Blood upon the risers

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"Take cover!" person talking

'oh fierfek' person thinking

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Chapter 2: Victories and Defeats

Naruto checked his equipment for the third time on the ride down. He shifted to retain his balance when the gunship experienced turbulence. His radio crackled to life as Screwball announced "Ten seconds to drop." The blonde looked to his troops and nodded as he hooked his static line to the rail above his head then his men mimicked him with practiced fluidity. The backdoors opened and they jumped, Naruto as promised jumped first. He felt the icy wind on him as he and his troops descended, the ground slowly but surely became closer and closer. He hit with a dull thud and rolled making sure his weapon didn't hit him in the gut. Within seconds Naruto unhooked himself as his troops landed around him. As soon as he had gotten out of his harness his men were at his position. Naruto pulled out a holo map and addressed his men "Listen up, the droids are going to come through this valley. We are going to secure it and make sure that the capital has time to get their defenses ready. When we receive orders to fall back to the capital we will do so using tactical fall back maneuvers. Which means that the men in front will fall back behind the ones in the rear then so on and so on. We will continue to do so until we can get some air support which will cover us the rest of the way. Understood?" he was answered by a chorus of "Yes sir!"

Naruto then directed his men to start digging trenches on a declining slope that lead to the capital. Then a trooper asked a question "Sir, what's going to stop the clankers from bombing us? I mean we aren't outfitted with anti-air rockets." Naruto stopped his digging to answer "The capital has a shield to prevent that and we just so happen to be within its range. That make you feel any better Jinx?" the trooper known as Jinx chuckled "Yes Sir, most definitely." It took about three hours until the trench network was dug, then Naruto placed his men "Support gunners on me." ten troopers with Z6 rotary canons gathered around him, Naruto noted that Janga was among them. "I want one of you per ten rifle men, I expect that all of you will be able to position yourselves accordingly." They each nodded and did as instructed as Naruto called for the two demolition specialists that'd been placed with him. They reported to him with a salute and stood at attention as their captain addressed them "How many explosive charges do we have?" one answered "We have enough to stop five tanks sir." Naruto sighed as he hoped they'd have more.

Naruto nodded and said "Mine the slope on our side with half of what you have then use the rest as bombs, in case they decide to throw armor at us." They looked at each other then asked "What if that isn't enough sir?" Naruto grimaced then said "Then pray that I do not find you in the afterlife." The duo gulped then set about their tasks. An hour passed at the sun sank beneath the horizon, then the weather changed as it started to rain. He smiled as it would give his men a little bit of a time advantage. He laughed loudly as his men looked at him as if he had gone crazy. "Sir, are you alright?" he took off his helmet and said "They can't move their battle droids, the rain makes them rust and their circuits fry. That gives us an advantage. Troopers I need a volunteer." One hand raised it was Jinx who decided to take position in his trench at the front line. "Jinx, take a buddy to the ridge up there and tell me what you can see, you'll be my scout for an hour if anything that isn't organic or isn't a trooper moves signal me." the trooper nodded and tapped another clone that was next to him, who followed Jinx into the rocks above.

Naruto replaced his helmet as Stammer asked a question "Sir, do you think that we can win? We're on our own out here." Naruto turned to answer but his comlink rang. He answered it and heard general Kenobi on the line "Captain Brelor, we have just received word that the separatists have made landfall and will be on your location in a day, depending on the weather." Naruto nodded and said "Yes sir, a day copy that. Would you know how many?" then the general grimaced "A lot more than either of us would like, I'd say at least one million." It was Naruto's turn to grimace as he said "Understood sir." Naruto then went to inform his men of the new situation and change his strategy as the separatists marched on their location.

One day's march away from Naruto's position

Former Deathwatch member, now major of the separatists forces, Dess scowled down at the thousands of battle droids under his command. While he wasn't a very political man he was infuriated that a mandalorian of Jango Fetts caliber had allowed his genes be tainted by republican scum. He turned around and marched into his private shuttle as his trandoshan guards hissed and growled at each other in their native tongue. "Halt you screeching, lizards and listen to what I have to say." They instantly shut up as he told them his battle strategy "According to our scan of the planet the republic dogs have entrenched themselves within the capital. Since it is raining we should wait for morning or when it breaks, but the enemy is expecting that." He paused to take a breath then continued "They are protected by an energy shield that prevents them from being bombarded. So we will march tonight and take them by surprise, move the droids out." The trandoshan's did as commanded after they gathered their gear. Dess put on his helmet and mounted a speeder bike so he didn't have to walk all the way.

Back at Naruto's location

Naruto had informed his men of the change of strategy, instead of having his troops occupy the trenches he had his men dig them wider and deeper then he instructed them to put sharpened branches and sticks at the bottom of the trench then place mines at random intervals around them. While him and his men occupied the rocky hillsides that bordered the valley. 'Now that I think about it, the valley is more like a pass.' Thought the blonde to himself as he used his rangefinder to scan the horizon and to his infinite displeasure he discovered an entire battalion of droids headed his way. He switched to internal coms and announced "Get ready, the clankers are bearing down on us. Don't fire until I give the command." He didn't need to hear the reply as he heard the only confirmation he needed to hear which was the clicks and snaps of weapon checks going off around him.

The enemy drew closer and closer, by then Naruto could tell that there were soft targets as well as droids. They got to the edge of the first trench and halted but not entirely at once, a few droids fell into the mud and sank never to return. Naruto would have face palmed had he not been a part of the equation of battle. A hulking trandoshan pushed his way to the front of the formation as the apparent commander asked what was wrong. It shouted back in semi broken basic "Path unclear will go around." Then the trandoshan made his way around the trench the droids followed him, he wasn't five steps into the space between the front of the trench and the rear of it when he stepped on an antitank mine. The explosion was near deafening but it was the command that he and his men were looking for. Naruto switched to his internal coms again and gave the command, a simple "Fire." Then all at once the air was filled with a deep azure glow as the confused droids shot in all directions.

Dess watched as he had sprang a trap, he chided himself as his anger and his need for an early victory clouded his judgment. He vowed that he wouldn't make the same mistake twice. He ordered his super battle droids to the front as a burst of bolts destroyed the controls of his bike. Dess dove off of it as it detonated sending shrapnel into his troops and he himself was peppered. He growled and took out his blaster rifle from a destroyed droid and returned fire.

Naruto hoped to get the leader that was on the bike but to his chagrin he missed but found a small victory in the fact that he took out a number of droids. He then unleashed a three round burst from his rifle into a super battle droid which didn't go down like he had hoped. The blonde continued to shoot at the droid until it was down for the count. But to his annoyance another had taken its place this one had a rocket launcher aimed straight for him. "Take cover!" he shouted as he rolled off of the rock that he was using as cover as the rocket left its owner's arm. The round hit the rock that Naruto had been on and luckily for him it just scratched his armor his men weren't so lucky as a few now lay dead around him. Naruto's fury fueled him as he pressed his fingers to his external com "Get rid of those fucking supers! They're going to tear us up!" he shouted. No sooner than the words left his mouth a Z-6 tore through the ranks of battle droids. Then the blonde himself fired at the damned droids.

Dess angrily watched as his center line was being destroyed, he glanced left as a super battle droid with a rocket launcher strode passed him. He then ordered it to open fire on the left hill so as to stop the blaster canon from firing. The droid did so and soon enough the yells and screams of the dying clones reached his ears. He grinned in satisfaction as they continued until he saw an explosion take out the entire front regiment of droids.

Naruto gave the order to set off the explosive charges which engulfed a large chunk of the assaulting droids and in effect made the muddy ground even weaker. The droids were sinking into the mud by fives and some were knocked into the trenches then sank into the mud. Then the droids began to retreat as their leader panicked. His men fired at the retreating droids while Naruto himself shot at the leader. He aimed for his head but the weapon had been over heated and the bolt missed its mark instead it hit the man's shoulder sending him stumbling to the ground. The leader turned and with expert aim returned a shot from an EE-3, that shot hit Naruto's helmet knocking the blonde mandalorian off balance. When he stood the leader had gotten away, Naruto had no time to be angry at himself as he had his troops to look after. "Tend to the wounded, then gather weapons and ammunition. Move it people."

Dess had returned to the comfort of his ship, red hot anger boiled within him as he had gone over the losses in his head. He punched a bulkhead in rage "How dare them, those disgusting things. How dare they make a fool out of me." then the holo terminal came to life and an image of count Dooku appeared before him. "Major, have you captured Bakura yet?" Dess growled "No count not yet. I have been met with extreme resistance. But I will soon break them and then you'll have Bakura." The counts stony expression turned into a scowl "You had better make good on that major or you will be 'relieved' of command." Dess couldn't handle this anymore he hastily shut the power off cutting the communication short. Then his face paled, he wasn't afraid of death but the man he was currently employed to had made it perfectly clear to not test him with failure. Dess didn't want to find out what he meant by 'relieved'.

Naruto took up his old position after he had helped with treating the wounded and burying the dead. He had about a dozen losses and he had expected losses, in the ways of numbers. He wasn't taught how he was supposed to feel, he felt responsible as if he had launched the rockets into his men. He sat silently and watched the rain fall but was interrupted from his thoughts as Janga stood in front of him. She saluted and said "Sir, permission to speak." He looked up at her and nodded the female clone took a breath and said "Sir we have received word from command via a runner, there has been a change of plans." Naruto narrowed his eyes, he didn't like being kept in suspense, Janga got the message and hastily said "The gunships will be here a day later than anticipated, the evacuation of the civilians is taking longer than intended. General Kenobi will instead send Commander Skywalker to take over the defense of the valley er pass… whatever this is." Naruto allowed himself a small smile at her attitude it was crass and to the point. Naruto nodded and asked "Is the runner still here?" the private nodded her head in the affirmative and said "Yes sir." Naruto spoke with a grim tone "Tell the runner to inform the good commander to haul ass. Otherwise we might not be here if he takes his time." Janga saluted then left.

While Naruto did not mean to be rude he wouldn't let a commanding officer or a jedi take their sweet little time getting there. He hated dithering, a trait that he picked up from his mother. Then Janga came back carrying her Z-6 she saluted again then said "Sir… permission to entrench myself here until the clankers come back?" he allowed himself to look her over, her short hair was wet from the rain and her armor was covered in blemishes. He nodded and handed her his rifle then said "Set the canon aside and take the deece. If you're going to bunk here then keep your eyes on the line, after an hour wake me up." The she-clone nodded and did as commanded and Naruto fell into a light sleep. He was awoken a few hours later by a kick to his leg. Naruto reached for a pistol that he had on his kama only for a voice to stop him "Naruto it's me Rex." That got Naruto's attention he woke fully and said "Rex, you're here earlier than expected." The blonde stood and shook his friends hand as he noticed that the wounded were being loaded onto stretchers that were in turn loaded onto speeders.

Then Anakin came over and said "Trooper report." Naruto stood at attention and said "Sir, we were able to hold off the droids and make them retreat. I have about a dozen dead and twice that many wounded. What is our next plan of action sir?" the young jedi gave him a look and said "Master obi-wan is withdrawing your unit for the defense of the capital, we came here to evacuate the wounded." Naruto nodded and said "Sir, yes sir" Naruto then began to help the last remaining wounded onto the speeders while making sure that he was the last on board. It took fifteen minutes before they got to the capital where he and the able bodied men were dropped off at an ammo dump. "Airborne, gather weapons and ammo then report back here for orders." Immediately his troops did so while he made his way to general Kenobi.

He entered the command center as the general had finished up the battle strategy "Ah captain Brelor. Your job will be to guard a T intersection adjacent to the space port. There you will hold the line until the gunships come and evacuate you and your men." Naruto nodded "Yes sir understood." He left immediately and went to inform his men. After twenty minutes Naruto and his men were holed up inside of what used to be a bar. He smiled as his men got new blaster turrets in place, and as a bit of an insurance policy Naruto had ordered his men to place explosives on the main gas lines that ran beneath the streets. Stammer then marched up to him and saluted "Sir, all of the explosives have been placed and we have secured the rocket launchers." Naruto nodded and asked "How many rockets do we have?" Stammer answered "Seven sir." The blonde nodded and told the trooper to carry on while Naruto continued to place his men. He had considered that the separatists would bring armor so he decided that he would divide his men. Twenty one in a building adjacent to the bar on the left and another twenty one on the right leaving twenty one in the bar. The buildings were tall enough to get all of his men out when the withdraw order came down.

Dess had started marching the rest of the droids under his command, he had started just before dawn and didn't meet any resistance. Considering the debacle yesterday he didn't like this. He passed by the sight where the clones had humiliated him. His anger and ire grew to unprecedented levels. They passed as soon as the EOD droids cleared a path. He smiled cruelly as he now had forty tanks under his command, and he now had a clear path to the capital. The destruction of clones would begin and if he ran into the same clone as the day before he would take his head if it was the last thing he did. Dess rolled his armor into the city and the fight began. The droideka units rolled into position and tore through the clone's ranks as the AAT tanks shelled buildings killing even more of them. "This battle will be a walk in the park." Dess said to himself as carnage and destruction whirled around him. They continued to destroy everything in their path as they made their way to the shuttle port.

Naruto heard the sounds of battle and readied his men, droid scouts were at his position. Naruto reacted by firing twice at them both blaster bolts hit their targets and both dropped. At this all the clones under his command were at the ready. Ten minutes passed and a column of tanks appeared on the street. Naruto used his range finder to see how many there were. His face scrunched up in a scowl as he counted more than seven. The column stopped and an AAT aimed its turret at the bar. "Open fire!" Naruto called and like the day before the air was filled with an azure glow. Then the tank fired a round into the bar nearly leveling it. Naruto grabbed a rocket launcher and took aim, when he fired the result was glorious. The exact moment the rocket hit the tank had another round in the chamber. When it exploded it sent shrapnel everywhere destroying the droids around it. But Naruto's joy was short lived as the tank behind the first fired a round into the building that Naruto was in. the shell caused the roof to cave in causing Naruto to stumble off the roof and into the street.

Naruto rolled with the fall and got to his feet as he pulled his two dc pistols from his kama. He fired rapidly but not wildly. Every shot hit its target and Naruto barked into his com "Destroy the tanks, then deal with the droids." He then ran up one of the tanks, opened the hatch and tossed a thermal detonator inside. Naruto jumped off firing rapidly into the droids that had gathered around his position. Then an explosion knocked him off of his feet, he tried to get up but a tank was baring down on him. The blonde backed away as a rocket slammed into the barrel of the thing making it unable to fire. "Fall back to the bar then take up positions. Prepare for the last resort." Naruto barked into his head set as he and his men retreated to the remains of the bar. Naruto vaulted over rubble and ducked underneath twisted pieces of metal to the cover of a large slab of rock. The droids advanced again, the super battle droids in front, the B1's in the center and the droideka's rolling past them. The blonde quickly did a head count to find to his dismay that he only had twenty men left. "Open fire." He shouted as he leaned around the block that protected him. The men around him fired rapidly into the oncoming formation of droids. The droids continued to fall in heaps as more tanks attempted to move down the street towards them.

Naruto continued to fire his pistols at the droids until he heard "Fierfek I'm out of ammo." he looked to see who said that, it was Stammer. Thinking fast Naruto tossed a pistol of his to the man who took the weapon and fired at the enemy. "Stammer how many rocket's do we have?" asked Naruto. Stammer answered "One sir." Naruto turned to him and said "Give it here. I'll make the last shot count." The launcher was given to him and he barked to his men "Cover me!" they did so as he bolted from the bar, the rocket launcher in his grasp as the droids fired at him. The tanks stopped trying to move around the debris as it caused the tanks to crash into each other. Naruto got to the highest point on the destroyed building on the left and aimed the rocket at the tank that brought up the rear. He fired and the rocket hit its mark the tank erupted in a dazzling display of fire and molten metal.

As soon as the explosion occurred the tank in front of it fired at him. The blast itself hit the ground below him and once again the blonde mandalorian was knocked to the ground. The tank that was closest to him was now in front of him. Its barrel aimed directly at him. Naruto for just a moment wanted to close his eyes and prepare for the end as it loaded up the shot that would kill him. Then it happened, a rocket slammed into the tank. Naruto wasted no time and headed back to his men's position. As he did he noted that three gunships were above the bar firing their rockets at the tanks. The droids continued unhindered until the gunship's lasers tore them to shreds. As soon as Naruto was back to his position the gunships radioed him. "Captain Brelor general Kenobi sent us to reinforce you. We have fifty men from the northern sector, they are under your command now." Naruto put a hand to his com "Much obliged, did you bring ammo?" the pilot laughed "Yes sir we did indeed. We'll drop it off in the town square that will be a new point to hold the men know that you are on your way." Naruto let out a sigh of relief "Roger that moving out." Then the gunships left the area to reinforce other companies.

Naruto gathered his men and made their way to the city center. It took them thirty minutes to do so as they were met with resistance along the way. Once there Naruto saw that everything was taken care of in terms of troop placements. Then AAT's were seen down the street heading right for them. Naruto grabbed a rifle and took a position on the ground level. Then he issued his orders "Draw the tanks into the plaza then hit them with the rockets, everyone else focus on the droids. Naruto aimed his rifle and lined up a shot then he shouted "Fire!" a torrential rain of azure fell upon the droids. Naruto dropped one after another after another. Then he moved to a different position and wasted a few more. The blonde rolled and tossed a grenade into a group of five as the tanks made their way into the plaza. Rockets streaked from windows and walkways and slammed into the tanks. Creating a near impossible path for the rest of the armor. But the tanks and droids were not idle. They fired back with as much vigor as their living counter parts.

Naruto heard the yells and screams from the men that were now under his command. They infuriated him, the screams. They reminded him to keep his men alive, he did the same as before accept now he had a rifle. He ran up to a tank, got into the cabin and wasted the droids within it then he jumped down into it. He had learned the controls of tanks when he was training and now he put that training to the test as he lined up a shot. He pressed the firing mechanism and the canon blast slammed into a tank. And with that Naruto bailed out but not before tossing a grenade into the cabin, blowing it to smithereens. This must have made their commander angry as the remaining tanks fired their cannons into the buildings that had clones within them. The droids continued to march on them only to be cut down by Janga's Z-6 as the woman blasted through their ranks. Naruto's eyes widened as a tank aimed its cannon at her. Naruto ran without a moment's hesitation and tackled her to the ground just as the blast struck the place where she stood. She had dropped her Z-6 when he tackled her so he gave her his rifle, which she took with a nod of gratitude and continued to fire back at the enemy. Naruto pulled out his remaining pistol and fired into the oncoming droid ranks.

Then a building on the left flank was destroyed and an AAT along with a man on a speeder bike came into the plaza. "Fire on that damn thing." Barked Naruto as his men faltered for a moment before coming back to their senses and opened fire. One last rocket was launched, it knocked out the tank as the man on the speeder bike bolted to his position. Naruto brought his pistol to bare against his opponent. Time seemed to halt as the warriors went in for the kill, Naruto recognized the symbol on the man's shoulder. It was of deathwatch a group of mando terrorists that were hell bent on conquering the galaxy. While Dess saw the Taung on the troopers shoulder and concluded that he was a mandalorian protector; his sworn enemy. Dess took out the vibroblade on his back and swung it just as the trooper had fired his pistol. Both warriors were knocked to the floor as the chaos raged around them.

Naruto had leaned back to avoid being decapitated as he shot the man in the shoulder sending him tumbling off of the bike. Naruto stood and turned around to shoot the man dead as he got to his feet, but as he pulled the trigger an explosion went off behind him it caused him to stumble and nearly fall down. The man turned as the bolt streaked towards him, it hit his arm and made the man stumble. Dess grabbed his vibroblade from the ground and started towards the trooper with an enraged look on his face. Naruto reached for his sword that was on his back as the man came at him. Naruto blocked and paried with all of his might. The man tried to disfigure him with a slash to the face but Naruto was faster and guided the hand with the vibroblade to move past him as the blonde delivered a punch to the man's face knocking off his helmet. This got the man even angrier and as a result the man tried to decapitate him as Naruto tried to impale the man with his sword. Both caught the others would be death blow, the man whispered "I will not lose to a slave that thinks himself a mandalorian." Naruto pulled his hand free ripping the man's cloth that held his chest armor together then slashed him across the face stunning the man. Finally Naruto ended their little fight by plunging the sword into his opponents gut. The grey haired man coughed up blood as Naruto twisted his sword bringing him to his knees. "The separatists will win the war against you then you abominations will no longer be able to taint jango fett." Dess whispered this to Naruto. The blonde responded by removing his helmet and saying "I am not a clone, nor am I a slave. I am a mandalorian." Naruto then removed the sword and plunged it into his beaten opponent's throat causing Dess to drown in his own blood.

Naruto looked up to see that the fight was won, he smiled and laughed as his men destroyed the remaining droids. Then a gunship came down carrying obi-wan Kenobi and his apprentice the elder yelled out. "Captain, get your men aboard we have to leave the separatists have reinforcements. The capital has been evacuated and now we are evacuating you." Naruto looked bewildered and really wanted to protest but the looks on his troop's faces told him that general Kenobi was right. They were not in the condition to continue fighting. "Yes, sir." He said in a voice that told them that he still had a lot of fight within him. He then made sure every trooper was on the gunship then boarded last, he turned and counted his remaining men. Four, including himself that's all that he had left. Naruto looked to the floor in dismay. 'I should have done a better job.' He thought as the gunship entered the hanger of the star destroyer. He trudged to his room and got onto the holo terminal after filing his after action report. His mother picked up the call. "Naruto? What's wrong?" he simply said "I lost ninety six percent of my company today not only that we lost the battle." he then spent the next hour listening to his mother's words of advice "Don't beat yourself up over it boy. War is hell, people die. They won't be the last that you lose. I wish that I could sugar coat it but that's the truth." Naruto nodded and switched off the holo terminal after an hour of going over things along those lines. After about ten minutes of requisitioning another pistol Naruto laid down on his rack to get some much needed sleep.

Meanwhile on the jungle planet of Yavin 4

The scientist Dr. Pavin was excavating the ruins of an ancient temple. Apparently a sith lord had ruled the planet thousands of years ago and had waged a war with the jedi. After he realized the battle was lost he sacrificed his army to keep his spirit alive. Pavin had come there with a team of mercinaries to discover if the rumors were true. He turned a corner and came face to face with a statue of the sith lord. "Exar Kun, ha what a joke." The doctor made his way further into the temple and for a moment he thought he heard whispering. Startled he turned and pointed his flashlight around trying to find the source of the sound only to come up with nothing. He rounded another corner and entered the antechamber. The doctor shined the light on the floor as his guards caught up to him. "Sir, doctor we have to leave this place, this planet is cursed." Cried a guard that looked very distressed. Pavin shot the man a look and said "There is no such thing, you fool. I am a scientist I would know." The guard ran his hand through his hair and said "I'm sorry doctor." The scientist insulted him again by saying "Don't let it happen again you fool." Then the guard spoke in a calm demiener "No not for that for this." Dr. Pavin turned to the man with a questioning look but was knocked unconscious then the guard fired his blaster at the rest of the guards killing them. He then picked up the doctor and took him deeper into the temple as he whispered "Exar Kun will rise again."

A/N ok well folks that's it for chapter 2. It honestly was a pleasure working on this and as many of you can tell I'm bringing a blast from the past. The one and only EXAR KUN! How will the clone wars turn out with this wrench being thrown into palpatines gears? Anyway I'd like your input on if another being from Exar Kun's era should come foreward in time to help naruto and the republic. So please review I worked hard on this chapter and I would like feedback. Thank you for reading and have a nice day.