chapter 40

Mygeeto

"Tank on the right!" A clone yells before seconds later a rocket slams into it as it explodes.

Once the smoke clears the tank can still be seen moving shooting it's cannon before another rocket hits it creating a massive explosion. The few defending marines starts to get out of their defensive positions under the hail of blaster fire and explosions. Some of them that tries to fall back gets shot in the back.

"Yeah that's it!"

"Keep at it!"

On another part of Mygeeto on the ground it was pure chaos on the front lines as troops from different factions battle each other. After hours of non stop fighting. One of them were starting to get the upper hand over them all.

The clones were starting to push back both the separatist and the terrans because of their sheer numbers. They were also starting to win the battle for control of the air and their capital ships were starting to provide air cover for them. Even though the terrans fighters were doing really well to protect their men on the ground. They couldn't do anything against their capital ships which were making it hard for them.

"There's too many of them! They just keep coming!" A marine yells as he shoots his machine gun at the waves of clones charging at them.

"Where's are support?! They should have been here by now!"

"Where ever they are. They're taking their sweet ass time getting here!" A marine shouts as they lay prone on ground doing their best to hold their positions.

A marine and a radio operator can be seen crouching behind a destroyed tank as they listen in as someone talks to them.

"What do you mean fall back." A marine says trying to hold in his anger.

"I just lost some good men trying to hold this position and now your telling me to fall back!"

As he listens to his next words his eyes go wide before he quickly gets up to says his next orders.

"Everyone fall back! We're not going to want be here when they arrive!" He yells as they slowly start to retreat.

The clones seeing this slow down their charge as they fire at the retreating terrans as they celebrate for a while.

"Haha! Where your going!" A clone shouts as he continues to fire at the retracting terrans.

"Look at them run! We'll push them back all the way to Zeridian where they belong!"

As they start to take over the positions that the terrans originally held three venators arrives from the clouds a little behind them as they make their way towards them. Opening the doors to the bay area they start to launch multiple fighters and bombers as they start their mission to destroy the rest of the Terran forces scattered throughout the planet.

"If this continues, it won't be long until we have this entire planet under our control." A clone says.

As the clones looks though the battlefield for any stranglers, they spot an entire stash of weapons and ammunition that the terrans had left behind.

"It really is true. They actually use slugthrowers as their main weapons." A clone says looking over a rifle that was left by the terrans.

"Those terrans ain't nothing. Still using primitive weapons." Another clone says as he uses his foot to slide the hundreds of bullet shells on the ground out of his way.

"This battle isn't done yet. Once our bombers blow them to smithereens. We'll arrive to mop up the rest of them." A clone commander says.

As the venators launch their fighters a huge beam of light hits the venator in the middle as it cuts it in half as the two pieces fall down. Hearing the explosion all the clones heads turns toward the ships as the two remaining ships turn as their turboblasters fire whatever was above them.

Seconds later multiple purple lasers and torpedos start to slam into the two venators as they start to take major damage. All the clones seeing this stop what they're doing looking up trying to see who was doing this. They knew the separatist didn't have weapons like that and the terrans wasn't known for having any energy based weapons like this unless it was something new they developed.

As the venators take heavy fire from whatever was shooting at them a few lightning strikes from the dark clouds show the outline of a ship and the only way the clones on the ground could describe it was that it was massive.

"What is that thing?!" A clone says as the front of the unknown ship can be seen poking out of the clouds.

As the ship destroys the two venators. Numerous small vessels leave the hangers of the purple ships as they head towards the clones positions.

"Get into defensive positions!" The clone commander says as they get ready for the unknown enemies arrival.

"Here they come!"

A group of banshees fly over them, but not without taking a few shots at them as multiple green streaks of light crash into their lines as an entire row of clones get killed instantly.

A few meters away a group of drop ships arrive as they send down troops. What they see surprises them even more because the different species that come out of the ships are something that they have never seen before. Once they exited the drop ships they immediately fire at the clones with what looks like energy based weapons and something that looks like a crystal.

Some of the clones tanks decides to shoot at the drop ships only for a gang of banshees to swoop in and destroy them one after another. All it took was a few plasma cannons in the driver's seat or a a single plasma bomb to put the tank out of the battle for good.

As the clones start to get destroyed without any clue who they were going against the ship that had destroyed the three venators start to move over them. The ground shakes from the ship moving so close to them and some of the clone can't help, but look up. The clones that looked up see one of the biggest ships that they had ever seen before and even then that was just what they could see because the clouds were blocking most of the ship from being fully seen by them.

"Who are these people!" A clone shouts before a loud explosion happens behind them as smoke envelopes the area.

As the smoke starts to something that looks like a large vehicle which was on four legs starts to move as the front glows for a while. Seconds later a green beam hits them as it creates chaos throughout their lines.

"We're being surrounded! They're trying to cut us off from the rest of our forces!" A clone yells as more ships from this faction arrives with some hovering over them as they drop their troops.

On one of the drop ships above them an elite jumps out as he duel wields energy swords as he charges into the clones positions. What followed was a massacre as the elite sliced through the clones armor with many of them losing limbs from the swords. One of the clones charges at the elite as he shoots at the elite with one of his shots hitting one of his swords destroying it.

As the clone nears him the elite grabs the clone by his throat before growling in his face before snapping his neck with a loud crack. After killing him he throw his body into another clone knocking him down before stomping on the clones head making sure he was dead.

"Get him!" The clone commander says as he starts to shoot at the elite with the rest of his men.

The elite taking a few shots from the blaster fire backs up before disappearing into thin air. One of the clones stops aiming surprised that this enemy had this type of technology just for a sword to stab through his chest before he falls down dead. Some of the clones aimlessly fire where the enemy was last at just as multiple plasma fire erupts on them with a few clones getting hit.

As more enemies arrive directly on them one of the clones decides he had enough and takes out a rocket launcher before firing at one of the elites as it exploded knocking the elite back. A few of the grunts seeing their leader go down takes out two plasma grenades before running into the clones killing many of them after their suicide attack.

"Commander they've pushed through almost all of are lines and started encircling most of our men." A clone says.

"I think we're all that's left of are original line."

The commander looks over his cover as he watches his men get killed easily as they start to get overrunned. Knowing it would be only a matter of time before they were drafted he got on his comms.

"General. We have a problem on our position. An unknown enemy has arrived and attacked us." The commander begins.

"They have weapons we've never even seen before and it won't be long until they overrunned us."

"We need reinforcements."

The Jedi can be seen blocking a few stray blaster bolts before reassuring the clone.

"Help will be on the way commander. You and your men need to hold your ground at all cost. We cannot lose further ground on this planet." The Jedi says.

"Yes general. We'll try and hold out as long as we can." The clone says as he gets off the comms.

"If we can." The Jedi says looking down at the pile of his dead brothers on the ground.

Looking up at the battle the clone can't help, but think that the Jedi didn't fully understand the situation that they were in. This new enemy had literally dives into their lines and their was still more of them coming.

Up ahead he can hear the yells and screams of his men with the addition of loud explosions and something shattering. Running up with what was left of his forces he sees four hunters demolishing the few remaining clones in the area. One of the clones that had gotten to close to one of them gets knocked in the air by the hunters shield. The poor clone had no hopes of surviving the hit as his armor breaks into pieces.

The clones who had just arrived fires at the hunters with no success at harming them as they quickly turn their guns and aim at them.

"Get down!"

Shooting their cannons a wave of clones get flung into the air as they die from the explosion. They continue to fire at the hunters with major loses on their sides giving the enemy even more time to unload more troops that just kept coming out of nowhere. Seeing that there was no hope of beating them the commander calls a retreat.

"Fall back! Fall back now! We can't hold out here any longer!"

As the clones start their retreat the commander stays behind for a while before running back with the last of his troops before a crystal like projectile hits him in the head going through his helmet killing him. Hundred of yards away a jackal had fired his sniper into the clones head and was doing it to the rest of the clones one by one.

"They're surrounding us as well!"

"Keep moving!"

"What is that thing! It's charging up! Get out of th-arhhh!"

"Where's are reinforcements!"

Tatooine

On Tatooine Waneta and six were making their way through the desert trying to make it towards one of the bases the newly freed slaves had made. While six was doing this the rest of noble team were already at the base with the marines who had just completed their mission.

Though their Mission was a success they were going to have to stay low for a while since they knew the hutts were going to do everything possible to have their heads. Because the marines success in freeing a large number of slaves the UNSC had decided to make a large shipment of equipment to them.

Until this shipment had arrived. Many slaves had went undercover and were spying in different towns throughout Tatooine. They were either helping out current slaves or were giving information needed for the revolt they were planning to succeed.

Back with Waneta and six. Waneta was slowly starting to get uncomfortable. Not from the sand or the blood that was still on her. But under the stare from six. He had a tendency of staring at people for no apparent reason and he would do this to people for uncomfortable amounts of time.

"There was a time when your staring used to scare me, but now it's starting to annoy me. Will you stop it." Waneta says as she crosses her arms looking at him.

Stopping his staring they walk towards the base in silence before they finally make it towards the small town that was now converted into a decently defended base. As they are about to walk in a group of ex-slaves stop their approach.

"Stop! Your a Jedi aren't you. Why did you come her-

"He's with us. Put your weapons down" a feminine voice says as she stops just outside the town.

"Finally back six. Carter wants you ready for the next mission." The Spartan says.

"And I see you brought a guest. And not just any guest. The guardian of Zeridian. A lot younger than I thought you would be."

Waneta turns towards the Spartan in shock.

"How do you know that name? Very few people know who I really am."

"I read it in your files. Yours is a little more secured than six, but I was able to open parts of it. ONI will probably be mad at me, but it's worth it." The spartan says walking towards the largest building in the town without a care that Waneta was shocked.

"Whatever. I need to talk to the UNSC and ONI about the information I was able to obtain from the Jedi temple." Waneta says.

"So that's why...Of course. You can talk to them once the first ship arrives with weapons for the freedom fighters." The Spartan says.

"You'll probably be with us until than. So I suggest you get comfortable while you can."

As they make it into the building many people can be seen inside as scrabble to do their jobs. Entering another part of the building they spot the rest of noble team standing in different spots throughout the room with Carter leaning over a table with a large hologram of a map of Tatooine. Looking up he quickly eyes six and kat before looking at Waneta.

"Who is this?"

"A new recruit." Kat says walking towards Carter.

"She was part of that project I told you about years ago that had failed miserably. She was the only survivor...Somehow." Kat says with the last sentence only being heard by her.

"She needs to talk with the UNSC, but until than she is stuck with us."

Carter looks at her eyeing her closely trying to see if she was worth it before looking at six who only nods his head lightly.

"I'll allow it, but you'll follow my orders. Is that clear."

"Yes, sir." Waneta says.

"Good. The rest of you get ready for the briefing." Carter says as they stand around the large table getting ready to hear their next mission.