Star Wars - 105 - The Clone Wars 03 - Gambit: Steath by Karen Miller

Author:Karen Miller [Miller, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Kenobi, Vader, Obi-Wan (Fictitious Character), Star Wars Fiction, Space Opera, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, Darth (Fictitious Character), Fiction, Media Tie-In, Kenobi; Obi-Wan (Fictitious Character), Vader; Darth (Fictitious Character)
ISBN: 9780345509024
Google: RJJwLs5d708C
Amazon: 0345509021
Publisher: LucasBooks
Published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Except they were stopped before they could take a single step off the sidewalk. Four MagnaGuards patrolled the spaceport entrance, each droid armed with two fully charged and activated electrostaffs. So much for influencing security to let them pass.

" Halt! Hands up! " the lead guard commanded, menacingly, looming, its photoreceptor eyes burning with an almost sentient zeal. " Your presence is unauthorized. Do not move. You will be scanned. "

Snapping immediately into his meek Lanteeban persona, Obi-Wan swallowed a curse and raised his hands. At least here was confirmation that Bail's instincts were right. MagnaGuards weren't Sep cannon fodder, tinnies, or clankers. They were Grievous's elite, the most intelligent, aggressive droids in the Separatist arsenal. A MagnaGuard's level of AI programming was so high, the things were but a microcircuit or two from being alive. They wouldn't be stationed here if the prize they protected wasn't vital.

Unfortunately this also meant that their chances of escaping this confrontation with whole skins were less than encouraging.

He didn't dare look at Anakin.

Clandestine, remember? Humble. Downtrodden. I know you can do it.

The ID chip in his wrist burned as the spaceport's security sensors passed through it. And though he had complete confidence in Jedi technology, still he held his breath while the scanner hummed over the shielded pocket inside his shirt. But his lightsaber wasn't detected, and neither was Anakin's.

So far so good. Now if only the droids didn't insist on a body search…

" What is your purpose here? " demanded the lead MagnaGuard.

" This area is restricted. You are breaking the law. "

Ranged wide behind it, blocking the spaceport entrance, the other three droids stood poised to attack. Eager for any excuse to strike, they twirled their crackling electrostaffs idly. Suggestively.

"We're sorry," said Anakin, trying to watch all four at once.

"We're lost. We just landed and realized we left something important on our ship. We need to get back to it and—"

The MagnaGuard's move was so swift Anakin couldn't save himself. The electro staff in its left hand stabbed him in the belly, discharging a vicious micro-ionized energy blast into his body.

He dropped, limbs flailing, eyes rolled to white crescents.

"No, sir, please, no!" cried Obi-Wan and plunged to his knees, arms cradling his head. "This is a mistake! We mean no harm!

We've been away from home a long time and everything's changed. We're confused. We didn't mean to trespass. We didn't know we were breaking the law. Oh please, please, sir, don't hurt us! Please let us go!"

Beside him, Anakin twitched and groaned on the recently resurfaced ferrocrete. But that was good. Twitching and groaning were good. They meant he wasn't dead. Frustratingly, tantalizingly, the interior of the spaceport was only meters away. Continuing his pretense of devastated cringing, through half-closed eyes he took in the scene beyond the intermittent wall of MagnaDroids.

More droids. Battle units, this time. Lethally armed but easily dispatched

—by a properly armed, unencumbered Jedi. What a shame that wasn't his job description today. He could see humans,

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