Thank you, Phoenix Skywalker, and Stealer-L1F3 for Beta reading

Prologue


I ran down the narrow corridor, followed by a number of clones. I looked ahead and saw the door to the control room closing fast. Our goal was to get through that door and shut down the droids that controlled the city. I watched as the door, and others behind, closed with a bang.

Leaping, I plunged my ignited lightsaber into the heavy durasteel and slowly turned it in a circle. The doors weren't made to withstand lightsabers and so it quickly gave way to mine. I kicked the burning hunk of durasteel into the room and briefly listened for laser blasts.

Besides the hum of machinery it was quiet, to quiet. I used the Force to pull the doors apart and walked slowly into its interior. I pulled my lightsaber to a defensive position, exerting the utmost caution. I walked past the entrance and looked toward the monitor, reaching out my hand to push the shutdown button.

As I did so I heard, "Uh, oh," I spun around and swung my lightsaber through seven droid heads. Another caught my eye. I leapt across the room at it.

I slashed my lightsaber through it and watched as it crumpled to the floor. The clones I lead had now come pouring into the room. I turned and looked at them. I felt their stares through their black visors.

I smiled, even though I felt like shaking. It was my first attempt at leading a troop of clones. "Good job sir."

I looked at the monitor screen, it was blinking red. I slammed my lightsaber into it and watched it blow into a billion pieces.

I was about to say we should go back now when a second clone stepped up. "Sir," it said, "Two brigades of supper-droids and one brigade of destroyer droids are coming, they should be here in three minutes."

That didn't make any sense, I had just destroyed the command center. The droids should all be shutdown. Then it dawned upon me; this room was a trap, the computer the bait, and it would take thirty minutes to go back.

I then saw blinking lights that seemed to speed-up. I saw thermal-detonators in each of the corners of the high ceiling. I leapt into another hall and yelled above the noise of explosions, "Let's get out of here!" I saw a door at the end of the hall and I made a break for it. The explosions behind became louder and I know that the ceiling would come down any second. Then the doors in front began to close. I lunged forward through the doors. I was not alone.

I saw sixty battle droids with blasters pointed at me. I leapt into the air, twirled, and spun myself through the laser bolts. The lasers were as thick as flies and dogging them was difficult in the extreme.

I cut down one and then another. The droids blasted down the ceiling from the roof. The ceiling came crashing down and I did my best to slash to the falling pieces to shreds. I completed a lightsaber throw and I caught it in time to block seven blasts and return them to there shooters. I leapt out of the way of a blast that I couldn't deflect. I jumped right back up and sliced through two. I drew the fire of most of the droids to that area destroying droids on all sides. I jumped off a droid and slashed through two droids in the air. I landed and slashed though a droid, then I slashed another until all the droids were just a smoking pile of steel. I switched off my lightsaber and clipped it to my belt.

Heaving a sigh of relief I turned. And there before me were six Destroyer droids and ten super droids. I flipped my light saber into my hand, igniting it. Then I lunged forward, slicing a Destroyer Droid before it could turn on it shields. The Super-droids opened fire; then, I saw nothing except black emptiness…

THIS IS THE REVISED VERSION as of 3/5/13. I AM HAVING this story beta read at this time. By two people so, when its ready I will be happy to post the new chapter revisions for 2 - 15. Thanks to Phoenix Skywalker for revising and improving this story. Go check her stories out! "Timothy Bee Barclay"