Cotez charged at the commander, total anger enveloping his body, he saw, no felt the commanders amphistaff fly out and block cotez's attack. He felt the knew slam into his body, he fell to the ground, he rolled away to avoid any follow up attack and got back up, he looked at the commander his body stuttering under the impact of the vongs knee.

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Verak grinned, one so young to challenge him, he must be very brave. The infidel got back up, semingly ignoring the pain, that was a vong talent, he started to admire this boy all the more, although, he still had to die. He ran towards the human boy and attacked, remarkable the boy blocked every attack that Verak threw at him, He was not foolish like the other jedi, and over extending himself, he just defended. Verk paused. Then attacked again this time more ferociously, the boy just moved out of the way of most of the attacks and deflected any remotely dangerous, Verak flexed his amphistaff, and fired a shot of poison at teh boy, who rolled out of the way and it impacted the ground. Verak charged in again this time the boy rolled out of the way, Verak was so surprised that he failed to notice that the lightsaber had flung up as he rolled and conected with his armpit, severing his arm at the shoulder. The boy came out of the roll and grinned. Verak roared in pain, he pulled out his command baton and charged at the boy, full power, he smashed down on the boys head, the attack was blocked, but it bruised the boys arm severly. He then kicked him in the chest, nocking him to the ground. He ran forward to finish this of...

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...Cotez felt as if the world was spinning, he fle back several feet and hit the ground, the pain was unbearable, he rolled over and realised that he had dropped his lightsaber, ignoring the pain, he got up and searched for it, he heard the thumping of the commander coming towards him. Looking up he saw the massive warrior swing his command baton at him, he rolled out of the way, he felt the same power running threw him as before, he drew upon it, he enjoyed it, it washed away his pain, he stood up, he glared at the vong, he extended his arms and fliped his hands up. The force of the push, pushed the vong all the way back to the shattered doorway, a second explosion rocked the rakamat as the final load of explosives blew, shatering it apart. Cotez walked backwards, trying to avoid the explosions, that was all he remembered, a total blackness covering his vision.

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Verak fell and hit the ground with shuch ferocity that he felt some ribs crack, he rolled over, and got back up, he was immune to pain now, the throbbing of his shoulder was enough to focus on, his ribs could wait, he saw one villip in the doorway to the infidel base, he walked over to it, it was lying on its side, minimal damage donw to its casing, he stroked its side and it opened."Attention, this is verak, initiate a full retreat now, if you wish to die here you may, if you wish to follow me, retreat now." Verak stroked the villip again, it turned off. He stood up and walked into the tunnel that lead out of the bse, he would meet up with reinforcements and leave this world, confront his brother and exact his revenge. He turned around and saw Veramus racing after him, he turned around once more and entered the tunnel.

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Cotez awoke in an white room, he looked left and right, he saw other patients lying in beds similar to his. He leaned over and attempte to get up. A medical droid rolled over and pushed him back onto the bed. "You are wounded, General Warren has said that no patient is to leave this infirmary unless he says so" The droid said in a metallic tone.
Cotez sighed. "Well go and inform him that Cotez is ready to leave" The droid acknowledged him and rolled away towards the door.
"You don't know how lucky you were" came a voice from besides him, he looked and saw that it was the Colonel.
"Sir what are you doing in here, i saw you die?" Cotez replied, he lept out of his bed and went and stood next to the Colonel's.
"Well i have this to take away from the battle", he raised his arm, well what was left of it, a stump, he also lifted his opposite leg, it was also a stump.
"Ouch!" Cotez replied."Umm how long was i out for, i mean, i just blacked out in the middle of the battle after the rakamat blew, i don't even know how i got here?"
"Well, from what they told me, you won the battle for us, you defeated the commander in single combat, which saved us demolishionists from getting finished of, and i owe you alot of thanks, if it wasn't for you, i wouldn't have my life either." He smiled and extended his only good hand, Cotez gladly shook it, a chime sounded signaling an entry into the infirmary.

Warren entered and smiled as he noticed Cotez, he walked over and stood at the foot of his bed.

"Hello mr saviour!" Warren said and bowed clumsily to Cotez, Cotez laughed and kicked Warren playfuly with the end of his foot.

"I have spoken to my superiors, and they have allowed me to accept you into my armada, you will be formaly indoctrinated, and you will recieve training, if this war ever ends you will formaly be introduced into the military." Warren smiled at Cotez.

"Um, i don't know" Cotez replied.

"I understand, your mother, well i have something to tell you, me and her wer, involved i could say...i felt her loss as much as you did" Cotez saw a side of Warren when he said that, pain sorrow, seeped through his sheild. Tears tinged the corner of his eyes.

"I cannot cry, i will not i will show my mother that i am strong, i will make her proud" Cotez replied.

"Cotez, you are a stronger and more skilled man then most" Warren extended his hand, Cotez shook it and then Warren departed, the door swinging shut behind him as he left. Cotez sat there thinking, his mother would have wanted him to join Warren and his fight against the Vong. Cotez closed his eyes, no not closed he felt them drag closed, the world, the wait of the world on his shoulders, he fell asleep.

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Verak crouched low in the shrubs, he saw an infidel attack approach from the east, with his arm slashed of in his battle with the skilled infidel, he had not chance on a one on one fight with an entire squad of men, he had Veramus with him, but he did not want to risk it because, he needed to get back to the base. Once the patrol had passed he raced forward, kepping low, he met up with Veramus who was scouting ahead. They traveled along the lowlands, keeping out of the way of patrols, Verak became increasingly agrovated because of his wound. They made camp near the bottom of a cliff, this cliff was roughly one kilometer from the vong base, however, smoke could be seen on the horizon. Veramus took first watch while Verak slept, Verak was immediantly woken by Veramus, who shook him awake and immediantly put a finger to his mouth, signaling to be quite. Verak listened in an heard soft footsteps nearby, Verak tapped Veramus on the shoulder and pointed towards a crevase on the side of the cliff, they doused the fire and ran to the crevase. All was silent until a group of four infidels entered the clearing.

"We have definately got their trail" one fo them said, he seemed to be the leader, he ahd three striped on his shoulders, the others only had two "Keep a look out these vong are crafty, they may just be hiding nearby, preparing to ambush us." The group spread outand began searching all possible hiding areas around the camp. One of them came straight towards the crevase, Verak grinned, he launched himself out of the crevase and planted his hand on the soldiers head, he screamed and the other soldiers turned around, Veramus threw a thud bug at one of them and hit him in the upper shoulder dropping him to the ground. Verak continued through with his hand and shashed the soldiers head into the side of the cliff, spinning around he flung out one thud bug towards the leaders gun, smashing it out of his hands. Verak landed and grinned, slowly walking towards the leader, while Veramus disabled the last remaining soldier.

"You are a fool to have tried to challenge me" Verak said. The leader lunged at Verak with a knife-like object, Verak pivoted and smashed his remaining arm into the leaders armpit, gripping his hand, and reversing the blade onto the leaders throat."You lose!" Verak said and slit his throat with one slash, blood spattering over Veraks armour. He turned around, noticing a movement in the trees, he looked closer and noticed a glint, a glint on the barrel of an infidel weapon. Immediantly he rolled behind cover as alot of fire began pooring into the clearing, Veramus wasn't as fast and was clipped in the shoulder as he was flipping to the ground. He hit the ground hard Veramus would find it hard to get out of here, so would Verak. The blaster fire halted, Verak heard footsteps enter the clearing, He waited until they were level with him, he dived out and smashed his elbow into the knee of one of the soldiers, bringing him down to the ground fast, he then pulled him across and laid the dagger across his neck.

"Do not move!" Verak said as he stood up carrying the soldier.
"Halt! Lower the prisoner, you have no chance of escape" One of them said.
"You pathetic human, i have a hostage, me and my companion will be allowed to leave, or he will die!" Verak yelled in reply. He tightened his grip on teh soldier, and he began to scream, blood began trickling down from his throat, the blade beginning to dig into his exposed flesh.
"Alright, you and your companion there may leave, just let him go!" The soldier yelled.
"Very well then, infidel!" Verak threw the soldier at the men, knocking them over, Veramus jumped up and ran into the forest, and Verak followed closely behind. Verak listened intently for persuit, once he was satisfied that there wasn't any he slowed down and started to jog.

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Cotez stood in the command post, it was a multi story building, he was situated on the topmost floor, it had a holoprojector in the center of the room, and several chairs situated around it. The holoprojector displayed a fleet of vong ships in geosynchronous orbit around the planet.
"This..." Warren pointed towards the vong fleet. "...Is the enemy fleet, it has anchored itself in orbit around the planet, we fear that it may start bombarding the planet with who knows what biomichanical matter" The holoprojection zoomed out to a view of the entire system, the five planets of the system, and the controling vong fleet orbiting the central planet.
"This is our plan" Several green dotted lines appeared and travelled insystem towards the vong vontrolling fleet, they intersected at different intervals, and then converged on the system.

"Our plan is to have a large segment of the fleet engage the enemies and draw as many as possible out of geosyhchronous orbit, then a second segment of the fleet will jump into the system and engaged the assests still in orbit, a final force will jump into system and wedges itself inbetween teh vong fleet and our fleet, therfore creating a barricade, and we will easily capture the planet after that... Any Questions?" Warren finished talking and looked around the room, no one spoke up so he nodded and turned of the holoprojector.
"This will be a very dangerous mission, we will need to make sure that the fleets jump into place at the right times, out first task force will be small and can and most likely will be overwhelmed by the enemy, it will have to survive long enough for the vong assests in orbit to be taken care of, then the last group will jump in and attack the vong fleet from behind, neutralizing it, any volunteers?" As teh words left Warrens mouth, Cotez stepped forward, he looked left and right and realised that everyone in the room sitting or standign had stepped forward.
"That's what i like to see" Warren said he nodded and then smiled. "This could work"