𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓗𝓮𝓻𝓮
Crosshair's pov
"Scrappers on Bracca reported a power surge on a jedi cruiser. They also saw, and I quote "two bright bue glowsticks" on board as well." I stood at attention firmly waiting for him to tell me to be at ease but it was pointless. I would sigh if I could.
"Send a scout team." The admiral said clearly annoyed with my presence. I wanted so desperately to roll my eyes and spit in his face but I couldn't.
"We'll need much more than that. It's clone force 99 and a jedi. But not just any jedi." I took out my holodisk to display a bright picture of the one and only Ahsoka Tano.
"It's Darth Vader's former pet, Ahsoka Tano." I spat in utter disgust while I was thinking the exact opposite. If that girl's anything like her master I would love to meet her without having to kill her. Unfortunately with the stupid ass inhibitor chip that's not currently possible.
"Commander prepare your squad and the legions. I'll alert Lord Vader of this new development immediately." I nodded and left to my small room moslty because that's all I could do. Why can't I just wake up already?
Ahsoka's pov
It was all so weird. I could feel the presence of him but he wasn't here yet. My nerves were through the roof and Wrecker giving Omega access to a kriffing bomb didn't help my stress management at all. It wasn't Omega near the bomb I was worried about though. It was Wrecker. That giant baby would probably run towards it. Wrecker was fiddling with it until he got up. I noticed the sudden panicked look on Omega's face too as she quickly kneeled and started messing with the bomb. What the hell are they doing? I started walking over but when I saw the smug look on Wrecker's face I immediately started running.
"I don't know which wire to cut!" Wait. W h a t !?!
"Better get it right. Three... two..."
"Wrecker shut it off, now!" I screamed at him.
"Can't, sorry. Better run for it. One..." My mind spaced out and I did the first thing I could think of which was to hurl my body over the bomb and act as a human shield. So this is how I go. Not by battling my enemies beside my family in a glorious final battle or of grand old age. Just jumping on a bomb like a damn lunatic? That's it? Just when I expected to be scattered across the ground, I didn't. All I felt was a brief puff. I slowly opened my eyes to see Wrecker's childish smirk and... grey? Why do I see grey? Am I going to heaven or the other place? What the hell is happening!?
"What the hell is happening!?"
"Haha! Gotcha!" He wheezed. Omega walked over, clearly as unamused as I am.
"Seriosuly. I'm colored in the worlds most depressing color just so I could save you from a little smoke? Seriously!?" I thought I was saving both of their asses not becoming the galaxies ugliest paintball!" Omega tapped my shoulder and spoke softly.
"Thank you for trying to save me. But couldn't you have just pushed the bomb away with the force?"
"Hm. You know sometimes I don't always think of it right away." Now we were all laughing until Echo and Fives appeared above the cliff. I brushed myself off and kept walking.
"Alright Muscle man, Megs, Soka! Time to pack it up!" Fives yelled our various nicknames we've adopted from him. Some are stupider than others. Cough, Wrecker, cough. They both jumped down form the broken rail sticking up out of the ground and landed on their feet bracing each other.
"Hunter asked for us back at the jedi cruiser."
"Hey Megs how'd the test go?" Wait, that was a test? Oh you've got to be shitting me. I am this close to just jumping on the Havoc Marauder and crying in a corner.
"It's safe to say we all failed."
"What?"
"Nevermind." We walked a little ways to where the arc twins were leading us when I started to feel someone again. However these people weren't dark. Neutral is a good way to describe it I suppose.
"We've got eyes on us." Echo whispered to the group. We all nodded except for Fives who just scoffed.
"Well obviously. I'm just too rugoushly handsome for anyone to look away." It was a great simultaneous eye roll executed flawlessly by the everybody. Fives continued to walk forward and proud.
"How many?" Omega asked. Finally someone says something relevant.
"I sense three exactly. Don't make a move yet." Wrecker was getting an itchy trigger finger. His fake smile wavered and his finger twiteched under the trigger of his blaster.
"Steady Wrecker. Wait a second longer. Be ready for a storm."
"What?"
"Oh god help them." I giggled at the arc twins exasperated faces as the last time I pulled this move they didn't get to watch because they were the victims. I slightly moved my hand and the three people came crashing down hardly right in front of us. Wrecker let out an inhumane shriek while Omega recorded him on her updated wrist com. Fives and Echo instantly stunned the first two to get up. I was about to get the last one on the floor but Wrecker started whining so I re-holstered the gun and motioned to the guy limping to the speeder.
"Aw muscle man. Its almost not fair." I let out a dry chuckle.
"That's because it isn't fair." I saw as Wrecker didn't even take out his blaster. He just jumped on the poor guy. We all just watched with a mixture of amusement and pity as Wrecker trucked the broken person who by the way, looked like he'd just given up all hope by now. He just looked so deflated to the point where a balloon is jealous. Wrecker headsmashed his helmet against the scrappers head. Just as Wrecker turned around to brag about his stunning accomplishment, the guy started squirming.
"Uh, Wrecker. You might wanna-" too late. The guy barely stretched and the speeder started up again. We all groaned as Wrecker gasped and leaped on it. No thought process whatsoever. Echo looked at me for confirmation. I nodded yes and stepped forward.
"Hunter, Tech we were spotted by the scrapper guild. Wrecker is in pursuit."
"He says he has it under control." Omega just felt the need to add. I smiled and nodded.
"That's not comforting." A snarky voice commented. I immediately knew it was Tech. Who else would give that much sass? Hunter? Heh, no.
"Echo get a visual."
"I'm on it." He took off toward the opposite side of the hill and of course the other acr twin just had to follow Echo.
"Wait where are you going!?" I yelled behind them.
"To kick some scrappers ass and save Wrecker's." Fives said before disappearing. Alright.
"Soooo, are we gonna follow them?"
"Oh yeah."
"Think they'll die?" Complete silence.
"TBD." I replied and started chasing after them. I motioned for Omega to follow me. We started chasing the speeder on the ledge of the cliff but it was slowly getting farther from view.
"Okay stop! This is ridiculous! Were getting nowhere master." We slowed to a stop.
"Well what do you suggest!?" I asked rather impatiently. I sighed when she stepped back in surprise.
"I'm sorry Omega. I didn't mean to raise my voice at you. I'm just a tad stressed at the moment." We could hear one blaster shot ring out in the distance.
"Well it sounds like we have quite a bit of time. Let's hear it." She surprised me. She plopped herself on a rock and floated me over to her.
"You really are getting better by the day." We both giggled.
"If only you would stop complimenting me every day. When you do or say something conatantly it loses it's value."
"But you are seriously getting- not... wiser... every day." Saved it.
"Master don't distract us. Tell me why your so on edge." I let a deep yet shaky breath escape my lips. I told her everything. Not just my current events, no. I told her everything.
"Wow."
"Yeah." It was a long pause of silence. I waited patiently for Omega to find the right words. Eventually she did.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" I scooted closer to her. She looked hurt and somewhat offended.
"As you now know, I have a lot of issues. One of them being abandonment. I'm used to dealing with stuff on my own but I don't have to anymore. I realized that now when you sat me down. I have all the people who care about me in one place and I'm so thankful for that. Unfortunately there is one man who wants to ruin all of it. And he's on his way." She gasped and looked at her feet.
"Is it the big guy?"
"Yep." I said popping the p to confirm.
"Crosshair's really coming?"
"Oh, him too. But he's the grey haired skinny string bean. I meant, the big guy." She gasped again. However instead of asking confirmation she leaped forward and embraced me in her little arms. I patted her back gently. We just stayed like that for a second.
"Thanks Omega. This is what I was talking about. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by people who care." Omega suddenly leapt away and jumped back.
"Omega?" She groaned and fell to the ground frantically gasping her head. I dropped down to my knees by her side.
"Omega what's wrong?" I asked gently but sternly.
"Get out of my head!" In an instant I knew who she was talking to. I looked inside her head and only saw one thing. A vision. My eyes squinted shut by the overwhelming pain. It was horrific.
We
all
Loved
you
General...
It was like I was being sucked into a void of eternal loneliness. Endless nothingness. All I could feel was completely and utterly alone with one question flashing through my brain.
What's the point of life if you have no one to share it with?
My eyes snapped open to see... is that Fives' ass? Why am I looking at this!? I don't want to see this! I shrieked as I wriggled away from his grip holding me up on his shoulder. I fell to the ground but kicked up and landed ready to fight. But it was all in vain cause we were completely alone. No threats, well not yet at least. But I could sense their presence nearing every second I spend quiet.
"Anakin is coming!" I blurted out.
"I- what?" I facepalmed and ran to Fives and Echo.
"We have to get to the others as soon as possible." They looked at each other then back at me and nodded. Echo was carrying Omega with much more care than Fives was with me. She was carefully cradled in a ball and Echo held her upright. Echo passed her off to me so I carried her with the force as we jogged to where the others were supposed to be. Fives sped up to catch up with me.
"Ya know your lucky I'm incredibly strong." I scoffed and turned to look at him.
"No your lucky I'm only half your weight."
"I- that's not true!" I rolled my eyes and sped up. I was getting a bit tired but we were almost there. Is what I kept telling myself.
"Are we there yet Echo?" No response.
"Echo?" I looked over and he was snoring while running.
"ECHO!!!"
"I swear it was Fives! Ah- uh what happened!? Where am I!? Wait.. what year is it?" Echo took one look at Omega floating above my head.
"Ah, nevermind. What's up?"
"Your still tracking Hunter's com signal right?" He nodded and looked back at Fives. Probably to make sure he didn't get distracted by a butterfly, again. A chill went down my spine remembering my 15th birthday. That was one hell of a party. Back when I was somewhat innocent, somewhat naive.
"Ahsoka!" I jumped to the side a bit at the sudden loud outburst.
"What?"
"I was telling you that Hunter's com signal moved while I was, uh- resting my eyes." No. I cannot strangle him no matter how much I want to. And it was killing me! I abruptly stopped running.
"So your telling me the whole time we thought we were running to meet the batch we were running to some meaningless coordinates all because you fell asleep!?"
"Uh, rested my eyes. But yes. They appear to have gone a lot deeper into the ship."
"UGHHHHH!!! ... Okay I feel better now. Let's get moving- oh and this time I navigate."
"Yes, please do." Echo very willingly handed over his com to me. I groaned again when I saw they were headed to the artillery. Why the hell are they going there? I mean it must be empty by now with all the salvagers on this planet right?
"Either Echo's com is broken or Hunter is. It says their going to the artillery on the ship."
"Thats odd." Echo commented.
"No shit. Anyone know why he'd be there?" They all shook their heads no. I sighed heavily and shrugged.
"Alright well I suppose we should go find out ourselves." They all nodded and followed me into the ship. Omega and I illuminated the dull ship with our light sabers as we stalked through the damp halls. About halfway through the journey someone turned on the lights. We all visibly jumped which resulted in me almost decapitating my dearest friends but hey we've all been there right. I tried to focus on the task at hand and not the nearing presence of the enemy.
"Coming up on the Armory." I informed them all. The large slide open doors in front of us got jammed. I simply marked an X in the middle of it and sidekicked the door off its hinges then casually walked in.
"Hello? Hunter? You in here? Tech?" We heard rustling around but that just turned out to be an adorable little critter.
"Aw hey there little fellow, what's your name?" Omega cooed to it as she bent down low and held her hand out to it. After a second I realized it was a loth cat but what the hell was it doing here?
"No need to be frightened little guy. I won't hurt you." She held her hand out to it. The loth cat was beautifully different from others. This lothcat had beautiful bright turquoise fur with blackish brown spots all over contrasting greatly to a normal brown or light beige purple color. He was unique, just like all of us. It was adorable watching Omega beckon it forward and the loth cat be wary of her as if Omega was a threat. The loth cat scurried forward suddenly and sniffed Omega's hand then snuggled into it and purred as if it hasn't been petted in a millenia.
"Aww you look like a... Cloudy. Hey Mo-master can we keep... her?" I smiled and knelt down beside them.
"Well how do you know that Cloudy doesn't have a family here already?"
"A feeling." I smiled so much my cheeks hurt.
"Well in that case, who could say no to that. If Cloudy can keep up, she's welcome to tag along." I heard more rustling but when I looked over I didn't see a lothcat this time. Instead a saw a big grey ass sticking up in the air.
"Wrecker put your buttocks back where it belongs this instant!" I fussed at him as he was frantically digging through all of the shit surrounding us. Rex, Fives and Echo caught sight of some pretty fine blasters and of course Wrecker instantly found the detonators and bombs. But there was also a faint sound from deeper within the Armory. Was that... the cough of an old man? Hunter! I broke into a sprint toward the source of the sound only to find Hunter literally waist deep in explosives.
"Oh thank god your here. I've been terrified to move." I rolled my eyes and started simultaneously lifting all the bombs with the force then stacked them up nicely pyramid style on the floor.
"So clearly you've been busy. Where's Tech?"
"He's getting the ship fired up and possibly trying to recover some info about the Re- Empire." He informed me with a sad tone near the end of it. I nodded understanding what he meant, just not wanting to talk about it further.
"So what was your plan of coming here Hunter? Get trapped to the point where a loth cat laughs at you? Because she wasn't the only one snickering." Omega walked up behind me laughing under her breath and holding Cloudy in her arms. Cloudy was surprisingly chill about it.
"Well I thought that we could make some cash by selling what was in here." He explained. I nodded and looked over to Wrecker making a clone angel in a pile of bombs. I brushed it off before repeating it in my head.
"Oh shi- Wrecker get up! Stop being a 5 year old!"
"Come on Soka! That's like taking away my Oxegen!" I sighed and rubbed my forehead.
"Its pronounced Oxygen. With a y, Wrecker."
"Oh that makes more sense." I used the force to lift his pouting self off of the bomb angel outline he made. I sighed again amd set him on the opposite side of the room.
"It was a good idea Hunter but how are we gonna get all of this crap into the ship?"
"Uh... voodoo force magic?" We all groaned in unison.
"Omega take Cloudy and go get those crates over there in the corner." Omega wheeled a few over at a time while Cloudy pushed some forward by pouncing on them repeatedly. I swear I just met her but I will do anything to protect this precious cat already.
"Alright boys start loading them up." I ordered.
"Ma'am, yes ma'am." They all roared which caused Omega and I to giggle. Rex spun by me and in one swift movement to give me a kiss on the lips before getting back to work.
"Omega take Cloudy with you and go assist Tech. We'll handle it up here." After she left is when I felt their arrival. They were all here.
Hey everybody i am so sorry for not updating as frequently as promised. Not gonna lie ive been having serious motivational issues lately and I had exams last week and three days before Christmas Im grading for my 2nd degree blackbelt in ITF taekwondo so thats big too.
But now that midterms are over I think I'll be getting back too it and I also have serious good news too. I have decided that since this book is getting so much attention I'm gonna make it like a mini star wars saga so this book will not only have a sequel, but a prequel too. However I havent started either of these yet since I think I should finish this one first.
Here's Cloudy:
Also my first chapter alone has reached over 5 thousand views which also helped my motivation. So for now I will bid you a due just know ive already started my next chapter so hopefully that will be coming out soon 😉 but for bow farwell and i wish you all a merry pre-Christmas!
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