Chapter 7: Fight in the Barn

Courage and the clone commander had to hurry if they wanted to apprehend the likes of Cad Bane whom had dashed all the way to the barn. Obviously Cad had the barn purposely dark so that he could easily hide.

"Here, you might also need these night vision goggles since I don't think you have a helmet that can do it for you already" said the clone commander as he handed a pair to Courage.

"Oh, I better get that nasty fugitive" said Courage.

As the two headed toward the barn, Cad was watching from the barn's attic as the two began to approach the structure in question.

"Yes, that's indeed right, come to your doom" laughed Cad who had his blaster rifle ready in hand.

As the two stepped into the barn itself, Courage began to shiver in fear, knowing that Cad was close by. Yet because of the darkness within the barn, it was obviously hard to see. Even with Courage having his new night goggles given to him by the clone commander.

"We'll split up, we'll be able to cover more ground that way" said the clone commander to Courage.

"The things that I do for love" sighed Courage.

As the two went in the opposite direction, Cad waited for Courage to be by himself. The bounty hunter decided it would be proper enough to take out the clone commander first before he could call for additional backup which was in the meantime trying to deal with going after Eustace. Speaking of Eustace, Eustace was ready for another fight using his mallet against the clone troopers whom were coming in droves.

"You law men are not getting inside here" said Eustace as he had his mallet ready again, "I already took out a few our your own guys."

"Quickly, set your blasters to stun on this one" said one of the clone troopers whom was proceeding with caution toward Eustace.

"I see you law men, and I'm coming after ya!" cried Eustace.

Suddenly, while Cad was preparing to ambush the clone commander from high up above, some blaster rifle shots rang out. The clone troopers had to use their blaster rifles on stun to put out Eustace. As the clone troopers were busy heading down to the basement retrieving their unconscious comrades and Muriel who was still out of it, Cad made his leap toward the clone commander.

"You're not going to take me alive Republic scum" said Cad.

"We'll see about that" said the clone commander.

Cad then began to literally first get into a fist fight with the clone commander. Unlike the other clone armor Cad had encountered, it would be quite difficult for Cad to literally send the clone commander to meet the real maker of life. So instead, Cad thought of another evil diversion of starting a fire in the barn. He used his blaster rifle and fired a candle of flames in a lamp that was up above. The lamp fell right down on some hay, and the fire soon began to engulf the barn.

"My cue to make my exit" laughed Cad as he gave another good punch toward the clone commander.

While the bounty hunter began to escape once again, heading toward his shuttle that wasn't far, the clone troopers in the house noticed the barn was set ablaze. They rushed to try to put out the blaze. Meanwhile, inside the burning barn, Courage couldn't believe there was so much smoke.

"Oh, this isn't good!" cried Courage.

As the pink dog tried to dodge falling debris, he noticed a somewhat injured clone commander.

"I got to help him!" cried Courage.

The pink dog did his best to lift the clone commander which was obviously quite heavy.

"How much does he weigh?!" thought Courage as he said it to himself while doing the task in question.

As Courage continued to try to get out of the burning barn, about two other clone troopers made it through the blaze to get their clone commander out.

"Thanks for all the help" said the clone trooper to Courage as all three began to get the clone commander out of the burning barn.

While the barn was burning still, toward heading to become eventual rubble, Cad was happily starting up his engines on his shuttle ready to take off. The shuttle already was then soon taking off, and about five clone troopers began to notice it. They started to fire at the fleeing shuttle that Cad was in.

"You Republic scum, you'll never be able to capture me!" laughed Cad as he was fleeing the scene.

"Blast, he got away!" cried one of the clone troopers.

Up above space, the Republic cruiser's captain couldn't believe the grim news that Cad Bane had once again eluded justice as the small shuttle was seen leaving the other side of the planet as it began to rotate.

"Blast!" cried the captain as he slammed his fist on the control panel a bit, "That bounty hunter had managed to escape us once more!"

"We'll have to inform our superiors of this" sighed a clone trooper.

Back on Earth, even though the squad of clone troopers had failed to apprehend Cad Bane from justice, they were thankful to have an ally on their side.

"For being an honorary member of our squad" said the clone commander who gave Courage a medal.

"Hey, I want a medal, don't I get a shiny medal?" asked Eustace who was a bit tied up in handcuffs.

"Eustace, you're not coming out of those handcuffs until you'll admit you'll go on community service for the rest of this year for the town for what you did" said Muriel who was finally up.

"But I don't want to!" cried Eustace.

"Well, it's been nice meeting you" said the clone commander as he and his squad were going home to Courage, "hope we'll run into each other sometime very soon."

The scene then ends with the stealth ship that the clone troopers came on began to head back toward the Republic cruiser, where they'll certainly have to fight another day to chase down Cad Bane.