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A young clone, only in his second year of life, was staring out into the cloudy skies of Kaminoe on the docking bay as it rained. It was like that everyday on Kaminoe, dark, cloudy, and raining. He has never seen the sun and always wondered what it really looked like and how it felt to be underneath it. But his studies always diverted him of thinking about it very often.
"Wha?" The young clone wondered out loud. He thought he heard the sound of a baby crying. There it is again, he thought. He definitely heard a baby crying out in the water, he looked around and saw a small patch of floating debris with something wriggling in some cloth where the crying was coming from. He saw a trooper near by. "Sir!" The trooper looked towards his little clone brother. "There's a baby in the water!"
The trooper just rolled his eyes. "Nice try kid."
"No I'm serious!" He pulled the trooper to the edge of the docking bay and pointed out the floating debris and baby on top.
"This is CT-5813 calling scuba team." the trooper said into his com link.
"This is scuba team over." A voice crackled through the com link.
"You're not gonna believe this, but there's a baby floating on the water."
"What?"
"It's right here floating below us near the docking bay."
"Hang on, I'll send someone up."
A few minutes later another trooper came to the docking bay in a scuba outfit.
"Alright, where is this baby?" the trooper asked. You could tell his tone of voice that he wasn't very happy to be ordered out into the rain. The clone youngling pointed out the baby again that was still below them and crying. The scuba diver was surprised that this wasn't a joke, he hurriedly put his helmet on and dove into the cold water. He bobbed up to the surface and followed the cries of the little baby. Soon he could see the little of patch of debris and was right next to it; he grabbed the baby and started swimming to the hatch only a couple yards away. He did his best to keep the little baby above the water, he was inside the base within a few minutes and handed the baby to a medic standing by.
The babies crying was weaker now and was growing pale. That's not good, the medic thought. He finally reached the medical area where a medical driod was standing.
"I need you." The medic said pulling the droid after him.
"What is the problem sir?" the driod asked.
"This baby was found on the water and it doesn't look good."
The droid observed the baby as the medic put the crying baby down on an observation table. It turned on a scanner and the green light washed over the baby, the symptoms downloaded into the droid and a cure came up.
"Give the child this." the droid gave the clone medic a small blue pill. "It will fall asleep, keep it warm, when it wakes up make sure it is fed." The droid walked off to tend to a clone trooper that just walked in. The medic put the pill into the babies tiny mouth and put his hand over its mouth until it swallowed. It cried for a few more minutes until it finally grew quiet and breathed peacefully as it slept.
The medic breathed a sigh of relief, now that it had stopped crying he was able to get a better look at the little one. He removed the blanket and found that it was a she. She had a tuft of black hair and looked no more than eight months old. Her skin was pale and clammy for the moment, she was thin. How could this baby survive out there for so long?, he thought. He thought it was miracle that she's even alive right now.
"You must be stronger than you look little one." he whispered to the sleeping baby. He gently dried the baby girl off and wrapped it in a thick grey blanket.
An hour has gone by and the baby was now in a crib with some of the other new born clone hatchlings. Troopers stared at the little baby in curiosity. The young clone that found the baby saw her and walked up to the crib. The little baby was sleeping soundly, the color returned to her skin it was a pale apricot shade but her frame was so thin. How long has it been since this baby ate? he thought. He gasped as the baby opened its emerald eyes and giggle at him.
He pulled one of the care takers to the crib. "It's awake." he said. The care taker pulled out a bottle filled with milk. The little baby squealed happily and reached out for the bottle. The baby chugged down almost half the milk until the care taker took the bottle away. The little baby wasn't very thrilled of its food being taken away, but felt a small pain in its stomach. The care taker burped the baby then resumed feeding it the milk. The baby finished off the bottle and soon fell asleep again with a full stomach.
The care taker handed the baby to a clone trooper. "Take the child to the head mistress."
"Yes sir." the trooper said and walked to the surveillance room.
The trooper made it to the surveillance room where the head mistress was talking to master Yoda. The head mistress noticed the trooper with the baby.
"What is it?" head mistress asked.
"Mistress," the trooper stepped forward. "we have an unexpected visitor." The trooper showed the sleeping baby to her.
"Where did you find it?"
"I'm not the one that found it ma'am."
"Then who?"
"Ummm." They looked to the little cadet standing in the doorway.
"Not now youngling." the trooper said.
"But I'm the one who found the baby." he said. "It was floating on the water on top of some debris by the docking bay."
"Strange." Head mistress said taking the baby from the troopers arms. "What was a baby doing all the way out here?"
"Mystery, that is." Yoda said. "But now, needs home it does. Take it in, you should."
"General, with all due respect, are you saying we should take in this baby and raise it?"
"Indeed I am."
The head mistress looked down at the baby to find it awake. The little one was looking around with big curious green eyes, taking in everything around it. The head mistress smiled down at the baby. "Very well jedi master Yoda, we shall take this baby in as our own." Yoda bowed before the transmission was cut off. The head mistress turned to the room of clones. "Men, meet your newest sibling."
"What's its name?" A trooper asked.
"We haven't named it yet." She checked to see if the baby was a boy or a girl. "It's a girl."
"How about giggles?" One trooper suggested, everyone stared at him. "You know, because she giggles a lot."
"No you idiot. Her name should be Hannah." Another said. They continued arguing shouting out different names for their baby sister. The young cadet grew tired of it and knew the right name for her the moment he heard her laugh.
"NO!" he shouted. Everyone looked at him. "Her name is Melody." He said it like it was final and everyone thought it suited the baby pretty well.
"Very well, Melody it is. Come and meet your sister men." Head mistress said handing the baby to the cadet. Melody smiled up at the young cadet and giggled again.
Little Melody was passed around from clone to clone, she gave all of them a big smile and sometimes giggled when a few lightly tickled her. Her smile was contagious and soon everyone in the room was smiling.
"Do you really think this is a good idea mistress?" A trooper next to her asked.
"Look at how she has impacted on the men." Head mistress said. "I think she'll be a good thing for many of us."
The trooper was still a little skeptic, but when it was his turn to hold Melody he somehow knew that head mistress was right when he looked at little Melodies smile.