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Kamino
Xan and Scorp ran back through the door and down the ramp. They came to the lift, but instead of trying to open the door, they went to the left of it – the ramps – and ran down.
"These ramps will take us to the Maintenance level," Panted Scorp over the radio.
"Hey guys," said Blay, who was staying back at the bridge to monitor their progress.
"What is it?"
"I've pulled up a radar that is scanning the ship; apparently only one of us is on the maintenance level, and he's badly damaged because he's moving at one quarter of the speed that you guys are moving at,"
Xan was puzzled.
If one of us wasn't showing up on radar, then that would mean that we would be dead.
But if one of us was dead, then all of us would be dead.
But why aren't we all dead?
Maybe it's because of the ships electrical interference.
Maybe…
They kept on running down the ramps and around the corners. Soon, they came to a door that said:
Maintenance Level.
Scorp punched in the code, and the door slid open. They advanced in, finding themselves in a room that was full of machinery.
All operational.
They passed it all and walked into another room.
This one was the lift.
There was wreckage everywhere:
The lift itself was nothing more than a pile of rubble, fires blazed in certain areas, and a limp, and a non-moving outline laid a few metres away.
"Is that?" Xan whispered.
"Jay!" Scorp cried over the comm. He ran forward and dropped his weapon, sliding to a halt next to the limp shape that appeared black and white on their visor. Scorp nudged Jay's lifeless form, then, making sure that he wasn't dead first, stood up and picked up his weapon.
"I'm gonna kill them," he hissed over the comm, not turning around.
"I'm gonna kill them all,"
Hawkins crawled over the solid floor in agony; his leg was giving him a great deal of pain. He crawled to a door, and reached up to the button that opened it. The door hissed as it slid open, revealing a lot of droids.
He stared at them on his night vision.
"Shit,"
Scorp and Xan crept through the door with their blaster rifles raised. When they came to one particular door, it was locked tight.
"It won't open," said Xan. "I've already tried,"
"Well then, let's blast it open!" shouted Scorp, planting a Detpack on the door.
"No, wait!" Xan cried.
Too late.
The Detpack exploded in a small puff of flame, and the door was blown off its hinges. Xan was blown back by it, and he crashed into the wall. Scorp ran over and helped him up, then ran through the door. "Hawkins!" he called over his speakers.
"No!" Xan said over the radio, limping over to the doorway.
They both stopped at the sound of metal clanging against metal.
Thousands of metal feet clanging against metal.
"This isn't good," whispered Scorp.
Suddenly, thousands of lasers streamed at them from all different directions. They ducked behind the wall as the lasers shot past.
"Hawkins!" Xan hissed.
"Hawkins, do you copy?"
"Sir, ne… Cough! help! I'm ove… t… other side of t… hangar!"
"Hawkins!"
"How the hell did he get over there!" yelled Scorp, over the comm.
"I don't know, but I'm going in,"
"But their attracted to sound and light!"
"That's why you are going to cover me,"
Scorp sighed.
"I don't know how I get myself stuck in these situations with you,"
The droids stopped firing, and Xan ran out into the room.
It was a little brighter in here, because it was a hangar; the energy shield that the ships pass through gave off a little light. Scorp pulled a thermal detonator and an EMP grenade from his belt, primed them, and then sent them flying through the air toward the droids. Before the grenades hit the ground, he raised his blaster rifle and shot at them. Two droids fell to the gunfire, before the rest of the droids shot at him. He ducked back behind the wall and reloaded. When the Thermal detonator hit the ground, some of the droids moved away from it, and toward the EMP grenade, which none of them noticed. The Thermal Detonator exploded, engulfing a few droids in flame, and flinging a few others across the hangar. He jumped out from his hiding spot and started running across the hangar, around the droids, in time to see the EMP grenade detonate. Electricity shot out in all directions, and a large number of droids were either disabled or destroyed. When he came to the door that he knew Hawkins was in, he slid across the floor and entered the door in time to escape multiple lasers.
When Scorp saw only one clone, lying on the ground with a broken leg, he asked:
"Where's Xan?"
Xan jumped in the LAAT that was parked about ten metres away from the door that Hawkins, and now Scorp, were in. He ran into the cockpit and fired up the engines. He heard lasers scorching the hull of the LAAT as it lifted off. He struggled with the controls, but managed to bring it around to face the droids. He didn't know how to operate the firing controls, so he did the next best thing:
He had placed a time bomb on the wing joint just before he hopped in, and now he reversed the LAAT away from the droids.
"Come on…" he said to himself nervously.
He glanced at the timer that he had set on his HUD:
15 seconds.
He jammed the thrusters forward, and the LAAT went toward the droids at full speed. He ran back to the hold as the LAAT drew closer and closer to the enemies. He climbed up as fast as he could, onto the right wing of the LAAT.
3.
2.
1.
He jumped forward, going the same speed as the LAAT, toward the door that he wanted to go in. The time bomb detonated, and the LAAT was sent spiralling down toward the droids with one wing. Xan landed hard on the hard surface, but he stood up and ran the rest of the way. The LAAT smashed into the droids with devastating force, at the exact same time that Xan hit the button to detonate the Detpack that he had thrown on the engine.
The explosion was huge.
Fire ripped down the length of the hangar, and bounced off the shield that led to space.
And it came back around.
The droids that survived the LAAT explosion were taken out by the raging fire that was a result of it.
"Run!" Xan yelled as he ran into the room where Scorp had just finished treating Hawkins' leg.
"But, what about Jay?" asked Hawkins, getting up and running with Xan and Scorp.
"He's dead,"
"But, why aren't we de…?"
"I don't know!" shouted Xan in frustration.
They ran down a corridor, and they heard the hangar collapse.
"That was the engines," said Hawkins.
"You blew up the engines,"
"Blay," Xan said into the comm.
"Blay, can you read me?"
"Roger that, sir. What are you doing down there? I'm picking up a hell-of-a-lot of readings here and there all bad!"
"No time to explain, but can you make your way to the nearest portal?"
The portals were the newest and fastest way to travel faster than the speed of light. Unfortunately, they were much too expensive to be in the hands of someone who would use it for personal use, so the Republic bought one, upgraded it, then cloned it and sent one to every different ship in the fleet. The teleporter's were able to fit 5 people at a time. The different people would stand in one of the five different squares that form a circle. Then a glass tube is put around them, to contain the teleportation and make sure no one else is teleported with them, and then they are teleported.
"Yes sir, why?"
"Blay, I want you to set the ship's self destruct sequence to 10 minutes, then get to a teleporter and travel to Tropica city, do you copy?"
"Yes sir, Blay out."
They ran down the corridors and came to a room.
"Wow," Scorp's voice came over the comm.
The teleporter was about 3 metres in diameter, and was about 5 metres tall. It had enough space to fit 5 people – 5 smaller circles that surrounded the centre, which was a cube, floating in the air. Although it was small, Xan, Hawkins and Scorp could almost feel the power that it provided. Scorp stepped up to the controls as Scorp and Xan stepped through the glass door – built into the glass 'house' – that housed the teleporter. After a few seconds, Scorp said:
"Right, we're ready to go,"
He stepped into the teleporter, and a speaker built into the walls outside the glass tube counted down:
"5"
They stood in the circles with their blaster rifles against their chest.
"4"
"3"
"2"
"1"
There was a flash of light, and they were simply gone, streaming through hyperspace at twenty times the average hyperspace speed, making them almost disintegrate in the extreme velocities. The three of them were broken into tiny pieces, and thrown across the galaxy.
The clone turned around as the teleporter came to life.
Three clones appeared, and they stepped with haste out of the circular, glass tube. Xan stepped straight up to the clone and saluted.
"Corporal 325,"
The other clone saluted back.
"Captain 486. You're just in time to witness the CIS strike force."
Xan nodded.
"Any defence set up sir?"
"We have fire team's Alpha through to Echo armed with sniper rifles, and have them level with the approximate landing zone of the closest CIS ship."
"Have we got any back up on the way, sir?"
"26 Accumulator class ship's en-route from Geonosis, but apart from that, we're on our own; 225 soldiers against 200 droids."
"Where-"
"You can go to the closest landing pad," said the Captain, answering Xan's question.
"Yes, sir!"
He saluted and ran down the hall. He came out of the corridor and found himself in the halls above the cloning centre. He kept on running, and he came out on the platform, rain falling down all around him. In front of him, about 25 clones were crouching in front of bunkers, and he knew that on the roof behind him that there were at least 50 troopers armed with sniper rifles.
"You're just in time," a voice said from behind him.
He turned and saw a clone with bulky armour, and yellow identification paint in some places.
It was Commander Cody.
"Come on," he said.
"The first ship is here!" someone else shouted.
Overhead, a CIS ship lowered, with all of its turrets raining hell down on all the clones that were on the platform. When it touched the ground, all the turrets ceased fire to let out the droids with no harm. A ramp that stretched the length of the ship lowered, and thousands of droids, Super Battle droids and Droideka's piled out of the ship.
I thought there were only going to be 100! Thought Xan in disbelief as he crouched in the nearest bunker to the ramp.
"All snipers, fire!" Commander Cody yelled into the comm.
Over the Xan's head, all of the snipers fired at once, and a long line of blue flew the distance between the ramp and them with ease, covering it in about 0.12 seconds. The sound of all the bullets hitting the droids pleased Xan, and 50 droids fell over with holes that varied, depending on where the bullet hit them.
But there were many more droids to deal with.
Xan fired along with the other clones as the snipers continued to fire at the droids, with many, clones and droids alike falling, to the laser fire that both sides produced. Xan fired at one droid that got very close to him, and the droid exploded, with the remains falling to the platform. The ramp closed – it had let all of the droids out onto the huge platform that linked up with the clones' platform – and started to lift off. Meanwhile, all the droids and clones were firing, reloading and throwing grenades, which damaged the two platforms. The clones had a slight advantage against the droids – although they were out numbered, the clones were able to fire upon the droids, who were scrambling up a small bridge that linked the two platforms, with a perilous drop on either sides that led to the crashing waves below. When the ship was high enough, it started to travel upward slower than it did before, to give the turrets on the hull a good shot at the clones' platform.
Bang!
Boom!
Bang!
Boom!
Bang!
Boom!
The turrets lasers were pounding the platform that the clones stood on. Two rockets streamed up at the ship, one after the other, both aiming at the same turret.
Bang!
The first rocket impacted and did nothing. But then the turret fired at the clone that fired the rocket, and the shields went down for 3 seconds so the laser wouldn't impact on the shield.
Bang!
BOOM!
The sound of the rocket impacting on the turret, and the laser impacting on the platform, came together to form a deafening sound. The remains of the turret fell into the water far below the two platforms that the two forces battled upon.
"All A-A-T's, fire on my command!" Commander Cody shouted into the comm. The Anti-Air-Turrets on the roof of the Cloning facility raised up, all of the double-barrelled turrets aiming at the ship.
"Fire!"
At the rate that the CIS turrets were firing, the shields would go down every second or so, and they would be down for three seconds at a time.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
The sound of the first four A-A-T's firing was ludicrously loud, and the sound of impact was even louder.
The four A-A-T rounds were made up of a metallic projectile, enclosed in a plasma coating, like the sniper rifles projectiles, except the projectiles in these were much bigger. The turrets are able to be fitted on a ship as well, but if they are, they are called MPL's. (Main Pulse Laser's)
The laser's smashed into the ship and ripped straight through it, streaming out the other side. The four rounds were quickly followed by more and more, until fire was blossoming out of multiple sections of the ship. The last round that entered the ship entered the engines, hitting the main part – the engines core, where there was a lot of plasma and nuclear energy.
"Get down!"
A clone managed to get a signal out before the ship exploded, sending metal and debris flying everywhere. A large section of the ship was still intact, and it fell into the water, creating a huge splash. The droids continued to run up the ramp with their weapons firing, but many of them fell. Clones were dying as well, but when one clone died, they would make up the loss with 5 droids.
"Commander Cody to command!" Xan heard the signal over the comm.
"We need air support on platform 5!"
Xan continued to fire, and he lobbed a grenade. The thermal detonator exploded amongst a group of droids, sending them flying in different directions. He fired a group of controlled bursts, taking down 3 droids, and then reloaded.
"Get a rocket in here!" he yelled into the comm.
"Roger that, Xan!"
Xan froze, and turned to the clone that was standing beside him.
"It's me, sir." The clone had opened up a private channel on the comm.
"It's me, Jay!"
A/N: Sorry that this chapter took so long, hope you all enjoy, and I'm open to suggestions!