Star Wars: New Frontier/Chapter 1: CIS Strikes

---Kamashira Canyon, Geonosis, 23 BBY---

BOOM!

A large explosion shakes the canyon. Typhuss scrambles to his feet and picks up his commando pistol. He looks around and blasts the nearest droid. Another two B1s came at him, only to be turned to scrap metal. He looks up to see another wave of Tri fighters block the sunlight out of the steep Geonosis canyon. As another explosion shakes the ground, Typhuss runs to his second in command, CL-2203 (Fon).


 * "Fon, what's happening?" yells Typhuss over the blaster fire.


 * "The bombers have continued their attack!" Lieutenant Fon yells back.

Then, a squadron of V-Wings flies over the canyon and shoots down about 20 Tri fighters. They plummet to the surface followed by a plume of thick black smoke, and crash into the droid ranks, leaving only smoldering craters to prove that they were ever there.

Suddenly, a wing of LAAT/i's appears overhead and the gunship gunners take out whatever is left of the Separatist ranks. The surviving droids retreat to the nearby canyon entrance, and keep running to the CIS landing grounds where the Commerce Guild shuttles were kept.

Typhuss and Fon board the gunships with the rest of the 52nd Star Corps and take off towards their next target.

---Xallic Plains, Geonosis, 23 BBY---

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, the fight goes on as Beater attempts to lead the 2nd Battalion to victory over the droids defending a southern Confederate command post. He noted that it was no easy task.

Beater watched as a squad of Q and W series droidekas took out about 30 more of his men a few hundred yards away. Picking up a Droidchreck rocket launcher, he fired at at the droidekas, and watched them burst to flames as the rocket hit the targets.

He grinned to himself. Beater actually took pleasure in destroying the droids, which most clones considered a bad habit, though Beater didn't understand why. He dropped the Droidchreck and fired his blaster at nearby B2s and they fell to the ground in a heap of metal.

A shadow of a gunship appeared overhead. 2nd Battalion reinforcements came to pick up Beater and whatever was left of the 2nd's main force, which was not much, about 40 troopers. They flew off towards their new target.

---Loki Mountains, Geonosis, 23 BBY---

Deadeye looked overhead to see another wave of Vulture droids come over the horizon. The artillery cannons had no problem dispatching every one of the fighters in a matter of seconds. Deadeye looked over to his men, who were checking over the remains of the destroyed battle droids. In the past 3 hours, his men took over 5 CIS command posts, leaving a fresh check for the Delta Force's part in the mission.

A fleet of Corporate Alliance Tank Droids came towards the encampment, only to share the same fate as the Vulture droid fighters that came before it. He always fought the droids in the training facilities on Kamino, but it was a completely different thing to see them fight on the actual battlefield. There was one major difference between the training droids and the actual droids: the training droids were allot harder to defeat.


 * "He sergeant, over here!" yelled a clone trooper.

Deadeye looked over and spotted a clone trooper awaiting him in a gunship. Deadeye boarded the gunship and it took them to their next destination.

---Republic Landing Ground, Geonosis, 23 BBY---

Typhuss sat in the tavern that had been put up for the Republic forces at the Grand Army Landing Ground. He didn't notice when Beater came in. He grabbed some food from a table and joined Typhuss.


 * "Quite a battle today isn't it?" asked Typhuss.


 * "Yeah. I am the only one who feels that the training droids on Kamino were harder to defeat than the real ones here?" said Beater.


 * Typhuss laughs and then replies, "Yeah."

Deadeye took a seat next to them.


 * "So you guy's been fighting lately?" he asks.


 * "Yes. I'm Beater by the way." says Beater.


 * "Typhuss." introduces Typhuss and holds out a hand.


 * Deadeye shakes his hand. "Deadeye . . . say, why do they call you Beater?" he asks.


 * "Well, it took place on-" Beater gets cutoff.

A clone trooper comes in.


 * "We will be leaving now. Get to the Acclamator 340." he says.

The three follow him out and board the transport bound for Coruscant.