Part 11

A flurry of activity occurred once Dagur and Camicazi had been 'disposed of'. Once Hiccup had relayed his plan to Scorpio she set her droids to work at retrieving the necessary equipment. Generating the calculations and blueprints for the devices Hiccup was proposing took merely a few hours with the help of an highly advanced AI and a small army of droids. Astrid and the others looked on in amazement as the maintenance droids worked with precision, assembling the required pieces.

"Just what is Hiccup building?" Astrid asked Fishlegs who looked quite pale. He was biting his nails and looking nervously at the device. Astrid poked Fishlegs in his side when she noticed that he hadn't even heard her.

"GAAAH!" Fishlegs screamed and jumped a few inches in the air attracting the attentions of several droids that were passing by.

"Astrid please don't do that. I'm nervous enough."

"What's there to be nervous about? I mean what could possibly go wrong?" Astrid now asked. The look Fishlegs and Heather shot her spoke volumes.

"Well..... He could blow up the planet, this system, or rip up the very fabric of space and time." Fishlegs summed up. Astrid's eyes along with Eret's and Snotlout's widened comically.

"You have to be joking!" She mumbled while the twins oohed and aahed.

"Not when Hiccup's making a Quantum deflector." Fishlegs explained. "His previous prototype nearly did some serious damage to the realm the Celestials were living in."

"That was because I forgot to factor in the variables of a new dimension Fish." Hiccup stated from where he had his nose buried in some schematics on various datapads.

"What's a Quantum deflector?" Snotlout now asked while scratching the side of his head in confusion. "It sounds like something edible."

"Well quantum means a discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents." Tuffnut explained. He was met with astonished looks. "Hey..... I can know stuff!"

"I did not understand a word that you just uttered." Snotlout grumbled.

"Basically Snotlout once this device has been hooked up to the ship it will be supercharged." Hiccup explained.

"Does this thing have enough firepower to blast through several armies of Gemini droids?" Astrid asked as she had see the schematics for those droids after Hiccup had started planning. She had to admit that the Iokathians had been masterful when designing them.

"It's not firepower I've been focussing on. The Ion cannon has enough power to incapacitate them while we slip past. The problem is the drain the cannon has on our deflector shields. Once the quantum deflector is added to the ship's systems it won't be a problem anymore." Hiccup explained. "The device will give our current deflector shields a major upgrade. It will enhance the shield strength and lower the drain significantly. It also has a healing function."

"A what now?" Eret asked.

"A healing function." Hiccup repeated and then thought on how to explain it. "If we're hit with an energy weapons then the shields will absorb it and convert it into energy which can be diverted to either the weapons system or the shield itself. The engines will only need a small upgrade to handle the additional energy conversion once this is installed."

The group was watching Hiccup with wide eyes for a moment before Ruffnut spoke up. "So basically our opponents will be charging our shields?" She asked and Hiccup nodded. "You sir are a genius! I could just kiss you!"

"OYE! He's mine!" Astrid suddenly shouted and then clamped a hand over her mouth as the twins started laughing while Hiccup's cheeks pinked.

"So does that mean we can finally go kick some behind?" Snotlout asked.

"Yes Snotlout, we can go kick some behind now." Hiccup laughed.

It did not take Scorpio long to install the device on the cruiser as Hiccup modified the engines. They were ready to fly in less than twenty minutes. "I had these made for you." Scorpio said while handing them three cube-like devices. "They are EMP grenades that have the capacity to render Aries inoperable for a brief amount of time so that he cannot upload a part of his consciousness again. Also your ship is connected to my network and I will be able to guide you to the Genesis device. I hope this plan works. I do not wish to see the images of war anymore nor see the freewill of my droids taken away."

They thanked Scorpio before heading into the ship. Hiccup started the startup sequence once everyone was strapped in. The steady hum of the engines could be heard as the cruiser floated up and Astrid retracted the landing gear. "Activating the quantum deflector now." Hiccup announced as he observed something on the console.

"So how do we know if it's working?" Throk asked from where he had strapped Mala in securely. She was still a bit groggy but seemed to have woken up earlier.

"Well we haven't blown up yet. That's a good sign." Hiccup mumbled. "The engines seem to be able to take the extra energy from the new deflector just fine."

"I have the map that Scorpio provided on the nav computer now." Astrid stated. "Everybody hold on. This will be one hell of a test drive!"

The sleek silver ship shot off at great speed between the large buildings. They were steadily getting closer to their destination when a communique came in. Scorpio's voice could be heard as she warned them "Aries has taken notice of your presence. The plasma cannons around the planetary exhaust vents have just been armed. There are also regiments of droids now on high alert within. Be prepared for heavy fire."

"Chicken isn't afraid!" Tuffnut suddenly declared as the bogwing poked its head out from the bag it was in.

"Chicken?!" Heather asked as she looked curiously at Tuffnut's pet before looking at Tuffnut himself. "What was it doing the entire time?"

"Sleeping" Tuffnut told her. "My darling needs her beauty sleep." The ship suddenly lurched to the right as Astrid dodged a red plasma beam.

"Here we go guys!" Astrid told them as the plasma cannons came into view. She pushed the trigger button for the iona cannon. Purple energy sizzled along the ship before hitting one of the ground cannons, disabling it. "Our shields are holding!" Astrid declared. She was about to dodge an oncoming blast when Hiccup stopped her. "Let it hit he told her."

"Hiccup what!" Astrid asked but she was too late to dodge the blast now. The plasma blast hit their deflector shield and Astrid's eyes widened as she saw the ion cannon rapidly charge. "Shield strength back at maximum." Ruffnut announced as well.

"Now this is what I'm talking about!" Astrid exclaimed as she unleashed another ion blast, hitting another cannon, before looping around and letting the process repeat.

"Oh crap" Heather mumbled as she watched the cannons get obliterated by Astrid. "Astrid is trigger happy." Snotlout shuddered and she heard him mumble something about rather facing a Sarlacc with a butterknife than a trigger happy Astrid.

Astrid pulled the cruiser up and then into a nosedive once the plasma cannons had been dealt with. She wasted no time in navigating through the gigantic exhaust vent. There was indeed an overwhelming number of droids awaiting them. Their blasters trained on the oncoming ship. The sleek ship did not have that much room for maneuverability, which normally would have been their downfall. The droids opened fire just as Astrid shot off another ion blast. The blaster fire bounced off the shields while the ion blast struck true and rendered the Gemini droids inoperable.

"I am loving these new shields!" Astrid exclaimed happily as the ship's ion cannon was almost done re-charging. "Remind me to show you just how much later." She told Hiccup with a wink. Hiccup sputtered and then his cheeks promptly turned red at her implication.

Heather snorted momentarily as she overheard that and then said "We're coming up on the location of the Genesis device."

"What did he do to my beautiful ship!" Windshear mentally exclaimed upon seeing it. Gone was the sleek white egg-shaped hull. Instead the entire ship looked to have been taken apart. Dark metal tubes were now connected to the machinery inside the ship.

"He must be using those to siphon off all the power from the city." Throk mumbled.

"Yeah, but where is he siphoning it into?" Fishlegs asked.

"There is only one way to find out." Hiccup stated as he got up as Throk took over as co-pilot. "Astrid can you keep the droids distracted?"

"Can do Hiccup." Astrid winked.

"Eret, Snotlout, I need you two to carry the twins over to that ship while we follow." Hiccup told them as the two Mandalorians were already donning their jetpacks.

"How are you guys going to get over to that ship anyways?" Snotlout asked confused. Eret shooed Ruffnut, who was blowing him kisses, to Snotlout while he gave Tuffnut a lift.

"We'll fly of course." Heather responded. She stood by the controls for the ramp at the back. "Everyone ready?" Eret and Snotlout nodded as they had a firm hold over the twins who held their blasters out.

"I'm getting you guys as close as I can." Astrid told them over their coms as Heather opened the ship's back ramp. Violent gusts of wind assaulted them. They could see the Celestial ship below them as Astrid kept their cruiser steady.

"These winds are too violent!" Eret spoke up as he covered his eyes. "Our jetpacks won't be able to handle these conditions."

"Don't worry!" Heather shouted over the loud whooshing of the wind. She steadily made her way to the middle of the ramp. Fishlegs and Hiccup could feel the Force leaping around her like a silk curtain. They wisely took a step back, Eret and Snotlout copied them and watched in amazement as Heather outstretched her hand and subsequently the Force, making a tunnel for them. It almost seemed like she cut the wind itself.

"How, who, what???!" Eret sputtered. Heather merely gave them a smirk.

"Let's go." Heather stated as she leapt from the ramp and floated down to the Celestial ship without incident.

AN: Hello everyone. How are you liking it so far? It looks like this trilogy will be ending in the next chapter. (TT_TT) I will miss writing it too. 

Oh, but wait, something new is coming!  A spin-off series called HTTYD-Star wars: Eclipse. It will detail the adventures that Hiccup's clone will face after chapter 8 of this story. I hope you will join me in the weird, wacky, and action-filled adventures I have planned for this character.