Star Wars: The Brotherhood of Hunters

Ch. 1

Somewhere in the Outer Rim, there was a small space station which held a small team of mercenaries, five elite soldiers, which was the best team in the galaxy, whether it's them being foot soldiers, commandos, assassin's, or scouts, they'll do it, for the right price. The team consisted of five Mandalorians, a former Zabrak soldier part of his home planet's military, a Wookiee warrior who made a life debt with the leader, and a former human militia soldier that specialized in guerilla warfare.

The leader, a Mandalorian known as Adenn Ky'ryc, decided that the best way to make the highest profit was to make a small, elite, team that could handle high risk missions that normal armies couldn't. Deciding to go through with his plan, the first member he recruited was his adopted, Twi'lek, sister, Ala; Ala was an excellent sniper, capable of picking off a tick off a Bantha in the middle of sand storm from three hundred meters. She's also a skilled medic and slicer, capable of healing any battle wound possible, or hacking open the vault to the galaxies largest bank.

The third member Adenn made, was his Wookiee partner, Kabacca which he rescued from Trandoshen slavers while on a mission that led him to a Kashyyyk moon; the Wookiee made a life debt to Adenn, and began following the Mandalorian way of life, and the two have been friends ever since. Kabacca was an excellent melee fighter, and was just as devastating with his Bowcaster and Rocket Launcher.

The fourth member, the Zabrak called Zachary Xavier, was a member of the Iridoria military, until he was discharged for going against orders and leading an attack on an enemy base during a civil war; it saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the long run, but all his superiors saw was a insubordinate soldier that did as he pleased. Zack left Iridoria and went on his own as a bounty hunter, and made a bit of a name for himself, until Adenn found him and recruited him. Zack joined the ranks of a Mandalorian after a year of training, and considered Adenn his brother.

The fifth and final member was named Charles Williams, a survivor from a rebel militia army that was trying to free his home planet from a dictator that oppressed his people, and served as special guerilla explosives unit, meaning he was able to make just about anything blow up, with the right equipment. When it was obvious that they were going to lose the war, Charles and his fellow surviving soldiers were smuggled off the planet so they wouldn't be executed. Charles joined the Mandalorians two years later, and met Adenn in a cantina, where the two quickly became friends and Charles joined Adenn's team. Charles one day hopes to return to his home planet, and save it from their leaders oppression

The five mercenaries joined together to make one of the best mercenary teams in the galaxy, and it also made them very rich, but even they weren't prepared for the offer that would both make them for life, but also change their lives forever.

In the mercenary station, the Tal Venku, which translated to Bloody Dagger in Basic, Adenn was going through several contracts he and his team was offered, and found only a few that interested him, since they were only one's that could matched the teams normal salary; two million credits for a mission. A hefty price for some, pocket change others. One job that really caught Adenn's eye was one that came from a Republic command post, asking him and his team to go to Separatist base and retrieve a kidnapped scientist that's being forced to make a bio-weapon that can wipe out the Republic's clone army. They were willing to pay six million credits for Adenn's team to accept the mission. Adenn was about to play the message, when his sister, Ala walked in.

"Good morning, ner vod." Ala said, and Adenn nodded.

"Yeah. Al'ika, we just got a job offer from the Republic; they want us to rescue some scientist the Separatists captured. They're willing to pay us six million creds." Adenn explained, and Ala whistled.

"That's a good pay day. Where is it?" Ala asked, and Adenn looked up the coordinates and saw that it was on Felucia.

"Felucia." Adenn answered, and Ala rolled her eyes.

"Lovely. Well, the pay is nice." Ala said, and Adenn nodded as he turned on the intercom.

"Charles, Zack, Kabacca! Report to the bridge! We got a job!" Adenn said, and a few minutes later, the three mercenaries walked in, fully armed and armored. "We're heading to Felucia to rescue some poor scientist captured by the Seps. Get on board the Taung Tal." Adenn said, and all five mercenaries got on board an AIAT/i, similar to the Jaster's Legacy, the ship used by Jango Fett before he got the Slave I, and entered hyperspace.

Meanwhile, on board the Resolute, Anakin Skywalker, his padawan, Ahsoka, and Obi-wan Kenobi walked into the bridge, where they were greeted by Admiral Wolfe Yularen.

"Generals, welcome back. I trust your mission was successful?" Yularen asked, and Obi-wan nodded.

"Indeed it was Admiral. Now, when you contacted us, you told us about a scientist captured by the Separatists two weeks ago?" Obi-wan asked.

"Yes, but the Chancellor wasn't aware that you were on a mission for the Jedi Order at the time, so he just recently hired a mercenary team to complete the mission instead." Yularen said, and Anakin was shocked.

"What? Chancellor Palpatine hired mercenaries to do our work?" Anakin asked.

"Anakin calm down; it's not unusual for mercenaries to be used during times of war." Obi-wan said, but Anakin didn't calm down.

"He should've waited for us to complete our mission!" Anakin said.

"It was too risky general; if we had waited for you and General Kenobi to return, and you had taken longer than expected, the Separatists could've already massed produced the weapon." Yularen said, and Anakin just sighed as the ships communicator started beeping. "We're receiving a message from the Jedi Council." Yularen said, and a clone let the message through, showing the hologram of Master Yoda.

"Master Kenobi, Skywalker, glad to see your safe return, I am." Yoda said, and Kenobi and Anakin nodded.

"Thank you, Master Yoda. Is there any news on my new Padawan?" Obi-wan asked, and Yoda nodded.

"Yes. On her way, she is. Be there soon, she should." Yoda said, and a clone spoke up.

"General, there's a shuttle exiting hyperspace now." The clone said, and a Republic shuttle exited hyperspace and made its way towards the Resolute.

"Thank you, Master. She has just entered the system and is about to dock." Obi-wan said, and Yoda nodded as he ended the transmission. "Well, let's go greet her, shall we?" Obi-wan asked, and the three Jedi made their way to the hanger.

Meanwhile, Adenn's ship, the Taung Tal, exited hyperspace above Felucia and made its way to the surface, while Ala activated the scanner. It took a few minutes, but the ship finally picked up a high amount of metal and electrical activity coming from underground, and the scanner was able to give a rough description of what the base was like.

"Okay, it looks it's a very compact base, most likely not meant to be a military base, so we should expect that many droids, maybe between one or two hundred, along with a few automated defenses. However, it doesn't look like there's much cover or maneuverability, so, Charles, Kabacca; I think it's better if you two stay behind. This doesn't really match your environments." Adenn said, and the two protested.

"But Adenn, we can still help!" Charles said, and Kabacca roared in agreement.

"Charles, look at these hall ways; your explosives would be a larger danger to us than what they normally are. And Kabacca, it'd be too much of a tight fit for you; you'd be peppered with blaster fire. I know you're tough, but even you're not invincible, ner vod." Adenn said, and the two finally agreed to stay behind. "Ala, Zack, come on." Adenn said, and the two followed him outside the ship and onto Felucia's surface.

On the Resolute, the shuttle made its way into the docking bay, and when the hatch opened, a human female, around eighteen years old and long, blonde hair, walked out and smiled at the Jedi that greeted her.

"Master Kenobi? I'm Crystal Shan, your new padawan." Crystal said, and Obi-wan smiled as he held out his hand, and Crystal shook it.

"Nice to meet you Crystal; this is my friend, Anakin Skywalker, and his padawan, Ahsoka Tano." Obi-wan said, and Crystal smiled as she bowed before Anakin.

"A pleasure to meet you master Skywalker. You too Ahsoka." Crystal said, and the other two Jedi nodded.

"Now, if you'll follow me, we'll get you settled in." Obi-wan said, and he led his new padawan to her room.

After searching around for a few minutes, Adenn found the entrance to the Separatist Lab, and Ala sliced it open.

"Okay, according to the layout, there's a large, circular room in the back of the outpost. That's most likely the lab the scientist is in; eliminate all hostiles and make sure the doc doesn't get hit." Adenn said, and they walked into the fortress, blasters ready.

"Adenn, my scanners are picking up a small droid squadron heading this way, around five of them probably." Ala said, and Adenn slowed down his walking, and peaked around the corner, and saw two B1 battle droids, two B2 Super Battle droids, and one Droideka behind them, standing on all three's.

"Hmm…we'll need to take down that Destroyer droid first. And remember, no explosives, otherwise we'll all be cooked!" Adenn reminded, and the others nodded as they charged their blasters.

Adenn gave the signal, and they appeared from behind the corner, and fired their blasters at the droids, making sure they took the Droideka down first before it could start up its shield. The next they took down were the Super Battle Droids because of their superior armor and fire power. Adenn and Ala take the droids down with a few shots to their heads, and they fell, amusingly on the last two battle droids, crushing them.

"Okay, now we'll have to split up; Ala, you take the west corridor, Zack, the east, and I'll take the north." Adenn said, and the three split up to look for the scientists.

In the Taung Tal, Kabacca and Charles were waiting patiently for the others to return with the scientist, when Kabacca saw a group of droids walk towards the ship.

"Charles, droids are heading this way!" Kabacca roared, and Charles ran over to the bridge and saw the droids as well.

"Aw shab…come on big guy; we have to take them out before they alert the base." Charles said, and they ran outside to fight.

After dealing with the guards outside the lab, Adenn opened the door, and saw a man looking at some vials and running them through a tube into some more vials. When the scientist heard the door opened, he turned around and was surprised to see the Mandalorian standing in front of him.

"You're not a Republic soldier…" The scientist said, and Adenn rolled his eyes.

"Wow, I can see how you're a scientist." Adenn said sarcastically, and he walked over to the scientist and began dragging him out of the room. "The Republic hired me and my team to get you out of here and back in Republic hands. Come on!" Adenn said, but the scientist didn't budge.

"But…the bio-weapon! It has to be destroyed!" The scientist said, and Adenn pulled out a thermal detonator and threw it into the lab.

"Move!" Adenn said, and the two started running, when a giant explosion went throughout the lab, blasted the doors open, and quickly moved through the halls of the base. Adenn and the scientist ran as fast as they could, and they barely avoided the explosion as they jumped into another hallway and the blast dissipated. "I think the bio-weapon has been taken care of. Now let's move! Ala, Zack; I have the scientist; get your shebse back to the Taung Tal, NOW!" Adenn ordered, and everyone began running to the exit of the stronghold.

Meanwhile, Kabacca and Charles were outside, shooting all the droids in their sights, trying to keep them from damaging the ship. Kabacca was using a grenade launcher to take out small groups of droids, while Kabacca picked off the rest with his bowcaster. They were winning the fight when suddenly, six Droideka's rolled into the fight, unfolded, and began shooting after activating their shields. Getting peppered with blaster fire, Kabacca and Charles got some cover behind a huge mushroom, and began firing from there.

"Kabacca! We're getting overrun! Use your rocket launcher to blow the shebse to Hell!" Charles yelled, and Kabacca nodded as he pulled out his rocket launcher, activated its holographic aiming HUD, and locked on to all six droidekas at once, and fired; all six rockets were launched from their silos, and hit the droidekas, destroying them and any other droids caught in the blast. "Good work, big guy." Charles said, and Kabacca began chuckling to himself as he and Charles went back to the ship; the droids had retreated.

Suddenly, the hatch leading into the stronghold opened, and Adenn, Ala, Zack, and the scientist ran outside and into the Taung Tal. Adenn took the controls and quickly got the transport off the ground and back into space, and eventually went into hyperspace.

"Thank you! Thank you!" The scientist said, and Adenn just rolled his eyes as he got in contact with a nearby Republic cruiser.

"Al'ika, take the good doctor to the brig. And get him something to eat; I doubt the Seps fed him all that well." Adenn said, and the scientist only heard the word 'brig'.

"Wait, why the brig?" The scientist asked, and Adenn chuckled.

"Relax; there's just no room for you up here. You'll stay in the brig until we get to a Republic craft, then we'll drop you off and part ways." Adenn said, and Ala took the scientist to the brig, and got him something to eat.

"Generals, we're being hailed by a freighter near the Felucia system; they claim they're the mercenary team hired to rescue the scientist." Yularen said, and Obi-wan pressed a button on the communicator and Adenn's head appeared on the screen; his helmet anyway.

"Resolute? This is the Taung Tal; we've got the scientist you wanted so badly. We need your location to drop him off." Adenn said, and Anakin spoke up.

"How do we know you really have the scientist? You could just be making that up so you can attack us!" Anakin said accusingly, and Adenn shrugged.

"Fine; I'll just shoot the scientist out the airlock and you can look for him out here. Not confident you'll find him though." Adenn said, and Obi-wan moved Anakin out of the way.

"We'll send you our coordinates right away; we'll be expecting you." Obi-wan said, and he transferred the coordinates to Adenn's ship, and Adenn cut off the transmission.

"We shouldn't trust them, master." Anakin said defiantly.

"We have no choice Anakin; they have the scientist, and we need him to help us make antidotes for any anti-clone bio-weapons." Obi-wan said, and Anakin just remained quiet.

When the Taung Tal exited hyperspace, the Resolute opened its main hanger doors on top of the ship, allowing the ship to land, though it was a tight fight; the huge engines and wingspan made it difficult for Adenn to squeeze the freighter through, but he eventually managed to do so. Anakin, Obi-wan, and the padawans waited in the hanger, and when the five Mandalorians walked out with the scientist, and Ahsoka gave a look of disgust.

"Mandalorians…" Ahsoka said, and Crystal looked at Ahsoka with confusion.

"You Kenobi?" Adenn asked, and Obi-wan nodded.

"Yes." Obi-wan said, and the scientist stepped forward.

"Here's your scientist; you can tell the Chancellor to go ahead and transfer the credits to our account." Adenn said, and he turned around to get back on his ship, but Obi-wan stopped him.

"Wait, Chancellor Palpatine wishes to speak with you in person; he wants us to take you to him so he can discuss a contract with you." Obi-wan said, but Adenn started walking again.

"No thanks; I have no interest in your war." Adenn said, and Obi-wan spoke up again.

"He's offering you a minimum of fifty million credits." Obi-wan said, and that got Adenn's attention.

"Really? That's certainly a generous offer; your Republic must be more desperate than I thought." Adenn mocked, and Anakin leaned into Obi-wan's ear.

"Master, just let them go; we don't need mercenary help!" Anakin said, and Obi-wan put his hand up.

"Very well; we'll go with you to Coruscant. But we're taking my ship." Adenn said, when suddenly, alarms started going off.

"General; a Separatist cruiser has just exited hyperspace! We're under attack!" A clone said.

"Great…everyone, get to your stations! Adenn, do oyu think your team could help us out?" Obi-wan asked, and Adenn nodded.

"Yeah, but it'll cost the Republic extra." Adenn said, and he got his rifle ready, and his team did the same with their weapons.

"Boarding pods are heading towards the ship!" A clone yelled over the intercom, and Anakin activated his communicator.

"Gunners, blast those pods before they reach the ship! All pilots, get to your ships!" Anakin ordered, and suddenly, five pods pierced the hanger's armor, and the three claws spread open, allowing several battle droids to enter the hanger, and begin shooting, including a few Commando droids.

Adenn and his team began firing on the closest droid squadron, which consisted of four soldier droids, and a racketeer. All five droids fell quickly, but the racketeer droid was able to get a stray shot off, which flew towards Adenn's team. The Mandalorians jumped out of the way, but the rocket kept flying, hitting the Taung Tal's starboard engine, completely obliterating it.

"My ship!" Adenn yelled, horrified. Adenn got furious instantly, and began unleashing a heavy barrage of blaster fire on the droids. As the battle raged inside the hanger, five more boarding pods landed on the ship, and when they opened, three dwarf spider droids dropped out of each, and began tearing through the clone troopers, and forcing Adenn and his team into cover.

"General! Our pilots can't get to their ships with those clankers firing on them!" Captain Rex yelled to Anakin, and the Jedi Knight began thinking of a plan, while Adenn already took action; he ordered Ala to a sniping position, and for Kabacca and Charles to flank the droids, while he and Zack flew up with their jetpacks and unleashed hell with their blasters and rockets. It all happened so fast, not many clones realized what was going on, but when it was all finished, the droids were destroyed, allowing and Anakin and the clone pilots to get to their ships, and attack the Separatist cruiser.

With the hanger cleared, Adenn went over to his ship and began checking out the extent of the damage of his ship; the starboard engine was completely destroyed, making it impossible to fly.

"Shab…" Adenn said disappointedly, and Obi-wan and Crystal walked over to Adenn, and saw what happened to his ship. "I hope you plan on fixing this." Adenn said coldly.

"What makes you think this is our responsibility?" Obi-wan asked.

"This was caused in your war; I was neutral in this war ever since it started, and now that I help you this one time, my ship gets trashed!" Adenn argued, and Ahsoka walked over.

"We weren't the ones that fired the rocket that hit your ship!" Ahsoka said, and Adenn was getting angry, when Obi-wan stepped between them.

"That's enough; we can discuss the matter with your ship when we reach Coruscant. I'm confident we can work something out. Until then, you and your team are going to have remain on the Resolute." Obi-wan said, and Adenn hesitantly nodded.

"Fine. If nothing else, I know when an agreement is going anywhere; at that point, I either accept the offer if it's good enough, or just walk away, and I can't exactly walk away." Adenn said, and he turned around the face his team. "Ner vode, it's too dangerous for us to stay on the Taung Tal at the moment; grab your spare equipment while you still can!" Adenn ordered, and he and his team walked into the ship to get their equipment.

When Adenn walked out of his ship, he had an interesting piece of clothing around his neck; a poncho that had an interesting symbol in orange; it looked like the head of the ancient Taung, the original Mandalorian species, and had two swords under, and a shield behind the Taung.

"We'll give you and your team a room to stay in until we reach Coruscant, if you'll follow me." Obi-wan said, and Adenn and his team followed the Jedi Master to their room, ready to make big money, working for a desperate Republic.

A/N: An abrupt ending, I know, but the chapter was getting kind of long. Please tell me what you think, and before you ask, yes, Crystal IS a descendant of Bastila and Satele Shan. Speaking of which, if any of you plan on play The Old Republic, I have set up a guild; its Empire aligned, and I'm accepting new members. The guild is called The Mandalorian Hunters.