Battle of New Jamnin Part One 

by Commander Crazyfoot

The Battle of Avon

The battle for the planet Avon is coming to a close. Republic forces have pushed back the Separatist back into the Capital City of Avon. The planet Avon seceded from the Republic 2 weeks after the battle of Geonosis. 99% of the planet agreed to secede from the Republic, the rest that didn’t agree were arrested and executed. The battle had gone in favor of the Republic from the start, when the Republic pulled off the perfect surprise attack. They were able to come out of hyperspace and drop off their troops right on top of the Separatist forces, then caught the Avon air force on the ground and destroy them in the first half an hour of the battle. The battle raged on for four days, now the Republic was about to take the capital city. Clone snipers started taking out the defenders of the city. Gunships zoomed in overhead taking out key buildings, enemy turrets, and enemy bunkers. Jedi Master Plo Koon lead the Republic forces into the city. Clone Troopers secured buildings and took out the majority of the enemy infantry, while the AT-ATs, AT-TEs and AT-PTs took out the Separatist mechs.

The commander of the Avon forces General Joss Jerono were ordering all forces to pull back to the heart of the city, where 4 light transports were to take as many troops as possible off the planet. Count Dooku had called in 2 hours earlier to tell Jake the retreating procedure for the Avon forces. The plan was to have Gen. Jack Jerono, senior members of the Avon council, military leaders and any surviving battle droids and CIS equipment to be evacuated to a planet called New Jamnin, all other regular Avon troops were to be left behind for a last stand. As battle droids, AATs, Spider Droids, and all other CIS equipment was pulled back. Avon Troops gave a last ditch effort to stall the Republic to secure the escape of the Transports. They place high explosive charges in the foundations of buildings lining the streets of the capital city. Then as Republic troops advanced under the buildings they detonated the charges, plunging the buildings on top of Republic Troops. This stopped all advancement of the Republic for about an hour. By then the transports were ready to take off. That’s when 3 ARCs troopers and a squad of Clone Commados busted through the durasteel door of the Transports hanger. They immediately invaded one of the four transports and killed the pilots. Then placed charges on the Transports landing gear. Then detonated the charges which purmitly grounded that Transport.

The other three took off. As they took off the next transport was mortally wounded by Two Gunships. The Pilots lost control of the Transport and it crashed into one of Avon’s many Skyscrapers. Then just before the transports left Avon’s atmosphere four Clone Fighters and two Jedi Starfighters Swooped out of the clouds and took out the third transport. It exploded in a fireball and what remained fell down to the earth. The final transport which held Jack Jerono a few Avon military advisors and a few hundred battle droids, sped toward open space. Every person on the transport breathed a sigh of relief, they had made it out of the danger.

They had all left behind love ones. They did not know what will happen to them they were all scared. But at least they were alive and safe. The last transport was about to jump into hyperspace when four Republic Accumulator Class Assault Ships appeared out of hyperspace in front of them. Their jaws dropped in awe.

Chapter 2

The Transport suddenly started to shake violently, the hull creaked and groaned under the pressure of a powerful tractor beam, heading toward one of the mighty Republic Assault Ships. The pilot put the engines in full reverse but to no avail, the stress on the tiny ship only worsened as it vibrated faster with violent momentum. It was hopeless, Gen. Jerono ordered the last stand for who ever could lift and fire a weapon. He gave the order for all battle droids to stand guard at the outer hatches and air locks. The Avon forces took their positions on the bridge, standing ready to fight to the last man, their sweat poured down there dirty war torn faces as they prepared for the final battle. Meanwhile, the ship finally docked with the assault ship, into its gigantic docking bay. Scattered around the bay were assorted clone star fighters and jedi fighters. The noise of the hydraulics wheezed as it lurched to a stop against the steel grating. No sooner had it docked the Republic forces filed out into the docking bay and formed up prone and in firing stance, when all seemed clear the clones stood and hurried to the rear hatch there white armor clicking and shaking as they rushed forward.

They started to cut through the main hatch of the cargo hold, yet they were about to get a nasty surprise. The hatch fell with a loud thud, as soon as it did the clones set up in formations guns ready, thru the darkness came a rolling mechanical groan of a Trade Federation AAT Tank, as soon as it appeared it fired into the offending clones with a powerful roaring blast from its main canon. But the clones had pulled back the minute the mech appeared; the thick red blast slammed into the base of the cut hatch frame blowing the on ramp of its attachments with a screech of twisted metal. Instead of rushing in, a clone lobbed in a glaring sliver disk, a RPPG (Reverse Polarity Pulse Grenade). Suddenly it exploded with a display of stunning blue lighting that reached out across the hold like webbing, disabling all the droids in the vicinity, as well as the tank. A squad of Clone Commandos rushed thru the blasted smoking gap and headed for the bridge at a quick pace in cover formation, there clicking and clanging armor echoed down the eerie empty halls.

They came to the bridges large round durasteel door, as they took aim at the door, one commando approached the panel and pressed the release, the panel replied with a mechanical beep signifying the was lock shut, as well as the thick heavy blast doors closed over the main hatch. The Clone Captain. tapped his helmet gird activating his communicator devise and called in for support to open the doors. Two Jedi, Jedi Master Thom Fasstu and his Padawan Peat Faust hurried down from the Assault ships bridge. When the two Jedi arrived on the scene, they both ordered the clones into defensive covering positions and ignited their lightsabers simitaniusly one Green one Blue. They pushed their sabers into the door, the blazing light slowly seared thru the thick door with a loud hissing of burning, melted metal. They twisted their sabers as the metal which started to give and glow red hot, they were cutting through the doors like the thick durasteel was nothing but paper.

The Avon troops inside the bridge raised their blasters at the sparking doors at the areas that were starting to glow red, smoke and sparks poured thru the hole in the door as the tips of the sabers shown thru. Jerono gave the order to prepare to defend themselves, the Avon troops got into prone and crouching firing positions the rest held up around the terminals; the moment was tense, fear gripped their hearts and they began to breath hard, Jerono took one look across the faces of his men as he realized the end had come, wiped his sweaty brow and raised his blaster.

The two Jedi finally finished their cut, the Jedi Knight Thom gave a powerful force push toward the door. The circle they had cut in the door flew back into the bridge and landed with a giant roaring crash as it slammed into the steel bridge floor sending sparks in every direction, the outer edges of the cut circle and the door hole emitted a thick smoke that stank of melted steel.

Thom gave the order "Move in set for stun, spare all you can!" One of the Clones dove through the hole, he landed against the hard floor with a clank, as his commando armor shook. He got into a kneeling position, raised his rifle, took careful aim and began giving covering fire. Yet, as soon as he opened up with his rifle a red bolt tore thru the mist and struck the clone in the forehead, his head snapped back with a loud crack, his body crumpled backwards and fell limp against the deck and lay still. Faint smoke rising from the blast mark on his white armor.

Instantly, the 3 others moved in, the smoke started to settle and shadowy figures appeared beyond, a torrent of red bolts tore thru the smoke and into the Commando pinning them down, until the two Jedi leaped thru lightsabers in hand. They landed in front of the clones and with a mixed blur of blue and green light they began reflecting the blasts back to were they came from. The Jedi Knight Thom gave the signal to his Padawan to deflect the blasters to the sides, shielding the clones and sparring the Avon troops.

The clones rushed in and around, flanking the Avon Troops, who were fully focused on the advancing Jedi. The Jedi gave the signal and the clones began firing into the Avon troopers, a barrage of stunning blue energy left the muzzles of there guns and slammed into the backs of the unsuspecting Avon troops one by one. One of the confederacy soldiers turned his head over his shoulder, and saw the enemy and the blasts coming for him, he ducked his head and sprang off his feet diving out of the way in the nick of time as a wave of blue energy sailed over his body. He spun around, took quick aim, squeezed the trigger and fired at the clone aiming at him, the clone was struck in the chest. As his arms flailed up, he let out a loud shriek of pain and fell backwards.

He jumped up quickly and ran at full speed toward a clone taking aim at Gen. Jerono, who was furiously firing into the Jedi screaming, as he slowly stepped back shooting. The Avon trooper punched the clone in the face, smashing his bare, dirty hand into the clone who had a helmet on, breaking the soldier’s hand. He drew his hand back as it drew blood, which trickled down his hand to the floor. The soldier dove onto the unhurt clone and began a ferrous struggle between the two men. They both exchanged punches and kicks. During the struggle the trooper hit the clone’s blaster, switching the particle setting from stun to default fire. The clone lifted his arm and swung the butt of his rifle into the troopers face, knocking him out.

The clone quickly scrambled up and continued his aim at the enemy General. After he took aim he pulled back on the trigger and fired, but it was not the outcome that the clone had foreseen, the blast hit the man square in the chest. Sending him flying back as he let out a loud painful and confused grunt, leaving a new smoking bloody hole thru his chest. The other clone took down the rest of the confederacy forces without incident.

The clone who had shot the General stood up and called over to the two Jedi. The Jedi jogged over, panting and sweating. When Thom asked what had happened the clone told them what had occurred. The man was alive, but not for long, he lay hunched on the floor and against the wall. Holding the wound in his chest, smoke rose from the hole and red blood poured thru his fingers down his uniform. He was looking up at the two Jedi, who were in turn looking down at him. He looked into their eyes as his breath shortened and his eyes began to glaze and gave a deep gasp and screamed

"JUST KILL ME NOW DAMN IT, GET IT OVER WITH!" The Jedi Knight looked at him and calmly said,

"We are not here to harm you, we are here to help you" Then he looked over at his padawan and spoke sternly to him

"heal him" His padawan replied quickly

"I don’t know if I can, the wound is deep." His master gave a quicker retort,

"You can do it, use the force, it will heal him." The padawan replied,

"I’ll try."

"No, in the words of Master Yoda ‘There is no try, do or do not’, So either heal the man or step aside." Not wanting to displease his master the padawan knelt down next to the man put his hand about an inch above the wound and closed his eyes. Slowly the wound began to seal up. The Jedi looked down at his padawan, who was starting to sweat, his eyes were closed as tight as they could be, he knew his padawan was trying his best, in that moment he was never more proud of him.

The Avon troopers were escorted to the brig at gunpoint by the clones. The brig was in the rear of the ship right next to the gigantic power reactors. This kept a loud hum constantly in the prisoners ears. The Jedi then reported to the bridge of the gigantic ship, the Jedi Master walked up to the Commander of the platoon of Clone Commandos named Shrike who lead the assault on the transport ship. The Jedi asked

"Casualty Report" The Clone Replied

"2 dead, one injured"

The Jedi then turned to a Clone Captain that came up behind him. The Clone spoke,

"Master Plo Koon is calling from down on Avon, sir" The Clone directed him to a large round table. The Clone stopped, bowed and returned back to his normal duties. The Jedi went over and pushed a button on the side of the table. Suddenly a fuzzy blur of a blue holoform of Master Plo Koon appeared in the middle of the table. Both Jedi bowed to each other.

Then Plo Koon began to speak to Thom in his thick raspy muffled voice

"We have heard that you have captured the leader of the Avon Rebels, Congratulations."

"No" said Master Thom "its you who should be congratulated for you having captured a strategically important planet with great success. If it was not for your victory the Separatist’s would have secured another whole system." Thom could sense the joy in his voice as he replied.

"Master Yoda has told to me to tell you, to report back to Coruscant immediately, you are to bring the prisoners and the Transport that you captured with you to the Temple for a special assignment."

"Yes, thank you Master Plo Koon, I’ll see you back at the Temple." Thom finished, they bowed again and the image of the Jedi disappeared.

The Clone Captain returned from behind, again and asked

"Where to Master Jedi?"

"Back to Coruscant, have several Clone pilots charter the Transport back but make sure they have at least a squad of troops with them just in case." Said Thom. The Clone nodded and walked away.

Thom returned to his quarters, his padawan was already there, Peat was meditating on his bunk. The door closed shut behind Thom with a whoosh, Peat opened his eyes. Thom walked over to his bunk, laid down and shut his eyes. Yet as soon as he did an alarm went off and a Clone’s voice came in over the intercom and spoke firmly, that the Assault ship would be going into hyperspace in five minutes. Five minutes later just like it was promised they went fourth into hyperspace heading toward Coruscant.

Chapter 3

Master Thom opened his eyes, he felt the ship come out of Hyperspace, they had arrived at Coruscant. He woke up his Padawan and they both headed toward the bridge. When they arrived the crew had begun landing procedures. The Clone Captain who directed Master Thom to the holoscreen last night again approached him.

He said "Sir, we have a Gunship waiting for you to take you to the Jedi Temple."

"What of the Prisoners?" Asked Tom

"We have a Light Carrier ready for them"

"Make sure it has an escort" Replied Tom

"Yes sir" said the Clone as he turned away.

The two Jedi made their way down to the hanger bay of the ship. They got into their designated Gunship, it dropped down from the bottom of the Gigantic vessel then turned to port and sped toward the Temple. Right below them they saw the prisoners being escorted into the Carrier. Then they passed over thousands upon thousands of Clones standing in formation. His Padawan turned to him and asked

"How can our forces be stretched so thin in this war when we have all those troops?"

"Because there are millions of planets and thousands of systems, we still just don’t have enough." Replied the Master.

After about half an hour they reached the Temple. On their way in they noticed Master Yoda and Master Windu standing at the landing platform. They landed at a landing pad that stretched out from the base of the temple. It had been recently added to accommodate all the incoming war traffic to the temple. The two Jedi jumped out of the Gunship and walked toward the two Jedi Masters that were waiting patently for them. The Gunship took off and headed back toward the Assault Ship. Master Windu was the first to speak

"I’m glad to see you are both in good shape."

"Thank you master" said the Master and Apprentice at the same time.

"Many things to talk about there are, come." Said Yoda.

They walked through the Temple without saying another word. They walked into a large meditation room that was converted to serve as a briefing room for the war. Master Yoda finally turned to them and told them to sit down. Then Master Windu started to talk.

"Master Thom you and your apprentice have been selected for a high priority mission. You and several other Jedi plus their padawans are to pose as the Prisoners you have captured, and go to the Separatist base that was taking them in."

"Master" said Thom "may I ask where you got this information?"

"Yes, you may" said Yoda "continue you must Mace"

"We intercepted a message from Count Dooku to the General of the Separatists forces of Avon which I am glad to see that you captured him as well. Anyway, Count Dooku told him that to join the Separatist at a new base that they had established for any retreating separatist forces on a planet called New Jamnin. The thing is everyone of those troops on that transport was some high ranking Avon Member so you and the other members will have to pose as them."

"Master may I ask who are the other members."

"Yes, here are their files."replied Mace handing over a datapad

"Master who is to lead this missions?" asked Tom

"Well you are Master Tom." Pete looked up at his master, he could sense in him great concern.

"Master Yoda, are you sure I am the Jedi for the job."

"Muum yes you are, you ready for this, but still doubt yourself you do." said Yoda.

"I am ready but I have never gone undercover like this before. Master Windu I know you can do this."

"No I can not for two reasons, first, I have other matters to attend to, second, I am too well known, I would blow your cover as soon as we landed. Believe us Thom, we have thought this through thousands of times you are the right Jedi."

"Thank you, Master I won’t fail you. When do we leave?" "Tomorrow morning." Said Mace then they bowed to one another.

While Yoda and Mace went to the Council Chamber way at the top of the Jedi Temple, Tom and Pete went to get something to eat. The mess hall was gigantic, this was to accommodate all the Jedi that ate there. But what was even bigger was the kitchen, They had thousands of droids they made different dishes for different species. The mess hall was practically empty, there were roughly 2 Jedi Masters, 40 Knights, and 100 something Padawans in different stages of training which was to be expected since so many Jedi were at war. Peat also noticed the emptiness and said

"Well at least the line won’t be long." Thom let out a chuckle.

At that time Master Mace Windu and Master Yoda were discussing Toms’ behavior with the council when given the mission. They argued in a peaceful manner if they had made the right decision, the main argument was between Yoda and Shaak Ti. Yoda argued for Thom and Shaak Ti argued for another Jedi named Jaw Geris. Who was also in on the mission. They finally came to the conclusion of Thom as the First in Command and Geris as second. After the meeting Mace went down to the mess hall.

He saw Thom and Peat and went over to Talk to them. He said

"Are you sure you can full fill this mission Thom?"

"Yes Master" Answered Tom.

"Ok then, meet with the council Tomorrow morning for the final briefing." Thom nodded his head and Mace got up and left. Tom and Pete left about 5 minutes later to their apartment. When they reached there Peat fell asleep almost immediately while Thom meditated on the mission. He didn’t know what it was about but there was something wrong with the future.

They woke up early and found Avon armor laying on a chair. They put them on and walked to the Council chamber. When the reached the council chamber their was about 15 Jedi plus the members of the council, they were all dressed in the same Armor, Avon Armor.

"Wonderful, now that your all here" started Mace "we can start now." The planet you are infiltrating is a planet called New Jamnin were the Separatist have started a base to take in retreating Separatist forces. We would just invade the planet but there is a shield down on the planet that keeps us from doing so. We have reprogrammed the droids in the cargo hold of the ship to be on our side and when needed will defend you if that time comes. They have also been programmed with a virus, when uploaded into the Separatist systems this will take out all the security devices such as cameras, door locks etc. this will be the easy part since, when you land they will take the droids and take out any tactical information. Now the virus won’t work for 10 hours after download this will make sure it is night when you will start faze two. That’s when you get to the shield generator and blow it up. Faze three is staying in the living force until we get to you and pick you up. Got it, any questions?" No one spoke. " Oh one more thing we have a Clone that will come with you he’s an ARC named Strike."

Everyone one looked over and the clone stepped out of the shadows to introduce himself, he didn’t have any of his Republic armor, but did have Avon Armor on, he then stepped back into the shadows, everyone looked back to Mace.

"Good you will leave immediately on the Avon Transport that is waiting for you on landing pad Z-936. May the Force be with you."

Everyone filed out and headed toward the Transport no one spoke on the way there. They made it onto the Transport, as they did they passed several droids that were eyeing everyone. They got on board and depending on who you were portraying they got in to their positions. Soon they took off and were flying high over Coruscant. When they reached space then they made it into Hyperspace. Next stop New Jamnin.

Chapter 4

Thom woke up from a large jolt that shook the vessel and made it whine. They had come out of hyperspace. Thom woke up Peat and they headed toward the bridge. When they got there everyone was in there places, Thom saw the ARC leaning against the wall with his arms crossed eyeing the Jedi as they walked it. Thom walked up to the pilot.

"Have we arrived?" asked Thom.

"We are about 5 minutes out." replied the Jedi pilot. Thom shook his head and walked over to the holoprojecter, pressed several buttons in a certain order, and a planet appeared, floating in a once empty space. It was the planet of New Jamnin.

Even though the planet looked blue on the hologram, Thom could see that the planet was mainly made up of lush jungles, and vast seas. Suddenly a loud mechanic tone cut through the air. This was a tone that sounded when there was an incoming message. The whole bridge suddenly went silenced. The co-pilot leaned over and pushed a glowing red button that flashed at a steady pace. Suddenly a image appeared on a screen that hung over the pilot and co-pilot. It was a image of a male Twi’lek. That suddenly asked

"Identify yourself?" The pilot replied

"This transport A-73D4687. We are carrying survivors from the Battle of Avon." The Twi’lek retorted

"clearance code"

"Sending it now." said the pilot. The Twi’lek shook his head, and said

"All clear, you may land on landing pad 22-B." In an instant the screen went black.

Everyone on the Bridge breathed a sigh of relief. Even the Clone looked a little better even though he played it cool through the ordeal. The Transport shook as it entered the atmosphere. As they came in Thom looked down to see thousands of human, alien, and droid troops, all walking around on the ground below. The landing pad was not more then a painted circle on the dirt ground. A human with a pair of glow rods directed them in. They opened the hatch to reveal medics and hover trams for both the men and the droids. They were all quickly ushered off the transport. While the Jedi got on one set of trams the droids got in another.

Then as soon as they were all on board the tram took off. Thom looked to his right which sat his padawan Peat, and too his left sat Jaw Geris. Jaw looked back at him and whispered,

"Hopefully, that virus works as it’s supposed too or were screwed." "Ya" replied Thom with a laugh. As they went along, the Jedi passed many diverse species, which included, Bothans, Aqualish, Gamorreans, and the most infamous, Geonosians. After a few minutes they reached there barracks. It was a long, thin building with a rounded roof, a few small slits for windows and a thin durasteel door. The ARC walked up to the door and pushed the panel on the side of the door. The panel gave 3 short beeps and the door slid to the right.

The ARC was the first to walk into the building, scanning the room. A bag on his shoulder, which contained some clothes and a light blaster. Everyone else carried the same similar bag. Except, the rest carried lightsabers in there bags instead of blasters. The barracks was very open. There was about 40 beds that had a small mattress, pillow, and a green wool blanket. At the end of the building was a sectioned off area which was their bathroom, there was about 10 toilets and 10 sinks. The group moved in and each claimed a bed. Thom and his padawan took the two beds closest to the door.

Thom laid down and closed his eyes, not to fall asleep but to rest. Everyone else just unpacked their stuff and talked talk quietly about News from the War. Thom woke up to realize that he had fallen asleep. It was about 1 am and all the other Jedi were asleep. He now was wide awake, so he decided to take a walk around the base. He quietly got out of bed and went outside.

There was still a lot of activity outside. He casually walked to the droid repair facility. There was two human guards that at first didn’t let him go in but with a little "persuasion" they let him in. The door open to a catwalk that hung 100 feet over the floor. Lots of droids were plugged into the wall. And sparks dropped from repair landings, where droids and mechs were repaired. He could see the droids they brought with the virus being hauled away. It was done. At 3 o'clock they would move against the shield generator, contact the fleet and hope that they aren’t discovered till at least the republic arrived.

He walked back to the barracks and woke everyone up quietly. By the time everyone was up it was 2:30am and there wasn’t as much commotion as there was an hour and a half ago. The Jedi put there lightsabors under their cloaks and grabbed a blaster. They ran out of the barracks and split off into 2 groups, Alpha and Bravo groups, Alpha group of 10 lead by Thom went to the shield generator, Bravo group of 8 led by Geris went for the communication relay. Group Alpha arrived at the shield generator at 2:56am and then waited for 3. It was finally 10 seconds till 3, and Thom counted down the time.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ok lets go." said Thom.

Thom his padawan, the ARC and 8 Jedi headed toward the entrance. There was 4 Gamorreans guarding the doors. Thom walked up toward the door. Two Gamorreans crossed their vibroaxes in front of him. They grunted and snorted at him. The ARC and a Jedi dropped down behind two and snapped their necks while Thom choked the two other Gamorreans to death. They then dragged the bodies into the bushes while another Jedi hacked into the door panel and unlocked the door.

They moved in, there were no guards in the generator room. The generator was a huge tower with rotating purple transformers, and power cords that ran from the ground to the top of the gigantic generator. They put the explosives on the coolant valves, power regulators and the main transformers. They set up the triggers to Thom’s wrist communicator. Then Thom got a call from Jaw Geris who was leading the Bravo group.

"Master Thom" said Jaw "We have reached the communication relay and without incident have sent a message to the Republic fleet they should be arriving in the hour. We will now head back to the" BOOOOM

"Geris, Geris, What the Hell is going on? Yelled Thom into his communicator. There was 3 seconds of silence then static came up then he heard Geris’s voice

"Master chhhhh we are under heavy chhhh ack we are taking heavy chhhhh ualties need immediate assistan chhhhhh HELP!!! BOOOM Ahhhhhhh chhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Then the signal went dead.

All the Jedi and the ARC looked at one another. Finally Thom said,

"Ok lets get the Hell out of here!" They all ran toward the large Durasteel door. Peat was already there he punched the door panel and it opened to reveal an evil creature with a body of metal, and yellow eyes. Each arm and foot contained a lightsaber. Peat stood their in ah, gazing into those horrible blood shot, yellow eyes.

With one swift movement, it crossed it’s two upper arms in a cross over its head, and then cut diagonally down cutting off Peat’s head in one miraculous movement.

"NO" screamed Thom. He raced foward, using the force to quicken his pace to a blinding speed. Then leaped up into the air, he held the lightsabor over his head to slash down at the creature. The creature easily stepped to the right, then swung one of it’s lightsabors at the landing Jedi. Thom counter this by bringing his left arm, which held the lightsabor, upside down over his head. The lightsabors struck with a thunderous clash of sparks and sound.

By this time another Jedi was in the air just like Thom was before, heading for the mysterious creature. It saw this and kicked Thom away then crossed it’s upper lightsabors over its head as the Jedi landed, the upper lightsabors blocked the Jedi’s attack and its feet came off the ground activated the lightsabors in both feet and cut this Jedi in half. The ARC pulled out his blaster and started unloading on it. The creature just deflect the blasts. Thom got up to his feet and once again charged at it. Once he was close enough the creature turned to face him.

That’s when the ARC got his chance, he blasted the creature right in the back of it’s head. It went limp, but Thom knew it was not for long, so he raised his lightsabor to offer the final blow. Then he sensed something, it was a blaster bolt coming straight for his head. He ducked and it whizzed by, singeing a few strands of his jet black hair. He turned and deflected 12 bolts that came his way. The Jedi were no match. So they pulled back to behind some storage containers.

Thom knelt down next to the ARC, he asked

"What would be the tactical thing to do in this situation Strike?"

"Well" said the ARC "the tactical thing would to be to retreat but we don’t have that option." Thom and the clone looked around and saw that they were either surrounded by the durasteel wall or the droids.

"So" said Strike "the only 2 options we have left are to blow up the generator and sacrificing our lives, or surrender." Thom replied

"never surrender, but we don’t have to die either." He took notice of an ATT tank that appeared beyond the advancing droids.

When he sensed that it was preparing to fire it main cannon he stood up. Red bolts streamed past him, but it didn’t bother him, he just kept concentrating on the tank. He held out his hand, then milliseconds later it fired, straight at the Jedi. As the blast came toward him he slowed everything with the force. The bolts crept past him and the blast fired by the tank closed in at just a slightly faster rate then the others. When it reached only inches from his hand he suddenly sent a powerful force blow at it. It suddenly curved and the Jedi let go of everything, everything went back to real time and bolts zipped past him. There was a gigantic explosion as the blast hit the wall. Flame and debre flew all over. The force of the explosion pushed over Thom and a few other Jedi and destroyed a few dozen droids. The ARC grabbed Thom by the cloak and forcefully pulled him back to his feet. The other Jedi were also regaining their footing.

"Come on, lets get out of here!" The ARC and the remaining Jedi ran toward the hole in the wall. Even though it was a large explosion it only left a small hole in the wall, so they had to go through one by one.

Three of the Jedi were already through the hole and a forth was just going through as they approached. When they got to the hole the fourth had gotten through. The ARC help Thom get through then he help another Jedi get through. He looked back and saw there was one more Jedi coming. The ARC Jumped through the hole. Thom and Strike looked through the hole and waited for the last Jedi to get out. It was a Jedi Knight named Arneti Vanez. You could see that he had been injured and there was a substanchal amount of blood coming out of his left side. He moved up to the hole squatted down and as he was about to jump through it two lines of blue light came through his chest. Thom noticed them as lightsabors. Jedi Vanez dropped to the floor and there stood the creature.

The ARC grabbed a thermal detonator off his belt and through it through the hole, grabbed Thom by the cloak and pulled him to the ground as the detonator went off. Sending sparks and flame through the hole. They both looked back up and noticed the creature was gone. The both got up and ran. Ten seconds later Thom hit two buttons on his wrist communicor and the shield generator building blew up in a amazing fireball. Thom looked back as he ran, the building was on fire, then it caved in on itself. Thom was happy to see their mission was accomplished but couldn’t help thinking of the Jedi who had died especially his Padawan Peat, he would miss him very much. They ran for about 20 minutes then they finally reached the ship they had arrived in.

They were glad to see it. But as they got closer they noticed it was guarded by about 200 droids, an ATT and two battle droids on STAPs. They had no where else to go. The next ship that was docked and fueled was to far away. They had to get in there. They all lite their lightsabors and charged foward. The Droids looked at them but didn’t attack.

Thom thought this was odd. Then he realized these were their droids. He yelled for the Jedi to stop. They all stopped dead in there tracks. They then all suddenly realized the fact as well that they were the Republic controlled droids. That was to bad for one battle droid because the ARC had already takin it’s head off with a well placed shot.

Thom walked up to the battle droid that had yellow paint on it chest which signified that it was the ranking droid and gave his instructions

"You don’t fire on the enemy unless I tell you, got it?"

"Roger, Roger" replied the droid. All the remaining Jedi walked into the transport. They were not allowed to leave the planet until the battle was completely won or that they had failed their mission. The remaining seven Jedi just stood their in reflection of the mission. It was successful but very costly. Thom sat on a ammo container that was inside the cargo hold of the vessel. He stared at all the survivors. They were all emotional over the loses, but they didn’t cry, they just bowed their heads in sadness.

That’s when Thom realized that there are no survivors in this war. There’s no heros, no protectors, just soldiers. The Jedi went from calm, gentle peacekeepers, to soldiers that would let nothing stop them from completing their mission. When once they would try to save the life of a man shooting at them. They would now strike the man down, then remind themselves that he is the enemy and deserves to die. But was that really true? They were after all trying to kill the Jedi so why not return the favor? No, It was not logical these were living creatures. How could they kill..., BOOM.

An explosion cut through the air. He looked out the hatch, two sparking and charred battle droids landed at the end of the ramp face up. Thom ran outside and saw hundreds of Separatist droids and alien soldiers charging at the transport at full speed, Their was also Geonosians flying at them with their sonic blasters in hand, and in front of them all was the bizarre leader of the Confederate army. Thom knew they were done for, he yelled to the droids on their side

"FIRE AT WILL"

"Roger, Roger" replied the droids. They all opened up simultaneously.

Chapter 5

The Confederate forces took casualties but didn’t fire back and continued to charge. When it got close enough the Confederate General jump at least forty feet into the air, with all four lightsabors blazing. Thom yelled out "This is it!" Thom and the rest of the Jedi pulled out their lightsabors and flipped them on, a blur of green and blue lightened up the early morning sky. While the ARC pulled out two semi-automatic blasters.

The droid General started to descend toward them, when two blue blasts streak through the air and nailed the Thing dead on in the chest, which let out a fire ball from the area were the enemy General once was. A Jedi starfighter streaked by about fifteen feet above the Jedi’s heads. The Jedi Starfighter did a barrel roll and flew up and to the right. Then about twenty blue missiles streaked by and landed into the charging separatist forces. Body parts and droid parts flew everywhere. Ten Gunship opened up with their foward guns, and side ball turrets. The Separatist forces started to drop like Banthas in a snowstorm.

Four Gunships exploded and you could see clones falling out of the gunships as several Geonosians Starfighters flew by. Meanwhile the battle droids on the Republic side marched toward the retreating Separatist. When a droid bomber dropped two seismic charges right on top of the Republic Droids sending an explosion of blue lighting incinerating all the droids. A Republic Assault ship came into hover a few hundred feet above them. A Gunship landed in front of the Jedi and they raced forward to meet the clones and Jedi getting off.

It was Master Plo Koon and about 20 clones. Plo Koon jogged up to Thom and said

"We don’t have much time, the Separatist ground forces have retreated but we are expecting a counter-attack within the hour. The Separatist air forces are as active as ever. We haven’t even been here for 10 minutes yet and we have lost over 30 Gunships and 12 Fighters. What is your strike team’s status Master Thom?"

"The Majority are MIA but presumed KIA. We were jumped by an overwhelming force, so that either means, there is a being here that is force sensitive like Dooku or we have a traitor in our mists."

"Then we must be ever vigilant Master Thom." replied Plo Koon. They heard the sound of a charging laser cannon from the Republic Accumulator that hovered overhead. Suddenly, one single blue bolt of pure energy was fired from the hull of the gigantic vessel. It descended rapidly and hit a building about a mile away from were the Jedis stood. The building erupted into a giant orange fireball that stretched out into the atmosphere.

Plo Koon then announced, "Thom, you are to accompany me to the Assault ship, Thyferra where were to plan out the rest of the battle."

"Right." said Thom "What are the other Jedi to do?"

"They will stay here with a squad of clones for some extra security.... Well, if there’s nothing else then where off. Clones you know what to do."

"Yes sir" replied the clone Sargent. Thom and Plo Koon jogged to the waiting Gunship and helped each other onto the steel hold. The Gunship shook as the it lifted into the air, and Plo Koon and Thom had to grab onto the nylon straps so they wouldn’t fall out.

Even though their was very low visibility, they could still see the battle. Red and Blue laser bolts streaked across the battlefield, then there was the occasional explosion. They finally made it to the Assault ship and docked in the upper docking bay that was closest to the bridge. They jumped out of the Gunship and walked toward the elevator which was guarded by a single clone with a DC-15 blaster rifle. They got in, Plo Koon hit a button with a basic letter C on it. The door slid shut and Thom could feel it rising up.

After a few seconds the elevator stopped and the door behind them opened. They turned and saw 20 clones scurrying about doing different duties. Some were looking at screens while others were walking around on guard duty. They walked over to a holo projector that was playing out the battle in picture. You could see hundreds of Republic Clones, Jedi, Mechs, Gunships and Fighters converging on hundreds of Confederate Droids, Mercenaries, Mechs and Fighters. To what Thom could see it looked to be an even battle. On the Republic side they had the element of surprise, and on the Separatist side they had the element of fighting on their own land, they were dug in fairly well, they had durasteel bunkers, heavy artillery, trenches, shields and missile turrets.

Several Clone Commanders were huddled around the projector. He heard one say

"We need to destroy that stationary gun emplacement! Send a gunship to take it out, the coordinates are, 90, 75, Kilo, 7." A minute later he saw a small gunship flyby about an foot off the table, and fire two tiny missiles into the side of a small hillside with explosive consequences. Plo Koon finally said,

"What is the situation commander?" The clone replied

"Sir, we have already sustained heavy casualties, but we are advancing on all fronts. While we originally thought that the Separatists would be caught totally off guard, we believe they were somehow tipped off because of their readiness. But....."

"Wait!" interrupted Thom. He turned to the clone pilots, "Make a immediate course change, NOW!" Screamed Thom. The clones suddenly grabbed their helms and turned them as far as they could go. The Assault ship shook and the entire bridge tilted as it turned. A red light beam streaked by the vessel, missing it by meters. The beam struck the Assault ship above the Thyferra. It was the Accumulator Class Assault ship christened the Valorum, (named after the former Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, who was recently assassinated on Coruscant by a band of terrorist.) One of the newest Assault ship in the Republic’s Fleet, it was now reduced to two smoldering halves that dropped rapidly to the planets surface.

Thom, Plo Koon and several clones could only watched in horror as it dropped onto their own lines, killing hundreds. You could also see hundreds of Confederate troops charring. Thom could not help to pause to give respect to the Clones, Jedi, and any others who died. Plo Koon looked over to Thom

"We will pay our respects later, right now we have a battle to win."

"Yes Master Plo Koon." replied Thom. They all walked back over to the Holo projector that continue to project the battle. The image looked the same as before, except for the huge smoldering wreak in the middle of the table. One of the clones spoke up

"Sir, even though we have lost 5 entire battalions but, we are still pushing foward and are ahead of schedule."

Thom quickly stopped the clone and asked

"What of the weapon that shot at us and took down the Valorum?"

"We have already dealt with that, we have reduced it to nothing but rubble."

"How did we missed a weapon of that magnitude?" retorted Thom

"It was concealed with a mirror shield that mirrors the environment around it, it is invisible to the majority of sensors and the naked eye."

"How do we know there’s nothing else like that out their?"

"We should be taking the enemy headquarters in just over a standard hour. Master Windu and Master Yoda, called in before and specifically asked for both Master Thom and Master Plo Koon to oversee the capture of the enemy headquarters, to be their for the capture of any Confederate Generals. That is it for now generals, If there isn’t anything else then we have a Command Gunship fueled and armed ready to take you back to the battle." The two Jedi Generals nodded and walked to were the gunship was waiting.

As they walked into the hanger a Gunship landed carrying dozens of injured clones. Thom saw many of them as the droid medics put them into hover stretchers and floated them away. Many had carbon scoring on their ghost white armor, indicating that they had been shot. The rest were missing limbs, they were all drenched it their own blood. The gunship that carried them in, had blood covering its steel hold, you wouldn’t believe that their was a shiny alloy that was under all that blood. As they approached the gunship, Thom noticed that this gunships markings were colored black, when the gunship that brought them to the Assault ship had red markings. Plo Koon sensed Thom’s confusion and replied, "The black markings mean that it’s a command Gunship, the red is a regular troop gunship and the blue is the Special Ops gunship that is mainly used by the ARCs.

Once again the two Jedi helped each other into the gunship. The gunship lifted up, hovered for a few seconds then took off at half speed out of the Assault ship. Suddenly, the Assault ship they had just left turned into a blinding white ball of light then, split in half, huge flames billowed from the two pieces of the once whole Assault ship. Thom saw two other flashes streak by and hit the two pieces, they each vanished in a huge fireball. Thom could not let his feelings get to him about what just happened, the last time he let his feelings get the best of him they were attacked and if it weren’t for the Republic army all the Jedi in his group would be long dead.

Thom looked to his left and right he noticed two gunships flying right next to them for protection. They were fairly far away but he could still notice several clones in each gunship and in the gunship to the right he noticed a Jedi. He didn’t recognize the other Jedi but he waved anyway, in return the Jedi waved back. Suddenly, the battle came into view. It was basically what he saw on the holo projector inside the now incinerated Assault Ship. Hundreds of Republic Clones, Mechs, Gunships and Fighters VS hundreds of Confederate Droids, Mercenaries, Mechs and Fighters. He saw blaster bolts screeching crossed the battlefield in two different colors, red and blue, Hailfire Droids flew across the wasteland firing their missiles which impacted on the ground near Clones, sending them flying meters in the air. AT-TEs stomped across the battlefield firing at the enemy. One of the AT-TEs fired its main cannon which streaked across the land, hit a homing Spider Droid and made it exploded into dozens of molten metal pieces.

Suddenly the sun rose above the horizon, blinding Thom. The sun streaked across the battlefield, and for the first time since the battle began Thom saw the entire battlefield. Their was already hundreds dead on both sides, Republic and Separatist. He could also see the still smoldering remains of the Assault Ships Thyferra and Valorum. That could of been the turning point of the battle, for the Separatist side. But Thom would fight until he was given the order to retreat. Suddenly two missiles streaked on the port side of the Gunship. The two missiles exploded 15 meters behind the Gunship, shacking the Gunship with the force of an earthquake. Several Clones fell out and at least one let out a blood curtailing scream, Thom could only watch in horror as they disappeared from view.

The Clone pilot turned to Plo Koon and yelled over the noise of the engines,

"One minute to LZ" Plo Koon nodded to the Clone then turned to Thom and said,

"Their will be three Platoons deployed out of five different Gunships including this one. We will be the foward assault, four squads of clone commandos and three ARCs will come through the rear of the structure so watch for friendly fire and be careful not to cut down our own forces." Thom nodded and looked back out of the hold and into the battle below. Plo Koon tapped on his shoulder "One more thing, expect heavy resistance at the LZ." Once again Thom nodded and turned back to the battle below.

He noticed that they had just passed over the front line and he saw that their was only isolated skirmishes here. Thom heard the pilot yell out

"30 seconds!" Thom took several deep breaths to calm himself. He leaned out of the hold and saw the LZ. That’s when he saw the enemy command center, the early morning sun shined down on it, illuminating it with the bright light, it wasn’t as big as he expected it to be, but it was armed to the teeth.

It was only two stories tall and a few meters wide. But it had thick durasteel armor incasing it. Then their was two duracreat bunkers guarding the main entrance plus another duracreat bunker on the roof right above the door. Two Homing Spider Droids, two mini spider droids, several destroyer droids, and hundreds of battle droids, super battle droids, and human and alien infantry made up the enemy resistance they were about to encounter.

The Clone pilot yelled out for the last time

"Coming in for landing, see you on the flip side generals." Thom then screamed to the clone troops,

"This is it, lock and load!" The gunship lurched and spun 90 degrees and landed with a crash. Suddenly red blaster bolts streaked through the air inside the Gunship’s hold, impacting the Clones, bits of scorched armor, flesh and blood flew everywhere, as Clones dropped to the steel floor of the hold and to the ground.

Without hesitation Plo Koon and Thom wiped out their lightsabors and they hummed to life. They deflected dozens of the red blasts back to were they came from. Thom and Plo Koon both in unison, did front flips out of the gunship and cut two super battle droids in half. The Gunship that the two Jedi arrived in took off and preceded to give the Republic troops covering fire. It started to open up on the Separatist forces when one of the Homing Spider Droids fired its top cannon. The Red beam cut off the Command Gunship’s stabilizer wing, sending the gunship into an uncontrollable barrel roll. It then crashed into the corner of the enemy command center. Creating a gaping whole that an AT-TE could fit into.

What was left of the Clones from the Command Gunship got behind the two Jedis. Who were furiously deflecting enemy fire. A clone captain came up behind Thom and yelled into his ear,

"We need to take out those bunkers, were getting ripped to pieces!" Thom thought for a heartbeat then turned to Plo Koon and looked into his metal eye protectors. Plo Koon could sense what he was about to do but didn’t have time to try and talk him out of it. Thom ran foward using the force to pick up speed till everything around him was a blur of colors.

He put out his hand out and force pushed at the nearest bunker, as he did the bunker crumpled up like a tin can. He then jumped over the building and cartwheeled over the bunker on the roof. He used the force and crumpled the barrel of the heavy repeater blaster. He landed on the ground just as the droid crew inside the bunker on the roof fired their last shot. As they pulled the trigger the blast shot foward and made a small explosion inside the crush barrel which in turn, created a chain reaction that stretched into the power cell of the repeater, this explosion was a hell of a lot bigger than the one that started the chain reaction. The explosion sent a fire ball into the air. It also sent debre into the air which landed everywhere. Thom charged at the last remaining bunker.

The barrel suddenly turned pointed and fired right at Thom, stopped and deflected the blast right back down the barrel creating another explosion which effectively destroyed the last bunker. Two destroyer droid turned to Thom and before they could open fire Thom had cut them in the gut. Thom surveyed the site looking for more targets. By this time little enemy forces remained outside the building, the bunkers had been destroyed and most of the enemy troops were dead or destroyed all that remained were the two Homing Spider Droids.

Thom once again used the force to gain speed and once again he turned into a blur, he ran right under the giant enemy mech’s legs chopping off the front two legs. It fell foward and crash its round metallic head on the dirt. He knew that the Clones would finish it off with some well placed shots. Thom jumped on top of the next Spider Droid and cut off the top cannon. He twirled around and shoved his lightsabor deep into the droids blood red optical sensors, which made the thing go haywire. It stomped around and fired its lower cannon Thom jumped off and landed, squatting down with one hand on the ground his lightsabor in the air and his eyes closed as the Homing Spider Droid exploded behind him.

He looked around and noticed all the enemy forces had either been destroyed of had retreated but he also noticed that all the clones were dead. He found Plo Koon, he had been hit in the arm. Thom ran up to Plo Koon and asked

"You alright?"

"I’ll be fine I’ve called in a gunship to pick me up, but you need to go in and meet up with the Clone Commandos and ARCs inside." suddenly a gunship came over the tree line,

"This must be your ride."

"Yes" said Plo Koon. The gunship finally landed and Thom helped Plo Koon get in.

"May the force be with you Master Thom"

"Thanks, it will" replied Thom. The gunship took off an headed back toward the main battle.

Thom walked over to the double durasteel door that was now littered with blaster holes, and burns. He was focused more on his departed padawan then he was his mission. He felt enraged by it and he knew that he was walking the dark path to use hatred and fear to become stronger in the force but he didn’t care. He lifted his had and the double durasteel doors started to bind with stress. Then with one swift motion of Thom’s hand the doors violently ripped off, and slammed into the ground. Thom looked into a dark hallway, he couldn’t see even Twenty feet into the hallway it was as dark as space. This didn’t frighten Thom, he stepped into the darkness cooly and with revenge on his mind.

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