Battle of Earth: Discovery/Part 1

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BOOM!

An explosion suddenly rocked the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. RC-825, or "Ping" as he was better known to the other storm commandos, jumped up from his bunk, alarmed. Better not be more pirates, he thought. Another commando in green armor came running up to him.

"Ping, there's a Nebulon frigate attacking us!" said RC-1242, who Ping and the other commandos jokingly called "Fluffy", due to one too many airbags blowing up in his face (he crashed every vehicle he set foot in).

"What's the status, Fluffy?"

"Sensor array nearly knocked out, but we're fine."

"I'm guessing it's a pirate vessel."

"Nope, it's belongs to the the Rebellion."

"Better get my armor on, then," said Ping. Despite the fact that he was a storm commando, Ping still wore his old blue colored clone commando armor. However, this was mostly due to the fact that Ping was extremely short tempered, and "insisted" that he, Fluffy, and a few other commandos keep their clone armor.

"You two, Commander Vagnor wants to see you on the bridge," an officer said, looking into Ping's quarters.

"What does he want now?" grumbled Ping.

"He wants advice. You and Fluffy are the only ones here that have enough experience to know how to outmaneuver an enemy." explained the officer. He was being extremely careful with his words, not wanting to incur the wrath of this particular storm commando.

"Oh, fine, but Vagnor better not be wasting my time," a still grumbling Ping said.

Pingand Fluffy made their way to the bridge, and was greeted by the demoted officer and the second-in-command, Seider Roth, by the bridge entrance.

"Vagnor is inside. He's only a rookie, so-"

"Yeah, we heard," interrupted Fluffy.

Seider scowled, but didn't complain, and opened the bridge door.

"Ah, I was waiting for you two. What do you know about Nebulon frigates?" asked Krause upon seeing the two commandos enter.

"What I know is that the Empire was stupid enough to let fall into Rebel hands," Ping said insultingly.

"You watch your tongue, or I'll jettison you to space,"

"Oh yeah? Well-"

Ping and Krause were then interrupted by another explosion that rocked the ship.

"What happened?" Krause demanded.

"We just lost an engine," said a crew member.

Krause sighed. These Rebels are going to give me a migraine, he thought.

"We've got them now!"

Commander Greenway was ecstatic. The dark haired man's brown eyes jumped with excitement. The Nebulon frigate had been modified so boarding parties could get on enemy ships more easily. This way, the Alliance could easily knock out the more heavier Imperial vehicles without losing their own. The ship was modified this way because of the SpecForce legion aboard. Jak then saw one engine on the Star Destroyer blow. Looks like an easy victory, he thought. Once the engines were down, the SpecForce team would just board the ship, take the supplies, and leave, although the procedure would have difficulties if there were storm commandos onboard. The supplies were needed as the Rebellion was recovering from their defeat at Hoth.

"Captain, incoming message from the Imps," reported a crew member on the bridge.

"Put him through,"

A hologram of an Imperial officer appeared in front of Jak, flanked by what looked like two storm commandos in clone armor. Those guys must be old, Jak thought as he saw the clone armor.

"Rebel aggressors, this Krause Vagnor, captain of the Star Destroyer, ordering you to stop your acts of violence,"

"You think I'm going to listen to you?" Jak retorted.

"Well-"

"Just because you're an Imp doesn't mean I have to listen to you." Jak considered the Empire's minions no better than animals, after learning what they had done to Alderaan.

"Cut him some slack, he's a rookie," said a voice that surprised Jak, since it had seemingly come out of nowhere. He then realized one of the clones had been talking to him.

"Fluffy, come on, how many hours do you think this guy spent in the academy?" asked the other clone.

"Hadn't thought of that, Ping. Alright, don't cut him some slack,"

"Now, you two have a real authority problem. Watch it, or I will-"

Jak ended the communications line there, not wishing to see the argument, even though it had put a smile on his face. "Jak, their heading for the Idiot's Errand," reported Helm Fresden, a brown haired, blue eyed man. He was the SpecForce commander on board, and was one of the few people who called the commander by his first name. They had become fast friends in a Rebel training facility.

"The what?"

"The Idiot's Errand. It's a little known smuggler route."

"Why is it 'little known'?"

"There's a solar wind in the route, and nearly everyone who went in there disappeared,"

"Go after them. Now." Jak ordered. Jak's biggest concern was the solar wind ripping the frigate apart, but he was sure the shields would hold. It's now or never, thought the commander. If we can get the supplies, then the Rebellion might just last a little longer.



"We're losing the Rebs in a solar wind! Are you crazy!?" Ping couldn't believe what he was hearing. In his opinion, he believed that Imperial commanders - and the whole Imperial military - could be prone to stupidity, but he never thought that they were stupid enough to to risk a whole ship.

"We can outrun the Rebels that way," said Krause Vagnor. Vagnor's green eyes showed uncertainty at Ping's comment, wondering why going into a solar wind would be dangerous.

"I don't care. It's not worth the risk. I've heard of solar winds that have ripped apart small fleets,"

"Well, it's to late to go back and-"

"You asked for my advice, and I'm giving it to you!" Ping yelled. Krause knew Ping's reputation as a short tempered commando, but didn't take anyone of the warnings about Ping seriously. Now, he had regretted not listening to Ping. Not because of the solar wind, but because he was going deaf from Ping's yelling.

"This is the only way to outrun the Alliance, and even if I tried something different, we'd-"

Admiral Krause never finished his sentence. The solar wind was more powerful than he imagined, and started to rock the ship violently. Several creaking sounds were heard.

"Oh, crap," cursed Ping. Then the ship lost power and all of a sudden, everyone was thrown off their feet and slid toward the front of the bridge. Then, the Star Destroyer began to catch flames.

"Wait a minute, this would only happen if we were entering an atmosph-" Ping then started sliding toward the viewport uncontrollably, and hit the window hard enough that he lost consciousness.



The same thing was happening to the Rebels.

"What the..." Commander Greenway never thought a solar wind was as powerful as this. The Nebulon frigate also started catching flames. This should only happen in an atmosphere, and there's no planet near here, Helm thought as he saw the flames. The ship then made a horrible creaking sound, but before Greenway could do anything about it, a piece of flying cargo hit the commander, and he then blacked out.

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