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That one leads to in a giant elevator, given what I know of Hutt physiology I suppose that is the entrance the slug with pretensions of grandeur uses to get around. Those two lead to deeper into the palace." Lily reported.
"Aayla is in that direction," Harry said pointing down slightly to the right on a diagonal from his current position while Dooku dealt with the last few defenders in the hanger bay. "She's freed a few slaves, but most of them are either too drugged or too docile to be of help and now she's just holding the corridor leading into the slave pens. It apparently shared a security post with the prison cells. In Aayla's words a prisoner was just a slave in the making."
Harry scowled angrily, spitting to one side and Dooku grabbed his shoulder, shaking him lightly. "Calm yourself padawan, remember anger leads to the Dark Side. Righteous anger as you are feeling is well and good, but it can be a door to less controllable forms of anger."
"Yes Master Dooku," Harry replied, calming down slightly.
"Good," Dooku said clapping a hand on the young man's shoulder and smiling down at him approvingly. If his first padawan had seen that look, he might well have keeled over in shock, but that was neither here nor there. "Now come."
"We should probably cut those people coming down from the turrets off so they can't attack us from the rear," Master Fay said, breathing in deeply. Moving the ships like that on top of her earlier exertions had tired her out for a moment. Reaching forward with her own Force powers perceptions, Fay felt several dozen minds everywhere, some of them racing down corridors to them.
"Harry!" she said crisply, pointing at the several of the corridors he Lily had explained. "Block those up."
Dooku watched interestedly as Harry nodded. Instead of using the debris and moving it all into place however he simply conjured up several large blocks of stone filling the corridors with them. "Why didn't you do use the debris?" Dooku asked, his eyes narrowed. Material creation, astonishing and yet another sign that Yoda was right to allow Harry and Lily their head as he did.
"It's all interconnected Master and fouled up with one another master. It was simply easier to conjure them up like that."
"For you perhaps," Dooku said with a faint tick of his lips, amused at the boy's powers. The fact that he had already begun to experiment himself with them and looked forward to learning further had something to do with his amusement of course. "For now let us move. Even with your powers we can't afford to be bogged down Padawan."
Harry inclined his head in acknowledgement then moved forward with Master Dooku with Fay bringing up the rear.
As they moved down from the hanger bay the Jedi ran into several security stations, each with a few guards and automated defenses. Jabba might have thought himself secure out here but he was also a paranoid slug. And he had a small army of toughs on call. The only things that allowed the attackers any advantage was the way they were attacking, the fact Jabba's troops couldn't surround them, and their Force powers.
As they went Fay would reach out, using her unique abilities to shut down the minds of anyone trying to circle around them from the various side corridors or soothing the minds of the various slaves, telling them to be calm or ready to leave, the whispers of her words seeming to come from their own minds. After all, while this might be a rescue operation for one particular Twi'lek girl, there was no reason why they couldn't save all the other slaves here. This, Harry and Dooku's ability allowed them to make progress regardless of what the defenders tried to do to stop them. In particular the lesson to never use grenades against Jedi was proven time and time again.
Eventually the Jedi worked their way downwards into the main hall where they found several hundred people waiting for them behind hastily erected defenses. There was a moment of stillness as the three Jedi stepped from the corridor out into the open of the which ended as Jabba shouted in Huttese from his position at the back of the hall on his grav sled. A droid stood nearby translating his exhortations to his troops. "Get them, kill them, a million credits to whoever kills a Jedi! You will pay for this effrontery Jedi!"
Using a bit of Force power on his board to project his voice over the sounds of battle Dooku let his and Harry's shields take the flurry of blaster bolts as he shouted. "Jabba the Hutt! Have your people stand down, or they and you will die! We are here to retrieve our fellow Jedi. Submit and you will live!"
Master Fay shook her head at the wording, but Master Dooku caught her motion. "Jabba won't back down whatever I say. He can't, given this attack on his place of power and retain face in front of his minions. But we can use this moment as a bit of a teaching tool for any survivors. They attacked Aayla and Quinlan the moment they realized they were Jedi. I mean to point out the fact that attacking Jedi whatever the reason is a very bad idea."
"Never! Invaders to my home, you will all die here!" Jabba said in his own language, and he once again exhorted his people to press their attack.
Dooku sighed, moving out into the corridor from the hall, his lightsabers up and protecting him as Harry powered his own lightsaber down, and began to conjure up fantastical beasts and creatures, sending them forward to do battle with the horde. He also began to use illusions, after all his opponents weren't Jedi or all immune to such things now.
Despite his bluster Jabba was already retreating as the Jedi moved out of the corridor into the hall, his people retreating too. The reason for this was apparent as a massive doorway across the hall from their entrance way opened, and a giant Rancor roared out, heading towards the first targets he saw, which happened to be the Jedi.
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