I spoke into my mouthpiece. "Pressure is stablized, Captain...good luck. I'll warn you if anything happens out here." I flicked the ashes off my cigarette and took a long draw, hoping we were not too late.

[Argos Ewan]

I heard Jace’s report after the jump was made and responded to him. “Ok my brother. We’re going to commence right now. See ya again on the flip side.”

I walked over and opened the docking ring and looked toward Gideon. “This is it my friend. Do your job and make it quick.”

I turned and looked to everyone. “Alright everyone follow my lead and keep it quiet until the Lieutenant has found out where our target is located.”

I looked at Aramis and smiled. “Are you ready to get your mother now?”

[Afwa Dohren]

"Aye Captain. I'm here and ready sir!"

[Aramis Rakai]

My heart thumped in my chest as I stood by Argos, the docking ring couldn't have taken longer and neither could have the pressurizing. "I'm ready." I said as I readjusted my backpack and made sure my laser pistol and daggar was on me. I wasn't big into weapons as Gideon was, but I had a daggar that my mother had given me on my sixty-third birthday, my Turning. It was the marking of my becoming an adult and in Inleshat tradition, I was given a daggar. It was a sign of coming to a new level in life, my daggar had a pronacia handle, a rare and beautiful type of stone from the ocean depths of Cyreia, 'the crystal palace.' My mother took the pride of getting the stone herself and had the daggar made. So, this daggar at my side, meant alot to me.

I nodded at Argos as I heard the pressure alert ring. It was time.

[Nawn Erdon]

In the distance I saw the Eclipse come out of hyperspace under the Lynx. "Camuz, Obzien, bring your ships next to the Seth. We'll keep the rest of the photon torpedoes handy if needed. The rest of you, form up around us. We’re going to back the Eclipse should the shipyard defenses establish auxiliary power to bring enemy fighters online. Hold defenses around the Eclipse until the raid is completed. Once completed we will escort the Eclipse from the area and follow her into hyperspace in her escape. During hyperspace we’ll land back on board the Eclipse but not until.”

As I looked at my scanner I saw the fighters coming up and around me to form the formation I ordered.

[Avalon Aquilo]

I had never experienced a hyper-jump that I had experienced but I could tell Jace had done it in perfection. It was so swift but yet smooth. I stood up and looked at Celeste as she continued to pray. I reached down and placed my hand onto her shoulder. “It is time. We should get ready. May the Gods help us all.”

I walked across the Medical Bay and began getting things ready as I pulled out hypos and dressings and got what beds we had ready as well.

[Grand Moff Hiern]

As I stood upon the bridge I saw a flash out the bridge window. A flash from a hyper-jump? How could anyone come out of hyper-jump this close to the Lynx?

I looked back at the ships’ control operator. “Where did that jump come from? Where are they now?”

“I don’t know Sir. Our systems are only partly working and I can’t pick up on anything,” he replied.

I slammed my fist down in a nearby panel and shouted at the man. “Get our systems up and running now!”

[Argos Ewan]

As I looked at Aramis and saw he didn’t have his mothers’ cape on. “Aramis, I see you didn’t wear your mothers’ cape. Just remember, I do have mine on and if you or her are in trouble come to me for shielding if you need it. She will know to do exactly that if she feels that she needs it. If need be I‘ll give her mine. No matter what, she‘s coming home.”

[Gideon]

(Trial of First Person View)

I stepped forward, without a single word. I nodded slightly at everyone before I continued on my current path, to the entryway. The outer hull of the Lynx was exposed. Bringing my right arm forward and holding it in place with my left arm, I faked engaging his gauntlet, and the beam leaped from what appeared to be the gauntlet; in truth, it had left a housing in my right arm, which, to no one's knowledge but my own, was artificial. The red laser melted through the hull. I continued to cut away at the outer hull, moving my arm and body in a steady circular motion, clockwise. Soon, the outer hull was cut. I stepped to the side, and let the circular plate of the outer hull hit the deck with a clatter. Time to act quickly. With great speed and precision, I cut the inner hull in only two seconds time. The remaining piece began to fall to the floor, and I threw outward a blanket, which dampened the clatter to a slight clunk. Climbing quickly up the ladder affixed to the bulkhead, I disappeared.

Finding a corner just a few feet from the hole cut into the Lynx's belly, I scanned the area. No personell available. Good. Would make loading easier. I commanded my helm to switch to an encrypted comlink frequency, not normally used or monitored by Imperial Security. I had worked with the Imperials in the past, and knew which one, and informed the crew of the Eclipse that the frequency, once encrypted and at the level of frequency, would almost always bypass the Imperials. I spoke quietly, the helmeted black helm not making a single noise as I whispered into the comset.

"Gideon here. Area is clear for boarding. I repeat, area is clear for boarding."

[Argos Ewan]

I looked up into the docking ring and sawhow Gideon had done his job. I looked at everyone and spoke to them in a soft voice. “Alright, we’re through. I’ll lead the way and the Lieutenant will follow and the rest of you behind him.”

I climbed the ladder to the ring to climb up into the Lynx. Once at the top I reached up to Gideon. “Gideon, pull us up as we come up.”

[Gideon]

I reached downward, grasping Argos' hand with my black-gloved hands. The easy-padded grip allowed for an easy grasp, and with ease, I pulled up the older, lighter member of the Iskalonian genus. While we were both Iskalonians, I was of a stronger, more land-based species.....and I was a clone....thank the Galaxy they didn't know....things might be more difficult. I pulled Argos onto the deck, and looked to him, the mask muffling my words only to a whisper.

"I hope you don't mind me getting on first. Rules of engagement. One scout. If the scout gets hit, you are at least alerted to the presence of enemies."

[Argos Ewan]

I listened to Gideon as he spoke to me as he released my hand. “That’s alright Gideon. I appreciate the thought.” I looked down and saw Aramis about to begin his climb and looked back at Gideon as I drew out my blaster. “Just stay here until everyone is up.”

I walked away from him and looked around I found that nobody was in this area. I looked toward the other side of the compartment and found an unprotected console and looked it over trying to see if this was operational. As I looked at it I could see it was only partially working. I knew it had to be from the systems shut down from the fighters attack. Aramis would know how to get the system working to find what we needed to know about my wife and where she was located. Meanwhile I had to wait for him to get up here. I walked back to the docking opening to see what was holding him up so I could get him to the console.

[Aramis Rakai]

I was third to be pulled up and stealthily got into the room we'd cut into. I met Argos halfway and saw the console. We neither exchanged words, as I moved past him and got to the computer. I studied it for a mere second and began working on it's systems. A screen lit up to my left and it showed the same schematic I already had. I punched in some more information to locate the quickest way to the detention cells.

As the information came up, I took notice to a silent alarm that went off. "Sith! They have a silent alarm system!" I said as I dropped my backpack and drew out my handmade scrambler. I quickly plugged the small gadget into the system and flipped it on with a smile as I watched their computer system start flashing. I watched the schematic as my machine began to switch our presence from system to system and the observation cams were going down as well, they wouldn't be able to track us at all.

"Okay, we can take this corridor to this air duct, to the detention center. There's another chamber here." I pointed to it, "we'll take her right from under their noses and if we get cut off, we'll take a more direct route...here." I instructed quickly as I grabbed up my back pack. I was ready to get going, and my scrambler would have the Imperials running all over the place.

[Grand Moff Hiern]

I paced the bridge deck as the systems controller continued working on his console systems. He shifted around and constantly used the console.

He suddenly looked up at me. “Sir, we have some unauthorized person accessing the systems.” As quickly as he spoke, his console began to flicker and flash. He turned back to the console and then slammed his fists down on the console. “Sir, we been shut out!”

I looked down at him from my position, “Where? What is the location of that console they are using?!”

The controller threw up his arms, “it’s impossible to tell. Nothing is working now.”

“Then that means only one thing, we’ve been breached,” I yelled as I clenched my fists. “All troopers search this ship! I want their heads on a platter! Do it! Do it now! Send them to the detention center! That is why they are here, I'm sure of it!”