Chapter 9: Retaliation

Captain Crane, Lieutenant Bly, and Seven all stared at the stormtroopers who were invading their base. One by one, they all hacked into computers and started either downloading data and uploading viruses. "Can we take them all?" Seven asked.

"You outta your mind, son? There must be dozens at least and you think you can just walk up there and pretend everything's gonna be alright?" Crane implied.

"Jeez, sorry. It was just a question," Seven replied. The three of the Resistance Militia Squadron could overhear the stormtroopers say randomized nonsense that seemed like was a different language from English. Crane stuck out some sort of eavesdropping equipment and pointed it at those stormtroopers who were weirdly talking. The equipment could pick up spikes and traces of sound elements coming from those soldiers of the Empire. They were talking about the new guy joining their ranks.

"They're talking about the commander; and how they're playing him," Seven explained. Both Bly and Captain Crane looked at him and then he got sort of embarrassed.

"Um, we all could hear," Crane said in a wiseguy manner. Bly shook his head. Crane added, "Alright, I'm setting up the long-range transmitter on my wrist-communicator. This could take a while."

"Why?" Seven asked.

"Uh, why do you think, Seven? So we can actually have a chance to win this fight," Crane responded. He pressed a couple of button on his wrist-communicator and a little holographic projection popped up. That would make Captain Crane determine what coordinates and frequency exactly he would like to input on the long-range transmitter. Suddenly, the wrist-communicating device on Captain Crane's wrist went off and made some sort of beeping noise. That attracted the attention of several stormtroopers. All parties loaded their pistols, blasters and rifles and a new battle raged on. Then, Crane got a faint signal through in his comms system and began to talk into it, "Anyone in the Resistance Militia Squadron, R.M.S twelve needs backup immediately! Calling any and all R.M.S members, base twelve is under attack by the Empire!" His transmission was cut off due to the evidence of a gunshot wound to his arm.

Screaming, Crane squeezed his whole arm to prevent any blood from rushing out from the open wound. A stormtrooper approached him and shot Crane in the back. Already he consisted of two lacerations. That same stormtrooper initiated to do the same thing to the captain. Three. Lieutenant Bly automatically fell to the ground once the battle had first started, hence being too injured to fight to begin with. Seven got out his blaster and injured just a couple of Empire troopers until finally surrendering. What will happen to them now?