Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire
A/N: This is chapter 2. R&R plz!
Chapter II: Our special assignment
I recalled the Geonosis battle. Huge, thousands of Super Battle Droids, hundreds of spider walkers and heavy artillery. The gunfire, the blasters, the explosions…
Months have passed since that event. The Clone Wars were still engaged, and didn't look to end soon.
At this time, the 501st legion was given a special assignment. Space battle was engaged outside the Geonosis system. Our huge Starship was docked near the atmosphere. CIS starships were lurking around. The pilots were already engaging battle.
All pilots, head to Hangar Bay, This is Not a drill. I repeat, this is NOT a drill.
All clones that were relaxing suddenly felt tense. The time has come. Not only was the 501st legion here, but the 174th as well, which were mediocre compared to the 501st.
Enemy ships have been spotted, and in the hangar bay, all was participating fine. There were no roars, or shouts of disapproval. Everyone in unison got to their starfighters.
I quickly got into mine. The cockpit was sharp at the end, with purple wings, and little blasters at the tip of the cockpit. It was a fine model, actually.
The starfighter, along with others zoomed out of the starship and into deep space, where enemy fighters could be seen.
"This is 501st Commander Ned speaking, Section 48, head east and into the plot-balisse, over," I said into the phone.
In unison, the starfighters went, after a few minutes, Republic and CIS ships were scattered everywhere.
Blasts of blue an red could be seen. Everyone was shooting at the same time running and crouching. Inside the starship, chaos was happening. A transport along with guards entered our section, and released around 50 battledroids inside.
They were hastily moving around and killing, but the turrets did a easy job on them.
Ned's ship zoomed to the other side. He felt tired, at least, he thought he did. But he concentrated on the dogfight. He spun around in an attempt to block a incoming missile. And did a few loops around the place. He felt content with himself, as he shot a few scarab fighters of the CIS.
The next destination was the CIS starship. We needed to get inside, to destroy it from there.
Ned quickly maneuvered to the area, and shot as the turrets missed him, and he made safe landing inside. "Ready Cody?" I said, as I unstrapped myself of the belt, and got my rifle out. The cockpit opened up, and we jumped out from our places, and easily destroyed the battle droids around. We were both commanders, and he had a little leg cape, and I had a shoulder patch of blue. We were both elite ARC troopers, highly trained.
Cody and I took backs on each other, and moved cautiously inside the starship. This was a banking starship, rather smaller than the original CIS cruiser. The door slip open, and we silently killed another droid. Upon entering the control room, we quickly jump-rolled away from each other, as we barely missed heavy blaster fire from some Super Battle Droids. This place is more defended than I expected, I thought.
We shot around, killing a few battle droids and supers.
At that moment, the door slid open again, and a Jedi named Plo Koon, a Kel Dor entered, and jumped fancily about, killing Supers. "General Koon, we await your orders," Commander Cody said. The two ARCs were supposed to meet Koon here.
"Alright, lets blow this place," Koon said, and he threw his lightsaber towards the main control center, the blue blade thrust threw the controls and keys, and a explosion come far away was heard. Koon used his force powers to retrieve it, and I was done encoding a time bomb near the door. We rushed towards the hangar bay, and quickly got into the starfighters. We quickly boosted out of there.
A few minutes later, the Bank cruiser blew up, and much turbulence occurred.
Reinforcements arrived and they cleaned up the area of scarab fighters, and droid operated starfighters.
This was all over in a few hours. Plo Koon congratulated Cody and I in our teamwork and excellent performance, and we all headed towards Coruscant.
So today, I survived again, another crucial battle had been won by the Republic. The Muunlunist Banking cruiser was destroyed, thanks to Cody and I, and of course, General Plo Koon. After we finished most, he cleaned it up, scoring a victory for us the Republic. We were glad he came by to help.
That day, all clones were informed of the special order 66 that the Chancellor would inform us in the next years to come.
A very cruel thing it was, I felt sick after the briefing. The mission was unbelievable.
A few years later, we must eliminate the Jedi threat. We must destroy our own generals.
Dying was not such a bad option to me anymore.
A/N: R&R, look out for Chapter III!