And we are back to Star Wars: Clone Rebellion
I am most glad that last chapter, I had managed to get over 100,000 words for the story. It proves that I decide to put a lot of dedication into my work. Not that I mean to sound like a fussy person. All reviews are gifts top me when positive. I also welcome some critics about the chapters too. It helps to try and improve mistake while positive ones help build up speed.
Anyway, enjoy!
Saved! Senator Ryo Chuchi and her people were saved by Ahsoka Tano and her forces, while given support by some rouge Clones! As the city was cleaned out of Imperials, the people still had to leave to avoid further deaths! Ahsoka Tano is now traveling back to Alderaan, to check up on Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, to see what else has happened!
Deep Space:
Ahsoka was on the bridge of an Acclamator with a few Clones. Rex, Fives and a few pilots. Ever since she had left Pantora, Ahsoka had known that they might be tracked if all ships were to stay together. The damages done to each vessel had shown that one more attack would end them for good, and Ahsoka didn't have a death wish.
While traveling the galaxy with less fire support was dangerous, it kept them harder to spot from spies that were hunting deserters of the Empire. Because of this, Ahsoka had planned a temporary separation of each ship by creating alternate routes for them all to go. One Venator and two Acclamators. Ahsoka knew that if by any chance of a Sith to be on a ship, she should only take a small one so in case she gets attacked with a lot of men on board.
While the separation was understandable, she had to pick who would be coming if she was to come under attack. Because she wanted to see what new soldiers could do, she had decided to take Grit along with his men.
The trip was silent for now since almost everyone was resting up in their quarters. Ahsoka had stayed up with Rex and a few others so they could keep up security. Ahsoka was really bored of the silence and decided to ask about their progress for heading to Alderaan.
"Hey Rex, what's our status for going back to Alderaan?" Ahsoka asks.
Rex looked at the navi-map in front of him and checked it. Due to their alternate route chosen, they had to take a bit longer to arrive back to Alderaan. Rex knew that his Commander would go into dying boredom on this trip, but it was for good reason.
"The navi-map shows that we are nearing the moon of Lok." Rex replies.
Ahsoka continued sitting back on the metal chair she was sitting on and looked into the ceiling and sighed as she knew this journey would be boring. Sure she had been in boring ones recently, but that's because she was determined and waiting to go into battle. Now, she was only waiting to get to some place with nothing to do but check over Master Obi-Wan.
"Man this stinks!" Ahsoka thinks loudly in her mind. "I wish something interesting would ha-"
Ahsoka was thinking, she sensed something was about to happen. It had seemed that she had silently jinxed the crew of the Acclamator, because one Imperial Venator-Class Star Destroyer came out of hyperspace from the right, ahead by one thousand feet.
Empire At War: Space Pursuit theme (Starts)
"Sir!" A Clone pilot shouts to Ahsoka. "Enemy Destroyer has jumped out of hyperspace!"
"Turn this ship away from that Destroyers path! We're no match against a full sized Star Destroyer!" Ahsoka orders the pilot.
"Copy that Commander." The pilot says.
The Frigate vessel turned left from the side of the Venator and proceeded to the direction of Lok and directly over its moon. At least it was judging by the bottom of the vessel's bare belly facing the grey moon.
Imperial Venator Bridge:
An Imperial Admiral in the bridge looked towards the Acclamator that was on his left outside of the Cruiser he was in. he had recently received word that there was a Clone presence out somewhere near here, and he had found them. He was given a simple explanation at any vessel that was anything other than the grey color that was of Republic models was a clear target.
"Destroy that outcast ship. It must have a number of rouge Clones on board that need to be dealt with." The Admiral orders.
The four main Turbolasers on the left top on the Venator Cruiser started firing at the Acclamator with its blue lasers heading for it. The aiming for the cannons didn't seem to be well placed as most shots seemed to go around the Frigate rather than actually hitting it.
Ahsoka's Acclamator:
From the bridge of the ship, Ahsoka could see the Imperial vessel just chip off of the side of the windows as it went out of range. The Acclamator was piloted away as fast as possible, but the lasers from the Turbolasers were flying around the ship. Ahsoka's thoughts on this were that the Empire clearly didn't want to board the ship, but rather destroy it and kill everyone who is on board.
As Ahsoka was thinking about this, small explosions could be heard around the Acclamator and vibrations continued to rattle all through the ship. The crew inside that was sleeping must have been awoken by the sounds. The pilots of the Frigate were annoyed by the ship attacking.
"Blast it!' The main pilot shouts and hits the main controls. "It seems like every time we go places, the Empire is everywhere, always tracking us!"
"Keep moving! Let nothing hit the ship!" Rex shouts, ignoring the comment previously stated by the pilot just before.
The Acclamator moves away from the Venator slowly, but the Imperial ship quickly follows, trying to destroy the Republic ship.
As the Venator-Class Star destroyer had turned, the four cannons to its right were now in range and got aim for the Frigate. At the Admiral's command, he had made the next set fire at the Acclamator.
Ahsoka felt the Ship's shields start to go down and she knew the ship was starting to get damaged. The first violent explosions that had actually caused damage were on the smaller cannons that had little affect against full size battle ships.
As the pilot literally looked like he was shoving himself deep into his mounted spot as if he was trying to force the ship to move faster. Of course, having a hyperdrive on the ship would've been an easy way to escape. But Rex was checking the navi-computer to see where they would head to just with misguided direction. But before they could even consider pulling onto that course, an explosion was heard from the back of the ship.
"What the hell was that?!" Fives shouts standing from his one spot and looking behind him to see if the explosion was climbing up to the bridge.
A secondary pilot checked through computer frantically to see what the issue was and got straight to it. When he saw the problem, he knew that the battle was going to get worse.
"Commander Tano, our engines are gone!" The pilot shouts in alarm. "We're going to be stuck here if we don't do something about it!"
Ahsoka, knew that Turbolasers were a tough thing to fight against, but these ones seemed to be over powered and had already bitten through the shields. But how did the engines get destroyed in that matter of seconds? Did the shields malfunction or did the engines explode prematurely? Or did the Empire upgrade their Turbolasers.
"Send a distress signal out Rex!" Ahsoka shouts to her Captain.
"Yes sir!" Rex says back. He had done all he could in a matter of seconds and did as his Commander had ordered. "The signal is out Commander."
"Alright, but what is our status of the ship?" Ahsoka asks looking out the windows and seeing the planet growing bigger as it had kept moving.
"Uh… the ship is falling into the planet's atmosphere. We won't be able to avoid it." The main pilot says trying to remain calm about this, but clearly not working the way he had hoped.
"What?! Are you serious?!" Ahsoka asks getting alarmed.
"Sir, all we can do is sit tight and sort this all out!" Fives shouts due to the vibrations of the ship transforming into sounds of metal shifting inside the metal walls.
The pilots pressed and clicked many buttons as the planet was having the Acclamator fall into it. The biggest problem about the ship was that it was speeding up as it got closer to the surface. Since falling didn't require a source of fuel, it would only be something that speeds up the process of danger.
The pilots did all they could as they tried to avoid a nose collision into the brown ground. This was a challenging way to go down as the Acclamator was avoiding the necessary requirements to get on its belly rather than its nose tip.
"Rex, how long will this ship reach the ground?" Ahsoka asks.
"I've kept track of our speed and gotten an estimation of when we'll hit it. We have either ten of fifteen minutes to spare." Rex answers.
"Great, what do we do to pass the time?" Ahsoka asks with heavy sarcasm in her voice.
Rex just looked at Ahsoka with an emotionless glare. Ahsoka could tell it, even with the Clone Captain's helmet on.
"Keep pulling the nose up!" The main pilot shouts to his team as they try to do things the right way. This was going to be a bumpy crash landing.
Empire At War: Space Pursuit theme (Ends)
As the minutes of falling went by, the ship was very near its crash location. Everyone on the bridge was grabbing at whatever they could to avoid flying as they crashed down into the dust. When Ahsoka observed the land rushing against the Frigate, it looked like the ground was actually very close by. But it was just an illusion due to the atmosphere burning around and on the vessel. Still, the ship was almost on the ground.
The pilots were doing all they could to keep the ship level and not fall on its nose or upside down. They had succeeded and keeping the ship from falling those ways, but then as the ship fell and kissed the ground it was scrapping against, the vibrations went for a long period of time and reacted violently as the ship dragged. Ahsoka was trying to hold in her position that she was sitting in on her seat, but the more she tried, the more she went out of control.
Ahsoka still manages to carry her view of the front of the ship before being knocked out on her spot. They were heading for a tall steep wall of land. When she flew, she had went over five feet to the left and on her back.
Rex looked at the Commander in worry for her safety. Ahsoka was trying to stand while the ship kept bouncing. But that was useless as it was like trying to stay steady on the side of a cliff while an earthquake was happening. Then the big 'BOOM!' went off when the ship hit the wall and the Clones were sent flying.
Ahsoka was sent into a deep sleep as she went into unconsciousness. Rex, Fives and two bridge support Clones quickly rushed to her as they see her out cold.
"Ahsoka, please wake up!" Rex says gripping her shoulders. "Please don't die Commander. We need you!"
Fives looked at the two bridge support members and knew they had something useful that they could do instead of standing around looking at the Togruta.
"You two check the lower deck and search for Kix." Fives orders pointing to the doorway leading to the elevator.
"Yes sir!" Both Clones replied giving a salute to the ARC Trooper and heading to the elevator.
The Clones managed to get into it with no issues like the crash didn't affect the power to certain systems onboard the Acclamator.
"Well, at least we've still got some control left on this baby.." Fives says trailing off.
Rex continued to look into the Jedi's face and wanted to see some positive signs of her waking up. Clearly this wouldn't happen anytime soon.
In Ahsoka's mind however, a lot was going on. She woke up in a dark room with nothing but blackness all around her, showing how alone she was. Then the shade of black changed into a light blue in a quick amount of time. The blue then finally turned into a jungle and this got quite confusing for the Jedi.
"Hello?" Ahsoka asks questioning out to whatever was going on.
This place now had some sounds going off in the background. Birds, trees, wind and possibly an ocean. There was a blue sky with clouds that looked very harmless upon looking at them. They didn't look sharp, but rather clean look, a soft feel to them. When Ahsoka looked at her boots, she saw a lot of sand that seemed to travel for miles.
Ahsoka spotted a flat rock that look like it was made for sitting on. So she decided to use it for that purpose. She was getting very confused by the second. Then footsteps behind her got her attention and she turned around to face…
"Master Plo?!"
The Jedi Master that Ahsoka had mentioned just then was indeed right next to her. He stood there with his mask covering his mouth and leaving a non-emotional appealing face.
"Ahsoka. It's good to see you again." Plo says softly.
"I'm surprised you haven't visited for bit, Master." Ahsoka says.
"I apologize, little Soka." Plo says. "But I've got some news for you, and it is why you are here."
"Yeah, I was wondering about this place." Ahsoka replies.
"This is your Force training room, little Soka." Plo says
"Room?" This place is more of a beach." Ahsoka remarks.
"It can be anything you want Ahsoka." Plo says.
After Plo had finished his sentence, the room had changed to something else. When Ahsoka had observed the space around her, she had noticed that she was in the Jedi Temple achieves library.
"How- how did I get here?" Ahsoka asks in worry.
"You are in nothing more than what you have remembered little Soka. These places are what you have had much history in and a lot more experience." Plo answers.
Ahsoka looked around the room and saw that it was undamaged like the one in the Jedi Temple. It was silent like the original one and had a lot of space. There was no book cases lying on the ground after being blown to pieces and there was no people around that Ahsoka could communicate with. Well, besides Master Plo's life Force of course.
"But what is the point of this?" Ahsoka asks.
Plo gives a chuckle to the Padawan's curious question. It was like a six year old with no knowledge on the Temple. Of course, Younglings that had survived were not known to the dead Jedi.
"The point little Soka is for you to learn the true nature of the Force. It is what the true power of life that balances us is. Learn to embrace the power of the Force and work with it to do what is right." Plo says with seriousness. "As long as a few Jedi live, the galaxy has a chance at getting through this darkness."
"But how will these rooms help me, Master?" Ahsoka asks.
"You are deep inside your mind little Soka. These rooms are where you'll center your balance with the Force and create yourself as one with it. Shall you meditate and you'll be able to do amazing things child." Plo says. "But, that is a lesion for another time. You shall be released from this meditation and wake up in the world you've crashed on. Return here by meditating in the future little Soka. Goodbye for now."
"Wait, are you still going to guide me through my missions even after I leave?" Ahsoka asks.
"Of course young one. I'll be there when you need me most." Plo says, and then the dream flickered away and Ahsoka was left back into the darkness she had first started in.
Ahsoka's eyes then opened slowly and she caught the glimpse of five Clones just standing over her fallen body in the bride. Rex, Fives, Kix and two Clones were surprised that she had woken up just after a few minutes of being out.
"Uh… Rex?" Ahsoka question sitting up.
Rex quickly grabbed the Togruta's shoulders to keep her from doing a lot of harm to herself.
"Easy kid. You had some big bangs with the crash being that dangerous." Rex says carefully.
Ahsoka rubs her head and responds. "I don't think I did much damage Rex. I just had a vision of sorts."
Rex wasn't sure if that 'vision' was any sign of brain damage and decided to have to speak a bit more. Of course hiding his suspicion of any suggestions.
"So what type of visions are you meaning?" Rex asks.
"Plo came along again and decided to explain to me of a way to boost my Force powers. He said I have a better way of understanding it if I meditate in this room or world I go in.
Rex then nods with understanding. His bucket shakes along with his nod and gets his hands to pull up the Commander from the metal ground.
Ahsoka looked around with worry about the ship. Metal from the walls had been stripped off and revealed black wiring that sparks as it was pulled out of place. This room must have fallen apart when she was out, because the room didn't look damaged before.
"Rex, how is the ship?" Ahsoka literally questioned herself about the question. Of course the ship wasn't space worthy anymore.
"The ship has suffered hull damage all across its main body frame and intensive damage in the interior. But no enough that would send men flying out. The engines were blown up when the Destroyer had shot out our shields. So yeah, the ship is useless unless we can find a miracle ship repairer." Rex says explaining the cons of having this ship fly soon.
"Great. Everything always seems to go wrong or weird with Torrent Company…" Ahsoka says annoyed with their situation.
"What's our first objective Commander?" Fives asks.
"Well we can't stay on the ship. The Destroyer that shot us down would've sent out probes to check our situation. Seeing us alive and they'll try their best to eliminate us." Ahsoka says.
"Should I tell the others we're heading out?" Fives asks.
"Yes, please do it Fives." Ahsoka replies.
The ARC Trooper nods and went to go to the lower decks to inform the Clones.
Soon, Ahsoka had the entire crew on the ship follow her into the engine room where they would go out the back. And entries at the top would have been a tricky to get of the ship since its height was pretty high. They were taking the back cylinder paths so they could go down a shorter path. The way the ship had fallen make it pretty reassuring that the engine docks were the easiest paths to take. When reaching the end of the path, Ahsoka had dared to look down to the ground. This engine dock was about a hundred feet high from the ground. She assigns four Clone members to shoot their cables from their DC-15A's in the metal so they could get down safer.
As each Clone went down, Ahsoka had ordered for a head count and got the numbers to be a four hundred. It wasn't a number she would want in this particular situation. Having four hundred would mean more help would be needed, but at the same time an Imperial attack would mean the elimination of said Clones and the Jedi.
As everyone had decided to look all around the hot planet of Lok, the member of the five man squad, Damona had looked through binoculars had found what appeared to be a dome building in the distance.
"Commander Tano, I've found something!" He shouts to his Commander.
Ahsoka went to join the Clone and saw that his curiosity was found. Her presence was noticeable to the Clone and he handed to binoculars to her. When Ahsoka looked through the same pair, she noticed it too.
"Hmmm, that's a weird looking building. Who would be out here?" Ahsoka says a little quietly.
"Think it's Pirates sir?" Rex asks walking next to Ahsoka.
"Now that you mention it Rex, Jedi master Adi Gallia had a deal with Pirates that had a base on Lok. I believe his name was Nym as she had once told me." Ahsoka says.
"You wouldn't know if he's hostile Commander?" Rex asks.
"Nym did allow her to join him in his adventures. I'm sure he wouldn't mind us joining up with him if I tell him about my connection to master Gallia." Ahsoka says back.
"Well we had better do something soon Commander. There are Speeders from the distance coming." Fives announces as he pointed to the dome area as well.
"We have to show them we're not enemies. Drop your weapons and keep our hands up." Ahsoka says.
"What?! But what if they are hostile?!" Rex asks.
"Sadly Rex, it is our only chance when we're stuck right out here. But think of it this way, if we are actually being intercepted by Nym, and then we can probably make a deal with him." Ahsoka says.
"And if not?" Fives asks daring to know the answer.
"Then we may die." Ahsoka says.
"Oh, goody…" Fives says sarcastically.
The Pirates that were coming for the ship's crew saw the hundreds of Clones standing around and thought it was trouble.
"Clones. Keep watch over them. If they make any moves, shot them to the ground." The leader says with a deep voice.
The Pirates understood their leader and went to follow him still. There was at least a squad of twelve following the leader. The leader was a male Feeorin who seemed to look like he lifts. He looked very serious and looked like he could take on an army.
As they pulled up to the Clones, they noticed that they had their weapons all on the ground, but the female that was with them seemed to having two Lightsabers at her sides. Nym got a lot of his attention to her and decided to speak to her.
"A Jedi?" The Feeorin asks. "I thought all of you were dead. But I see the Empire has followed you here." The Pirate says aiming his small Blaster Pistol at Rex who thought he would be shot to death.
"No, no the Empire is not out here. I've just been to Pantora with my soldiers to fight Imperials and save Senator Ryo Chuchi. They are loyal to me." Ahsoka says.
The Pirate looked at the each Clone carefully and slowly lowered his weapon.
"Alright. You have my trust for now. But your Clones here to earn their respect. And if try anything and I'll have my crews eliminate them all." The Feeorin.
"It's a Deal." Ahsoka says, sealing herself and her men into a deal that could cost them if they do anything wrong.
"The name's Nym, leader of the Lok Revenants. Welcome to Lok." The Feeorin says revealing his identity.
"You are Nym!" Ahsoka exclaims. "Jedi master Adi Gallia knew you!"
Nym looked at the Togruta in surprise and possibly sadness or anger. His glare represented at he was defiantly the true Nym.
"Come to the Lok base. We'll be preparing you for what is to come next." Nym says before riding off with his fellow Pirates.
Everyone one of the Republic forces just looked in their direction until the dust that trailed behind them just blocked their view. This was going to be a dangerous day for them.
Minutes later, Nym was just standing outside of the main ramp that climbed to the base and was cleaning his Rifle with a cloth of sorts. The base had loads of Lok Revenants standing outside moving stuff around, running a course of sorts and shooting practice. The one Rifle that he was rubbing the cloth against had been used on foot when he had to bust into the Droid base with Adi. He had many memories with that Jedi. He looked out to see the Jedi and four hundred Clones just following in their armor holding against the sunny heat of the day. He stopped cleaning his gun and left it on a crate. He then started walking towards the group fearless of what their actions would be bringing to their Lok base.
"I see you decided to march here after all Jedi, Clones." Nym says. "But that is no step closer to earning my respect."
"Then what would earn your respect?" Ahsoka asks.
"Our labor support has been down recently and we need to get back on track. Your Clones are high in number and could be very useful." Nym says.
Some Revenants had walked up to their Pirate leader and they were wondering if their 'visitors' were here to harm. Apparently Nym hadn't mentioned any guests to anyone except the ones they assisted him, which seemed to be doing other things.
"You four, send the Clones out back to move stuff into storage and any other jobs that you can't do!" Nym yells at his troops to make them do it quicker.
The troops nodded and went to escort the Clones to the back.
"Uh, Commander?" Rex asks.
Ahsoka knew what Rex was going to ask and quickly decided to get the answer of the Lok Revenant leader.
"Oh and Nym, can my main soldiers stick with me instead?" Ahsoka asks.
"Only three. No more." Nym says.
"Rex, Fives and Kix." Ahsoka says quickly.
The three named Clones heard their identities called out. Of course it wasn't their numbers as Ahsoka had a lot of respect for them as people and not some numbers and creations from Kamino.
The four followed Nym through the big dome which seemed to be a long walk to get around. He seemed like he was testing them. But he wasn't.
As Nym made the four followed him, he pointed to six Fighters on his right with red and white paint, which were sitting with their engines off and power off.
"Those are our G-400 Starfighters. They were used a lot during the beginning of the Clone Wars." Nym says.
"Those are some weird Fighters." Ahsoka says…
"They've been very useful; I don't see why it matters." Nym says back.
As they kept walking Ahsoka had noticed the entire dome seemed to be full of these G-400s. There were clearly over a hundred sitting on landing pads. The sounds of machinery kept echoing around the room, proving how busy it was in here.
She then saw Nym go to a lift that went down, judging by its height from the bottom of it. She and her men quickly got on it and went down the Pirate.
When the lift is on the bottom, Nym walks off and has the Jedi and three Republic soldiers follow him still. He seemed to be heading to different Starfighters that were down here. This space was just as huge as the Invisible Hand's hanger bay.
"Alright, I'm going to show you my main crew members of my Pirate crew." Nym says.
As Nym walked to up the Fighters, five members walked up to him, all in different species. There was a Bith, a Chadra-Fan, a Trandoshan and two Meres.
Nym walks to the Bith first. "This is Jinkins, my engineer of the crew." Then the Chadra-Fan. "That's Kole." Then the Trandoshan. "That's Telash Lisharsk, our most recent member." Then last but not least, the final two Meres. "And those two are Sol Sixxa and Juno."
"Greetings." Jinkins says.
"Hello." Kole says too.
It seemed like the ones called Jinkins and Kole were the only ones with proper manners if the crew. But it didn't bother Ahsoka. If they could leave very soon, then they'd be able to forget about all this.
"Alright, you know my crew. Now it's time to get to know you, Jedi." Nym says.
"Alright then." Ahsoka says. "My name's Ahsoka Tano, Jedi Knight of the Republic. I was the Padawan of the once Jedi Anakin Skywalker, now with my men on our very own mission to search for rouge Clones and Jedi that have escaped the Empire's grasp. Even though we only know of a few remaining, we're still not giving up."
"Hmmm… I see." Nym says using his right flesh hand on his chin. And Ahsoka had noted that his right hand was mechanical.
Nym then turned to Sol Sixxa who was holding his left shoulder like it was going to break.
"Sol, what's your problem?" Nym asks.
"My shoulder was bent or something when a lot of crates came falling on me. I think I may have damaged it." Sixxa answers.
"Might I check it over for you?" Kix asks.
"Pft, what can you do?" Nym asks the Clone Medic.
"For your information Nym, I am a trained professional field Medic, and I have a lot of experience of these types of injuries." Kix says walking over to Sol. After giving Sixxa's arm a good look over by moving it and determining his flinching when it was bent, Kix understood the problem.
"I see what the issue is. Due to the added weight that you must've had dropped on your arm, it must've been dislocated and made you sensitive with each touch. I suggest you avoid any lifting with your left arm for a while. If it doesn't heal, the surgery is the considerable option." Kix says.
"Well, that sucks…" Sol says.
"Good work Kix." Fives says to the Medic.
"I didn't do anything Fives. I only told him the problem." Kix says back to the ARC Trooper.
"Now, I'm going to show you our ships." Nym says.
"That's the advanced Freefall, Jinkin's ship." Nym says, pointing to the one that was apparently Jinkin's ship. "That's Sol Sixxa's ship, the Sigil." Nym says pointing to Sol's ship. "And that big lug of a vessel is Juno's." Nym says pointing to a big yellow Cruiser. "It's called the Tritus. Its turrets were recently put back on after having to get them removed. A few years ago."
Nym didn't bother to point at another Fighter in the background which was another G-400 Starfighter. Ahsoka had assumed that it was Telash's fighter.
"Wow, what kind of firepower does it have?" Fives asks.
"Oh, this ship has the best. Its turrets never mess up and can cause critical damage in a short amount of time. Wouldn't you say that's impressive?" Nym asks trying to get the Republic troops impressed with their Pirate technology.
"Well I'm sure it must've been useful for hard times…" Rex says.
"Oh, it was. During the battles before the Clone Wars, it was used when we had to fight Cavik Toth." Nym says looking at the Tritus carefully. "She has been through a lot the past years."
"Is this the only one you have?" Ahsoka asks.
"Well, there was one that was identical to this one called the Kethor, but she got destroyed during the battle of Nod Kartha, with our friend Orsai who sent the ship into a shield generator that ensured our passing into where we needed to go." Nym says with his crew looking at him as they knew of the story themselves since they were there at first hand.
"Sorry for your loss Nym." Ahsoka says ensuring that the Lok leader had a right to be sad about it.
Nym looked back to Ahsoka and knew that thinking about Orsai and his lost friends would be only a setback to their Lok operations.
"Alright, I suppose we should just get to our agreement." Nym says. "I've been meaning to get more technology from various Pirates, but Imperial fleets are showing how much we won't be able to do it. The deal is Jedi, if you let our ships follow yours and assist us in attack Pirate bases, we'll have a deal that we can hold. I'll even throw in some of the technology for you."
Ahsoka heard the deal clearly and she had to admit that it sounded good. Maybe the idea of getting new kinds of tech would be good for the Clones since they might get better upgrades that are formidable against the Empire.
"I accept. It would be best if we can get what we can. Anything for improvements is what we need." Ahsoka says.
After Ahsoka had finished her sentence, sounds of explosions from above could be heard. Everyone looked up and in the air, yet only looked into the ceiling as if they were trying to look through it. But of course, no one there had x-ray vision.
Then suddenly, a Lok member went down the lift and ran for Nym. Everyone looked at him and he was breathing as if he was running for minutes. He stopped, trying to gain his breath and speak about his issue to his leader.
"Nym! Star Destroyer is in the sky! It's trying to destroy our base!" The Pirate says.
"Imperial scum!" Nym says running to the elevator. Ahsoka decided to follow him with her Clones.
The lift went up in a fast speed and it quickly went to the surface level. Nym then ran from the lift and went straight out the door. He wasn't really concerned with how the damage from the lasers would hit it as he wanted a firsthand stare at it. When he looked outside, he saw the Imperial Venator very high in the air shooting blue lasers at the dome and some hitting around it. Ahsoka had gotten behind him and got a glimpse of it herself.
"I hope they've had fun. Because I'm going to break it." Nym says darkly, running back to the lift. Ahsoka just stood there with, Rex Fives and Kix looking out the door.
"That's going to be a problem." Ahsoka says.
"I doubt our ship could be able to compete against that in its condition." Fives said.
"I just hope that Pirate knows what he's doing, because we won't live to see another day if we just sit around here." Rex says.
In the lower levels where Nym was heading, he went back to his friends Jinkins, Kole, Sixxa and Telash.
"Nym, what's the situation up there?" Kole asks.
"That Star Destroyer is trying to destroy our base! But we'll be destroying the Cruiser before they get the chance to stop us." Nym says. "We're taking our ships. Prepare for Imperial property damage."
Each pilot had gotten into their ships in quick time and lifted off. Kole, who didn't have his original ship, had taken his spot in the Havoc's secondary turret. It was accustomed for him to go in that spot as he had been in many battles in that seat.
Nym's Havoc was in lead with Jinkin's Freefall and Sixxa's Sigil at his sides. Telash's G-400 Starfighter followed in the back middle of the chain and flew for the door where Ahsoka, Rex, Five and Kix stood. When the Fighters went over them, Ahsoka had put her hands on her Lekku as the Fighters engine sounds were very loud. It was hardly an exception for the Clones as they had kept their helmets on, but the sound was loud for them too.
When Ahsoka and her team looked back into the sky, they saw the four Fighters heading directly to the Star Destroyer. What was Nym going to show the Jedi and the Clones? Some ship action that hasn't been done by the Republic before.
Yavin IV:
The Kaleesh warrior Kytani Kheashmun had taken lead of the remaining Clones on the jungle planet and attacked the final camp. Due to its distance and terrain, it took a lot of hours to get there. She had her Outlander Blaster Rifle on hands and had it aimed in the direction that followed up to their path. It was going to be a dangerous battle since where they were headed was full of fallen trees and animals that could go dormant at the sight of their path. The rain a ceased poring and their path was clearer to get across due to the Clones HUDs not being rained on. While it was an advantage for them, it also served as a higher chance for Death Watch to get their strength together and not take it as an advantage for another attack with the lack of their forces.
"Keep moving. We don't want to lose them within this jungle. They're most likely attempting to leave with everything they've got so they can make another base without leaving their backs any less safe." The female Kaleesh says.
"Well at least they don't have their special weapon we had found." The field Commander says, remarking about the cannon they found in the last camp beforehand.
"What did you find?" Kytani asks.
"There was a cannon that we had found before that seemed to inoperable during our assault. I think it was going to be used against us if the battle against our tanks had actually succeeded. But since we got there before hand, we managed to stop them from launching shots from it to us." The field Commander explains.
"I assume you've got some soldiers protecting it?" Kytani asks.
"Um… actually we've kinda left it alone." The field Commander replies. "But I doubt the enemy will get it back."
"It was foolish to keep that cannon unguarded Commander. If the enemy was to gain it back since there were no guards protecting it, the coast could be very high." Kytani says.
"I'm sorry ma'am, but it was under a short amount of time that I could react to since the attack was happening." The field Commander says.
"I think it would be too late to reflect on it now, let's just go and finish the remainders of the Death Watch." Kytani says.
Upon finishing that statement, the camp was right up the front with Death Watch guards standing behind a short wooden barrier. They started firing at the approaching platoon with their red lasers flying onto trees, the mud grass, but it was hard hitting the soldiers. Clones just went behind standing trees and fired DC weapons back.
Kytani however saw herself getting cover as a foolish gesture and quickly moved forward for the kills.
"Foolish Mandos." Kytani says firing her Outlander Rifle at the barrier.
The Outlander Rifle must've been packing something serious, because it let out some serious power for a Slugthrower. Yellow bursting shots went straight through the wooden barriers and hit the metal armor that the Death Watch members wore. The affects from the bursts? It made the Mandalorians almost explode due to the negative power pressure against them.
"Wow." The tough Clone says looking at the Kaleesh warrior in interest as she continues walking against the Death Watch. "I've so got to join in on that action." And he went off to fight at Kytani's side.
"Hey, hold on a minute!" A random Clone shouts holding his hand up while trying to avoid the tough Clone from getting himself killed.
The tough Clone ignored the Clone from holding him back and had his DC-15A in his hands while having his Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon on his back with a strap. Once he got to the Kaleesh warrior's side, he started taking in more kills of the blue armored Mandos and added them into his kill count list inside his head.
Kytani say this as an open challenge and decided to rake up more kills herself. The tough Clone quickly started aiming his DC-15A at a rapid pace and shooting three times per kill each second. Kytani kept having a flash of looking back to him as he calculated each death he caused. What was his secret for fine aim?
"So, I see you're a good soldier with great aim. Care to explain what keeps you from losing your aim?" Kytani asks.
"I just like a fight. I don't see what that matters." The tough Clone says and instantly took a little moment to change from his DC-15A to his Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon, and let out the heat. "Now this is a weapon worthy of my expertise!"
The Z-6 literally cut down rows of Death Watch before they could get into the air. It seemed like that the native life of Yavin had made them forget their altitude abilities of being able to fly and instead leave them like regulars of warfare. It was an advantage for Clones as they started running up with their field Commander leading them in the assault.
"Come on! Their almost finished!" The field Commander says firing his DC-15S at some standing Mandos, killing them.
The 501st members caught more Death Watch goons and left them for dead as they ran past and over the bodies in a wide line. Death Watch members started to see their fates beginning to be sealed and started running.
The remaining members were very few in numbers. It is questionable to whether or not that the reason for it is because of the tanks. But even if someone dared to question such a flawed tactic, it didn't seem to be wise to answer with the chase of the remaining Death Watch.
There were twenty five in remaining numbers. Twenty five left on the whole jungle moon. They were all running away with the Rifles in hands trying to avoid the Clones from wiping out their organization on Yavin IV.
One member of the Death Watch suddenly realized something. It was however nothing to with their jet packs. It had something to do with their Mandalorian honor.
"Hold on, we're just going to run without our spirits intact?" The Mandalorian asked. It was a male.
"We're not going to last if we keep running! He's right; our honor is what keeps us strong!" A female Death Watch member said too.
A whole lot of nods and grunts of each member go around and they instantly stopped on spot where they were running on. They turned around to see the blue armored Clones and a Kaleesh warrior with Kaleesh swords coming after them. The members who were there actually knew who that Kaleesh was. She had a glowing green of hatred in her eyes as she went up against them.
"That's Kytani Kheashmun! We had killed her parents during the Civil War!" A female member said.
"I see you've still survived Kheashmun! But that will change soon!" A male says.
After the few bit of speaking was finished, the Death Watch members went to counter attack against the Kaleesh and the Clones.
Kytani had heard the words from the Death Watch clearly and automatically wanted to strike at them with deadly blows.
"Let it to me troopers!"
"What, but ma'am we're still getting attacked ourselves!" The field Commander says.
"Just trust me." She says and suddenly jumped into the air.
Both blue and red shots from the each side stopped and the Death Watch were left in awe and utter horror as they saw the Kaleesh strike for them by jumping in the air. Then BOOM!
Kytani had slammed her left hand into the ground right in front of the Mandos and they all went flying backwards by at least ten feet.
"Whoa, what was that?!" A Clone shouts clearly taken in by the shockwave effect used against the Death Watch.
When the Death Watch members went back on their feet, they automatically aimed and shoot at the Kaleesh warrior. She managed to jump above the lasers and cut her Kaleesh swords into five members and the swift attack made it look like they were ghost swords. No clear sign of attack was shown, but they were only still on the spot until they had fallen. The other remaining twenty decided to fire all they had at the Kaleesh, but instead of slicking them, Kytani decided to just blast them all. She went jumping around to avoid getting hit and switched from swords to Rifle in an inch of a second. When she darted down, she had blasted the Mandos one by one and avoided Blaster Rifle fire from each of them. Men and women all yell in pain as the slugs caused more than just a mailed bit of pain. When all Death Watch members eliminated, Kytani was breathing hard after her battle. She put her weapon back on her back and went onto her knees and softly spoke…
"Mother, father… I've avenged you…"
The field Commander went up to her after she had finished speaking her quiet words and crouched down to her face height.
"Are you alright ma'am?"
The Kaleesh woman that had helped them quite a bit and avoided any more Clone deaths looked up into the field Commander's helmet. He was being as supportive as of right now because he was caring for people who fight the evil.
"I'm alright, Commander. Check your men, see if they're injured or in need of any help." She says with gratitude of his concern.
"Of course, ma'am." The field Commander says softly while walking off to see his men, leaving her to think.
"These men… They must have a great Jedi in charge of them to still be fighting for what is right." The Kaleesh says inside her mind.
Lok:
Nym was with his soldiers behind him and almost at the Star Destroyer. He was making sure that all heavy weapons on board each ship was online.
"Status?" Nym asks his co-pilot and secondary gunner Kole.
"Nym, your lasers and missiles should be functional now. Now go launch some into the Destroyer." Kole says.
"Alright, I'm game for explosions!" Nym says suddenly thrusting to the top of the aircraft/battleship with his group behind him.
"Jinkins, Sixxa, are you with me?" Nym asks.
"Yes Nym!" Jinkins replies. "Also Sixxa, you'll be glad to know that I've recently added some secondary weapons to you Sigil Starfighter."
"What? You had better not damaged my ship!" Sixxa says.
"I didn't make any errors Sixxa!" Jinkins says. "Since when have I ever damaged anyone's ships?"
"I reckon I could name one of those times…" Nym says.
"Oh Nym…" Jinkins says, remembering them moment too.
"Alright, are we going to destroy this thing or what?" Nym asks, keeping on with the objective.
"Let's just do this." Jinkins says sounding defeated.
The Havoc, Freefall , Sigil and G-400 bombard the ship. Nym had charged his torpedo missiles out on the top of the Venator's surface and actually bombed right through the shield.
On the bridge of the Imperial Venator, the Admiral and his crew of Imperials had felt the sudden rush of explosions on the top and fell. When the Admiral got up, he grew edgy about that bombing that had affected the ship.
"What was that?" The Admiral asks, but getting no response as others on the bridge was taking everything in too.
With Nym though, he was just as surprised as the Admiral was.
"Whoa, something about that set of missiles made them go right through the shields!" Nym exclaims.
"Oh… right, I kinda did some other modifications to your ship besides Sixxa's…" Jinkins says awkwardly knowing Nym would be down his neck about it.
"Jinkins, I told you a million times, to never touch the Havoc's weapons unless I order you to!" Nym shouts.
"Sorry Nym, but-" Jinkins is then cut off by the Lok leader.
"But, this new weaponry has been impressive so far. You better hope it stays that way." Nym says.
"Well I'm glad you're enjoying this fine new hardware! After all, the Empire would've come to Lok anyway and tried to kill us." Jinkins says.
"Yeah, yeah, cut the chatter." Nym says launching more bombs on the top.
Sixxa launches some missiles while on Nym's left. Jinkins launches shots from his Freefall into the bridge's structure. The shots were like blue dual sniper shots. Each shot being a line that darts right through the shields and leaving deep burns that spread deep within the ship's metal structure.
The bombs from Nym's craft launched out and destroyed heavily protected ceiling bits, which in effect made deep holes big enough to see the hangers.
"Launch the Fighters!" The Admiral on the bridge shouts. "Those Fighters are causing critical damage to the Destroyer!"
Upon his command, V-wings shot right out of the side hanger docks and went for the Lok Revenants. There were twenty in total and were flying at the Havoc, Freefall, Sigil and G-400 in pursuit.
Green laser dashed towards each ship and some had managed to hit their shields in heavy shots. Nym was trying to focus while blasting at the Star Destroyer, but this heavy fire would soon than later cripple his ship. Not to mention his team.
"Arhh, what is the Empire's recent obsession with V-wings? Why V-wings?" Nym asks clearly annoyed with the Fighter class's popularity.
"Well it seems like that the Empire has been mass producing more of certain vessels and cutting down on old ones. I think V-wings are being used to ensure terror is coming." Jinkins answers.
"Maybe they do look like threats, but still they are easy to take down. That's why I need you to shoot Kole!" Nym shouts reminding his secondary gunner to do his job.
"Oh right, sorry Nym." Kole says, manning the turret and shoot down a few V-wings with blue lasers.
"Jinkins, send a message to the Fight and get them to assist us." Nym orders.
"Right Nym!" Jinkins says. After a few moments, Jinkins speaks again. "Alright, air support may be here every shortly. Just pray the dome does fall doesn't fall."
"Don't you dare give me that image Jinkins." Nym says deep and boldly.
On the surface, Ahsoka and the boys were all slowly regrouping. The Lok members were all getting into Fighters and ignored the Clones. They dived over Ahsoka and her men to engage the V-wings. The Ahsoka and the Clones however just stood there watching the battle. Orange and green Fighter fire was spraying against each other. It was a color show for them. Were it not for it being daytime, it could've easily been confused with orange and green fireworks. It had also seemed like that the Empire had changed their weapon colors from blue to green.
Then suddenly, Ahsoka's communicator went off. Her reinforcements were here.
"Commander Tano, we've managed to get to Lok as soon as we could. I see you've lost your ship." Maddox voice echoed through the communicator.
"Yes Maddox, please help the Pirates destroy the Cruiser." Ahsoka says.
"Yes Commander. I'm sending out ARC-170s to cover your position." Maddox says.
After a few seconds, Ahsoka could see the Sharkbite and the last Acclamator flying towards the Revenant base. After seeing them, the ARC-170s appeared and were mobbing with their s-coils shut to improve their speed to get to the Imperial Venator quickly. When only two hundred feet away from the vessels, their s-coils opened and their weapons were free to shoot.
Nym saw blue lasers dart around his groups ships and hit either V-wings or the Venator. They had missed hitting any of the other G-400s that were attacking the V-wings too.
Nym looked up and got a big surprise of the number of ARC-170 Clone Starfighters up there. This wasn't what he expected.
"Where did those Starfighters come from?!" Nym asks growling in annoyance.
"I believe this is the reinforcements of the Jedi. I don't think we should do anything to bring negative action upon them." Jinkins advises.
"Oh, well I suppose that's something to look up to." Nym says.
The four Pirate ships then dived around in circles to hit the bridge of the Cruiser to avoid crashing. While everyone was firing, Jinkins had taken the liberty to scan the vessel for any weaknesses. No surprise however, he had found one.
"Nym, I've tracked a weakness in their shield defences. Shoot at the base of the tower and the shields should fall." Jinkins explains.
"I'll take this!" Sol speaks up, flying his Sigil with his thrusts kicking into high gear and swerving around to dive against the front of the bridge. Sol checked his weapons and chose the bursting yellow ones.
"Alright, here it goes!" Sol says, launching yellow burst that looked like slow lightening and hit the base of the bridge. First hit did nothing, so he went for a second. As he kept doing little damage, he finally did some and caused an explosion when he was just ten feet away from crashing into the bridge. The problem was that the flames had engulfed a fair bit of distance and Sol wasn't anywhere to be seen within the clouds. The flames were so thick.
"Sol, can you hear me? Sol?!" Nym shouts with his communicator open to Sol's channel.
As the brief moments went by, Nym, Jinkins, Kole and Telash watch closely as they looked out for their friend who disappeared within the explosion. Then, the Sigil was seen punching through the flames and some was sticking to the body.
"Yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh!" Sol shouts over the communicator of his.
"Good work Sixxa." Nym says.
"Nym, the shields are powering down! This is our chance!" Jinkins says.
"Alright, let's do this!" Nym shouts leading his men to destroy the outer body.
On the bridge of the ship, the Admiral was knocked down again with his crew either dead or knocked out themselves.
When he slowly looked up, he was that almost everyone was out. His ship was seriously damaged. If he was going to die out here on this lonely planet, he was going to go out by taking as many lives as he could. He slowly limped to a command console and pressed and held down a button.
"I may die, but I refuse to let the enemy go without suffering!" The Admiral says. "Launch the Dark Troopers!"
Upon his command, the Dark Troopers he had called for had been launched from a side deck and they were shot out from modified escape pods. They then charged to the surface in quick speed. There were four pods in count. Not much to worry about if there are only a few to deal with right? Wrong! These Dark Troopers were worse than any Clone. When the pods came smashing sown, they were in a line right at the front doors of the Lok base. Ahsoka and her men aimed at the escape pods assuming Clones would come out and attack. But then the pods had exploded and they revealed giant, white metallic Droids with big repeating cannons.
"What the hell…?" Damona says with his group behind him ready to attack.
Then the cannons to all four of the Droids aimed towards the Clones let out their energy from their weapons.
Shouts of shock and doom came out from Clones as they dodged for cover. The lasers being shot towards them were more fast and rapid than a Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon. This was going to be tough to fight against due to the cannons shooting non-stop.
Damona charged with his team of five and went to attack one on the far left. It seemed like their programming within the circuits of the Droids weren't actually complete. Cause, they only aimed at the big groups instead of the charging five.
Damona, Trix, Wester, Harpoon and Tips were the heavy weapons and explosives specialists. They replied on big guns and weapons that could go boom! Damona shot the single Dark Trooper with his Z-6 and both Wester and harpoon threw grenades at the same Droid.
The effects against the bot was that the Z-6 weakened the armor and the grenades ensured the metal and scrap would fly everywhere. Now there was three Droids left.
Ahsoka knew that she needed to stop the last few Droids and she charged in the air and flew right into a Droid and activated her Lightsabers. She slashed it into the eyes of the machine and the intense heat melted it past its face and but the back. The cannon was aimed for her but the damage she caused it stopped it from hit her and destroyed the Droid. The last two Ahsoka had to deal with were slowly aiming for her and they were walking for her. No, they started running. She panicked and quickly pushed her hands out in front of her and shockingly she had made the Droids fly away at high speed. They landed on some rocks and broke into two large pieces, destroying their programming along with the fall.
Ahsoka looked at her hands in surprise and tried to take in everything that had just happened with her hands waving out in front of her. Then she had remembered what had happened before she woke up. She was in her new mental world that she had been given. At least she was now 100% certain now that she wasn't crazy. If spending only a few minutes in such a place could give her better Force potential, then she may have a lot more interest stuff to learn.
Ahsoka's boys were just as impressed by this. Namely Rex and Fives who got the best glaces, even with Damona's group at a close up.
"Wow, she's grown stronger Rex." Fives says.
"Yes Fives. I believe we're going to be seeing more things from her than we've ever seen before." Rex says agreeing with the ARC Trooper.
Ahsoka looked at her men who didn't see her as a monster with that power. Much rather a better start on her journey to becoming a powerful Force powered Togruta woman.
"Wow, I am awesome!" Ahsoka exclaims, walking back to her men at the doorway.
When Ahsoka checked the fallen men, she found out four have been hit, two were injured and two were killed. It was sad for her to face her soldiers' deaths. But it was much harder to see who the lucky survivors were and who wasn't lucky.
"We've lost two, Commander." Rex says clearly knowing Ahsoka knew. "But their deaths were for fighting evil, and they're proud of it. I'm sure they were."
Before Ahsoka could reply, a big explosion could be heard and the entire Cruiser exploded and the scrap parts landed all over the area it once hovered above. The biggest part was the main body of said vessel and it landed with loads of damage all over it. Its grey colored body now full of burn marks and holes that would cost a lot to fix and the bridge tower that was badly damaged had fallen and exploded.
Nym's Pirate crew then returned back into the dome and landed in their original spots. Some ships didn't return, assuming that they were destroyed.
After a while, Nym had gotten back to Ahsoka with his men following. They all stood in the dome waiting for what Nym had to say next. He wasn't angry about their sudden crash, but rather happy about something.
"You know, when you all crashed on Lok, I had my doubts that you'd be anyway helpful. But you stopping those Droids from destroying the place were something I really liked. I'd be honoured if you consider an alliance with the Lok Revenants." Nym says, holding his big hand out to the skinny Togruta Padawan and expecting her to give a handshake for the deal.
Ahsoka returns her hand back to the Pirate's and shakes it too.
"You took down a Destroyer in just minutes, how could I decline." Ahsoka says, not really asking a question.
"Excellent. Future raids against the Empire will be easy, I'll tell you." Nym says.
LAATs with red markings on them then landed and Ahsoka's men went to go and enter them. Walking outdoors they charged in and lifted off.
Ahsoka, Rex, Fives, Kix, Jesse and Tup got on the last one with Nym outside escorting them with his friends. Once on the Gunship, Ahsoka looked back and waved him a sign of friendship, which he returned too.
When the LAAT headed for the ship, Rex decided to chirp in.
"What's our next plan, sir?"
"We're getting Master Kenobi. We're falling behind on my plans I've thought out and it'll only get messy if not carried out from now." Ahsoka says.
And so the Gunship followed behind the others and proceeded to get into the Sharkbite.
Coruscant:
In the secret Jedi facility, Mace Windu was shaking within the Bacta Tank the Jedi Temple guards had taken. He was only in it with his breathing mask on and he was now awake. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around. Aside the blue glows he saw all around his vision, he saw two hooded figures and some green figure between them. His vision was blurry a bit but soon got better. He saw the Rodian, Helltera as he could remember looking at him. The guards saw him wake up and quickly started releasing the Jedi master.
Mace was lifted out of the top with his mask taken out of his mouth and coughed after came out of the tank and being lowered down. Mace almost fell to his knees were it not for the Jedi guards holding him from falling.
"Master Windu, are you alright?" One Temple guards asks worried about the Master.
"Yes, I'm just trying to remember… what has happened." Mace replies weakly.
"We'll explain it to you later. Right now, we'll take you to our leader of this group." The guard replies while holding him to go and see their leader.
Helltera watched them help the Jedi walk in front of him and decided to follow behind them. Mace was his new friend and he wanted to help the Jedi.
This was a hard time for the galaxy, and good hearts and strong minds were what was going to help restore it to its original state. Good lives will be lost during this conflict, but in the end, some good would come from it and people would be able to protect themselves from corruption in the future government. When the Republic is restored, everything will have to be reset in future for better minds and less corruption.
End of chapter:
Glad I could actually update a bit faster this time. It has been a bit of an easier time for me this time. Hope the reviewers generate some positive feedback. Especially since I brought back Nym and his old crew of Pirates.
Until next time!