Night rolled around, all around me was the white sky.
Yes, I had decided to be a dumb fuck and stand on top of the Cumulus.
Well technically I was still in the hangar, but I sat on the walls looking out.
Under me stood Alexander, he was shouting.
"My Lord! You should really get down, it's not safe." He tried.
"It's fine Alexander, I got a jetpack. Besides there's like 4200 people in the proximity whom would jump after me.
"Fine, but please be careful, I don't want to be fired." He said, unhappy with my decision but understanding the incoming battle would be more dangerous.
It was currently 01:52, we were flying towards Theed, the capital city of Naboo.
The Gungans were travelling by water, while we had to jump down from the ground and straight into the temple. Luckily Qui Gon and Obi-Wan was joining us.
They had both been offered a pair of jetpacks but refused.
Apparently their mission had changed after Padme security was ensured at the base. And they were now tasked with capturing the newly discovered Sith and bring him in for questioning. Why they didn't bring Mace for missions such as this is beyond me.
His entire skillset is in the end to use the dark side without using it. Kinda. And he's perfect for fighting Sith, It's a reason he won against Palpatine in single combat.
Naboo truly was a beautiful planet, we were schedules to arrive in about 5 minutes, giving us 3 minutes to prepare before the attack.
Naboo had large green plains, the plains were never identical, littered with bumps, hills, rivers and animals.
The Gungans and the Nabooians, don't know if you call them that. Had cut the planet in two.
The gungans had control of the large water bodies and the swamps surrounding it, they also had the 5th largest plain under them, the other 4 going to the Nabooians, this was for them to use agriculture above the water.
They had grown specific underwater plants, but it couldn't give them all the nutrients they needed, and therefore they needed plants filled with sun-energy, which wasn't usual in underwater plants.
Time flew by as I eyed the Naboo planet, and appreciated the full extent of their beauty. Naboo was truly a hidden gem, both in it's geniuses such as Padme and Palpatine, but also it's planetary beauty, don't know how this isn't a famous tourist attraction.
Soon enough Lux's voice came through the comms.
"This is Colonel Lux, jump is in approximately 175 seconds." He said and I stood up.
With that the ship stopped and more and more climbed onto the actual hull.
Meanwhile the doors under us slowly opened, revealing a back ramp, capable of 4 men standing side by side.
Lux and Alexander then approached me.
"What's our main points of attack?" I asked Lux, he had developed the attack strategy.
"We'll send you, Alexander's team and 500 Marines to the top part of the palace. Including the Council Room, Royal Quatyers. We'll then deploy another 1500 throughout the building, and lastly 2000 outside. 1000 in various areas within the city, and 1000 to the front patch, to deal with the tanks and their forces there, we'll need to clear it to get Gungan reinforcements." He said and I nodded.
"Alright, very good. Make sure you have a few E-webs to set up defensive positions, and rocket launchers in case they have E-webs." I said and he nodded.
E-Web was an extremely powerful version of a repeating blaster, it had the firerate of a Z-6 Minigun, but it had the power of an a sniper, something between a sniper and a Spider Droid, those with a small thing out their nose shooting.
This made them extremely dangerous and reputable as the best corridor defensive gun-emplacement possible.
This was also why I always had someone able to reinforce us with it.
If we lost this battle, then we could situate ourselves in a corner, 2 E-webs, one on each side. Create a proper killzone and we could live there comfortably for a few days.
If we reinforced the windows and didn't suffer planetary bombardement of course.
"Yes, My Lord. I've got 15 teams with E-web turrets." Lux said, the E-webs had to be transferred in parts, so two people needed for the body and another for ammunition.
"Alright, well. We'll move on your count." I said and Lux saluted me, before walking towards the rest of the unit.
I checked the clock, it was not 02:59
"We'll start in under 1 minute, Alexander. Have your men ready." I said as I took out my ARC-9965 Blaster Rifle.
"Yes, My Lord. We'll be ready." He simply said, taking out his dual pistols. He had recently taken after me and carried dual pistols, alongside his staff. The pistols worked much more efficiently in co-use with jetpacks.
I didn't respond but simply began looking over my gun, I had already done it a few times. But it always paid off to be precautious.
Soon enough, the green light began blinking on my comm-bracers situated ontop of my Mandalorian warmbracers.
I looked around to see everything too looking down on their device.
"Alright, let's move out." I said as I simply took a step forward, and began falling.
I looked behind me to see that Alexander was right behind me, about 3 meters, and furthermore 10 meters behind me, 200 men fell off.
I pointed my body straight down and pressed a few buttons on my bracers, making me enter stealth mode. Power in my Mandalorian armor was hidden by a device, making it seem dead. So that no power-sensors could detect me.
My radar told me the others did that as well as their dots slowly disappeared.
There was about 250 meter-ish to the ground, and I was falling at roughly 30 meters a second. Meaning I didn't have a lot of seconds until I hit the ground.
I saw the Palace come fast into sight as I got through the small cloud above me.
An arm-screen showed me the meters I was at, it was currently pointing at 100.
As it hit 50 I started the jetpack up and rotated my body, so that instead of my head facing the ground, my boots did.
That slowed my speed a lot, and at 10 meters, I stopped.
All around me, the same happened. Alexander, then the Sovereign Guard, then another 2000, while another 1000 stopped then flew in the direction of the city, and the last 1000 remained a bit over us.
I took two fingers out, the two closest to my thumb.
I then made a slashing motion straight down, and with that I flew down, so did the 2500 other men around me.
We split up, 500 in each unit, while 500 plus my Royal Guards followed me.
I quickly identified the main area, it was sticking out and had a lot of decorations and large windows.
My jetpack screen then changed, showing me the radar of power, essentially, the droids.
I aimed at a corridor, I could see a droid patrol of 6 walking there.
Alexander noticed the same, him, Jon and Robb too joined me.
I boosted my speed, then at the last second rotated my body, so that my boots went forward.
I went straight through the glass and into one of the droids, but my force sent another droid to the ground.
The droids didn't have time to react before another 3 individuals flew through the window, performing the same action as me, putting the rest down.
I turned my gun around and shot the droids on the ground, I'd be stupid to think a little brunt damage would kill them.
While I was doing that, two royal guards came flying down, and in their arms was a rookie.
He had his arms outstretched with each royal guard holding him under his armpits.
It was a comical sight, but I felt bad for the royal guards
After all, a wookie was not a easy package to lift, I could see their sweat and hardship, they had to travel slowly downwards, but the good part was that it was only downwards and not upwards, and he kind of held onto them as well.
I pressed another button on my gauntlet and a Hologram came up, palace blueprins, given to us by Quarsh. If I'm correct then by travelling this corridor a few hundred meters and then up a few stairs, we should be in the royal queens room, and I doubt Gunray would let the option to sleep in a Queens room pass.
"Let's head to the Queens Quarters, I said to the men around me, numbering about 250. The 200 Royal Guards, plus 50 marines. ¨
I kept my map on as we moved through the corridors, I could hear slight fighting throughout the building, and I bet Gunray did too.
"Alright, let's use our jetpacks. Get your asses into gear!" I shouted as I activated my jetpack and zoomed through the corridors.
Most of the Palace had long corridors with very few corners, allowing us to travel 500 meters in less than 30 seconds.
We reached the stairs and I zoomed up, however I held back a bit as Jon and Robb pushed forward while Santo kept running beside me.
Although Santo was large as fuck, he's still surprisingly fast and kept up with us, although we did slow down a bit.
As Jon and Robb arrived up the stairs they were immediately fired upon.
However, somehow they used their Force Staffs in the air, blocking them.
As I got up I saw our welcoming party.
Firstly I spotted Viceroy Gunray run out of his room and around a corner, a corner to his left and my right, it would lead to the Council room.
Before I began fighting I spoke into my comms.
"Gunray is heading through the corridor from the Queens Quarters to the Council room." I said before cutting my connection.
Instead of going all the way up, I stopped just as my head reached above me.
Holy fuck, they actually have B2's.
In front of me stood a welcoming party of 12 B2 Super Battle Droids and 46 B1 Battle Droids.
"Be careful of the large ones! They have extra armor!" I shouted as I took aim with my rifle.
I focused on the B1's, they were a lot easier to kill and was a problem in their large numbers.
While I was thinking and aiming, about 200 men flew above my heads and engaged the droids in single combat.
They were demolishing the B1's, some dumbass guy named Gunray never thought to place his elite units between his expendable ones, no they were in a line in the back, completely unable to fire.
The Marines joined me in the stairs and unleashed fire, but very precise and carefully, not wanting to hit our own.
"Fly above them and pursue Gunray." I shouted as I started up my jetpack and began flying.
Santos, Jon, Robb and Alexander was in the middle of the fight, Santo had pushed through and were engaging the B2's alongside Jon, Robb, Alexander and 5 others, they were being pushed back but slowly getting the upper hand.
I took out an ion grenade and flew above the battle. The corridor was large enough for 3 battle droids to stack over each other so it was enough space.
As I flew over then, I passed the B1's and entered the B2 area, I threw the grenade, shutting 5 of them down.
The B1's were down to only 12 droids, and slowly our men were pushing on.
However only a few could fight at all times due to the corridor, so when I flew over. A lot of the Royal Guards understood my intention and those in the back did the same, following me and the marines.
As I passed the corner, I flew at max speed. And soon enough, I was met with Gunray.
His escort included 18 B2's and 4 B1's, however he was stuck. Around a corner, one of my E-web teams had set up a defensive perimeter and the only way out was around that corner, but that wouldn't happen anytime soon.
However he didn't spot me, so I increased my jetpacks speed to an unhealthy amount and sped forward.
He was left unguarded in the back due to focusing all his forces on the front, and I flew straight into him.
With my feet first of course, he hit the ground with a big dunk and began shouting.
I stood above him and aimed my gun at his head, the B2's were turning around.
Just in time for the Marines to land between me and the B2's, ensuring they couldn't safely kill me without me killing Gunray.
"Shut the fuck up and order them to stand down, if you value your life. That is." I said and he immediately shut up, this greedy motherfucker cared so much about his life that he could ignore pain.
"Stand down! Stand down!" His ugly voice shouted.
"Good." I said, as his B2's but their guns down, or in position.
"How do I deactivate all the droids in the city? And do you have any organic forces?" I asked him.
"U-uh, you m-must destroy t-the main c-controller, i-its in t-the Council M-meeting Room." He said, I didn't respond and simply looked at a marines beside me and he simply nodded, before taking 20 guys and flew towards the Meeting Room.
"Now, what about your own forces?" I asked again.
"I s-sent them w-with the Sith, against the J-jedi." He said.
Holy fucking shit, I screwed up.
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