Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal by Aaron Allston

Author:Aaron Allston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: v3.1, my-books, Action & Adventure, Star Wars Fiction, Space Opera, General, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie-In
ISBN: 9780345477354
Publisher: LucasBooks
Published: 2007-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

chapter twenty-seven

CORELLIA

Roaring at tremendous speeds along the avenue, tall buildings flashing by to either side so fast that he couldn’t register details of their color, much less their design, Han kept his attention focused on the vehicle just ahead of his own. It was a black disc with three fiery apertures, thruster tubes, pointed back at him—the tail end of a Corellian YT-5100 Shriek-class bomber just like his own. It galled him that Wedge’s bomber was in the lead—it was an unnatural state of affairs, and he planned to correct it as soon as possible.

Laserfire flashed over his cockpit from ahead, and the monitor screen showing data on his shield status flashed red in his peripheral vision, signs that his Shriek had been hit—but there had been no shudder, so the impact had to have been glancing. He saw Wedge’s Shriek waver and sideslip just a little, a successful bid to reduce the amount of laserfire converging on him from ahead. That, Han realized, was his key to getting in front.

He saw another series of red flashes from ahead, more concentrated laserfire, and gauged that the thickest stream of fire was moving in toward the Shrieks from the port side. He did not swerve, but hit his thrusters.

Wedge did swerve, sideslipping again to avoid the worst of the fire, and Han’s perfectly timed acceleration brought him alongside Wedge’s bomber, then just ahead of it. Han ran into the thickest of the laserfire and his shield monitor flashed alarmingly bright—but he was ahead.

And ahead of him, too close, was the artificial gray mountain of the Terkury Housing Complex, the building he was supposed to fly beneath in less than a second—

He pulled the trigger on his first concussion missile load, knowing that it was too late for the missiles to hit the street and the debris to clear. He thought about breaking off, going skyward—a suicidal tactic, considering all the laser emplacements and pursuing Galactic Alliance vessels that would be able to fire on him, but not as suicidal as plowing into the side of that building—but there was a flash of yellow to his starboard side as Wedge’s missiles, already launched, shot ahead and plowed into the correct spot on the avenue. The street was suddenly replaced by an expanding cloud of debris, dust, and flame.

Han dived toward a spot just beneath the center of the cloud. He’d be flying blind for a second or two, but he knew the distances, the ranges, the depths. He waited a fraction of a second, until his gut told him that he had to be beneath the level of the street; then he leveled off and fired his second brace of missiles.

He cleared the first cloud. All around him were duracrete support pillars and the broad expanses of empty subterranean hangars; unlit, these features were presented in shades of blue by the heads-up display on the viewport before him. Then his missiles hit, and the wall directly ahead detonated into a second cloud.

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