Chapter 60 - Madman (1/2)
”Berro, try to contact Commander Keeli. You will have to take a comlink from one of our brothers.”
”What do I tell him sir?”
”Tell him to move all of our forces back.”
”Sir?! But then the faciliti...”
”He will have to trust me, as you will have to.”
Dageer left the cover that the elevator was providing and ran to a group of crates while firing. After he got there he searched the bodies of clones and droids for thermal detonators and was rewarded with a bunch of them.
Then Dageer triggered all of them and threw it without care, sending droids flying left and right. That gave them a small window on which Berro found a comlink on a dead clone and contacted command.
”Commander Keeli! This is Berro, CT-0457. I and Dageer were thrown out the platform, but we are back!”
”Berro! Good to hear from you. Where are you? Was that explosion your doing?”
”Yes! We are behind the clanckers. There is no way we can make it back now. But Dageer has a plan.”
”What is it?”
”He wants you to retreat our troops to I side the buildings. I don't know anything apart from that. He said you will have to trust him.”
”What?! I want to talk to him. He is crazy!”
”Yes commander.”
Berro turned to call Dageer, but the only thing he saw was Dageer's back, running towards the Gonzati-class cruisers and away from the clone defenses.
”Uhmm... commander, he is out of reach.”
”What do you mean?”
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Commander Keeli was talking to Berro in the middle of the fight, using his twin DC-17s to kill droids. When he heard that Dageer had run towards the enemy cruisers he almost froze.
He had a slight idea of what Dageer wanted to do, and on the small chance that Dageer wouldn't die while at it he had no option but retreat his troops as Dageer said.
He decided to wait a little more before calling the retreat, but for security and to speed up the process he ordered the backline of the clone army to build defenses near the entry of the facilities. Of course, he didn't forget to tell Hell Squad that their squad leader was alive.