Chapter 4: Escaping Jedi
The two battle droids continued on their path toward the jail cell where Xavier was busy meditating. One of the battle droids then went toward the console and began to press the code to lower the laser force field around the jail cell.
"So, you two are going to take me down yourselves?" asked Xavier as he then noticed his lightsaber on one of the battle droids.
"Precisely, General Grevious has perfectly instructed us we'll shoot you into space for not cooperating with us" replied the battle droid who was holding the lightsaber behind its back.
"Well, it seems if this was an execution plan" said Xavier as the first battle droid lowered the laser force field of the jail cell, Xavier used his force pull and grabbed the lightsaber from the other battle droid and chopped the head off the first battle droid, "seems like you need some work on that."
Xavier then uses his force push on the remaining battle droid, sending it crumbling right into pieces. The Jedi then heads out of the prison to which some other battle droids noticed his presence.
"It's an escaped Jedi, shoot him!" ordered one of the battle droids.
The battle droids did their best, but not before up above on the bridge of the ship, General Grevious was watching his plan unfold. If he couldn't be able to get the information out on the lone Jedi he had held captive, the Jedi was going to lead him to the stranded, and lost clone troopers on the planet below.
"Everything is working perfectly as planned" said Grevious as he was quite happy seeing the more incompetent battle droids be dismembered by the yellow lightsaber on the security cameras, "the Jedi doesn't know that he'll lead me to the information he stole from the Confederacy, and once I have it, I'll be able to finish the Jedi!"
"But sir, wouldn't it make more sense to do in the Jedi now before he destroys too many of our fellow droids?" asked one of the battle droids who approached the General.
"You don't understand the brilliance of my plans" replied Grevious, "I have sent my elite core droids to the planet already. What do they have to report?"
"Er, sir, they haven't reported in, there's been heavy rain that's been preventing them from landing" replied one of the droids who was at the console.
"Bah, raise the shields on the landing party ships then" replied Grevious.
"Roger, roger" replied the battle droid as it then began to insert orders on the console.
Back on the dark planet below, while Xavier was chopping away battle droids at ease, deep within the facility, the squad of lost, stranded clone troopers were still trying to find some reasonable accommodations for shelter. The lone trooper whom wandered off fought what seem like a genetically altered native, giant spider of some sort to which members of his squad had to come to the rescue. That particular spider was still watching over the squad of clone troopers whom were prepared to rest for the night.
"Okay" said the captain as his men finished finally setting up camp, "we're going to keep at least four of us on the watch for that strange spider. Do not disobey following any of my orders."
Once again, the clone trooper whom disobeyed the orders was chosen to keep watch along with three other clone troopers. The lone clone trooper in particular was quite nervous to encounter that strange spider creature again.
"That thing creep me out big time!" whined the clone trooper to his three other comrades.
"That's because you didn't follow orders, you went off in some rogue manner on your own" snapped one of the other clone troopers.
"Well, I was trying to find to see if there was a communications room that was still active" replied the clone trooper.
"Well, it nearly got you killed" said a second clone trooper, "don't do that again."
As members of the small group of clone troopers spread out of the temporary camp, the spider creature then began to emerge from the shadows and quickly dashed behind some crates causing some noise which alerted one of the clone troopers.
"What the heck made that?" asked one of the clone troopers.
"How should I know" replied the second one.
"Look, I think it's a bad idea, but perhaps we should go investigate it" said a third clone trooper.
"What, you heard what the captain said, we're suppose to keep watch" replied the lone clone trooper who originally disobeyed orders.
"Bah, what do you know" said one of the clone troopers, "you two, check it out and come back here if you need help."
The two clone troopers then promptly left their posts, to search what made those noises.
"So, do you think it could have been that spider creature we fought?" asked the first clone trooper as he was walking aside his partner.
"Possibly, but we're ready for it if it dares shows its face around here" replied his partner as he readied his blaster.
As the two clone troopers spread out, they came across some abandon crates to which the spider creature then heard their presence. The strange spider then began to dash up the walls of the facility, so it can get an easier glimpse on the two clone troopers below. Saliva from the spider once again began to emerge from its mouth, but the spider was a bit cautious in not trying to have it drip all the way down to the floor. But instead of feeling the drop of saliva from the two clone troopers, the two clone troopers had a strange smell that was quite up and close.
"Yuck did you wash today?" asked one of the clone troopers.
"Yeah, why?" asked the second clone trooper.
"This smell, it's so awful!" cried one of the clone troopers, "I'm going to take off my helmet."
But before the clone trooper could do that, the spider decided it was time to pounce. It landed and crashed into some crates to which the clone troopers then readied their weapons and began to fire at the spider. The spider creature had easier time in dodging the attacks, and managed to use its web to grab the weapon from one of the clone troopers. Another web then emerged, and grabbed the clone trooper's leg.
"Get this thing off of me!" cried the clone trooper as his partner was trying to help him.
The clone trooper's partner tried his best, but the spider creature managed to grab the clone trooper away and tie him up in a chaconne and immediately dashed out of the scene. The lone clone trooper then immediately raced back to where his squad was resting. He immediately woke the captain of the squad who was astonished what had happen.
"I can't believe you!" cried the captain, "What did I tell you to do here?!"
The lone clone trooper who went off this time, was silent in a response.
"Come on" said the captain as he got everybody up, "we got a spider to hunt down."
As the captain and the rest of his squad grabbed their gear to save the clone trooper captured by the spider creature, the Xavier back on the ship where Grevious was on was close to heading toward the hangar, while below on the planet he was about to head to, a landing ship touched ground with a battalion of elite droids from the Confederacy emerging to search for the vital military data stolen from them.