Escape Pod AC 324:

The gunship came in for a landing in front of the pod with troopers that were once in it surrounding the pod. As soon as the doors opened, Vaungh stepped out flanked by two troopers. Briefly looking around the clones that all saluted, Vaungh was confused when he couldn't find General Skywalker.

"Trooper, where is the general?" He asked the trooper that he noticed didn't salute him.

"It's me Vaughn" as clear as day over the comms he was a little surprised to hear Anakin's voice a little distorted over the communicator that clones use. He then became slightly embarrassed as on second glance, he can tell the armor fitted him awkwardly with too much space between armor platings. It was quite obvious now that he took a second to take in his stature. "How do you guys move in these things?" Anakin proceeded to ask absentmindedly as he adjusted his shoulder pad.

"Sorry sir! I had forgotten that you would need the armor in order to breath in the atmosphere." Vaughn saluted.

"No problem. Hold on, doesn't Rex have you on another assignment? Why are you conducting search and rescue." Anakin asked.

"Sir, there has been a situation."

Skies of Pandora:

"Making another run! Firing for effect, danger close!" Rear exclaimed as his ARC 130 dove screeching downwards to the forest floor pulling the trigger while slightly pulling up the throttle making a line of firing across the floor. As he had been ordered, he followed the downed pod and was shocked when he saw a red flare shot in the air which he knew could only mean some sort of trouble. After changing to a different channel, he was able to contact the ground team and learn of the situation.

Just as he was about to reach the forest floor, he pulled back the throttle hard and leveled the ship before taking off back into the air at speeds that terrified the Nav'i. They didn't even have the chance to release their bows that they had drawn skyward as the ship mowed down a few of their fighters that arrived as back up.

"Where are our Ikran riders?" Ruhr screamed to the newly arrived warriors as he hid behind a tree branch with blaster fire hitting the other side. The humans in the pod were able to establish a perimeter at the entrance of the downed pod when the Nav'i fighters arrived as the Nav'i had to back off due to their position being too exposed to their metal ships. They had to force their direhorses to retreat from the battle; they were too large a target.

"Here soon!" One of them screamed while hiding behind another tree that was being dosed by laser fire. "They are positioning themselves for an ambush! They do not know if they can take down those metal ships conventionally! They are too quick!"

Ruhr let out a grunt of discontent as he left his protection to let out a random arrow with a shout.

Clones POV:

"WHOA!" Star yelled as he leaned to the left and dodged an arrow that almost impaled him.

"Someone toss me a thermal!" Charge shouted out as he fired into the tree line not really knowing what he was shooting at but knew if he stopped they would begin to fire their insanely large arrows back.

"Sir!" Star yelled, getting his attention as he threw him one. He caught it and immediately activated it before standing up from his cover behind a downed tree and chucking it between two trees where he suspected the attackers were firing from.

As soon as the explosion went off he was treated to the sight of two blue figures being blasted out from behind the trees and onto the ground. Before they could stand back up and run to new cover, his men quickly gunned them down.

"I NEED A HAND!" Crow yelled from within the pod as he attended to Dexter from what little cover they had.

Charge looked to his left. "Drag, get in there and give the medic a hand I'll cover you!" Drag then in a short few but quick steps made it to the pod without any arrows being released.

"I need you to apply pressure to the wound here!" Crow screamed over the blaster fire. Drag did as told as Crow went through his kit."I was able to apply Bacta to the other side and was about to on front too for an easy fix but look at that arrow over there!" Drag looked to the left to see a snapped arrow with the tip having a notable green and red mix in color. "I suspect the tip was laced with something I don't know what but I need to find- there!"

He pulled out a small shot with a cylinder body. "Lift his head and expose his neck, do not take off his helmet. I am going to have to administer the shot through the underlying suit." Just as he said that he immediately jabbed the shot in with Dexter's body that jumped for a moment only for his cries to quiet down as Drag lowered him to the ground.

"There! Whatever is in him right now should slow down in spreading, but we need to get him back to base for full dialysis." Crow exclaimed before tapping his comm "Sir! When are those gunships arriving!"

"Right now!" Charge said as he looked overhead as he saw a single gunship begin to descend and fire off both the LA-AT lasers flanking the sides of the ship and the traditional green plasma bolts. Whatever was in the forest fled hiding deeper into the trees as they saw blue figures run out from cover as the bolts from the ships weapons were demolishing the barks they hid behind.

Just as the doors of the gunship opened up, as it was descending about to break the tree line, what could only be described as beasts by Charge were heard letting out cries as they broke out of the trees. The large bird-like creatures attacked the gunship. Immediately, the pilot attempted to pull up as the creatures were attacking the inside of the gunship as a clone can be heard screaming as it was flung out and into the forest. Charge looked up in horror as he then noticed the blue aliens also mounting these beasts. One of the riders shot two arrows into the cockpit.

The ship then sharply dipped to the left as its wing met with the tree line crashing into the forest floor not 30 feet away leaving a noticeable scar where trees used to be and leaving behind a mighty explosion.

"Charge what was that!" Charge heard Rear over the short transmission radio he was using.

"That was our evac!" Charge shouted at him and his men began to shoot skywards to the beasts. Before they escaped to the skies, the one that took down the gunship released another arrow to the group this time striking Chase who let out a grunt.

"CHASE NO!" Tear yelled as Chase laid motionless with the arrow having struck through his chest plate killing him on impact and soon confirmed as Tear tried to find a pulse. "WE LOST CHASE!" Just as he screamed that another arrow whizzed overhead from the forest as what sounded to be 100s of war calls, yells, and whoops began to be let loose. And from all around, blue aliens charged from out of the forest towards the group.

"MAKING RUN DANGER CLOSE! JUST HOLD ON! REINFORCEMENTS ENROUTE!" Rear yelled as he desperately tried to take out as many as he could in the attack run when he witnessed many blue figures charging to the crash site. He then grabbed his radio and made a call back to base "MAYDAY! MAYDAY! BROKEN RIFLE! I REPEAT BROKEN RIFLE!"

"WE NEED THEM HEAR NOW!" Charge yelled as he was firing wildly towards the charging natives with some of them even tanking the body shots and only taking a moment to recover before charging again.

"AHHHHHH" Charge turned around to see his brother Tear lifted a few feet into the air by a blue alien that impaled him through the chest with a spear.

"TEAAARRRRR NOOOO!" Charge roared as he peppered the alien with his DC rifle before it dropped Tear's lifeless corpse.

Before Charge could even check his pulse, he turned around immediately facing the top of the pod and saw another alien releasing a mighty cry and coming down with what appeared to be a club. Charge immediately rolled to the right and when the warrior was about to strike again after realizing it did not hit its target, Charge also filled him full of laser bolts.

"CROW SEAL THE ENTRANCE!" He shouted as he knew they could not hold their position so best bet was to try and cut off another front.

As Crow grabbed the handle and was closing the heavy metal door, the last thing he saw was a blue blur descend from the skies onto the lieutenant with an audible crunch of armor being heard before he shut the door. He held onto the door handle for an extra few seconds as he knew what he saw but didn't want to believe it. He then called upon his training and suppressed his need to mourn the loss of his brother to focus on survival.

Outpost Alpha:

Rex stood at the center console in the command center. After hearing that one of the pods was under attack by natives, he immediately dispatched 3 additional gunships with Fives and Hardcase aboard. He decided to hold off on clearing the jungles until the rescue of each pod is complete. Force forbid more pods come under attack and they are short handed.

From what Rex could see on the display, the fight is happening around 10 minutes away from their base. The pod got extremely knocked off course when it collided with whatever it had hit. At any rate, the general should be here soon.

"Come in again, Rear. Broken Rifle?" Rex looked up at the tech officer that was also at the holo table along with a few other officers when they heard the code term. The same clone spoke up once more "Broken Rifle confirmed."

All the officers present then faced Rex on the next course of action. Broken Rifle for the 501st is a military term meaning that the current forces in combat are being overwhelmed and are in desperate need of fast and immediate support. They need overwhelming and powerful force that will immediately change the tide, otherwise the standing force will be decimated or captured within moments. There was only one force within the mighty military arsenal of the 501st that was capable of doing so.

"Contact General Skywalker's gunship."

A.N. Hallo know dont really talk much but hope you guys enjoying as I do read the comments and they keep pushing me to finish this story:D(even though extremely busy).

For the concern about the time period between travel between space and Earth, thought I had addressed this but their is before Jake Sully's arrival another massive wave of humans from earth(almost the size of Hell's Gate population.) It was meant to establish a permanent foothold for the Human race on pandora as it would double the pop