The windows were sealed with wooden boards found around the the floor of the compound. It was four Jedi, and twenty-five clones against an army of undead.

"Taran, are the windows and doors upstairs secure?" said Obi-Wan.

"Yes Master," said Taran.

"Anakin and Ahsoka, are all the downstairs ones secured?" said Obi-Wan.

"Yes," they said.

"Good. Pick a section to be at, that's where you're defending," said Obi-Wan.

"I'll take the downstairs," said Taran.

"Rex, Waxer, Ahsoka, and you men," said Anakin motioning to fourteen clone troopers, "go with him." They obliged. Taran went around the windows, seeing if any of the undead clones were coming for them. So far, not one was showing up.

"Where are they?" he muttered to himself. The answer to that came when he saw one zombie walking slowly towards the compound.

"Rex, can you pass me a blaster?" said Taran. Rex, though a bit confused, obliged. Taran got the gun and got the lumbering zombie into his sights.

"How do you use that?" said Ahsoka.

"Follow your target with the ironsights and your peripheral vision. Once he's checked, you fire," said Taran. He fired off one shot from the blaster. The zombies head shot off and it's body crumbled to the ground.

"Nice shot kid," said Rex.

"Thanks to your teaching Rex," said Taran as he handed him the blaster back. As they scanned out the windows they heard one of the clones shooting off his blaster. They turned to see him shooting at approaching zombies coming towards his window. They didn't have to look long because soon, small groups of zombies were coming from all directions. These first ones were lumbering only, not the running ones they had witnessed outside. They were easy to bring down. Once the clones had shot them down there was a lull.

"Taran and Ahsoka, get over here for a minute," said Rex. They huddled around him, waiting for him to say what he wanted to say.

"The way I see it, their weak point is the head. They can take multiple shots to anywhere else to bring them down," said Rex. "Anything someone else wants to bring up?"

"Yeah, if they all start attacking the windows back off and lob a thermal det into them, but make sure no one else is around that area," said Taran.

"Agreed, now let's go fry those things," said Rex. As they went back to their positions Taran saw that the zombies were still too far to get in close with a lightsaber, and to do that he hd to go outside, which is something equivalent to suicide. He and Ahsoka needed a blaster.

"Rex, do you have two blasters?" said Taran.

"Here kid," said Rex, lugging Taran two standard issue DC-15 carbines (the smaller ones the clones use). Taran handed one to Ahsoka.

"Taran, I've never used a blaster," said Ahsoka.

"I'll show you very quickly," said Taran. He guided Ahsoka to her window, where there was one lumbering zombie nearing the window. He got behind Ahsoka to show her how to correctly hold the blaster.

"Keep your left hand higher on the stock, keep your right hand on the trigger," he said. Ahsoka obliged. The zombie was getting closer and closer.

"Follow your iron sights down the barrel to where you want it at," said Taran. Ahsoka, with the help of Taran's hands, raised the blaster to the zombie's head.

"Now, FIRE!" said Taran. Ahsoka pulled the triger and the zombie went down.

"See, it's not that hard. Oh crap," said Taran. He'd forgotten all about his window. Two zombies were ripping down the boards. He pulled out his lightsaber, ran over to his window, and hacked their heads off. He then turned off his lightsaber, holstered it back to his belt, and began firing at the approaching zombies. Now the zombies started coming in groups of five to ten at a time. They all fought back as hard as they could, their guns shooting their maximum speed at the oncoming zombies. One clone, who's back was turned as zombies attacked the door behind him, was dragged away screaming as the zombies swarmed him.

The zombies that ripped down the door charged in. These were the fast moving type, and they were ready for blood.

"Finally," said Ahsoka. She put her blaster down, activated her lightsaber, and charged at them. Ten zombies had busted into the room, and more were coming. A clone lobbed a thermal det into their numbers. Ahsoka dove out of the way as the group of zombies blew up from the concussive energy of the bomb. The remianing zombies outside were killed off. However, the battle was far from over. Taran ran to the entrance of the door that the zombie's had broken through.

"I don't think we can survive another wave," said Taran.

"Head count, we had eighteen, now we have seventeen. We can survive kid," said Rex. More shrieks and howls were heard outside.

"Take positions," said Ahsoka. As Taran was about to run he felt a hand grab his foot, causing him to trip. He turned to see that a zombie, or half of one, was trying to drag him back towards him. Taran just flicked his wirst and the zombie's head went rolling away. Getting to his feet Taran bended a slab of earth in front of the door. sealing it. The clones at the windows continued firing into the mob of zombies outside. However, the zombie's losses were easily replaced. Their onslaught was too fierce for the clones to stop. The zombies began ripping down the boards to get inside of the room. The troopers began to fall back slowly. The battle for the windows was won by the zombies.

Taran and Ahsoka had their hands full as they rushed to save clones from the zombie mob. They weren't always successful, but the clones they managed to save was a bit more relief for them, for the moment. The survivors of the group were driven to the far corner of the room, away from their escape route to the upstairs.

"This really isn't going well," said Ahsoka.

"What was your first clue, before or after they broke in?" said Taran.

"We need to retreat upstairs," said Rex.

"Easier said than done," said Taran. "Boil, Waxer, and you guys, give me some cover fire." The clones poured their fire into the zombies as Taran built enough chi to firebend. Just as it looked like they would fall prey to the horde, the zombies in front caught on fire as Taran bended a jet of flame into them. The zombies howled as they slowly burned to deah. The way to the stairs was clear.

"Let's go," said Taran. Everyone ran for the stairs, Taran and Ahsoka cutting a path through for them for any zombies that hadn't fallen from the fire just yet. As they scrambled up the stairs a fresh horde of zombies came into the room. Waxer, the last one up, was seized by his legs and was being dragged back downstairs.

"Help!" he called. Taran and Ahsoka went back to get him. Ahsoka chopped the zombie's arms that were holding him as Taran helped him up. Scrambling back up the stairs Taran gathered up four thermal detonators and turned them on. He flung them to the foot of the stairs, where they disappeared under the zombie horde. He raced up the stairs as the bottom stairs blew up, sending zombie parts everywhere and causing the a part of the upstairs roof to collapse, sealing the stairs up.

"That should hold them for awahile," Taran muttered to himself.


The survivors of the group got to the upstairs safely. Looking around they saw that the group upsatirs had fared little better than they had. They saw parts of zombies lying all over the place, and also scorch marks from blasters all over the walls and missing clone troopers from the group.

"How did they get up here?" said Ahsoka.

"They climbed up. That was some tough fighting," said Anakina as they were taking a break from the wave of zombies that had attacked them.

"I don't think we can beat them, there's too many of them," said Cody.

"We have to find where Vindi, he probably has the commands for the zombies to attack us," said Obi-Wan.

"My senses tell me he's somewhere in the building, but where?" said Anakin.

"It might be underground," said Taran. They all felt around the walls to see if there was anything out of the ordinary, knowing that in a few minutes they would be swarmed by zombies. It was Boil who spotted a knob on a wall to the far left.

"Guys, I think I found something," said Boil. He pulled the nob and a part of the wall slid away to reveal a elevator, enough to hold twelve people, which is what they had.

"Sir, how do we know this is going to the right place?" said Waxer. A tumult of moans and shrieks came from outside.

"Only one way to find out," said Obi-Wan. They all piled into the elevator. Anakin pressed a button that read "Laboratory" and the door closed, taking them to it's destination.