BATTLE SCARS [✓]

× Chapter Nineteen: Trouble ×

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"Where is everyone?" Mal asked as she looked around the docking platform, walking ahead of Rex and Cody to observe. "These boys are sloppy. There should always an officer on deck."

"Well, where are they then?" Mal asked before a clone trooper came from out of the base, walking towards the weirdly. Mal tried to sense a life form from him, but she wasn't feeling anything.

"Guys. Be careful with this one. I'm not sensing a life form." Mal whispered to Rex and Cody as they came up beside her. "Copy that."

"I got a bad feeling about this.." Cody muttered as Mal looked at him. "Me too."

"Um..welcome, Commander. As you can see the outpost is fully operational. Welcome and have a safe trip back." The clone said weirdly as Mal, Rex, and Cody looked at each other.

"We want to speak to your Sergeant. Now." Rex demanded as Mal slowly went for her lightsaber. "Roger, roger.."

Mal's eyes went wide when she heard this, but turned quickly to see a flare in the air.

"A droid attack flare..?" Cody mumbled before Rex pulled his blaster out of it's holster and shot at the helmet, both Cody and Mal looking at him in surprise.

"Woah, Rex! What the heck are you doing?!"

"Relax." Rex assured before he took off the helmet to reveal a droid underneath. "Just as I thought. These must be the new commando droids."

"This is what you saw, didn't you?" Cody asked as Mal nodded, while looking up from the droid after she heard doors slide open. "Get behind me!"

The droids began to fire and Mal whipped out her lightsaber, deflecting shots as she did, though she began to grow fearful when she deflected shots and it hit the droids but not taking them down.

"They're not going down! There's too many of them!" Mal shouted while Cody and Rex began shooting. Some went down, but the blast fire was getting intense. Before she could attack them face to face, she saw a couple of explosives roll under the ship.

"JUMP! NOW! GET OFF!" Mal screamed as Cody and Rex jumped off the edge. Mal jumped off too, quickly being caught by Rex. Mal watched as the ship fell under them, Mal sighed in relief as she looked up at Rex and Cody.

"You okay, guys?"

"We're okay. What about you?" Rex asked as Mal nodded. "I'm fine." Rex nodded before the grappling lines lowered the three of them to the ground. As soon as Mal's feet landed the ground, she walked a little close to the fiery debris.

"This complicates a lot of things, Commander.." Rex said as he looked to Cody, before looking back to Mal. Mal's mind was twisting in different directions, curious as to how she knew this was going to happen, concerned about whether there were any survivors. And then, she felt a presence. Three of them. She looked through the smoke and saw three figures approaching. All dressed in their clone trooper armor.

"You three! Take your helmets off!" Mal heard Rex shout as Mal looked at him and saw that his blasters were drawn, same as Cody.

"Wait! No, Rex!" Mal exclaimed while holding up her hands. "They aren't droids!"

"Um sir?" One of them asked as Rex continued to hold his blasters up. "Now! Take them off!"

The three clones pulled their helmets off, revealing the men and Rex and Cody lowered their weapons. Before Mal could ask them anything, a large eel appeared out of a cave.

Rex quickly shot at it's eye before it could devour Mal and it fell to the ground dead. "Nice shot." Mal heard another trooper say as Rex took off his helmet and stuck his gloved hand in the eel's blood.

"The name's Rex. But you will address me as Captain or sir. Understood?"

"Sir, yes sir!" The soldiers acknowledged. "I'm Commander Cody. Your new boss." Cody said while taking off his helmet and smirking towards the three men.

"And I'm Maleshei. But I prefer Mal. I'm General Plo Koon's Padawan." Mal introduced as the eyes of the men lit up. "So, you're a Jedi?"

"I am." Mal said with a nod before one trooper stepped forward. "I'm CT-27-5555."

"We call him Fives. I'm Hevy, and this is Echo." The clone trooper, Hevy, said as Mal's heart raced. There he was, standing before her. The clone that she had visions about, the clone that she needed to save if anything happens.