The Rising

Tanks

The moment the team broke through the droid line they were met with a truly disturbing sight.

The corridor where they stood had tanks full of what looked to be Clones suspended in a strange purple goo. But the clones looked strange, almost as if they had been starved so much that their bones showed through paper-thin skin.

"What the hell" Hunter muttered as he looked at the tank closes to him.

"Whoa, what happened to them?" Wreaker asked as Tech scanned the one Hunter was looking at.

"They are clones, but their genetic code is unstable.......it's as though they tried to enhance some element in their gene........I would say they are like us....but they aren't at the same time" Tech said making the rest of the group's blood run cold.

"So.......Did the kaminoans make them?" Asked Bly as he passed a clone that looked extremely familiar.

Tech shook his head "no it looks as though someone just threw the genes together and shake it up" Tech replied as he scanned the next clone that Bly was looking at.

"Do these faces look familiar to anyone else? And they are asleep right?" Asked Wreaker as continued their walk down the corridor, he shivered slightly as he looked at them.

" Wreaker they are all dead......though you are right they do look familiar" Tech replied.

"They probably grabbed whoever they could to exp-" Crosshair stopped mid-sentence as he froze, recognizing the face of the clone.

Crosshair had walked a little ahead of the group before stopping dead in his tracks as he stared at the clone in the tank.

Hunter walked up to him worried before he stopped as well, totally dumbstruck by the revelation that floated in front of him.

There in the tank was an almost replica of Rex, with a major difference, half his face looked to have been caved in by a blaster shot.

"Oh, shit" Hunter muttered as he stood next to them.

"The tattoo they cut off him....... they cut it off because it was a sample....." Tech said his brain connecting the dots, "I need to get to a data terminal.....there's bound to be informed on what they did with the skin and where the Jedi who have been taken....... is.........".

"What is wrong?" Asked Bly confused.

"We need to find a terminal.......now!!!!" Tech said before running down the corridors, with the rest of the team hot on his tale.

"Tech wait!!!" Hunter cried out as he tried his best to catch up with his brother.

"It's why they took only women!!!" Tech yelled as he skids to a stop in front of the data terminal inside of a nearby lab.

"What are you talking about?" Wreaker asked panting slightly as Tech pulled up a file he had found showing the whole team. It was a myriad of photos, documents, and videos of what looked to be failed experiments either going horribly wrong or being executed.

"They are breeding sith......" Tech breathed out "but not how we thought they are doing it, they are using Rex's DNA as a base and then adding the DNA of the kidnapped female Jedi.....Rex's DNA must have been too unstable alone for this to work. But if half clone is what they want......."

"Oh, double shit" Hunter muttered under his breath.

"Uh.....don't they already have what they need?" Wreaker asked confused

"Call General Plo" Bly ordered "he has to know they might try for my children or Rex's" his voice betrayed the fear that gripped his heart. He could not let his children fall into the hands that had done force knows what to his wife. Hunter nodded to Tech who began work on sending a message while downloading a map of the base.