A King
WARNING: Since this is legally an adult cartoon 14+ this is not for kids, I repeat NOT for kids, there will be sex, possible drugs, drama, romance, and other adult content, tread on your own caution. Beta/Collaborator: Kami-no-Yami-666, Jebest4781 and PhoenixLord42
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A King
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Naruto x Average Sized Harem (3-10)
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Clone/Mando Naruto!
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Summary: He never foresaw himself working with the republic, but here he was fighting a war that he obviously knew he was going to win, racking up scores and women!
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Clone cadets
'Clone troopers unite as war rages across the galaxy! The republic's clone army strives for victory against the evil forces of the separatist. Bravery, valor, unity, the lifeblood of victory on the battlefield and in space. It all begins on the planet kamino where Jedi General Shaak Ti oversees the training of the clones, with the help of contracted bounty hunters and a soon to be unexpected visitor. Bred from birth to be perfect soldiers these cadets must first be subjected to intense physical and mental training before they are shipped off to war.'
Currently we see a group of five clones fighting in a war simulator, they were doing okay overall but their form was sloppy, teamwork was laughable and their brotherhood was questionable.
From what the spectators could see from above was that the would be clones were constantly bickering amongst each other in the heat of battle, left themselves too exposed and aiming needed to be improved greatly. The one with the Z-6 rotary blaster was doing well but he couldn't do it all himself and he was going straight into enemy fire but he was clearing a path for his brothers but they weren't taking up the opportunity he presented leaving them in a more difficult situation.
"This unit seems...to be having some trouble getting along, what do you recommend bounty hunters?" Shaak Ti said her voice sounding angelic and peaceful, but she couldn't help but feel in the force that something interesting would happen soon. The bounty hunter to her left Bric decided to answer her question and snapping out from her thoughts of the force.
"Well I'm certainly no Jedi so please forgive me of my bluntness but I say their utter failures, they'd be better doing maintenance duty with 99 and the other rejects." Bric said with a smirk making El- Les quickly deny that claim.
"We can not fail them yet Bric, remember this is only but a practice test. Besides, the Citadel course was constructed to be a difficult challenge." El-Les said not agreeing with the others that they'd give up on potentially one of the best clones to ever be produced, oh how right he would be.
"Although I don't agree with his sentiment, Bric isn't wrong. These cadets are far from ready." The Jedi Master said getting El-Les to solely look down below to keep on viewing the Domino Squad.
Back to the Domino Squad, two of the clones decided to rush ahead, the three decided to say behind one of them was using the DC-15a but his aim was slightly off making him noticeably frustrated while the other one was trying to hold everyone back from rushing ahead and having an early defeat, unfortunately the one trying to keep the group together was ironically the one who had fake plasma blowed through his body.
"The one they call 'Echo' never adapts to the situation." Shaak Ti said with a slight shake of the head.
"CT-782 seems to follow his own path. He can't do it all alone." El-Les said watching Hevy getting shoot down mercilessly.
"Look at those two. Arguing on the battlefield will get you killed. Ugh, and the last one…." Bric said as the three saw the last clone cadet surrendering when all of the training droids surrounded him. "Need I say more?"
Seeing that enough was enough for the day, Shaak Ti walked over to the control panel to end things. "If these cadets can't get past their shortsighted selfishness, they will never come together. Unity wins war gentlemen. Computer, end exercise for Domino Squad." She soon pushed a button to activate the intercoms. "99, would you please send a cleaning crew to the training ground?"
"Yes mistress. We'll take care of the mess." 99 said over the line.
"You should tell that 99 to drag away the mess called Domino Squad." Bric said before walking away to get over to his quarters for the evening.
"I'm severely disappointed in this batch of clones, I actually had high hopes for them." A deep metallic voice sounded out behind them making the three instructors spin around looking for the source of the voice. "Up here."
They looked up and saw two people decked out in Mandalorian armor sticking onto the upper part of the wall. The two soon pressed a button on their gauntlets which had deactivated the magnetic functions in their boots before jumping down.
Shaak Ti, El-Les and Bric knew who the taller of the two was given the reports as of late along with the person the kaminoans always spoke about either through respect or righteous fear. The other person they didn't know although, she was female that much they could tell from the person's figure and wore a smaller suit of Mandalorian armor.
She looked about the same in armor appearance to the taller one for the exception of a different helmet that resembled a hawk with the visor smaller and more tighter spaced then the well known straight T visor. Her armor had a different color scheme: his colors differentiate from black, orange and dark blue while hers was a lighter scheme or blue almost sky blue, the only other color on her was a small red insignia of a nine tailed fox on the forehead of the helmet while the man's was a bit larger. To finish off her appearance, she was sporting two twin blasters in holsters on her hips and one on her right leg.
Standing in front of the current occupants they nodded there head to the Arcona and Siniteen bounty hunters and Togruta Jedi before the taller of the two landed his eyes on Shaak Ti. Removing his helmet it showed the face of one Naruto Uzumaki showing his face to the three. After that he soon smiled at her making her feel strange just looking at his smile, feeling bold he gently grabbed her hand and planted a kiss on it, slightly surprising her.
"It's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance once again Master Jedi Shaak Ti. I hope you remember me and this is my companion, right hand, and betrothed Bo-Katan Kryze." Naruto said as he introduced said woman he walked up to the Jedi Master.
"It is my pleasure to finally meet you once again Overlord and it's a surprise to meet you Ms. Katan but a pleasant one nonetheless." Shaak Ti said as she held onto her kissed hand and can't help but still feel the kiss placed there making her blush slightly.
"Thank you Master Shaak Ti. Heard about you for sometime from Naruto and I actually get the chance to finally meet you." Bo-Katan said as she held out her hand and getting the Togruta to shake it.
"Oh really now? What has he been saying?" Shaak Ti said with a small smirk.
"Oh nothing just how talented you are and how your skills are top notch." Bo-Katan said making the Togruta Jedi smile slightly widened.
"So why are you two here anyways? I didn't hear anything about you coming here unless it was unannounced." Bric said getting the two Mandalorians to put their attention towards him. This was also the question going on in the other two heads since they were going to ask the same thing.
"On my last mission dealing with Christophsis, the Hutts and the whole mess on Tatooine I was with a band of clones on the mission I saw they were severely….lacking and that does not please me, I know their training is being rushed due to the Senate asking for more troops onto the battlefield too quickly but seeing those clones shoot to hell so easily was disappointing. Jango had high hopes for his clone army and to see his 'children' die left and right so easily would probably enrage him." Naruto said as he tightened his grip on his helmet a bit in a quick bit of anger before releasing it.
"So after that whole fiasco, I decided to come to Kamino personally with a little help and sharpen up the next batch of clones. Also after I leave I will be leaving some of my best trainers to help train them to make sure there are less casualties, their people so start acting like it." Naruto said with deep growl making Bo nod because she knew how much he cared for his blood brother Jango and to see so many lookalikes die so carelessly tore him apart.
"So why would you leave some of your forces here? I think we are doing just fine so far." El-Les honestly said as he was confused on the little notice.
"When Naruto told me of him coming over here and eventually leaving some of our forces here I was a bit confused. But he explained that when he talked to the Jedi council that only one Jedi and two bounty hunters were all that were helping on most of the late stages of the clone training that he knew that wasn't enough. Just having you three here would put too much stress on yourselves trying to focus on so many cadets. So with the additional trainers would possibly help your workload and to help lower death rates out on the field." The female Mandalorian said getting the three trainers to nod at the explanation.
"Heh tell me about it, some of these cadets make me want to jump in a sarlacc pit." Bric said with a chuckle. With this latest bit of news will actually make him feel a bit better being here since there were times in several 'graduating classes' he would want to pull his own arm off instead of dealing with troubled cadets.
"But what about getting the clearance to actually do that? Just leaving some of your forces here to do what you just said I mean." The Arcona bounty hunter asked.
"After chatting with most of the jedi council on the subject I went straight to the Chancellor about it and explained what I said a bit ago which resulted in him seeming a bit too thrilled and accepted right away. Don't know what that was all about but it made things a bit easier for me to get over here." Naruto said with a shrug but he was suspicious of Chancellor Palpatine because when he proposed the idea he noticed his buried dark side showed through his body like a tidal wave before it quickly dissipated.
Something was going on and he didn't like it one bit.
"Well it is good to hear all that. Now since all the clones and even maintenance duty been long gone I think we all take our leave to." Bric said as he and El-Les walking out of the training grounds to do their rounds for the evening before calling it a night.
"Come with me Naruto, Bo-Katan, I must speak with the prime minister and I think he'd be pleased to see you again from the stories I've heard from him." Shaak Ti with another small smile before walking out trailed by the two deadly warriors.
"It would be our pleasure Miss Ti." Naruto said as they followed the female Jedi.
"So how did you two meet? I had asked Naruto about it before but he kept on avoiding the question for some reason." Bo-Katan said with delicate orange eyebrow raised.
"We originally first met before the battle of Geonosis by chance on one of my days of being away from the temple on Coruscant with some thugs planned on robbing me among other things but Naruto happened to be nearby and took care of them not knowing who I was. After that he wanted to make up for what happened and took me out for lunch and we had a pleasant time. But after all said and done we actually ended up going on a few missions together after the war started by odd chances. Some were full out scale on some worlds, others were small infiltration missions with just me, him and sometimes a small unit of clones or his troopers. Every mission we've done we completed with no casualties whatsoever unless it was an invasion force, during that time we got to talk about our lives to each other with any chance we'd had." Shaak Ti said with her beautiful smile still ever present she knew it was against the Jedi order to feel such emotions but Naruto honestly made her truly happy and she hasn't felt that since she was a young Padawan. He watched her back and vice versa they were unstoppable together when they were in a flurry of blades or combining their force powers together. Of course on those missions he asked her to not put him into her reports since he had a reputation to keep or to keep his presence under wraps to which she paid back but with his presence known now she won't be doing such a thing.
After that little explanation Bo-Katan nodded accepting the answer with a hidden devious smirk, before they continued on maintaining small talk.
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"I understand your concerns Master Jedi and Overlord. Ever since the unfortunate death of Jango Fett, we have had to stretch his DNA to produce more clones. By doing so would raise the risk of there being non-efficient clones to send out to the battlefield. Take for example with Clone number 99. He was one of the very first batches of clones ever made here and he quickly aged to that of an elderly man to show the oddities of our cloning process." The Prime Minister of Kamino explained to the group.
"A Jedi does not feel concern, Lama Su. However, I have noticed this unit of clones have been…."
"Deficient?" Lama Su said finishing what Shaak Ti was about to say. "My only thought is for you to search the galaxy and find a suitable donor for your future clones….unless you would like to donate for the cause Overlord."
"Haha that wouldn't be necessary at the moment Lama I actually have some of Jango spare blood." Naruto chuckled out, he always did like this kaminoan and a few others a lot.
"You do?" Lama Su said with a hopeful tone in his voice with a non existent eyebrow raised.
"Yes." Naruto said with a confirmation.
"Mind telling me how you acquired his blood in the first place. Certainly not from his corpse." The Minister said with a slight chuckle.
"It has to deal with what our teacher, the previous Mandalore and my predecessor, taught us was to be prepared for anything among other things. One of them being to keep spare blood bags to use in case of emergency blood transfusions, clearing out poisoned blood in our system and replacing it with the old if we can't get an antidote in time, and several other explanations. Jango took it to heart very dearly so every so often he would put most of his blood into several bags as a precaution but that was before he signed up with you cloners since he needed to keep his blood levels in check for the donations. As for the blood bags, he kept them at several safe houses, which came under my ownership after he died and I had no idea what to do with them since they weren't my blood type but kept them for sentimentality. So basically this blood could last you for at least 3-4 years at most, that was how cautious he was. I get to get rid of all the blood out of my storage anyways since it's taking up space and it freaks out my astromech." Naruto said as the drinks came into the one room to which each of them took a glass.
"Why thank you for your contribution then Overlord, I knew our loyalty was placed in the right person. This would help us immensely and lower the chances of deficient clones. Tell me, when would we expect the shipment to arrive if you don't mind my asking?" Lama said with a happy tone to his voice since this was not only a surprising hall of material to use but also not as stressful for his scientists to use what little is left of Jango's DNA. Unfortunately what he didn't know was that majority of the kaminoans were loyal to the overlord there were some using deception against them.
"I can call my forces and send the whole shipment of Jango's blood later today and they could arrive sometime tomorrow." The Mandalorian said
"Once again, thank you." The kaminoan nodded
"Getting back on track to our earlier discussion but what of the clones produced so far?" Shaak Ti said getting back on track to the main point of the conversation after grabbing her drink from Luma's assistant.
"As you know there is no one way to make a clone. Sometimes our efforts are less than successful." The minister exclaimed as he took a slight sip of his drink.
"Are you suggesting we just cast off the Domino Squad?" The jedi said in a hurtful tone. "They're living beings, not objects."
"You jedi show too much compassion. Nevertheless, as General in charge of training, the decision on what to do with them would be yours, Master Jedi." Lama Su pointed out getting Shaak Ti to go into a deep thinking process on what to do, for a final confirmation she looked at Naruto and saw him nod, already knowing what she was gonna choose.
"Also Overlord I would like some of that DNA you mentioned some time today if you'd be so kind. Not the whole shipment of Jango's blood but only a few packets if possible." Lama said making Naruto nod before holding up his com link on his gauntlet.
"Yes Overlord."
"Soldier, I request that you go to my ship, the 'nine tails', and grab one of Jango's blood packs he stored away and bring it here." Naruto ordered to one of the troopers guarding his ship.
"Yes sir, right away." he heard before the link hung up.
"Seems you already had one with you I take it." Lama said with a tilt to his head.
"Yes I did since I wanted to at least help out a little as a little payment of me and my men being here unannounced." The blonde said getting the minister to nod again.
"Well if you can excuse me I have some other matters to attend to. You can roam the facility as you wish but be restrictive on where you go." Lama said as he left the room to head to the labs and inform his scientists for the new material they will be expecting.
"Hmm I must go speak with the ARC commanders Naruto, do you wish to accompany me? See if they fit to your expectations." Shaak Ti said with a tilt to her head.
"Might as well since I would like to see what more of Jango's 'sons' are like. Not only that but also inform them of me actually being here so there won't be any confusion. You said these were commanders so I have higher expectations for them then the cadets." Naruto said with a nod before slipping his helmet back on and walking out with Shaak Ti and Bo-Katan.
-Hangar Bay-
Walking in the hangar bay Naruto could see gunships lined up in stacks and see random clone troopers just conversing with each other, he looked at the middle in saw three clone troopers noticeably different than the other troopers because they were wearing a different set of armor.
'So this is ARC trooper armor eh? Looks like it still needs some more improvements, I see at least five weak points where they could die easily.' Naruto thought out as they walked closer to the troopers who finally noticed them and snapped into a salute.
"Greetings General Ti. Who are these two with you Madam?" Commander Colt said curiously who was in command of Rancor battalion.
"Same to you as well Commander. This is Mandalore 'The Overlord' and his right hand Bo-Katan, he is the one who was trained alongside your donor under the previous 'Mandalore' but also trained him as well. They are here offering their services to the Clone facility and help train the future 'graduating classes' before going into service." Shaak Ti said getting the three commander ARC troopers to be surprised that there meeting the man who trained alongside and trained the person they were cloned from.
"Oh-Oh of course Madam. It's good to meet you Overlord." The Rancor commander said standing a bit more straight and saluting once again alongside the other two ARC trooper commanders. This got Naruto to chuckle a little on the response.
"At ease you three. I don't need you to feel forced on giving me the respect needed since honestly I need to earn it from each of you, but you've impressed me so far." Naruto said waving their salutes off with a smile.
"Of course sir." The ARC commander said as he and his two brothers settled down. "So why are you here exactly and coming to us?"
"I came on by to inform you of my presence here and that once I leave I'll be having some of my forces here to help train future cadets. Wouldn't want any more of your brothers die early in battle without better training." The Overlord stated getting the feeling from the troopers in front of him to feel a bit more happiness on that latest information.
"Of course sir! Someone of your caliber will surely whip these rookies into shape and show em' how a true warrior fights." Havoc said with confidence in his voice.
"Now then I don't want to interrupt the rest of the 'graduation test' process here if I heard correctly is in the morning. So don't inform the rest of cadets I'm here or else it'll change their mindsets trying to impress me." Naruto said getting nods from the troopers.
"Of course, wouldn't have it any other way." The commander said knowing what he meant. With that the commanders decided to stay to see if the imposing leader had something else to say.
"So what are we gonna do now? I don't know about you but since we have so many hours to kill till this 'test' in the morning and going on with our business from there with the upcoming training." Bo-Katan stated as she took off her helmet.
"I have an idea, troopers I want to see your skills firsthand, since you're ARC troopers I will expect great things from this, got it?" Naruto said out loud making the Arc commanders look back in surprise but nod before one raised their hand.
"Uh sir, there's only three of us and the course it meant for a Five man team." Blitz said nervously thinking he stepped out of line.
"Shaak Ti call in central command and tell them to bring me either two ARC commanders or captains makes no difference to me." Naruto said looking back towards the beautiful Togruta making her nod and pull out her com-link.
After a few minutes two ARC troopers wearing a Kama skirt (battle dress) walked in one was a shade of purple with the ace of spades on his skirt while the other one was a black shade of color.
"You called for us Ma'am?" The black shades one said with curiosity in his voice.
"Yes I did Wolf, Axel this fine gentlemen right here wishes to see you five complete the basic training course on insanity." Shaak Ti said seriously.
"Yes Ma'am! We will aim to please!" Wolf said before walking to the turbolift with the others that will take them down to the training session.
-20 minutes later-
The ARC troopers overall did really good in the training session which was on its hardest difficulty which included even spider droids in the fray. Naruto could see they lived up to the reputation of ARC troopers, the best there is of Jango's 'sons'. Now he can see a good bar on how well the clones can be and will need to do a good assessment on the testing in the morning.
For now the two will need some good rest after a long day since tomorrow will be interesting.
-Morning, Hangar Bay-
It was yet another cloudy, storm day on Kamino. Naruto and Bo-Katan were hiding up in the rafters so they won't interrupt the proceedings like as planned seeing the current 'graduating class' standing in front of the ARC troopers and the two bounty hunter instructors.
"Gentlemen, who wants to be an ARC trooper?" Colt said out loud.
"I do, sir!" The graduating class yelled out.
"You have to pass your final test first. I want you to meet Commander Colt of the Rancor Battalion." The Commander Havoc said as he stepped back.
"I want you troopers to remember, we're shoulder to shoulder on those front lines….brothers. And sometimes we may quarrel, but no matter what, we are united. Rule one….we fight together. So who's ready to step up first? So let's start with the unit that ran the practice test in record time….ARC trooper time." The commander said.
"Think he means us boys?" Echo of Domino Squad said to his team.
"Bravo Unit, step up." Colt said getting the red squad to move forward.
"Well, bravo for Bravo Squad." CT-4040 said sarcastically
"Show an ARC trooper how it's done." The Rancor commander said as Bravo squad put on their helmets and marched in front of the rest of the training grounds.
"Come on boys. Maybe we can learn something." Echo said to his teammates.
"Oh shut up Echo." CT-4040 said with a grunt
From up in the rafters, the two Mandalorians overheard the little conversation from the Domino Squad. Will be interesting on how they fare along with the others. They quietly made their way to the training grounds like of what they did yesterday and situated themselves to be comfortable since it'll be some time till testing is done.
"Start the Citadel challenge, version THX, variable 1138." Cole said getting El-Les to type into the control panel to start the first test of the day.
So far Bravo was doing pretty well and were having good teamwork throughout the course. Very little openings to the Mandalorian eyes but they had to shake that notion out of their heads since they are 'shinys' as the Clones dub themselves. Some of the clones of Bravo stayed to cover fire for one of the clones to fully make his way up the tower to reach the 'flag'.
"I'm impressed I might take them for the training, what do you think Bo?" Naruto asked curiously
"I think they are alright but I think they wouldn't be broken and mended up well with the training we have in mind. We need a squad or so that would adapt to any situation." Bo stated getting a nod from her beloved.
"Too true, but still can't put all our cards on the table too soon since some of the other squads might have promise." He said before turning their attention back to the training ground.
"I'm impressed. You trained 'em well." Colt said with a nod. "So who's next."
"Ehhhhh...domino squad." El-Les said getting a laugh from Bric.
"And how are they?" All the commander got was just awkward silence and the answer was probably clear to him.
Domino Squad made their way to the training ground and with the heightened sensors in their helmets, the Mandalorians heard some of the little chatter between Bravo and Domino before thinking that Bravo would be a bit too cocky if they were chosen for the training. If they were to choose Bravo squad they'd have to beat that out of them….harshly.
When Colt saw Domino get ready in position, he decided to change things up a bit given what reaction the bounty hunters had on Domino Squad. Colt soon started typing on the control panel before activating the test. "Now let's get this started but let's not take it easy on them."
So far Domino was supposedly doing well on the start of the test and making it faster than what the hunters and Mandalorians saw yesterday.
"They're getting farther than normal." El-Les said in mild surprise.
"Maybe so, but they're sloppy." Colt said with a grunt as he observed Domino squad.
"This is nothing. Give them their next set of orders and watch the chaos ensue. I'm telling you, these guys just aren't ready." Bric said earning some similar thoughts from the two Mandalorians from what they saw yesterday because of Echo repeating orders that started some mess.
But it was the next move, after the orders were given, they did that stunned not only the Mandalorians but also all the ARC commanders, they decided to leave one of their man behind instead of protecting him and helping him out. Guess they didn't learn the number one rule of clone brothers, never leave one behind. Sure there was one clone that did stay behind to try to be sure he was ok but one of the others just ignored his brother to continue on.
With that, the commander ended the simulation right there and there and stormed his way onto the training grounds. Along with Naruto jetpacking down along with Bo-Katan and none of them looked the less bit pleased at the dishonorable action.
"Broke formation, disobeyed orders and you left a man behind! You automatically broke rule number one, you fail!" Colt said with some anger in his voice seeing such promising soldiers leave their own behind with no care in the world.
"I'm severely disappointed in your actions Domino squad, I thought you'd rise up through the ashes and prove to me what Jango Fett wanted in his soldier's. Loyalty, commitment, willpower and the determination to never give up and look after your own, we're all ashamed of you." Naruto said with a shake of the head while he walked between all of them.
"CT-782, you rushed on ahead thinking you could take all these droids by yourself and come out like some lone wolf. CT-5555 you didn't follow orders, you blatantly disobeyed them when it could of saved your life, CT-00-2010 and CT-4040 you were constantly bickering like little kids in the middle of the battlefield and CT-1409 I can't say it's entirely your fault but you were at fault nonetheless, points in checking on your brother." Bo-Katan said listing off all the clones mistakes and errors making the instructors nod to all her reasonings.
"I'm sorry Dominion squad, this is an automatic failure." El-Les said with sadness clearly in his voice.
After the little debacle; the trainers, ARC troopers and the newly revealed Mandalorians made their way to the control panels to resume the rest of the testing for the day. It did leave some sour moods on the Domino's test but they had to push it aside to give fair testing for rest of the squads for the day. With the rest of the testing it was pretty standard and alright for the rest of the squads but there was one group of clones that seemed to click with Bo-Katan and voiced it to Naruto on her pick for the upcoming training.
-Later-
"So tell me again since I think my ears are going off at the moment but you want to give Domino Squad another chance. Is that right Shaak Ti?" Naruto asked as he, Bo and Shaak Ti were eating in the Jedi's quarters for a private conversation. Sure it started out alright on the conversation of the Overlord and Jedi Master discussing philosophies of different sides of the force and sharing some fun stories in their past. Not only that but Bo and Shaak Ti hit it off really well that possibly got them to be good friends. But it then lead to Shaak Ti dropping the bomb that she accepted the request for Domino Squad to have a makeup test.
"Yes it is Naruto." Shaak Ti said as she kept eating her salad. "After hearing the request from El-Les for the makeup test I had some concerns on it but after some time I gave it thought. It helped out more when I was chatting with Echo and Fives when I was looking over files and I came to the decision for the makeup test to happen." Shaak Ti said with finality clear in her voice.
"Are you really sure about that Shaak? After what we saw earlier today that I'm afraid it'll just cement that they are not cut out at all in the battlefield and would just be stuck in maintenance with 99." Bo said as she was eating her steak.
"I'm very sure Bo. I have a strong feeling that things are going to change for the better." The force user said with a small smile.
"I surely hope you're right about this Ti, because their performance was laughable today." Naruto said while putting some salad into his mouth also with a steak to the side.
After that topic of discussion was over they started chatting normally again about all sorts of things from more past experiences, favorite exotic foods and music there likes, dislikes and hopes and dreams for the future.
-Morning-
When the instructors and Mandalorians came to the training ground, they had mixed feelings on what was about to happen. This time, the only ARC troopers that showed up were Wolf and Axel to oversee their training because the other Havoc members had to go oversee some other cadet training sessions. The wait soon ended and Domino Squad had showed up from the risen platform and something seemed different from what Naruto was sensing from the squad that they changed somehow. He didn't know what happened last night but they seemed more in sync with each other and the test didn't even start.
Once the alarm went off, Domino Squad went into action. So far they were doing really well they stayed in formation stuck in cover instead of rushing off. They were covering each other's backs and watched out for each other.
"They seem to be working together." El-Les said in a happy tone.
"Still early. A lot can change." Bric said in a sour mood as usual.
"Humph I agree." Wolf grunted out with his arms crossed watching very closely
They soon saw CT-782, or Hevy as his brothers now called him, give the signal to get out of their cover and move on forward. They were doing very well and something was going on through Naruto's head that his vision started to cloud on the troopers and started seeing an old friend in their place.
"Jango?" Naruto thought in confusion before shaking his head seeing Domino Squad reaching the bottom of the Citadel for cover from the turrets. For some reason the squad wasn't moving up since so far the only way to get up to the top was with the ascension cables. Something must've happened to them.
"Where are their ascension cables?" El-Les asked out loud voicing Naruto's thoughts.
"Must've gotten lost." Bric sarcastically asked. This got the others on the control platform to turn their heads to the one bounty hunter that probably was the one that hid the cables.
"What did you do?" El-Les said angrily
"I thought you had faith they'd be the best, right? Well the best pass, no matter what." Bric pointed out getting nods from the ARC troopers and Mandalorians.
"General, you have to stop this. This is unfair to the cadets." El-Les said in concern.
"Adversity in war is a constant El-Les." Shaak Ti said
"But Bric cheated."
"The enemy won't play fair either you know." Axel said before turning his attention back onto the field.
Soon the Squad broke out of their cover and started shooting at the turrets to disable them and the others soon realized on what they were doing as the Dominoes started scaling the wall using the turrets as stepping stones.
"Well, I'll be….Creative little clone's aren't they?" Bric said in mild surprise.
"No unit has shown such ingenuity." El-Les said as he kept on thinking for some reason given his current body language.
In the end, the Dominoes all made it to the top and reached the 'flag' together as a team. They cheered out in joy in job well done.
"Well Bric, seems your actions have brought out the best in these cadets." Naruto said feeling impressed on the display but still having the nagging feeling from a bit ago getting him to realize what it was.
"Looks like they were well-trained, perhaps ones that show much promise I've seen thus far." Shaak Ti said with a smile.
"Well maybe you were right El-Les." Bric admittedly said
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"Congratulations. You've graduated. At ease." El-Les said to Domino Squad, who now had medals on their breast and a proud look on their faces. It was a long road for them but they finally made it. Even 99 was happy to see them graduated.
As soon as the two bounty hunters left, the Dominoes cheered out more and decided it was time to celebrate.
"Next stop, ARC trooper." Echo said as he placed his hand on Droidbait's shoulder.
"Yeah, how about we face some combat first?" Droidbait said before he saw the Mandalorians show up from around the corner.
"Damn right you are after I'm done training you you'll deserve nothing less of ARC trooper status." The male Mandalorian said gaining their attention.
"Don't mind me asking but who are you two? We never really knew who you two were." Cutup said voicing his brothers' thoughts.
"Right, we didn't do that. Did we Naruto?" The female said.
"Well then, my name is Naruto Uzumaki or Mandalore 'The Overlord' and this here is Bo-Katan Kryze, my right hand." The Overlord said getting the clones to stiffen hearing that. They were testing in front of the Overlord. They heard many stories about this man when they were younger, they heard how he conquered worlds for a living, how he was trained by the fearsome Jaster, the previous Mandalore, and was the person to train Jango Fett, their donor, after the Mandalore predecessor died.
"You did well out there today boys despite of what happened yesterday. I don't know what happened that got you to snap into shape but you clearly got my attention earlier." He said getting the Dominoes to feel better at the praise but felt the Mandalore had more to say.
"Now I'm not only here to congratulate you boys but I'm here to seek out clones that could possibly live up to their 'father's' expectations. What I saw was not Jango's 'sons'. No I saw my old friend out their today that is who you acted like today when we trained together years back. You five were acting like Jango himself." Naruto said getting the clones to feel great praise on hearing this, even 99 who was right there couldn't feel more proud at his younger brothers.
"I'll get right to the point. Like I said before, me and Bo came here to seek out clones to train and both of us had picked out a squad for us to train for the next few months to really dim the shininess right out of you. You are one of the two groups coming with us. The other group is already at the hangar waiting for us. So quickly pack up and head over there." The Overlord said as he and Bo left getting the clones to be dumb for quick moments before scrambling to their lockers and cleaning them all out and rushing past Naruto and Bo to the hangar. The only one that stayed behind was Hevy, who the two Mandalorians saw give 99 his medal saying that he earned it more than the rest of the family before making his way to the hangar.
"That was obviously nice of him to do." Bo said with a smile seeing 99 beaming with happiness.
"And we'll make sure you make it back here to get it back from him." Naruto said with a chuckle while patting Hevy back
"Sir yes sir" Hevy chuckled with a salute while walking alongside the two Mandalorians.
Once in the hangar, Hevy soon saw the rest of his team and saw the other team that would be coming along with them for the training. They were decked out in their brand new Phase I clone trooper armor looking prepared for anything but it was noticeably different from the regular Phase I armor they get.
"Those armors seem different from regulars we were supposed to be given." Hevy said in confusion since aren't clones supposed to have the standard armor.
"Oh I know but these are ones of our specific design for the upcoming training. You'll be able to switch back to your regular, standard armor after our training since you'll be needing to go through basic missions after we're done with you. But we'll make sure to put a few modifications inside them." Bo said as they made it to the rest of the clones.
"Now then Domino Squad, I should introduce you to your other graduating group coming with us. These boys here are Delta Squad. Delta Squad, say hello." The Overlord said getting each squad to nod at each other while one went a little too far.
"Good to meet you brothers." one of the Delta members said with an enthusiastic wave. "Eh sorry on that sir, madam. Just excited is all."
"Good to know. Now then let's move out." Bo said as the groups walked into their transport before they could get on Shaak Ti showed up to give Naruto a final goodbye.
"Well it's been good to see you. I hope your time with these clones will have good results." Shaak Ti said with a smile.
"Of course. Gotta have Jango's 'sons' to his standard." He said with a chuckle getting her to nod.
"I hope to see you soon Naruto." She said with hope in her voice.
"Me too Shaak Ti."
"Then farewell and may the force be with you." Shaak Ti said with a big smile as she hugged him and got slightly bold and took off Naruto helmet and pecked him on the cheek before she walked away.
"Well that was certainly interesting" Naruto said with a chuckle before putting his helmet back on.
"I saw that there Naruto, you actually liked that didn't you." Bo said with a pout which was obviously betrayed with her playful tone of voice. Honestly it surprised her a little that Shaak Ti might like her beloved more than just a friend.
"Ehehe whatever do you mean dear? Clones help? Fives? Hevy? Droidbait? Anyone..." Naruto said nervously as the clones didn't see what was going on.
"Sorry sir we're staying out of this battle." They said with a laugh. Sure they didn't see what happened but could tell from Mistress Bo's attitude that they should just not get involved or else they would get more pain than what was planned.
After that they finally got on their transport and took off just as several Mandalorian warships came on by and started unloading several of Naruto's forces transporting Jango's entire blood supply and the trainers for the upcoming clone troopers.
-Chapter end-
J: Well that took a while to take care of but now you readers get to see Naruto and Bo train some newly minted troopers. Obviously at first you thought of just Domino Squad being trained but we decided to add in Delta Squad from the 2005 Star Wars: Republic Commando game since they were not only badass but they also made it into canon for the show. We will not put in all of the episodes into this story and only focus on ones that would work well.
D: Hello peeps! Got to see more Shaak Ti moments I just love that sexy Jedi! Anyway like I said we were gonna change some major canon moments and this is only the start! So stay tuned next episode will probably be supply line, ambush or malevolence.
Official pairings: Bo-Katan Kryze, Shaak Ti, Ahsoka Tano, Barriss Offee, Chuchi, Daughter, Kass Tod, Ventress
Possibility: Aurra Sing, Aayla Secura, Celeste Morne, Padme Amidala
R&R ^_^