Anakin was tied to a chair. It wasn't even a comfortable chair, more like a hard metal chair. He had come to after being knocked out again, in a new cell and tied to this stupid chair. He couldn't move at all. This would've been enough to drive him crazy except, the collar around his neck prevented him from using the force. He wouldn't of been able to escape with just one of those restrictions. What was the point of doing both? The lack of access to the force prevented him from escaping, and the shackles binding him the chair did the same. He supposed the purpose of this was to unnerve him and make him feel uncomfortable (and it was working) but it just felt so overdone. The female seppie had entered the room 15 minutes ago. Until about 3 minutes ago she had just stared at him uncomfortably. Then, she had proceeded to introduce herself as "Lieutenant Mika Cià of the Confederacy of Independent Systems."

"Do you just want to tell me the locations of some of your bases? It would save us a lot of trouble." She asked.

Anakin laughed. "We both know that I won't talk no matter what you do to me."

"Ok." Cià replied and strolled out of the cell to where Jif was waiting. He handed her a water bottle from which she casually took a swig.

"Are you going to go back in there?" He asked.

"Soon." She promised. "See how he's antsy and fidgety? That's good for us. I had him shackled up in addition to the collar because I knew it would annoy him. He hasn't eaten in a while; we'll keep him on the minimum prison rations for a few days. After that we'll offer him real food."

"Do you think he'll break then?"

"Unless I marked him wrong no. He has too much honor. He'll only break if it's someone else's life on the line, aka not his. He's not emotionally connected enough to any of his men to use them, so we use his padawan. In the meantime we work the clones and her. Literally and figuratively."

"Do you think the clones and the girl will break?"

"Not for a while. If we get really lucky we might break the girl early on. The clones will help her though. I've seen it before, when the padawan is with the clones they watch over the kid, they bond, and get close. It'll only make it harder for those who last longer though, that's why we allow it to happen."

"Is that why the 501st was chosen as our target? Because the jedi had a padawan?"

"Yep, and the clones have a bit of penchant for being stubborn as hell. Breaking them will send a mission we can break anyone. In addition the jedi is the chancellor's lap dog."

"Makes sense then. How long till we break them, do you think ma'am?"

"Depends on quite a few things. The last time we took a full legion was about 4 to 5 years ago. It took 2 months to break them all. Since then, we've taken a few companies at a time every month or so. They break quicker since they feel abandon."

"How has the republic not realized we're doing this?"

"We plan very carefully and get lucky."

"Makes sense."

"How are our other guests settling in?" She asked as the two began to walk down the dark hallway.

"Good, Ray's going to go check on them in an hour or so." Jif answered.

"There won't be any major ideas of escape yet. They don't yet know how bad it'll be for them here. They're still holding out hope the jedi will save them. Can't say I blame them, can you?"

"No ma'am."

"Alright, I have to choose where to assign the girl and the clones to break them. What do you think I should do?"

"I would put half of them to work in the plant making weapons to be used on their comrades and I would have the other half down in the mines."

"Gunning for the emotional break while angling for the physical one, smart. "

"Thank you ma'am"

"Kid, we'll make an interrogator out of you yet."

Jif smiled wide.


Speed shuddered and pulled himself tighter into a ball.

"Shhhh, It's ok. No one's here's going to hurt you," A voice murmured.

"Commander Tano?" Speed whispered.

"Yeah, That's me." Ahsoka answered.

Speed sat up and rubbed his eyes. Commander Tano sat next to him on a bunk bed; they were in what appeared to be a military style barrack with a row of beds against each wall. "What happened?" He muttered.

"Well Fives and Echo told me they pumped the cell you guys were in with knock out gas, Everyone else except you and Denal faked unconsciousness. The seppie zapped everyone-including me- with a taser. We woke up here. Which is strangely ironic if you think about it."

"Guess so." Grunted Speed. "Who else is up?"

"Fives, Echo, Jesse, and anyone they zapped. Denal, all of the medics and Rex are still out."

"But that's not the whole legion! Kix said they had the whole legion!"

"They're probably just in a different barrack-type-thing." Suggested Ahsoka.

"Where are Fives, Echo, and Jesse?"

"Right above you, you moron" Mumbled Fives and he and Echo dropped down from one of the higher bunks.

"And I'm literally right behind you." Sassed Jesse.

"We have bunk beds," Echo giggled excitedly.

"For the billionth time in our lives" Added Fives. "Why is it always bunk beds."

"How are you guys talking about bunk beds right now?" Ahsoka asked.

Fives shrugged. "We face death and the unknown on a daily basis. We've learned that the best way to do that without losing our minds is to focus on the little things and try not to worry about the big picture."

"And it's more fun." Echo added.

"Makes sense." Ahsoka laughed.

"Seriously though, why always bunk beds?" Continued Speed. "Every single place we go, it's bunk beds!"

"Saves space probably." Commented Jesse.

"Speaking of bunk beds, I counted the beds." Stated Echo. "Some of us are going to need to double up assuming they leave us here."

"We should wait till the others are up and do this in a fair and well thought out manner." Stated Speed with an expression of mock seriousness on his face.

"Not it!" Exclaimed Ahsoka.

"Not it." Shouted the rest of the conscious clones.

"So I guess Denal or Rex of some of the medics will be sharing." Snickered Fives.

"Does anyone want to place bets on when the others will wake up?" Suggested Jesse.

"I'm game." Said Ahsoka.

"I just came too, the other probably will in a minute or so." Added Speed.

"Buzz kill" Hissed Jesse. From across the room they heard a groan coming from one of the medics.

"If you will all excuse me, that is Kix and if someone is not there when he wakes up he will panic."

Jesse swung himself off the bed and headed over to his friend. Jesse knelt down so he was at eye level with Kix.

"It's ok Kixy, I'm here." He murmured.

"Wait, so who woke up first?" Speed questioned.

"Jesse first, apparently we were all kinds in a pile on the floor so he got us up onto bunks." Echo explained.

"I woke up next." Took over Ahsoka. "Jesse calmed me down. Then Fives woke up and we all made fun of Echo until he came to too."

"Then we all affirmed his sense of self because we love you Echo and you are a valued member of-whatever this is." Finished Fives.

"I think we're a team/family." Answered Echo.

"Starting the motion to wake everyone up because we need to figure some stuff out." Declared Ahsoka.

"Motion seconded." Laughed Echo.

"Let's do it." Agreed Speed.

The group proceeded to go around and shake shoulders and whisper versions "Hey wake up buddy, up and at 'em."

Once they had awakened everyone else they all stood over Rex.

"We should be responsible and mature about this." Said Denal.

"Hell no." Argued Fives. "This is revenge for every time he's woken us up and everyone is still asleep and cozy in bed but we have to go to live fire exercises."

"Revenge is bad." Pointed out Ahsoka.

"I feel we're justified." Said Echo.

"We don't have a bucket of water to dump on him though." Mused Ahsoka

"WAIT, you know about that stuff?" Exclaimed Boxer and Kix.

"Guys, Everyone in the GAR knows that you dump buckets of water on sleeping people to wake them up. We've all heard the screams."

"That is true; when we give someone a water wake up they tend to scream and we'll all be screaming enough soon." Lectured Echo.

"Someone's a real ray of sunshine." Commented Rex.

"Wait Rex you're awake, how-"

"CO's don't really sleep we just close our eyes." Rex explained as he sat up. "We have to constantly keep an eye on you lot."

"I feel so valued." Said Kix.

"Hold on to that feeling." Spoke a new voice. Everyone looked up. Two clones stood at the entrance. "This place'll beat it out of you quick. I'm Ace by the way. This is Shockwave."

Shockwave nodded. Ahsoka got the sense that was about as much as he would communicate.

"Ahh, A padawan. Haven't had one of you here in ages." Said Ace as he casually strolled down the barrack.

"Thanks?"

"Welcome kid." He replied. "Now, there are a few things you should all know about this lovely establishment. The first of which is it is designed to break you. It will, if you let it."

"So we won't let it." Retorted Echo.

"Good." Said Ace. "Also see that little light bulb above the door, if it flashes red get in parade rest in two lines on each side of the barrack. It means one of the seppies is coming in."

"What's parade rest?" Whispered Ahsoka.

"We'll show you later." Fives whispered back.

"The doors will open and then we all assemble in lines out in the courtyard area to get counted. Typically they pull anyone they want to interrogate that day and send the rest of us of to work assignments."

"What are the usual work assignments?" Frisk asked.

"Typically its pointless stuff designed to break you. Like sometimes they'll have ya in this giant mine and you're just carting rocks out of the place or other times they have us build bombs to be dropped onto our comrades. It's just stuff to help with the separatist war effort."

"You sabotage it right? Tell me you sabotage the bombs that are going to be dropped on all of our brothers!" Demanded Burner.

Shockwave snorted and rolled his eyes. No words were said but his message was clear.

"Not all of us are lost souls." Responded Ace.

"Good you had me worried there for a second." Breathed Burner.

"Also," Continued Ace. "They will break you with their interrogation tactics. Make some BS up beforehand with your people so you're all in tandem." Shockwave nodded after that one to add emphasis.

"That's not really an issue for us given we know absolutely nothing." Kix interrupted.

"They don't tell us anything." Agreed Coric.

"Not an issue for you maybe, but those two" Ace elaborated, pointing at Rex and Ahsoka. "May have an issue."

"No we won't" Snorted Rex.

Ahsoka nodded. "We won't break."

Ace cackled. "Talk to me in a month. We'll see how you're doing then. 'Kay."

"We won't be here in a month." Muttered Boxer.

"We'll break out of here long before that" Asserted Jesse.

"Way long before." Challenged Speed.

Ace ignored them. "Other interesting objects of note are that a) these seppies are intense and will beat you for nothing b) no one has every escaped from this hell c) They can and will break every single one of you. Did I forget anything?"

He directed this last part at Shockwave, who nodded and mimed doing something with his hands.

"Oh yeah, work assignments. You're going to get worked until you're dead and if you're not working they'll either have you locked up in here or they'll be torturing you. Any questions?"

"When do we eat?" Shouted out someone.

"Those doors," Ace explained. "Will open at meal times. Follow the crowd to the mess hall, get food. Don't talk to anyone while you eat. The stuff tastes worse than expired frozen rations but it's usually edible."

"Usually?" Exclaimed Denal.

"85% of the time it will taste horrible 99% of the time. It's a Prisoner of War Camp, what did you all expected?"

"So that's what this is then," Groaned Rex "A fucking POW camp."

"We think so," Smiled Ace, but there was less of an edge to him now. He seemed almost friendly. "There are a couple terms you could use for this place. None of which I shall repeat in front of the kid."

"Appreciate it" Said Ahsoka.

"Alright, we gotta go now." Ace declared. "I had some other guys go talk to your other people."

"Wait, how did you get in here."? Realized Jesse. "Those doors are double bolted. I checked after I came to."

"Floorboards under that bed are loose. We have a system of tunnels around all the barracks. I'll show it to you soon. Have a nice day."

Shockwave and Ace shimmied under the bed and after a few scraping sounds were gone. The only evidence their presence had ever graced the barrack was the stunned looks on all of their faces.

"Fuck." Hissed Mixer.

"What?" Chorused the others.

In response, Mixer just pointed at the now red light above the door.

A/N: This chapter was inspired by coffee and Orange is the New Black. Shout outs to Getting Traught, Lux's Sister, PhantomxWolf for their reviews. Same as always, Reviewers get shout outs.

Have a good night y'all.