//------------------------------// // The Docking // Story: My Little Star Wars Episode I: The Lunar Menace // by MyLittleGeneration //------------------------------// II The Docking After a long journey through space, Kai flew the ship directly towards the visible station, preparing his black hood. "Get ready, apprentices." he said, warning the mares that the plan was about to commence. Lunar soldiers wearing space helmets noticed the ship and identified it as one of theirs. "Guard to gate." a soldier called into his portable radio. "I repeat, guard to gate." "Yes?" an old voice asked from the radio. "There's a ship incoming. Prepare for docking." "Of course." Before the soldiers continued doing there job, the soldier called back. "Wait, before you let them pass, check the ship. You don't know if it could be a fake." he said, making sure the others knew. "Alright, we'll check." The small ship soon came into clear view and the force gate that was once hard to go through turned light for the ship to go through. The ship slowly docked inside the station. "Keep calm and don't say a word." Kai said when soldiers huddled around the ship. The door opened and Kai stepped out with the apprentices behind him. "State your business." an old officer said, wearing a grey uniform with a moon insignia on it. "Lunar warriors, we are here for a secret conference to discuss matters and plans." Kai said. The officer raised a brow while he directed two moontroopers to go inside the ship. "Plans? Conference? We never heard of a conference to happen this evening." "That's why it's secret." Kai answered. "We are Lunar warriors that came from planet Darmon, sir." The officer narrowed his eyes while the two troopers inspected the insides of the ship. The troopers came out. "They're clear, sir." one said. The officer pointed towards a hallway with lights around. "Down that way." he said. "Whatever business you have must not be as crucial for the captain..." Kai hid his face in his hood, but smirked. Twilight and Sunset on the other side acted normal and didn't look suspicious. "It'll be noticed in a while, we must hurry." Kai whispered, in which the three Jedi paced faster. Down the hallway, they saw a room where a large metal door was the only way in, and had a window on each side of the door. It was the room, and it had papers scattered on the table. Kai walked up to it. "I have it, sir." Sunset said, carefully pulling out a lockpick and picking at the pad next to the door. After a quick twitch, the pad that opened the door with only a guard's ID was activated, and unlocked the door. Thankfully, there were no cameras. "Come on, quick!" Kai whispered. They bolted into the room, looking for some sort of information on the Lunar Menace. "Come on... Keep keen eyes on-" "Got it!" Twilight said, pulling out a file containing papers on the Lunar Menace. "Let's see..." She opened the file and immediately, a picture of Darth Obi was shown. He had a half-mask on the left side of his face, the mask containing nothing but the color of black, and his skin was dark blue. His mane was long and light blue, and wore black robes with a white moon insignia on the chest. He was huge, hence the name meaning 'titan', and held his large lightsaber. "Well, there's the dark lord." said Sunset. "And there's the interior." the purple unicorn said, pulling out blueprints of the Lunar Menace from the file. It showed the outside, the inside, and even plans that didn't seem like the Lunar Menace at all. More like... battle plans... "Master Kai." Twilight said, showing Kai the paper. "Well, I'll be damned." Kai said. "They are planning something for the planet below. An invasion against the poor bastards below, the Pietes." He chuckled a bit. "By the looks of this, it's a huge force, straight out of the Lunar Menace." He examined it more, wondering if there was more to it. Other than just arrows and a map of where they were striking, which was a large, open valley, nothing else was added that was very useful or specific. Twilight opened her mouth to speak. "Well, at least we know what they-" EEEOOOEEEOOO "Attention all troops, I repeat, attention all troops, dammit!" said a voice through the speakers which was the officer from earlier. "The ship is a fake! I repeat, the ship is fake! Find the Jedi!" "They found the material difference." Kai said. "While yet they are identical, they build their stuff only out of different metal on a planet they own. Hurry!" Twilight tucked the file in her robes, and set off. The Jedi rush, only to be confronted by a whole squad of moontroopers. "Well, well, put your hooves up." said the lead trooper. Kai quickly ignited his lightsaber, which showed a green color, and soon the other apprentices react by igniting theirs. Sunset's being orange and Twilight being purple. The troops opened fire, but were only blocked by the saber. As lasers were reflected, they came back to the troops, killing them. The white-armored soldiers were on the ground. "The pods are that way!" Twilight yelled as she remembered the map. "Go! Go! Go!" Kai yelled, as more troops came from behind, which Kai pushed them back with a strong push with his force. They galloped as quick as they can, passing by surprised troops, some who weren't even geared. Shots still fired, but the Jedi defended themselves. The door at the end of the hallway closed up and was locked, eventually hitting a dead end. "Open it, Twilight!" "On it!" While Kai and Sunset fought off the troops who approached, Twilight stabbed her lightsaber on the edge of the door and dragged it around the outline, cutting the door. Once she circled the entire door, she pushed it open with the force, eventually hitting the troops in front of it, whom were waiting to fire at the Jedi. "Come on!" The Jedi walked over what was left of the door and proceeded to the escape pods. The Jedi were in a very large and open place, in which they sprawled out and attacked the troops following them. After some slices and hits, the troops fell down in their numbers. Sunset noticed the escape pods. "There they-" A laser quickly shot Sunset in the shoulder. "AAGH!" she yelled out in pain, and dropped her lightsaber, which turned off. She turned to see the old officer once more, now with robot soldiers behind him. The robots were simply silver and had white light coming from the eyes. The shots stopped and the officer smirked while he held his gun in his hooves. "Close, but no cigar." the officer said. "Give up, and we'll let you live. Or unless you wanna die as failures to your so-called order, be my guest." Kai and Twilight had their lightsabers ignited while Sunset's was down on the ground after she was hit. The droids aimed their rifles at the Jedi, who looked at the pods, which were just 20 feet away from them, and back at the droids. The officer whistled while he waited for an answer. The stallion though didn't keep an eye on Sunset, as she quickly picked up her lightsaber with her force, and swung it quickly across the officer's throat, which took him out as he fell on the floor. The Jedi made a break for it, as the droids opened fire. Fortunately, they weren't programmed for accuracy, and failed to hit any of the Jedi. Sunset quickly opened up one of the pods, which was big enough for all three of them. She blocked a laser heading for Kai with her lightsaber. "Get in, guys! Come on!" They quickly jumped inside and closed the door. The droids surrounded the door, bashing their metal hooves against it, trying to break it. Sunset worked with the pad, and instantly, they were blasted off from the station. Sunset fell back into Twilight, in which her shoulder hit hard. "Ow!" she yelped. "Let me check it." Kai said, asking for Sunset to come close. She held back tears as Kai examined the shoulder. Her dark robes that were meant for disguise was showing skin around the shoulder, and the orange fur was a bit red and smelled like burnt fur. Luckily, Kai brought a small sample of healing cream with him. "Hold still." With his force, he gently applied the cream on the wound, which made Sunset flinch, but soon calm afterwards. "Thank you, Master Kai." she said. "No problem, youngling." he said, putting the small sample back into his robe. "Twilight, the file?" "Here." She pulled out the file, and handed it to Kai, who looked through more of it. He stood still, staring at just one single paper. "Master?" Twilight said worriedly. "Tomorrow." Kai said. "The invasion is supposed to start tomorrow. And right near the capital of Crystal... Crystal?" "Didn't you know Crystal was on that planet?" Sunset asked. Kai found himself dumbfounded. "No. That must mean the Princess could be under attack!" He looked down at the planet below through the window of the pod. "And by the looks of it, I don't think we'll be landing near the city." The pod went by faster and faster, soon they entered the planet, and saw all the ground below. And all it was they were gonna land on was ground. A forest. And soon enough- CRASH! They landed. Right into the planet of Rockuu.