Chapter 10
Two clone troopers ran through the forests of Felucia. Both of their armor was a greenish color to help them blend in. One was caring a DC-15x sniper rifle; the other carried a standard blaster rifle. The two suddenly stopped.
"This is Recon go ahead command," The clone caring the standard blaster said, speaking into the com-link.
"You two were supposed to report back to base with the rest of the scout team's hours ago. What are you and Longshot doing out there?" a voice said over the com-link
"Sorry, Commander Young, but we're just checking out an area some locals are spooked about. Probably nothing but we figured we should check it out just in case." Recon reported back.
"What do you mean their spooked, what's so scary about this area?" Young asked back
"Don't know, according to what the translator told us they say there has been some strange noise going on there and a young Felucian warrior went missing there a few standard hours ago." Recon answered.
"Alright go check it out then report back to base, Young out," Young said before the link went down.
Recon nodded at Longshot and they continued to run back down the path they were originally heading down.
They eventually arrived at the valley were the locals have been hearing the strange noise. They crawled on their stomachs to an edge of a ridge they were on and looked down at the base in the center of it. Recon pulled out some binoculars and looked through them as Longshot looked through the scope of his rifle.
"Is that what I think it is?" Longshot asked Recon.
"By the Force I hope not," Recon answered.
"There's movement towards the front of the base," Longshot said pointing at the droids moving a crate out front of the base.
Recon zoomed in on the two commander droids and cursed under his breath.
"Those better not be the two droids I think they are," Longshot said.
Longshot zoomed in with his scope and saw on the sides of each arm of the droids were a number; one had a number one on its arm, the other had a number two.
"What do you think they're doing with that box?" Recon asked.
"Who knows, if he's here there could be anything in that box," Longshot answered.
"We have to call this in," Recon said the panic could be heard in his voice.
"We call it in they could trace it all the way back to base. Plus they'll know we're here, it's a miracle those lookouts on the balcony of that tower haven't spotted us yet," Longshot mentioned.
Recon nodded and looked at the two battle droid standing on the balcony of the tower.
"Hey, look their leaving," Longshot pointed out as Number 1, 2 and several other droids that had arrived to help, stared heading back towards the base.
"Right, cover me I'm going to check it out" Recon mentioned as he got up and head back into the underbrush.
Longshot just nodded and watched the box.
Recon stopped once he was down a hill he encountered on his way down and checked.
Good I'm right where I should be, Recon thought.
Recon careful stepped out of the tree line and headed for the box in front of him. The box was bigger than he had thought it was at least taller than him and was rather large for a box that would contain supplies. On the box was a certain symbol that every clone knew all to while.
Great just what we need, an emotional, homicidal droid and a Separatist base, Recon thought again.
Recon turned to walk away when he heard a noise come from the box.
X-1 paced around its cage. It could sense the prey outside the cage. X-1 wanted the prey, badly not just for its sisters but for itself. That was when it heard the sound of the locks moving in to place.
Recon turned to see the symbol on the box turn. Suddenly the symbol stopped moving and a door began to open. Recon quickly brought up his blaster and was relieved when he saw nothing inside. Recon turned on his helmet light and peered inside the box when he saw something glisten in the box. Recon stepped back at the sight as some kind of creature began to stand up in the box.
The creature suddenly hissed and launched out grabbing Recon and pulling the clone into the cage. The door quickly closed.
Longshot almost shot up when he heard Recon's screams. He quickly looked through the scope of his rifle and saw that Recon was gone.
"Blast," Longshot said quietly.
Longshot moved his head up when suddenly his helmet clacked against the barrel of gun. He cursed under his breath.
"Stand up organic," A rather cheerful voice ordered the clone.
"I see you've been up to your old hiding bases trick again, Emotion," Longshot said as he stood up and face the emotional droid captain.
Emotion just chuckled at the comment. Standing next to Emotion was a clone trooper 2.0 unit.
"You organics should really get better at spying on the enemy. Not only did my sensors pick you up but my look outs spotted you as soon as you crawled up to the ledge," Emotion taunted the clone.
"What did you do to Recon?" Longshot asked.
"I didn't do anything it's what my little "pet" did to your brother," Emotion answered.
"What do you…?" Longshot said before being interrupted.
"Why spoil the surprise, it's not like you're going to live to see it, but before I kill you I want to have some "fun" first." Emotion mentioned.
Emotion suddenly kicked Longshot, sending the clone tumbling down the ledge.
Longshot hit the ground with a loud thud followed by a crack. Longshot shouted out a cry of pain as he grabbed his right leg. He looked up just in time to see captain Emotion jump off the ledge and land on Longshot's chest. There was a loud crack as Emotion landed on the clone's chest. Longshot at first thought it was just his armor than feared it was a rib or two. Longshot saw his rifle lying next to him. He reached for it; Emotion had predicted this and had pre-charged his zap cannon. Emotion pulled the trigger and a single beam of electricity hit Longshot's hand. Longshot at first felt nothing but then he felt a tingle and looked to see his entire right hand was gone.
Emotion chuckled and pulled of an emotional grenade from his belt. He pressed a flashing yellow button on the grenade and dropped it next to the clone's head. A bright yellow gas began to flow out of the grenade. Longshot at first was panicked than suddenly he started laughing. Emotion got off the clone and walked away as Longshot continued to laugh uncontrollably. The yellow gas then suddenly combusted and Longshot's body was consumed by fire. Longshot continued to laugh as he was burned alive, Longshot didn't feel any pain at all he just felt extremely happy.
Emotion laughed evilly as he walked towards the front of the base, where the droids were reading for battle. Emotion loved his emotion grenades, each one let out a gas that let the victims experience a different emotion, with its own special side effect.
"All is ready for the attack, sir, any final orders?" Number 1 asked the captain.
"Umm let see…all the clones are to be taken alive, you can only hurt them a little, I'll take the control room and deactivate the distress beacon they'll most likely send one when we attack and that's all I can think of. Battle Droids mobilize! Saw Droids clear a path for the troops and the AAT," Emotion ordered.
Several flying saw looking droids took to the air and began cutting through the forest. The AAT and the battle droids followed. Emotion quickly hopped on to the AAT as they moved out.
The clone base was completely unaware of the mechanical army heading towards them. Inside a clone in camouflage armor stepped in to the control room.
"Any news from Recon?" The clone asked
"Negative, sir, we've lost contact with them and they've failed to check in," a clone answered.
"I swear if those two got lost again they'll be on pest control for weeks," the commander said
"Commander Young I'm not getting anything on the scanner," Another clone reported.
"It's probably this humidity, send a repair team to go check it out though just to be sure," Young ordered the clone, unknown to the clone commander their scanners were actually being jammed.
As his nickname suggested Commander Young is one of the youngest clone troopers in the entire army, this is due to something that went wrong with the cloning formula from his group that affected the way they aged. They still aged at an accelerated pace but Young was a few years younger than your average clone. Young was the only one to make it from the group to live combat.
The clones continued to go though their regular routine, when a clone lookout spotted something on horizon. What the clone saw where several saw droids cutting their way through the plants of Felucia.
"Commander Young come in, I think I see droids coming," The clone reported
"Droids!?" Young answered back in alarm.
"It looks like it, sir should I…"The clone asked but before he couldn't finish, an AAT fired and destroyed the lookout tower.
"Lookout tower come in, do you read me?" Young asked "Blast it, sound the alarms all troops are supposes to repot to their battle stations."
The clones began to mobilize grabbing blasters and heading to all the key locations of the base and hid behind barriers for cover. The clones tensed at the sound of the approaching mechanical feet and the sound of the AAT's engines. Suddenly the gate to base was blow apart and blaster fire started to fly through the smoke into the surprised clones.
The clones fired back as several battle droids walked through the blown apart gate.
"Don't let them get any farther!" shouted a clone.
"Oh trust me we will." Said a voice
Some of the clones looked up to see the canon of an AAT coming through the smoke and standing on it, perfectly balanced on it, was Captain James Emotion.
Emotion jumped off of the cannon doing a front flip and pulling out his elector batons. Landing in the center of a group of clones Emotion began engaging them in close combat. Several of the clones that turned to face Emotion were gunned down by the advancing droids.
"Fall back!" Shouted another clone.
The clones began to retreat back into the base firing as they moved in.
"Retreating already? Oh you organics have no spirit. Come on fight us! You're Felucia's only hope to save it from the "tyranny" of the Separatists!" Emotion taunted.
Emotion activated his boot jets and flew into the air. Spinning Emotion flew into the retreating clones, knocking them down and leaving them vulnerable to be shot by the droids.
Soon there was no return fire from the clones, all of them were unconscious.
"Number 1 load up the clones, Super Battle Droids with me we're taking the control room." Emotion ordered stepping over the unconscious clones.
Commander Young and the five clones with him stood in the control room listing nervously to the sounds of the battle outside. Suddenly the noise stopped.
"Seal all blast doors," Young ordered a clone.
The clone nodded and typed something into a control panel.
"Prepare to transmit a distress beacon to the nearest Republic base. Bring up all outer base cameras on the screen and watch that door." Young ordered.
Young watched as the monitors came to life and began showing what was going on outside the control room. Young watched each and stopped at something going on outside.
What Young saw was several battle droids loading up the bodies of the clones onto a transport platform.
"What are you planning?" Young asked the monitor, as if he was talking to the droids outside.
"Sir, look at this," a clone shouted from another monitor.
Young walked over and saw one of the monitors flicker off. Young stopped and spotted a group of droids moving through the hallways of the base. He watched a Super Battle Droid raise its wrist blaster and fire at the camera.
"Blast, some got through, brace your selves. How's that distress beacon coming?" Young asked walking over to the main control panel.
"Their jamming all transmissions, sir but I've managed to prepare one. I can't guarantee that'll it get through, sir." The clone at the panel answered.
"It'll have to do," Young said joining the clone at the panel.
Suddenly the sound of saws cutting through metal could be heard. The clones turned to see several saw blades' cutting through the metal causing sparks to fly off the metal door.
"They move fast keep them busy, I've got to send off this beacon," Young told them, turning back to the control panel.
The clones stood, guns raised and watched as the saws continued to cut through the metal.
"Their almost through," a clone said nervously
"Steady I'm almost done," Young said typing as fast as he could.
The saws suddenly retreated back.
"Done!" Young shouted triumphantly.
The door was then suddenly blow open and blaster fire went flying through the smoke hitting the other clones. Young grabbed his rifle and turned to see a bolt of electricity come flying through the door hitting him in the shoulder sending flying back against the control panel. Young looked and saw a rather large hole in his shoulder.
Young looked back and heard humming. Young recognized it as the Battle Hymn of the Separatists Army. He watched as bright yellow light walked through the smoke and emerged as captain Emotion followed by several Super Battle Droids.
Emotion walked over to Young and hit him with his elector baton, knocking the clone commander unconscious.
Commander Young's head jerked up. His head was throbbing terribly. He looked around and noticed he was in some kind of room full of bright lights. He tried to move an arm when noticed his helmet was gone. Young suddenly remembered the attack on the base and struggled against his restraints.
The door of the room opened and Emotion walked in.
"Oh good your awake," The droid said cheerful as he walked over to the imprisoned clone.
Emotion knelt down so he could look the clone in the face.
"Now then, somehow you managed to send a distress beacon, so I want the Republic security codes to shut it down," Emotion told the clone.
Young responded by spitting in the droids face.
Emotion head quickly switched to anger as a smirk spread across the clones face. Emotion pulled out his zap cannon, aimed it as Young's knee and pulled the trigger.
Young let a scream of pain as his knee cap was blown apart.
Emotion put the zap canon back in its holster, pulled a rag and wiped the spit of his face.
"Now then what are the security codes?" Emotion asked again.
"Why? Afraid we'll find your little base and destroy whatever you're working on?" Young asked fighting off the pain.
Emotions face suddenly switched back to happy and Young could've sworn he saw a smile appear in the yellow light of Emotions happy side.
"Of course not, I don't want to ruin the surprise, that's all," Emotion said cheerful standing straight up.
Young stared at the droid in utter bewilderment, as Emotion typed something in on the control panel in his armor. One of the walls of the room began to disappear reveling a room containing all the other clones.
"As much as I would love to continue this little game, I just don't have the time, so we're going to skip the "beat the information out of you" step and move on to the real reason I've brought you all here." Emotion said sinisterly
The door opened and a grappler droid pushing a cart walked into a room.
On that cart was an egg.
"Splendid, you've brought one over and I didn't even have to ask, how thought full." Emotion said walking over to the grappler droid
Young watched as the grappler droid and Emotion walked over to him and placed the cart with the egg in front of him. Emotion and the grappler droid then stepped back. Young stared at the egg; it was about eye level with him and was like nothing he's ever seen.
The egg then suddenly opened and Young let out a gasp of surprise. Emotion watched excitingly as something began to crawl out of the egg. Young, absolutely terrified now, began to struggle harder against his restraints. Now the creature was fully emerged, standing on top of the egg that once contained it, and with a screech it launched itself at Young's face. Young let out a scream as the strange creature wrapped itself around his face.
"I want all the clones imprisoned in a cell with an egg. I want two to have a flow of the planets air and one with soil, small plant life, air flow and the temperature of the planet in it to see what kind of environment they mature faster in." Emotion ordered the grappler droid.
Emotion relayed the orders to 1 and 2 as well and left Young alone in the room to be impregnated.
"All is going as according as plan. Soon I'll have enough xenomorphs to begin experimentation," Emotion said, chuckling to himself as he headed towards his private quarters.
Emotion could hear the scream of the clones as they were dragged to the holding cells with the medical building. Emotion let out other chuckle, he couldn't wait to begin experimenting on the xenomorphs or using them as the perfect weapon.