Star Wars: The Holy Empire

Chapter 93: At the Center

Chapter 93: At the Center

While the droids were lucky and on the sides of the road heading into the alleyways, I was still standing in the middle of the road but thankfully through the Force, I was able to predict the path of the shots, so I leaned my body back to the left and the right as I dodged the shots that flew passed me by a few inches.

'Wow.' Jerid thought 'What I just did felt a lot like a Matrix move instead of a Star Wars move.'

The Security Officers who were firing the cannons stopped firing. The Security Officers aimed the cannons at me instead of what they did by firing randomly. One of the cannons then aimed at where I am standing and the other aimed at my body.

A Security Officer then stood up in the Gian Speeder.

"Surrender at once, there is no where you can run." said the Security Officer "Surrender and we will treat you fairly and with the utmost hospitability we can provide."

Jerid had an brilliant and cunning idea. He deactivated his training sabers and holstered them on his belt.

"I surrender." Jerid said with his hands raised in the air.

Jerid then walks forward with both hands raised but as soon as he took a step forward, the Security Officer took out his blaster.

"Please halt." said the Security Officer

The Security Officer then took out his HoloCommunicator and a female hooded figure appeared once again.

"Commander, we have the leader of the enemy army in our sights and cornered." said the Security Officer "He is surrendering himself. I will handcuff him and bring him back to the base for interrogation."

"HK is surrendering?" asked the hood female figure confusingly "There is no way HK is surrendering, he would rather become scrapped metal than to surrender to a human being."

"No, Commander." said the Security Officer "It's the Saviour of Naboo, Jerid who is surrendering

"You fool!" said the hooded female figure "He isn't really surrendering, he is probably planning on getting you to take capture him and bring him back to our base so he can attack us from within."

"But we would have him in handcuffs and we can lock him in a cell with four guards." said the Security Officer

"And he will use the Force to escape, it's too easy for a Force-user to escape from an ordinary jail cell ." said the hooded female figure "Ok, here is the plan. Tell him that you accept his surrender but once he is close enough, I want you fire everything you have at him."

"Yes, Commander." said the Security Officer

The Security Officer then deactivated his HoloCommunicator and put it away.

"Ok, step forward nice and slowly!" yelled the Security Officer "Once you are 20 feet away, I want you to stop then I will have one of my men disarm and handcuff you. Do you understand?"

"I understand." Jerid replied but for some reason he was having a weird feeling like some kind of danger is approaching him.

As he slowly moved towards the Gian Speeders, the feeling of danger became stronger.

Once, he was 20 feet away from the Gian Speeder, the sense of danger was screaming at him.

Jerid then uses [Force Speed] to zigzag towards the speeders.

Just as he did that, the Gian speeder's cannon fired at the spot he was at.

Jerid unhooks his training sabers and activates them. He jumps onto one of the speeders and and whacks the two Security Officers.

The other Gian speeder started backing up really quick but Jerid used [Force Jump] to jump onto it and swung his saber at the driver, knocking him out and making the speeder slow down to a halt.

Jerid places a saber near the commanding Security Officer's neck.

"Now, that was pretty mean of you to fire on a surrendering enemy." said Jerid

"You were never going to really surrender though." replied the Security Officer

"Well, that is true." Jerid said "I was really hoping to do this the easy. I really wanted to be able to get through your defensive lines without fighting my way in, so I could assassinate your leader but looks like I have to do this the hard way."]

Jerid then taps him on the neck, zapping him unconscious.

'The droids are probably half way to the center of the town now.' thought Jerid 'That is the most likely place to set up a base since it's were the government building is.'

Jerid then tosses the unconscious Security Officers out of the Gian speeder and started speeding down the road.

'I do have to say that the Security Force is doing a much better job then when the Trade Federation invade, maybe the next time there is an invasion they can hold it off for a week or two.' thought Jerid 'Maybe I should send HK to Kamino to train the clone army along side Jango Fett. I wonder how the clone army will turn out but I don't think HK will like that idea.'

As Jerid was speeding down the road, he could see the government building in the distance.

'I can't believe they haven't set anymore traps.' thought Jerid 'They only had two ambush sites at the entrances and that's it. I wonder what there commander is thinking.'

Jerid then felt a sense of danger through the Force again, so he immediately stopped the speeder.

He jumped out of the speeder, and walked forward to find a whole bunch of invisible string at the height of a vehicle. Jerid followed the strings to find that there was a booby trap. There were a dozen rocket launchers aimed out of windows and connect to the string.

'Clever' thought Jerid 'Who ever designed the defensive line for the town is pretty clever. They decided to set only two ambush sites near the town entrance, and then left a giant gap between the ambush site and the booby trap so the army that invades the town will lower their guards, pretty ingenious.'

Jerid went back to the speeder and used [Force Throw] with one of his training sabers to set off the booby traps, causing the rocket launchers to launch shock grenades.

Now that the traps were disabled, Jerid was about to jump back into the speeder when another sense of danger came.

"Come on, more" sighed Jerid

Jerid then looks around to find the danger but he couldn't find anything in sight but then he suddenly heard a whooshing noise from above.

Jerid looks up to see an artillery shell coming down upon his location.

"Serious, using artillery against one person." cried Jerid "Now that is a little overkill."

Just as the artillery shell was about to land at his location, Jerid then uses [Force Telekinesis] to stop the shell in midair.

"It's going to take much more than that to stop me." laughed Jerid

Jerid then moved his head to the side, and sniper blast pass by his head.

"Now, snipers." laughed Jerid "They are seeing me as an extreme threat don't they. Now this is going to be fun."

A Sniper blast then came from behind, and Jerid moved his head again and dodged it. but this sniper shot wasn't meant to hit him but something else.

Jerid saw the sniper blast going by and towards the artillery shell.

"Oh crap." said Jerid

The sniper blast hits the artillery shell, causing the artillery shell to explode, releasing a explosion of electricity.

"Jerid then quickly place his arms into an 'x' in front of him while using [Force Shield].

Thankfully the artillery shell wasn't a real one because if it was then Jerid would of been sent flying.

Soon, the explosion was over, and Jerid stops using [Force Shield]

"Now, this is getting fun." shouted Jerid with a voice of excitement.

Jerid then starts using [Force Speed] and starts running to the center of the town, while also dodging the multiple sniper blasts aimed at him.

But soon the sniper fire stopped, Jerid looked at the location of the snipers and found B1s in their spot.

Jerid then continues to the center of town.

After 10 minutes of running, Jerid was finally in the center of town.

At the center was the B1 Battalion that he was in charge of, in Testudo Formation.

Battalion Commander B1-AC-169 then comes running out of the formation.

"Commander, we have surrounded the Government Building, but we haven't detected any movement inside." said B1-AC-169 "We tried using Thermal to check inside but the walls are lined with something that prevents us from seeing inside."

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello everyone, I hope you are doing good. I have been extremely busy lately, I would also like to say that I have started writing chapters for two of my Original Novels ideas. One novel already has 4 chapters and my other one has 8 chapters. I have been planning these two novels for a very long time and I hope to be able to stockpile a whole bunch of chapter for the both of them then hopefully I can release them next year and sign them up for Webnovel's WSA 2022.

Also don't worry, IK will continue my fanfic along with my two original novels.

Also, I planned on releasing this chapter yesterday but my internet was down so I couldn't upload it until now.