The Rising

Trapped

Rex glanced at his wife who was shivering slightly, the temperature had dropped several degrees in the last few minutes. 

"Soka?" Rex whispered his breath clearly visible to him as he did. 

Ahsoka just smiled at him before nodding "We are fine Rex, just keep working, we will be fine". 

Rex looked a little more worried instead and moved closer to his family, placing a arm around her shoulders, his body was only slightly warmer than hers but it would feel better to their children who where shivering and their teeth chattering as they curled against their mothers stomach. 

"Rex..." Ahsoka huffed slightly annoyed at his abandonment of their only way out. 

Rex just shook his head and pulled the blanket around them closer, "No use, no one is on coms. besides you look like you could use the warmth".

Ahsoka blushed before her body went stiff, her eyes trained on the mess in front of the door. 

Rex taking note of this quickly grabbed his discarded saber and jumped in front of his wife and children ready to take on anyone outside willing to do them any kind of harm. 

"Commander Rex" 

The voice was muffled but Rex could recognize the annoyed tone of Wolfe anywhere. 

"You all better be alive behind all this trash because I'm not rescuing your bodies"

Rex laughed at Wolfe horrible sense of humor "We are here Wolfe, a little bruised and cold but we are in one piece" 

He turned to look at Ahsoka who grinned happily at him, they where going to be ok. 

Wolfe made quick work with the ruble in Rex's mind, hastily pulling and pushing the debree out of the way of a makeshift hole just big enough for a clone to pass through. 

"Well....what are you waiting for an invitation?" 

Rex laughed as he pushed his children and Ahsoka out of the room quickly before he squeezed  through himself. 

"Wolfe you are a sight for sore eyes" Ahsoka said happily as she took in her surrounding's, ten troops both clone and new Republic. 

Wolfe simply rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath about the Jedi and danger prone before turning down the hallway he and his team had come. 

His troops smiled slightly at the younglings before following their very grumpy commander, The triplets who where still slightly scared grabbed ahold of their mother. 

Rex looked at his children before he picked up his daughter and youngest son, the clone next to him which he recognized as Jump stowed his gun for a second and Picked up a shaking Tiberius. 

"Hey little guy, wanna play a game?" Jump asked as Tiberius nodded slowly shook his head as best he could "Oh come on now, you have to set a good example for your sister and brother, so lets play a game ok?' Jump whispered the first part before he finished a little louder so his siblings could hear. 

Both Aniko and Lithuara giggled at the idea and nodded, Tiberius looked almost insulted before puffing up his little chest making his mother chuckle before she locked eyes with her husband. "That looks familiar" She whispered to Rex, Rex's reply was to glare at her. Almost as if he was saying 'dont say it'. 

Ahsoka chuckled as Jump and her children began to play a game called sneak, A game most clone cadets would play when they where younger and wanted to sneak around the kamino base. 

Rex, while slightly impressed that one of Wolfe's men where so good with kids, had to resist the urge to point out that while it was a clever way to lull the children and calm them it was also making it difficult to 'Sneak' back to the hanger. 

Ahsoka just shook her head at her children and Jump before gently placing her hand on her husbands back, all she cared about was getting her family to safety. 

Wolfe only ever glanced back at the group to ensure they where ok before the ship shuddered under all of their feet. 

Rex and Wolfe glanced at each other, both with the exact same look on their face, both knew what was coming next. 

"What was that?" Ahsoka asked as her hand covered her stomach protectively. 

"That was not good news general, we have to leave.....NOW!!!" Wolfe practically screamed the last part, which (to no ones surprise) was enough to put everyone into a fast sprint the rest of the way to the hanger. 

the moment the doors to the hanger opened however was a different story. 

Hundreds of people scrambling into ships that where still there while Master Plo tried to keep the Jedi younglings as calm as he could while directing clone troopers and republic troopers to carriers. 

In short it was total chaos. 

"REX! AHSOKA! OVER HERE!" Rex's head snapped up to the Jedi master in an instant before following his wife's example and heading towards the jedi with Jump in tow. 

"I'm so glad your safe little Un," Plo exclaimed the moment she was in arms distance, quickly pulling her into a hug. 

Rex stood there with Jump awkwardly as his children all ran to Plo the moment he set them down. 

"Where have you been? We thought the sith had you little Un" Plo commented before the ship shuddered again. 

"We are fine, we just got trapped in our quarters. what's going on with the ship?" Ahsoka asked worried. 

Plo looked pale at this before he finally responded "The sith ship that attacked us managed to send our ship on a crash course into a star, we have to get everyone out of here before the self destruct initiates" Though Plo spoke calmly Rex could easily detect the underlining fear in his voice as the Jedi master dragged them onto the ship with the rest of the force users "Wolfe, you are to keep them alive and until my Padawan wakes up its your job to make sure they get to curosaunt, do you understand?". 

Plo practically glared at the Trooper, almost as if he was daring him to disagree before Wolfe nodded and hastily dashed onto the ship. 

"Wait! What about you?" Ahsoka asked, Rex grabbed her arm gently knowing what the Jedi was planning. 

"Don't worry little Un we will meet again" Plo yelled behind him as he ran off into the chaos. 

Ahsoka gulped terrified before Rex gently pulled her into a seat, "It will be fine Ahsoka. Lets just focus on getting out of here" he whispered as his children climbed into the seats next to her. 

Rex smiled gently at them as they cuddled against her while he strapped himself in. 

They would survive. 

They would always survive.

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