Chapter 2

The room was cramped. There were no windows and the only source of light appeared to be coming from the holo-projector which was conveniently placed in the center. The sterile smell reminded Jangotat of the medcenter and memories of which he didn't exactly want to remember. He scanned the room for something to sit on. Nothing. He ushered the rest of his squad through the door. Cody and Gun removed their helmets. Gun, who obviously was tired, dropped his weapon on the floor and squatted. Cody looked at him reprovingly. Gun, who had been staring at the floor, looked up and stared right back at him.

"Alright you two. I know that we're all tired and a bit edgy from previous missions. So save it for the enemy," Jangotat said. They ignored him and continued to glare at one another.

Scooby who appeared to take no notice of them eased off his helmet.

"Hey, I have an idea, "Scooby said. He took out one of his ration cubes.

"I'll bet that if we have enough of these we can build chairs out of them." He placed it on the ground and stomped on it. The cube didn't break.

"See, it's strong enough to withstand that . . . " He chucked one at Cody's head.

"Oww!"

"And it's strong enough to dent Cody's hard head," he continued.

Jangotat shook his head.

"You know Scooby, if Cody tries to strangle you I won't try to stop him."

Scooby just laughed and punched Cody's shoulder plate. Cody glowered at him.

"Aw come on Tat, he's a softy. He wouldn't do that."

"I'm serious 12, if he tries to strang.."

Jangotat was interrupted by the door's hiss. A Jedi followed by two Clone Commandos walked through. Jangotat immediately stood at attention and saluted. His squad mates did the same.

"I apologize gentlemen. I was held up by another briefing. I'm Gorth Lak." The Jedi looked no older than he was. He held out his hand for them to shake. When nothing happened, he quickly withdrew it. Jangotat saw his haggard appearance but said nothing.

"Now then um, lets see, where is it . . . " He fumbled around in his bag. The two Clone Commandos moved to where Jangotat was and stood at attention. He wondered why there were only two of them. Usually special forces, clone commandos specifically, were put into squads of four. The Jedi was still rummaging through his pack. Apparently he was very disorganized; that worried Jangotat. If some of the Jedi were this incompetent, he didn't want to think about what they did in battle.

"Ah ha!" Lak exclaimed. He held a small silver disk. There was nothing special about it, they were in usage throughout the galaxy. In fact the mission he had just returned from involved stealing a disk that looked just like that one. Lak inserted it into the holo-projector. The image showed a map of some sort; however the image was blurred and it was hard to tell.

Jangotat raised his hand. "Sir, what exactly are we looking at?"

Lak raised an eyebrow and looked behind him.

"Oh I'm sorry, I'll adjust that." With the image's resolution fixed the briefing continued.

"This, gentlemen, is a map of Uarhur. We have been receiving alarming reports of a new weapon of some sort."

" Aren't there always new weapons of some sort?"Scooby muttered to himself. Cody nudged him and said, " Sorry sir. He's just like this at times."

Lak just shrugged." I know what you mean. This time our intelligence reports that this one is capable of destroying planetary systems. And it's also, unfortunately, using beings as a power source. Clone personnel to be precise."

Silence spread through the room. Us? They've taken to using clones as power sources? Jangotat looked at the two Clone Commandos. They have something to do with this, he thought.

"Sir, our main objective is to destroy the weapon?"

"And bring back all the prisoners"

Jangotat frowned, "Prisoners, Sir?"

"Yes, we have given this mission to two squads already. Omega Squad and Delta Squad. Omega Squad disappeared without a trace and Delta Squad had two of its squad captured. Not to mention all of the clone personnel we've sent before them. "

Jangotat once again looked at the two Clone Commandos. Ah yes why didn't he recognize them before. The two had familiar markings. The one with the orange paint was RC-1138 Boss and the other with what looked like blood markings was RC-1107.

Boss stepped up to the holo-projector.

"This is where our squad mates were captured." He pointed to one of the blinking dots on the map. It looked like a cliff with a river below it.

"Sev and I were shoved of the cliff during the battle and we plunged into the river. RC-1240 and RC-1262's helmet comlinks continued to broadcast the battle. I assume that they were taken alive because their bio-signs were active up to this point." He pointed to an area with thick jungle.

"How do you know they're still there. Maybe it's a staging point for them to be transferred to the facility?",Jangotat asked.

"We haven't found any other buildings on Uarhar's surface. Besides once we got back onboard the Palpatine, Advisory scanned the same spot their bio-signs went dead and found a massive power source readout. We returned immediately here. Also, we managed to take schematics of the buildings."

Jangotat was silent. It was unusual that the enemy could be so careless. Perhaps it was a trap to lure more troopers for fuel.

"When do we leave, sir?",Cody asked.

"You'll be leaving in a day. Enough time to get yourselves ready I hope."