A Sacrafice of the Heart (HunterxCrosshair) Book 1 - COMPLETE!

Chapter 26

Captain Rex had his fair share of prison and holding cells whether that was because he served under General Skywalker he would never know but never one that was in the middle of an old temple. He and the captured others were chained against a wall inside a ‘portable cage’ which Fives nicknamed. The batch twins had hardly uttered a word between them when they arrived; instead the two opted to glare at the Captain, it didn’t matter whether he was looking or not. Rex knew their sole focus was him and each other. For some reason, Echo was in a cage beside them, something about feeling pain, according to Admiral Tarkin. Speaking of the Admiral, he stood in the middle of the Temple looking down towards the caves where the stormtroopers were bringing in some equipment. Rex dreaded to know what they were for. 

“Get the hell off me!” Kix’s voice snapped the small group out of their thoughts. The medic was dragged into the room with Thorn and Gregor; the latter two had much calmer body languages. The three were dragged over to Rex’s prison which included Fives, Havok and Jesse. The three clones were shoved into the prison without shackles. Gregor made sure he entered last, allowing Kix and Thorn to go ahead. Once the stormtroopers left, Rex turned to the three clones.

“What happened? I thought you guys left” Rex asked. 

Gregor’s smile only widened as Thorn turned his back on all the clones walking over to the side of the cage to catch Echo’s eye before sending a hand signal out to him. Echo nodded, smiling back, with none of the clones having their helmets they could read each other's expressions. Unless you were a master disguiser like a certain Commander Wolffe they all knew. No one knew what he was thinking at any time unless you were very close to him. Not even his brothers.

“You could say that but we needed to return” Gregor said, grabbing Thorn’s arm when the clone made to walk past him, stopping him at his side. Thorn tilted his head before pulling something out of his mouth. Rex pulled a face but then saw that they were keys to their chains. “How?” Havok asked in confusion. Thorn smiled with a wink before kneeling down to unshackle the Captain first, with Gregor using his body to hide Thorn from view. Soon they were all unshackled, Thorn made to stand when a chuckle behind the group had them all on edge. 

“I was wondering who had stolen my keys, turns out the good old Commander Thorn is an excellent thief, too bad you don’t work for my team. I’m sure you would be good in the bedroom” a stormtrooper teased. Gregor growled, and it took both Rex and Kix to hold him to keep him from thrashing out. Meanwhile, Commander Thorn gave the trooper an unimpressed look. The stormtrooper laughed, “Fresh Meat coming in!” another trooper yelled. Rex gasped when Shaak Ti, Obi-one and Ahsoka were dragged into the room, the three looked exhausted. 

“My oh my, who would have thought. Three alive Jedi soon to be dead by my hand” Admiral Tarkin smiled as he continued to speak, “Place them in the clones cage, it’s not like they can use their ‘force’ after the beating they took”. The troopers roughly pulled along their victims, Rex was quite concerned, Ahsoka seemed to hang in the trooper's grasp. 

Soon enough the cage was opened and guns were aimed at them. The trooper from earlier moved into the cage with a very familiar gun that had Thorn on edge especially when the cage door was locked and the trooper leaned on the other side of the bars. “Recognise this, Commander Thorn” he held up the gun. Thorn crossed his arms. There in the arms of the trooper was his beloved ‘Hammer’. “You can have it back, if you swap sides and become my bedroom partner” the trooper teased but soon found himself yanked against the cage. Rex gasped thinking it was Gregor only to see it was Thorn, the commander whispered something that made the trooper back off with fear in his body language. The trooper looked over at Gregor before scrambling away. Thorn turned back around to see the others looking back at him. “What?”. Gregor smiled, reaching for Thorn only to gasp out-loud. Thorn felt an electric shock course through his body bringing himself down onto his knees, agony spread through his body. “Stop!” Gregor shouted, his yell was heard. Thorn had forgotten he was made to wear a shock collar when they entered. Gregor grabbed his partner before pulling him away from the bars and closer to the others. Thorn gasped in pain, closing his eyes and lying his head against Gregor’s chest.