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

Chapter 44 --Your kinda short for a clone--

(Note: clones in image are not featured in story)

Despite Hunter reminding Rex time and time again not to get you all involved in more dangerous missions, Rex continued to include your group for rescues. This time around, after your successful meeting with Veraxsis and laying low for a few weeks there was a prison transport you were going to help infiltrate.

Rex had invited the Bad Batch along for this one because you were going to actually be doing the rescuing. As of late, more and more clone troopers were being arrested for various reasons, the most common claim being suspicion of action against the empire. Thus the troopers were now being transferred to secure holding locations and shipped around on more secure transports. Rex hated to admit that many had been out of his reach or he had been too late to save them from their fate.

For this particular rescue mission you were charged with rescuing the clones from the holding cell on board the transport ship while the Remora held their attention. This ship would be leaving Sernpidal soon, with an unknown landing location. The main goal was of course to successfully rescue the clones, however this was made more challenging by the heightened security around this prison transport. It was holding not only clones, but bounty hunters, rebels and other prisoners. Since the Remora had been sighted and ID'd as coming after ships transporting clones they had taken extra precautions. By having the Marauder sneak in and rescue it gave Rex a chance to save them he wouldn't have otherwise. It was far from a flawless plan by Tech's standards, but Rex quickly got Omega on his side and Hunter finally gave in.

You helped prepare your vessel by putting away ongoing projects and making sure there was enough room for the rescue clones on your ship. Likewise there was a long discussion about where Omega should go. Originally Wrecker was going to be the back gunner, but Omega stated that she could fill that position while he was helping with the rescue. Again Hunter was not in support, but this time Tech argued that while in the hangar bay Omega would remain safe in the gun turret. Once they were back in space she and Wrecker could switch out, and Wrecker would be more useful in breaking out the clones than remaining with the ship.

You personally felt mixed about it. There were feelings similar to what you would normally feel towards your padawans venturing into the forest on their own. There had to be challenges for them to overcome, no one simply grows without strife. But, the jungle was dangerous with creatures and plants alike that wanted to kill, maim, or dismember any possible victim. It had frightened you as a padawan while you were still growing accustomed to it, and there had been a particularly bold boy in your class who had gotten eaten because he went into the forest alone. You had still found it within yourself to trust your own padawans, with reassurance that the padawans needed to learn to venture out and adapt on their own. Omega was no different. Yet, the thought of her being put into more active roles, even in this supposedly simple rescue concerned you.

Omega had been quick to join in on the work, even while she kept up with her studies. She was quite intelligent and mature for her age, a characteristic no doubt from her father and the situation she was placed in. However, she was still a child, one who would just make the cut for a young padawan in your eyes. Omega is eager to fight, to prove herself, to explore and experience but you don't want her too. Not that you want to prevent her from the incredible things this galaxy has to offer, but because you have seen the evil. You can feel its echoes whispering to you on lonely nights. You were not able to save the others from a deadly and dangerous fate, even if some of them survived. You wanted to do everything in your power to protect Omega too, even if it was over something as simple as letting her sit in the gunners seat on this mission. Thus the discussion came to a compromise with Hunter and Omega was allowed to man the gunner turret with some rules involved.