Bat Squadron: Season 1

Episode 20

5BBY
Utapau

"This is Stryker 1, moving in through the caves now. Stay alert." An imperial shore trooper commander tells his team as they slowly creep through the Utapauan cave system.

"Please explain to me again, why do we have to sneak through the lower levels, past the Amani and the other beasts, to get to this rebel base. Why not just send a giant force to attack it from above." A trooper says.

"Cut the chatter. We do what Jeremiah orders us to do." The commander says.

"Yeah guys. Listen to the clone. Come on gramps, you were bred to blindly follow orders. You don't have any common sense. All your thinking is done for you." Another soldier says.

The commander stops and slowly lowers his E-22. He slowly turns his head.

"Hey! Can you hear me? Didn't you say it yourself, we gotta move, old man. Do need your hearing aid? Or is it your back?" The trooper says.

"All my thinking is done for me eh? That's a good one. I just thought of 32 ways to kill you and make it look like an accident. And know nobody else in this squad would come to your help or turn me in because we all dislike you. Want me to show you one?" The commander asks.

"....no sir." The trooper says.

"That's what I thought. Back in line!" The commander yells and they start wading through the waist high water again.

The commander had 2 Lightening bolts painted on his helmet with the letter S on the back of it. He was an old clone but continued to fight. He was only allowed to by his commanding officer, Jeremiah, who he knew during the clone war.

"Hey Storm....I think something just moved past us." The trooper who was cracking jokes earlier says.

"Don't piss yourself." The commander says and keeps walking.

The trooper gulps and he looks down as they continue through the cave. They make it through and start climbing onto the land one by one. The joker was the last one to start climbing out. As he sets his blaster up on land and his hands grab a rock to pull himself up, he feels something grab his foot and he looks down as he's suddenly dragged under. His empty helmet floats in the water before it starts to sink. The clone looks down and picks it up. He drops it and raises his blaster. He fires 3 shots in and watches as the body of the trooper floats up along with a body of a large amphibious creature. The creature had one hole in his head and the trooper had 2 in his back.

"You hit him!" One of the troops says.

"I know. Let's keep moving." The commander orders and they continue walking again.

They all proceed through a small canyon that was directly under Pau City. They look up and look around as local Amanin watch from on perches. A trooper raises his blaster and another lowers it and shakes his head.

"Don't do anything to agitate them." The commander says as they walk along.

"They agitate me just my existing." The trooper says.

"Quiet." The commander says.

Spears suddenly rain down on the squad and penetrate the unsuspecting shoretroopers. The commander turns around and watches one of his men take a spear to the neck. Blood spurts from the trooper's throat as he reaches out and he drops onto the ground.

"Commander!" A trooper yells and runs toward him and intercepts a spear in the chest meant for the commander.

He turns then shoots down 3 Amanin and looks at his remaining men, 5.