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Then he looked on in shock as some of the locals began to fire back against the troopers. The locals however didn't have blaster weapons they had slug shooters like the guns back on Earth. Most of the bullets bounced off the attacker's armor or shields, but one man went down at a lucky shot through the faceplate.
"They've got weapons!" said the man who with the splattered facemask from where he had stepped back behind his men. Now he moved forward to join the line raising his riot shield. "Lethal Force is authorized!"
Harry had no time to wonder if this was something the group had come expecting or hoping for, or if the man had simply panicked. The end result would've been the same, a lot of dead people, and Harry wasn't about to stand for that. Reaching forward with the Force, Harry tried to push the crowd backwards away from the advancing troopers as their weapons began to fire in lethal earnest.
He tried to pull several of their weapons out of their hands, the fire going above the crowd rather than into it, but he couldn't see through the crowd all around him to concentrate on the weapons. "Get down!" he shouted, "All of you get down! I am a Jedi! Get down, and let me handle this!"
That was the first time Harry had actually called himself a Jedi in public, but he at least looked the part of a padawan, with his padawan braid, the only neat thing about his hair, and his clothing which was simple and workmanlike, complete with robe. Even so, despite amplifying his voice via the Force the crowd was in no mind to pay any attention, firing back at the police as they advanced and the crowd, killing several of the crowd now.
Abruptly Harry realized that the group of foreigners he had been talking to earlier was now near the front of the crowd facing the troopers with weapons trained on them. One of the foreigners had raised a communicator to her lips and was screaming into it frantically, while the young girl had taken up a gun and was actually firing back with a holdout blaster at the oncoming police with much more accuracy than the locals could.
That wouldn't have saved her though since she had no place to hide as the rest of the crowd retreated around them or tried to hide under stall and behind crates of food. The blaster bolts came on quickly, and Harry gritted his teeth, muttering an apology to his mum and Master Fay before he reached forward once again with Force.
A protective shield of pure Force power suddenly encompassed the entire front of the crowd, protecting first and then growing away from the girl and out towards the edges, catching all of the blaster bolts as they came. The police continued to hammer at the shield, but Harry kept it up, scowling angrily at them not even feeling the strain now he had so much practice with this technique. "I am Jedi padawan Harry Potter! Lower your weapons! This is an unlawful and unjust attack on your own citizens, lower your weapons, now!"
When they didn't, Harry, now able to see them all as the crowd around him had finally dropped to their knees gestured violently with one hand. His power lashed out, pulling their weapons, shock sticks, blasters cannons, and shield out of their hands with a single wrench of the Force. He held the weapons in the air far above their heads glaring at the troopers while he let the protective shield between the troopers and the crowd fall.
He turned to one of the locals, a big tough looking man who quickly got to his feet grinning at the youngster who had saved them all. "Take these men into custody Sir, I am, what is the term, breveting you to constable? Something like that."
"That'll do lad," the man said still smiling as he moved forward. A few of the police tried to put up a fight, but they were outnumbered heavily by the locals, and by the time reinforcements arrived, the entire market had been barricaded around the edges, and all of the troops tied up.
Harry moved out of the entrance to the market, staring at the police who had arrived along with what looked like a small tank of some kind. "Master Fay is not going to like this…"
Master Fay arrived on the scene a few moments later along with the Baron and Baroness and the local opposition leaders. Hearing what had happened both firsthand and from a lot of sources, the Baron and Baroness were forced by Master Fay to stand that their troops down ordering them back to their barracks.
"Needless to say Fay, this does not look good to me." said Fay staring at both rulers in turn. "You had promised me that your crackdown of the opposition would not escalate again into violence, yet you cannot control your own people? Or it are those orders are so ingrained that they have become blasé now? Regardless, this has gone on far enough. We will solve this issue today, this very hour."
"It is worse than that," said one of the foreigners who Harry had been talking to, while Harry manfully tried to ignore his mother, who was ruffling his hair affectionately shaking her head and saying something about Potter luck.
Master Fay of course heard Lily's voice and made a note of it. While disdaining the term luck in general, the Force might well guide Harry far more subtly than Fay's own abilities could match. Still she turned to the foreign woman looking at her quizzically. "May I ask your name?"
The woman scowled at her, looking between her and the boy who had saved them all, her scowl somewhat softening. Despite his heroism however, the boy was still a Jedi, and dislike of them was handed down almost as much is the isolationist views of the Hapes Cluster itself.
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