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Counterattack! With the clone army stretched in a desperate struggle to engage General Grievous' starfleet, Separatist planets that were once thought secure are now rising up against the Republic. On Geonosis, Separatist leader Poggle the Lesser, safe in his newly ray-shielded factories, creates thousands of terrible new weapons which will march off the assembly line against the outnumbered clone army. The Jedi, resolute in their effort to restore order to the Republic, mount a massive invasion to retake Geonosis and shut down Poggle's factories of terror once and for all. Unknowingly, Jedi Knight Kird Wossaun and his Grenadiers join the battle to aid the siege of Geonosis.
Exosphere of Planet: Geonosis
A massive ship name, The Kaminos star, was in the middle hyperspace and at the command center stood Kird Wossaun, a former Padawan of Jedi master Shaak Ti and now Jedi knight. Now commanding The Grenadiers, a legion of nine thousand troops with more successful missions then any other clone legion. As Kird stared into hyperspace, Fives, one of the commanders of The Grenadiers spoke.
'General, we'll be dropping out of hyperspace soon' He said, Kird in response to the report stroked his chin.
'Good, once wesa reach Geonosis land dha this skeebeetle on its stratosphere' The clone pilot nodded.
'Yes sir'
'And also send troops to those who are struggl against dha Geonosian' Fives nodded his head.
'Yes sir, I'll tell the troops' Fives said. The ship then jumped off of hyperspace and in front of them was the planet Geonosis, the ship started to descend on to the planet.
'Fives, tell dha troops to ready themselves for battle'
'Yes sir!' Fives gave a solute, put on his helmet, before leaving the command center.
As The Kamino Star reaches the thermosphere, one of the pilots was receiving a hailing.
'Sir, we are receiving a hailing frequency' The Clone pilot said.
'Who's it from?' Kird asked.
"Don't know sir?' Responded the clone
Kird processing the unknown hail strokes his chin, thinking of the implications that this message may entail.
'Pull it up' Kird said. The Clone nodded and pulled it up on screen. As the hail played on screen a young man with black hair and mustache wore a dark gray uniform in the background an explosion can be heard.
'This is Admiral Wulf Yularen, I am currently under attack, who am I speaking to?' He asked.
'Disa Jedi knight Kird Wossaun commander of Dha grenadiers' Yularen widens his eyes at the realization.
'A Gungan?! My what has the word come to!' He yelled, Kird just rolled his eyes.
'What is it you want, Admiral?' He asked.
'We are currently under attack right now, and both Obi-wan and Kai-adi-mundi have requested support but I'm currently under staff'
'Mesa see, mesa can't provide mui support at dha moment since mesa other forces are spread thin, help dha others who are struggl against dha Geonosian'
'Can you provide any forces?' He asked, Kird stroked his chin, thinking for a bit.
'Mesa can provide support to Obi-wan but it's a small squadron'
'That will have to do, I'll send you the location of Obi-wan, once you send support and use your ship to help me to fight off these Separatists' Kird nodded, the transmission soon ended, Kird then looked over at a trooper.
'Trooper, tell Fives dha plan has change, tell him hesa'll will maken small squadron of thirty man from our Rocket Brigade and duey AT-AE, on to support Obi-wan' The clone gave a solute.
'Yes sir!' He said before leaving.
On the Geonosis grounds Obi-wan's legion the 212th was taking heavy fire, the troops they once had were now dwindling in numbers, a trooper using a telescope saw a ship not too far from here. The only problem being that the Geonosian were coming the same direction where the ship is at.
'Not good, the bugs are splitting up' the trooper said to Captain Cody. Just then two troops came up to him and saluted.
'Boil, reporting as ordered sir'
'Waxer, reporting as ordered sir'
'We've got a downed gunship five clicks east; we believe it's General Kenobi's, I need you to get out there and check for survivors'
'Sir, yes, sir!' They both said, the two then rushed over and into the battlefield. Artillery shells and blaster fire zipped past them as they rushed into the battlefield avoiding, dodging, and rolling away from tank fire, while their tanks provided as much support as they could to lift some pressure off of their troops from the hailing gunfire and ongoing bombardment. The two troopers soon reach the down ship and dove towards it leaning against the disabled wreckage as cover.
'Why do we always get the fun missions?' Waxer asked.
'Oh, this isn't the fun part, getting back to the square is the fun part' Boil joked.
Both began to pull on the door and as it opened they saw that Obi-wan was slumbled down in the corner of the ship exhausted, wounded but alive. shielded his eyes from the sudden light he saw two familiar figures standing in front of the ship opening.
'Waxer, Boil, am I glad to see you! Trapper and I are the only ones still alive.' both began to help Obi-wan and Trapper get back up to their feet.
'Good to see you, sir! Commander Cody has established the square just beyond this position, the bugs are on the move and trying to surround us as we speak, sir' Waxer stating the situation that they are in to the general. Back at the square the trooper using the telescope saw Waxer and Boil helping Obi-wan and another trooper get out of the crash site.
'They've got the General'' yelled the trooper. Commander Cody then radioed in the tanks.
'AT-TE 636, lay down cover fire at point three five' As ordered one of the tanks began to provide cover fire to relieve the pressure as Obi-wan and Trapper supported by Waxer and Boil, limped towards the square, as the four reached the square commander Cody approached them.
'Are you injured, General?' Cody asked.
'No, no, nothing too serious' The trooper laid Obi-wan against a couple of boxes and then proceeded to apply medical aid.
'What's the situation here?' He asked.
'We've got no air cover, two generals on the ground beyond our position, and a mess of bugs surrounding us' Just then commander Cody chimed in and it was in.
'Commander Cody! Are you there?!' Cody recognized that voice, it was Admiral Yularen.
'Admiral Yularen, what is going on?! Are you going to provide air support?!' He asked.
'Negative, Captain, we will be unable to provide any air support at this time, but someone else will'
'Who then?' He asked.
When suddenly they saw three LAAT closing in on their position, two of them carried what looks like a larger AT-TE, while the last one carried troops. As the two LAAT dropped the tanks retreated back to their ship, the last one kept flying straight towards the enemy.
'Sir that LAAT is heading straight ahead into enemy lines!' The trooper exclaimed.
Cody then snatched the telescope off of the trooper's hands to see if the LAAT was actually going to the front lines. And to his surprise. They were!
'Are those troopers crazy!?' The trooper yelled in confusion.
'No' Came the response from Commander Cody. 'Innovative' was the one-worded answer to the trooper confusion
'Great' Cody chuckled to himself.
'This is going to be an interesting siege' Remembering the out of book shenanigans that the 501st always deploy.
The LAAT continue to fly towards enemy lines as it did it tried it's best to avoid the shots that were firing at. Inside troops including Jedi knight Kird Wossaun stand, either checking their weapons or readying themselves for battle.
'Sir, we'll be arriving behind enemy lines soon' A trooper said.
'Good' Kird then turned towards his man.
'Our mission is clear, wesa to provide support and defeat the Geonosian dat are to lay a heavy attack on dha square' All the troopers nodded.
'Make sure you randomize your flying, so that you won't get hit easily' They all nodded again.
'So, who's with mesa!' Kird yelled, raising his lightsaber. The troops erupted into cheer until a voice from the speaker came LAAT stop moving and just hover.
'Aright troopers, we are now behind enemy lines' The LAAT door were now open.
'Alright Rocket Brigade! See yousa on dha ground and show those troopers how yousa got yous name' Kird said before purposefully falling off the ship, as he quickly descended he could see the others leaving the ship.
Looking back he saw that he was approaching the ground rather quickly but this didn't phase him quite the opposite actually he was pretty calm. Once he was close enough to the ground he used the force to slow his fall until he safely landed, as he looked up, he saw that some of the tanks and Geonosians artillery crew shifted their focus and were now aiming towards him. Kird simply smiled, ignited his lightsaber and using his other hand he dared them to take the first step, a moment of silence fell upon both the Geonosians and tank crew. Until one of the droids popped upon one of the tank hatches and yelled out.
'WHAT ARE YOU ORGANICS WAITING FOR!? BLAST HIM!' Shaking the artillery crew into action, the crew and tanks began to fire wildly at the Jedi, missing him almost entirely. Kird got into his stance before charging in and letting out a war cry.
Kai-adi-mundi and his group of troopers were walking along the mountain's cliff, when one of the troopers walked up and began talking.
'General, I left a squad to protect the tanks, are you sure this is the shortest way to the landing zone?' He asked.
'No, I'm not sure, Commander, all I can do is trust my instincts' The Group then went into the cave, as they continued going deeper and deeper Kai-adi-mundi Ignited his lightsaber so that the light could guide them. Halfway there, he holds up his fists, stopping the group.
'Wait a minute, wait a minute, I have a wing vibration up ahead' The trooper and Master Kai-adi-mundi got into formation guns pointing forward ahead.
Expecting the enemy to come in through the tunnels. As the formation waited the vibrations began to beat louder and louder. Getting anxious one of the troopers moved his rifle attached with a flash light towards the ceiling to see if the Geonosians could climb onto the ceiling and attack from there. The trooper hunch was corrected when suddenly the light brightened towards three Geonosians aiming their sound blasters towards. Before he was cut down before he could scream a warning to his allies. As the trooper fell to the ground the clone right next to him screamed out.
'AMBUSH!' He yelled and unloaded his rifle to the ceiling shooting two Geonosians, as they fell hard to the ground. In turn his brothers followed suit shooting the ceiling and in response the genosions did the same as a firefight broke out in the tunnels. The fighting ended as soon as it began as the Geonosians retreated when to their surprise an ambush was sprang too early and now in a fighting withdrawal using the caves stalactites as cover to escape the incoming blaster bolts. As the men took stock on the dead and wounded. Only one trooper died while four other Geonosins were counted.
'Don't stop! We must push on! Forward!' Kai-adi-mundi said and so they pressed on.
Anakin, Ahsoka, Commander Rex, and a small platoon of troopers were using the boulders as cover as they were under heavy laser fire, the troopers were putting grenades into a backpack and handed them to both Anakin and Ahsoka.
'So, what's the plan, General?' Rex asked.
'Just keep us covered, Rex' Anakin said.
'There's too much laser fire for all of us to make the climb, Ahsoka and I will handle this, just be ready when that wall comes down' The two now then ran out of cover dodging both blasts and explosions. When they came upon a mountain they pulled out a grapple hook aimed towards the top and fired, once the line was secure they began to climb the mountain until they reached the cliff. The droids on the wall quickly turned their blasters at the two jedi on the cliff and opened fire. As Anakin and Ashoka reflected the blaster fire. Their competition came to mind.
'How many droids have you shut down so far?' He asked.
'Twenty-five' Ahsoka said proudly, this made Anakin smirk.
'Ah, you're falling behind, let's go!' The two then jump off of the mountain and land on the and then proceed to cut down the droids. Back on the ground Rex notices that the two will soon be overwhelmed by droids.
'Focus on the droids on top of the wall!' He yelled at a clone who gave the others a hand sign,Redirecting their blaster fire towards the droids on the wall. The droids too focused on the two jedi didn't have time to react as they were taking potshots from the clones below. As the number of droids on top of the wall began to thin. Anakin quickly tried to find an open hatch to save his men from being cut down by the wall turrets.
'Look for a hatch, we need to put the explosives inside the wall!' Anakin ordered. As the two looked around one of the hatches began to open.
'Found one!' Ashoka exclaimed but it was a trap. A droideka popped up from the hatch and unfolded itself into battle mode, turning on his shields all the while. The droid began to shoot at her lucky she quickly ignited his lightsaber deflecting the blast.
Anakin saw that she was in trouble, ran to help her, not knowing another one appeared right behind him. While Anakin dealt with Ahsoka droid, she jumped over him dealing with his droid. The Two stood strong but couldn't last forever, Ahsoka then saw Captain Rex secretly approach the droid, as he passed the shield it aimed his pistol, and fired, destroying it. While Anakin slid underneath the droid cutting it in half. Just then a hatch opened and a lone B1-battle droid rose .
'Hey, did you get them?' He asked, but no one answered.
'Catch!' Anakin said, throwing the bag of explosives with one of them detonated along with Ahsoka.
'Huh?' The B1 was both confused and surprised but all just washed over when Anakin force pushed down the elevator.
'No!' He yelled.
'Come on, Rex'
'Up and away!' Both use the force to throw Rex off of the wall, the two then jump off the wall, as they did the two bags explode.
The two were the first to land, using the force to slow it down, then using the force they snowy Rex fell before dropping him on the ground. They then heard something from above, looking up they saw the wall began to crumble and a chunk of the wall began to fall and was about to land on top of them. It would have crushed both if not for Anakin and Ahsoka stopped it with the force and as the dust cleared he helped Rex up to his feet.
'Next time, just tell me to jump,' Rex said.
'Now, where's the fun in that?' He asked.
'Come on, we can't keep Obi-Wan waiting' He said as he began to ran
'You heard him, lads, let's go!' Rex said as the group followed Anakin.
With the Mundi group they were making excellent progress despite facing the rearguard Geonosians attack in a delaying action. They almost could see the other side, but there was still the problem with the Bugs.
'We're almost through, explosive team makes us an exit!' As the explosives team quickly went to work setting up charges to make an exit without causing a cave to collapse on top of them.
As the team's were making the finishing touches the explosives team came under fire by the Geonosians. Mundi group, having gotten used to being fired from above, aimed their rifles to the ceiling, exchanging fire to allow the explosive troops to detonate the exit. As the troops detonated the caverns began to crumble but was still holding despite it being on its last legs.
Finally seeing the opening Mundi yelled
'Come On' having his troops be the first out of the cave while being the rear guard for his troops to escape.
As the troops began to make their exit. Mundi sensed something was wrong and looked above. The Geonosians rear guard were planting explosives to ensure a cave in and were about to detonate. Sensing little time. Mundi made a split second decision and used the force to push his men further from the exit into the opening they made and as the last man was hurled into the exit. The Genosians explosives detonated causing the cave in. Burying Mundi and the exit.
Anakin's group ran towards the objective point, until Ahsoka spotted the large cave-in and she knew that wasn't natural.
'Look! What's that?' She pointed towards the direction, Anakin saw where she was pointing at and stopped the group.
'Wait here, snips' He said.
'You wish' She responded. The two then run and force jump on top of the edge of the cave-in they saw Mundi Clone troopers pulling some rocks out from the cave in. As they approached One of Mundi High ranking clones ran towards the two saluting in attention.
'Generals' The Clone trooper said.
'At ease' Anakin said.
'I see that you and you men made it safe' Anakin said as he looked around the troops and the rubble.
'Where is the Jedi master Ki-Asi-Mundi, is he with you?' question Anakin.
'Aye' The clone trooper said, looking down.
'He was with us but when we were about to cover for him and the rest of our boys. He stayed behind to get the last of us out, we're hoping we could find him in the rubble'
'Anakin?' Ahsoka asked.
'Yea' Anakin said, looking towards Ashoka.
'Look' She said pointing in the direction, Anakin looked and to his shock he saw a hand sticking out of the ground.
'Snips, help me with this' He said as he began to force lift the rumble away
'You heard the general, help her' The clone trooper said, gesturing to the troopers who were milling about and those that were removing the rubble. With the help of Ahsoka and some clone troopers they were able to remove the rumble that was surrounding the hand, and what they saw shocked them. There lies Kai-adi-mundi dead on the ground.
'On my God...' Ahsoka covered her mouth in horror, while Anakin said nothing. The troopers in turn lowered their heads.
'Let no one morn' Said the clone trooper.
'The loss of one soldier is not a great loss to the republic' In response the troopers stood tall and saluted the body that was once their general now in spirit, hopefully spirit, return to the force. As Anakin went to go pick up his body but was stopped,
'Forgive me for this but this is ou...was our general, our responsibility' Anakin nodded and made way for the leading trooper to gather the body for burial.
'Come, Ahsoka, we need to reunite with the others' As Anakin began to walk away Ahsoka followed.
Back at the square, thanks to Kird, fives, and The Rocket Brigade they have successfully defended the position. One of Kird's support ships has sent a small batch of medics to patch up the wounded and carry them back to the cruisers.
'Master Kenobi!' Ahsoka yelled, hugging him.
'Well, what happened to you?' Anakin asked.
'I might ask you the same question' Obi-wan rebuttal, but he noticed someone was missing.
'Where's Master Mundi?' He asked, but no one answered. Just then he saw two medic troopers carrying a body which was covered by a white blanket.
'So Mundi is no longer with us' Obiwan said sorrowfully, Anakin nodded in response.
'Today is a sad day, but we have no time for it now we must proceed with the plan'
'I don't think we've enough forces to proceed as planned' Anakin said.
'Yes we do' He then pointed towards a LAAT that was dropping off troopers the ship had a strange symbol neither of them had recognized.
The symbol is a stylized skull with octopus-like tentacles extending from it. The design is rendered in black and white, creating a stark, high-contrast appearance. The skull is centrally positioned, with the tentacles spreading symmetrically around it, forming a circular shape.
'Never seen that symbol before'
'Dat's because wesa do most of our mission in dha outer ri' A voice said. The group turn to see a Gungan smoking a pipe
'A Gungan?' Rex said, surprise.
'You can't be serious, master' Anakin said.
'Believe it Anakin, this Gungan is the help we need' Then Captain Cody pulled out a hologram, to plan their next attack.
'Our combined forces should be enough to destroy the shield generator' Obi-wan said then looks towards Anakin.
'Anakin, you'll need to take a small squad through the shield, as close as you can get to their gun emplacements, from there, you'll be able to temporarily jam their scanners so they are unable to target the incoming tanks, once the tanks knock out the shield, while Kird can bring the rest of
the troops in with the gunships'
'Consider it done, Master' The remaining tanks began moving into position. while The Rocket Brigade was scoping out the area beside Kird and two other troopers.
'All units are in position, sir' The trooper said to Kird.
'Tell Skywalker to start dha attack' Said Krid, the trooper signals Anakin troops.
'Begin the attack' The troopers pull out their blaster and Anakin ignites his lightsaber.
The Group then rushed forward as they ran and shot down a few Geonosian along the way. Unfortunately a few troops were either shot down or abducted, soon Anakin's group was met with Ahsoka as they hid behind a boulder for cover. In front of them were Geonosian and droids guarding the shield generator with both their & separatists artillery.
'Let's jam their scanners, Droid poppers, ready!' Anakin yelled, the two then pulled out a grenade and threw it which landed underneath the droids. The grenade releases an emp, shutting the droids down.
'Looks like it's working' Ahsoka said.
'It won't last long, bring up the tanks!'
Not far from their position a few tanks pulled up, aimed, and fried. They kept firing until the shield generator was destroyed, killing off some of the Geonosian in the process. As the shield disperse, gunships make their landing zones dispatching troops and as they surround the Geonosian, they soon drop their weapons, raise their hands and surrender, the battle now over.
Anakin was helping Obi-wan to a gun ship when Ahsoka spoke.
'So, Master, what was your total?'
'Not now, Ahsoka' He said as handed Obi-man to one of Kird medics
'Come on! Are you afraid you lost this time?'
'Fine, Fifty-five, that's my count. And you?' He asked which she smiled.
'Sixty, looks like I won'
'Yeah, but I called in the air strike, tie!' Ahsoka just rolled her eyes.
'You're impossible'
'I'll never understand how you can simplify these battles into some kind of game' Obi-wan said.
'Well, take care of yourselves, I expect to see you back here by the time I've destroyed the main factory, I shall do our best'
'Duey hundred, Skywalker' The three turned around again and saw Kird smoking again.
'I'm sorry?' Kird pulled a hologram number, which slowly rose.
'Mesa total, along with mesa other troops do other campaigns across dha planet' Both Ahsoka and Anakin were shocked by this, Anakin looked at Obi-wan who simply smirked.
'My everlasting respect, Jedi Kird'
'Oh' Kird said, disappointed.
'That is a gift Anakin rarely bestows, I assure you' Obi-wan jokingly said.
'Hmm' Kird contemplated.
'Would have preferred Lum' Kird jokes.
The Gun ship doors closed as it began to fly off to the cruiser, leaving Anakin, Ahsoka, and Kird to proceed with the plan.
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