Three years after order 66 tatooine
The galaxy Cody lived in was much different than the one he had fought for . It was enslaved by the empire. Cody had helped build this and he was not happy to have taken part in it . which was why after he executed Kenobi he chose to quit. He now lived a quiet life as a farmer on tatooine where no one disturbed him. Many other clones had stayed or become bounty hunters however Cody was done with that life and didn't want any part in wars from now on. He sat on the porch of his hut in the hot sun taking a drink of water. He'd have to go into town to gather supplies he'd run low on. Cody got up and entered his speeder then drove off to town like he did every other day. Upon his arrival he noticed their was much stronger imperial presence on the planet then there was a week ago. He stopped at the shop he usually stopped at and went over to the clerk.
"What's going on?" Asked Cody.
"No clue empire just showed up out of the blue." Said the clerk. "Something's up those are imperial marines." Said Cody looking at them.
After he finished saying what he did the sound of an E-11 blaster firing off echoed throughout the town as some one was shot.
"Maybe they've just decided to bring law to our lawless planet." Said the clerk.
"Maybe but that doesn't take marines a few regular storms but not marines." Said Cody.
"If you're so curious why don't you ask them you use to be one." Said the clerk.
"What I did was different." Said Cody.
"Still you should have a connection with them right." Said the clerk.
"Have you ever tried to talk with these guys." Said Cody watching them beat someone. "Their tools."
Cody arrived back at his farm on his speeder with his supplies all bought. Immediately he felt suspicious someone had recently been here on his field. He could tell since a few of his crops were crushed definitely by a foot an armored foot. Cody grabbed his blaster pistol as he moved threw his farm looking for the intruder. He then saw the door to his house wide open. Entering it could be suicide the intruder waiting to kill him however it was probably a robber so he could catch him by surprise and shoot him. Cody entered the house took a moment to listen there was no footsteps but heard eating. It was coming from the kitchen perhaps it was a straggler who wandered in here hungry. But this was tatooine Cody remained on guard as he made his way to the kitchen. He entered and saw commander Bly in armor helmet on the table as he ate Cody's food.
"That explains a lot." Said Cody pistol still aimed.
"Explains what?" Asked Bly.
"Imperial presence." Said Cody.
"Could be the crime problem." Said Bly.
"Bly if that were true then they wouldn't have sent marines now you have exactly two minutes to explain why the empires after you and why you're in my house." Said Cody. Bly was silent for a moment not expecting hostility.
"So I planned to join up with insurgent group after my planet's population was well effaced so they sent some men to meet me here on tatooine when we were intercepted by imperial scout commandos. Long story short everyone died but me. So I ran all night looking for a place to hide when I stumbled upon your farm recognizing seeing the republic flag hanging along with the number two one two." Said Bly.
"Bly out of all places here." Said Cody.
"I apologize and understand if you're going to turn me in." Said Bly.
"Not gonna turn you in since we're both clones we're brothers we look out for one another." Said Cody. "There's a compartment in my barn you can hide their for awhile."
"I'm grateful Cody I owe you." Said Bly.
"Just remember that when we're standing trial for treason." Said Cody.
Tatooine Mos Eisley
His was known as the Ultimate and he lead a crew of mandalorian mercenaries. He had arrived here on this planet for a job his crew had been hired to find a rogue clone trooper. Ultimate walked along with his three leaders that lead his crew. Cassus who stood to his right was not only his most loyal man but his closest friend . Destroyer was a female who was a fierce warrior and had a way to rally the men. Then their was Militus he was a mandalorian mercenary who once worked with Jaster Mareel before he was drawn into a conflict with trandoshans after a family member was taken. The rest of the crew was back at the ship preparing for whatever might happen. The entered the local tavern where people were all around. The sight of four armored and armed mandalorians entering made everyone worried. Especially seeing Ultimate in his big intimidating armor which had a cape. They took seats at the bar and quickly ordered a few drinks the bartender quickly brought to them.
"It's not every day you see mandalorians enter." Said the bartender.
"I was under the impression Boba Fett lived here." Said Ultimate taking off his helmet to drink.
"Yeah but he's a bounty hunter you men look like you're here to take over." Said the Tender.
"You can relax that's not why we're here." Said Ultimate. "No the reason we're here is cause we were hired to find a rogue clone."
"Empire hire you cause they got marines all over the place." Said the Tender.
"Do you happen to know where they're looking mostly?" Asked Ultimate.
"There's a town north of here that's where they seem to be going mostly plus their checking farms across the desert." Said the Tender.
"Well let's gather the crew." Said Ultimate. "Head north on the speeders but inform them to expect imperial resistance."
The mandalorians returned to their large gunship which they called the crusader. They entered it's hall inside the rest of the crew was loading weapons and preparing land speeders.
"Maximus!" Ultimate yelled the mandalorian super commando.
"What!" He yelled back.
"Status." Said Ultimate finding the man .
"Well our employer informed the clone's in some farm." Said Maximus.
"We know he's up north so we skip the town and look threw the farms." Said Ultimate.
"Ultimate." Said Shea vizsla to the crew's leader who turned to her.
"What." He said.
"It should be noted there's another clone who owns farm that isn't the clone we're looking for." Said Shea.
"But maybe he went there you know how clones like to stick together they consider each other brothers." Said Ultimate. With that the crew of mandalorians got on land speeder's some on bikes and speeded off going north of Mos Eisley.
It was night it was silent and dark yet this night was a very dark night. Storm commandos in their black scout armor saw a village were they thought Bly was hiding and descended on it with flame throwers. It only took the press of a trigger and then fire sprayed from the devilish device and the village began to catch fire. Houses were burned to ashes people were burnt alive as they tried to run. Much smoke and fire rose into the air as the dark scouts continued their work. There was much screaming in terror as it happened. When they were finished burning the town the simply put their weapons away on their back and got on speeder bikes and sped off as if nothing had just happened. They had orders to carry out that were to prevent this rogue clone from leaving the planet. Meanwhile another group of commandos stopped at a farm house and quickly kicked down its doors and searched it looking everywhere they could possibly look. The family was up against the wall as they were questioned relentlessly by another commando. The commandos were different from their normal stormtrooper counterparts. They weren't tools they could think for themselves. They could be reasoned with or more ruthless depending. But either way they were still loyal to the empire nothing would ever shake that. The commandos concluded nothing was there and moved on leaving the house ransacked. Back in the night sky an imperial bomber flew seeing a different farm it quickly swooped in and bombed it as the imperials began to get more desperate. They had heard how a crew of mandalorians had arrived and wanted to find Bly before they did careless about what they had to do.
Cody awoke to the sound of a bomb he sprang out of his bed and grabbed his rifle. It was the one he had used during the clone wars and now he was worried he'd be using it on the empire. However if they left him no choice he would do it. He ran outside and he saw his neighbor's house in flames. Was he a rebel no Cody realized what was going on the empire was getting desperate. This was his fault if he turned Bly in civilians would be spared however the fact he turned in Bly would be on his conscious for ever. Yet if he didn't who knows what this would span into. He stood outside for only a few seconds and then imperial storm commandos in their black scout armor saw him.
"Hold it right there clone!" Yelled one raising his e-11 blaster rifle. "Put the gun down."
Cody did as told slowly putting the rifle down he then got a good look around he saw storm commandos and navy commandos with some marines. But he was outnumbered and outgunned the storm commando walked over to him.
"I want your number." Said The storm commando.
"CC 2224." Said Cody.
"How do we know you're not really CC-5052." Said the commando as the navy commandos searched Cody's house. The other storm commandos conversed among each other. Cody heard what they were saying .
"I say we kill him and take credit for killing CC-5052." Said one.
"No that's not right we have to do our job right." Said the other.
"Come on Ranger!" Said the other using his comrades name. "He's just some clone."
"That's where you're wrong that's commander Cody." Said Ranger.
"So what?" Asked The other.
"Spex that clone liberated my village of the seps when I was a kid justice must be done not injustice just cause you want a promotion." Said Ranger.
"At least someone remembers me." Cody grumbled to himself.
"I got a communication there's something suspicious uptown finish this up right will ya." Said Ranger getting on his speeder and flying off.
"They're all the same kill him and let's go." Said Spex.
"Shit." Cody cursed to himself as the storm commandos aimed their rifles at him. However laser fire flew from the barn and struck two of the commandos dead. Bly in full armor charged out during his rifle at the commandos two already dead.
"I knew something was up." Said Spex as he ducked behind his speeder and began to fire. Bly took cover as lasers flew at him he took out a thermal detonator and threw it.
"Why Bly!" Cody yelled as he dove for his rifle right as the grenade exploded. Cody hit the ground there was ring in his ears and Spex was the only commando still alive.
"You bastards!" He yelled seeing his dead comrades.
"We ain't bastards we had a father!" Bly yelled back as he fired at Spex.
Cody fired at his house as the other stormtroopers were coming out to handle the situation. He struck a navy commando in the head and died now Cody would definitely be a fugitive now. So he kept firing at incoming enemies from his own house. Bly hit Spex in the shoulder blade he went down wounded. Bly then quickly threw a thermal detonator into Cody's house. The explosion broke out destroying a good portion of the bottom floor causing the house to collapse on itself everyone inside was killed.
"Bly did you seriously just blow up my house." Said Cody angered.
"Like you're gonna need you killed an imperial." Said Bly. "We're in the same boat now."
"I'm going to the shed tell me if they send reinforcements." Said Cody.
Bly quickly pushed Cody aside as laser pistol went off striking Bly in the shoulder plate. Cody responded quick and fired his rifle striking Spex in the head killing him.
"Shit." Said Cody seeing Bly's wounded arm.
"I'll be fine get what you need from the shed but quick." Said Bly.
Cody rushed in the shed and opened a locker and quickly looked at his clone armor and began putting it on. Bly meanwhile outside had his rifle ready and could hear speeders coming. He saw a few landspeeders coming towards him with marines loaded up. He opened fire squeezing his trigger down killing one of the pilots causing one of the speeder to spiral out of control crash and explode. However he began to fire at marines who were everywhere.
"Cody!" Bly yelled as he shot a few before leaving his position going for a different one as kept firing. Cody then charged out in his armor with its targeting system he opened fire striking several stormtroopers dead. He then activated his jetpack flying over them and shooting them from above. He shot several of them down he then landed next to one and quickly beat him over the head hard with the but of his gun. After that man fell unconscious he then shot three marines done at point blank range. The other marines were fighting Bly who quickly jumped out from cover firing and quickly shot them up . However he'd been hit in the gut several times so he trudged over to Cody who helped him in the co pilot seat of the land speeder as Cody got in the pilot's seat.
"Where to." Said Cody.
"Get use to Mos Eisley." Said Bly. "I got a communication before the imps arrived."
"Mos Eisley it is." Said Cody taking off leaving his old sanctuary.
He had the blue markings of an elite storm commander and he had his entire force in front of him.
"So last night we found Bly however the men who found Bly are all dead." Said The Commander. "Bly has an accomplice we don't know were either of them are at this point. However if the plan to leave the planet they're going to need to go to Mos Eisley of course he can't just blow up the city without pissing off the galaxy so we're going to occupy it and cut them meanwhile the sand trooper corp will be scouting the desert for them this hunt is at an end." Said The Commander. "Now move out."
"Yes sir!" Said all the troops in unity.
Bly and Cody kept driving Bly wounded with laser wounds in several areas. However he was a clone trooper he bad genetic enhancements that would make him durable. The speeder started to slow and came to a stop in the middle of a canyon.
"Shit!" Cody cursed as he slammed his foot in anger.
"What?" Asked Bly.
"Isn't obvious we're out of fuel in the middle of a canyon that tusken raiders dwell in." Said Cody in anger. "Not to mention the empire is hunting us."
"Calm down we're going to be ok unlike the republic the insurgents won't let us die out here."
"If the insurgents have the resources to even rescue us."
"Have hope."
"A cave." Said Cody. "We'll hide in a cave for the night."
Cody jumped out quickly scanning the area with his rifle he then put it away as Bly got out.
"Area looks clear." Said Cody right as he said that a slug round fired from a Tusken's rifle struck him in the abdomen. Bly got out and fired his rifle shooting the Tusken through the head. Bly then went over to Cody who had been hit.
"I'm fine my armor took most of the impact just find a cave." Said Cody.
The two clone troopers treked up the side of the canyon it was a rough climb. Both men then entered a cave with the sun still up both men looked out side before sitting down to rest. Cody quickly examined his wound it wasn't serious the armor had indeed stopped the slug round. He removed his helmet .
"What's gonna happen first the storms get us or lack of food and water." Said Cody.
"You forgot the Tusken raiders." Said Bly.
Cody looked at Bly with an odd look of confusion.
"You don't seem to mind the fact we are going to die." Said Cody.
"That's because I think we're going to live." Said Bly.
"Explain." Said Cody.
"I can't explain it's just better to believe that." Said Bly.
"Since when did you become such an optimis?" Asked Cody.
"When did you become such a peptimist?" Bly countered.
"Honestly after I confirmed Kenobi was dead and I killed him the man had never wronged me nor any or anyone really and I ordered the damn AT-TE to fire." Said Cody. "His blood on my hands mine."
"I remember Secura always kept a positive attitude even when were in the worst possible situation it kept us alive . It's one thing I got from her ." Said Bly.
"You don't feel any guilt?" Asked Cody.
"I find it's better to plan for the future rather than dwell on the past." Said Bly.
"Yeah well if your forget the past you'll forget your mistakes and we are bound to repeat them." Cody countered.
"I don't forget my past no it's like an old text you review it occasionally but keep your mind on new text." Said Bly.
"Yeah well we still need food and water." Said Cody.
"Storms will pass thru with transportation when they do we ambush them." Said Bly.
"What if thus what their plan is starve us out." Said Cody.
"We'll start walking in tomorrow." Said Bly.
"We'll die before we even get close to the city." Said Cody.
"Have some faith it's good for you." Said Bly.
"Out of all the places why my house." Cody grumbled to himself.
Ultimate and his crew arrived at what use to be Cody's farm which was a wreck the house destroyed and bodies everywhere. Cassus examined one of the bodies. This guy didn't have any blaster holes in him so he wasn't dead maybe going threw a concussion.
"Ultimate!" Maximus yelled everyone turned their attention towards Maximus. "This guy's not dead." A marine who was sitting on the ground looked at the mandalorians.
"Sir." Said the stormtrooper who was hit hard in the head by something so he was confused.
"Yes it is I your commander now what happened here?" Asked Ultimate.
"There were two heavily armed and armored clone troopers they killed everyone and stole the speeder I'm not sure where they went." Said the marine his hand on his head. The mandalorians looked at eachother confused on what to do from here.
"If you were a rogue clone being hunted by the empire where would you go?" Ultimate asked.
"Well I'd go to the canyons remote and has Tusken's all over the place to keep out the imperials." Said Militus.
"If the Tuskens don't kill you." Said Destroyer.
"I'll just kill the Tuskens." Said Militus. "The imps would still have trouble finding me."
"It's gonna take a few hours but I say we check the canyons." Said Ultimate climbing back on his speeder bike. His crew followed him on this hunch.
"How much are we getting paid?" Asked Maximus.
"A good amount." Said Ultimate as the sped off towards the canyons.
Cody and Bly had been hiding in the cave for some time everything was perfectly silent. They then heard laser fire break out then Tusken raiders fell dead into the canyon. Minutes later sand troopers on patrol cane marching in. The sand troopers began to inspect the land speeder identifying as the one un accounted for.
"Alright search the canyon then move on if nothing." Ordered the platoon commander. Immediately six of them climb the rocks towards the caves Cody and Bly grabbed their blasters.
"Shit." Cody cursed as he saw the helmet of a stormtrooper appear . Quickly he shot the trooper right in the face between the eyes. Bly then opened fire too as stormtroopers poured towards the caves. Bly felt the pain as the blaster's kick back rammed it into his wounded shoulder. A thermal detonator flew in the cave so Cody and Bly lunged out firing quickly shooting up several men. The commander of the platoon took cover behind a boulder as his men engaged the clones in a firefight but many were quickly shot.
"This is TK-2345 the clones are in the canyon I repeat the clones are i. The canyon." Said the Commander who then saw a grenade land between him and his sergeant. The explosion killed both of them and allowed Cody and Bly to rush their enemy quickly shooting them three of them tried to run. Cody aimed his rifle and shot all three in the back both men looked at each other ready to take a rest. However they were interrupted as two imperial shuttles flying over landing not to far from their current position.
"We need to move." Said Cody.
The two clones ran farther down the canyon as shadow troopers and navy commandos entered the canyon . Both Cody and Bly stopped behind some boulders as their enemy came in firing on them. Cody fired his rifle taking out one navy commando the rest took cover and the shadow troopers activated their cloaking . Bly heard footsteps and quickly fired to his right striking a shadow trooper who uncloaked and fire came from behind as EVOs and shadow EVOs moved in on them. They were surrounded and fring everywhere Bly only had one grenade left and Cody was running low on ammunition.
"Well Cody I guess you were correct." Said Bly .
"No this isn't how I go out not in some canyon." Said Cody as he dove out from cover and fired the last of his ammunition killing several navy commandos. He then quickly grabbed an E-11 blaster rifle from a dead shadow trooper and unloaded it on his enemy. Bly kept covering Cody's back as the EVO's came at them. Both men were back to back as they were they fought hard and long.
"Bly I have an idea." Said Cody.
"What?"Asked Bly.
"I'm currently wearing my jet grab on to my and I'll shoot us up on top of the canyons ledges so we can escape."Said Cody.
"You haven't use that thing in years how do you know it even has fuel?"asked Bly.
"I guess we'll find out." Said Cody.
With that Bly grabbed on to Cody who took a deep breath then ignited the jetpack sending the two clones rocketing upwards into the air. They then both landed on the ledge of the canyon and climbed to the top as the imperials kept firing at them. They began to run only to be cut off by imperial marines now out in the pen with no cover.
"Hands up lower your weapons." Said the marine commander his gun aimed. "You're under arrest for treason and murder."
Both clones slowly put their weapons to the ground and then Bly went for his blaster pistols and quickly slung them out and opened fire shooting down the commander first. Cody dove to the side right before the marines started to fire he grabbed his weapon from the ground as he did. Cody then squeezed the trigger shooting up three marines.
"If only Rex were here." Cody said to himself remembering the good old days back in the clone wars. However this would have to wait as the EVOs and navy commandos began to climb out of the canyon. Bly quickly shot one's hand right off causing him to scream as he fell back. However they were beginning to get overwhelmed as ten men came up at once. Then in the distance swooping in came two mandalorians on jet packs who fired their rockets off blowing up the marines. A third mandalorian landed and used a flamethrower to burn the EVOs . Yet more mandalorians came in on speeder bikes and dealt with the navy commandos fast who were in the canyon. Bly and Cody heard gunfire and explosions come from the canyon.
"Who are you." Said Cody aiming at the three mandalorians unsure whether to trust them .
"Shae Viszla and if we were here to kill you those rockets would've been less accurately placed." Said the one with the flamethrower attachment on her arm.
Cody and Bly both lowered their weapons and Bly quickly picked his rifle off the ground the gunfire from the canyon died down. Minutes later Ultimate with his entire crew appeared which was comprised of true mandalorian commandos and neo crusaders judging by the armor.
"Clone commander Bly I'm called the Ultimate and this is my crew of mercenaries we were tasked by the insurgency to retrieve you." Said Ultimate.
"Great."Said Bly.
"Wait how do you plan to get off the planet since most likely you landed in Mos Eisley and those shuttles came from that direction. So I can assume the empire has the entire city under their occupation so unless you plan to gun your way thru the city which wouldn't be advised how are getting to the ship." Said Cody.
"Honestly we're going to have to gun our way through since any thing else we try will just end in that way."Said Ultimate."Everyone load up this fight may actually prove challenging."
Mos Eisley
The storm commander with his men waited in the city knowing that the mandalorians had landed here from his talk with the bartender. He also knew the mandalorians had the clones alive since that was the last communication by a navy commando. However since he wasn't totally ruthless he had alerted the citizens of the city what was going to happen. So the streets were empty people had locked up their houses. Some had even prepared rifles should they get drawn into to the fight. The storm commander and his men simply waited for their foe to arriv.
Hour after hour it seemed the weather had gotten hotter it was hot as hell outside and the mandalorians with the two clone troopers walked into the empty town.
"Something's up." Said Cody.
"Indeed so."Said the Storm commander as his much bigger force of elite troops met up with the mandalorians who had a much smaller force. "Now you can play this smart and surrender the mandalorians will probably go free you and Bly will probably go to jail. Or you can try something and make things interesting."
So it was a stand off everyone with a finger on the trigger ready to shoot should the other guy try anything. Everyone knew where the ship was all they had to do was win this fight that didn't seem in their favor. Cassus had finally had enough of just standing around and without hesitation he drew his blaster pistol and fired causing everyone to fire. A storm commando was first to hit the ground but certainly not the last. Ultimate squeezed the trigger on his carbine rifle shooting up several enemies.
"Shea unleash the fire's of hell!" He ordered right as he finished saying that flame engulfed several marines and spread throughout them . Cody and Bly finished the burning soldiers as a mercy kill. the commander ducked behind the side of a building as he opened fire. Mandalorian armor was tough .
"I don't care about the mandos kill the clones." Ordered the commander.
Two storm commandos came from the side with their blaster rifle's firing at Cody and Bly who quickly ducked returned fire. Militus however finished the fight going in with two westar 34s .
"Get to the ship." He ordered seeing the imps targeting them.
Cody and Bly nodded then charged with two neo crusaders at their side they quickly ran firing shooting several stormtroopers as they ran past them. However the storm commander came out and stabbed a crusader in the neck threw him back and shot the other in the face. He then aimed the pistol at Bly smacked it out of his hand with the but of his gun. The commander however grabbed Bly's rifle and the two winded up in a struggle for the the rifle. Cody grabbed the commander on the shoulders and tried to pull him off however the commander used his head to smack Cody in the face right as he pulled the rifle from bly he turned and shot Cody in the gut. Cody serged back hitting the ground.
"Cody!" Bly yelled as he quickly pushed the commander across the face hard enough the commander's helmet flew off revealing his clone skin. Bly then kneed the man causing him to drop the rifle. The commander drew his knife and lunged at Bly the two engaging in a hand to hand fight.
The fighting was everywhere explosions all around bodies on the ground and Cody was hit hard however he was still breathing. He saw Bly in a serious struggle with the storm commander. He also saw the commanders pistol on the ground. Cody fought the pain and lunged for it grabbing it. he quickly loaded it hearing the charge then he aimed it and fired sending a red bolt straight threw the commanders ear shooting out his brains. The commander hit the ground dead and from behind Ultimate and Cassus moved in firing quickly shooting up other stormtroopers quickly as they charged threw. Bly helped Cody up as Ultimate and Cassus came to their side firing off their weapons. The rest of the mandalorians managed to push through the imperial forces killing many of them in the process. They ran threw leaving flames and destruction behind them as they made it to their ship. Cody and Bly got in first and the mandalorians followed Ultimate going in last making sure no one managed to follow them.
Cody was strapped down to a bed in the ship with a mandalorian medic tending to his wound with all sorts of different medicines. The ship with lasers flying at it took off headed towards orbit TIE fighters followed in behind and opened fire. The ship shook as it was barraged by laser fire. Cassus got on a turret and quickly opened fire shooting down two TIE fighters he then moved it around fast and took down a few more. However before any more TIE fighters could hit them they went into hyper space home free.
Bly sat a table with a few other mandalorians who had rescued him Cody walked out minutes later in his black body glove.
"Armors being repaired."Said Cody.
"Shouldn't take long our engineer knows what he's doing."Said Maximus inviting the clone to sit.
"So out of curiosity how do you guys plan to move on I highly doubt the empires gonna be cool with you after you helped kill their troopers and save to fugitives ?"Asked Cody.
"I actualy I highly doubt they'll care about a few mandalorians when they got an entire galaxy to controls."Maximus contered. "Face we're all home free."