HP:Lost and longing

Kento struggled to keep the ship from spinning, Harry wondered briefly if Mallie would have been the better pilot. Kento was just barely keeping it together and he had no idea what sort of torpedoes or droids were hitting his ship. "Whatever the frak you and your little friend set loose were causing chaos out there. I was a safe distance away. But a pair of freighters jumped out of space nearly on top of the fleet," Kento explained through clenched teeth as he suddenly pulled the ship sharply to the side to avoid something he sensed coming.

"They were caught by the fleet and they're damaged," He pointed out the cockpit where two ships were spinning and lights were flickering not far from them. Though it was clear they were damaged as they attempted to move away from the battle.

Harry noted in his perusal that they didn't seem to be drifting under their own power, but as he looked out at the rest of the ships, he noted that all of them seemed to be damaged, some were floating completely dark, with giant holes through them, others had sporadic bits of turbolaser fire coming from them. Some had even listed into one another causing explosions and wreckage in the space above Kashyyyk

The ships that were blanketing as much space as possible with return fire, were definitely in the minority, perhaps less than a third of the initial force, were moving away from them and continually firing their turbolasers, seemingly at nothing, though even with the distance involved Harry could make out little dots rocketing around with amazing speed, in seeming random and scattered patterns.

"Huh. Didn't know they'd do quite that much damage, figured they'd be more of a distraction than anything," Harry muttered as he took in the damage, "Huh...may have overpowered some of the added charms.

"Whatever this ship is made out of I need one. I just tried to put it between them and more turbolaser fi-" Kento was cut off as another heavy impact slammed against the ship causing the entire thing to jerk. "and whatever the hell you set loose that is causing that!" he added.

He let it pass without mentioning that Kento hadn't had an idea of how durable the Gryffindor really was. Essentially the former Jedi was willing to sacrifice himself to protect the two freighters that were clearly not part of the attack fleet. He was completely unsurprised at this revelation, well aware of Kento's character, and that of most Jedi.

Harry frowned and then stared wide eyes as a huge iron bludger the size of a starfighter barreled right at the cockpit. He heard a gasp from behind him but honestly couldn't identify which person it came from.

Kento cursed and jerked the freighter, managing to make the bludger miss the cockpit, but it hit to the side, sending the freighter spinning before Kento righted the ship.

"Damn … okay definitely overdid the engorgement charm…" Harry muttered as he braced himself after the impact.

He shook his head, "Okay Kento, thanks for doing this. Say 'hi' to Mallie for me. In forty-eight hours the red cup I left on the table becomes a portkey, pick it up and make sure the two of you are holding it and one of you is holding Galen and say 'Harry rocks.' and it'll take you home."

"Wha-?" Kento was cut off as Harry turned his cloak into a one way portkey to his home and the surprised Jedi disappeared in a flash of light.

Harry didn't bother as he quickly took over the controls though only temporarily. "Ahsoka, take over piloting here…" he commanded.

Ahsoka slipped easily into the seat that Kento had just vacated. She didn't question Harry's direction. "Keep us between the fleet and those fleeing freighters as best you can," He instructed before he disappeared with another pop without any explanation

Ahsoka blinked and glanced back at Aayla and Shaak Ti who still looked slightly worse for the wear from the initial trip but had completely forgotten their appearance as they stared out at the devastation that looked like a massive fleet had just battled in the space above Kashyyyk.

Shaak Ti and Aayla were considering the implications of the Force use on the scale they had just seen done. An individual Force-wielder, whatever he chose to call it, had just single-handedly repelled a planetary subjugation level invasion army by himself. Both knew the implications of this would hardly stay a secret nor would they be anything but wide and far-reaching.

Ahsoka did her best to steady the Gryffindor, she didn't really have time to consider the implications of what she was seeing, as far as the effects magic could have. She wondered where Harry was but felt that she had a pretty good idea as she could sense his presence, and it wasn't on the ship with them, it was out in the field beyond them. His presence routinely accompanied surges of the Force, something she felt was so much easier to sense now for some reason. She wondered if it was because of her connection to Harry or if it was something else.

She did note that the hard thumps the ship was taking steadily grew less as the minutes past. She also noted that the two freighters that had been spinning and not moving under their own power had slowed and stopped and seemed to at least have some power now, judging by the internal lights that had slowly flickered on. She also watched at the remains of the fleet jumped to hyperspace.

It was nearly fifteen minutes later, that there were three more much softer thumps against the ship, barely causing the ship to rock, though Ahsoka was confused as she hadn't seen or felt anything headed their way.

Without warning Harry apparated right back into the captain's chair, and slumped there breathing heavily.

A moment later Dobby appeared next to him and wobbled a moment on his legs before he collapsed down on ground, and rolled onto his back. The little being's chest moving up and down rapidly as it panted heavily.

"Master Harry put too much power into Bludgers." Dobby gasped out.

"Hey it worked, didn't it." Harry said after several deep breaths. "Master Harry Potter getting out of practice." Dobby replied after a moment, still breathing heavily.

"You're complaining that it's been a while since I had to pull something like that?" Harry asked the house elf.

"Dobby just saying, Master Harry getting sloppy at war. Making Dobby work extra hard." Dobby breathed in and out. "It's okay. Dobby used to Master Harry Potter going over the top. Mistress Daphne always say it one of Master Harry's flaws."

Dobby's voice turned very high pitched and mocking, "Always using exploding curse when cutting curse will do." Harry finally tilted his head to look over at the house elf through narrowed eyes, at the house elf's attempt to imitate Daphne's voice. "Sounds to me like Dobby is getting old and can't keep up."

"Dobby not getting old. Dobby still the best House elf." The little being shook his head slightly. "Master Harry Potter just always doing crazy things. Even Dobby struggle to keep up."

He shook his head slightly taking another deep breath before glancing at Ahsoka, "Set course for Nar Shaddaa. As fast as the engines will go."

"How many years, and I see some things haven't changed?" the Sorting Hat interjected, from where Dobby seemingly had jammed it on Hedwig's perch "Mr. 'Not Slytherin' is still allergic to logic and common sense."

"Shut it before I toss you out an airlock." Harry shot a glare at the hat, "In space no one can hear you annoy them."

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