Sometimes I am thinking that the titles of my chapters might be giving you guys and girls the wrong impression of what the contents of the chapter show, do any of you feel that way.

I also want to clarify my last A/N about the VTOL's engines. Since I don't know what the type of engines the actual in game vehicle uses, I am going to give it the same engine that the T-16 uses, but it will keep its standard flight capabilities from the game but am going to give it and some of the Mechs a change in firepower, except for the missiles.

Kind of surprised that no one else had played the MechAssault games but me, but hey it's cool. Spartan 626, glad you enjoyed that I added the other four characters you gave me. I really appreciate the help you have given me.

Also, to answer your questions the Mech's and other vehicles will be a great asset in the battle to come but that won't be until after this or the next chapter, but as for the Robert and Ahsoka getting closer and closer to their feelings that will start but not just yet, the real showing of that will take place in the near future.

Anyways it's time for some Lone Wolf, Jedi and Clone Commando action. Disclaimers are the same as before so please enjoy.

Chapter 29: Terror in the Sewers

March 24th 2019 20BBY

Shili, Expansion Region

0530 hours

Normal point of view

The capture of Torvaar, while successful came with consequences. The moment Robert returned back to the base, General Mustha informed me that a recon squad of T-16 skyhoppers had reported a large movement of enemy forces ten miles west of the city had moved into the capital and were up to something. They never go the chance to explain the situation before they were shot down by several remaining Vultures that had been running recon of their own.

The pilots couldn't even fight back, not that they could. For it clear that the former Advisor had sabotaged the airspeeders cannons and left them unable to dogfight. It was also revealed that he sold all of the damaged tanks and artillery they had to the Black Sun for a hefty profit and he gave them and other pirate groups unlike the Lok Revenants the locations of the routes the merchant ships used when delivering cargo to Shili.

Knowing that it was a risk sending scouts into the capital to figure out what the droids were up too, Shaak Ti and Mustha decided to send in Delta Squad to investigate the reports along with Robert and Ahsoka. As Robert prepared for the recon mission, he couldn't help but think about what he learned about the new weapons.

While the VTOL's and Tanks were fully functional, the Mech's needed a lot of repairs and upgrades to the weapons systems and armor. Seven of the mech's were armed with earlier starship and armored vehicle machine guns from this galaxy. All were old and rusty and had to be replaced, the same thing went for the ones that had an autocannon like weapon.

On the plus side, some of the Mech's had anti-personal and medium laser cannons as well as Mass-Driver like Gauss Cannons. A few were armed with Particle Projector or PPC's and the larger of the two were armed with a powerful cannon that fired super-heated slugs which looked like Lava when fired and only a few were armed with flamethrowers.

The Togruta's called them Mech's, but each unit had a name and a class.

The Cougar, Puma, Uller, Kit Fox, Owen, Hackman, Corvus, and Raven mech's of the light class were ideal for hit and run guerilla attacks and recon. Six of them had a single large thruster mounted on the back of their armor allowing them to briefly 'fly' for short periods of time.

The Medium class mech's included the Uziel, Belial, Stiletto and Raptor. Like the six of the light class mech's they each had thrusters but had better armor and firepower then the light class mech's and were built for attacking enemy outposts or smaller bases.

The Heavy class consisted of the Catapult, Bowmen, Mad Cat, Timber Wolf, Thor, Loki, Summoner, Mad Dog, Vulture and Hellbringer. Only the Mad Cat, Timber Wolf, Mad Dog and Vulture lacked a thruster but had thick, thermally superconducting armor like the other mech's.

But the last class, Assault Class were more armed then all of the other classes combined. This class comprised of the Atlas, Prometheus, Blood Asp, Ragnarok, Ymir, Nova Cat, Wendigo and Star Adder. Unlike the other classes, the assault class mech's had no thrusters and were equipped with ray-shield generators like the separatist super tanks, but due to their heavier armor moved slower than the other mech's.

By the size of these weapons, it was clear that these tools of destruction were powered by a powerful engine that had no comparison to the Republic ATTE's and could level a city block with a single pull of the trigger and weighing in at over 90 tons they could crush an enemy tank just by walking over it.

The Rommel Tanks were armed with a double barrel heavy laser cannon which the driver could use like a sniper rifle with the right cover and either a single machine gun or anti-personal laser cannon like the mech's used which the Togruta's called pulse lasers. The tanks also featured a stealth generator like the Raptor, Raven, Kit Fox and Hackmen making them excellent choices to sneak around and flank the enemy without being seen. The down side was that the stealth systems required time to recharge. While the propulsion was not like that of the TX-130 tank.

The VTOL's were primarily used for combat support and had a top speed of nine hundred sixty mph/km in the air and was propelled by an ion-engine and was armed with two missile launchers mounted in each wing and a nose mounted single barreled pulse laser cannon with a high rate of fire. In addition, the aircraft could carry up to several pounds of bombs or be used as a tank lifter for the Rhommel. Not like the LAAT, it was both a gunship and CAS support vehicle.

But the most impressive unit of the arsenal was the Battle Armor. Operated by a single soldier and offering extra protection, this suit could fire numerous of plasma mortars to take out advancing enemy armor and infantry while its pulse laser would mop up the remaining enemy units. Combined with its thrusters and claw, it also made for an excellent way for one to gain a vantage point and rain hell down on the enemy.

One would almost compare them to Mobile Suits or Gundam's but without a face no one would get the comparison.

Every single mech and about half of the tanks and VTOL's needed extensive repairs and replacement weapons for the old ones. Upon completing his examination of the Machine Gun and Autocannon equipped mech's Gunner found that if the guns were fired, the weapons would either jam or be blow up and cripple the mech's firepower.

On the bright side, it was determined that the old rusty machine guns of this galaxy could be replaced and it was decided that the M3 machine guns they had would be added to the Puma, Uziel, Mad Cat, Owens, Raven, Bowman, Thor, Vulture and Blood Asp mechs while the Nova Cat would be given a 20mm Vulcan cannon. The Ragnarok, Ymir, Prometheus, Hellbringer, Star Adder and Wendigo would be given pulse lasers same for the Hackman. The Owens would be given a medium laser cannon and the VTOL's would be a M230 chain gun that the Expendables had salvaged from several wrecked Black Hawk and Apache helicopters from a job they did in Mongolia back in 2012 dealing with a drug and human trafficking organization, the Red Fang which they destroyed. Every autocannon equipped mech was to receive a M256 Rheinmetall 120mm smoothbore tank cannon.

When he returned with his aunt and uncles last year, he figured that they would need these weapons for future battles. He laughed at the thought but agreed with uncle. 'I should have remembered after all these years that I should never get in between Gunner with a weapon that makes a really big hit.' He thought to himself before sliding an EOTech red dot sight onto the TDI Vector smg he had chosen for the mission. Unlike the normal one, the magazine capacity was made to hold fifty .45ACP round magazine.

He then turned his attention to his Type 89 Howa assault rifle which he had equipped with a hybrid holographic/red dot sight, small red grip and a forty-two-round magazine. "All lubricated." He joked to himself. Along with his two 10mm Glock 20 handguns he had more than enough firepower to handle whatever the droids had waiting for them in the city. Each gun was also equipped with a suppressor.

Normally he would take his custom-built weapons, but he figured he would go back to the basics and save his bigger firepower for later, especially since Vaer and the other guys that Fenrir called had taken an interest in his worlds weapons and were being trained along with the Togruta's in the use of ballistic weaponry.

The only thing he hated was getting up so early. Normally he would be awake by eight or quarter of nine, but due to the fact the droids were planning something he had to make an exception to his rule.

He dozed off a few times during the journey to the city outskirts, but Ahsoka playful slapped him across the face waking him up and looking very unhappy. "Come on, I was trying to rest my eyes." Robert said annoyed. Ahsoka just giggled a bit and explained that he was starting to drool a bit.

"I hate it when that happens." Robert said embarrassed as the gunship touched down and the six-person team exited the gunship before it returned to base. "Alright, hears the plan." Boss said before he threw down a mobile holo-projector and appearing in front of them was a layout of the entire capital. "Our objective is to get to the city center. There is a communication tower that provides a good view of the city. That's our objective, the only problem is the droids have complete control of the city so going in the direct route is impossible and airdrop is out of the question considering the droids shot down the recon patrol." The leader of Delta Squad added.

"So, then what are our other options?" Ahsoka asked. "While the direct routes are off the table, the city's sewer system takes us right to the tower, but we can't be certain the droids haven't taken that into consideration and probably have forces down there." Fixer stated.

"So, that's a good thing, right?" Scorch asked. "He means, that no one has been down there and have comeback alive to tell the Togruta's." Sev chimed in. "So, the only way we can reach the objective is to use the sewers? Hope you guys can stand the smell of shit, cause it's going smell worse than yeasty dog ear." Robert said as he placed his helmet on and pulled the receiver of his Japanese rifle.

"No one ever said this was a clean job. So, let's get going." Boss said and the recon group followed. Robert was about to follow, when he thought something out of the corner of his eye. He saw nothing but felt like they were being watched. He didn't know he was right for another Probe Droid was racing back to the droid lines, having heard everything they talked about.

Roberts point of view

Dark, dirty, dangerous. Sewers are a good way to navigate a city undetected if you can stand the smell and the murky water. Sludge, shit and other crap were getting all over our respective armors. Sure, it can be cleaned off, but it's hard to get rid of the smell.

The only downside was that you never know what one might find in the sewers. Back on earth, rumors or actual proof of alligators being found in New York City sewers and other things being found in sewers across the world. But on a world like Shili, I doubt we would find anything like that.

Turning the corner, I scanned the area and found no signs of hostile forces. "No tango's in sight." I said as Three-Eight and the others went ahead and I followed suit. Ahsoka slowed down and walked alongside me. "So, you think those Mech's can turn the tide of the war?" she asked.

"I'm not sure. Given the current state of disrepair they were in I think they wouldn't make a difference. But if they are captured after we fix them up, then that will be something to worry about. We can't let them get their hands on them." I answered.

"Yeah, but…" Ahsoka began before she noticed that Delta Squad had stopped. "Something wrong boys?" she asked.

"We got contacts, Fixer's picked something up but we can't see them." Scorch said circling around with his blaster up. "I sense something." Ahsoka said igniting her sabers and looking around as well. I was about to say something when I noticed the glow of one of those terror droids that I encountered on Kiros. Quickly I slung my rifle over and pulled out my handguns and fired. "We got terror's coming in." I shouted as 10mm auto casings splashed into the water.

Delta squad fired their own weapons at the droids taking down several of them but more kept coming. "These guys aren't so tough." I heard Sev say. "Don't get cocky. These things are like Scraplets. Were there's one there's more of them. Don't let your guard down." I reminded the Delta sniper as I reloaded my handguns with newer clips.

Some of the droids were able to get close to us, but with her twin sabers Ahsoka sliced the droids into pieces leaving them in bits of scrap metal. As she finished off one droid another jumped at her, knocking her lightsabers from her hands and forced her into the water. The droid tried to attach itself to Ahsoka forcing her to try and push the thing off her.

Not wanting her to die, I fired two shots from both my handguns and knocked the droid off her and gunned down the other ones with the remainder of my handguns current clips. "Normally I would joke about not playing in the water, but now isn't the time for jokes." I said loading fresh clips into my handguns as over a dozen droids lunged at me. I threw my ancestors saber and sliced them completely in half sending their remains splashing into the murky water.

"I got no more hostiles on my motion tracker but keep your guard up no telling what else is down here." I said and pulled Ahsoka up to her feet, water dripping from her clothing. "I believe these belong to you." I said to her handing her lightsabers back to her.

"Thanks." She replied and took back her sabers. She then covered her nose. "I am so taking a shower when we get back." she said pinching her nose. "Sewers hide a lot of nasty stuff, but I didn't expect to find those terror droids down here." I said desperately trying to contain the laughter I had building up inside me from Ahsoka's little swim.

"Those things tried to drill us. We were lucky we had a Jedi and a Jedi/soldier with us, or we would be rotting down here." Sev said reconfiguring his rifle back to blaster mode. "Let's just hope we don't run into anymore of those clankers. Those scrapheaps are some nasty customers." I said speaking from personal experience.

Unfortunately, we weren't out of the woods yet. The further we went into the sewers we encountered more and more Terror Droids, each group larger than the last and each time we encountered them I had used three magazines from my Vector and Howa. 'Maybe I should have taken my custom weapons.' I thought to myself, checking my remaining ammo. I still had plenty of ammo left but anymore encounters would leave me with less more ammo.

"There's are exit." Scorch said pointing to a ladder that lead up to street level. "Sergeant, I suggest you go first." Three-Eight said. I nodded and climbed the ladder. Gently pushing the manhole cover off, I looked around and spotted a droid patrol leaving the area, looked back down to the others and nodded.

Once we on street level, we hustled to the communication building and made our way to the upper level of the building. The moment we arrived we took out our electrobinoculars and began to mark the enemy units.

"Looks these scrapheads are expecting a fight. I got eyes on a tank battalion coming into the city from the south and a Hailfire platoon right behind them." Ahsoka said.

"Got eyes on platoons of GAT's, AAT's, Hailfire's Tanks, Octuptarra's, HAG's and MTT's coming in from the west. Looks there were more forces than we thought." Fixer added. "Forget about those things. I just looked up into space and the enemy fleet just arrived." I inputted.

"He's right, they have a lot of firepower. I count six missile frigates, twenty-seven Banking Clan frigates, three light destroyers, six cruisers and over eighteen battleships." Boss added. Three times the strength the Japanese had for their attack on Pearl Harbor, only without the tankers and submarines.

Our thoughts were interrupted as a separatist shuttle landed in the city center just as the droids began to set up anti-air defenses. Stepping out of the shuttle was Dark Star and dressed in the same attire he wore on Rodia, Nute Gunray the viceroy of the Trade Federation and one of the leading supporters of the separatists.

"Great we got that slippery Neimoidian here now. Not to mention Dark Star." Sev said putting away his binoculars and was about to configure his rifle to sniper mode. "What the hell are you doing? You fire now, they will turn their attention on us and bring this whole building down. We need him alive." I remined the sniper of Delta Squad. "We got all the intel we needed, let's get out of here."

The others agreed and in no time at all we were back in the sewers. Unfortunately, the droids had entered the sewers so it wouldn't be a silent extraction. I unscrewed my Vector's suppressor and started scanning the area when something hit me from behind and reduced my shields strength down to about sixty-three percent.

I spun around and found nothing but still felt like something was nearby. I would have turned around and continued towards the extraction point put knew something was behind me and the second I turned I fired my Vector into the formally unseen enemy. The figure fell to the ground and that's when I noticed it wasn't a droid, but a human or another living being.

I was about to remove the figures helmet when more of the same figures decloaking, each with razor sharp talons and armor somewhat resembling the phase one clone armor. But the faceplate of their helmets resembled the face of Grievous. The one of them was about to attack, a blaster bolt nailed the attacker in the head. Turning around I saw that Fixer had blasted one of them and the other Delta's opened fire while Ahsoka used her sabers to block the shots from the figures stun blaster.

I smiled and once again raised my Vector and fired at one of the attackers, killing them before snapping my sights to another and killed that one. I then noticed that above us, dozens of terror droids were falling from the ceiling and I was forced to turn my attention towards them firing the remaining rounds of my sub machineguns current magazine destroying a dozen of them and was about to eject my spent magazine when one of the new assailants knocked me to the ground and tried to strangle me.

My Vector was knocked from my hands, so I pulled out one of my Glock 20's and fired an entire clip into the figures torso section killing it allowing me to kick the corpse off me. By the time I retrieved my Vector, the other attackers were dead. "Well that was unexpected." Scorch said.

Something didn't sit right with me, so I removed the helmet of one of the dead attackers and jumped back in shock at what I had discovered. "Um guys, I think you might want to see this." I called to the others.

Normal point of view

Delta squad and Ahsoka were taken aback by this just as much as Robert was. Underneath the helmet of the dead attacker was the face of a clone trooper. "What the?" Scorch said in surprise. "What did the separatists do to them?" Sev asked. Fixer than scanned the body and found a lot of performance enhancing drugs and cybernetic implants in their bodies. "Sirs, these men were turned into weapons. My best guess is that the trooper was a prisoner of war and was forced to become one of these things." Fixer concluded.

"I just can't believe the separatists would do something like this. I know Dooku had the goal of bringing the end of the republic and Jedi at the beginning of the war, but he wouldn't do something like this." Robert said in disbelief. "Whether Dooku was involved in this or not, the separatists have committed a war crime, on prisoners no less. Whoever organized this project will defiantly face a lot of jail time for this act." Ahsoka said.

Fixer had finished gathering the data, but the moment he did enemy droids had just arrived and began to attack them. "We gotta fall back. GO! GO! GO! GO!" Robert shouted firing his rifle in three-round bursts downing one droid after another.

For each droid he downed two more took its place and they just kept coming. "These bastards won't give up. I got seven Howa mags left. Glock's and Vector are a no go." Robert shouted loading a fresh magazine into his rifle before he took one of his droid poppers and lobbed it towards the droids.

The moment the droids began to get shocked by the grenade the group had nearly reached the exit. "We can't let those droids follow us back to the base. Odds are they already know its location so airlift is out of the question for now. Scorch, Fixer plant charges on the walls. We'll block the exit and keep the droids trapped down here for as long as possible." Boss ordered. Fixer and Scorch nodded and while Ahsoka and Robert held off the droids inside the sewers while Boss and Sev laid down covering fire from the sewer entrance. "Can we have some cover here?" Scorch asked as the two commandos began to set the charges.

(Ignited by TM Revolution begins)

The droids may have them outnumbered by the combined firepower of the delta's, Lone Wolf and Ahsoka's sabers prevented the droids from getting any closer to the others. Firing bursts from his Type 89, Robert downed one super battle droid, three B1s and two commandos before lobbing his last three droid poppers at the droids short-circuiting them and allowing Sev to mow them down with his blaster.

"You two done yet?" Robert asked as he loaded a fresh magazine into his rifle. "Just give us a few more seconds." Scorch shouted.

Ahsoka, having slashed apart two supers that got past her turned her attention to the other droids and saw that they just keep coming. "I think these tinnies need a push." Ahsoka said to Robert. Under his helmet, Robert smiled and with his friend set a double force push towards the droids, pushing them back and knocking them into the others or water. "We make a good team." Robert said to his friend.

"Charges are ready to blow. LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" Scorch shouted. "Agreed. Time to fallback." Robert said to Ahsoka and made it outside just in time as Boss detonated the charges, blowing the sewer entrance and trapping the droids inside.

(Song ends)

"Well at least they can't get out that way." Scorch said as the group made their way to the pick-up point.

By the time they arrived at the extraction point, the ground began to shake. "Earthquake?" Sev asked.

"No, there aren't any fault lines nearby that's something else." Fixer said. "And I think I know what it is. Let's get the hell out here." Robert added and boarded the gunship that arrived only moments ago just in time. Crashing through the tree's just as the gunship were several MTT's with tank escorts. Following behind them were over a dozen eight-and-a-half-meter tall twin legged walkers with a helmet like cockpit followed by eight twenty meter four legged walkers with a large section in the middle for troops, a flexible access tunnel leading to the cockpit. Underneath the cockpit were several cannons.

These were the prototypes stolen from the Republic and they were about to be used against the very army they were meant to be used by. No one knew that they would be facing a greater challenge than they thought they would be facing. The Battle of Shili was about to begin.

Second part done. More to go.

If you couldn't tell I modified the loadouts of each of the Mech's and removed their special defense mechanized for now, but I may include those later on. Same thing goes for the VTOL's and Tanks, but not for the battle armor, the latter of which may get an upgrade if you got an idea if the upgrade should be a different personal weapon like a machine gun let me know. Also, the terror droids and terror troopers from the force unleashed 2 are separatist weapons, the last one being a separatist biological weapon.

Which Mech should Robert use for the first time and should Ahsoka pilot one next chapter? I would like to hear what you guys have in mind. If you want to know the loadouts of each mech is, head to the Mech Assault Wiki sight and that should help you make your decision.

Next time, the battle begins and my version of a Hoth style battle will take place. Get ready to raise your flag. Until next time, please read and review.