The Bad Batch - Mini Stories

A Dark Punishment

(Warning: Experiment - poison, almost-death)

[Info:]
[Mother - Crosshair]
[Father - Hunter]
[Papa - Wrecker]
[Dad - Tech] 
[Daddy - Echo]

"Will CT-9903, report to Nala Se's Lab for a medical check up" 

Tech froze hearing his number being called, he turned away from Echo who frowned, the clone was still new to what Clone Force 99 went through on a daily basis. 

Tech was more confused because Hunter and Crosshair had already been asked to go to the medical lab and normally only two were called out to stop them from causing destruction. Wrecker looked up from where he was doing press ups. 

"Tech?"

"It's okay, it's obvious. Something has gone wrong, I will be back soon" 

With that said, Tech left their barracks heading down the corridors that haunted him from being a cadet. He ignored the snide comments coming from the other clones as he entered Nala's lab. 

"Ah, CT-9903. Please remove your helmet and replace it with a rebreather. We have a test for you" Nala spoke in the tone that made him shiver as he complied with the instructions, the lack of information was hurting his brain as he was led towards one of the labs he knew were under water. 

"This test will be performed in under ten minutes, here is a spare breather. Please save your fellow batchmates before the timer is up" Nala spoke in a dark tone as he found himself shoved through a trap door in the floor. He was instantly under water where he found himself gasping inwardly. 

In front of him were two sleeping pods and his missing teammates were in those pods. He swam over to the two reading the vitals on the top, he took notice that Hunter was closer to waking up which meant, if he got him out, Crosshair would be second but then again the marksman could hold his breath a lot longer than the rest of them. 

"Nine minutes remaining, the pods are broken" 

Tech winced seeing the water filling up much quicker in Hunters as he got to work opening the pod, he took notice of Hunters eyes snapping open. The sergeant's eyes wide and in shock as a rebreather was placed on his face just as the pod opened. 

Hunter gasped out, taking in the air only to gasp seeing Tech in front of him gesturing at his watch. Hunter froze seeing the time counting down as Tech swam to the other one where their youngest batchmate remained unconscious in the pod. 

"Tech, what's the plan?" Hunter spoke through his rebreather, Tech only sighed, trying to open the pod that held their batchmate. 

"Four minutes until termination" 

Tech gasped, turning to Hunter when the two noticed the needle beside their youngests neck. Hunter moved to help Tech remove the wires and chains around the pod, together the two worked carefully. Until the lid was ready to be removed when the two gasped, Crosshairs eyes weren't opening. Hunter took a deep breath and removed his rebreather, placing it over his batchmate's mouth. 

"Two minutes" 

Together Tech and Hunter detached Crosshair from the pod before swimming together towards the hatch. After quick movements the three soon found themselves lying on the floor of Nala's lab with the Kamionan looking down at them with a disappointed look.

"Get up"

Those two words had Hunter climbing to his feet while Tech held their unconscious youngest batchmate to his chest. 

"Return to your barracks and do not mess with my experiments! Do not break my rules again! Your batchmate will wake up when the abomination has died. Now, get out of my sight!" Nala yelled in her cold tone, Hunter could only nod scooping up Crosshair who remained unconscious in his arms with Tech following, the engineer grabbed a spare med kit to check over the unconscious man when they got back to their barracks.