The Defective Clone

Chapter Five

The War is just beginning

“Where to now?” You ask as you exchange a look at Crosshair who was staring at you. “Home.” Hunter replies as you zone out & stare at Crosshair.

As you stared at him you thought of him in your mind, thinking of who he could become or what he’ll do but you stopped staring at him but Crosshair didn’t stop, he just kept looking. “Everything, alright back here?” Echo asks as you shrug your shoulders. “I don’t know Echo, is it normal for Crosshair to be staring at me this long?” You ask. “Well I don’t know everything about this team just yet, my guess is that it’s just a normal thing he does. It’s good to be going back home, after all these years.” Echo says. “Yeah, all the memories & all the pain we went through. I’m glad to be going back as much as how hard it was on me when I was there years ago, but I found happiness through all that pain, I met you, Fives, Jesse, all of them, except the batch. Hunter told me that all 4 of them were separated because they were different, defective clones.” You say. “Y/N, I had a moment with Rex before we left for the mission, he told me that you're also defective like them.” Echo asks. “He knows? How? I didn’t even tell him.” You ask. “General Skywalker told him, sorry Y/N. So if the batch was separated why weren’t you?” Echo asks. “I… I’m not sure. It was years ago Echo.” You reply as Echo nods & walks off.

As Echo left you turned around to see Crosshair who stopped looking at you & you decided to walk past him to see if he would stop you or grab you by your wrist, he did nothing but sit there so, you sat down 6 feet away from him. “I’m sure you don’t wanna go back to Kamino either, I get it, being defective & all.” You say. “How would you know? You're just a reg.” Crosshair says as you give up on talking with him & head towards the front where you strapped yourself in & watched as the Marauder jumped into hyperspace. “So, why home? Do you not have any other missions?” You ask Hunter who was sitting in front of you.

He turned around & looked at you & answered you. “Usually we only get one chance to go back home so we take that chance while we don’t have any missions, then, we get back to work when we get a transmission from another planet or someone we know.” Hunter says. “& trust.” You add as Hunter nods. “Seems you’ve come to terms with Crosshair?” Hunter asks as you sigh. “No, not really, I’m just glad he hasn’t lashed out on me, yet.” You say. “Yeah, he’ll take out all of his problems on anyone else but himself.” Hunter explains as you listen. “You see… Crosshair had a difficult time on Kamino with us, he never trusted our ideas, he didn’t believe in what we had to say, he didn’t even listen to anyone.” Hunter says. “Why is he so different from the rest of you?” You ask. “Well…” Hunter pauses as Tech explains everything to you. “We all have desirable mutations & Crosshair has always been that way, that is his nature.” Tech informs as you nod & watch as the Marauder jumps out of hyperspace & Topca City comes into view through the harsh rain that battered down on the ship. “Tech, bring us in.” Hunter says as Tech controls the ship & sends it into the hangar where all of you deboarded & Echo & you follow the batch to where their barracks were on Kamino. “Good to be back!” Wrecker says as he is the first one back into the barracks. “So this is your barracks? Looks like you all chose your sides & who gets what.” You say as Echo gets settled in. “Yeah, we lived out most of our time here in our barracks, we weren’t as busy as say the regs were.” Hunter says as you watch Crosshair sit down on his cot laying his sniper against his knee grabbing a toothpick from his pocket on his belt & placing it in his mouth looking up at you for a split second & then looking elsewhere. “So how long are we staying?” You ask. “Depends on if we have an upcoming mission which as of now really all we can do is lay low. Those separatists are not putting up without a fight so we gotta watch each other’s backs.” Hunter says as you sigh & walk up to the window to watch the rain roll down the window until you hear a transmission come on & go over to the crew to see what was going on.