Sorry about the mini cliffhanger last chapter but I really hope this makes up for it. I also hope you enjoy the fight scene because I worked really hard on it.

Ahsoka's pov
"All I want to do is save you." Total silence. No one dared say a word. And it would have stayed that way if it wasn't for the stupid alarm that started blaring out of absolutely nowhere.

"What the hell is that?" Wrecker asked. I realized my vulnerable spot was wide open and immediately covered it with one light saber. I watched as the large pillars with what I've grown accustomed to destroying all these years jumping out of them, it was droids. Lots of them. Hunter tackled poor Crosshair to the ground before I could stop him and I was pulled by Echo and Fives behind a barricade.

"Hey why'd you activate the droids?" Wrecker asked Tech who was squatting while shooting in front of me. Rex was on the other side of Wrecker shooting up a storm.

"This was not my doing." I sighed and shook my head. I could feel her force prescence close by.

"I think I know he did do it though. Look up!" I pounted to spit where Omega activated her light saber and jumped down the railing on to a droids head and decapitated it, back flipping off of its shoulders and dodging more blaster fire. Pride swelled in my heart, she's just cime so far.

"Ahsoka get out of here!" Rex yelled from the other side.

"What!? No way I'm leaving you guys at a time like this!" It was hard to focus with all the stuff we had going on. Hunter just dropkucked his brother but Crosshair got up quickly and grunted from the pain. However it wasn't the physical pain that was getting to him, it was the mental pain that sent him overboard.

"The last time you were in a battle you and my child almost ended up in a gravestone! Get. Out." Ghere was no trace of rudeness in my husband's tone, just concern and... greif?

"I know what I did wrong now! Trust me I won't mess up again!" Before we coukd argue further I used the force to pull Hunter and Crosshair apart. They need to take some serious chill pills. Too quickly a blaster mark went by my ear, it was so close I could hear the buzz of it. When the two lines of droids shot ay me, I used the force to redirect the blaster fire right back at them. They all dropped instantly only for more to take it's place.

"They just keep coming!" Fives complained. Omega split kicked two droids in the chin then sliced cleanly through them.

"Nooooo, really! We hadn't noticed!" Fives grimaced and held a hand to his heart.

"Jeez Megs, no need to be mean about it. Besides aren't you the one who got us into this mess?" Fives asked her. I looked to my right to see what all the weird man grunting was about. When I saw Crosshair pick up his rifle and shoot the droid about to attack Hunter I did an internal happy dance.

"Maybe you should be thanking her, cause she might've just completed the mission." Another line of deoids came up to Omega and I who were standing curved next to each other back to back in the middle of the two barricades the boys were giding behind.

Wanna do move 32?

Only if you're comfortable with it.

I think I'm ready.

I smiled at her new found confidence in our move we created a few months ago in our spare time. She leaped high off the ground for a breif moment and fired on the droids in the back of the line while I deactivated my saber and shot at the one sin the front. When she came back down to the ground she landed on her knees. I put my blaster away and used the force to slide her across the room. Omega cut the remaining droids at the waist line, or whatever you call that funky thing. When she was all done I was surprised to see Crosshair help her up. Did he break away from the chip's control for real this time? I stood there watching as they stood back to black blicking and shooting down the new common enemies together. Even in the heat of battle a smile came to my face.

"Ahsoka!" Someone yelled loud enough to snap me back to reality just in time for me to dodge a bolt headed right towards mt chest area.

"Thanks Techie!" I gave him a small two fingered salute and jumped back into action. Hunter grabbed my fore arm and waited gor my confirmation on plan 186. I nodded my head yes firmly. Hunter smirled and started spinning me around viscously. I held my hand out amd force pushed everyone while moving in the circle. When Hunger let go I was dizzy as hell. Like I actually had to lean on Omega's shoulder dizzy as hell. I heard a blaster bolt whisp right above my head, barely missing me. When I looked up slowly and my vision cleared, I could see Crosshair still looking through his rifle straight at me. Once the last one was destroyed everyone left the barricades or wherever they wete fighting the droids. At first I had hope. A hope that things cohkd maybe be normal for them again. Then Hunter happened. The gun clicked behind us. Omega, Crosshair and I turned around at the same time to see him aiming the blaster at his brother.

"Steady Hunter. Don't shoot." He spared me a glance that softened when he met my eyes, then he untensed when he saw Omega's scared and sad little face.

"Are you ready to come with us?" That same spark of hope returned into my soul.

"No. The Empire is my place now. As it should be yours." And just like that it's diminished again, but not fully.

"Crosshair your still in a mental prison, just a less obvious one. Your being deceived into thinking that this is who you are."

"This is who I am." I sighed and put my hand on his shoulder. He flinched, but didn't resist.

"No it really isn't. You are so much more than a stupid inhibitor chip. What is gonna make you realize your better than it?"

"Nothing. Because I'm not. This is who I am." His right eye twitched slightly and his face became relaxed for a second until it wasn't. Crosshair turned on his heel to me amd grabbed both my shoulders. All of Fives, Echo, Rex, Tech and Wrecker pulled their blasters on him in a second which is exactly what I didn't want them to do. Crosshair looked panicked already, the more time went on he looked genuinely terrified.

"You have to help me. Save m-" his eyes fluttered to the back of his head and the left eye twitched this time.

"Like I said, this is who I am." His right eye twitched. A singular tear rolled down his cheek when it did.

"I've been trapped for months. Id escape once or twice but it's only temporary. It's nice pretending like I was strong, luke I actually mattered but its gone now. This really is me. This is who I am now. Even if I want to change, it won't let me." His left eye twitched more aggressively this time.

"Like I've said, this is who I am." His eyes trailed back to Hunter's. I swear to god if they turn this into another shoot out I will- and it's now a shoot out because Hunter just shot him. Hunter just kriffing shot Crosshair!

"Hunter!" I calmed down when I noticed it was just a stun blast, but not that much.

"What? It was either he gets shot or I do. Better him knocked out than me dead." I sighed and shook my head. I suppose he wasn't wrong but I was still upset over the whole thing. Hunter knelt down to Crosshair's level on the floor. I noticed the gentleness he used to move his brothers head back to examine the wound which is ironically exactly where the inhibitor chip is buried.

"I can't believe we did this to him." Wrecker hung his head down low in shame with Echo and Fives. Tech just death stared at the wall. I put a comforting arm around his shoulders and squeezed softly. He patted my hand briefly moved his goggles up to wipe the tears forming in his eyes.

"All this time we've been out there relaxing going out only when we felt luke it. He's been suffering the whole time." Echo stated glumly.

"And it's all my fault." Tech mumbled. I wtapped him up in both arms.

"No Tech that's not tr-" I tried to convince him but was cut off.

"Yes it is! It was my plan to roast his crew like a kriffing marshmallow! But I swear I didnt know he was back there but he doesnt know I didn't know and therefore my brogher no longer lo-"

"Tech don't you dare finish that sentence." He primptly shut his mouth and looked to the ground. Hunter brushed his fingers over Crosshair's burn mark that looked like a baby version of Wrecker's.

"Whatever. T-The matter is insignificant now anyways. What's actually umportant is- oh no." Tech just stopped talking after that leaving us on some kind of cliffhanger or something. We watched him with worry when his eyes were going back and forth on his datapad.

"Three Venators are descending on the city. We need to leave, now." I could tell Tech still had all of his emotions wadded up in the back of his mind still. But like he said, we have more pressing matters at hand. Making a split second decision Hunger grabbed Crosshair's beloved rifle and backpack.

"Wrecker, grab Crosshair. He's coming with us." Omega and I sighed with relief. And just like that the little spark of hope returned.

"Hey what's in the pack?" I asked Hunger, wondering why it was so important to bring along.

"Do you really want to know?" I nodded vigorously. He sighed and olened the hatch to it. A frenzy of nothing but thin wooden toothpicks cascaded to the ground landing on his back. No one could resist ghe laughter that bubbled up inside. For the first time since I've met him I heard Tech genuinely laugh. It was kriffing adorable! It was just too hard to resist glancing into his mind.

Well at least one thing hasn't changed about him.

My laughing stopped when my grinning began. Tech's thoughts only fueled the burning passion of hope inside me.

"Eh he didn't need those anyways. We still have six crates full of 'em on the Marauder anyways." Wrecker's comment increased the laughter but once the noise died down Hunter had to turn serious again.

"Alright, let's move out. No detours, and no matter what we stick together. Protect Ahsoka and Omega at all costs." I sent him a small smule that he returned before placing his bucket on his head again. He opened the door out of the training room and we all booked it down the hall. Hunter was in the front and the arc twins brought up the rear. Omega and I were in the middle with Wrecker, Rex and Tech. Rex rested a hand on my stomach as we were running.

"I don't care how it happened of what they did, but whoever healed you is now my idol." I let out a chuckle and wiped a bead of sweat off my lekku.

"Rex hun, I've always been your idol." His mouth fell open a bit and he suddenly stopped. Luckily Fives and Echo shoved him forward which got him running again. Rex obviously had more questions but now was definitely not the time for them. Especially since I suddenly got a flashing warning sign whenever I closed my eyes. Something bad was about to happen I just know it.

"Can we maybe not talk about this while were running for our godamn lives?"

"I guess." He sighed. We both picked yp the pace to keep up with Wrecker. The lovable brute was taking Crosshair's extra weight like a champ. Then again we don't call him a stringbean for nothing. Eventually the jostling turned into aggressively shoving across the room. The lights flickered amd the emergency power clicked on. The whole hallway glowed red which was a strange change from the usually white stoic walls.

"What are they even doing up there?" I asked the group but most specifically Tech.

"Why on Coruscant would we know!?" Hunger groaned as we were all falling onto and into each other.

"Hurry! Get to the lift!" I rolled my eyes as no one went any faster or slower. Don't you just love it when people say hurry as if you weren't gonna hurry if they didn't say that? Because I hate that. Rex glanced over to me as if to silently convey now's not the time to bring up the discussion. Hunter busted through the doors then just, stopped. I grabbed Omega with the force and scooted her closer to me. When we saw what was happening outside I would never forget it. The Empire was literally destroying a planet. Like, physically destroying it! Omega gasped and vuried her little face in my waist and hugged around me.

"It's okay Megs. Were gonna get through this. Everything will be okay." She let out a loud sob and rubbed her nose on the fabric of my underdress.

"Go on, back inside!" I put one hand on the back of Omega's head to protect her if were jostled again and the other hand over my stomach. Hinter placed his hand straight out in front of him on my back and started pushing me forwards quicker.

"Jeez cool your jets Mr. Forehead!" He gasped and brushed his finger over where his bandana used to be, now it's in my hands as I waved jt in front of him he snatched it and kept running.

"Go, go!" It was so tempting to stop qnd stare at him but when i heard the damn wall crack I knew if wasn't time to argue still.

"We need to find cover!"

"No shit! In other news the sun rose this morning!" Like I said. No time to argue so I shut it down quickly with that last statement.

"Ooh behind here!" I pointed to a large hunk of metal sliding past us. Wrecker grabbed it but not in time because we all were thrown from our feet. Lyckily my hand was on the back of Omega's head and I braced her head from hitting the floor too hafd when we flew up. I however, didn't bruise my stomach but I can't say the same for literally any other limb.

"Come on master, get up." She used the force to pull me and the others back to our feet. Just then a large explosion happened next to the wall we were standing directly next to. I was flung across the room amd hit the wall but then Rex caught me just before plopping on the ground, saving me from a concussion. Next thing I onow we were all sliding to what could quite possibly be our demise. I gasped and grunted when my foot got caught in some sort of vacuum tube broken out of fhe floors foundation.

"Master!" Omega kept sliding along with the rest of them. She activated her light saber and sunk tje weapon into the floor and skowed down.

"I'll be right there!" She yelled. She was still going backwards just not as quickly, I didn't think she realized that. I heard anothe rloud grunt but it wasnt coming from me this time. I looked to my far left to see Crosshair get stuck in between the sharply cut metal too.

"Don't stop sliding on my account. I'll be with you in a sec." There were tears in her eyes for so many different reasons as she reluctantly listened to me for the first time and put the light saber away. She slid out of sight as the door short-circuited and shut in her face.

"Crosshair! Can you hear me?" No response from fhe Snarky Stringbean. Ugh thsi is going to be a lot harder with him out cold than it would have been if he was awake. Or at least that's what I thought until right on cue he started mumbing and shivering. Probably cold from the leaking water seaping into his armor.

"Crosshair?"

"Oh it's you."

"Alright I'll let that one slide." In an instant I was there beside him trying to tug the big-ass hunk of junk off him.

"You know some help would be appreciated."

"So would some dry clothes but look at us now." I tried so hard to act upset and angry af him hut my tugging at the heavy block holding Crosshair down made me stop because of the good laugh I was having.

"Your so lucky I'm more patient with your bantha shit than I would have been 2 years ago." I grinded out, physically lifting the bar wasn't working and the flooding water was relentless.

"Yeah yeah whatever, just get this off of me!" I sighed lookimg him in the eye. I backed away and reached out with the force briefly, flinging the while chunk of metal and tubes up out of the flooring and we fell through it. I let put a shriek qs we fell to the story below us while Crosshair just rolled his eyes when we started sliding again.

"Well this is another fine mess youve gotten us into."

"Glad to see your inhibitor chip occasionally allows your snarkiness to shine through. It's just such a lovely personality trait that, explains why your single."

"You wonder why I call you nosy, Nosy."

"Snarky!"

"Nosy!"

"Snarky!"

"Guys!" Our heads flipped so fast toward an angry captain.

"Oh hi Rex." I hit something that caused me to stop floating in the water.

"Oh hi Fives."

"Dude get your ass up. Were running for our lives here!" Crosshair coughed so dramaticallg but no one noticed except me.

"More like swimming for our-" He abruptly quit speaking. His blank expression returned along with his attitude. He didn't even say anything yet and I miss his old attitude already.

"What have tou done!?" Now I really missed it.

"We saved your sorry ass. Your welcome. Now that the fire is over can we please get back to the Marauder and Revolution?" Hunter shook his head no and tried to speak up to Crosshair but Tech cut him off.

"No the Empire opened fire on the city which means they are most likely still up there. If we leave now they'll shoot us down before we even exit the atmosphere. We need to get topside before the entire city submerges." Tech told us all. We nodded slowly taking in the information. It's been a long day and I think we've all suffered too many bumps to the ole central processing unit.

"Tech's right. We should get moving." Again Hunter, is it that necessary to double triple check the simple plan? Regardless they all broke into a sprint out of wherever the hell we were. I paused a moment, Omega after me to look behind our shohlders.

"Are you coming or not? And there is a right or wrong answer to this by the way." Keeping his mostly stoic expression Crosshair glanced around looking for force only know what before deciding to finally follow me. I patted Omega's back and we started running with the force to make us super speed forward. Crosshair (eventually) caught up to Omega and I. We were doing fine until Omega just stopped put of nowhere and started examining the windows. The kriffing windows!

"Omega we really need to keep moving." Wrecker tried to yell at her as he kept running but stopped and walked back over to hear her response. Soon after everybody else followed.

"Are you, uh, alright?" I looked at Echo like seriously.

"I will be soon." Then she started running again with all of us behind her. We dashed down the none lit corridor with the only light now being a few flashlights that were rendered useless and pathetic when I activated my smaller light saber to use as a light source. Hunter shrugged and rossed his puny flashlight aside.

"Omega! Omega watch out!" My hand instantly flew to the DC-17 pistol amd pointed it at the sound.

"Wait who's the droid?" Fives gasped beside me and removed his helmet. He slowly walked forward to Omega and the cute little AZI medical unit.

"Oh. You are okay." Was it relieved? Since when do medical droids have emotions, especially ones working for the Kaminoens?

"AZI-3?" Fives placed a hand on the droids head. The droid turned it's head to look.

"Arc trooper CT-27-5555? Is it really you?" I looked at Fives who was chuckling and shaking his head to Echo and the Bad Batch to see they were equally as confused as I was.

"Should we leave the room? Or do you wanna get the kriff out of here." Wrecker wasn't asking, he was demanding. We all followed the leader, which currently waa Wrecker. And there is a sentence I never thought I'd say.

"Wait!" Tech called from behind us making me stop in my tracks a second after I started running.

"Yes?"

"I believe we have