"We won't be alone. We have Zippy9912 as well." Zippy said," I am a lower rank then you Deritosuwn, but I can still be one heck of a soldier in a battle. "Fine then lets head down to the planet, said Deritosuwn." Once they landed its was very quiet. All that was left to do now was scout the area for the rebels. So what is our first move commander?

The Lambda shuttle set down, clawed feet extended from its sides. The rear hatch slid open and a landing ramp extended from the gap, sending up a puff of duff as it came down into Dxun’s barren soil. Dante was first down, A-280 out and at the ready.

“Come on, troopers. What are you waiting for?”

The others filed out of the passenger bay, their weapons slung over the shoulders or in hand. They were wearing many different types of armour, most of which were modified Clone Wars-era designs. Not for the first time, Dante wondered why in the Nine Corellian Hells Command had seen fit to separate him from his vod and lump him together with a bunch of rookies. Even odder, they’d sent a single shuttle to investigate reports of Republic activity in a remote system, a task best left to either single scout units or whole squads in standard equipment.

Granted, their shuttle had been equipped with stealth technology, and the Empire couldn’t be seen as intervening in the affairs of independent systems, but Dante still wondered. Add the mission profile to the oddly liberal gear reqs, the lack of air support, and the suspiciously sketchy intel and it was looking like Command had either gone round the twist or was trying to get a perfectly good group of troopers killed. Dante had a feeling it involved both.

Three of the troopers had walked out of the ship.and were standing around, looking at the flat and featureless plains. Marking their armour beacons as friendlies on his Katarn armour’s HUD, the First Sergeant frowned as he saw the other four stormtroopers were still inside the shuttle. Such a breach of discipline would once have been unthinkable, even on a high-risk mission such as this, but order and regs had been decaying for some time, even in the Vast Empire. Striding back to the ramp, Dante looked up into the passenger section and spoke to the three through the helmet speakers.

“You three, hurry up in there. I want those bikes unloaded and us on the move as quickly as possible.”

“Alright, alright…” was one , from a sullen Zabrak, of their replies. The troopers attitude, and his disregard of the chain of command, made Dante grit his teeth.

“That was an order, Private!”

“Yes, sir.” the alien muttered, standing at the top of the boarding ramp with one hand on the side. Dante shook his head slightly, a gesture concealed by his helmet and shoulder armour. Switching to the pilot’s helmet frequency, he hailed the man.

“Thanks for the ride. We might need to get out of here in a hurry, so be ready.”

“Sure. Just don’t keep me waiting too long.”

“Right.”

With that, Dante closed the channel and turned back down the ramp. The VE was using more and more private contractors for pilots, something quite a few of the “true” Naval personnel resented. Dante didn’t mind the new guys, however: they generally had an ironic sense of humour and were pretty good at their job.

He was just about to give orders to the three Privates outside when the first mass driver round hit the Lambda in the fuselage.

Zeshaun jumped to find cover as the force of the explosion caught him in the back. oh hell, we are done for. Zeshaun thought as he checked to make sure he had a full clip in his rifle. Zeshaun peaked his head out from behind a rock and saw that everyone was still alive but the pilot was probably dead. there goes our trip home

"Everyone alright?" Zeshaun heard Dante's voice calling out.

"I'm fine sir." Zeshaun said back. He heard a chorus of responses through his headset.

Zeshaun popped up and looked around for the source of the explosion. He saw a trail of smoke leading up to some place then another sudden explosion erputed from what seemed like where the source was and a man stepped out of the area. Zeshaun trained his rifle on the man as he walked forward but lowered it when he realized that the man was wearing trooper armor.

Zeshaun waved his hands and got the mans attention and motioned for him to stay down.

"I'm Corporal Jori from Jester squad, nice to meet you." Jori said as he reached Zeshaun's hiding spot.

"Lance Corporal Zeshaun, Paladin squad." Zeshaun said reaching out a hand.

Jori shook his hand. "what the hell just happened"

"We just landed and got out of the shuttle when it blew up and now we're here." Zeshaun explained. "but it seems you took care of the attacker."

Jori nodded. Dante, Zippy, and Dreitos came over. After some introductions they decided that is was best to keep on going with their mission and just try to do with what they had. Dante led them down a path through the fields. Zeshaun wasn't very comfortable in the open field, he felt very vulnerable. Jsut as he was thinking that a fury of bolts came out from the forest lining the edges of the plains and started flying by.

"Everyone down!" Dante screamed.

The team dropped to the ground and tried to find where the shots were coming from. it looks like they aren't going to go down easy. Zeshaun thought as he rose up to fire back.

Deritos mumbled to himself and then said "what are we doing hear, and why is the death watch here" their came no answer from any of the others, because they had no answer to give they were just as shocked as him "only one thing could be worse; if a force weilding person came out on the feild that would truly make this hell" a voice spat out before shooting more rounds into the trees "shut up you know were not suppose to talk of things like that" one of the senior officers lectured. After many minutes of panic the deathwatch members were dead or so they hoped, they moved in a tight formation into the trees, taking the cover they could behind trees and watching the others back. A lone Deathwatch figure used the last of his will to fire at one of the troopers and it so unluckily happened to be Deritos; the shot came in an instant hitting the top of his helmet, it did him no harm but left a black skid on his white helmet, the man collapsed to the ground after that last shot to die a warriors death, some of the troops thought it sporting to shoot at the dead man, but one of the senior members thought it best to leave a fellow warrior be.
The sergeant: Dante; came over to see if Deritos was alright but he blasted everyones thoughts away by telling him he was fine, while in truth he was only hurt emotionaly and only little.

Deritos overherd Jori's conversation and walked over to him, he scratched his helmet like he would if the helmet was off, he gave a sigh and said "yeah I'll go."

Deritos heard the sound of blaster fire and walkers and he ducked for cover, a short distance away Zippy sat with his hands on his head, muttering something unaudible.

"HEY!" Deritos shouted at Zippy

Zippy looked at him

"Pull it together" Deritos scoulded

"Ookay" Zippy stuttered

Deritos, Zippy, and Jori shot at the Mandos, when out of nowhere everything shifted and the Mandalorian Deathwatch was everywhere, surrounding everryone, they ordered everyones hands up, and to relinquish they arms. Everyone followed that order. They lead all of us to an enclosed camp, and fair sized by my standered, they were everywhere, a man came up to us and he wore armour that signified him as the leader, he spoke up in a raspy voice "after the mandalorian wars, the remaining mandalorians eventually came here, under the eyes of the new Mandilore, its fitting that this is the place where the Mandalorians will be reborn again." he paused "I have a few moles, and a few spies in the Vast Empire. I also have control of a handful of systems, once we are restablished, we will bring about the next Mandalorian war" he chuckled lightly, he motion to our capturers and they took us to the force cages.