The Rising

Bad Breach

Hunter glanced back at Bly who was now cleaning his weapon for the third time in the last thirty minutes. 

"You ok there Reg?" Hunter asked as he stowed his blade.

Bly stopped and thought for a moment his eyes fixated on the spot of the wall of directly across from him. "You have a wife...." Bly asked his eyes not leaving the spot, Hunter winced and shook his head "no, and none of the others on this ship have anything close to that". "Not from lack for trying though" Wreaker muttered just loud enough for Hunter to smirk slightly remembering the reason they where baned from 79's.

"Then you would not understand what I'm feeling right now, because when you have someone that you love so much that you go insane from not being in their presence or not knowing if they are even still breathing it is worse than any type of hell any clone has gone through in this war.....my wife is in the hands of her insane ex who has been doing force knows what to her and I. Her husband. The man who's supposed to love and protect her. Can't do anything to stop him!!!!........".

"Don't worry Commander" Crosshair said calmly as he handed Bly a new jar of oil for the gun "we will find her and put down the mad dog".

Bly nodded taking the jar and returning to cleaning his weapon. Hunter nodded to Crosshair who shrugged, he had noticed a significant change in Crosshair attitude in the more recent months. He seemed almost to calm and level headed as if someone had switched some sort of dial in his head, normally Hunter wouldn't care much about what Crosshair's attitude was like unless he was trying to pick a fight with Wreaker, but now he was worried.

"Uhhhhh.....Hunter we have someone hailing us" Tech said from the comms seat his face confused "it's a little scrambled but they are requesting to dock with us".

"What's the specs of the ship?" Hunter said as he looked over at Techs screen to see for himself not missing Crosshair's reaction though it was only a split second. It was a mix of fear, worry, and shock.

"that's the thing, it's just a suped up except pod, no designation, no markings......think I can just make out the name of the pilot though.... Someone named Natalie Ver...." Tech said as he reviewed the data on the screen.

Hunter could barley see Crosshair's face out of the corner of his eye,  but it wasn't hard to see the sweat that was beading on his forehead before he spoke "is it damaged in any way?". "Yes there is some blaster burns on the life support and the....hey where'd Crossfire go?" Tech asked looking up. Bly smirked and looked at Hunter "I thought you said none of your men had wife's".

"Didn't think any of us did...." Hunter muttered before Tech interrupted "uh he's activated the tractor and is bringing the ship in.........what is going on?".

"Ohhhhhh......Cross has a girlfriend!!!" Wreaker said in a sing song voice finally connecting the dots before freezing "CROSSHAIR HAS A GIRLFRIEND AND I DONT HOW!!!!! THATS NOT FAIR!!!".

Hunter and Bly scrambled to the small cargo bay with Wreaker and Tech in tow, "what species do you think she is?" Tech asked Wreaker "Twilek? Chiss? No Plantoran?".

Bly rolled his eyes before they turned into the cargo bay to see Cross helping a beautiful Zeltron woman out of the crumbling ship. Her body was built but most of her light pink skin was covered by a jumpsuit and her black hair tied back into a tight, but messy, bun. Her face was heart shaped and had a large scar from her left cheek that crossed her chin and disappeared under her jump suit.

"Woooow!!!" Wreaker said as Techs mouth dropped open.

Cross ignored them before grabbing her shoulders gently "are you ok?" She nodded slightly as his hand gently turned her face showing a large bruise on her right side "who did this!" Cross asked angry.