Characters: CT-544 Bolt, CT-212 Rowdy, CT-115 Wire, CT-444 Looker, CT-501 Knock-Off, CT-502 Phantom, CT-777 Skippy, Commando Droids, Harch Admiral Blocker, Flamethrower Battle Droids, Count Dooku.
Narration: “Rookies! In this conflict, beggars can’t be choosers! Sometimes, Rookie Clones must be selected for critical operations, because of other Troopers needed elsewhere! One such group, defends the Planet Teth, from possible Separatist surprise attacks, while they practice their training!”
We find these Rookie Clones on Teth, looking for something to do, which is not easy, due to the fact the Separatists are not coming near Teth. Three of these Clones take a walk in the Village, and make jokes about the war. These three are called Bolt, Rowdy and Phantom. Not far away, also in the Village is their training zone, where we find the other four in the squad, Wire, Looker, Knock-Off and Skippy, doing one of their rigorous training schedules. The schedule they are currently doing is shooting on the run, fast and move, to practice so that in battles, they won’t be hit due to speed and manoeuvres. However, Knock-Off is the lazy type and has no interest in being speedy. He finishes the schedule a giant twenty minutes after Wire and Looker, and fifteen after Skippy. Knock-Off grumbles “Why am I always last??”. The other three laugh, and Skippy tells him, “Because you’re the lazy type?”. Knock-Off gets angry at that, and snarls back, “At least I don’t have the type of name that can mean skipping it altogether!”. Skippy just smiles cheekily, and says, “Ah! But I, unlike you, don’t stay true to my name!” and Wire, Looker and Skippy all laugh again, while Knock-Off just scowls. Bolt just makes his latest joke about the war, saying, “They call this a war?? Seems a bit peaceful out here to me!”. Phantom can’t resist teasing Bolt, “That’s because it’s the true soldiers doing the fighting”. Rowdy laughs, while Bolt retorts “I’m going to be someday. Watch me! One day, I’m going to be an ARC Trooper!”. Phantom laughs again, saying, “ARC Troopers, fight in the thick of the action”.
While these seven Clones lead their training lives on Teth, they have no idea of the action that will soon come to them! Approximately 2000 clicks from Teth in a Separatist frigate, the Harch, Admiral Blocker, sits inside his command ship, when Dooku appears in a hologram. Blocker starts in fright, before stuttering “My lord-?”. Dooku immediately gets to the point, “There is a squad of young Clones on Teth that need killing. Contact me when it is done”. Blocker looks flabbergasted at this, but leads his ships in the destination of Teth.
The Separatist ships unload Landing Crafts, which head down to Teth and begin to land. Blocker heads to the front of his vast army of Battle Droids, Commando Droids and Flame Battle Droids. Blocker calls out “You know your orders. Find and eliminate these young Clones. Report to me if these is any problems, understood?” and all the Droids reply “Roger, roger!” before marching towards the village.
All the seven Clones are in their base on Teth, when Bolt calls out, “Come here! I saw something!” and the others rush to his side. He shows them the scanner they use, and Wire says “Red dots for enemies. The Separatists are here!”. Phantom nudges Bolt and says, “Well, Bolt. Here’s you’re chance to prove you’re ARC Trooper material”. Skippy says “Let’s split up and go take a look!” and Looker says, “Ok. I’ll go with Skippy, Rowdy and Phantom. Bolt, Wire and Knock-Off can be in the other group”. They all divide into their respective groups and move out of the base.
Bolt, Wire and Knock-Off walk through the forest surrounding the village. Wire says to Bolt, “So, looking forward to your first real action?” and Bolt replies “Never looked forward to anything more”. They keep walking, and eventually turn up at a side-viewing of the Droids unloading area. Knock-Off looks scared, and mutters “That’s a lot of clankers!”. Wire mutters “We shouldn’t stay here, we have to alert the others!”. Unfortunately for them, a squad of Flame Battle Droids spot them and yell “OI! Halt!” and Bolt, Wire and Knock-Off run for their lives towards another part of the Village as the story ends!
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