The Venator-Class Star Destroyer named the "Venandi" three others of the same class, and five Acclamator-Class Assault Ships came screaming out of hyperspace to do battle with a Separatist fleet.
At that same moment I woke to the barracks filled with the screech of the attack alarm, and my Brother screwing to get geared up, and I quickly followed suit slapping on my gear, and grabbing my rifle from the armory.
As my squad and I charged through the halls hurrying to the hanger bay I could feel the Venandi shake with what is no doubt impact explosions from Separatist ships in orbit around the planet of "Terra" which is a multi biome planet, and whose locals called for aid from the Separatist.
We ran into the hangar bay and with our Commander, and Mandalorian "Ferox" we filed into a nearby gunship, and soon Ferox joined us.
The Gunship's doors slid closed, and the noise of a busy ship vanished replaced by the steady breathing of 29 Clone Soldiers, and one Female Mandalorian warrior.
Soon the air in the gunship warmed up, and the gunship began to shake as we entered the upper atmosphere.
As the gunship got lowerer into the atmosphere the door opened, and I got a good scale of how large of force the Jedi got to retake this planet. Hundreds of other Gunships littered the sky, and then the closest gunship gets hit by flak causing our Gunship to shake violently.
Soon the LZ came into sight, and the pilot announced it'll be a rocky stop, and to get off as soon as the Gunship stops.
As soon as my boots hit the ground my blaster was barking blue bolts of plasma at the entrenched Droid positions. I didn't stop to think, just follow the plan, and the plan was to get into behind cover, and not die.
My Squad and I charged through the ash layed landscape straight towards the enemy. With so little cover our best bet was to get to the enemy trenches and take them.
At the time of the briefing it sounded easy, just take some trenches, but the General forgot to mention that the trenches were a part of large system of trenches spreading thousands of kilometers long.
I jumped into the first row of trenches glad for the cover, and began to fire on the droids approximately 10 meters away in the second row of trenches, and the rest of my squad did as well.
First object accomplished, and then I spotted the massive size of a J-1 Proton cannon firing at the still incoming stream of Gunships, and Dropships.
I then heard Ferox yell "We have to take out that gun of our armor will be torn apart!"
I couldn't agree more, and we started heading that way staying low in the trench to stay out of view until we were directly in front of the J-1, Five trenches in front of it.
Ferox signaled for us to crouch, and she laid out the battle plan. "Alright that cannon must be taken down, and we're the only ones as of now to be in position to do so. We're going to jump out there run like hell into the next trench, destroy some droids and go to the next one. No breaks!" and with that she climbed out of the trench with us hot on her heels as we sprinted the ten meters under heavy droid fire.
I fired while I ran, and ran while I fired trying to take out some of the droids before we got into the trench, and then I was there and I jumped head first into the trench as a grenade went off right behind me causing dirt, and burnt wood to come raining down on us, but I didn't have time to think about it as we lurched out of that trench and ran for the next one which was luckily much closer, and I was soon jumping onto a B1 Battle Droid ripping its head off before I slammed into the ground, and blasting away two other droids, and then climbing out of that trench and charging towards the next.
As I ran towards the third trench line I first tossed a grenade clearing out the trench section I was going to be leaping into, but it turned out I just jumped over it instead, and headed going for the next one all the while enemy blaster bolts rained down all around me, and explosions went off everywhere.
I barely registered as a squad of Y-Wings went screaming over head bombing the trench, I was running for, but I didn't stop I just ran into the smoke, and then immediately tripped, and fell rolling down the side of the crater, until I came to a stop at the bottom.
I shook my head took a quick breather, and then I grabbed a hand of loose dirt, and climbed out of the crater, and continued running for the cannon.
As I charged the next trench a bolt slammed right into my right shoulder, and pain ripped through me I just screamed like a wild animal as I charged right into a B2 Super battle droid in the trench knocking it over, and blasting it to pieces before quickly firing at the other droids in the trench before I was scrambling out of the trench and now running right at the cannon.
I still had about 15 meters to go, an enemy blaster bolts licked at my feet, with one of two hitting me in the bie I don't truly know.
I just fumbled behind me on my belt, and pulled off my thermal detonator, activated, and ran towards the cannon like a madman, and when I was about five meters away i chucked it, and then collapsed to the ground.
The explosion from the grenade rolled me over, so that I faced the sky. It was sunny with wisps of high altitude clouds twirling around, and then I saw the Bombers. They were Hyena bombers, so that must mean we're winning, but stopped mattering when the bombs started dropping, and I fell unconscious.
I slowly open my eyes. I tried to move, but my entire body aches, and hurt, but I somehow painfully struggle to my feet.
Once on my feet I looked around, but there was nothing around me. Just the destroyed cannon in front of me, and the trenches which were now bombed out to oblivion.
That was when I turned around, and I could barely stand seeing it.
Before we landed the area was black with burnt wood, and scorched dirt, but now it's white. White with the bodies of thousands of dead Clones.
I then softly mutter. "What happened?"
The last I remember was those bombers coming in, but this looks like more than bombers come through here, and then way off in the distance I saw the massive shape of the Venandi, and at first I thought it had landed, but then I saw the flame, and know it had come down, and come down hard.
I walked the battlefield looking for any sign of life, even trying my coms, but I saw nor heard anything.
After what seemed like forever I stumbled upon what was left of my squad's bodies. Many of them have been torn apart, their guts hanging from their shattered white armor, and then I saw Ferox, and then my legs went. If any could have survived this it was her.
I reached over, and removed her helmet, and her head flopped out. She looked like she's sleeping. I just sat there looking at her trying to figure out what I needed, of what I could even be able to do when her eyes then snapped open, and she then screamed when she saw me, and kicked out knocking me back, but when she tried to stand she fell down. It was her leg. It must be broken.
I quickly got to my feet ignoring the pain just happy i'm not the only on here. "Commander! Commander! It's me!" I then took off my helmet which was more painful then I would say. "It's me! It's Snake!"
She stopped struggling, and looked at me. "You look like shit Snake."
I felt it. "Yeah I know." I gave the area a quick one over again, and said. "What happened?"
She shrugged. "I don't know. All I remember is you busting your butt getting out of the trench, and booking it towards that gun. I tried to get you to stop, but you were too far ahead, and when I tried to climb out I took several bolts, and weant out."
I then noticed the scorch marks on her chest plate, and one on her helmet. I looked at her fave, dn right around the left eye was a massive bruise that was bleeding in a few spots.
She then took quick look around. "I guess we're it."
I shake my head. "Can't be. There were thousands of troopers here. Some one else has have to have survived." I than grabbed her arm , and helped her up letting her lean on me as much as she needed to, and started heading for the Venandi.
***Twenty Years later***