As the ships neared the planet of knothole brian prepared the helicopters as they were easier to use on knothole than the gunships, as the clones loaded them up everyone prepared to launch, wearing camo armor the clones would blend right in with the foliage. Brian had his extra phase 2 armor painted like the other clones and was ready to fight. As he did a final check on the helicopter shadowmere and toothless played trying to keep themselves occupied. Hiccup watched wearing a different version of toothless's armor just painted to be camo but had clone camo shin guards and boots on.
"You ready for this hiccup?" brian asked
"Probably not but what choice do i have? Sonic is a good friend and we never abandon friends and those in need brian." hiccup says
"Your right hiccup, well you better get on toothless, shadowmere is going to follow you because i'm flying the helicopter." brian said which caused a shocked look from hiccup
"Why are you flying the helicopter?" hiccup asked
"I am one of the best pilots in these helicopters, so better t have me in the cockpit than anyone else." brian said.
The helicopter went in low and fast nearing a outlying town 3 miles from knothole. The clones checked there weapons and made sure they were ready for what was about to happen, toothless with hiccup followed by shadowmere flew by brians helicopter as it flew closer to the town
"Remember gentlemen keep a eye out for those freedom fighters and civilians, first platoon be ready we are going in fast. Johnson play it loud." brian said as johnson turned on paranoid and blasted it through the speakers. As they got closer they saw the freedom fighters with the 501st had engaged robotnik's forces and had fallen back to the treeline. Brian signaled hiccup who flew and started blasting. Brian swung his helicopter around so his men were facing the enemy and they started to open fire as brian landed. The clones got out and engaged robotnik's troops and they surged forward pushing back the enemy forces and retaking the town. As the enemy retreated the helicopters loaded up and headed off towards the freedom fighters main base hidden deep in the mountains, when they got there they all unloaded and the helicopters powered down. Brian and hiccup walked to the command center to find sonic standing by a map
"Sonic good to see you." brian says as he enters and took his helmet off.
"Brian thank god you have made it, here come take a look at the shit show we have." sonic says motioning towards the table. Brian went over and took a look finding a small area surrounded by the enemy.
"What position is this?" brian asked
"Sally, amy and part of a the freedom fighters are holding out on this small town here. It's one of the last remaining towns that is worth defending and we cannot lose it if we do we will lose the planet." sonic says as the artillery outside opens fire
"Why hasn't robotnik attacked you here? He can know you here because of those guns sonic." brian said
"I don't think he knows where we are, his units have not once tried to attack us here and we fire those cannons day in and out. The range is just enough to provide support for sally and her team."
"So if robotnik doesn't know your here then we can use this area as a staging area for the men." hiccup said
"Your saying move all the men here?" brian asked
"Not all of them, send some to support sally and then, using the helicopters and our dragons, we can start probing there lines and pushing them back. It seems like robotnik doesn't like to keep his forces far from knothole, probably meaning he has either great intel, high commanding officers or both there." hiccup said
"Look at you go hiccup, thinking like a tactician." brian said clearly impressed.
"So you think this plan will work?" sonic asked
"I beleive it will. Hiccup is right with his plan." brian said
"Then its settled lets start funneling troops here, we need to beat back robotnik and win this war." sonic said
Brian and hiccup walked out of the command post and brian lit another cigar with his zippo.
"So you and i are going to run night recon missions with toothless and shadowmere. We need to find out the enemies actual strength and try to get as much intel as possible." brian said
"Ok. we might want to try to get into the capitol and see what there defenses are."
"Sounds good. Let's get these troops in order and after nightfall we can scout it out."
For the next 5 hours they funneled more and more clones into the staging area. As the night rolled in the clones set up picket lines and set out on patrols. Brian and hiccup set off towards the capitol as the moon shone brightly on the 4 as they flew peacefully and quietly towards knothole. They flew for almost 1 hour when they reached a small mountain, upon going around the side they found the city engulfed in lights with separatists cruisers docked. Brian saw smoke and pointed so hiccup could see it too, at the base of the smoke they saw a small village being burned, the occupants lined up with droids and soldiers behind them. Hiccup was about to dive when they opened fire killing the civilians, hiccup looked at brian who nodded his head and pointed to the city meaning to focus on the mission at hand. They continued as toothless looked up at hiccup with concern
"I know bud its going to be ok."
Hiccup said as they neared the city. As they passed over the city, barely visible, they saw more civilians under constant guard of the enemy soldiers who watched over them closely. When they reached the city center they landed on top of the castle's tallest tower and brian and hiccup dismounted there dragons.
"We weren't even noticed, if i didn't know better i would say this is a trap." brian said looking at the guards on the walkway below
"You wanna take them or me?" hiccup asked
"Let me show you how its done kid." brian said igniting his lightsaber and jumping off killing the 2 guards by slicing them in half and throwing the other 2 guards to the outside of the city. Hiccup came down as well and they both snuck inside. Once inside the got up top using the support beams to cross until they made it into the intelligence were hiccup knocked out the 2 officers there and brian started pulling data files.
"Brian wasn't this Mobotropolis at one point in time?" hiccup asked looking at data
"Yes it was but after a attack by robonik the village of knothole was completely destroyed so the king renamed Mobotropolis to knothole in honor of those who had fought for that village." brian said scanning files.
"Well brian your not going to believe this but take a look." hiccup said handing brian a schematic. It showed that knothole had more than enough defenses but they had never been activated.
"These were put in after the Civil war…. Only the king can access these weapons and no one knows where he is." brian said as the last of the files were transferred. Brian inserted to hard drive into his clone belt and they both snuck out and hiccup quickly took off. As brian was about to a hatch opened and a guard came out shouting, brian quickly flew as fast as possible now with laser fire missing them from all around.
When they made it back to base camp they quickly got the info to intelligence and then rested on the cliffside watching the forest below.
"Seems robotnik has Grimmel here, meaning robotnik retreated again." sonic said sitting with brian and hiccup
"So grimmel is the one leading them?" hiccup asked
"Yes he is. He commands the entire planet." sonic says
"It explains a lot, those soldiers didn't show those civilians any mercy at all." brian said taking a swig of his flask. "Meaning we lose here he will kill the entire planet."
"Listen I'm going to be honest to you 2, the king is in the town sally is defending. He won't leave and come here but instead would rather die than to retreat and see his world destroyed." sonic said taking the flask from brian and drinking it.
"Then we start there and work our way out and defeat grimmel, then we defeat robotnik then we bring back peace." hiccup said standing up and walking off leaving brian and sonic behind.
"He still doesn't understand war that well, he still wants to believe that the war is something that's easy." brian said
"He has beaten 2 major villains before you came along and changed his entire village." sonic said
"Yes he has, but none like grimmel. He literally is the worst enemy i have gone against sonic." brian said getting up
"Well we better make sure to defeat him." sonic says taking another swig then hands the flask to brian
"Tomorrow we get that chance" brian said
In the morning the helicopters were ready to launch, troops ready to go weapons loaded and steel faced underneath there helmets. As they launched the troops that stayed behind readied for the counterattack from the enemy and the support of the other units. Brian flew on shadowmere leading the attack group of helicopters with hiccup as they went to reinforce the position holding the king. As they neared the small town fighter jets flew past and napalmed the entire area. Brian looked below and saw enemy soldiers running through the brush below them. Brian signaled hiccup and they both dove to the deck blasting the enemy fighters then rejoining the helicopter group.
As they neared the town brian saw smoke rising from the burning buildings and saw the fighters falling back creating a small circle around a building continuing to fight as many died. Both brian and hiccup were shocked but shot forward to help defend the small area
Thorner kept blasting the rifle in his hands hoping he was hitting enemy fighters with the bolts of his blaster. Beside him the freedom fighters and the clones fought the best they could but the started to fall. As thorners blaster jammed he heard a sound he had once feared and then saw brian and hiccup shooting towards them at supersonic speeds. When they landed they watched through the dirt the plasma bolts take out many enemy fighters and the rest started to retreat as the helicopters started landing reinforcements. When the cloud of dirt fully settled the 2 humans and 2 night furys stood poised to attack once again but instead found the woods in front of them blistering in the flame from the plasma shots.
When the realized no more enemies were coming at the moment brian took off his helmet and walked over to thorner who saluted and brian saluted back.
"Thank you for the rescue general we were about overrun." thorner said
"How is the king thorner?"
"Alive sir he is in his panic room. Hasn't moved since they have begun to attack this position sir."
"Ok keep these men ready to go we are going to start pushing forward hiccup you are going to lead the men on a patrol and set up a picket line. I don't want any enemies getting through."
"You got it brian 1ST PLATOON ON ME!" hiccup said mounting on toothless and taking off staying low as first platoon started heading out into the woods.
"Sonic, let's go see the king." brian said walking towards the battered building.
When they entered the contents looked as if it had been upturned, holes everywhere, glasses and plates shattered and the red velvet carpet and furniture covered in white plaster. Brian, thorner and sonic walked down to the panic room were they met 2 clone guards who stood at attention and sonic opened the door. Inside they found the king in his wheelchair, his wife by his side with his son and his wife on the other side eating food and drinking tea.
"Sir Jedi General Brian Smith of the Grand Army of the Republic Sir." brian said giving a sharp salute. The king saluted back and rolled over to brian and shook his hand
"Thank you for helping knothole in its time of need General Smith, your old master helped me before and when he informed me that you, his old apprentice, would help us i knew we would be in good hands. Please come and sit General if you have the time." the king said motioning for brian to sit down
"Thank you for the offer but unfortunately I must respectfully decline. I am having my men reinforce the perimeter defenses here but I must return to lead the offensive. Our men are beginning to push robotnik's forces back." brian said
"Well then general I wish you the best of luck." the king said shaking brians hand. Brian and thorner walked back outside and looked around to see everyone setting up defenses. Suddenly his comlink started to go off uncontrollably.
"This is Brian what is it base?"
"Sir robotnik's forces are attacking the staging area, they are amassing a major part of there forces sir, we are having a hard time defending the area." the trooper said. Brian quickly mounted shadowmere and quickly shot off towards the base. When he got within sight he saw the base being pounded with artillery and soldiers charging up the hill. Shadowmere blasted with plasma as brian jumped and ignited his lightsaber landing in front of his men facing the enemy who stopped for a short second in awe at the jedi who then charged at them cutting down one then another and another. A plasma bolt blew several away from brian who looked up and saw hiccup and toothless blasting away with shadowmere at the enemy and the clones regained the lost positions. As brian charged forward he followed the retreating soldiers all the way back to there convoy and destroyed it. As the last few ran into the woods brian stood among the burning wreckage a look in his eyes no one had seen before and then the look disappeared, he grabbed his helmet and walked back to the staging area.
3 days later the clones opened fire on the walls surrounding the capital city, everyday bombers ran bombing runs turning the main enemy building into the rubble. For 1 week the forces of robotnik didn't surrender then they did. As the clones marched through the city looking for a ambush that never came the people celebrated the defeat of robotnik's forces.
"So what's the next planet brian?" hiccup asked
"Robotnik has his main armory on a small planet about 3 parsecs from his capital planet. Those are the last remaining planets under his control. They won't fall easy but they are the last hiccup. This war is almost over." brian said handing hiccup a cigar that he took and put in his mouth.
"Welp lets get this done quick fast and in a hurry." hiccup said lighting the cigar with brians zippo. Brian pulled out his colt peacemaker and loaded a blank and fired which caused the other clones to fire blanks as well in celebration.
"What's the point of the pistol?" hiccup asked
"They call the pistol the peacemaker, well whenever we win a battle on a planet i load a blank and fire signaling peace on this planet. Its one of the things i have always done to signal victory for our boys ya know, not its almost a custom."brian said holstering the pistol. The clones and the city celebrated as the battle had been won and they are getting ever closer to peace
Grimmel stood staring out the window as the rain poured outside drenching everything when the door opened.
"Sir we have a report from knothole sir."
"And?"
"The jedi he… he has driven our forces off of the planet. They are in full retreat." the soldier said as the door closed. Grimmel turned red with rage and threw the axe sitting next to his desk at the soldier and on the other side of the door all that was heard was the thwunk of metal on metal and liquid on the floor.
Hey everyone hoping you all are liking this story. It isn't the best but it is going to fill the holes left by my other stories so stay with me because it going to be good.