"Let's do this."
The three barged out of the armory with their new heavy armor, guns blazing. In less than ten seconds, the imperial garrison was reduced to nothing more than a mountain pile of corpses. "The turbolift over there should get us to the lab. Let's move." Said Fives.
They soon got inside the lift, ignoring the overweight warning. Ordo piped up once the turbolift started descending towards the lab. "I thought this suit was supposed to have a flamethrower." He said while staring at the right arm of his armor. "Guess they didn't ship that idea and decided a rotary cannon would be better. Looks like the Empire was right, for once." Replied Fives.
"Man. It sure is a long way down. Must be something big." Commented Ezra. "Hopefully the lift won't fall apart before we get down there." He continued. Fives checked his built-in data pad and frowned upon seeing the results. "They just initiated a full alert. This place is gonna be on lockdown." Said the veteran. "Not again." Groaned Ezra.
All of a sudden, the lift was jammed in place, and the clones were knocked off their feet. "Damn it! We'll have to blow the lift. Stand clear." He ordered as his shoulder-mounted rockets blew a hole in the lift and left the three soaked in the rain of Kamino. They activated their jetpacks and flew outside to blow up what's left of the turbolift.
"Let's go." Said Ezra.
Meanwhile...
Marek got off the Rogue Shadow, his personal ship, and headed to a round hut near his vessel. He lowered his hood, and a short green creature walked out of the hut to greet Marek. "Galen Marek, you must be." Said the creature. "I've come for advice, master Yoda." Returned Marek.
"In danger, your friend is, in the Kamino system." Said Yoda. "Vader, it is. Right, master Jarrus is. Confront him there you must. This, your final step will be. May the force be with you." After a long talk, Marek stood up and headed back outside, but not without leaving a thanks to the old grandmaster. "How did it go?" Asked Proxy, Marek's training droid. "We need to get to Kamino. Vader's there."
"Are you sure, Marek?" Asked Juno, his pilot. "I meditated with Yoda and found out. We have to go now." Marek retracted the ramp and the Rogue Shadow was soon in the air. "So how are you going to defeat your former master single-handed? You aren't getting any help." Warned a concerned Proxy. "I'm not alone down there, I can feel it."
Back on Kamino...
Three blaze clone troopers flew down the remains of the turbolift. They reached to bottom floor and blew open the doors, gunning down every stormtrooper in their way. "It should be just ahead." Said Fives. Ezra headed for the only door he could see on the floor and kicked it down with brute force. The three found themselves staring at rows of bacta tanks with clones inside it. "I guess the conspiracy was true. Vader IS trying to build a Sith army to overthrow Palpatine. Download everything you can find about these clones. In the meantime, we need to decide what to do with them."
"These people are alive. We can't just turn ourselves into murderers like the Empire." Said Fives. Ordo remained silent while he slid the stolen clearance pass down the side of the console. He plugged into the computer and overrode the security firewall within minutes. "I know you want to save these people general, but you saw what happened to Fives, they're far too dangerous to be kept alive." Ordo finally spoke up.
"I know your concerns Ordo. Here's the thing: you can't blame people on something that hasn't happened yet. I say we call in our old friend Kal to transfer everything to a secure location and see if we can do anything for these people." Said Ezra. Fives agreed with the general after a few more minutes of thinking. "Or maybe it's just a waste of time. I'm detecting a TIE advanced variant entering the atmosphere. It's just as I feared, it's Darth Vader."
But Ezra wouldn't take no for an answer. He demanded Ordo to tell him the progress of the download. "70%. And I've got a list of all the clone subjects here along with their profiles. Go ahead and take a look." Ordo answered impatiently. "Viper, Colt, Rada...Waxer. How is this..." Ezra was cut off by Fives when he started shouting like berserk. "Waxer, I know him."
"So who the hell is this guy? And what do we want with him?" Growled Ordo. "Wait. Isn't 'Waxer' the guy that lieutenant Numa told us about?" Asked Fives. "Waxer was her friend, her brother. And not to mention the hundreds of clones suffering down there. We have to get them out of this misery Ordo." He continued.
"Fine. Now what about the Vader problem?" Groaned Ordo. He noticed Ezra taking off his exoskeleton. "The hell are you doing?" "Trying to solve the Vader problem. I'll be topside. If you don't hear from me in half an hour, call Skirata." Ezra dashed out the room without warning, and in a mere few seconds, he vanished. "He takes up the heroism sometimes." Muttered Fives.
"Got it! Download complete! Let's get out of here!" Ordo shouted in joy when the download meter displayed on the console finally turned from red to green. "Negative. You heard what the commander said, we have to get as many people out as possible. So let's start hitting the bacta releases." Fives argued, unwilling to let his once fallen brothers die a second time. "Alright. But it's on you of they start beating the crap out of us when you release them." Warned Ordo.
"It's always been on me." Fives scoffed. The clones proceeded down to the rows of bacta tanks and started off with Waxer's. The bacta inside was soon emptied out, and Waxer was fetched out with the help of Fives and Ordo. "Stay with me brother. You'll get through this." He was laid down aside while the two clones continued to release the other clones. Some were too rampant Fives and Ordo were forced to kill them on the spot, while others we're lay down beside Waxer.
"That's the last of them. Now how do we get them out of here?" Asked Fives. "We can walk. Thank you, brother." One of the clones chimed in. The rest followed Fives and Ordo to find a way back to the surface while the lone Ezra was already dueling the dark lord a few kilometers above. "You will pay for what you've done to these people! Those were your OWN men!" Shouted the fiery Jedi. He jumped up, hoping to cut Vader into half, but missed. Vader took this opportunity to repel him onto the glass of his TIE fighter. He was about to slay him when a second TIE prevented him to by unloading rounds of cannon shots into him.
Vader turned around, and saw his former apprentice marching towards him with twin blue lightsabers and a furious face. "You will pay for what you did!"