Razer's pov

We stared at the blockade for a moment before speaking again.

"Okay." I said, causing the other three to look at me. "That could be a problem." Then, Codex made a noise of excitement, and we all turned to him.

"But we have a way to get by their scanners, at least if we go slowly." I grinned before grabbing my helmet, realizing what he meant.

"That we do. Rusty, turn on the cloaking devices, and we'll guide this thing through." He did so, and we all kept unnecessarily quiet as I guided the Blackbird under the blockade. I never knew why we did that. I mean, it's not likely that one noise was going to alert the enemy, but it feels like you have to for some reason. Off track. Oops. Anyway, we made it safely through the blockade, and to the planet's surface. We opened the landing ramp onto the desert planet, leaving Rusty to guard the ship, and followed the coordinates that Ghost sent. We ended up at a big barn in the middle of nowhere. Something was off, and we all sensed it. Trying the door, we noticed that it was locked. Instead of kicking it down like any one of us normally would with the weird vibe coming from the place, Kira picked the lock.

The sight the greeted us was not a pretty one. The Aar'aa was standing against one of the far wall, with a blaster pointed straight at his head by one of the Empire troopers. There was a group of about twenty inside, and one, who was close to the Aar'aa, was holding a little girl by the hair, seemingly threatening the Aar'aa so that he wouldn't do anything. I couldn't believe what my brothers had turned into. Threatening children crossed every line in the book. I looked at the other two, and they were both angered as well. Codex looked like he was ready to shoot every trooper in the place, and Kira looked absolutely murderous. If she decided to go in and go crazy, I would hate to be the one to get in her way. Never get in the way of an angry woman, or you will be demolished. If having a sister taught me anything, It was that. Codex looked wary of her as well. Unfortunately, we sat there thinking for too long, and three troopers were suddenly behind all of us, blasters pointed straight at our heads. I didn't bother trying to talk us out of it. It simply wasn't going to happen, especially since we were hiding in a dark corner. Survival 101: Anything in a dark corner is probably bad. Either catch it or run away. Plus the fact that they outnumbered us, and they still had the girl. We were lined up along with the Aar'aa, and they began conversing with each other. I turned to the lizard, and spoke in a hushed voice.

"Who are you exactly? What did you do to anger this lot?" He frowned slightly.

"My name is Jex, and the girl over there is Jessica. Basically, I am wanted by the Empire for smuggling. People who need help, information to the forming Rebellion, things like that. My ship was hit, and Jessica was letting me stay here while I fixed it. I promised to get her to her family when I did. If our other friend A was here, we wouldn't be in this situation, but she's out to get some more parts at the moment."

"A?" He was about to answer, when the troopers turned back to us.

"This is your last chance. Where did you take the traitor?" The girl, Jessica, and Jex looked at each other. Jessica shook her head with a defiant look on her face. I like this kid. But I was very confused on who this traitor was. I knew it wasn't me, seeing as I had never met this guy before. The trooper just shook his head, and turned to me. "Ah, another one. You can still come back, brother. The Emperor can be forgiving, and he will take you back if you surrender now." I glared at him under my helmet.

"You are no longer my brothers." He shook his head, turning away for a moment. Then, he looked back.

"What is your name, soldier?" I glared harder.

"Razer." I said, angrily. One of the other troopers came up to the one who had asked me, who had seemed not to know what that meant. He spoke quietly, but still loud enough for all of us to hear.

"Sir, he's from Darkside Squad." A few gasps came from the other troopers, causing confusion in my new friends, and causing me to roll my eyes. The commander still looked confused, so the trooper continued.

"The only squad to work closely with the Jedi? The one lead by Commander Alpha?" The commander's head jerked back to me, and all of them regarded me with a sense of slight fear.

"The Emperor would like to have you back, Razer. We need more troops with you skill set." The commander said. I scoffed.

"Yeah, not gonna happen." He shook his head.

"Pity. We could have used you." He raised his blaster, and I could see the others' horrified faces out of the corner of my eye. Then, the door burst open, and another trooper came in. The clones turned to see who had come in, and the guy pointing the blaster at my head, lowered his arm and turned to the new figure. I gathered he was a bit arrogant. He held his arms out to his sides, the gun dangerously close to Jessica. "Here to join the fun? What's your ID, trooper." Instead of answering, the trooper continued walking forward. As he walked, he pulled out a pair of blasters, and fired at the trooper holding Jessica. The shot hit him in the middle of his head, a safe distance from the girl, who stepped away and ran over to Jex, who looked strangely relieved. The commander, on the other hand, fired right back at the trooper, who seemed to dodge out of the way, firing back and hitting him in the chest. Two down. Then, all hell broke loose. The other troopers came to their senses and began firing wildly. The new trooper ended up putting away his blasters, and pulling two knives, seemingly out of thin air. He began to use them against the other troopers, and soon cleared the whole room.

"Traitor." the last trooper spat, as he stood with a knife wound in his side. The new trooper pulled out one blaster and pointed it at him. Then, he spoke, sounding just like the rest of us, so he was definitely and actual clone.

"No. You are the traitors." Then, he fired, and the clone fell to the ground. He put the blaster away, and Jessica broke away from where we all stood, staring. We called out for her to stop, but she kept running, calling out to the strange clone.

"A!" she shouted. The trooper turned around, and crouched down to catch the small girl barreling towards him. This was the mysterious A, then. Codex leant towards me, speaking quietly.

"Guess there are some others like you, Cap'n." He started calling me that to annoy me. Again, strange sense of humor. Jessica lead "A" back over to us, where Jex greated him.

"Perfect timing as always, A." He said. Then, he seemed to remember that we were there. "Oh, it seems we have some new friends." he gestured to us. He introduced "A" to Codex and Kira, who gave their names, to receive a nod and a polite greeting. Then, they got to me, and I asked my question.

"What's your ID?" I wasn't going to ask the name yet. That was usually a sign of superior rank, and I didn't know this guy's rank at all. He sighed before answering, and the answer he gave nearly knocked me off my feet with surprise.

"XX-7101." He answered. I stared at him for a moment before speaking, my tone incredulous.

"Alpha?"

Yup, ending it right there. I'm a little evil like that :) But I promise I will update soon! See ya soon, cupcakes!