Star Wars

"What is going on down there?" Nute Gunray demanded from the bridge of the Trade Federation flagship Saak'ak. A cacophony of alarms sounded all around him.

"We've lost the transmission, sir." his communications officer Tey How announced from behind her comlink and data goggles.

"Have you ever encountered a Jedi Knight before, sir?" Rune Haako asked ominously.

"Well, no, but I don't...seal off the bridge!"

"Yes sir." Tey How replied as she closed the bridge doors.

"That won't be enough, sir."

"I want droidekas up here at once!" Nute ordered.

"We will not survive this..."

Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi spun through the hall of the Trade Federation ship, their lightsabers flashing green and blue as they cut down the battle droids left and right. Obi-Wan extended his hand and threw a group of advancing droids to the ground with the .

Qui-Gon thrust his green blade into the steel, cutting a circular hole in the door to the bridge.

On the other side of the entrance Nute Gunray shouted out in a panic:

"Close the blast doors!"

As the reinforced doors slammed shut, Qui-Gon withdrew his blade, sensing the impediment to his progress.

"That will hold them!" Nute announced.

Obi-Wan reflected a droid's blast back upon it and maintained his vigil over his master's attempt to enter the bridge.

Qui-Gon thrust his blade directly into the doors, the heat from his saber began to again melt the metal. He could sense he was making progress, but at once he realized that droid reinforcements were likely en route to their position. As his blade continued to melt its way onto the bridge, he quickly realized what he needed to do. It was a gamble, but somehow he sensed his next move would be fateful.

"Obi-Wan!" Qui-Gon called out. "Add your blade to mine!"

Qui-Gon's faithful apprentice nodded quickly in understanding and approached the bridge door to the right of his master. Without a word he thrust his blue blade into the doors and sped up the melting process.

With the two blades working in unison, the blast doors quickly turned white-hot and began to slag and melt away.

"They are still coming through!" Rune Haako announced like a harbinger of .

"This is impossible!"

As the blue and green blades melted the blast doors further, the metal began to fall away. Suddenly the two blades succeeded in breaching their barrier and a large chunk of the metal doors fell onto the bridge deck, opening the room to the hallway.

Nute and Rune both stepped back in fear as the twin blades of the Jedi worked rapidly to widen the hole.

"Where are those droidekas?!" Rune called out in panic.

Obi-Wan heard the approach of the rolling destroyer droids before he turned to look.

"Master, Destroyers!" he warned Qui-Gon as the rolling of the insect-like machines brought them closer by the second.

"Come on!" Qui-Gon yelled as he took a step back, then jumped with the guiding him through the hole they had cut. Somersaulting as he landed, he recovered quickly and found himself through the breach and standing on the Neimoidian bridge.

Obi-Wan watched as the destroyer droids uncurled from their traveling form and brought their blasters to bear on him. Just as the droids extended shields to protect themselves and began to fire, the young padawan turned and jumped through the hole he and his master had cut onto the bridge. Spinning in the air as he passed through the breach, he landed two steps behind Qui-Gon and quickly recovered.

Moving with lightening speed towards the two Neimoidians cowering in fear across the bridge, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan suddenly had their blades at the throats of the two Trade Federation commanding officers.

"Uhhhh!" Nute Gunray shouted in terror as the green blade of a Jedi Master was suddenly only inches from his throat.

"Call off your droids. Now." Qui-Gon Jinn spoke with the authority of a man not to be trifled with.

"I suggest you do as he says." Obi-Wan smirked with his own blade only a fraction of an inch from decapitating Rune Haako. "Being shot at by your droids has made my master quite disagreeable this morning."