Book 04 - Death on Naboo by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson [Watson, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Star Wars, Fiction
ISBN: 9781424207770
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2006-04-02T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Trever and the others had kept in touch atfirst, but as the planet Dontamo drew closer theymaintained comm silence. Even if they scrambledcommunications, they didn't want Imperial scoutsto pick up anything.

Dex had pulled in a major favor and outfittedthem with two small starships. They had seen servicein the Clone Wars and their hulls were battered andpockmarked with the ghosts of small asteroid colli-sions and missile fire. But the engines were tweakedand their hyperdrives had been overhauled. Trever, Keets, and Solace were in one modifiedARC-170 starfighter, Oryon and Curran in an overhauled Jedi starfighter. Their plan was not muchof a plan, in Trever's opinion, but they didn't havea choice. They simply had to land and see whatthey found. There was no time to obtain the prisonspecs, no time for surveillance. If an execution orderhad been issued, the small group of combatants hadto move as fast as they could and take theirchances.

Trever kept his eyes on the nav computer. Hewas alert for any signs of Imperial patrol ships.Oryon had told him that they often did routineinspections of the airspace surrounding the prisonworlds. Every nerve inside him was screaming toland and find Ferus.

Suddenly he sat forward. "Something's going on.Look." He pointed to the dots on the computer. "A ship is being chased."

"A freighter, by the looks of it." Solace keyed ina few strokes. "And those are starfighters."

"Imperial starfighters chasing anoldfreighter? Why?"

"Not our problem. Could be good news for us,"Solace said. "They'll be distracted by whatever's going on, and we can —"

She stopped abruptly.

"What is it?" Solace's face had suddenly gonestill and tight, a look Trever was becoming famil-iar with.

"The Force. Something . . ." She stared hard atthe screen. "Ferus is on that ship." She reached forthe comm unit. "Oryon, come in. The ship on XYZcoordinates 1138, 1999, 2300 —"

"We see it."

"Our target is on that ship. And at the controls, by the looks of it."

"Looks like he could use a hand. Let's go."

Trever was suddenly slammed back in his seat asSolace took the fighter into a spinning dive.

"Did I warn you to hang on?" she yelled over thescream of the engines. Trever felt plastered back against the seat. Hehad seen Solace's piloting skills, navigating throughthe tight spaces and close shaves that was Coruscantair traffic. This was combat flying — fast, danger-ous. It might have even felt exhilarating, if he hadn'talso felt like he was about to die any second.

"You're going to have to operate the laser can-nons," Solace told him. "Can you do it?"

"I'm pretty good," Trever said, even though tech-nically he hadn't operated any before.

"Get to it," she said. "Just don't shoot Oryon." Trever switched on the cannons. He spread hislegs, keeping his balance, his eye at the scope. The Imperial fighters were firing on the starfreighter.Compared to the agile fighters, the freighter lookedlike a gigantic clumsy tractor plowing through stars.

The starfighters hadn't realized the two new-comers were a threat, not yet. They might get a few clear shots first.

Trever lined up a shot. Almost within range.Almost . . . almost.

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