"Republic forces in retreat! While rescuing General Aayla Secura from certain defeat, Anakin Skywalker has been seriously injured. After a narrow escape, our heroes crash-landed on the remote world of Maridun. Stranded. and with no way to contact the Republic, the Jedi and the Clone Commando group Delta Squad receive medical aid from the peaceful Lurmen colonists. But even on this tiny planet, the war threatens to follow the jedi..."
In the village all the colonists are wandering around working as Fixer and Bly is exiting a tent like hut and sees two lurmen struggling to lift the basket up. Fixer and Bly went over and helped push the basket up as one of the Lurmen smiled at them and handed them each a fruit from the basket as Fixer and Bly happily took a bite out of it. Meanwhile, Rex and Sev are a bit outside the village on the lookout until they spotted something coming. Sev took his bonoculars off to take a look as he sees a Trade Federation lander coming it's way as Sev says to Rex, "We got a Trade Federation lander coming, we better let the others know." Rex nodded his head as he contacted, "Deltas, Commander Bly, we got company."
"Friendlies?" Bly asked through the comm. "Negative sir, it's a droid ship coming straight our way," replied Rex. "Well gee I thought we would spend the rest of our day without violence for once, " interrupted Scorch sarcastically. "Six-Two cut the chatter this is pretty serious," said Fixer in an annoyed tone. "Acknowledged, everyone rendezvous back at General Skywalker's hut.
"What is it Boss? asked Anakin raising himself up a bit. "We got a Separatist ship incoming sir," answered Boss grimly. Wag tu turned towards Anakin as he said, "this is neutral space." Anakin turned and looked at him and said, "It won't be neutral for long, not if the Separatists get their way." Anakin tried to get up but was still in pain as he commanded, "Help me up." Anakin still tried to get up but was struggling as Wag tu says in concern, "Don't struggle, I'm sorry but your still to injured to move."
Sev and Rex arrived as Sev says to the group, "the ship is landing, what do you want to do sirs?" Before anyone can answer a voice of anger cried out to them, "What menace have you brought to our village now jedi!" Everyone turned to see the Elder Lurman at the entrance angry as Wag tu tried to defend them by saying, "Father you can't blame them." Ahsoka rose up as she says, "He's right, the Separatists don't even know were here." "And they can't know we got to hide," continued Aayla. "Or at least attack them by surprise, "suggested Scorch softly.
Boss gave Scorch a look to 'shut up' as the Elder says to them, "Your presence here endangers us, you must leave before your enemies find you." Ahsoka approached him as she said, "But you need our help, you can't fight them alone." "We will not fight them at all, we would rather die than to kill others," retorted the Elder. "Your going to surrender!?" asked Ahsoka in shock. "That's not gonna work, how can you..." Before Sev could continue, Anakin interrupts them by saying, "Sev, Ahsoka, stop...if the Lurmen want to remain neutral, we won't force them into war." "See to it that they leave, I must see what our new visitors want," said the Elder as he started making his way to the lander.
Everyone was packing to leave as Sev and Rex were trying to help Anakin up as Rex says, "Take it easy sir, we'll assist you." Everyone is leaving and trying to sneakily escape till they hide behind some buildings to see some battle droids ransack the village and terrifying the colonists. Wag tu was shocked by this as he says, "why are they tearing apart our homes, we done nothing to them." "Violence, that's what those droids are programmed for," said Ahsoka in an angry tone. Sev growled as he walked a bit forward and said, "I'm gonna scrape these pieces of..." Scorch stopped him as he says to him, "Sev you don't want to do that."
Ahsoka looked at her group as she asks, "Can't we do anything?" "No, if we do anything all the Lurmen will be slaughtered," answered Aayla. "We need to get out of here before were discovered, "said Boss. "We'll bo okay, if we make it to the tall grass," says Anakin as he stared at the grass. Everyone, except Wag tu was heading to the long grass as Ahsoka looked back a bit as Boss noticed and said, "ahsoka, we'll help them eventually for now we got to move." Ahsoka nodded as they both went into the long grass.
a few hours later...
Everyone is resting in an are far away from the village as Rex says to everyone, "I can't figure out why those villagers don't want to fight, heh no pride I guess." Sev shrugged as he suggests, "Maybe they got no guts." Scorch takes a bite off his ration bar as he says jokingly, "You know what they say, no guts no glory." "I call it no courage, "said Ahsoka as she takes a bite of her ration bar. "Sometimes it takes courage to stick to ones beliefs young padawan, as any jedi well knows," said Aayla as Ahsoka looked down and took a bite from the ration bar.
"We need to find a ship, I think the only thing around here belongs to the Separatists," said Anakin. "What are you saying sir?" asked Fixer curiously. Little did they know a spy droid was watching them as Anakin answered, "Well we know they have a lander ship, so they might have a shuttle nearby." Rex looked at him as he says, "Sir, your talking about stealing from the Clankers...count me in." "Me too," chimed in Sev. "Me three," agreed Scorch. "Well first we have to find them, the question is where?" asked Boss.
Ahsoka took another bite of her ration bar as she looked up shocked and said, "I think we just did!" Everyone turned to see the spy droid as it then made its presence known. "Blast it!" yelled out Anakin as everyone was shooting at it. The droid dodges the blaster fire as Aayla commands to Bly, "Jam it's signal." Bly did so as Ahsoka ran after it and yelled out, "After it!" Everyone ran after it as the droid lost them for a moment as Scorch asked, "which way did it go?" Ahsoka pointed at the direction it went as she says, "this way hurry!" Ahsoka, Rex, Bly, Boss, Fixer, and Scorch ran in that direction as Aayla and Sev took a different direction.
The group finally catches up to the droid as Fixer yells out, "there it is!" However, the droid was about to get out of the open as Bly comments, "we can't catch it if it gets out in the open." Aayla then popped out as she activated her lightsaber and went for a swipe but missed, but the droid was destroyed after a sniper shot as everyone looked around to see up in the tree was Sev as he gave a thumbs up to the group. "Great shot Sev!" said Ahsoka excitedly. "Thanks Ahsoka, but you guys better get up here, I can see where it came from, "answered Sev as everyone headed for the tree.
After a little while, anakin was able to catch up to them as Scorch says to him jokingly, "nice of you to show up sir." Anakin smirked at the joke as he playfully punched Scorch in the shoulder as Ahsoka says to him, "I hope your feeling better master, because look what we found." ahsoka handed him binoculars as Anakin grabs the binoculars and says, "Heh I'm getting stronger all the time Snips." "Really sir, take a look," said Sev as Anakin did so. After viewing for a while and seeing it's defenses, Anakin says, "uhm I'm not sure if i'm ready for that." Boss chuckled a bit as he says, "Just the nine of us against all those droids sir, hmph they don't stand a chance."
After viewing the base for a little while longer, Anakin sees a shuttle as he says to the group, "that shuttle is our ticket off this rock." Bly approached as he says to Anakin, "It's not gonna be easy sir, I don't see any flaws in their security line." Scorch scoffed as he is tossing up and down a grenade as he says, "We'll make one." Everyone looks at him as Scorch says to them, "what?" Anakin looks back in his binoculars as he sees a mortar like tank heading outside the gate as Anakin says, "Apparently the Separatists have a new toy, see if you can give a closer look Sev and Scorch."
Sev nodded his head and said, "you got it sir." "Bly and I will go with you guys, " said Rex as the four of them start making their way down. After a little bit Fixer noticed two battle droids heading to the four's position as Fixer says, "Looks like they got company." Boss looked through the binoculars to see the two groups almost converging as Boss gritted his teeth and said, "stay down boys." Suddenly the weapon fired as the shell can be seen as Scorch yells out, "run for it!" the four then start running back to the tree as the shell landed and exploded as Rex and Scorch used cables on their guns to latch onto the tree, but Bly tripped on a branch. Luckily, Sev grabbed Bly and used his to get to the tree as Bly says to Sev, "thanks Sev."
Sev nodded his head as everyone can see the carnage the explosion created and to their shock, the two droids survived. "that's some toy, it took out every living thing," said Ahsoka in shock. "It must be some type of weapon that eradicates living organic matter instead of non organic matter," Fixer concluded. Scorch stared at him as he says to Fixer, "Basic Fixer, basic." Fixer groaned as he explained again only different, "The weapon is designed to destroy living beings not droids." Scorch did a silent oh as Aayla and anakin notice they are gearing up to leave as Aayla asks, "where are they off to now?" Anakin hands Aayla the binoculars as he says, "They must be heading back to the Lurmen village, there's nothing else in that direction."
"those villagers won't stand a chance, we got to help them," said Sev. "first we deal with their communication, after we get the shuttle we help the Lurmen," said anakin. "But Te Wa Ka said he doesn't need our help," said Ahsoka. "Well Ahsoka, there's a difference into pulling them into a war...and leading them into extinction," said Boss as they went down the tree to go plan on their move.
Later that night
Anakin, Rex, Bly, Boss, and Fixer were hiding in the long grass as they look on at the fortress like camp. They look over to see Aayla, Ahsoka, Sev, and Scorch as they run forward and lean against the wall in hiding. Anakin then uses the force to move the rock towards them as one of the droid guards takes notice and follows it inside the dark tall grass. Anakin immediately slashed the droid as Fixer commented, "That's one for the scrape yard." Meanwhile, Ahsoka and Aayla scale the walls and made it up as they used the force to lift up Sev and Scorch.
Back outside the camp, five droid guards were watching the gate a the same rock rolled right through them as Anakin picks it up. Before the droids could do anything, Boss, Rex, Bly, and Fixer jump four of the droids as Anakin slashed the last one. Back in the camp, the others saw what they did as Sev commented, "Looks like they had fun." "Don't worry Sev, I'm sure there's more droids for a psycho like you to scrape," joked Scorch. "No, you three get to the door, I'll handle the droids." commanded Aayla.
they separated as Aayla scrapped the ones on the top floor and Ahsoka, Sev, and Scorch took care of the ones behind the gate with Ahsoka cutting down two droids and Sev and Scorch ripping the heads off two more. "Ahsoka open the gate," said Sev as she nodded her head and did so. Anakin and the others entered the camp and started sneaking forward as Fixer says to Anakin, "More droids sir." Anakin signaled the others to move forward as they see three battledroids inside of it. Fixer takes down the one on the right and Boss takes down the one on the left as the other one noticed but got cut down by Anakin.
After taking care of all the droids, they make it to where the shuttle is at as Rex saw something and said, "Shield generators sir." "Those would help stop that weapon from destroying the village," commented Boss. Anakin nodded and said, "Let's take them with us." Rex and Bly went to get the generators as everyone else went inside the shuttle. The Deltas are sitting down in some seats as Boss goes to the intercom and contacts Anakin, Aayla, and Ahsoka in the cockpit by saying, "Sirs do we have good communication here?" "We do Boss, go on ahead and make contact." Yes sir."
Boss goes back to sit down as he tries to make contact with the Advisor and says, "Advisor can you hear me?" The comm was silent as Scorch commented, "guess there was no good signal here..." "I hear you three Eight, what happened to you guys?" asked the Advisor interrupting Scorch. "Our mission to rescue General Aayla Secura was successful but we had a setback...we crashed on the planet Maridun and have countered Separatist resistance...we need reinforcements and extraction," answered Boss. "roger that Three Eight, I will contact Admiral Yularen at once, just stay alive over there." Boss then looked at his squad as he says to them, "Delta Squad...lock and load."
a few hours later...
The ship arrives at the Lurmen village with all the villagers coming out to meet whoever came out of the ship. It was then the three jedi, clones and Delta Squad exited the ship as Aayla says to them, "everyone please...please listen, the Separatists will be here in moments." Te Wa Ka was shocked by their arrival and lashed at them, "What are you doing here I told you not to return!" "I'm afraid the Separatists don't care whether your in the war or not, we need to get you to safety before they arrive," said Anakin. "We will not abandon our homes!" lashed out Te Wa Ka. Sev scoffed at the lash and whispered to Scorch, "I knew they were not gonna just leave."
Ahsoka stepped forward and tried to reason with the angry Lurman leader, "But they got a new weapon, it will burn this place to a crisp is this what you all really want?" "If it is our destiny to be destroyed in your war...so be it." finished Te Wa Ka as he walked away. Wag Tu was in disbelief at what his father said and noticed Boss heading towards him and says to him, "I'm sorry about my father, this war has made him not wanna do what is right." Boss knelt in front of Wag Tu and said to him, "That's the thing kid, in his own way your father is doing the right thing, but the real question is will you?"
Shortly afterwards, everyone was making a barrier out of the giant pods as Rex climbs on top of one of the pods and uses his binoculars. Rex then saw the droid army approaching and said to the others, "Droids inbound, about eight minutes tops." Blast, they got here quicker than we thought," commented Fixer. "Well you know what they say about Droids right, they just keep coming," joked Scorch. "Can it Scorch, move it guys we have to get these Shield generators in place!" yelled out Anakin. Bly and Ahsoka primed the shield generators as they floated up in the air a bit. Afterwards, ahsoka and Aayla continued to finish the barrier as they began to force pull in the last pod but Te Wa Ka was not happy about it and said, "Please stop what your doing, stop building that wall...I did not ask you to defend us."
"This battle is inevitable, stand by your beliefs but let us stand by ours," said Anakin as Te Wa Ka walked away angrily. Ahsoka and Boss appraoched Wag Tu as he says to them, "thank you for what your trying to do...I'm sorry I cannot help my father is very...eh strong willed and set in tradition. Many others agree with me, but we were raised under a very strict code, we must respect it even if we don't agree." "That may be true Wag Tu, but sometimes even the more strong willed will know that their beliefs can be wrong," said Boss as Ahsoka nodded her head in agreement with him.
"Their holding positions!" Yelled out Rex as he noticed the droid army stopped. "Why would they do that?" asked Sev. "Their not going to charge us, not while they can try to hit us from long range first," answered Anakin. "Oh, I knew that," said Sev as Scorch shook his head. "That being said, if we can hold out we can draw them in the old fashioned way," concluded Boss. "Well said Boss," complimented Bly. Suddenly the weapons rocket can be seen as Scorch yells out, "Here it comes!" "Incoming!" yelled out Rex as he jumped down.
"Power the shields!" yelled out Anakin as Aayla and Bly did so. The shield completely covers the village and the rocket lands on the ground and explodes with the giant flame coming towards them. Luckily the shield was able to hold it back as Scorch whistled and said, "You know if it wasn't trying to kill us, I would say that was beautiful." The flames died down with Ahsoka yelling out, "It worked!" Anakin smiled and said confidently, "and now they'll have to meet us face to face." Sev attached his sniper mode and said with a tone of joy, "Good, more clankers to scrape."
They noticed a good size squad of droids coming as Ahska commented, "that's a lot of clankers." "What we lack in numbers, we have more in skill Ahsoka," assured Boss. "You got that right Boss, we need to stop them before they get to the shield," said Anakin. They all then exit out of the shield and ready their weapons as the droids began to fire at them. The three jedi charged and attacked as the rest stayed back and fired at the droids. The group easily dispatched of all the droids as Ahsoka commented, "that wasn't so tough." "Ahsoka, I wish you wouldn't have said that," said Fixer grimly. "Why?" asked ahsoka. Anakin looked forward and answered, "that was just the first wave."
The second and third wave combined began their attack as the jedi charged at them and began cutting them down with the other droid continuing towards the shield. The droids began to overrun The Deltas, Rex, and Bly as they began backing into the shield as Rex goes, "That's it we have to retreat." The clones hop over the pods and approach the villagers as Boss says to them, "Take cover, they breached the shield." The droids destroyed some of the pods and entered as a super battle droid destroyed one of the generators as Fixer yells out, "Their destroying the shield generators."
Ahsoka and Aayla ran in to help them by cutting down the droids from behind but it was already to late as the droids destroyed the other shield generator and the shield began to shut down as all the villagers began to panic and take cover. "Were to late they took out the shield!" yelled out Ahsoka. "Let's just hope that General Skywalker can reach that weapon," said Sev as he shot down a super battle droid. The droids began to shoot at the villagers inside their homes until Wag tu and the others came out and started attacking the droids with Scorch saying, "Go get em you little fur balls."
Shortly afterwards their comm began to bleep as it was Anakin saying, "The weapon has been disabled." Everyone looked at each other with Rex saying back, "Copy that general." Little did the droids know that Wag tu tied a rope around their legs as the lurmen pulled them down and Ahsoka ran across slicing their heads off. The villagers began to celebrate as Ahsoka and Boos looked at Wag Tu as he smiled and nodded at them and then receiving the same from them.
Rex, Bly, Sev, and Scorch escorted the Separatist leader, Lok durd, into their ship as Anakin says to Wag tu, "thank you Wag Tu." "Thank you, our village certaibly would have been destroyed without you to protect us." Te Wa Ka began to approach them as he says to him, "Father, I was owing the jedi our thanks." "Perhaps we do owe you our thanks, but I still wonder at what cost?" asked Te Wa Ka. Suddenly everyone looked up to see three Jedi Cruisers orbiting the planet as Boss looked at the others and went, "Let's go home."