The next morning at oh-six-hundred hours Liam awoke to a small alarm he had set for himself. He rubbed the sleep out of his bright blue eyes then stretched his arms out as far as he could. He grabbed the covers on his left side, with his right hand and then pulled them all over to his right side, removing them from his body. He then swung his legs off his bed and then quickly got up in almost one movement. He then headed to a small closest in his room. He had everything nicely put away. He liked it that way, though it was something he had to do anyway. Liam didn't care about that all that much, but what he did care about was having his own room, even though it was small. When he was in training he had started off with with himself and ten people within the same room. That changed to only himself and four troopers, then himself and only one. Now it was only him though he had to share a large bathroom with a large group of troopers, it was a start, a huge start, in the right place. Liam grabbed a small amount of clothing and then stuff he needed for a shower. Everything was the same. Anything that was just Liam's had to be washed privately, which cost credits, and if damaged was not replaced, so Liam didn't have much that was just his. Everything else was given to him by the Empire and once he was done using it, like the shirt he was going to put on after having a shower, was sent to a giant cleaners and once cleaned was sent out again to whoever needed it. After grabbing his stuff Liam, only in a pair of boxers walked out of his room door and headed to the shower room. He was a Trooper, Stromtrooper, just like everyone around him. He had bunked with a man that left to become a Sand Trooper. He doubted he'd see that guy again. Though they were all Troopers they all had slightly different training. Sand Troopers and Snow Troopers were in less demand then Stromtroopers. Stromtroopers were used for almost everything. They guarded ships, they invaded planets, they even brought fear by just standing around or patrolling areas. None of this bothered Liam. This world was doomed before the Empire took over. His father had told him stories of the Jedi and how they did nothing to stop a droid army for almost ten years. They finally they got Troopers to help them and once the Troopers figured out they were on the wrong side they turned on the weak Jedi, killing almost all of them. The Jedi were so weak that they had went into hiding. Liam always hated Jedi for that. Maybe one day he would meet a Jedi and then. A smile grow on Liam's face. It wasn't that he was evil, it was just that he had anger for the Jedi because they let so many suffer before going to their aid. Once Liam got to the shower he noticed it was pretty empty. Not many people up at this hour. However there was one person in there. A female, who was just redressing. Liam looked at her body for a moment then looked away. He knew she hadn't seen him but he felt a little bad to be looking at her like he did. He got undressed and got into the shower. He let the water, that was warm, but not hot, run over his head. He closes his eyes and just enjoyed the water running over him.
"Who is your Commander?" A voice said shocking Liam enough that he jumped back and almost fell flat on his a**. He noticed the girl from before, now fully dressed standing in front of him. He also noticed her rank. It was only two scores a head of him but that still meant she was a higher rank then him.
"Sorry Sir, Umm Ma'am. You scared me there. I do not have a Commander yet. I am working under General Richard Therrien. We are going to be going out today..." Liam started to explain but the girl cut him off.
"You do not have to explain." She told him. "I know how General Therrien works. I am his daughter after all."
Liam was a bit spooked by that but tried to hide it the best he could.
"I have a feeling I'll be seeing you around, Private?" She said almost like if trying to figure out his name.
"Liam, Ma'am, I mean Private Liam Zackariah." He saluted her and she gave a small laugh.
"Private, cover up." She said with a smile and a laugh.
Liam covered up his lower body like she had said. "Sorry Ma'am."
"No need to be sorry private, it was a good show." She then smiled and walked out of the shower room.
Liam really hopped that this wouldn't get to her father but didn't have the time to worry about that. He jumped back into the shower and started to clean up when more Troopers started to make their way into the room. Once he was done he quickly dried off then put his towel and his underwear into a whole. He then put clean underwear on and also a tank top, muscle shirt and a pair of shorts. He then went to his room and got into his stromtrooper armour. With haste he ran to the Loading Dock Three. He was then seventh person to get there. Not even the General was there yet. Him and the other six, soon to be seven, Troopers already there just stood there and waited for the General to show up. When he did all but three Troopers had gotten there. Before time was up everyone was there.
"Today we see if your cut out to be Troopers." The General said. "Everyone get into five lines. I want a hundred Troopers in each line. Now!"
Everyone hustled to get into line and within thirty seconds they had done it.
"Good!" The General said. "Now you are group one." He pointed at the first line of a hundred on his right. "You are group five." He said pointing to the last group on his left. "Fill in the blanks. You'll be known as this group number for the next three missions. Failure to forget your group number will be failure at your life. Now group one you dust off in three mintues. The next group will dust off five minutes after that and so on. You'll be sent to five different parts of the planet to deal with five different problems each. Fail your mission means that everyone fails and you'll all be punished. Now... move out!"
Liam was in the third group. He didn't know who was going to be Caption of this mission nor did anyone else, nor did they even know what their mission was but none of them wanted to ask. That would be a form of failure. Three minutes passed and one team was off the ship. Five minutes after that and a second team was gone. Five minutes more and Liam's team was off. In the ship they had been given their orders. A man named Keven had taken control of the group but Liam didn't care. As long as he helped and that they didn't fail he could care a less who was in control. When they landed on the planet they already figured out what their first mission was. There was a small group, about twenty men, that were guarding a door. The door was the Stormtroopers only way out of the landing bay.
Without a second thought Keven screamed his first order. "Take them down!"
All a hundred stromtroopers pulled out their blaster rifles and opened fire, the thugs guarding the door did the same.
As the
Battle blaster fire went everywhere. But even so there was a clear order of fire. As the battle started it was clear that the Thugs were ready for this battle. They knew the Troopers wouldn't go without fighting them, and because of that they already had their blasters out. All fifty of them got a shot off before a single Trooper did.
The first twenty five blaster shots went
wide, missing the Troopers completely. The second group of twenty five thugs also went
wide.
If the Troopers could take down the fifty thugs now before they could attack again then they would be so far away from failure. It would make all of them happy, knowing they did not fail, but the trick was doing that.
Twenty four stormtroopers including Keven attacked next. They
hit only
three of the Thugs and
taking down none of them.
Next Liam shot, he couldn't tell if anyone else shot with him but he didn't care as long as he could take down one Thug at a time, thats all he could do. He quickly too aim and fired. He
hit a Thug not yet hit. Liam's shot took the Thug
down and out of the fight.
The next wave of Stormtroopers shot next. Their shot also
hit some thugs.
Twenty of the Troopers hit a thug target. They
killed twenty of them leaving only twenty nine thugs left. A Third Stromrooper group fired. Their
attack just missed the Thugs, but still a miss is a miss. The Last group of Stormtroopers fired. Their attack just barely
hit but still hit
eleven thugs and
killing them all off. Now only eighteen thugs left they attacked the Stromtroopers as one unit. But even as a single unit they still
missed.
Keven and his group of twenty three attacked next. But they
missed. Liam attacked next but he also
missed. Next group of stromtroopers attacked
hitting all the Thugs doing effect
damage to kill them.
With the Thugs out of the way the Stromtroopers moved onto their first main task.
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