The walker was a tall 4 legged mining hauler. The walker looked like a box with 4 legs sticking out of the bottom. Mac looked at Lock who was helping every one in. "This is the walker you spotted?"

Lock shrugged. "I guess so. What did you expect? An AT-TE? All of those are at the landing zone."

Mac sighed. "Yeah but i would feel safer riding in one of them more than this."

An old man who looked like he's been working in the mines for years chuckled. "These walkers are designed to go into the mines and if the tunnel collapses on it"s hull is strong enough to withstand thousand of tons of rocks, and has enough rations to last a fully loaded crew 6 weeks, plus air canisters. It may not be as pretty as your military walkers but it'll get the job done."

Mac helped the man in than jumped in. The interior cab had seating for 20 people, and had a bed that could hold thousands of tons of rocks, and minerals. Lock, and Cutter were in the driver seats. Mac walked over to them and keeled to their level. "So do either of you know how to drive a walker?"

Cutter chuckled. "Not a clue, but it can't be that hard, now you better get seated cause here we go." and with a lurch the walker lumbered forwards crushing anything and everything stupid enough to get in the way. As they got closer to the center of town the un-dead horde that was just in small numbers earlier was not a wall of flesh. The walker stopped.

Cutter looked at Lock. "You think we'll make it through that?"

Lock shrugged. "One way to find out, just don't slow down or we'll get bogged down." And again the walker lurched forwards. The walker continued to pick up speed and when it hit the mass of bodies, the walker shuddered and almost seemed it would fall over, but it soon balanced out and continued on, but the creatures were slowing them down greatly.

Mac checked his timer. "We got 3 hours till the bombardment starts, can't we go any faster?"

Lock shook his head. "The creatures prevent us, we have no way of clearing through them, unless some one wants to go out side and clear the path."

Mac smiled."That gave mean idea."

Lock looked at him. "I really don't like that plan."

He pointed to two troopers. "You two grab those grenades and follow me."

The complied and they climbed onto the roof of the walker. One trooper pulled a grenade out of the bag. "Sir these are thermal detonators, we'll blast the walker if we drop them to close."

Mac grabbed it, and activated it. "Than you better hope you have a good throwing arm." He than chucked it forwards, and soon after a large orange explosion sent dirt and bodies flying every were. Because of the noise all the creatures started to walk towards it, and Cutter, and Lock took this time to get some speed, and the two troopers through some more grenades which caused the creatures to go towards the explosion.

One of the troopers chuckled. "I like this plan, lots of big booms." just before he could throw the walker sharply turned and he dropped it, but quickly grabbing it, and throwing it, but it exploded in mid air causing the walker to tip badly, and one of the troopers was lost into the sea of bodies.

The walker soon righted it's self, and continued on it's way. Mac looked back to were the trooper fell. He than activated his com link. "Do tell us when you plan on telling us when you are going to turn like that ok? I would really like it if i could NOT lose another soldier."

They didn;t respond, but he knew they heard him. After the bag was empty Mac, and the surviving trooper climbed back in. "Ok how far are we from the mine's entrance?"

Zoey was looking at a map. "We're making good time. 'We'll be there soon."

Mac looked at his timer. "We get an hour and thirty minutes to get to those mines let's hurry it up." After a few minutes the mines came visible, but what was guarding the entrance was the true problem of the day.

Battle Droids.

They stopped about 200 meters away. "Damn the Separatist. That's why they dropped the bio bomb. They wanted the mines all to them self."

Lock looked at the wall of droids. "They even have tanks. If we still had some Thermal detonators left we could just throw those at them from a safe distance, but yeah."

Mac looked at his surviving squad. Just him, Cutter, and two troopers. That is all that's left of ARC Trooper Squad 41. "Well i still got three soldiers."

Lock looked at him. "What you say?"

Mac looked at his soldiers. "I said i still got three elite ARC Troopers under my command, and i ask them this one thing. Follow me, and the rest of you better be close behind cause we plan on moving fast, and if you can't keep up than you're dead."

Zeoy looked up at him. "So your plan is to just charge out there guns blazing?"

Cutter chipped in. "Lady, the un-dead may have us beat, but droids stand not a chance, even if they got tanks. We like a challenge."

Lock shook Mac's shoulder. "This is not time for you guys to be showing off your skills, we need a real pan."

Mac shook his hand off. "This is a real plan. Me and my team cut a path through they droid line, and you guys rush through it into the mines, and every one lives happily ever after."

One of Lock's soldiers stood up. "He's right. We don't have the time to make some stealth pan, we go out guns blazing."

Mac nodded, and he got out of the walker with his men behind his back."Know who's hungry for some metal?"

His men cheered, and they charged forwards not looking behind him to make sure the others are following just knowing they are there. Almost immediately the blaster fire came in, but they didn not stop. They fired on the move blasting every droid they could blast. Once they were in the droid formations they began to tare them apart, and for the first time since they got tot he planet he felt like he knew what was going on, he knew how to fight, and more importantly how to win. He saw cutter jump onto a tank taking control of the turret and destroying another tank before jumping out of his, and continuing to fight.

He than felt a hand on his shoulder, and saw that it was Lock, he gestured for them to follow but he shook his head, saying through their coms, "Some one has to keep them off your back while you get that door open." He nodded and than he, and his men rushed past them and got into the mine's entrance, they fumbled a bit with the controls before just blasting down the gate with a frag grenade.

Seeing that the door could not be close he ordered his men into defensive formation. Once his men were in position to guard the door he ordered them to follow the others, and that he will hold of the droids, but no one moved, so he made it an order, than Cutter spoke up. "Sir with all do respect i would rather die here than to live in a hole in the ground." He looked at his other troopers, and they nodded their heads in agreement. He than smiled and began shouting words that their instructor shouted at them during training.

"Squad 41! Who's your enemy!"

They shouted back, "DROIDS!"

The droids closed in, and behind them the sea of bodies.

"Who's threatening your home!"

Again they shouted back, "DROIDS!"

The droids continue their assault killing one of his men.

"What are you going to destroy!"

Again they shouted, "DROIDS!"

The other trooper went down and it was only Cutter and him self.

He than shouted, "FOR WHO!"

Than Cutter, and him self shouted has loud as they could, "THE PEOPLE OF THE REPUBLIC!"

And just than his timer reached zero, and large blue beams of light, plasma, and heat came raining down on them, first there was heat of a thousand suns, than there was nothing.