Darth Vader and the Lost Command Volume 4

Darth Vader and the Lost Command Volume 4 is the 4th comic in the Lost Command Series

Summary
Darth Vader told the troops that if they stood down,, that they might live long enough to beg for their lives. The troops did not stand down, and instead fired on Vader. Vader told them that they have met their fate, and killed them all, saying that they take orders from a traitor, but the mission is his. Vader corners a wounded troop, and the troop tells him that he will never find Shale as he went to the heart of the system to try to save the admiral, since he thinks that Vader will kill him. Vader stares at the troop and shoots him with his own blaster. Back down on the battlefield, the 501st battles the remaining clone shadow scouts. They were pinned down, and close to death, but saved when Vader somes and kills the scouts. Voca then informs Vader that the traitors killed all the officers and locked down the communications. Vader tells Voca not to worry, and to gather his men and follow him.

They arrive on the Star Destroyer, where Vader tells Voca to send engineers down to Shale's hanger, and use tracking beacons, but can't finish the sentence since the destroyer starts to blow up. Voca and Vader seem like all that remain from the platoon, and Vader says that Saro comes with them. When they arrive at Saro's quarters, they find the guards dead, and Saro gone. Voca says that Shale must have taken Saro and left. Vader tells him to leave.

The rest of the clone shadow scouts arrive in the hanger bay, and try to rendezvous with Shale at dusk the same day. However, they are stopped when Vader blows up the shuttle they were going to take, killing the men. Just as the destroyer explodes, Vader and the rest of the men escape on an Imperial Attack Shuttle. However, they crash into the city on the planet since their engine was damaged during their exit. After the crash, Vader asks Voca how many men survived. He says 9 including himself, and the shuttle is of no use. The team soon arrives on a cliff, and overlook a field of dead clone shadow scouts. Voca says it's a massacre, but Vader corrects him by saying it's an execution. voca says that that was all of Shale's men, but there was no sign of Shale. Just then, Some more of Shale's men fire and kill some of the 501st clones. Vader tells them to take cover as he will deal with it.