SWRC: OC-49 (Part 1)(Book 2.675)

Chapter 8 Rescue Mission Prep.

After dropping Vax off at their impromptu 'base' on Atron, Tye and the rest of the company had then embarked on their new 'rescue mission', of which Tye was certain was a trap to lure them out.

"Had any luck?" asked Tye to C.T, who was still digging around underneath some of the panels beneath the ship.
"He's got them well concealed, for a madman," said C.T as he continued to dig through the cables. Something sounded like the sparking of electrical cables, and C.T jerked his hands out of the access panel. He began muttering violent curse words under his breath as he held his hands under his armpits and began rocking back and forth slightly.

"I really hope the others are having slightly better luck," grumbled C.T in a very harsh manner as he felt the feeling in his fingers return and began trying again to disable the tracking device before him.

"Keep trying," encouraged Tye, as he could be of no assistance to the hackers. "I'll go check on the others."
"Make sure they haven't fully deactivated them," reminded C.T, never losing focus on his work. "Hack should have finished that program by now."

"I believe we are just about ready to disappear," said Tye.

C.T did stop at that.

"Are we really needing to run again?" he asked quietly.
"We don't really have a choice," replied Tye, stopping and looking back at his friend.
"I thought there was always a choice," asked C.T. "Why are we still doing this mission Tye? We know it's a trap, and yet were still doing it."

Tye sighed. "We need Vax to believe we are gone. That we're dead."
C.T scoffed. "Like he's gonna believe a mission like this would kill all 149 of us."

"I know," said Tye. "But we have to try."
C.T continued to watch him as Tye went to leave.
"It's the least we can do."

C.T smirked, "You still don't want to lose any of us?"
"Never."
"And you never will," said C.T sincerely as he returned to his work on the tracing device.

Vax had demanded that Tye take every member of his company out against the pirate occupation of the Vergesso Asteroids colony.
But Tye wasn't stupid.

He refused to lead any of the childlikes or those who did not wish to fight into battle and had instead chosen a crack team among the Mission Readys that were willing to fight the coming battle as well as one doctor to assist them in case of emergencies.

Not that he told any of that to Vax.

Leaving his 'commander' under the illusion that 149 clone troopers were about to attempt the assault on the colony, Tye had instead turned to Hack, Neo and Talon for status on their program to short out all of the found tracking devices. And the additional one to find any others, if they did exist.

"All good?"
"Well, this 'find' program is proving to be slightly difficult," admitted Neo.
"How so?" asked Tye, aware of the slowly diminishing time remaining. Which seemed too similar to another escape attempt of theirs.

"Each tracker seems to appear to have an individual external signal," explained Neo, who had been charged with the 'find' program. "However, there appears to be a pattern beginning to form."
"In better news," added Hack. " 'Shortout' is all sorted. Appears that they aren't all that dissimilar with internals as they are with signals."

"That is good," mused Tye. "You have until we touch down. Then we need both programs activated together when we return from the mission."