The Grand Army of the Republic = Commander Wolffe

Famous Last Words

Lasers were flying around everywhere as they engaged the Separatists forces. Rose's battalion had sustained heavy losses and it appeared that the Separatists nor the Growth weren't going to let up their attacks any time soon. Rose and her men were wearing down by the second, tired and dirty with no chance at regrouping before the next wave of Growth and Separatist forces attacked. Plus, to top it all off there was still no sign that the Republic were on their way. To say that this had been a bad day for Commander Thorn would be an understatement.

"Get down!" Rose shouted as one of the droid tanks fired its missile at her position. The blast radius caused debris to fly in all different directions, many men fell as soon as the missile made contact with its destination. A piece of metal ricocheted off of a nearby droid and lodged itself into Rose's side causing her to cry out in pain as the burning started to spread through her side and across her chest. Pulling her hand away, she was met with it covered in crimson blood. Sighing softly, Rose placed her hand back to her side to apply pressure before slowly sliding down to the hard dusty ground as pain started to take over her senses.

"Hertogi!" Hyker shouted running over to Rose's aid once he had seen her fall to the ground. "We need a medic! We need to fall back!" Hyker shouted into his comm as he ducked to dodge blaster fire.

"No!" Rose grunted as soon as she heard Hyker give the order. "We need to hold this position!" She ordered through gritted teeth as she tried to compose herself. "If we lose this position the Capital is lost!" She muttered as another wave of pain spread through her body.

"But Rose! We need to retreat! We need to contact the Republic again!" Hyker tried to reason as he looked down at a stubborn Rose. "We need reinforcements." Hyker shouted back over the noise of the battle. It was true. Without reinforcements, Hyker knew that this war was already lost, and he knew that Rose knew that too, but she just couldn't accept it.

"The Republic aren't coming Hyker! We are on our own!" Rose shouted back, her voice thick with emotion. She was relying on Wolffe and the 104th to come to her aid but they hadn't. All Rose could feel was betrayal. Not at her husband, but at the Republic and the Jedi. "All heavy cannons fire at the cliff face! I want those droids buried under rocks and be used as scrap metal." Rose commanded into the coms after ignoring Hyker's pleading gaze. Soon enough, the heavy cannons started firing at the cliff face, causing it to collapse and come crashing down, crushing the droids and temporarily closing off the south side.

"That should buy us some time." Rose sighed out tiredly as exhaustion over took her entire being. "Smiles." Rose called waving over her medic. "Get the men the medical attention they need." She ordered as she forced herself up from the ground, gripping her side in discomfort which still have the shrapnel imbedded in it that she hadn't removed yet.

At first, Smiles looked at his commanders' condition but took her orders. "Right away Hertogi." He saluted before hurrying off to help aid the severely wounded.

"Hyker" Rose said as he helped hold her up, "Let's see if we can get coms working again." she stated clutching her side.

"Are you okay Thorn?" He asked concerned for her wellbeing. He could see how tired she had started to become, and it had started to worry him.

"I will be." She muttered as they both limped over to where they had decided to set up temporary communications to ensure easy removal in case their position was overran much like it had been before.

"All set for you Commander, although I don't know how long it will last." Rose's head of communications informed her and Hyker as they neared the communications.

Rose nodded her head tiredly, still leaning onto Hyker as her pain intensified. "Do you think this is going to work?" Hyker asked as he watched Rose set up the communication.