Heart of Mandalore Chapter 4

Blast it! It was all over too quickly. She should have hunted Gar Saxon, followed him, she knew or should have known that he had more Mandalorians on his side.

Blast it! She now made several big mistakes, and her first day was not even over yet!

Blast it!

Gar Saxon and his Mandalorians invaded the place that he knew the most civilians would be, the palace. They placed charges, threw grenades, and shot the civilians. Bo-Katan could not believe her eyes. She did the only thing that she knew how to do, fight.

Bo-Katan ignited her saber and went like crazy. She used her combat shield to deflect blaster bolts and using her saber to slash the traitors in half. She was mad, no, more than mad, she was furious at Gar Saxon. He was a Mandalorian, the same as her, yes, they raged war, but civil war? A civil war on Mandalore? Bo-Katan could not believe it. She went after him, leaving the rest of the traitors with her guards and Ursa, and her other close friends and Mandalorian sisters.

She yelled at Saxon, as she ran at him, heaving the Darksaber, ready to strike him down. He heard her, dodged the slash, and kicked her shield. It turned into a hand-to-hand battle. Saxon continuously moved towards the exit, knowing if he moved too fast, that she would strike him down, but if he moved too slow, or didn’t move at all, he would also be cut down.

Ursa, having finished off the last of the traitors, came to help Bo-Katan fight Saxon. Saxon leapt into the air and used his jetpack to fly out of a window that was already broken, and head towards the shipyard.

Bo-Katan yelled at her guards to lock down the shipyard, and they obeyed her instruction. She and Ursa followed him down to the shipyard. They were far enough behind him, that he was able to hide in the shipyard, so they had to look for him. They had their blasters drawn, and headlamps on.

¨I wish he was dead,¨ said Bo-Katan.

Of course, she did, after all the bad things that he’s put on Mandalore, the burden that Bo-Katan has to carry because of him! She was more than furious at him now, but she was speaking a dead serious, calm voice.

¨We need to split up,¨ said Ursa

¨No, if we split up, we will be easier targets, and he will only have to deal with one of us.¨

She wanted to find him quicker, she always came up with the risky plans, the ones that will most likely get one of us or one of our other comrades killed.

¨Sorry Ursa, but this time, and he knows, that we have him outnumbered, outgunned, and out skilled. We need to stick together if we are going to defeat him.¨

She guessed it was not the answer that Ursa wanted, but that she accepted it.

They looked between boxes, in the warehouses, in the cockpits of fighters, in the passenger hulls of transportation ships. They just couldn’t find him. He was a good hider, but Bo-Katan was a determined, and skilled hunter and finder. She needed to find him. Not just because she wanted to, but because she needed to, for her people, for her fellow Mandalorians, and yes, for herself. It is going to be difficult, yes. He was a skilled hider,  and he is not with anyone, at least, not that they knew of.

Death Watch was corrupted, doomed from the start when Pre Vizsla joined Maul. She knew that. She also knew that she and her Mandalorians had wiped away almost all of the Death Watch members from the face of Mandalore, and hopefully the galaxy.

What she didn’t know, was that Pre Vizsla had a son, Paz Vizsla, who would help to found the Children of the Watch, descendants of the Death Watch members. Deathwatch would live on into the New Republic Era.

But she had to find Gar Saxon first.

Bam! Bam! Bam! It appears that he had found her. He blasted her and Ursa, not accurately, but to escape. A Death Watch member came by on a Mandalorian ship and Saxon jumped and landed on top of it. He climbed into the cockpit, and they flew off, heading for the barrier of the capital. Bo-Katan and Ursa at his heels.

The barrier was opened often, to get civilians in and out, and transport goods and supplies. It had a certain time of day, on certain days, when it is open, and will not close until that time is over. That is today. It is not against the law to have it closed on the Prime Ministers or Duchess command. Bo-Katan could count herself as the Duchess because she is a Female ruler of Mandalore. She yelled into her comlink that went back to the control center and told them to close the barrier.

¨Umm, what is the problem your majesty?¨ asked the barrier control officer.

¨Gar Saxon is trying to escape, we won’t be able to capture him if he leaves the capital!¨

¨As you wish,¨ the officer pulled the lever that closed the barrier. It would do nothing, Saxons ship was fast, faster than Bo-Katan and Ursa. He would get out, and they wouldn’t. She sped up, drawing her blasters to try to shoot Saxons ship down. Then it dawned on her. She had been dumb. She had used a lot of fuel in her jetpack, and wouldn’t make it out just flying after him. And she could pick up some speed if she used her whipcord thrower, to attach it to the hull of the ship, she just might make it.

She launched it, it hit! Ursa did the same, it missed, but Bo-Katan grabbed the cord, and out of pain, screamed as she pulled Ursa up higher. Bo-Katan’s hand was starting to slip, as she couldn’t hold Ursa any longer. Ursa did it for her though. She detached the line and shot another, this time just hitting to bottom of the right engine. She was lucky, extremely lucky. The barrier closed right as they exited. A good try, but if anything, delayed the pursuit of the Mandalorian Guards. But, they made it out of the barrier.

They couldn’t survive in space, so they either needed to stop the ship or board the ship. It was a Kom'rk-class fighter, a small ship that could house roughly 5-10 Mandalorians plus 2-3 pilots. She guessed that there were only the 2 on, the pilot and Saxon. Good. They could board the ship in the holding area, where the seats where the passengers sit are. They could then find out where Saxon is going, and see if Death Watch hasn’t been extinct.