The Aftermath

Dedicated To Karen Traviss, my favorite Star Wars author!

Prologue

The sand was harsh against our helmets. Red bolts of hot energy burnt through the sandstorm, like a beacon in the darkness. And this was our moment, Zeta squad was going to survive and thrive. Behind my back I heard my sergeant yell,

"Take cover, left flank, watch your 12 Junker!"

That was my name, Junker. They called me that on Kamino because I would always tinker with the junk that was thrown away, heck, I built a rifle from the junk. I heard my sergeant yell again,

"Another wave of sand inbound! Take shelter in the Bug hole!"

I was so hyped on Adrenal I didn't even say anything, I ran inside the abandoned hut and jumped down the hole. The landing was rough, it turned out to be stairs. I looked around, I only saw my sarg., and the rest of my squad thanks to the T-slit visors.

"Form up," said the sarg. "Stay together, I don't like it."

We were supposed to converge with RC-1136's squad and take down the droid factory.

"Junker, see if you can get Omega on the line?" Said the sarg.

"On it," I replied "You all move on ahead, I'll catch up."

And so they did, I opened up our comm channel to omega and all I heard was.

"This is RC-1136, Commando down! I repeat commando down," I heard the commando yell "I'm pulling out! Vin!? Tay!? Jay!? RESPOND!"

I tried to yell back, "Darman, this is Junker respond!"

I heard a scream down the arched hallway and yelled out,

"Sarg!"

It was the last thing I said as a Geonosian staff hit me in the back of the head, then, blackness.