Only a few more chapters to go before we reach the part you all have been dying to see. I can assure all of you that want my character to really give it to Tarkin you are going to get your wish, but he won't be killed.

Can't believe I have reached thirty chapters for a story. Hope I can keep this going for my next stories. Also, for those who are wishing for me to use the episodes of clone wars season seven, I am sorry to say that I have the whole series planned out and seventh season episodes won't be included.

However, I can assure you that the battle of Mandalore will occur earlier and the Bad Batch will be appearing. Hope you can all forgive me. Disclaimers are the same as before, please enjoy.

Chapter 31: Hero of the Togruta's

March 24th 2019 20BBY

1800 hours

Shili, Royal palace

Normal point of view

Saying that Gunray was furious would be an understatement.

He planned for a swift decisive victory against the Togruta's and would force the princess to sign a treaty making her world a member of the separatist alliance and turning the rulership of Shili to Tovraar Nirnni, the royal advisor whose family was once the ruling power of the planet, who would then marry the princess thereby becoming the new king and restore the Togruta people to their former glory.

Unfortunately, the advisor was discovered and captured before he could signal the viceroy to begin the invasion and was forced to arrive after the republic advance forces arrived. The droids outnumbered the Togruta's, Lok Revenants and republic forces in terms of tanks, walkers, fighters and infantry. It should have been an easy victory, but too his dismay the defenders had dug in and had repaired a few of the mechs they were sent to acquire.

But his greater concern was the fact that the Lone Wolf was present during the initial battle and with the mechs he used decimated the initial forces destroying over fifty percent of the attack. Even with the walkers they had stolen and the spider mech Nirnni had activated before his capture, the attack failed and the remaining droids were forced to pull back.

'I was assured by Lord Sidious that our spy had taken the appropriate actions and framed the child for murder. It appears that it had failed, that spy of ours is a coward and will be found out sooner or later and when they are discovered, our secondary advantage will be lost.' Gunray thought to himself as Dark Star entered the throne room.

"Our droid forces are ready for another assault. The reinforcements that were sent haven't arrived yet. Those Lok Revenants have intercepted them and forced them to retreat. I have contacted command and they have authorized the use of the defoliator's. Those weapons proved effective against the nightsisters and are more than effective against organic targets." Dark Star stated to the Viceroy.

"And the civilians?" Gunray asked. "They have been placed in a prison far from the battle. Should I feel the need, I will have our forces execute them. The people will suffer for the actions of the resistance. All I need is your approval." Dark Star stated.

While Dark Star and Gunray were discussing their current situation, the republic reinforcements had just taken off from Coruscant and were preparing to jump to hyperspace. On the bridge of the Resolute II, Anakin sighed with annoyance. Prior to leaving the capital, the Chancellor had sent Tarkin to accompany the reinforcements and was assigned three platoons of Coruscant shock troops with the goal of arresting Robert.

Despite being shown the evidence, Tarkin was dead set on arresting the Lone Wolf, believing that it was a 'cover up' by the Jedi council and the rest of the military command that knew Robert well. Regardless, he assured the chancellor and the Jedi that the platoons would be necessary if the Lone Wolf proved to be hostile. Try as he might, Anakin urged the chancellor to reconsider his decision but it was out of his hands.

He sighed again. Lately, Anakin had been starting to doubt the actions of Palpatine. During his early years at the temple he always considered the chancellor to be like his father, but after the incident with the Zillo beast and release of Dod, Card and Saam in what was called a 'mistrial' he had begun to doubt some of the Chancellors actions.

"You aren't too keen on having the captain joining us?" Breach asked as he walked on the bridge with Dutch and Blake behind him. "It's that obvious isn't it? Well you aren't wrong. Having Tarkin on board has caused a lot of distrust between the men and himself. He considers all of you expendable and I don't think I need to remind you about his views on us being military leaders." Anakin said to the three remaining Kilo squad troopers.

"He can say whatever he wants, he isn't going to arrest Robert. He has been shown the evidence but claims it to be fabricated. Breaker wouldn't do that and Stone said that he ordered all of the platoons not to arrest the Sergeant until we hear his side of the story. Innocent until proven guilty, that's how the law works." Breach said with determination.

"I agree Breach. Somethings really wrong, I have a feeling that the spies in the military and senate are behind this. But until we have conclusive evidence we need to be cautious." Anakin said as the massive fleet entered hyperspace.

Back on Shili night came fast. Lights from the DDT's moved along the road with the platoons accompanying them. Their objective was to set up a firing position three miles from the enemy base out of the range of the republic artillery and launch their devastating payload on the trench lines weakening the defenses before the other forces moved in and secured it along with capturing the princess and liberating their ally.

From a hill, Aramna and noble team, along with Delta Squad, Rex, Ahsoka, Cassie, Barney, Mellissa, Dustin, Fenrir, Vaer, Lucia, Koylar, Garrod and Robert watched the tanks move along the road towards their destination. "It looks they plan to setup the tanks and fire at first dawn. By that time most of the defenders in the trenches will either be asleep or being relieved of duty. They won't have time to sound the alarm." Vaer said as he flipped op his rangefinder.

"Those cannons the droids have will wipe out the defenders in one shot. No one will survive." Cassie added, remembering what Rex had told her about the weapons.

"Looks like they maybe adopting a scorched earth policy, am I correct Sergeant?" Koylar asked Robert. "Not exactly, but anything in the blast radius of that weapon will be killed. We can't let even one of the tanks escape." Robert said turning back to the eight platoons of Togruta's and clones. Along with the captured E5 blasters, ACP's, DC15s and a few M16 and AK47 model rifles in the hands of the Togruta's each soldier also carried a PLX-1, RPS-6 or a MK153 rocket launcher with about six rockets each.

"Those droids will have to pass through a narrow gorge soon. They will only be able to move their tanks in a single file formation." Rex stated as he brought up a display of the terrain. "If we can block their exit from the gorge, we can ambush them and destroy the tanks before they can reach their destination." Ahsoka added. "Ahsoka's right. If we can cause a rockslide here" Robert began pointing towards the end of the gorge. "We can catch them off guard and treat them to a barrage of rockets."

"Sounds like a plan. Those tanks aren't as fast as the originals, I estimate we have about an hour and a half or less before they reach gorge." Aramna said in agreement. "Alright then, take your platoons to the gorge and setup position as close to the edge as possible, no point in letting the enemy catch onto are plan. Delta Squad, you're with me. We need to plant the charges on the wall and detonate at a safe distance as soon as the droids are in sight." Robert ordered. The platoons responded and soon they made their way to the gorge.

They reached the gorge without any complications and soon the team of clone commandos began to place the charges on the wall while the others moved into position. As the others carried out their orders, Robert couldn't help but think about Ahsoka when she confronted him after the first battle.

Flashback

"So, what was the whole 'tight ass' thing you said?" Ahsoka asked after she exited one of the bases refreshers to wash off the sewer stink. "It's just a little humor. Nothing wrong with that is there?" Robert asked back.

"No, just don't make a habit of it." Ahsoka told him as she left to change into some newer clothes.

End flashback

"Kind of wished I didn't say that." Robert said to himself as he scanned the area with his Morita before his commlink crackled. "All units are in position. The droids will be here shortly." Aramna called over the commlink just as Delta Squad had finished placing the charges. "Charges are armed and in place. We're heading topside." Robert responded as he and the commando's hooked their ascension cables onto the wall and began to climb up.

By the time they reached the top and regrouped with Aramna, Rex, Cassie and their group the DDT's had just arrived and were moving slower than usual. "Those defoliators must weigh over ten tons at the most. Nothing can go top speed with that much weight slowing it down." Robert chuckled, switching his BFG to launcher mode. This was the signal for the others to prep their launchers and wait for the charges to detonate.

"Launchers are locked and loaded." Barney called over the commlink. "Understood. Delta's commence the rock slide." Robert instructed the commandos. With one press of the detonators buttons the delta's detonated the charges and rocks began to fall to the gorge floor blocking the path of the droids. The moment the droids arrived, they stopped dead in their tracks and looked around for another way out of the gorge.

"Any sign of another way out of this place?" One droid asked another. "No, were stuck and its going to take time to go around the gorge." Another said before they heard the sound of a launcher firing and the tank they were standing near exploded.

"OPEN FIRE!" Aramna shouted and the task force fired a combine torrent of bullets, blaster bolts and rockets at the droids. One tank blew up and another droid squad was destroyed, however one of the DDT's was maneuvering into a position to fire its Defoliator at the units on the right but was soon destroyed by a blast from Roberts BFG destroying it and another squad. Loading a fresh power pack into his weapon, he switched his launcher to rifle mode and began to pick off a squad of droids one by one.

Try as they might, the droids were quickly destroyed and the last tank was about to make a run for it, but was disabled when Ahsoka landed on top of the tank and lobbed a droid popper into the tank. "That's one way to take out a tank." Robert said before turning to the others. "Gather their weapons and place charges on the intact defoliators, we can't let the droids salvage these monstrous weapons." The republic spartan shouted before turning his attention to Fixer who had found a tactical droid in the last tank. "Anything good?" Robert asked the Delta slicer. "Oh, there is a lot of good data and something scary, we better get this back to the generals. They're going to want a look at this." The Delta responded as Scorch ran over.

"Charges are placed on the defoliators. We'll detonate once we reached the maximum safe distance." The explosive expert of Delta Squad responded as several Gunships landed outside the gorge and soon took off the moment everyone was onboard. The moment they landed back at the base, Scorch detonated the charges and the weapons were destroyed. But what Fixer found, made everyone sick to their stomachs.

Roberts point of view

When we returned from our ambush of the DDT platoons, I didn't think that things were going to go from bad to worse. Boy was I wrong.

The following day we gathered in the bases command center, Me, Ahsoka, Vaer and his pals, Erik, Fenrir, Barriss, Noble team, General Mustha, Admiral Halberton, my aunts and uncles, Shaak Ti, Rex, Treadshot, Ranas and the princess.

It turns out amongst the data we retrieved, the droids had taken several towns hostage and placed them in internment camps under extreme guard and were ready to kill them the moment they received the orders from Gunray or Dark Star. Wars are fought by soldiers not civilians.

It didn't come to any surprise that the old advisor had given the droids the locations of the civilian convoys that were trying to escape and make their way to the mountains and the safety of base. Hidden in the data was also a transmission from Gunray himself.

He demanded that Princess Vashnee surrender herself and the republic forces to the separatists and appoint Torvaar as the new ruler of Shili and turn over the Ragnorak and Ymir over to him or face the consequences. To prove his point, Gunray had executed the entire population of one of the internment camps. Men, women and children were slaughtered needlessly just to prove his point.

He then stated that the princess had twenty-four hours to surrender or another camp would be slaughtered. I could tell he was bluffing. A recon flight over one of the internment camps showed that one of camps was indeed slaughtered, but the children were alive. We needed to get those people out of their and bring them to safety. The only problem was that we only knew the location of one of the camps.

Fortunately for us, Fixer had found the other three camps and found they were connected by a Maglev train system that led directly to the city. The tracks to the city were damaged, but the rest of the system was intact and the droids had been maintaining it ever since the advance forces had arrived.

"Securing a train is too risky. They will have every train well-guarded and if we fail then the civilians will pay the price." Mustha admitted sadly.

"No doubt they have the camps well-guarded and will be ready for anything we throw at them. Failing that, the civilians will also pay the price." Subaa added. Both were right, but I then remembered something from recon patrol. "The camps stay in touch by a massive comm relay located here in between all of the camps. If we knock that thing out, the droids will be cut off from each other and the capital." I stated, bringing up an image of the relay.

"That thing is going to take a lot of firepower to knock down and we don't know how many droids are guarding the thing. A couple of platoons or a few mechs could get the job done, but it would alert the droids to our presence." Treadshot stated.

"So, we don't use the mech's. A small team, me and Ahsoka can recon the tower and evaluate the enemy strength and then take it out. They will be expecting mech's but not the Battle Armor. Once we determine the strength of the tower guards, we'll knock out the tower and then liberate the camp with the children. Delta squad will take camp Bravo, The Expendables will take camp Charlie and Erik, Fenrir, Lucia, Vaer, Koylar, Garrod, Rex, Treadshot, Keeli, Barriss and Noble team will handle camp Alpha. No rockets or detonators, small arms and droid poppers only, we don't want civilian casualties." I stated and brought up the statistics of the Battle Armor as I left command center.

When I arrived at the hanger I gazed at the battle armor. To me, this thing was like a real Mobile Suit only smaller and armed with a single laser cannon and mortar. The claw was useful for climbing, but I had the techs modify the claw to switch into a normal hand and added a ten-inch cortosis blade for close combat and as a reminder of Velvet, she always used to practice non-lethal fighting with a knife to defend herself before she was arrested. The techs also made it self-adjusting so that anyone like a Togruta or Twi'lek could operate it.

Velvet, I kept thinking that I should have stayed back home and defended her. But I didn't. When this war ends, if it ends I had to go back and get her out of prison, the right way. After all it was because of her that I got into the Gundam series in the first place. And there's the fact she taught me how to dance, in the case I found a girl I loved, which I was beginning to think was Ahsoka.

After the events of Takodana, I felt like my feelings were playing tricks on me. Every time I saw her or was around her, I got goosebumps and felt all tingly. My heart was telling me that I should trust my feelings but at the same time I didn't want to give in to those feelings and risk having her leave the order because of me, since I am not an official Jedi and more on the lines of a Gray Jedi since I rarely relied on the force in combat and used my guns instead of my sabers, unless I was fighting someone like Dark Star or Grievous who wielded lightsabers.

My thoughts were interrupted when Ahsoka came up behind me and looked at the Battle Armor impressively. "Shame this is a one of a kind piece of equipment." She said standing beside me. "If we had more of these it would give us the edge in battle." She added.

"Yeah, but those Mandolorian's made were only able to make one of these things and the way they built this thing is probably lost to time." I said in agreement. "Still, even one of these things is powerful enough to handle a platoon or two of droids and tanks. Still could use a bit of work."

"Maybe, but once this battle is over I can imagine that either the top brass or Chancellor will want to begin developing more of these weapons." Max said as he joined us. "Normally that would be a good idea, but with the walkers the seppies stole from us I think it might be a good idea to keep these things a secret. The traitor might get their hands on either the plans or one of the mech's themselves." He added.

"I agree with General Payne." Treadshot said in agreement as he joined us. "Recently the men in the 639th have been growing to distrust the chancellor lately, sure he is our supreme commander, but a lot of his decisions haven't exactly been in the best of interests for the republic." He added.

I had to agree, I may not have known the guy when he first took office but the Chancellor hasn't exactly made some of the best choices. Lately it seemed that more and more of the powers of the senate have been taken away and being given to the Chancellor. If this keeps up, we may have to fight another war.

"Well whatever happens, we need to deal with the here and now. But I agree, we need to keep these things a secret and I think I have a plan but I am going to need your help Treadshot." I said to the commander.

Two hours later, Ahsoka and I were onboard Vaer and his groups VCX-100 freighter which they called 'The Preserver' after the Canderous Ordo the same Mandalorian that helped Revan, Bastila and Meetra during the days of the old republic. Armed with one dorsal mounted laser cannon turret, one nose mounted turret, one KS4 dorsal turret and two proton-torpedo launchers, their ship was a force to be reckoned with.

But perhaps the most surprising feature of the craft was that the rear turret was also a VCX auxiliary starfighter which they named 'Nemesis' which could detach from the ship and either engage enemy fighters or act as a shuttle and was armed with one MS-2B twin laser cannon mounted beneath the cockpit.

Both were equipped with class two hyperdrives and powerful shield generators. A perfect ship for a drop behind enemy lines. That was the plan. The comm relay was a few clicks from the drop point and the then we were to proceed to the relay and evaluate the relay's defenses and then destroy it. Ahsoka and I had enough explosives to level an entire bridge, a little overkill but the extra explosives were low grade and were to be used to blow the camps walls.

Unfortunately, it was determined that the BFG was too dangerous to use in close proximity of the camp. But for good measures, the Battle Armor was onboard and on standby in case the enemy presence at the camp was far greater than we anticipated.

By the time we reached the drop point, Ahsoka had a backpack full of explosives for the mission. "Get that comm relay down as quick as you can and then head for the camp. We'll have the Battle Armor ready by the time you call us." Lucia called over the commlink. "Rodger that, we're Oscar Mike." I responded and the two of us leapt off the ship and landed on the ground.

Detaching my Morita from my back I watched the Preserver head towards its destination as the sun began to rise. "Let's go." I said to Ahsoka and the two of us rushed towards the relay.

The moment we had the relay insight, Ahsoka took out her electro-binoculars and scanned the area. "Looks like the relay is lightly guarded. Only two platoons of droids, standard and super. There may be more but I can't see them from here." Ahsoka said. "Good thing I have this then." I said and released a small UAV drone. (A/N the one from Ghost Recon Wildlands) and sent it towards the relay. "Always be prepared, that's what I always say." I chuckled as the drone transmitted the visuals it was receiving directly to my HUD.

"You're right. There are more. Drone's got eyes on a pair B1 droid dispensers and one B2 dispenser. Nasty things, even when they run out of droids there still a real bitch." I said to Ahsoka.

"Any ideas?" she asked. "I got eyes on the comm relays power supply. The drone can deliver an EMP burst powerful enough to permanently disable the power supply, but the place may have a backup supply, so we're going to have to split up. You plant the charges and I'll handle the dispensers." I stated to my friend, who nodded and was about to move before I stopped her. "Here, take this. Sabers are good and all, but you don't want to be caught naked without a backup weapon." I said and handed her a MP7 with a Red dot sight, forty-round magazine and suppressor.

"I never used anything like this you know. You taught me how to use a handgun, but a submachine gun is another thing." Ahsoka reminded me. "I set the weapon to semi-auto, two-round bursts. 4.6x30mm rounds will take down a droid with only a few shots. Just hold it good and tight to your shoulder or the recoil will cause you to miss your target. Trust me I know what I am talking about." I said to her.

She nodded and I quickly screwed on the suppressor for my Morita and handed her the rest of the ammo I had brought. Once she had her ammo, she then split up and headed for the relay but maintained radio silence. Last thing we needed was to be caught like a cat burglar.

The moment I was directly below one of the relays catwalks, I heard Ahsoka tap her commlink, signaling she was in position. I tapped three times letting her know I heard her and we made our move. I pressed a button on my gauntlet and detonated the drone, the EMP wave knocked out the stations power supply but didn't knock out the droids. I grinned with delight, I love taking down droids and making sure they never harm anyone.

I grabbed the leg of the droid that was above me, pulled it down and broke its neck before scrambling up to the catwalk and downed three droids with a burst of Morita fire. I moved quickly to the dispensers taking down any droids I came across quickly, like any spec-ops soldier would trying to maintain silence.

The moment I cleared the catwalk, I heard two taps on my commlink. That was the signal Ahsoka was to give me in case the droids had a backup power supply. I quickly replied with two taps, five seconds after one telling her to take out the power supply and place the charges on the relay before making her way to the RV point, the hill overlooking the prison camp.

"She knows her stuff." I chuckled to myself as I downed a squad of four super battle droids quickly before I saw the dispensers. "Time to get to work." I said quietly and placed my rifle on the ground and began to set the charges. The ones I were setting had a lower explosive yield than most charges so this wouldn't make that much noise, at least in theory.

I finished placing one charge on the first dispenser and moved on to the next one, taking only ten seconds to place this one and moved on to the last dispenser and quickly placed the charge on the last dispenser. The moment I had finished, I heard the cocking of a blaster and turned around to see ten battle droids and two super battle droids aiming their weapons at me. I was about to pick up my rifle when one by one the droids were mowed down from behind. I immediately knew that Ahsoka had come to my assistance instead of heading for the RV point. "I told you, you know how to handle a weapon." I quipped as Ahsoka pulled me to my feet and I recollected my rifle and made our way to the hill so we could detonate the charges without getting caught in the blast zone.

Once we made it clear of the relay, we were about to detonate the charges when I decided to hold off on that part of the plan and get a bit of recon on the camp. Ahsoka agreed and what we saw made us sick to our stomachs. It turns out that the men and women in the came weren't all killed, but only a handful of them were still alive. They were being executed and their children were being forced to watch the ordeal.

Even though I couldn't hear them from this distance, I could tell that one couple was trying to assure their child that everything would be alright before they were gunned down. Their killers were Trandoshans mercenaries who walked away as the couple's child ran towards the bodies of their parents sobbing uncontrollably. This made my blood boil. Unlike my aunts and uncles, these guys kill anyone as long as they get paid.

I was about to disobey orders and attack when Ahsoka stopped me. "I know you don't like this, but if we rush in now we'll get the others killed. Not to mention they have those tanks down there, they'll cut us to pieces." She reminded me calling out the six AAT's down below. "I know. Then I guess its time. Sergeant Lehner to Preserver, requesting care package to be dropped at my position. All units, the match is about to be lit, prepare for assault. Remember to check your targets and gather any evidence of mass murder we can use against Gunray." I called over the commlink.

"So, what's the plan?" Ahsoka asked as the Preserver flew over us and dropped the Battle Armor. "I'll deal with the enemy units. Once I get their attention, you go in eliminate the guards and get the prisoners out of there. Gunships are on route to our position to begin the medevac." I told her as the Battle Armor opened up and I placed both my feet into the armor and it began to envelop around me. The moment the armor's Hud came online I turned towards Ahsoka and nodded and she detonated the charges.

"Time to get to work." I said and activated the armor's thrusters and headed for the prison camp.

Normal point of view

A being who valued money over everything else, Nashk Hydse sniffed the air with delight at smell of rotting flesh. When he and his group took the job of acting as prison guards by Gunray he thought it was a waste of time for them. But the promise of one million credits for him and his crew caught his attention along with the orders from Dark Star to begin executing the prisoners with every hour that passed the Togruta's didn't surrender.

The sobbing of the children whose parents he and his men had killed was also a pleasure to him. Togruta headdresses fetch a pretty price on the black market and they had plenty of them. His thoughts of a rich life were dashed when a Togruta male was separated from his children and wife and was placed with the other males of the camp.

The mans son ran to him and the man broke free and held his child telling him that everything would be alright as Nashk and one of his men separated the two. The Trandoshan mercenary kicked the father several times before he turned to another mercenary. "Kill him." Hydse hissed and the other Trando raised their ACP Repeater.

One moment it looked the father wouldn't see his child grow up, but then the next minute the roaring of twin thrusters was heard and landing right in front of the mercenary was Robert in the green and black armor with cannon on its right hand, a hand with a gauntlet and a mortar on its shoulder just as the mercenary fired a shot that would have killed the boy's father. The mercenary then fired his ACP again and soon the other mercenaries fired as well, but their weapons as well but the shots did nothing to figure and by the time the firing stopped there wasn't so much as even a scratch on Roberts new armor.

Hydse ran forward with a double-bladed vibro-sword and brought his blade down on this newcomer only for Robert to grab the blade with its non-cannon hand and point the cannon at the Trandoshan's gut. "My turn." The figure said and fired the cannon, killing Hydse and sending his body into a puddle of mud, before turning to the other Trandoshans as the droids came to the scene. "Let's go: Barbatose." Robert said and set to work at once.

(Raise your flag begins)

Activating his blade, Robert rushed forwards and sliced three B1 battle droids apart as the sound of explosions was heard from behind him.

Two Trandoshan's rushed forwards firing their ACP Shotguns at Robert, but the shots only further strengthen Roberts resolve and downed them all with his pulse cannon. Each mercenary that he downed meant more would come after him and leave the civilians alone and take any attention that might have been thrown to Ahsoka off.

From the rear of the camp, Ahsoka cut a hole in the wall and pushed it out startling a family that was trying to hide. "Anyone up for a jail break?" she asked to which the family then noticed that she was a Jedi and followed her. "Head over to that ridge, the others will join you soon. You'll be safe." She assured the family and went to help the others.

More droids charged towards him, but Robert either sliced the droids with his armors Cortosis blade leaving very little in terms of scrap before taking one Trandoshan's head off. The moment he turned to face another group of Trandoshan's he noticed that they had taken a group of civilian's hostage. Rather than risk more innocent, Robert deactivated his blade and extended his hand out, pushing the Trandoshan's back with the force, revealing to the civilians that he was a Jedi. "My friend can deal with the droids. Get everybody out of the camp, there's your way out." Ahsoka shouted running up beside him and pointing to the hole she cut before deflecting a shot that was sent her way.

While the civilians began to run for safety, Robert and Ahsoka prepared as the remaining Trandoshans and the remaining droid forces surged towards them. "That's a lot of hostiles." Ahsoka pointed out as she brought up her shoto and blocked another couple of shots back at the droids. "They have the numbers, but we have the power." Robert quipped before he launched one of Battle Armors Mortars at one of the AAT's destroying it with a single shot before unleashing hell with his pulse laser.

Bright purple bolts erupted from the cannon at a high rate of fire knocking down droid after droid with a maneuver similar to the 'spray and pray' soldiers would do with their weapons. A group of four tanks crashed through the gates of the camp and fired their repeating blaster cannons at the duo forcing them to retreat and take cover behind one of the concrete prison homes. "Damn, armor is covering the advance of the infantry. We can't take out those tanks and deal with the infantry." Robert cursed as he lowered his pulse lasers power level. "Shield and Sword. I block, you fire." Ahsoka suggested as one Trandoshan rounded the corner and was stabbed by Roberts blade. "LET'S DO IT WHOO!" Robert shouted and burst out of cover following his friend who began to block each shot back at the enemy.

With the infantry occupied, Robert charged up his Mortar, adjusted his aim to just ahead of the tanks and fired. The mortar round impacted the area between the first two tanks and detonated, taking two down with a massive explosion and taking the other two as well. "Scratch four panzer's, two to go." The Lone Wolf called out, switching back to his pulse laser downing four Trandoshan's and droids before the last two AAT's fired their main cannons, hitting him square in the chest and knocking him back a few inches.

"Mandalorian ingenuity bitches." Robert shouted, activating his armors thrusters or jump jets as he called them and landed on top of one of the tanks, aimed his laser at the hatch and fired blowing it open and fired until the droids in the tank were destroyed. He then 'jumped' to the next tank, activated his blade and stabbed down into the tanks armor and walked forwards, slicing the barrel clean in two and cut right through the cockpit, destroying the crew inside and leaving only the infantry left for them to handle. "Come get me, you monsters!" Robert shouted as he rocketed into the air and fired blasts from his cannon down on the remaining hostiles.

(Song ends)

Meanwhile, Barney and the others had finished liberating their camps and were now heading towards Robert and Ahsoka's position. "We got a lock on the civilians. All medevac gunships head towards these coordinates. The rest of us will deal with the droids." Barney said to the pilots.

"You think those two will be alright until we arrive?" Lucia asked for the umpteenth time as she checked her Remington R4 for any malfunctions. "The Sergeant and the Commander have been through hell and have come back from it. They can handle anything the clankers throw at them." Rex assured the Mandalorian female. "I hope your right Captain." Koylar said hopefully.

The moment they arrived over the last camp, they found a whole mess of dead Trandoshans and destroyed droids littering the ground. "Looks like we missed one hell of a party. Damn it." Gunner said disappointed. "Well glad you guys arrived. We got survivors on the ridge behind the camp. They need medical attention immediately." Robert stated as the 'helmet' of the battle armor retracted and revealed his sweet covered face.

"You are quite the warrior my friend. Had we met in the gladiatorial arena, I would be dead." Koylar said impressed at the work Robert and Ahsoka had done. As the medical personal rushed towards the ridge with their supplies, Lucia lowered her helmets range finder and scanned the atmosphere. "Looks like help has arrived. Republic ships just dropped out of hyperspace and separatist ships are either in pieces of scrap metal or fleeing to the surface." She spoke.

"Then that means we can get paid for our job on Nar Shaddaa. We were promised five-hundred thousand credits for taking down those Zygerian slavers." Garrod said before a transmission from Shaak indicated that gunships from the 501st, 212th, 104th, 41st and Kota's militia along had just arrived at the base and were waiting for their return. The moment all of the former prisoners were aboard the gunships they set out for the base.

Back at the base, Obi-Wan ordered Cody and his men to start unloading supplies and get the mechanics working on fixing up the damaged tanks and walkers from the last battle and assist Lincoln and Gunner on fixing the other mechs. "Glad you made it general. I don't think we would have held out for another one or two days." Halberton said, bowing to the Jedi master. "Well we would have been here sooner, but recent 'developments' had us preoccupied." Obi-Wan admitted bowing back.

"I can see what you mean." Halberton responded, noticing Stone, Thire, Jek and Rys along with the other members of the platoons sent with them exited the gunships. Behind them was Tarkin in his uniform this time with a dark black chest piece over it and walked towards the young Admiral and Obi-Wan. "The pleasantries can wait Halberton. For now, we have a more pressing concern. Where is the Lone Wolf?" Tarkin demanded.

"We have already been over this captain; the Lone Wolf is innocent. He didn't kill Admiral Leiase, the evidence proves it." Anakin said joining the group with Breach, Dutch and Blake besides him. "General Skywalker his hand prints were on the gun and it is clearly his preferred handgun and…" Tarkin began before he was interrupted as the Preserver and the gunships that were sent out had returned and had landed.

Exiting one of the gunships, Ahsoka walked over to her master and Obi-Wan with one of the injured children in her arms. "Maybe you can discuss this problem later, right now the civilians from the prison camps need immediate attention. There going to need a lot of comfort, especially for the ones whose parents were killed right in front of them." She stated as Shelia and two clone medics rushed over to Ahsoka.

"He has suffered a lot of trauma, we'll take care of them." Shelia said before going over to the other prisoners and instructing them to follow her to the medical frigates. Those that were too weak to follow were being tended to by the clone and Togruta medics. One of the prisoners, an elderly Togruta collapsed to the ground in front of Tarkin.

What happened next surprised everyone, Tarkin pulled out his pistol and fired a shot into the mans head killing him and causing his grandson to cry and run to the body. Robert was about to exit the battle armor when he saw everything and sprinted towards Tarkin.

"What the hell was that for? He was a civilian and injured. We don't kill civilians." Anakin stated loudly as Barriss arrived and turned away. "He was a separatist traitor. He was trying to kill us, he had explosives strapped to his chest under his cloths. So, in a way, I saved all our lives." Tarkin said in his defense.

The next moment, Robert grabbed Tarkin by the neck and activated the blade having it out by only an inch. "YOU MURDERING SONOFABITCH! HE WAS A CIVILIAN, AN OLD MAN NOLESS! HE WAS TOO WEAK TO DO ANYTHING LIKE YOU CLAIM HE COULD DO! YOU NO BETTER THAN THE SEPARATISTS!" Robert shouted angrily before slamming the captain into one of the gunships hatches.

A blaster bolt hit him from behind, but did no damage. Robert turned around and saw that Thire had fired his DC15 at him. "Stand down you over grown clanker." Thire ordered as the rest of the Shock Troopers trained their weapons on Robert.

His armors helmet retracted and Robert revealed himself before throwing Tarkin to the floor. "Sergeant Lehner, you are under arrest for murder and treason. Surrender and face your death like a traitor." Tarkin said after he stood up. "I am no murderer. I was nowhere near Admiral Leiase when he was killed. My preferred .45ACP pistol is my father's 1911, I never used a Dan Wesson 1911 pistol before and I never betrayed the republic. The only murderer I see here is you, Captain Tarkin." Robert declared as he deactivated the Battle Armor and stood in front of the line of Shock Troopers.

"Stand down. Arrest captain Tarkin for murder." Stone said to his men. Tarkin was shocked by this outcome and was about to protest before Robert tapped him on the shoulder and to everyone's surprise punched Tarkin in the face knocking him out. "That felt so good." Robert said watching two shock troopers escort Tarkin back to the Resolute two as Plo, Luminara and Rahm arrived. "You may have put yourself into a more precarious position." Luminara stated bluntly.

"Precarious or not, he had it coming." Robert stated kneeling down to the kid who saw his grandfather murdered. "I promise that the man who did this will pay for what he's done." Robert assured the kid who then hugged him.

"I am sorry that I went AWOL on you guys, but you know why I did it." Robert admitted as the boy's sister took him to the medical frigate.

"We understand. You had to figure things out on your own and conquer the darkness inside you. Master Yoda sensed that you would do something like this. Clearly this was your great trial and you have a further understanding of yourself and returned to your old self. I may not be your father, but I am proud of you." Kota explained.

"Thank you, master Kota. I have been a fool. Made mistakes. Monumental ones. But now, I have gained a clear understanding of who I was always meant to be. Robert Lehner: The Lone Wolf, descendant of Revan, Jedi soldier, Mech Warrior, spartan and a Mandalorian." Robert stated removing his helmet as his aunts and uncles came over to him and placed their hands in a circle with Robert doing the same thing. "OHRAH TO ASHES!" They all shouted just as word from one of the units in the trenches reported enemy forces were advancing on the base yet again.

"We got a lot of fight coming our way. We need everyone who's able to fight in the trenches now. All available tanks and walkers' power up immediately and get your asses out there and give it to these clankers. Get the Catapult and Bowman mechs ready, FOR THE TOGRUTAS!" Robert shouted as the battle for Shili resumed.

I will admit that Tarkin executing a civilian was OOC, but there is a perfectly good reason for this which will be explained later on.

It has been a while since I played Mech Assault 2: Lone Wolf so I made the Battle Armor more along the size of the Iron Man and Mjolnir armor size and gave it an extra feature but kept its primary armament the same.

I am considering that after I reach Ahsoka leaving the Jedi Order if she should go on her own or have Robert let her stay with him, work together like they did in this chapter and give Ahsoka her own Spartan Armor built by Robert. What do you guys think about that idea?

The song I used was the first opening for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans and believe me that song is bad ass when using it for mech based anime, games and movies. Speaking of Mechs, next chapter will feature two of the nastiest Assault Mechs ever built fighting the droids.

Anyways, please read and review and I will see you all next time.