The second chapter! I wrote this up in a matter of maybe two hours, but it took me forever to get it edited. My chapters are really short.

Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars or The Republic Commando Series.

As the men gazed out onto the battle before them they slowly began to wonder what to do next. Unfortunately for them the decision was made for them when a droid spotted them and cried out, "Enemies at three o'clock, open fire!" As soon as the other droids heard this several turned and saw the clones on top of the hill. Truthfully who could miss them? They were wearing all white armor. Within a few seconds of sighting the clones they opened fire. The clones had an excellent response time, which allowed them to scatter in several different directions. One of the clones opened fire and hit a droid in the chest plate. Soon the others began to open up too.

While they were firing the other clones that were already there continued their fight with the droids. Slowly but steadily the droids began to go down. The number of droids firing on them had been reduced already by the arrival of the other men, but now the droid's numbers were falling due to the clone's excellent aim.

The men on the hill continued to exchange fire with the droids below. One of the clones saw his brother get hit by a round. The round hit the clone in the helmet, and the rest of the men could hear a sizzle as it burned through the helmet. They could hear a small, "oh," Escape the soldier's mouth as he fell. The two nearest men stopped for a second to watch him fall. If you could have seen their faces they would have had a look of disgust. Soon the men started to get angry, and wanted to kill every droid in sight. The blue blaster fire began to intensify, and the red blaster fire began to get smaller.

The droids were getting hit quickly now, and before anyone knew it there were only six left. They all began to think the battle was almost over, but it wasn't. With only a few droids left one of the clones on the hill was hit. The red blaster fire connected with his chest, and he said nothing as he fell. The others just wanted to end the fight now. They had already lost two of their number, and that was too many for them. The last droid fell to a blaster shot in the head. The battle was over for now.

The two groups of clones walked towards each other through the battle field. A few of them even took the time to step on a few droids on the way.

"Nice of you to join us!"

"The pleasure is all ours. How many of you are there?"

"When we started we were a full company of 40. Now we're down to 28. How many are you?"

"There are only 10 of us. We started out with 12."

"Why are they letting you all loose at squad strength? Shouldn't you be with your company?"

"I guess not. How long did we keep you waiting?"

"Only about 20 minutes. We were doing just fine when you showed up."

One of clones from the squad grinded his teeth together to switch to the private squad comlink. "We could see that."

"So do you have any orders?"

"Not that I know of, but we haven't checked recently. We were a little busy."

"Ya, we know. Maybe we both should check." Both sergeants turned on their coms at the same time. One comlink only had static, but the other got through to HQ.

"Squad 24-40…"

"Ya I know who you are. I can see it on my screen now. Having fun with our droid friends?"

"Loads of fun, but then they got a little hostile over some land, and we fought for it. Guess who won?"

"Well that's well and good, but we're having some problems elsewhere. The good news is that most of the droids are retreating."

"Great there's always bad news!"

"What's the bad news?"

"The droids are getting ready for one last strike."

"Really, where? Should we go meet up with them and show them our great hospitality?"

"I've been working on my manners."

"You had manners?"

"Anyways, the droids are getting ready to attack, but we don't have anything to send to that area."

"We're free! We could help out somewhere. I don't have anything scheduled until 1500 hours."

"Well," the man hesitated, "you're fine where you are. That's just the thing. The new strike is in your area. They're sending in a total of 200 droids there. We don't have any support for you. You'll have to fight them alone."

"Don't worry, we got this. We can hold anything they try to throw at us."

"Well, they seem to be throwing everything at you. Well have fun, and say hello to a few droids for me," and with that the com went dead.

"Anyone else ready for some heavy, duty action?"

"Bring it."

Well, what did you thing? R&R people! Please? It's right there! It will take less time then getting an insurence quote at Gycko!