Bond Beyond Break

Chapter 4: Escaping

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Orla's POV:

"There's a massive vessel approaching--"

Before Anakin could say anything else Master Plo rushed to the dashboard and began pulling levers, "Shut down the power before they can detect us!"

I jump up from beside Freya and began assisting them in shutting everything off, the pit in my stomach growing...

I felt the ship slow to a stop as it was now sitting aimlessly in space, fully adrift. Suddenly there was a chirp from behind, we all whipped our faces around to the astromech, "The droid!"

Ahsoka jumped up but Freya was already kneeled next to him, switching him off. He shut off, as Ahsoka went back to her co-pilot seat, Freya, Master Plo, and I all stood at the dashboard, slightly behind and in between her and Skywalker. All of us watching through the windshield as the cruiser crusher came into view.

I saw Ahsoka's eyes slightly widen in my peripheral vision, "that is one big cruiser crusher..."

Freya looked over to me, "you ok?"

I just stared ahead at the ship that had passed us, but had now begun to turn around.

Freya spoke up, her voice a teasing inflection but dreaded tone, "they're coming back."

I heard Master Plo respond, while glancing down, "are all the systems shut down??!"

"Is there a problem sir?"

All our heads whipped around to see the medical droid, on and standing in the doorway.

"We forgot to shut off the medical droid." Ahsoka's voice a realization but similar inflection to Freya's earlier comment.

Quickly turning around, all five of us scrambled to turn every back on and operating. "We've got to get the power back on now!" Anakin spoke with much authority despite being my age, and therefore tied for second youngest on the bridge.

"May I be of assistance?"

"No thanks! Just get in the back and take care of the clones!"

"That is my programming...sir"

As the droid left I couldn't help the slightly snarky, "he's already 'helped' enough," from leaving my lips. I saw Anakin perk a small snarky smirk at my comment before turning serious again but nothing more.

"Come on, we gotta get out of here!" All the ships power was finally back up and running, as Ahsoka responded with rushed 'I know's to her master.

We rushed away, weaving through the debris field. I turned to Freya, "Is he really the flyer I've heard about?" Ignoring the fact of the flyer in question being less than two feet from me.

Before Skywalker could say anything, Freya replied with a quick "Yes."

I took a deep breath, "Good. We'll need it." Cue Skywalker's smirk.

"I'm glad you are confident in my flying."

I look at him, annoyed, amused, and confused as to why this is his focus right now. "Shut up and fly, Skyguy," Ahsoka cut in.

I let a small smile grace my face. Despite our dire situation, Ahsoka and Anakin were trying to lighten the mood while getting away, which was kind of comforting.

Freya still hadn't let go of my hand since the power returned, and I was grateful, not wanting her to. I had already been through too much today and it wasn't even mid-afternoon!

Anakin slightly turns his head, yelling back, "R2 program the navacomputer, be ready to get us out of here!"

Ahsoka turns her head and replies with the same intonation as earlier with the slight teasing, "You forgot, we turned him off!"

Ahsoka and Anakin were busy at the controls, so with Plo the closest to the droid, he turns him on, greeting him with the same Kel-Dor greeting he and Ahsoka exchanged just earlier today. Ahsoka turns to the freshly awakened droid, "R2, program the hyperdrive!" The astromech plugs into his little port on the wall and chirps back. Ahsoka fires back, "ANYWHERE, HURRY!"

I hear a dreaded sound behind us, "THEY FIRED THE ION CANON!"

Freya hugs me and slightly strokes my hair, almost motherly, as she leads me back to the bench. I feel Skywalker pulling some of the fancy flying we mentioned earlier, weaving through the debris of our lost ships and, lost comrades. 

The thought and the overwhelming emotion is a little much that I tense up and can't really move. I blankly stare forward as my eyes refuse to water up and release the tears that I feel through my dried and constricted throat.

We continue weaving through debris, Plo leaning forward, alerts beeping faster by the millisecond, Ahsoka egging a worried "Master..."

R2 finally chirps from the left of me and Freya on the bench, but I hardly hear it over the tension and my own heart and mind.

As soon as we breach the end of the debris, Ahsoka says a hurried, "We're clear" as Anakin pulls the lever to send us to hyperspace.

The journey through hyperspace is relatively short, and so, quiet. I, shortly after entering hyperspace, found my body on autopilot stiffly getting up from Freya's embrace, and joining the clones in the hold. I need my brothers' presence. 

After we land in the hanger of Skywalker's cruiser the Resolute, I get off with the clones, avoiding my Master, my biological big sister, and my adoptive younger sister. I couldn't let any of them see how I was on the verge of falling apart. I find spare quarters where they are on every Jedi cruiser and take refuge there, after dropping my brothers off at the med bay.

Locking the door I sit and try to process all that has happened. All I lost. All I did. All I witnessed. All of it... It was too much, but I can't cry. I can't risk someone hearing me. I have to wait. Besides, I'll likely have another mission related to that dreaded ship soon, considering as me and my master have the most info on it at the moment...

...

With that thought, I drift to an empty silence... I try to sleep but every time I close my eyes I hear the cries from the pod we witnessed break before our eyes... I see the bodies in the debris field, I hear the screams of the clones...

I can't sleep. I can't cry. I can't breathe. I can't eat. I can't!

I! Can't!

So, what now!!

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END of Chapters correlating to SWCW S1E2: Rising Malevolence

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