Invincible by Troy Denning

Author:Troy Denning [Denning, Troy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2011-04-05T23:00:00+00:00

done it to Shevu. I guess you are a Sith."

To Ben's surprise, Tahiri did not whirl on him. She did not even seem to see him.

She merely stepped back, staring at the MD's feet and slowly shaking her head.

"You're wrong. I didn't kill him."

"The prisoner was already in a weakened condition," the MD said, neatly dodging the question. It pointed a finger at the security pad on the side of Shevu's bed, and the limb restraints clicked open. "If you won't be needing the body, I'll send it down for processing."

"Processing?" Ben didn't know what he had expected, but the thought of his friend being sold to a bioparts dealer turned his stomach-and filled him with a sick, hollow feeling that was half anger, half guilt. "You can't-"

"I can't what?" As Tahiri whirled on him, the MD was lifting Shevu from the bed.

"This is your doing, Ben. All you had to do was answer one simple question."

She depressed a row of buttons on the remote, and Ben's entire body clenched in electric agony.

"Where is the Jedi base?" She stepped closer, cocking her arm to backhand him.

"Answer me!"

Ben glanced over at Shevu, who was being carried toward the processing chute, and shook his head. "Sorry."

Tahiri brought her hand down across Ben's face, striking him so hard that it rocked the hoverchair-and that was her mistake. Ben threw his weight in the direction of the tilt, tipping the hoverchair over on its side.

Simultaneously, he was Force-hurling Tahiri into the two confused guards standing at his back.

By the time the trio crashed into one of the empty beds behind him, Ben was already reaching out with the Force, depressing keys on Tahiri's remote. His leg shackles snapped open instantly, but he managed to shock his arms senseless before he finally hit the proper key and released the stun cuffs.

Ben rolled out of the chair and spun around to find his captors rapidly disentangling themselves. Tahiri was already reaching for her lightsaber, and one guard was swinging his stun rifle around to fire. Ben gave the barrel a Force shove, pushing the muzzle toward Tahiri just as a white bolt of electricity shot out.

Tahiri gave a strangled cry, then her eyes rolled back and she dropped to the floor, twitching and shuddering. Ben summoned Tahiri's lightsaber to hand, barely activating it in time to bat a bolt from the second guard's stun rifle into the MD

droid-which was holding Shevu's body in front of the processing chute, apparently waiting for the guards to bring the prisoner under control before proceeding.

The bolt struck the droid over its primary processing unit, and it stumbled back into the wall and dropped to the floor with Shevu's limp body in its arms. Ben used the Force to rip the stun rifle from the first guard's grasp, at the same time leaping at the second one. He deflected another stun bolt, then brought the lightsaber down on the weapon's barrel and quickly snapped the blade back up to within a centimeter of the trooper's chin.

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