Enemy Lines: Rebel Stand by Aaron Allston

Author:Aaron Allston [Allston, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Star Wars, Enemy Lines 2, New Jedi Order, 25 ABY—29 ABY
ISBN: 9780307795588
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-04T05:00:00+00:00

Deep in the guts of the ziggurat, the construction droid leaned against the sloping black wall, driving its plasma cutters into the smooth surface, hammering the glossy wall with its mechanical limbs. Chunks of dense stone fell away from the impact points, but the wall yielded only very slowly.

Luke and his companions peered at the action through a crack in a duracrete wall a couple of stories up. Much of the construction that should have been beneath them had collapsed as soon as the construction droid had plowed its way to this point, meaning that the creaking and sagging of the floor beneath them heralded a further collapse that was probably imminent.

“What’s beyond that wall, farmboy?”

Luke shook his head. “I don’t know. I didn’t know this area was here. I’m not sure there were any visible accesses into it before. Hey, we have Yuuzhan Vong coming.”

Despite the danger that her extra weight might present, Mara leaned in over her husband’s shoulder to look. Yuuzhan Vong warriors were scrambling over the rubble and rushing toward the construction droid.

Coruscant survivors rushed out of the construction droid’s base to meet them. Unarmed, ill-fed, they still had a tremendous edge in numbers over the warriors, and Luke saw several of the Yuuzhan Vong go down under struggling masses of bodies. The stronger survivors picked up chunks of stone and brained the troops.

More Yuuzhan Vong entered. More survivors swarmed in, now coming from surrounding areas of rubble instead of just from the droid’s base.

Luke looked back at the others. “He’s near. He’s calling to them. Calling for help.”

Face pulled his helmet off, touched his forehead. He looked troubled. “I know. I can feel him. In my head. I want to go down there.” He looked up into their worried expressions, offered them a wan smile. “Well, mostly I don’t. But I can feel the draw.”

“You’re strong,” Tahiri said. “Well fed. You have hope still. He’d have to exert himself more to control you. But I suspect he can. I’m not sure he can’t control us.”

“Kell to Face.” The voice, small and tinny, floated up from Face’s helmet.

The Wraith leader pulled his helmet up beside his features. “Face here.”

“I’ve found the source of the locator signal. We’re in luck. It’s a spaceworthy transport. It’s our passage back to Borleias.”

“What kind of condition is it in?”

“It’s ready to go. Oh, it’s blocked in by several tons of rubble.”

“Can you handle that?”

“What’s my bag full of?”

“That’s what I thought.”

Luke looked again at the battle raging below, a battle where his only opponent of consequence was the creature they called Lord Nyax. “Face, our mission is over. I want you to round up the others, get to that transport, and prepare to leave Coruscant.”

Face grinned at him as though he were waiting for a punch line. “And what about you silly Jedi types?”

“We’re going down there.” Luke closed his eyes, just for a moment, as the weight of that decision pressed upon him. He was about to lead his

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