Heart of Mandalore Chapter 11

Right when things seemed to be going their way, Death Watch had to ruin them. Mandalore was about to finally end Death Watch, or they were. Now, they would have to watch from cells, if they even were in cells, not 6 feet underground, Mandalore comes crashing down, have it ruined, have it corrupted. She would be a disappointment. She couldn’t let that happen. This Mandalorian wasn’t smart. She user her wrist laser to knock his blaster out of his hand, she drew her blaster, blasted him, and every Death Watch Mandalorian in her sight. When she first saw Thes, she thought she was still asleep, but then she realized, one of the Death Watch Mandalorians had shot her, just before Bo-Katan shot him. She dropped her blaster in the snow and walked over to her doctor. No, she couldn’t just call her her doctor anymore, she was her friend, she was her Mandalorian sister. She checked for a pulse, nothing. She tried to listen to her heartbeat, nothing. Bo-Katan started to tear up. Even though she only knew Thes for 4 days, she was like her sister. Bo-Katan started to cry. She felt like a failure. She let her friend die, she could live with it. But if she was going to defeat Death Watch, she would need her strength. She had to keep moving forward.

They buried Thes there, on that ridge in the snow, and used her helmet as a tombstone. They then, all said a prayer and kept moving.

They arrived roughly ½ a mile outside of the base. They planned their attack and carried it out. They had little knowledge of the base, other than that it was a Death Watch base. They transmitted their location to the other group and moved to finish the plan.

Ursa flew several hundred feet into the air and flew back around near the base. She dropped a box of jetpack fuel, and 2 grenades, that she modified to detonate on contact. The rest of the group covered their ears and found cover. Ursa flew out of sight again, right as the grenades and fuel exploded, nearly dead center of the base. It caused confusion, and concern, and fear. They attacked. In all of the distraught, Death Watch managed to pull together, able to fight them. Bo-Katan was right, they were outnumbered, even after the grenades hit. They battled hard, as Bo-Katan swept to the left of the main headquarters, a tent bigger than the rest, and came up and shot one of the Mandalorians.

¨This is for Thes,¨ she said.

She continued to stab, jab, and shoot Death Watch Mandalorians, but seemed to have no effect, for everyone she killed, it seemed though as if 2 more would take their place.

They had to fall back. They would die if they stayed there, or worse, they would be captured. They used their jetpacks to fly out of the base and regroup on a ridge to the south of the base.

A squad of 5 Death Watch Mandalorians followed them and tried to shoot them. They were shooting stun bolts, probably because Saxon wanted her alive, not dead. One of the Death Watch Mandalorians hit one of the guards, sending his unconscious body down to the ground, hundreds of feet below. They kept avoiding fire, but their fuel wouldn’t last long enough, they had to make for the ridge, now. She told them to follow her, and they did, but so did Death Watch. Death Watch had full fuel tanks, Bo-Katan and her scouting group did not. She did something she would never think of doing until now. She pulled out her comlink and contacted the pilot of the YT-1300, and told him to do a strike on the base, and that they were clear of it. The pilot started the engine and took off for the base.

The pilot made an attack run, firing its laser cannons on the base. Most of it was destroyed, the rest went up in flames, with snow on the top, melting away with the tents. Most of the Death Watch Mandalorians there were killed, if not by the initial shot, but then by the grenade/charge bomb that Ursa put together. One Mandalorian however, shot up into the air and landed on top of the light freighter.