Though alone this post looks to be small, it is one part of two parts to a personla story, i plan to post the second part here once i finish revising it. And yes, it was made to be a short story.




Part One: Offensive

The sky gradually changed to a dark storm, the weather was matching the conflict. C-3PX2 had been on Etti IV for 2 months now, fighting the rebellious faction of the planet's government. The Anti-Loyalists had rebelled against the government nine months earlier, beginning the war for control. The Loyalist army, a massive robotic Droid army, immediately began defending its cities. Though in all the metallic parts of the loyalist army, there was one familiar face. Commander Char Nobyl, the Commander in charge of the “First Robotic Commando Division”, was in charge of the area and made sure they were well protected from the Horde of humanoids of the Anti-Loyalists Army. They had pushed forward into Anti-Loyalist Territory, and had occupied it for one month now, when new orders came in.

“Troops, Attention!” Commander Nobyl Ordered, “We now have new orders from command. Echo Squad, run to the armory and find all the explosives you can find. Then Rig the Area, were leaving.” As he said that, he noticed that it confused the Droids.

“Yes, Sir!” C-3PX2, the leader of Echo Squad, replied to his Commanding Officer. The Droids of Echo Squad then ran to the armory, as ordered, to get all the explosives that were there.

Just then, the silence ended with explosions.

“Mortars, Take Cover!” Commander Nobyl yelled.

The Anti-Loyalist Army had decided to retake their territory. They had lined the Hills with mortars, which they planed to use the bombard the Loyalist Army.

“Droids of the Loyalist Army. This is your one, and only time to Surrender. If you do not, you will be destroyed.” The Anti-Loyalist Commanded said over a Comm.

Just then, Echo Squad finished rigging the area with explosives. C-3PX2 then turned around, hearing a noise that sounded like footsteps.

“Flash!” 3px2 yelled out to the shadows, and from the shadows returned the word

“Thunder!” C-3PX2 then lowered his weapon. “Commander Nobyl sent me over here to tell you, he wants those charges set to motions sensitive. We want to wait until they are there to blow them all to hell.” The runner said.

“Roger that,” 3px2 responded “Squad, you heard him. Set all charges for motion detonation.”

The runner began to run back towards the mass of loyalist droids, just as the squad finished setting all the explosives to motion detonation. The Heavy Explosives squad Echo began their hell run back to the lines. They had to run across an open field to get back to formation, leaving them an easy target for Anti-Loyalist Sharpshooters. But they were safe for now, for the battle had not yet begun. The Loyalist and Anti-Loyalist Armies were on opposite sides of a field; this field would be where the war would begin. Unknown to any of them is that this field would also be where the war ended. They managed to get back to their squad in one piece; the charges were set and primed. But just then, the inevitable happened. A could of smoke appeared around a part of the anti-loyalist army, and a whistling noise could be hears.

“Incoming!” someone yelled, the droids and cyborgs went for cover.

The anti-loyalists were going to shell them to death. Hoping it would make for an easy battle. What they didn’t know what that theses Loyalist troops were not afraid, nor would they surrender. The Anti-Loyalists had placed mortar teams along a small hill; they had a perfect view to line up their shots. It was like fire was raining down from the sky, a navy blue colored fireball. But actually it was Ion mortars, made to destroy a droid’s computer core. These mortars wiped out the majority of the droid army, for they were all closely spaced and all in formation. After Nine months of holding the line against Anti-Loyalist assaults it seemed as though they were going to lose the war.

“Send in 3 Gunships and some type of artillery” Commander Nobyl yelled into his comm. unit.

“What kind of artillery, sir, we have three different types. You can have ...” the dispatcher began to say.

“Just send some damn artillery; we have mortars pounding the hell out of us.” He looked down field to see utter destruction; forty-five percent of the droids were destroyed, twenty percent were not operating fully. That left him with a small thirty-five percent of troops left on the battle field.

“Enough of this,” he yelled “Everyone, fall back to one click in front of the capital. Beta, Delta, and Echo Squads; you stay hidden until they pass and then flank them.”

They had their orders, but they were not sure whether they would make it out of here alive. They did as they were told and they got down into cover as the main squads all when into a retreat. They awaited the proper moment to attack. They decided to attack them only after that had crossed the minefield, there would be less of them to take down then.

“Where’s that damn air support?” Commander Nobyl yelled into his comm.

“I am not sure, Sir. I sent them out of the hanger five minutes ago. You should see them by now.” A hanger deckhand said over comm.

Just then there was a loud noise from the area being the loyalists. It was the air support, and they were here to clear a path.

“Command 1-1, Raptor 1-1, we need something to tell you apart from them, all we see is thousands of droids. Throw smoke or paint the target.” The Pilot of the gunship said over comm.

It was going to be a Long Day at this rate. Having to either expose them self with some, or paint every last droid with a laser. It was an easy decision, but the question was, was it the right one.

“Sir,” one of the droids in Echo Squad was calling over to C-3PX2, “Radar show massive hostiles coming towards our location.”

“You mean the Anti-Loyalist Army heading towards us.” C-3PX2 responded.

“No, Sir. This radar is an Air Radar. The targets are above us.” Echo Squad looked up to see hundreds of pod shaped craft falling from the sky.

“So, these are what the Corporal was talking about.” He was thinking back to when he first started getting messages from a “Corporal” who was talking about an enemy that just came out of nowhere and fell from the sky.

Commander Nobyl saw these things before, he did not know what they were, but he knew they would tare through anything in their path.

“Sound the Retreat.” Commander Nobyl Said, as the droids began to march mach towards their transports.

“Echo Squad, we are pulling back. These creatures are too much for us to fight. I have fought them before and the tore through an entire division. The only place they can not get to us is in the air. We will take off and fire on them from here. Your objective, take out any Anti-Air Droids or turrets you see.” Unknown to the commander, Echo Squad was being jammed and could not respond to what he was saying.