Chapter 3: Induction, Trouble and Murder

AN: If you haven't read what had happened before, look to the previous chapter. I have replaced the announcement with a new chapter. Hope you enjoy this!

After the induction of Hermione and Ron, they became steeped in the Defence Force's training. Hermione voraciously went through the annals of the Defence Force, where it was replete with amazing technology. Commander Neyo observed Hermione like a matron watching a child in class. He was tasked with analysing Hermione's progress in the 91st Reconnaissance Corps to see whether she was an aspirant for the position of General. For her induction, Neyo gave Hermione a rudimentary introduction to the corps. At the same time, Commander Doom had the mundane task to train Ron Weasley. He had read the report of how hapless Ron was and that he had arachnophobia. Despite this, Doom was determined to get rid of the incongruous attitude towards a dangerous situation and make Ron a formidable officer. He set Ron with only a DC-15S blaster carbine against a squad of automatons in order to have Ron be belligerent in battle. Doom was surprised to see Ron enter the simulation field with alacrity and his ability to create a feint attack followed by multiple shots to the droids' back.

Hermione was able to perceive how the 91st Reconnaissance Corps works. She began to badger Neyo for more information. Neyo obliged by giving her a task that was designed to test her ability to lead at the front line. He gave Hermione the first test, which was to accost a battalion of soldiers and then lead them in a simulated battle. Hermione found the simulation a drudgery but nevertheless she eminently succeeded in leading the troopers to victory. Neyo prognosticated that Hermione would be a great General to lead the clones of the 91st Reconnaissance Corps. Meanwhile, Ron was dealing with an interminable throngs of droids heading towards his position in the simulation room. Doom kept on compounding the numbers until Ron was adroit in combat. Doom was set to enhance the training when Ron began to gesticulate to signal to stop the simulation. Ron started to implore Doom to end the simulation but Doom offered no condolence and repudiated Ron's pleas.

Neyo was able to see that Hermione in the intelligence division was within her realm. She blushed under Neyo's praise and was laconic. However Neyo's praise was cut short with a report of a felon sneaking around the perimeter of New Kamino. All of the Commanders were irate that a first year Hogwarts student was intrepid enough to be near the facilities. They quickly apprehended the hapless student who happened to be a Slytherin and put him in the cooler. As Professor Snape escorted the student back to the castle most of the clones looked at the boy with disdain and it was enough to make the boy bristle. Many found the incident to be so pugnacious that one of the Commanders had to make their way to the castle and promulgate to the students that their facilities were off-limits. The Commander also stipulated that only those that have access can go near or into the facilities. One of the brash students tried to get into the base but was jostled back to the castle by a pair of Hogwarts Guard troopers. At the end of the week, Jango Fett had to intimidate the students into accepting that getting into the base was pointless, and that anymore attempts would have the students suffer the headmaster's castigation.

After the threat, all of the students clandestinely concurred that it would be inane to try to infiltrate the Defence Army's base. However, Malfoy and his cronies continued their inexorable ways to enter the base until it got so unbearable that Jango Fett decided to use his flamethrower to ward them off. Snape admonished them for continuing their rampant ways and thinking they could go on with impunity as he could no longer tolerate their devious ways. Meanwhile, Commander Gree and his men were out on patrol in the Forbidden Forest when they saw a thick crystal, clear liquid on the ground. Gree looked at the liquid and analysed it. The liquid was the blood of a unicorn. It was a crime to drink a unicorn's blood and Gree vowed to capture the culprit. The situation was critical. Whoever the criminal was, it was clear that he or she was pernicious. Hagrid was distraught that an unknown felon would kill a unicorn so Gree construed the elites of his corps on AT-RT walkers to capture the person under duress. The groups of walkers paved their way through the forest with the 501st Legion trailing behind them. Gree elicited that the criminal was not far away based on the trail of unicorn blood. The more unicorn blood appeared on the ground, the more acrimonious the clones became.

After a careful patrol of the forest, it was feasible that the villain sallied towards safety at the sight of their lights flashing brightly. Much to the chagrin of the clones, they returned home with an air of consternation. Despite the apprehension of the criminal being a fiasco, Gree lauded his men in being furtive and announced that with more patrols, there would hopefully be a cessation of incidents near Hogwarts. Harry walked around the base while reading the report which was filled with details. There was one small detail that Harry was able to discern and it was the trail of unicorn blood. Harry deduced that if the patrols eschew the trail, they might come across the fugitive. Although dubious, Harry ordered the patrol to do so and quell the incipient murders of unicorns. Whatever result came out of the continuous patrols, Harry had an ominous feeling rising up and causing him to be ever vigilant.

Hogwarts Schoolground

Harry walked alongside Hermione and Ron towards one of their classes. In the early morning, they had mistakenly gone to the restricted area, where they had encountered a large three headed dog. Having no spoken about it until the late afternoon, the trio decided to utilise their new position to find out what it was that was being guarded and why.

AN: In this chapter, I decided to utilise no speech for this one. However expect more talking in the next chapter which will be up and running as soon as possible. Life makes things impossible sometimes. Thank you for your patience and see you next time!