Chapter 49

The sounds of heavy machine guns was heard across the almost endless hall as the Imperial Knights blasted their way towards the very core of the Death Star.

The Imperial Knights, escorted by squads of space marines became like a moving fortress as anything that stood in their way was blasted to nothingness.

Stormtroopers didn't even stood a chance even with anti armor weaponry as an almost impenetrable energy shield surrounded the Imperial Knights who moved and shoot their weaponry at the same time.

The chain of command of the whole Death Star was broken. The highest command was not able to transmit orders as the personnel fighting at the numerous hallways of the Death Star only fought with no hope of reinforcements aa they got killed one by one with their blood and intestines splattering the halls, painting it red.

The heavy footsteps of the space marines and the Imperial Knights was stomping the metallic floor as they proceeded to clear the next bloc of the Death Star.

"Captain, isn't this a little bit...too easy? Our void shields didn't even lost durability one bit. I fear the enemy might have some ultra powered weapons hidden for their last stand." said an aristocrat with concern as he kept looking at the radar in case of an enemy decided to ambush them in their way to clear the next bloc.

"Your concern is understandable as this is your very first combat deployment. You don't need to worry about this matters as we, the Imperial Knights are one of the best soldiers the Imperium has to offer. Anything that might happen shall be given the ultimate solution of elimination. Even if they have some sort of weapon which I doubt they'll have, then we shall just eliminate it in the name of the Emperor!" answered the Captain to the question and concerns of the aristocrat as they finally reached the passage hall directly connected to the control room of the energy source.

The aristocrat's question wasn't answered, that he knows full well. The statement was just basically saying that, they're going to fight anyone no matter what. The aristocrat wasn't content with the answer as he didn't let his guard down one bit.

"Captain, a large number of heat signatures are detected up ahead. It looks like they're the defense force of the energy source!" reported an aristocrat through the communication equipments on the Imperial Knights.

"Enemy is upfront! Charge!"

Imperial Knights and the soace marines charged as a bloodbath happened. Limbs mutilated, heads crushed, while bodies turned to a blood mist, and many more disgusting and disturbing scenes too gore to even be able to put into words has happened.

It couldn't even be called a battle nor a massacre, this is basically genocide as the enemy of the Imperium died without knowing how.

This kind of scene can be seen all over the Death Star as the warriors and machines of the Imperium closed in, cornering the remaining forces.

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Yavin 4, Rebel base...

"What? The plan failed? Tell the pilots to evacuate immediately!" ordered General Dodonna as he urged the staff on the base to forcefully order the pilots back.

"Sir! We can't reach any of them! I feel like they're all shot down!" answered a staff as he tried to broadcast the order of retreat without any answer from the deployed pilots.

"Damn it! The appearance of the Imperium surely complicated things! Try and contact them! They might've shot down our own starfighters probably by mistake! Ask them which side are they on!" ordered General Dodonna as he sat on a chair and tried to relax his body as he's too stressed out already.

His master plan of sending the proton torpedoes on to the exhaust port of the Death Star failed miserably as all the pilots deployed was possibly wiped out by the combined might of the two giants.

He can't believe that his master plan will actually fail like this as he tried to locate and pinpoint the factor that lead to this outcome.

"No matter where I look at it, my plan is flawless, it may have been crazy but at least it has a really high success rate, far higher than other plans. It's just that the Imperium became gatecrashers!" complained General Dodonna as he palmed his face and waited for the transmission from the Imperium.

Back at Darth Vader...

An explosion nearby the position of Darth Vader blasted an intense shock wave that made everyone nearby hold on to something to prevent them from being flung away.

Darth Vader struggled to keep his balance aa the shock wave was instantaneous and he didn't even had time to hold into something.

"What's that?" asked Darth Vader in his mind as the dust slowly settled only to reveal a drop pod that came out of nowhere.

Just then, a transmission from the librarian space marines inside the drop pod was heard in the communication equipments of the normal space marines.

"Stand back and proceed with your official objectives, we'll this from now."

The space marines didn't even looked at each other before immediately rushing towards the inside of the Death Star as they left the librarians with the black cloaked man.

Darth Vader was momentarily confused as he tried to stop the running space marines from escaping but then the sound of something opening was heard.

Darth Vader scanned the whole drop pod in front of him as he found out people inside with unnatural abilities.

He immediately raised his guard and coated himself with the Force as the hatch slowly opened, revealing 4 librarians who looked like some sort of a shaman on space marine armor due to their weird decorations at the back of their armor.

Darth Vader saw these 4 as equals in power as he can somehow sense their complete capabilities without knowing the psychic capabilities doesn't work this way.

Darth Vader knew they couldn't be bothered to have a talk as he just charged at them with speed surpassing his former top speed as he intended to kill one to make his life easier.

As he neared a librarian space marine sounds of crackling as a blue arc was seen...