I knew Dave wanted to be the brave diplomat, but this was ludicrous. Krysti had been loaded in Richard’s custom ship and taken to a safe distance. Theis was hogging to comm constantly checking up on Krysti’s well-being. I shrugged off the notion of concern of Richard’s vessel when the TIE interceptors’ tracers flew over my left wing.
"They want a fight, so they’re going to get it!" I thought with a dark grin. Tip’s Y-wing continued unloading its payload on the airstrip, enjoying the continual sound of bombardment. Theis did his usual laps on ground troops and AT-ST’s in his A-wing.
"Keep it up, Theis, break up the way to the front door," I said over the comm.
"I’m gonna rip them apart for taking Krysti!" Theis moaned.
I descended on the run and let those TIE-SOB’s taste my four photon cannons on their main defenses. Theis dropped in being followed by two fighters and two interceptors; I clipped three off and the remaining fighter pulled out to come at me. I locked on and clipped his wing.
"Look out, 6 o’clock, Bond," Suez wailed.
20 TIE’s popped out from a hidden docking bay and started to shower Theis and I with heavy offensive.
"My shields are fading!" Theis cried helplessly.
"Arg, same here, this is too thick, we can’t evade…BLAST! We need some support here!" I yelled over the comm.
A massive photon blast came from the surface as an AT-AT was heading over the horizon.
"Who the frell is that?" I said as I evaded the incoming fire from the AT-AT.
"Keep your guard up, lil’ man!" the voice said.
"…Kanani??" my jaw dropped ever so slightly as I questioned who this was.
"In the flesh!" she laughed.
She blew five TIE’s from the sky and rest changed course to attack her. I did an inverted barrel roll and locked onto the center of the remaining 15 from their rear. Kanani was getting pretty fragged so I decided to use the "killer" photon torpedo.
"Hold on to something, Kanani." I said while laughing in an insane matter.
"Oh no..you wouldn’t, Bekins…you’re gonna get such a beating for this if I live," Kanani protested.
"I would use it and I will," I replied with a wink.
I flipped the torpedo safety cover and pushed that little red button.
"Why you…" she said before the bomb hit.
The bomb took the AT-AT off it’s feet…literally. The main hull stayed intact, but was burnt barely as I passed over it. My comm. was flooded with Kanani swearing like a banshee about my cockiness and my risqué fighting style.
David was laughing his head off as the rest of us brought everything around him down to ground level, leaving just the main building up. The commander swore under his tongue and ordered the stormtroopers to stay on constant red alert.
Opening fire upon the western face of the building with my four cannons on full spread, I managed to make a hole large enough to hop into. I set the 3CPO on auto pilot and jumped in with my modified blaster. Richard had returned and was wiring the building to blow at anytime…he always liked to give me a deadline. Krysti had managed to steal Richard’s custom and was bombing the hell out of everything that still stood any higher than 10 feet off the ground. Somehow Jesse managed to show up and infiltrate Kanani’s AT-AT and the two flirted as usual. Suez and Katie showed up outta no where and they started bantering like they always do. I ran down the hallways fending off the random stormtrooper every now and then. Finally I reach the meeting room where Dave was being held.
"Hah, see? I told you he would show up sooner or later, he may be a little girl crazy, but he gets the job done." Dave said to the commander…who wasn’t in view.
"Where are you, commander? Are you scared? Don’t worry, you don’t have to die, that’s not necessarily my style."
My jedi training kicked in as I sensed the commander coming at me from an upper terrace.
"I don’t think so!" I said as I used the force to move my enemy back up to the terrace. I leapt up to where the commander was. Our villain merely smiled and then pulled out a lightsabre from a nearby panel.
"Hah, I came prepared too" I laughed as I pulled my lightsabre from my cloak.
"You aren’t going to take me alive!" said the commander.
We clashed and the sabres met one another with brute force on both sides. I managed to get a lucky swing to the face and stopped at the throat. The commander stood still as a statue.
"The battle is yours," she said as she took off her mask.
I fell to my knees, barely able to keep from loosing my calm.
"Ai?? Why? I don’t understand…" I said breathlessly.
"No one ever took me seriously, I told them I’d become the Dictator of the Universe…they just wouldn’t listen...and they had to keep poking me!"
I got back up and took the lightsabre from her hands as she tried to keep from crying. After throwing both our lightsabres off to the side I took her in my arms and let her cry on my shoulder.
"It’s okay…it’s okay. You just had a bad day. Oh wait…we better get outta here." I remembered.
"Why? Oh no, let me bet, Richard wants to blow us up?"
"Yeah."
I activated manual control of my X-wing to be at stand-by on the roof. We rushed past the corridors and made our way to an elevator. We stepped in and the door closed.
"Which button for the roof?" I said casually.
"here, it needs a code." She said while inputting it.
"Dickie? How’d I guess."
A soft elevator music popped up as we headed to top floor.
"So…how about them Padres?" I asked.
Ai gave a brief sigh, "They’re doing okay I guess."
We finally made topside and hopped in the X-wing, taking off just in time.
"Did you kill the commander?" Theis questioned.
I looked over at Ai, she was shaking, I pointed my blaster at her and pulled the trigger. It simply clicked without the power clip.
"I have now killed the commander, one who stole our friend away from us."
Ai smiled and passed out, I joined the rest up at our cruiser ship.
Everyone was badgering me on where I found Ai, but I didn’t tell them the truth.
All I said to them was, "There’s only enough room for one commander in this sector of the galaxy!"
