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First Blood
Geonosis. Home of the huge droid foundries of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. With nearly all of the galaxies Jedi Knights and Masters surrounded by the droid army, Grand Master Yoda has arrived with the Republics secret weapon. A massive force of hundreds of thousands of clone troopers, deploying into combat for the first time. Within the force are the boys of Dragon Squad of the 2nd Airborne Company. These nine clones, fresh off the simulators on Kamino, sit high above the battlefield in an LAAT gunship, waiting for the signal to jump and join their brothers on the sands below.
"Thirty seconds to drop!" The gunship pilot yelled.
'Here we go.' I thought as the door slid open.
"Go go go!" Zaber, our squad leader yelled.
I took a deep breath, then leapt from the gunship. Weightlessness hit me for a moment, then I was falling toward the surface. I could see the battle far below, the two armies kicking up dust as they fought. My specialized HUD had an elevation indicator, and as we got closer, it let me know when it was time to fire my jetpack. As I fired my pack, a waypoint appeared on my HUD, inside a blast crater. I managed to land there without getting shot down, and found Haman and Walker, two of my squadmates already there. A few minutes went by, then Zaber and Fitz showed up.
"Where are the others?" I asked, poking my head over the top of the crater.
Zaber shook his head. "Burk and Hall got shot down during the drop. Twenty Two's pack didn't fire, and Gerber was killed just after he landed. A moment of silence passed through the squad. Four down already, and we had barely been here five minutes.
"So what do we do?" Fitz asked.
"Well the first thing we have to do is locate Twenty Two's body, and hope the launcher survived the fall." Zaber said, looking up. "After that, we make our way toward that spire and link up with anyone else from the Company that survived, then blast our way inside."
I looked around the battlefield and spotted the back end of a launcher sticking up through the sand. "Two o'clock, about seventy five meters." I said.
Zaber looked where I was pointing and nodded. "Good eye Ripcord." He said. "Fitz, you and Ripcord get out there and grab that launcher."
"On it." Fitz said as we climbed out of the crater. We weren't exactly on the front line, where most of the fighting was, so we managed to get there without getting killed.
"Sorry brother." I said as I took the launcher off Twenty Two's mangled body. Pack failure wasn't common, but we all knew it could happen.
"Ripcord, meet us at the new waypoint." Zaber said in the comm.
"Copy." I replied as a new waypoint appeared on my HUD. We met up with the others in a small gully, closer to the spire. I could here the clanking of the droid army as it advanced toward the main line.
"Alright, about 100 meters to the…" Zaber began before a sniper round tore through his visor. The round passed clean through, killing him instantly and hitting Fitz in the chest.
"Sniper!" Walker yelled as we hit the ground.
Fitz was screaming in pain, clutching his chest. "It burns!" He cried before another round killed him.
"Where's it coming from?" I asked, not daring to poke my head over the edge of the gully.
"I dunno" Haman replied.
I was looking at the smoking hole in Zabers helmet when, over the din of battle, I heard a high pitch sound.
"Wait, listen, do you hear that?" Walker said also hearing the noise. "It sounds like...Incoming!" He yelled as the mortars began to fall. Two hit just outside the gully, but the third landed in the middle of us. I felt myself flying through the air, then I hit the ground and rolled into a second gully, landing on my back.
When the ringing in my ears quit, I could hear screaming nearby. I looked to my side and saw Walker, and realized the screaming was coming from him. As I rolled over onto my stomach to crawl toward him, I felt a sharp pain in my leg. I looked and saw a three inch piece of metal sticking out of my calf, soaking my new white armor in blood. I managed to make it to Walker, and realized why he was screaming so badly. His lower left leg had been blown off, and his right was at an angle that shouldn't have been possible.
"Hold on brother." I said. "I'm gonna get you home." As I put a tourniquet on his leg, there was a loud screeching sound. I looked up and saw one of the round droid ships plummeting to the ground. When it hit, the force of the impact threw up a ton of sand and dirt and sent a shockwave hurtling across the battlefield. It hit us and threw us out of the gully...
I don't remember much after that, just bits and pieces. I remember dragging Walker as I crawled on my stomach toward the blue blaster fire, which I knew meant our lines. Somehow we made it before he bled out. I remember a trooper coming out of the sand and tripping over us. That's how they found us I think. They loaded us up into a gunship, then I woke up in a med station. That battle still haunts me. When I close my eyes I can see Zaber with that smoking hole through his head. I can hear Fitz's dying screams. But that's war for you, I guess.
AN: Hope you like the story, but don't expect it to be updated every day. This is just a filler fic while I write others.