Chapter 86 - Crab Cannon (1/2)

Vernila was a battlefield. At the moment only the outer layers of the city had been hit, but even then the scenery was of utter destruction. The two opposing forces were crashing against each other over and over again, each time resulting in more and more casualties.

What Dageer had beforehand considered being huge pipes, he now saw it were deadly weapons. Small but strong metal legs sprung from its side, and it was using those to move, albeit slowly. At the end of the 'pipe', huge laser fire was shot. Each time one of those lasers hit a building, a hole with a diameter of fifteen meters appeared, and the building collapsed right away. There is no need to say what happened to any unlucky clone in its path.

But the Republic was fighting back. Under the leadership of Monnk, small squads were flanking the cannons, and bombing it. Unfortunately, not all of those squads made it back.

Hell Squad had an easy way to the city, mainly because the droids and quarrens were focused on the attack. General Fisto was still too tired to use the Force, but his skills with a lightsaber weren't affected.

Together with Hell Squad, he blasted their way through the droids. They were only eight, but their skilled use of their blasters and the jedi deflecting enemy lasers totally made up for their lack of numbers.

”Brain! Get that thing!”

”On it!”

Dageer pointed to one of the giant cannons, and marked it as their target. Brain took out his thermal detonators and laughed. Dageer and Metal, with a little help from Dab, soon took out the droids around the cannon. Brain swiftly planted the detonators, and Kit Fisto helped by cutting the legs of the cannon.

The weird cannon fell on one side when all of its legs were cut off, and crushed a few droids.

”Everyone, get some distance! Brain... clear!”

The thermal detonators blew one by one, starting a chain reaction. In the end, the cannon cracked into two halves, totally out of use.

After that, Hell Squad had a clear pathway to Vernila. They left dead quarrens and droids on their trail, and opened a path for the other clones to attack.

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”General, it is good to see you! The situation is quite a mess at the moment.”

”Monnk. I thought you brought all your troops to their base, preparing for an attack. How come we are the ones being attacked?”

”Well sir, I am quite confused about it. We were waiting for you, and Hell Squad, when the whole thing blew up. We thought you were all dead, but I was prepared to send a search team when the seppies came out of nowhere. We were out in the middle of the ocean, no cover, and they had those huge Crab Cannons. I had to order retreat. We fought our way back here, so we at least have cover.”

”I understand. Well, continue fighting. Where is king Yos Kolina? I need to speak to him.”

”He and the mon calamarians are on the left flank. Dageer, I've sent the 303rd there to support them, they were getting destroyed.”

”Dageer, Hell Squad, go take control of your men. I will explain what happened to the king.”

”Yes sir.”

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