51Hey everyone, enjoying the holidays. This is CT7567Rules coming at you with another part of my lone wolf series. This story will be completely original and may take longer than usual.
I can promise you however that there will be plenty of action, a bit of love between a certain clone and a certain mercenary, revelations of our heroes' past, a lot of action movie material used and my version of a certain power armor we all know and love with some changes here and there. I will accept any ideas of thoughts you readers have for my story and will see if I can squeeze them into my story. Just no lemon material, also if any of you have names and numbers for original clone troopers, send them my way and I can see what I can do.
This story, the first story and the rest of the series are not self-insert stories, this is pure fiction.
With that out of the way, I present the first chapter of Lone Wolf: A Warriors Journey.
Star Wars and all material belong to Disney and Lucas films. I only own my original characters.
Chapter 1: Battle of Alderaan
First person view
"Earth, birth place of humanity. A species capable of great violence and great destruction. From Gettysburg, Sand Creek, Verdun, Gallipoli, Okinawa, Normandy, Stalingrad, the Tet offensive and Fallujah, mankind has fought with great courage and great ruthlessness. For in their quest to protect themselves, humanity has developed many dangerous weapons. From chemical to nuclear, the humans of earth often never question the effects of their actions. But in another galaxy, wars and conflicts often see the intervention of the jedi, a group dedicated to the protection of all living species in the universe. Using conflict as a last resort, jedi are known for being peacekeepers. But that changed when the sith returned and the clone wars began. In this war, I have learned much about the force, the power both jedi and sith use and have began to learn more about myself. But our worlds share a secret past, the jedi have been to earth before."
Normal point of view
April 10th, 2018
0500 hours
Tatooine orbit
High above the desert planet, a GR75 medium transport stayed silent. Docked at many of the airlocks were five Class VI bulk freighters belonging to the Black Sun crime syndicate. The crew of the freighter had intercepted a transmission indicating a possible separatist attack on republic allied planet. Paid by a member of the Trade Federation, one of the supporters of the separatist alliance, the Black Sun had taken the entire crew hostage and was supposed to destroy the ship and the intercepted transmission. Instead, the Black Sun double crossed their client's, contacted the republic and threatened to kill the crew unless they were paid one million unmarked credits in three planetary rotations.
Approaching from the starboard side, a YT-1300 freighter silently docked at one of the portside airlocks and its crew made its way into the bowels of the freighter, silently taking down any black sun goons and droids they came across.
In the main cargo hold, the crew of the ship sat in a containment field, frightened by the mere thought of what the black sun would do to them if they proved to be uncooperative. Outside the field, a Falleen male held one of the crew members, the first mate in a pair of binders and was sending a message to the republic senate. "We had these men for too long." He began as above in the rafters; the crew of the YT freighter began to take up positions on all sides of the cargo hold. "Three days. Too, too long. Someone here must pay, Now. Your senate had time to pay, but its clear that you do not care about your citizens." The member of the black sun went on, as another member a Mandalorian kicked the first mate in the gut causing him to fall down in pain.
"The blood they bleed, IS FOR YOU!" he shouted as he prepared to bring down his Vibrosword on the first mates neck, only to stop when a large duffle bag was thrown to the ground causing the living and droid members of the black sun to raise their blasters to where the bag came from, as red beams pointed towards the sword wielding criminal.
Getting his companions to calm down, the Falleen looked up to the rafters and asked "Who's that?" A second later, a reply came from above. "There's your money, release the hostages." The voice responded revealing the speaker to be a man. "How much?" the criminal asked. "Two" the voice replied as the lights came on and revealed Barney Ross, leader of the expendables and uncle to the Lone wolf, armed with a POF 416 assault rifle with CAA FVG5 folding grip and reflex sight and Gunner Jensen, the groups explosives expert with a HK417 assault rifle with an under-barrel HK M320 grenade launcher and laser sights aimed at the criminals. "Your too late. We want four million unmarked credits." Mandalorian responded as he motioned for a zabrak member to go up and check the rafters for any other intruders.
"Well what do you know a greedy crook." Lee Christmas, the groups sniper and knife thrower said silently over the comlink as Billy Candle, the groups expert pilot, used his knife to kill the black sun member quietly before raising the alarm. Lee kept his HK PSG-1 sniper rifle trained on one of the black sun droids standing nearby the containment field, while Billy, after disposing of the body aimed his HK91 assault rifle, modified to fire .308 rounds at another black sun droid.
On the right rafters, Hale Caesar the groups heavy weapons specialist and Lincoln Clay, the groups scout kept their SIG SG552 assault rifle with under-barrel M26 Shotgun and HK21 GPMG trained on several black sun soldiers with a LS-150 repeater guns. Lincoln cursed under his breath and was tempted to pull the trigger, but decided to wait for the right moment to fire. The last thing he wanted on his mind was knowing he got several innocent people killed for being reckless.
On the rear rafters, waiting for the right moment to repel down and catch the black sun members by surprise, Ray McCall the Expendables medic and close quarters expert and Cassie Cage, the units hand to hand combat expert and only female member attached compensators onto their MP7 and TDI Vector Submachine Guns and waited for Barney's signal to repel down and take out the enemy.
All four groups tapped their commlinks, trying to figure out their next move. Barney just turned his attention back to the black sun goon with the hostage. "Last chance! Take it or leave it." Barney shouted as Gunner loaded a 40mm grenade into the M320 and prepared for the worst. "WE WANT THE MONEY NOW!" the black sun soldier shouted as he prepared to bring his blade down on the first mate. Gunner had enough waiting around and gripped his rifle tight. "Warning shot!" he declared as he aimed his rifle and fired. "NO!" Barney shouted, but surprisingly, Gunners grenade impacted several feet away from the criminal and hostage. "That's just a taste of what you will get. Surrender and no one gets hurt." Gunner exclaimed as Barney let out a collective sigh of relief, he feared he was going to see a repeat of an incident back on earth when Gunner used to be a drug addict, but when Roberts mom was murdered he cleaned himself up for his nephew.
The black sun forces were unimpressed and immediately opened fired on the mercenary's they could see. Taking cover behind several metal barriers, Gunner and Barney tossed two flashbang grenades and two droid poppers, blinding the black sun forces and shutting down their droids just as the lights went down. 'Proxy shut the power down.' Barney thought to himself as he and Gunner put on their night vision googles and repelled down into the cargo hold, followed by the others and began to take out the Black Sun forces one by one.
Gunner fired a burst from his 417 cutting down two black sun soldiers, before he fired another burst of 7.62mm rounds cutting down a third soldier who had gotten a beat on where they were and was about to fire his LS-150. Soon the lights came back on, and Gunner and Barney soon found themselves surrounded by no less than fifty black sun soldiers and droids.
"The two of you made a grave mistake trying to take all of us on." A Trandoshan said as he hissed and aimed his E5 blaster at the two mercenaries. "Now you will die." He added. "Two of us? I think you mean eight of us." Barney said as he Gunner hit the deck as Cassie and the others unleashed a torrent of bullets from the rafters, cutting down the black sun forces in a matter of seconds. Soon all the black sun forces were dead and the hostages safe. "Nice work people." Barney called up to the others in the rafters. "You too Proxy." He added as a blueish gray droid with yellow optics entered the cargo hold and soon deactivated the containment field surrounding the crew of the freighter. "I was glad to be of assistance General Ross." Proxy responded as he exited the cargo hold and made his way back to the Albatross.
"Who's the captain?" Ray asked as he began to tend to the wounded crew members. "Our captain was killed when the Black Sun attacked us." The first mate responded sadly. "I flew with him for nearly ten years and now he is gone." Cassie stepped up and placed her hand on the first mate's shoulders. "We will make sure the transmission you intercepted is brought back to the republic. We will honor your captain." She said.
Once the injured crewmen were treated and the Black Sun freighters detached from the airlocks, the Albatross detached from the freighter, jumped to hyperspace after informing Republic command that the planet the droids were going to invade, was Alderaan.
Alderaan
April 18th
1420 hours
Normal point of view
Alderaan, a planet well known for its devotion to peace and as a longtime member of the republic was under siege.
Eight days ago, Bail Organa, the senator of his people had received word that the separatists were planning an attack on his home world. Know that his people needed him, he returned home and began to organize a coalition to protect his people. Four days later a separatist battle fleet had launched a surprise invasion catching the planet off guard. Not wanting to abandon his people for his own wellbeing, Bail stayed behind and helped defend his home world and became a symbol for the people to rise up against this invasion.
On Coruscant, the senate kept debating on whether to assist Alderaan or let it fend for themselves. A vote was put forward and many senators voted in favor of assisting Alderaan and a large fleet consisting of the 212th, 501st and 104th were dispatched to break the separatist assault of the planet.
As republic cruisers dropped out of hyperspace and began to assault the enemy with a barrage of Turbo Laser fire, fighter and bomber squadrons led by Anakin Skywalker and Plo Koon engaged the droid fighters and provided cover, while Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin's Padawan Ahsoka Tano along with the newest generals of the republic army; the Expendables raced towards the planet with clone troopers ready for battle.
Soaring over the mountains near the capital city, republic gunships speed towards the raging battle while inside clones primed their weapons and prepared for combat as General Kenobi gave out the orders. "Once we land our objective is to defend the capital and push the droid forces back before they capture senator Organa. He is vital to his people and his capture could force his world to join the separatist cause." Obi-Wan explained as enemy anti-aircraft fire began to bracket the gunships.
Two gunships were shot down, killing all those aboard but the remaining gunships pressed forward. "Flak is really heavy." One of the pilots called out as the capital came closer and closer into view.
Soon the formation of gunships arrived at the capital and troopers began to pour out and take up defensive positions along the barriers that the coalition had built. Lincoln, with his MK48 laid down suppressing fire, while Ray, Kix and several other medics pulled the injured coalition forces away from the battle and give them the medical attention they needed.
From a nearby building, Billy with his AEK 971 slung over his back and pair of binoculars called out targets for Lee to take out with his Barret M82. As Lee fired a .50 BMG round at a squad of B1 battle droids, he trained his sights on a squad of super battle droids and fired. The shot penetrated the droids armor it took down another droid behind it. One after another, Lee downed five super battle droids and was about to fire at another squad when battle droids appeared behind the two. As Billy fired his rifle at the droids further back, Lee drew back his fist and punched the first droid in the face with his brass knuckles before grabbing the droid's blaster and gunned them down in an instant. "Got to love the classic's." he said to Billy as he turned to sniping the droids.
Down below, Gunner aimed his MK 153 rocket launcher at an incoming AAT and fired. As the rocket zoomed towards the tank, a battle droid fired at him only for blaster bolt to be deflected back by Obi-Wan as the 83mm rocket impacted the tank, destroying it and taking several nearby battle droids with it. As a MTT crashed through the trees, Gunner fired another rocket at the transport, impacting just as the transport began to deploy its complement of battle droids.
Nearby, Bail fired his DH-17 at a group of approaching droids. As a nearby soldier fell to blaster fire, Bail kept firing his pistol at the approaching droids, using short controlled bursts to keep his blaster from overheating. He had downed another droid, when a B2-HA super battle droid fired its rocket launcher, exploding a few feet away from the senator but knocked him back hard. As the droids prepared to apprehend the senator, a whirring sound was heard from behind. Bail turned his head and saw Hale Caesar wielding a Z-6 rotary blaster cannon with a power pack on his back, sprayed bolts of blue particles, cutting the droids down and saving the senator. "GE134 or Z6, these bitches will solve all your problems." He said to himself as he helped Bail back to his feet and continued to fire as the two made their way back further into the town.
Further back in town on the right flank, Cassie fired her HK XM29's grenade launcher at a group of approaching destroyer droids. As she reloaded her weapons launcher she spotted a group of commando droids heading for the artillery cannons that were just dropped off. Slapping her grenade launchers magazine into place, she charged towards the droids firing short controlled bursts of 5.56mm rounds at the enemy, taking them down before they knew what hit them. During her charge, she failed to notice the commando droid behind her. The droid used its Vibroblade to knock her rifle out of her hands and kicked her in the gut, knocking her to the ground. As the droid prepared to bring its blade down on her neck, a blue and white helmet hit the droids head, getting its attention before being gunned down by several bursts of blaster fire. Cassie turned and saw her savior was Rex. "You alright general?" Rex asked as he picked up his helmet and placed it back on his head. "I'm fine." Cassie replied as she picked up her rifle, trying to hide the fact that she had just blushed after seeing Rex's face. The sound of an artillery salvo brought her back to reality as the two made their way back to the cannons and began to give the droids some more damage.
On the left flank, Barney spotted several approaching Trade Federation dropships coming in for a landing as Hyena bombers flew over head and headed for the AV-7 cannons and SPHA walkers that were hammering the advancing enemy armor. As he fired his twin Kimber Gold pistols at the approaching battle droids, the sound of a pair of twin vectored thrusters filled the air as he looked up and spotted the Azura Angel flying in from 11o'clock high, firing its four wing mounted laser cannons at the Hyena formation, destroying them seconds before they could drop their payload. "Kids a good pilot." Barney said to himself as he holstered his pistols, unslung his N4 Diplomat and fired a burst of rifle fire at an approaching B2 battle droid.
From the cockpit of his fighter, the Lone Wolf spotted a group of enemy dropships attempting to land three clicks away from the town where the fight was occurring. Turning hard left, Robert's targeting computer beeped, confirming he had a missile lock on the dropships. "Fox 1, Fox 1." He called out as he fired a salvo of eight proton torpedoes at the dropships knocking out their shields. "Enemy big rigs are vulnerable. Slingshot, Silverbolt, Skydive, Fireflight, Air Raid you are clear to engage." He called over the com channel as he pulled out of his run and began to chase after a squad of vulture droids that were attempting to strafe the artillery.
As he fired his four cannons at the fighters, he nearly rammed one of the fighters from behind, reduced his speed and fired a three second burst sending the droid fighter hurtling to the ground below just as the two dropships exploded off his left side. "We have the airspace locked down sergeant. You need to get down and help the ground forces." Anakin called over the comlink. "Roger that. R4, open the canopy." Robert replied as R4-M8, his copilot and partner opened his fighter's cockpit before jumping out of his fighter and began to free fall to the battle below.
As he plummeted towards the ground below, Robert began to think about the recent events that transpired after the battle of Nod Kartha. For nearly a month, he helped his aunt and uncles adjust to the new world they were in. It was difficult at first, but soon the Expendables knew everything they needed to know. He watched as Master Plo and Anakin taught them how fly a starfighter and was amazed at the skills of his family, like him they all had flying in their blood.
As they were mercenaries, there was of course some distrust from higher ranking republic military officials. To many mercenaries are driven by one thing; money, but thanks to the support from Admirals Killian and Yularen, the Expendables soon gained the trust of the republic command but there were still a few who didn't trust them.
Being made generals in the army, Robert remembered Barney's promise to the jedi order that they would fight till their last breath for the freedom of the galaxy. "Barney and the others will never go back on their word." Robert thought to himself, as he landed on a vulture droid that was below his fall. Pulling out his twin lightsabers, Robert jumped off the right side and slashed at its wing, sending the fighter into a death spiral before he deactivated his sabers and continued to fall to the ground. "Ground forces, I am on the scene. Have my order ready for pick-up." He called over the comlink as he slowed his decent with the force and landed in the scorched forest, before speeding over to the battle.
Cassie heard Robert over the comlink and motioned for a trooper to bring up the weapons he called his 'order'. Robert had request a FN-SCAR-H with a M68 Aimpoint scope, Grippod foregrip and forty-five round magazine and a M249 SAW with a holographic sight, synthetic stock, handguard and two hundred round drum magazine to be ready incase he was needed on the ground.
As the clone brought the weapons over, a Hailfire tank exploded as Robert, deflecting enemy fire ran forward towards the republic lines and hunkered down behind the barrier Cassie was using for cover. "Sorry I am late, traffic was murder." He said as he pulled his weapons and ammo over to him with the force and began to unleash hell on the droid forces. A burst of 7.62x51mm rifle fire from his SCAR-H downed an approaching Super Battle droid that was about to fire its arm mounted rocket launcher at their position, and then snapped his sights to another SBD and fired two three round bursts downing a second droid before downing two B1 battle droids with a full-auto burst emptying his current magazine.
As he reloaded his rifle, he spotted three platoons of battle droids flanking left heading towards Ahsoka's position ahead of Barney and his groups location. "Rabid dogs making a dash for a mother and her pups on the right." Robert said to his aunt who had just finished reloading her rifle and lobbed a M67 grenade at an approaching squad of B1 battle droids. "Permission to put them down?" he asked. "Permission granted." Cassie said as Robert sprinted left and made his way to Ahsoka's position.
In the rubble of one of the buildings, Ahsoka and two of her five squads had set up a rocket position and were about to target a group of approaching AATs' when the sound of E5 blaster fire broken her concentration. The enemy platoons had managed to catch them by surprise and began to fire. As quick as she could, she brought up her saber and began to deflect the droids fire back at them while her men prepared to fire their launchers at the enemy tanks. One of the troopers was killed by a stray shot from one of the droids and was unable to fire his launcher. As more and more of her men were killed, the sound of machine gun fire from behind caught the droids off guard as they were mowed down by an entire magazine from Roberts SAW.
Pulling back the slide and loading up a new magazine, Robert quickly dived into the remains of the building and took cover behind a partially destroyed wall. "You ok Snips?" Robert asked Ahsoka as he bent down and retrieved the fallen rocket launcher. "Very funny. The tinnies caught us by surprise and were able to divert our focus away from the tanks." Ahsoka replied as she picked up another fallen rocket launcher. "Well at least they didn't kill you and the rest of your men." Robert said as he fired his launcher at one of the two remaining AAT's, destroying it just as Ahsoka fired her launcher and destroyed the last tank.
Discarding the launcher, Robert took out his SCAR-H and fired at an approaching group of STAP's coming in from five o'clock high destroying four of them and sending the fifth one crashing down only a few inches away from him and Ahsoka. As he targeted another squad of droids, he spotted a green and white tactical droid on a Flitknot speeder bike attempting to flee the battle.
Slinging his SCAR-H over his shoulder, Robert used the force to flip a nearby fallen 74-Z speeder biker upright and primed its engines. "We got a runner fleeing the battle. I will pursue it; the battle is almost over." Robert called out to Ahsoka. She nodded and Robert soon sped away after the tactical droid.
Traveling at 360 to 500 kilometers per hour is good for recon patrols, but trying to stay at top speed when one is traveling through a burning forest with artillery fire raining down on retreating forces is something only a crazy person would do. Fortunately for Robert, he likes crazy, but this took the cake. Any wrong move or turn he would make would be his last, so he had no room for error in his chase.
A few feet ahead, he spotted a pair of STAP's heading back towards the enemy landing zone. Pushing his speeders speed to 375 kilometers per hour, Robert closed the gap between him and the STAP's and fired a burst of bright blue blaster bolts from his speeders Ax-20 blaster cannon, downing the STAP's in a matter of seconds. He then noticed blaster bolts coming from behind, turning his head back he realized he had picked up two STAP's on his tail.
Using the one of the foot petals on both the left and right of his speeder, Robert reduced his speed and drifted back behind the enemy aerial platforms and fired a barrage of cannon fire at the STAP on the left, damaging its controls and sending it colliding with the one on the right. "Droids may be programed, but having a living being behind one of these beast's is what makes them less advanced then a living pilot." He said to himself as pushed his speeder to 450 kilometers per hour and barely missed slamming into one of the tree's that was pushed over by a destroyed MTT transport.
Soon he the tactical droid in his sights, leaving the forest and making its way toward a Sheathipede-class transport shuttle. "If that droid gets on the shuttle we will lose any intel it might be carrying in its memory banks." Robert exclaimed as he pushed his speeder to 500 kilometers per hour and was soon on the tactical droid's right flank. No sooner had he caught up to the droid, the shuttle explodes as soaring above the wreckage was Anakin. Sending a two-figure salute, Robert caught up with the droid and turned his head towards the droid.
"PULL OVER!" Robert shouted, but the droid didn't pull over, instead he used his speeder and tried to ram Robert into a nearby boulder. Reducing his speed and getting on the droids left flank, Robert avoided the boulder and brought out his blue saber. Slicing the back of the speeder, the droid fell off the speeder and landed in a puddle of mud from the previous rain fall the other day. As he brought his speeder to a stop, several gunships arrived and began to search the shuttle remains for any surviving droids as Robert made his way over to the damaged tactical droid and rejoined his family and comrades. "Punk-ass droids." Gunner said as he spat on the wrecked speeder. "Any last words before you lose power?" Robert asked the droid.
The droid just looked up to his would-be captors before he spoke. "This is not over yet. The separatists will destroy you and your elite unit." The droid said as his sensors flickered on and off due to the extensive damage. "That doesn't sound good." Rex said as he came up with several more of his brothers. "Not today." Robert said, as the droid shut down, never to be leading another attack again.
"Looks like the separatists will be going after you and your family." Anakin said as two 501st troopers took the tactical droid to a gunship ready for transport. "Whatever they are planning, it won't be enough to stop us." Robert said as he looked up towards the republic relief ships arriving to assist Senator Organa in rebuilding his homeworld.
Unbeknownst to any of them, in his secret lair on Coruscant Darth Sidious began to hatch a new plan. A plan that he believed would turn the only known user of Shining Finger to his side and aid him in his goal of destroying the Jedi order.
And that wraps up the first chapter of my second story in my Lonewolf series. For those who have played the force unleashed games, since I am going to have the empire not come into power I had Robert build Proxy as a means to help train him in lightsaber combat against future opponents, like Grievous and Ventress.
Darth Sidious has his sights set on Robert, but what is his plan and what will it detail. Stay tuned for the next chapter of a warrior's journey.
Next time, an evil plan is hatched, Boba is released from prison and begins a new chapter of his life. Remember to rate and view and I hope you all stay warm during the cold snap wherever you guys live and happy new year.
