Chapter 9
Plan B
Author's Note: This chapter will have a lot of dramatic irony. For those who don't know what dramatic irony means, it is when the audience knows what will happen when the characters don't. Also, I will be going on vacation next week, so I won't be able to update chapters. Neither this weekend, so that is why I am updating today. For the future, there will be stormtroopers that will not be clones, example, Nathan.
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When Echo woke up he was strapped to a chair in a cell. "Great." Echo murmured to himself and the door opened with a dark figure with mechanical breathing in the frame.
"Echo, long time no see." the figure said
"Um, do I know you? I don't think we even met each other before." Echo said
"That doesn't matter, join the Empire and fight the rebel scum."
"No, thank you, I don't fight for anyone anymore. Only for myself and my friends."
"Oh? Your friends joined."
"That isn't like them to do that." Echo said
"This is your last chance, Echo. Join the Empire and serve like you did with the Republic." Darth Vader said
"The Republic is no more. Like I said before, no. You are right I did serve the Republic, not anymore, now I serve no one."
"If that is what you wish, we will let you go." Vader said
"Really? You are letting me go that easily?" Echo asked warily
"Why, of course, we aren't going to force you to. Though, you will have to go through security first, and get everything checked out." Darth Vader said leaving the room, shutting the door behind him, leaving Echo alone.
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"Sir, did anyone agree to join?" a stormtrooper asked
"No, tell everyone to get ready for Plan B." Vader said "And Lieutenant, make sure no one leaves, if they won't go down without a fight, stun them."
"Yes, sir." the stormtrooper walked away, he turned to an open channel "Attention everyone, Plan B is now in commence, get ready for heavy gases." the Lieutenant said turning off the comm.
The stormtrooper then went to the command station. "What's the status, Lieutenant?" Cody said
"None of them agreed to join, Darth Vader ordered Plan B, to erase their memory, so they will join."
"Shouldn't have ended that way." Cost said "Here." Cody tossed a key to the Lieutenant, and he caught it with ease. "You know where the gas is."
"Yes, sir." he said and walked out.
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Echo woke up to the door opening. "CT-21-0408, you are scheduled to get checked out. If you will follow me." the trooper said and Echo was put in binders, they walked out and there was a group that was armed.
They walked for a while until they got to a door. They walked in and tied his arms to the chair. "Someone will be right here to check you out." the trooper said and the group left the room, shutting the door behind them.
After a couple of minutes later, Echo smelled an unusual gas. "Never smelled a gas like this before. Doesn't smell toxic." Echo gasped when recognition came to him. He read an article before about this specific type of gas, but couldn't put the name to it. He tried to untie himself from the ropes, but had no luck on getting himself free. 'It's over.' Echo thought he closed his eyes and all his memories past by. 'Goodbye, Emily.' was all Echo could say before he couldn't remember anything.
"Wake up!" someone said, Echo groaned. Next thing he knew he felt someone smack him across the face.
"I'm up!" Echo woke up to an empty room. "Huh? I thought…"
The door swished open. "Hello, Echo." Darth Vader said
Echo looked around the room. "What? Who's Echo?" Echo asked confused
"You are. An Imperial soldier fighting Rebels." Vader said
"Oh, right." Echo said
"You will meet one of the best trainers and train to be the best of the best." Vader said cutting the rope off of Echo's wrists. "Come, walk with me."
Echo got up and walked by Vader's side. "Why am I here? What is my real purpose?" Echo asked
"To fight with the 501st, of course." Vader said
"Oh." Echo said
"You will enjoy being with us, Echo." Vader said
"I have no doubt in that." Echo said smiling
"That is good to hear, because you will get along great around here with everyone." Vader said "We are here, this is the training room, Echo. You will train here and get ready for becoming one of us. Someone will come later and bring you on a tour of the base." Vader walked away.
Echo walked into the training room and there was a man already waiting. "Ah, Echo, I presume?"
"Yes." Echo said
"Well, Echo, here we do everything by the book. That means protocol. We move swiftly and be gone before can suspect a thing." he said "My name is Captain Con, and we have much to do."
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Hours after training, someone was outside waiting, "Hello, my name is Nathan, and I am here to show you around." Nathan said lowering his voice. "Just between you and me, this base can get confusing now and then." He raised his voice back again "Say, aren't you one of those clones, you look like them." Nathan asked
"Uh… what is a clone?" Echo asked
"They're copies of a man called 'Jango Fett' People say that the clones kill, and that it was their duty to kill." Nathan said "I guess if you have no idea of a clone you aren't, because when I ask a clone if they were they would give me a weird face and walk away. Though, when I ask non-clones, they just say 'no'."
"You talk a lot." Echo said
"I get that a lot." Nathan said "Hey, what is your name?"
"Echo."
"Well, Echo, welcome to the Empire." Nathan said
"Thanks." they both shook hands
"Lets get the tour started." Nathan said walking in a direction
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"So, what made you think of joining the Empire?" Nathan asked
"I don't know." Echo said
"I was forced to, they said if I didn't they would harm my family." Nathan said "But the Empire isn't so bad once you get used to it."
"You're lucky, you have a family, I don't even remember my family." Echo said
"You have a family, Echo, it's here with the Empire." Nathan said smiling
"I guess you're right." Echo said smiling back
Then Nathan's comm went off "Nathan you are needed in the command center, now."
"Yes, sir!" Nathan turned the comm off. "Sorry, Echo, I wish I could chat longer, but duty calls. You could head to the mess." Nathan said running down the hall.
"Okay." Echo said to himself. Echo then went in the other direction to the mess hall.
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