//------------------------------// // Sun Kissed Clones // Story: My little army // by Darth_Pinkie //------------------------------// "Uh... What happened?" Commander Cody said as he got up. He found himself standing in the bridge of the venator Challenger. He heard soft sobbing and then an immediate shriek. "Aaaaaah!" He looked around to see what had made the horrible ear piercing scream, as he turned around nothing prepared him for what he saw, not his combat training, not his medical training, not even his specialized commander training, a deck officer with half of his face severely burnt one of his eyes were reduced to nothing but soup and half his head looked like he took a bath in hot steaming lava from Mustafar. Cody immediately went over to him and tried to calm him down. As he was calming down he began to sob and more of the clones in the bridge started to wake up, and a team of medics came through the turbolift. "Sir, are you all right?" A medic asked Commander Cody, but as Cody began to see better he noticed that some of the men not wearing any armor weren't getting up. "Yeah I'm fine, but are they" Cody pointed one of the charred bodies out to the medic. "No sir, Once Hope had made impact, we were close as well, so most of the officers up front burnt to a crisp, leaving all the armored clones and the few lucky ones at the back alive." The medic said sternly. He surveyed the area and examined the bodies. The bodies theme selves were enough to make even Master Yoda flinch, they were black all over, there eyelids burnt leaving you only to stare at their half melted eyes. He cringed at the sight and felt sorry for his brothers, he knew that casualties were too happen but he never knew that some of his men would be baked alive by a sun and immediately got up and checked if the control panel was still working. He pressed a couple of buttons and the PA system turned on broadcasting to all the ships including his. "Alright, um how do I say this? We've been scorched pretty hard." He said as all the clone troopers removed there helmets to honor the dead. "We lost Hope, they crashed into the star. We will make landfall ETA in half a rotation so everyone gear up! We still gotta lot of dead to clean up and injured to tend to, so we do this for them! Am I clear?" The entire fleet, or what was left of them rang with the cries of the 212th Battalion "Sir, yes sir!". Commander Cody was proud and sad at the same time. He went down to the hangar and gathered the pilots. "Pilots, we are going into uncharted territory. You either expect heavy resistance from Chancellor knows what... Or we may have gotten a kind race out of this entire shit hole Galaxy, so you load up those gunships and tell the others to ready their ARC 170s. Understood?" He got the mandatory reply "Sir, yes sir!". As Cody walked towards an intelligence officer that wasn't injured he pulled him aside and asked what the least damaged ship was in the fleet. "Um, well sir ironically Bad Luck was at the back of the fleet so they sustained almost no damage sir!" He said checking his data pad. "Good, tell the hangar master to prep the pilots for Bad Luck" said Cody already jogging towards an empty gunship. The intelligence officer was making his way into the hangar control room. After opening the sliding doors with a restriction code he told the hangar master to announce the transference of troops to the Acclamator Bad Luck. As Cody was telling Ghost company to get on board the gunships he remembered that they were still in their hangover, but they were already in the gunships so why the hell not! Thought Cody as he heard the hangar master through the PA, after the announcement, the hangar doors opened and the gunships and fighters lined up convoy stile. The trip to the Acclamator wasn't that interesting, although he did see the extensive damage caused by the star that wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. He also saw the massive burning almost completely disintegrated frame of what once used to Hope. A chill went up his spine at the thought of all those clones dying a slow painful death, the clones that were at his command... "Ahem, ladies and clones we are nearing the cruiser now, thank you for flying Gunship Express!" The pilot said jokingly as if trying to cheer up Cody. It didn't work, but as they landed in the hangar, he saw Ghost company immediately jump out without the gunships even touching the deck! "Kriff's sake, I knew they where still drunk either that or they missed the AC that was apparently burnt on all the other cruisers" Cody thought as there gunship touched down and he got of along with Boiler and Waxer.Cody ran all the way up to the ship's bridge and talked with the officer in command."I want this ship in the atmosphere ready to make a quick getaway at a moments notice, understood?" Cody said to the officer. "Sir, yes sir!" The commanding officer said as he went on to tell the other naval officers in the bridge. "Everything was going to go smoothly, he was going to set up an FOB (Forward Operating Base) on the on the outskirts of that in between that forest and the mountains to the north" he thought to himself as he stared at the holo map already preparing his debriefing speech. He made his way down to the hangar and saw Boiler and Waxer engaging in a wrestling match on the floor. Cody made his way through the crowd of spectating clones and stared at the still wrestling brothers. "Ahem." Cody said hoping to catch there attention, but they still weren't listening "Ahem!" he said hoping to stop there wrestling, still didn't work, "Ahem!!!" he was practically shouting by then but they were still not minding him, so Cody grabbed a spare blaster from one of the crates nearby and when Boiler was pinned on the ground by Waxer, Cody shot directly next to his head, giving him the scare of his life that his beard would've jumped of his face if it had the chance. Waxer got up and helped Waxer as well after the traumatic experience. "I think I pissed my pants" Boiler thought as he was pulled up. "You're getting good brother." Waxer complemented as he helped Boiler up. "Nah, I was winning since the start!" Boiler joked as he turned around to be face to face with a very cross Commander Cody "oh shit" thought Boiler as a drop of sweat rolled down his cheek. Back at Coruscant... Commander Apo and Commander Gree were being scolded like younglings by the Chancellor himself "Since you two were so irresponsible, I am removing you two from this very important mission!" Palpatine scolded, but what he didn't know was that they actually didn't want to go on the mission and that they were just acting like it. "You Commander Gree, you will be put in the hands of master Yoda to reinforce kashyyyk!" Palpatine said hoping to disappoint him but instead he just smiled under his helmet "finally" he thought "I get to see some action!". Palpatine had moved to Commander Apo "And as for you, you will be assisting Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi on the planet of Mygeeto, both of you am I understood?" He said as he was preparing to dismiss them "Sir, yes sir!" The two commanders said in unison, both smiling under their helmets at the new missions that they were just given unbeknownst to Chancellor Palpatine. Oh if only Cody was having as much fun as the two.