Distress Signal

[Starholdt]

Ötzi watched as the Zabrak engaged the droids in some sick suicidal crash course. It was time for him to reveal himself. But then again, could these be bounty hunters sent for him? He couldn't know. He felt a pull, an urge, to help these complete strangers. Could these be Jedi? Their lightsabers house both sith and jedi colored crystals. Rogues? Maybe. Ötzi was about to find out.

The Zabrak had almost reached the advancing droids, which had halted and raised their blasters. They took aim. Their simple mechanical hard drives picked up a flash of blue in their peripheral vision. It was the last thing they saw before Ötzi's lightsaber cleaved the droids in the front line in two at their waists.

[Zilfer]

Bones arrived almost in time to strike the droids, but a lightsaber tore them apart swiftly. He looked at the man wielding the lightsaber a bit quizzically. What was with this gathering.... did Tattooine hide all the Jedi from the empire or what? He was sure this man hadn't come with the main group but maybe he was with that large brain thing.

"Thanks, but I didn't need your help." said Bones as blaster fire erupted in their directions. There were far to many droids, and crowd control was going to be needed soon. He thought for a moment to attempt a telekinetic wave but that would only end disastrous. He didn't have control over the force powers he had been taught, and they were highly unpredictable. "Just stay out of my way this time, and you'll do fine."

Bones felt a bolt hit him square in the back. This burned through his robe and damaged his back, however that quickly healed over as he charged this droid, as he approached the group of droids fire pelted into him. Bones didn't stop however, or flinch at the pain. Instead he continued straight up to the droid and at the last moment before impact his unlar bones shot out of his palms impaling the droid through its chest casing before Bones ripped it out the side. Slashing at the next droid.

Meanwhile Rin saw Bones in his usual reckless charge, but she was unable to assist him for she was heading to protect Drake, and seemingly the woman they had been looking for. She forced jumpped over the last line of droids landing besides Drake and deflected blaster bolts with swift use of Soresu. "Got any plans...?" she asked Drake deflecting another bolt sideways and into the head of a nearby droid.

[Starholdt]

Ötzi smirked.

Fine, carry on then, Spike.

A blaster bolt flew towards Ötzi. He ducked to avoid it, and as he came back up, deflected two more in the direction of the rampaging Zabrak. Turning his attention to the droids, he spotted a half dozen charging around the Zabrak along a wall to get to the other Force users. What appeared to be a podracer engine was proped against the side of the building. Summoning the force, the engine rolled and fell upon the droids, crushing five and stunning the other. Before he could recover, Ötzi's saber cleaved it in two and it's blaster was in Ötzi's hand. He began firing into the crowd of droids.

[MikDaTv]

Shard's wrist blade stabbed forward into the body of a Republic war droid, driving through its chest and causing electricity to arc all around the droid. He finished it off by slicing it's head off with his red lightsaber. He retracted the wrist blade out of the droid back into his arm. His hand retracted back into the arm with the blade and once again transformed into the Sonic cannon.

He opened his mind up to Zordon and quickly projected a thought to his master. Master Zordon, where are these droids coming from?

Zordon, in his tank aboard the Command Center was busy meditating on that very question. He was having trouble tracking any malicious intent towards the Jedi but he also felt that the Jedi were indeed the main targets of this attack. Whoever was behind the attack was hiding himself well. I do not know Shard. Whoever it is, he is covering his tracks far too well. It’s possible he's using multiple droids to issue commands to the droids in the field so I cannot track the sense of threat directly to him.

Shard nodded, accepting the information without a response and returned his thoughts to the battle before him. A cluster of droids were taking shelter under the awning of a street vendor's store. It offered little protection but at least they weren't standing out in the middle of the street. Shard aimed his sonic cannon and fired. The blast detonated against one of the stands thin legs causing the awning to fall down on the droids. “I will attempt to take one of these droids into custody for interrogation.” Shard declared to those around him in his synthesized droid voice. Communication on the battlefield was a top priority of his.

The jet boosters in his feet fired and he shot a few feet into the air and forward landing next to the vendor stand. His lightsaber cut through one of the droids easily while a second swipe disarmed the second. He grabbed the droid with his now reformed left hand and hauled it to its feet. He was familiar with the make and model of droid which helped him decide on the best course of action. He quickly used his lightsaber to sever the head from its body, letting the body collapse to the floor. The droid brains in its head would be all Shard needed to gather information from it.

As an afterthought, he knelt next to the droid’s body and checked it’s communication pack. He extended his forefinger on his left hand, from which extended a screwdriver. Using the tool he opened up the cover on the pack and withdrew a computer chip from the com packs motherboard.

He stood up again, holding the droids head in his left hand and placed the chip in a compartment on his waist. A small radio dish extended from the top of his head and began spinning. “Scans indicate more droid signals approaching from the east.”

[Damocles]

As the droids were being cut down one of them called out an order "Press fire, do not give up" it ordered from the other droids. As they continued to fire, Drake deflected the bolts with his saber sending it back destroying one of the droids. He turned around and looked at the girl "Hey you okay?" He asked her, before he could get his response he noticed everyone else that was showing up to help out "Guess that back up is here" he smirked. He looked over at Rin when she asked him what the plan was "Yeah I got one" he said activating his blue saber in his other hand "Destroy them all" Drake ran at the droids with both his sabers activated and began to tear through them.

He cut two of the droids down before turning to a war droid and launching his saber into it then recalling the blade that spun hitting several more droids before Drake caught it. Drake looked up when the big guy said more droids were coming from the east "Thanks for the heads up" Drake said as he deactivated his sabers, if they had to deal with more incoming droids the ones in front of them needed to be taken care of. Drake clapped his palms together and pulled them apart slowly creating a force bubble in his hands that was filled with electricity. Drake smirked as he held the bomb in his hands "HADOUKEN!!!!" He yelled shooting the force ball forward it slammed into several of the droids blowing them up as it smashed into them.

Drake slid back as he ignited both his blades again. The droids from the east continued their march towards the warriors, "Kill them all" the lead droid said "Leave none alive"

[Moonfire]

Holding back, Moonfire took her time concentrating on crushing the droids, hoping that would be more effective on a larger scale. Focusing intently the Knight moved in a careful arch, crushing five or six droids together into a meaningless shape of twisted metal, a light shower of sparks erupting with each closure of her fist.

As more and more people entered the fray, she couldn't hold back a smile. It really was always nice to find the Jedi had allies, even in times like this, finding themselves almost completely annihilated. As the droids numbers grew Moonfire tried to twist more of them apart and into her steadily growing ball of jagged metal.

"Hey! Daddy, theres another wave of them coming, I sure do hope you've got a better plan than this!" Shouted Rain over the fighting, hopping back down from the hut, whipping out a pair of saber hilts, held firmly in hand they crackled to life in beams of yellow. Spinning she sliced through the group of droids swarming her.

Searing pain shot through her shoulder, one of the blaster bolts had managed to strike her shoulder. Bastard. Biting her lip gently the Rain sliced with greater fury through the droids. As one darted forward to confront her head on the woman reached to twist its metal arm back with Force aided strength. "Why wont you fuckers quit?" She seethed before slicing it apart.

[MikDaTv]

As the hum of lightsabers swoshing and slicing filled the air of Mos Eisley, Shard found that the odds were increasingly going against them. Eventually there would be to many droids for them to mount an effective defense in this open area. They needed to get their backs to a wall instead of being surrounded fighting in all directions.

He ducked behind a waist high sand stone wall and took some time to review the data from his scanners. It seemed all the droids were operating on the same wireless frequency to coordinate their attacks. That might be useful to them. It was encrypted so he couldn't listen in on their communications but he might be able to jam it.

"I may be able to jam the droids coordination for a few moments." Shard announced. "I suggest we relocate to that cantina." he said pointing to the rear wall of the sandstone building. As he pointed, the trio of mini concussions missiles sprang out of their compartment on his right wrist and one of them fired, blasting a hole into the side of the building. "I have made us an entrance."

[Starholdt]

We'll be trapped in that cantina. All they have to do is cave it in and we're as good as dead. I can move objects but i'm not strong enough to hold a building together.

Ötzi deflected two more bolts that zipped his way, sending them back towards the droids who fired them. deactivating his lightsaber, he lepted through the air and into a backflip, landing near Drake.

If you have a ship, now would be a good time to start making our way there.

[Damocles]

Drake looked up at Shard as he kicked another droid down. Drake threw his hand out sending out a large force push blowing the droids back, "Alright, we'll move to the Cantina, Mooney can signal our pilot from there..." he said turning to the new guy he had no idea who he was or what he was doing there. But he said he couldn't hold the building together as if he was the only force user there, "Don't worry about that, holding a building together is a piece o' cake for me" he told him as he cut another droid down.

He turned to look at the girl who kept calling him Daddy, she did look a lot like Kai, maybe it was possible however Drake was still skeptical. When she got shot Drake ran over to her and tossed his saber into a droid before calling it back. "Yeah plan is we get in that building!" He yelled turning to Jik, Rin and Moonfire "Move it guys now" he ordered his Jedi "Mooney get in contact with Jon and tell him to get that dragoon over here ASAP" he said as he ran to the building and concentrated putting up a large force bubble waiting for everyone to get inside.

[Starholdt]

Ötzi felt stupid for overlooking the fact that he's not the only one with the power of the force. These individuals were way more in tune with their powers than he was. In fact, he didn't even know truely what this power was. He had heard of the force, but he had no idea it could be used the way these people were using it.

Okay, then. lets get in there!

Ötzi deflected three more bolts with his lightsaber and blasted another droid with his new firearm. The blaster was on empty, so he dropped it into the dirt and started to slash his way across the street.

He was the first to step through the hole in the wall.

[Moonfire]

Darting into the cantina Moonfire found herself blocked slightly by a rather ragged bar. Hopping onto it she turned to the rather bewildered and panicking patrons and staff. "Uhh... Will every one please file out in an neat and orderly fashion." The only response being more hurried shuffling and shouting, one man even throwing his drink towards the group. Ducking out of the way of the renegade bottle she switched on her comm-link.

"Jon, this Jedi Knight Moonfire, requesting the Dragoon stat." She asked politely as the droids began to circle the building, pushing against the force barrier Drake was holding.

"Dragoon is deployed, it'll be there momentarily" Responded Jon in another crackle of her comm-link.

"Okay guys, just need to hold on for a little while longer." Moonfire shouted over the yelling of the costumers and cantina staff.

"Dad, you're over reacting, I'm fine." Rain said with all the young arrogance of a teenager, shoving Drake away as she entered the cantina, sabers still in hand.

[MikDaTv]

Shard set his sensors to transmit a powerful signal. It overloaded the wireless frequency the droids were communicating on and the droids began to lose cohesion. It was a temporary plan at best. It was only a matter of time before they switched to another frequency.

He blocked a few blaster bolts with his lightsaber, deflecting them back towards the droids closest to him. As everyone filed into the cantina Shard fired the jet boosters on his back slightly. The jets flaring kicked up clouds of dust and sand from the ground which would help to obscure their retreat.

Shard remained outside until everyone made it indoors and was the last one through the hole in the wall. Master, we've holed up in a cantina. The droid forces are approaching rapidly.

Zordon received the mental communication and sent one of his own to the pilots of the Command Center. Take off and orbit the city. Contact Dino Flight and have them support the Jedi on the ground.

The pilots complied and the J-type diplomatic barge's engines began to spin up. Zordon mentally contacted Shard again while at the same time activating the transmitter in his tank.

A six note ringtone sounded from Shards chest and a holographic projector sprouted from the center of his abdomen. It came to life showing an image of Zordon floating gently in his tank. Zordon spoke audibly through Shard who was relaying the mental message. "Jedi, I have dispatched a flight of fighters to assist you on the ground. Shard here has the equipment to communicate with them. Shard will take orders from Master Hellion and the Command Center will remain in the area should you need extra transport."

The hologram disappeared and Shard closed the port containing the holoprojector. "I have made contact with the leader of Dino Flight. His fighters are on the way." Shard said in his very monotone droid voice.

* * *

(Dino Flight, Tatooine, High Orbit)

Dino Leader cut the com with Shard and switched frequencies over to the flight coms. "Ok Dino Flight, we've got a call for an assist from Shard and Master Zordon. They're in a situation on the ground and will need some air cover. Split up into pairs and head for Mos Eisley."

Almost in unison, everyone in Dino flight responded with a loud "It's Morphin Time!

[Damocles]

Drake watched as everyone got inside the bar, he followed in before Shard did and held up his barrier, Drake closed his eyes and forced even more power into the barrier to hold it up "Well Daughter, I just would rather you not be dead before we get some answers about all of this" He replied to her as he continued to hold the barrier up through the barriage of fire coming from the doids. "Where's that air support?" Drake questioned Shard as he fell to one knee as the barrier started to crack some "Shit...everyone get closer together I'm gonna have to make this thing smaller" he said backing up some and decreasing the size of the bubble so it protected the inside of the Cantania rather the whole building.

[MikDaTv]

"I believe the structural integrity of the building is in no danger of being comprimised at this point Master Hellion." Shard said in his sythesized voice. His subtle way of suggesting that the building was in no danger of collapsing unless the droids brought out big guns. "Air support is inbound. Estimate 2 minutes until first element arrives in firing range."

The sensor dish raised up from Shards head again and started spinning around. "Scans indicate that the battle has driven the civilian population away for a significant area around us. Civilian casualties should be low to none but damage to the city may be.... catestrophic. If i may forward a personal opinion at this point, i believe we could drop a nuke in this town and tomorrow no one would notice."

[Starholdt]

The force shield decreased in size before Ötzi could move. A trio of blaster bolts flew at him. He side stepped the farthest from the left and deflected the other two. The one he dodged hit a fleeing jawa in the back. He turned back to look at the jedi who conjured the shield. It seemed to be holding. Then again, he'd never seen anything like it and had no idea what it was supposed to look like. The cantina was almost empty of it's patrons. Once the last local exited the building, Ötzi shut the main exit and locked it from the inside.

He turned to face the whole in the wall. The droids completely surrounded them now, and blocked their only exit.