Broken Beginnings (A Star Wars: Clone Wars fanfic)

Chapter 11: Her People and the Teddy Bear

Alexa POV

We're here. When we first arrived I made sure to keep my hood up and my mouth shut, but while I kept my mouth at bay, my curiosity hit an all time high and while the others were building extra shelters I snuck off to look around. I may not be familiar with this village, but that doesn't mean that I don't know my way around the region. Besides the others are all to busy to notice that I've left and they won't miss me for a while which is good because I don't think I can listen to Rendal ask another of his stupid questions!

This village is hidden in the thicker parts of the rainforest and judging from the direction we entered the rainforest it wasn't hard to work out which direction I need to head to find a village that's just North of here and on the edge of the rainforest. It was easy enough to push and weave my way through the dense foliage and I was lucky that I didn't come across any unfriendly animals, even though the risk of that was pretty low considering that the sun is hanging low in the sky and it won't be that long until dark which means that my black clothes blend in perfectly.

I am now crouching near the edge of Damerel and I am not liking what I'm seeing; it's even worse to see it for real than how the others described, from what I'm seeing the women are taken out in the afternoon to forage and get food, however they are all wearing shock collars so they can't run away and judging from their wounds the Separatists are no better than the Hutt's. Another one of the many problems is that the droids base is huge and they have guards patrolling the perimeter regularly. I shake my head, how are we expected to get in? Unless...... Skywalker plans to use one of us as bait.........

No matter what he and Kenobi decide, I stayed and watched to see if their was any other way for us to slip past their security, but it doesn't seem like it. Someone would have to be inside in order to get the collars of the hostages so they wouldn't be electrocuted when we help them escape before blowing up the place. Which I am looking forward to all the more after seeing this.

'Oomph.'

Something then barrelled into me from behind knocking me flat on my face, I should have known what or rather who it was immediately, but I got up and looked anyway. I growled as I discovered it was none other than-

'Hi Alexa!'

'Rendal!' I hissed. 'Shut up! Keep your voice down unless you want to get us both caught!'

'Where are we?' He whispered, taking the hint.

'Look.' I pulled back the large leaf that was concealing us from the enemy to show him what I had been looking at. His eyes widened and his chin almost hit the forest floor, I then let go of the leaf just in time for a battle droid patrol to come past.

'Clankers.' Rendal whispered, excitement shining in his light, almost wolf-like, eyes. Glancing at my fellow padawan we both got down as low as we could and I held a finger to my lips making sure he would keep quiet.

Once they were gone and out of earshot I stood up, pulled Rendal up of the ground and dragged him back to the camp, however he insisted on trying to make idle conversation so I decided to ask him a question...........

'Why did you call the droids "clankers"?'

'Because that's what all the clones call them, I don't know why they do, but I think it suits them.' He replied. 'You know I've never seen a real clanker until then, have you?'

'No.' I shook my head.

'It looks like this trip is providing us with a lot of firsts.'

'It would seems so.'

Unfortunately our Masters were there waiting for us when we got back and since they caught us there was no way to avoid their interrogation.

'Where have you two been?' We froze in our attempt to sneak back into one of the huts, I sighed as we turned to face two very angry Jedi.