Dec 30, 2010 18:47
[A video is placed on the network for all to see. Clearly it had been patched together from footage taken by news crews, amateur recorders and security cameras.
A riot is shown. Droids blasting civilians left and right and they marched their way down the streets of Coruscant.
One camera crew is able to pick up a small neon green blur cutting a swath through the small army of droids, only a meter off the ground. Zooming in the camera picks up a small green creature wielding the blade expertly and dispatching droids nearly as fast as they fired…
Yoda was flipping and spinning amongst the droids, slicing limbs and heads off of the multiple models and makes, trying desperately to protect was civilians he could. But for every droid he deactivated another civilians was shot or killed. This simply wouldn’t do.
He leapt out of the midst of droids and landed between them and the crowd of people, now behind him. He returned his lightsaber to his robes and set his feet shoulder width apart. He held his hands out, palms facing down, and closed his eyes as his tiny body trembled from his concentration. The platform began to tremble along with him, the metal squealing in protest as it was wrenched from its constraints.
Raising his hands even higher, turning his palms skyward, Yoda lifted the piece of metal and slammed it down, flat against the remainders of the platform, smashing the droids as if they were bugs caught between the sole of a shoe and the ground. But more came, their metallic joints propelling them over the gap and onto the platform. The civilians behind the Jedi Master could only scream louder as they waited for their death to come.
His lightsaber was useless. Even with all his skill with a blade, Yoda would not be able to protect the civilians that way. So instead he threw his hands out, one at a time, over and over, sending dozens of droids flying over the edge and into the depths of Coruscant with each blast of the Force. It didn’t take long for even that strategy to lose what influence it had on the battle. For every dozen droids the Jedi Master destroyed two dozen more would launch themselves onto the platform to continue the assault.
It was then that Yoda came to realize what his fate would be. Pressing his lips together and furrowing his brow the ancient Jedi Master brought an end to his counterattack and turned to the civilians. He raised his hands towards them, easily lifting the entire crowd into the air. He ignored their screaming and floated them towards the next free platform, even as blasterfire ripped into his back.
Yoda dropped them, unceremoniously, onto the platform and felt to a knee. He breathed heavily for a moment before more blasterfire was sent into his tiny body, making him grimace in pain. He collapsed when the droids surrounded him and closed his eyes, accepting his death before they all opened fire. His body faded from existence but the droids continued their mechanical blasting until all that remained was a smoking pile of cloth where the Jedi Master had fallen...]
☄yoda