Chapter 1

Coruscant, a Boring Post

"With all do respect, Marshal Commander, I believe it is time to arrange you with something bigger than a Security Division. I believe it is time for you to grow up to a Corps. Do you agree? I think it would be most fitting since you have been promoted from Senior Commander."

-Chancellor Palpatine, speaking to Marshal Commander Dunkel.

"Man. This has to be the most boring post on Coruscant," is something we all thought at one point in time. The Separatists would never even dare attack Coruscant. That is something we all knew for a fact.

"Why can't they just have the Coruscant Security guard this base?" Camo finally asked, breaking the deep silence, "I mean, Commander Dunkel can even hold this whole base off by hims-"

"Dunkel is busy with guarding the Chancellor," Jax boringly responded.

Commander Jax's helmet had a green stripe going down the front and back his helmet along with mircobinoculars on top of it. The back of it was also completely green. On Jax's right shoulder pad there were only the words 'We'll survive' in Galactic Basic painted in green. Then the rest of the arm on the right was covered in green all the way down until the hand, which had a picture of spikes going along his fingers. On his left arm it was also completely green all the way until the hand which had the same design as the one on his right. On the front of his armor the top it showed a design with three green boxes at the lower part of his armor, then on top under his pauldron was green that copied his pauldron's shape. He had a belt going from his top left shoulder down to his right side that had green markings on it and also held ammo and mines. His kama that went down his legs had green pockets on them for storing his DC-17 hand blasters.

Captain Camo's armor was all camouflauge except with a little brown on the top of his helmet. He also had an orange pauldron on the right side of him which he never changed the color of. On it, Jax wrote 'We'll survive' in Galactic Basic at the edge of it.

They were all patrolling on AT-RTs around the Republic base to find any sign of life. Suddenly, Jax's comlink went off. He purposely waited a few seconds, then he answered it, "This is Commander Jax of the 41st Elite Corps, we are currently patrolling the Republic base here, as you told us to do that many times already."

The caller was heard grunting over the comm, and he stated "This isn't a commanding bay officer, this is CC-five-nine-three-oh, sir! I am also known as Captain Gamma. I have the 501st battalion who is patrolling the other side of Coruscant. Turn on your hologram, will you? I want to speak to you more in person." Jax gave a slight nod, even though Gamma couldn't see it.

When Jax called Gamma on his hologram, he was greeted with a salute from the Captain. It was hard to tell through the blue hologram, but Jax noted that Gamma's armor had a lion symbol on his helmet's forehead, with claw symbols on the side of his visor and his armor padding. He also wore a blue pauldron and cape. "We have nothing over here, what about you, sir?"

Jax shook his head at the question, "This is the most boring job a clone could have, Gamma besides janitor duty." Gamma laughed at Jax's comment. Jax wasn't joking around at the time, however. Coruscant was indeed the worst place you can be at if you want action. Gamma continued the conversation,

"Well, we have something over here to shoot at. Got to run, sir."

"I wish we had your battalion's luck, Captain."

Jax sighed after turning off this hologram. Sergeant Eco broke the long silence after that and said, "There's trash everywhere."

"We are in the middle of patrolling and all you care about is trash?" Camo mocked him from what Eco told him on Geonosis. They all laughed.

"At least your sense of humor is intact, Captain," Eco remarked. They all continued down the trail. It seemed like it was going to be forever.

Eco's armor was almost like any other ARF troopers armor in the 41st that wasn't in camouflage, except on his head there was a symbol of a rose on his and on his back there was an eco-friendly symbol.

Finally, the officer who ordered them contacted Jax. "This better saying we can return to base..." Jax muttered to himself. The officer spoke loud and clear as he said,

"Commander Jax, you and your men may return to base. We have someone waiting to meet you there."

"Aye, officer." The trio cheered after Jax turned his commlink off. Eco was certainly the least excited however. No one bothered to ask him... They never have.

On their way back to base, they heard a strange sound in some of the hiding spots of Coruscant. "It's nothing, guys, I'm sure of it," Camo repeated every time they heard that sound. Strangely enough, he was right. Each time they checked, they saw nothing there.

"It's just weird on how they were making noises in the first place," Jax commented on the final one they checked, "Let's just get back to base. It's better there than here." Neither of them would object to that. They didn't want to. Nor could they, as Jax lead them both with his rank Commander. They also respected him highly, he was a great man and has saved them both many times.

"Commander, command is getting angry. We should pick up the paste," Eco informed Jax. Jax nodded, like he has done so many times today, and they made their way back to base.

When they arrived at the base, it was a small wall protected with other clones unfortunate to be at that post along with them. Jax waved to one of the guards. The guard nodded and gave a salute as he opened the door for his fellow brothers. One at a time, Jax, Camo and Eco dismounted their AT-RTs after parking them. Eco looked around the base, never being there before. There was a dead end only, with the wall to their left and a door in front of them, which led to a landing pad in the sky that was unusually small. While walking down the hallway to get there, 3 figures stopped them in their tracks.

The folks who stopped them were 2 clones and a Jedi. Jax knew who the clones were. The clone to the Jedi's right side was a Lieutenant named Dakx. He fought with Jax in the past as a Sniper. He has armor with green markings and black markings on his helmet along with a green pauldron and a black belt that contains his tools. He took off his helmet to reveal ebony skin and hazel eyes, and saluted to Jax.

"Sir!" he shouted. The other clone to the left side of the Jedi did the same thing. His name was Lieutenant Chipper. He had green markings all over his armor, bear marks on his shoulder pads, and a green stripe right down the middle of his helmet. He has green microbinoculars with bear marks on them and a backpack also striped with green.

The Jedi stepped forward from in between the clones, who're now at ease. She removed her hood and her face was blue, it appeared that she was a Pantoran. Her blue hair covered her head and ears, and stared at Jax with diamond eyes.

She grinned and said, "Hello, Commander. I am Jedi Knight Allia. I was told that I am to lead with you, Commander!" Allia looked very happy when she said that. Jax admits the scene was a bit cute, however, he ignored that fact. He still had a job to do.

"How may I we become of service, General?" Jax quickly responded.

"For now, come with me. We need to great some 501st boys on the LAAT. They saved a senator from capture by some drunks." Chipper and Dakx chuckled behind her. Because of that she turned back at them and glared at them. They stopped as soon as they saw her petrifying stare. Then they continued to the landing pad.

At the landing pad, they awaited for the arrival of the LAAT. Drakx spoke to Jax, "It's good to see you again, sir." Chipped added to that, "How was your patrol? It was boring as heck out here." Jax shook his head at them, and they understood how it went.

Silence stood there for minutes, finally the LAAT landed in front of them. Captain Gamma and a 501st Commando that was known by the name Roadkill stepped off the LAAT with the rescued senator. The two of them saluted to the 41st troopers.

"Sir, I'd like you to meet Roadkill. He was patrolling with me and some others. Say hello, Roadkill," Gamma explained. Roadkill stood straight when Jax moved his head to look at him. He hasn't seen a Commando in a long time, not including the ARCs standing right behind him.

"G'day, Roadkill." Jax moved his hand out to shake. He declined, instead he showed off his medals he has on his chest.

Sergeant Eco muttered, "Show off..."

The Senator gave a bow to the clones he just met and states, "Hello, I am Senator Darlin Masino," Masino stood up from his bow in the middle of the conversation. He looked a little to his right and saw clones rushing about to get duties done.

"Busy place you have here. Better than my kidnappers, at least," he continued.

"My lord, everything and everyone is in place, as well as I am," a figure spoke to another one over a hologram, leaving full traces of darkness and evil surrounding him.

"Good... Good..." the other figure went on. He grinned under his robe and he looked slightly more upward at the other.

"Begin the assault... and give him the signal."

No one knew what happened when the base was in the middle of an air strike. Down bellow, the troops where running to positions and those who could shot rocket launchers at the enemy fire. The landing pad began to shake, and suddenly Jax and Dakx fell off. Swiftly Jax shot a grapple at the landing pad, and Dakx caught Jax's leg. They were sitting ducks as Jax's grapple became to tare. All they could do was listen as the LAAT above them was destroyed and the clones who didn't escort the Senator out of it were killed, along with their pilot.

Down bellow, Commander Dunkel was running and rallying up troops to fight on his side. Commander Dunkel's armor was fully black except for the red markings representing a chest on the front of his armor and splattered on his shoulder pads, that is it isn't paint. He also has red paint on his helmet that chills his enemies' spines. Commander Dunkel is equipped with a red pauldron, matching kama, a built in orange mask that shows objectives and cleans his helmet automatically. Commander Dunkel was a part of Coruscant Security, but he sometimes helps with Operations on other planets because of his skill and menacing look.

"Pyro droids incoming! Sky, Kicker, on me! That's an order!" Dunkel shot his DC-17M into the air and shot down two vulture droids at the same time.

Sky was the first to group up with Dunkel. He wore very similar armor to him except his shoulder pads weren't splattered in red and his arms and legs had more red stripes on them. He ran at the same paste as the Commander while they ran to the gate.

"Ready to kick some droid butt, sir," Sky cockily said. He was a show off in the clones' eyes, but deep down he was still caring for his fellow comrades. Kicker and he were both a part of Coruscant Security as well. Sky was in Reaper squad, a squadron of clones who added up equaled 1 and a half of Dunkel's skill. He could still take them all down if the time came to it, however.

"For now, get that dust off your jet pack and get Kicker over here, he should be running down from the wall." As soon as Dunkel finished speaking, he already spotted Kicker rolling down the stairs, knocking a droid over with his foot. He was the one who let the 3 41st AT-RT drivers back inside.

"I'm here, sir. What are your orders?" Captain Kicker questioned after Sergeant Sky and he came back next to Dunkel. His armor seemed to be a normal Coruscant Security's Captain, painted in red with a red pauldron attached to a belt that held some of Kicker's weapons. He also wrote his CT number on the side of his helmet, twenty seven sixty four.

"Just stay by me, I want to show you guys my favorite hobby, demolishing and killing." Kicker nodded to the command and Sky grinned with a fist pump. They knew that Dunkel has a thirst for blood and can make a huge hit. Dunkel raises his Senate Commando vibroblade from his back belt and his red cape and kama flew close behind them as they began taking droids out on a date with justice.

Jax was holding on the best he could, with their fellow comrades trying to help him back up. He needed to get back up, he had one of his squad mates lives on the line here.

"Stop trying to pull me up. Let me try something. Dakx, be ready to do a flip." Jax began swinging side to side and back again until he got high enough for Dakx to get back on the surface, doing what Jax requested he were to do and did a flip. "Now it is my tur-" Jax was cut off in both his speech and his grapple, he began to fall, but someone grabbed him. It couldn't of been one of the clones, the hand was too soft even though his own were armored. He looked up and saw it was the Jedi Knight, Allia.

She smiled at him and ordered, "Stop hanging around and pull yourself together, will you Commander?" Jax nodded and grinned at her statement. Never before was he so relieved for someone to tell him that. Captain Camo helped Allia pull Jax up and he made it back up. "You're heavy, you know that, Commander? You putting muscles on for the ladies?"

The other clones behind her laughed. But right now wasn't the time for jokes. "All of you, we are being attacked! Get to positions and help Commander Dunkel and his men down bellow! Roadkill, take the Senator to safety!" Jax ordered at the top of his lungs. The others stopped laughing and saluted to Jax and did his orders, with Allia and Jax behind them. Commando Roadkill took a different path to hide and protect the Senator.

Above them, someone muttered, "Well well well, it seems their plan payed off. Time to get the Senator back. First, this Roadkill will have his name come true, then it will be the rest of them's time to get into place."