Star Wars - Episode I Adventures 004 - Jedi Emergency by Ryder Windham

Author:Ryder Windham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 1999-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

The sleeping infant was humanoid. She was so safely nestled within the LOCC that Yoda did not want to disturb her. Keeping his voice calm, Yoda commanded, “Surrender at once, Frexton.”

“Security!” Frexton yelped as he squinted into the glow rod’s light. “Security! Get here at once!”

“Help you, the security droid cannot,” Yoda informed the scientist. “Deceived the Jedi Council, you have. Now, away from the child you will step or ...”

Before Yoda could complete his sentence, the Chief Scientist drew a concealed blaster from his lab tunic. He raised the blaster fast and prepared to fire at the small Jedi Master.

Yoda threw his glow rod at Frexton’s blaster, his arm moving so fast that Frexton never knew what hit him. The blaster was suddenly slammed out of his hands. The room was again cast into darkness.

Frexton cursed as his blaster smashed to the floor, ruined. Yoda was about to reach for the box containing the sleeping Teela Panjarra when he was distracted by movement outside the tinted window. Rising from a lower level, a wide viewport-cleaning drone rolled on magnetic treads up the tower’s inclined exterior. On the drone’s broad back stood two Bartokk assassins and a pair of X10-D draft droids. With some frustration, Yoda realized it was possible the Bartokks were drawn to the window because of the light from his glow rod.

Both Bartokks held X10-D remote-control devices in their lower set of hands. With their upper limbs, one Bartokk operated the window-washing drone while the other fired a shoulder-mounted Squib battering ram, unleashing a powerful burst of alternating energy pulsations. The transparisteel window shattered.

Frexton ducked behind a cabinet. Some of the transparisteel shrapnel struck the lab’s utility wall and punctured a plastoid plumbing hose, causing water to spray out all over the floor. Fortunately, Teela Panjarra was shielded from the shrapnel and water by her protective LOCC.

One of the two Bartokks wore a vocabulator. “Nobody movessss!” he hissed.

As the two Bartokks leaped into the room, the Chief Scientist cowered behind the cabinet. The Bartokk assassins ignored the cringing scientist and focused their attention on the weapons in Yoda’s belt.

“Brave warrior, are you, little one?” asked the vocabulator-equipped Bartokk. “We’ll sssssee how tough you are.”

The two Bartokks adjusted their X10-D remote-control devices, and the X10-D draft droids raised their extendable loader arms and lurched toward Yoda. Water from the punctured plumbing hose had formed a large puddle in the middle of the lab. Yoda noticed the Bartokks were standing in the puddle.

Yoda jumped on top of the nearby table as he pushed the electrical equipment hard. The equipment crashed into the watery puddle, and sent a massive electric jolt through the two insectoid assassins. A fizzing sound filled the air as the Bartokks appeared to be frozen in their tracks. Without anyone to control them, the X10-Ds ceased their movement. After several seconds, the Bartokks were completely fried. Yoda carefully deactivated the equipment’s port from the fusion furnace, and the electric shock ended. The two Bartokks collapsed into the puddle.

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