"Daily Log A-32-00, It's been a month since we set up base here. The men are growing impatient and moral is low. Command Needs to give my men a mission." I said into the holo-diary. I looked around the room from my deck. It was a simple soft gray room with a nice bed, two desks, bathroom and walk-in closet for Erica and me. I looked over at the bed and the passed out women that was still firmly under the covers. It was a Sunday so we had the day off from the basic tasks around the base, which only meant I could catch up on papers and Erica could sleep like she liked to, which in other words means she will sleep half the day away. I smiled and got up and walked over to the bed, I leaned down and placed a kiss on her head before walking to the door and walking out towards the war room. As I walked in I was about to say good morning to the clones when the base was rocked with a large tremble followed up by a loud explosion. "What the hell what that?!?" A clone yelled out. "Sound General Quarters Now!" I Yelled realizing we might be under attack, I guess I got what I wished for. Luckily I was already in my armor so rushed over the weapons locker in the room and grabbed a DC-15A Rifle and ran out of the war room towards the perimeter line of the base. As I ran the alarms started going off through the base, as I was passing one of the main barracks halls clones were starting rush out to the positions. "Lets go troopers get on line." I Yelled as we got outside and onto the defensive positions we had set up on the wall and in the main yard. Red blaster bolts were already hitting the base from out in the void of the Mandalorian plains. "Find You Targets, Aim For Silhouettes And Muzzle Flashes!" I yelled as I started to shoot our unseen enemy. Slowly what we realized was that we were shooting super battle droids. "Hold the line troopers!" I yelled as we slowly started to drop the attackers. I could hear our mortars start going off followed up by the rounds landing on the attackers. After almost two hours of fighting the droids called a retreat and fell back. We were cautious at first as when we walked out of the base and into the field.I stood in the void looking over the bodies that were littered everywhere. The droids fought well but at the end of the day underestimated the clones and our firepower here. "Sir I have the causality report." Captain Archer said as he walked over to me, Captain Archer is Night Companies third in command and one hell of a clone. "Let's hear it." I said not really wanting to know how many of my men died. "Well we have thirty wounded, sixteen dead. On the other side of things We knocked out about five-hundred clankers."
Chancellor Palpatine's Office - Coruscant - Two Weeks Later
"Field Marshal you pulled off a stunning victory on Mandalore." Palpatine said with praise. "Thank you sir, but it wasn't just me sir. The clones are the ones that won the day." I said still standing at the position of attention. "Ah yes, but you commanded them to victory, please take a seat." He said. I relaxed and sat down in the overly comfy chair. "I called you here today to discuss the future of your clones and you." He said as he stood and looked out the window. "We are going to make a major base on Mandalore now and I want you to be in command of it, and from this base you will launch lighting attacks against our enemies with the same courage and fight that you did on Mandalore." He said as he turned around and looked at me. "Thank you sir, I won't let you down."
Mandalore - Few Days Later.
I looked down at the red visor of my black and gray helmet. The dim red light allowed us to see just enough to move around but not much more. I flipped the helmet around and slid it on. I looked up and saw Erica's red visor looking back at me. I reached out and held her hand for a moment. "Thirty Seconds." A voice said over the radio. I squeezed it lightly and knew she had a small reassuring smile under her helmet. I let her hand go and we face the door and waited. After what felt like a small life time, the red light changed to green and the door opened. "Go Go Go!" I yelled as we jumped off the gunship. Red laser bolts flew past us as we moved towards the small droid outpost. Ever since the Republic made a base on Mandalore the Separatists have been trying to get base, they were only ever to set up these small outpost that Night Corp would quickly storm and destroy. We quickly ran up to the main door of the outpost. We stacked up and I looked back at the gray armored clones and ARC troopers looking back at me. "Breacher Up!" I said loudly. One of the ARC Trooper moved to the door and set the large charged before moving back into the stack. "Breach, Breach, Breach!" I Yelled. The door blew open and we all rushed in shooting at all the droids that moved. In only a few minutes the outpost was cleared. "Good job troopers." I said proudly over the radio.
(Author Note: I hope y'all like the chapter, I'm going to put a picture to show what the both Shane and Erica's full armor look like along with the basic Clone trooper and ARC trooper. Note this is the Phase two version but there would be no real difference in color or how they look.)
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