Escander 5

As the doors closed in front of us we quickly probed our surroundings, for anything that could be watching us before approaching the doors.

The man inside this room could be the key to finding the information about the new battle droid, as well as bringing down this facility with the least amount of casualties. If he chooses to surrender it would save a lot of lives that would've been lost during the battle to take the facility. Even if the chance of him doing such a thing is low, it's worth a shot.

Done with the checks, safely converse about what to do next.

"I have a plan for getting in there" I tell them before explaining my plan quickly.

Soon after I finish we begin, standing in front of the blast doors me and Aayla both cut small holes. Pushing the loose metal into the room smoke grenades that Lucky and Deviss prepared were quickly launched in as well. Controlling the smoke I spread a thick fog throughout the room, signalling to Inc and Bly they passed E.M.P grenades through the holes while Aayla moved them into position using the force.

Several droid poppers later Aayla says "That should be all of them" as she ignites her lightsaber and moves to the middle of the door.

"Better get this opened then" I said as I joined her in igniting a blade.

Penetrating our blades into the steel we traced a large circular shape into the blast doors, our lightsabers quickly heating the metal up to it's molten state as the lightsabers sliced through the sturdy material as if it was butter.

Meeting our lightsabers at the top of the circle we move the excess metal from our path as I allow the smoke to drain from the room.

Once the smoke poured out we entered through the hole we made.

Passing through the ring of sizzling hot steel, I get a closer look at the control room, it was similar to one you would find in a starship. There was many different screens showing information, images and statistics along with the scores of disabled droids that go hit by the grenades.

"Looks like your plan worked perfectly commander" Lucky said as he glanced around the room.

"Apparently not, we're missing the skakoan" I replied noticing the lack of a Separatist captive.

The weird looking fucker must've made a break for it as soon as he seen us cutting through the door.

"Bly slice into this and bring up a map of the base and the rest of you see if you can find any intel on the droid" she ordered the commander.

Pressing a few button on the machine a hologram of the entire bases layout appeared in front of us.

"It seems that they we're using this, all the passcodes are still in"

From the hologram we could see the base wasn't as big as we thought it was, there was only a few more underneath us that consisted mostly of storage rooms. Not exactly the factory that we were expecting.

"General I found something" Lucky said catching everyone's attention.

"The droid their working on seems to be an elite type of droid that's main focus is combating...Jedi" he spoke giving a shock to everyone especially Aayla.

"It's says here that they're programmed to work in small groups to take down jedi, but that's all the information there is" he finished.

"Shit the skakoan's probably went to get the one's they've already built" I divulged wanting to hurry up and find him since any droids that are made to hunt a jedi can't be good news.

Aayla seemed to agree with me but before she could say anything Bly spoke up, "General, Commander, before you both leave I think there's something you might want to hear".

Turning back to look at Bly, Aayla asked "What is it?".

Zooming in on a certain point on the hologram Bly moved on with his explanation, "This right here is the power generators keeping the entire base functioning, and right underneath it is storage rooms containing a large amount of fuel cells. If we blow up the generators it should cause a chain reaction of explosions throughout the base effectively destroying it."

"That's a pretty good plan, saves us the hassle of trying to take the base. Our orders were to retrieve or destroy the droid designs and prototypes, the base can screw itself." I chimed in with my opinion.

"Bly have you got enough detonators for the job?" she asked, clearly agreeing to the plan.

Bly looks at his clone comrades as they began to count how many explosives they had on hand. Quickly ending up with a total of 8, Bly tells the general "It'll be tight but it should be enough to do they job".

Being the generous person I am I decide to give the troopers the detonators I had on me, "Here you can have mine, doubt I'll be needing them anyway" I said as I began to strip the detonators off my body.

Once the total amount of detonators passed 20 everyone in the room bar me started to sweat drop. Inc even poked Lucky with his elbow "I thought Jedi only used lightsabers" he gawked.

"Me too" Lucky gaped as I finished placing the detonators on the table.

"Right, that's all off them" I said plainly stepping away from the table while the clones split them between each other.

Once they were ready Aayla instructed "Once you set the charges meet us at the emergency ladder we came down on, if we're not there by the allotted time leave without us."

"Yes General, good luck" Bly said.

"Same for you soldiers"

With that we went our separate ways, me and Aayla passed through the doors of the inactive white training room and swiftly mate our way down the long one way path where the skakoan ran off too. The grey components of the corridors whizzed past us as we quickly reached the end of the path.

Forcing the doors open, we entered what seemed to be a manual droid factory, parts scattered everywhere along with the tools used to put the parts together, even large pots of molten metal were spotted here and there.

Stepping over the clutter we remained vigilant for any one coming attackers, lightsabers at the ready we searched for the man in question.

Checking round the back of a massive kiln I rapidly spin round ignite my lightsabers blocking an incoming electro staff. The dark figure dropped from above, slamming his weapon at my head. The weapon clashed against my two lightsabers in a X guard, the jolts of electricity wrapped round the plasma as if it was trying to draw it in.

Pushing my sabers up to throw the figure off balance, I thump a heavy kick into the chest of my opponent pushing him back several meters but otherwise not doing any noticeable damage, as its unblinking red eyes scanned my figure looking for weaknesses.

{Image of droid}

Not having the time to engage in a stare off against what I assume to be the droid prototype we were looking for I whip a saber in the opposite direction of the previous attacker. A second droid lunged at my back before his weapon was slapped away, slicing at the droids waist with other saber ended in failure as the droid skilfully parried my strike.

Making space between me and my assailants I leap over the kiln to a more open area, mid flight I seen Aayla contesting against 4 of the same droids, weaving between their attacks with such skill it looked effortless.

Landing on the cold concrete floor I threw debris debris lying around at the droids hot on my tail. To my disappointment they easily avoided or blocked what I threw at them, but not letting up I charge at one of the droids.

Throwing serveral powerful blows at my opponent I broke through his defence as was about to cut him down when I sensed a backstab coming from the other droid, rolling out the way I managed to avoid having an overgrown taser plunged into my back. My onslaught continued, a flurry of blows sent at both combatants but every time I was about to get a hit in the other would either block or make me put off my attack.

I must say, these droids have some good teamwork, most of the time people just get in the way of each other when fighting 2vs1, or the fight just ends up as many different 1vs1 duels instead of the two people actual working together. These droids were completely different though they actively looked for weaknesses when the other attacks and effectively cover each other when they are in a tight spot.

As we were fighting a mechanical voice spoke up from the back off the room.

"Ahahahaha my creations are magnificent, and to think these are just the prototypes".

The arsehole finally showed himself. He must feel confident enough to come out now his droids have been proven capable enough to fight against jedi. Not sure why he didn't just run away but that just makes our job easier.

"Truly superb, I'm sure Separatist leaders will be most pleased with my creation now it has proved itself with a field test" the man said as he fiddled with his pressurised suit.

Seriously what's this bellend going on about, it's not as if we're loosing badly or anything, so I'm not sure why he's so assured of himself.

Trading blows with the two droids I managed to peak in Aayla's direction and see her being pushed back down the pathway we came from.

"Lycan do what you have to do, I can handle these guys" she shouted at me as she can continually being push back through the long hall. Although she was loosing ground, Aayla never seemed to be in a precarious situation.

With Aayla's blessing I sent of volley of lightning at the two droids before coming in with a cleave to the nearest droids shoulder. The droid's electro staff blocked the electricity as we clashed blades again, only this time I aimed my wrist guards at the droids chest. As our weapons were pushing against each other the hidden blaster unravelled itself from my armour, drilling several shots into the droid's chest plate disabling it, but to be on the safe side the I cut the droid into several parts, truly making sure it doesn't get back up.

Flicking my wrist in the last droids direction I launch a barrage of shots in its direction that it swiftly avoided. Seeing my attacks having no effect I use a force ability that would help me, concentrating for a moment I let the force flow through me empowering my body and mind. By the time I opened my eyes I felt great, it was as if the droid suddenly lost speed, dashing towards the droid I rapidly swiped and lunged with both my sabers leaving no opportunity for my opponent to counter. Breaking his guard a quick cleave of my lightsaber was all it took to send its head flying as the rest of the body collapsed to the ground.

By the time I finished them off Aayla was out of sight but I could still hear the collision of weapons if I listened closely. That gave me the confidence to do what I was planning if I had the opportunity.

Turning towards my target, that was currently scurrying away and with me between him and the door, he was only delaying the inevitable. Rushing to the metal platform where he was, I cut off his escape and was brought face to face with the made behind the invention of those killed droids. If his face wasn't covered with a mask, I'm sure it's be warped in a mix of fear and disappointment.

Holding my lightsaber in front of his face, I ask him calmly "The designs for those droids, where are they".

Even with my weapon threating to pierce him he said "I'll never tell you, the count will have me killed if I give the designs to the republic".

Sighing at the mans refusal, I grab his suit with the force and dangle him over one of the pots of molten metal.

Asking him once again with more conviction "I'll ask one more time, give me the designs or I'll drop you". As I said the word my grip on his suit tightened, the metallic plates threatened to break as the began to creak from the pressure exerted.

"Please! Stop! Don't drop me, I'll tell you where it is. I'm begging you!" he spoke.

I'm sure he's really begging but the mechanical voice coming from his suit wasn't giving him sympathy points.

"Where is it?" I questioned lowering him closer to the steaming how metal.

"It's in my suit, put me down and I'll take it out for you" he replied.

Thinking for a second I place him back on the platform and released his arms from my grasp, allowing him to tap several button in his mech suit which prompted a data disc to be released from a slit in his side.

"That's the plans, please have mercy" he said.

Before replying I put the disc into my personal holo projector, moments after detailed designs appeared in front of me. Happy with the newly acquired material I release my hold on him.

"Thank you for your cooperation" I said plainly with a neutral look on my face.

Aiming my wrist mounted blaster at his head, I blew a hole in his mushy green skull and watched as he fell back into the pot of molten liquid. Watching the skakoan's body slow sink into the lava I leave to go help out my master and leave this place before it blows.