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Star Wars: Republic Commando Zero Hour
Chapter 1: Blood
A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Away…
"Move, move," I yelled, droids pushing us out the door.
All four of us raced for the near brush, vaulting over dead limbs and branches as we did so. My back hit hard against the tree as I fell down into place, and I saw Fi leap over me and do likewise against the other side. Darman was on my right, nestled against the ground, and Atin was peering up over the hedge line.
I held a finger to my helmet, signaling for quiet, and stole a peak myself.
I heard the distant sounds of brush scraping together, and then I saw a dark brown robe flow into view. I immediately swung my head back down to keep from being seen, and saw the rest of the squad around me do the same.
I nodded my heads once, indicating to get into attack position. Despite all the reassurance we had about being able to talk freely between our helmet comlinks, I didn't dare breathe a word. My hands were grasped tightly around my gun, the knuckles white, and slowly I began to shift my weight sideways so that I would be turned towards this robed figure.
As soon as my gun came near it's target, I heard the all-too-familiar hiss-crackle of a lightsaber igniting. And that could only mean one thing.
A Jedi.
My reflexes taking over, I jumped up to cover my squad from my crouched position, my hand just about to squeeze the trigger of my gun. But the Jedi apparently noticed me, or sensed me, before I could fire, and she swept her hand up as if signaling me to stop.
My feet suddenly left the ground as I flew backwards, and my rifle hand flew to the side. Less then a second later, my back hit the tree with a loud clang of metal against wood. The breath would have been knocked out of me had I not been wearing my armor, and only my fine-tuned reflexes kept my gun hand coming back up after it had lashed against the side of the tree.
A second later, as the sights of my gun lined up with the grey-skined Jedi, I opened fire. The blue bolts of my gun shot out toward the Jedi at a ferocious speed, and for a second I thought that they would hit. But then the Jedi's crimson lightsaber blade slashed in front of the bolts, and the blue plasma ricocheted off into the night.
I called orders to my team via comlink, "circle around. We'll flank her." There was a great deal of shuffling from the bushes. I kept her occupied while my comrades headed behind her. Then, beams of bright blue light shot from bushes and trees on all sides.
She took a few hits and she went down, her red blade extinguished. Clank, Clank, Clank. Heavy footsteps from inside the cave entrance echoed out towards us. Super battle droids, I thought, better take cover, and quick, as I dove under a bush. CLANK, CLANK, CLANK! I thought on my feet and pressed the detonation switch on my remote detonator, and the base tore open leaving nothing but shrapnel and rock in its place. We radioed in mission success to the Accuser our support ship. We walked at the pace of a snail over to the EP. We were exhausted, so we sat down and took our helmets off.
Darman held out a water bottle to me. He had an almost blank expression on his face, as always so serious. I took it warmly and not bothering to bring it to my lips; I poured it into my mouth. I passed it to my never exactly exhausted mate, Fi. He quickly drank it down in one gulp, in the same fashion I had. I took another bottle and handed it to Atin. He took it and drank. He kind of tried not to get in the way and, at the same time tried to help. He had a weird way of doing things that made him seem worried. A glint in the sky and a distant purr of an engine made us look up.
A gunship landed near us. "We're getting off this beast ridden rock!" I exclaimed. We hopped in and in a few minutes we were off. Once on our ship we were hurried into the briefing room to be reassigned.
"Incoming call for omega squad" said the voice. A holo of our fleet admiral appeared in the room.
"Omega squad your next mission is to Polus, an area covered entirely of industrial ash, it has made its own climate of frozen wastes, and snowy cities. The CIS have made a stronghold there. You must destroy the enemy's critical systems in order for us to eliminate the threat. The droids have built a massive canon which would knock us out of orbit. You need to take it out before we come into orbit. Once you take them out we will start our assault on the base. Good luck, you'll need it."
We were again rushed out into the hangar. We then saw a dark shadowy glob obviously Polus.
"Hey, that looks like that gum I was saving for later under my bed!" Fi joked. We laughed and headed for the gunship docked in the hangar.
We jumped in and were off into the blackness. We saw why every one was in such a hurry. A missile designed to destroy entire planets was docked there. We landed on a mesa with an opening into the droid headquarters. I jumped off and ran to the door blew it open with a few rounds and entered the base. We moved down a wide hall and into a room named appropiatly "shields".
We went in there were no guards so I walked up placed the detonator and left then we went into another room named "anti-air guns". And again no guards. The whole place was deserted.
I placed the second detonator in there then we left with no opposition. We ran down another hall and it opened to another room. Guess what this one had but the others didn't. Droids, lots of droids. We hid unnoticed.
They were standing there watching a huge screen which said, "twenty minutes till the destruction of Kamino." We ran back down the hall and found the last room which said "anti-infantry".
We ran inside, put the detonator and ran out. Apparently one of the wets had to use the potty and saw us so he yelled to his comrades to come after us.
Our enemies surrounded us giving us no opportunity for escape. I fired off a few rounds to no avail. Dropping my gun, I ran towards the enemy commander, jumped, and…