Blood Band Brothers

[Rexraptor2000]

General Shadow Gravemind stood on the deck of his Imperial I-class Star Destroyer flag ship The Avenger as he gave orders.

 

"Sir! Dual Heavy Turbolasers 3-5 are down and so is one of the deflecter shield generators!" a crewman shouted from his station.

 

"Reroute power from all unnessisary systems to power the the shields, turrets, and engines. What is the statis of The Enforcer and The Dyeheart?" he asked.

 

"The Enforcer's engines are down and they are facing two Trade Federation Battle Cruisers. The Dyeheart is on a course to assist, Sir!"

 

This battle was not looking good. He already had lost both his escort frigates, and his captain for the flagship had bought the farm in the last battle.

 

"Bring us on a course for the starboard side of one of those two battle cruisers. Prepare the 127th legion for boarding action. Open fire on its Heavy Turbolaser batteries with our own when in range. And alert The Enforcer and The Dyeheart of our intentions."

 

"Yes, Sir!"

 

Shadow then left the bridge to prepare. He was going to join his troops, where he would be more useful since he had a Double-Bladed Lightsaber. As he passed a barracks, even though he couldn't see they're faces, he could tell they were smiling. This was going to be fun.

[Master_Archon]

As the 'Dyeheart' groaned to a halt there came a sudden vibration, then 'Boom', the ship went rocking like a babies cradle.

 

""Alert, Alert, we have Cyborg units on deck 'C', repel crews X and III, prepare for anti-boarding action!" came a female comm officers voice over the intercomm.

 

"What the fierfek! Boarders! How'd a boarding party get on board!?" said Cyphon in frustration.

 

"A severely damaged techno-union shuttle was following in our sensor wake, it launched boarding torps and all it's escape pods into us, we didnt notice it till it's engines failed and it exploded from it's own damage sir!!" exclaimed the sensors officer.

 

"Bring all anti-boarding groups in sections 'C' through 'H' to all possible boarding areas and all known boarding areas. I want to make sure that those cyborgs have to go through an army just to reach the next section. I dont want them getting to the upper dorms section." he said in quick succession.

 

"Why sir?" asked one of the more new and curious deck guards. "I promised the leader of the Matukai, that I'd keep his people safe, and some are aboard this ship." he said pondering for a moment, "and there's some on Vader's, and Shadow's, and just about every Flagship in the fleet!" he said after some thinking.

 

The 'Dyeheart' loomed over the 'Enforcer' moving in towards the port Battlecruiser. "Bring power from all areas! the only thing I want working is secondary life support and section 'C's power! Put all power to the belly guns!" as he liked to call them.

 

'Thoom' 'Thoom' 'Thoom', went a volley of every gun on the under side of the of the ship, the lasers three times as thick as the normal battery shots.

 

"She's lisping under the fire" said Cyphon, excited at seeing the combined fire power of the 'Dyeheart' and 'Enforcer' crushing the Trade Federation Battlecruiser. Then out of nowhere the cruiser went black as space and it's guns fell silent, while huge streeks of electricity went across it's hull.

 

"What in the Force happened?" asked Cyphon in surprise. "Sensors picked up an object heading for the cruiser, out of the 'Enforcer's' hangar. We thought it was just space debrie or trash, from what we could tell it went inside of the cruiser and made an EMP blast powerful enough to knock it out!" said the sensors officer excitedly.

 

"Then let's not waste the oportunity!" said Cyphon with a rye smile and turning the comm to Vaders ship, "Vader whatever you did it worked! Open full fire power on the cruiser!" he said thinking for a second, "and that's an order!" he said jokingly. Turning to the smirking command deck crew, he smiled and said "you heard me, open fire! Full power!"

 

After only two minutes of crushing power from the two ships and their Frigate Escort, the cruiser erupted into a ball of flame!

 

"That's for the 'Injustice' shouted the captain of the 'Charred' through the inter-comm.

 

"And the 'Perrywinkle' " shouted the captain of the 'Grek'or', an Acclamaitor Class Clone Assault Frigate Escort for the 'Dyeheart'.

 

"And the 'Enforcer's' Ex-Frigate the 'Death Bringer'!" shouted the captain of the 'Grek'or's' sister ship the 'Mollusk'.

 

"HA HA!" laughed Cyphon exuberently, "we're not out of the water yet friends!" Cyphon exclaimed looking at the other enemy cruiser on the star board side of the 'Enforcer'." "Sensors, scan the enemy cruiser!" said Cyphon in a look of deep concentration. "Yes sir!" said the officer typing into his command console, "Sir! there are boarders from the 'Avenger' on the cruiser!"

 

"As I thought. Vader do not open fire on the enemy cruiser! Put your power to shields, and send out boarding parties, copy, over!" Cyphon told Vader, looking to his power and distributions officer at his command console. "You heard me put power from guns to shields this time!" "Already have sir." said the officer smiling.

 

"You guys know me so well." said Cyphon smirking at his chuckling command crew.

 

"Prepare Blood Platoon Zeta and Gamma for boarding actions, and give me some time....I want to have some....fun!" Cyphon said in a sinister voice.

 

"Sir one problem! The boarders aren't budging, they're holed up in pockets in section 'C', we can't flush them out!" said the status officer.

 

"Then send in the plumbers, bring in Dark Trooper Squadron 'Pi', hehehe, that'll flush'em out!" said Cyphon with a dark smile on his face while leaving the command deck to go to the Lambda Shuttle in the hangar bay, that was preparing for boarding actions.

 

"Dark Trooper Squadron 'Pi'?" said the second mate to the, now in controle, first mate, "aren't they the ones who blew up that Mon Calamari Battle Cruiser at the battle of sector Delta from the inside, barely making it out in time?" said the second mate questioningly. "Yes, yes they are" said the first mate regretfully, "but he knows what's best....I hope!" said the first officer turning to the view port ready to give orders.

 

"Sa, Blood Platoons, Zeta and Gamma are ready for boarding, wot wot!" said the lead boarding officer, an experienced high ranking storm trooper. "Good! Good, I'm ready too, let's go say hi to Shadow and the gang....maybe knock some cyborg heads off while we're at it....an explosive tea party of sorts!" said Cyphon smiling at his old friend. "I'll bring the crumpits, sa" said the old officer in his common serious way.

 

"Hehe, come you old duffer, let's go have some fun....like the good old days!" said Cyphon turning and walking towards the waiting shuttle. "Right behind you sa, hope those ill-disiplined ruffian's of Shadow's hasn't killed everything yet, I want to blast some riff-raff cyborgs of my own, wot wot!" the old storm trooper said following in step behind Cyphon.

 

The shuttle lifted off, cruising out of the hangar, dozens of other boarding craft behind them, while groups of ARC-170's from Vader's fighter squadron, and Tie Defenders from Cyphon's escort squadron, made defensive positions around them!

[RC-1162]

Vader turned to John, and replied to his suggestion.

 

"No, John," he said. "It's not wise to leave the ship right now, besides, the Dyehard is backing us up."

 

The ship rocked again and Vader had begun to get annoyed with all the rocking his ship was recieving as the Dyehard prepared for their assault.

 

"Transfer all turbolaser power to the EMP cannon," he ordered. A few seconds later, the bright blue pulsating orb of EMP energy knocked out the port enemy cruiser and Vader smiled under his mask.

 

"Vader whatever you did it worked! Open full fire power on the cruiser!" came Cyphon's voice over the comm.

 

"Already doing, Master," replied Vader as he motioned to his relieved bridge crew. The Dyehard and the Enforcer continued to pound at the dead cruiser. Two minutes of sustained fire and the cruiser blew up, and the comm was filled with dedications.

 

"As I thought. Vader do not open fire on the enemy cruiser! Put your power to shields, and send out boarding parties, copy, over!" said Cyphon over the comm suddenly.

 

"Copy that, Master," said Vader. He turned to his operations assistant.

 

"Give the order to Clone Commando Squads Delta and Omega to prepare for boarding," said Vader to his ops assistant and the latter nodded.

 

Five minutes later, Delta and Omega Squads and Vader himself were in a Lambda-class shuttle on their way to the enemy cruiser, escorted by five ARC-170 fighters.

[Rexraptor2000]

"Sir! The Dyeheart and The Enforcer have defeated the other ship and are sending boarding craft to aid us." A young Clone Marine shouted.

 

"Alright everybody!" Shadow shouted into the com to all the troopers on the ship. "Our friends Breath Mint and Cranky Old Bastard are coming for a visit. But since you know how they love to hog the tea and the crumpets, lets clean this ship out spotless before they arrive!" There was laughing on the com from the troops fighting.

 

"Alpha squad! Progress report!" Shadow said over the com.

 

"General Grievous is momentarily off the radar, but we'll find him and avenge Beta squad." reported the squad leader, Pecker. Odd, but that's what his squad calls him.

 

General Grievous had ambushed Beta squad while they were taking the bridge and killed them. Taking that off his mind, he diced the droids in his path on his way to the engine room with both his dual sabers. He always felt a sense of exhilaration when wielding both at once.

 

"Sir! We're in position to meet the boarding parties." a trooper said over the com.

 

"Good. Tell them Grievous is here. Make sure you give them napkins too. They have terrible manners." Shadow said, receiving a chuckle.

[Master_Archon]

'Scree' 'Scree', went the shuttle alarms, "What the fandangle is going on, wot" asked old Brutas, which was the old storm troopers name.

 

"Incoming enemy fire, it's coming from enemy tri-drone fighters" said the copilot in shock.

 

"Hail Vader, tell him to get into formation, with his escort too, pull landers in the center, Arc-170's inbetween and Tie Defenders on the outside, tell the Defenders to activate the box shields!" he told the copilot.

 

Soon the ships were in a sphere formation and the Tie Defenders, which had little boxes attached to the ship hulls, extended high tension durosteel cords attached to the boxes, and soon the formation was surrouned by a large moving sphere shield.

 

"Hail the 'Charred', 'Grek'or', 'Mollusk', and the 'Matador', tell them to bring up our rear, and engage the remaining enemy fighters and prevent any escape pods from slipping through, before our capitals can beam them in!" said Cyphon once more to the copilot.

 

soon the landers had a straight path for the enemy cruiser, the shield was deactivated and the ARC-170's and Tie Defenders veared off, going back to assisst the Frigates in destroying the enemy fighters.

 

"[static]....friends Breath Mint and Cranky Old....[static]....are...." could be heard over the boarding frequency. "Who's he calling old....I'll teach him a thing or two, wot hhmph!" Brutas said airily, "Hear that Vader he said you have fresh breath....haha....better prepare for a rude welcome" said Cyphon, over the shuttle comms, to Vader.

 

"Hewo!" said a small voice to the right of Cyphon, in shock all the soldiers on board, including Cyphon and both pilots, turned to see a small girl, around the age of seven, sitting in one of, what used to be, an empty seat. "Heehee, you guys are funny!" the girl said, a thump could be heard and felt and some curses coming from one of the neighboring shuttles pilots through the comm, the pilot of the shuttle they were in finally getting back into reality after he was sidetracked by the girl suddenly appearring on his ship.

 

"Uuuuuhhhh....what....holy....how'd you get in here Leia!?" Cyphon finally said after the great shock, "I was playing on this ship and got sleepy, so I took a nap under this seat, silly!" Leia said in response, smiling. Cyphon's jaw dropped as he went into the realization that he almost could've gotten Vader's daughter killed. "Master Windu says not to stare, or let your mouth hang open" said Leia giggling. Some of the younger soldiers coming into Cyphon's realization fainted, Leia giggled again.

 

"Vader's not going to be happy about this!" Cyphon said as the shuttle touched down in the hangar, "We're going to see daddy, yaa!" said Leia excitedly.

[RC-1162]

Vader walked down the ramp, followed by his Commando escorts as his shuttle landed beside Cyphon's.

 

"Daddeeeee!" came a sqeal from Cyphon's shuttle and Vader turned to see a small girl running at him, top speed. She jumped into his arms and Vader looked at Cyphon.

 

"Hello, Leia," he said to the young child, totally surprised. He turned to Cyphon.

 

"How the heck did she get here?" he whispered.

[Master_Archon]

With a sheepish look Cyphon said, "She was playing aboard the shuttle when she fell asleep under a seat and woke up around the time we were landing, you know when we collided with the other shuttle, yeah that's around the time we noticed her."

 

With a look of sincere apology Cyphon turned to watch as a Lander Shuttle hovered in the hangar, letting out a rack of four AT-PT's and another, farther down letting out four AT-RT's.

 

"Well..." turning back towards Vader, "what's the battle plan? How are we going to take the rest of the ship?" he said trying to get Vader's mind off of what happened.

 

In the background there was much noice and clanging, as the soldiers, from all walks of life, set up command posts, pill boxes, and supply depots, in the large hangar. AT-PT's and AT-RT's could be heard walking around, some crouching down to go into hallways, to clear out areas where cyborgs were still holding out. Cyphon glanced at a Clone Marine and a Thor Trooper as they walked by, they were argueing over what card game is better, pazak or sabok. Cyphon turned to see a huge AT-AT Barge land, and racks of Dark Trooper Exo-suits unfold, while the men who pilot them, came streaming out of passenger compartments in the barge. Hopping into the suits and getting into formations with AT-PT's and RT's, to clear out larger, more heavily defended hallways. "Well...defense perameters are set...how do we take the rest?" Cyphon repeated with a smile of aproval at the quick work of the boarding-men, and a few women, who had done so well.

[Rexraptor2000]

"Sir! They have landed and our troops are going to redevous with them." a Clone marine told Shadow.

 

"Good. Have the commander of that platoon tell them to take the security control room located in the center of the ship. That should help us in keeping track of our troops and maybe catch Grievous." Shadow said as he cut down another droid.

 

They were in the Engine room and were shutting off the engines with their engineer so the driods couldn't jump with them aboard.

 

"Sir! We're run low on ammo." a marine shouted out.

 

"Then hold this room while I clear the corridor they are come through." Shadow said and ran foreward into the corridor. It was packed, but the didn't have a clear line of fire and he was up close. Not good when your opponent has two dual lightsabers.

 

What added to the confusion was that he used force wave in the corridor, throwing them back and kept using it until he reached the next door, in which he shut. He then ran back and sealed the door the the engine room. He then deactivated his lightsabers and got out his modified ARC Rocket launcher, which allowed him to rapid fire rather than fire, reload, and fire again.

 

"Tell Breath Mint to get his Commandos to help Alpha squad." Shadow said.

 

"Yes, Sir!"

[Char Ell]

The Matukai ships, Evincer and Shryken, dropped out of hyperspace within 150 kilometers of the battle area. Felix Intos, onboard Evincer, waited for the sensor officer to make her initial scan and report of the situation, hoping that the ships he brought in response to the priority 1 message from Dyeheart weren't too late. Felix had been using his Matukai fleet, if it could be called that, to scout surrounding systems for needed resources when the call from the fleet flagship came through with the urgent order to return at best speed.

 

"Chieftain, initial scans show Enforcer has sustained significant damage and boarding actions are taking place. It appears only one enemy cruiser is intact. Fighters from our allied ships are engaging enemy fighters."

 

Felix felt the tension drain from him with the realization that none of their allied ships were lost and most, if not all, of his people should be safe. "Signal Blade Squadron and Shryken: proceed with attack plan Bwo!" Felix barked to the comm officer. "General Quarters!"

 

Evincer's squadron of nine T-120 C-Wing fighters had commenced launching as soon as their home ship had dropped from hyperspace and were already in full deployment, streaking towards the fierce dogfights between the enemy and their brother squadrons. Felix knew that Blade Squadron in conjunction with Shryken, a Corellian DP-20 gunship, could handle six times their number in enemy fighters. The Matukai may not have been able to bring as much in the way of combat assets to the fleet as the other groups but what assets they had were highly effective.

 

As Felix watched Blade Squadron and Shryken accelerate away from his slower Marauder-class corvette, Evincer took a course towards the enemy capital ships. Felix keyed his comm to the gunnery circuit. "Gunners remember! Target any weaponry that is active or even powered up! We want to capture any enemy ships if we can. Weaponry is your primary target, engines your secondary."

[RC-1162]

An officer came up to Vader and relayed Shadow's request to him.

 

"So where is Alpha Squad?" asked Vader. "Ask him that and come back, and tell him that I'll make sure he gets into an armor like this if he keeps it up with the 'Breath Mint' stuff."

 

Vader turned to Cyphon.

 

"We need the ship's schematics before we can get any plan of action considered."

[Rexraptor2000]

"Sir! He wants to know Alpha squads location." the officer said.

 

"They haven't already taken the security room like I said too! The're getting lazy. Hand Breath Mint these ship schematics that we took from the bridge, and then have Alpha squad report in their location over a secure com channel." Shadow ordered.

 

"Yes, Sir! He also said that he'll make sure that you get into an amor like his if you keep it up with the 'Breath Mint stuff'." the officer said and was off.

 

The droids had broken though the doors and again he was dicing them like they were going out of bussines.

 

"How's the progress on those engines?" Shadow asked the engineer.

 

"Almost done... There!" the engineer said and the sound of the power for the engines going out could be heard. All of a sudden, the droids stopped turned around, and ran into the hallway.

 

"I think our friends are going to have a lot of company very soon. Has the officer arrvied at Breath Mints location yet?" he asked.

 

"Almost." the engineer replied.

 

"When he arrives, have him tell Breath Mint that he's going to have a very big welcome party from our friends the tinnies." Shadow said.

 

"In the meantime, we'll head there ourselves." Shadow said and was off with his Clones behind him.

[RC-1162]

The officer came up to Vader and handed him the ship's schematics and left without a word. A few minutes later, Alpha Squad reported in over the comm and ave them the lock on their position.

 

"Very well," Vader said to his two Commando Squads. "You have their location, move out."

 

"Yes, sir." replied Niner, leader of Omega, and Boss, leader of Delta. They formed up and move to a turbolift to help out Alpha.

 

Vader got out his dual lightsabers and followed after Shadow, beckoning to Cyphon.

 

"Come on," he said. "Let's teach the kid how the Masters do things."

[Master_Archon]

"Love to!" said Cyphon in response to Vader.

 

"Uh, sir, sir!" said one of the Storm Troopers excitedly.

 

"What is it?" said Cyphon turning to face the soldier.

 

"Uuhh, what's it mean when the green and yellow lights blink?" asked the soldier anxiously.

 

"Usually it means that there's incoming friendies, why?" ask Cyphon Intrigued.

 

"Well....they're blinking sir" said the soldier in a scared voice. For the first time Cyphon noticed small yellow and green lights going off in various places.

 

Quickly opening a comm link to the 'Charred' Cyphon said as quickly as he could, "captain open a gap link to the 'Dyeheart'!" "Yes sir," came the reply from the 'Charred', " 'Dyeheart' what are long range sensors picking up?" asked Cyphon anxiously.

 

"Sensors are picking up capital ship class, mass signatures! They've made a perameter around the nebula, and are moving in at top speed. But thats not all sir!" said the first mate quickly in response. "We're picking up huge amounts of hyperspace signatures! It looks like a hundred!!" said the first mate in fear.

 

"Relay this to all ships, pull in all ships or fighters without hyperspace capabilities, I want everyone out of here! That's an order of the highest command!! Dont worry we'll turn the engines back on! I dont care where you jump to, just as long as you get out of here, and meet at the rendevous point, got that!" Cyphon said that while turning back to Vader grim faced. Turning to Brutas he said, "Tell all ships on board to not leave the hangar to go back to the capitals" Brutas nodded and turned to go do what he was asked.

 

Turning now to a Dark Trooper that had been standing idle he said, "you, go with all speed to General Shadow, tell him to get back to the engine room and get the hyperspace engines running, I wanna jump as soon as possible!" The DT snapped to attention quickly, then using propulsion jets, went skidding off at top speed to do his bidding.

 

By that time all but the Matukai ships had left, there were no enemies to be seen for miles into space, not even fighters, they had been wiped clean. Looking to a comm officer he said, "tell Felix if he wants to stick around then he better be ready to jump when we do." The officer saluted and ran off to a small comm station. "Where's that merchiant we picked up, Vader? I have something useful in mind that he can do to pay us back!" said Cyphon looking around. Then out of the hangar stasis field small anomolies could be seen off in the distance of space, everyone near a viewport or area looking out into space, turned to witness what happened next! ships, not just a small fleet or even a big fleet, but hundreds, huge clusters of ships coming out of hyperspace. Cyphon only got to 172 and lost track, there were so many, and even after those, many more were still coming in out of hyperspace. But the one that caught Cyphons attention the most was a ship he hadnt seen before, a huge Mon Calamari design war ship, it was a little longer than a Super Star Destroyer, but even still, this convinced Cyphon that the Emporer was tired of games, and really wanted them dead! This time not only young soldiers passed out, but quite a few battle harden veterans too, many started puking, others started crying for everything and everyone-the most could be heard was that they wanted their moms, even clones who didnt have moms, cryed for their moms-and alot got on the ground and started praying to, God, The Force, and any other entity that would listen. Even Cyphon had a time holding his lunch in, it was utter chaos for a good solid 30 minutes until some officers and a few jedi started rallying the soldiers. The only good thing was that they had jumped a long way away, and would take awhile to get to their position.

 

Finally Cyphon said in a quiet voice, "well, this could be it...."

[Rexraptor2000]

Shadow went skidding to a halt as a Dark Trooper flew up to him and said "Sir! Master Cyphon wants you to get back to the engine room and reactivate the engine! Hundreds of capital ships are enroute to destroy us." The troopers looked genuinly afraid.

 

"Troops!" Shadow yelled over the com as he started to run back to the engine room. "We've got an unussually large guest list comeing to dinner. But since we can't jump since hyperspace right now, I'm going to reactivate the engine. If you are not currently busy right now blowing up a droids head off right now, haul your ass down to the engine room and us some cover! Also, don't let me catch you making a scene about dying or anything or else your going to have to clean all the floors of this ship with a tooth brush, without the help of those cleaning droids. Now move it out!"

 

Troops started to join him as he ran down the corridors. The droids, who apparently learned about the ships, were also trying to get there. Shadow was slicing and dicing all the droids that stood in their way.

 

On the last corridor, the droids were waiting and as soon Shadow and his men came in range, fired. Shadow was able to deflect most of them, but a few got through and hit his men, but it did not diminish their charge. The hallway was practically made of blaster fire, going both ways. When Shadow was in range, he used force wave to knock out the first line and creating confusion in the second. Then they collided.

 

They didn't stop, whatever droid wasn't shot was trampled as they made their way into the engine room. Shadow and his personal engineer made their way to the control consle, where he began to interface with the controls while Shadow gave him cover with his two double bladed lightsabers.

 

"Sir! The ships are begining to open fire." a clone yelled over the firing. The entire ship rocked.

 

"Sir! Engines are online! Where too?!" the engineer asked.

 

Shadow pushed him aside, entered the coordinates and pressed the initiate button. "Hyperspace innitiating." the computer said in a female voice said over the speakers. And then the ship entered hyperspace.

[Master_Archon]

'Boooom' went the ship as the first wave of enemies came, the ship rocked and bucked like a dieing animal. Then the most glorious sound was heard, the sound of the Trade Federation Battle Cruiser, or Droid Control Ship, for technical terms, engines coming on line. Soldiers through out the ship cheered, and many started running to manually controled gun turrets, to open fire on the enemy ships for the little amount of time they were still there. Cyphon noticed Felix jump only two seconds before they did, and in the same direction. At least Cyphon knew they wouldnt be alone and abandoned in the middle of space. Then the werring of the hyperspace engine could be heard, them, 'Foom', a crack like thunder, and they were in hyperspace. Cyphon pondered, and wondered....where would they come out?

 

((I thought of something funny, a little off topic, but funny. What if we came out of hyperspace near Halo....lol...seriously, you guys think that'd be cool! I dont know exactly why I thought of that, but I did, and I think that'd be an interesting twist to the storyline....what do you guys think!?))

[RC-1162]

"Ahh, well," said Vader. "Maybe I can dismantle the tinnies next time.'

 

Then he jerked upright. The Enforcer! Its engines had been deactivated. He opened a comm channel and called in it.

 

"Enforcer crew, are you recieveing?" he asked.

 

"Recieveing, sir," replied an officer and Vader heaved a sigh of relief. "We managed to get all power to the engines and bring them back online and we are in hyperspace right now."

 

"Good," said Vader. "Call me when you reach your destination."

 

"Yes sir," replied the officer. "Enforcer out."

[Rexraptor2000]

Shadow looked at the carnage around him. Bodies everywhere, both human and droid. It had been a suicide charge, but it had been neccesary, so their lives were spent, not wasted, right? To tell the truth, he himself wasn't so sure where he set their course. It was the only one he could remember amist the battle so it was the one he put.

 

"Sir! The ship is almost clear. We just need to flush the droids out of the dormitorys, the reactor rooms, and the security section and the ship is ours. The Commandos reported in and said the General Greivous escaped in a pod before we jumped." an officer told him.

 

"How is The Avenger?" Shadow asked.

 

"It successfully jumped in hyperspace, Sir!" he answered.

 

"Get a cleanup crew up here on the double." Shadow said and leaned against the wall, overseeing the cleanup crew that came a few minutes later, making sure that the bodies would be laid to rest.

[Master_Archon]

Cyphon blew a sigh of relief, they were o.k., for now. Turning to a Thor Trooper that walked up he said, "yes? What is it?" The soldier replied, "AT-PT group-IV has successfully taken the security section."

 

"Did I order them to move out of the security perameter?" Cyphon asked, "no sir, they reported they found a large diplomatic prisoner group held hostage, they couldnt afford to waste time, so they cleared the security section out, they have freed the prisoners, and taken some of their own."

 

"hhmm, good, send a soldier group down there to secure the enemy prisoners and check for injuries on the diplomats" Cyphon said, the soldier soluted and walked off.

 

Turning to an engineer that had been hacking into a nearby computer, Cyphon asked, "What's the situation on how long we'll be in hyperspace?" The engineer turned and replied, "we'll probably be in hyperspace for about....two and a half to three days."

 

Cyphon asked, "can we drop out?" The engineer said, "we reactivated the engines so abruptly, that if we dropped out of hyperspace now we'd probably lose random systems, that meens we have a large risk of losing life support."

 

Cyphon turned to a Clone Jet Trooper and said, "relay this message to all personel, 'get comfey we're gonna be here awhile' " the trooper nodded and trotted off. *hhmm, three days of hyperspace travel...we'll be way out of range for any kind of radio contact....hope we come out in a known system* thought Cyphon to himself.

 

"Jaken, Vok, report in" said Cyphon, first looking to his left, then his right. Out of nowhere two Shadow Troopers dropped out of an almost infalible stealth. They carried two small imperial side-arm blasters each, and a belt of thermal detanators, and in their hands they carried two and a half meter long lightsaber staffs, the bottum having a large ring on one end, and the top, where the blade came out-which are one and a half lightsaber blade legnths long. The only difference that could be seen, at the moment, were the insignias that were on both sides of their helmets-left and right side, not front and back. Jaken had two lightsabers crossed, behind the New Imperial Symbol. Vok had a double bladed lightsaber, active, behind the Old Republic Symbol. The other difference between them that could not be seen at the moment, was, that they have different blade colors. Jaken's color viridian, Vok's bronze. They came to the front of Cyphon and stood to attention. "Go to Shadow, ask him if any areas need taking, if he's going to one, offer him help" said Cyphon, both bowed in common force user respect-even if they were artificially endowed with it. Cyphon didnt believe in selecting random non-force users to become Shadow Troopers, he went through a tedious proccess of finding force adepts that did not have full connections to the force, but that were stronger in the force than common people. He would first train them to the extent they could go in force training, without the suits and force gems, then after they proved they were ready, he would dub them with the suits and gems and then train them with those, until they become as accomplished as real jedi. Jaken and Vok were the best Shadow Trooper students Cyphon has had so far, they are twins, and they strove to surpass other jedi who looked at them as cripples in the force, and they did surpass most jedi, the only jedi stronger than them are the masters and a couple other jedi. They are the ones who, by surpassing almost all other jedi, stopped others from thinking that Shadow Troopers are just crippled jedi, and caused jedi to look on Shadow Troopers as equals, and to respect them. Jaken and Vok, if not given orders, are always on the left and right hand sides of Cyphon, for they swore to stick with the one who found them so long ago, and told them they could learn to use the force, even if they were incapable of learning how to use it all the way. Cyphon watched them use force speed, running together in unison. Cyphon turned now to Leia, who was back on the ground and practicing shien lightsaber form, with her little training lightsaber.

 

"Well lets go check out the dorms, see if there's a room you like!" said Cyphon taking her hand. "Okay!" came the reply.

 

As Cyphon was walking away, he motioned to Vader with a signal he had used before, meening, 'I'll take care of this, go kill some droids'. Cyphon looked back to Leia with a smile, and asked, "you hungry?"

[Rexraptor2000]

Out of the corridor came two Shadow Troopers, Jaken and Vok he could tell from their symbols, and walked over too him. "We would like to know if you need any help taking the areas that are still under droid control, and how we might offer our services." Jaken said.

 

"I was about to lead four platoons in taking the reactor rooms, so while I'm at it, both of you can lead five platoons in taking the dormitorys for our troops to sleep."

 

They both looked at eachother and Vok asked "The dormitorys are not clear? Master Cyphon was on his way there with Leia."

 

"You better radio in and tell him it's not clear, or else he'll be walking into into one hell of a party. And why the hell did Vader bring her into a live fire battle now? I thought we agreed I'd show her into battle when she was 15?" Shadow asked. But they weren't listening because they were radioing to Cyphon. "When your done, the platoons will be waiting down that corridor." Shadow said pointing to a corridor, then headed to meet his platoons to take the reactor rooms.

[Rexraptor2000]

"Sir! The Shadow Troopers are on their way with the platoons to take the dormitorys!" a marine yelled over the chaos that ensued in the in the reator rooms. The droids had dug their metal heels into the ground hard and dared them to come and try to flush them out. Instead they grenaded them, and then charged.

 

"Good! I'm going to have a long talk with the person who told me there were no cyborgs in here!" Shadow yelled back. They had successfully taken three of the five rooms, but there were more causualties then Shadow liked due to bad intel.

 

"Room 4 secured!" a clone said over the com. They had attacked from two angles and Room 5 was putting up the most resistence.

 

"You would think that they would be idiots with their commander." Shadow remarked as he cut down another cyborg.

 

Suddenly, more troopers came out of nowhere and they overwelmed the room. "See that you finished with your party in Room Four." Shadow said smiling to the new troopers.

 

"Sir! The other platoons are engaging the enemy. Should we join them?" an old trooper asked.

 

"Sure. And while we're there, we might take the liberty of choosing our rooms first." Shadow said. They immeadiatly started to run and Shadow was ahead of them.

[Master_Archon]

Things weren't looking good! Cyphon had walked into a group of cyborgs, not the old super battle droids that the group had been encountering on the ship so far, but big, nasty, merciless, half...whatever species agreed to be a cyborg, half robot, and above all, smart! Cyphon had not wasted time, he shielded Leia, pulling out and activating all his sabers, he ran into an empty dorm and threw his lightsabers out the door, locking it behind him. He got on the bed and went into a deep concentration, outside could be heard the lightsabers, all four, moving and striking enemies down, masterless.

 

"Master....master...are you there? Copy!" Came Vok's voice over the comm.

 

"Hewo" said Leia into the comm, which she had picked up.

 

"Hello? Who is this?" came the confused voice.

 

"This is Leia, silly!" she giggled.

 

"Is Master Cyphon O.K.?" asked Vok.

 

"Yeah, he's meditating right now, so bye bye!" said Leia as she tried to turn the comlink off, but accidentally switched it to Shadow's frequency.

 

"No! dont turn...." came the last few words of Vok before Leia switched channels.

 

Leia getting bored pretty quick, started messing with the comm, and pretending she was a soldier, she imitated many of the clones she had heard on battle frequencies over the last few years.

 

"Bwue squad go weft, affa squad aport in, Shabow wats your stasiz, emeny dwoids coming up da mibble" she said, unaware of the chaos she was creating with Shadow's group. Many of the clones thought it was an officer with a weird lisp giving orders, a small group went left while Shadow was going to the dormatories, alpha squad reported into Shadow when he didn't ask. "Hold your gwound, destwoyers incoming" said Leia, all the soldiers stopping behind Shadow, looking around like a bunch of wide eyed kath hounds. Then something happened that caused serious chaos, she started singing, many men thought it was some trick of the enemy, contacting them to cause confusion, and many men left, trying to find the enemy. Others, thinking that the ship had been taken, and that they weren't told, thought it was a music disc playing for a celebration and many of the men started, doing things like dancing, singing along, and pretending their weapons were instruments.

[Rexraptor2000]

Havoc ensued while a voice that could only be Leia's gave false orders over his frequency! "Leia! Get the hell off the com! All you troops are taking orders from a girl, so stop your lollygagging and get your ass down the dormitorys! Ignoring any girl-playing-soldier comments! And if I catch you dancing, what a Sith lord can do to you will be sweet sweet mercy, compared to what I'm going to do to you!" That was enough to most, if not all of the soldiers, even ones who weren't in his group, to get running to the dormatories. Shadow murmured curses that would have made a rancor blush.

[Master_Archon]

Hearing the angry voice of Shadow, Leia started crying, it could be heard over the comm frequency, many of the men started grumbling under their helmets about how Leia's just a kid and didnt know any better, though they didnt say it within any close distance of Shadow. Cyphon still lay in a state of concentration, not knowing what had been going on in the outside world. The only words that Shadow heard were, "she's a pretty darn good singer, for a little girl!" All the soldiers nodded to the comment, and put in quick comments of their own, before Shadow got any angrier.

[Rexraptor2000]

Furious was not the state of Shadow's emotions right now. Furious for a Jedi was when you could take down a whole cyborg platoon with your bare hands and not break a sweat. Astranomicly pissed off for a Jedi, was when you could take down a Dark Trooper Phase 4 with your bare hands and not break a sweat. The little snipit comments about his outburst that made Leia cry did not help things.

 

A little girl that didn't know any better he knew they were thinking. Even younglings wouldn't have commited a mistake like that! And she was being trained by the head Jedi Masters! She could have gotten his troops killed. There was no garentee that they had killed of all the droids in the ship yet, even though they hadn't seen any rouges yet. They would need to conduct a thourogh seach of the ship to make certain of that.

 

So when they finally reached the dormatories where masterless lightsabers were fighting cyborgs, Shadow was all in with both his double bladed lightsaber fully activated.

[RC-1162]

Vader opened his comlink and spoke to Leia in a stern voice.

 

"Leia, havent I told you it is dangerous to give out orders just as you feel like it?" The crying stopped and Leia was silent. "Good girl," Vader said. "Now give the comlink to Master Cyphon."

 

Leia did so.

 

Vader nodded once to himself and headed to the turbolift to join Shadow's attack force on the dormitory and ignited his blades as he dropped. The doors whirred open and Vader stepped out just in time to see Shadow walk into the dorm with his blades ignited. Vader flourished his own and followed the man.