Star Wars: Summoning UNSC in Galaxy far, far away!

Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Podracing ?



[Author Note: I honestly didn't feel like editing this one, it has 2,700 words, and I think it's 'okay-ish?' to post I guess.]

Next Day

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Change of POV: 3rd POV

"Your Highness, Tusken Raiders have been noted. I'll take a shot." Noble 6 informed, as he hoisted something like Sniper-Blaster on top of his shoulder's, his head tilted towards the scope.

"Do it." Alex ordered, as she crossed her arms over her chest-plate.

~PIU!

~PIU!

Two consecutive shots were well, shot from the blaster, but Noble 6 paused as his finger wavered across the Blaster's trigger, just in case if the following Tusken's stood up. A few seconds of silence before he un-hoisted the rifle. "Confirmed Elimination, range approximately 3,103 Meters."

Alex nodded. " Then let's move, Podracing should start any moment. " They started moving towards the Speeder beside Alex, before Alex jumped on it, Noble 6 followed behind before strapping his Sniper Rifle on top of his back. 

Alex only rented a Speeder, which she found funny, since who would dare to rent a speeder on Tatooine without the possibility of getting robbed?

That's when Alex saw who is renting it, Jabba the Hut.

Engines started up.

The plan is really simple, yesterday all of them came up with idea that Anakin enters this Pod-Race.

With Qui-Gon Jinn pretending to be 'giving a Pod-racer' to Anakin, which was actually made by Anakin, but Watto normally wouldn't have allowed Anakin such Pod-Racer out of pride, so the only option was for Qui-Gon Jinn to pretend to be the one to give him.

But for the bet to good for Watto to accept, they were forced to make following possible:

In case Anakin wins the damn bet, then both Shmi and Anakin will be freed from Watto's slavery, but Watto will get following price for the race, which Watto gladly accepted, since in this time-line he wasn't going to lose 'Hyperspace-Drive' as in canon, and it was a hella good one, mind you!

In case Anakin losses, then Condor ship will be given to Watto, all signed in Contract, despite knowing that 'Hyperspace-Drive' is not working on the ship, Watto was intrigued by the ship since he never saw one, and agreed.

Alex certainly enjoyed these butterfly effects.

The money Alex gained by searching through corpses of those she 'eliminated' just yesterday were already spent for food, so Qui-Gon Jinn did not have to use mind-manipulation this system.

And food was packaged back in Condor Space-Ship, Qui-Gon Jinn and Padme were feeling like it to walk towards the shuttle and explain them the further plans we plan to conduct.

Such as stealing the ship.

Now, next plan is very simple.

After some talking, it was decided that both Alex and Leo-B312 will go and replace the Tusken Raiders who were supposed to snipe at Pod-Racers.

But others were not aware of this part of the plan, only Alex and Leo are.

'It's a bit cheating, but who cares?' Is what Alex though as they soon approached the fallen corpses of two Tusken Raiders, and two rifles beneath them.

The ones with projectiles mind you.

Alex crouched down and picked them both, then proceeded to rummage through the corpse of both Tusken Raiders, and finding about 5 long bullets in both of their pockets, in total 10, before nodding towards Noble 6, who returned the nod and they departed, with couple of dozens of meters away from each other.

Before this, Alex was gracious enough to buy a UNSC Sniper Rifle to Noble 6, with 20 Bullets along with it.

That was how he sniped the two Tusken Raiders to begin with.

While Noble 6 will deal with the UNSC rifle, Alex will take the rifles of Tusken Raiders.

Alex walked up behind a rock, sat down and inspected the rifle in question.

"I don't know the name of this rifle, but I remember it was useful enough that even Luke used it in movie I think?" She muttered to herself before she shook her head, and continued inspecting the rifle in her hands.

A Long brown rifle, with a small hole above the trigger, perhaps for long bullets? Brown colored rifle, with a scope too.

The plan is very simple, to take out most promising Pod-racers.

Such as Sebulba, the Dug. And Champion of Mos Espa, he is the one that would cause the most trouble to Anakin to begin with.

And so, Alex fondled with the rifle a bit, just in time as she heard it. The loud sounds of thunder-like Engines rummaging through the canyon.

She sharply jumped up, turned around and peaked from the rock.

She hoisted her rifle up, put it on her shoulder for better accuracy and help against recoil, then aimed with it at the opening of the Canyon where they would come form.

And her eyes trailed towards the Canyon, and she saw them.

Dozens of different Pod-Racers, both large and small, the amalgations of technology.

All are unique, and the people who ride them are same.

All of them belong to different races, it's incredible..

But Alex didn't think much of it, and instead focused on the small opening when the Podracers are forced to leave the canyon.

And she didn't have to wait for long, as just then, couple of them exited from the small opening together in unison.

Leading pod-racer is none other than Sebulba, the main target.

But Alex wasn't about to to take the shoot on him since just behind him, following three others Pod-Racer is Anakin, making him the fifth one in race.

Alex doesn't have the confidence to take the shoot and not Injure Anakin.

Instead she relented, and aimed towards the ones behind Anakin.

And, she pressed the trigger.

Shoot was accurate, as the slug like creature who rode one especially large Pod-Racer was derailed from the course, because the bullet managed to pierce through the thruster, forcing the Pod-Racer to crash against other one beside him, taking them both off the course, as they were stranded for following seconds.

Even though the shot wasn't fatal, did not kill the creature, it certainly caused it's speeder to be useless, and to restrain another one for following seconds.

But on the other hand, Alex immediately put another bullet in the small hole, and pulled the stick above, causing the metal to push the bullet further inside the pipe.

But on the other side, an explosion happened, causing Alex to turn her head towards the place where she heard it.

Only for her mouth to drop, as she saw both thrusters belonging to Sebulba be reduced to scraps, making the Dug himself nothing more than a failed participant in the race from now on.

But as expected, the other racers did not even bat an eyebrow, they continued forward, including Anakin.

Alex reloaded her rifle and sat down.

"They have three circles to fill." As she sat down behind the rock, and focused on sounds.

Less than five minutes later.

The familiar sounds of Speeder engines were heard from the distance, and so Alex one again turned around, aimed with her rifle...

And waited.

And soon, the first one exited.

This one brought a smile on Alex features, since the one now on first place is none other than Anakin, slowly followed up by two others.

Then dozen of meters from them are more of them, but it's obvious that compared to first round, the number of participants is far less than before.

And so, almost at same time, both Alex and Leo-B312 pressed the trigger, simultaneously taking out two of them, specifically the one on second place, and the one on fourth place.

Causing the one on third place to pale and to slow down slightly or ram into the the one in front, as he barely avoided the almost inevitable crash.

But it costed him precious moments with catching up Anakin.

Now, there are 5 participants.

Alex once again re-loaded her rifle, sat behind the rock, cleared her mind and waited.

Almost five minutes later, same situation, Alex stood up. Took aim with her rifle and waited with bated breath.

Waited and waited.

And.. 

Only two speeder's passed from the canon, Anakin who is first place, slowly being tailed by another one, by a Twi'lek woman. 

Instead, those are all the ones that exited.

So, Alex did not dare to take aim and try her luck here, instead she glanced towards Noble 6 and saw him aiming towards them, slightly moving his sniper.

And Alex waited with bated breath for what is to come.

And, he pressed the trigger.

In instant, the pod's thrusters were damaged, one of them is.

One detached from the pod, causing the pod to lose precious seconds and balance, and go off the course.

With only two surviving racers, it was expected that Anakin will now now.

Alex stood up quickly, motioned towards Noble 6 and she sprinted towards their speeder, but not before throwing away the Slugthrower rifle she took from Tusken Raiders away.

Meanwhile, Noble 6 hoisted his sniper rifle on his back, the magnets of his MJOLNIR MARK 5 [B] quickly catching it, as he too sprinted towards the speeder, they meet in the middle.

Alex quickly sat on it, soon followed by Leo-B312, she pulled the wheel towards herself, her right leg hit the start up stick, as speeder turned around and flew towards Mos Espa.

This is perfect time for stealing a ship.

Not only is 99,9999% percent of population now occupied by Pod-Race, but also they were enjoying and exchanging bets right now.

So security in Space-Port buildings is essentially lacking, as the security is moved towards the Pod-Race stadium.

But normally they don't have to worry about anyone trying to steal ships whose safety was guaranteed by Hutts.

If those who stole them are not 'Feet' or simply 'UNSC' Humans anyway.

'When I get back into UNSC Space I'll have to order Mass production of Ships, for potential war with Hutts and for inevitable Clone Wars which we may be pulled into, 4k ships is just not going to do it.' Alex though.

It didn't take them long till they entered Mos Espa, they had to slow down the speeder and moving on foot later on, leaving it just there open.

Around 10 minutes later, they found it, their desired target.

[Space-Port: #05]

Alex signaled to Leo, who firmly nodded.

A quick glance towards left and right allowed her to release a sigh of relief. 

Street is empty, meaning that truly most of the people should still be in stadium.

Alex for her good, took the blaster from her right waist, the one she took from horned human who tried to attack her yesterday.

Leo-B312 on the other hand simply pulled out his Assault Rifle, held it and moved first.

Since Noble 6 has better armor, way better armor, it was expected from him to enter first.

The doors leading to Space-Port buildings are wide open, yet they could hear the voices from the inside.

They both walked towards the doors, turned their backs on the walls, and Noble 6 peaked into the building first, for a second.

Then quickly retreated his head, turned towards Alex before showing five fingers with his right hand towards her, then formed a fist, then showed two more fingers.

'Seven enemies..' Alex concluded as she nodded towards him, to take the action first.

And he did, he turned sharply towards the door, entered it. And started shooting, semi-automatic with his MA37, three different shoots, and three different thuds fell on the ground, before the fire was returned to him, in the form of lasers.

Lasers are so weak they couldn't truly do much damage to Mark 5's Shields, but Noble 6 wasn't about to give them even a chance to actually deplete them, as he quickly reacting by sprinting towards the first cover he saw.

But on other hand.

Alex gritted her teeth, as her heart started beating up, this time not out of excitement, but out of fear.

Before in alleyway, she had advantage of camouflage and surprise attack. 

Now?

It's a Spartan taking care of everything.

But not wanting to be out-done, she used camouflage and started running from the cover after entering the room.

The sound of boots was muffled by the sand, but sand's footprints were still shown.

That could have been fatal, if it weren't for plot armor in the form of dumb people not paying attention towards her but Noble 6.

Upon entering, she noticed three dead bodies, relatively meters away from the ship.

But she saw no one, there should be three more of them.

But then, something screamed for her to jump away.

And she always trusted her gut instincts, she jumped away.

She fell on her stomach, the camouflage still acted, but slightly shimmered so for a split second it revealed green color in her location.

But even so if it didn't, the sand was pushed aside from her sudden jump.

The place where she was just moment ago was sent a grenade, and exploded right there, if she was even a second late, it would have been over for her.

SPI-Armor does not have shields to sustain damage from a grenade after all.

~PIU!

~PIU!

~Ra-Ta-Ta-Ta!

~PIU!

Multiple shoots were let out from behind the ship, alerting here further.

A quick glance upwards revealed a Twi'lek, clad in leather armor, about to aim towards her with his blaster rifle.

But it was a bit late, Alex still had her own blaster in hand, and her reflexes, strength and speed were improved by SPI-Armor, so she shoot him first before he could shoot her, as his fell down, on the sand backwards.

 But she didn't waste anymore time, as she stood up, and just when she walked up, to see the behind of the ship...

She doesn't know if she should feel happy or disappointed.

On one hand she didn't have to kill what appear to be 5 different people, all clad in different armors, from leather armor to plastic armors.

Three Twi'Lek and 2 Trandoshan aliens. Laying dead, with holes through their heads.

All five headshoots.

"All clear, your Highness." Noble 6 gave firm nod and Alex could only sigh.

But well, she didn't dwell too much on that issue to be honest.

She only nodded, before she turned on her heel and walked towards the boarding ramp or as some people might call it, boarding gate or boarding door.

She walked towards it, quietly followed by Noble 6.

And the moment she took the first step on the stair, the System inside her manifested as a screen in front of her.

[Mission Successful!]

[1# Spartan-Fireteam Summoning Ticket!]

[ Host needs to claim it in the Mission-Tab later to summon Spartan-Squad!]

Alex continued walking, she will summon them inside the ship.

Thankfully, the amount of money she had taken from those three robbers were used to buy enough food for 20 people, and to last them for 20 days.

It would have been pity to not use up all the money she had back then to be honest.

And Spartans only need to eat one day every three days to operate on full capacity anyway,so there would be food for even more people, for everyone till their content.

As they stepped inside the ship, Alex looked back and forth.

"I'll summon an additional Spartan-Fireteam, so move slightly." She ordered, as Leo complied moving several meters away from her.

"System." She muttered, though due to Noble 6s proximity, he heard it still.

They all are aware of how 'they are transported' into this world anyway, every single Human from UNSC space, but they are not allowed to speak of it.

To anyone, with exception of their leader, the Princess.

And a screen appeared in front of Alex

{Stats}

{Territory-Stats]

[Summoning-Shop]

[Mission-Tab]

"Go into [Mission-Tab]." She ordered, as screen shifted, showing the latest mission with unclaimed reward.

-[Mission-Tab]

[Mission: Steal a Ship to escape the Tatooine!]

[Objective: As the name says, just go steal a ship big enough to accomodat everyone!]

[Claim Reward: 1# Spartan-Fireteam Summoning Ticket] 

"Summon the Squad."

Screen shifted, as another one appeared.

[Does Host want to Summon a Random-Spartan-Fireteam?]

[Yes]

[No]

"Yes." Alex grunted, as just when she summoned Noble 6, the same way figures appeared in front of her.

Three figure to be exact.

All wearing the first standard and mass-produced MJOLNIR MARK 4. Green colored mind you, with.

All three of them holding Standard Assault Rifle MA5C of that time.

All three of them saluted simultaneously as they recited their respective numbers.

"Spartan 2s Red Team Reporting to duty!" All three of them spoke in sync, before the one in middle stepped forward first.

"I'm Jerome-092, leader of this team's composition." He stepped back, allowing his team mates to introduce themselves, the on left was next as he stepped forward.

"I'm Douglas-042." A man of few words.

And the last one stepped forward.

" I'm Alice-130." Female voice, it's hard to guess their gender due to how bulky MJOLNIR MARK 4 is.

"We are reporting to duty towards her Highness!"

Chapter Word Count: 2,882


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