Mission 10: Conclusion

《《《《《 ///BEGIN LOG\\\ 》》》》》

It's said no one can hear you scream in the jungle.

 

Let me add no one can see you die either.

 

Firefek.

 

I was planning to take it easy this time around.

You know, looking good and buff, telling all the rookies what to do, ya know the drill.

 

But, our friend war here decided to shake things up a bit. Too boring for him, eh?

 

So first our cruiser blew up.

I hate to say it but we were a bunch of bantha fodder. Plain and simple. How do you get outsmarted by a kriffing piece of metal?

 

Another remark to add to the book of life.

 

Then, as the Endurance careened on its final endeavor, we plunged through the smooth, even magical, misty exterior of the planet's atmosphere.

I'm almost sure the cramped conditions and stuffy air vanished as we plummeted through an ocean of green, green, and more green; I'd never seen a planet so full of life.

 

It's the mission a clone always wished for.

 

 

But.

I felt something.

Even after I dismissed the feeling as simply a matter of stress, it never went away.

 

I faithfully carried out my orders, yet everything seemed.... ambiguous... and dark.

 

Command and unlinked us and informed we had to enter the catacombs, the bowels of the temple.

 

This is easily the first time I questioned an order; the uneasiness this planet gave me... it was worse than the chills Kamino's torrential rains gave me after a training day.

 

It did not help me clear my mind.

The planet's looming presence revolved around me, filling the gaps of the crumbling pieces of the ancient site, as my squad and I made our way under the monolith structure.

 

They had warned us about a.... thing.

 

An artifact.

An artifact of evil.

Of the Sith.

 

That word burned my memory with piercing familiarity.

I remember, some time ago, the dreaded screams and yells of terror, from fallen comrades, sounding the alarm of..... such a treacherous being.

 

It was the Sith.

 

 

"Sir, we've reached a fork in the tunnel system."

"The coordinates failed to upload on my receiver; did Command specify the pillar's location?"

 

Sabre's comment woke me from my thoughts.

 

"Er-umm-uh yes...uh yes Lieutenant. It's the right entrance. Stay close behind."

 

Wait.

Was it right?

Or was it left?

Was right right or wrong?

Was left wrong?

Was right the right wrong or left....

 

 

"STOP!!"

 

"Sir what is it?"

 

"Take your blasters, and set then from stun to the highest level of fire."

 

"Sir, Command told us to set it on stu-

 

"I DON'T CARE WHAT KRIFFING COMMAND SAID!!

 

I breathed heavily.

 

"That's an order, soldier."

 

"...."

 

"Yes Sir."

 

Something is wrong.

 

This isn't right.

 

I gotta stop this...

 

No.

Everything is fine.

Command is full of egotistical higher ups.

They just want you to die on this planet.

They're using you.

 

You're nothing but a clone.

A mindless, idiotical, thoughtless, expendable,

Being.

 

You don't have to place the charges.

The temple is not threat.

Nothing is here.

 

Nothing but death.

 

 

No.

No.

No.

 

 

What is this?

Who are you?

Are you for us or against us?

 

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

OUT

GET OF GET

OUT MY

GET HEAD MY

 

MY HEAD

 

OUT.

OF.

MY.

 

HEAD.

 

 

There is nothing here.

 

You don't have to place the charges.

 

There's no need.

 

Just stop.

 

Discard the charges.

 

Kill your men.

 

Kill yourself.

 

 

Just

 

l e t

g o

 

 

I- j-just c-can't. ...

 

 

Just let go....

 

 

B-but, I-I just couldn't...

 

 

LET GO....

 

 

NO.

 

NO.

 

NO.

 

 

Stupid imbecile.

Weakling.

You could have lived.... longer.

But now.... now you will pay.

 

 

It was gone.

I could think.

I could feel.

I could reason.

 

 

"Tango, Ratchet, Fuse, guard the entrance.

Sabre, come with me."

 

I went to place the detonators to finally get out of this place.

 

Firefek.

 

Water had splattered all over the charges.

Ya would think they'd make these things waterproof.

 

"Sabre, ya have any spare charges?"

 

"Always do Sir."

 

"Here ya g-"

 

"Wait!"

 

 

*cc-rree-aAAAKkkk...*

 

 

I feel it.

 

It's coming.

 

I felt the walls, the floor, the ceiling tremble.

The ground was cracking.

 

"Sabre, I want you to get out of here right now!"

 

"But Sir you-"

 

"SABRE!

It's coming.

Lead the squad.

You know what to do."

 

"I can't do it Sir!"

 

It's getting closer.

 

I feel it under my boots, around me, above me.

 

"You must.

This is my resting place."

 

I've run the good race.

Fought the good fight.

 

I've-

 

 

*CRASH*

 

 

It's broke through the wall with violent force, demolishing it.

 

So much was it's power it knocked us down.

 

Its red eye stared at me with the glare of death, straight into my soul.

 

"GO!!

BEFORE IT'S TOO LA-"

 

I was flying through the air.

 

"SIR!!"

 

I slammed against the cold stone wall.

 

No one said dying would be easy.

 

"G-g-ggo," was all I managed to whisper... as again I was hurled and knocked flat.

 

This is it.

 

Goodbye.

 

I saw the blood red light intensify.

 

Then, somehow, I saw it fade away and a pure light appear.

 

"Take care of them, as you did for me."

 

Then black.

 

《《《《《///ENDLOG\\\》》》》》

 

Final log uploaded by CL-4712, "Havoc."

Status: Unknown: MIA, assumed to be KIA.

Done