It had been three months since the voyage had begun. Warrant Officer James Fredericks was frozen in cryo stasis. He was apart of task force vanguard formed in response to data collected by the 1st interstellar reconnaissance division. They had been sent to explore possible alien life. They'd set up an outpost and reported hostile activity to a few patrols sent to explore further into the galaxy. Now America didn't have the resources to launch a full invasion. So they built the biggest ship possible to carry their best.
Fredericks a green beret he was to aid in possible interstellar relations and operate unconventional warfare if possible. Right now the man was in the middle of a dream a nice dream about some woman with green eyes and cherry red hair. He didn't know no her name but he was calmed by her very presence.
However that was all interrupted as the alarms in the ship screamed. Flashing red lights everywhere. The dream ended he instantly forgetting it. James was suddenly thrown out of his pod. On his knees he stared at the ground for a quick moment he took two breaths. He could hear other men vomiting in the background as he was told was possible side effect of cryo stasis. He was glad they had made the voyage so much could've gone wrong that didn't go wrong.
That alarm ment they'd arrived at out post Asimov after all. On the same planet anyways. James got to his feet to look around. He noticed immediately that he was in fact wrong about nothing going wrong. Out of the five divisions of elite special forces only seven men counting himself were out. This was beyond bad.
He looked around to see who they were. He could only recognize two other men. One was one of his squad mates weapons Sergeant Kirk Reynolds. The other was code named Phoenix tier one air force 24th tactics squadron. He was highest ranking out of all of them.
Apart of James wished that if something went this wrong he'd be highest in rank. At the same time he was glad highest ranking personnel was tier one while he was tier two. Tier one guys usually had way more experience.
"Gentlemen we have a problem." Phoenix said, "There's seven of us."
Everyone looked around to acknowledge the situation. No one else had come out. Everyone was shocked some shaking their heads in denial for a moment. James was pretty confused as to what went wrong as well.
"Well just great." Said one of the men James didn't recognize.
"Alright before we start let's introduce ourselves," Phoenix started, "Wing commander Phoenix air force 24th tactics squadron."
Phoenix was definitely a code named he was told just to go by Phoenix it made things easier in the end. The man was trying his best to keep his cool in the situation in which it seemed like the operation it's self was in jeopardy.
"I'll go next," Said the men who spoke earlier, "petty officer 3rd class Anderson Madison Navy SEALs."
They had one SEAL that would prove useful a man trained to operate any where any time. It would've been better if he was DEVGRU but James was in no position to complain. After SEALs were fierce warriors could accomplish nearly any task you gave them.
"Andrew Garrison army rangers."Said another man.
"Robert Hanson marine raiders."
"Kirk Rynolds weapons Sergeant with the berets."
"James Fredricks warrant officer with the berets."
"Such a random group," the SEAL said, "One raider,one ranger,two berets,and a SEAL all under the command of an air force tactics squadron man."
Fredricks agreed on that. It was certainly an odd arrangement but then again it was an odd situation. Simply James never thought he'd do anything remotely like this when he joined the berets. Than again no one had ever done anything remotely like this excluding the ist division. However when the offer was made how could he say no. Who gets to put fought in the first interstellar war on their resume.
"Yeah well it's what we got." The wing commander said, "Let's get to work figure out if there's a manual release on these things."
"It's code locked." Said The SEAL remembering something from the briefing, "Spector were given the code."
Spector was the man in charge of the overall operation on the field anyways. He was a DEVGRU commander. You couldn't have asked for a finer leader. Everyone heard the stories.He was present on the ship in an unopened pod unfortunately.
"Whose dumb ass idea was it not to give everyone the code." Said the ranger.
"It was meant if for some reason early release needed to happen." The SEAL replied.
"And how exactly would that work?"
"The computer would trigger his pod to open then he'd implant the code."
"This still sounds like a dumb plan why not just have all our pods open?"
"You think I know what goes threw a politician's head when coming up with a plan."
"So we can blame the president."
"I never said it was the president's idea."
"Still fuck that guy he approved this batshit crazy operation."
"And you're one of the idiots who volunteered."
"Gentlemen focus," The Wing commander said the conversation having gone on for too long, "Alright if it was a politician all we have to do is get the advanced communication receiver to outpost Asimov then we call them."
One of the main issues was that the 1st interstellar reconnaissance division only had to ability to send messages. Their receiver was damaged in the landing something they made sure to note in the first message sent back.
"Can we contact the first division?" James questioned, "Threw a radio link."
"You have a point if we landed on the wrong side of the damn planet we won't know." Phoenix said, "Alright to the armory there we can unpack the radio and some turn off the alarm it's driving me insane."
Minutes later the alarm was deactivated and everyone was in the armory. James brought out the radio communicator and handed over the telephone attached to it. Phoenix looked at for a moment surprised a little.
"Is there a problem sir?" James questioned seeing his confused look.
"Just we manage to design a ship that should've taken us hundreds of years yet we have the most primitive looking communication device in history. Seriously where'd they get this from the world war two museum?"
Everyone laughed glad there was some humor in the otherwise dire moment. Then James began to work it trying to communicate to the 1st division. He grumbled to himself.
"Stop I got something." Said Phoenix hearing a voice, "Hello this is vanguard to Asimov any one receiving over."
There was a few minutes of silence. Everyone was on edge afraid no one would respond.
"This Asimov we're receiving you Vanguard over," a voice said back to everyone's relief.
"Asimov how far are we from your position?"
"Vanguard you've crashed one hundred miles out and you've been out for five days."
"Asimov say again?"
"Five days is there some kind of problem vanguard."
"Asimov we just woke up and there's only seven of us."
There was a moment of silence. Phoenix was worried that this piece of crap radio dropped communication somehow. However he thought he could hear the sound of the man speaking to a superior.
"Alright vanguard listen very carefully," the operator said slowly, "Your crash set off a seismic disturbance the enemy has deployed robotic patrols to find you. There isn't much we can do your zone is too hot to extract from. Move up ten miles you'll find a beach we'll extract you from there. Bring the receiver the guys back home will have a solution I'm sure."
Phoenix was silent for a moment leaving the rest of the taskforce alone was risky. However he didn't have much of a choice.
"We'll do Asmov over and out." Phoenix replied as the communication cut.
"So what they say?" Questioned James immediately.
"We're in enemy territory." Phoenix replied getting to the good part, "And we gotta get the receiver ten miles down to a beach for extraction."
"Leave behind the others!" The SEAL said outraged at the idea.
"I don't like it one bit but we don't got a choice petty officer."
"I'll stay." James said out of nowhere.
"What why?" Questioned Phoenix, "One man can't do much to an army."
"No but he can call if something goes wrong to keep you updated."
"Fine watch the ship and do not engage the enemy except for a last resort." Phoenix ordered,
"Everyone gear up and everyone besides James prepare to move out."
Everything was practically designed to fight the new enemy. The enemy shot weapons that relied on heat and impact to kill the enemy. They now wore heat resistant carbon fiber body armor under their tactical vests. Their helmets made from the same material and their gloves leather like material that was weaker. The enemy had a metal armor their guns designed with new specialized armor piercing rounds. Hell they were even given genetic enhancements to deal with the threat. They didn't age and could react way faster than they once could take some hits that'd kill a normal man but wound them. All this adapted based on the information the 1st interstellar reconnaissance division collected on the enemy.
Every operations group had a different variant. James had on the beret variants example based off the design of his old gear. The man placed on his half face mask after his earpiece then helmet. Everyone else had combat goggles that provided hud. James wouldn't need that for now. Now James just made sure he had his upgraded M4A1 ready to go at moments noticed. He then grabbed from his personal locker earbuds and his music player which had access to a large variety of music. He then made his way to the bridge. He set the motion detectors and waved as he saw the men leaving threw the window. He set rifle down next to him and took a second to relax as he kept an eye on the motion detector. When he really thought about it he'd been in worse situations with a lot less resources.
Republic intelligence had intercepted a separatist transmission. They were moving troops to a completely random planet. It wouldn't give them resources or provide them with a hyperspace lane. The reason was due to some unknown seismic event called in. The republic wanted to know more.
For that reason that's what a dispatch from the twenty fifth reconnaissance battalion. Engaged in a fierce firefight with a group of battle droids lead by commandos. Arc captain Dagger was firing off his rifle as the droids were everywhere. Two other arcs chucked grenades over. The explosions blew apart the battle droids scattering their parts everywhere. Many flying into their vicinity. Still more droids moved in
A jedi then jumped forward lightsaber drawn. The arc used hand signals to order his men to provide support for the jedi. She cut down numerous droids as the arcs covered her taking out two super battle droids. Quickly the jedi swung the blade threw each commando unit. The droids dispatched in a matter of seconds.
The Captain and his Arcs came to her side after the battle had concluded. They looked around making sure the area was clear.
"Where's Master Trenor?" She questioned only being a padawan.
"Dead sir you're in charge now." Captain Dagger replied saluting.
"Stay on the path we must investigate the seismic event."
The Captain hadn't informed her on clone deaths. She assumed they weren't very high. They'd been here for three days engaged and took out numerous droid patrols. This cost them six lives in all. The captain hadn't even mentioned clone deaths of this recent encounter.One thing was for sure whatever they found better be worth it.
Phoenix was leading his men threw vastly open grassland. He hated this no cover what's so ever. If a fire fight broke out it was going to be brutal. However he had no map no knowledge of the area none of this was good. Worst of all he'd only seen pictures of the enemy. He had no true idea what these robot soldiers were capable of. He also kept thinking if James got into a firefight he wouldn't attempt to contact them until it was over and if he died that would be never.
"Sir enemy helo!" The SEAL yelled even though it wasn't a helicopter but what else would you call a flying object that kind of hovered.
Everyone ducked down as a droid gunship flew right over them. If that thing had actually seen them they could've been gunned down there and then. That was much too close for comfort. However it wasn't too long after the gunship had gone gunfire broke out.
The SEAL and the Ranger opened fire upon a patrol of battle droids. First contact with the enemy. The SEAL was quick with the modified Scar H. He quickly sent bullets threw three of the mechanical soldiers. Droid parts flew everywhere from impact like shrapnel. The ranger thought twice about throwing a frag as one of the droid shards went past his shoulder cutting the sleeve. Instead he kept up fire with the M4-A1 he wielded. The marine raider was armed with a sniper and a submachine gun modified UMP 45 to be exact. He squeezed the trigger his genetic enhancements made it way too easy to handle his gun. Droids were shot apart where they stood no match for the skill of the men. The droids however were plentiful in number.
All of Phoenix's men were now locked in this fire fight. For all he knew a full legion was attacking them. He quickly looked at the weapons Sergeant who carried the package. Phoenix knew if this went on for too long reinforcements would arrive. He had a gamble as he took out a grenade.
Without further thought he pulled the cap off and chucked over the frag into the patrol of battle droids. The explosion broke tearing the droids apart sending their parts threw other droids and towards the squad. A sharp fragment striking right past the weapons sergeant's neck he flinched. Phoenix reacted quick as the explosion went off firing off his rifle as he moved forward the bullets tore threw three other droids that would've survived.
The rest of the squad followed their leader quickly advancing as they shot. The remainder of the patrol was shot up in a matter of seconds. Phoenix and his men took on possibly an entire platoon without losing a single man. He was glad one thing hadn't gone bad today.
"Alright move out before another enemy patrol arrives." Phoenix ordered.
The squad wasted no time resuming their trek. Now Phoenix became concerned an enemy would uncover what became of a missing patrol. When that happened they would be hunted and even if they got to the evac point first James would be in a rough position. They needed to get to Asimov ASAP so they could fix this problem ASAP.
The republic reconnaissance group lead by the Jedi commander came upon grassland to see droid parts scattered all over the place. It was evident there was a fight and the droids didn't win. Captain Dagger went down to examine it. They had unknowingly uncovered Phoenix's squads fire fight just ten minutes after it had ended.
"Very odd." The Captain said as he started his analysis.
"What?" Questioned the Jedi.
"Judging by what remains blasters were not used by their advisories," The Captain started his reply, "In fact I think it was some kind of ballistic based weapon."
"Ballistic based you mean a slug slinger?" The Jedi replied picturing a tusken raiders weapon.
"Exactly," The Captain said, "The way the droids were despatched no burns but they look as if they were literally shredded apart and then there's this."
The Jedi was handed a bullet taken out from the chest of a B1 battle droid. To her it was quite bizarre never having seen anything like it before. It's shape suggested it was quite arrow dynamic definitely more advanced then a Tusken's rifle.
"It's a bullet." The Captain said only a little disappointed she didn't know what it was.
"Primitive." The Jedi remarked.
"That would say it's below our tech and by the looks of this fire fight our mysterious friends weaponry at least is on par with our own it just works differently."The Captain said sounding quite fascinated, "However last time I checked we didn't have slug slingers of this quality anywhere in the galaxy."
"Captain are you suggesting we're seeing an alien invasion?" The Jedi said know worried.
"Invasion may be long winded but yes I believe these weapons at the very least are alien in nature." The Captain concluded.
"You think the droids know what's become of their patrol?"
"All the more reason to press forward."
The Jedi knew he meant for the sake of their mysterious friends not just there's. The droids would not take kindly to hostility even if they started it. These men whoever they were may not know exactly the extent of the threat presented to them. For from the looks of it if they weren't from around here their was a chance this was their first encounter with a droid.
James sat in the bridge on a chair watching the scanners which would tell him if anyone was coming within a mile. He needed that knowledge it was a very big ship and would take time to get to the hangar. However nothing appeared on the scanners so far and it had been at least an hour. Apart of James began to think no one would show up.
So he sat there slowly nodding his head to the beat of the song he was listening to. Then a bright light flashed on the scanner throwing him off a little. He quickly read the information presented to him. Which was a bunch of dots on a radar like screen with numbers on it. A group of targets approaching from the north one mile out. That was the direction Phoenix had left in.
He put his hand to his ear piece to radio to Phoenix. He was concerned if these targets weren't them these targets killed them. And if that was the case the odds of him taking them down were quite small.
"Wing commander?" James said as a question to see if they were alive.
"Yes warrant officer?" Phoenix's voice calmed James.
"How close are you to the point."
"Two miles to go why?"
"It's really nothing just a few targets one mile out."
"What," The Wing commander replied concern evident in his voice, "Remember what I said James do not engage if they just pass. Call back in about an hour or after the targets pass."
"We'll do and it's good to know they didn't kill you cause they're approaching from the direction you left."
"Shit." Phoenix cursed a few seconds of silence passed, "Alright we ran into a patrol and killed them all it must be reinforcements dropped from a spaceship. Now the robots aren't exactly smart or skilled but still exercise caution they come and great numbers and create their own shrapnel when killed."
"Understood over and out." James replied almost saluting.
The man quickly took out his earbuds and slid the music player back in his pocket. He then flipped his combat goggles down accessing the his hud. It provides some tactical assistance in the corner his vitals appeared. He then grabbed locked and loaded his rifle and moved out. He pulled up his half mask to totally conceal himself. Why it was more for feeling than actual purpose.
It took about thirty minutes to book it down to the large hangar. It contained a multitude of redesigned vehicles. He chose to duck behind one of the military's latest APCs. Why they had given them such a large vehicle for special operations beyond him. However it was very convenient to hide behind while waiting for someone to come threw the only entrance.
He brought out the tablet which had a radar display the only thing he saw of the targets was a group of dots moving closer. They had gone from a solid mile out to closing on a few feet in the time it took him to set up. However he had a plan on his way down he stopped by the armory and grabbed a rocket launcher. If they came in he'd have a little surprise for them.
Meanwhile the republic forces moved to see a massive ship crashed on the grass land. This thing was easily longer and wider than any two venators combined. However it wasn't armed and it's shape looked more like a part of a much larger craft. The republic forces all looked at one another baffled by it. Who would have constructed this craft and why.
"Look at the size of it." One arc said in sheer amazement.
"Please it's not that impressive it's no more than an over sized missile design to carry things rather than explode." Said the Captain who was utterly unimpressed in fact he was disappointed by these aliens, "I mean the thing hasn't got a single turret on it. It's like it was only intended for one use and that was to crash into the face of a planet quite idiotic."
"Maybe it was captain they have excellent ground forces but their navy's obviously lacking otherwise the separatist wouldn't have been able to hold this world." The Jedi commander said.
"Excellent point Ma'am." The captain replied a little let down, "Everything's got limitations."
The group then began to look for an entrance into the large yet primitive craft. Then finally they found a large opening to the craft. It was easily the biggest hangar they had ever seen. As they entered it seemed to get larger. The vehicles they saw looked even more primitive with their wheels,treads, or propellers. One wondered how they managed to get this behemoth out here in the first place.
As they walked along the Jedi commander could feel something some one in the force. It was a man who had hostile intent. She held her hand up for everyone to stop. However everyone flinched as a man in gear they'd never seen before jumped from cover. In his lands it looked to be a rocket launcher. However she could sense the man himself was surprised by something.
"Take one more step I blow us to kingdom come!" James said the threat finally arrived.
James was taken by surprise he didn't expect to encounter a human female of all things. However memories from Iraq reminded him anything could be a threat. He didn't let his guard down for a single second.
"Is it really worth killing everyone for." Captain Dagger replied catching James off guard who'd assumed he was some mindless robot.
"You outnumber me I die either way." James concluded still aiming the rocket launcher.
"Unless we're not hostile." Dagger replied wanting to save everyone's life.
"Ok just calm down we'll lower our weapons if you put the rocket launcher down." The Jedi said trying to compromise.
James simply nodded and slowly set the launcher down as the clones set down their blasters as well. Everyone took a second to relax except James who wasn't sure they were completely in the clear. He kept his hand near his side arm. If all went to hell in a split second he could his pistol and place a bullet in five of them before they got their weapons maybe more by the time they started shooting.The Jedi could sense his mistrust and his readiness to kill.
"We mean you no harm." She tried to reiterate.
"Let me explain to my perspective," James said just realizing that everyone oddly spoke english American english at that, "I was sent here in response to a threat to one of our outposts by a large alien force. My comrades engaged alien robots in combat now I have what looks to be some elite force in my hangar now I will admit that speaking the same language and your leader being human make me think twice and the fact no gun fire has been exchanged yet."
"You mean the fact you didn't kill us all." Captain Dagger replied pointing out the fact if he fired the rocket launcher they'd all be dead.
"Yes the fact we're still standing here helps your case however I'd be a fool just to trust you."
"Alright the men threatening your outpost are our enemies too we are at war with them and these men are also human show him Captain." The Jedi said in response deciding it might be better not to explain the whole clone army thing to a man who knew nothing about the galaxy.
Dagger nodded then slowly removed his helmet. James could tell they wanted to ease tensions he could try to work with them. However he needed to call this in before anything else could go down. Not just for further orders but he knew if he was leading the operation he'd want to know things like allied alien forces that weren't so alien.
"See human just like you." Dagger replied.
"Alright I gotta call this in please don't move or go for your weapons." James replied getting on his earpiece keeping his eyes on them the entire time.
Meanwhile Phoenix became increasingly concerned even though it hadn't been even fifty minutes but James could be dead already. He didn't like this thought but couldn't shake it. Even as he came on the beach and saw a landed Osprey. Standing outside CIA special activity division (SAD) man in old grade body armor. He had with him delta force operators and force recon guys all armed and decked out in old tech.
"Alright let's go we don't got a lot of time!" The SAD man yelled.
Phoenix stopped while getting a communication from James to his relief. The man was alive and probably killed the alien patrol.
"James you gotta tell me the story of how you single handedly killed an entire alien patrol seriously I'll get you in tier one for that accomplishment." Phoenix said pretty sure he could convince Spector to move James up to delta.
"That's the thing I didn't kill them." Said James slowly.
"What'd you mean?" Phoenix questioned holding up a finger that said one moment to the SAD man who was shouting at him.
"They claim to be enemies of our enemy and I have reason to believe they're telling the truth."
"Alright James you're the beret foreign relations are in your ballpark I need to analyze the situation and determine if we trust them or kill them yourself. I gotta go or the CIA will have my ass listen I trust you're a smart man just do your job."
As the communication cut James caught himself staring at the alien force with no more advice or further orders then he started out with. He could do this he'd been in worse situations in the past he kept telling himself that. The middle east and eastern Europe was so much worse then this situation here. He sighed for a moment getting himself together.
"Alright let's talk about this war and the two factions involved perhaps I'll crack a beer we got a few those. Heard the boys in six smuggled them in." James said trying to be friendly rather than hostile now.
"Boys in six?" Questioned The Jedi.
"Yeah it's what my squad nicknamed the seal team six guys during training for the current operation."
"How many people do you have?"
"One hundred,two hundred, ten million I'll reveal more details depending on how all this goes."
"Fair enough." the The Jedi replied.
"Let's start with names I'll go first names James yours."
"Alright I'm Kira I'm in charge of this group my second in commands Dagger we work for the galactic republic. We're a democracy of worlds at odds with the separatists they consider themselves a democracy but they're run by a Sith and bunch of wealthy companies."
"Sith?" Questioned James.
"Right you don't have those from where you're from," Said Kira who now needed to explain the Sith and the Jedi, "Alright in this galaxy there's this thing called the force some of us can access it and use it. Many of us choose to be Jedi and use it for good the Sith use it to control and gain power."
"Got it you're the X-Men they're the brotherhood." James said summarizing it into terms he understood, "But how do I know the Sith wouldn't say the exact same thing."
"Well take it from your experience the separatist sent soldiers who tried to kill you the republic sent soldiers who are talking to you."
"You make a good point." Said James who gave it some thought, "But why are you here seeing your numbers you're either really good or really stupid because you're heavily outnumbered."
"Same could be said for yourself."
"Again you don't know our numbers or our skill."
"Fine we're reconnaissance who were sent after intercepting a separatist message presumably about your ship."
James took a second to think about this whole situation
"You know what we got a saying on earth the enemy of my enemy is my friend so consider this a temporary alliance cause you guys have advanced weaponry and I'll take the help I can get."
Meanwhile finally they arrived at out post Asimov. Phoenix was curious how James was doing but he had things to do. He was met by another CIA man who had a grin on his face.
"Welcome to outpost Asimov you bring the receiver?" The CIA man questioned.
"Yeah Kirk has it." Phoenix replied.
Kirk came out and put the box on the ground. The CIA man formed a smile on his face as did Phoenix. Although he didn't think anything was going to go horribly wrong he was still glad the solution was upon them.
"Follow me Wing commander while the engineers set up the receiver we gotta talk about your ship."
Phoenix didn't question any further he simply followed the CIA man threw the base. It was high tech much of technology wasn't earth. Delta,ISA,and marine recon were all around he even saw ships that definitely weren't human.
He followed the man into a room that had one delta force commander and a few other important figures. Phoenix saw a map nap a drawn map of what seemed to be part of galaxy with a lot of unknowns marked on it.
"Alright the rest of vanguard is surrounded by those robotic bastards they have no clue where our outpost is but our scouts say they got possibly an entire division. We're pulling our division together from out posts Bradbury and Wells."
"Wait how did you gain interstellar travel capabilities?" Questioned Phoenix remembering everyone originally thought it was one planet before they sent in new information.
"We kind of used Delta force to hijack a ship and kidnapped it's pilot forcing him to show us how to use it."
"I admit it was not our proudest moment." The Delta force commander replied who had held the gun on the driver himself.
"Alright I say we just make that classified if we ever get asked." The CIA man explained.
"Agreed," Said Phoenix wishing he hadn't asked.
The door opened up and two engineers entered the room. They had smiles on their faces as they'd made a great accomplishment.
"Sirs receivers up we can call earth and get a response in real time." Said one engineer, "By the way I over heard by any chance can I go home now my family probably thinks I'm dead."
"I'm sorry Gary but you know to much." The CIA man replied.
"My names not Gary."
"I know Gary I know."
James meanwhile was considering how much he could actually tell them. Trust was a serious issue one thing was for sure. He couldn't ask them to help protect what they didn't know about. Either way it acquired to him they might not trust him. If no one trusted each other then it would undermine what they were trying to do. At least one party would need to trust the other to the point where they weren't constantly looking over their shoulder every second.
"Alright follow me there's something you gotta see." James said realizing he was about to take a major risk. But the way he saw it he didn't decide to go on this op there'd be no risks or even join the military.
Everyone simply nodded as they walked with him. After about walking for 30 minutes it became evident James should've also said it would be a long walk. However after 30 more minutes they made it the door. James pressed a button and watched it woosh open that always impressed him. Made him feel like he was in a sci fi movie. Then again this whole ordeal made him feel like he was in a sci fi film.
"Alright you might find this a tad bit creepy just brace yourselves." Said James who had turned around to tell them this. He however found this creepy every time he saw it even though he knew better.
Everyone's eyes grew wide at the bizarre sight. They saw the rest of the taskforce the thousands upon thousands still frozen in cryo stasis.
"That's how we made the voyage something the scientist called cryo stasis now there's a glitch in the system most of us didn't come out. We're working on the solution."
"What's your plan?" The Jedi questioned.
"Too many details that my superiors would define as confidential information."
"Fair enough," The Jedi said slowly realizing he'd revealed the location of his comrades this was a sign he was somewhat trusting them, "How long are we protecting them for?"
"Can't give an exact time and date cause I'm not sure but I can tell you they'll be coming back and when they do we'll have enough men to pull of operation overlord ten times over." James said then realizing they didn't know what operation Overlord was, "It's the biggest naval invasion in my planet's history we don't have time to into details about it."
"Alright you all heard the man set up defences and prepare yourselves we could be here for awhile."
Phoenix had written down careful instructions on how to fix the glitch it was very detailed and as much as Phoenix wanted just to call James he couldn't. He was informed that their enemy may or may not be listening to their com conversations. There was evidence to suggest both were happening. Now they were watching the men at Asimov load up on their low tech gear. They had armor piercing rounds which would do enough damage against droids but they weren't anything near enhanced Vanguard rounds.They didn't even have the protective armor.
"You really couldn't have brought even a little of the munitions sent to reinforce us?" Questioned the SAD man loading his custom G36C.
"I'm sorry it would've slowed us down by the way nice gun you got there haven't seen too many of those on the American side of things."
"I'm SAD my work often revolved around being able to deny America was involved using an un American gun was a must however I've fallen in love with this thing."
"Interesting."
Phoenix entered the same pelican as his squadron everyone locked and loaded ready to finish this operation. The SAD man returned for a quick second.
"Ok we're going to create a diversion so you can secure the ship so make it quick presumably after we have secured the area then we'll go about the planet. The other outposts are sending more men in as I speak."
"Understood." Phoenix replied.
The man left as the door to Phoenix's osprey slowly closed everyone fell dead silent as they took off. The only thing on Phoenix's mind was his team mates if he failed they'd all be doomed to their fate. It was in times like these he had to remind himself to relax and convince himself everything would work out. However this mission struck closer to his soul on his first tier one op in Afghanistan his entire team was dropped with false information. They were surrounded and killed all but him who was captured and tortured for months till his own rescue. He could still hear his team's cries for help cries that would never be answered.
James sat on the balcony that overlooked the entire hangar. A solid hour had passed and he'd received no word from Phoenix he began to worry. Normally he'd just listen to music but he needed to be able to communicate with his native allies. They had done a great job setting up defences these men were extremely efficient soldiers. However it wouldn't be much good if Phoenix was never returning.
"You seemed concerned about something." The Jedi told him
"How can you tell?" Questioned James being completely serious in that questioned, "I got full face gear on."
"Jedi can sense certain things like emotions." She replied.
"Right," Said James who simply wasn't surprised any more, "Yes I'm a little stressed you could say been a solid hour since my teams called in they usually call in every hour. If they're all dead then everyone else on this voyage is to."
"Maybe they're alive and they're just occupied," The Jedi said trying to reassure him then realizing that's what one usually said one's self first in a situation like this, "Besides once the republic shows up with a fleet I'm sure are technicians can figure out your glitch anyways."
James looked at her for a moment he immediately noticed she had red hair and green eyes. It was a weird moment of deja vu. However he shook that thought off immediately.
"Why are you concerned about my stress levels it doesn't have much to do with the mission yours or mine." James said in reply, "Cause when the bullets fly I'm cool as an ice cube."
"I'm a Jedi we have to care about all living things around us."
"So you're not just some government military asset?"
"Sirs!" The Arc Captain yelled as he charged in with urgent news, "Intercepted separatist communication requesting reinforcements to a village ten miles out. Something to do with invaders wielding slug throwers."
James chuckled to himself for a moment. He knew exactly what they were doing right about now and had an idea of why Phoenix wasn't calling him.
"Seems the 1st interstellar recon division's starting the party," James said standing up turning to the Jedi and the captain, "Get ready it's only a distraction main force is headed our way I'm assuming they're not calling cause they can tap our communications and trace them."
Another arc charged into the hangar having seen something threw his binoculars no could see but he had a smile on under his helmet. The Jedi could sense his rejoiced attitude.
"Sir spotted a fleet of alien air vehicles coming our way!" He yelled to them.
Now James had a smile on his face as well. He quickly went outside and watched as the Ospreys swooped over and men using parachutes air dropped all around. As they hit the ground they moved in towards the ship. Phoenix sprinted out with the rest of the squad behind him.
"James I see you made friends." Said Kirk glad to see his squad mate again.
"You know me Mr social." James replied getting laughs from everyone.
"Alright now introduce us will ya and make it quick it's not gonna take the hits very long to figure out a larger force has moved in." Phoenix replied.
"Alright this here is commander Kira with special forces from a faction calling itself the galactic republic," The warrant officer started, "Kira this here is one of commanding officer we call him Phoenix never got his real name with what seems to be few Marsoc guys,few felt a guy's,few CIA para military and my temporary squad."
"To sum it up we're all Americans with a considerable amount of skill." The Raider said seeing as how they probably didn't know much about American spec ops.
"Alright I gotta get to the bridge everyone else get inside everyone including the first division has been given personal lockers in the armory I suggest you go upgrade your gear." Phoenix replied last part pointed at the men of outpost Asimov.
Phoenix sprinted inside and as quickly as possible scaled up ladders sprinted down numerous hall ways and opened numerous doors. Finally he made it to the bridge and got to the computer. Quickly he placed the code in. He was sweating as the the computer said processing.
He was breathing hard and sweating a river not from exhaustion but from stress. If this didn't work then they were screwed. Screwed was underexcretion if anything else. Suddenly Phoenix's face turned to utter horror in shock. He read the words unable to open pods in these conditions on the computer. There was only one expression that could fit this moment.
"Fuck!"
I wasn't sure if this would catch on or not cause the idea seemed really obscure to me so there's only one chapter. I go to about three or four before I make the descion to can it or not.