Pe Squadron's Special Mission
CMDR/CPT Arathar/Pe/Wing V/SSSD Sovereign
(arathar@hotmail.com)

"Andreev, you have two A-Wings on your six!", Commander Arathar yelled watching the monitor of his TIE Advanced. "I'm not able to shake those guys", Andreev said. "Okay, I'm coming to your aid", Arathar said and blowed the X-Wing he was following to pieces. He turned his fighter to face the movement path of Andreev's. "Okay, pull down on my mark… now!" Arathar said and Andreev's fighter moved down. Arathar opened fire of all four laser cannons and another of the A-Wings blow up. But he wasn't so lucky with the another. "They have miss…", Arathar said when he saw a bright alarm light and moment later his TIE exploded in to little pieces.

Arathar rised of from the training simulator. "Okay, who programmed those idiots to have missiles? This was supposed to be a laser dogfight exercise!" "And who would use missiles from 20 meters anyway?" Arathar looked at the one of the simulator staff members. "It was you, wasn't it?" "Uh… Yes sir, I put wrong training program and…" "Oh come on! How we're supposed to train if you put the wrong missions in to these things?" "Well, you saw that you made error in that tactic…" "No, I wasn't making error, it should have worked but they had missiles!" "Perhaps you should scan those fighters if they have…" "No, it was going to be laser-only training! With no missiles!" "Okay, sir… That won't happen again…" "It better not", Arathar looked at the man moment longer and then walked away and left half of the Pe Squadron watching behind him.

Arathar was eating his dinner in the Airlock21 bar. The bar was almost empty. Only a junior officer from the Nun Squadron was present, drinking some green juice quietly. Suddenly Morgan entered the bar. He was the doctor of the Wing V. "Hey! Arathar, what's up?" yelled Morgan. Arathar rised his head from a technical manual he was reading. "I'm fine… Do you have to yell?" Arathar grinned. "Yeah, here are so much people in here today… You can't hear me through all that noise they are making" Morgan grinned too and nodded to the Nun pilot. Morgan ordered a drink from the bar droid. "So, what have you been doing? I heard about that something was going on in the simulator room seven…" Morgan said sitting next to him. "Yeah, those idiots had put wrong training program to the simulator" "So…?" "I didn't notice that and I got blown up" Arathar said. Morgan looked Arathar a moment. "I see, but you don't do that error in real combat situation… Okay?" Morgan said. "I won't", Arathar answered. "Oh, by the way, Fondor has something to say to you, visit his office after you're done", Morgan finished his drink. "Okay, I'm going. Bye" Morgan rised from the table and walked away.

Arathar pressed the button on the Fondor's office door. "Come in", he heard voice calling from the inside. The doors opened and Arathar walked in. Major Fondor was sitting behind his office table looking at his cat, chocolate. Arathar saluted Fondor. "Ah, good, you came. I have a mission for you. You have to escort Dreadnaught with callsign Shadow. As you know, our escort squadron is in a mission so we can't use it. That Dreadnaught is not in the use of the Empire, it is a neutral one and… it is carrying dangerous prisoners. They have been captured in the recent battle operation "Domination". The prisoners aren't Rebels, they are Pirates, and again, they are extremely dangerous, so we have 30 stormtroopers onboard the Shadow. What it comes to the route you're travelling… I have a datacard somewhere… In here. Okay, you are going to meet Shadow in this point and then…"

"Okay, that plan is clear to me… When we're leaving?" Arathar asked from the Fondor. Major looked at his clock. "Now", he answered. "Now? I don't even have my pilots ready!" "Well, gather your pilots then" Fondor answered and turned his attention to his cat again. Arathar shrugged and walked back to the corridor. He opened his comlink. "This is the Commander Arathar, Pe Squadron, report in hangar 5… In five minutes" He closed the comlink and hurried to his room.

A five minutes later Pe pilots were ready and waiting for their Commander in the hangar 5's meeting room. Arathar entered the room. Pilots saluted him. "Okay, this time we have an escort mission", Arathar started. "Sadhe should handle those, right?" SL Darkfear asked. "Yes, but they are currently assigned on another mission, so, Fondor wants us to handle this one. It shouldn't be too hard. Okay, get to your fighters", pilots rised and Arathar went to get his flight suit.

After a moment he flew out from the hangar 5 of the SSSD Sovereign. "Pilots, get in to a formation around me, I'm sending you the cordinates right now", Ararhar said. "Copy that, Pe Commander", pilots answered. One by one ships entered the hyperspace.

After ten minutes in the hyperspace they had arrived in to their destination. "The Dreadnaught Shadow should be in here any minute now", Arathar said. "There! Coming out from the hyperspace!" "I see it", Arathar answered. "Then we wait for the shuttles to deliver the cargo. Fly on rendezvous course with the Dreadnaught", Arathar said. "Yes, sir" "Sir, what that cargo is, if I may ask", Arathar heard Thomas Letifer's voice. "Some prisoners to be transferred in to a prison camp, the Pirates may try to capture them", Arathar answered. "I see", Letifer answered and moment later three shuttles entered the area near the Dreadnaught. "This is the Commander of the Pe Squadron hailing the Dreadnaught Shadow, do you copy?" Arathar said. "This is the Shadow, we copy. Nice to see you in here. The transfer should be done in ten minutes. Relax out there and come onboard when we're ready to do the hyperjump. "Roger that, Shadow", Arathar answered. "Pe, ten minutes and then we go onboard that ship. Stay sharp, they may try something", Arathar said. "Copy that", pilots answered and Arathar watched when the shuttles flew inside the hangar of the Dreadnaught. "So, that ship has no craft defences except us?" Alexey asked. "Nope, only us", Arathar answered. "Okay, good that they still have the firepower of the laser cannons", Alexey said. "Actually, no, they don't have lasers. That ship isn't used in military assaults and the Emperor's Hammer wanted it to remove its lasers", Arathar said. "Umm… Okay, no lasers then… Wait, they have shields, haven't they?" Alexey said. Arathar laughed. "Yes, they have shields" "Good, then the first shot can't take that ship down" "… hailing the Pe Squadron, do you copy" voice came from Arathar's comlink. "This is the Pe, what is it?" "We're ready with the transfer, you may come onboard after the shuttles have left the hangar", voice said. "Okay", Arathar answered and watched when three shuttles came out from the hangar. "Guys, we're flying in to the hangar and then we'll come out after the hyperjump to the prison planet is completed", Arathar said and turned his fighter. Tractor beam catched his fighter and started to pull it inside the hangar.

Arathar climbed off from his fighter. He watched older man hurrying to his direction. "Commander?", man asked. "Yes", Arathar answered. Man came to face him. "I was expecting some one… older", said man and looked at the green eyes of Arathar. "Usually they do", Arathar answered. "Oh… sorry. I'm Foss, the Flight Officer of this ship", man said. "Nice to meet you, Foss. Do we have a place to go or are we supposed to stand here all the time?" Arathar asked and grinned. "Oh… Sorry, this way please", man said and turned. Arathar and Pe Squadron pilots followed him.

They entered a comfortable looking room. "This is the place where you can stay, the hyperspace is over in five hours", man said and turned to walk away from the room, the door closed behind him. "Well, we're sitting here and nothing to do", said Sotskov and sitted behind a large table. "Darkfear?", Pain asked. "Huh, what?" SL answered. "Lets go to check if there is anything interesting out there", Pain said. "Umm… That guy said that we are supposed to stay in this room", Darkfear answered. "Oh, come on…" "Sir, are we allowed to leave this room?" Darkfear asked from the Commander Arathar. "Well, he didn't say that we couldn't visit any other…" "Okay, lets go!" Darkfear said and he and Pain left the room. Andreev started to search place for some food. Arathar watched out from the window when stars went to lines and they entered in to the hyperspace. "Hey, here are some food. Anyone hungry?" asked Andreev.

Pain and Darkfear hadn't returned after three hours. "Maybe they have found something interesting", said Alexey and grinned. "Maybe, maybe not", Arathar said. Suddenly they heard alarm sound and a voice spoken over the intercom. "Alarm, alarm! Prisoners have escaped their prisons in level 4! Prisoners have escaped their prisons in level 4! Requesting more troops!" "Uh oh, now we got trouble", said Sotskov Yan. "Maybe they can handle it…", said Arathar. "Maybe not", said Anton and rised from his seat, opened the door and entered the corridor. Others followed him.

Arathar showed a mark to others that they would stand back. He looked around the corner and saw at least seven pirates standing on the bridge of the Shadow. They had taken the control. How they had managed to do that? Arathar thought. He showed a mark that others moved backwards. They entered small room what was empty. "Okay, the situation is this. The pirates have taken the control of the ship. I don't know how they have managed to beat those stormies this ship supposed to have… But, to the point. We need to cut the computer system wires off from the level 6 so they can't search for lifeforms on this ship and locate us. Then we must find Pain and Darkfear, after that we must get this ship out of the hyperspace, de-activate the tractor beams, get to the hangar and send a message to the Fleet from our ships. We can't use the bridge communications devices as you must understand. Any questions?" "Yeah, how you got that all up in a few seconds?" Anton asked. "I'm a fast thinker… and that's the best thing to do, now we…" the doors opened and two stormies entered the room. "Freeze!" the right one said and pointed them with their blasters. "Uh oh", said Thomas. Arathar acted immediately, he used the Force to get their weapons of from their hands, he took another of the blasters from the air and shot both of the stormtroopers. "Traitors, they attacked Imperial officers", Arathar said. Anton took weapon from the other stormtrooper. "Now we know what happened. Part of the troopers must have been traitors", Arathar said. "Now, lets move one level up to cut those wires"

They cutted the wires undetected. "Okay, now they can't find us… Then we must know where Pain and Darkfear are… and find them. If they still are alive. I hope they haven't done anything stupid", Arathar said. "Where is the armory of the ship located Anton? We want weapons for all of us", Arathar said. "It's one level up, I think", Anton answered. They reached the armory room. Arathar opened the room and immediately a blaster was pointing at his head. "Okay, buddy, take that blaster down, you don't want to kill your Commander, do you?", Arathar said and Darkfear lowered his blaster. "Nice to see you guys", Pain said. "Nice to see you too, but Darkfear, don't try to kill me next time", Arathar smiled. All of them got weapons. "Next thing is to disable hyperdrive and tractor beams, both at the same time. So, we have to divide us in to two teams, meeting point is in the hangar. Me, Darkfear and Thomas go to disable the tractor beams, rest of you take out the hyperdrive. This should be easy thing to do, but don't get caught. Go go go!"

Arathar and rest of his team we're walking along the corridor when they heard a voice over the intercom. "Pilots of the Emperor's Hammer, it is useless to resist, surrender now and you shall live after you're captured. We will find you" "Nice to know that they're worried about us", Arathar grinned. "The tractor beam controls should be around that corner" They entered huge room with lots of little lights and buttons. "Okay, tractor beam controls should be in here… somewhere", Arathar said. "I found those", said Darkfear looking at series of buttons and levers. Arathar went to check those buttons out. He pulled from a lever and pressed three buttons. "Okay, it is off now, Darkfear, make sure that it stays like it", Arathar said. "With pleasure", Darkfear said and rised his blaster.

They reached the hangar doors. Five men were standing next to it, blasters in their hands. "Team 2, what's your status?" Arathar asked with his comlink. "We're on our way to the hangar… We set up the explosives, hyperdrive will be off in two minutes" Anton said. "Great work, we're in position, inform me when you arrive", Arathar said. A minute later Anton said "ready" through the comlink. Explosion rocked the ship and it came out of the hyperspace. "On my count, 3,2,1!" Arathar said and they stepped to corridor at the same time Anton's team did the same in other side of the corridor. Arathar shot two times dropping two guards to ground. Others handled the rest of them. "Quickly, get your flightsuits and hurry to your ships!" Arathar said and they runned to the room next to the hangar to get their flightsuits. Those guys must have been idiots, the hangar doors are open, Arathar thought. They got inside their fighters. When they were starting their engines ten Pirates hurried to door and opened fire against the ships. That was useless, shields blocked shots easily. They flew out of the hangar. "Okay, we made it, good job all", Arathar said. Arathar pressed buttons for a secured connection. "This is Pe Squadron of the Emperor's Hammer hailing Imperial ships, we need some reinforcements, prison transport has been taken over by Pirates. Neutral persons may be in danger. Repeat, Pe Squadron of the…" "This is the ISD Greywolf, we hear you and copy, we're enroute to your destination. ETA ten minutes", a voice said. "Thanks Greywolf", Arathar said. "Hahaha, those guys can't get away without a hyperdrive!", Darkfear laughed. "Yep, you're right, now me must wait for the GW to arrive" Arathar said.

After nine minutes large shape of the ISD entered the area. "This is the GW to the Dreadnaught, stop right now! There is no way to escape!", the voice said. A moment later the Shadow stopped and two troop transports came out from the ISD Greywolf. "Pe Squadron, you may come aboard now", the voice said and the mission was over.

Major Fondor looked at the report of Commander Arathar. "Impressive, very impressive", Fondor said. "Thank you, sir. I was thinking the same" Arathar said. "I have a new mission for you", Fondor said. "Oh, what is that?" "You can brush the fur of my cat"

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