SWRC: Tales of the Clone Wars (Book 2.5)

Chapter 15 Where We Stand...

<Occurs during Book 2, Chapters 15-19>

Previously, on Star Wars Rebellion Chronicles 2.5, Tales of the Clone Wars...

"The dream's back."
"The mission?"
"I don't think anyone really knows."
"Would the Jedi know?"
"Why would they care?"
"You saw how the General changed. Most of them are probably like that."
"She was probably the only exception."
"Could this work?"

"Ever felt something happen? Something that was completely unexplainable?"
"You aren't the first Jedi Clone Tye. There have been others before you."

"We are all connected to the Force Tye. But your company has a particularly strong connection for clone troopers. That will make you targets."
"The Chancellor isn't all of who he says he is."
"If you wish to see your family survive, as well as yourself, get out soon before it's too late."

"You can't trust anybody now."

"We need to get out..."

"Does anyone know why I called this meeting?" asked Tye to the 148 troopers assembled before him.
While most were a no, a few like C.T, Hack, Neo and a couple of others nodded a yes and Tye continued.
"Who among you?" started Tye carefully. "Would be willing to rebel against the current government and just simply walk away from the war?"

Everyone's attention was directly focused on Captain Tye and his treasonous talk.

"But," started Kye. "That would be treason. We're loyal soldiers, we follow orders. Good soldiers do that."
"Good soldiers follow orders that are right," said Tye. "Something about this war and the reasons we are fighting in it doesn't seem right."

Kye seemed to not quite know how to reply to Tye's words.
"We exist because people were malignant to us and allowed us to live," said Tye. "We all should have been terminated long before now. But here we are. Fighting in a war that no longer has any meaning."
"Tye's right," said C.T. "This war lost meaning a long time ago, when most of us shouldn't have existed anymore. Some in more ways than one."

Tye hardly noted C.T's comment that was directed particularly at him as he watched Kye went to make a reply but seemed to think better of it. Tye couldn't, and wouldn't, allow it to continue any longer.
"What's wrong Kye? Ever since I awoke, you've been trying to pick a fight with C.T, especially since Animal Squad joined us on Kamino."

Kye froze, not sure what to say.
"When he changed," started Kye slowly. "It was too sudden. It was as if he was a different person overnight. And that didn't sit right with me."
"Then why didn't you just tell me?" asked Tye. "You seriously could have told me within a few days of me waking up and the problem would have been solved like that."
"I didn't know how you'd react," muttered Kye.
"Keeping it from me would have made it worse," replied Tye in an even voice and Kye hung his head.
"Sorry Tye."
"I know you are," said Tye, a little softer. "But don't keep that sort of information from me."
"Yes Tye."

"What are we gonna do though?" asked Ashen. "We're just a company plus five."
"Look at us," said Tye, gesturing to all of the assembled clones. "Look at what we've done, what we've achieved. And do you know how they see us? How they see Orange Company 49?"

"Expendable. Insane. Deficient," continued Tye. "The company of the most broken and useless soldiers. They only see what we are on the outside, not what we can be on the inside and it hurts."