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The other man beside him fell decapitated by Quinlan, who stood there coldly. He brought his blade up into a defensive position, his teeth clenched and eyes cold. "Come on then!"
The remaining cultists swiftly brought up their weapons, and Quinlan to their surprise dodged backwards, hiding in among the conjured up defenses. Some of those defenses were blown apart by the blaster fire, but the rest, the rock blocks and the distended metal partitions somehow grown out of the metal walls of the corridor, stopped the bolts. Some of those things which were blown apart instead exploded, sending smelly gas, glue or other things of that nature all over the nearest attackers. Some of them exploded with more fell intent, bits and pieces of shrapnel scything through the attackers.
Even the ground beneath the attackers turned against them. Pieces of the flooring in the hallway had been removed, covered with Illusions from Quinlan. Other places were full of glue or replaced by sponges, which sucked the feet of anyone who stepped into them down, making them easy targets for Quinlan.
Quinlan took up position directly in the center of the overlarge corridor, a zone free of Harry's traps to allow him to fight back. His lightsaber flashed blocking any bolt that came toward him or the younglings behind him, showing a speed and skill Quinlan would have been hard pressed to show before this. He had given himself to the Force more than he ever had before, sinking deeper into his Battle Precognition to deal with the number of attackers. "Now!"
Alecto, the two other boys and Harry all swung halfway out of their protective doorways. The three others students brought up their blasters, firing down towards the attackers. Thanks to their own force powers their bolts passed on every side of Quinlan without hitting him, heading unerringly down the corridor towards the attackers. Harry had to be slightly more careful, but he began to lob Stupefy spells at the ceiling and walls, where the attacks splashed around Quinlan, taking out several attackers who had moved forward to try and use the debris from Harry's traps as cover. The spell lost a lot of its potency when it was bounced like that, but it was still enough to slow down their attackers or make them groggy enough for the remainder of his surprises or Quinlan himself to take out.
The size of the corridor quickly began to tell against Quinlan, more and more blaster bolts getting past him as dozens of attackers began to pile in on the far end of the corridor, hosing him and his position down with a maelstrom of fire. It was all Quinlan could do now to protect himself, and his robes began to be perforated by the blaster bolts even so.
"Now," Lily said softly to it her students. "Groups one and two first please. Group four be ready to back up two, group three be ready to back up group one."
Behind her the students nodded, some fearful some irritated and angry at this intrusion into their home, others simply fiercely protective of their home and friends. As one the two groups named five students raised their hands concentrating in that strange Force derived ability to work together the Jedi had, something which no wizard could have done. The shields were heavy, too heavy for any one of them to lift, but with five of them working they came up easily and quickly, zooming forward and beginning to move around Quinlan deflecting further blaster bolts.
Quinlan took the time to move back, shaking his head. He had faced worse odds before he just knew it, he just couldn't think of when right now. Although it is much easier when they come at you from only one direction, the sheer number of bolts tends to offset that..
He nearly lost his footing as the ship was rocked by an explosion somewhere else in its innards, and he scowled, ducking behind one of the real defensive partitions that Harry had created to pull out his communicator. "Master, what was that!?"
He frowned as Harry and Alecto both raced towards him, ducking and dodging incoming fire as they came, rolling into the defensive position directly across from him just as his master began to answer. "Knight To'neen and Knight Laitha have been overwhelmed." Tholme said crisply. "The attackers have blown the reactor, the ship will retain gravity and life support on emergency power, but we are not going anywhere without repairs."
Quinlan put his communicator back on his belt, shaking his head as he muttered to himself, unheard over the sound of the battle around him. "My master thinking like an optimist, I never thought to see the day. After all, to go anywhere we have to survive first after all."
However, Tholme knew something that Quinlan could not, busy as he was with the battle and his own inexperience. Tholme had felt help arriving. He could tell two of them were Master Yoda and his own lady T'ra Saa. Both of them had a distinct presence in the Force to his senses, if for very different reasons.
There was a third distinct presence there too sparkling in the Force unlike any he had ever felt before. Even as Master Tholme began to push the people facing him backwards along with Knight Zarno, he could feel his lady reaching out with her Force powers towards him, and responded, their powers merging almost as if they were fingers caressing one another over a distance. Come quickly! The youngling's are in danger, he sent back, his thoughts infused with a sense of urgency.
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Master Yoda frowned as he paced the deck of the Consular class ship he was on. "Master?" Asked the young knight he had brought along to do the piloting. "What should we do?"
"Get in close you will," Yoda said coolly. "Board the Explorer, I will. Destroy those two other pirate ships you will after I disembark. Tactics upon that moment, up to you they are."
The young knight, a human named Spicer, nodded his head. "As you will Master Yoda."
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