Chapter 8

Duel of the Hunters


"Terrorly Clan... where should I start? Terrorly Clan may not be one of the biggest clans, however it is highly suggested you don't upset one of the Terrorly members. Even the cousin they consider a 'punching bag' in the family is considered deadly, and whenever face to face with you should proceed with extreme caution."

-ARC-0853, Regimental Commander Jax, explaining to ARF-2734, Captain Camo.


Rungi jumped to one of the plants right behind him before Luna was able to shoot him directly dead in the face. Luna quickly jumped to her feet and acrobatically landed next to Rungi and stood as if she was on normal ground and couldn't care less of the height. She aimed her DL-44 Blaster pistol at his face again, but this time purposely aimed for his foot. Rungi 'Killjoy' leaped on top of Luna, but not without one of his claws being shot off.

Killjoy rode Luna as if he were a jockey, but Luna high kicked him off her with ease and leaped down to the ground where he was about to fall down on. Killjoy attached himself to another plant. However, instead of staying there, he flung at her like a catapult, but missed hitting her, instead scratching her red leather trench coat.

For the first time in their duel, one of them spoke. It was Luna, "You need to sharpen your skills, lizard!" she mocked the trandoshan.

Killjoy hissed loudly and pounced at her again. He missed but landed on the ground on his two legs. Feeling a gun near his claw, he kicked it up and caught it. It was his LS-150. Covered in some dirt and missing one of the attachments he constructed on it, but it will do.

Taking cover behind a rather large flower, Luna began to shoot at Killjoy. With her having no armor on at the time, getting one shot will hurt badly. Not something she would want to happen. She had a family tradition to keep up by being the most menacing family in the galaxy.

Luna peeked over her cover, but she saw Rungi was gone. Feeling a trap, she flipped over the flower and shot behind her, only to hit a root.

"Wait a second..." Luna noticed she had fallen into the trap either way. Behind her a trandoshan sword attempted to decapitate her. Only loosing a tiny bit of her long hair, she leaned back to avoid loosing her head. She saw a glimpse of Rungi behind her and grabbed hold to her belt under his trench coat. She pulled out her darksaber and...

Wait a second, Luna realized, I don't have any melee weapons. Zerd does, not me. After realizing her mistake, she pulled her LS-150 from her holster and shot at Rungi. He deflected all three shots she shot at him, then kicked her in the gut, flying a few feet away before landing on the ground. Leaping back to her feet, she shot at Rungi one last time.

Rungi looked down at his chest. He was shot on his right side. Looking up at Luna one last time, he collapsed and almost camouflaged into all of the wildlife above him.

Luna tossed his sword at him, stabbing him in the stomach. "Just for a good laugh..." Luna spoke to herself, she got out a transparent sticker that shows a kiss on it, she stuck it on the part of his armor where he was shot, "I'd never kiss people who I just killed."

Walking away from Rungi's mostly lifeless body, she pushed some plants out of her way and stepped over some roots. There was nothing more to do here, so it was time she moved along.

Luna picked up her backpack she dropped earlier during her run. "Never thought I'd see you again," she muttered to herself. Putting it on her back, she continued walking, taking the pain a few of the plants swung at her. Not that they actually hurt her anyways. If she could survive what she had survived, a simple plant was going to kill her.


Back at Fell Outpost, all of the clones finally got where they were trying to go to, so there wasn't much of a crowd left when Captain Ivan finished giving them all the tour of the facility. They have all seen extremely similar before, so there wasn't that much reason to why they decided to tour the whole entire base.

"Well, that's it fellas. Not much to it and extremely similar to other outposts you have seen," Captain Ivan finished. He seemed to have taken words from all of their minds and said it out loud.

"Now, all we can do is wait and rest until an enemy target is sighted," Gamma sat down in a chair in the command center part of the outpost. He plopped his feat on the desk and leaned back as if he was going to take a nap.

"At the moment, that seems to be the funnest thing to do," Camo sat down in a chair across from Gamma and spun around. Amazingly he was showing no sign of getting dizzy, both at the time and anytime soon.

Jax and Ivan sat down like normal. Jax sat in a chair next to Camo and Ivan sat in a chair next to Gamma. Sergeant Rekketh wandered off during the tour to go do something else, so he wasn't there with the high ranks.

"Don't worry. Something is bound to pop up soon, it anyways does," Jax commented. That was true most of the time. For all they know, the planet could suddenly have half of it blown up and they could go try to figure out how to fix it or who did it. Not that a planet would ever explode. Maybe in a couple thousand of years someone will make a device that will blow up a planet, but not within the next 100 years.

Suddenly, right next to Gamma, a beeping sound went off. He scrambled to sit up straight and answered the call.

"Captain Gamma of the 501st. What's going on?"

Dakx was on the line, "Sir. There is a figure that has weapons heading to our direction. What should we do?"

Gamma thought for a second, then turned to Jax, "You can continue this for me."

Jax swapped seats with Gamma and spoke into the comlink, "This is Jax. Wait for the figure to come to us. If they attack, kill them. If not, leave them be."

"Sir, they are heading this way right now, but she shows no signs of carrying a weapon," Dakx responded.

"She?" Captain Camo thought out loud.


The clones began to surround Luna and kept her in their sights. Dakx, currently the highest rank outside of Fell Outpost, walked over to the bounty hunter.

"Lower your weapons, but keep her surrounded," Dalx ordered. He kept his DC-15x on his back and walked over to Luna. A few of the clones made an opening for him to confront her. "I don't know who you are, however I was ordered to take you inside. You are too close to Fell Outpost to the point it is rather suspicious," Dakx spoke to luna.

Luna was trying to think up of ways to get rid of the clones and escape, however she realized she didn't want to get in big trouble with either side, unlike her brother, who's in deep water with the Republic.

"Fine..." Luna mumbled in defeat. Thankfully her brother wasn't here to see this. She looked down and put her hands behind her head and followed Dakx inside Fell Outpost. The clones stayed around her as she went into the Outpost.

A bright light went into Luna's eyes, then she saw the inside of the Outpost. There were clones everywhere of either green, blue, or yellow colored. If she remembered correctly, the green ones where from the 41st, the blue ones were from the 501st, and the yellow ones were from the 327th. She walked through the hallway filled with all of those colors into a bigger room, where there seemed to be a few clones of importance in the middle.

Commander Jax sat up and watched as Dakx came in with the girl. Camo, Gamma, and Ivan got up slowly after him and watched the scene that was going to unfold along with him. They took her down another hallway towards the cellblock. She must of been the girl mentioned on the comlinks.

Up above, Chipper looked down and saw the girl. His mind stopped, and under his helmet he went heart-eyes. "She's hot..." Chipper thought out loud. He soon wished he didn't say that out loud, however. Behind him, Dawnbreaker whacked him on the head with the butt of his gun.

Weaver slowly backed away from Dawnbreaker, deciding he wouldn't want to ask the question he was going to ask.

"Sir, where is the nearest LAAT?" Weaver whispered to Gamma after climbing down the stairs. Gamma ignored him and watched as Luna was taken to the cellblock. He got up and followed Jax, Camo, and Ivan, who were headed there right now to go see what her deal was.


They entered the prison. Along the way to where they saw Lieutenant Dakx put Luna inside of a cell, they passed a few other imprisoned folks. Not one of them seemed innocent, except for Luna.

Commander Jax and the others questioned her. They ended quickly, and left. There wasn't much to what she said.

"Chipper, Dawnbreaker," Dakx called out. The two ARF troopers appeared before him, "Guard Luna's cell. We don't want her getting out."

"Okay, sir..." Chipper sadly replied, you could tell he felt bad for her in the tone of his voice. Dawnbreaker just nodded and went ahead of Chipper towards Luna's cage. He felt it was a bad idea to have Chipper guarding her cell.

They approached Luna's cell and stood guard. Hours must have passed before Luna said something, "I'm sure you don't like being here, Dawnbreaker," Luna confidently began. Dawnbreaker tried his best to ignore her. "I can help you be free of the Republic..." Luna continued. Dawnbreaker began to feel dizzy, as if a mind trick was used. He couldn't resist but to help her. She turned to Chipper, "I don't even need to say the same for you, I know you love me."

Dawnbreaker and Chipper got Luna out of the trap. They put handcuffs on her, which where extremely loose and would fall off as soon as she moved her hands. They silently escorted her out. This easily didn't go unnoticed, clones spot them like a haystack on a needle and began to fire.

Quickly, Luna rolled towards the exits, accompanied by Dawnbreaker and Chipper. However, Camo tackled Dawnbreaker as others went after Luna and Chipper.

"Snap out of it, Dawnbreaker! I know you aren't doing this willingly!" Camo shouted. He subdued Dawnbreaker, ending his curse as he fell asleep. Chipper was the one who actually wanted to do this, not Dawnbreaker.


Luna and Chipper dashed out in the great outdoors, only to see Dakx and others trying to stop her at the exit. Firing most of them down and running over Dakx, they began to make their way to a landing zone nearby where there was a small starfighter. They ran up to it and Chipper started the ship and readied it for take off.

"Let me pilot it," Luna smoothly spoke. Chipper got out, but then puzzled.

"Where will I be sitting?" he asked.

"Oh, when did I ever say I was bringing you?" Luna gave Chipper a taunting kiss on the helmet and then brutally murdered him by shooting him in the lungs and then snapping his neck. Chipper felt it was a happy last moment before he died.

Luna took off into hyperspace, finally loosing the Republic. No one was able to stop her now.


"Commander, what do we do now?" Gamma asked.

"...Go back inside. We've still got a job to do instead of sitting around," Jax ordered. All of the troopers who belonged inside walked behind Jax into the inside of Fell Outpost, and the others stayed outside on guard duty.


"Brother, I am off of Felucia at last," Luna spoke into a hologram.

"Good, Luna. I am glad to hear your voice again," Zerd spoke in glee.

"Do you want me to meet you at Coruscant?" Luna asked.

"Not now. In a few days. We got a trap to pull," Zerd smirked.

After saying goodbye, Zerd closed out of the call. "What trap? Sounds fun. Why can't I go?" Luna spoke to herself. She wouldn't question it to her brother directly, and she continued to fly throughout space.