Hi again, I won't be able to update that often now because BACK TO SCHOOL TOMORROW ;( so I'll update when I can. I DO NOT OWN STAR WARS!
Echo still alive
I walked down the ramp of the shuttle out into the hanger, where I meet General Ti, I was back on Kamino (and wasn't too happy about it either) to test the cadets before they went out to the battlefield.
"Hello ARC Trooper Fives" the General said when I reached the end of the ramp.
"General" I responded with a nod.
"I'll contact you when it's time to begin tomorrow" She said before turning away. I looked at my data pad to see where I'm supposed to go, it just said to go to the barracks, relief washed over me seeing that I didn't have to do anything else unless I was ordered by General Ti.
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I found where I was to stay and then walked around the place, remembering when me and my squad had been here. My squad, The Domino's Heavy, Droidbait, Cutup, Echo, and me. Probably the worst squad ever, we were always arguing, leaving men behind, and not being focused.
"YOU ARE THE WORST SQUAD EVER!" Someone yelled pulling me out of my thoughts. I looked up to see five cadets and Commander Chief; it took all my strength to keep from laughing, so I started to walk away, when the Commander Chief brought me into it.
"See look at him, you guys want to make ARC someday you better wise up!" He yelled, I turned around felling stares on my back, and saw the cadets looking at me with pleading eyes, so I walked over to them.
"You know Commander Chief I remember you calling my squad the worst" I said when I reached them.
"Oh really and what squad are you from?" he asked sounding annoyed.
"The Domino's" I said.
"It's not smart to mess with me clone! There is no way a Domino made ARC" he snarled. I was glad for my helmet so he didn't see my expression. But against my right sense I took it off.
"I'm not messing with you sir, I'm CT-27-5555" I responded with a small grin. I could see his fist clenching "What are you going punch me like you did to Cutup!" I said what didn't wait for an answer, before I shoved my helmet on and started walking away; I was pleased to hear a few muffled laughs. But before I could walk five steps something hit me in the side of the head and I was knocked to the ground.
I looked up to see the Commander Chief; his face was full of rage and I could see the cadets standing there, their eyes wide with horror. I moved my jaw around to make sure it wasn't broken, and then got to my feet shaking my head.
"Sir, when you said that a Domino couldn't make ARC, well your right two did" I gave a small laugh and waited for the next blow, but it never came I looked to see him storm away. The cadets looked from him to me unsure of what just happened before they introduced themselves.
"I'm Blast and these guys are Droid, Chop, Hawk, and Repeat, were called The Rush Squad" he pointed to each of them as he said there names.
"ARC Trooper Fives" I said after he had finished, and took of my helmet again.
"Why was Commander Chief so angry when you said what squad you're from?" Chop asked.
"Let's just say me and my brothers weren't perfect clones, we were always arguing, getting into fights, and sometimes leaving each other behind on the battlefield." I paused closing my eyes, before whispering "I miss them"
"What happened to them?" this time it was Repeat asking the question.
"What do you think, numbskull!" Hawk snarled, hitting Repeat over the head.
"Hawk I think he means how did they die, come and sit down and I'll tell you"
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We were on the Rishi Base; we were only there a couple of weeks. That day started out normal Heavy beating Cutup at arm wrestling, Echo reading rig manuals, normal everyday things. Our sergeant came up to tell that there was an inspection team on their way, and soon after there was a meteor shower, afterwards we couldn't find our deck officer so Droidbait and someone else were sent down to investigate. I heard Droidbait yell one word "DROIDS" before he was shot and killed, we all rushed over to fight but then they killed our sergeant, they would have killed us to if I didn't close the blast doors.
There was a short argument over what to do and we then escaped through the vents, not long after we got out, a giant eel appeared, there was nothing we could do as it grabbed Cutup. After that it was just Heavy, Echo, and me, we were discussing what to do when a ship appeared and we all knew it was the inspection team. We had to warn them about the droids but there comlinks were on a different scrabble setting, that's when I remembered I had grabbed a droid attack flare we fired and within seconds the platform was covered in blaster fire, that's when a explosion went off. We thought they were dead but we decided to look and we found them with their blasters pointed at us. "HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEADS, NOW" one of them yelled and we did what we were told "HELMETS OFF!" the same man yelled again, so we took them off to show our faces. Soon after we learned that the one yelling at us was Captain Rex and the man with him was Commander Cody, we got back into the base with the Captain's crazy idea, of impersonating a droid, none of us thought it would work but it did and we took back the base. But there were more droids on their way, we had no chance of survival if we wanted to fight them, so we decided to blow the base up, we would rather have it destroyed then in the hands of the seppies.
We were leaving but the Captain still hadn't got the detonators to connect, so Heavy volunteered to stay behind to fix them so we left expecting him to be close behind us. When the Captain told Heavy to detonate it he wasn't there, we got him on the comlink he said the detonators weren't working, then I heard him get shot, but he managed to drag himself to the detonators before they shot him again, then we heard the droids asking each other if they take prisoners, I remember what Heavy said to that "I don't" then he detonated it we were on our way back in to help him when it went off, killing everything inside.
Two weeks ago, just two weeks, me and Echo were on a rescue mission, they had us surrounded General Skywalker was heading to destroy a turret but got shot down and overwhelmed by droids. The turret then turned to our ship only Echo and I saw it, before I could move Echo had grabbed one of the droids shields and was running to the ramp trying to get on and use the weapons to destroy the turret. That's when I saw the turret weapons charging up, so I yelled to Echo telling him to move but he was already halfway up and there was no time. When the blast hit the ship I was knocked back on to the ground, I yelled Echo's name when I got up there was no reply and that's when I saw his helmet in front of me burnt and melted. General Kenobi told us we had to go even though I didn't want to I followed orders and left.
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When I finished I noticed other cadets had gathered around to listen, I nodded to everyone who was listening.
"That's sad I would never want to lose my brothers like that" Blast said.
"Ok a lot of you have a big day tomorrow so get some sleep" I said with a wave of my hand I walked away toward my bunk.
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I got called that morning when it was time to give the test, I walked past The Rush Squad.
"Good luck" I said as I walked by. When everyone was assembled General Ti gave her speech, then the test began and I watched five squads with only minor problems, then it was The Rush Squads turn.
They started out well then an argument broke out that's when I learned how Repeat got his name, he was like Echo who repeated every order. Come on guys keep it together! I thought, as if they heard me they settled things and got down to business and finished the test. I was happy to see every squad pass.
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I met up with The Rush Squad in the hanger; they were all thrilled that they had passed.
"I can't believe it" Hawk said.
"You all deserved it, you may have started shaky but in th-"
"FIVES" someone called cutting me off. I turned to see Captain Rex running over, the men behind me saluted.
"At… Ease" Rex said trying to catch his breath
"Sir? What are you doing here?" I asked, utterly confused I was supposed to go back to the Resolute in two weeks so why is the Captain here?
"New orders and we couldn't reach you, so the General sent me" he said.
"New mission?" I asked, and he nodded.
"Ok, let me get my things" I said turning away.
"Hurry, we are supposed to meet up with the Resolute, and you know how Skywalker dislikes being kept waiting. So I would like to bet him there" Rex called after me.
