The War for Equestria

Chapter 1

Fix got up from his hard cot and rubbed his throbbing head his eyes adjusting to the dim room of the barracks. What had he just seen? He had seen some four legged animal get attacked by some animal made of wood with glowing green eyes.The eyes still burned on his eyes. That scream the brown thing had screamed was still lingering in his ears like an alarm blaring. It had seemed so real. Ignoring the painful headache that had suddenly appeared he woke up Duke, another clone who was sleeping on the cot next to his.

"Duke, Duke! Wake up!" Fix muttered as he shook the clone's body.

"What is it? I'm trying to sleep here." muttered Duke sleepily before returning back to sleep. Increasing the shaking Fix continued to try and wake up Duke until in a flash he was on the ground with Duke pointing his DC-17 hand blaster directly, inches away from Fix's face.

"Again, what do you want Fix?" Duke yelled in anger waking up all the clones in the barracks. Ignoring the yells of the angry clones around for being woken up Fix got up from the cold metal floor and sat back down on his bed, head bowed down waiting until it was all over.

"Duke I had a dream again" Fix said mostly to Duke but the other clones could not help but chiming in.

"I need to get back to sleep!"

"Talk quietly please!"

"Shh! I'm trying to sleep here!"

After the yelling had subsided and most of the other clones had fallen asleep Fix told his dream to the rest of Quasar Squad which happened to be still awake. Their faces turned to very sleepy to very intrigued to horrified in a matter of minutes as Fix told what he had saw in the dream. Duke started to joke around it was what he was known for.

"So you saw the crashed Republic frigate 9889 in some sort of organic swamp on a unknown planet?" said Nova who was like the know-it all of the group. He knew a lot becuase he always had a holobook on his person at all times

"I highly doubt this because that frigate disappeared without a trace so it could be anywhere in the freaking galaxy!" said Bolt crossing his arms.

"And you said that that the thing that discovered the frigate was a horse?"

"Yeah I saw it as clear as I see you guys now!"

"So you are saying the dream is fake?" said Fix, noticing the skeptical looks on their faces. He was dissappointed that the troopers did not believe him.

" I totally am" replied Bolt.

"Why?"

"That frigate, there had got to be hundreds of frigates throughout the galaxy alone it was that exact one. The one which disappeared without a trace."

Fix was about to say a witty reply to his squad's doubt but he was interrupted by a loud booming voice

"Fix here obviously does not know what he is talking about" Duke replied triumphantly as if this is how he wanted the little conversation to end up."He was left in his growing chamber too long and it messed up his mind a little" Duke laughed with the other clones.

When Duke said another joke at Fix the clones laughed but it all looked forced except Duke's. Fix just shrugged it off he did not want to make a scene or else he would be court-marshaled and put in the holding cells a few levels below.

"By the way Fix you know clones cannot have dreams. Or at least they are not supposed to."

"Really?"

"Yes clones are not supposed to have dreams but sometimes they can its a problem in the genetics" interrupted Nova opening up a hologram. According to these statistics the percentages for a clone to be defective are..."

"I had a nice dreamless sleep until you woke me up!"

"Alright we should get back to bed now boys we got to work tomorrow" interrupted Bolt with a fake yawn.

As Fix climbed into his bed he recapped what had happened in the past half an hour. The other clones nodded off in a matter of minutes but Fix stayed up. Nova was right, a clone trooper should not have dreams. But he was not defective that was for sure. He was pretty sure all the clones joked around with him because Duke did. Duke liked joking around with him for fun but it was all in good spirits so he said. He was the only one who continued to joke around with him without end. Fix took Duke off his mind and back to the dream. He could still see how horrified the horse's face was when he was attacked by the wood monsters. What were those things? They were a monster he had never seen before and he had to study monsters in the schools on Kamino. After what seemed like hours. A loud boom knocked Fix off his bed and loud announcement knocked him from his thoughts.

"ATTENTION ALL PILOTS AND GUNNERS PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR STATIONS AND HANGERS IMMEDIATELY WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

"Do you think it is droids?" Bolt asked sleepily as an alarm starts to blare all around the ship.

"I hope it is" replied Rumble, another clone in Quasar Squad "Because I want to kill me some clankers with Hammer here" he patted the large minigun next to him. Hammer was Rumble's minigun he always used in every battle. He refused to use any other blaster or minigun. He was kind of crazy.

"Rumble you need to calm yourself down or I will have to call you Droidbait"replied Duke with a small look of uncertainty on his usually goofy face.

Nova watched as all the gunners and pilots left the barracks in a hurry to go to their stations or ships. "Half of those troopers will not come back alive" he muttered darkly to himself. "That is how the Republic is now is it killing men in a war the men don't even understand?" Fix pretending he did not hear this put on his armor with his personal designs on it. Some clone troopers had their own personal designs on the armor. Fix had decided to put to claw marks on the face of his helmet and put some blue on his shoulder pad. Duke had blue under his mouth and blue on his shoulder pad as well. Bolt had a blue lightning bolt on his chest and a little lightning bolt on the top of his helmet.  Nova and Rumble did not really have any personal designs just the standard ones given when a clone received its armor after it passed the tests it did have the blue markings of being in Quasar Squad.

The ship lurched again causing the clones all to fall on the floor. They all looked around when they heard a loud unnerving grinding noise coming from the hanger. The clones all looked at each other with a look of horror on their faces. They had been in a war zone before but now their ship was the war zone. This had never happened before. The intercom piped on and instead of a recorded voice it was a clone shouting in desperation.

"Attention Hangars B and A has been attacked by boarding parties of droids. I want all clones to report to hanga-"

Zarrrkkkk, the sound of blaster fire amplified by the intercom echoed all over the barracks. The trooper grunted and fell with a simple thud which was announced all over the ship. The clones who were still in the barracks grabbed their guns and rushed in the direction of Hangar B.

Quasar Squad grabbed their guns and Rumble grabbed Hammer and the clones rushed to Hangar B2, a part of Hanger B which was divided into three parts.

Once in Hangar B Fix saw all hell break loose. Many ships were on fire, bodies were everywhere and there was even blood, in large splatters on the shiny metal floor. The men of Quasar Squad ran in different directions to go and defend the ship from the attackers. Fix himself took cover behind a crate and started blasting at anything that was metal and moving. Another grinding noise echoed loudly throughout the hangar then Fix saw what was causing those noises. In front of him a giant drill was boring through the thick metal. Once the drill was through it shot out with a hiss what looked like a large rack, a rack carrying balled up battle droids.

"Commandos!" someone screamed as the commando droids jumped onto the clones armed with vibroswords. The nimble droids swiftly and quickly killed many clones, spraying blood everywhere. The dead clones then fell like puppets with their strings cut, not moving. Fix, watching his brothers die a horrible death had not seen the commando jump above him on top of the crate he was behind. The droid, using the handle knocked Fix right on the top of his helmet, throwing him to the ground causing blood to pour onto his face underneath his helmet. The droid then raised the blade for the kill....  Bracing himself Fix waited for it all to end but it did not happen. He slowly looked up to see a headless droid above him falling backwards, the blade tumbling out of his hands. He looked behind to see Duke carrying a blaster still smoking aimed where the droid had just been. Still startled Fix realized that Duke out of all clones had just saved his life.

"Thank me later" Duke yelled as he went to help out Nova. Fix, looked over through the barrier dividing the three sections of Hangar B and saw clones fighting rocket super battle droids that were flying in the air. The blue barrier that was the airlock for Hanger B1 was blinking and sparking which meant that the airlock was going to go out leaving nothing between the hangar and the vacuum of space. Then it happened, a clone shot a rocket at a droid narrowly missing it. The rocket continued to go until it hit the airlock barrier at its side. The barrier overloaded and shut off with a loud deathly, zap. Almost immediately air started to get sucked out of the hangar. Fix watched as he watched as everything in that part of the hangar got quickly sucked into space. Everything, boxes, starfighters, clones and even the droids themselves were sucked out. Fix teared up as he watched his brothers, some of them he was really close to get instantly sucked out into space. There were some screams but they were cries for mercy before they choked to death and froze. Then in almost one minute there was nothing was inside that hangar. It looked as though nothing had ever existed in there and that the cleaners had just cleaned. Fix looked up to see more droids swarming him shooting bolts that were way off. As he blasted the droids he noticed something that was extremely frightening. The airlock for this hangar was sparking as well ready to give out.. Fix jumped up frantic on how to escape. He ran through the blast doors towered where the escape pods were kept. Then his heart sank to the bottom of his chest as he saw the escape pods had been already shot out, none remaining. They had taken too long and the escape pods had already been launched. he ran back to see Quasar Squad and two other clones still fighting the mass of droids that were gradually approaching them.

"Guys we need to find the frigate!" Fix screamed at the remaining clones

"Not a good time to thinking about that dream now, Fix" Rumble yelled over the sound of Hammer.

"Yeah we need to get to an escape pod so we can escape, the barrier is about to break!" Bolt yelled

"THERE ARE NONE LEFT!"

"None l-le-left"  he stuttered.

"I think he is talking about the frigate that is docked under the Destroyer" one of the clones yelled.

"Come on we have to leave NOW!" screamed Duke as pieces of metal started falling from the ceiling of hangar and flames started igniting rapidly all over the blood and fuel covered floor.

"Hold on! I'm helping someone here!" yelled Bolt as he was crouched by a fallen clone commander.

"Just leave him we have to get out of here!" yelled Rumble as Bolt took off the hurt clone's helmet. Bolt stumbled back to see a blaster wound in the head. The commander was dead. Bolt stiffed a cry and then followed the rest of the clones out of the destroyed Hangar B. Another explosion rocking the entire ship. The hangar falling apart, pieces of debris falling on the remaining droids.

"WE NEED TO LEAVE NOW!" screamed Nova at the top of his lungs. "If we do not leave now the barrier will give out and we will all be dead!" The men of Quasar squad agreed. As they ran through the blast shield the barrier blew out causing everything to go flying into space. Luckily all of the squad and the other two other clones were in the blast doors already holding on to handles. For the other two clones that were still in the hangar they did not make it. They got sucked out into space, the horror etched into their faces as they knew their fate. Nova quickly closed the blast doors to save the others.

"Well, at least we are safe!" breathed Duke with a look of relief on his face. The other clones silently nodded in agreement,  they had a moment of silence for the clones that died in that hangar Fix thought of a whole barracks of troopers, dead. That battle had been a traumatic experience for all of them.

"We have to get to that frigate before this blasted piece of metal blows up and we are still on it!"

"Fix, we will have to hurry before we all die on this hunk of metal!" said Duke with a smile on his face.

"I'm working on it!"

As group ran throughout the ship multiple explosions were shaking the whole hallway. There were fires, most of them in the halls as well as the main engine room which was so hot the platforms were melting. The troopers ran into some droids but most of them were destroyed as they ran down the battle scarred halls. Fix had to avert his eyes when he saw the bodies of troopers who had tried to quickly defend themselves but were ambushed. The white armor had been stained with blood, a sparking light casting a blinking hellish glow in the hall. Fix ran up to a clone who had been shot in the chest multiple times and shot in the legs as well. Fix tried not to cry or whimper in surprise when he saw the clone painfully look up mercifully at Fix. The clone muttered something so quiet that even with the advanced hearing in his helmet he could not hear what he was saying. The clone continued to mutter at Fix then he sadly realized what he was trying to say. He was saying Please... Fix took his blaster and shot the clone directly in the head, point blank. The clone groaned but it was not a cry of pain it was more of a cry of pleasure that he was free from this hell. Fix felt a hand end up on his shoulder, it was Nova who had watched the entire episode unfold from behind Fix. from underneath his helmet Nova was tearing up as well. Why did the droids have to do this to his brothers?

Nova opened the door to find the frigate still in the docking bay. All the clones all sighed in relief, they were going to survive! They opened the door to the frigate to see that it had been untouched waiting for its next user. The clones smiled they were going to survive this ordeal and get off this doomed ship...

"Have you destroyed the ship yet?" croaked General Grievous to a hologram of Duel, a super tactical droid in charge of the fleet that was attacking the Destroyer.

"We have just blew off the whole front of the cruiser. I believe that no clone will survive this battle, If there are any clones that my droids missed the explosion will finish them off" Duel recited in a bland, robotic voice.

"If any clones survive or that blasted Jedi then I will disassemble you, piece by piece... personally. You understand?"

"Roger Roger.

"Good." Grievous muttered as the hologram of Duel vanished. Grievous needed to destroy that Jedi he needed a new lightsaber for his collection so he could show it off to his master, Tyranus. He knew that some clone or even the Jedi was going to survive they always did in every battle because of the inferior droids messing up everything. So to make sure that they were all dead this time he had put buzz droids with tracking devices on them into one of the boarding ships telling the droids to go and hide in escape pods, shuttles and anyhting that could fly. He glanced at the hologram that showed all the droids and their locations. To Grievous' dismay all but one of the droids was dead except one and that one was following a small group of clones towards a frigate, the last usable ship on the cruiser. Grievous laughed, a low croaking mechanical laugh that echoed around the entire droid command room. He needed to tell his master that everything is going as planned and that he would kill this Jedi scum...

"Look at this ship, it's somehow in perfect condition!"

"I see your excitement Nova, but you don't have to brag!" Duke joked.

Fix was bringing some extra supplies onto the ship when he felt the explosion. This explosion was defiantly the biggest explosion on the ship so far and the grinding sound had came back again but it was much louder than the drills on the boarding ships. The whole ship lurched backwards sending the clones onto their backs. Fix had had it, they were not going to stay on this doomed ship any more. actually the whole front of the ship had just fallen off from the rest of the ship in a ball of inferno. They were about to close the doors to send the ship off when a voice that was not a clone's said

"Are you going to forget us?" Fix stared it was the Jedi General who was in charge of this ship and behind him was his clone commando captain. The men, taken aback all stood at attention waiting to see what the General wanted. Duke's salute was sloppy while Nova's was the best.

"At ease, gentlemen. We need to get of this damned ship now if you please." the Jedi responded with an urgency in his voice. The men quickly ran into the frigate, their only way off the destroyed ship. None of them noticed the buzz droid follow them into the frigate...

As they flew out of the hangar they saw what had been happening to the ship. The ship had lost its entire front and its flaming carcass was sinking closer to Arora, a moon in the outer rim. Droid ships above were still bombarding the ship with lots of red bolts. But the Destroyer was not giving up with many ARC-170s still fighting the droid ships above. Then it happened there was a burst of flames from where the main reactor was and the bridge of the ship fell backwards and started to float off from the rest of the ship. As the frigate flew farther away, vulture droids, noticing what was going on started to blast at the frigate. One bolt shot from one of the droids was positioned correctly and hit the hyperdrive, activating it. The ship quickly started to bank downwards towards the input coordinates which was way in the unexplored regions.

"Who turned on the hyperdrive?!" the commando yelled in desperation. "Turn it off!" The clones just shrugged not knowing how use hyperdrives at all because they had never been in a frigate before. The Jedi ran to the controls but it was too late the ship's engines had already started to rev up. Fix, right behind the commando bowed his head. They were going into the unexplored regions, a dark, dangerous place not known to the Republic. The clones were all shoved back when the ship zapped into hyperspace the ship disappearing into a flash of bright light...