"Bring me the legs you two" orders Falcon at two B-1 series battle droids.
"Roger, roger" replies both droids and they individually got a leg and drop it over next to him.
Falcon grabs one of the legs and begins using his fusion cutter to attach to the cripple IG-100 MagnaGuard droid. It already had its arms attached and its head attach to a power cord connecting to a tactical droid. Den-Jii and Bolt walk into the room, he kneels down and looks Bolt in the eyes, "Bolt, I need you to listen to me very carefully. You are not getting any younger. In 5 years you will be 20. Double that you will be my age, there is a way to teach you quickly but it is very risky."
"Master I am willing to do whatever it takes."
Den-Jii smiles at his courage, "Good, now you're learning helmet is feeding you information how to be a proper trooper, well I'm giving you more homework. What I am going to do to you is dangerous; you will be put into a coma. I do not know how long it will last but while in the coma, you will learn the ways of the force, fast. But just because you are in a "dream" per say, doesn't mean it's not real. If you fail to simply defend yourself against an enemy combatant, your body and mind will think it's real and it will do the same type of pain as you experience in the dream. I am against of the idea of doing this but it's the only way ok?"
Bolt nods in agreement with his master. Den-Jii holds out his hands to Bolt, he takes his hands and together they meditate. Ace walks into the room and sees what is happening, "Awkward, well I'm done with the inspection of the droid army."
Falcon wipes off the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief in his pocket, "Ya well how does it look?"
Ace grabs a chair and sits down slowly; he takes off his battle-hardened helmet, "Five legions of ground troops. Three starships, one Lucrehulk, well use it as our command ship, and two Providence destroyers. We have around 2,000 fighters, a dozen or more troop carriers, 300 tanks, and etc."
"Not bad. How's the factory?"
"The factory is running on full capacity. It's making two more destroyers and one more command ship, and several more legions. For now, were good to go and see what we got."
"Great, where are Fenn and Dexter?"
"Dexter is docking The Freak Show on the command ship. And Fenn, he talking to a friend on Coruscant who's feeding him info on Imperial activity."
Den-Jii releases his hands from Bolts and gets up while Bolt sat perfectly still. Ace waves his hand over Bolt's closed eyes seeing if he were to move.
"Ace he's meditating don't disturb him. I heard what you were saying; let's go see what Fenn got for us. Are you staying Falcon?"
"Yea I am, I just finish, and the download is… done! Give it a few minutes to readjust and well find out if this droid is all we hope to be."
Den-Jii looks around the room and sees the two battle droids, "Bolt is going to be meditating for a while and when I say a while I mean a long time. You two droids, I want 50 extra droids guarding this hallway, no one gets in here except us, no one disturb Bolt, let him be until he awakens okay?"
"Roger, roger" answers both droids and run off to fetch more droids.
"Sir, what about me?" asks the MagnaGuard droid as he gets up from the ground fully activated.
"That was faster than I expected!" exclaims Falcon.
The droid turn its head on Falcon, "As General Grievous once said, we were meant to make surprises."
"Rrrriiiight. Too bad for you he's dead and you work for us now."
"Roger" it replies with a low tone voice.
"Can you change your voice? I honestly hate your voice it sounds kind of evilish" suggests Ace.
The droid touches its throat and adjusts its voice box, "Like this sir?" sounding like any other clone from Kamino.
"I like it. Keep it.," says Falcon.
"Now all we need is a name for you my friend" says Den-Jii.
"Ooooh I know one! How 'bout The Killer?"
"That's a title not a name." says Ace.
"Oh, than I'm all out of ideas."
"Roger, roger"
Den-Jii steps forward, "We will figure it out later, first order of business let's get all the droids on the parade ground outside. Let's see the whole army."
"Hey guys I'm back but where's the hallway that leads you to the balcony of the parade ground?" asks Dexter over the comm.
"I don't know how to tell you, were just following the droid" replies Falcon.
"What droid?"
"The cripple one. Hey droid you like the name cripple?"
"Negative."
"Well I'm completely lost I'm afraid of becoming one of those dead guys at the entrance doors and…" Dexter suddenly appears out of nowhere bumps into the droid and fall to the floor causing Ace to trip over the two than next Falcon. Den-Jii looks at his generals on the floor, "Shall we proceed?"
"Yes general" says Ace and helps everyone up off the ground and continue walking. As they walk closer to the light, the sounds of marching and fighters can be heard. The group finally makes out into the balcony and in the daylight they see Vulture droids flying by overhead. As they look over, thousands of battle droids march around in parade formation. C-9979 landing crafts begin landing behind the ground troops and AAT tanks roll out of the factory's vehicles complex along with spider walkers, hailfire tanks, and tri-droids.
Three commander droids on STAP's hover over to the balcony, "Sir, we are the commanders of the three grand legions. I am commander OOM-11 of the 1st , and these…"
Ace holds up his hands and the droid stops talking, "You are with me Cupcake. Hmmm… I actually like that name. You're keeping it Cupcake, sorry Cripple I promise to think of one for you."
"Excellent, in that case cripple… Sorry I said that, you're in command of the 2nd , and Venn you're in control of the 3rd."
Ace looks around everyone on the balcony, "Sir, Venn is not here."
"I'm here general Den-Jii. Sorry I'm late sir, I got some bad news and I guess new news."
"Start with the bad news than."
"Sir, Imperials are going to conduct a campaign operation on the colony planet of Tyron, its outpost is 2 parsec's away but it will be a good outpost for its Outer Rim fleet."
"How swell. And the good news?"
"Were going to have our first battle" he says with a grin.
Everyone looks at Den-Jii and watch him stroke his short cut beard thinking. Once he stops he turns and looks at Ace in the eyes, "You still have your phase-1 battle armor?"
"Yes General."
"Good cause your Legion is dropping in first."
Ace smiles back, "Cupcake, get the legion in the drop ships."
Ace finishes adjusts his visor, rangefinder, pauldron, and kama on his Phase-1 armor. He looks into the mirror and sees all of the battle scars from major battles when not doing a special op.
"May I say, nice color" says Fenn as he watches him.
"Ya well the blue is faded from all the planets I've been through."
Cupcake enters Ace's room, "Sir we are exiting out of hyperspace to the far side of the moon. General Jii also requests both of your presences in the control room on the bridge."
"Thank you Cupcake give me a moment with General Fenn will ya?"
"Roger, roger".
Cupcake leaves the room and Ace looks at where Fenn's eyes should be behind his helmet, "You ever been in combat?"
"Not in large scale assaults."
"It's intense, bloody, lives will be lost. Correct that, I guess in this case metal and droid parts will be lost, the point is don't lose your cool and keep moving."
"Got it."
Ace smiles at him and picks up his helmet off his bed and puts it under his arm, "After you".
Both walk into the control room of the Lucrehulk and sees Den-Jii consulting with the MagnaGuard droid while they look at the layout of the planet from a hologram.
"Nice of you two to join us, here's the game plan: Well launch all fighters and send the destroyers to attack there Star Destroyers. While they're distracted by them, we will send in the drop ships. Ace your legion will land in first, 10 miles from the enemy base, and make a LZ for the rest of the army. I'm unsure of the enemy resistance but when we win this battle, and we will win, leave no traces that we were even there. Got it?"
"Sir, yes sir!" respond all the generals.
"I also want prisoners. I want to see if we can convert some stormtroopers or non-clone officers back to the light side and reedeem themselves."
"Yes sir!"
"Good than get to your drop ships and lets start this war all over again. May the force be with us."
"Cupcake with me!" Ace barks out to his second in command and both start walking for the hanger bay.
"Yes sir!"
"Prep the larty for me and once we get out of hyperspace our fighters are going to punch a hole for us so we must seize the opportunity to get on that planet."
"Yes sir".
"I want those AAT's being the first thing out of the dropships, and send STAP's on patrols immediately."
"Roger, roger. Sir, what about their communications?"
"Well take a quick stop at their communications with the fighters before we go for land than."
"Roger, roger."
Ace and Cupcake walk into the hanger bay and see thousands of battle droids marching into the dropships and Vulture droids walking in front of the dropships getting ready to deploy.
"Ace this is Fenn," Fenn calls in on the comm, "Me and cripple are at the other hanger bay were going to wait there until you take the LZ. Good luck."
As Ace and Cupcake walk to the LAAT, its doors open and inside are eight Commando droids, sixteen B1 battle droids and four B2 Super battle droids with 2 commando droids piloting. "General, do you mind if we get a good drop team?"
"Cupcake, I got a lot of things to teach you. Your first lesson, tell me before you do stuff. Got it?"
"Roger, roger" it replies hanging its head.
"Ace you and your troops ready?" asks Den-Jii from the control/war room.
"Aye sir, we have green light for go. All fighters ready for deployment and same for dropships." Ace replies back through his wrist comm.
"Green light for go here" Says Fenn.
"Roger, roger green light" reports the MangnaGuard droid.
"Good. 'Operation Light Side of the Moon' is in effect. May the force be with us all."