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

Chapter 60

It was certainly news they weren’t ever expecting, it was still fresh. Omega was Crosshairs sister, the two were blood related according to Solana's letter. Omega didn’t know what to make of it but she did know one thing, they needed to find Crosshair immediately. They had been flying for eight hours and during this time, Ashton and Honey had jumped up in age again. They were now 12, the two had rifles on their backs. The weapons had materialised out of thin air confusing the rest of them. Hunter was becoming concerned for all their healths especially Archers, the baby hardly spoke or made any noise. Tech ensured he was alright but they all knew better. Archer needed Crosshair immediately. 

“How much longer, Tech?” Hunter asked from where he was feeding Archer a bottle, the baby boy lacking nutrients and decided now he wasn’t eating leaving a stressed out Hunter trying to feed him. Kix was on orders to check him every hour, these orders had come from Howzer directly, the captain not taking any chances. 

“We will arrive on Coruscant in two hours, are you sure about this plan?” Tech turned to look at his leader. Hunter could only nod as the others moved around the ship. Ashton and Honey smiled at him from where they were showing Omega their rifles with Omega showing them her bow. She never expected to connect with her nephew and niece so deeply but she was enjoying their company especially Honey’s. 

“Fives?” Wrecker’s voice brought the Arc trooper out of his thoughts, Jasper was hanging upside down beside his parents on the crates where his father was counting grenades. Fives looked up with tears in his eyes as he soon found himself engulfed in warm arms. The last time Fives had been on Coruscant, he was on the run from the republic from the setup for killing the chancellor. Old memories surfaced as he thought back to that day where he discovered something major in the enemies plans only for it to backfire and cause his death. “Shh, I’ve got you, let it out” Wrecker’s soothing words broke through his spiralling thoughts as he clung to them like a lifeline. It had been decided Fives, Howzer, Jesse, Kix and Crux would stay aboard the ship with all of the children including Cal and Omega as back-up. Ashton and Honey had argued but were put on direct mission to protect Archer until their father returned. Fives was to remain due to Echo’s instance and for once the arc trooper didn’t argue allowing his twin to take charge. Marcus was a different story, he had his own mission which was to hack and locate Crosshair to help Clone Force 99. All of them unaware that Marcus had another mission, completely secret to the rest of them. 

Coruscant was once said to be a beautiful peaceful place before Order 66 but that all changed when the Empire took over and it was run on fear. The citizens would rather comply than suffer at the hands of the Empire, many patrols took over the city run by the Emperor’s direct guard. So, getting into the city was a tricky job nevermind breaking into the capital of the damn city. Wrecker frowned when people noticed them only to shiver in fear, he didn’t understand until they all witnessed as stormtroopers grabbed innocent citizens and basically bullied them for any credits or shot them when they disobeyed leaving families to break apart over loss and mourning. Someone grabbed his clenching fist directing him away from the troopers he so wanted to punch. 

“Wrecker, calm down. We can’t do anything” Hunter murmured to his brother who could only calmly nod and pat his sergeant to reassure him that he was alright for the time being. Tech and Echo shared a brief look as they continued into the maze. They continued for a good solid thirty minutes until their luck ran out and they managed to bump into a group of stormtroopers who looked at them funny. Hunter tried to reason with them but once Wrecker caught sight of what these troopers were doing to their citizens, he lost it and started a brawl. Hunter shook his head jumping in to quieten down the fight. Tech and Echo didn’t have much of a choice as they covered each other's backs. Sadly, fate wasn’t on their side as a trooper radioed connecting to the Emperor’s Elite Squad.