Death Will Come To Us All…
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Blay fired at the oncoming wave of droids.
Boom!
Another rocket swept toward two Droideka's and wiped them out. Blay reloaded and fired again.
"So, you survived," he said to Jay on a private comm channel.
"Yes, sir!"
"How?"
There was a pause that was filled with static, screaming, explosions and blaster fire.
"I'll tell you later!"
I knew it… Thought Blay.
"Well grab a weapon and help me!"
"Roger,"
They'll give me a promotion for this! Thought Jay.
He grabbed a sniper rifle and held it up to the back of Blay's head.
"You're not Jay."
"Wh-"
Blay swung around and smashed his blaster rifle's barrel into the clone's head. He fell backward and stumbled, falling to the ground. Blay held his blaster rifle unmoving, the end aimed at the clone's head.
"I saw a security recording on board the Accummulator: the elevator that Jay and Hawkins were on crashed, killing Jay, but not Hawkins."
"Don't kill me!"
Blay would have laughed at the plea.
"I'm not as low as you: I don't kill allies"
He ran up the ramp, leaving the clone on the platform.
The door in front of Blay slid open and he ran inside.
"They have been tracked to a Vennator: they will not escape us again."
"Good. Have our friend take care of them."
Commander Neyo and Commander Cody walked down the hallway together, talking, obviously, about Hawkins and Xan.
"Where is the third?" asked Cody.
"He is being dealt with as we speak…"
Shit!
Blay ran down the rest of the corridor, being ignored by the two commanders'.
Okay, where to now? Blay asked himself.
The hangar.
"Damn it!" Xan said as he took another hit to the starboard wing. He glanced at the display:
Shields: 28.
After jumping on board a disabled Vennator, Xan and Hawkins had tried to get it working, but had instead been disappointed, and were now making their way to another ship.
"Xan! This is Hawkins: I am under heavy fire! I repeat: Am under heavy fire, need immediate repairs!"
"Roger, Hawkins!" replied Xan while taking out a droid star fighter.
"Follow me in!"
"Roger that, Xan!"
Bang!
"Shit!"
BeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeep!
The display now read: Shields: 0.
And his engines were flashing red.
"Maday! Maday!" he yelled into the radio.
"This is Corporal 325, requesting immediate tractor beam transportation to Vennator nearest sector 5G, coordinates: 74G, 29D! Engines have been hit with missile and have failed!"
He was about to repeat when his communications were jammed.
"Xan! We're being pulled in!"
Good.
"We're being pulled into a CIS capitol ship!"
Blay struggled to gain control over the ARC-170 fighter, but managed to pilot it into the middle of the space battle. He was risking his life, but he had to save, or at least warn, Xan and Hawkins.
He locked onto a LAAT, but it didn't have Xan or Hawkins' number. He growled and tried again.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
He yelled and punched the control board in frustration, then tried again.
Don't move, - don't die.
Xan sat in the cockpit of his ARC, sharing the CIS hangar with Hawkins' ARC, a LAAT full of 5 clones, and a lot of droids.
He hoped that someone could find a way out of the hangar, although he knew it was impossible, but he was hoping none-the less.
"This is Corporal 325," he said into the comm, the message directed to the LAAT.
"Can you read me, over?"
"Roger, 325, I read you. I have a plan to get us out of here!"
"Roger!"
"One of my men will create a distraction. When he does, take down as many of them as you can. Understood?"
"Roger that."
He looked to the left and saw a clone making his way along the wall, heading towards one of the hangar's shield generator's.
"Enemy sighted!" one of the droid's said, and it opened fire on the clone.
The clone raised his blaster rifle and fired at the droids, taking down three instantly, breaking into a run. Thousands of red lasers lighted up the hangar as the clone ran along the wall, reloading and firing again. He tossed a Thermal Detonator at the droids, and it landed somewhere at the edge of the group. It exploded, and shrapnel flew in all different directions, slicing a few droids' circuits. The clone reached the generator and pulled out a Detpack.
Xan waited anxiously as the clone began to fix the Detpack to the generator.
Suddenly, a Thermal detonator rolled next to the clone!
He looked at it, and then dived to the left.
Boom!
The detonator exploded, disintegrating the clone's right arm.
He screamed in pain, and was thrown from Xan's view.
"We have to help!" Xan shouted into the comm, getting ready to go out of the ARC.
"Negative,"
Blay flew the ARC towards a group of fighter's, hoping he could find Xan and Hawkins there.
Boom!
"Shit!"
The ship jolted violently, sending Blay crashing into the windscreen, making his head hurt like hell.
He regained his focus and returned fire at the swarm of fighters.
Suddenly, they stopped firing, and they went away to engage a group of LAAT's.
Blay got a sinking feeling, and he let go of the controls: the ARC moved by itself!
He was being tractored into a CIS capital ship.
The clone grabbed onto the Detpack with a shaking hand, and he the detonator lay in one of his pouches.
He prepared to get up, when a voice said:
"Don't move."
He looked behind him, and saw all of the droids standing in front of him, all their weapons raised up to him.
Then he got an idea.
A crazy idea.
A suicidal idea.
The clone managed to slowly pull his pistol from his belt, and he slowly placed it on the ground. Then he pulled out a spare battery pack, and put it on the ground. By that time the droids had lowered their weapons enough for them not to be pointing at him. Then he held up the Detpack.
"Help," he said into the comm.
"Go!"
Xan leaped out of his fighter and fired his blaster rifle.
One droid went down straight away, then another, and another.
The droids looked away for a split second, then the clone rammed the Detpack into the droid's chest plate, and kicked the droid away. All the droids turned to the clone as their fellow droid flew past them, and they blasted the clone to bits.
The droid with the Detpack stuck in its chest scraped along the floor, and landed next to the generator.
As the clone drew his last breath, he knew that he had accomplished his mission.
He died, and his finger came off the detonator that he had grabbed from his belt, and the Detpack exploded.
All the droids around or near the generator were engulfed in flames, as was the generator itself. Fuel lines along the wall exploded as well, taking out the entire wall itself! Xan looked up as a ship, an ARC-170, landed in the hangar.
Blay!
"Get out!" he screamed into the comm.
"The ship's gonna blow!"
It was true: the ship was losing altitude, due to the fact that it was inside the atmosphere of Kamino, and the shields around the ship itself, and the hangar shields, were down: the ship had been compromised.
Blay landed, jumped out of the ARC, and joined Xan, firing as he did.
"Good to see you, sir!"
Hawkins came running in at that same moment, and the floor underneath their feet exploded, flinging them in all directions.
Xan was smashed against the side of the LAAT, and he realised that they were all doomed.
"Get on!" he managed to yell over the comm.
All the clone's managed to get on board, and he jumped into the cockpit, firing up the engines.
"Where's Blay?" demanded Hawkins as he stumbled on board.
"I can't see him!" Xan shouted.
"Argghh!"
Xan looked back and saw Hawkins collapse, his armour black and smoking from where a laser had just hit him.
That was it: he wasn't waiting any longer.
He raised the LAAT, and flew it out of the ship and into space, making haste for the nearest Venator ship, which was accompanied by two Acclamator ships.
Blay coughed and looked up.
There were no clones, only droids, who were getting sucked out of the hangar.
He stood up quickly and ran towards his ARC, configuring his armour so it would keep him on the floor of the hangar. He jumped in the ARC, raised it, and flew, hard and fast, out of the hangar. Once out, he looked for a LAAT, making best speed towards the nearest Venator.
Ding!
"There you are," he said.
Xan's number was listed as the clone piloting the LAAT that entered the Venator: Hellmor. He gunned it, heading towards the ship as fast as he could.
"Xan! Do you copy! This is Blay! Do you read me!" Blay desperately tried to reach Xan on the comm, but only got static.
"All transmissions going to 325 have been silenced," said the COM officer.
"Good."
Scorp looked at the ship that Xan had flown on board.
"Plot a course to the Hellmor, and ready all MPL's."
"Yes, sir."
Xan stepped onto the bridge, and a clone stepped up to greet him.
"Sir!" the clone saluted, and then shouted to the rest of the bridge crew: "Captain on deck!"
Xan was puzzled.
Then he remembered the emblem that he had put onto his shoulder for Scorp, Hawkins, Blay and… Jay to know that it was him.
It was an improvement of a Captain's insignia.
"At ease," he said to the clone.
Boom!
Xan was thrown to the floor, as were other clones.
"Umm… report!"
"MPL, sir!" shouted one clone.
"Coming from this ship."
A Venator ship appeared as a hologram, with two Acclamator's next to it.
"Friendly fire?" Xan asked.
"Negative: they've been tracking us for quite a few minutes."
A few minutes ago, he had come aboard…
Scorp.
"Take evasive action!" he barked. "Prepare to enter hyperspace!"
"Yes, sir!" replied numerous officers.
"Where to?" asked the navigations officer.
"Anywhere! Just get us the hell out of here!"
The Hellmor turned, accompanied by the two Acclamator's, which opened fire on the ships that were shooting at them.
Blay gunned the ship's engines and sped towards the two Acclamator ship's and the Venator class Assault Ship. He gained speed fast, attempting to manoeuvre as fast, but the ship turned slowly, instead of the fast speed at which he wanted it to turn. He quickly approached the Venator ship, and saw its engines start to glow brightly.
"No!" he shouted into the comm.
"Xan! Cut the hyperdrive power! Don't jump!"
Too Late.
A/N: That took a while to write, I know, but it was because I wrote it, my dad did a disk clean up on the computer, it go wiped, and I forgot most of the original chapter stuff. And I am doing a sequel to it as well, so wait for that.
This is the end of this fanfic, so please visit my sequel, The Front Lines 2: Earth's Last Hope, still under Star Wars.