Saga Clonehunter Saga 2: Gungans Never Learn (Starring Cade Tylinn and Tala Ryoot)

This Book (short story) 2 of the Clonehunter Saga, which can be seen on www.swfanon.wikia.com, the WIKI of Star Wars Fan invention. The Events of this Story take place in 0 BBY, 10 days after the last story written hear, Dead Contact. enjoy!

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Cade Tylinn. One of the few Mandalorians working for the Rebel Alliance. One of the few Mandalorians not working to get paid. And one of the few Mandalorians assigned by their host to rescue -- Gungans. It appears that on Naboo, after the hidden Gungan tribes lead by Boss Knarl heard about the destruction of the Death Star, they teamed up with some Naboo soldiers and attempted to overthrow several Imperial outposts and force the Imperial Garrison off Naboo. In response to Knarl's efforts, Mara Jade, possibly one of the Emporers secret hands, along with a Stormtrooper Sergeant known as Res were sent by Vader to quelsh the uprisings. After Knarl's defeat (and death), the remaining Gungan troops, as well as any Gungan the Empire could find, were stuffed into some transport, and are planned to be executed aboard the ship, and having thier bodies dumped into space. In order to save the Gungans from extinction, the Alliance has sent to experienced commandos to free them: as stated before, one will be the Mandalorian Cade Tylinn, and the second, a Twi'lek female named Tala Ryoot.

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The Ivarri Centaurii was a massive ship, Even larger than the largest Super Star Destroyer in the Imperial Fleet. Inside, hundreds of innocents Gungans, ready to be slaughtered. Approaching the ship was a small Imperial Lambda Class Shuttle craft, called the Rygall. The Rygall has been missing from the Empire for six months already. Odd how it suddenly pops out of nowhere. In truth, the Rygall was captured by the Rebel Alliance while it was headed for Byss with a large cargo of four million credits. It has since become a pass key back into the Empire. Using it now was Cade Tylinn, Alliance Mandalorian mercenary, and Tala Ryoot, a female Twi'lek who was both a former slave dancer and smuggler for hire, not to mention an expert at espionage. They have been assigned by the Alliance to free a cargo of Gungan prisonors who have been captured by the Empire. The flight was quite silent between the two comrades, even though niether of them had much to talk about. In fact, niether of them have spoken at all since the flight took off. For Cade, it was his first mission with a partner. It was the same for Tala.

"Gungans never learn." Cade suddenly said. Tala eyed him curiously.
"Oh? And why is that?" she asked.
"Havn't you read your history book? Gungans are a lot of the times quite war like. And whenever they get involved in a war with some non-gungan force, they always lose. History has seen it many times." Cade said. He had no idea why he was saying this.
"And when have the Gungans been involved in war with 'non-gungan' forces?" Tala asked. "Well that is, before the Empire."
"Well, if you want to know, when the Naboo people first inhabited the planet of Naboo, the Gungans attempted to fight them off, and failed. 36 years ago, the Gungans battled the droid forces of the old Trade Federation army, and after heavy casulaties, surrendered."
"I thought they won that battle." Tala said.
"No. They escaped slaughter thanks to a Naboo fighter pilot who destroyed a Droid control ship which then deactivated the Droids. Thier final war was just recently, when Boss Knarl of the Gungans thought he could save Naboo from the Empire." Cade finished his tale. "So, in regards to what I last said about Gungans never learning, it just that they can't learn that when they lose to an outside force once, the next time they'll do it, the're just gonna lose again. Got it?"
"Got it." Tala smiled at Cade, before returning her gaze to the viewport. Suddenly, a button started flashing on her control panel. "They're hailing us. Trying to get on Comm." she said in surprised alarm. Cade put his helmet on, and looked at Tala.
"Well, here we go."

(to be continued)