The Prime Override - Chapter 19 is up!

Seventeen has a blast beating up a punching bag, and Fordo disapproves.

Jango has never been beaten by any of his clones in fair, one-on-one combat. That isn’t to say that his men aren’t his match; far from it. But Jango knows their fighting styles intimately well, had developed them with them, and thus far had always managed to stay a few steps ahead by further honing his own skills in response. Alpha-77 had come extremely close to defeating him on multiple occasions, but Jango still has incomparably more experience, especially in real life or death situations, and always managed to slip away.

It was always exhilarating, doing serious spars with his men. Spars made Jango feel pride, to see how far the Alphas had come, to know they’d without a doubt live up to their label of being the best soldiers the galaxy has ever seen. They’d helped reassure Jango that they’d successfully internalized all of the skills Jango had instilled in them, to give them a better chance of surviving once the war broke out. They offered a genuine challenge to all of Jango’s skills and wit, presenting him with opponents who in many ways were Jango himself, but better in almost every physical way. They allowed Jango to walk away with renewed certainty in his own skills as someone worthy of being their Prime.

It’s a feeling he tries to remember, the tenth time Alpha-17 flings him into the wall like a rag doll.

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