SWRC: Tales of the Clone Wars (Book 2.5)

Chapter 6 Call to Mykapo.

<Not long after Captain Tye's recovery, Chancellor's office, Coruscant...>

"So you're the rumoured 'Miracle Capatian', are you?" asked the Chancellor.
"Apparently sir," replied Tye in a relatively casual tone and a shrug of his shoulders. "Though I don't exactly understand how."

"You seem awfully casual about this," said the Chancellor with some amusement.
"I'm Captain of Orange Company Chancellor," said Tye as of that explained everything. "And if you know anything about that company, it's that protocol is instantly gone the moment you start talking to them."

"Orange Company?" asked the Chancellor.
"I've been told that it's now Orange Company 49, but I'm still adjusting to that term."
"Ahh, yes," said the Chancellor, now knowing which company the clone captain was talking about. "The special company."

Tye kept his mouth shut at that as, although he knew it to be true far too well, he did not like his teammates being called 'special' by their standards.

"Have you noticed anything strange in this war captain?" asked the Chancellor.
"I've been asleep for the last year, sir, I'm still catching up," replied Tye. Something told Tye to listen very carefully to what the Chancellor was saying, though he did not realise what it was nor did he fully understand the significance at the time behind the Chancellor's words as he continued.

"It's almost as if there's another force controlling this war."

Tye was surprised that the Chancellor was telling him that and not any of his other actual staff.
"Another force?" asked Tye. "But who?"
"That's the problem," said the Chancellor. "No one knows."

Tye was now both surprised and suspicious of the Chancellors words and actions.

"They seem to be hiding in the shadows, waiting for us to move only to be countered by the Separatists," continued the Chancellor. "But then we'll receive information about the Separatists and the cycle seems to repeat over and over again."

Tye could feel this was going somewhere but was almost scared to as where. And why the Chancellor was telling him and asking about his company as well.

<Elsewhere...>

Neeran walked casually down the hallway that ran through the middle of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. She had just finished up researching in the library and was on her way to the main communications room in the Temple.

Until a certain Temple guard stopped her.

"What've I done now?" asked Neeran turning around to face him. As he went to answer, Neeran said, "Wait! Don't answer that. I don't think I want to know."

"Instead of being the way you are," started the Temple Guard, "you could listen and I'd tell you that your captain is looking for you."
"Captain Tye?" asked Neeran. "Why does he need me?"

"I do not know," said the man as he turned to walk away. "But he's waiting for you."
"Okay," said Neeran. "Then tell him to come inside and meet me in the main communications rooms, Jakaen."

"Clones do not come into the Temple!" said Jakaen rounding on Neeran.
"Then consider me and him an exception, Jakaen Jaiina," retorted Neeran.

Neeran could fell the darkside emotions boiling under Jakaen Jaiina's skin as he left her and stalked away. She herself remained there a faction longer before leaving to go to both her and Tye's meeting place and to receive her new orders for the war.

Entering the room, Neeran went straight to the main communication terminal to the left hand side of the room and entered the data required for her to receive her orders.

"Mykapo?" asked Neeran, pondering the name for a minute before keying it into the system.
"Where's Mykapo?"

Data on the unknown star system appeared on the holo-screen before her and Neeran wondered why they would be needed out on the planet of Mykapo, situated in the middle of no where.

"Any orders, Commander?" asked Tye as he entered the room after his suspicious and slightly awkward meeting with the Chancellor and the sheer death glare from the Temple Guard that would have affected almost anyone else.

"Call me Neeran," said Neeran suddenly.

"Sorry?" said Tye after a moment of surprise, and feeling a sense of déjà vu wash over him.

"You don't let the others call you by your rank," explained Neeran. "So I won't make you call me by mine."

"Alright," said Tye, surprised, and a little suspicious, by the new change in his commander.
"There are new orders though Tye," said Neeran. "We're going to Mykapo."