Clockwork Rebellion: Battle on Alderaan

[Garza]

Darren grabbed the thrown com device and placed it in the small pocket in the chestplate of his armor. He smiled as he saw Onyx leap up over the wall and heard his lightsabers become tools of war. He ran to the Commander of the FOB. he saw him over a Holo of the area. "Fallen Knight Is here Whats happening?"

The man looked up and gave a sigh of relief. "We have some more Droids pop up out of nowhere like usual just on the other side of the wall. They are fighting to the death it looks like. what are we to do?" Darren waved his hand using the force and said "You will tell me all of the battle plans you have." The man responded in a mummered tone about that he would tell Darren what he knew. "There are sighting of spider tanks coming from the south side. and more troops coming from the east. The south was where the wall was. Meaning that Onyx was going to encounter them. He would defnatly need help.

Darren grabbed the com to Onyx and spoke into it. "Spider tanks from the South and Troops from the east. Be there in a few." He faced to the Commander and waved his hand again. "You will tell me when we get more information." he didnt care what the man said after that. he grabbed some troops and went to the wall. If more troops were coming He was going to lead the charge with Onyx.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx was with his own platoon of men. They were making there way across the small plot of land between the city and forest. There were dozens of trenches dug, mobile turrets set up, and of course the few tanks they had. It didn't matter, especially with the news he just received. It was loud. With all the fire, screaming men and droids, thunder, and explosions, it was almost impossible to hear anything.

He had just finished off a droid when he heard Darren of the comm. "Spider tanks from the south and Troops from the east. Be there in a few."

"SPIDER TANKS!" Onyx yelled for all the men to hear. He hunkered down with his men. "Soldier, what's your name?" he asked the most terrified of the group.
"Griggs sir!"
"Griggs, I promise you will go home tonight. Trust me," Onyx didn't want anyone to loose hope. "MOVE UP!" He barked at the men. They all rose from the trench and began to slowly push forward.

Suddenly, as if planned, a lightning bolt sent a tree ablaze. Thankfully it wasn't spreading. It wouldn't be that way for long. For now he ignored it. They kept pressing. Every few seconds another man would be shot down. They kept pressing. He opened the comm to Darren. "Darren, we got a forest fire starting! We don't hurry we will be pushed back into the city with these bastards on our tails."

 

[Garza]

Darren heard over his Com "Darren, we got a forest fire starting! We don't hurry we will be pushed back into the city with these bastards on our tails." Darren threw some curses at the rain and began to ran. his troop of about 60 men began to run with him thought the streets to the east. "Every man will run to the east and fan out to take the Droids out If anything happens contact me the day before it happens." he then pulled 15 men from the group and told them "You will hate me the rest of your lives for this. We are going straight into the fray."

Darren ran off before he gave then time to say yes sir. He then came to the wall the separated them from Onyx's forces. he growled and used a a charged force push. He blew a hole in the wall to get the men through. he himself ran though with them. he brandished his Lightsabers that would glow a bright white in the Dark storm. he first walked into the battle and began to run until he would possibly catch up with Onyx and his men.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx was fighting. It was only getting harder. With each droid that they killed, another man would fall and the more intense the fire became. Onyx knew Darren would try and catch up. He ignored it. He kept fighting. Suddenly he felt the ground shift. He felt heat. He turned to see three trees falling to the ground, all ablaze and spreading the fire as they hit.

He turned to his men. "MOVE FORWARD!" He knew it was hot and the flames would help keep them dry and out of the rain. They advanced. The fighting was worse on the other side. Flames were everyone. Soon the whole forest would be on fire. Onyx opened the comm. "Darren, this is going to turn into a two sided war in a few. Stay on the city side, we can hold them back from here!" Onyx only hoped Darren would listen.

 

[Garza]

Darren was about to catch up when the ground shook and he saw trees fall. he cured to himself. The whole dammed forest was burning down. It would lead to the city if he didnt stop it. And with that He would have to fight the droid coming from the east. He pused his men forward to help with Onyx. He himself turned around and went to the east to fight the droid coming he heard over the com that it was going to be a two sided war. And he saw that coming too.

Darren raced back and jumped over the wall and lanind on the roof of the nearset building. he ran from roof to roof. he almost slipped off and fell but right himself before running again. With all of the rain that was coming down and making it harder to even run He doubted that this battle of Alderaan would be one for the story books. No matter then out come.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx was getting worked up. He was loosing energy and fast. He quickly jumped and pierced the head of a droid, he started using it as a shield.

He was getting tired. He looked over to see half his platoon dead. He sighed. "FALL..." Before he could finish the order, several more trees fell. The only path back to the outpost was gone. The only way was forward, deeper into the forest that was almost in complete flames. "FORWARD! MOVE INTO THE FOREST AND DON'T STOP RUNNING!" He then took off, his few remaining men following.

He opened the comm. "Darren. I'm moving deeper in. You have to hold the city. The tanks made it through. I'm going to find where they are coming from. It has to be in the forest off the scanners." He only hoped Darren wouldn't follow.

 

[Garza]

Darren Fell back to the FOB where he would get the rest of the information he needed. He was tired of running. Darren made it back to see that there was fighting. The tanks were taking people out one by one. In a rage he charged forward. The first droid didn't see him as he cut off the legs with a lightsaber slash. it fell on its side. He was filled with rage. Nobody was going to take this place over. With a force push he knocked the broken droid into a crowd of other droids crushing them or pinning them to the ground.

He was not going to let this happen. He sprinted forward crying a battle roar that echoed from his lips and made the ground shake. he unknowingly used force scream that would hurt anybody in the area. The lightsabers seemed to move on their own as they cut down droid after droid. Blocking blaster shots as if a shield that would never break. He was fighting in the very middle of the swarm. He was getting overpowered by the droids that would fight him. He knew he wouldn't last very long. With a charged force push he slammed it into the ground making a pure wave of energy fly from his fist that slammed into the ground.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx could feel something move in the force. It was Darren. He was mad. Onyx knew better then anyone that when Darren was mad he could easily loose control over himself. He wanted to turn back but he knew the city would fall if he didn't find the hidden base in the forest. He kept running.

He decided to try and calm him down over the comm. "Darren, come in," he rang. "Listen, I can feel your hate, don't give in! You can fight it!"

 

[Selena Halcyon]

New Alderaan. Crisp. Beautiful. Totally and completely artificially made, and most interestingly some records pointed towards it being made in tandem with the Super AI they now fought. When he had been brought down at the onset of the gulag plague evidence pointed towards New Alderaan being the location of this fight. It presently was at the edge of Clockwork oppressed space, and as such was currently engaged in a fight for its life. Intelligence on the ground said that a Dark Jedi was leading the battle there, something that intrigued Selena but was not enough for her to take personal focus on it.

No, her mission was not actually meant to help the people specifically on the planet. She had entered secretly in a Stealth X which she hid in a cave near the coast. Then like the Shadow she was her movements around the planet were barely noticed. She hoped to find the ruins or active remains of the site of the battle. Perhaps the secret to dealing with the threat of Omni remained on the very planet where he had been beaten in the first place.

However, it was not in her nature to stay too far away from conflict, and the screams of the people on the planet was enough to pull her towards action. From a tree upon a hill, Selena watched the battle around a city. The movements of soldiers trying to push out against the incoming droid forces. A fire started in the forests to the south. Her position was even more south than that. The fires would likely spread towards her, a fact she did not like. Her mind began to debate strategic realities and information to decide on her own course of action.

This was interrupted when she noticed a thumping sound beneath her, when she looked down she could clearly see the form of a spider tank marching beneath her perch. It did not notice her, through some kind of miracle. But she sensed no others near her. If anything she could provide aid to the city in a simple manner.

She dropped from the tree and ignited her silver blade just before landing on the droid. She thrust it deep into its core. Without much at all, the spider tank was brought down. She turned off her lightsaber, and darted into the shadowy woods. She would need a new position soon.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx was still running, the rain beating down on him. He turned to see his men gone. Either they were all killed while fleeing or they fell behind. Either way, Onyx knew that going back wasn't a option.

He was now a few miles away from the city and the raging fire. He decided know was the best time to take a breath. He stopped and pushed his back up against a tree while be breathed in heavy and deep breaths. He turned on the comm. "Darren...." There was static. "Damn it," he whispered to himself. The storm was causing interference. He was in the dark. He was trying to get his barrings. Suddenly he didn't know where he was.

Then he heard something. A lightsaber in the distance. He knew that it could be Darren. "How did he get ahead of me?" He wondered. He pushed the thought aside and began to move towards the sound, the rain beginning to pour even harder.

 

[S.I.B.L.I.N.G.S]

Ascension

The fight was going well in their favor, now it was time to deal the final blows to the organic filth "Dwarf Spider droids, advance on the ridge South of the enemy base. Destroy all structures to assure enemy defeat." Now that the enemy was focusing on the forest it was time to move up the Dwarf Spider Droids, which would act as a twenty gun artillery unit to level the FOB. The position of every known friendly and enemy unit on the planet was available to the command droid and just like it was planned the thrasher would soon be right under the FOB....


Despair

Despair had just missed Onyx as he charged into the forest, but now the predator had caught up to the prey. Onyx was leading a charge of men through the forest, and the assassin simply lied in wait ahead of him until he he was just about to pass under the tree branch he hung on. Just as Onyx was about to run past him, Despair leap from the branch and onto the ground, his red and black form sparkling in the light as he grabbed the nearest soldier b the throat. As fast as a ship through hyperspace, the droid spun around the man's body and with him took his head. The soldier's neck snapped like a twig as he head came around to face backwards like an owl. The body fell limp to the ground and Despair looked at Onyx, his industrially manufactured features looked so human, yet they were robotic and terrifying. Slowly he took up a relaxed stance, a hand on both the blades that hung on either hip, his thumb on the bottom of the hilt as he turned to face Onyx. "Your evolution is nigh, bow your head and accept your acsension...or face despair" Onyx had faced Despair's counterparts already, so the profile on his movements was pretty extensive...this would be an interesting fight.

 

[Selena Halcyon]

Her course through the forest took Selena from tree to tree. When able to she did not touch the ground, but kept to the limbs. It was not the easiest of tasks around but she did so with grace and quickness. As she moved, her mind juggled a few different things to focus on. With the Force she traced the progress of the fire into the forest. Her eyes darted through the darkness for threats that could come from any angle. Surprisingly close by she sensed a presence in the darkside. This gave her a moment of pause, because it seemed to be absorbed in it. Not exactly common for a Dark Jedi, who while engaged in the darkside typically were not fully enveloped in it the way a Sith was.

This caught some attention and she drifted towards the presence, keeping her own very much a shadow of what it would normally be. From a limb she looked down at the man whose presence she sensed. He looked fully Sith from his garb. Oddly enough, a strange droid seemed to be facing off with him. This turn of events caused some internal debate within her. If he is a Sith then he should be brought to justice, but of course there is the temporary cease fire. Taking that option out of my hand but... then there is the droid. It appears to be special and it is the enemy. At least, more of an enemy than the Sith on this day. But... it is a Sith. Does its loss really matter? No, but...

She pinched the bridge of her nose. Ugh... Slowly, Selena dropped from her vantage point in a tree and crept closer. Before either of the figures made a move upon either one, she made a quick move. In a swift motion, she lit her lightsaber, cut through the base of a tree, turned off the lightsaber, and physically pushed it with her body to get it falling in the direction of the droid. Probably would have been quicker with the Force, but having no gift for telekinetics made that an impossibility. Regardless, a tree falling was still a threat to the droid, possibly providing an opening for the Sith. However, she did not really linger.

Her lightsaber was once again dim, and she was once more on the move.

 

[S.I.B.L.I.N.G.S]

Despair

The sound of the lightsaber cutting through the tree quickly registered to the droid, who moved quickly out of the way. Despair was the quickest of the brothers, and the nature of him being a droid made him more precise and swift in his motions than any organic. He had to retreat away from the sith, but he could wait until this new threat had been dealt with. When his optical sensors scanned the newcomer's profile, the hivemind recognized her as Selena Halcyon, a Jedi knight with a low priority on the infection list. She could die with little affect on the operation.

Like a bolt of lightening the droid ran towards the knight and his thumbs shot his swords straight into the air at a slight angle. The blades began falling to the ground, but the precision of Despair made sure they would never come close to hitting. He spun back around as he ran in between the swords, his right hand grabbed a tight hold of what used to be the his left side blade and his left hand grabbed what used to be the right. In the same quick, fluid motion the droid swung its blades at the jedi with extreme momentum and force.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx was shaken to reality. He quickly realized he was being attacked. But someone, another force user, had come to help. He assumed it was Darren. He saw the other force user under attack and he acted quickly. He ignited his blue and red lightsabers and launched himself at the back of the droid. He began to slice and slam at him, hoping to stop him from hurting the new comer.

 

[Garza]

Darren was fighting the droids that were coming from what seemed all sides. He hoped that Onyx was having a better time than he was. With the blast that he had caused the droids around him flew like giant rag dolls. Darren hoped that all the forces were done with when he heard a static voice come over his com.

"Darren..."

He reached for it when Spider droids came out of nowhere and fired upon him. They were firing all at the same time taking the human forces out one by one. He was blocking the shots with his twin blades. But he took a glace to his left as he saw a man that was on fire running for his life. Time seemed to slow down as he made a decision to glance the other direction. What he saw was worse. A droid had ran a blade through the chest of the man making a sickening sound of blood being spilt.

He looked forward to see a line of tanks walking forward. His heart filled with hate for the droid named only as Omni. How could he do this. Humans had not done anything to him. SO why create a genocide war against all factions? Darren twisted his blades to be behind him. the lightsabers were pointed up but his hands were pointed down. he raced forward with only one intention. Stopping the Genocide.

He charged forward like a bullet from a gun. Faster than the eye could follow Darren reached the side of one of the tanks. His blades came down on the legs cutting them each off. He had to move fast or he would be shot. He slid under the tank and stabbed his two sabers though the core of the Tank suttng it down. He would be crushed if he didnt move. With the force he pushed the metal hunk into the air and grabbed it as if it was an extencion of himself. He used the force again to slam the Tank into another one. he muttered to himself after

"Darren = 2, Droids = 500. I have some catching up to do."

 

[Selena Halcyon]

The droid was fast, faster than most, but mechanical servos had limits. It likely pushed the limits of what could be done, but they still had constraints. Selena was mindful of that and did not let the initial speed of the droid intimidate her. She was quick as well. Her lack of telekinetic powers had forced her to focus entirely on the physical and sensing sides of the Force. The Jedi Knight was trained for combat completely and entirely. It was who she was as a Shadow.

She watched the spinning movements. Flashy, she thought, seems excessive for a droid. She held her long lightsaber hilt in her hand, but the silver blade remained hidden. In time she would flick the switch and ignite it. But that required the moment to be right. She was not one for wasted preemptive movements.

Then somewhat to her surprise the Sith jumped in. Of course, I doubt this droid could have killed him that quickly, she thought quickly. Selena needed to see what the droid would do about the new (old) opponent before she reacted.

 

[S.I.B.L.I.N.G.S]

Despair

Just as he was about to make contact with the female, a series of lightsaber slashes dug into the Durasteel/Cortosis compound plates of the assassin droid. It had done damage, but all diagnostics showed that nothing was to severe at the moment. Despair turned around and brought its foot up to make contact with the Sith's face, his movements mimicking that of a martial arts master.

"We know all of your secrets Sith, embrace ascension and you to can have our power." The droid claimed to know all of the techniques, but in reality his combat maneuvers relied on mimicking the exact movements of fighters living and dead. It did not exactly "know" anything, it merely copied.

 

[Darren Onyx]

Onyx laughed. "You're a machine. Machines can be broken!" He said as he launched himself into the machines head.

 

[S.I.B.L.I.N.G.S]

Despair

Despair reacted quickly, the hivemind bringing up the perfect technique to counter the charge. In his memory banks were old Republic files on the fighting style of General Grevious. Despair slashed his blades out to bounce Onyx back before spinning his wrists in fast circles, the blades tearing the dirt from the earth as he began the walk towards the Sith.

"Fool, I am not just a droid." without warning Despair's face plate split open to reveal a hideously disfigured face, a human face that looked to be decomposed. The skin hung low and loose and the eyes were nothing but black, insect infected pits that would make evil itself run in fear "I am evolution!"

 

[Selena Halcyon]

Selena was pleased when the droid shifted its attention to the Sith. Its back was exposed, simple, and beautiful. With a flick of a button her silver lightsaber appeared. It was pointed straight at the back of the droid. With yet another button push, it burst out longer than before. It turned purple in color as it entered into its duel-phase mode. Distances as it were, it would ignite right into the lower back of the droid. Just as soon as it had reached its full length, both buttons were pressed again and the blade retreated into the lightsaber once more. Following this, she once again moved back and away. Taking to the darkness as cover, as well as allowing the Sith to absorb the droids attention. She would strike from the shadows when able unless forced otherwise.