The Clones' Adventure Pt 1

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A small, dark green, amphibious creature looked up, startled by a strange thunderous noise from above. It watched, perplexed, as three white objects hurtled from the sky. They crashed into a nearby pond with an explosion that shook the trees so that some of the giant twomardofruit fell to the ground, the excitable feesh did a triple backflip out the water and landed on the ground and suffocated. This always happens when the feesh are excited or scared, forcing them to evolve to breathe air. The amphibious creature curiously made its way towards the three white objects. Suddenly, it jumped a metre into the air as the airlocks simultaneously released on all three white things with a loud hiss. Then, three aliens, one from each pod, stepped out of the unfolding white spacecrafts. They were clad in weird white armour with blue markings and carried strange black contraptions that they pointed at their surroundings. The three eyed flog stood as still as a potato, while glands on its forehead made it smell like an unripe potato, so it wouldn’t get eaten by mistake. It then decided to hop off in case the aliens liked unripe potatoes or the Things came to investigate what these aliens were and why they were here.

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“Where is everyone?” said the airborne trooper.

“It looks like a swamp to me,” said the dunetrooper, “and not many sophisticated life forms like to live in swamps.”

“No, that’s not what I meant. When we were flying over the planet in the pods, I couldn’t see any signs of civilisations, but the pod’s readout said that the planet was inhabited by sentient life forms.”

“Maybe that slug there is actually a hyper-evolved, intelligent, telepathic being that is 5 times smarter than we are, and has shape shifted into a slug so we wouldn’t suspect it.” (Little did they know, they were right, but there were other Things that posed more of a threat to them.)

“Yeah, maybe that slug is 5 times smarter than you.” he retorted.

“Whatever, but if that little grey slug is the most advanced thing on this planet, then why is it listed as inhabited?”

“I don’t know, but I say we should get out of this swamp!”

“Yeah, let’s push on.” As they walked off, they didn’t notice the little slug shape shift into a large purple cat and dart off into the dense undergrowth to alert its masters to these aliens.

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A couple of hours later it started to get dark. The first of the two suns was already below the horizon and the second was already following fast in its wake. Although all three troopers were tired and would normally have accepted a rest, they felt uncomfortable in this alien forest. They felt a hostile presence, like something that wanted them dead was death-staring them, watching their every move. However, when they looked about themselves, they could see or hear nothing but small creatures going about their business or fleeing from the strange white possible predators. Meanwhile, hidden in the bushes, three humanoid Things stared intently at the white armoured newcomers. The Things had analysed their pods and recognised that the aliens were from the Milky Way galaxy and were part of the republic’s clone army. As the three troopers plodded through the forest, the three Things glided, unseen, between the trees, stalking their prey.

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It was now completely dark and the three clones’ torches could hardly penetrate the prevailing wall of darkness and alien plant life that engulfed them. The unnerving sounds of creatures rustling, snorting and chirping filled their ears. Even though none of them voiced their thoughts, they were all scared of the fact that there could be anything waiting in the shadows about to pounce on unsuspecting victims. Out of the corners of their eyes they kept glimpsing a faint, red pair of eyes, an orange slit, like that of a visor and two bright, round, green, glowing eyes, but when they looked back, they were gone…

To be continued

(or at least I think so)