During the Clone Wars, Jedi General Anakin Skywalker Led the 501st legion of Clone Troopers
alongside Captain Rex and fought alongside many unique and incredibly brave soldiers.
One Clone Trooper he served with however was slightly more confident
in his own abilities than anyone he had ever seen.
This Trooper was so confident in himself that he tried to give Anakin Skywalker himself
tips on how to fly a starfighter… but he did get results… So who was this very proud clone Trooper.
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So the story begins inside of a Republic briefing
room where General Anakin Skywalker is briefing his men on an upcoming mission,
and R2-D2 is projecting the battle objectives for everyone to see.
Anankin tells his men that Republic intelligence has intercepted and decoded a recent separatist
transmission which has details about a new subjugator class ship in the nearby Enoth system.
Anakin goes on to tell his men that the ship isn’t armed yet, but there is an extremely high
powered energy shield on the planet’s surface, which is protecting the very valuable equipment.
As Anakin is talking however, one very confident Clone Trooper stands up and
declares to his general, and the rest of his brothers “I’ll make this mission a success,
General! With me on the team, you haven’t a thing to worry about.
I’m the best -- and there isn’t a droid I couldn’t outrun or blow out of the sky.
As the Clone Trooper continues on his arrogant rant, all of his brothers state at him with anger
and Anakin himself interrupts, telling the trooper that overconfidence is a dangerous thing.
No pilot should ever underestimate his enemy.
The Trooper however just can’t stop himself, and continues by saying
“just point those clanker fighters in my direction and ill take care of the rest. You’ll see.
As he is saying this, the trooper’s brothers blast him,
saying that Shooter doesn’t know that he’s not only embarrassing himself with this stupidity,
but is embarrassing the rest of the Clones that share his face.
They also go on to add that nobody in the 501st really likes him because to him,
this war is just a game. He doesn’t realize that sometime you can lose.
You can lose both brothers and your own life.
After this, Anakin and his men move out, and they very soon find out that their intelligence
was dead wrong. The separatist ship was actually fully armed. Because of this,
Anakin orders all of his fighters to not get too close to the vessel,
and to concentrate on taking on the droid fighters until the shields can be taken down.
As he is giving these orders, Shooter’s commander falls into a very bad situation,
with one of his other pilots calling out that he has a droid fighter on his tail.
The commander dodges and weaves through space, but he simply can’t shake this fighter from his tail.
The Commander is in a pretty dire situation at this point, but the shooter is not going
to let his commander be killed by a Clankah. Shooter shouts over the intercom “Don’t worry
Commander -- I’m on it”, before racing over to the clankah and blasting him into millions of pieces.
After Shooter watches the wreckage of the droid ship burn up, his commander
is impressed and calls out “Shooter, is that you?”, to which the pilot proudly responds
“The one and only”, before taking it a step further and arrogantly stating
“If you want some flying tips when we get back, ill be happy to provide them general.
Anakin is not happy with this at all, and begins seethin in his cockpit, calling Shooter
an arrogant, overbearing clone. In response to this, Shooter pulls up alongside Anakin’s
fighter and taunts him by saying “there’s nothing wrong with being overconfident when you’re right.
Anakin wants to explode at this young pilot,
but he keeps his composure, and contacts Captain Rex on the surface of the planet.
Rex tells him that the ground invasion below is progressing slowly, and that Anakin will know
very shortly if they have succeeded in taking down the shield generator.
After Rex’s men continue pushing forward on the barren surface of the planet,
much time passes, but eventually they reach the optimal firing distance,
to be bombarding the shield generator, in hopes of releasing all of the protection above.
Following this, Rex ordes his men to open fire and they do take some damage of their own,
but eventually Rex is able to call to his general and give the all clear to
the fighters in space above, to attack the ship, without worrying about the shield.
After receiving the go-ahead, Anakin Orders his blue group to keep the droid fighters busy,
while his red group will form up behind him and commence a large scale attack on the main reactor.
Shooter however, struggles to take this order on board and instead of forming up behind Anakin,
shooter literally takes charge of the fleet and flies ahead of his general.
Anakin is deeply angered by this and goes off on Shooter for not following his orders,
but Shooter makes the excuse “sorry general--must have misheard you.
This then sends Anakin into a rage, where he warns shooter not to mishear his next
order and to watch his spacing, or he will be destroyed by turbo lasers instantly.
Following this, Anakin leads his men into the interior of the ship, but Shooter tries
to start racing with Anakin inside, which of course further infuriates his general.
After this, Shooter spots two B-1 battle droids on the deck of the unfinished ship,
and that they are frightened when they see the Republic fighters whizzing through the area.
Without a single care in the world, Shooter flies straight through the b-1 units,
without any concern for damage to his ship.
Following this,
Shooter is finally able to follow the mission directive and forms up behind his general,
while red 5 leads his men in the other group to distract the b-1 battle droids on the deck.
Anakin then immediately calls for his men to target the main stabilizer of the ship’s reactor,
and once the torpedoes hit it… they’re going to
need to escape the area incredibly quickly… or they’ll be killed by the chain reaction.
Shooter, being the type of Clone he is,
has to b the first to fire his missile… and to his absolute shock,
the reactor is protected by a ray shield… marking the first ever true failure in shooter’s life.
Just after he takes the shot, Shooter is then hit and his weapons are taken out by
separatist vulture droids, putting him in a very dangerous situation.
As Anakin sees his pilot in severe danger, he call out to him on the intercom and tells him
that he is coming to help, but shooter is too proud to accept this help. Shooter is going
to plunge his badly damaged vehicle right into the reactor, as one final heroic move.
Anakin demands to know what he thinks he’s doing, but Shooter won’t listen. He tells
anakin that he is going to take care of the mission and ensure that it succeeds.
Determination flows through shooter’s veins and he rapidly directs his sip
right into the reactor, ready to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Anakin then forcefully demands that the pilot pull back… but he reposnds by saying
“I can’t… You know I don’t r respond well to orders.
At this point, Anakin knows that his brave trooper will pull off the unthinabkle.
Anakin orders all of his fighters to move far away from the shipyards immediately,
as the entire facility is about to be blasted into trillions pieces,
with a massive red fireball engulfing a large part of the area.
Moments later, Shooter completes his final mission, bursting straight into the reactor core,
and successfully destroying the new separatist ship… at the cost of his own life.
As Anakin lands his fighter back on his Republic cruiser, Ahsoka comes rushing,
incredibly relieved that he survived and very excited that the separatists will now
be held back. Anakin however is washed with sadness, as he tells young Ahsoka
that the mission cost him a lot of good men, including Shooter who saved the mission.
As the master and apprentice are talking, two of Shooter’s brothers, come strolling onto the deck,
beginning to laugh and celebrate their victory. One of them coldy says that none of hte Clones
ever liked shoter anyway and he got what he deserved. This angers Anakin deeply,
causing him to snap at his men and say that shooter may have bragged,
but he was still as brave as any of you… he also saved Anakin’s life.
Anakin then turns back to Ahsoka and tells her that Shooter was one of a kind,
and that he is going to miss him throughout the war. Ahsoka also tells her master that
she flew with shooter in a previous mission and that she will miss him just as much.
And to end the story… Shooter’s two clone brothers do end up realizing
that maybe he wasn’t so bad afterall, and they will actually miss his crazy
confidence now that he’s gone… He was their brother after all.
So that was the most arrogant and confident clone pilot to ever serve Anakin Skywalker…
and her turned out to actually be one of the bravest men and most loyal clones. Thanks
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