Foolish One

Bounty Lost

"I can't do it!" Calista yells out in frustration throwing the blaster at  Crosshair. She walks over to the crate and sits on it, crossing her arms over her chest. 

Crosshair kneels in front of Calista placing his hand on her shoulder. "Calista, not everyone gets it first try. Your master assigned us to help you with your training to make you stronger. It's not gonna happen in one day." 

Calista rolls her eyes. "You learned how to snipe in a day..." 

Crosshair shakes his head. "I'm different....I was born with this ability.. not everybody is, some people just need a little extra help." 

Calista nods, standing up and taking the blaster from Crosshair's hand. She aims the blaster at the makeshift target and fires, hitting every shot. She smiles widely jumping up and down. "I did it!" 

Crosshair smiles placing a hand on her shoulder again. "Proud of you kid." 

Calista smiles hugging him, her arms wrap around him. Crosshair takes a minute to process before wrapping his arms around her, one hand in her hair...

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Calista jolts awake the sound of the Marauder shaking and the blaster fire causing her to panic. She rushes out to the cockpit. "What the fuck is happening?!" 

Tech, Hunter, and Echo spoke up at the same time. "Crosshair!" 

Calista heard Wrecker's voice from over the com speaker. "It's getting hot back here!" 

Calista walked into the cockpit bouncing side to side against the walls as Tech prepares to jump to hyperspace. She grips onto the top of his chair. "Hurry up Tech!"

Hunter turns around in his chair. "We are not leaving without Omega" 

Calista sighs gripping the chair a little tighter. It was her responsibility to look after Omega. How could she let her get taken. Tech looked up at her, seeing the guilty look in her expression. He tries to reassure her with his eyes. 

Echo faces the group. "The bounty hunter who took her is long gone. We'll have no chance of finding them if Crosshair shoots us down." 

Tech continues to avoid blaster shots from Crosshair and the other ships following them. "Rear deflector shields are failing." 

Calista hears Hunter sigh. "Make the jump." 

Tech makes the jump into hyperspace. Calista takes a seat in the co-pilot's chair, her leg bouncing up and down rapidly. She wasn't fast enough, wasn't strong enough, she has the force for crying out loud. Her father didn't spend all his life training her just for her to fail. Tech notices her leg bouncing up and down, he places his hand on her knee. Calista sighs. "Sorry."

Tech shakes his head. "Don't apologize, this isn't your fault. It never was."

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Echo, Wrecker, and Hunter were looking at more information on the data computer. Calista was leaning against the wall her arms crossed. Echo looks behind him at Hunter. "Your description of the bounty hunter is a match to one from the Republic's files." 

Calista looks at the screen her eyes go wide. "Cad Bane? He's still alive?" 

Hunter looks at Calista. "You know him?" 

Calista nods. "Yeah, my dad and I had a couple run-in's with him. He's not exactly the best person to mess with. I heard he attempted to abduct Chancellor Palpatine." 

Wrecker shakes his head. "First the bounty hunter on Pandora and now this guy? Why are they after the kid?" 

Tech walks into the main area. "Because she is more valuable then we realized. I further analyzed Omega's genetic profile and discovered she has pure, first-generation DNA." 

 Wrecker's eyes went wide. "Woah, Wait. W-W-What does that mean?" 

Calista crosses her arms as her brain process the information. As Tech talks again. "All clones were created from a host named Jango Fett. While our genetic structure was modified for growth acceleration and obedience, Omega is a pure genetic replication." 

Calista speaks up. "How many clones like that exist?"

Tech looks at Calista. "To my knowledge there's only one other. A male clone code-named Alpha, later referred to as Boba. Since he disappeared at the start of the war, that makes Omega the sole living source of Fett's raw genetic material." 

Echo looks at Hunter. "If she's vital to the Kaminoans' cloning operation, they must have put the bounty on her." 

Calista uncrosses her arms. "So how do we find Cad Bane?"

Hunter sighs. "Tech, check with Cid. See if her contacts know anything. We'll keep monitoring comms."

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Calista sighs slamming her hands down on the comms table. "This is a waist of time. We have to go out there and find her ourselves! She could be hurt!" 

Hunter pinches the bridge of his nose. "Calista, we can't Ad'ika. It's to dangerous. We wait on Cid's contacts. That's an order." 

Suddenly Tech's data pad beeps, he stands up showing Hunter. "We have a location." 

Calista sighs sitting back down. "Cid finally pulled through for once."

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The squad heard a beeping sound an escape pod was heading there way. Calista immediately heading towards the escape pod entrance. "Omega?!" 

The door slides open revealing Omega sitting in the escape pod a scared look on her face. Calista jumps down and smiles immediately hugging her kissing the top of her head. "I thought I lost you....We all did." 

Wrecker holds out his hand as Calista and Omega climb out of the escape pod. Wrecker picks her up and hugs her. "Aw! Good to have you back, kid." 

Omega was crying before slamming herself against Hunter, he winces slightly still recovering from his blaster shot. Calista smiles as she stands next to Tech. Hunter kneels to Omega's level to be able to hug her better. "Are you okay, Omega? Are you hurt?" 

Omega sniffles. "Why is this happening? Why are the Kaminoans after me?" 

The squad looks down in guilt. Calista sighs. "Hunter, you have to tell her." 

Hunter sighs. "You're valuable to them. More than all the other clones. Even more than us. You're different." 

The Bad Batch spends the rest of the night comforting Omega making sure she's okay. Later that night, Tech comes to check on her finding Omega and Calista asleep together in Omega's makeshift room, he smiles slightly lifting the blanket up to cover their shoulders.

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Authors note: IM BACKK!!! YIPEEEE. I know. it's been a long time. I gonna be fr with you, it was kinda a mixture of two things. one I had no interest to write for like a whole month. no ideas were flowing into my head. I also was in the process of moving to college now that im all settled I think its time to pick this story back up again because im honestly so proud of it. Im so sorry to come back and then leave you with such a short chapter, but this is one of those filler episodes I have to include. I will def start writing another one asap to make up for not only lack of posting but for this shitty episode, I genuinely missed writing and im so glad im back. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and im going to do my homework and write the next chapter which I hope to post this weekend.  see you all soon this time for real. 

-Mari <3