I AM SO EXCITED! WHY YOU MAY ASK? BECAUSE I SAW THE TEASER TRAILER FOR RAMBO: LAST FIVE AND IT LOOKS AWESOME! NOT TO MENTION IT COMES OUT ON THE MONTH OF MY BIRTHDAY! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE MOVIE IT LOOKS SO BADASS!
Anyway, I know I said I was going to Mobile Suit RWBY for a bit but I'd figure I try and divide my time between this story and my first crossover/excepted challenge so I don't fall behind on my deadline to finish this story before Episode 9 comes out in theaters.
Onto reviews and PM messages.
1049: I will admit that since I am having this story take place in our current time and the time line of the Modern Warfare series I'd figure I would include that timeline into the series, coupled with the fact I was watching a Long play of the Modern Warfare series on YouTube and I am really looking forward to the new Modern Warfare game coming out this year.
Mpowers045: Trust me when I say nothing will happen to Robert and Ahsoka's Children. Ahsoka is carrying twins after all. Though I am not sure if the same rules for Human pregnancy apply to Togruta's and other species.
Spartan-626: I can promise you that once the Lone Wolf gets wind of the invasion of his home world, he will be heading back to earth like a runaway train going down a hill. I will admit, I used a few characters from the GI Joe franchise, the badass fighter pilot from Area 88, a couple of characters from the 2000 Action Man CGI series, Tales of Berseria, Spawn and Homefront. A few other characters from GI Joe may appear, if you have any ideas please leave them in your review.
SAK-96: I will admit that the idea of using GTA characters like Michael De Santa does sound like possible idea, but like I told you I have no intention of using guys like that in this story, especially considering the only thing about GTA I like is the guns. Firearms nerd, I am. I also will agree with you that classic aircraft are indeed cool, seeing as how I had Nick Rye fix up not only some more modern aircraft but also come Korean and Vietnam War aircraft that John and his cultists were able to get their hands on. As for the poll, I am leaning onto having the Lone Wolf pilot an F14D Super Tomcat, but I trying to figure out how I can give him a copilot since the Tomcat is a two-seater. But depending on the results of the Poll I will have him fly the aircraft that gets the most votes along with one of the other ones. Think HK-47, Mission, or Proxy would make a good copilot?
Anyways, time to get the ball rolling. Disclaimers are the same as before, please enjoy.
Chapter 28: Battle of Coruscant
May 20th 2020 19BBY
Coruscant, Core Worlds
0745 hours
Normal Point of view
High above the capital of the Republic, a lone Republic cruiser sailed silently above the planet before the screeching of three Jedi Starfighters, Two Eta-2 Actis-class interceptors and a heavily customized Delta-7 Interceptor flew past the command bridge of the cruiser before they pulled to the left along the ships port side before barrel-rolling over and headed down into a hell storm.
Blue and Red laser bolts flew past them while fighters of all kinds screamed past the fighters. Thousands of Separatist ships of all kinds engaged Republic forces. Coruscant was under siege. As Lott Dod said, Coruscant hadn't been attacked in over a thousand years to which Nix Card responded that the planet has a false sense of security. He was proven accurate in his statement.
Using the Nexus route, they acquired from both Tarkin and Ahsoka, the Separatists launched a surprise attack and caught the republic with its pants down. Further complicating the situation was the fact that due to the increased fighting in the Outer Rim, the Home Fleet guarding the capital was severely weakened. Coupled with this, Separatist affiliated senators like Dod and Card were able to smuggle thousands of troops and vehicles onto the planet which caught the Coruscant Guard and the other regiments on the planet off guard, resulting in massive military and civilian casualties.
With the momentum, the droids spread out all over the planet and the city was engulfed in the chaos of war. But despite this, the Separatists made no attempt to take the Jedi Temple or Senate building. It was then realized that the objective of the invasion was to capture the Chancellor. By the time anyone figured this out, General Grievous had taken the chancellor, killed Jedi Knights Roron Corobb, Foul Moudama, Roth-Del Masona and B'ink Utrila, leaving behind a wounded and trussed up Shaak Ti behind him. The General's success however, led to Mace Windu crushing the Generals chest plate and further damaging the general's lungs.
Still, the Separatists managed to make off with the chancellor and were preparing to leave the planet when who should come to the rescue but Skywalker, Kenobi and the Lone Wolf.
Diving down to avoid the debris from a destroyed allied cruiser, R2 whistled and beeped to his pilot and friend. "Lock onto him Artoo. Master, Robert. General Grievous's ship is straight ahead. The one crawling with Vulture Droids." Anakin called to his copilot, former padawan's lover and former master.
"I see it. Oh, this is going to be fun." Kenobi said with sarcasm as Robert formed up in the middle of the two Eta-class interceptors. "You call this fun; I call it trouble. I'm counting more then four dozen fighters heading our way with more units following them." Robert added.
R4-M8, the Astromech copilot of the Angel whistled and beeped in agreement with his partner. "Yeah, I know buddy. This is going to be a challenge, especially since we the Angel had only two bloodhounds. But then again, I like a challenge." Robert stated before contacting a nearby squadron of ARC-170's. "Oddball, do you copy?" Robert asked.
"Copy, Red Leader." The familiar voice of a Clone Trooper said over the commlink.
"Mark our position. Form your squadron up behind us." Obi-Wan then instructed. Oddball and his flight did so and locked their s-Foils into attack formation and formed up with the three Jedi star fighters, two of which also locked their own s-Foils into position.
As the squadron got closer and closer to the General's ship, the Vultures on its upper hull configured into fighter mode and surged towards the approaching republic forces. "This is where the fun begins." Anakin said from his own cockpit and watched as the fighters of both forces broke off or opened fired. The enemy fighters however were able to get around and killed a few pilots.
Reducing his speed and allowing the enemy fighters to get in front of him, Robert acquired a lock on the enemy units and fired. A total of sixteen Proton Torpedo's streaked towards the Vulture droids destroying a good portion of them which were then mopped up by volley of the Angels cannons.
However, before the fighters were destroyed, they launched a pair of missiles loaded with Buzz Droids which exploded ahead of the two fighters. Anakin was clean, but Obi-Wan's ship was covered in Buzz Droids, one of which made its way towards R4-P17 Obi-Wans copilot.
Just before one of the enemy droid's buzz saws made contact with R4's dome, it was suddenly destroyed. The other droids turned around to see the Lone Wolf, standing on nose of his ship firing his custom pistols at the droids taking them down and saving Obi-Wan and his droid. One of the Buzz Droids was able to get onto Anakin's fighter, but R2 was able to get it by zapping it in the center eye.
"Nice Work buddy." Anakin said to his faithful droid companion. "You too Robert." He added looking back to the Lone Wolf who returned to his cockpit. "Command ship straight ahead guys?" Anakin said to his comrades. Artoo screamed and Obi-Wan reminded his former padawan that the ships blast shields were still up. Seeing this, Anakin quickly blew the generator knocking out the shield to the hanger. However, the blast doors to the hanger were quickly closing but the three fighters were able make it inside.
R4-P17 took control of her partners fighter and opened the cockpit allowing Obi-Wan to summersault out of his fighter, saber ignited and began to slice through the hanger's security forces while Anakin came to a gentle stop and joined the fray. Robert on the other hand, landed his fighter and hoped out of his fighter, aimed his Morita which he had in carbine mode and unleashed a torrent of .308 Winchester rounds on the droids.
"R2, locate the Chancellor." Obi-Wan instructed the blue and white Astro droid who went over to the nearest terminal while the two Jedi and soldier mopped up the rest of the droids. By the time they deactivated their sabers, nearly two dozen hostiles were reduced to scrap metal.
R2 then brought up a diagram of the ship and a red dot at the top was the Chancellor. "I sense Count Dooku is onboard." Anakin said.
"I sense a trap." Obi-Wan added.
"Well, there's no turning back now. Spring the trap, right?" Robert asked, loading a fresh magazine into his Carbine. "Is it that obvious?" Anakin asked back while Obi-Wan handed R2 a commlink and stayed with the ships. As the three exited the hanger, Robert looked back to the ongoing battle outside the ship and sighed with disappointment. "Why did you order this attack Dooku?" he said to himself and followed after his allies.
Dooku's point of view
I'd never thought that my master would order us to launch our 'final operation' as he called it into action until the time was right. That's what I would be thinking if my Padawan's son hadn't arrived in our galaxy and had stayed on Earth. Now, I was wondering what was going through my master's mind right now.
I couldn't understand why he ordered us to launch such an attack when the final push towards peace was made by the separatist senate. Now, it appears that all those efforts were lost in this attack. Kidnapping the Chancellor and forcing him to recognize the separatists as a legitimate state was only to keep the war going.
A pain in my chest forced me to grab my clothing. According to my doctors, the heart attacks I've been experiencing were signs of a rare form of disease to which a form of treatment hasn't been found yet. The first attack I had was three months ago and its clear that they are getting worse and worse as time went by.
If I was going to die, I would rather die in a galaxy finally at peace and knowing who murdered my former Padawan. I only hoped that fate would grant me that much before I die. I was soon contacted by Grievous who informed me that the Jedi and Lone Wolf were headed towards the observation deck. I then ordered him to drive the intruders to my location. One way or another, I was going to engage in my final battle.
Normal point of view
While Dooku contemplated his loyalties and current predicament, Obi-Wan, Anakin and Robert had managed to get out of one of the Invisible Hands fuel tunnels and were waiting for a lift that would take them to the observation deck.
The sound of rolling balls caught their attention and Robert snapped his weapon to his shoulder and shouted. "WE'VE GOT COMPANY!"
The two Jedi turned around to see a pair of destroyer droids heading towards them with every intention on stopping them, followed by several Terror Troopers. Igniting their sabers, Anakin and Obi-Wan began to deflect blaster fire from the enemy droids while Robert fired his carbine in short controlled bursts while backing into the waiting lift.
Kenobi and Skywalker were able to make it into the lift, but before Robert could enter the lift the doors closed leaving him behind with the remaining hostile units. "Some guys have all the luck." He said sarcastically to himself extending his arm out and grabbing the Destroyer droids. Before the droids could even figure out what was going on, they were crushed like a soda can and sent flying into several incoming OOM battle droids.
Some of the Terror Troopers were knocked back as well but the rest just kept on heading towards the Lone Wolf who downed a few with well-placed five-round bursts. As a fifth Terror Trooper fell to weapons fire, one of them materialized behind Robert and began to choke the life out of the Lone Wolf.
The chocking lasted about only five seconds before Robert flipped the enemy soldier on its back and then stabbed it in the head with his knife. Picking up his fallen weapon and loading a fresh magazine into it, one of the lifts opened up and he bolted into the waiting lift just as the knocked down droids got back up and began to fire.
Returning fire and backing into the waiting lift, blaster fire peppered the Lone Wolfs shields knocking them out and leaving him vulnerable. Luckily, the doors to the lift closed quickly and the lift began to accelerate towards the upper levels.
His shields had fully recharged by the time the lift came to a stop and when he exited the lift Robert found himself nearly losing his head to a pair of blue blades. "Gee, thanks for waiting guys." He said to the two Jedi who deactivated their blades.
Once everything was clear, the trio made their way towards the center of the room finding the Chancellor secured to a seat and looking at the ongoing battle outside the ship. "Chancellor, are you alright?" Obi-Wan said, bowing to the leader of the Republic despite the situation.
"Count Dooku." The Chancellor replied. The three turned around and saw that Dooku had just arrived, flanked by two Super Battle Droids. Robert glared at his mom's former master. He wanted the answers as to why he would launch an attack.
"This time we will do it together." Obi-Wan said to Anakin who agreed with his former master. "Get help! You're no match for him. He's a Sith Lord." Palpatine said in a defeatist tone.
"Don't worry. Sith Lords are the specialty of the Jedi and besides," Robert said to the chancellor, deactivating his armor, removing his helmet and dropping his firearms to the ground. "We have the Lone Wolf helping them." he added as Obi-Wan and Anakin removed their cloaks and reached for their sabers.
Dooku having already leapt off the platform where the lifts were, walked towards them. "Your swords, please. We don't want to make a mess of things in front of the Supreme Chancellor." Dooku said reaching for his own saber.
"You won't get away this time Dooku." Obi-Wan said, igniting his saber followed by Anakin and Robert, who ignited only one of his blades.
"Just because there are three of you, do not assume that you have the advantage." Dooku said, igniting his saber just as the trio moved in to engage the former Jedi, blocking a strike from Obi-Wan and Anakin. Keeping his defense up, Dooku blocked and parried each of his opponents' attacks, maintaining his distance from his enemies' blades.
"I've been looking forward to this." Dooku said with a smile.
"My powers have doubled since the last time we met, Count." Anakin stated.
"Good. Twice the pride, double the fall." Dooku said with excitement like he was hoping for a battle like this for a long time. This confused Robert who still didn't know what was going through the Counts mind and just stood there, oblivious to the fact that in his standstill, Dooku had knocked out Obi-Wan and was engaging Anakin single handily.
When he finally broke out of his current situation, he jumped into the fray. Bringing his green blade down onto his enemy, Dooku smiled again. "I was hoping you'd give me a fair fight my young friend. I was just saying to Skywalker that he doesn't use his anger and hate in battle. The same can be said for you. Why don't you use them?" Dooku asked the Earth Born who ignored him and pressed his attack.
Giving it his all, Robert attacked with several Form V attacks in an effort to disarm the Count and force him to surrender. However, Dooku was far more skilled and blocked every single one of Roberts attacks. Despite this, Robert calmed his mind and channeled his energy into his saber. "This hand of mine is burning red. Its loud roar tells me to grasp victory!" the Earth born Jedi said and lunged forwards. "Erupting Burning Finger!" he shouted and sent a powerful Form VII strike towards the separatist leader.
Much to his surprise, Dooku dodged the attack by jumping into the air and landing behind the Earth born. "That's the spirit my boy." Dooku commented before he sent Robert back into one of the control panels behind him knocking the wind out of him for a few seconds and resumed his focus to Anakin. For a moment, it looked like Dooku was about to gain the upper hand, but Anakin proved the count wrong and severed both his opponents' hands. Grabbing his opponents' saber, Anakin held both his own weapon and Dooku's at the Counts neck.
"Good, Anakin, Good." Palpatine said before his next instructions shocked both the Count and Skywalker. "Kill him." The Chancellor ordered.
For the longest time in his life, Anakin felt torn between staying true to the Jedi's teachings and following a direct order from someone he called a friend for a long time. Thankfully, before Anakin could even make his choice, Robert walked over to them.
"Don't kill him Anakin. Don't, please." Robert said. Dooku, Anakin and the Chancellor looked towards Robert with confusion. "He may be the enemy, but he's unarmed. He can't do any more. If you kill him now, then everything you built for yourself with the Jedi will have been for nothing. I… He's the only person who can tell me more about my mother. It may be selfish, but he's like family to me." Robert begged.
"He's too dangerous to be kept alive. Kill him." Palpatine said.
"What would Ahsoka say if she saw you doing this. I know she would be disappointed in you." Robert added. By this time, Obi-Wan had regained consciousness and saw the scene that was unfolding.
"Anakin, it isn't the Jedi way. Dooku may have changed since Scarif, but he must still stand trial." Obi-Wan reminded his former padawan. Hearing his Master's voice and Roberts pleas, Anakin made his mind. Deactivating both sabers, Anakin cut the Chancellor loose and turned to Robert who after seeing what Anakin had chosen, collected his helmet and weapons as his armor shifted into place.
"Take Dooku to the hanger. Use the fighters to get yourselves to the Temple. We'll find another way off the ship." Anakin said, tossing Robert Dooku's saber which the Earth Warrior clipped to his armor's waist.
"Thank you." Robert said to Anakin who only smiled at lover of his former Padawan.
It wasn't easy as the Invisible Hand began to lose altitude and began to drop down like a dive bomber. This made things difficult as the group almost ended up getting crushed by one of the lifts. Once the escaped ended, the group split up. It took Robert and Dooku no time to make it back to the hanger finding only R4-P17 and R4-M8 waiting for them. "Looks like Artoo went to help Anakin. Doesn't matter. M8, tell me that the Blood Hounds are still ready for deployment?" Robert asked his copilot.
M8 beeped in response, giving Robert his answer who then turned to Obi-Wans copilot. "P17, take Dooku to the temple. Don't engage in a dogfight, just get to the temple. Let Master Yoda know what's going on. M8, give her an escort. I'll take Anakin's fighter and see what I can do to help the fleet." He ordered.
The two droids beeped in agreement and Robert loaded Dooku onto the Obi-Wans fighter. "Thank you for saving my life." Dooku said as the cockpit of the red Eta class interceptor closed and rocketed out of the hanger followed by the Azure Angel. Having access to the ships systems made it easy for the two fighters to leave who were quickly followed by Robert in Anakin's own fighter.
Once clear of the ship, he locked his borrowed fighters S-Foils and rocketed towards the ongoing battle. While he was grateful that Anakin had spared Dooku's life, he still wondered why Palpatine wanted Anakin to kill Dooku. It was against the rules of war.
Roberts point of view
I have to say, compared to the Delta-7 and Delta 7B, the ETA-2 is quite a ship. Compared to the Angel, the ETA had a top speed of fifty-two thousand g's in space and one-thousand five hundred kms in the atmosphere.
However, unlike its predecessors the Delta-7 and the Delta-7B the ETA-2 lacked any kind of shielding and was lightly armored. It is also armed with only four cannons, two primary and two secondary. However, some pilots removed the secondary cannons and replaced them with concussion missile launchers.
Compared to the Delta Series, the ETA-2 is far superior in terms of speed but when it came to firepower and armor, the Delta Series had the advantage. Despite this, I was determined to give the droids a real headache.
Once I exited the hanger of the ship, I gazed once again on the ongoing battle between two armies. My heart sank. To think that Dooku's efforts for a peaceful end to the war had be destroyed by this attack. So many people in space and on the surface died in this attack and all they wanted was to live their lives peacefully.
My blood boiled as I spotted a formation of TIE fighters heading towards the surface escorting a group their bomber counterparts to their target. I figured I'd would follow them and take them down the second we reached the surface.
Pitching my fighter into a dive, I got behind the formations six o'clock as they broke through the atmosphere. It was then I found out their target was a civilian shelter located not far from the senate. "No, they can't. I WON'T LET THEM!" I shouted and pushed forwards on my controls.
(TIE Attack Begins)
Catching them off guard, I fired a burst of cannon fire and took out four bombers getting them to brake off their attack and tried to shake me off of them. As for the fighters, they made a sharp turn in both directions and began to fly towards me with their cannons blazing. Without any kind of shielding I would be shot down in seconds, so I dived down to the city below with the fighters right on my tail.
Weaving in and out to avoid the stream of cannon fire behind me, I pulled the stick into my gut and turned to the left, sending two hostile units colliding into the building while the rest of them banked to the left and followed me.
"That's its boys, follow the leader." I said to myself and leveled out my borrowed fighter and headed towards one of the battle grounds. I opened my commlink and contacted the troopers in the area. "Lone Wolf to ground forces in sector four. I've got hostile fighters on my ass and they have me dead to rights. If there are any anti-air units in the area, I could use some help." I said into the commlink trying not to sound frantic like a newbie pilot would.
I waited for a response but didn't get anything. I was soon proven wrong. "Captain Fordo to Captain Lehner. We read you, we just finished mopping up the hostile infantry units in our sector. We're sending up a flare. That's our location. Lead the fighters to us and we'll handle the rest." The ARC Trooper called over the commlink.
"Copy that." I said and saw the launched flare. "Flare sighted, making my way their now." I added. Gunning my ships engines, I veered towards Fordo's location and continued to evade hostile weapons fire. The closer I got to the location, the more intense the enemy fire became.
I looked down for a quick second to see several RX-200 Anti-Aircraft assault tanks with their cannons aimed towards the skies as I flew overhead. Once the fighters got within range, the tanks opened up with their cannons taking out a good portion of the hostile units. However, four of them managed to get through the anti-aircraft screen. Reducing my speed, I let the fighters overshoot me and downed them with a barrage of cannon fire.
(Song ends)
Once I confirmed the fighters were no more, I spotted what was left of the Invisible Hand heading towards the industrial sector flanked by several Emergency Firespeeders which had dropped fire retardant foam on the blazing section of the ship which once it made contact with the surface skidded a few feet before finally stopping.
Then, over all channels it was announced that the Separatists had retreated and the battle was over. R4 contacted me and told me that they had arrived at the temple and Dooku was taken into Jedi custody. The battle was over, but somehow, I felt like something wasn't right. Boy, I didn't know how right I was.
So, that happened. Dooku is still alive, but seems to have some kind of illness. Since he is not dead, how will this effect Sidious plan for Anakin. Stay tuned and you will find out. As always, please read and review and tell me what you think. Until next time.