Leaving no one behind.

[Gilgamesh Magnius]

Their will be 5 chapters, maybe more if i find people enjoy this.

Their will be multiple posts, after a post(s) feel free to comment all you please.

Year 20 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin)

This is the tale of CC:503 (Clone Commander.)
Chapter 1- To the Bridge!

503 was a clone commander in the 803rd legion, mainly used in during the Clone Wars as the First and most successful wave of attack the fleets and ground forces, they were elites, they were the best, they used ARC (Advanced Recon Commandos) to train the troops, the ARC troopers were the best of the best.

503 awoke in a white room. He sat up and shook his head. He was on a Republic Flag ship called “Inevitable” 503 looked at his armor.

It was like a normal Clone Troopers shape, but had more to it.

Their was black paint on it and 20 blaster shots, he lived through them and he sighed, stood up, he looked at his troops, they were gone.

Had he over slept? No.. it was early. He heard a shot, a blaster shot, Gun fire?

503 got up, put his armor on and grabbed his rifle and his pistols and he put them in holsters on his sides, he opened the door to
see a mix of Clone troopers, his men.. on the ground and Driods, they were boarded?

503 rolled by the gun fire and behind a pillar and started to blind fire at the red blaster fire, the droids.

He heard the fire stop.

“Commander!” A clone trooper ran over and kneeled beside him.
“Clone Trooper:309 reporting.”

503 got up and looked at 309. “What’s the status?” he asked him.
“We have 3 breaches, One in our south hanger, one in the north hanger and one close to the bridge.” 309 got up holding his gun

“Alright, get any trooper that can move and shoot and we need to get to the bridge, we need to get to the Jedi as fast as we can.” 503 replied and handed the trooper his rifle and took out his pistols. “Now move!”

“YES SIR!” 3 clones replied and ran behind 503.

503 kept running over clone bodies, blaster dents in the walls and droid parts on the ground, the clones followed him.

“Great.. Maybe we are the only 4 left in this hell hole.” 309 said while running, He was holding the Rifle level with his eyes so when he sees a droid or anything, its shoot on sight.
309, 788 and 444 appeared on the squad command on the bottom left hand side of 503’s visor, they didn’t have names, so he decided on giving them nicknames.

“309, your nickname is now.. Rev. 788, yours is Sevan, and 44, yours is Quits.” 503 said, he stopped in the middle of the hall, He heard more gun fire. He put his hand up in a fist which ment to stop.
The clones stopped at his command, Rev was looking backwards just in case if anyone or anything was behind them. They all heard the gun shots, more Clones?

They all ran to the south Hanger, gun shots. They saw some Clones being pinned down, they were ARC troopers in the Hanger Control room. 503 saw Clones and pointed at the crates, they were unbreakable so the squad hid behind them and the squad decided on their own to cover 503 while he goes and helps the ARC.

Rev, Sevan and Quits were behind 3 crates and started to open fire with their weapons at the mass amounts of droids.

“Sevan, Quits! Nads out!” Rev commanded and the other two threw 2 thermal detonators out.

They heard the explosions and the droid parts fly, the clones looked from behind the crates at the droids, they just stood their, firing at them. And the clones shot back.

503 ran up the stairs dodging fire to get to the Control Room, 503 started to look at the ARC’s, nothing, no words from them, they just kept shooting.

“CC-503, get to the Bridge.” ARC-660 said to 503. “Now! Leave these to us.”

503 ran out the door behind him and he just ran to the bridge, the squad command disappeared as he ran and he was at the door of the bridge, bodies and parts everywhere.

503 went in, their were only 3 clones keeping this ship together. They were yelling at the others to get work done and he looked at the Jedi.

“General!” 503 ran over and held his guns at the door, he looked around at the 3 clones.

“Zero, this thing is going down!” the Jedi said. “We need to abandon this place with the LAAT (Low Attitude Air Transport.)

“Roger, the ARC’s are ready to leave, we need to get them.” He replied.

Zero was his nickname, he followed the Jedi through to the hanger, and it was cle-… well filled with destruction but with no enemies. The 3 ARC’s and the 3 squad troops were on the LAAT, the squad troops were in the cockpit of the ship and the others were in the loading area of it and the Jedi and Zero got in, the ship got ready and got into the air, the ship left the Flag Ship, the blast doors closed as they left and a new atmosphere was on the ship, so the Jedi could breath, they watched from a Camera that was on the back of the ship to see the Flag ship explode, they were the only survivors.. and going to a Separatist controlled planet, the Flag ship pieces were falling onto the planet and they watched..

They Clones all sat down and took of the helmets, they all looked alike, in every way.

Rev started to talk.

“Were so done..” He stopped as the ARC started to talk.

“Look, we have no choice, we need to work together down their.”
ARC-545 said “ARC-545 Ion reporting.”

“ARC-660 Telo reporting.” The other one said.

“ARC-567 Flail, reporting in sir.” The last one responded to that.

“You guys.. When we land.. move together, no one goes alone.” The jedi said to them all. He had his cloak on and a light saber in his hand, it wasn’t on, it was off, meaning no blade.

They felt the LAAT Land.

Everyone put their helmets on, only force knows what was waiting for them out there, on the planet.. The planet, Mustafar.

[Gilgamesh Magnius]

Chapter 2

“If you leave behind one man, you leave behind a soldier, if you leave behind a soldier you leave behind a brother and if you leave him behind. You lose a chance to end the war.”
Clone Commander-503 “Zero”

Zero walked over first, he looked around at the molten world that he was now in, he looked around and he walked around a bit, he
saw a building and waved everyone out.

“Every one, out!” The Zero called to them, they all walked out, the
ARC troopers walked out, they had a rifle slung on the back and a blaster pistol in there hands. The troopers walked out with only a blaster pistol and the Jedi walked out.

The ARC troopers started to move to the building, they all did. They saw droids.

Over the communications link for the clones they heard from Zero.

“Clankers! Slow down!” everyone slowed down and the started to walk slowly towards the building; it was an Ore manufacturing plant. It was huge. They looked up to see the “Inevitable” land on the ground close to them, but to far to look at, since droids were on this planet the risks are greater.

Zero and the clones kept moving and the ARC’s appeared on his squad command part and the clones were on his Allies list as well as the Jedi.

They kept moving, guns at the ready while moving. Zero had to time to look back.

“Alright ner vods (Mandalorian for “My Brothers.) This is going to be done fast not to raise suspicion, we will enter the Ore refinery and take out any droids, the ARCs with me, and the Troopers go with the Jedi.” Zero said over the com link, he knew what the Jedi was thinking; he worked with him for a long time so he just knew. The got to the front door of the Ore Refinery and the ARCs hacked the door, they were in.

The ARC’s followed Zero down the hall and the Jedi went inside and went through a door, elevator?

Zero didn’t look back and the ARCs were silent, the com link was dead, they also lost contact with the other clones and Zero kept going, a door opened, Clankers... Everywhere left right and centre.

It was still an Ore refinery, but was built by the droids.
They ducked and walked along the platform and went into a room, the command room. There were holodisks and at the same time there were long rang communication links, they could call for help.

“Ion, get all this tech up and running, Flail, cover the door.” He ordered and the ARCs agreed.

Flail ran to the door and watched outside of it.

Zero watched the last ARC trooper watch the door with Flail and he helped Ion when he could, over the com link he hears.

“Clankers are on their way.” It was Ion, Zero looked at Ion.

“Hurry Ion!” He commanded. “We will hold them off, get the Jedi’s on Courosaunt. We need an Evac and emergency help.”

“Yes Sir” Ion responded to the demand and worked on the holodisks to get them working and attach them to the com link.
Zero pushed a large chunk of metal out of the wall and made an impassible wall on the walk way, if they droids didn’t know that they were their, they did now.

The metal they were using for cover was indestructible, only the force had a chance to destroy it. The ARCs hid behind it and used little slits that they had on the “wall” to see through, and shoot through.

The droids kept shooting and shooting, but they weren’t moving at all.

“Damned Clankers!” Zero shouted and threw a thermal Detonator over the wall, it created a huge hole in the walk way the droids couldn’t get over, the walked back into the room and closed the blast doors over the windows and the ARCs and Zero opened a door in the back, the way to a platform!

“Perfect, there is a way they could die.” He thought to himself.

“Any luck with the Comes Ion?” Zero asked.

“Almost done...” He responded.

“Alright, ARCs grab what ever weapons you can, Ion when you get it working let me know.” The other two ARCs ran out of the room and looked for weapons, they came back.

“Clankers got nice stuff.” Flail said

He had a rocket launcher and carried 4 rockets and 9 thermal detonators in his bag.

Quits had a chain gun and 4 thermal detonators.

Zero chuckled a bit.

“Who knew Clankers could use such beautiful weaponry.” Ion laughed.

Zero started to look outside.

“We have company!” He looked at what was coming. “Droid transport en route.”

Flail ran outside and set up the Rocket so that way it was stationary, he shot it at the Droid drop ship and it landed in a heaping pile of fire.

Flail and Quits stayed outside and waiting anything that came by, chain gun for ships and rockets for the big guys.

“I got it working!” ion set up a call on an emergency frequency and
a Clone trooper was standing at attention.

“This com link is for emergencies only, not for check ups.” The Clone said.

“We need an evac on Mustafar!” Zero put his hands on the table.

“That’s… Seperatist space you guys need to hold out then.” The Clone reported being a smart ass.

“No, we need help now!” Zero responded. “Jedi Master Liken’ Zoë is here, but we split up, we need the evac.”

“I’ll call up Master Obi-won and Anakin to see.” The clone disappeared.

“Damnit!” Zero punched the holodisk.

“Zero, come in Zero.” He heard Obi-won’s voice. “We got your message we are on our way.”

“Thank you general.” Zero took off his helmet. “How long?”

“Roughly a day.” Obi was giving it thought. “Are you alright to hold out for a while?

“Roger sir.” He shut the holodisk off and tried to get the Jedi on the Comlink.

“General?” Zero kept trying.
He got no answer.

“We can’t locate the General, Clones, pack up and move out.” Zero commanded. Even he was a clone but the clones called each other brothers or clones.

“Sir!” The ARCs packed up and started to look for a way out, they went into a door to their left and turned on their headlamps to see, they saw destroyed droids and they kept going down the hall with guns leveled.

Flail had the Rocket on his back and a blaster pistol in his hands for better aim.

Quits had the chain gun in his hands, for the armors.

They kept walking down the hall way, they heard gun shots and
the sound of a light saber blocking blast fire.

It was them!

Zero looked at the ARCs, gave a nod and they nodded back.
They set a charge on the door and blew it.

“Squad, take take take!” Zero commanded.

“Thought you would never ask.” Ion replied.

The troopers ran in, the sight they saw was gruesome, even for clone’s eyes.

Zero stared at the Jedi who was on the ground.. dead. He had a blaster wound in the head, between the eyes.

“Shit!” Zero looked around. “Rev? Sevan?..” Nothing, they saw them dead.

Were they too late? They heard movement and aimed at the door, what ever was coming in, was going to die.

Zero checked the heart rates of his squad..190? That’s high, the adrenaline in Zeros body made him crazy, as soon as the door opened, they saw blaster fire, they went out the door they came.

“Ner Vods, get to the Plate form, we need to hold out their!” He
went on. “We need to hold out.”
Hold out?.. They need to survive.

The ARCs ran to the plate form that was near the com link room. The catwalk was broken, good..

They took the metal that was blocking the path and used it in front of the door and melted it on.

Now, they walked outside and took off their helmets, they were sweating like dogs.

“Hey.. Commander?” Ion looked at Zero.

“Yeah?” Zero replied.

“Think.. that Master Obi won is coming?” Ion asked, he was looking moral due to the Jedi and other clones dead.

“I know, we have to keep it together, its them or us..” Zero looked at his helmet and clean the visor.

They heard a ship.. A Separatist ship...

“Damnit!” Zero said soft.

“They know we are here.. They know that we are the best.” Flail said putting his helmet on.

Then it hit him.

“Shit! They know the General is coming!” Zero pointed at Ion. “Ion, set up a com link, tell the General to bring Anakin, separatist ships inbound!”

They all ran inside and Ion got a hold on the com link.
But.. their wasn’t just Obi won and Anakin, their was General Grevious..

“Grevious?” Zero was shocked.

“Jedi Masters..” Grevious coughed. “Let us make a little.. Game with these Clone troopers you love.”

“Grevious!” Anakin’s hand clenched in a fist on the holodisk. “We will-“He was stopped by Obi won.

“What do you have in plan for this Grevious?” Obi won asked stroking his chin.

On the holodisk the Jedis were wearing their cloaks.

“Who ever finds these clones first will decide their fate, if I win, and kill them, then the planet is Still ours.” He coughed and went on. “If you happen to find them, then you gain control of the planet.”

“Your on, Zero, Gather your troops, you have a day head start, is that fair Grevious?” Obi won was confident of Zero and the ARC troopers abilities as a whole.

“That is… fair, you have a day head start, once the republic fleet is here, no attacks, and they must have a rendezvous point for us.

“Sir..” Zero turned off the holodisk. “Alright boys! Lock and load, grab all the gear you need.”

“Yes sir.” The ARCs scrambled to get things together.

This wasn’t going to end well, that is the truth.

Zero couldn’t help but wonder.. They were a squad now..

“We are now a squad boys.. Squad ∑ (Sigma) They needed to get out of this place, non of the droids around.

They walked out and saw the Droid Star Ship. It was huge, it was bigger than most ships.
Zero looked around.

“Is the LAAT still workable?” Ion asked.

“We will need it..” Zero and the others ran to it.

They didn’t know what was in store for them. They ran over rocks to get to the LAAT, they need to get to it before they are even found.

[Gilgamesh Magnius]

Chapter 3
The sign says Run, don’t walk.

“Never walk before you can run, running is a way of life, a way to
Keep yourself healthy, and keeps your team alive.”
ARC-545 "Ion"

They got on the LAAT. It was still usable but very unstable.

Ion got in the cockpit with no orders and started to get it off the ground. The rest of the squad were in the waiting bay so they could keep watch, Zero had his rifle out pointing at the ground and a rope around his side so that way he would stay on.

Quits had his rifle out too and pointed on the ground on the other side.

“This is just our luck..” Flail responding sitting down and strentching.

“Keep the chatter low brothers!” Zero said.

“Why? Not like we are going to make it… Knowing Grevious.. He is going to win, he is in orbit.” Flail responded.

The team started to talk about how there is only a small chance that the Generals will win.

“Clones!” Zero said in an uproar. “Listen, we can win! We can do this! And they will find us, we are the best, the best of the best.”

The ARCs shut up. They looked at Zero and got serious again.

“Now.. where do we go?” Ion said, trying to land it.

“hmmm..” Zero thought while looking for anything that would move, or hurt them

The lights went red, the emergency lights!

“We are going to crash!” Ion responded. “Brace for impact!”

“Shit!” Zero looked around and grabbed a railing over head.

The LAAT crashed by the lava, another 3 inchs, and all of them would have died.

Zero shook his head and looked around, the ARCs flail and Quits were on the ground about a feet behind the ship, they jumped out at the ground time but the shock made them pass out for abit.

Zero checked his squad command, they were all ok, shook up, but ok.

Ion walked over slowly, he was so shaken up that he could hardly walk.

“I’m, ok sir…” Ion shook his head and stood at attention.

Zero picked up quits and put him over his shoulder.

The equipment was light, but he could only carry so much.

He left all the thermal detonators and his rifle, all he had were his pistols.

Flail woke up and followed with Ion, they found a type of station, an Old republic outpost!

Before the war was in the outer rim Mustafar was a huge complex for the clones, used to search the galaxy for all droid outposts, that could help out a lot.

The clones didn’t say a word but Ion and Flail ran towards the outpost and Zero ran slowly to the outpost.

They didn’t stop at all, they kept going and going.

Ion and flail were inside, but the lights were still on. It was still in power.

Zero got to the outpost and put Quits in the med bay. Flail and Ion followed into it, they all had broken something, but they could walk it off.

Clones were ment to get hurt, expendable.

Zero ran to the control room of the outpost and looked around, Fallen clones, roughly 1 or 2 years old. Same with droid parts.

Zero had an idea.

He took droid parts and reprogrammed the circuitry, commandos were good at this.

He made the droid loyal to the republic and he put his hand on the right hand side of his helmet.

“I’m going to reprogram droids to be loyal to us and that we can work while they guard the area and keep the other droids away till we can get some vehicles here so we can escape.” Zero said, it was abit staticy on the other side.

“Roger that sir.” The 3 ARCs said before falling off the squad command, they had turned off their helmets and took off their armor so they could be treated. Bacta treated.

The doors to the Med bay closed, they were blast doors, nothing could get in or out, Zero heard a moan.

Another person here? He looked at the battle droid.

“Clanker, try and repair the droids here but don’t turn them on till I say so.” Zero said after pulling out a gun and running towards the moan, it was in the weapons den.

“Roger Roger.” The battle droid said and worked on his task rebuilding droid after droid.

Zero opened the door and held his gun out, he saw a clone.

“Who…. Are you?” The trooper got up. “Reinforcements?”

“No… We are stuck here too.” Zero said and took the clone to the med bay and punched in the code to open it. “What’s you name kid?”

“Skipz” The clone said.

“Alright Skips, stay in here, let me and the droids do the rest.” Zero saw his squads around, he saw them all.. passed out getting worked on, fixed limbs and bones. He couldn’t help but sigh.

Skips took off his armor and laid on a table as Zero watched. Zero needed to get things done, he ahd no time rest.

Zero walked out and closed the door, his Vitals were lower than normal, the pain of the crash just kicked in, he looked at the 10 droids that now stand in the main room, not enough…

He started to reprogram them all and taking out the backups and replacing them with new ones, the droids were now Droid killers, they were able to see everything and they waited at the entrance inside the building with guns leveled, shooting anything that comes in. These droids were smarter, some of them were over top of the door, in the rafters with a nice clean shot and beside the doors.

Zero started to work on getting all the turrets on the outside operational and all the Anti-airs and Surface to air cannon working.

He kept trying but couldn’t, it was to much and the pain worsened in him.

“Damnit!” He cried as in dropped to his knees and began to pant.

Zero got up and started to work again, he found something. This base had a secret underground workshop… for vehicles still working!

He found the inventory, if he could get enough droids in here, he could auto the vehicles and get off this place. But if the fleet found it, the vehicle is gone.

Zero looked at the hallway the droids were in, they were all hidden.

He programmed them well… maybe to well.

Zero took off his helmet, it was his own helmet, but cleaned it a bit, everyone who was with him needed new armor, the shoulder protectors were charred and burnt. The Commander capes were burnt.

Zero personally liked it. He was trained to be the best. No matter what happened.

It was 4 hours he was working, he needed to rest but couldn’t his squad was his priority. Nothing else.

He needed to keep his squad alive for as long as possible.

His face.. was sweaty, he was bleeding. He suffered a head injury and he just dropped on the ground after the turrets were now online. He didn’t wake up but he heard Ion.

“Zero!?” He felt himself being lifted but nothing else.

Zero was now fully unconscious from the head wound.. and from the heat of the planet.. and the rest he never got.

[Gilgamesh Magnius]

Chapter 4
A stand of 4.

“Don’t lose sight of what is important, life, friends
and love. Fighting for the truth is the ultimate goal.”
ARC-660 “Quits”(Name changed after Quits disappeared)

Zero awoke with his armor off, he sat up and looked around, no one was around, just a medical droid that was finishing up with Skipz.

Zero got up and looked at his armor, it was new!? He put it on and walked out.

How long was he out? The ARCs were working on getting a door open to the vehicles.

“We need a charge!” Ion said, he had new armor, it was black, Spec ops armor. He had a smaller blaster rifle in his hand.

Quits had white armor that had blue hand marks everywhere. He had a rocket launcher on his back and a bag filled with rockets. He held another small blaster rifle.

Flail had black armor two and had a chain gun instead of the blaster pistol. He looked at the holster on his side, it held a pistol.

His team had new armor. Zero, had his old armor, but spic and spam, he walked over to his team, and impute the code.

“You guys… are morons.” Zero said smiling under his helmet.

The three turned around and aimed at Zero.

“Sir!” They lowered there guns and were at attention.

“At ease.” Zero said and the clones looked at the door when it opened.

Inside, was an elevator.

They walked in and stood in the elevators. It was moving on its own.

The clones just looked at each other. Ion and Quits kneeled down aiming at the door for when it opens and Zero and Flail aimed at the door.

The door opened, what they saw, was just… amazing.

A whole abandoned clone vehicle storage!

“Oh shit…” Zero said walking in.

The clones followed.

AT-TE’s, BARC speeders… every vehicles.

They walked around and saw droids everywhere!

Oh god… He saw Clones troopers too, General Kenobi and Grevious!? Did they knew they were here.

Zero looked at them. They were negotiating.

Zero walked down a cat walk towards the weapons cache. They walked in and started to grab what they could. They walked out and a few clones and droids were walking, watching each other.
They over heard the Conversation.

“Its agreed, the clones will not destroy the droids and the droids will not destroy the clones, is that a deal?” Kenobi asked.

“It is a deal Kenobi.” Grevious responded.

“Now, if the droids can stun them, I win.” Grevious said again.

He watched them get up and walk to their ships as every troop ran off outside, it was just the commandos inside.

They slowly walked to the loading floor.

If they were seen by anyone, its over. The commandos barricaded all exits and entrances.

They stood at the door.

This was their final stand..

The four brothers Sigma Squad.

“alright boys, hide behind the cover and await evac.” Kenobi knows we are here.

They saw the droids coming, and open fire, they had to clear the LZ..

The commandos wouldn’t go down without a fight, they returned fire making every shot count, hitting droid after droid, not caring where. They saw red blaster shots fly by and blue fly by the droids, tanking them out one by one.

“Shit! There are too many!” Ion said into the com link. All their vital signs were at max, heart rate and everything, that wasn’t good. “We need back up!”

“We need more troops!” Quits responded.

“Brothers! We can’t win, its impossible!” Flail kept saying over and over.

“Keep it up! Help will be on the way soon! We need to trust the generals!” Zero said, he heard a light saber turn on, he turned around.

“General!” Zero was kneeling before Anakin. To dodge fire.

“Zero, keep this up will be here shortly, you need to do this alone. Im here incase of Grevious.” Anakin jumped away.

“Roger..” He started to fire again, he took a shot to the left arm, it took it out. “Shit!”

He used his right to keep firing.

“Sir! Are you ok!?” He heard from the squad over his coms.

“I’m fine.” Zero kept shooting, the droids were gone, Zero fell over, his vitals were fading abit, but he was stable.

His eyes closed.

He wasn’t dead, he needed to rest, they shot took out his arm.

He opened his eyes to see his Evac. He smiled and closed his eyes and felt Anakin hold him up and take him to the ship.

“Come on Zero, time to take you to safty.” Anakin said softly to him.

Zero had one hell of a day.. he wanted more. He fell asleep on the ride up, his team was ok. That’s all he needed.