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Mace, part two

Crosshair handed me my tray and we sat in the back, away from prying eyes. I happily began to munch down on my food, while Crosshair gloomily stared into his.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Nothing," Crosshair muttered.

"Something's obviously bothering you," I put my utensil down to give him all my attention. "What is it?"

Crosshair scowled at me for a minute before sighing. "My brothers left me behind. I wonder what they think of me now."

"I understand," I nodded sympathetically.

"No you don't!" Crosshair snapped. "They abandoned me and replaced me with a stupid little girl!"

"What do you think happened to my squad?" I laughed humorlessly. "They escaped and left me behind to be experimented on. They didn't even try to bring me with them!"

Crosshair hesitatingly patted my arm. "It'll be okay."

"No it wont," I bitterly said. "After your squad is done training me, I'll be shipped on to the emperor! I won't live long after that!"

"Then we'll sneak you out," Crosshair said, so I gave him a confused look.

"What?" I frowned at him. "I thought you were all loyal to the empire?"

"I was," Crosshair rubbed his face with his hands. "But it's not like they care about me. I'm tired of this bantha fodder."

"So what's the plan?" I eagerly leaned forward.

"On the next mission we fake our deaths," Crosshair said.

"That's it? That's the big plan?" I wrinkled my nose at him. "That's so stupid."

"It'll work," Crosshair insisted.

"If you say so," I shrugged. "And it's not like I have a better plan."

Crosshair put a toothpick in his mouth and leaned back. I kicked my feet happily, glad to finally have a chance to make it out of here.

"How are we gonna fake our deaths?" I asked.

"We'll pretend to go down in battle. We'll make sure our bodies aren't recoverable so they won't even think to check for us."

"How will we do that?" I questioned.

"I dunno," Crosshair flicked the toothpick around in his mouth. "We'll just wing it."

"This is gonna be so dumb," I muttered.

~

File report for STI-05 and CT-9904:

KIA

CT-9904 aka "Crosshair" was killed in action on Alderaan dealing with a group of rebels. His partner for the assignment sti-05 "Mace" was also killed.

An explosive was set by the rebels, and their bodies were not recovered, as they would have been a "Puddle of goo," as newly promoted commander ES-01 put it.

While STI-05's death was a disappointment in the eyes of the empire, CT-9904's death was to be expected, as the CT troopers have been slowly retired out of service.

Seeing as Dr. Hemlock showed an interest in CT-9904's career, he will be notified of the trooper's death.

The emperor will be made known of STI-05's death.

~

STI-02 closed their eyes as they felt STI-05 become one with the force.

It was a shame that they couldn't all been together one last time before STI-05 moved on, but they were in a rush the day that they left Kamino.

STI-02 tsked the waste of life and moved on with their task of washing the dishes, noting to themself the name of the trooper that passed with STI-05.

Maybe it was someone of importance.

Sorry this was a bit short, I find my one shots generally are shorter than my regular chapters.