Ahsoka's pov
"Ironically our old barricks is one of the few compartments habitable. Albeit, temporarily." Tech said. I could sense his bantha milk glass half full attitude trying it's best to shine through.

"This is our old room? What happened to it?"

"At least the smells gone." Fives scoffed and lightly punched Echo in the shoulder. Fives was totally rubbing off of on poor naive Echo.

"Hey check it out! Our boards still here!" I helped Wrecker recall fhe amount of successful missions we've had together since they found me.

"All those missions together, and tou three it all away." I sighed and left Wrecker alone to do his own math. It was risky, but worth it.

"Remember it's not really him. Don't let the inhibitor chip get to you like it is now. Just let it in one ear and out the other." Hunter took a deep breath trying to follow my advice. It was a short yet highly uncomfortable silence while Hunter debated hsi words. Finally he made up his mind on how he wanted to handle fhe situation.

"I have nothing to say to an inhibitor chip. Tech you got any updates for me?"

"He doesn't, but I do. Look!" Omega said cheerfully looking out the window. Everybody except Crosshair gathered up and peered out of the glass to see where she was pointing.

"Megs how would a family of Felucian sea sting rays help us? I mean if you knew how to call them over maybe in the span of three minutes we could learn how ride them and then we could-" Echo clamped his hand over his twins mouth, thankfully shuting him up.

"Creative, but no. I meant we landed on the underwater tunnel. If we use it to reach the base post, we could get back to the Revolution and Marauder!" Her enthusiasm wasn't shared by anyone else. I would be excited with her but my energy level is running a bit low at the moment.

"Accessing the tube will be... challenging." I scoffed and rolled my eyes.

"Ah come on Tech don't talk like that. Your a genius! Surely it won't be that tough." Tech's skepticality showed through by his sassy stance and the way his eyes were angled down. Oh qnd the heavy disappointed sigh he let out. That was a dead give away too.

"Anythings better than staying in this washed up dump. Literally." I glared at Echo for his sudden impoliteness.

"We have to try!" Omega tried to encourage us, she didnt get much out of anyone though. Well maybe except one person.

"She's calling the shots now?" I hummed at Crosshair's question. Although I think the boys took it as offense U didnt since she us quite litetally, calling varying shots as a padawan Commander. Hunter and I made brief eye contact, an unspoken understanding was formed. Just like the one Crosshair and I formed.

"Unlike you, I don't underestimate a person because of age." Tech began waving around his datapad - I don't know how the hell it got here or is still dry and functioning but anyways - Crosshair shot Hunter a skeptical look. Fives snuck up behind the snarky sniper to reinforce him.

"Its true. Omega could probably kill you in around 86 different ways without a weapon." I sniffled my nose to go along with his act.

"I taught her all of that." Fives put his hands on my shoulders arms patted them slightly.

"Your a good teacher, Ad'ika."

"I'm loving the touchy feely moment, but like I said before, can we go now?" Wrecker you have got to stop ruining moments like these.

"Wrecker is correct. My scans indicate the tunnel is directly below this maintenance deck." He handed Omega a mini metal welder.

"Uh first of all, no power tools until she's an adult. And second of all, why are you handing her that when she has a light saber on her hip?" Omega cbuckled and started cutting through the metal Tech pointed to with her saber while Tech just stared at me.

"Uh because I... didn't think of it." Omega kicked the useless piece of broken circular metal aside. Fives motioned for his little friend to go down. AZI did as instructed but was gone longer than anyone had hoped for.

"The tunnel is clear!" He chirped back a few moments later. No joke, everybody let out a sigh of relief at the same time. No one moved though. As I stood above Hunger I let my eyes drift down to his.

"Me first?"

"Who else?" He sighed and maneuvered around the other to hop down. The subtle crack was judt that, subtle. But still there.

"Maybe it's best if ypu float down ane gently land." That being said Omega and I picked ech one up at a time. Wrecker and Crosshair being last. I had to assist Omega before she dropped the lovable brute and cracked the tunnel, therefore destroying our only chance of survival and my will to live. But it's no biggie! Cause that didn't happen.

"Omega you go down first." She hesitated for a srcond but eventually leaped off the groynd and landed crouched, doing a dive roll and immediately standing upright. Not sure who I'm more proud of, hwr or myself.

"Soka hip down! We'll vatch ya!" Wrecker shouted and I swear to the force, I think the glass cracked even more just by his speaking. Luckily Wrecker caught me. The Captain and Sargeant exchanged looks before walking as lightly as they could ahead of us. I giggled at Wrecker dramatically swinging his legs slowly back and forth trying and failing miserably to tiptoe quietly.

"Wrecker I don't think that's working the way you want it to."

"Well we haven't died yet so I must be doing something right." I scoffed and kept walking yrying to ignore Crosshair's eyes I could feel were glued on my back.

"We have to go back. There must be another way." I turned around to look at him, only to see his eyes were staring at the roof of the tunnel which had an undeniable larger crack in it than before.

"That would be unwise. I am afraid this is our best option." AZI informed the Crosshair.

"You done complaining? You know if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be in this mess."

"Wrecker! What did I just tell Hunter!? It's not your brother! And it's most certainly not his fault were here! If you want to blame somebody blame creepy old Palps for authorizing the creation of the inhibitor chips." Wrecker didn't seem to like my answer, but he accepted it. I put a hand on Crosshair's shoulder trying to beckon him forward only for jim to shove me away. Instantly everybody in the tunnel pulled their blasters on him, only one person jumped in front of Crosshair.

"Don't touch her." I was surprised to see Rex travel from the front to the very back in an instant. I gently tapped the pistol making him lower it. Then everybody else lowered theirs too.

"L-Let's just keep moving. Please." Omega begged. Hunter gave in being the kind space dad he is.

"Why are you two defending me?" He already knew my answer. But I was curious to what Tech's explanation was fir being the one willing to take a bullet for Crosshair when he jumped in front of him.

"I am defending you because I have faith in my friends. If Ahsoka says that you aren't yourself right now, I believe it. In addition to that, I know you have always had violent and rude tendencies. I put up with them in the past because I love you, I can put up with them now too." When Tech tried to pat Crosshair's shoulders instead of swatting him away, Crosshair didn't move an inch when his brother softly rubbed his shoulder.

"And you?" The chip controlled Crosshair asked me next. Tech also looked to me, expecting a verbal answer.

Like I said before, I know the real you. And I know this isn't it.

The real Crosshair was going crazy on the inside. It was absolute madness in his mind. Pure and utter chaos was lose, but in the middle of it all was a skinny man sitting on his knees crying like the heartbroken boy he really is.

Look at me.

The man in the middle glanced up and gasped.

Is it really you? Have you finally come back to s-save me?

Now this is the real, vulnerable Crosshair I wish his brothers could see.

I have. Im juet sorry it took so long.

I heard something roar loudly from the outside world I was drowning out.

I promise this time no one gets left behind. Not even your bratty ass.

He scoffed but shot me a soft smile. I smiled right back at him. When I started randomly panting all of the sudden I knew something was going on in the outside world. I pushwd myself out of his brain. When I reopened my eyes, I was shocked to see everyone running, including myself.

"What the- have I been running this whole time?"

"No time to talk! Big monster chasing us! Big monster chasing us!" Someone shouted. To my right and left was Echo and Fives grabbing my arms and yanking me forward, forcing me to run for dear life. When Omega tipled over I rupped one arm away from Fives and used the force to pull her back up before she could dent the easily breakable glass. I ripped my other arm free from Echo qnd stopped running. The 'big monster' stoppef and looked at me. It let out a mighty roar. I never flinched like it wanted me to.

"Ahsoka move!" Rex yelled, they were all out of the tunnel and up the ramp except for him, all the others were beckoning me forward while Rex refused to leave without me.

"Uh I'm kinda busy at the moment. Leave a message at the shutting door." I force pushed him up the haul and pulled out the mechanical mechanism to shut the door on him. Eh I'll be there in a minute anyway. I pressed my hand on the glass so gently you couldn't even hear it.

"Sleep." I whsipered to the creature. After a moment he let out a quieter roar, but it honestly sounded more like a wimper. Then he hit the bottom of the ocean floor, no longer bothering anyone anymore. I hummed in satisfaction and calmly walked to the door I just shoved my husband through. I reopened it with the force, startked to see Omega about to pierce my skull with her light saber. She gasped but was already taking a stab at it- or, me. I moved out of the way and she fell on her ass.

"Well I'm touched you were gonna try and save me, however did you have to be so aggressive? Geez." Everybody shared a good laugh except for Crosshair, but I could tell he was laughing on the inside. I bet these are the shenanigans he missed over the past year.

"How far are we from wherever we're going now AZI?" Omega asked her cute little droid friend that Fives had his arm around with a weird smirk as if they were old drinking buddies or something.

"According to my central processing unit, the destination is a few steps above us."

"Oh okay." Without discussing it at all, I just flung everybody up there after opening the door, even Omega. After they landed i leaped up there with them.

"What was that for?"

"I believe the words you mean to say are, your welcome." They looked at each other than at me.

"Do you mean we meant to say thank you?"

"Your welcome! See now was that so hard?" Then I walked away into force knows where. It was a dark room but it was lit by the warm, slightly darker blue and Omega's icy bright, brilliant blue blade. When we ventured deeper I came across a familiar table that made me gasp.

"What is this place?" Hunter asked as he hoisted himself up.

"Nala Se's private lab." This is where I was an hour ago strapped down to the table I'm now standing in front of.

"Omega says this is where our mutations were manipulated and enhanced." Tech supplied for everyone. Looking at this table mad eme sick, afterall it is the table where I almost lost my baby. Instead of loiking at that dreary memory I walked over to Omega who was observing the room with tears in her eyes. Hunter knelt down and wiped a tear off of her face. They smiled at each other and when he thoufht no one was looking, planted a kiss on Omega's forehead. She giggled and walked back over to me. I wiped away the remainder of her tears as the others spoke.

"How would she know that?" Crosshair's rough voice asked.

"Because she was there. Omega is a clone of as we knew the late jedi master Sifo Dyas but also had the blood of Jango Fett later infused into her bloodstream, therefore making her part Fett. Technically, she is older than we are." Omega left my side to look at 4 unusually large tubes in the center of the room. She took off her helmet and placed her hamds on the two in the middle.

"I thought I was your blood sister for the longest time. I idolized you all for so long simply because I thought you were my brothers." She wasn't crying anymore, but a leftover tear slid down her cheeks. Hunter stepped forward with Wrecker, Echo, Fives, Tech, and Rex towards Omega. I watched Crosshair watch from a distance.

"We may not be your blood related brothers like you thought kid, but you are our sister regardless." They shared one big group hug. Wtecker beung the one to clear her fragile face of that singular tear.

"Hey Wrecker what happened to not sharing any touchy feely moments and getting the hell out of here?"

"Oh come on Soka. The kid needed support." I shook my head at the big guy then at the still intact group hug.

"Come on let's go scout ahead." He nodded to me before patting Omega's head a bit aggressively and excusing himself. Wrecker went all brute on me and just smashed apart the doors to the next secluded area of the lab. Wrecker and I had very different reactions to what we found. He groaned and I gasped at the sight we saw.

"That's gonna be a problem."

"Ya think?" I sighed and called for everyone else to join us in here. They need to see the news too. Omega was the first to rush in followed by the other boys. Omega had a similar reaction to mine.

"I-Is that the-"

"Yep." She sighed and her happy mood shattered yet again.

"That tunnel was the only way back to the Marauder." Thank you Commander Obvious for yet another grand update on the obvious today.

"This is what happens when you let a kid call the shots." I sighed and put my hands on Hunter and Omega's shoulder.

"Just let it roll off your shoulders." Hunter looked at me with furious fires burning im his eyes. Oh he was beyond pissed.

"You judt want me to sit here and take this? He us continously bad-mouthing my squad!"

"No he isn't, the chip is. Be the bigger person and don't engage before tou say something you'll regret later on." The flames began to die down when he started focusing more on his breathing and Omega beside him. I nudged my hand off and walked up to Crosshair. They stared each other for the longest tume until how much of a leader Hunter truly is was showed

" I look forward to talking with my actual brother. Until then, I don't give two flying bantha shits about your fake opinuon on me or my squad." With those parting words Hunter walked off with Rex close behind.

"Excellently handled Sargeant Forehead."

"Thanks a lot Captain Snores-Alot. Now let's try not to give up just yet." Everybody broke out individually looking for anything that could be anything or help us in any way.

"Ling range comms are down and our oxygen levels will be critical in a couple of hours." Hunter groaned and rubbed his bandana-less forehead in frustration and concentration.

"I asked for hope Echo, that's the opposite."

"Hunter's right. Surely there has to be something in this hellhole of a room, no offense Omega, that can bust us out of here." Morale was low, a positive attitude like mine will either cheer everyone up or annoy them even more than they already are. Luckily it inspired someone to speak up.

"I-I might have an idea." We were all surprised to see Wrecker raise his hand. I swear to life itself, Tech almost fainted which didn't help Wrecker's already low self confidence when it came to etuff like this.

"Okay guys this is a bit dramatic. Go ahead Wrecker, what's the idea?" He stittered tryung to find the right words. I could sense Crosshair behund me about to say some snarky remark so I leaned forward and kucked him in the balls. That always shuts them right up. No one complained either. It also calmed Wrecker's nerves down for him to get a proper sentence out.

"The tube thingies we were made in. They look alright. Could we use them to float up to the Marauder?" Wrecker had a valid point. I looked to Tech to see if he agreed. To everybody's shock except Omega's and mine, he did agree. Its like we've been sqying all along, Wrecker isn't brain dead at all. He can judt be a little oblivious and immature at times just like the rest of us.

"Thank you Wrecker. See that's just what I was asking for. Only one problem I see. How are we gonna aboid all of the debris out there?" And another valid point.

"T-The... droid. H-He could, could do it." Crosshair said through his grunts of pain, panting, and just depression in general grom me kicking him in his no-no square.

"AZI could you guide us to the surface?" Hunter asked carefully as if he was afraid of the answer.

"Barring any extreme complications, I should be able to conplete the task." He seemed... off. I don't know what it is but something about AZI just seemed different than he was a minute ago. It was off-putting and slightly startling.

"Won't that be dangerous?"

"Your safety and well-being is my primary mission objective." Hunter and Rex cast loiks toward my directiobb to double check I was okay eith it first. If the answer was good enough for the dad batch then it was good enough for me so I gave them one nod and then we all got to work. Wtecker handed Omega his emergency explosives he kept huddled up in hus armor which I found incredibly hazardous but compared to most thigs we do thats probably one of the safer ones. Omega swiftly placed all of the explosives on the window at once with the aid of the force and skipped back over to us. Echo and I were practically shoving Wrecker in, praying he would somehwat fit. Thankfully he did, just not well.

"I barely fit in this thing!" I rolled my eyes and stared at him with my 'really' look. Echo motioned to all the others hopling in behund each other.

"Quit complaining. Besides Tech's the smallest one anyway." He mumbled before going to his tube next to Fives. What Rex and I really got a kick out of though was Crosshair's unhappy face as he was smushed like a flat ration ar by the one and broody, Sargeant Forehead. All of the sudden Rex started wheezing beside me. I loiked into his mind but it only toik a small second to see what he was so amused by before I joined in.

"What's so funny?" Hunter asked in his no bs leader voice which only made us laugh harder.

"All I can pucture on the tube now is 'this is my get along shirt'! Qtecker you remember that holovideo with the girl and the thing where she made the doohickie?"

"Oh yeah! Hahahahaha!" He joined in our laughter leaving an angry Sargeant and an over it Crosshair that wasn't Crosshair.

"The explosives are set." I patted her head as a comfort. Her nerves were skyrocketing.

"Are you sure your okay going alone?" She took my hand off her head and nodded so confidently any doubt I had vanished.

"Never been okayer." Rex and I hopped into our tube together. I watched as the others did the same.

"Alright seal 'em up." Rex pressed the close container button to clise our capsule.

"When your ready Omega." She took a deep breath in. Then when she pressed the detonate switch the plexiglass being the only thing keeping us safe, exploded. All of our tubes at the same time were sent spiraling out of control by the heavy waves in the Kamino sea. The sea I don't think my padawan will ever get over.

"I can't see anything." Wrecker commented. A large miece of sharp metql was headed straight for us