Chapter 5: Battle For What's Right

"They're gone! And Bly is back!" Crane yelled. This caught Stone's attention. He carefully lay down Blue while Hoode and Coric watched over Leia more. Stone exited the main control room and prepped his DC-17 pistols. Walking down the steps he visually examined the room and spotted Crane trying to resuscitate Bly. This forced his eyes to bulge along with seeing oozing plasma from the shock trooper soldier. He moved his right arm closer to his mouth and spoke directly in his wrist-communicator.

"Doctor Montgomery, come down to warehouse section A, effective immediately! Soldier down, repeat- soldier down!" Stone yelled.

Doctor Montgomery was a Twi'leck physician who was specially trained in medical practices and physical ailments. He had semi-dark blue skin all over and that allowed him to beat the heat especially on the planet of Tatooine. What made Stone's eyes squint was the eerie footsteps slowly creeping up on them. And then he could hear that uncanny sound of a gun getting ready to pull the trigger at his face. Now, one of Stone's eyes was twitching at the sight of what he was about to see. It seemed like he consisted of a personal rain storm due to the evidence that he was sweating so much. Crane's attention span speedily went elsewhere from Bly as a gun was pointed directly at Stone's head.

"Drop your pistols, Commander," that same man said that battered Ember.

Turning around and dropping his dual guns, the clone trooper commander replied, "You? But why?"

"Isn't it quite obvious? I wanted a life more than being any sort of bondage," the man replied in an angry state.

"What have you done with ember ya brute!" Crane demanded.

"Shut up!"

"Shale, it's me- Stone. I- I personally ordered the operation to remove your inhibitor chip, myself. Now please tell me, what have you to gain for murdering Blue and injuring Bly and Ember?" Stone was shaking in the most obvious manner. There was a halt.

"I don't have to answer to you-" Captain Shale was instantly interrupted by him flying back and making impact to the wall. There, Stone could see Crane's 300 Winchester Magnum with smoke coming out the muzzle.

"You didn't have to-" Stone began.

"I know but he was a traitor and a killer. Don't come worse than that," Crane responded. There were blasts flying through the entire base when the two along with the injured Bly got back up. The Empire was destroying everything in their pathway. Stone and Crane could see bodies all over the floor.

"Who gave away our position?" Stone asked.

"Who do you think?" Crane replied. Stone got out his pistols once more and began firing. Still, no sign of Ember, Phantom and even the princess and her body guards. It was just them as well as a couple of Resistance soldiers... maybe. There came a stormtrooper right behind Stone until Stone used his leg strength to kick him back. Crane knew Stone would not do it so he blasted Stone's former brother right in front of his face. Suddenly, there was an order for all stormtroopers to fall back for some reason. "Oh no we ain't lettin' these mothers get away!" Crane activated an old fashioned grenade and it exploded, killing around a dozen of fleeing stormtroopers. Questions arose as the other survivors of the Empire fled. Why were they here, exactly? Where is the princess and the two soldiers? Will they ever know?