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"Not from the Wookies. They can be trusted to keep my abilities under wraps, so long as I don't use the real high-end stuff."
"And most of these thugs are for the rope anyway. That's why they're fighting so hard," Lily said with a nod. She leaned down, her ghostly lips briefly touching the scar on Harry's forehead. "Give them hell, luv."
Harry chuckled, then raced forward, one hand up flashing out with a wide-angle stunner which impacted two of the seven men that made up the forward position Lily had seen. The others opened fire, but Harry used his lightsaber to good effect, blocking or deflecting blaster bolts directly back at the shooters.
Then he gestured towards the ground with his free hand, making a pulling motion. Here the ground was the stone of the planet rather than metal. The ground underneath the defenders shuddered and jolted up into spires, shattering the defensive position, heaving the two ferocrete blocks they'd been using as shields to one side as others smashed directly into the defenders' bodies.
Racing forward Harry stopped directly before the position where he would have come under fire from both sides of the corridor. With his free hand Harry slowly gestured, lifting both the people of the sacrificial position and the ferocrete blocks and their weapons up into the air before hurling them down one side of the corridor.
From that direction muted screams of shock and astonishment came, and Harry barreled down the other hall, lashing out now with flashes of flame, fire darting forward like an arrow along with wind blasts sharp enough to shear through metal. A moment's concentration spent staring over the heads of the defenders on that side, and suddenly Harry disappeared from before them, appearing on the other side already twirling around. His hands lashed out again with waves of stun bolts, and suddenly the choke point was filled with nothing but the groaning of the wounded.
The Wookies had charged forward on Harry's heels and now spread out down both sides of the choke point, and Harry nodded. "Make certain that someone with a communicator is going the opposite direction so they can call in if they run into trouble." Then Harry smirked impishly, a clear challenge. "But for now, try to keep up!"
That won him a roar of approval from the Wookies, and they thrust their weapons in the air hooting and hollering before Harry turned back and raced on.
For the next several moments, Harry barreled through the defenses like a rhinoceros in a china shop, expending his Force techniques like water, ignoring the fact that he was beginning to get quite tired as he went. Eventually the Wookies, with the aid of the new arrivals from Master Dooku's command, encircled and then broke into the mercenary company's barracks. Shock, fear, and consternation had done their work, and the defenders were never able to fully organize themselves again. Harry's sudden and overwhelming assault had shattered them.
This was a good thing, because just as the last defenses of the mercenaries' barracks went down and the Wookies poured through, Harry had to lean against the wall as feelings from Aayla burned through their link with sudden power. Shock, concern, then something like grim determination. "Aayla, what's going on?" he asked, reaching through their link quickly.
"I'm busy Harry!" Aayla shot back, her mental voice terse with tension.
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Aayla had followed the hidden hallway for a while, frowning as the thought crossed her mind that this area did not look lived in at all. So this must be a secret bolt hole, one that probably isn't even on the maps of this place. Which meant that not only could Master Quinlan not see her via the security cameras, but it was very unlikely that it had any other entrances save the one Aayla had entered, unless there was an emergency hatch someplace. That means I'm on my own, for a while at least. That was fine, since in Aayla's opinion she and her master really hadn't done all that much fighting in battle just yet.
Eventually the hallway ended in a warehouse of some kind. It wasn't large by warehouse standards, only four hundred feet square, with a three-story ceiling. There were several dozen pallets of various sizes scattered here and there around the doorway, but otherwise it was relatively empty. Except, that was, for the small cutter sitting near the back wall by what looked like a hatch.
It was a very small but very streamlined, modern-looking spaceship, though Aayla had never seen that particular class of ship before. It looked about the size of a starfighter, but it was definitely not made for combat since it didn't have any weapons visible. Built more for speed than anything else given the size of its engines, Aayla thought.
But that and the clutter around her wasn't what caused Aayla to slowly come to a halt, looking around her keenly. I should've pulled up my Force Cloak! Too late now, I suppose, and I would've had to add Force Stealth to it too from the feel of things.
She swiftly activated her lightsabers, pulling them out with a Force Pull from their places on her belts, crossing them in front of her in a defensive stance. "I know you're there!" It was not actually her normal Force Precognition which had told her that, but her empathy. She had felt a spark of rage and hate, a powerful feeling which had slipped past the cloak of whoever was in here with her.
In the gloom of the warehouse a shadow detached itself from the cutter's larger shadow as another came out from behind one of the larger piles of pallets. Both of them were women, seemingly around Masters Ti's age perhaps or just a little younger. They wore dark black robes, cut off so that they had no sleeves to speak of, but which flowed down to their ankles. A red belt buckle around their middles, and splashes of purple around the shoulders broke the monotonous black, but that was all.
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