Here we go, guys, the Rookies episode has begun. Other then a few character switches and one of my main characters being with the clones, there won't be much change. Anyway back to the story, guys. And as an extra treat, I posted this chapter with the new chapter of The Raccoon Daywalker.

Clone forces rally. As the war escalates in the Outer Rim, the Jedi Knights are spread thin across the Galaxy. Many new clones are rushed into service to support their Jedi generals. Unfortunately, because of the relentless demands of battle, many young clones must join the struggle before their training is complete. These clones, manning a vital network of tracking stations, are all that stand between the Republic and invasion.

On the moon of Rishi

The deck officer was doing his routine check. "This is the deck officer checking in. Nothing going on, as usual."

Inside the base

Some clones were doing what they working in the station while having a bit of free time. "Shouldn't you be watching your scope, Hevy?" Another Clone asked.

"Yeah, let me look." Hevy said as he looked at the scope. "What do you know? All clear, just like the last hundred times I looked at it."

"Personally I like that it's so quiet out here. I can catch up on the reg manuals." A clone named Echo said.

"Echo, what is wrong with you? We should be out on the front lines blasting droids." Hevy said.

"Leave him alone. They kept him in his growth jar too long." A clone named Fives said.

"You may not realize it yet, Fives, but you landed on the most boring post in the outer rim." Hevy said.

"And one of the most important." The Clone sergeant said walking up to his troops.

One of the clones sounded the alarm that a superior officer was in the room. *Attention. Sergeant on deck!" All the clone cadets stood at attention.

"At ease. Even though you're all new here, I shouldn't have to remind you that this Outpost is key to the Outer Rim. If the Droids get past this station, they can surprise attack the facilities where we were born on our homeworld of Kamino. There's some officers on the way, one is General Qymaen Jai Sheelal, our ally in this war, so I want everything cleared away for inspection. Understood?" The Sergeant asked.

"Sir, yes sir." The Clone cadets said.

Meanwhile with the Republic fleet

"Still here, brother and sister. When was the last time you slept?" Shaak Ti said as she walked up to Neyla.

"We'll sleep after we find General Grievous." Neyla said.

"Generals, incoming transmission from General Qymaen." The Admiral said walking up to them.

Qymaen's hologram appeared. "Hello, my allies." Qymaen greeted.

"Hello, Qymaen, how goes the inspections?" Shaak Ti asked smiling.

"Good. Rex and I are making our way to the Rishi system." Qymaen reported.

"Good news, Qymaen. Report back when you've arrived." Sly said.

"I will, Cooper." Qymaen said as he ended the transmission.

"Qymaen has changed greatly since we saved him from the Sith." Neyla said.

"Indeed he has. How did you manage to convince him to do inspections with Captain Rex, Shaak Ti?" Sly asked.

"Well, you could say that I promised him something. A dinner at Dex's when we're back on Coruscant. I even promised that you would train him to master Tutaminis at your level if he let me keep his lightsabers until he comes back." Shaak Ti said showing them Qymaen's lightsabers.

"You're certainly becoming fond of Qymaen, Sister." Neyla smirked.

"Maybe I am, Sister." Shaak Ti smirked back.

Back on the base

An alarm went off and a clone saw what looked like a meteor shower. "Sir, incoming meteor shower." He told the Sergeant.

"Raise the shield." The Sergeant ordered, making the Clone do just that.

The falling objects crashed on the moon. Some of them were destroyed by the shield but most of them crash into the ground. The deck officer looked around and saw what looked like a metal object. But before he could report it, he was electrocuted from behind by commando droids. The object opened and more commando droids came out of it and ran to join the other droids.

"Get these doors open." A commando droid ordered.

"Roger, Roger." Another droid said breaking into the door control panel and shorting out wires.

Inside the base

"Sentry, do you copy? Report." The Sergeant said.

"I don't see him down there, sir." A clone said.

"You two, go find him." The Sergeant ordered two Clones.

The doors opened and the Droids came in as the Clones were came and saw them. The droids started firing at them, making the Clone Sergeant come down with his weapon and he began shooting back.

"Sound the alarm!" The Sergeant ordered.

The Clone did as ordered but the beacon didn't turn on. "They've disabled the beacon."

"Get a message to the fleet! We have to warn-" the Sergeant said before he was shot in the leg. The droids walked up to him and finished him off.

The other Clones ran back to the control room and sealed the door by pulling out the wires. A clone ran to a vent and opened it. "This way. Hurry!" He said. The rest of the Clones ran to the vent and crawled through. The last Clone put the vent door back on as the droids cut through the door and came in.

"Four Clones escaped, Captain." A Droid said.

"They don't matter. Hardwire the all-clear signal and contact General Grievous." The droid captain ordered.

With General Grievous's fleet

"The Outpost is secure, General. We shut down the alarm and turned on the all-clear signal." The droid captain told General Grievous.

"Excellent. Keep that signal alive. I don't want the Republic to find out we're coming." General Grievous said the transmission ended.

"General, our spy on Kamino is making contact." A Droid said as the hologram of Ventress appeared.

"All the preparations for your invasion are in order." Ventress reported.

"Good. Our fleet is approaching the system. We are almost at the rendezvous point." Grievous said.

"Very good, General. I will await your arrival." Ventress said.

"The destruction of Kamino will stop there production of clones for good." Grievous said.

With Qymaen and Rex

"Rishi Outpost, this is Captain Rex. Do you copy? Rishi Outpost, please respond." Rex said.

"Sorry, Captain, we're experiencing technical difficulties." A Droid with a clone helmet and voice said, lying.

"We're the inspection team." Qymaen said.

"Negative, negative. Everything is fine here, sir." Thanks disguised droid lied.

"We'll be the judge of that. Prepare for our arrival." Rex ordered.

"Roger, Roger." The droid said ending the transmission.

"General Qymaen, something isn't right." Rex said.

"Yes. I have the same feeling, Captain. I may need to borrow your blasters, if something goes wrong." Qymaen said.

"Of course, General. I have spare pistols in the ship. I'll let you have mine as soon as we land. I still can't believe General Shaak Ti convinced you to give her your lightsabers until the inspection is done with." Rex said with a smile.

"Well, she promised me that Cooper would train me to master the the Force power known as Tutaminis at his level, as well as something else that I won't tell you." Qymaen said.

"What you do with General Ti is none of my business, sir. A good soldier respects his superiors personal business." Rex said as they landed on the platform. Rex gave Qymaen his blasters and got his spares and they headed out of the ship.

"Something is not right, the deck officer should have greeted us." Rex said.

"Yes. I sense it as well." Qymaen said as they saw a clone walk up to them.

"Greetings, Captain. As you can see, the Outpost is operating at peak efficiency. Thanks for visiting and have a safe trip back." The Droid in clone armor said, lying.

"We need to inspect the base just the same." Rex said.

"There I no need. Everything is fine and fully operational." The droid said, lying.

"Take us to the Sergeant in command." Qymaen ordered.

"Roger, Roger."

A red light flyed up into the sky, making Qymaen and Rex look at it. "A Droid attack flare." Rex said. Qymaen then shot the disguised droid in the head, making it fall down.

"General Qymaen, I think I know why you did that." Rex said removing the helmet, revealing the droid's head. "I knew it, looks like one of those commando droids."

"That flare must have come from the survivors." Qymaen said. But then they were ambushed by the other droids. "Aim for the heads, Rex!"

"Yes, General." Rex said before he took one droid out by shooting its head. Two more droids came out and threw grenades at them. Before they detonated, Qymaen leap-dived off the platform with Rex as the grenades blow up, destroying their ship.

The droids looked around but didn't see them. "They must have been pulverized. Resume defensive posts." The droid captain ordered.

Unknown to the droids, Qymaen and Rex landed safely on the ground. Qymaen and Rex then saw 3 clones walk up to them and pointed their blasters at them. "Hands above your heads. Take your helmets off!" Rex said.

"Uh, sir?" Hevy asked, confused.

"Take them off, now!" Qymaen ordered.

They took off their helmets, revealing them to be real clones. Suddenly a giant worm came out and Qymaen shot it in the eye, killing it and surprising the 3 clones. "Nice shot." Hevy said.

"The name's Rex. But you'll call me "Captain" or "sir." Rex said touching the worm's eye.

"I am General Qymaen Jai Sheelal. While I'm here, you 3 will take orders from me or Captain Rex." Qymaen said.

"Sir, yes sir." All 3 young clones said.

"I'm trooper Fives, sir, he's Hevy, and this is Echo." Fives said, introducing himself and the other troopers to their new bosses.

"Where's your Sergeant?" Qymaen asked.

"Dead, sir. We're all that's left." Echo said.

"Well, looks like we got ourselves a batch of shinies, General." Rex said walking up to them.

"Shines, sir?" Echo asked.

"That's right. Your armor, it's shiny and new, just like you." Rex explained while putting his hand on Echo's armor and leaving a blue handprint on it.

"Sir, me and my batchers are trained and ready. We'll take back our post, shiny or not." Hevy said with determination.

"There's hope for you yet, rookie." Qymaen said with a smile.

Back with the fleet

"General Qymaen, come in. Captain Rex, are you there, please respond." The Admiral said.

"They should have checked in from the Rishi station by now. Something must have gone wrong." Shaak Ti said, concerned about Qymaen.

"Perhaps, but we need to figure out a strategy for finding Grievous. Admiral, let us know the second that you hear from Qymaen or Rex." Sly said.

Back with Qymaen and Rex

Qymaen was climbing up to the base with Rex and the young clones. "Look sharp, rookies. As long as those clankers occupy this post, our home planet of Kamino's at risk." Rex said as he and Qymaen gave the young clones their weapons as Rex gave Qymaen one of his spares.

"But there's so many of them." Fives said.

"It doesn't matter. We have to retake this base, so we will retake this base." Qymaen said, making the young clones stand ready.

"I have an idea for getting past those blast doors, General Qymaen." Rex said.

"If it gets us inside the base, then I'll let you do it, Rex." Qymaen said.

Inside the base

A commando droid watched the screen that showed the outside of the entrance. It saw a clone, unknown to the droid was Rex, walking up to the entrance. "Unit 2-6, is that you?"

"Roger, Roger." Rex said.

"You sound strange. Is something wrong with your vocabulator?" The Droid asked.

"Roger, Roger." Rex said putting his hand around his neck like a droid would.

"Take off your helmet. Let me see your faceplate." The droid said.

"Roger, Roger." Rex said as he put his his hands on his helmet quickly, got to one knee and put a destroyed droid's head to the camera.

The droid opened the door and Rex pointed his blaster at it. "Clones!"

"Roger, Roger." Rex said before shooting the droid in the head as Qymaen and Hevy shot the other 2.

They proceeded in and stopped at the bottom of the stairs. "Permission to take point, sir?" Hevy asked Rex.

"General Qymaen and I are always first, kid. Remember, aim for their heads." Rex said as they ran up the stairs. They then destroyed some of the droids by shooting their heads. One droid managed to hit Fives, but only in the shoulder. They continued to battle the droids, with one of them engaging Qymaen in hand to hand combat. Qymaen quickly beat and destroyed it as the Clones finished off the rest of the Droids.

Rex went to the control panel and checked it. "Get to the window. It looks like we have more visitors."

They went to the window and Echo used his binocular helmet to zoom in. "It looks like a Separatist fleet." He said.

"That's why the droids took the Outpost. Their launching a full-scale invasion. No doubt to stop the production of clones." Qymaen said.

With Grievous's fleet

"The all-clear signal is transmitting. But it looks like our commando droids are not responding." A droid said.

"We can leave nothing to chance. That vase cannot be allowed to alert the Jedi that we're coming. Send down reinforcements to investigate." Grievous ordered.

Back on the base

"Those clankers sabotaged our transmitter and they hard-wired the all-clear signal. It'll take time to repair-" Echo said before Rex cut him off.

"We don't have time. It looks like the droids sent reinforcements." Qymaen said seeing an entire battleship of droids land and droids coming out of it.

"General Qymaen, we won't be able to protect the Outpost against that army." Rex said.

"Then we destroy the Outpost instead." Qymaen said.

"But, General Qymaen, our mission is to protect the facility at all costs." Echo said.

"The General's right, kid. We have to warn the Republic about the invasion. They'll take notice when the all-clear signal stops." Rex said.

"Right. When the fleet stops receiving the beacon, they'll get the message something's wrong." Hevy said.

"We'll need every thermal detonator on this base and something that is highly explosive." Qymaen said.

"General Qymaen, we can use the LT. This moon freezes for half the year. We use liquid tibanna as fuel to heat the base." Echo explained.

"Liquid tibanna is highly explosive, General." Rex said.

"Good. Bring the tanks here and prime the detonators." Qymaen ordered.

The clones did as ordered and brought the LT tanks and every detonator on the base while getting more weapons. When they were all prepared, Qymaen gathered the clones. "Captain Rex, fill them in."

"All right, listen up. There's only one target of interest in this sector: Kamino. It's the closest thing we clones have to a home. Today we fight for more than the Republic. Today we fight for all our brothers back home. Understood?" Rex asked.

"Sir, yes sir." The young clones said as they put their helmets on, got there weapons and took their positions as some of the battle droids came to the doors.

Hevy opened the doors and started shooting some of the droids with his minigun. Rex and Echo came beside him and threw Grenades at the droids, destroying many of them. They then backed up as Rex closed the doors again.

Back with the Republic fleet

"General Qymaen, come in. Captain Rex, are you there?" The Admiral asked trying to contact his allies. "Generals, there's still no response."

"Is the all-clear signal still transmitting?" Neyla asked.

"Yes ma'am." The Admiral answered.

"Something must be going wrong. Qymaen would have contacted us if there were." Shaak Ti said.

With Grievous's fleet

"What is the status of the base?" Grievous asked droid.

"We've ran into some difficulties. There seems to be a few clones left, ma'am." The droid answered.

"Then wipe them out! We can't let a few puny clones stop us!" Grievous said.

Back at the base

The droids blew through the doors and walked in shooting. Rex and Hevy held them off as long as they could and ran back to the control room. "General Qymaen, the handset isn't linking up with the detonator." Echo said.

"Let me try something." Qymaen said as he tried using the Force to link the handset and detonator, which after a few seconds, linked up.

"Great job, General. Let's get moving." Rex said as he went to the vent and crawled through it with Qymaen and the young clones. When they got outside and far enough away from the base, Qymaen gave Hevy the detonator.

"Would you like to do the honors, Hevy?" Qymaen asked.

"With pleasure, General Qymaen. I always did hate that place." Hevy said detonating the LT tanks, blowing up the base and destroying the droids along with their ship.

With the Republic fleet

"Generals, the Rishi base has stopped transmitting!" The Admiral told Sly, Neyla, and Shaak Ti.

"Grievous." Neyla said with disgust.

"Sound the invasion alarm and get the fleet underway!" Sly ordered.

"And get me a gunship to go on the Rishi moon!" Shaak Ti ordered, wanting to help Qymaen.

With Grievous's fleet

Grievous saw that the Republic base had been destroyed. "Arrrggghhh, I didn't tell them to blow up the station!"

"But isn't it good that the vase is destroyed?" A droid asked.

"IDIOT!" Grievous yelled before she saw the Republic fleet come out of hyperspace. "The Republic fleet! We're outgunned! GET US OUT OF HERE!"

Back with Qymaen and Rex and the young clones

"We've got those clankers on the run, General." Echo said as he saw the enemy fleet turning around and jumping into hyperspace.

"Excellent work, men." Qymaen said before he saw a gunship coming.

"Looks like we're getting off this rock, boys." Rex said as the gunship landed.

Later at the Republic cruiser hanger

"On behalf of the Republic, we thank you for your valint service." Sly said as he pinned medals on Hevy, Fives, and Echo.

"Your new unit is lucky to have you. I'd be proud to fight beside you anytime, anywhere." Neyla said bowing to the new premotec troops while they saluted to the Jedi.

"Congratulations, you're not shinies anymore." Rex said.

"With respect, Captain, we failed our mission. We don't deserve this honor." Fives said.

"No, Fives. If it weren't for us, the Republic wouldn't have learned of the Separatist invasion until it was too late. You showed me and General Qymaen something today. You're exactly the kind of men he and I need in the 501st." Rex said.

"Sir, yes sir." The 3 clones said.

"By the way, where is General Qymaen?" Rex asked.

"He's gone back to Coruscant with my sister. She's keeping a promise to him about personal business." Neyla said smiling with Sly knowingly.

With Qymaen and Shaak Ti

Qymaen and Shaak Ti had taken a cruiser back to Coruscant for that dinner that Shaak Ti had promised, and she even gave him his lightsabers back. They had been standing on the bridge of the cruiser. Unknown to the crew, Shaak Ti intertwined her hand with his.

There you go, guys. The Rookies episode is complete. Hope you enjoyed it. The next chapter is the Downfall of a Droid episodes. rate and review. See you soon guys.