Shame I only got two reviews last chapter, but I am grateful that it was from two people who have been supporting my stories since I started in 2017. Thank you. Now for those of you wondering about the description of fighter planes like the A-10 Thunderbolt, I am taking a cue from the History Channel show, Dogfights which first told me about the Flying Tigers and the Nazi version of the Kamikaze tactic.
I will admit, I wasn't expecting my last chapter was almost as long as the chapter with Obi-Wan, Rey and Caesar. I was expecting it to be shorter than what I had, but at least I got it up. Like I said, I've been having the lack of writing lately and I don't know why.
Ah well, let's get to the reviews.
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Chapter 39: A Sisters Revenge
July 8th 2020 19BBY
Los Angeles, California
0854 hours
Union Station
Eleven miles from Cedars Sinai
Normal Point of View
What was once known as the tenth busiest rail stations in North America was now in ruins. Called the 'Last of the Great Railway Stations' in the world, Union Station was the final stop for four of Amtrak's long-distance trains along with being known as the hub for Metrolink commuter rail network and Metro Rail Subway.
Now the station was a wreck, holes in the buildings, shops and ticket booths shot up by both bullet and blaster-based weaponry and standing at the platforms were numerous Amtrak trains that were being used as command centers for the enemy forces.
Inside one of the trains, a single True Sons soldier ran through the passenger cars trying to load a magazine into their M9 handgun. His entire squad had been wiped out, along with the LMB and Black Tusk soldiers that were assigned to lay a few landmines at Macarthur Park in order stop the advancing hostile armor. When they arrived, they were met by a barrage of machine gun fire from a nearby store. Several men were filled with holes and when the soldier sent a few men to check it out, but they stepped in the path of a few claymores, killing the others before the other men found the weapon an RPK-16, the LMG version of the AK-12 but not the person who fired it.
It was then that the remaining men were attacked from behind. The rest of his men were killed and the landmines weren't even placed. Fearing for his life, the soldier ran from the fight all the way to the station by using the Red Line Station. This however forced the soldier to fight for their life as the Subway tunnels were filled battle droids that were hacked by Ghost Recon and now firing at those that were once designated as friendlies.
During the entire fight through the tunnels, he took a blaster bolt to the left arm forcing him to drop his P416 assault rifle. With nothing but their handgun, the soldier was forced to sneak past the enemy droids before they finally arrived at the abandoned station.
"It's got to be the demon." He said quietly to himself before he propped his body up against one of the seats before grabbing one of the shirts left behind by the passengers, ripped it and tied it around his wounded leg as the sounds of weapons fire echoed throughout the station. "Damn Jedi must be attacking this place. I'll show those freaks what happens when they mess with the True Sons." He said, training his handgun down the cars ready to fire the moment he saw the enemy.
"What the hell am, I think? A handgun is no match for whatever the weapons those fuckers are using." He said, slowly getting up and moved his way further and further up the train. Sliding the door open, he was about to enter the next car when he came face to face with a girl with a white skull painted on her face. Before he could react, the girl grabbed him and dragged him into the next car.
While this was going on, Echo, Fives, Hevy and the rest of their platoon along with Ash and the other FBI operators of Rainbow had just finished routing the last of the enemy forces who were defending the station. Just as Echo was about to confirm that they had completed their objective when they heard the screams of the True Son's soldier coming from the platform.
When they arrived, they found the soldiers body with its arm broken and stripped of all the ammo the soldier had. "Think we might want to call in the Commander." Hevy suggested to his brothers.
"What makes you say that?" Fives asked.
"Because, this is a message for the Kid." Hevy answered before walking over to the body. "Look. There's a picture right here next to the body, see anything familiar?" he asked his brothers and showing them the photo.
The photo showed two young teenagers, one of them being a younger Lone Wolf, a black-haired girl with yellow eyes and a blonde-haired boy of eleven years standing in front of the red and orange SP 4449 locomotive during one of its excursions runs. The date was three years ago.
"I think we need to contact the Commander." Echo said in agreement, asking Thermite to radio the Lone Wolf that they had completed their objective and about what they found.
Thirty minutes later, the JTF had set up an FOB in Union Station and started to clear away the ruble and open up the waiting areas which were to be used as barracks and set up a mess hall. As for the trains, K9 units from the LAPD along with ordinance disposal soldiers sniffed out any IED's they found, too avoid any unnecessary deaths, military and civilian who came looking for medical help or food.
Looking over the body, Robert gazed at the brutalized body. "Blunt force trauma to the head, kneecaps have been shot and it looks like his 'man hood' has been blown off. Guy must have pissed off the wrong person." Robert said, getting up from the body. "I don't think it was Velvet. She'd never do anything like this. She's too kind a person." He added.
"That's where you are wrong." A voice said from behind them. Walking towards the Lone Wolf, Expendables and his friends was a man with silver hair, blue-green eyes dressed in a pristine pastor's uniform. "Velvet changed when she was in prison. The lack of visits from myself and you turned her into a much different person. A person driven by the desire for revenge who will do anything to find the one who murdered Laphicet." The man answered.
"Arthur?" Robert asked and walked over to man. "It's been far too long." He added, hugging the man.
"It certainly has. I'd never thought I would see you again. I thought you were dead after that attack in the Rookies." Arthur answered. "I get that a lot." Robert answered back. He then noticed the other person behind Arthur. "Tommy?" Robert said in complete shock.
"How you doing kid? Last time I saw you, you accidently shot me with my 9mm. Lucky for you I survived." Tommy Walker answered. Robert looked towards the man who saved him and hug his head. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to shot you. I just…" Robert began before Tommy gave him a light punch to the shoulder.
"That's for think I was dead. As for shooting me, I don't hold anything against you. Could have happened to anyone." Tommy answered.
"Yeah that's great and all." Toll Road began. "But what about this Velvet chick? What's her deal? If she isn't the kind of person who would do this, then what would make her do this?" he asked.
"Murdered, her brother was." Yoda said, walking towards the group. "Accused of murdering her brother she was, yes? Loved her brother dearly. The motive for this murder, unclear but all evidence pointed to Velvet. Clearly, framed she was. Tell me, the murders continued they did while she was in prison?" the Jedi Grandmaster asked Arthur.
"Yes. Even while she was still in prison, she was being blamed for the murders, despite having made no attempts at escaping. Her sentence was increased for each murder. Clearly, someone was trying to keep her in prison." Arthur answered, having held several funerals for the children who were murdered and seeing the sad looks on the faces of their parents who would never see their kids grow up.
"I did some digging and I know who did it." Al said. "The man's name is Billy Kincaid. He's a child killer. Works at a butcher shop in Glendale and from what I gathered, he's the illegitimate son of some big and powerful senator. Loves dismembering and torturing children and from what I gathered, sexually assaulted the kids, most of them little girls." He said with anger.
Putting a hand to his mouth having seen what those bodies might have looked like in his head, Robert vomited over the platform, his contents of his breakfast spilling all over the tracks. "Give me a minute." Robert said before he vomited again.
"If that guy did it to Sadie, I'd want to give him a lot of presents of lead." Cassie said, clenching her fist. She didn't want this man to live and kill her child. She was about to say more when Hondo arrived. "I hate to break up this… little reunion, but you all might want to take a look at who's coming to the station." The pirate said. "Oh, Robert. You're not looking too good." He added.
"I'll ignore that humor for a moment." Robert answered having finally finished puking his guts up. When the group arrived at the station entrance, he saw Velvet walking towards the station entrance with a P416 in her hands, dressed in combat armor and her face painted like the Punisher's iconic skull.
"You've got some nerve, coming back here when all hell has broken loose. You've been gone for three years and never even once came to visit me. Now, you come back and expect things to be normal again?" A very pissed off Velvet Crowe demanded, walking over to Robert and before anyone could speak, slapped Robert across the face.
"I didn't deserve that." Robert complained before Velvet put him in a headlock and was demanding him to say uncle. Robert did so and was released from the headlock. "I get your pissed, about everything but…" Robert began only to get a second slap across the face from Velvet. "I might have deserved that." he said.
A few nearby men, Kuribayashi included couldn't contain themselves and laughed until their faces turned red. Rex was one of the few who didn't laugh. "It's not that funny." Rex said. "Hell, hath no fury when it comes to women." He added.
"Give me as much ammo as you can spare. I've got some hunting to do." Velvet demanded. The demand caused several soldiers to raise their rifles at her and forced herself to raise her own weapon in defense. "I'm this close to finding Laphi's killer. I need ammo, give me what you can spare and I'll leave." Velvet demanded.
"Stand down!" Robert ordered and the men stood down. "No one's shooting anyone." He added before turning to Velvet. "Velvet, look I get you want to find Laphi's killer. I want to as well. But this is bigger than you, me or entire planet. This guy, Darth Sidious, he's responsible for a large-scale war all so he could rule the galaxy. He played both sides, tried to turn the galaxy against the Jedi, use soldiers like Fives to kill them, he even tried to turn a friend of mine against those he considered friends. This guy is worse than Hitler. He'll kill anyone, even children. If we're going to stop him, we need to work together. It's the only way." Robert said.
"Work together, do really believe that crap? I could care less for this guy you're after. All I want is the man who killed Laphi. That's it."
"You'll just get yourself killed." LAPD Lieutenant Ed Fox said, he was one of the few officers to actually believe that Velvet was innocent when she was arrested and even launched his own investigation into the case. "This Sidious bastard obviously had his eyes on Earth for some time, he was able to get four PMC companies, two terrorist groups and that bastard Trump on his side. Clearly there is more to this than anyone knows." The officer added.
Velvet clearly didn't like the answer the officer and was about to give him a piece of her mind when a formation of Hyena Bombers came diving in twelve o'clock high firing their cannons and dropping their bombs, destroying several tanks and walkers that were guarding the station before they veered off and headed back to where they came from, only to be intercepted by several HAWX F-16's and Australian F-5's.
"I thought enemy air power was further away from our location?" Lee asked, scanning the air with his CMMG MK47 carbine.
"Looks like they missed a few bombers. Damn droids." Doc cursed.
"Wish Gunner was here." Toll added.
"Commander, we got incoming enemy forces coming from the north. A lot of enemy infantry and a few tanks!" a trooper shouted.
"Damn it. They must have circled around and flanked us. Get everyone on the perimeter. Itami, take your men and get back to the hospital. Skywalker is nearby, tell him we need back up. Take Rex with you." Robert ordered.
"Got it, kid." Itami responded. Kuribayashi and Kurokawa volunteered to stay and assist them in defending their position. Rex also volunteered to stay behind as well, not just because his wife was staying, but because he wasn't one to back down from a fight.
"Any mech units nearby?" the 501st captain asked.
"No, all we got is a Thor undergoing resupply. That's not going to cut it though." Fives answered. Just seconds after the ARC-Trooper answered a screeching noise echoed all around the vicinity of the station. "INCOMING!" the trooper shouted as an artillery shell impacted one of the Humvee's that was undergoing maintance. The vehicle and the mechanics that weren't quick enough to run were engulfed in the following explosion.
"Shit! They probably got a MLRS! No doubt they stole them from the military bases across the coast. Hevy, get in the Thor and take out those rocket units. We can't let them target any other units." Robert instructed the Domino Squad trooper. Hevy, nodded and went to the mech which was in the rail yard.
He then turned to the rest of the men. "Everybody else, grab a rocket launcher and get on the perimeter. Use the launchers on the tanks only. Don't waste them on the infantry, unless they are destroyer droids. I want snipers in the tower now!" he added.
"You sound like a real military leader." Velvet complemented.
"Three years of war will do that to a person. I've seen a lot of things and killed a lot of vile people, as Rex said 'experience out ranks everything.' And I've got plenty of experience." Robert answered before tossing a M203 launcher to Velvet. "You might need this." He added as his friend attached the launcher to her rifle.
"Looks like it's going to be like that time we did paintball." Velvet replied. "Only this time its not going to end with you getting covered in paint rounds." She added, letting out a small chuckled.
"If I remember correctly, you got plenty of paint splattered across your helmet. Same as me." Robert quipped. Velvet sighed as the previously mentioned Thor mech walked onto the streets. "Hevy, I am authorizing you to use missiles on vehicles only. Machine guns and pulse lasers on the infantry units, watch your fire on the buildings, we don't need to damage the city anymore than it already is." He said into his commlink.
"Copy that Commander. I was planning on it for the beginning." Hevy replied before departing towards the location of the enemy artillery. As the mech disappeared from view, several Black Tusk Abrams tanks rolled into view, one of which aimed its 105mm cannon at one of many piles of sandbags that were positioned in front of the station and fired.
The shot impacted the ground only a few inches from the sandbags and didn't kill any of the JSDF forces that were using the bags as cover. One of the soldiers popped out of cover, their Panzerfaust 3 already primed, took aim and was about to fire when a burst of machine gun fire cut the soldier down. The soldier was able to fire their launcher, but the shot missed and hit one of the nearby palm trees, which tipped over giving the enemy infantry a piece of cover.
Another Panzerfaust rocket was fired, this time the 110mm warhead hit one of the tanks, taking out the enemy tank. "All units, open fire!" Robert ordered, despite the fact that one of the soldiers guarding the station had already fired, since they panicked.
Raising his M4A1, Toll Road fired bursts of rounds at several battle droids while Doc, Lincoln, Ray and Grace focused on the Black Tusk heavy units who were firing their Mini-Guns at a group of American Marines who were trying to suppress several squads of Super Battle droids equipped with rocket launchers.
Jess, Cassie, Barney and Caesar began to toss grenades towards the incoming forces. An enemy grenade was thrown towards them causing the four Mercenaries to run before the grenade detonated. Their shields were damaged, but they were still able to fight. Firing her Valmet M78, Cassie unleashed a barrage of fire mowing down several battle droids and LMB soldiers that were advancing towards them. This was followed by a stream of blaster bolts from Rex's DC-15A which took down the ones she missed. "Nice shooting honey." Cassie complimented, loading a fresh magazine into her machine gun.
"Its in my blood." Rex replied.
A nearby soldier took a hit to the arm forcing them to drop their M16A4 while another soldier pulled them back into the station. "Bring him overhear!" Arthur shouted from the station doorway. Having decided to stay and assist the wounded, he took the soldier into the station narrowly avoiding a bullet to his head. "You'll be alright." He assured the soldier.
Just as he was about to treat the soldier, he was tackled by a True Sons soldier that managed to slip past the defense's and got in the station. "Always wanted to kill a man of the cloth." The soldier said, pulling the slide of their M45 pistol back and took aim at Arthur. While he never killed another man, Arthur gave the soldier a powerful uppercut to the jaw as the soldier was trying to think of a line to say before he could pull the trigger.
"I'll never kill another person, but that doesn't mean I can't defend myself using the only weapon I ever need." Arthur spat and punched the soldier right in the face, followed by a kick to the legs knocking the soldier onto their back. He then punched the soldier right in the face, knocking the intruder out cold. "Someone secure him." The man of god said to a nearby medic who slapped a set of binders on the enemy soldier before moving to help Arthur treat the wounded soldier.
While the battle at Union Station continued, Itami and the rest of third recon had arrived at Cedars and already briefed Anakin on the situation. "Hardcase, get your platoons ready to move out. Rex and the others aren't going to hold out much longer. Hunter, take your ship and try to flank the attackers from behind. Take Ash and the others with you."
"Yes Sir." The two troopers responded. Anakin then spoke to Hawk who was piloting the lead gunship. "Once all the men on board I want you and the rest of the gunships to provide air-support. They're going to need all the help they can get."
"Got it, General." Hawk replied as the gunships took off from the hospital, below them numerous AT-RT's, TX-130s and Humvee's raced along the roads towards the on going battle, followed by several Apache Helicopters and VTOL's.
Meanwhile, Hevy had just arrived at the location of the enemy rocket units and was starting his attack. Medium Laser rounds and Crossbow Missiles slammed into the enemy rocket artillery while machine gun fire blew away both droid and PMC soldier alike.
"The power of a mech." Hevy said to himself as he crushed one of the enemy tanks that had stayed behind to guard the artillery. He had just finished mopping up the last of the enemy artillery, when he spotted a formation of MTT's heading directly towards the station. He didn't have enough time to call in the units, so he went in to attack them. Firing both his Medium Lasers and Pulse Lasers at the transports, he pressed forwards and managed to destroy a few transports before the rest were destroyed by several Gunships from the 327th, 91st and 41st legions who had arrived just hours ago. "Looks like your commander needs some help trooper. Lead the way trooper." The pilot of the lead gunship said to Hevy, who turned his mech around and began to make his way back to the station.
Down at the said station, the enemy infantry was taking considerable losses but the enemy armor was still pounding the defenders and was now being backed up by enemy AAT's. Leaping onto the top of one of the enemy AAT's, Yoda cut a hole through the tanks hatch while Velvet and Robert tossed in a few grenades before jumping off the tank as it exploded.
"Damn, guess that's a whole new meaning to 'it isn't easy being green'." Velvet joked before an LMB soldier took a headshot from Pryce's KiSteer 1284, followed by several other soldiers by Kuribayashi and Lee's DMRS.
"Size is not everything, hmmm?" Yoda said, deflecting weapons fire back from the advancing enemies as a pair of rockets slammed into an AAT, destroying it. Despite the destruction of two enemy tanks, the enemy was starting to overwhelm the defenders.
"FALL BACK INTO THE STATION!" Robert shouted. Hearing those orders, the men and women began to fall back into the building while friendly machine guns laid suppressing fire covering those who were making their way into the station. "ALL GUN CREWS, GET YOUR ASSES INSIDE! I'LL COVER YOU!" Robert shouted from inside station, slamming the butt of his Morita into the glass of one of the windows and started pouring lead on the enemy units with Velvet at another window.
"Just Like Old Times!" Robert commented to his friend. Velvet just smiled and continued to fire away as well. A barrage of .308 and 5.56mm rounds exited from their weapons and slammed into both droid and PMC soldier alike as the machine gun crews began to fallback into the station. Some of them were killed as they moved while others were wounded. Needless to say, the amount of enemy fire being sent towards them was intense. "MOVE IT! LET'S GO!" Robert shouted.
Throwing down his Morita, he took out the BFG in rifle mode and fired. Hot blue balls of plasma streamed towards the enemy infantry causing the enemy to fall back for they feared the power of the BFG in either rifle or launcher mode. "That's one nasty weapon." Velvet complimented, firing her launcher at a group of battle droids taking out all members of the group.
"You haven't seen anything yet. Launcher mode is effective, but I don't want to risk damaging the…" he began before the noise of gunfire from behind them echoed. "Shit! They must have broken through the subway tunnels. I knew I should have pointed guards at that location." Robert cursed before turning to Barney.
"Barney, Caesar, Lincoln, take Fox and some men and push those bastards back. Blow up the entrance if you have too, I don't care how you do it, just keep them from advancing any further." Robert said to his uncles. They nodded and headed towards the direction of the gunfire with Doc and Toll Road right behind them.
As they left, the last of the machine gun crews entered the station, some of the men pushed some benches in front of the door in an effort to slow the enemy down. Falling back behind several other benches and makeshift barricades that the True Sons had set up earlier.
"The rest of you, stay here and defend this area. I'll go back up my uncles." He said. The others nodded and began to set up firing positions waiting for the moment when the enemy blew open the doors. "Rex, you're with me. Time kick some ass." He added, speaking to the 501st captain.
"You got it Robert." Rex answered, picking up a M4 from a wounded soldier. "Feels good working together again." He added, checking the magazine of the picked-up rifle. He had a full magazine.
"Same here." Robert responded and the two headed for the subway entrance with Velvet right behind them. By the time they caught up with Barney, they found a large amount of battle droids and PMC soldiers lying on the floor, dead and destroyed. A few of the men they brought with them were dead as well.
"What's holding you up?" Robert asked, priming a grenade and threw it towards the enemies that were advancing towards which then exploded.
"Someone's got this way blocked down. Whoever they are, there using pistols." Toll explained, blind firing his own M4A1, covering Doc who fired his AUG back at the enemy. Just as Barney was about to fire, the enemies stopped firing and moved out of the way as walking towards them was Cad Bane, the Bounty Hunter that killed Denal, Koho, stole from the Jedi temple, took the senate hostage, kidnapped several force sensitive infants and hurt the girl Robert loved.
"Welcome, Lone Wolf. Darth Sidious had a feeling you would be here, so he pardoned me and gave me command of the forces in this dump you call a city." Bane said.
"Fuck! I should have known you'd be involved in this. Doesn't the fact that he used a weapon to kill thousands of innocent lives bother you one bit?" Robert asked from behind cover, looking to Hondo who had followed them and gave him a signal to prepare his weapon.
Bane just chuckled. "As long as I get paid, it makes no difference to me. Besides, I gotta make a living somehow and I have no love for the Republic, even the New one. But I will admit, the look of fear on the Togruta's face was something I enjoyed when Tarkin played with her." he said.
Underneath his helmet, Robert gritted his teeth together and began to feel the anger building inside of him. "What did you just say?" Robert asked, almost popping out of cover ready to fire his hybrid weapon in launcher mode at full power.
"You should have heard her screams; they were most enjoyable. You want to hear them? I can play them now." He gloated, pressing a button on his gauntlet and played a recording of Ahsoka's gagged screams. Once again, the blood began to boil inside of Robert and he was about to break cover. However, Velvet beat him too it.
"I don't know who the hell you are, but if you stand in my way of revenge, I'll kill you." She said coldly. This peaked Bane's interest.
"Well, looks like the girl who killed her brother is a friend of the Lone Wolf. You know, I met the guy who actually killed him, and believe me when I tell you, the guy makes me sick. I may take hostages, kidnap children and kill senators, but there are some lines I'll never cross. Killing children makes me sick. But you, I wouldn't mind getting in bed with you for sixteen hours, you pretty little thing." Bane said to Velvet as if he were flirting.
"OK! That is just going to far!" Rex shouted. "You killed a lot of my brothers all for some damn credits. Bane, your days are numbered." The captain shouted, as the ground above them began to shake. The shaking caused Bane to look up, which gave Hondo the chance he needed.
"HEY! Bane! You want to play rough? Then say hello, to the Hondo Special!" the pirate captain shouted firing his M16A2's under-barrel launcher firing a 40mm explosive round towards the enemy units, killing quite a few number of them. The others followed suit, popped out of cover and fired their own weapons as Fives, Echo, Itami and Anakin arrived with the Bad Batch and Dino Bots bringing up the rear with Jesse, Hardcase and Kix firing their weapons, or in the case of Hardcase, the Smart Gun.
"Hevy, Ayala, Luminara and Adi have got things well under control topside. I didn't think Bane would be down here." Anakin said, deflecting shots with his sabers, covering Kasumi, Rally, Honoka and Hitomi who quickly took cover with Hondo.
"Believe it. That bastard's mine." Robert said breaking cover and charging towards the enemy units firing his Morita with no remorse what so ever for the enemies who got in his way.
"He's going to get himself killed." Velvet said, ironically, she would have done the same thing if it were related to Laphi. Having most of the enemy units already she didn't need to waste any of her ammo while she pursued her friend.
Meanwhile, Robert slammed his fist into the face of a True Sons soldier before blocking the strike from a Commando droids vibrosword with his hand before pulling out the Punisher and emptying half the weapons magazine into the head of the droid. He then pivoted on the balls of his feet and fired the rest of the weapons remaining rounds towards the other enemy units. Once his pistol ran dry, he charged forwards, loading a fresh magazine, skidded along the floor of the station, holstered the Punisher and pulled out the handgun Ahsoka gave him and fired.
"HEADSHOT MOTHER FUCKERS!" He roared, landing a well-aimed headshot on every enemy he encountered. The last round from his pistol clattered to the floor and was about to reload when a gunshot from behind took down a scavenger droid that almost got the drop on him. Looking back to see Velvet's rifle barrel smoking, he was about to speak when Bane rocketed behind them with his hover boots.
"I'll give you two a piece of intel on the house. The fat man who murdered your girlfriends' brother is located in a mansion several miles from here, just outside the city. Consider it my bit of payback to fat slime ball for all the kids he murdered." Bane said, tipping his hat to the two before rocketing down the tunnel towards Wilshire.
Still angry at what Bane played, Robert picked up an enemy AK-47 and fired the whole magazine down the tunnel. "NEXT TIME WE MEET BANE! I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU! YOU HEAR ME! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" he shouted as the weapon clicked empty.
Throwing the weapon to the ground and removing his helmet, the Lone Wolf looked towards Velvet. "You said you needed ammo? I can do one better. You and me, we're going to kill Billy Kincaid." He proclaimed.
"Fuckin A." Velvet said as the rest of the reinforcements arrived at their location. Neither of them knew that Yoda had heard everything and when the two 'borrowed' a Humvee he had snuck aboard the vehicle hoping to stop the two from making a terrible mistake. Neither one of them knew that Robert had something else planned entirely.
1303 hours
Velvets point of view
The time to avenge Laphi had finally come. At first, I thought that Robert was going to try and talk me out of it, but after seeing the anger and rage he showed that Cad Bane guy, it looks like he was going to help me get my revenge after all.
The mansion that Kincaid was hiding in was heavily guarded, Inner Circle and White Mask forces were guarding the whole area, along with a bunch of aliens that Robert recognized from his time in galaxy that they were from, I still find it hard to believe that his mom was actually some kind of warrior who mastered two techniques with names similar to the moves from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, only they were applied to his weapons he called Lightsabers and were first used by his ancestor some three-thousand years ago.
I still had to admit, hearing him talk about all he's been through it makes me a little envious. But then again, he had it easy while I was in prison for three years, accused of murdering my only brother. Through the scope of the M700, I saw a lot of bastards who would be getting in my way so I could finally avenge my brother.
"One shot, one kill." I said quietly and prepared to fire, only to be stopped by Robert.
"That's a bad idea. You fire now, then the whole mansion will be put on alert and the bastard will escape to who knows where. If you want to take him down, we need to do it with a plan." He said. I noticed his voice had changed from the angry person several hours ago to the person I used to know.
"Agree with the Lone Wolf, I do." A voice from behind said to us. Looking back, we saw that Yoda had snuck aboard our vehicle and came with us. "Rush into battle without a plan, killed you will be like your brother. Calm you must be and think." The small green Jedi said to us.
"Like I care about planning. All I want is Kincaid." I answered and was about to head towards the mansion but was stopped again by Robert. "I thought you wanted Kincaid?" I asked.
"Believe me, I want nothing more than to bring Laphi's killer to justice, but this isn't the way. Like the general said, we need a plan. A second glance always pays off." He answered.
"Kids right you know." Another voice from behind said, looking back again, it seemed that Ghost Recon had decided to join us. "If you weren't so focused on getting revenge, you'd realize that the enemy doesn't have that many guards protecting the rear of the mansion." The infamous Scott Mitchell added.
"Great, more people to slow me down. I'd rather go loud and kick as much ass before I get to the main event. Kincaid is going to pay for this." I stated, anger building up inside me.
"Damn it Velvet, just listen. They have who knows how many forces guarding the main entrance and a few machine gun emplacements. If you charge in guns blazing, you'll be torn to shreds, I can't risk losing another friend like I did Courtney. I want to take down Kincaid as mush as you do, but you have to realize that you aren't the She-Hulk. Get hit in the right area, you'll lose your life. You can't rush these things." Robert replied.
"So, the only reason you came with me is to stop me?" I asked.
Robert shook his head. "No, I came with you to make sure you didn't get yourself killed. If you want to pull a full-frontal assault, that's fine. But you'll be doing it alone. I'm not going to risk my life just so you can get revenge. You want my help, then we follow the orders of Mitchell." Robert added.
"Fine, but if I see Kincaid, he's mine." I answered. Robert agreed and Mitchell came forwards with some ghost combat gear and fatigues. "Guess I need something with a little more protecting than what I have already." I chuckled and went behind the Humvee to change. I came out a few minutes later dressed in an urban camouflaged version of the Ghost Recon Uniform complete with a bandana like the one worn by the guy they called Kozak.
"You're dressed to kill." Robert complimented. I blushed a little, but I didn't love him. He already had someone he was going to marry when he got her back, I just like him as a friend. I soon had my P416 handed back to me from Nomad, who equipped it with a fifty-round magazine, holographic sight, but kept the M203 launcher. He also gave me an UMP 45 with a red dot sight and foregrip and a P227 9mm handgun with a tactical laser sight and fifteen round magazine. All three of them were equipped with suppressors.
"Alright, so what now?" I asked.
"Now, we go around the back and enter from behind. Less guards, but we'll be able to surprise them once we get the target." Nomad answered. I was starting to like working with these guys.
"Come with you, I shall. A Jedi's help, you will need." Yoda stated, climbing onto Roberts back.
"Let's get moving." Mitchell said and all of us double timed it towards the back of the mansion. He arrived and found only a few guards patrolling the nearby pool which they emptied and were using as a dumping area for the dead bodies of those Kincaid tortured. The mere sight of the cut-up bodies reminded me of the photos the police showed me of Laphi after he was murdered.
"Eight targets, armed with assault rifles. By the pool." Weaver said quietly. Mitchell than ordered Kozak and Nomad's teams to get in position to take them down. The rest of us moved up towards the fence and waited for the others to take out the targets. Nomad fired first, taking down his target followed by the others taking out their targets.
"Alright, lets get over that fence." Mitchell said, putting his rifle down, kneeling and putting his hands together so we could get over the fence. Nomad and his team were first, followed by Kozak and his team. Fury, Vasily and Fixit were next followed by me. Afterwards, Robert and Yoda soon joined us, followed by Mitchell who scrambled over with ease.
The bodies were soon moved out of the way before anyone inside the building saw them. I always thought I'd never see or do anything like this, but after what I've gone through this was starting to seem normal. "Crowe, did you hear Mitchells orders?" Pepper asked.
"What were his orders?" I asked. Turns out, Mitchell ordered me and Robert to go with Fury, Vasily, Fixit and Nomad and sweep the third floor of the mansion while Kozak's team along with Yoda swept the ground floor and Mitchell swept the second floor. Hopefully, one of the teams would find Kincaid and I could finally put a bullet between the bastard's head. Robert carefully opened the door so no one would hear the door opening before each of the teams headed towards the third floor. Each of us prepared either our handguns or submachine guns. This was going to be close-quarters, so anything like such as Vasily's Scorpio sniper rifle wouldn't be very effective.
"Check each room, you find Kincaid, subdue him. Everyone else, weapons free." Nomad whispered to us. We each nodded and began to check each room. The first couple of rooms Robert and I checked weren't full of hostiles, just a bunch of Playboy Bunny outfits and Lingerie, something I think Roberts friend Honoka would love, especially since she likes cute clothing. If I was still the same person I used to be, I would jump at the chance to wear something like that, now I didn't care.
A few of the other rooms had one or two sleeping hostiles so we took them out nice and quietly so they wouldn't wake up and go for their weapons. Laphi and Arthur said its always wrong to take another person's life, though for soldiers it was what they were trained for, but these guys were terrorists and they didn't deserve any pity or mercy from me.
The others found the same thing, a bunch of terrorists sleeping on the job from either not catching enough sleep or having too much to drink. I heard a bunch of rumors that some of the guys who worked with that murdering bastard were shaken by what the man had done to those he interrogated. There are somethings that would make anyone sick to the stomach, even those who have worked in a morgue.
The last couple of rooms we searched had several underage girls in their teens who were sexually assaulted by these terrorists and forced to take drugs by these so-called human beings. Some of them were already dead from overdose, but a few were still alive, having either not been given the drugs or only been given one dose of whatever they were forced to take.
Clearly, some people wanted these girls dosed up and weak so they could have some fun with them. The amount of medical attention and therapy they would need was going to be quite a lot. I looked to one of the sleeping bodies of the guards and stabbed one in the throat before stabbing the other in the chest several times for good measures. "If you're done being the goddess of death, lets go." Robert whispered.
Exiting the room, Nomad just pulled back his snake camera from underneath the door of the last room. "Multiple tangos, armed with pistols." He stated. We stacked up on the door of the last room and waited as Fury prepped a flashbang. Robert opened the door for a few seconds allowing the Ghost Recon member to toss the grenade in, which then detonated allowing us to move in and wipe them out.
"Hey check this out," Robert said, picking up one of the rifles that was mounted on the wall. "Whoever owned this place managed to get a couple of 1903A4 Springfield's. 30-06 caliber rifle, like the M1 Garand. Impressive stopping power, but nothing compared to the 7.62mm and .308. Still, these things are a beauty of a rifle. Cut would like this" he added. I knew he liked guns, but this wasn't the time to be admiring the weapon my Grandpa used when he landed on the Solomon Islands.
Mitchell then radioed us. There was no sign of Kincaid anywhere. The only other area we had left to check was the basement, but the enemy had heard the flashbang detonate and were starting to come looking for us. "Smash the windows. Let's give them hell." I said, slamming the stock of my rifle against the window, shattering the glass before I started to open fire on the terrorists below.
"WEAPONS FREE!" Robert shouted before he jumped out of the window and landed on the ground firing his own rifle while the rest of us fired from the building. That armor of his was certainly something else, Laphi would like seeing this.
Yoda soon joined my friend outside blocking weapons fire while Mitchell and his men fired from the windows on the first floor. A rocket slammed into the ground directly in front of Robert who was unfazed by this and continued to fire his weapon at the forces guarding this hellhole. I watched him use his own body to block a blow that was meant for Yoda. The small green alien then returned the favor by using the 'Force' or whatever it's called and pushed several terrorists back hard, knocking them out before Mitchell, Kozak and the others continued to pour it on the enemy.
For a moment it seemed like things were starting to go our way and we could continue our search, but that moment soon dashed away from us as several enemy gunships soon arrived and dropped off dozens of battle droids which quickly outnumbered us more than five to one. Each of them looked towards us before they opened fired on us.
"Great, scrapheads." I said dryly and continued to fire my rifle until my magazine went dry. Ducking back behind the window, I slammed a fresh magazine into my rifle and quickly returned fire while Nomad shouted into his radio. "Ghost Team to any nearby units, we are under heavy fire and need immediate reinforcements. I say again, we need reinforcements." He shouted, firing his ACR blindly, taking down a few droids.
"Nomad, its Barney. The others and I are on our way, we'll be there soon. Just hope they don't bring in any tanks." Barney said over the radio. "Solid copy!" Nomad shouted before he tossed a grenade towards the droids, taking out a few dozen of them. Weapons fire from Fixit, Vasily and Fury's weapons continued to rain down on the droids. Grenades from Kozak's team landed right in front of several droids, one of whom picked up a grenade thinking it was a dud and threw it behind him, only for it to take out the droid and several other droids.
"Keep the pressure on them." Mitchell shouted. No sooner had he shouted those words, numerous new figures with wings started drop in firing weapons similar to the battle droids. "WE GOT BUGS!" Robert shouted, firing his rifle at several bugs while backing into the house. Some of the bugs were armed with Robert called Sonic blasters which when they hit a target would cause the targets internal organs to rupture, leading to instant death. One of the blasts hit Robert, but his armor held and only cause his shields to flicker a bit.
"Everybody back inside!" Robert shouted while Yoda continued to deflect blaster fire away from us. I soon spotted a group of bugs coming right towards Yoda's right side. Quickly, I shifted my fire to the right and downed the bugs with the remaining rounds of my rifle's magazine. I tried to load a new magazine into the rifle, but a spent casing got stuck in the ejection port. Rather than waste time in -clearing the jam, I took out my Sub-machine gun and fired.
Robert and Yoda soon made it inside as the last bug fell from the sky, leaving only the droids left. "Ammo check!" Mitchell shouted. Everybody still had plenty of ammo left but it wasn't going to do us much good with our current problem.
Crashing through the gate of the mansion was a BTR-80 APC, its 14.5mm machine gun firing as if it could see us. Bullets slammed into the windows, sending shattered glass to the floor while the vehicles machine gun kept us pinned down. "I don't think Barney and the others are going to make it in time. We need to take out that APC before it brings this whole place down!" Mitchell shouted, swapping the empty magazine of his own rifle for a newer magazine.
"Take out the armor, we must." Yoda said in agreement. He then looked to Robert. "Time for Dooku's saber to be used for the greater good, yes?" he asked. No one but Robert knew what he was talking about and took a curved hilt from his back and held it tight.
"Ghost Lead, Lone Wolf requesting covering fire. Can you provide?" Robert asked. Mitchell nodded and ordered the other ghosts to get to the windows on the other floors. Enemy weapons fire continued to be sent towards us as the soldiers got into position. Robert soon joined us on the third floor stood by one of the windows that wasn't shattered.
"Any time you're ready kid!" Mitchell said over the radio. Robert ran back down the hall of the third floor before he sprinted towards the window and crashed through the window, igniting its blue blade as he landed on top of the APC, sliced a hole in its hatch before he dropped a grenade into it. Leaping off the APC, he landed on the grass as the vehicle exploded. He then surged forwards towards the remaining droids reducing them to sliced bits of scrap. I just kept the pressure on the enemy.
Two more droids fell to his bright blue blade as the Expendables and several military trucks arrived taking out the remaining hostiles from behind while securing the men Yoda had knocked out earlier. Medics rushed into the mansion and came out later with the girls for treatment. "Man, you guys really know how to kick ass." Toll Road complimented.
"You don't know the half of it." Robert answered back to his uncle. "We still have one area left to check. The Basement." He added and motioned for two Clone Troopers, Redeye and Mixer I believe their names were to follow him to the basement. I followed them along with Mitchell, Nomad and Kozak. Skywalker also joined us while a girl with green skin helped tend to the injured girls.
Entering the basement, our noses caught the scent of something nasty. We soon found the source. Dozens of mutilated corpses were kept in the basement, some of them resistance fighters while others were children all around the same age as Laphi. The girl from before, Barriss I think her name is saw the sight and vomited in disgust. I knew she was a mother and healer, but had also seen her fair share of the horrors of war. This, this was nothing like she had seen.
One of the 'dead' resistance fighters was still alive and told us that Kincaid had left a few hours before we arrived. That's when Robert said it. "I knew he wasn't here." I just lost and grabbed him by the throat.
"YOU KNEW HE WASN'T HERE AND YOU STILL WENT ALONG WITH ME!? WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING BEFORE!?" I shouted.
Robert tried to speak, but I tightened my grip around his neck. That was until Anakin stopped me. "He only went along with you to stop you from getting killed. If Kincaid were here, you would be dead in minutes. You're too clouded by revenge to see that." Anakin said to me, getting me to loosen my grip on my friends' neck.
"I know what you're going through. I lost several men I called brothers and wanted more than anything to bring them back. I'm not the only one, several others wanted to do the same thing. But even if we tried, you can't bring the dead back. Laphi is dead, you think he'd want to see his sister acting like this? This isn't you, Velvet." Robert said, gasping for breath after I released him from my grip. For a moment, I let his words sink into my skull, only to again slap him across the face.
"YOU'VE GOT NO RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT LAPHI LIKE THAT! ESPECIALLY AFTER YOU ABANDONDED ME!" I shouted. I then soon felt my body being tossed against the wall and I couldn't even move. I looked too see Anakin holding me with the force.
"Look! I know what its like to want revenge. I lost my mother too a group of nomadic people and wanted to kill them. Not just the men, but the women and children too. I would have killed them all!" he began before I began to be lowered to the ground. "But I knew that it wouldn't bring my mother back. She'd never forgive me for what I would have done. Later I learned that the one man I called a friend was responsible for causing my mother to be taken from me. If you let anger control you, you'll be walking down the path of the Dark Side." He added, finally releasing me. Not once when he spoke too me was there any anger in his voice.
He soon let me go. "I don't care about this Dark Side or your 'friend', all I want is to kill Kincaid the same way he killed Laphi, slowly and painfully." I answered, walking out of the basement, past the girls who were getting the treatment they needed before getting back in the vehicle I 'borrowed' before I got a call from one of my informants, or rather a Black Tusk soldier that went AWOL when the invasion started. Some of these guys weren't to keen on taking orders from a bunch of metal heads and formed their own group.
"I've got you now, you fat bastard." I said and drove away from the mansion. I didn't know what I was going to find, but I was going to do whatever I could to get the fat bastard.
Normal point of view
2350 hours
Five miles from the California/Nevada Border
Looking through her binoculars, Velvet counted the number enemy units she saw patrolling the makeshift enemy base that had been setup as a means to slow down the New Republic forces. Black Tusk, LMB, Artemis, True Son and droid forces had set up a massive amount of firepower consisting of not just infantry, but tanks, helicopters and artillery. Behind them was a large prison complex of unknown design.
According to her informant, the enemy has been kidnapping locals and using them as human shields. The Jedi knew of this and had sent numerous recon flights over the camp, confirming that the prisoners were still alive but were also in dire need of food and medical assistance.
But all Velvet cared about was Kincaid, who she spotted taking one of the hostages into a building where he began to work his 'magic'. Even from a distance, Velvet could tell the man that was being tortured was dying.
"I'm not going to let you kill anyone else." She said to no one in particular, pulling the bolt on her rifle back chambering a round. "Time you die." She added.
"The only one who's going to die is you." A voice said from behind her. Landing in front of her was a human sized version of the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam, The Expendables, Ghost Recon and a green and yellow stripped gunship of unknown make. Exiting the ship were several aliens and a large hairy creature that Velvet almost mistook for Bigfoot.
The Freedom walked towards her and its helmet shifted back revealing Roberts face. "I TOLD YOU, KINCAID IS MINE!" Velvet shouted, pointing her rifle directly at Roberts face. Unfazed at the gun pointed at his face, Robert just continued to walk towards her before finally stopping.
"Go ahead, kill me. Just know, that you'll be killing a father that will never see his children grow up to become their own person." Robert answered. Velvet was taken a back by this and before she could even speak, Robert spoke again. "I've got something to fight for. I know you want to avenge Laphi, but you can't do it alone. Let us help you." He added.
"I…" Velvet began before one of the aliens, one with light purple skin and a scaled boa walked up. "Anyone would want to avenge their family; I know I would. But you have to realize that there are some things you can't do alone. You attack on your own, you'll end up just like your brother, dead." The girl said.
The alien with a hat that looked like it could work as a shield said something in his native language which the one with the horns on her head translated. "Embo says you're acting like a rabid animal. You're out of control. You continue like this; you'll never be able to face your brother in the next life." Sugi said.
"Then what am I suppose to do? I can't let that bastard get away with all the people he murdered!" Velvet demanded, finally letting the tears she held back for so long fall. Robert than just walked up to her and looked at her. "For starters, you can ask for help." He answered.
Velvet looked up. "I know, last time I helped you I got a slap on the face for it. But this time, I am here to help. The amount of armor and artillery is too much for a normal person. But not for the Freedom, its already too late to attack now, but come tomorrow morning, we attack. I'll take out the cannons, helicopters and tanks. Once they are eliminated, we can attack the base." He said. "Kincaid is yours, but I'll be right by your side. After all, intelligence suggests that Kincaid has one of these." He added, handing Velvet Dooku's lightsaber.
"All right, everybody get some rest, we need to be ready for tomorrow!" Mitchell instructed the others. By the time morning came, everybody was well rested and checked their weapons before Robert entered the Freedom again and powered up the armor. "I'll draw their fire and take out my objectives, everybody else prepare for battle. Sugi, Embo, Latts, Chewie, Serapis get ready for the fight of your lives." He instructed before rocketing into the air until he was high enough to alert the enemy SAM sites.
(Awake and Alive Starts)
Dozens of surface-to-air missiles flew towards the modified battle armor only to be shot down by the battle armors weapons. "Old tricks aren't going to work on me." Robert said before diving down towards the enemy forces. Firing his pulse laser at several enemy Hinds and Apache's, Robert soon switched his laser to blade mode just before he zoomed across at ground level, slicing the turrets of two tanks off completely. Pulling himself into a climb, he took aim with the armors .50 caliber machine gun and dived down again firing the machine gun in a strafing maneuver like those done in World War 2.
Multiple enemy soldiers were downed by the machine gun fire while trying to get a bead on the attacking enemy. When they saw that the attacker had landed and looked like a Gundam, they opened fire. Assault rifle, machine gun and submachine gun rounds peppered the attacker which didn't even stagger back. Instead, it brought its massive artillery to bear and fired at the enemy armor and artillery. Numerous enemy forces were wiped out before the Freedom charged forwards, its hand now admitting a bright blue blade. Unfazed by this, the PMC soldiers continued to open fire only too be taken out by the attackers bladed weapon.
"This one's for you Laphi." Robert said to himself and leapt onto the top of an enemy tank and plunged his blade into the vehicle, killing the crew before he turned his attention towards a few enemy helicopters that were preparing to take off. He switched to the Freedom's plasma cannons and fired, destroying two of the helicopters before he returned his focus to the enemy armor.
"Few tanks left. Got to make this quick." He stated. Firing all his weapons at once, the tanks were quickly reduced to burning wrecks before he turned back towards the helicopters. "EAT .50 CAL!" he shouted and fired his machine gun without even letting go of the trigger. A stream of .50 caliber rounds knocked out several enemy helicopters while the rest of them were damaged but still in the fight. Unfortunately for the pilots of these helicopters they were soon shot down by the Freedoms massive artillery. "Enemy support eliminated. Ghost Lead, give it too them." Robert said into his commlink before he ejected himself from the Battle Armor and landed on the ground with a thud. He soon found himself quickly surrounded by enemy units.
"Hand above your head, kid." One LMB soldier demanded. Robert did so, only to trick them and pushed the soldiers surrounding him back with the force. One nearby LMB soldier fired their rifle at the Lone Wolf, but he evaded and knocked the soldiers lights out with a strong punch to the face.
A squad of True Sons soldiers all armed with blaster rifles soon took aim and began to fire at Robert, prompting him to ignite his blue lightsaber and deflect the blaster bolts away from him. Some shots returned to hit the ones who fired while the rest were just sent away towards one of the buildings. He continued to block before he leapt into the air and landed in front of the enemy squad before slicing their weapons apart and pushing them back with the force.
More weapons fire was sent towards him once again forcing him onto the defensive. This time the attackers were battle droids so Robert didn't hold back and ignited his green saber which he then threw towards the droids slicing them to pieces. He didn't notice an enemy sniper had him lined up in their crosshairs, but fortunately for him, Mitchell did and downed the sniper before the Ghost Recon Leader and his allies arrived at Roberts location. "TAKE THEM DOWN!" Mitchell order.
(End Song)
"Any reason why you decided not to wear your armor when you wanted to go after your friend?" Nomad asked, downing several Artemis soldiers before ejecting his empty magazine and loading a fresh one into his TAR 21.
"Wanted to go back to the basics. Every time I use my armor, I feel like I'm taking a short cut!" Robert answered, blocking more blaster bolts away from his allies. "Sure, it's got shields, enhances my strength and magnetic weapon straps, but some times its good to just go back to the days before I built that thing!" he added, sheathing his blue saber and pulled out his 1911 firing .45 caliber slugs towards the enemy soldiers in rapid succession. A quick reload gave him eight more shots to fire, only to have his dad's handgun knocked out of his hand by a Commando Droid that managed to get the drop on him. The droid was quickly sliced in half before another Commando Droid attempted the same thing, only to be taken out by a round from Weaver's M14.
Looking back to his savior, Robert smiled, retrieved his handgun, holstered it, reignited his blue saber and leapt into the center of a large horde of battle droids. "Kids crazy, he'll get killed without the armor!" Toll shouted.
"He can handle it, he's more skilled than he seems. He's trained with Kota!" Barney assured his friend, blind firing his ACR and taking out a few hostiles. Machine Gun fire from Lincoln, 30K and Fixit kept the enemy units pinned down allowing the others to advance further up towards the building where Kincaid had dragged in his most recent victim from the night before.
Fury, Holt, Midas, Kozak and Ferguson broke from cover towards the area where the prisoners were being kept, used a few breaching torches too cut a hole in the fence keeping the prisoners secured and gestured for them to get to safety as the Lagoon hovered overhead. "Looks like Dutlas comes too our aide again." Sugi chuckled as Embo threw his helmet towards an LMB gunner, causing the gunner to miss their intended target allowing Sugi to down the enemy machine gunner with her carbine.
The Dynamic Class Freighters boarding ramp opened up and dropping from the sky were Revy, Rock, Shoda and Dutlas. Revy unholstered her 92SF's and fired as she fell from the sky taking out as many enemies as she could before Shoda followed suit with her own weapon, a pair of WESTAR 35 blaster pistols like those used by Bo and Death Watch.
Slowing their decent with their jetpacks, the Lagoon crew soon joined the fight with Revy charging towards the horde of droids with her pistols blazing. "LET'S DANCE THE JITTERBUG BABY!" she shouted, leaping over the horde of droids and soon stood back to back with Robert. "Sorry we're late, traffic was murder." She joked.
"Detail, details. Tell me its not just you guys that are joining the party?" Robert asked, pushing back a group of hostiles with a strong Force Push. Revy chuckled and pointed one of her pistols to the entrance of the base, where dozens of WLO-5 Speeder Tanks belonging to Hondo's gang crashed through the gate and soon joined the party. Following them was the Slave 1 firing its twin cannons at any aerial units that were coming in from Nevada to reinforce the base.
"THE CALVARY'S HERE!" Hondo shouted from one of the tanks, firing his new AKS-47 which he equipped with a whooping one-hundred round magazine and an under-folding stock. Following close behind was the Bad Batch and Delta Squad.
"HONDO YOU CRAZY BASTARD! YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOURSELF KILLED!" Robert shouted, reached out with the force, grabbed Hondo and pulled the pirate captain towards the horde of droids. "START SHOOTING!" he added. Hondo smiled and unleashed hell in the form of rounds from one of the greatest assault rifles ever built.
As the pirate captain flew over the heads of the attackers and enemies, Rock threw a couple of droid poppers towards the droids, short-circuiting a good portion of the battle droids followed by a well placed grenade from Scorch's anti-armor launcher from his rifle knocked out a few more droids followed by a barrage of machine gun fire from Wreckers M2 Browning. "CLEAR A PATH! WE'RE COMING THROUGH!" The large clone shouted as one of the pirate tanks spun around in a perfect 360-degree circle knocking down more droids while the PMC soldiers started to retreat. Seeing this, Velvet broke formation and ran towards the command building intent on getting her hands on the man who made three years of her life a living hell. She pasted a fallen RPG seven and its former owner along with two more rockets and saw her target. She was prepared to make her way towards the building when she looked back to see Robert, Revy and Hondo were getting pushed back by several Destroyer Droids.
Thinking about all the times Robert had been there for her and Laphi before his death. Velvet picked up the launcher and its rockets, took cover behind some sandbags, popped out of cover, aimed her launcher at the droids and fired. One 40mm rocket slammed into one of the destroyer droids taking out the other Destroyers before she loaded another rocket and fired her second shot at the droids. Her second shot missed and hit the communications tower, which toppled over and landed on the droids she was trying to destroy.
"Bastards!" she cursed and fired her last rocket. Her target was an LMB Humvee that Robert had missed. Just before the rocket hit her target, its direction was changed and instead of the enemy vehicle the rocket slammed into one of Hondo's tanks. The tanks entire crew was killed in the blast.
Everyone stopped firing and turned to see the murder himself, Billy Kincaid carrying the mutilated body of the prisoner he tortured during the night, or what was left of the person and his hand extended outwards. Strapped to the man's waist was lightsaber hilt. "So, the Lone Wolf has come to stop my playtime." Kincaid asked, throwing what was left of his victim too the ground. He then started to laugh. "If you kill me, no one will be able to see the wonderful smiles on those children's faces." He added.
Velvets blood began to boil at the mention of children, thinking about Laphi and the children she saw in the basement of the mansion. "You can use the force!?" Robert demanded, walking slowly towards the child killer.
Again, Kincaid laughed. "How do you think I was able to lure the children too me? A child's mind is much easier to manipulate when one uses the Force. I was approached by Sidious years ago and he discovered my connection to the force. He gave me a Sith Holocron and I have been studying it ever since. He also gave me a special job, hunt down those who are strong in the force and kill them. Sadly, the only one I could fine was the Crowe boy!" Kincaid explained. This was a mistake.
The moment she heard this declaration, Velvet threw down her guns, removed her helmet and gear and charged towards Kincaid, only to be stopped by the man much like she was with Anakin. "YOU KILLED LAPHI BECAUSE HE WAS CONNECTED TOO THE FORCE! I'LL MAKE YOU PAY YOU FAT BASTARD!" She roared. Her answer was being thrown back along the ground and hitting a nearby empty barrel which toppled over and revealed its contents, a mess of severed body parts.
The mere sight of this made Hondo want to fire his weapon at the murderer, but decided against it as Robert rushed forwards as Billy ignited his blood red lightsaber. "I remember your brother. He tried to resist, but I ended his life without any difficulties. Now, you get to join him in death." Kincaid gloated and prepared to bring his weapon down on Velvet. "I am going to enjoy this, it's simply amazing what powers from the other side of the universe can do. And now I can show you what I can do with those powers." He added.
Thankfully for Velvet, Robert leapt over the burning wreckage of one of the enemy tanks he destroyed with the Freedom and gave Kincaid a powerful force fueled kick to the chest, sending the child killer skidding back across the ground. "No one harms my friends." He declared.
"I remember you now, you're the coward who ran away when your friend needed you the most. Come back to finally end this game?" Kincaid demanded angrily.
"This is no game." Robert answered, igniting both his lightsabers while Velvet stood up and ignited Dooku's saber. "You're going to pay for what you did to Laphi!" Velvet added, gripping her saber tightly while the two of them waited for the messed-up man to make a move.
(Start Had Enough.)
Robert moved first too which Billy responded by sending a torrent of Force Lightning towards the Lone Wolf, which was blocked. Using this opportunity, Velvet leapt over her friends' shoulder and began to clash blades with Kincaid who was more than ready to give her a fight.
"I'm betting four hundred dollars that Crowe is going to get killed. What about you Mr. Ohnaka?" 30K asked the pirate captain. Hondo just chuckled. "I'm not betting anything. Those two will win, I know it." The pirate captain answered and continued to watch the on going fight.
Kincaid, unable to take on two opponents at once pressed a button on his gauntlet and coming out of the command center was no less than two dozen Magna Guards whose staffs were crackling with energy and marching directly towards the two.
"Only cowards fight with more allies." Robert said with disgust, blocking two enemy staff strikes before slicing the droids right down the middle. Velvet followed suit, stabbing one of the enemy droids in the chest before kicking the fallen droid's staff into the chest of another one.
"KINCAID!" She shouted and charged towards the murderer. "Damn it, Velvet you can't take him on your own, you can't fight someone who knows the force!" Robert stated parrying the attacks of two Magna Guards before slicing them up like they were a pizza. Despite this, there were still too many of them.
Thankfully, he didn't need to worry about them for much longer for arriving in an approaching LAAT was Kasumi, Anakin and Shaak Ti. All three landed on the ground and began to engage the remaining sixteen Magna Guards. "Leave these droids too us. Go help your friend." Anakin said, countering a strike from one Guard before destroying it.
"Your friend can't hold her own against someone like Kincaid. Give her some help." Shaak Ti added, countering a strike from another Magna Guard. "Your friend needs you, just like my Daughter needs you."
Hearing this, Robert left the others to deal with the droids and went to help Velvet. He was just in time as Kincaid clashed with Velvet once again before he got the upper hand and slashed Velvets left shoulder before pushing her back.
"So, it ends, time for you meet the same fate as your brother." Kincaid stated confidently. He was wrong for Robert blocked his opponents strike with his sabers while Velvet laid on the ground hurt. "Laphi wasn't meant to die. You killed the innocent and we, we are their avenging angels!" he roared and began to push back Kincaid with a series of attacks keeping the child killer on the defensive. "HOW MANY LIVES DID YOU TAKE BECAUSE OF THAT MOTHERFUCKER SIDIOUS!? DOZEN'S! GUYS LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK! THERE'S NO PLACE IN THIS UNIVERSE FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOU!" The Lone Wolf shouted before he finally was able to disarm Kincaid of his weapon and sliced the killers arms off.
(End Song)
Billy began to panic as Robert walked over to the now armless man, but instead of being killed by the Lone Wolf, Velvet charged the wounded enemy and stabbed him right through the heart, ending the life of Billy Kincaid. "That was for Laphi and everyone else you killed you bastard!" Velvet said before collapsing back into the arms of Robert.
"You did good Velvet. Now get some rest, you've earned it." Robert said as back arrived to secure the base while Hondo walked over to Kincaid's body and fired a full magazine into the body to make sure he was dead.
Damn it, it's taking me a bit longer than I want to get these chapters up. But at least this one is finished. Bet you guys were surprised to see Cad Bane make an appearance, I was honestly trying to figure out how to bring him in. I think I can successfully say that I did a good job bring him in.
Now, what do you want to see next? The 501st, 212th, Expendables, Ghost Recon and the Lone Wolf liberate a prison camp full of American military personal, bring in several American Legends of the Railroad being used like the Aurora in Metro Exodus, attacking a enemy airbase or the reunion between the McCall Brothers?
Which ever one gets the most attention while be next, but the trains will be included. Until next time, read and review. By the way HOW MANY OF YOU SAW THE NEW TRAILER FOR THE RISE OF SKYWALKER!? IT LOOKS AWESOME!