Chapter 12 - Small Jedi

CT-4063 was looking uptight to the droids. He squeezed the Sonic Blaster, although he probably wouldn't be able to pull the trigger before becoming a pile of carbonized clone.

Suddenly an Laat flew above them at neckbreaking speed. The Laat fired all its missiles at the tower were the LR1K was. The over 30 meters tall tower was instantly reduced to rubble. A cloud of dust rose, and CT-4063 couldn't see a thing.

Somewhere above him the noise of the Laat appeared again. He should have run at this moment, taking advantage of the distraction to run. But a feeling of calm washed over him, as if he couldn't be harmed at that moment. He only had that feeling once before, earlier that day, when Commander Keeli and General Di were talking.

Up on the cloud of dust, where he thought the Laat was, a glowing green stick lit up. He thought it was a strange action, as the glowing stick would become a beacon to where the droids could direct their fire.

Until he heard the droids screaming.

"Jedi! There is a jedi! All units, fire on him! Kill the jedi scam!"

The green light, or rather, the lightsaber seemed to drop down from the Laat, more than twenty meters above the ground.

Droid screams sounded as the lightsaber danced in the middle of the dust.

"Where is he? Oh, found him... Ahhh!"

"R1-W3, where are yo... Ahrghh!"

"Don't panic! It's just a jedi. If... just...he... stopped... so... I... can... shoot... him!"

As the dust settled, all that was left from more than a hundred droids was scrap metal. The only droid left fired a few times before the green lightsaber trespassed him and ripped to the right, almost cutting it in two.

As the droid fell a figure no more than one and a half meters stood on it place.

The lightsaber disappeared with a buzz and the face of the figure was totally revealed. He had big pointed ears and a hard look on his face. The most eye-catching of all was the scar crossing from his forehead to his cheek, and over where his left eye should have been.

The Laat landed on the ground, and before long many more arrived. The clones on them swiftly made a defensive perimeter, making sure every droid on three hundred meters was either dead or running.

A lieutenant jumped of the latest arrived Laat and went to the small jedi, who started giving orders.

"Lieutenant, move your command center to here, and make sure that no droids are left behind us. I want a list with every high value target near here and our casualties. I need to know how many men we can send without risking a counterattack. Hey! You trooper! Yes you! Where do you think you are putting those detonators?! Distribute them!"

The jedi was really rigid, making CT-4063 think that anyone under his command probably lived trying to avoid him.

The lieutenant left the jedi side and went in CT-4063 direction.

"I am Lieutenant Thire. I saw what you did to that AAT trooper. Very bold. And very brave. But I doubt that was your target. What are you doing here?"

"Actually, my squad and another ten were sent here to give you support, but that AAT gave us quite a headache. In the end you saved us."

"It doesn't matter. You did a really good job. And you had it hard, I see. Later you go find someone to take a look at that arm of yours. But now prepare yourself. General Piell whises to speak with you. That can be worse than fighting a thousand droids."