Jedi Quest #6 by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: sw-jediquest
ISBN: 9781484719787
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Yaddle looked around the tunnel with distaste. “Too much time underground, I have spent,” she murmured lightly. “Glad I will be to see the sky again.”

Obi-Wan smiled at her humorous tone, but he knew there was truth behind Yaddle’s words. He remembered the words from Anakin’s vision: The One Below remains below. Yoda had interpreted it as a warning, and Obi-Wan agreed. Now Yaddle was belowground. What if the attack on the substation failed and something happened to Yaddle?

“I can handle this,” he told her. “You should go back.”

Yaddle shook her head at him. “Know what you are thinking, I do, Obi-Wan. Worried about your Padawan’s vision, I am not. Think you that I should run away?”

“That’s not what I meant, Master Yaddle,” Obi-Wan said respectfully. “I was just suggesting that—”

“That run away I should,” Yaddle interrupted. “Wasting time, we are.”

Obi-Wan had been corrected, and he accepted Yaddle’s rebuke. If he had been in her position, he would not have retreated, either. He turned to Swanny. “Didn’t you tell me that you can boost the grid from another source, but only if the central relay substation is destroyed?”

“Right. Substation 32. That’s my point,” Swanny said patiently. “You might recall that I told you if you blow up the relay equipment, the whole power grid might blow. And that’s one sweet ka-boom. Kiss your lightsaber good-bye.”

Obi-Wan turned back to Yaddle. “If we hit substation 32, can your experts boost the grid right afterward? We can’t give Striker a chance to hit back.”

“Find out, we will.” Yaddle immediately got out her comlink.

Swanny looked at Obi-Wan curiously. “I don’t get it. How can two Jedi render an entire substation inoperable?”

“Well, we’ll need a hand,” Obi-Wan said. “That’s where you come in.”

“Me? You know I’d love to help, but I think you’ve seen my cowardice in action,” Swanny said.

“You won’t have to go near the substation,” Obi-Wan assured him.

Yaddle got off the comlink and nodded. “Do it, they can. Yet crucial, timing is. Destroy the relay substation we must within the hour. Impatient, Feeana is. Need her we do to patrol the city. Trust us, the Mawan citizens must. If we promise them that control of the power grid and the backing of Feeana and her gang will hold the city, aboveground they will come.” Yaddle paused. “An idea you have, Master Kenobi.”

It was a statement, not a question.

“We can’t blow it up,” Obi-Wan said. “But we could drown it.” He turned to Swanny. “Can you flood the substation from the wastewater pipes without getting inside the station? You said you knew every pipe belowground.”

Swanny thought for a full minute while Obi-Wan tried not to show his impatience. “There’s a small wash-up area in the substation for the workers,” he said finally. “If I divert the wastewater from tank 102C and gush it through system A-9 with enough force, it could conceivably break through a pipe joint—the pipes going into substation 32 are part of the old system, so they’re not in great shape—and then we’d have a pretty major flood in a matter of minutes.

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