[Started on October 28, 2020]
[19:59 hours, Philippines]
=== (Chapter Fourteen: Changes) ===
What happens when a man who knows the potential future of a certain war plays both sides?
Well, for one Chancellor Palpatine, he is currently finding out the very hard way.
See, the plan, his plan, was to have the Jedi take Ryloth and then Geonosis. All the while, the CIS were to fight a slowly losing battle.
The problem?
The general he had Count Dooku install—before said Count was mutilated and died without Señor Palps' knowledge—was 'mysteriously killed' without warning. Any other general he had Dooku assign after Dooku's escape from the Jedi Temple—who as stated earlier, died without Señor Palp's knowledge—all died. Left with little to no choice, his frustrations caused him to demand Dooku to take charge of Ryloth or find a general skilled enough not to die as quickly as the other fools.
Which is why now, after one year of fighting, Ryloth and Geonosis are still major battlegrounds.
Another problem is that his once potential apprentice—Sarada Uchiha (surprise, surprise) went missing!
But we all know what happened to her so back to Dooku!
See, Dooku, or as we truly know him: Naruto's transformed clone, is a cunning man. He demanded that any and all available battle droids be deployed. To Palpatine's shock and horror, 'Dooku' even placed an order for the continuous manufacturing of Commando Droids AND Magna Guards.
When Palpatine dressed and acting as Darth Sidious asked 'Dooku' why all droidekas have ceased production, 'Dooku' simply replied, "the Jedi can push them and slice them, Master. Besides, we have more powerful droids."
Now, obviously, it is a no-brainer that the cunning dumbass Sheev Palpatine wants the Jedi to win in order to keep control of his 'republic' (AKA: pseudo-empire) and to betray the Jedi afterwards.
Unfortunately for him, he did not anticipate Dooku's actions, and the actions of both General Grievous and Admiral Trench—two of the greatest commanders of CIS, both of whom are doing amazing things with their now unhinged CIS armies and navies. He also did not anticipate the numerous assassinations done against the republic.
In fact, he did not anticipate Dooku sending his assassin—Ventress, obviously—to try and assassinate Padme Amidala, only to be foiled by a certain "Sky-guy", and which upon her retreat, told Skywalker it was under orders of Darth Sidious.
Palpatine—well, Darth Sidious—tried to contact the Count; he really did. However, when he did manage to contact the man, 'poor Dooku' was in a 'space battle' with a certain Jedi Master known as Naruto Uzumaki and had to cut transmissions short.
That attempted contact was one month ago.
At present, the chancellor can only watch from the sidelines as the battle unfolds in front of him via hologram.
=== (Battle field: Ryloth) ===
Ahsoka charges forward into the sea of battle droids with the 501st legion covering her. Her lightsabers make short work of the droids, before her communicator beeps.
"Ahsoka!" Anakin calls. "Fall back! Your position will be overrun!"
"RRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Ahsoka delivers a great push that sends the first ten lines of battle droids back into their own kin. Her face contorts, frustration clear as day, and then…
Rex calls from behind cover! "Commander! We need back up!" Droids begin to surround his and his brothers' positions. Ahsoka, being too far out, is unable to save three clones.
Ahsoka's eyes widen! "Rex!"
"Captain Rex, Padawan Ahsoka, when we tell you to fall back, fall back," a new—calm—voice says over the communicator. "Hit the ground if you want to live," the voice commands.
Obeying on instinct, Ahsoka, Rex, and a handful of surviving clones drop to the ground and what greets their eyes… shocks them.
Pew!
A volley of blue blaster fire whizzes into the surrounding droids.
Pew!
Another volley does the same.
Pew!
Volley after volley, droid after droid falls.
To the surprise of the padawan and the clones under her command, the volleys only increase in repetition, and when they turn to look where the volleys are coming from, they realize a large dust cloud obscures their view.
Pew!
Pew!
Pew!
The volleys start whizzing past them faster and faster, Ahsoka and her clones only able to watch as finally, silhouettes start to appear. Silhouettes that start to… "move?" Ahsoka wonders as the silhouettes move as one—as if they are a well-oiled machine.
And then she sees it.
Clones in a new sort of armour that is black in colour with orange highlights step out of the dust cloud and into view. Forty in number, the men line up and aim down the sights of their DC-15A as one, and fire. Forty more clones step out, these ones with the same armour and weapons. This new batch steps in front of the first, aims, and fires. The two lines of a total of eighty clones repeat the process making a slow but steady advance to the line of one Captain Rex.
Once just behind the cover used by Rex and his brothers, the first row moves past the cover and kneels.
What Ahsoka, Rex, and the rest of the regular clones of the 501st legion witness next is the most disciplined firing drill they will ever see.
The kneeling row fires, the standing row fires, and then the kneeling row, the standing row, kneeling row, standing row, kneeling, standing, kneeling—an alternate firing pattern that knocks each and every droid down and out of combat permanently.
The droids, upon orders of their commanding droid, fall back. They are not on Geonosis, and they, therefore, do not have an always replenishing supply of droids.
This is where Commander Orange enters.
"You!" "Commander Orange?!" (Insert murmurs of non-important clones here.)
The commander nods. "Padawan Ahsoka, Captain Rex. Fall back. I have the authority to shoot you should you not comply."
A regular clone dares to ask, "Is he joking?" to which Commander Orange simply tilts his head and asks back, "you want to test my words?" which finally leads to that regular clone going, "aaaaaaaalllllllrighty then!"
=== (Ryloth| GAR Forward Base) ===
Naruto snores soundly as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker argue over plans of attack. He even has that snot bubble expanding and compressing just waiting to be popped. Don't worry, it's just a genjutsu. Not that the others need to know that, of course. It's just very handy with keeping others from waking you up.
"Master?"
"Ahsoka!" Anakin cries popping the snot bubble that—surprisingly to him and the rest save Naruto—has no snot. "Thank the Force you're safe."
Popping his neck and shoulder joints, Naruto leans back… then flings himself forward and stands, stretching from side to side, and even popping his back while shaking his head like Elis from Left 4 Dead 2. Fun game. Infinite ammo for pistols. Spam left-mouse button!
Oh, shit, right! Story! Uhhh…
"Hey!" Ahsoka storms over to the blonde with whisker-like markings. "What's this about your clones being given authority to shoot us?!"
"What?!" goes the Skywalker.
"What?" goes the Kenobi.
"What?" goes the ever-so-innocent Naruto.
"What do you mean, 'what'?!" Ahsoka and Skywalker chorus.
Naruto waves her off. "Oh, shut up. You're alive, aren't you?" he waved Anakin off too, but he's not important in this story—if you haven't noticed. "Besides, I don't have a need for people who can't follow orders. Well, actually that's only partly true. If you're going to disobey orders, make you sure you have something to show for it, not nearly lead your team into a suicide charge," He says nonchalantly.
The clones around the room remain silent, although Rex and Cody exchange silent glances where Rex hangs his head and Cody shakes his. Then he locks eyes (visors) with Orange—the commander of the Shadow Fox Legion. "Commander Orange, is this true?"
"Nothing a little DC-15A blaster fire couldn't fix, but yeah, pretty much," he says making Ahsoka look at the ground… floor… whatever.
Right, so, Naruto pats the Togruta on the head for whatever reason (because romantic ship-teasing, am I right?) and then says, "Try not to die in the next mission. We're going in hard to free Ryloth. Rest up, young one. We march in four days."
"What?! Okay, why not now?!" Anakin asks in outrage; his plans being completely ignored. Obi-Wan's plans too, but the older man isn't complaining. Instead, Obi-Wan states and then asks, "I see… and what happens in four days, exactly, Naruto?"
"I have most of my personal fleet heading for Geonosis. Here, we have the Hokage and First cohort of my Shadow Fox Legion. Oh, and me, but I feel like I've been taking so much of the spotlight so I'll let my friends take some screen time for now."
"Screen time?"
"Don't worry your dark-side over it, mister soon-to-be-dead Vader," Naruto says with a shrug. "Satsuki, Kazumi, Sarada," he says, and as if they've been rehearsing their entrance, the three human females enter the room and stand at attention. "I want you to cause as much chaos within separatist ranks as possible. Except you, Sarada," Naruto says and ruffles her hair making her blush with a glare… okay, glare with a blush. It sounds better. "I want you here by my side," her temperature rises as her face flushes red and steam erupts from her ears, "okay?"
In reply, Sarada nods furiously.
No one notices Satsuki's face scowl behind her helmet, and Kazumi's face becomes a bit cheery… actually no. A little bit too cheery. Like a yellow background with flowers popping up from behind her. Beautiful Yandere girl.
Oh! Uhhh… oops? Spoilers?
My bad. Uhm…
Let's just say Naruto briefs them on his plan which better than anything Skywalker could come up, and just a tad bit bolder than what Obi-Wan had in mind.
=== (Battle Field: Geonosis) ===
Pong Krell, an ass of a soon-to-be-dead Jedi, watches the battlefield around him. Commando Droids upon Commando Droids descend upon his forces. His clones begin to fall one by one, as the man he ever-so wanted to meet—Count Dooku—walks towards him, followed closely by three dozen Magna Guards.
"Master Krell, how kind of you to be here, at the front, of all places," Dooku says as his droids continue to advance. "I hear you wish to be my apprentice?"
"I—GAH!" Before Pong Krell can even continue his reply, he finds twelve lightsabers impaling him. "W-What—" he freezes. What he sees—no, who he sees causes him to freeze.
Jedi Master Naruto Uzumaki looks down on him with a mischievous grin. "Oh? Surprised?"
"What… why…"
"HAAAAAHHHHH?!" Naruto tilts his head forward mocking Pong Krell by cupping his ear. "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. Were you about to say something hypocritical?" and here he smiles as he crosses his arms. "Like maybe how… Oh, I don't know, how I've betrayed the republic?"
Pong Krell's eyes begin to glaze making the blonde Jedi frown.
"Oi!" Naruto snaps his fingers making Krell snap back to life. "You do not die until I say you can die."
"W-WHAT?! HOW?!"
"I'd usually say 'fuck you, that's how', but you aren't really my type. That and I'm straight in this fic, so let's just say Deus Ex Author."
"Fic? Author? What—"
Naruto waves him off. "Something you wouldn't understand. Alright! Magna Guards! Take him away."
"Sir, what shall we do with the clones?"
Naruto raises a brow. "Oh! Right! Bring them with us." He then begins walking away. "Sheesh, if Palpatine wasn't controlling the Separatists from the shadows, they could have mass-produced all of their best droids already," Naruto muses to himself as he passes the unending wave of commando droids. "Ah well, that's too bad. Guess I'll be the one using my own army of Commando Droids and Magna Guards."
"Sir?" A commando droid questions him… probably his sanity too.
"Nothing, nothing. Next stop! Coruscant! I really wanna just glass the planet, to be completely honest. That place has caused too many stupid shitty situations in this universe, but oh well, boss's orders. 'Don't glass it,' my ass. Whatever. Skywalker will be dead, Palpatine will be dead, and spoiler alert: Boss will create an empire. A benevolent empire."
"Sir, may I ask why you talk to yourself?"
Naruto shrugs. "It's fun." He pauses. "Oh, right, we need some bloody way to kill Pong Krell too, but the author's thinking of something more prolonged… eh, we'll get there when we get there. Don't forget to review!"
The droids look at him with tilted heads. "Is it just me or is he crazy?"
"A little bit of both, most likely," A Magna Guard says in a very deep voice before following after the blonde.
=== (To be continued) ===
AHAH! See? I didn't forget. Review please! Honestly don't have much motivation to continue this, but thankfully I already established how this fic isn't supposed to be taken seriously, so I'm just playing around with some ideas.
And yes, the Spartans and ODST will make their debut soon.
Review (something substantial) please! PLEASE! I always reply via Private Messages to users.
[Finished on December 3, 2020]
[06:37 hours, Philippines]
[Proofread on December 3, 2020]
[06:57 hours, Philippines]