Star Wars: Clone Wars
Chapter 2: Arrival on Muunilinst
"I'm not saying the Jedi were weak! The Jedi were the Republic's greatest ally; we led the clone forces into battle, we protected both the Supreme Chancellor and Vice Chancellor, and we protected anyone loyal to the Republic. At the beginning of the Clone Wars, many Jedi began training, honing their saber skills. Many went on to be great generals, such as Master Kuchiki, Master Iroh, and myself, however, towards the end of the War, we found out that it was folly to try and turn peacemakers into generals." Jedi Master Double D after Order 66
On the way to Muunilinst, Double D walks to an LAAT gunship. Ten clone troopers are preparing their weapons. Seven of them are in gleaming white standard clone armor while the leader, Fordo, has red patterning on his shoulders and arms and the other two have blue patterns on their armor.
"Okay, troops, in about three minutes, we will arrive on the planet Muunilinst in the capital city of Harnaidan. There, the Intergalactic Banking Clan has set up a massive droid factory capable of producing a countless number of battle droids. Your job is to end this battle before they can use this factory to their advantage, meaning I want this battle over before the day is done. Your orders are to go ahead of the other troops and disable the artillery guns at the base of the observation tower. With their main defensive batteries disabled, I'll meet up with you later and my remaining troops will surround the tower while you help me apprehend Crocker and the other Banking Clan leaders. The outcome of this battle is entirely dependant upon your success, Captain Fordo. Can I count on you?"
"C'mon, general, when have I ever let you down?" Fordo joked. Double D just laughed.
"Very well, captain. I'll look forward to seeing you at that tower!" Fordo salutes Double D and Double D returns another salute. Double D returns to his eager Padawan learners, who are eagerly boarding a gunship. Around him, clones are boarding separate gunships, preparing for the battle about to take place. The sliding blast doors on the sides of the gunships all slide shut as the assault ships come out of hyperspace.
In front of the fleet, Master Kurosaki's starfleet has already engaged the Banking Clan's orbital defenses. Master Kurosaki, flying his Jedi starfigher named Zangetsu, radio's Master Double D's flagship.
"It's about time you got here! I've pretty much got these guys taken care of, so they shouldn't give you any trouble!"
"Okay, we have the all-clear!" A clone trooper says. "Open the blast doors!"
The large, metal doors on the sides of the arrowhead-shaped spaceships open and thousands of gunships fly out of the hangars. They all group together and fly towards the planet.
"All right, once we land, the three of you stay out of trouble while I get the troops in formation," Double D says. "Eddy, I'll have a Jedi fighter ready for you once we get the droids beaten back into the city. You are to use it to bomb their remaining forces. I don't want you showing off and I don't want you flying anywhere away off on your own. Do you understand?"
"Yeah, whatever," Eddy replies as he leans against the back wall of the gunship.
"This is going to be fun!" Carrie says. "I've never been on such a big mission before!"
"What do I do, Double D?" Ed asks.
"You will help keep Carrie out of trouble! You remember well what happened on Cato Nemoidia."
"Sir, we're approaching the outskirts of the city," the pilot informs the Jedi Master.
"That's good!" Double D says. He turns on a wrist communicator and says to it, "Okay, Fordo, you know where to go from here." One of the gunships disbands from the rest and flies off in a different direction.
"Sir, they've sent in a legion of Hailfire tanks!" the pilot shouts. Double D opens the blast door on the side of the gunship, grabs the bar hanging on the ceiling, and looks out ahead. Rolling their way is a whole bunch of large-wheeled droids with rocket launchers attached to the sides of the droid bodies. Suddenly, the droids begin firing rockets at the LAATs!
"This is not good! EVASIVE MANEUVERS!!!!" Double D screams. The gunships swerve out of the path of the missiles. The jolt sends Eddy to the ground. The rockets hit a few unlucky dropships behind them, completely destroying them.
"You could've at least warned be before doing that!!!" Eddy shouts.
"Do it again!!!" Carrie screams.
The dropships land one by one and clone troops start making a defensive line in front of the Hailfire tanks. Some ARC troopers at the front of the line take down a few with their rocket launchers, while the other clones hold their ground while the other dropships land.
Meanwhile, Captain Fordo's dropship has flown into Harnaidan City. The ship flies past buildings and empty, abandoned streets towards its objective. Unfortunately, they've been spotted by a rocket launcher-wielding battle droid. The droid aims at the ship, locks on and fires. The rocket hits the side of the ship and sends it crashing to the ground.
"Didja get 'em?" A different battle droid asks.
"Rodger, rodger!"
The ship has crashed on its side in the middle of the street and a small fire is burning from one of the engines. The side door slides open and the ten troopers crawl out.
"Looks like we'll have to continue on foot," Fordo says, looking at the remains of the LAAT.
"Aw, man! Can't we call a cab, or something? I don't feel like walking!" one of the troopers complains.
"Walking is good for you, private, now let's move out!"
Suddenly, droid snipers hiding in the buildings around Fordo's troops open fire.
"Sniper fire!!! TAKE COVER!!!!" The troops hide behind the downed LAAT. In the confusion, one of the troopers gets hit in the chest.
"Crap! That guy owed me fifty credits!!!" A trooper yells.
"Cut the chatter, trooper! ARC-007, grab your launcher out of the LAAT and show these blasted tin-cans the true meaning of 'heavy fire'! CT-43/005 and 003 will cover you."
ARC-007 drags his rocket launcher out of the gunship. Fordo looks at the buildings with a pair of binoculars and points out the targets. The ARC trooper, followed by two regular troops, runs out from behind the ship, kneels down, and fires a rocket at the building in front of him. The rocket hits its mark, making a huge crater in the side of the building. The snipers behind them duck the fire from the other clones, unable to return fire and unable to escape. The ARC trooper launches a missile towards their location and destroys it. Fordo scopes out the buildings for any more droids.
"Looks like we're all clear! Let's move out! ARC troopers, leave your launchers." Fordo commands. "We have better toys for you in the LAAT." The ARC troopers dig around in the wreckage and pull out a couple of chain guns. The troops run down the road and hide behind a large statue.
"Clone, see if there's any bogies out there," Fordo says. One of the troopers peers out from behind the statue. "Is it clear?"
"Uh, sir, we have a small situation…" KER-POW!!!!!!! A laser bolt hits the statue close to where the troopers are hiding. An AAT droid tank hovers into Frodo's view. The clones scramble to their feet, reclaim their weapons, and open fire on the tank, but their weapons only glance off the tank's hard armored sides.
"Cover for me, sir!" An ARC troop shouts as he runs up to the tank, dodging laser fire as he goes. He leaps onto the main cannon, tears the hatch open, and jumps inside. Instantly, the tank stops firing and the trooper jumps out. The second he jumps out, the tank explodes.
"Oh, yeah! Gimme five!" The ARC and a regular clone high-five each other.
"Excellent work," Frodo exclaims. He then throws a small, baseball-sized recon droid up in the air. After a few seconds of beeping and spinning around, the droid falls back into the clone Captain's hand. A mini holo-map of the city projects from the droid's eye. "This way, troops! We're almost to our destination!"
"I hope they have burgers there. I'm starving!" Frodo puts his hand on his forehead after hearing this from one of his battle-hardened troops.
Moments later, they reach their objective; a large black tower with a laser battering cannon at the base. It's firing away into the distance; probably towards the Republican forces fighting less than a mile away. The troopers begin to scale the tower.
"Hey, I heard the funniest Chuck Norris joke the other day!" One of the ARC troopers says.
"Cool! Wait…who in the Galaxy is Chuck Norris?"
"Stay focused, men! We're almost there!" The troopers make it to the top of the cannon, where they're met with an army of battle droids! Frodo pulls two blaster pistols out of his gun holsters and fires into the droids. The droids return fire, but all their shots miss the troops by miles. After a short and vicious gun-fight, the droids are defeated.
"Okay, men, let's set up some bombs!" Frodo declares.
"Oh, yeah, this is my favorite part of the job!"
"Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go!" A trooper sings. The troops lay explosives all around the base of the tower.
"Good work men!" Frodo says. "Now, let's contact General Double D so we can end this battle and go home!"
"Hey, sir, while you're at it, could you order some pizza?"
Ignoring his troops, Frodo pushes a button on his wrist and says, "Sir, we've achieved our objective!"