54 Chapter 46
Aboard a specific battleship of the Imperium...
Squads of space marines was slowly walking towards the tight passage way towards their Thunderhawk transport. Imperial Guardsmen gave way as the towering men of steel passed through them silently.
The sounds of heavy metal clanging on the floor can be heard all across the halls as hundreds of space marines slow boarded their respective specialized transports.
"Battle brother! Are you ready? This wil be your first actual fight." a space marine slowly walked beside a specific space marine as the mechanized arms attached on their armor.
"Of course battle brother! Since the announcement of the Emperor that a war will happen I'm ready. I can't wait to turn this floating ball to scraps." said a space marine as his innocent face before has changed to that of a hardened one. He was now bald instead of the bowl cut as some technological modules can be seen attached on his forehead.
"Very well, let's quickly end this battle. Glory to the Emperor!" the door to the transport closed tightly as the hatch on the battleship slowly opened revealing the bow of the space marine transport.
"We wish you luck on your mission! The Emperor protects!" the sounds of encouragement was heard on the communication equipment aboard the space marine transport as it got ready to be launched on the vast darkness of space.
Just then, the darkness of the vast space was lit up by a bright light. The light caught the attention of the parties involved in the battle as they looked at its source.
Sonic booms like explosions was seen behind the beam of light as the light suddenly traveled faster thsn anyone can react.
TIE fighters tried to intercept it but got shredded to literal pieces as the defense mechanisms and equipment in place on the transportation vessels did their job.
No matter the number of TIE fighters, all of them got shredded. The turbolasers didn't even hit the thunderhawk transports due to powerful shielding it has.
The very weaponry who made the rebel attackers have a hard time was shrug as if it's nothing but an ant bite on a dragon.
The spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi be it was only a spirit has warned Luke about this new players. But he still said that Luke believe on the Force for his attack.
"Believe on the Force and everything shall succeed. For everything is nothing before the power of the Force..." the ghostly hazy voice of Obi-Wan creeped on the head of Luke as Luke dived down on the trench as he got nearer on the exhaust port. The TIE fighter of Darth Vader got shot down by Han Solo who gave Luke the easy passage to the exhaust port of the Death Star.
"The Force shall guide me!" Luke opened the protective casing on the launcher button for the proton torpedoes but as he was to press the button the thunderhawk transports has hit the surface of the Death Star causing massive destruction as from an unsuspecting eye they'll think that atomic bombs hit the Death Star.
Luke looked at the explosions as this momentary lost of concentration made him lose control of the whole starfighter he's currently piloting.
"No! Urghhh!" Luke tried to do his best to take back the control of the starfighter once more as he evaded countless obstacles on numerous super tight passages by a hair's length.
Sadly, one of the wings of his starfighters scraped a metal tube heavily damaging it. His starfighter turned into a little ball of fire as it crashed down on an open hangar.
Explosions after explosions as the battle on the Death Star became even more chaotic than before.
Hundreds or possibly thousands of large starfighters of length no less than twenty meters came blasting their weaponry from the darkness of space as they tore through the Imperial TIE fighters with ease. With the abrupt improvements to the individual starfighter as the matter about the Imperial tactic of overpowering each starfighter with countless TIE fighters was sent to the Imperium central command, they ordered the improvement of all the existing and to exist vessels to combat the enemy outnumbering tactics.
Rebel Base, Yavin 4...
"What in the... world are those?" asked General Dodonna as he carefully observed the battle on the tactical screen on the base. He saw that suddenly, thousands of starfighters seemingly was created and appeared out of thin air as they're not launched from any hangar but just literally pop out of existence like a mushroom.
"General! They're of Imperium origin! The insignia of the aquila was present!" reported an officer in excitement as he showed the photographs they managed to take as it showed the an inisgnia plastered on the starfighters hull.
"Are they here to help us? I thought the diplomatic meeting a year ago ended in failure?" General Dodonna had doubts and was half hearted on which he should believe. It's too good to be true that the Imperium will really help them destroy the Death Star.
"Who knows general, probably they're also concerned about this inhumane weapon of war. They probably want to destroy it to bring balance." shrugged the officer as he gave a plausible idea to the general who just nodded.
"Try to connect a transmission to them. We need to ascertain their intentions!"
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Surface of the Death Star...
The space marines crashed on the opened hangars of the Death Star as they went to work immediately.
Sounds of the heavy bolters was booming all throughout a random hangar as the clones got blasted to literal blood mist when the bullet of the heavy bolter hit their body.
The surge of stormtroopers with their blaster rifles wasn't even effective at the very least. The armor of the space marines just shrugged it off like it's nothing as they kept on firing their heavy bolters.
A space marine looked at one another as they nodded and unsheathed their combat knifes and charged at the holed up position of the stormtroopers.
"Damn it! How are they unscathed?" growled a stormtrooper captain as the fires of a laser machine gun poured on the charging giants made up of metal.
The space marines was too quick and their armor was too thick as they jumped and performed a midair strike on to the position of the stromtroopers.
The space marines moved too fast, faster than it's scientifically possible. They're like ghosts, ghosts in the size of an 8ft tall superhumans.
A space marine landed, superhero style as a powerful shockwave knocked the stormtroopers off their footing.
Before anyone can react the space marine move in and stabbed his combat knife to the nearest stormtrooper as he crushed the skull of the other one.
The stormtroopers finally managed to regain their footing as they tried to fire back and kill the space marine with the barrage of laser fires.
But every shot that hit didn't leave a mark as the space marine continued to massacre the stormtroopers.
At this moment, the captain decided it's enough and pulled out his melee weapon, a standard electronic baton. He will use electricity to shock and disable the rampaging giant as his armor looks like it's made up of metal.
The remaining stormtroopers also did the same as they all charged together, hoping their numerical advantage will bring the difference on strength.
The space marine's eye shone red aa he mover extremely fast, killing everyone in the blink of an eye.
The armor of the space marine was dripping in blood as traces of brain matter was present. He scanned the surrounding before transmitting a message.
"Gamma 4 Site is now clear for the Imperial Knight deployment..."
