Capítulo 30: Genocide!
Viola and Jin were stunned, while Xytan's heart was beating rapidly from the minor adrenaline. He technically almost lost both his friends from that attack! Al'cade peeked around the corner, where he could see a large group of men in white slowly but cautiously walking over.
Jin looked back into the spot he once was in, and his face drained of its color. Viola's eyes had widened when she realized what was about to happen to them at that moment.
"It's a group of humanoids wearing white armor, do we engage?" Al'cade turned to quickly ask.
"Of course, kill them all! These are the enemies, and there are far more storming this place." Xytan huffed and said.
"Roger that. You 6 stay here and guard the commander, me and Es'cade will handle this group." Al'cade temporarily gazed at the Purge Troopers before looking at Es'cade.
"Roger, sir." All of the Purge Troopers nodded and said. They would do this anyway, they couldn't let Xytan die.
They were hidden behind a wall that was exposed on both sides, so they were in cover as of now.
"I'll take this way, on zero," Es'cade said. Then they both started a countdown from three to zero. Once the countdown ended, they both ran out—gun blazing.
"Enemy spotted! Blast'em!" The Clone Troopers started firing at both Spartans, who had taken different routes to engage them.
Es'cade zigzagged around these blaster bolts, his movements were not something an average human could ever accomplish. He waved his hand that held the Plasma Rifle, this weapon was light to him.
Plasma bolts shot out like volleys, swarming and overcoming the Clone troopers—who were filled with the intent to kill. Plasma bolts easily penetrated and exploded over their armor, instantly causing death.
"Arg!!" A series of wails echoed in all directions. The splash of plasma was acidic-like, thus, it began melting through the several clones armor—who were close by.
This wasn't the only thing causing them to wail in torment, they were also being sprayed by Al'cade's SAW. Clone started dropping like flies, but one managed to hit Al'cade, but he shrugged it off. They were mowed down by the SAW, their armor was equivalent to paper under such a high fire rate.
"Swarm them, they can't beat us all!" One of the clones was stunned at how fast they were. However, as soon as he was done speaking, Es'cade appeared behind him like a blur.
"Behind you!" Unfortunately, it was too late. Es'cade quickly reached out toward the clone's neck and gave it a 180-degree twist with little to no effort.
"Fire!!" Several clones began firing at Es'cade, but he used the clone's body as a shield. They couldn't shoot for long when a storm of bullets overwhelmed them. Al'cade killed that group of clones before rushing another group of clones.
"He's too fast!!" These clones wore Yellow and White armor, every one of them did. They kept firing, but the Spartan was just too agile for his size; they couldn't land anything!
"This is impossible! Why can't we hit him?!" There was no way a human could move like this, this wasn't a Jedi, was it?
Al'cade didn't fire because he had to load, so he decided to fight in close quarters. Within five seconds, Al'cade killed three of them and crippled two of them.
Al'cade sent a single punch towards one of the clone's heads, which caved in his helmet and ultimately, his skull. He hit so hard and so fast, that the clones could barely react. The next clone took a body blow to the chest that stopped his heart instantly.
The next clone wasn't so fortunate to be given a swift death. Al'cade pushed his arm forward, with his fingers together in a stabbing chop motion. The stabbing gesture attacked between the crevices of the clone's armor and directly into his neck—destroying his windpipe! The clone fell to the ground making gagging sounds, signifying that he couldn't breathe and was choking to death.
The next clone had his spine shattered, he was now crippled forever—unless he went through cybernetic reconstruction. The last clone took a body blow as well, which resulting in him having his pelvis shattered. He fell to the ground unmoved, it was no telling if he was dead or alive, but if he was alive he would be crippled.
A Purge Trooper peeking around the corner and was shocked, were these humans?! Some of them shot a few clones from afar, hidden behind cover with Xytan and his group. Xytan could hear many notifications going off when a Spartans killed a clone.
Right now, Xytan was doing his best to calm both Viola and Jin down. They were scared out of their little wits, but he was also somewhat scared.
"Clear, let's move, quickly!" One of the Spartans called out.
"We have to go now, get up, and let's move." Xytan helped both of them up, mainly Viola. They were holding their ears at first because of the gunfire and screams of dread.
They had to move, right now Anakin hadn't covered this area yet. He was probably busy killing the Padawans, Younglings, Jedi Knights, and Masters right now that didn't heed Shaak Ti's summons.
"O-okay!" They got up and made a run for it. Xytan, Viola, and Jin looked at the floor littered with dead clone troopers. Some were mangled badly, causing Xytan to cringe hard. Jin and Viola's whole persons shuddered at the sight.
They all moved forward through the temple, trying to reach the main area. On their way, they came across a good amount of clones that had to be dispatched.
"Those are the troopers that are supposed to be on our side, why are they attacking us?" Viola shivered, why would they turn on the Jedi?
"That's to be explained later, right now we need to kill them to live." Xytan couldn't be bothered to explain that now. Viola nodded, but Jin's mind was in turmoil from what they saw next.
Younglings and Padawans were dead in some of the rooms they passed by. They had been shot to death by the clones that stormed the temple.
"No survivors, all terminated," Es'cade concluded mildly.
"Don't look, let's keep moving on." Xytan shook his head and sighed deeply, he wasn't feeling good himself. He could see tears coming down Jin's face, some of these Younglings were his friends. In fact, if anyone hadn't noticed, he didn't spend a lot of time with Xytan but with these kids instead.
But now, they were gone, all gone!
"Come, kid, one of these days they'll pay for what they did. But if you die here, you won't live to see it." Al'cade grabbed Jin's shoulder and guided him away.
Viola finally understood the true meaning of death seeing this. Xytan had spoken about it, but he wanted to prepare her for this. She was six, but she was guaranteed to see some wild s**t in this timestream.
Viola didn't cry, but Xytan could the deep sadness in her eyes.
Xytan looked at the Padawan Corpses, their lightsabers were still attached to their waist. This indicated that they didn't see this attack coming. There were three Padawans in this room and several Younglings.
'What a disaster.' Xytan shook his head and reached for one of the Padawan's lightsabers. He lifted it and ignited the blade. A green beam of energy shot of the blade, somewhat surprising the two Spartans.
"This weapon is better than the Energy Sword you know from the Covenant," Xytan said. Both Spartans wordlessly looked at each other before reaching for a Lightsaber each.
Es'cade ignited the lightsaber, which turned out to be blue. However, Al'cade's lightsaber didn't activate for some reason.
"Must be broken," Al'cade said.
"No, it works just fine. His blade just won't work for anyone else unless they're Force Sensitive." That's how some lightsabers were, they wouldn't ignite for non-force sensitive people.
"Force Sensitive? It seems we have a lot to learn." Al'cade knew this when he first saw Viola, that was an alien, right? If it was, it wasn't one he had seen before, that's when he knew he needed to be filled in about his environment.
"Hand that lightsaber to Viola, she should be able to use it." Xytan pointed to her if didn't know who he was referring to.
Xytan smiled at Viola ad nodded as she was handed the lightsaber. She looked stunned at first, then she ignited it—it was also blue. She held it with both hands in front of her, as the blue hue of light reflected in her eyes and on her face.
"More white troopers on our six!" A Purge Trooper popped out and started firing upon the group, killing three clones rushing over.
With this, a gun battle commenced in the narrow hallway, with their only cover being the room they were in.
"There are too many of them!" Es'cade peeked down the hall and said mildly.
"You know what we got for that; something just for clusters like this." Al'cade pulled off a Plasma Grenade from his waist and activated it before throwing it down the hall.
"Look out, Grenade!" The clones came to kill Jedi, they weren't expecting grenades and blasters. They were too clustered together, so there was no way for them to move away in time.
The sticky landed right on some random clone's helmet!
"Ahh, get it off me!" He tried pulling off, but even if he managed to—it would still be too late. Plasma grenades used Smart Matter, he couldn't take it off anyway!
BOOM!!!
The hallway shook when the Plasma grenade detonated. The clone who was hit directly was essentially vaporized by the blast. Anyone too close was killed instantly, while those who had some distance were hit with plasma fallout.
"AAARG!!" Sizzling sounds could be heard and steam could be seen coming from those clone's body armor. The hot plasma was melting through their armor like butter against fire.
Suddenly, Xytan's expression twisted!
"We need to go, now! Throw a Smoke Grenade down the hall and let run for it!" Xytan said, somewhat panicking.
"Roger that." Es'cade tossed a Smoke grenade down the hall and made a run for it. They went deeper into the temple where they saw many dead clones and Jedi Knights. Xytan sighed before he started collecting a few of their lightsabers by adding them to his waist.
He even told the Purge Troopers to collect as many as they could. They would only go to waste sitting here, why leave them for the empire. Xytan really wished he had some storage device or something right about now for that.
Xytan could sense Anakin's presence getting closer, and he was sure Anakin felt him. This made his heart nearly go into an Ice age.
They passed the stairway that led to the library.
"I hear fighting up ahead." Just as Es'cade said that a clone appeared around the corner. Al'cade knocked the blaster out of his hand before backhanding him a few meters away.
'My god!' Xytan was stunned for a moment. That was the power of a Tier 1 Superhuman, it was already too strong.
More clones suddenly appeared behind them and the Purge troopers started firing at them.
"You guys can go, we got this! We'll catch up, sirs." A Purge Trooper cooked a frag and tossed it at the group of clones. These clones seemed obsessed with killing anyone at any cost, even if it cost them their own lives.
Boom~!
"Ahhh!!" The grenade exploded right away because it was cooked already. A few clones had their body torn apart into a bloody mess.
"Damn, that's loud!" Xytan, Viola, and Jin covered their ears due to the explosion.
"No, you guys will be coming with us. There's a lot of danger up ahead, so you will be needed." Xytan spent a decent amount on these six. Stay behind? No way!
RUMBLE~!!
Right as Xytan said that they heard an explosion go off on the tops floors. This was in the location of the library, it would seem someone was trying to destroy it.
The Purge troopers listened and followed Xytan and the rest of the group.
"Message, you have a message." A-1, who was sitting on Xytan's shoulders finally spoke up.
"Put them through!" Xytan said quickly.
"We've arrived behind the Jedi Temple, but there seemed to be many men in white shooting at us." The Mandalorians Leader said strangely.
"Kill them all with the cannon!" Xytan said coldly.
"Hahaha! Roger that! You heard the man, kill every last one of them." The Mandalorian leader could be seen looking over to another group of Mandalorians. After ten seconds of firing the cannon onto clone troopers, they hit the temple!
Suddenly, the temple started shaking uncontrollably, causing everyone to lose their footing. This wasn't so with the Spartans, though, they stumbled at most.
After thirty seconds, the rumbling stopped. Xytan could still feel the presence of Shaak Ti, she was still alive, which relieved him.
"The large blast came from up ahead, we need to go to it." Es'cade helped Xytan up, while Xytan helped Jin and Viola up.
The Purge Troopers stood up and moved ahead of everyone. They ran into another large group of clones, so they took cover while a Purge Trooper tossed a Pulse Grenade into the group.
Zip~
"What the... get to co..." Suddenly, an orange sphere bubble formed in the void. The clones within the radius of it screamed as they looked at their hands being materialized into orange particles.
What followed was shock among the clones, Xytan told them to attack now while they were shocked. He could easily sense their chaotic emotions, and this was the best time to strike.
The Spartans and Purge Troopers started killing the shocked clones left and right. But they soon got ahold of themselves and started firing back.
The Eletrobaton Purger smashed his batons onto a clone's head, then his chest, and eventually, his legs with shocking speed. The clone trooper's body shuddered multiple times before he fell to the ground.
Xytan quickly ignited his lightsaber and turned, slashing forth. A beam of green light tore through that entity.
"Ugh!" It was a clone trooper that appeared behind them. The clone fell to the ground dead, while Xytan gulped to himself. It was almost instinct that caused him to do this; he had felt the will to kill coming from this clone.
All the while, Es'cade seemed to have taken a liking to the lightsaber. He was now using it primarily to kill these clones.
"More coming from the rear, just how many of them are there?!" A Purge trooper said in disbelief.
Xytan didn't want to say the real number, it was just too insane.
"Keep moving!" Al'cade waved everyone over to follow him. Now Xytan could hear the fighting up ahead, he could hear screams and blaster fire.
Once they reached the main hall, everyone in Xytan's group could see a group of Jedi and Younglings. Xytan quickly noticed Shaak Ti amongst them, he also noticed many dead Jedi, Younglings, and Padawans alike.
'It's a f***ing Genocide!' Xytan's expression froze.
Viola turned and started vomiting, she couldn't hold it in anymore. Jin's expression seemed to have distorted from the scene. Xytan knew he would now have to make some big changes to his clone army's appearance with this scar on them.
Currently, Shaak Ti and the rest of the Jedi were hiding inside of a Bubble Shield. It was something he had given to Shaak Ti when he first went to warn her. He told her that he made it, how to use it, and what it did.
There were many clones shooting at the Bubble Shield from the top floor balconies, while some shot from their current floor. There was also a large gaping hole behind them, where 2 large ships could be seen.
That area of the temple was hit by the fuel rod cannon from the Halo Lich.
"Take cover!" Al'cade and Es'cade saw a flash of green light, the ship was ready to fire again! Many clones turned their way and started shooting without much thought after hearing them. Al'cade grabbed Xytan and Viola, while Es'cade grabbed Jin to make a run for it.
One of the Purge Troopers quickly pulled out what equipment he was given, it was a Bubble Shield—he quickly activated it.
RUMBLE~!!
An earth-shaking blast tore through the temple. The clones turned to see a green beam of light, but it was too late to escape—they were too tunnel-visioned and obsessed.
A huge number of clones and corpses of Jedi were vaporized upon contact. The beam continued to tear through the temple, hitting a number of clones on the balcony. Green acidic gel splashed around, hitting any unfortunate to be caught within it.
"AHHH!" Wails and screams could be heard in almost every direction. They sounded like howls of grief, as their body started to slowly melt away.
"Damn it! Patch me through to them!" Xytan was stunned. A-1 said roger, before patching Xytan through.
"Stop shooting that laser, we need to evacuate some people, do you want to kill me and them?!" Xytan was a bit furious. They had to be careful with that laser, it was far too dangerous!
"Oh, sh**! Sorry, sir, we'll land right away." The Mandalorian Leader was stunned and responded immediately.
"See, I told you but no one listens to the smart guy around here." Sai'Zel could be heard in the back gloating.
"Don't land, just come down and pick us up. Use the carrier ship you guys bought just for this." Xytan gazed over. There were more clones coming in through the entrance that Xytan and company had come from recently.
The Purge Troopers were shooting as many as they could, but they were going to be overwhelmed soon.
Suddenly, many figures with Jet packs could be seen descending into the temple. They were the Mandalorians. One of the Mandalorians was holding a man with Grey Jedi robes, but his face was covered with a mask.
"Time to get out of here!" Xytan sighed in relief.
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