Chapter I
The Black Rogue has just come out of hyperspace. It is a sleek, black, stealth ship stolen from an unlucky person in the galaxy. As it enters the atmosphere of Christophsis, the first lasers appear, for down on the surface, a giant battle rages between clones and droids. Alex Denisen must make a stop for fuel before heading to Tatooine for a new assignment. Unfortunately for him, a peaceful landing will have to wait.
Denisen finds a skyscraper with a landing platform overlooking the terror below. However, as he goes in low for a stop, lasers appear from his destination firing away at the Black Rogue, forcing Denisen to eject from his spacecraft and freefall to the ground.
WHISH! His jetpack boots are active to slow his fall and get him to a safe point out of the crossfire. Denisen spots many fuel cells on either side of the battlefield, most likely being used for artillery cannons.
PEW! PEW! PEW! Guns fire from both sides as the Republic makes an advance, and two figures are spotted at the lead with glowing swords of light. Denisen decides to intervene with some detonators. The bombs explode at the feet of the light warriors, but somehow, they avoided it, jumping at least twenty feet into the air! It is then that Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker and his apprentice Ahsoka Tano turn to a new opponent on the battlefield.
Immediately, Denisen shows a blaster and rapidly fires at the Jedi, but it amasses to almost no effect at all.
"Ahsoka, flank him from up high!" yelled Anakin.
Ahsoka began jumping on top of droids, slicing them in half as she leaves them. It doesn't take long for her to reach a wall above Denisen. This causes Denisen to activate his jetpack boots again after dropping smoke bombs.
"Master, I can't see anything!" screamed Ahsoka.
"It's okay Snips, just let your senses fill you."
These warriors are Jedi, thought Denisen. Looks like they're in for a surprise! Rockets came out of nowhere and blasted Ahsoka off her feet. PEW! PEW! Her lightsaber was knocked right out of her hands. The smoke cleared, but Denisen was nowhere to be seen.
"General Skywalker…"
"REX! Help me find my padawan!" ordered Anakin.
"Sir, yes sir! You there! Take Echo and start a search party for Commander Tano!" answered Rex.
Echo and Fives had only taken a few advances past the spot where Ahsoka was when they were killed by more lasers.
"AH!" Fives screamed in pain.
"Come on, men! Enemy clankers incoming!" shouted Rex. Anakin leads the fight slashing left and right to get droids out of his way. TING! Another laser was deflected by his lightsaber.
"GO, GO, GO!" Clones and droids continue fall time after time, shot after shot, and explosion after explosion. They had completely wrecked the city that served as their battlefield.
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Ahsoka clashes lightsabers with Denisen again. TSS! Striking high, Denisen immediately changes his grip on the handle to make a sweep at Ahsoka's legs.
"Are you a Jedi or something?!" yelled Ahoska. However, she got no response in return; Denisen dove underneath her and injected a serum into her leg that left her unconscious for the next 15 minutes. Then, he ran off towards the Separatist base looking for fuel cells. The battle droids that opposed merely slowed him down as he accelerated using the force to destroy anyone in his way with his defiant blue lightsaber.
WOOM! WOOM! WOOM! WOOM! WOOM! Two AATs showed themselves to stop Denisen from entering behind Separatist lines. It fired its main cannon several times while Denisen ran zigzagged up towards the first one. He used the force to open the pilot's hatch and crushed the droid before ejecting it outside of the tank.
After Denisen hopped in the cockpit, he swiveled around to take aim at the second AAT. He was about to fire when a strange cyborg propelled itself out of the cockpit and launched himself straight at Denisen's AAT. The cyborg drew four lightsabers and instantly cut a giant hole in the engine.
Denisen jumped out while it exploded, only to find himself staring up at an ugly alien protected by numerous plates of armor that appeared to be the majority of his body.
"I am General Grievous! Introduce yourself before I slaughter you!" Denisen didn't speak. "You fight with the force, but you are not a Jedi. SPEAK!" Denisen used the force to push Grievous into the air and several yards away from him.
"I am Alex Denisen, bounty hunter. I do not work for either side in this war."
"Ha, ha, ha! Then you shall be terminated!" Immediately, Grievous started wielding his four lightsabers rapidly in front of him more for intimidation than for actual strength. Denisen unleashed his flamethrower upon the egocentric general causing him to back away.
"Do not underestimate me, bounty hunter!" taunted Grievous. He lunged at Denisen, who sidestepped, causing Grievous to miss and scrape concrete. TSS! There was the first clash of lightsabers!
The general held off Denisen's one blade with his left two and struck with his right two. Thus, the bounty hunter flew up to the wall of the warehouse and set a few charges. Grievous fell for the trap by ordering his droids to fire at Denisen. One of the supers hit a charge which caused the entire front wall of the five-story warehouse to crumble before them.
"GAH! It isn't over yet!" screamed the general. After he shot two rockets that Grievous avoided, Denisen jumped on Grievous, slicing his right two sabers in half by the hilt. They clashed some more, but then, Grievous took a huge offensive and knocked Denisen off his feet. Denisen kicked a foot up which was grabbed by Grievous. He was flung a good fifteen yards or so, but Grievous wasn't done. He picked him up again; however, Denisen activated an electric shock which temporarily paralyzed Grievous.
Denisen ran into the warehouse, where he met two destroyer droids. He jumped up off of reflexes and dropped two thermal detonators to destroy the opposing droids. Now, he just had fuel cells to deal with.
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Denisen used the force to levitate a giant cylinder of fuel for the Black Rogue.
"R-4, bring the ship outside the warehouse at these coordinates," said Denisen as he pressed a button on his armor.
"Bleep, bloop, bleep!" answered his astromech.
Within minutes, the ship was heard behind the five-story building, followed by the sound of metal parts being blown apart by cannons. Denisen walked towards the back while carrying the fuel cell and brought it inside the ship. He opened the fuel compartment and removed the used cylinder, replacing it with the reimbursed one.
"That should do it, R-4. Take us off to Tatooine." The Black Rogue lifted off the ground and shot up into the atmosphere, dropping a single bomb on the city below to cause havoc. Denisen didn't want to be spotted. Luckily enough, there were no other ships surrounding the system, allowing Denisen to jump straight to hyperspace.
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Down on the battlefield, the Republic had finally overwhelmed the CIS, causing general Grievous to flee the battlefield, relocating himself to another portion of the planet.
"Alright, I want everyone looking for my padawan now that the fight's over!" ordered Anakin. "Let's go!" Clone patrols went out in every direction until Echo spoke up.
"Here you are, General." He was helping over an exhausted Ahoska to greet her master.
"Hey there, Master. Did I miss much?"
"You always find a way," replied Anakin. "Wait, everyone take cover!"
BOOM! BOOM!
"Sir, that explosive came from above us, but there are no enemy units in our position," reported Rex.
"That's alright," answered the general. "Rex, you and the men get some rest. Ahsoka and I are going back to the temple to give a report to master Yoda."
"Thank you, sir."
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"Greetings, General Skywalker. Some news you have for us, do you?" questioned Yoda.
"Yes, Master." Anakin bowed. "We've come to report a strange warrior with many weapons, including the lightsaber and the force."
"Perhaps this is a bounty hunter," said Mace Windu.
"Actually, the warrior was firing at both factions, eventually going on towards the Separatist base," said Ahsoka. "I saw a big explosion that caused the front of their warehouse to crumble, which meant he was probably after something."
"All the Separatists had in there were fuel cells and weaponry, and I don't think they have some new toy we haven't discovered," added Anakin.
"Right you are, both of you," replied Yoda. "Find this so-called 'bounty hunter,' we must. Discover his intentions, we will."
"You are dismissed," ordered Windu.