Chapter 4: Yet Another Problem

Indeed the Republic had figured out the truth behind the virus that infected the colonialists, all that was left now was to apprehend the main culprit Dr. Hadis. But before that, they had to get through a number of infected colonialists who were still trying to attack the group of lone clone troopers along with Kit Fisto who came just in the nick of time as things were getting quite grim.

"I told you we needed a Jedi!" laughed the clone commander who was firing rapidly at some infected colonialists.

"Watch out, there are a few banshees coming this way!" cried another clone trooper who noticed a squad of witch zombies were coming their way as they were screaming so loudly tearing up everything in their path.

That obviously was quite easy on the Confederate droid forces who were moving in from behind as they began to fire upon the infected colonialists.

"This is easy target practice!" laughed a Battle Droid to Dr. Hadis.

Suddenly the Confederate ship that was up above was having some issues as a Republic fleet that dropped out of hyperspace was sending its starfighters and attacking the ship.

"Er, sir, sorry to bother you during your invasion, but there seems to be a dilemma here" said the Battle Droid hologram to Dr. Hadis.

"And what might that be?" continued Dr. Hadis.

"Republic forces have dropped out of hyperspace, they're sending fighters after us, we must flee!" cried the Battle Droid captain.

"Heaven's no, my experiment will go in full force, you got those torpedoes of my virus loaded up, don't you?" asked Dr. Hadis.

"Yea, oh, I see what you're trying to tell us to do" said the Battle Droid captain.

Indeed, Dr. Hadis wasn't going to go down without a fight, he'd indeed bring his experiments toward the Republic, one of the Republic cruisers that was being targeted was commanded by several clones, but on that particular ship, a few clones could feel something bad was going to happen.

"Put on your oxygen masks" said a clone trooper to his comrades in his squad.

"Why, we haven't been given the orders from our commanding officer yet" said another clone trooper.

"Look, I just have that bad feeling" said the clone trooper.

Indeed that clone trooper was right on the money, the ship Dr. Hadis controlled fired a torpedo, at least two of them at the Republic cruiser in particular hitting it.

"What damage report?" asked the captain of the ship.

"Nothing bad, but we'll check it out anyway" said a clone trooper as he took a squad to inspect the damage.

But it seemed like hours during the battle there was no response from the progress report from the clone troopers that were sent into the area where the missiles had struck the cruiser.

"A previous squad hasn't reported back yet on any damage reports" said the captain, "send in more."

That would indeed prove an unwise decision, the clone troopers were indeed infected already with the virus, and they were already roaming around the decks of the cruiser looking for any prey. The virus got to the other clone troopers who were not protective in wearing oxygen masks either, and the virus soon consumed them as well. Only a few clone troopers were left onboard the main deck of the cruiser.

"That's odd" said the captain, "what happened to the rest?"

Suddenly an infected clone trooper bursts out from the door all rabidly mad with anger.

"Doesn't look normal, fire!" said a clone trooper as he had no other choice but to kill his former comrade.

Suddenly sirens went on within the ship as the ship itself was being overrun with infected clone troopers, the clone troopers onboard that were not affected by the virus had oxygen helmets on to protect themselves from the virus. The captain of the flag ship was puzzled as one of the ships in the fleet wasn't responding to any commands after it was hit by a few missiles from the stealth Confederate ship.

"That's odd, why are they not responding to my commands" said the captain who then turned to the Republic admiral.

"Sir, one of our ships refuses to respond to our commands after it was hit by those strange torpedoes" said the captain.

"Mutiny" said the Admiral who then had the captain of the ship they were trying to contact ended up contacting them.

"Sir, I need help!" cried the captain who was struggling to maintain calm, "The soldiers, they have become infected with some kind of a virus!"

"Impossible!" cried the Admiral.

"Sir, we're receiving transmission from the ground on the colony" said the captain of the flag ship.

Indeed, an image of Dr. Hadis appeared before them.

"Ah, Admiral, I see you are experiencing some technical difficulties with one of your ships in your fleet" laughed Dr. Hadis, "my virus can indeed infect any organic being quite quickly if they're exposed to it. It was easy for me to test it on this Republic colony so disloyal to my Confederate friends."

"This is biological warfare and genocide!" screamed the Admiral to Dr. Hadis.

"It's just the old fashion game of divide and conquer" laughed Dr. Hadis.

Suddenly the Confederate ship began to set its eyes upon the flag ship itself of the fleet.

"Get the other ships out of here fast!" ordered the Admiral.

As the Republic fleet were indeed fleeing, meanwhile back on the ground, Kit Fisto along with the clone troopers were still having a rough time wondering where the reinforcements were coming. And on the Republic cruiser that was struck by the missiles by Dr. Hadis' ship, the clones who had survived the viral onslaught were wondering how to get off the ship as their former brothers now infected with the virus were roaming around the cruiser itself.