Chapter 2

He was just living his everyday life, watching the skies. He noticed something strange, so he flew to that area. He noticed it was an Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor. Before he could wonder where it came from, a metal figure started walking towards him.

He quickly pulled out his sonic blaster and started blasting at him, when a bar of red plasma came out of his right hand which swatted the blasts aside, and tossed something which hit his neck. He collapsed, whilst noticing the metal man walking towards the village.

As Starkiller walked towards the village, he was met with resistance from not only Geonosians, but Confederate Battle Droids as well.

It would appear that Vader wasn't as thorough when finishing off the CIS. Well, I'm here to finish the job.

He dodged and deflected laser and sonic blasts, and threw darts which contained a toxin which rendered the target unconscious at Geonosian warriors.

As he walked towards more hives, more enemies swarmed towards him, from Super Battle Droids to Geonosian Elites to even the feared IG-100 MagnaGuards. Despite the overwhelming enemies, he seemed unconcerned with his situation, and still as confident as ever, he rushed to one of the Super Battle Droids and plunged a lightsaber into its back, giving him control of the brute and using it to blast droids whilst he incapacitates more Geonosians.

After an hour of fighting, he noticed Imperial Star Destroyers and TIE Fighters engaging Trade Federation destroyers and starfighters, with Acclamator assault ships landing Stormtroopers and AT-ST walkers which immediately engaged.

"Commander?"

The stormtrooper commander noted Starkiller rush towards him.

"My lord, Moff Tarkin thought you might need help."

"Well, as long as you're here."

"We're ready sir. It's time to finish our war against the CIS." he held his arm up, showing a gauntlet loaded with incapacitation darts. He noticed the other troopers had similar gauntlets and were already shooting Geonosians down.

In the main Geonosian hive, the battle droid commander OOM-229 checks in with patrol squads. Behind him was Arth, the Archduke of Geonosis after the death of the previous one.

"My Lord, there has been no response from Commander Ronch. He was supposed to have returned from patrol a couple of hours ago."

Arth started chirping and making gestures with his hands, until he heard an explosion. The droid rushed to the watchtower, and in the sky he saw Imperial Star Destroyers in a massive firefight with Trade Federation destroyers and battleships. The newer Star Destroyers easily destroyed their cruisers and droid starfighters.

As he looked towards the ground, white-armored Stormtroopers were engaged in blaster fights against Battle Droids, throwing darts into the Geonosian warriors.

He quickly rushed to the throne room, and to the Archduke.

"Sir, Imperial forces have reached our planet! They're destroying our droids and used some kind of toxin on the..."

Suddenly, the door to the room was blasted down, and Starkiller stood with two Stormtroopers. Two MagnaGuards dropped from the ceiling, and Starkiller unleashed a blast of purple lightning from what appears to be claws and overloads the droids' circuits. He dropped the surge, then slammed his fist to the floor, the force throwing the two droids into the air, then ignites a bar of plasma and throws it which loops and hits both droids and reached out and blasted the two towards the wall, smashing the ceiling and flying out into the sky.

About half a dozen more Battle Droids came out, but the Stormtroopers blasted them whilst the Starkiller finished them off, then pointed a plasma bar at the neck of the figure.

"In the name of the Empire, you are to surrender this planet and its inhabitants to the Empire, or else your planet will be crushed."

Arth chirped with a resigned tone, nevertheless he felt the bar hit the side of his neck and his head flew across the room.

"Commander, round up the Geonosians onto the shuttles. Load their technology onto the Acclamator ships. This planet now belongs to us."

"I have finished the task, as you have instructed, Tarkin. You have new labor force for the Death Star."

"Good." said the Grand Moff. "The Emperor's spies have discovered Moff Kalast to have been leaking the plans to the Bothan Spy Network to the Rebels. We have captured him, and are about to interrogate him for information."

"Let us hope he's as useful as he is treacherous. In the meantime, I have other tasks to tend to."

"Of course."

Commentary 2 - Confederate Remnants:

A major theme in this chapter is the return of CIS battle droids from the Clone Wars. I wanted this series to be played out exactly like levels in The Force Unleashed video game, with those insane Force combos. Now, a chapter with Starkiller incapacitating bugs isn't that cool, right? Well, maybe. But I wanted to show Starkiller actually killing something. Well, I put the next best thing. I made the Geonosians rebuild their Battle Droids from the Clone Wars, giving them something for Starkiller to carve up and blow up.

I know somewhere in the Expanded Universe that Wedge Antilles encountered Battle Droids on Geonosis, but they weren't as many as there are here. If I had to make up a backstory for this, I would say that since news had spread over Darth Vader's death, Arth felt the Empire was in a state of chaos and used this to his advantage by rebuilding droid factories and shipyards, producing massive battleships, and rebuilding some of the CIS' best droids, including the SBDs and the MagnaGaurds. Of course, he did underestimate the Empire's army and navy, since their battleships and destroyers fell pretty quickly against the Imperial Star Destroyers.