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

Chapter 90 -Now we're Even--

The metal hallway of the Remora came into view, its plated floor shadowed on either end. A distant sound of echoing footsteps and the cold feeling of the floor against your legs. For some reason you were stuck in this part of the hallway, unable to move as if cuffed to the floor. For a moment you look around confused, before you recognize the bloody smear on the wall above you.

A sense of terror grips you, but you cannot stand. Even as you fight to get up and run down either direction you are trapped in place. Faintly voices in the distance meld together;

"I can't believe you escaped"

"I think you will enjoy your new room. I've heard its quite comfortable"

"You were supposed to die in that fire"

"You cannot escape"

"After your time in here maybe you'll feel like having a chat".

"I should have shot you when I had the chance".

"They are nothing just as you are nothing". "

You recognize them as words you have heard before, but only the familiar tone of the clones voice strikes your memory. You feel afraid, and now saddened. The sense of weight on your shoulders and heart, holding you firmly in place. The foot steps never came down the hallway, but as you heard the voices echo through it you could faintly hear the steps just outside your vision. The shadows began to creep in as the lights in the ceiling started going out, one by one on either side.

"Why am I here?" you ask out loud "This is just a dream".

"Is it?" a voice asks.

The dark shadow from the temple on Coruscant edges closer just beyond the light. The presence overwhelms you and your shut your eyes defensively, feeling your body brace to be hit.

Your eyes flash open as you gasp in shock. You see nothing but darkness around you and you quickly close your eyes as you curl your body tightly into a ball, raising your right arm over your head to protect it. For a moment you just listen, the adrenaline running through your system causing you to become wide awake. You hear nothing but the sound of distant bugs and your panting breaths. Your body tingles with sleep, and you focus on your breathing as you think to yourself-

--its just a dream. I'm on Utapau. I'm safe. In this moment I am safe"--

You slow down your breath and open your eyes to see only the sleeping clones around you. Omega had also dragged their mattresses out onto the caves rocky floor so everyone could sleep outside while the modifications where being done to the Marauders inner rooms. Tech lay next to you, his goggles carefully tucked just under his pillow near his face, Hunter was just behind him, and on your opposite side there was an empty mattress and then Wrecker with Omega leaning against him wrapped up in her blanket holding Lula, Wreckers doll and a stuffed fox-like creature she called Alul.

Your eyes adjust to the faint light present, the glow of the stars above, but also the few lights left on inside the marauder and glow of the remaining coals from your campfire earlier. Maybe you had been asleep for hours, but given it was still night time you were sure it hadn't been long. You sit up on your mattress, quietly breathing and trying to calm back down. You wanted to go back to sleep, and now that you had sat up your muscles ached for you to return to resting. However, you still felt disturbed, and where worried that if you went back to sleep now you may end up back in the hallway.

You quietly stand, gently putting your blanket back in place and then cautiously walking towards the Marauder. Your steps crunch slightly on the small rocks but you do your best not to make to much noise, and you don't see anyone stir. Tech and the others had moved some of your food and available water outside in a sealed container so that you could still access it while construction was going on. This container had been put next to the gangplank stairs, and had a small lantern on it that glowed a faint red. As you arrived near the box, a figure caught your eye.