So, I think I might have gone a little overboard with my last chapter. Having my character fight Epyon, Shredder and Megatron might have been on the overkill marker. I apologize if any of you thought that. I just wanted a few villains from other series to represent what Robert would have become. Looking back now I think I could have just used Megatron.

Anyway, last time Robert conquered his darkness and acquired the lightsaber belonging to Revan. The Expendables got some backup and are heading to link up with Shaak Ti and the reinforcements heading for Shili. Be prepared for another planet side dogfight and a song from one of the Gundam series.

Disclaimers are the same as before, enjoy.

Chapter 27: Return of the Wolf

March 23rd 2019 20BBY

Ehosiq Sector, Expansion Region

1032 hours

Normal point of view

The moment they dropped out of hyperspace the Mantis Transport and its fighter escorts were greeted by a large fleet of six Acclamator assault ships and three Venator Star Destroyers accompanied by six prototype EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigates.

In the cockpit of The Strike, Robert took a deep breath and opened up a secure comm channel. "Retribution, this Staff Sergeant Lehner of the 501st. Requesting clearance to land. Transmitting clearance code 8444-4449." Robert said into the comm channel.

A few seconds later a reply came over the channel. "Clearance code checks out, good to have you back kid. You and the Mantis are cleared to land. General Ti and Admiral Halberton are waiting for you on the bridge." A clone answered back to him. "Copy that, coming in for a landing." Robert responded as the Retributions central hanger doors slid open and the two ships were guided into the massive warship by the two of the cruisers six tractor beams.

Once the ships had landed and each individual exited their perspective ships and were surprised beyond belief. Checking all of the fighters and bombers along with the pilots were clones in phase one clone armor with bright orange stripes on their armor. All clones were given the newer phase two armor but surprisingly these clones still wore the original armor.

Robert was still puzzled by this when a clone commander with a kama and pauldron with the same paint scheme as the armor approached him with his helmet in his hands revealing his bald head with streaks of dyed red hair beginning to appear. "The General and Admiral are waiting for you all on the bridge. Please follow me." The commander said to the group and lead the group to the bridge after Robert had put his custom made spartan armor and attached his rifle and BFG to his back and placed his pistol into its holster.

"So, you're the Lone Wolf? Got to say, when we got word that you were accused of murder every one of us never believed it. We knew by your exploits that you were capable of such a crime. My name is Treadshot. I am the commander of the 639th legion, but we call ourselves Keeper Company." The clone said introducing himself.

"Keeper Company?" Robert said confused. "We're the only legion of clones bred for urban warfare, but our primary training is to handle the prevention of hostilities breaking out between us and civilians, a lot of innocent people tend to get caught in the crossfire sometimes. Another of our duties is search and destroy, we find a weapons cache belonging to individuals allied with the separatists we torch the weapons so they can't be used against us. I guess in a way we are kind of like the UN forces on your world." Treadshot explained.

"Yeah, but the name could use some work." Robert said chuckling as the group arrived on the bridge just as the fleet entered hyperspace for Shili. "General, Admiral I have brought the Lone Wolf and the others as requested sirs." Treadshot said saluting his superiors. "Thank you, commander." Halberton said and the clone dropped his hand to his side. "It's good to finally meet you after all this time. Though I wish the circumstances of your brief departure never occurred, I am proud to be able to finally serve alongside the republic's greatest warrior. Lewis Halberton, at your service." The admiral said extending his hand to Robert.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Robert said shaking the admirals hand. "Your bravery and willingness to protect those that cannot protect themselves. I admire that." Halberton said. "Now then let's bring you up to speed on the situation." Shaak Ti added and pressed a button on the Holoprojector and a projection of the planet was brought up.

"The Separatists had an advanced invasion force on the planet. Bombers, fighters, tanks and several dozen droid dispensers. They were more than prepared to invade the planet. Our best guess is that someone on in the Shilian government had given the separatists access to land their forces on the planet." Halberton explained and brought up the data Delta Squad had sent them.

"According to the intel sent to us from the Delta's, the separatist forces arrived on cargo freighters belonging to the Trade Federation marked as relief supplies. From what we're able to understand, someone has been hording food and medical supplies for themselves instead of distributing it to the people." Shaak added as Lee and the others arrived on the bridge.

"Sounds like someone was getting a little too greedy for their own good." Melissa said as she stepped onto the bridge. "Melissa Riley and Dustin Reed, ex-Canadian special forces, veterans of the present-day Afghan war and both certified trained pilots." Robert said before turning to Faye and Max. "Aunt Faye and Uncle Max. Sniper and akimbo members of the Expendables and my other aunts and uncles." Robert said as he walked over Dustin walked over held up his hand. "It's been a while, hasn't it?" Robert asked.

"It's been nine years since your mom's funeral and you still look like you could pull a whole freight train with that armor of yours." Dustin said and grabbed Roberts hand and high-fived his nephew. "You should have visited us more, it's always nice seeing you." Dustin said as Melissa came up behind him and looked at Roberts armor. "You look like a real spartan. Who and when did you build this armor?" She asked.

"Tell you later. Admiral what else did the Delta's find?" Robert asked, turning towards the young admiral. "Delta Squad also learned that Gunray himself is personally leading the coming invasion. They have also reported that the H'ranni M'Kai, the Shilian Royal guard has already evacuated the capital, Corvala and the only ones remaining are the Princess, her advisor and her personal bodyguards." Halberton said.

The mentioning of the Princess caused Ranas to look up in concern. "Zaa hasn't evacuated yet?" Ahsoka's brother asked in surprise. "She always did value the lives of her people more than herself." He said. "I take it you know the Princess very well?" Ahsoka asked. "She's my girlfriend and I am her personal bodyguard. As a member of the H'ranni M'Kai, I was ordered by our leader to seek out intelligence in regards to an impending attack by the separatists." Ranas explained.

"You lucky son of a bitch." Dustin said. "You scored big time." He joked playfully smacking Ahsoka's brother on the back of the head. "Uh…thanks?" Ranas said confused.

"Okay, so what kind of firepower does the Shilian army and royal guard have?" Robert asked.

Roberts point of view

Ranas explained to us that aside from blasters, the royal army and guard of his home world also used vibro-swords and vibro-axes. Most of the army had little training in heavy weapons and they only had a handful of repeating blasters like the LS-150 Heavy ACP Repeaters, T21's, and other weapons like the Trandoshan ACP repeater guns and ACP Scatter Guns. In addition, they had only about two dozen PLX-1 and RPS-6 rocket launchers for handling enemy armor. Combined with the blasters bought by the government and owned by individual citizens, they didn't have enough firepower to deal with a planet wide invasion.

The Togruta's had no tanks, but they had a large air force compromised of HH-87 Star hopper fighters, Z-95 headhunters, Cutlass-9 patrol fighters and Velker Starfighters/Airspeeders. The standard Z-95 could act as both a fighter and bomber but could only carry up to four bombs. In addition, they were also given prototypes of the G1-M4-C Dunelizard fighters for the royal air-force. They even had over close to a hundred old Aurek-Class Tactical Starfighters from the days of Revan and the wars of his time. From what Ranas said, the military and royal guard had requested funds to upgrade their arsenal and acquire two dozen AAC-1 speeder tanks, but the request failed to make it to the king and queen prior to the events of Kiros.

From what Ahsoka's brother said, Tovrarr had promised to put the request to the rulers when they returned, but something felt off. An advisor would have informed his superiors about the situation, who would be able to make requests for better military equipment and yet, only the royal guard had better firepower than the standard army. Their air-force was more powerful but their infantry was lightly armed like the Japanese military during world war 2.

Shaking my mind off the thoughts I went back to my work on the Angel. Since I left it back on Coruscant, it was flown by Barney on a few recon missions he was given by Tarkin nonetheless and had taken quite a beating. The scorch marks on the hull and the damage the engines had sustained wasn't minor or heavy, but somehow, he was ambushed by MagnaGuard fighters.

I wanted to think Tarkin was the traitor, but I still lacked the proof I needed and considered the possibility that Ozzel and Tarkin were in on it. It still amazed me that someone with such low disregard for the lives of his subordinates would have a position of captain.

"You feel the traitor is closer than you think, don't you?" a voice called from behind, causing me to turn around and pull my pistol out. When I saw it was Halberton I relaxed my body. "Now, now I didn't mean to startle you sergeant, I just came here to chat. Is this your fighter?" Halberton asked pointing to the Angel.

"Yes. Well originally it was General Skywalker's fighter but when I finished my flight training he gave it to me." I said, returning my pistol to its holster. "I heard about Skywalker's first starfighter. He modified the older Delta 7 fighter and gave it greater firepower. Four laser cannons, two on each wing tip and a proton torpedo launcher carrying sixteen torpedoes'. I heard the two of you modified it to carry ninety-six torpedo's and concussion missiles and is the only fighter that can launch General Jensen's blood-hound missiles." Halberton said finishing the sentence I was going to say.

"I take it you can hold your own in a dogfight?" I asked the admiral. "Yes. In fact, the first time I flew a starfighter was when I was seventeen years old. It was during one of my last practice flights at the academy, my squadron and I were ambushed by several squadrons of mercenary Droid Starfighters that managed to sneak onto Naboo attacked Theed." Halberton said and began to tell me of his first dogfight.

"Most of Bravo Squad were conducting a deep space recon mission and most of us were still inexperienced rookies. A lot of my squad mates panicked and were shot down. Quickly I rallied the survivors and made contact with the city and got them to start evacuating civilians while the rest of us engaged the enemy." The admiral began, I just sat on the hull of my fighter and listened.

"The droids outnumbered us a hundred to one and with every ship we shot down, more emerged from the forest and shot down more of my allies. Unlike the others I kept a clear head and was able to shot down most of the attackers and save a few of the others. However, many of the fighters were able to get through and had begun to attack the city. A lot of people would have died had Senator Amidala not been able to rally couple other pilots and helped push the enemy back. I even saved her life." Halberton added.

"By the time the battle was over, dozens of civilians were killed and most of my fellow cadets were killed and only a handful of us remained but the skills I demonstrated that day got me into the Fighter Corps and I was assigned as one of the escorts for the senator when she made her trips to Coruscant and other worlds like Alderaan. When the war started, I left the corps and joined the republic navy. I wanted to do my part and serve the republic. I quickly climbed the ranks and proved myself a capable leader a superior pilot on level with any clone pilots. Even as an Admiral I feel a certain level of nostalgic when looking at a fighter." He added, grabbing a welding torch from the tool box and removed the top of his uniform revealing a white shirt.

"I am also a pretty good mechanic and it looks like you could use some help fixing this old girl up." He stated. "Well then, lets fix this bird up. I have a feeling that the moment we arrive on Shili, we are going to be involved in some pretty intense fighting." I said.

I had a feeling I was right and I am never wrong. "You know, I always thought I killed the one who saved me from becoming a living weapon, but now I know he is alive. I just wish I could have helped my friend." I said sadly. Halberton than put his hand on my shoulder. "Your aunt told me about Velvet. I am sure she doesn't hold anything against you." he assured me. "Thank you, Admiral. Now why don't you work on the upper hull and I'll peak under the angel's skirt and see what needs fixing." I joked and the two of us laughed.

Normal point of view

Watching the two fixing up the angel with his back leaned up against the wall, Cassie smiled. "Looks like he's back to his old self. Well done Robert. Well done." Cassie said to herself and proceeded towards the Retributions armory.

As she walked through the corridors of the ship, she noticed that each of the troopers like Treadshot, had their head shaved and a small bacta patch on their heads. "Must have gotten shrapnel or something in their heads and had it removed." Cassie said before noticing Keeli himself walking towards the armory. "Keeli?" Cassie asked.

"How do you know my name?" the Captain asked. "You remember my nephew. The guy you fished out of the river on Ryloth? I'm his Aunt." Cassie said. the captain put the pieces together and then it hit him. "You're the aunt of the Lone Wolf? How's the kid doing?" the clone asked. "He's doing good. Had a rough go since Ryloth but he is doing good. How did you get assigned to this outfit?" Cassie asked. Keeli than explained that after Ryloth, then Captain Halberton ordered that he and Ratchet were transferred to Keeper company after their ordeal on Ryloth.

"Ever since that day, Ratchet and I have been wondering where the kid was, but all of our requests for his whereabouts were denied. Something about us not having clearance about the Republic's newest secret weapon or something like that." Keeli said as the two entered the armory where the rest of the Expendables were checking their equipment with Ranas.

"Since the army isn't fully prepared for the coming droid invasion, we're going to have to give them a crash course in firearms training. M16 models, AK models, G3 models and other weapons from earth. Might be primitive compared to blasters, but these weapons get the job done. But we might have to bust out the 30-06 machine guns, something tells me this is going to be one hell of a fight." Dustin said, cleaning the barrels of his PP2000's.

"30-06 isn't as powerful as the .50BMG or 20mm rounds, but we don't exactly have much of a choice. My love is right." Melissa said agreeing with her boyfriend. "It would make be better if we had some M1 Abrams tanks with us. For all we know, those prototype walkers the enemy stole last year will be on the planet. 105 and 120mm shells are pretty powerful against enemy armor, might be the same against AAT's and GAT's." she added taking apart her SCAR-H and putting it back together in no-less than three minutes.

"Unfortunately, you guys don't have that kind of firepower. But I heard that the weapons that are on my home may have similar firepower to what you guys are talking about, maybe even 20 and 30mm cannons. But I can't be certain since I haven't seen them." Ranas said as he picked up a pair of Browning Hi-Power pistols and looked at them. "I think I can use these." He said and pointed them like he was aiming at a battle droid. "You left the safety on." Lee said and grabbed both pistols from Ahsoka's brother. "Come on, let's get you some practice with these pieces." He said and guided Ranas to the firing range.

As this was going on, Ahsoka and Barriss had finished giving their report about the events that occurred on Takodana. "Pleased we are, to have the Lone Wolf back and even more pleased to hear that recovered the Lightsaber of Revan has been." Yoda said.

"He may have dealt with his current predicament, but he will have to deal with Captain Tarkin. He is still under the impression that Sergeant Lehner is guilty of murder and will no doubt still believe this." Anakin said. "We may have gotten the bounty off his head, but that isn't going to stop Tarkin. He will want Robert arrested."

"Well, we know the truth and so does Robert. All we can do is keep Tarkin from moving with his plan against the boy." Obi-Wan added.

"But the evidence has proven he wasn't the murderer and the fingerprints on the gun planted." Ahsoka said in protest. "We know that little soka. But Tarkin will not take our word about the matter. All we can do is hope that the sergeant can handle himself professionally when he confronts the captain again." Plo said. The rest of the council agreed and soon they were joined by Boss and his squad's advisor. "General's we have a complication." Advisor said with urgency. "Go ahead sergeant." Barney said.

"Fixer just detected a recent enemy transmission to someone in the palace and Gunray himself. It appears that the Viceroy will be handling the invasion personally like Tambor did on Ryloth. We weren't able to identify the individual in the palace, but it appears the enemy fleet that is heading towards Shili is four times the size of the Japanese fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor on earth, am I right about that General Ross?" Boss asked the Fitchburg native.

"Yeah, that's right. If the enemy is bringing that much firepower to take a planet just to get some weapons than the current forces we have won't be enough." Barney said just as the fleet dropped out of hyperspace and in front of them was the Togruta home world.

"The general of the Shilian army has been in contact with the Lok Revenants and they have agreed to provide assistance if it means dealing a blow to the trade federation so they are already here. But it appears that the enemy had several more bomber and tank squadrons then we thought. We linked up with the royal army and guard seven miles from the capital and they're setting up defenses, but it…" Boss said before the transmission soon became garbled and the hologram of the Commando leader began to flicker. "We losing your signal. Be advised, we are over the planet now. Send us the coordinates and we'll get to your position asap." Barney said just as the hologram vanished.

"We got the location." A clone officer shouted to Barney. "We better get to work. Skywalker, contact General Kota and see if he can get here ahead of schedule." Barney shouted before pressing a button and his voice came over the ships loud speaker. "All pilots get to your ships we are going to battle protocol. All troopers report to your stations and prepare for landing procedures." Barney's voice called over the loud speaker.

On all of the Venator's, technicians and engineers finished making the last repairs to the ARC's, Headhunters and Y-Wings for the upcoming battle. One technician lost his footing and slipped off a Y-Wing after fixing one of its engines which was leaking fuel. The technician would have hurt his back, had Halberton not caught him. "How many times do I have to tell you Zip, be more careful when making repairs." Halberton said to the technician. "Sorry about that Admiral. Zug was working on that ARC over there and we needed this bomber ready for battle." The technician said responding.

"We don't need bombers, not yet anyways. Our top priority are the fighters, we can worry about the bombers later." Robert said as he walked over and the technician saluted. "At ease. You have a point Zug. Get everyone who has finished fixing up the fighters and get these bombers ready for battle. They aren't just bombers but fighters as well."

The technician saluted and gathered the others who had finished the fighters they were working on and began to work on the bombers. "Admiral, I need you on the bridge. You know how to operate a ship this size and I don't. The men trust you and I need to be in the air." Robert said. "Understood, Sergeant. Just come back alive, I have a feeling that someone will be waiting for you." the young admiral said and headed for the lift.

'Could he have been talking about Ahsoka? I mean sure she is cute, but she is a Jedi and I am a soldier. Not to mention it's against the code for her to fall in love, but then again Barriss has fallen for Erik.' Robert thought as he made his way to his fighter and saw Barney and the other original Expendables hop into the cockpits of their own ARC's.

Like Barney's they were equipped with two wing tipped light laser cannons above the medium cannons, a nose mounted heavy ion-cannon, twenty-four proton torpedoes' and had the fighters astro-droid control the rear gun and other systems along with its normal duties.

They were also named after the Gundams from Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny. Gunner's was called the Buster, Lincolns the Duel, Ray's the Aegis, Billy's the Justice, Lee's the Blitz, Caesar's the Impulse and Cassie's Freedom, each of which had their own customized nose art and the paint job of the Gundams themselves.

'They may not be mobile suits, but I feel like I am fighting alongside a Gundam.' Robert said to himself as he climbed into the cockpit of his own fighter. "Sergeant, we just picked up a transmission. It appears that the Princess's transport is under attack by enemy fighters. They're trying to get her to surrender. Her fighter escorts have been almost destroyed and Lok Revenant fighters won't make it in time." Shaak Ti said to him over the commlink. "We cannot let her ship be destroyed. Red Squad, Commander's Bralor, Valcara, Padawan Tano, your aunt and uncles are the only fighters ready for takeoff, I need you to protect the ship and escort them to these coordinates.' She added and sent the coordinates to Robert's navi-computer.

"Understood General. All right boys, we got our objective." Robert said as the fighters maneuvered into the main hanger as the central doors opened. "Let's kick the tires and light the fires. Red Squad, LETS ROCKET!" he exclaimed and kicked his engines to maximum and exited the hanger with his squad right behind him.

"Gundam Force, launching!" Barney shouted following his Nephew as well.

"Blue Leader taking off." Ahsoka said as she followed her allies with Swoop and Kickback along with her new pilots, Skywarp, Thrust, Ramjet, Dirge, Vet and Beast followed suit.

"Gruesome twosome, taking off." Fenrir said as he took off in his customized Z-95 headhunter with Erik right behind him in a customized ARC-170 like the Expendables but without the heavy ion-cannon and equipped with four wing-tipped light laser cannons mounted above the standard medium cannons, carried thirty-six concussion missiles instead of proton torpedoes' and like the Strike had the rear gun and the other systems operated by S6. Ranas also followed the others in his own Z-95 headhunter.

As the cruisers and frigates began their descent, the ARC-170s locked their s-foils into attack position and formed up into squads of five each with either a General or Commander leading the squads. "All right, keep your eyes peeled for a CR70 transport, that's the model of corvette the royal family uses." Ranas said to the others. "They have a CR90, but that is used for long distance travels when the possibility of hostilities is certain." He added.

"Hang on, I got a transmission coming in." Maverick said and broadcasted the transmission to the other pilots. "MAYDAY, this the royal ship Destiny. We are under attack by separatist fighters, they came out of nowhere. We lost half of our fighter escort and our shields are almost depleted we need immediate assistance. Our location is…" a voice over the commlink said before it was cut off.

"I got a fix on their location, we're not far from them." Red two called out. "Understood. All pilots prepare for combat, we're going in." Robert said and the thirty fighters zoomed towards the ongoing battle.

At that very moment, on the bridge of the Destiny in dark green Togruta armor with features similar to Mandalorian female armor, princess Zaa Vashee watched as laser fire flew over the cockpit as an Aurek fighter flew by spinning out of control before exploding into flaming wreckage. "We have four fighters left. Your highness, you and advisor Nirnii should get to the escape pods. Your safety is far more important than ours." The pilot said to the princess.

"I will not abandon my people when they are dying to protect me. Increase engines to full power and get us out of here. Tell the pilots to get to the base and link up with the Revenants." She said as the ship shock violently. "Our shields are down. We won't last much longer." The pilot said. "Captain, look." The copilot said as four vultures were approaching them head on.

For a moment, it seemed that they were doomed but at the last second all four vultures were destroyed. "Destiny, this the Lone Wolf of the republic army. We got your back, tell your escorts to stay close to the ship. Leave the boogies to us." Roberts voice came over the commlink.

"New contacts, thirty of them. It's the Republic." The captain said as the entire crew sighed with relief. "I'd knew they would arrive." The princess said.

"Red leader to all pilots. Engage those fighters but protect the corvette, don't stray to far from the ship or else the parents of the princess will hate our guts." Robert called out to the others. A chorus of 'Yes sir's' was followed as Robert pulled out his I-pod and pressed the play button.

(MSGS OP 1 begins)

Out of the corner of his eye, Robert spotted another pair of vultures heading for the ship. "Two coming bandits coming from 3o'clock high. Erik, move to intercept." Robert said to Barriss's boyfriend. He watched as Erik's ARC veered hard right and moved to intercept the enemy fighters before Robert spotted a pair of T.I.E's coming from the surface below. "These guys must be coming from somewhere." Robert said to himself before firing two missiles at the approaching fighters destroying both of them before spotting a larger group of Scarab fighters approaching the Destiny from 6o'clock low.

"These bastards are coming from the surface so they must have a base somewhere close by. Red Leader to all pilots, protect the Princesses ship I'm going to hit these bastards where it hurts." Robert called over the comm's and fired twelve more missiles at the approaching Scarabs before veering away towards the direction the enemy fighters had come from.

Too his horror, Robert found that the separatists had destroyed an entire town and build an airfield amongst the ruins of the town. "Bastards, they wrecked a town just to build a damn airbase. They may be droids but I hate it when someone does something like this." Robert cursed before spotting a couple of pairs of idle TF bombers being loaded with proton bombs. "If those bombers hit the Destiny, then its game over man. R4, give me a targeting solution for all ground-based targets and prepare to fire remaining concussion missiles." Robert said to his copilot.

R4 beeped and within seconds eighty-four targets were marked and the firing solution was ready. "This is for the people whose homes you have destroyed you metal-heads." Robert said and pressed the trigger. All of his remaining missiles rocketed towards their targets, catching the droids off-guard and gave Robert the chance to go in for a strafing run.

Fuel tanks exploded, bombs detonated and fighters were destroyed as the Angel roared in, firing its four cannons at the fighters that weren't targeted by the missiles, destroying them. "That should be enough damage. Time to get back to the others." Robert said, pulling his fighter into a tight right turn and sped back towards the Destiny.

Ahsoka had downed two T.I.E's and was about to target a third before she spotted a group of Tri-fighters making a run for the ships engines. "I don't think so tinnies." She said before firing her dual cannons downing the enemy fighters before she was hit by cannon fire from the third T.I.E. which had gotten on her six. "Damn fighter." She cursed, cutting her engines and letting the fighter fly past her before downing it with a burst of cannon fire.

"Blue leader to blue squad, stick close to the Destiny. The enemy was going for the engines and with its shields down it would have been an easy kill." Ahsoka called to her squad as Fenrir and Erik flew past her with five vultures on their tail.

"We got to split them up Fenrir." Erik said over the commlink. "Roger that. You take left, I take right." Fenrir replied and the two pilots split up. Three of the enemy vultures went after Erik while the remaining two went after Fenrir. Cannon fire roared past the Mandalorian's cockpit as he banked right just in time to avoid getting hit. Erik than called out that his enemy fighters were all over him and his shields were down. "Erik, lets as Robert calls it 'play chicken' with these droid bastards." Fenrir said and turned his fighter towards Erik's position. As they got closer and close to each other, the two bounty hunters pulled a left turn just in time, their pursuers colliding into one another. "And you said such a maneuver was risky." Erik joked before the two leveled out and regrouped with the others.

(OP ends)

As the two linked up with the others, their radars beeped as. Looking ahead they spotted one hundred enemy fighters approaching them at top speed. "Not good." Erik said.

Suddenly all one hundred fighters were destroyed and soaring over head was the Angel. "Red Leader to all fighters. Coming over you now. Skies are clear, lets get these people to safety." Robert said over the comm and all fighters formed a defensive perimeter around the Destiny and were soon joined by a flight of Togruta Z-95's and followed them to the base. "Lone Wolf to Retribution. We've linked up with the royal guard and are proceeding to the base now. Sending coordinates. Be advised, the enemy set up an airfield in a destroyed down, but they suffered a crippling blow. They shouldn't bother you guys." Robert said before he watched the last few enemy fighters fall to the ground exploding. "Halle-fucking-lujah." He said before following the royal ship.

Inside the ship however, a certain sellout was mentally kicking himself for his failure.

Nice comeback chapter, right?

The 639th comes from .5851 story "The Order Redeems" and the H'ranni M'Kai comes from several stories by norik956. Special thanks go out to them for allowing me to use their ideas for this.

Next time, the Republic begins to set up a defense and the traitor to the people of Shili is revealed. What are the weapons the separatists are hopping to acquire and will our heroes be able to save the planet? Stay tuned and find out.

Also, my poll is related to Gundam franchise so please put your votes down.