Star Wars: Revelations/ Chapter 10: Attack on Kamino

Everyone of the Death Watch and New Republic looked up to the sky as Colly kept on pointing. The skies were not stormed with clouds like they always used to be on Kamino - they were filled with blue colored layers with a few puffy clouds and the Yuuzhan Vong flashship. “Jeez, there must be hundreds of them on that ship,” Katan spoke. She walked backwards, accidentally bumping into Rahr.

“Well excuse you,” Rahr said, angrily.

“Watch it, fish,” Katan replied.

“Enough you two. Everyone battle positions!” Leia yelled, permitting entrance to Tipoca City. Pliers held the heavy metal door open, waving his arm to signal for everyone to get inside. Organically built dropships that belonged to the Vong known as a Yorik-vec assault cruisers sped their way down, blasting everything that caught their eye.

It soon released multiple Vong warriors along with Yugo Patoria. “Get these doors open and make our way to the DNA chamber!”

Banging loudly at the sealed door, the Vong continuously made demonic noises from their vocals, letting the heroes hear it.

“They’re banging down the doors!” Pliers yelled in his low, tough clone voice. He ran up to the doors the Vong were attempting to push down and pushed back. Carg assisted.

Wreckage pointed at both Les and Chuck, “you two idiots. Make sure the princess is safe in the vault. Understood?”

“Ooh! Okay my sir!” Les replied ecstatically. Les turned to Chuck and they smiled and giggled as Wreckage’s eye began to twitch once more.

Leia, overhearing, stepped forward to Wreckage. “Lieutenant, what did you mean exactly?”

“Princess…” Wreckage began, somewhat intimidated by her presence.

Bo-Katan walked over, “Leia. They don’t know you’re here! Let’s just-“

“Yes we do,” a menacingly horrid voice came from their left. They veered their heads to the left and noticed that voice seemingly came from Ponds, who was shaking both his legs and arms. More blood spat out of his temple that consisted of the same cut. “You are all doomed!” Ponds said without blinking.

“This is freaking me out!” Rahr exclaimed, hiding behind Leia.

The doors then trembled their way down on top of Carg and Pliers. Yugo Patoria pointed at the princess and at Ponds. “Seize them!”

Blaster fire scraped through Yugo multiple times as that was just the beginning out of the fight. Going down, Yugo perceived that it was Pliers with his DC-15, still trying to escape from the door that was on top of him. “Go, go, go!” Cougar yelled, getting out a blaster of his own. Managing to finally get a hold of the metal door that toppled them, both Pliers and Carg used all of their might to push the door onto the entering Yuuzhan Vong. Crushing many Vong, Pliers ensured the death of those Vong by reloading his gun and firing rapidly yet accurately on their face. He helped up Carg, who was attempting to recuperate after his long incapacitation from the door. Evading some of their enemies by running behind their backs and using a mini vibroblade to slit their throats, Carg and Pliers caught up to the rest of the team.

“Ponds what has gotten into you, now?” Colly screamed, backing up a bit once they found temporary safety.

With that same wretched voice, Ponds replied, “I have been here every step of the way. I know your every move. Now, Princess… time to die!” Once Ponds cocked his DC-17, he fired it but at Carg, who dashed into the line of fire, forcefully pushing the princess out of the way. Falling down hard, Leia slapped away her pain and crawled to a heavily breathing clone captain. Ponds suddenly punched his own face twice, rubbed his eyelids and opened them again. He saw the same thing - his former mentor on the ground, bleeding right through his armor.

Pliers, observing the moment, pushed Ponds strenuously and reached Carg. “Carg!! Ponds what in the name of Tatooine did you do?” Pliers removed his helmet, unveiling stubble around his face and a scab near his left eye.

Ponds unconsciously fell. He looked at Leia, “Princess. It’s not my fault! Please, ma’am! I-I don’t know what happened!”

“The Hell you don’t-” Pliers, getting ready to assail Ponds with his blaster, ceased when he heard groaning come from Carg. Kneeling down, Pliers said, “Carg? He’s still alive; bring him a medic now!”

“No,” Carg responded slowly in the most amount of breath he could muster. “There’s no time. Please. Pliers, it was good seeing you even though it was short lived. Ponds, it was an honor to not be your mentor… but you’re friend. Now kick whatever really did this to me in the ass! Godspeed-”

“No!” Ponds and Pliers both let out.

Leia, crying, informed, “Ponds, come on. We have to go.”

“What? No. I’m not letting yet another brother die. First Windu, then Fil, now Carg? And what? At the hands of me??”

“We have to see what is controlling you, Ponds. Probably something with your cut. Ponds, please. We’re not safe here. There’s still a battle going on and I don’t know where any of the Death Watch, Colly or Rahr went! And where’s Wreckage? Ponds, I’m sorry but we have to go,” Leia, wiping her tears, informed anew.

Ponds shook his head. Pliers, not crying but getting choked up, placed his right hand on Ponds’ shoulder. “Um, I, uh. It’s okay, Ponds. But we have to get moving. We’ll send his body into the sea after we win.” He winked at Ponds, trying to hold in tears and let out that right hand and helped Ponds up.

Shimrra Jamaane made his way to the DNA chamber, met with Mandalorian resistance which he crushed in a matter of seconds. When he approached the chamber, he bashed into the database which controlled all of the DNA samples. Catching one container, he smiled and thought of Order 101. Cato Loozin followed Jamaane, ensuring that no more resistance was met. Basking in his glory by thanking Yun-Yuuzhan, his god, on his skeleton-like knees, Jamaane heard footsteps that he knew belonged to a human. He turned around and saw that Commander Colly was confronting Loozin. “You!”

“Saddened by the death of your comrades? Or shall I say, First Order comrades?” Loozin instigated while Jamaane, who went back on his knees, prayed to Yun-Yuuzhan.

“My loyalties still lie with the First Order! You broke that once you randomly slaughtered Scrape’s men near Mon Calamari!” Colly admitted, sweating immensely on his facial area.

“Keep in mind, clone that without Rahr, you would not be alive. Remember on Yavin 4? Before all this?”

“Enough chit-chat! Death time!” Colly shrieked and commenced to blast Cato with his newly obtained rifle. Shrugging it off, Cato charged at Colly and Colly instantly relived the moment when Cato darted for Ganch in the same way. Colly then departed his former position and banged against the wall meters back due to Cato. Hearing a lightsaber activate, Colly’s facial expression changed from being in pain to being content. Patrick Rahr did a high jump, bypassing the Vong’s maneuvers against him. The BARC commander joined the battle by vaulting on Loozin, accrediting plasma to unload from the Vong around his eyes and neck. Jamaane, who wrapped up his praying, made a beeline for the nearest exit.

“Alright, my brothers. Time to leave. We have accomplished what we came here for. In just a few cycles, Order 101 will proceed!” He said through his communications device.

Remaining New Republic troopers rushed outside and spotted the Koros-Strohna exiting to hyperspace. Leia turned around to all survivors who were speechless. Not even the sound of silence filled the air; as the New Republic heard nothing but defeat.