Beating of your heart

Chapter Eleven

"All the armour have the markings painted on," Cody stated, "all on the inside in places that are least likely to be damaged." 

"Have you done the markings on your own?" Obi-Wan asked. 

"The markings would bring up too many questions," Cody sighed, "so I decided against adding those markings." 

"I have a way of adding them and making sure they are not visible," Obi-Wan stated, "I can add it to your armour if you'd like?" 

"What way is this?" Cody asked, kneeling opposite Obi-Wan and placing the recently dried uniform between them. 

"Using The Force, I can embed them into the metal, making them invisible," Obi-Wan explained, "it also makes them work as long as you have even only one part on yourself." 

"Why is this not used with any of the others?" Cody asked, "it throws in a lot of pros." 

"Well, the conn is very large," Obi-Wan sighed with a grin, "it is a draining thing to do with The Force." 

"Are you sure you want to do it then?" Cody asked.

"I know you, Cody. Having you with the strongest markings will be a great boost," Obi-Wan stated, "I believe like this, they'll also drain any energy if they come into contact with them."

"Will it do it to any of us?"

"No, I've worked out a way for it to only target which it is meant to; it's why the markings are so long," Obi-Wan stated before closing his eyes deep into meditation.

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Waxer and Boil stared at the Commander. They saw him sheathe his beskad into a loop on his belt before clipping a gun holster and DC-17 onto his other side.
"What's with the change, Commander?" Waxer asked.

"Might as well start to have the backup. I trained with it," Cody shrugged, grabbing his usual DC-15S. He wanted to see whether the markings would work. The beskad and the belt were from his beskar set and contained the markings.

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Cody felt alive as he destroyed droid after droid. He could feel the energy boost flowing through his body. He heard a droid off to his left; quickly, he turned, punching the droid in the chest, hearing the droid collapse as he continued.

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Wrap growled, dragging the Commander by the shoulder towards the med bay. "Why did you not go to medical!"

Cody frowned, not knowing what the man meant, "what do you mean?"

Wrap resisted the urge to throttle him, knowing that would create more work for himself. Instead, he grabbed the man's arm, shoving the hand in the Commander's face.

Cody frowned again, looking at the shattered plastoid. "I must have hit that droid too hard," he shrugged.

Wrap wanted to scream.

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"The markings work," Cody said, sitting down opposite Obi-Wan.

"What makes you think that?"

Cody threw what was left of the amour meant for his hand onto the table. "I punched a droid, and this happened," Cody explained, "I sustained no injury."

"And the droid?" Obi-Wan asked, placing down his datapad.

"I punched it once in the chest; it went down and stayed down," Cody grinned.

"If you want to continue to punch droids, you're going to have to move onto your beskar and armour weave gloves," Obi-Wan stated.

"They have a different design than that of the clone plastoid armour," Cody sighed.