Chapter 3 - Geonosis

CT-4063 could feel the Laat turning to the left and the going down. He braced himself using the sides of the Laat.

The noise of the explosions was getting louder by the second. Now it was almost impossible to distinguish between each of them. There was a big explosion and the thought he heard a scream. Probably his imagination.

The red lights of the Laat painted everything on a shade of red. The sergent was barking orders, but CT-4063 couldn't hear them.

Realizing his men weren't listening to him the sergent left his station. He started making his way throught the clones, patting one here and there and saying something to calm them.

There was another explosion, this one louder than the others. CT-4063 felt a gust of hot wind on his face. And then the sergent was gone.

I took a few seconds for him to realize that a rocket or a laser beam had hit the right side of the Laat, blasting it into pieces. The sergent, together with five or six clones has been thrown throught the hole.

CT-4063 barely had time to react before the pilot voice sounded on the speakers.

"We are hit! I repeat, we are hit! Squad leader, we are going down! Everyone, hold on to something!"

Looking throught the hole CT-4063 could see hundreds, maybe thousands, of Laats flying. Big explosions were going on everywhere, and the green lasers from the Laats and the red ones from the droids were obstructing the sky.

He saw Laats blowing up, hit by ground-to-air rockets, some even hitting others. In the middle of the mess he saw some sh.i.p.s shaped as half- cones, with a round cabin between the halves. They were called Solar Sailers, used by the native geonosians.

The planet of Geonosis was where the invasion was taking place. When jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi discovered a massive number of Separatist sh.i.p.s and droid facturies he reported to the Jedi Council. However, before he could return he, together with jedi padwan Anakin Skywalker and Senator Amidala, were captured.

The jedi mobilized a big number of jedi masters, but they were surronded by droids. Master Yoda rescued them at the last second with the first batch of clones that arrived on Geonosis.

That was all that CT-4063 and the other clones were told by Commander Keeli just before they entered the planet air-space. If they were able to conquer Geonosis before the Separatists leaders could flee then the first battle of the war might be the last one.

All of this came back to his head in a moment, just before their Laat Gunship hit the ground hard.