As the Clone Wars raged on throughout the Galaxy, the Jedi Generals of the Republic
were being spread thinner and thinner as the separatists began to attack more worlds.
Because of this, Jedi Masters and their apprentices were sometimes forced to be separated and
lead their own clone troopers in battle, including Ahsoka Tano.
Because of this, Ahsoka was forced to serve as the Jedi commander of a small squad of
Clone Tropers from the 501st in an intense battle on the Jungle world of Zeenada, where
some of her men had absolutely no faith in the young apprentice.
So, lets find out why these Clone Troopers absolutely despised Ahsoka Tano and her leadership.
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So the story begins on the damp, Jungle planet of Zeenada, where Jedi Commander Ahsoka Tano
is leading a small detachment of the 501st on a mission against the droid army.
Ahsoka and her men are heavily outnumbered and certainly outgunned bythe Battle droid
forces, but they have been given direct Orders to circle behind the enemy forces and distract
them with a rear assault.
Unfortunately, as they set out on their seemingly simple mission, they unfortunately stumble
across a large droid patrol, and Captain rex calls out to his Commander, urging her to
fall back.
Ahsoka however is not going to take this advice from Rex, and instead tell him that a Jedi
doesn’t run away from her problems, but rather she confronts them head on.
Following this, Ahsoka surges forward, directly into the droid attack force, slicing and dicing
B-2 super battle droids as she rushes ahead.
With the help of her small squad, Ahsoka does manage to eliminate all of the battle droids
from the patrol, but tragically, she loses many, many men while doing so, leaving only
herself, Captain Rex, Trooper Sarge, and Trooper Gunner.
And for those of you who have been following these comics very closely, Gunner is actually
the same trooper who fought with Obi-Wan and the 212th at the battle of Bogoa, where they
encountered Coppertop, the B-1 battle droid fought alongside the 212th, until tragically
killing himself because he did not want to cause any more pain or suffering to anybody.
Following this, Rex is saddened that the B-1 battle droid forces caught the sequad off
guard and wiped out most of his brothers, bringing him to near tears.
Honestly you can’t blame Rex for feeling pain at the loss of many of the men he’d
served alongside for quite some time.
Rex then asks Ahsoka to abort the mission and return to Anakin for further Orders, but
Ahsoka simply can’t do this.
Ahsoka places her arm on Rex’s shoulder, and tells him that she is very sorry about
losing his men, but right now they still have orders that they need to follow.
Anakin is counting on the squad to distract the enemy for them, to ensure that his attack
will be successful.
In response to this however, Rex fires back, warning Ahsoka that there are only four of
them left, which won’t be anywhere near enough for a successful attack.
Ahsoka however asks Rex,” have you forgotten that One Jedi knight is worth a thousand battle
droids.
Rex is not the happiest about continuing the mission, but has no other choice than to follow
his commander.
As Ahsoka and Rex continue talking however, the other two surviving Clones, Sarge and
Gunner, begin talking down about Ahsoka behind her back, with Sarge sarcastically asking
“Hey, Gunner -- did someone award her a field promotion while my back was turned…
She was only a Padawan when we left camp.
Gunner then responds to this by saying, Guess she’s only good for a few dozen droids,
Sarge.”...
Following this, Ahsoka ignites her lightsabers and Order her men to follow her further into
the dense Jungles of the planet, while telling them “we just need to have faith in the
force, it will point the way to victory”.
After hearing this, Sarge and Gunner roll their eyes under their helmets, obviously
having no faith in the force at all, but Rex quickly moves them back into action, ordering
them to get moving immediately and follow the Commander’s lead.
While this is happening, Anakin is on the other side of the Jungle, and his men spot
a large horde of B-1 and B-2 clankers marching towards their location.
The trooper, using his macro-binoculars tells his General “I hope your plan works, General
Skywalker”, and Anakin responds to this by saying “So do I!
We only need ahsoka and her team to divert the separatists attention… and make them
think that our main force is behind them.
As is tradition, let me know down below what this 501st trooper should be named, since
he is never given one in the story.
After that, Anakin’s forces will add to their confusion by hitting them from the front
and crushing them like an insect caught between a child’s palm and a duracrete wall…
Yeah I don’t know what type of sayings Obi-Wan has been teaching him…
As Anakin is preparing to execute his part of the mission, Ahsoka warns her men to Listen
carefully, because the Jungle they are trekking through is quiet… too quiet.
Ahsoka can almost sense a dangerous predator in the area.
Only moments later, her senses are proven right, and a massive predator leaps from the
branches, making Ahsoka hate that she was right.
As the beast lunges forward, the Clone Troopers of the 501st raise their weapons, and Rex
shouts out to Ahsoka that she can hold still as he and his brothers have her covered.
Sarge however continues voicing his distaste for Ahsoka, saying “Yeah… we’d hate
to lose our only Jedi knight”.
Ahoska however is not phased by this, and warns her men to not open fire unless it is
absolutely necessary.
In her eyes all life is sacred to the force, and Ahsoka has no doubt that she can distract
it enough to eliminate the threat without violence.
Unfortunately however… this time her instincts were dead wrong.
The wild beast, leaps from the branch it is sitting on, rushing forward towards ahsoka
with it’s small eyes, glowing a deep, evil red.
The beast thrashes around the area, and Ahsoka is in real trouble.
The Clone Troopers are absolutely itching to just open fire on this creature, but they
know that they must obey ahsoka’s orders not to fire.
Being left as sitting Ducks, the Clone Troopers once again begin to bad mouth the young Jedi,
with Sarge saying “seems our Knight could u use an assist” and gunner very quickly
adds to the insults, by saying “and a lot more force-push training.
While the two continue insulting Ahsoka, something very strange happens.
The ground beneath them suddenly begins to shake violently, as the loud roar of the beasts
begins to get louder, and louder.
As Ahsoka sweeps the surrounding area with the force, hoping to detect what could possibly
be threatening her, she immediately shouts out that she had a bad feeling about this,
before force pushing her men violently away from her, into a nearby try.
ONly a mere few seconds after she does this, a massive horde of these deadly creatures
comes trampling through the area, rushing to some location in a tightly packed group.
Ahsoka has just saved her Clone’s lives with the exact force ability that they were
just insulting her about, and saying that she needed more training in.
After this, Ahsoka is relieved that she managed to survive that encounter with the pack of
beasts and that her men were unharmed.
Even after saving their lives, Sarge and Gunner continue to talk down about Ahsoka, saying
“I think our little Knight is making this up as she goes”.
Rex however has had enough of their insults towards Ahsoka, telling them “she’s proven
herself on the battlefield dozens of times.
Trim the chatter you two, she’s still in command.
Gunner then replies to this sarcastically, by saying “lucky us!”...
Still ungrateful that their Commander literally saved their lives only a few minutes ago.
Meanwhile, Anakin and his trooper continue watching as the Battle droid forces encroach
closer and closer on their location, and they are worried that there i still no sign of
Ahsoka.
Anakin then says to himsels “where are you snips, what’s keeping you”.
Following this, Ahsoka and her men reach a damp, muddy swamp, and realize that the enemy
lines should be right behind the treeline across it…
If they can actually manage to cross the dangerous swamp.
Rex then tells his commander that he doesn’t fancy a slog through the sludge, but Ahsoka
doesn’t plan to.
She tells the troopers that it wont be a problem, they can just leap from rock to rock.
As Ashoka begins weaving her way through these “rocks”, she eventually realizes that
she has made another massive mistake.
Rex then shouts out to Ahsoka, asking what’s wrong, and if it’s another stampede.
But These are no rocks, but instead they are eggs of the monstrous creatures from earlier.
The creature inside the egg then bursts out of the thick shell.
And to make Ahsoka’s horrendous luck, even more horrible, the big mother creature emerges
from the water, putting Ahsoka and her men in grave danger.
Despite this, Ahsoka is not going to let this very bad situation end her mission in failure.
She has other plans.
She very quickly orders Rex to get his men to safety, before saying that the small group
of four survivors may not have been enough to launch a successful assault, but she believes
in the big mother beast.
Ahsoka then successfully leads the humongous predator towards the battle droid forces,
absolutely demolishing them, while Anakin and his trooper watch on in delight.
Anakin is so proud of his young apprentice’s creative thinking, and orders his troopers
to launch their attack, still in amazement at Ahsoka’s ability to adapt.
And to end the story in a heartwarming way, Rex asks his men “ what do you think of
our little padawan now, boys”, and they awesome respond with “padawan…
I don’t see any padawan… to us, she’s a Jedi Knight, already sir…
Finally changing their opions on Ahsoka, after her brave encounter with the mother beast.
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