Chapter one: briefing
Special operations barracks, 501st Legion headquarters, imperial center
"Hey Forr, briefing's in thirty minutes" said one of my squad mates, IC 8337 or Boomer who was standing in the doorway "I know, I'm trying to sleep before then" I responded with and turned on my side "and Sigma wants to meet us in the mess hall before briefing" Sigma. I had forgotten about them "did anything happen to them?" I asked "no" he said "they just want to talk" I yawned "okay, I'm coming. Where's Sparky and Deadeye?" "Already in the mess hall" Boomer said as if he was waiting for me to ask that question "they were hungry" "they always are" I said while getting up. Boomer stepped away from the door and said "because you starve'em" I chuckled and we started our way towards the mess hall.
When we arrived at the mess hall we started searching for Sigma and the rest of my squad, which was easier since they were wearing their armor plates. Me and Boomer quickly got our food and sat down at Sigma's table "hey Forr" said Rede, the sergeant of Sigma squad "how's it going?" I looked at him "good actually. How about you?" Ram replied this time "pretty good" he looked around "no adventures to tell you about though" Sparky chuckled "that's a first" he said. We sat in silence for a few minutes until Boomer said "so what did you want us here for?" Rede looked up from his food "we just wanted to talk before briefing" Deadeye cut in "you hear who's giving us the briefing though" He asked "no," I said " why, who is" he took a bite of his roba sausage "some guy called Darth Vader, he's supposed wear black armor and all" he said. We all looked at him "where did you hear this" Sparky asked "some of the officers who had met him told me" he said. Rede looked around "and why would the mongrels tell you that" "I asked" Deadeye stated "and they were nice mongrels" he smiled "alright," I said while getting up "briefing starts in five, so hurry" Deadeye shrugged and stood up along with Sigma and Sparky. Boomer had already finished and was waiting for us. We left the mess hall and went towards the briefing room "hey sarge," Sparky started "you know how the other squads are doing" "no," I said while popping my knuckles "but you can ask around before briefing" he shrugged. I put on my helmet, Rede looked at me and put his helmet on too "c'mon" he turned to his squad "buckets on" he said "do we have to" Sev said while putting on his helmet "can it" said Rede. I looked at the commandos around us "can't tell who any of them are, no colors on their armor" as I continued to look through the commandos. Boomer nudged me "know where Delta is?" He asked me "no, and why would I we barely talk anyway" Deadeye cut in "it's a delicacy when we talk to Delta" Boomer laughed "that's right" another commando bumped into me "hey, move it" he said "briefing has started" I motioned my squad "c'mon" I said and we moved into the briefing room "well," I said staring at The man giving us the briefing, luckily I was wearing my helmet and he couldn't see my eyes "I guess you were right Deadeye"
LAAT/i, geonosis, 22 BBY
"Thirty seconds Sigma" said Hawk, the pilot of Sigma and my squads LAAT/i "you ready?" He asked Rede the sergeant of Sigma squad "we wouldn't be here if we weren't" Rede said. He turned to me, shook my hand and said "you better make it out of here alive ner vod" he stepped back "because we will want to tell you all about our adventures" Boomer laughed "won't be better than our adventures though" "ten seconds Sigma" Hawk said. Rede patted my shoulder plate "see you later Forr" he said then the side hatches of the LAAT/i opened and Sigma hopped off and ran to cover then the side hatches closed and I felt us lift off again to head towards our destination. Nothing eventful happened most of the way to the landing zone. "alright Epsilon we are thirty seconds out from the landing zone" I looked at some of the clones with us, white jobs, some of us called them "hey you guys ready?" I asked my squad "ready as I'll ever be" Boomer said "yep I'm ready" Said Sparky "me too" Deadeye said "ten seconds Epsilon, get ready" we lined up at the right side hatch of the LAAT/i "alright Epsilon, go, go" we jumped out of the LAAT/i running across the red clay to the only cover around the landing zone "any tinnies" I asked "negative sarge" Sparky said "where are we going" Boomer asked. I looked around, and found our destination "there" I pointed at a hole in the clay "let's move" we sprinted across to the hole "that's dark" Boomer said. I jumped down sending an echoing thud throughout the tunnels "and quiet" he fineshed "c'mon, get down here" I motioned them down. Sending more thuds down the tunnels "now what" Sparky asked looking around "there," I pointed to my left, down a tunnel "thats where we go, setting charges on the way, then we should me up with Sigma, who should have set their charges. Then we'll get to the surface to get extracted then blow the charges. Taking the geonosian tunnels with them" Boomer looked at me "alright then" he started his way down the tunnel "let's go"