20 The Storm (20)

The troopers moved on from village to village repeating the cycle, the ones that did surrender were detained in the ships jails, the vicious cycle continued until they reached a city scale native settlement.

They repeated the same text book tactic but the result this time was different.

"Greetings natives, where is your leader? We would like to have proper confirmation that you do not plan to work with the empire"

The armor of a storm strooper was suddenly hit by a strong force that left a burn mark on it, it was then followed by a rain of laser beams, the attack made the squadron retreat while firing back at the wall of the city scale settlement.

"Find cover! They have energy ordinances!"

"How the hell did this settlement of natives get energy weapons?"

"It seems theyve been expecting us as well!"

On the wall a well dressed person arrived and yelled out loudly on the top of his lungs.

"Dogs of the empire! We have been expecting you to come! Did you really think that the other galactic empires wouldnt notice your pressence especially with how massive your movements are?! Quit your expansion while youre ahead and the alliance might spare you by turning your empire into a vassal system!"

When the troopers heard the mans words they already understood that the natives of this planet surrendered to another organization.

"They have joined another organization thus rebelling against the empire, requesting explosive armament barrage, they have tall stone walls 10 metres tall"

C56 heard the report and immediately ordered his battalion to prepare for a blanket fire, they picked up rocket launchers that had a scifi look but is actually a basic ballistic weapon and not energy ordinance, hidden by the trees they formed up and aimed at the top of the wall while a squadron aimed at the wall.

"READY!... FIRE!!"

Lines and lines of troopers holding launchers fired a wave of shots, each line fired at a fixed interval of 2 seconds after the line in front of it, the face of the well dressed man on the wall soured and his eyes widened, he then turned trying to escape but it was too late.

'BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!'

The rockets landed one after another and many body parts flew in the air as the explosion besically grinded up and even fried the natives on the wall.

The inhabitants of the settlement felt the ground shake and gulped, they all hoped that it was their soldiers that won, they then heard a uniform march that entered the city, many opened the windows of their homes only to see a black barrel pointed at their faces.

They raised their hands but the trooper pulled the trigger.

"The empire doesnt need rebels"

They sweeped the settlement and repeated their cycle of eliminating every living thing, man, woman, young, old, and even the disabled were not spared, while they were setting the city a blaze a human family was escaping with their young son.

This wasnt because the troopers were negligent but because Matt made them escape, it was needed for his plot to expand and develop, a hero can only be as good as their villain and since he made a villain then he plans to craft a hero.

This hero will be toy bound in the future, not every person will be willing to buy toys and make stories about villains but a hero attracts many, he planned to make the family escape the planet by boarding a once crash landed but now fixed ship.

"A great hero must go through great suffering, lets slowly take his parents away from him, make him an orphan with rage targetted towards the empire, how i make him an orphan is the question"

Matt began thinking and then suddenly focused on one toy bound trooper, 2005, the only trooper in his lore with a 100% hit rate.

"A dangerous trooper indeed but i have a plan to give her a single moment where she would miss her target, haha congratulations 2005 ill be writing your promotion in the future!"

Matts hands began to work their magic and soon a scenario was then formed on this nameless planet.

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The forest.

"Run! Just keep on running! Old man Kobi sacrificed himself for our escape! Keep on running! A ship awaits just past the river! Were almost there!"

"Papa why are those people in white burning the city?"

"Dont pay any attention to them, Anakin just run! We will go somewhere safer than here"

A minor exchange between a young boy and his father as they ran through the forest, the father had great physic but his family was different, he had to slow down his pace slightly even though his family was running at top speed.

2005 in the settlement was quite observant and was able to find the families escape route, she then ran back to the ship along with two other troopers, under the orders of a clone all three hopped on speeders and followed the trail of the escapees.

They wiped out plenty of the escapees but were split in multiple directions, 2005 was on the trail of Anakins family, the family ran fast but how can a physical body compare to a vehicle created for speed.

The fathers strong hearing caught wind of the sound of the speeder and immediately urged his family to run faster.

"FASTER RUN FASTER! I HEAR THEM COMING!"

The family hearing the fathers shout ran faster even if it meant that their legs will break, they were very tired and low on energy at this point but they all wanted to live and the father wanted his family to be safe, though from his experienced calculations the speeder would be able to reach them before they reached the ship.

It was after these calculations did he make a choice.