AN: hello everyone sorry for the delay was busy for the last few weeks.
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(Chapter 15 the siege part 2)
Micah pursed his lips as he watched the holo display of the battle field, it showed the enemy's camp about a hundred meters away from the castle walls, "They are getting ready for a massive attack." Micah observed.
Alpha nodded in agreement, "Yeah, sneaky little buggers aren't they." the Arc Trooper stated, he wished he was out there fighting rather than being stuck in here.
"Yes," Micah agreed, the long range transmitter pinged telling him that Rarok was trying to contact them, he answered the call on audio, "Micah here."
"This is Rarok Cardea, I have some bad news." the Mandalorian said his voice was a bit thick with sadness.
Micah had a bad feeling about this, "What is it?"
"Breakout squad had been given order 66 thankfully they managed to suppress the urge for all these months, but a few minutes ago… they snapped." Rarok informed.
Micah's red eyes widend, "Nuru, Uriah?" he asked,
"... Dead."
Micah sucked in a breath, "I see,"
"I am incredibly sorry about this, I should have stayed on the ship." Rarok tried.
"Just work on getting here." Micah said his voice devoid of emotion.
"... Alright." with that the comm cut off.
"Damn it!" Alpha exclaimed as he slammed his fist into his chair.
"Indeed." Micah agreed his face tense from barely controlled anger, in his mind he cursed
Sidious's name over and over again for all the pain he had caused the Jedi, the clones, heck everyone in the galaxy.
"Should we tell the others?" Alpha asked.
Micah shook his head, "No, we need them focused on the task at hand."
"What's the matter?" a voice asked prompting the two to see Auron entering the room, "Just tell me I know something's up."
Micah sighed, "Rarok just contacted us, Breakout squad snapped and killed Nuru and Uriah."
Auron raised an eyebrow, "Just like that?" he asked in disbelief.
Micah was confused by the force user's disbelief, "You don't believe them?"
"I just find it hard to believe that two seasoned Jedi both of whom who knew that Breakout squad could at any moment turn on them be taken out so easily." Auron pointed out.
"Perhaps they were caught off guard." Alpha suggested.
Auron furrowed his brows in thought, "Maybe, or there is another explanation, they faked their deaths."
"How?" Alpha asked.
"Think about it, a trained force user can affect a person's mind even implanting false memories."
Micah's eyes widened in understanding, "So you're saying that it's possible that Uriah or Nuru made the clones think they killed them."
"Yep." Auron confirmed, "A smart move if I do say so myself."
"... If what you say is true then they made Breakout Squad think that they killed their commander and friend." Alpha growled.
Auron shrugged, "True, but it also protects both parties involved," he stated, "Anyway the real reason I came in here I wish to know what's going on and I didn't want to worry Vega." he told them.
Micah looked at the holo table and sighed, "The enemy is preparing for a massive assault."
Auron nodded grimly, "I see well I will get back out there and prepare for the battle."
"Good luck." Alpha called.
"May the Force be with you." Micah said in farewell, Causing Auron to pause for a moment before shaking it off and walking out of the room
Auron walked back to the wall and glared out over the field, "Let them come." Auron muttered quietly as he closed his eyes again and slipped into his meditation.
Vega shivered slightly as he watched the field, "Rohkea?" Vega asked getting the wookie's attention.
{What is it cub?}
"What was it like for you?" Vega asked, the wookie knew instantly what he was referring to.
{I was about eighty years old when I fought in a minor conflict with the Trandoshan Slavers, that was ninety years ago, and I did what I had to do… at the time I didn't care they were scum I don't shed tears for them, but it isn't easy dealing with the fact that I ended someone's life.}
"For me, I felt the area around us be tainted as we killed the enemy, I felt the same thing during the clone wars but to be the one who caused it, to feel it as it formed was incredibly unsettling, it wasn't anything drastic but it still appeared." Vega explained.
Rohkea nodded not quite understanding it, {I don't know much about the Force, Vega or how it responds to death, Daniel may be the one you should talk to.}
Vega looked over the field again, "I don't want him to worry about me, any more then he is." Vega told the wookie.
{I understand.} Rohkea said and placed a hand on the boy's shoulder in reassurance, Vega only sighed and bowed his head slightly.
"I never wanted this Rohkea." the boy muttered, "at this point in my life I thought that I'd still be with my family, perhaps helping my father with his art, or perhaps being an older brother by this point."
Rohkea lightly squeezed the boy's shoulder in response, the boy had mentioned his family to the rest of the rangers a few days prior, {It's not fair, cub.}
Vega sniffled slightly, "No it isn't." he agreed shakily, he turned to look at the wookie his eyes glistened slightly, "But at least I got to meet all of you."
Rohkea smiled sadly and pulled the boy into a hug, {We'll get through this and keep the memory alive.}
Vega let out a sigh and lightly patted the Wookie's arm, "Thank you." Rohkea nodded and let the boy go, "Do you think that we'll ever get to Remnant? Vega asked, Auron had told them the actual name of the planet from the vision as well as the name of the Grimm.
Rohkea shrugged, {If we are meant to then we will get there, perhaps our current trials are preparing us for that world.} Rohkea told him
Vega furrowed his brows in thought, "That's an interesting way of looking at it." the boy stated.
Rohkea nodded, {I was always taught that our tribulations exist to make us stronger so that we are prepared for what the future throws at us.}
Vega scoffed slightly, "Then I must be incredibly strong." he sighed with a bitter chuckle of amusement.
Rohkea let out a noise akin to a laugh, {We all are,} the Wookie said as he looked at Daniel, Auron, and Aaron. {We underestimate what we are capable of enduring.}
Vega turned to face the Wookie, "My father would tell me the same thing, that 'We underestimate what we are capable of enduring'."
{He's not wrong,}
Vega let out another breath, "Rohkea, I miss him." Vega admitted.
{I know you do I miss my father as well.} Rohkea told the young boy, {He died of natural causes but it still hurts}
Vega nodded and before the conversation could continue, "Battle positions the Enemy is launching another attack!" Dah'um shouted as he fired his carbine at the approaching horde.
Vega pursed his lips, "Well time for another bought." he said and called one of the blasters to his hand and shot at the enemy forces using what Caleb taught him to great effect.
Blaze heard the warning and looked at the gate, Guardian stood right next to him, "Perhaps this time we'll actually do some fighting." Blaze said.
Guardian nodded, "Perhaps" he silently agreed, if he had eyes they would have narrowed slightly.
Outside the gate, one of the Urku was running at the gate with wild abandon the bolts that were fired at him seem to not even faze him, as he got closer he lept at the gate, and the armor he was wearing glowed a bright white and detonated.
Daniel who was standing on the segment of the wall over the gate heard the explosion then felt the structure underneath him collapsed and he fell with it.
Auron and Vega looked over at Daniel and found that he had fallen into the remains of the gate, "Daniel?!" Vega called out, and stretched out with his senses, he breathed a sigh of relief when he felt Daniel's signature still as strong as ever, Vega also sensed an enemy coming up on him, without thinking he bashed the Urku over the head with his rifle with enough force to not only break the rifle but to leave the Urku severely concussed.
Vega then discarded the rifle, drew his lightsaber, and continued the fight.
Daniel hissed slightly as he made to stand up from the rubble, "That could have been very bad." he said, as he gave himself a quick check over, 'nothing too bad, I can still walk so I can still fight.' he thought to himself and activated his lightsaber's blade function, abruptly the hulking form of Blaze rushed forward past him into the throng of Urku.
Blaze charged at one of the Urku and slammed his fist into its armored head practically denting the faceplate into the warriors head and killing him, Blaze then took the body and threw it into the horde knocking quite a few down, before lighting them up with his flame projectors on his left arm, before switching to the chain gun on his right arm and mowing down the hordes as they approached.
Daniel sputtered slightly, "That works." he managed, 'I'm so glad that he's on our side.' he thought to himself, 'I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that.'
Zhrine walked up beside the young Jedi, watching the carnage the Blaze Trooper was dishing out in silent awe.
"The Blaze Troopers are something, aren't they?" Daniel asked outloud.
"Hmn." Zhrine agreed silently, before taking a thermal detonator and lobbing it over the hulking, trooper and into the horde further back, "He's taking up a lot of the fun though." she sighed.
Daniel shrugged, "I don't mind." before looking up and seeing enemy flyers approaching, "well it looks like we're going to have a fight ourselves." Daniel said pointing at the incoming Dramons.
Zhrine looked up and nodded slightly, her lips pursed in determination, her maroon eyes narrowed in preparation, she held her double bladed sword in her opening stance, the sword held perpendicular to her body from behind, and her off hand clenched in a fist in front, her knees slightly bent in preparation.
Guardian came up to Daniel's right and nodded at the boy before turning his attention to the Dramons, his wrist mounted blasters at the ready.
The Dramons landed and made to attack the group while some went for Blaze's exposed flank, Daniel weaved around the attacking Dramons and went for the ones going after the Blaze Trooper, leaping onto one of their backs and activating his saber through the Dramon's neck where the armor was spaced so the neck could turn, before leaping in front of the others getting between them and Blaze, "No." Daniel said simply and took the opening Shi-Cho stance, "You have to go through me first." the two Dramons growled and charged the young Jedi, Daniel Lept over the first one and landed on the second, and separated his head from his shoulders, before jumping off of him and landing on the grass, in a crouched position as if he was a coiled spring ready to release his energy, the other Dramon roared in rage, and threw a large stone at Daniel.
The spring that was Daniel released all it's potential energy and corkscrewed into the air, avoiding the stone, and swinging his blade at the incoming Dramon, the blade hit the silver steel helmet and caused the Dramon's head to veer to the right with its body following it and Daniel landed on the ground with the grace of a dancer, the young Jedi then flipped into the air and plunged his blade into the Dramon's neck effectively killing it and ending the current threat to Blaze.
Zhrine sidestepped an incoming Dramon and struck the one that followed, before she got clotheslined by another Dramon, she landed on her back, she made to get up only for a Dramon to land on her and stomp on her repeatedly, Zhine then caught the Dramon's foot, and in an impressive display of strength, pushed the Dramon off of her, then stabbed it in the leg where the armor gap was between the crotch and leg, before she leaped and beheaded it as she landed.
Guardian blasted the Dramons with his wrist mounted blasters, the bolts didn't do anything to the silver steel armor except causing a few scorch marks, abruptly Ju came up from behind a Dramon and pulled its head back violently exposing the neck area even more, the shard took advantage and shot the Dramon in the neck till it stopped moving.
Ju snarled and jumped onto another Dramon and savagely snapped it's neck, before one swooped down on him and carried him into the air, Ju grabbed onto the dramon and climbed up its body till he got to its head and repeatedly smashed his fist into its face throwing it off its bearings and sent it crashing into the courtyard, there the other Urku proceeded to kill it while Ju stood up and saw that Vega, Auron, and the other shards were repairing the breach with telekinesis, while Rohkea, Dah'um, and Aaron rained fire down on the attacking horde which was being held back by the combined efforts of Blaze, Daniel, Zhrine, and Guardian.
Daniel saw that the wall was being repaired, "Just a few more minutes Blaze." Daniel told the Blaze Trooper.
"Understood." Blaze answered as he continued to mow down the enemy horde, Daniel switched his lightsaber to its ranged function and took pot shots into the horde to help Blaze.
After several minutes the Wall was finally rebuilt and the defenders retreated back to it, "Zhrine you first." Daniel said as he took his lightsaber and using its blade function bisected an enemy Urku, the Urku commander nodded and climbed the wall at an incredible speed, when she reached the top, Daniel gestured to Guardian, the shard nodded, leap into the air, and onto the wall, Daniel called upon the force and let it fill him before unleashing a wave on the horde sending them through the air and into their camp before seizing Blaze and throwing him up onto the wall before following suit, after he pulled himself onto the wall he took a moment to catch his breath.
"Another bombing run!" Auron shouted at his allies, "GO!" he ordered and brought his hand down, the friendly Dramons nodded and took off, and dropped the bombs on the enemy encampment.
"Well then." Daniel breathed as he looked out over the field again, "How long do you think that'll hold them back?" he asked as he saw the enemy rebuilding their Camp.
"I don't know." Auron sighed, "At least we have machine guns, that really saved our skins." he said as he affectionately patted Blaze on the back, "Thanks."
Blaze just waved off the thanks, "Just doing my job."
Vega meanwhile looked down into the courtyard his eyes narrowed slightly, "Vega what is it?" Aaron asked concerned as he looked between the courtyard and the young Jedi.
Vega looked up for a moment, "Guardian of the Temple?" he called out, the spirit manifested itself on the wall next to them.
"Yes young one?" the Spirit asked.
Vega pointed at the courtyard, the grass was flat from all the walking around, "Can the enemy gain access by digging under the wall?"
The others looked at the spirit with a raised eyebrow, "... They never have before… but it's possible." the Guardian admitted, just then the ground with the courtyard exploded, showing several tunnels throughout the courtyard.
"THE ENEMY HAS BREACHED THE FORTRESS DEFENCES FALL BACK TO THE KEEP!" one of the friendly Urku shouted as the Death Bringers came in from the tunnels, and began to do as their name suggests… Bring death.
AN: I hope you all enjoyed special thanks to Mandalore the Freedom for proof reading the chapter
See you all next chapter.