A Pain Lost In The Stars - Complete

Chapter 23

A groan to his left woke him up. Boss frowned seeing a chained up Coric, the clone was bleeding from his head and looked sick. 

"I'm sorry" Coric whispered, Boss could only shake his head. Not in the mood as he walked over to his partner only to pull him close. Coric leaned into him. "It's okay" Boss whispered as the rest of Delta Squad woke up including Jesse. 

"Where are we?" Jesse groaned only to panic. "Where's Dove and Kix?". His panic didn't go unnoticed by someone else.

"Probably in the medical room where they took Crosshair" Tech's voice broke through their panic. Delta Squad all turned to see Tech and Echo in the cell opposite them. The two looked worried and panicked.

"Who?" Scorch asked, helping Fixer up to his feet. Sev was concerned while leaning over Fixer who had a nasty gash across his chest plate. 

"The Empire" Echo answered, as a door opened revealing to be the admiral known as Rampart and his squad of troopers.

"Which one of you is CT-1409?" His question was met by silence. He gestured for the troopers to step forward and deal with the silent clones. The two stepped forward only for the alarms to go off.

"Containment 2 has escaped! I repeat Containment 2 has escaped!" 

"Gentlemen, it seems we have a problem. We will be back very soon. I expect for CT-1409, to show himself when I return" Rampart snarled out, walking off towards the doors. 

Echo and Tech shared a grin, the others looked at them in concern until the doors to the side blasted open, the place they were in rocked from side to side. 

"Wrecker when I said. A distraction, I meant a quiet one!" Hunter grunted into his commlink as he and Omega ran for the cells. Laughter was all he got on the other side of the comm until. 

"Need some help?" Hunter said, passing Techs datapad. The engineer quickly got to work hacking into the systems. The cell doors opened just as another announcement filled the speakers. 

"Containment 2 is out! As is 4! Get to the escape pods" 

"I wish they wouldn't refer me to a karking disease" A disgruntled Dove ran into the cells only to smile seeing Delta Squad who eagerly welcomed her. Boss was holding an injured Coric up, the older man frowning noticing Dove had a new barcode on her wrist. 

"It's a tracker, I think?" Dove said with a sad smile. Coric instantly grabbed some of his equipment, scanning her only to frown. 

"It will need to be burned off," Coric said. Dove nodded, holding onto Scorch who held her tightly in a grounding hug. They couldn't go anywhere until it was taken care of. Fixer gave her something to bite on as Coric burned her skin. She whimpered, shouting while biting the knife handle. Jesse held her close, hiding her eyes from her arm which was being bandaged up. 

"We have to move now. Reports are coming in over comm chatter that this containment is infecting those onboard" Tech spoke up, Hunter nodded directing the two groups through the Venator-Class Star Destroyer. 

"Wait! What about Crosshair and Kix?" Scorch spoke up, Hunter frowned, taking notice of the missing members.

"Boss, Scorch, Echo with me. Tech lead the others back. Omega go with Tech" Hunter ordered, no arguments happened as the four ran off in search of their missing teammates. 

The speakers were going haywire as they entered medical where they found Crosshair who was plugged into machines, his armour was gone. Thankfully Hunter had found that in the hangar where the Havok Marauder was, instead the marksman was in white clothes looking a lot younger under the sedative.