Phantom War I: Rise of the Consortium

by Danny Eclipse


Menace

The next day….

The Merciless, it’s captain was Meta, was flying towards the hidden lab that was located in the snowy mountains close to the Capital. It masked itself in a cloaking field to avoid detection. They managed to arrive to the station and 3 Imperial Dropship Transports left the Merciless. On board were soldiers, me, and Edward Kenway. We landed down and got off immediately. Suddenly, 1 C-9979 Landed at the edge of the platform and open the landing bay doors and 3 squads of Droideka MK IIs came out. The transport left after that and returned to the Merciless. I was in my Sith Lord Robes [Aka: My Darth Revan Robes]. Edward was wearing Blue and silver armor that resemble to Jango Fett’s Mandalorian armor. He had 2 Blaster Pistols, the Armor Enhancements and gear, and a Jetpack with metal wings attached. I looked at Edward and gave him a nod and he got on the floor and the missile on his Jetpack fired and destroyed the door. We heard the no alarm go off, mainly because I had Adjutant send a Probe Droid ahead of time and had it hack itself into their security systems, giving Adjutant full control over security. We began to walk inside when several Griffin Guards came to investigate the sudden explosion. I charged forward and cut some in half, Edward pulled out his pistols and shot some dead, and the rest were killed by the troops. We got close to another door when I checked their door controls and hacked into the next room’s camera. That’s when I saw it. A full battalion behind the door with some auto-turrets set up.

“We got problems in the next room.” I said

Edward asked “What is it?”

“Auto-Turrets along with a full battalion of Griffin Soldiers and Super Battle Droids.”

Edward said “That is a problem.”

“Hey Adjutant, hacked the auto-turrets and reprogram their targeting systems to attack Griffin Forces.” I ordered

Adjutant replied on comm. “Processing….”

I looked on the camera again and see the Auto-Turrets turning towards the Griffins and Super Battle Droids and began to fire at them.

Griffin Soldier said, bewildered “What the-!?”

They managed to destroy the sentries but lost more than half of their forces.

“Alright, we even the odds now.” I said

I opened the door and Edward came sliding in, guns blazing. He managed to kill them all before we got inside and he blew the steaming coming out of the blaster’s firing hole.

“You had to take all the fun, didn’t you?”

Edward apologized “Sorry.”

I groan and we continued to the next area. We went up a ramp and saw a lab in there. We see a lot of griffin scientists.

“What do we have here? Slaughter them!” I ordered.

We came charging in and they began to run. However, we shot down every one of them and began to look around the place. There were tubes full of some sort of creatures.

“What are they doing here? What are you up to Talon? Adjutant, I want you to scan these creatures, analyze their bio structure or whatever, I want to know what they are.” I said in curiosity

We began to press on, no longer sightseeing the tubes full of weird creature that were in the tubes. We began to leave until we see the door close.

“What the-!?”

Suddenly, a holding cell next to us opened and weird creatures began to charge at us.

“What are those things!?” I demanded.

Edward answered “Does it matter?”

“No. Kill them and destroy the holding structure! That should halt their path!”

We opened fired at both the creatures and the structure. We destroyed it and the waves stopped and we killed off the last creature.

Adjutant said on comm. “Lord Danny, those creatures bio signs match the bio signs of the creatures inside those tubes.”

“So, were they making more of them?”

Adjutant replied “Negative. I’m detecting another bio signature unknown to me. We may find out later, though.”

“Alright, Edward, destroy that door!”

Edward nods and fires his rocket missile at it, destroying it in the process. We began to run out of it and encountered 3 Griffin Soldiers.

1 of the griffin soldiers said in worry “Uh oh… They got out.”

I force choked them and they died. We continue on and we met up with 2 groups of Battle Droids, trying to kill us. We clash them and killed them off with some ease. We go up a ramp and see 2 squads of Battle Droids and Heavy Super Battle Droids. Edward threw a thermal detonator at them and destroy half of their forces. We killed off the other half. We walk through and found another console. I hack into it and see 1 massive battalion of Battle Droids, Super Battle Droids, a few Heavy Super Battle Droids, and some Griffin Soldiers. I looked at the options bar and see 3 choices. I decided to choice option 2) Release 75 Zerglings. The door holding cell opens its doors and those creatures from before came charging through. The door opens and we looked through, see a slaughter. The large battalion was wiped out and were a few more Zerglings. We killed off the Zerglings and made it halfway through the room until we heard machinery moving and see the creatures in the tube from before coming out.

“Oh Celestia, are they cloning those thing?” I asked

Adjutant replied “I believe so.”

“Just WHAT is your plan Talon? Clone an army of mutated creatures to destroy the rebels?”

Edward answered “Well, the deeper we go, the more we get our answers.”

I nodded and we continue heading through the facility. I began to feel the dark presence getting closer. We were getting closer to the disturbance. We entered a hallway and killed the Scientists there and continued. We got deeper and found a Vulture Droid there. I destroyed and we continued and found some Battle Droids. We destroyed them and felt gun fire on us. We took cover and see an AAT firing at us. Edward fired a rocket at it, destroying it. I see a console and hacked it. The Camera showed me everything I needed to know.

“Well, what do we have here? A vehicles bay if you ask me. They got AATs, Vulture Droids, and even some Dwarf Spider Droids.” I said, amazed.

The Camera showed me a new droid in work. The Console labeled it a ‘A.R.E.S.’ and activated it. The War Bot immediately activated and began heading to the Landing Bay. When it arrived, it began to destroy the army in there. After a few minutes, we went inside, seeing a whole wreck. The War Bot was destroyed and so was the forces inside. We travel through it and found another lab with a landing platform outside it. I check the console and found a lab full of soldiers.

“Damn, there are too many. Meta, I need reinforces down here. Bring in 3 squads of Commando Droids. I’ll need them in this fight.” I ordered

A few minutes later, an Imperial Dropship arrived and the Commando Droids went off it and the Dropship left. We proceed into the lab, guns blazing. We killed off the enemy forces and began to advance even further. We found a door and Edward used another missile. The Door destroyed, we began to advance until I got up to the wrecked door when I felt it. It was here. The Darkness was here. I activated my lightsabers.

“Be ready men! The Disturbance is here! Expect anything!” I warned in a dire tone.

We walked in and found some sort of power cell holding some sort of creature inside it. Griffin Soldiers were beginning to shoot at us until I killed them by shocking them to their death. I looked at the creature and grew serious.

“What the hell is it? Some sort of Hybrid?” I asked

Adjutant said “Alert: Power Signature on the creature is massive.”

“At least I now know what I’m up again…”

Edward said “That thing is too strong, even for you.”

Suddenly, the alarm was going off.

Adjutant said “Lord Danny, the power cell is failing. The Creature is getting lose from the containment.”

“How!?” I demanded.

That was when I heard laughter on a speaker. I recognized that laughter. It was Talon’s laughter!

“Talon!!”

Talon replied on the speaker “It’s rather a critical loss that I can’t watch your death Danny. I knew you would feel this thing’s presence, one way or another. But now, it will kill you here and now!”

The lights began to turn red. Suddenly, the spirit of Dooku appeared in front of me.

Dooku said in a grim tone “Danny, run! Run for it!! The Creature is too powerful, even for you!!”

I heeded the words and turned around.

“Retreat to the landing platform!!” I ordered.

We began to run away. Dooku disappeared and we got past the wreck door when the walls fell down and we got through. We looked and see the creature walking towards us and began to destroy the debris.

“Let’s run for it men! Go! Go! GO!!”

We began to run away, heading back up to the landing platform. We ran into some creatures, basically Zerglings. We began to make it half way there until the creature suddenly appeared behind us.

“Holy Celestia!” I shouted when it reappeared.

We didn’t stop running. We managed to make it past some creatures that managed to slow the Hybrid. We saw a squad of Griffin Soldiers fighting off the Zerglings.

Griffin Commander said to his men “Evacuation! Get everyone to the Transport!”

“Transport? That’s our ticket out of here!” I said quietly

We managed to avoid the Griffin Soldiers and they saw the Hybrid and foolishly began to engage it. My team and I managed to make it to the transport, which was an Aurore-class freighter. We got inside, I took the controls of the ship. I began to take off the ship.

“Meta, if you can hear me, don’t shoot down the Aurore-class freighter! That’s us!!” I said in great worry.

We managed to escape.

“Meta, I want you to destroy that place! Fire the nuclear strikes at it!” I ordered direly.

We were half way there when the Merciless fired 2 Nukes at the place, destroying it. I felt the disturbance disappeared. It was now dead, which eased my mind. We boarded the Merciless and began to make our way back to the Mega Factory.