--Building a New life --Tech x Reader Bad Batch

Chapter 5 --Who let the Varactyl out?!!-- Wrecker, + Y/N

You and Hunter had returned successful after your short mission and got to spend a good day or so at 'base' with the others. Your trip for you had taken around four to five days back on Ord Mantell. There were of course stories about how boring the first day had been, and the absolute irony of finding the item you needed only a short walk from where you had decided to stop.

You had Omega giggling away as you restocked some of the drinks at the bar. Telling your story as you walked back and forth from the pantry. "It wasn't the same without you here" Omega had sighed after you both had calmed down from laughing at your story.

"T4-38 is okay, but he isn't as fun as you" She had continued looking up at you with her big brown eyes.

"Thank you" You said, gently smiling in return "what were you up to while I was gone".

"Wrecker kept trying to beat me at holo-chess, and both Echo and Tech kept quizzing me on stuff. My arms feel sore from all the archery practice, but Echo did say I was making lots of progress".

"What was Tech quizzing you on?" you ask, putting away the clean glasses in front of you.

"He was doing a research project on ships, and since I am studying ships I wanted to help. So he gave me some ships to look into with him"

"That doesn't sound too boring" You replied, "What did you look into".

"I did some research on non-military transport" She said proudly "Tech kept looking into Freighters and modified light class cruisers".

As you listen to Omega go on to explain one of the ships she researched, and it suddenly dawned on you how specific Tech's study was.

"Omega" you say, pausing her explanation "do you know why tech was researching these things?"

Omega paused and thought to herself, "I don't know actually. He's always looking into things so maybe it's part of an upcoming mission, but that's just Tech".

You accepted Omega's answer as an honest possibility, but you also felt strange about it. What was he really researching? It seems too specific even for a mission, and the timing was causing your senses to tingle.

Something was up.

Interrupting your thoughts, Cid came around the corner. "Alright missy, got one you'll be needed for." She said, sliding a holopad in front of you "You're going with Wrecker".

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Meanwhile, Hunter met up with Tech and Echo inside the main area of the Marauder. Hunter had given a positive report to Cid, who was glad to hear you were so quickly adapting to your missions. The rest of his time back had mostly been spent avoiding you. It was easy to do, you were busy with the bar, Omega, or other things, occupied with upkeep after being gone. Despite this Hunter hadn't found time to speak with Tech about his findings just yet. The timing had just not lined up, and Hunter was avoiding dragging in Wrecker and Omega, although it would seem Echo invited himself.

"Now that we are all here" Echo said, settling down on one of the wall seats, "What is this all about?"

Hunter looked to Tech who peered up from his holopad. Tech sighed and replied to Echo "It's research to have a greater understanding of who Y/N is."

"She seems pretty trustworthy to me" Echo stated, "Why do we need this extra digging?"

"It's more of a precaution" replied Tech, continuing his explanation "You see, we are all considered dead to the Empire. It allows us some cautious freedom and the ability to hide and establish a new life for ourselves. However, Y/N is a 'wildcard' to use a more technical term. We know little about her origins, her past, and her current goals. We must be cautious. We may be outside of the empire's radar for now, but she may be on their list meaning it puts us.. And Omega.. Back into the line of fire".