RWBY Volume 6 has officially ended and it raises quite a few questions on what will happen in Volume 7. I just hope that Weiss's father and brother get their asses kicked either by Weiss or Ironwood. I hate the nine month wait we have to endure before the new volume. Wish they would air volume 7 by the time summer comes around.
On the upside, that new Rooster Teeth Series, gen:Lock looks very interesting for me since I am a fan of the mecha genre. Anyone else agree with me?
Time for battle. Midgarda is about to be drawn into the clone wars. What will the outcome be and which side if any will they choose? I know, but I'm not telling, you'll just have to wait and see.
Disclaimers are the same as before, enjoy.
Chapter 17: Alliance
November 15th 2019 20BBY
Unknown Regions, Midgarda
1100 hours
Normal point of view
Five minutes before enemy fleet arrives.
If there is one job that most people hate it's taking stock of inventory of any kind.
For Ryder and the Dinobots, they both hated and liked it at the same time. While it was boring making sure each piece of equipment and gear was intact and working properly, it was also exciting when it came to checking the weapons of the Hellfighters and troopers like Ryder and Kilo.
For Grimlock and his brothers, they each would pick out a weapon like the Saiga 12 shotgun and call 'dibs' on the weapon for their use in battle. "Man, the Captains planet sure has a lot of firepower." Swoop said, holding a L115A1, checking the bolt of the weapon.
"Firepower which, while primitive is very effective against droids. Maybe it's the caliber or type of ammo that is used in each weapon but this gear is all top notch." Sludge said in agreement putting down the XM29 he had just finished checking. He was about to inspect one of the Beretta Rx4 assault rifles when he caught sight of something, he knew shouldn't be on board the Arc-Angel.
"Hey, why there's a homing beacon on this crate of machine guns?" he asked. The other troopers turned to him with a look of confusion until they saw the beacon on crate. "SHIT! One of Tarkins men must have slipped this on the crate when we were loading up. This thing's been activated and by the looks of it, for quite some time." Sludge cursed as Grimlock removed the beacon and blasted the device with his own blaster.
"CONTACT ADMIRAL HALBERTON! INFORM HIM OF THE SITUATION AND INFORM THE GENERALS AND CAPTAIN IMMEDIATELY!" the Dinobot leader shouted before checking the other crates for any other tracking devices.
Back in the capital, Commander Zodac of the Midgarda military was just finishing the cleaning of his Cortosis sword blaster which was passed down from generation to generation in his family. (A/N The sword design is based on the Magna Blaster/Bull Riot from Gingamen and Lost Galaxy.) Born into a military family he was taught to always follow the orders or his superiors, regardless of the situation.
Sadly, during one of Midgarda's recent humanitarian relief missions to one of the many worlds that was completely abandoned by the Republic he witnessed one of his fellow commanders order the execution of an entire village under the assumption that they were separatist spies that brought the war to their planet. Twenty-three innocent people were killed by those who came to help aid them.
The commander and his men were court-martialed and given dishonorable discharge from the Midgarda military. The commander vowed revenge on Zodac, but his threat was all talk and the commander later hanged himself for losing his lifestyle. Since that day, Zodac has constantly kept an eye out for any more incidents similar to what happened.
His thoughts were interrupted when a soldier rushed over to him. "Commander, our early warning systems have just detected a Separatist fleet emerging from hyperspace." The soldier explained panting for breath.
Getting to his feet Zodac was about to go to the president when he heard Barney curse. "Fuck!" the leader of the Expendables said before turning to Zodac who knew the commander was told the same thing. He nodded and followed the commander into the president's office. "President Randor, a separatist fleet has just emerged out of hyperspace." Zodac explained.
"Damn." Robert cursed, clenching his fist. "How did they find us?" he asked.
"You can thank that bastard Tarkin for that. Somehow, his men were able to place a homing beacon on one of the machine gun crates and it was activated the second we left hyperspace or landed on the planet. Don't know which. Either way, they found us." Barney stated.
Robert than turned to the president and was about to speak when Randor beat him to the punch. "I know you had no knowledge about the homing beacon. You would never bring the war to a neutral planet." The president said to the warrior from earth before pressing a button on his desk. "President Randor to all military forces, go to red alert status. Have all civilians evacuated to the shelters and determine the location of the separatist landing zone. Have all aircraft prepared for immediate take off." The president said in a calm but urgent manner.
"I hate to ask this. But Captain…" Randor began before it was Roberts turn to interrupt the current speaker. "Say no more. The Dragoons will be honored to help defend this planet." He answered. He then turned to Adam. "I'd hate to ask, but how good of a pilot is your son?" Robert asked the president.
"I'll have you know that I am one of the best pilots on Midgarda. My father may be the president, but I am a soldier. You need my help, you got it." Adam stated confidently having just grabbed a pair of modified D-200 Military Enforcer blaster pistols and a DLA heavy blaster rifle from one of the guards that arrived during Randor's call to the military.
"Ok then." Robert said confidently and pressed a button on his gauntlet. Minutes later, three VTOL's from the Retribution landed outside the presidential building. Exiting the cockpits were Wing-Saber, Maverick and Wing-Daggers replacement, Trigger. "VTOL's are already sir." The three pilots said in unison.
"You and the commanders gear are all here." Wing-Saber added, tossing two duffle bags to Robert and Ahsoka which contained their equipment and weapons. Once they had finished putting on their armors, they both prepped their gear.
He watched as Ahsoka finished loading up the Pulse Rifle which she had opted to use along with her sabers. "Maybe I'm seeing things, but it looks you two are using slug-throwers." Adam said in confusion.
"For many of us in the Dragoons, we use ballistic weapons. Besides they are the primary type of weapon the militaries of Earth use, except for the Morita and Pulse Rifle." Robert responded to the son of the President.
"That's pretty awesome." Adam said letting out a whistle before climbing into the cockpit of the third VTOL, strapping himself into the aircraft before running a quick system check. "Missiles, Pulse laser's and gatling gun. Man, this thing is really prepared for battle." Adam complimented.
"If we didn't upgrade these birds, it would have been a lot tougher to liberate Mandalore." Robert responded over the commlink before taking off from the presidential house and headed off to intercept the enemy.
In the cockpit of his own VTOL, Robert double checked his own craft for any signs of sabotage before Halberton contacted him and gave the approximate location of the enemies landing zone. "I know that place, it's an old town that was abandoned after our ancestors began to scout out new area's for settlement." Adam stated to the others.
"Alright, lead the way War dog three. A weapons lock has been activated so as to not waste any missiles or bullets. Save them for the enemy." Robert replied to the president's son who then turned his aircraft towards the east in the direction of the town.
As the three left, Barney had returned to the Retribution and ordered Halberton to deploy the Warlock and Quox armored battalions and form a defensive perimeter around the entrance to the city and to deploy all combat ready fighter and bomber squadrons the moment the enemy had been confirmed.
He then ordered Fives, the Dinobots, Breach and Blake along with several other platoons to prepare the Humvee's, T72, T90, Challenger and M1 Abrams tanks along with three squadrons worth of Apache, Cobra and Black Hawk helicopters they had brought back from earth, liberated from ISIS, Taliban and Al-Qaeda weapons/vehicle caches, restored them to full working order, upgraded with thicker armor and equipped with either TOW Missile Launchers, Miniguns, Browning .50 Calibers, concussion missiles, EWHB-12 heavy repeater blasters or anti-personal blaster cannons for immediate action. Barney figured that they would be off used by the dragoons instead of terrorists and he was right. In the first days of November, the Humvee's proved to be excellent recon, search and rescue and medevac transports, they also proved to be useful for hit and run attacks on enemy armor when equipped with TOW's or had a trooper with a rocket launcher riding in it, while the helicopters proved to be efficient gunships and close air support craft like the VTOL's.
When he first mentioned this to Robert, his nephew was onboard with the idea and ordered an Acclamator assault ship, equipped with the same stealth capabilities as the Stealth Ship Anakin used over Christophsis pick up the vehicles and bring them back for immediate retrofitting and kept the side project top-secret, especially in since Tarkin was now confirmed to be a separatist spy and traitor.
He smiled that it actually worked as he loaded a magazine into his AK-107 which he equipped with a GP-25 under-barrel-grenade launcher, ACOG sight and sixty-round casket magazine before he spun the cylinder of his revolver around, returning it to his holster. He then grabbed a pair of ST Kinetics CPW submachine guns, chambered to the same 5.7mm caliber like the FN P90 and strapped them to his armors magnetic waste holsters before grabbing his helmet and headed for the hanger bay where he boarded a gunship bound for the forward defense line.
New Taris had only one entrance, a very large and wide bridge supporting both road and rail traffic. Its length was close to six thousand feet, was comprised of Limestone, Granite towers on both ends, a mix of a suspension and cable stayed bridge, had a width twice the size of a normal earth bridge and was positioned over a large river.
The bridge also had a history. In the early days of Midgarda, legions of Sith Troopers who started to see the peace between both them and Republic forces attempted to seize control of the capital as a means of proving to a Sith Lord that had landed on the planet that they were still loyal to the ideals of the Sith Empire. A battle between these troopers and the Midgarda military occurred and despite the loses, the army held the bridge and the Sith forces were defeated and were given life imprisonment.
Since that day, the bridge became a symbol of the planet's refusal to return to the ways of the groups that their ancestors fled from.
As his gunship landed, Barney couldn't help but think he was looking at the Brooklynn Bridge from New York City back home. It seemed that both this galaxy and earth shared some similar feats of engineering. Stepping off the gunship, he headed over to Treadshot and Lee who were looking over a holographic display of the approach to the city with Zodac and his second in command, captain Duncan Speharr and his daughter Teela Speharr. "What's the situation?" Barney asked.
Roberts point of view
Fifteen minutes earlier
I kept asking myself how Tarkin's men were able to sneak a tracking device onboard the Arc-Angel with all the security measures I had placed since forming the Dragoons. Maybe they did it before the crate was loaded onto the ship or they planned this when the Mech's were acquired, it still puzzled me.
Personally, I blamed myself for the debacle. I should have seen through Tarkin's deception earlier but I was still completely head over heels after I kissed Ahsoka on Naboo. That one moment completely made me forget about the goal of finding who the spy in the military was.
Still, some good came out of that kiss for I now finally had someone worth fighting for and was determined to protect her. Hell, I was even starting to consider asking her to marry me when the war ended.
I returned to the present and focused on the current matter at hand.
We were nearing the location that Adam told us about. Tactical data indicated the separatists were going to be deploying over twenty-battalions with armor and artillery. If we could take out the dropships, we would be able to eliminate a portion of the enemies fighting strength.
The moment we reached the area, it appeared we were too late. Thirty C-9979 landers had already begun to deploy their cargo of vehicles and troops as we arrived. Anti-aircraft fire began to fly towards us and we were forced to cancel our attack run. "Lehner to command. The enemy managed to beat us to the station, they already landed an estimated fifty or sixty percent of their forces and are starting to advance towards the capital. We are heading back to the city and will eliminate any forces we come across. How copy?" I said into the commlink.
"Roger that kid. Defensive positions have been established along the main route to the capital. They won't be able to handle the droids without air support. The choppers are still being prepared and should be ready in about a half hour, maybe more." Barney's voice said over the commlink.
"Copy that." I replied and opened a channel to Adam and Ahsoka. "We're going to initiate hit and run attacks on the enemy units that may have gotten ahead of us. Make sure you don't waste any ammo on a destroyed target we need to make every shot count." I announced over the commlink.
I got the replies from both my wing-men as my radar indicated a small armored column of enemy tanks and walkers along with several platoons of droids, gunships and mobile artillery moving past the first checkpoint. From what I could gather, the troops meant to be guarding the checkpoint hadn't arrived and were going to be walking into the enemy gunsights.
I opened up a comm channel and tapped a message to the forces heading for the checkpoint. I couldn't risk the enemy intercepting the transmission and make it look like that nothing was out of the ordinary. I only hoped that one the troopers I taught Morse code too would understand the message.
I received my reply and the units tapped out that they were turning around and heading back to reinforce the other checkpoints. I then armed my VTOL's missiles, acquired a target lock on several tanks and pressed the fire button. Twelve Crossbow missiles streaked towards the enemy armor detonating upon impact and destroying the units.
Ahsoka and Adam followed suit and launched a salvo of their own and destroyed several other parts of the column destroying more of the enemy armor and took out several platoons of droids in the ensuring explosion. All three of us then performed a hard-ninety-degree turn and faced the remainder of the column.
"LIGHT EM UP!" I shouted and fired my aircrafts pulse lasers. Each bolt fired impacted droids and vehicles, destroying them before firing another salvo of missiles towards the enemy destroying a good chunk of the column before I prepared to fire the gatling gun.
"Let's fall back." Adam said over the commlink. I was puzzled when I saw him turn his aircraft around and headed back towards the other checkpoints. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" I asked the son of Randor.
"Midgarda's army specializes in hit and run tactics along with guerilla warfare. Scouts have laid traps along the route specially designed for countering war droids. We lead them back and make them think we're running. The more they concentrate on the road ahead, the less likely they are able suspect anything." Adam explained.
"I like it." I responded, letting off a small grin appear under my helmet and followed after Adam. "I hope we know what we're doing, otherwise a lot of men are going to be killed." Ahsoka commented firing her VTOL's Gatling gun on an MTT destroying it before making a beeline back towards the allied lines.
"No pressure or nothing." I quipped, increasing my speed.
I had almost reached four hundred knots when a laser fire from behind began to drain my aircrafts shields. I craned my neck and saw that I had picked up a tail; a droid gunship right on my ass. I pulled the stick into my gut and made a sharp one-hundred eighty turn just in time to break the gunships missile lock before pulling up into a steep climb.
The gunship followed suit and attempted to get a lock on me again. However, I reduced my speed and allowed the gunship to over shoot me and pulled the trigger, firing a five second burst of 30mm explosive shells ripping through its shield before the droid craft exploded in a fireball.
Pushing my stick down I avoided the debris from the enemy droid before performing a quick flip pointing my craft back towards the surface and spotted more gunships heading towards Ahsoka and Adam at nearly nine-hundred knots.
At my current altitude and range I couldn't get a missile lock on the gunships, so I switched my weapons system to dual firing and speed towards the enemy gunships from twelve o'clock high. As I speed towards the enemy ships, I watched from the corner of my eye as Midgarda infantry and tanks ambushed the incoming column with rocket and blaster fire decimating the droids just enough before they retreated back into the trees along the road just as several AT-ST's arrived before they could fire at the military.
I smiled as I pulled up and got behind the gunships who had still not realized that I had outmaneuvered them, lined up the nose of my aircraft and pulled the trigger. Pulse laser and gatling gun rounds tore through the shields and armor of the gunships destroying four of the gunships before the other gunships quickly broke off their attack on my wing-men and turned towards me.
They were about to fire when a formation of Midgarda strike-fighters launched a volley of torpedoes at the gunships sending them down onto their allies in a fireball before they broke off and went to engage a group of Scarab Droid Starfighters that were escorting a formation of TF and Hyena bombers that were following the gunships. I was about to assist them, when my commlink immediately crackled.
From the sound of things, enemy fighters were attacking one of the last trains that were heading to the capital with civilians from some of the outlying towns. "You guys get all that?" I spoke to Ahsoka and Adam who acknowledged my question and turned towards the location of the train.
We flew for five minutes before we spotted a large formation of Dagger, Dianoga and Morning Star-A fighters attacking the train. (A/N The basis of the train is the Tyro Pillar from Gears of War.) Several of the cars were either burning or completely destroyed and some of the cars had large three-barreled anti-aircraft guns on them, blazing to life trying to shoot down the enemy fighters.
These fighters were just three of the models used by Tarkin's own army so I knew it wasn't any mercenary or pirate group piloting these ships. I sent a quick glance towards my allies and the three of us launched a salvo of missiles towards the enemy fighters, downing a good amount of them before they even suspected a thing.
Normal point of view
He had a lock on one of the fighters and pressed down on the firing button, but his shots missed his target and again the Dagger fighter hit one of the passenger cars damaging it even further, injuring many of the civilians that were inside the car.
"Sith Spit." The gunner cursed and targeted a Dianoga fighter that was closing in and preparing its heavy ion-cannon for firing. Sar Tryk, a twenty-two-year-old male with white hair and light-green eyes of Mandalorian decent and part time railway worker maneuvered his gun towards the Dianoga and fired. However, the four-winged fighter pulled up and his shots downed two Dagger fighters.
He turned his head and watched the fighter climb before turning sharply and headed right for the engine. They were still several miles from the tunnel that connected to the main line, but its location was a large valley with no cover at all. If the engine was damaged or disabled, the train would stop and everyone onboard would die.
"I'm not going to let you harm these people." Tryk proclaimed and turned his gun on the fighter and fired. His shots went wide and very few managed to hit the fighter. For a second it looked like he failed, but at the last second a stream of missiles impacted the fighter and exploded in midair. "Hey, Gordon's express. You got air cover now, get your ass into the tunnel and out of here quickly. We'll deal with the enemy." A voice came over the commlink. Sar looked up and spotted three aircraft which he read to be legends engage the enemy forces.
"Wow." He said before he returned to reality and fired his gun again at a group of incoming Moring Star fighters.
(Deadly Skies, Dogfights MT begins.)
The second he and his allies arrived at the train's location, Robert transmitted the IFF code of the Dragoons to the train before switching to his pulse lasers, targeted a group of incoming Sabaoth fighters, banked hard left before he firing. In four seconds, all that was left of the fighters was bits of scrap metal. He was about to go after another group of fighters when a Vulture droid came at him from the front, its cannons blazing to life.
"Droid fighter in the corner pocket." Robert quipped and launched two crossbow missiles towards the droid before diving down as the fighter exploded to avoid the debris. He pulled up and switched his engine off before looping over as a formation of Daggers followed the train and began to attack it from the rear. Reactivating his engines, he gunned his aircraft forwards and fired his Gatling Gun downing the Daggers and using the last of his 30mm rounds.
From her position, Ahsoka watched impressively as her boyfriend downed nine enemy fighters in just two minutes before she fired the last of her missiles at a small group of Sabaoth Heavy Fighters destroying them before they even got close to the train. She was about to switch to her Gatling Gun when her aircraft began to shutter and shake. Seconds later, her engines suddenly began to spark. "I've got a problem here." She called out as her altitude began to drop rapidly.
"No kidding, your engines are smoking up. I got a visual on a buzz droid on your VTOL's tail. Must have hitched a ride from one of the enemy gunships." Robert said before pulling up alongside Ahsoka's own craft, switching it to auto-pilot, opened the cockpit, unholstered the Punisher and fired off a few rounds at the Buzz Droid, destroying it.
"Going to have to ditch the VTOL. This thing can't fly anymore." Robert said before he jumped off his VTOL and like magic landed in the Angel as his VTOL returned to the Retribution. Ahsoka followed suit as her own fighter was right behind her and ejected. Her attack craft plummeted to the ground and skidded across the ground, intact but damaged as she landed in her own fighter.
(Theme ends)
"Adam, we had to ditch our VTOL's. We're now flying Jedi Starfighters so don't go shooting us down." Robert stated before diving down and destroyed four Morning Star-A fighters attacking the train from the rear before pulling up.
"Copy that. I'm out of missiles and bullets. Lasers are still working but Teela just contacted me. Enemy bombers are heading for the bridge." Adam called over the commlink.
"Go on ahead. The train just entered the tunnel. We'll take it from here." Robert replied as Adam broke off and headed back for the city. It was then that both Jedi Starfighter pilots spotted a group of T.I.E Fighters entering the tunnel. "These bastards just won't give up. What do they get from attacking a train of civilians?" Robert asked.
"Maybe the separatists are trying to get Midgarda to ally with them if enough civilians die. It's just sick." Ahsoka suggested over the commlink.
"Bastards. This isn't how you fight a war. Seems like Sidious doesn't give a damn about innocent people. Either way, after those Stuka's. Use the cannon's, missiles are too risky we may end up hitting the train." Robert ordered and maneuvered his fighter into the tunnel with Ahsoka right behind him, who had just locked her fighters S-Foils into attack position and followed after Robert. "Try and keep up." His girlfriend quipped and sped after the enemy fighters.
Robert mumbled under his breath and pushed the Angel to full speed. Unlike his own fighter, Ahsoka's fighter, an ETA-2 was faster than the Angel but was armed only with a set of twin laser cannons and twin ion cannons and had no shielding as to the Angel which was equipped with shielding and armed with four cannons along with the concussion missiles, proton Torpedoes' and Blood Hound missiles.
However, when Ahsoka became a member of the Dragoon's Robert ordered that her fighter be modified with the same shielding as her old Delta 7B Starfighter and equipped with a concussion missile launcher. While it still needed to use a hyperspace ring, he wanted to keep his girlfriend safe from any hostiles that tried to kill her.
"Enemy fighters ahead. The train's almost out of the tunnel." Ahsoka called over the commlink breaking Roberts thoughts.
"Roger that. LET'EM HAVE IT!" Robert shouted and fired his cannons at the enemy fighters followed by Ahsoka doing the same. The T.I.E Fighters were caught off guard and were either sent down in flames or slammed into the walls of the tunnel in a desperate attempt to get behind the two Jedi Fighters.
As the train exited the tunnel, Robert and Ahsoka pulled up and downed the rest of the T.I.E's before their eyes nearly popped out of their heads as they had no just entered a new scenario.
Separatist forces had managed to penetrate the defenses that were set up and were now engaging both Republic and Midgarda forces in an all-out brawl on both land and air.
A squadron of Hyena, Trade Federation and T.I.E Bombers had just dropped their payloads on a Midgarda Manka-class assault transports before they were downed by a barrage of rockets from several AAC-1 tanks. A formation of Midgarda and Dragoon Bombers dropped their own payloads onto a group of incoming enemy tanks before they turned around and attacked a pair of AT-AT's with their Ion cannons and torpedoes'. They destroyed the walkers and pulled away from the walkers before another pair of walkers downed a few of the Y-Wings before they too were destroyed by a few well-placed cannon rounds to the neck.
The headless walkers than fell forward like a domino before exploding. A pair of AT-ST's were then blown to pieces as the sound of caterpillars rotating and several turbine and diesel engines could be heard. A squad of clone troopers were about to fire their Javelins when Gunner ordered them to stand down as eight tanks, two Challenger's, two T-72's, two T-90's and two Abrams rolled in from behind over the bridge and over their foxholes firing their cannons at a squadron of incoming GAT's and Hailfires, blowing them to pieces. "Thank you, Nite Owl's, glad they were willing to help us prep a bit of earth's military might for battle!" Gunner exclaimed before readying his own Javelin, took aim at a GAT and fired.
The other troopers of his squad followed suit and fired their own Javelins at their own targets. A streak of 127mm missiles flew up into the sky before hitting the weak point of their targets, in the case of the Hailfire's it was the center where the droid brain was located.
The Tanks exploded, but more units appeared from the main road. "Gunner to Artillery, enemy units approaching from the main road, marking targets with green smoke!" he exclaimed and tossed a marker grenade which then emitted smoke. "Coordinates received, strike package inbound." a clone said over the commlink which was followed by a barrage of mass-driver rounds impacted the approaching droid forces, achieving maximum devastation on the enemy.
"Looks like your uncles have things under control on the ground." Ahsoka said after witnessing the events from her cockpit. "Maybe, but R4 just picked up a transmission. The leader of the separatist forces has just order to send in a couple of mobile weapons platforms, but those platforms aren't ready. If we take them out before they are ready and attack them head-on, we can end this battle and force the leader to surrender." Robert responded over the commlink.
"Think this means we can test out the Blood Asp and Star Adder's ATEFV mode?" Ahsoka asked, turning her fighter back to the Retribution. "Damn right. On legs, those things are slow but with the wheels we gave them and kick some ass." Robert replied and followed her. Many of the soldiers thought they were running and abandoning them, but they were proven wrong.
Minutes later, a pair of six wheeled heavily armored trucks with a flat nose, the claw emitters for the plasma PPC's above the cab and a missile launcher on their backs plowed through a platoon of droids before firing a barrage of pulse laser rounds towards the enemy. "WOHOO! GETTER DONE!" Robert shouted before charging his PPC's and fired at a AT-ST, destroying it before driving through the barrage of blaster fire followed by Ahsoka.
To everyone else it looked like a new weapon, but to the Expendables and Dragoons it was the Blood Asp and Star Adder in their vehicle modes. Since the mechs had a top speed of 19mph it was decided that they would be given a transformation mode, in this case the secondary vehicle mode of one of Roberts heroes.
"Shift into Turbo." Robert exclaimed, running over a super battle droid with Ahsoka following him closely.
"I thought you said you were too young to drive a car?" Ahsoka asked from the cockpit of the Star Adder.
"I said I'm too young to drive back on earth. I ain't too young to drive in this galaxy and besides, this is a mech not a car." Robert corrected before the two plowed through fallen tree reducing the center of the tree to splinters with Ahsoka flowing him closely.
"Targets are three miles away and haven't moved yet. I don't know how long we have before those platforms are online and moving to the front lines. The Alpha Strike is the best weapon we have to take them down. Eliminate the other enemy units as the system recharges." Robert said.
"Copy…" Ahsoka began before she brought her mech to a complete stop. Robert followed. "What's up?" he asked his girlfriend.
"I think we got some backup." Ahsoka stated as five heavy mech's, a Thor, Summoner, Loki, Mad Cat and Timber Wolf crashed through the tree line behind them. At first, the two thought they were stolen by the droids but they were proven wrong when Kasumi spoke over the commlink. "I know they call you the Lone Wolf and you two have a serious amount of firepower at your fingertips, but you're going to need some help." The Japanese girl stated from the Thor.
"Those tin-cans are breaking through are lines quicker than high-schoolers at a back to school clothing sale." Honoka chimed in from the Loki.
"We were going to provide support, but your uncles decided that we back you two up. Can't have Roberts future wife getting killed now, can we?" Marie teased from the Timber Wolf.
"Hahaha, very funny Rose. You just be lucky that I'm in a good mood right now." Robert snapped to the Swedish girl as Hitomi and Rally spotted a formation of Hyena bombers heading for the battlefront and opened up with a barrage of pulse lasers. The lasers impacted the bombers and sent them plummeting down in flames.
"Hope those things didn't give the enemy our position." Hitomi wondered aloud.
"Let's not stick around and find out. Alright, Kasumi take the others and circle around the enemy. I'm sending coordinates to your mechs'. Ahsoka and I will launch hit and run attacks on the enemy and distract them long enough for you guys to arrive. Our targets are the weapons platforms, if we don't take them out then everyone defending the bridge is going to die."
"Race against the clock huh? Well, let's kick some ass!" Rally exclaimed and followed Kasumi as they headed towards their objective. Once they left, Robert and Ahsoka gunned their engines to full power and resumed their course to the platforms.
At almost a hundred miles per hour even with the armor and weapons, the two assault mechs speed towards the droids like bats out of hell. The second they arrived, the droids opened fired on them with everything they had. Tank cannons, missiles, repeating blasters and heavy lasers were aimed at them and a few scored a hit on the cockpits, but miraculously the mech's didn't get hit once.
They soon spotted their targets, six Protodeka's undergoing repairs. Once in missile range, the two lovers fired off a barrage of Javelin rockets on the nearest Protodeka, hitting the damaged droid brain section and destroying the massive weapon platform. "Not our intended target, but it got the job done." Robert said with a hint of surprise in his voice.
"Can't be helped now. Target is down and the others are joining the party." Ahsoka said from her own cockpit, firing her quad pulse lasers at a group of STAP's before turning to the left and skidding over a platoon of battle droids.
"Well only one thing to do now, TRANSFORM!" Robert shouted and pressed a button on his console with Ahsoka doing the same thing for her mech.
Within seconds, the mechs launched into the air and configured to their mech mode, armed and ready for battle. "IT'S THE LONE WOLF!" One battle droid shouted.
"WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" another shouted before it was crushed by the Star Adders feet.
"Guess you have quite the reputation." Ahsoka quipped before she fired her autocannons at a single AAT, blowing it to scrap metal before crushing a GAT with her feet.
"When you give the droids something to fear, it's a good thing. SCRAP EM!" Robert stated and fired his machine guns.
No matter how much firepower they threw at them, the droid forces were literally blown to bits by both bullets and pulse rounds. A single AAT tried to take down the Star Adder but it was quickly blown to kingdom come by a high-powered Gauss Rifle shot from the Timber Wolf which crashed through one of the wrecked buildings before crushing four commando droids with its three-pronged feet.
"Man, when you said you literally crush the enemy with these titan's you weren't kidding." Rally said before launching a couple of crossbow missiles at a group of parked MTT's, blowing the transports to high hell before she turned up the power level of her pulse lasers to three and began spewing purple bolts of plasma at a high rate of fire.
"I told you Rally; these guys have more firepower than a whole fighter squadron." Honoka reminded the Indian girl while firing her pulse lasers at a group of incoming T.I.E's before swatting away a pair of STAPs with her mech's arms. "And they are good for swatting away flies." She added launching missiles at a swarm of Daggers.
"Less talking more shooting." Hitomi called out firing her machine guns blowing apart a group of battle droids before launching some Javelins towards a couple of Hailfires. The wheeled tanks exploded as she fired a low powered shot from her PPC's at a droid dispenser and sent that thing back to the junkyard.
"Eat this." The German/Japanese girl said before once again firing her machine guns at a couple squads of incoming enemy infantry, riddling them with bullets ending them for good. "If this is all the enemy can throw at us, then we should have this done in no time." She stated strafing between buildings to avoid incoming enemy fire.
"Alpha Strike at sixty-four percent and charging. Just keep shooting the small fry, don't give them an inch. Kill them all." Robert said over the roar of weapons fire, before targeting a lander and fired a pair of missiles into its cargo hold destroying the transport and taking the other transport near it.
"I got seventy-three percent." Ahsoka said, firing her pulse lasers in short controlled bursts downing droid after droid.
"Heads up, those proto-thingies are starting to move." Marie called out.
She was right, the remaining protodeka's suddenly started to move. Despite not being fully repaired, the weapon platforms started to move towards the main road. "Damn it, seems there moving rather than waiting to be fully repaired. Alright new plan. Girls, fire all your missiles at the rear Protedeka, it's got a weak spot there. Take it down and the rest will focus on us." Robert called out before checking the power level of Alpha Strike system. "Alpha Strike almost full charged, eighty-eight percent and still climbing."
"I'm almost at a hundred percent." Ahsoka called out from her cockpit, firing her four 150mm cannons at a HAG tank, blowing it to pieces before her systems strike systems showed all green. "Powered up and ready." She announced.
No sooner had she did, the other mechs had fired their missiles at the rear weapons platform, destroying it and getting the attention of the others. As the four remaining platforms turned to the attackers of their 'brother' four dark balls of plasma impacted the lead platform, destroying it and causing a chain reaction which took out two of the remaining platforms, but the last one continued forward.
"Big bastard thinks he can take us out? Time to give it a little taste of some hot plasma." Robert stated and prepared to charge up his plasma weapons but Rally stopped him. "We got a problem. I'm getting a huge amount of energy coming from that last one. Readings are similar to a nuclear reactor!" Rally said panicked.
"This thing's packing a nuclear reactor? WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY THINKING?!" Robert shouted, giving the last platform enough time to activate its seismic wave emitter, sending a blast wave from its body knocking the assault mech down to the ground, knocking the mech's shields out before the platform launched a salvo of missiles towards the downed mech.
The missiles impacted the mech and it shook, making Robert hit his head against the glass cockpit cover. "Ouch, that hurt." He said before he managed to get his mech back up to its feet. "Ahsoka, take the others and get back to the bridge. Attack the enemy from behind, that should catch them off guard." Robert, checking his mech's weapons.
"What about you?" The Togruta asked.
"I'll deal with this ugly bastard. We still got droids here so when this thing explodes it will take the rest of the metal heads with it." Robert answered before launching the remainder of his missiles at the droid platform, getting its attention.
"What are you crazy!? You'll get taken out in the blast as well. Nothing can survive a nuclear explosion." Honoka reminded her friend before backing the Loki up away from the area.
"I gave the Blood Asp and Star Adder a vehicle mode for this reason. It can out run the explosion, just get out of here, NOW!" Robert shouted to his friends before he turned his attention to Ahsoka who looked at him and with a scared impression. "Don't worry, I can get far away from the blast long enough once I fire the plasma. I'll be ok." Robert assured his girlfriend.
"But…" Ahsoka began before Robert interrupted her. "No buts. Just get out of here and don't look back. If I don't make it, I want you to know that I love you." Robert said. Nodding her head, Ahsoka turned the Star Adder back into its vehicle mode and gunned her mech away from the battlefield, running over the droids in the process closely followed by the other girls.
"Godspeed guys." Robert said under his breath, looking back at his friends and loved ones before turning back towards the protedeka. "COME ON YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SCRAP! LET'S FINISH THIS!" he shouted. The droid took the bait and began to move slowly forwards to him. The closer the droid got, the closer it got into the Blood Asps range. "Gotcha." Robert said and pulled the trigger.
Back at the bridge, the droids had managed to push the defenders back into the city and were moving through the city block by block. Despite this they continued to meet strong opposition. Soldiers and clones fired from the windows of wrecked shops and homes while grenadiers tossed grenades at the droids blowing them to pieces before they retreated back inside to avoid getting blasted by enemy tanks.
Midgarda military speeders launched a series of hit and run attacks on pair of light tanks on the left flank, while their blasters weren't effective against the tanks it kept them distracted long enough for a pair of TOW's to destroy the enemy tanks. Turning in the direction of the missiles, a pair of AT-ST's were about to fire on the Humvee's that fired the missiles when they were blown to hell by a pair of 84mm rockets.
Tossing the spent launchers down, Breach and Blake pulled out their rifles and began to fire on the incoming droids. The more they fired the more kept coming. For a moment it seemed like the two ARC troopers were going to join their squad mates, when an AAT approached them and fired.
However, they were saved when another ARC trooper repelled down from the roof of a nearby building, jumped up the side of tank before jumping briefly in the air, blowing the hatch of the tank and jumped inside. A series of blasts from inside the tank gave the two Kilo troopers the indication that their brother took the tank down from the inside as the trooper exited the tank after tossing a grenade into the tank, jumping off just in time before the tank exploded.
"You two alright?" Fordo called out as he and his men joined the two ARC Troopers.
"We're fine Captain. The clankers haven't gotten us yet." Blake replied firing his blaster back at the approaching droids.
"Good to hear. General Jensen told us to hold this position. They get past us, then the droids are going to get to the shelter a few blocks from here." Fordo stated, firing one of his pistols at the incoming droids before lobbing a grenade at the enemy.
Meanwhile, Adam whose VTOL was critically damaged blaster a super battle droid with his D-200s, using the last of their power before throwing them aside and taking his DLA and fired off several short-controlled bursts from his rifle downing several B1 droids with efficient accuracy before rolling to the left to avoid a commando droid's vibro sword and taking that droid down as well.
Teela and her father lobbed a pair of grenades at a group of destroyers that were about to uncurl and blew them up. An incoming squad of Vultures forced them to take cover behind a wrecked speeder where Gunner, Ray and Lincoln were hunkered behind while they reloaded their Ares Shrike, QBZ-95 and GDLMMG machine guns in order to resume covering fire so a couple of medics could pull the wounded men back to the safety of allied lines.
"I'm running low on ammo." Lincoln called out before tossing a frag towards the enemy.
"Make your shots count. Don't give them an inch." Gunner shouted lobbing a few plasma grenades towards the droids before picking up his GL6, aimed it and fired destroying more droids in the process. "I'm out of grenades." He stated, throwing the empty launcher down.
"We aren't going to last much longer without back up." Ray said before Duncan vaulted behind the speeder and fired a rocket launcher at an incoming Hyena bomber that was about to drop its payload on them. The bomber exploded into smithereens and its bomb detonated harmlessly in the air just as Ahsoka and Kasumi arrived on the scene.
"Where's Robert?" Ray asked.
Before anyone could answer a massive mushroom cloud was seen in the distance, causing both droid, Midgarda and Clone forces to cease firing. No sooner had the cloud died down, the droids in the city resumed their attack and caught the defenders off guard, forcing all sectors to retreat further and further into the city.
"Robert, come in. Robert do you read?" Ahsoka called out as the defenders reached the presidents building. No reply came though.
"Don't tell me he's dead. He can't be dead." Caesar said with disbelief, loading a fresh magazine into his XM29 before returning back to the fight on hand.
Anger began to build up inside of Barney's body and without a second thought, the leader of the Expendables popped out from behind the barricade and fired his rifles grenade launcher before firing the rifle at the droids emptying his magazine, but giving his rifle a stove-pipe jam. Rather than clearing the jammed casing, he threw the rifle aside and fired his submachine guns at the enemy ignoring the fact that his shields were nearly depleted.
The moment his weapons were empty, he quickly reloaded his guns before Lee took down a rocket droid with his M82 blowing a hole through the droid and the droid behind it. Like Barney, he was also hoped that Robert wasn't dead.
Throughout the whole city, each member of the dragoons began to assume the worst until they soon got their answer. "How many times do I got to tell you guys. It'll take a lot more than a bunch of metalheads to kill me." Robert said over the commlink.
Ten minutes earlier
"Gotcha." Robert said and pulled the trigger. Four balls of overcharged plasma flew towards the platform at high speeds, impacting the droids integrated brain sending a feedback through the systems and causing the reactor to start to go critical.
Transforming the mech back into vehicle mode, Robert made a quick U-turn and gave the mech some gas as the protodeka began to go critical and started to spark and a series of small explosions began before the droid's reactor detonated and sent a mushroom cloud.
(Dare, Stan Bush Begins)
"Maximum Overdrive." Robert said to himself and pressed a button on his console, activating the vehicles turbo boosters boosting his speed to nearly two hundred miles per hour as the cloud began to destroy everything in its path. Interference from the explosion knocked out his communications but that didn't stop him from setting coarse to the city and plowing through every battle droid he came across once he was clear of the blast radius.
For the enemy vehicles, the Lone Wolf fired his guns and lasers blowing up anything that got in his path and never pitied the droids that were run over. To him it each and every droid he crushed with his six large wheels deserved it for all the innocents they had killed over the course of the war.
A group of STAP's were directly ahead of him and heading right for the city. "Ten points scrap-heads." Robert said and gunned his mech forwards at full speed and rammed the aerial platforms from behind, running over the droids that made a desperate attempt to get clear.
"Good way to save ammo." Robert said to himself as he drew nearer and nearer to the city. A tunnel lay ahead of him and guarding it were several enemy tanks, all firing their main guns or secondary weapons towards the Blood Asp. Despite it all, he continued forwards and fired his pulse lasers at the enemy forces, clearing a path for his mech.
One of the enemy tanks was blown to pieces, leaving just enough space for the Lone Wolf to pass right between the other tanks. He didn't have a moment to breath a sigh of relief as the other tanks began to follow him through the tunnel. Rather than collapse the tunnel and cut off one of the ways to the capital, he made a U-turn, but the mech in reverse and fired his machine guns. .50 caliber Sabot rounds peppered the hulls of three AAT's until they exploded, taking several combat speeders and their pilots with them.
With the threat from the rear eliminated, Robert made another U-turn, only to come face to face with an entire battalion of battle droids all ready to attack. The minute he saw this, he grinned under his helmet and activated his mech's turbo boosters and rocketed towards the droids. Blaster rounds impacted the mech's shields, but did little damage to it as he drove over the combatants. "This is a better example than an overweight bastard saying he ran over marathon runners with his car to win said marathon." He chuckled to himself.
He then spotted the end of the tunnel and not to his surprise more tanks were guarding the exit, only this time he spotted a couple of Umbaran Hover Tanks heading towards the city. "I hate those things." He growled as memories of Duke, Lock-on and began to enter his mind. His anger was about to grow when he remembered what his hero had said to a comrade of his. "They wouldn't want me to give into my anger. I won't go back to that part of me, not after all the pain I caused my friends and family." he said letting go of his anger.
He then pressed a button on his console and his weapons system switched from his guns to a special weapon. "Time for the Velvet Special. FIRE NUMBER ONE, FIRE NUMBER 2!" he shouted and fired. Exiting the mech's claw emitters were two modified MG7-A proton torpedo's which locked on to the Hover Tanks, detonated and destroyed the tanks. "That's for you Velvet." He said, remembering the times he and Velvet had played with her brother. "I hope she isn't dead. I have to help her." He added.
Exiting the tunnel, he drove another two miles when his commlink came back on line. He heard the calls from Ahsoka and the others. He then spoke. "How many times to have to tell you guys. It'll take a lot more than a bunch of metalheads to kill me." He said on all allied frequency's, driving over the bridge and headed for the capital building.
Driving through the city, he fired bursts of machine gun fire at any droids that got in his way before he reached the capital building. Reducing his speed, he converted the mech back to mech mode, rotated the torso of the mech and fired his weapons. Downing tanks and droids at an alarming rate, he was soon joined by Ahsoka and his friends who joined in the droid onslaught.
(Dare ends)
"Seems they aren't getting smarter on their tactics. They just keep coming." Robert said, using the last of machine gun ammo before switching to his pulse lasers.
"These things aren't smart they just use their sheer numbers to overwhelm the enemy and get them to panic." Ahsoka reminded him firing her own pulse lasers at a GAT, destroying it. "Either way, I don't know how much longer we can last." She added.
No sooner had she said this, the droids suddenly shut down. "Ok, did Skynet take control or is this Ultrons doing?" Rally asked confused. Her answer was soon given when a separatist shuttle landed on the street. Soldiers trained their sights on the shuttle as its boarding ramp opened and exiting the shuttle was Gruy Votez, the separatist admiral himself. "My name is Gruy Votez, my droids have been shut down and I turn myself over to the Wolfs Dragoons. This battle is meaningless and should not have started." The admiral said over the commlink.
"All units stand down; the fight is over. We've won this battle." Robert ordered as he exited the mech's cockpit and motioned for a pair of troopers to escort the Neimoidian to the Retribution. Halberton then informed him that all of the enemy ships had been destroyed and none of the members from Tarkin's unit had survived either.
"I can't thank you enough for what you've done for my people." Randor said as he walked up beside the Lone Wolf. "I only wish this never happened. It's my fault the war came to Midgarda." Robert answered with sadness.
"If it weren't for you, we would have been attacked by the separatists either way. It's clear now that we cannot sit ideally by while a madman tries to take over the galaxy and plunge it into chaos. From this day forward, Midgarda will be an ally to the Lone Wolf and Dragoons. It is time to show the galaxy that not everyone will stand by without a fight." Randor proclaimed and all the Midgarda soldiers cheered.
Robert smiled, the Dragoons had just grown larger than before. Sidious was in for quite a surprise when the time comes for the Sith Lord to finally be defeated and the Republic restored to its true self. "You seeing this mom, looks like I can finally end the war. I just hope its not too late." He said to himself as his family and friends joined him.
Sorry for the wait, things have been quite hectic for me lately and have been distracted working on my one shot. Hope you can forgive me.
Anyone want to take a guess at what the Blood Asp and Star Adder's vehicle modes are? I'll give you a hint, it's the mode of my favorite Autobot.
Anyways, Midgarda has joined the Dragoons but what about the guys on earth? Are they going to survive and figure out something big is in the works? Find out next time. Remember to read and review, place your votes on my poll and give me ideas for Gadgets and dresses for my upcoming 007 themed chapters.
See you next time.