"Fire at will!
"Roger roger!"
Under General Grievous's intense gaze, the droid crew immediately set to work on manning their battle stations. Cannons were loaded and the droid fighter-bombers took off from the hangar with their loud buzzing sounds. It wasn't long until the first cannon had fired with a loud boom, causing the Patriot's fist to shudder as if a massive hand slammed down in the middle of it. The battle had just began.The cyborg general's reptilian eyes trained on the Kenobi and the bounty hunter.
"Fear not, my ship's shields are very capable. They will hold until we take out the enemy's star destroyer." He turned to one of his magnaguards. "Go and make sure the Separatist Council's needs are met."
As soon as the droids left, Grievous sauntered over to the inverted square shape windows of the Resurgent-class dreadnought and viewed the initial stages of the broadside battle. Green, blue, and red lasers streaked across the vacuum of space as the battle raged on. Red and orange flames erupted here and there as a starfighter had met its unfortunate end. The ship shuddered as the enemy fire made contact with its shield. The flak cannons roared and glowing green balls arced over to the Venator, exploding in a bright green light. It seems that the crew of the enemy star destroyer had a similar thought process as them. It wouldn't be long until one of the shields were downed, leaving one ship as vulnerable as a sitting duck. Until then, Grievous had ordered his forces to pour an immense amount of firepower on the enemy ship in order to put as much strain as possible on the shields.
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"Sir, the enemy ship has let loose a volley of shots at us."
Yularen glanced up from his command post as the clone crew member made his way over to inform him of the events that were transpiring. Glancing out the window, he noticed the green cannon fire bearing down on them. Soon, they made contact with the ship, causing only a momentary jolt. Thankfully, the ship had a capable shield.
"We will respond to their challenge in kind. Make sure our air support keeps the droid fighters at bay. I don't need them to discover what we are really planning."
"On it, sir!"
Yularen smiled as he watched his crew work hard on the controls to make sure the diversion would work as planned. Once the Separatist crew were occupied in trying to fend off the Republic forces, a detachment of clone special forces in specialized gear would sneak into the hangar of the enemy dreadnought and infiltrate to see if anyone of high value would be on board. If not, the worst that could happen is that they would capture an enemy capital ship.
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"It's time!"
Captain Kardo motioned for his special ops troopers to get inside the Nu-class attack shuttle on their way to infiltrate the dreadnought. Once the last trooper was in, he joined up with his crew before the doors slid shut. The shuttle, bearing the colors of the Republic, lifted off and made its way out of the opening hatch of the hangar. The shuttle crisscrossed the lasers streaking through space on their way to the worm-shaped starship of the Separatists. Kardo held on tight as the shuttle dipped to avoid a couple ARC-170s chasing after a Hyena bomber. The clones, no strangers to risky adventures, held on tightly and hoped either they'd go unnoticed or not turn into a fireball by enemy fire before they made it into the dreadnought's hangar.
"Sir, we have a few droid bombers closing in the space between us and our objective!" The pilot pointed out. Kardo glanced out the window and noticed the spidery outlines of the droid starcraft as they lessened the distance between them among the debris of broken starfighters and lasers.
"Try evasive maneuvers and if those fail to dislodge them, take them out. This shuttle is armed with laser cannons."
"Affirmative. Gunner at the ready!" The pilot took Kardo's advice.
Soon, the shuttle wove its way around the vast area of space and even took a dip to shake off their pursuers. Seeing the droids still hot on their tails, Kardo ordered the gunner to begin firing. Green lasers traced through the air and took out one droid. Through the debris of their comrade, the other two fighters split up and came at the shuttle on all sides.
"Hang on tight, troopers! This is going to get rough!"
Kardo held on to the side of the shuttle as they bucked around as if they were in turbulence. A few of the fighter's lasers made contact with the side of the shuttle, but fortunately for the clones onboard, none penetrated the armor. The gunner was spraying cannon fire through the air, trying to nail the enemy starfighters. It took some time, but the two droid fighters ended up colliding in a fiery tangle of twisted metal.
"Right on!" The clones cheered.
Captain Kardo couldn't help but chuckle. "Next time give a warning a standard sec before you pull a stunt like that, but I must say good flying, soldiers."
It wasn't long until they were flying into the open hangar of the dreadnought, the only section of the ship unprotected by the shield.
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"Sir, we lost the Lucrehulk battleship."
"Karabast!" Commander Kegruc cursed and whirled around to glance out the window, greeted by the sight of the flaming Separatist warship. "That's the second one we lost. I only have 5 more at my command. How hard is it to take out two kriffing Venator-class destroyers? For kriff's sake, we outnumber their ships." The bright flames of the incapacitated battleship reflected off the Fallen's reptilian eyes.
"Sir?" A super tactical droid came up to his side. "Shall we pull back? I mean, we have completed our objective. We were supposed to assist the bounty hunter in rescuing the Separatist Council. We have no need to engage the enemy any further."
"Wrong!" Kegruc glared at the droid. "I will finish off the enemy and make sure there is not even a scrap of metal left for a scavenger to find. I will prove to Grievous that I am a perfectly capable commander. Now, onward! Let us charge those star destroyers and overwhelm them. We have the numbers."
The tactical droid glanced at the other droids before relaying the order. "Roger roger."
Another space battle? Oh boy, things are getting downright intense. Also, we have clone special forces in play. How will this play out? Also, that is Captain Kardo in the picture.
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