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The Fall of the Old Republic
Chapter 2: The New Threat
The army marched through the forest, scanning their surroundings. Gathern made a look of disgust when he noticed a dead Jedi sprawled on the ground, insides torn out. "Halt!" Gathern yelled over the open COM channel. "Ivohan, take a look at this." Ivohan strode over to him, and stared at the dead Jedi.
"Strange..." Ivohan started. "This Jedi not only has had his guts torn out, but he seems to have blaster shots all over his body. He lifted the Jedi's arm. "And here, looks like a slice from a sword. He began to pick up the Jedi's leg to examine it, when chaos ensued.
Three Terenteks launched themselves from the forest, into the Fachiles. Three were knocked off their feet, the pilots dragged out, when the others opened fire. The three Terenteks dropped, but then a sniper shot from a cliff to the Southeast penetrated a Fachiles "face", killing the pilot inside. Then several more sniper rounds came from the cliff, killing seven more Fachiles pilots. "What the hell?" Jappiers shouted, the fear obvious in his voice. "Snipers on a Terentek planet?"
"TAKE COVER!" Ivohan shouted. Ivohan stepped behind a fallen Fachiles, and brought up his sniper rifle. The Fachiles started to fire upon the cliff, but fell extremely short. Ivohan spotted one sniper, and opened fire. The sniper had a long snout like face, and was extremely tall, with giant eyes. Immediatly after the sniper's head was blown off, the other snipers turned their attention to the soldiers. They sniped one after another, but Ivohan was starting to shorten them as fast as he could.
Ivohan took a glance to his left, and was thrown to the ground by an even taller monster. It too had an elongated snout, but carried an assault weapon. It brought up a gun he'd never seen before. He never saw it shoot the gun too, because Gathern blasted it in the back of the head. Ivohan nodded a thanks to Gathern, as he and his men slowly made their way towards the cliff. Ivohan took one look at Jappiers, who was looking like he was about to soil himself, and said, "Jappiers! Get your rear in gear and cover me." Jappiers paid no attention to the command and lept into the forest, running to who knows where. If you ever come back. Ivohan thought. I'll strangle you myself.
Gathern and his men had made it to the foot of the cliff when the monsers with the Assault weapons appeared out of thin air. When they fired their guns it let out a blue plasma like shot, and melted a soldiers face off. One shot went right above Gethern's head, and tiny rocks hit him. He opened fire with his Blaster Carbine, which only put a bright light over the monsters body. An energy shield? He though, as he continued to fire. Then creatures, about the size of a ten year old popped out of the forest, and opened fire with little pistols, much like the ones the big guys carried. His soldiers immeditly opened fire to the new threat, and found out the little bastards were weak, and died in about two shots anywhere. The big ones charged even closer, and one based a soldier over his head, crushing his skull in. Gathern was then standing an inch in front of one, and it tried to bash his head in, but he sidstepped, and fed it his Carbine.
Jappiers ran faster each second, but they were still after him. Moments after he had abandoned Ivohan, HUGE monsters with metal plates all over them, charged after him. On their right arms, HUGE guns were mounted, and then fired them every few seconds. One of them went WAY ahead of him, and he saw what the damage did. It had completely melted the patch of forest away. They also had huge, sharp spines of their backs. Jappiers managed a glance behidn him, and collided with a tree. He scrambled back up, and managed to gather himself. He raised his rocket launcher, and fired. It blew one of the monsters head off, orange blood staining the ground. He fired again, and got one right in the gut. He tried to reload, but another one of the monsters rammed into him, knocking him twenty feet away. He lay in the grass, gasping for air, and manged to stand back up. He raised up his blaster rifle, and fired. The bolts pinged off the armor, but one lucky shot got it in the neck, killing it. Jappiers dropped back down on the ground, and cried silently.