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Mike 'Wedge' Antilles sat down next to a chirpy young lieutenant in the New Republic Military. He was on Corellia under an assumed name.'Lieutenant can you give me the newest readings from the ship?' He asked

'I'm sorry I cannot disclose that information to civilians.'

Mike sighed. If the lieutenant knew who he was then he'd be more co-operative, a lot more.

He stood up and walked slowly towards the spaceport. He'd been given a leave of absence to try and find his sister, Syal.

Syal had married, the once Baron, Robert 'Soontir' Fel.

Now with Fel missing Mike didn't know the fate of Syal.

* * * * *

Mike had been on Corellia for three days when an Impstar Deuce had appeared and entered orbit. His first call of action was to scramble the Lusanka, the SSD he commanded.

The Star Destroyer in orbit had been emitting strange readings for days now and no one knew what they were.

It seemed to Mike that the whole stand-off could be resolved peacefully when turbolasers started to rain down on Corellia.

He ran towards the spaceport as fast as he could shouting at people to get under cover.

It would be a week until the Lusanka got here. Corellia was doomed. He needed to take control of the situation.

He had to blow his cover and take command.

He knew he was the highest ranked New Republic Officer on Corellia.

* * * * *

Mike burst into the Military headquarters in Coronet City. Everyone stood and stared at him. Suddenly a Colonel asked 'How did that civilian get in here?'

He realised he was still wearing Kuati clothes, 'I'm General Antilles and I'm here to take command of this situation!' he replied, showing his rank insignia.

'General, I'm sorry I didn't recognise you.'

'Forget it'

'Sir' a lieutenant by the comm system said 'we have and incoming transmission from the Star Destroyer.'

'Put it through.'

'Yes sir.'

A hologram appeared of Robert Fel. 'Ah, he said I see General Antilles is already here.'

'What do you want Fel?'

'I want you Antilles.'

'Why?'

'Simple, I want vengeance for the capture of my wife.'

'What?'

'Your New Republic captured a handful of Imperial loyalists. Syal was in disguise among them and got captured.

NRI didn't believe her story about being my wife and your sister!'

'Why do you want me?'

'So I can trade you for her.'

'I'll think about it.'

'General' the lieutenant said 'the bombardment has increased in magnitude'

'Fine you've got me Fel. I'll be up in a shuttle in half an hour.'

'I'll see you then.'

* * * * *

Mike went back to his apartment and tried to get hold of Iella.

He couldn't so he left a message for her. He then got a shuttle and took it up to the Star Destroyer,

where he was taken to the bridge and thrown in front of Fel.

'You won't get away with this' He spat.

'I think you'll find I already have.' Fel replied.

* * * * *

The second the Lusanka reverted to realspace Major Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian knew something was up by the lack of an Impstar Deuce.

'Contact the planet' He said 'ask them where the Star Destroyer went. Oh I also want to speak to General Antilles.'

'Sir there is no record of General Antilles ever being on Corellia'

'Captain' he reminded Afyon the Captain of the Lusanka 'You will follow my orders even if you do not understand them. General Antilles was the person who sent for the Lusanka if you must know.'

'Yes sir' He replied. 'Sir, Colonel Quenos on Corellia tells me that Robert Fel started to bombard the planet and would have destroyed it had General Antilles not gone with him.'

'Thank you Captain, secure a hypercomm channel to Stargate Command, Earth. Put it through to my quarters.'

'Yes sir'

Hobbie sat down at the terminal and switched it on. Neith appeared on the screen.

'Hello Hobbie, what can I do for you?'

'Neith, oh damn what's his SGC rank again.. oh yeah, 1st Lieutenant Antilles has been captured by Robert Fel.'

'Oh that's pretty bad news Hobbie. Why are you telling me this?'

'To let you know his leave will be temporarily extended.'

'Thank you for telling me. I'll be sure to pass the news on to Base Commander Rogue.'

'Neith one more thing. I know this is an SSD but they aren't that strong. We might need the Ashleigh. Could you get Rogue to send it out here?'

'I'll see what I can do. Neith out.'

Mike probably couldn't thing of anything worse, actually he could think of half a dozen things but they were unlikely to happen, being held in the detention area of an ISD II was probably the low point of his life. Two guards were always posted outside the door and both of them came in to check on him. Now and again. All of his personal belongings had been taken from him, but as he dug around in his pocket he remembered his spare comlink hidden in the lining of his jacket. He ripped the lining and fished it out. He also remember something he'd been taught about how to get a basic comlink to explode. He couldn't remember it now but it would come to him. At least he had time.

* * * * *

Robert Fel strode onto the bridge of the Abominator his ISD II and looked at the tactical display. It showed 3 ISDs and 1 ISD II as well as numerous Carrak light-cruisers. That annoying ship the Lusanka would be destroyed in his trap, as he saw the pride of his fleet the Interdictor cruiser Pincer out of hyperspace. Yes it felt good to be in control.

'Sir we have a Mon Cal cruiser reverting to realspace 50 klicks from our position. It doesn't match any of the Mon Cals in our library.'

'Don't worry lieutenant, that's the Ashleigh the Mon Cal cruiser assigned to Earth. Only a handful of people know about it.'

'Sir we have an incoming transmission.'

Put it on the screen.'

'Yes sir.'

BC Rogue appeared on the screen 'To whom do I have the pleasure of addressing?' He asked.

'This is Major Klivian acting Commander of the SSD Lusanka. It's an honour to have you here, sir.'

'Good, now what's the latest news on the whereabouts of Wedge?'

'We just received a set of co-ordinates, I think we should try there first.'

'Certainly Major. Transmit the co-ords and we'll be on our way.'

'Yes sir.'

Baron Robert Fel watched as the Lusanka came of hyperspace, followed closely by an unknown Mon Calamari cruiser and then and Interdictor cruiser. Uh Oh he thought, we are in trouble.

'Captain prepare all ships for battle. Tell the Pincer to power up it's grav-jectors.'

'Yes sir.'

'We're in for a slugging match.'

'Sir incoming comm from the Mon Cal. He says he's Base Commander Rogue and he's come to pick up his team member.'

'Switch on all jamming systems.'

'Yes sir.'

The two man guard outside cell 34P XC5 heard a slight noise behind them. They both turned at once just in time to see the wall explode infront of them. Mike Antilles climbed out and picked up one of the dead men's blaster carbine and ran to the end of the corridor triggering a burst of blaster fire.

Rogue settled down into the command chair on the Ashleigh.

'Acid, get the Rogues and Novas out there. Tell them to shoot down missiles and then fighters.'

'Sir, Tycho acknowledges but asks you to reconsider.'

'He's to shoot down any missiles while attacking fighters then.'

'Yes sir.'

Rogue sat back. 'Captain, you have the bridge.' He stood up and left the bridge. Suddenly Neith burst into the bridge.

'Acid arm the self destruct!'

'Are you crazy?'

'Just do it. That ISD II has special sensors that can detect a ship about to self destruct so they don't waste turbolasers. We can get all the ships to leave us alone. I knew I'd seen that ship somewhere before.'

'Alright I'll do it but I'm gonna stop it 20 seconds before it completes.'

'That's fine. I need you to get real close to pick up an assault gunboat that will be escaping from the ISD II as well.'

'Okay. Course set.'

Mike Antilles piloted the gunboat straight into the main hanger bay, right after the Interdictor Pincer exploded.

'Neith, I'm aboard.' He said into the comm system.

He lowered the ramp and walked down it into the arms of his sister.

'Syal, oh good you're okay.'

'Hi Mike good to see you're okay too.'

'Lieutenant Antilles, good to see you again.'

'Hi Rogue, It's good to see you too. Permission to come aboard.'

'Granted.'

'Thank you for picking up my sister.'

'That's okay.'

Ten days later on Corellia, Mike was saying goodbye to Syal when a strange figure appeared holding a blaster. It was Fel.

'Antilles you're mine.' He shouted as he shot at Mike, who dived out the way to see Syal come down the ramp of the shuttle and take the full strength of the blast in her neck.

She screamed or at least as much of a scream as she could with no vocal box and fell down, obviously dead.

'You creep Fel. I'll hunt you down to the ends of the galaxy and kill you if it's the last thing I do.'

'Just try Antilles.' He jumped in a speeder and rode off with a howl of pain.

'I swear I'll get you.'