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Song was shocked at the news. Pregnant but, the she remembered a week ago and blushed. Bloom seemed to notice it as Song said "Last week when we landed we, we had a moment and..."
She just blushed and Bloom smiled at her friend patting her as she started to help her up. Bloom took her to the ship with the medical droids and it was soon confirmed.
She began to cry and said "I can't believe it, what, and he's not here with me to enjoy this. He won't be able to use his powers either. Oh Bloom I'm so worried what if he he..."
Suddenly she felt like she would collapse again but Bloom grabbed her and explained about what happened to her when she was separated with Fives and Song said "Then I have to go. If we're separated for too long then..."
They went to tell Cody about going along but he said "Absolutely not. Echo would kill me and you're in no condition."
Song then said with a glare "If I don't go I'm in even greater risk and so is the baby. So you can either let me come along or I find my own way and you know I will. Which will it be?" Cody sighed, why did Echo have to marry a stubborn one.
With Echo.
His head was pounding and he felt he couldn't move. "Where am I?" Suddenly someone came right in his face and he shouted he tried to use his speed to break the cuffs, but his powers didn't work "What?"
Tambor said "You clones may be strong physically but not enough to get through that materiel."
Echo looked shocked as he said "Techno unknown, what are you doing the war is over?"
Tambor then said "This has nothing to do with war clone, this is the pursuit of sciences. I have always been interested in the Kaminaons replicas of the bounty hunter Jango Fett but I have heard stories of individualism and other strange cases. Let see how much you know clone."
Echo showed his teeth as he said "You won't get me to talk scum." Suddenly several wires came down from the wall and began to stick themselves like tape to Echo's scull he fought of as best he could as Tambor said "Foolish clone we have no need for torcher methods when we can simply look inside your mind." At that Echo felt a shock and yelled as his mind was being forcefully looked into.
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"I know you're worried. But I can keep an eye on her, I've kept up to date on medical practices." Bloom assures him.
"I really don't think…" Cody sighs.
"You know they'll just try to go themselves." Fives cuts him off.
'Echo's going to kill me.' Cody sighs in defeat.
Song smirks with a bit of pride as Bloom helps her on to a desert crosier. Fives keeps the girls with him as they head off.
'Come on Echo hang on. You've got a little star of your own waiting for you.' Fives watches the terrain for any sign of tracks.
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They came to the spot where the bad batch had found the tracks. They looked up confused to see that the hurt woman they had found was coming with them.
When they tried to ask Cody he just said "Don't look at me, if it where my choice she be back on the ship." They all raised a brow but seeing the determined faces on the other three they decided to just head off.
Hunter looked at the tracks and said "The tracks are still fresh. Shouldn't take us long to get there. Though if we get spotted, that I don't know." Fives asked how he could tell and one man said "Hunter is never wrong trust us."
Fives raised a brow at the glasses wearing man, what was he called again, Tech. The big guy was Wrecker and the skinny guy was Crosshairs.
None of them looked like clones, they had bio engineered faces so they could look apart. Song asked Bloom about it and when she was told she could understand why they did it but she wasn't big on it. Echo's face had always bean an individual to her, she found his face to be the kindest out of all of them.
She held her belly and thought 'You're gonna have a really sweet daddy, we'll get him back baby.' With that they started heading out. As they walked Tech asked "So who exactly are you miss Song. We know who Fives married but not who this Echo is or who you are exactly."
Song looked over and so began to explain exactly who she was, why she hung around this group, and why she and Echo where married. Let's just say the bad batch was shocked and Cody said "Trust me threw me for a loop too. "
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The bad batch was shocked to hear the story. They were a bit afraid to ask how Fives ended up with the infamous Angels Touch. But Tech couldn't help it. He needed to know.
"So… how did you two end up like this?" Tech hands Fives a water as they take a break.
"If you mean how we met, it was on Kamino. I picked a fight and she fought back. She really knew how to make an impression." Fives smiles over at her sitting out of ear shot with Song. "As for ending up together… I still wonder sometimes." He sips the water with a chuckle.
His answer and tenderness shocks them. From the stories he always sounds more fierce.
"How's the squirt doing?" Cody walks over joining them.
"She finally flew." Fives smiles proudly.
"Yeah? That must have been something." Cody sips his water.
'I wonder if she's doing okay.' Fives smile turns a bit sad as he pictures the little thing fluttering about.
With the girls.
"Here you need to keep hydrated and these should help keep your energy up for a while." Bloom hands her a water and some small pills she knows are safe for mom and baby.
'Hey little guy don't cause too much trouble yet. Okay?' Bloom focuses her force to make sure both are still doing okay.
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Song smiled as she said "Thanks Bloom and thanks for coming. I'm sorry you guys got wrapped up in this, especially right now with Nova. I just didn't know who else to call." Bloom comforts her on that.
Suddenly Song felt something, some sort of shock, it was pain but not her own it was. "Echo!" She shouted as she almost doubled over.
The others rushed up to her as she was shaking. Bloom held her as she tried to calm down, her necklace was glowing but it was also shaking and she said "He's in danger their doing something to him, something inhumane."
They all looked worried at that while the bad batch also looked shocked about the strange bond.
Suddenly they heard some sort of screech and she said "I now that sound." Crosshair brought his weapon up saying "Don't worry it won't get near us." Song shouted "No!" Shocking them a she got up and headed to the sound.
They rushed after her but saw the struggling flying lizard. It was hurt and Song was going up when Cody said "Wo wait no, you are not going..." "The natives have taught Echo and me how to tame and ride one, no different than the dragons when we first met. Now let me do my job."
As she came up she did some sort of soothing motion and the creature calmed down as she gave it some berries. As she looked it over she said "Your the one they tried to capture."
They all looked confused as she explain how Echo got captured in the first place. She then said "Bloom can you heal him? If you can do that then maybe Fives and two others can get there faster to help Echo."
They asked her why she wouldn't ride and said "It be too dangerous for the baby at this moment. Especially in my state. Fives you have the experience, this is what you do."Sand with that she taught Fives how to fly a different version of a flying lizard. She called him 'Drifter.'
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"Nova has tones of family to look after her." Bloom assures her. "Besides she could use a playmate." She giggles at the thought of being an aunt again.
When Song topples over Bloom signals for the others to stand back until it calms down. When she said what was going on Bloom and Fives felt their blood run cold.
Bloom quickly patches up Drifter as Song teaches Fives how to ride him. Then Fives asks Wrecker and Tech to come with him. He'd need cover fire and someone that knows tech with him. They were hesitant but hop on the lizard.
"Fives!" Bloom flies up to him kissing him. "Bring him home." She stares at him a bit worried.
"Come on when do we ever fail a mission?" Fives taps his forehead against hers. "See you later Pixie." He winks before taking off.
"Come on we should get back to the cruiser." Cody takes off his sand cloak draping it over Song.
Song knew he was doing it because they'd have to go out into the desert bit and there'd be little to no shade. She clipped it and brought up the hood wishing it was Echo's sent she was surrounded by.
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Song hated having to walk away from being so close to Echo, but this would be faster, she hoped. She also needed to think about the baby, that base would be too dangerous for them both. She sighed and headed out trying to keep herself concentrated on getting to the ship.
Echo felt his mind was a bit hazy. He looked over at Tambor with a glare as he said "What did you do to me?" "Nothing CT 1409..."
"That is not my name!" He called out angrily, he left that name long ago and never wanted to hear it again, but like the kaminoans he only said "It will be here." Echo was steaming but said "How did you even know?"
Tambor seemed to be smirking as he said "Oh we know allot more than you think CT 1409. Thanks to that mind of yours." Echo's eyes widen, those wires, they did something to take information out of his mind but how? He thought only jedi or beotons could do things like that.
Tambor laughed as he said "Yes the progress of technology. I also found something else interesting." Echo felt his blood run cold as he said "Leave them alone." "Oh what your friends and bonded, now we have no use for them."
Echo's eyes widened as he said "Then what...AH!" He yelled as another wire was plugged to the back of his mind and Tambor said "Your mind is very sophisticated, almost like a computer. Even for a clone, a mere copy of a barbaric bounty hunter. Yes that mind is more valuable than those powers of yours. Now if only it could be put to good use."
Echo had a flash back of the time of the trails himself in the mirror the way Ulsa turned him "No you don't know what you're doing."
"Oh we do, we saw your memories. Ulsa had a good plan the only problem was leaving you with any free will. We won't make that same mistake." Echo felt one final jolt and soon he was out, as if everything was a blank slate.
The where almost to the ship when it happened. Song began to scream out "Echo no!" She then fell to the ground and began to cry uncontrollably.
Cody bent down with Bloom and asked "What's wrong, what going on?" "They took him they took him!" Then she fainted her mind reeled from these events.
Everyone looked scared at what she had said but Bloom noticed that the crystal was still shining indgo, that meant Echo wasn't dead and still had the bond, then what did she mean by they took him?