Chapter II
With a groan, Jango tried to sit up, but did not want to present himself as another target. The concussion from the shot had hurt like hell, but it hadn't penetrated his armor. Jango rolled over to his stomach, overlooking the situation. He needed two things: a weapon and cover. Jango reached over and grabbed a discarded E-5 blaster; the blasters were cheap, powerful and widely used among the B1 Battle droids. Weapon situation remedied. Jango crawled over to a fallen Super Battle Droid chassis and turned it over. Cover situation remedied. From there, Jango fired over the top of the downed droid at the opposing Jedi. He caught at least one in the hip and it went down. But the blaster fire abruptly stopped. Jango looked around wildly, wondering if the droids had been shut down. But then Count Dooku from a balcony spoke up.
"Master Kenobi!" The Count's voice echoed "You have fought gallantly. Worthy of recognition in the history archives of the Jedi Order. Now it is finished" Battle Droids placed the stragglers in with the rest of the Jedi in the center of the arena. "Surrender" Dooku said "And your lives will be spared."
The Jedi turned to Kenobi, the Jedi that had attacked Jango on Kamino. Apparently, with Windu gone, they had turned to him as their new leader.
Kenobi's eyes were stolid as he replied "Sorry Dooku. We won't surrender."
Music to my ears Jango thought
"Then you leave me no choice" Dooku announced, with cleverly feigned sadness "I'm sorry."
With this last word, the droids and Jango readied their blasters to fire. In this circle, there was no way the Jedi would last longer than a few seconds. Jango aimed his rifle for Kenobi's forehead, but the senator from Naboo cried "LOOK!"
And out of the sky dropped a vehicle Jango knew too well: a Republic gunship. As they dropped into the arena, the side doors slid open and soldiers in white armor began to fire blaster rifles down at the droid mob.
"Good Gordy!" Jango exclaimed as he crawled up from his cover. Blue blaster bolts lanced through droids all around him as the machines fired back; the battle continued. The bounty hunter was knocked to his stomach as a pinpoint composite beam arced along the ground behind him. As the LAATs came close enough for the stranded Jedi to board, Fett managed to crawl on his stomach to an exit.
Jango realized that the army he had helped to create had finally been unleashed. He just wished they didn't have to get unleashed on the same planet as him. "Time to get Boba and get the Hell out of here" Jango muttered to himself. Those clones were going to fight, and they were going to fight hard. Jango had seen the strength of Dooku's droid army here on Geonosis and he had a pretty good idea how many clones there were going to attack with. That was enough to know that the Confederates didn't have a chance. And so Jango ran.
He found Boba hidden in a small, dark indent in the Arena's wall. He wasted no time, discarding his E-5 and picking Boba up. "Come on Boba! We're leaving!" Jango cried as he ran with the child in his arms. "Dad!" Boba exclaimed, pointing "Those clones!"
"I know Boba, I know"
The hanger bay was a mess. Klaxons were ringing and Geonosians were scuttling to their fighters. Jango hated the bugs, they made his skin crawl; and he'd be glad to be rid of them and their damned planet. Pressing the remote control on his right wristband, Jango opened the entrance to the Slave I. He put Boba down in the co-pilot seat where he usually sat and sat himself in the pilot's chair. Jango took two seconds to catch his breath, then began to enter the pass codes needed to unlock the Slave I. Jango took off as fast as he could, and almost paid for it when a Geonosian fighter leaving the hanger at the same time glanced against the Slave I's hull. Boba looked out the window at the ensemble above and below with amazement. Dotting the sky were Acclamator-class assault ships and descending down from them were more LAATs, firing missiles, carrying walkers, and being blown from the sky in brilliant orange bursts. Down below the action was just warming up, with thousands of newly inserted clone troopers attacking the entrenched droid forces. Blue and red blaster bolts flew back and forth like rain, and explosions dotted both sides as they invariably drew closer. While Boba was captivated, Jango didn't give the battle a second glance; he activated the Slave's cloaking systems, blinding the Republic ships to his presence. Within an hour he had cleared the atmosphere, inputed hyperspace coordinates and made the jump to light speed, leaving the Republic and CIS to wage their first titanic battle without him.