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Zeshaun (Vehicle Pilot)

October 4, 2008 9:46:03 PM

OOC:: PVT Zeshuan
Vehicle Crewman
Level 1: Basic Operations
story 1:Vehicle Operator

Zeshaun got up from his bunk and looked over at his pearly white stormtrooper armor sitting at the foot of his bed. He was so proud that he made it through basic training. Although it was a small step it was a step toward repaying his life debt. Zeshaun got dressed in the uniform that was supplied. He was disappointed that he was specifically instructed to not wear his armor. Zeshaun made it to class with 10 minutes to spare. He took a seat in the back and watched his classmates as they filed in. He noticed that he was one of the few non-humans in the room. There was a low hum of conversations but all conversations stopped when a woman in a black officer's uniform stepped into the room. The women stepped into the middle of the room.

"Attention, just because you passed basic training doesn’t mean you are troopers yet. You must prove yourselves useful." The women started to pace back and forth between the rows of seats.

"I am Cpl. Creight. I know you are the smart group, vehicle pilots are one of the most important jobs in the Empire." She pointed a remote at the holoprojector in the room.

A hologram of an AT-ST rose. "You will all start by completing the mission provided to you in an AT-ST. The simulator room is across the hallway." Cpl. Creight smiled. "Let’s move". The class filed out of the room.

Zeshaun was assigned to a simulation pod right next to Cpl. Creight. Zeshaun put on the helmet provided and started up the engine. Cpl. Creight’s voice came in over the comm.

"I will be observing you through links in your helmet, when and if you get destroyed your simulator pod will open up and you will wait for everyone else to finish. Good luck."

With that the screen brightened and he saw his surroundings. He was in a large forest, a variety of vehicles and squads around. A clear voice came over the intercomm,

"Learn your way around the controls don’t be afraid to try things out, you have reinforced shields so you could take a broad side from and intredictor cruiser and you wouldn’t be blown to pieces."

Zeshaun looked down at the controls; there were so many buttons and levers he didn’t know where to start. Zeshaun grabbed the big joystick that seemed to be how to move and pushed it forward. The AT-ST lurched forward. Zeshaun let out a sigh and wiped sweat from his forehead.

"At least I’m not a sitting duck anymore." Zeshaun had some previous experience with speeders and frigates but not much with ground transports.

Luckily he has used some things like it. Zeshaun moved the AT-ST toward a group of rebels he saw taking cover behind a log. He started to press a sequence of buttons that should have brought up the targeting screen, nothing happened. The rebels noticed the large vehicle and revealed an E-web mounted blaster. Zeshaun felt a wave of fear come over him. He started pressing buttons randomly trying as hard as he could to get the weapons to come up. After pushing almost every single button in front of Zeshaun the target system came up. Zeshaun sprayed the whole area with laser fire and hoped to hit his targets. When the smoke cleared he saw the E-web was melted and charred bodies were scattered. Zeshaun calmed down and started moving again. He was rocked sideways when a large impact hit his shields from his left. Zeshaun turned his AT-ST toward the origin of the explosion. He saw a rebel soldier reloading a large rocket launcher, Zeshaun repressed the feeling of butterflies in his stomach and quickly targeted the area of the soldier. He rapidly pressed down the trigger hoping the lasers reached before the man could launch his rocket. They burned a crater into the ground where the soldier stood. When Zeshaun turned to head back toward the main battle he felt another rock from behind him this time. He quickly turned and saw a whole group of rocket launcher holding soldiers. Zeshaun knew he was done but he held down the trigger and pointed toward the soldiers. He saw at least 3 of the rockets launch, They smashed onto the shield enveloping him in a cloud of dust. Zeshaun out of pure fear started to charge forward, a leg caught on a fallen tree and Zeshaun felt the machine jolt forward. He fell and the screen went blank.

The pod ceiling opened up and the bright light made Zeshaun flinch. He stepped out and stretched his legs. From the start Zeshaun was afraid he would be the first one out but it seemed he was in the later half. Students were already getting together and talking about what happened in their simulation. Zeshaun slowly made his way over to a group of 1 male and 2 females.

"Did any of you face 6 rocket launchers?" Zeshaun tried to break the ice with things from the simulation.

The 3 people looked Zeshaun up and down; they all seemed pretty surprised to see a non-human in their class. The male seemed to recover the fastest.

"No, but I faced another AT-ST, it was a pain to take it out but then a whole platoon of soldiers arrived and I was taken out by them."

"Wow" Zeshaun knew that look that he got from them.

They didn’t accept that the Empire has started reaching out toward the alien species. He went and sat down on a bench and dozed off as he waited for the rest of the class to finish. He awoke to a sharp pain on his cheek. When he opened his eyes he realized Cpl. Creight was hitting him. He started to shield himself but then the hitting stopped. "That will teach anyone to doze off in my class." Cpl. Creight walked off and went to the front of the room. Zeshaun was so embarrassed that he couldn’t look up to see what was going on. He felt like he could die, he just lessened his chances of becoming a part of the Empire. If he fails he will not know another way to pay off his life debt. "After watching al of your simulations I see that most of you need help with moving your vehicle. Since that’s the case next class will be all about moving your vehicle over all terrain’s and under all conditions." When Zeshaun heard that his spirit rose slightly. He was actually good at that kind of thing. He would have to prove himself next class.

COMMENTS: I like it...just be careful of the terms you are using. Ex: Women --> woman (there is more than that instance). Good Work!

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RE: Zeshaun (Vehicle Pilot)

October 5, 2008 4:22:58 PM

OOC:: PFC Zeshaun
Vehicle Crewman
Level 1: Basic Operation
Story 2: Navigation

Zashaun walked into the class and noticed there was a buzz of conversations around the room. He took his usual seat in the back of the room and sat down to wait for Cpl. Creight. Zashaun felt a tap on his shoulder and he quickly spun around to see a tall woman with brown hair going half way down her back. She could only be about 16 or 17. Zashaun hadn’t had many interactions with humans much less with a female.

Zeshaun Stuttered "Yyyes? Can I help you?"

The women smiled "Did you hear? People are saying that Cpl. Creight will be taking us outside and she has a real AT-ST for us to train in today."

Zeshaun cocked his head. "Really… Thanks for telling me."

"I’m Jenna by the way." The women reached out her hand.

"I’m Zeshaun." Zeshaun reached out and shook her hand. "Nice to meet you."

Jenna walked off and rejoined her group of friends over in the other corner. Zeshaun was happy to know that there were still people who appreciated aliens in the Empire. Cpl. Creight stepped through the doorway and confirmed the rumors. They were going to go outside today and actually practice in the surrounding fields and mountains.

"Remember, this is the real thing, don’t try anything risky unless you’re sure you can accomplish it. These things are cheap and if you damage it you will repair it and pay for the cost." With that Cpl. Creight never even entered the room and left out the door. The class quickly got up and ran to catch up with her.

Zeshaun stepped out into the warm air. He liked the outdoors it was his natural habitat. He sniffed the air and he thought he caught the scent of a wookie, but it was so feint that he wasn’t sure. Zeshaun was tempted to go look for and kill it but right now he didn’t have time. He turned the corner and two large machines confronted him. It towered over him. Zeshaun let out a gasp. This was it, the AT-ST’s.

"This will be the vehicle that you will be piloting today. No need to shoot your gun so don’t even bother to turn them on. This will just be a simple obstacle course set up by the droids. There will be a reward for the fastest pair through."

A tall skinny man with a sharp chin raised his hand, "You said as a pair. Will we be competing or working together?"

Cpl. Creight turned toward the AT-ST’s. "You will be working together, if one of you doesn’t make it you both fail and will not be permitted to advance. Teamwork is crucial even in piloting vehicles. Also, the course can not be seen from here and anyone who has already gone through is sworn to secrecy about what is on the course." She became very serious; "Anyone that reveals what is on the course will immediately fail the class and will be dropped. I wouldn’t suggest testing me."

"Now the fist pair is Jenna and Grant." Cpl. Creight pointed to them and they went up to enter the two AT-ST’s.

Zeshaun looked up; Jenna was the girl who talked to him this morning. He hoped she did well.

"Ready, go!" Cpl. Creight started the timer.

The two machines went off toward the woods. The rest of the class eagerly waited for the two to return. The seconds ticked by like hours. Zeshaun was starting to feel nervous, "What if they don’t make it?" but just as he was thinking that the two machines came blasting out through the woods.

Cpl. Creight turned toward the class. "The next pair is Zeshaun and Perry." The man that raised his hand before stepped forward. He didn’t even look toward Zeshaun.

Zeshaun stepped up into his AT-ST and ran the check on all the systems. He spent much of the night looking up how to use the AT-ST so that he would do better.

"Ready, go!" a voice in his helmet shouted.

He pushed his joystick forward to start. He saw Perry sprinting ahead of him. "Perry slow down we don’t know what we’re going to encounter." Perry didn’t even answer him and didn’t slow down. Zeshaun let out a sigh and pushed his joystick forward. They entered the woods and Zeshaun saw Perry charging forward. "Perry stop! We need to stay together." No response.

Zeshaun was getting angry, he knew it had to be because he wasn’t human. He did his best to keep up with Perry but he just couldn’t. About half way through he completely lost track of him. Zeshaun just kept moving forward. Suddenly he caught something in the corner of his eye; an AT-ST rammed him in the side. Zeshaun used all his might to keep from falling over.

"That should teach you filth to stay out of our academies." Perry’s voice came in over the intercomm.

Zeshaun got himself upright but Perry was already gone. Zeshaun angrily rushed through the rest of the obstacle course with extreme precision. His adrenaline must have tuned his senses. He ran into some difficulties when he had to wade through deep water. the water came up over the legs of the AT-ST and slowed his movement. He really had to concentrate to make sure he didn't unbalance himself and fall into the water. When he came out he was still wet and stepped into a some mud. He saw that it went all uphill.
Zeshaun let out a sigh, this was not going to be easy. He changed all power from shields and weapons to the legs and pressed hard on the joystick. Zeshaun made it up the hill slipping only once or twice. Zeshaun ran out from the woods and into the field and saw the rest of the class and the other AT-ST.

Zeshaun parked and shut down his AT-ST and jumped out of it. He quickly walked over to Perry who had a dumb smirk on his face and Zeshaun punched him hard in the stomach. Perry bent over and curled up into a ball on the ground. Zeshaun kept punching him hard while he was on the ground. It took half the class to restrain him.

"You filthy animal, how dare you hit me." Perry wiped blood from his forehead.

"I could say the same to you." Zeshaun lashed out, causing the class to restrain him harder.

Cpl. Creight walked over. Both Zeshaun and Perry snapped to attention. "Why shouldn’t I drop both of you from my class and have you arrested." She hissed out from between clenched teeth.

"Cpl., Pvt. Perry rammed me half way through the course and followed with insults against me." Zeshaun barked, he had to restrain himself from using more violent words.

Cpl. Creight looked over at Perry "Do you have anything to say."

"Filth like Zeshaun should not be allowed in our presence." Perry gave Zeshaun a dirty look.

"Pvt. Perry please leave this class and never show me your face again. Pvt. Zeshaun please wait in my office so that I may speak with you after class."

Perry and Zeshaun walked off in different directions.

Zeshaun waited an hour before Cpl. Creight walked into her office. She sat down.

"Pvt. Adunway, I’m surprised by your skill at maneuvering a vehicle. If we cut out the time it took you to recover from the hit you took you completed in record time." Cpl. Creight smiled and looked at Zeshaun.

"I don’t know what to say Cpl. I’m honored." Zeshaun was stunned.

"I’m putting in a request for you to move up to a more advanced class about manning guns and turrets on vehicles, but I need you to choose a type of vehicle you like to drive, it doesn’t have to be the walkers." Cpl. Creight started typing on her computer but stopped to look at Zeshaun, waiting for an answer.

"I don’t know what to say. I think I have the most experience with the walkers so I think I’ll stick with that. Thank you very much" Zeshaun reached out his hand.

"Good luck Private." Cpl. Creight shook his hand then gave a crisp salute.

Zeshaun saluted back and returned to his room, in a very good mood.

COMMENTS: I have to go ahead and say the same with this one. Watch your wording....

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RE: Zeshaun (Vehicle Pilot)

October 15, 2008 6:38:57 PM

OOC:: PFC Zeshaun
Vehicle Crewman
Lvel 3 Laser/Blaster Gunnery
Part 1 of 4: AT-AT

Zeshaun walked down a hall filled with bustling new stormtroopers like himself. 349, 350, 351 ... ah 352. Zeshaun looked down at his datapad to check to see if he got the right room then entered. The door made a hissing noise as it slid open and everyone turned toward Zeshaun as he entered the room.

The student in this room seemed to be less green than in his previous class and Zeshaun would bet money that he was the newest one here. As he walked toward the back of the room to find a seat he swept the room with his eyes. Zeshaun's eyes suddenly fell on a familiar face.

Jenna was sitting near the back by herself looking rather uncomfortable. Zeshaun walked over and sat down next to her.

"Hi." Zeshaun nervously said.

Jenna's face lit up when she saw Zeshaun. "Hi Zeshaun, I was afraid I would be the only one from our level to be here but I guess not."

"Yeah, I guess not." Zeshaun said, he tried to quickly think of something to say so that they didn't fall into an awkward silence but a tall man walked through the door.

He was younger than Cpl. Creight but only by about 5 or 6 years. His hair was jet black and slicked back. The officer had a sharp jaw.

"Welcome to all new and returning students. I am Major Kidd your instructor for this course." He gave a nod to a man that stood next to him, "this is Sergeant Temsyr, he will be acting as a helper when I'm not available."

Major Kidd took out a datapad and starting to tap it, "We will be covering the use and abuse of manning the guns and becoming a proficient gunner."

"First we will teach you to be quick and deadly. Our first classes will be teaching you to be proficient with an AT-AT or an all terrain armored transport. They are the most deadly ground vehicles that the Empire owns." Major Kidd pointed to a holo in the center of the room. "Now here's the fun part, there will be a test at the end of this section to show that you were paying attention through my lectures and holos instead of watching whatever you kids watch these days."

This drew some chuckles from the class. The class started to get up and walk toward the door.

"What makes you think that I'm done with you?" Major Kidd signaled for everyone to sit down. "I'm giving the lecture on the all terrain armored transport today, sit tight and listen close."

The class groaned and made their way back to their seats.

"Now lets look at the controls and weapon targeting systems..." Major Kidd started to talk Zeshaun concentrated on every word determined to distinguish himself from the rest of the class at the exam.

"the AT-AT as I said before is the most powerful ground vehicle in the arsenal of the Empire. You will learn to become proficient with the lasers on it. For your exam you will go through a simulation, you may have heard of it, it’s the Battle of Hoth." Major Kidd started pacing.

Zeshaun let out a whistle, this was going to be fun.

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>3 weeks later<

Zeshaun walked into the simulation room and sat down. He looked around and saw Jenna already talking to her new friends and discussing some tactics.

"Alright kids let’s do this. Everyone get into your simulation pods and the best of luck. Just to let you all know no one has ever beaten this scenario before, but you know that." Major Kidd’s voice trailed off as the simulation pod closed.

alright let’s do this. Zeshaun thought to himself.

He was almost blinded by the bright snow and the blaster fire already flying. Zeshaun checked his sensors. He already saw that the speeders were on their way over to them and they had to move fast.

Zeshaun could see the shield generators on the sensors. He immediately moved toward them. His forward shields took a large amount of laser fire from the turrets and rocket launchers. Zeshaun didn’t miss a beat and turned the head ninety degrees to target the soldiers and turrets. He let out a million tons of lasers and poured it into the trenches.

He saw soldiers running as the turrets started melting and bursting into flames. Zeshaun did a little fist-pump and moved on toward the target.

He made the blasters so that his heavy laser cannons would fire without the medium blasters. He held down the trigger and saw the lasers splashing against the shields of the generators. He saw the shields ripple and slowly the shields faded. He linked all four blasters together and fired away. The shield generator exploded in a brilliant flash of light.

Zeshaun yelled "Yahoo!" He turned back toward the second generator which was located on the other side of the base. He turned the whole vehicle one-hundred and eighty degrees. He pushed down on the throttle as hard as he could. After watching the other simluators attempts he had seen far to many AT-AT’s go down as they crossed the battlefield.

He let of a couple spurts of laser fire on the turrets to make them think twice about firing on him. His shield started to go down as the turrets fired. He aimed his lasers on the line of turrets and fired. They exploded and sent soldiers flying.

Zeshaun had the next generators in sight, they weren’t in range yet but he started firing so that he could hit them at maximum range. He saw the lasers hitting the shields but they weren’t wavering. Turret fire poured on his rear shields and he felt a jolt as he got some warning banners come up on his screen.

"Sithspit.’ Zeshaun said as he tried to get the banners to go away.

Zeshaun could smell a bit of smoke. He advanced and put more power into his lasers. He knew it was going to be a race. Who could destroy their target first. Zeshaun saw the shields falter for a second and he put more power into the lasers. He was down to nearly no shields and the armor, although sufficient, could not take a barrage of laser fire. Zeshaun finally broke through the shields and left a smouldering crater where the shield generator was but then his screen was filled with warning.

The shields were gone and his engines were gone. He was a sitting duck. The turrets kept up the laser fire and suddenly he felt the heat of a large explosion. The cover came up and he was sitting in the room again.

After a couple of minutes Major Kidd called everyone over. "I’m happy to report that everyone did very well and you all passed. Although I would like to make a few points good and bad about some people."

Major Kidd turned toward Zeshaun. "You were the only one to destroy two shield generators, I congratulate you." Zeshaun got a couple pats on the back. "But you left all your troops in your transport to perish along with you because you had to win, work on that."

Zeshaun nodded.

"Make sure you are ready to listen to some more lectures tomorrow." Major Kidd left the room and dismissed the class.

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RE: Zeshaun (Vehicle Pilot)

October 20, 2008 7:55:30 PM

OOC:: LCPL Zeshaun
Level 3: Laser/Blaster Gunnery
Story 2 of 4: AT-RT

Zeshaun came into class and saw that Major Kidd was already there, Zeshaun checked the clock and saw that there was still 10 minutes left before class officially begun. He made his way to his usual seat in the back of the room and waited. Major Kidd sat down behind his desk and Sergeant Temsyr took to the front of the class.

"Boys and girls," Zeshaun chuckled because he was only about 2 or 3 years older than Sgt. Temsyr. "I will be teaching the class today because Major Kidd has lost his voice."

The class chuckled. They knew that he probably lost it yelling at the newbies coming into the academy. He didn’t look up from the paper work that he was working on.

"I will be giving a lecture today on All Terrain Recon Transport, better known as the AT-RT. I know that they are a little outdated and they aren’t used so much anymore but they can be very helpful in a situation." Sgt. Temsyr tapped on his datacard.

Zeshaun sat forward in his desk. He had fought in a AT-RT before when he was a mercenary. He would learn to master the machine and then he would come out on top of the class.

"Now, the AT-RT doesn’t have a covered cockpit so you are very prone to sniper fire. The good visibility does partly make up for it. Also, it has repeating blaster cannon and a mortar launcher which makes it very easy to take out platoons of soldiers at a time." Sgt. Temsyr looked up to make sure everyone was following along.

"I hope you are all paying attention, we will be having a simulation test at the end of the week." Sgt. Temsyr went on with his lecture. For the next week all Zeshaun heard was Sgt. Temsyr’s voice going on and on.

*************************ONE WEEK LATER*****************************

Zeshaun was once again in a simulation pod, right next to the one he had been in during the last exam.

"Good luck." Major Kidd had gotten his voice back and seemed excited to watch the class.

The screen turned black then brightened again. They were in a open field with almost no trees around for miles. That’s good, no sniper fire from above.. He looked around to see what was going on.

He saw that he was facing a formable force of rebels advancing on their position.

"This will be the last wave we can take, we are going to charge them, hopefully this AT-RT will scare them off." A commanding voice said.

Zeshaun looked behind him and saw he had about 3 squads of men behind him looking rather beat up. He saw the commander give the order to leave the trenches they were hiding in and charge, all the men came flowing out and charged the far superior rebel force.

The rebels stood shocked for a moment but instantly fired back, men started getting mowed down.

Zeshaun snapped at the sight of his comrades getting slaughtered. He switched over to the mortar launchers, he moved forward with the others and started launching mortars as fast as he could. Explosions sent rebels flying in the air and they were taking second guesses about advancing on the charging stormtroopers.

Zeshaun switched back over to the laser cannons and started to strafe the remaining rebel forces. They immediately saw that all their troubles were coming from, a bunch of laser fired poured toward Zeshaun.

He started running around back and forth as fast as he could. Trying to avoid as much damage as possible. Zeshaun wasn’t used to having no shields and he took some damage. On his scanner a sign showed that his armor was getting very thin.

"Damn it all." Zeshaun pushed forward and charged the remaining rebel forces.

He heard some cheers from behind him and the other remaining stormtroopers raced after the vehicle. Zeshaun let wave after wave of laser bolts out from his AT-RT. The rebels held together for a couple of minutes before breaking up and retreating. The stormtroopers were on top of them in minutes.

The screen went black again. The room came back into focus Major Kidd approached Zeshaun as he got out of the simulation pod.

"Congratulations, you have successfully passed on the exam and with flying colors." Major Kidd walked away. Zeshaun was in such a good mood that he decided he would go down and celebrate at the on campus cantina.

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RE: Zeshaun (Vehicle Pilot)

November 11, 2008 8:44:08 PM

OOC:: Lance Corporal Zeshaun
Level 3 Laser/Blaster Gunnery
Story 3 of 4 AT-ST

Zeshaun stepped into the classroom after the long weekend given by Major Kidd because everyone had passed the exam. Zeshaun had slept through most of the long weekend and played a few games of down at the cantina. Zeshaun took a seat in his normal spot. It seemed most of the class was finally used to having a trandoshan in their class and had opened up to Zeshaun a little. All conversation stopped when the door slid open.

"Welcome back from your well deserved long break." Major Kidd said walking into the room with a smile.

Something was different. Then Zeshaun noticed that Sgt. Temsyr was not with him.

Someone raised their hand, "Where’s Sgt. Temsyr, sir?" he asked.

"Sgt. Temsyr has successfully passed his exam as well and will not be helping me any longer, if you see him in the halls be sure to congratulate him." Major Kidd said not even looking up from his papaer.

"Today we will be learning how to use the most common AT-ST." the class groaned. "I know, I know everyone already knows how to use one right?" Major Kidd looked up from his desk. The class all nodded laughing.

"Well be prepared to be knocked off your chairs. You will learn to pilot one with an open cockpit. It was one of the first models used during the clone wars." The classes eyes opened up wide.

"During your test you must also protect your pilot as well or else you will fail the test, without your pilot you are nothing." Major Kidd stood and walked over to the holoprojector. "Have fun learning a bunch of new tactics before the exam comes up."

"Oh yeah, the exam is in two weeks." Major Kidd said walking back to his desk, the class let out a loud groan "I have sent you all the specifics of the AT-ST and some nifty maneuvers, get to work."

Zeshaun got up from his seat and went to Major Kidd’s desk. "Are the simulators open sir?" he asked, the Major nodded.

Zeshaun left the room to go spend the next 2 hours in the cockpit of a simulator, going over the maneuvers until they were pressed into his brain. When he got there, a couple other troopers were standing around talking, probably after just finishing a simulation run. They turned to look at Zeshaun as he walked in and their conversations stopped. They looked back at each other then left the room. What ignorant men. Zeshaun thought as he sat himself down in the nearest simulator and pressed the on button.

<^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^>Two weeks later<^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^>

Zeshaun walked into class on the day of the exam nervous. He wasn’t sure if he had memorized everything.

"Welcome class, I hope you are all ready for this exam." Major Kidd looked up and was met with the faces of sleep deprived students. Major Kidd just smiled. "Let’s head over to those simulators."

Zeshaun sat down in his simulator and let out a deep breath. here we go.

The screen went black then cleared up again showing a big open plain near a large lake. Zeshaun saw that his pilot was sitting behind him and he had a large group of troopers backing him up on the field.

"Okay troopers, we have to take out the rebels as they try to drop off large quantities of troops. We have to hold them here or else the whole city will be taken." The leader said. "Good luck men."

The troopers hid in the tall grass in the plains, if you can call lying in the grass in bright white armor, hiding. The sound of repulsors could be heard coming over the hill. One trooper transport came over the hill. When they saw Zeshaun’s AT-ST they paused for a moment. But they continued on when they thought that the AT-ST was all they were facing. Zeshaun started firing grenades at the transport. It weaved in and out to make it hard to hit.

"Move around! We’re sitting ducks." The pilot yelled.

Zeshaun had totally forgotten that they weren’t protected. He started to move and get closer and closer. When the transport was close enough tot he troops they popped up from the ground and started firing at the soldiers in the transport. The new threat cause the transport to stop moving.

"Grenades, shoot them into the transport!" the pilot yelled again.

Zeshaun was getting agitated by being ordered around by a computer but did shoot the grenades. They landed in the transport and Zeshaun watched as the transport blew up and all the remaining soldiers went along with it.

"Nice shooting troopers." The leaders voice came in again. "We’ve lost our element of surprise so we need to bring the fight to them.

"There should be at least 4 more transports waiting behind this hill. They should be fairly bigger than the one we just took out so be on your guard." The leader ordered.

"Sir are we getting some reinforcement?" A trooper’s voice cut into the silence.

"No we must win this battle." The leader said matter of factly.

Zeshaun let out another big breath and charged over the hill he was faced with 4 more transports significantly bigger than the first.

He let out a spray of laser fire and grenades onto the sitting transports. They started to scramble.

"Looks we still have surprise on our side, they must not of heard our last battle. Fall on them boys1" the leader said charging down the hill.

A sudden shot pierced the leader through the head. Zeshaun felt a twang of pain and remorse even though it was only a computer. He kept shooting grenades and lasers to keep the transports moving and not letting them set up a shot on anyone else.

By the end of the day they had only lost half of the squad that they came with and they had captured two transports and 10 rebels. The rest of the class was a blur, he was so tired from this simulation that all he got out of the next hour of class was that he had passed the exam. He went home and slept. I need another long weekend Zeshaun thought as he lay down on his bed.

COMMENTS: EXCELLENT! I should have you teach some people about character development. Stories are well written (first two were rough) and you always tell me what your character sees, does, thinks, and also how others react to him. Also...I liked the time jump you used I haven't seen that used in spec stories before. Keep up the good work!

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