Chapter 2

Bounty Z

"So, the bounty you want me to do is to take some intel from the Republic base? I feel you want something more to happen, client. I request, no, dare demand that you tell me what else you are going to have me do here... ...An invasion? That can be a change of paste, I'm in. Send the credits to my usual account."

-Zerd Terrorly to his client.

The one who made the comment was a bounty hunter. None of the clones noticed due to how he was mostly silent. All he had to do was wait for the signal and he could get out and do his job. He looked at his comlink, then it glowed yellow for a few seconds.

The man looked through the air vent on the ceiling and notices that the clones have left. He carefully takes the vent's door off and crawls out. Suddenly, his hologram vibrated. He activated it and a figure appeared before him. "Zerd, I am picking up readings of the Senator in that room in front of you. He is being guarded by a commando, be careful," she warned.

"Huntress, everyone is will be fine. Did you forget what I have done in the past, Akira?" The Bounty hunter's voice was barely muffled by his mask covering his mouth that had an terrifying purple mouth on it. He sounded like an evil cowboy, with a bit of flirtiness on top.

"Charming.." She says, in between being flattered and sarcastic.

"Now, I'm gonna go hunt me a fishy. Be very quiet." He says sarcastically.

"Zerd wai-" Zerd Terrorly turned off his hologram and ignored the calls Akira kept sending back at him. He pats his armor in accomplishment, which is some black mandalorian armor he looted from a kill with a red cape that extends to his right shoulder. He then tilted his leather hat and began his mission.

Zerd looked up and saw a clone facing away from him. Zerd sneaked up to him and grabbed his neck. The clone struggled as hard as he could and tried to make a sound, but Zerd snapped his neck with a big crack. He looked all around him, hoping no one heard him. No one has. He grabbed the clone and door him into a janitor's closet.

He walked back out of the janitor's closet, this time with the clone's armor over him. He walked towards the door entering the room where the Senator was being kept. The door needed a card key, as usual. Zerd used his elbow to smash the control panel and the door opened by itself 3 seconds later. He entered and saw that nothing was there.

"They moved him.." Zerd grunted in anger and started to around the walls. He almost tripped over something metal that was attache to the ground.

"What the heck?" He turned around and sat next to what he tripped on. His left eye started o produce light so he can see what it was. It was a control panel of some sort. Zerd opened it with ease and looked inside of it. There was a number pad on it. Zerd was about to scan it to find the code then he heard marching heading his way. Without even thinking, he found the code to enter the secret passageway. Zerd walked in there and saw it was some sort of meditation chamber. He locked the door behind him and listened in to the conversation on the other side.

"Lieutenant Chipper sir, wait up!" Sergeant Eco was chasing Chipper, who was running towards the armory. "Sir, you really don't need to run all the way back here for your vibroblades and some explosives." It sounded like the other stopped, as Zerd no longer heard any stomping.

"Eco, I do. Vibroblades are my weapons of choice. Besides, I have an idea," Lieutenant Chipper said proudly, "I'll tell you it later if you wish to help me."

"I'll help you with that, sir!" the Sergeant said clearly. The two continued running to the armory located on the lower levels.

Zerd stopped listening in to the conversation and continued walking into the chamber. "I guess there is a Jedi with them. The more the bigger wallet I will need. " Zerd laughed to himself. Or so he thought. Suddenly, he was grabbed from behind by an anonymous figure. He held a wrist knife to Zerd's neck.

"Hey, buddy. This isn't your turf. It's ours." Roadkill clearly stated.

"I am fully aware of that, Commando." Zerd replied, grinning under his mask.

Suddenly, Zerd flipped over the Commando and pulled out two white lightsabers, both of them having a black core inside of them, similar to the darksaber. The Commando grabbed his gun and began firing at Zerd, who reflected each of the bullets successfully. The Commando managed to shoot Zerd's armor arm pieces loose, so he had access to his weapons on his real armor. He aimed his hand at Roadkill and sprayed him down with fire, putting the commando ablaze. Roadkill resisted the heat and charged back at Zerd, pinning him down on the floor. Zerd aimed his wrist at him and switched to his favorite type of dart, explosive darts. Without warning, he shot Roadkill's face with it.

Outside, Captain Gamma was racing with Commander Jax and Allia down the hall. They got to the control panel and opened the door to the mediation room. Inside, they heard an explosion, and Roadkill's helmet rolled to Gamma's feet. The Captain picked it up and examined it, then quickly he looked up and saw Zerd pushing a Commando's body off of him, whose head was gone.

"You maniac!" Captain Gamma shouted. "You won't get away with that!"

"I believe I already have, my dear Captain. I got my Senator back," Zerd replied. And he was right, in his arms he was holding Senator Darlin Masino. He shoved the 3 of them over and ran towards out of the meditation room. Allia got up first and chased after him, With Gamma and Jax closing in on her.

Allia managed to tackle Zerd, who was still holding on to Masino. He kicked her off and she was flung into Jax, who caught her safely. "You darn Bounty hunter!" Jax hollered, and he shot at Zerd. Then, just when Jax stopped firing, he moved Dasino into his human shield. Clones began running in, surrounding the bounty hunter's exits.

"You have no were to run, Zerd!" Jax shouted at him.

"That's..." Allia coughs, "Right.. You are coming with us," Allia quickly recovered from that hard kick to the gut he gave her.

"Oh man, look at the time. I'd like to stay and chat..." suddenly, the window behind him gets shot down by a ship, "But I need to go turn in my contract." Zerd jumped out the window and walked into the ship, and it flew away before anyone could begin tracking it.

Not a single person in the room could believe what just happened, especially Commander Jax. He stepped up to the now broken window and looked outside and saw the droids were actually pushing their forces back.

"We may need to start the evacuation, general," Jax stated. He growled when he finally saw the ship disappear. Then he looked around and saw all of the clones standing there, who are also in shock from the scene.

"What are you all sitting around here for? Get back to the battle field!" Jax shouted.

"Sir, yes sir!" or "Aye, sir!" came from all of the clones in the room, and then Allia and Jax followed the rest of the clones back into the battlefield.

"Well, Commander. When we tell the council about this, tell them a bounty hunter came and everything was screwed up," Allia looked at Jax saying that, with a face that was a mix between sadness and laughter.

"I'll second that, sir," Jax strongly replied. Then he pulled out his comlink and turned it on. "This is ARCC-0853 Commander Jax. We need an evacuation at these coordinates, 6 LAATs at minimum. We are taking too many casualties and the CIS are actually pushing us all back. I think they improved their droids,"

Jax heard the response come in quickly after he finished talking "Commander Jax, this is the Republic Base closest to your location. We have enough LAATs for your usage, out."

"You know what to do, Commander," Allia winked at him and ran after seeing Jax nod at her.

Captain Camo and the ARF troopers with him holding the front lines. One of the ARFs with him, Lieutenant Dawnbreaker, had a light green helmet with a white stripe going down the middle of it. He has a black sun-visor and marks of crows on the side of his helmet. His white armor had a stripe that was the same color as his helmet go down the middle with an ever smaller black line in it. His shoulderpads and boots were green and he had a black jetpack on him.

The other ARF with him was Lieutenant Grasshopper. His armor has camouflage like Camo's to fit in the woodlands, which has a large leather holster on his back for his sniper rifle he is currently firing with Camo.

The three of them kept sniping at droids. "Captain, when is our evac coming? If it doesn't come soon we'll become one with the road!" Grasshopper quickly questioned.

Dawnbreaker nodded his head with Grasshopper's words, "He's right, Captain."

Captain Camo continued firing with his sniper rifle, knowing that his camouflage armor and small orange pauldron on his right shoulder isn't concealing him from the enemy. "Well, first we need to find Lieutenant Chipper and Sergeant Eco, who are somewhere." He head shotted 3 droids who were in a single file line. "And then we need to wait for the LAATs to actually arrive, which will be awhile."

Dawnbreaker looked up and saw something on the small landing pad that has the ruins of the LAAT. "Sir, I see something up on that landing pad. Two figures it seems.. I think it's Chipper and Eco!"

The Captain looked up. Indeed, it was Chipper and Eco, but what were they doing?

"Ready for this, Eco?" They both held a grappling hook.

"Ready, sir." The Sergeant replied, somewhat nervous.

They both aimed their grappling hooks up and waited for the Republic probe droid they sent out earlier to go to that spot, and they grappled to it, swinging from the landing pad to the other one across. When they were above the droids, they rained grenades and droid poppers all over them. After 3 trips doing that, a Super Battle Droid shot down the second landing pad, so Chipper and Eco flung off into the other landing pad and ran inside so they wouldn't be shot down.

Chipper and Eco finally got down the building to get to the same level as Captain Camo and the rest of the ARF troopers. Camo noticed Lieutenant Dakx, who is an ARC, along with 8 other 41st clone troopers began to fall back into the base. Then Camo received orders from his comlink.

"This is Commander Dunkel, all units outside of the wall get in it now! The LAATs are almost here. We will cover you on your way in." Dunkel stated firmly. He watched as the ARF troopers who were sniping packed up and quickly ran into the base along with the ARC and his squadron of clones. "That is everyone, shut the gate Sky!"

"On it, boss," Sky said, unamused. He ran over to the gate control panels and the gate slammed on to the first line of battle droids who were unlucky enough to be in between the doors.

One of the other Coruscant guards, a Sergeant named Blackout, ran up next to Dunkel and began to fire next to him. Dunkel has already known him before. He has black armor with a red stripe going down the middle black helmet that has a red visor on it with medium sized red horns on the top of his helmet.

"Sir. I can see a dropship. It's coming in behind us," Blackout informed Dunkel.

The shield doors for the LAAT open up and there waiting is Captain Bullseye, a High Rank Senate Commando and 2 other Senate Commandos. Captain Bullseye has a blue kama and a black cape that is in his black pauldron, and his whole armor is blue except for the top of it.

"Need a hand, Dunkel?" Bullseye cockily asked him. Dunkel, as usual, was glad he was here. He reaches out for his hand and helps himself get pulled into the LAAT. Dunkel then helps Sky, Blackout, and a few other Coruscant Security guards on board.

Kicker ran towards the LAAT, with Blackout ready to pull him in, but then one of the Senate Commandos drops dead and falls out of the LAAT. Kicker was about to run past him until he saw what weapon the Commando had. It was a Z-6 Rotary Cannon! After putting the Senate Commando's body back in the LAAT, he looted his Z-6 Rotary Cannon and started shooting droids.

Blackout and Sky both pulled him back in the LAAT, but in the process Kicker gets shot in the left arm. He was able to keep the Z-6 Rotary Cannon, but he came in with a bullet to the shoulder. The LAAT shut its doors and took off. Dunkel watched as the remaining units on the wall get in the other two LAATs, or drop dead.

Meanwhile in the base, 4 more LAATs land. "Come on, get to your LAATs, move it people!" yelled one of the pilots. Jax noticed Captain Gamma and what is little left of his 501st battalion climb in the LAAT marked in 501st colors. He of all of us here lost them most brothers that day. The 41st get in the remaining LAATs and take off.

"Well that could of gone better," Allia stated.