The Bad Batch - Mini Stories

This is Why We Don't Touch Artefacts Wrecker!

Omega was sick not physically, nope! She was sick with boredom which wasn’t news to the others in the batch but they had been sitting around doing nothing for the past week and she swore she was going to go crazy at this rate. 

“Lads, Rex has requested us to retrieve something” Hunter’s voice broke through the silence, Wrecker looked up from where he had been lying down on the floor with Omega. 

“Really?” Omega excitedly shouted. Hunter nodded, waking both Echo and Tech to inform them of their new set of coordinates. The two eagerly put it into the system and headed for a planet known to many as a treasure world. 

“Tech, why’s it known as a ‘treasure world’?” Omega turned to the genius who sighed like it was obvious only to be slapped in the arm by Hunter in warning, the engineer nodded. 

“Its nickname relates to the minerals in the earth of the planet. There are several compounds of crystals that make up the planet and it is seen as a treasured world due to the amount of artefacts that have been left here over the many years. Some have been here for thousands of years while others were abandoned for a purpose. There are also many medicines here which can be made through the herbs that grow on this planet.,.” 

“Basically this is a pirates world which is very dangerous and we must not touch anything” Echo interrupted Tech’s rambling while aiming at glare at Wrecker who held his hands up, promising not to touch anything which only had Hunter rubbing his nose especially when Wrecker argued, “Actually Cross was the last one who caused an artefact issue and if it hadn’t been for that jedi, Cross would have been toast so don’t go blaming me”. Echo only rolled his eyes, grabbing his helmet and following Hunter out of the door. 

“Lads, calm down. We are here for a herb called ‘Raxotine’, apparently Rex needs it. I do not know why but he is willing to pay us. So please just search for the herb and stick together, we can’t afford to lose anybody in the craters of the mountains and jungle” Hunter ordered, Omega nodded at him, placing her helmet on. 

“Hunter, Rex has just informed me that the Empire has been spotted near west of here. We must hurry if we do not want to be spotted. The ship is hidden but we are on a…” 

“Thanks Tech, let’s move it” Hunter waved off the engineer who pulled a face following after the group. Tech sighed to himself looking left on old instinct, sometimes he missed Crosshair, the marksman was the only one who allowed him to finish what he was saying, he would listen and to show he was listening, he would ask relevant questions. Tech could only smile as he traced the tattoo on his inner wrist, something that was shared only between him and Crosshair, the twins of the batch. His younger brother. 

“Tech, come on!” Omega called back to see that Tech had stopped and was studying a tree. He looked up only to blush, feeling slightly off guard. Quickly he hurried after them only for a violent shiver to go down his spine as he glanced over his shoulder only to gasp, several laser pointers aimed at him. 

“HUNTER!” 

The sergeant turned from where he was watching Wrecker and Omega goof off in some cave as they found different objects, to see his engineer younger brother in trouble. Tech had been surrounded by none other than the Elite Squad. On instinct Hunter ran forward only to be shot at, he aimed for cover just as Omega cried out. 

“TECH!” Omega’s cry had Echo looking up to see the engineer's body hit the ground, bits of smoke came from his side as he lay in pain on the ground. 

“Wrecker! Smoke grenades!” Echo shouted at the demolition expert who nodded, he threw four smoke grenades, they landed around Tech but none of the batch could move because the Commander of the Elite Squad was holding a turret which confused the batch since they thought their former teammate was leading the squad.