Ghoul squadron in Equestria

by ARC-5216

Chapter 2: Jackal

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Ark and his squadron were walking down the path with their new pony friends that were known as the main six.

“Hey Ark” Twilight said, “how come you and Serin are the only ones with those eyes” Ark responded with a shrug and said,
“me and Serin are the oldest ones so we were the only ones here deployed to the first battle of Geonosis”. He began to remember the screams of the many brothers he lost that day “but our memories are pretty foggy from then, all we really remember is waking up in a medical bay with monitors hooked up to us to every part of our body”.

“That seems very uncomfortable” Rarity said while trying not to sound disgusted.

“You get used to it eventually” Fry said smiling under his helmet.

“Ah wonder if you’re the only Humanes here” Applejack said frowning from the many stifled laughs of her friends.

“Humans or to be more specific, clones” Magma said with some amusement in his tone.

“Um Ark” Twilight said, “would it be OK if you and your friends came over to my house so to answer some questions of mine”
the clones thought about it for a while and began discussing if it would be a good idea privately of course with their helmets built in communicators.
“Well” Ark said “were fine with answering some questions but” he replied implying a twist to his decision.
“You have to come to our camp”

The ponies looked, and all nodded Twilight seemed to be happier with this outcome.
“Deal” she said with enthusiasm.

They began to walk towards their ‘Landed’ ship where it was slightly covered in branches, leaves and dust. “This is our personal beauty, The Bludgeon”.

The mares looked in surprise at the size of the thing, it may have looked small from a distance, but the thing was huge to pony standards. “HOLY COW” Rainbow Dash said clearly blown away at their little ship. “That paint job is a little drab” Rarity said at what she considered a ball of tan and crimson.

“She's meant for battle not style” Fry said while he was contemplating on redesigning its color once they got back.

“Well now let’s get inside shall we” Ark said trying to get everybody out of their trance,

“O-OK” Fluttershy said still uncomfortable at the sight of the metal ship in front of her

“don’t worry it won’t bite” Magma said jokingly. They became even more entranced as they entered the ship, crates and guns were everywhere from the supposed ‘landing’ that the team made.

When they made their way towards the cockpit, they saw rows upon rows of buttons and twilight looked as if she was about to have her mind explode.

“It’s so amazing” she said with pure delight in her eyes

“this is just a small transport ship” Ark said “wait till you see the big ones” this only made Twilight smile bigger.

“Sir” Serin came in “picked up some movement west of the area”
Ark nodded and got out his blaster ready to advance. “let’s move it men, might be a civvie”.

They all ran towards the last location of movement by the unknown individual.

Suddenly a group of Timberwolves jumped out and ambushed the group (like I would give them a break). “Battle positions men set blasters to kill!” Ark said while readying his own blaster,
the ponies looked almost in shock at what appeared to be a laid-back person who now had a voice as commanding as the princesses.

The clones had begun to ready themselves only waiting for the first Timberwolf to launch at them.
The first went for Fry who punched the it away with ease and proceeded to shoot the thing in the head, the clones opened fire but the wolves knew that this was a real threat and not simple prey.

The clones looked up in confusion as the wolves broke apart and formed a giant version of a Timberwolf.

“Fierfek” Magma said while looking at the giant mass of splinters with its green eyes looking directly upon them all,

“Frags soldier, now!” ark yelled at the heavy who activated his grenade launcher launching frags into the wolf’s (wolves?) mouth. The giant mass of bark retreated in the pain caused by the explosives and began to charge at them.

Ark and everybody knew it, if they didn’t kill this thing they were as good as dead, until suddenly a figure jumped from out of nowhere, and a howl came from the giant Timberwolf as it tried to claw at its back. Ark and Serin felt something inside them like a power that told them this was their chance.

That thought was assured when they saw grey robes and a saber impaling the giant beast.
“Well men let’s not leave all the fun all to him’ Ark said, "LETS SCRAP THIS THING!” the clones charged and begun to fire upon the Timberwolf. It howled in pain and before you could say bantha poodoo, the beast had fallen and crumbled into splinters.
“Timber!” Magma shouted which got a laugh from everybody except the ponies who looked in utter fear and shock at the power of these people,

“h-h-how did they do that” Rainbow said with a face equal to everyponies reaction.

“They just butchered it in under a few minutes” Fluttershy said with tears in her eyes.

It seemed that these clones were more than just comedic friends but the most elite soldiers Equestria has ever seen.

“Can’t believe a Jedi would be on this planet” Fry said with a slight bit of curiosity,

“evening my friends” the figure said while putting his saber back under his cloak.

The cloak had a grey and torn appearance as if littered with age. His mask was a little bit more interesting it resembled a creature called a jackal from a planet Ark read about that lived a long time ago. “Nice mask you got there” Ark said with a small glimpse of curiosity.

“Oh, the jackal” the figure said, “it’s made from a tree native to my world, it’s considered a symbol of strength and wisdom.”

“Neat” said magma.

“I guess it is” the figure which they now just called Jackal replied.

The ponies looked almost confused as if these people were lifelong friends and were having a nice conversation, “do you know each other” Twilight asked confused as the group looked at her with those lifeless helmet that still scared her and anypony who looked upon it.

“I have no clue who he is but from where were from we served under them as soldiers” Ark replied with a little more optimism in his voice.

“Well I did originally fight for the Jedi order, but I was captured and forced to become a sith” Jackal said with sorrow and regret when saying the word sith
“that sounds horrible” Fluttershy said even more sympathetic than ever.

Jackal replied with,
“it was a life of power, but at the cost of many”.

The words of Jackal seemed to burrow themselves deep into the hearts of the ponies. How could a person go by living so horribly, “d-d-d-do you r-regret it” Fluttershy said still afraid of the man.

“More than any living being can imagine” Jackal said still saddened and guilt tripped by his past.
“But the past is the past” he said with enthusiasm “we must not dwell on what happened before and more of what will happen today".

they all smiled at him seeing that even a cold black heart can warm up again

"now where is this ship of yours commandos I would like to see it.”
as they began walking the forest began not to look like a creepy wasteland of trees and more of a jungle to the humans who were intrigued by the art of it.

Meanwhile the group of ponies were somewhat cowering behind them, Fluttershy’s fear was a bit more visible as she was shaking uncontrollably. “You know, for the stories your kind tells, this place is pretty peaceful” Fry said still taking in all that was around him

“well that’s probably because you took out a giant Timberwolf in a very short time span” Rainbow Dash said still in fear and awe.

“Heh guess your right” Ark said still wondering about how those things just meshed themselves together to create a giant version of themselves.

They arrived in a very short amount of time, but it was only because the clones and Jedi decided to run almost literally leaving the ponies bite the dust.

“Home sweet home” the clones said looking at what the Bludgeon or what they also liked to call "the big stick"

-On the CIS Cruiser "Huntsmen"-

“You want me to eliminate them sir” Clik said with a cold tone.

“yes Captain” the Tactical droid said to the clone “take your squad of commando droids and eliminate the clones”,
“it will be done sir”. Clik said after contacting his droids to prep the shuttle that they would be departing on shortly.


Author's Note

Yey another chapter done and by the force am I mentally dead and with the amount of stuff going on right now its a miracle I was able to write this at all. Hope you guys enjoyed it all.

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