Chapter Nine

Johnny slowly approached the side of the building. It was a large building, and rather heavily guarded, but it was feeble compared to the skills of an ARC Trooper. The missing trooper, Ron, had been instructed to meet up with him on the east side. Through his heat-vision visor, Johnny could see that Ron was there, and seemingly none worse for the wear. Johnny stealthily sneaked up to him, and silently tossed him a heat-vision visor and a small repeating blaster carbine. He nodded in thanks.

They slowly approached the guards, who were witless as ever. Droids were so dumb. Johnny used a vibroblade and snuck up behind them, cutting out the battle droids' control box. There was a slight flash from the spark of the electronics, but that was inevitable. At least it was a bright red bolt of energy making a small sonic boom.

Ron screwed the flash suppressor onto his carbine. This would make it so that there would be no large flash, just the sound and a small red laser. He fired at the guards patrolling the balcony.

The front portal opened, and a battalion of troops flooded out.

They had been noticed.

Johnny already had the repeating cannon fixed into place, and was firing it nonstop, making the barrel glow with heat. Droid after droid fell down, but there were a lot more.

Ron took out a proton grenade, pushed the activator, and quickly threw it at the center of the droids. It exploded, melting circuits and metal, and blowing stray parts all over the place. If the all of the droids hadn't noticed that they were under attack by now, their deductive reasoning programming was faulty.

Droids poured out of the building. Good. The ARC and the commando were achieving the objective.

Siri and Roenni snuck through the entrance on the right side. The droids were preoccupied at the front and back ends of the building. There should be nothing to dodge, except for a few primitive defense systems. The building's main defense was the droids.

Roenni slid an ID card through the scanner. It was faked of course. The door slid open.

Siri's lightsaber was up and blazing as soon as she saw the tan color of droids. These two, apparently, had been stragglers. Now, all they were was spare parts. Siri flashed Roenni a smile, and put her lightsaber away. Roenni was a safe distance away from her lightsaber. They'd always scared her. "Sorry," Siri said, pulling out a blaster. She was just as good with that as she was with her lightsaber.

Roenni nodded in the direction they were headed. It ended in a turbolift, going fifteen stories up. Siri knew that this was a little bit too easy…