Star Wars: CT-0292 Vaughn

"Those droids are getting close!" Denal said, looking at a corridor to the right of the ray-shielded door.

"Do you think R3 is going to get that door open anytime soon?" Rex asked and I chuckled, but luckily nobody heard it.

"He's working on it, patience, Captain." Ahsoka said.

"R3 unit is faster my ass." I said and Typho chuckled beside me.

"I can always Hotwire it, sir." Denal said.

"Hurry up, Goldie." Ahsoka said, she needs to stop trusting the droid. Don't know why we didn't just get a new one after Anakin's problems with it.

"I think we've run out of time." Rex said and I nodded to Typho.

"Defensive positions, take positions by the door and walls." I told them and immediately after Denal, Typho and the random began moving.

As I got into position, at the front of the ray-shielded door area.

They opened fire, prompting Rex and Ahsoka to get into cover as well.

Aiming my DC15S, I quickly peaked behind the corner and shot 15 shots in rapid succession, taking out 5 droids.

I went back into cover just in time for R3 to seal the door.

B2's then came into the other corridor.

And Ahsoka was quickly getting overwhelmed.

"Rex, droid poppers now!" Ahsoka shouted.

Rex immediately got into position and threw them at the droids, followed by a procedure warning "Droid poppers"

While Rex was doing that I sprinted from behind cover, and rolled to the closest B1.

There was four of them remaining, standing in a line.

I approached the B1 furthest to the left.

I grabbed his head and joinked it off his body.

However the droid continued to stand, but it stumbled around.

My feet did the work as I danced behind the stumbling droid while firing at the remaining 3, whom had aimed at me.

As 2 of the droids fell, the first droid fell onto the ground and as I came into view of the B1 I shot it.

Making it fall to the ground.

With that we walked into the middle, to chat.

"Permission to popp the droid?" I asked, making Typho and Denal chuckle.

"What!? Why would we kill him." Ahsoka asked.

"He's likely a spy. He gave away Anakin's position in the Starfighter, he just sealed the reactor, he has been trying to get us caught this entire time. He even disappeared for a few seconds, how will we know what he did?" I asked, Ahsoka looked a bit suspicious of R3 but blew it off.

"He's an R3 unit, his memory is cleared every mission. How can he be a spy?" Ahsoka asked.

Just in time for a new set of blaster walls to open.

And in came General fucking Grevious.

I totally forgot he was going to be here, well, ain't that I pain in the ass.

"They sent a child to destroy my station. The Republic must be running out of Jedi." Gracious said while taking out one single blue lightsaber.

"Now ain't that a pain, an evil cyborg with the good guys, lightsaber. Now that isn't going to cause some PR issue." I mumbled to myself, nobody heard it as they focused on Grevious.

We were standing in a circle, Ahsoka in the middle, Rex and me on her right, Typho, Denal and the Random on the left.

"You must be General Grevious." Ahsoka said.

"He's just another Tinny boys, let's scrap him like the rest." Ahsoka said as she prepared to attack him.

"Commander, you have to retreat." I said, and even Grevious whom were about to attack stopped.

"Huh? Why? I can take him!" Ahsoka cried.

"You can't, this guy scrapped 10 fulla-grown Jedi Knights. We can hold him back, you must finish the mission." I said.

Ahsoka looked at us with a conflicted expression.

"Vaughn is right, we'll survive. The mission comes first. Regroup with Anakin, Commander." Rex said.

And with that all 5 of us stepped forward.

Well now I felt emotional.

"Hurry up, Commander. Wouldn't want you to see us handing his ass." I said and with that Ahsoka turned and ran.

"Agh, a smart one. 'cough' 'cough', but she won't be fast enough." Grevious said before running at us.

I immediately opened fire.

My gun was already aimed at Grevious, and 3 shots quickly found their way towards his body.

Grevious was forced to halt his charge to properly block the lasers.

He got shot in the shoulder and was forced to his second blaster out and began spinning them.

But the problem was he couldn't run for some reason.

"Walk backwards, keep the same distance at all times." I said as we began walking backwards at the same pace he was going forward.

After 20 seconds he got angry and charged, 2 of my shots found it's way onto his chest plates.

But none was detrimental to his fighting capability.

And as such he was just a step away from us when he spun his feet around, kicking Denal and Typho to the wall, Rex to the ground.

He also swung his lightsaber towards me and the random.

However I jumped back just in time and avoided the strike.

However I would not let him launch another attack as I stepped into his guard, he sent one lightsaber hand at me but I ducked under it before grabbing my DC15S in a baton grip and smashed his hands, sending one lightsaber flying.

Rolling back from one of his swipe-kicks.

Mid roll I took out my DC17 in my left hand, still holding my DC15S in a baton-grip.

I took out my DC17 and opened fire on his unprotected side.

3 shots hitting rang out across his left arm.

Grevious then spun around and directed the 2 other shots at me.

I rolled to the side barely evading it.

"Ugh, ugh, Republic scum!" Grevious shouted as he picked up the second lightsaber.

However while all of this was happening I was continuously firing laser bolts into his body, leaving black marks.

But as he picked the lightsabers up he began to effortlessly block and redirect my laser back at me.

Which in return forced me to dodge, and I can't fire while rolling.

And as such I reached lightsaber-distance and he slashed both his lightsabers at me in a cross movement.

Aiming to dice me into two.

I barely ducked under his slash, I felt the heat radiating from the lightsaber.

And as I stood up to return fire his right feet claw had found it's mark.

My face.

And with that I was thrown back, my entire body began aching as my helmet fell off.

Although my face was a bit more comfortable without it, a testiment to the uncomfortable Kaminoan Phase-1 Armor.

"You've annoyed me bug. And it was the last thing you did!" He exclaimed before making a downwards slash with his lightsaber.

And as the stick of death were a few centimetres from my face, a green lightsaber activated, blocking it.

"Sorry to interrupt your playtime, Grumpy. But wouldn't you prefer to a challenge?" Ahsoka said, and with that I decided to play unconscious, my eyes closing.

"That wouldn't be you." Grevious said as he began furiously attacking Ahsoka.

As they walked around a corner I heard groaning.

I leaned up just in time to see Rex, Typho and Denal groaning awake.

"Good morning, sunshine's." I said with a chuckle as I stood up and picked up my helmet.

"Ugh, what happened Vaughn?" Rex asked as he slowly stood up.

"You guys got knocked out, I held Grevious alone for like 30 seconds until Ahsoka came and saved all of your asses." I said, my body was still aching.

And my head was ringing.

Rex then contacted Ahsoka and as I got the ringing out of my head.

"Proceed with the mission." Ahsoka said.

"But-" Rex tried.

"That is an order!" Ahsoka said before cutting the connection.

And with that the 4 of us began moving, Denal picked up the explosives on the ground.

And with that we began cutting into the reactor.

Denal hotwiring the blaster doors and ray shield.

And after that we all placed explosives around the reactor. Following that we ran to the hangar, where we would have to meet up.

There Anakin stood, alongside R2 and the pilot.

R3 was also moving towards the blast-door console.

"Where is Ahsoka?" Anakin asked Rex.

"She engaged General Grevious." Rex said and a foul mood laid upon Skywalker.

"Alone!?" Anakin exclaimed.

"We tried to get her to retreat, but she came back, saved my life." I told Anakin, and with that he relaxed a bit.

"I'll bring you to her!" Rex said as we began running to the entrance.

And as the door was closing, I got angry.

I almost got killed, Ahsoka saved me and now we'd help her. This droid has been backstabbing us one to many times.

Turning around in a swift movement I found the droid 30 meters away at the console.

Aiming my DC15S, Anakin saw it.

"Vaughn, no!" Skywalker said, but I've had enough. I opened fire.

7 shots rang out, all of them hitting their mark, 3 in the head and 4 in the main body.

He began malfunctioning, electric escaping his body and as I shot the last bolt he exploded.

"Lieutenant, why did you do that. He is a Republic Droid!?" Anakin said angrily.

"He's obviously not a Republic droid. He went on his own to the control panel and closed the blast doors, he gave away your position which led to all this. You said he activated deadly droids, he actived the Blast-doors, he's been working against us ever since we got here, sabotaging us." I told Anakin, and with that he calmed down before getting angry.

"That Golden bastard." Anakin said while R2 chirped happily and approached me, letting him pat him.

That was a rare occurrence.

"Alright, let's prepare to leave. We've gotta wait for Ahsoka." Anakin said.

"Alright boys, get into the Twilight." Rex said.

"And Rex, trigger the explosives." Anakin said.

"But sir, we're in the station?" Rex spoke.

"Let me worry about the details." Anakin said.

And with that Rex triggered the explosives before moving towards the Twilight.

As everyone got on and we prepared to leave I could Ahsoka's lightsaber cut through the exhaust vent.

"There, is that the Commander?" I asked as she kicked the vent and jumped down.

"Hurry up, snips! Pilot start the engine." Anakin said as Ahsoka began running to us.

Just in time for 4 B2's to enter the hangar and open fire.

Ahsoka jumped on just in time for the pilot to begin flying out.

And as we left the hangar exploded into a few million pieces.

"Good to have you back snips." Anakin said as Ahsoka got on.

"Good to be back." Ahsoka said with a smile.

"Thanks for saving us, Commander." I said, and Denal, Typho and Rex nodded, also thanking Ahsoka.

"You would have done the same." Ahsoka said.

"Nah, cause I don't have a death stick with me." I said as I took of my helmet and we all began chuckling.

Clones didn't reallly full out laugh, don't know why but we've always found it hard to laugh, perhaps a part of our genetic programming. Or just a result of our training on Kamino.