Chapter 11 - Ready to Die (1/2)

CT-4063 jumped over his cover and immediately started sprinting. Behind him CT-2981 stopped cursing his craziness and ordered the others to fire.

Blue laser flashing by him, he himself firing, it didn't take long for the droids protecting the AAT to fall. The droid lines were too far to get accurate shots, so the only danger he was facing at the moment was the AAT. Not that it was little danger.

The cannon of the AAT aimed at him. Through the black hole on the tip of the cannon barrel he could see a red glow building. He wait to the last second before making a sharp turn right and diving behind a boulder.

BAMMM!!!

On the place he was before there was now scorched earth. He had escaped this time, but now the AAT knew where he was. He had few seconds before it fired again, and this time he wouldn't be able to dodge.

He sneaked a glance over the boulder. The cannon was aimed at him. To make things worse there was a droid squadron - about a hundred of them - coming to support it.

Laser fire was pouring on the AAT, doing little to no damage to it. There was nothing his brothers could do to help him.

He had two options now. Continue charging, maybe taking out the AAT and most probably dying. Or he could try to make his way back, and most probably die together with his brothers.

Others might have chosen the second option, but not he. He was a clone, sacrificing his life for the greater good was his nature. If he could do that without endangering any of his brothers it was even better.

So he charged.

Firing like crazy he run the last thirty meters. Although he was zigzagging to dodge the shots, the AAT followed him like an insistent bug. But it was another bug saved his life.

From one of the many natural towers on the battlefield a green halo flew. It was one of the geonosians weapons, a LR1K Sonic Cannon. It shots exploded on contact. Normally it would have been devastating, damaging everything around. But this time, as the sonic blast hit the ground near him he was thrown out of the way of the AAT shot.