Chapter 32 - Death

The clone army was instantly thrown in disarray. Wookies were roaring, but the chief quickly got them to move. Many of the wookies seemed unhappy, but the scene of everything dying as the black bubble passed convinced them.

The delay, however, was enough for the bubble reach the outskirts of the village. The clone army, trained to follow orders, was alredy a few hundred meters away. However, the wookies took a lot more time to run, and this cost them a lot.

One of the wookie families who took the most to leave was encompassed by the black bubble. They screamed and felt to the ground. Their bodies started whitering away. The wookies cried.

Dageer was running at full speed, Hell Squad and the rest of the clone army too. The bubble caught up with some more wookies, but they finally saw the Laats which were flying towards them.

Dageer switched his comlink on to talk to the pilots.

"Don't land! Just get ready to pick us up!"

The Laats hovered above the ground, and the clones started to climb in. Commander Cody and the jedis stayed just outside the Laats, helping the wounded and the wookie children. However, as the black bubble approached they were forced to get on the gunsh.i.p.s.

Dageer looked at the elderly wookies and the injured clones who didn't make to the gunsh.i.p.s yet, and closed his eyes. Without opening them he ordered the pilots.

"Go. Now."

The Laat flew as the black bubble engulfed those left behind. A track of death and destruction was left on its path. The gunsh.i.p.s flew as fast as their engines permitted, but two of them who took to long to depart were still caught by the bubble.

The gunsh.i.p.s were still working, but with their pilots dead they fell to the ground with explosions. Dageer talked in his comlink.

"General, with all do respect, but what was that? We just lost over fifty clones and another twenty wookies."

"This isn't something we have to worry about right now Dageer. We have to make sure that this thing does not get to Separatist hands."

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On General Kenobi capital ship.

Commander Cody, Dageer, General Kenobi, General Di and Commander Keeli were discussing. General Kenobi's padawan was recovering from the battle. Commander Keeli was giving them their intel on the Separatist movement.

"Generals, our intelligence report that whatever generated that black thing you all confronted was taken by the Separatists back to Rhen Var."

"Then all our forces shall move there too. Master Kenobi, do you agree?

"We can't let them use it again. Cody, prepare every clone. Defeat is not an option."

"Yes sir!"

"Dageer, you are returning with me and Keeli. I am sure we can find something for Hell Squad to do."

"Yes sir!

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The fleet of Mace Windu have arrived, and the three jedi generals started a joint attack. The Separatist blockade didn't last long before several gunsh.i.p.s, starfighters and two Acclamator-class cruisers broke through it.

The clones braved through the anti-aircraft fire and landed on the barren planet. Many clones were taken down by the droids on the ground, but their sheer numbers won them a foothold.

Hell Squad was amongst the first to get out of the Laats. Their cohesion as a special unit showed up as they took out droid after droid. Their primary targets were the E-Web, on which Dab used his charged shot to make sure the droids wouldn't be able to use them again.

There wasn't much cover on the barren land, and Hell Squad used the droid barricades they have just took out to their own defense.

Suddenly the battlefield stopped. Droids and clones alike stopped firing and looked at the sky. On the green sky one Republic cruiser was on fire as it entered the atmosphere and crashed down on some distant mountains.