Star Wars - The Last of the Jedi 04 - Death on Naboo by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-06-09T12:09:44+00:00

“What?”

The officer turned. It was the moment Ferus hadbeen waiting for. With one kick he sent one stormtrooper into another; an elbow sent a third spinning.The Force hummed around him as he leaped overthe pile, snatching up two blasters on the way. Hetwisted in midair, held himself motionless for oneinstant to blast the droid to smithereens, thenlanded. He dived away from blaster fire and usedthe momentum to roll himself like a ball, takingdown the rest of the stormtroopers. On his way up he grabbed a security card out of a stormtrooper’sutility belt.

The officer faced him, his blaster held steady.

Ferus held his blasters. Neither of them moved.

The officer fired. Ferus had already taken advantage of the instant before the blast and leaped. He fired above at the ceiling. The bolts holding therestraints in place fell. The restraining cablesdropped to the floor. He wrapped the officer in themand fled.

Since he’d been in the restraint box, he wasn’tsure where he was in the prison complex. He would have to find the factory. He wasn’t sure if Clive hadbeen able to disable the loader but he had to assume that the plan was on schedule. Clive would expecthim to show up. If he didn’t, he had no doubt thatClive would leave without him … if he could.

Ferus ran through the halls. There had to beanother entrance to the factory, one for the guardsto use.

He found it. The blast doors opened with a swipeof the card. The racket of the factory assaultedhis ears.

Glad to kiss this place good-bye.

He ducked behind a machine. The line of prisoners kept their faces toward their work. A guard patrolled — up and down, up and down. Ferus couldsee no disruption in routine. In the distance, the transport freighter sat, while a conveyor ramp rolledcrate after crate inside.

Then he heard the crackle of a transmitter andsaw an officer walking quickly down the aisle, toward the freighter. Another officer was hurrying from the opposite direction.

Ferus was covered by the noise of the machinesand the regular routine of the patrolling guard. While the guard’s back was to him, he rushed forward andtook down the first officer. The officer cracked his head on machinery and was out cold.

Keeping his head down, Ferus ran past theclamor of the turbines stamping durasteel intosheets and forming them into gears and pins. Hegrabbed a handful of gears as he ran.

By now the prisoners had noted him but theysaid nothing. If one of them was going to break out,he would make it or not make it. They would neitherhelp him nor hinder him. But he could feel their avid interest in his progress and their conviction that hewould fail.

The bay doors were open now, and the secondofficer was striding up the ramp, ready to do the manual count. No doubt he expected his fellowofficer at any moment. They had a window of timeto do this. Once he was unable to raise the officer onhis comlink, the officer would become suspicious.

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