A/N: I know, it's been a while, but this is a decent length of a chapter so get off my back. Anyway I don't own star wars.
Adain, Anakin, Jon, Obi-Wan, Rex, Rob, Vinny, and a handful of other clones were all currently in a gunship making its way down to the planet's surface. It should have been a smooth ride, except the ship was being shot at by a squadron of Vulture droids.
"We're gonna die!" Vinny yelled as the ship shook.
"Probably not, we have like most of the main characters in here." Adain said, patting Vinny on the shoulder.
"Prepare for reentry." The pilot said over the intercom.
Vinny looked over at Rob. "If I die, delete my search history." Vinny said, sounding desperate.
Rob grinned in return and gave Vinny a thumbs up.
Vinny, in turn, breathed a sigh of relief, but that was short lived as the ship suddenly rocked again.
"As soon as we get near the Republic base, we should get cover from the anti-air guns stationed there." Anakin said.
"And how far is it?" Jon asked, a little worried about the situation that they were in.
"We should be in range in a couple of seconds." Anakin answered.
"I would hope so." Vinny yelled at Anakin.
Anakin turned to look at his master, Obi-Wan. "Sheesh, and I thought you hated flying." Anakin whispered.
Obi-Wan gave his apprentice a stern look. "No Anakin, I only hate it when you're the pilot." Obi-Wan said, giving Anakin a small grin afterward.
The ship started to shake again, making everyone tighten their grips on the hand bars.
"PILOT, WHAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE?!" Vinny yelled, scared for his life.
"Sir, the Republic base is giving us cover fire." The pilot answered.
"Good." Obi-Wan said. "That will give us a little more breathing room." He said.
"That's great and all, but we still need to land." Jon said.
The ship shook again.
"We will, but first we have to take down these fighters, or else they'll take us out as soon as we land." Rex informed Jon.
"You think Chase is having an easier time than we are?" Rob asked.
"I don't know, probably." Adain said. "I mean come on, this is Chase we're talking about." He said.
Chase just stared at the sky. It was clear blue and only had a few clouds in sight. If he had to be honest with himself Chase didn't even think he hit the ground that hard. Chase knew that he was probably going to crash, but to die from it is a little ridiculous. He was strapped into the chair and had the engines on full blast. Needless to say he was shocked.
"Aw man." Chase said, still looking into the sky.
"What's wrong?" a feminine voice behind Chase asked.
Chase sighed. "I can't believe that I just died." Chase said.
"What are you talking about?" The voice asked again, sounding extremely confused.
"What I'm talking about is that I think that I died, crashing the escape pod." Chase said, turning to look in the voice's direction.
To his surprise, Chase found Elena and Jo looking at him in utter confusion.
"I think he hit his head." Jo said, looking over at Elena.
"Yes, probably. We need to get him out of here." Elena said, unstrapping herself from her seat. Jo also unstrapped himself but took a little longer.
Later…
"I'm telling you, I'm fine." Chase said, pushing Elena's hand off of his face.
Chase was currently sitting on the ground right outside of the escape pod, while Elena giving him a quick medical checkup.
"I know, but you can never be too careful." Elena argued.
"Okay guys, um… so… I have a question." Jo asked.
"I might have an answer." Elena said, while still attending to Chase.
"Can you let me down now?" Jo asked, nervously.
Jo was sitting on top of the escape pod.
When Chase landed, he did it in an almost perfect way so that the escape pod landed on the thrusters and completely upright. So, when Elena needed to put Jo somewhere so that he wouldn't escape without them looking, she put him on top of the pod.
"Hold up." Chase said, putting up his hand and standing up. "I have a few questions too, and I see that we are your only way down." He said pointing to Elena and himself.
"Jeez, you don't have to be such a dick about it, what did I do?" Jo asked.
"To start, you blew up the ship." Elena said, crossing her arms.
"Nevermind, I'll answer your questions." Jo said, looking towards the ground in shame.
"Good." Chase said, clapping his hands together. "So like how are you here?" he asked.
"To be honest, I don't really know. I went to bed one night and when I woke up I was here." Jo said, shrugging.
"But that's dumb." Chase yelled at Jo.
"How's it dumb, that's what happened." Jo argued.
"We got here through a portal." Chase said. "So your lackluster, generic anime answer won't cut it." He said.
"What do you want me to tell you, that's what happened. I fell asleep and then I woke up." Jo said, getting a little angrier.
"Let's say that we do believe you, what happened next, why did you blow up the ship?" Elena asked, cutting in.
"Umm… because Count Dooku said too." Jo said.
Chase pinched the bridge of his nose, while Elena gave him a look that can be only classified as a mixture of 'Are you kidding me?' and 'I told you so.'
"Jo, why are you listening to Dooku?" Chase asked.
"Because it's all part of my plan to get the workers to rise up from their slave drivers." Jo said, raising a fist to the air.
"Oh God, not this again." Chase complained in a whisper.
"What is he talking about?" Elena asked Chase, also in a whisper.
"Don't worry about it, later." Chase said, still whispering. After he said this Chase slowly approached the pod that Jo was on. "Jo, listen to me. You know Dooku, and know whatever he said ain't gonna happen." He said, taking a pause. "And he is going to kill you when this is all over, so I highly suggest that you come with us and give this whole fiasco up." Chase finished.
Jo stood there for a moment before replying. "You'll let me down?" He asked.
"Yea, why wouldn't we?" Chase asked.
"I don't know." Jo said, shrugging.
It didn't take long to get Jo down, as much time as to get him up with the force. And then the trio headed off to find the nearest Republic base.
"What's the deal with hexagons?" Chase asked as they walked along the surface of the planet. "I mean this ain't natural." He explained.
"I'm not too sure." Elena said. "I usually try and read up on the history of the planets we go to, except I had a hard time in making any time for it." She said.
"Why?" Jo asked.
"Well, mostly it had to do with dealing with Chase and the rest of his friends." Elena said.
"Wait." Jo said, stopping in his tracks. "The others are here too?" he asked.
"Yea, we all got here together." Chase said.
"When did you guys get here again?" Jo asked, sounding worried.
"We found them just the other day, why?" Elena asked.
"I've been here like three months already." Jo said.
"Can't be. I saw you literally just the other day." Chase said.
"Strange." Elena said, scratching her chin.
"Tell me about it, he looks exactly the same as he was the other day too." Chase said, pointing at Jo.
"I'm still here you know." Jo said to Chase.
"If I had to guess, maybe time moves faster here, than in your world." Elena said. "And, if I had to guess, Maybe it is only relative, for you and your friends." She added.
"What do you mean?" Jo asked.
Elena sighed. "What I mean is that it might be possible that all of you age differently compared to everyone else here." Elena explained.
"But I don't think that's how time works." Jo said.
"But—that is how it seems to be." Elena said, looking at Jo.
"It might be possible, I don't know." Chase said, uncertain. "But that's for later, right know we gotta find our way back to everyone else." He said, looking around the area.
"Does anybody else even know if we are still alive?" Jo asked.
"They do." Elena said. "With the force Master Obi-Wan and Anakin should sense us." She explained.
"So what, we just sit here and wait for someone to pick us up?" Chase asked.
"No." Elena said to Chase. "We are still going to try and walk back because there's no doubt that the separatists saw that crash and are sending a cleanup party."
"Fun." Chase said as he started walking again.
Meanwhile…
"Oh thank God, land." Vinny said, exiting the gunship and dropping to the ground, seeming to hug the planet. "love you sooo much." He said, proceeding to kiss the ground.
"I have to say, that was wasn't the worst experience I've had with flying." Obi-Wan said as he stepped out of the ship as well.
It didn't take long for everyone else that was in the gunship to stumble out.
"That was awful." Jon said as he held his stomach.
"Just breath slowly guys." Anakin said, unfazed by the whole ordeal.
"Why aren't you… like… dying?" Adain asked, burping in-between.
"It's simple, I've been through worse." Anakin said, patting Adain on the back.
"Masters Obi-Wan and Anakin, it's good to see you." A voice said, causing everyone to turn in its direction.
To no one's surprise, it was Senator Bail Organa who was approaching them.
"Senator, it's good to see that you're okay." Obi-Wan said, greeting said senator.
"I wished that our meet up would be under different circumstances, but this will have to do." The senator said.
"Agreed, there is much to discuss about our current situation." Obi-Wan said.
"Then there's no time to waste." Bail said.
The two Jedi and the senator were about to head off to the Republic Head Quarters, but before they left the senator noticed the four individuals standing around the gunship.
"And who are those four?" Bail asked, pointing at them.
Anakin and Obi-Wan looked at each other before answering.
"If we told you, you wouldn't believe us." Anakin said.
"I'm not too sure about that, I've seen some strange things in this galaxy." The senator said.
"Well explain later, but right now we need to go over our battle plan." Anakin said, gently pushing his master and the senator towards the Republic Head Quarters.
"Wait." Bail said, pushing Anakin's hand away and turning to face the Jedi. "What do you mean 'battle plan'? Didn't you take down the separatist fleet?" He asked.
"The separatist fleet in orbit was taken down, however…" Obi-Wan said before he was interrupted.
"However, a whole nother one just jumped in outta nowhere." A voice said.
The Jedi and senator turned to see Adain, Rob, and Jon, desperately trying to hold back Vinny, who at the moment looked furious beyond comprehension.
"Is this true?" The senator asked.
"Yes, it is, unfortunately." Obi-Wan said, confirming what Vinny said.
"When we lost communications, I assumed that it was only your ship that was lost." The senator said.
"Well, you know what happens when you assume right?" Adain asked.
"What?" Bail asked in reply.
"You become a computer scientist." Rob answered.
Adain and Jon snorted at the joke.
Obi-Wan cleared his throat. "Yes, well back to the matter at hand." He said. "Yes, our ship was destroyed, but the rest of the fleet escaped right after." Obi-Wan explained.
"So I guess we're right back from where we started then?" Jon asked.
"I don't believe that that is entirely true." Bail said. "Thanks to your efforts the supplies made it through the blockade and got plenty of reinforcements from all of the troops that landed." He said.
"It wasn't really our doing, it was mostly Chase at work there." Rob said.
"And who is this Chase?" the Senator asked.
"Oh Chase, uh…" Adain said, looking around for said person. "Uh… guys, I don't know where Chase is." He said.
"He was never on our ship, I mean we had to leave without him, but he probably got on another transport." Jon said.
"But we were the last ones off, remember?" Vinny asked. "This is just great!" He said. "Not only does Chase go off and gets killed, but he took the hot one that held my money." Vinny said angerly.
"I think you need to calm down." Anakin said, looking over to Vinny. "I can still sense Chase, so he probably got out in one of the escape pods." He said. "And who, pray tell is 'the hot one'?" Anakin asked, with an intrigued look.
"It's nothing, don't worry about it." Vinny said, still a little angry.
"Fine I won't press, but we will still have to go find Chase, Elena, and anyone else with them before the separatists do." Anakin said, putting his hands up in defense.
"But before you do that, might I ask who you all might be?" Bail asked the boys.
"This is Adain, Rob, Vinny, and I am Jon." Jon said, pointing to each respective person.
"And you're not pirates now, are you?" Bail asked.
"No, why?" Adain replied.
"Well it might just be me, but your get up has a very, how should I put this piratey look to it." The senator said, explaining himself.
"I don't know it's what the Republic gave us." Adain said.
"Walking around looking like that is only going to make everyone think that you are pirates." Bail said. He sighed. "While the Jedi and I form up a rescue party go to where the supplies should have been dropped off, go to the supplies officer and ask him to get you all the new Alderaanian uniforms." He said.
"I thought that Alderaan didn't make weapons?" Adain asked.
"And you would be right, we don't." Bail said. "But that doesn't mean we can't make new armor and equipment to keep soldiers, who are not clones safe." He continued. "Alderaan wanted to try and help with the war effort without perpetuating the violence, and found that the best way to do that is to try and keep the soldiers on the front lines alive." Bail explained.
"Sir, if I may." Captain Rex said, speaking for the first time in this conversation.
"Yes, Captain?" Obi-Wan asked, allowing Rex to continue.
"I'll take the boys over to supplies, and when that's all done I request to do a head count, to see our fighting strength." Rex said.
"Go ahead, it'll be good for all of you to start to find your way around here." Anakin said, dismissing them.
A little while later, with Chase, Elena, and Jo…
"Gah!" Jo yelled. "We've been walking for hours." He complained.
"It has only been about two." Elena pointed out, as Jo stopped.
"Like I said, 'hours', 'S', as in plural, more than one." Jo said angerly.
"What's gotten into you?" Elena said, annoyed by Jo's attitude.
"Oh, nothing much." Jo said. "It's just that while I'm struggling to keep up with you, you guys are just going on without a care in the world." he continued. "And neither of you ever decide to take a break for a moment." Jo complained.
"I mean, you never asked if we could rest." Chase pointed out.
Jo looked at Chase with total disgust. "And another thing." Jo said, switching topics. "Why in God's name do you look thinner than you did?" he asked. "Because according to you, we saw each other just the other day and you had so much blubber on you." Jo pointed out, using what Chase called his fat on many occasions.
"Leave my blubber out of this." Chase said, holding himself.
"I think I can explain the situation." Elena said. "Yes, when I first met Chase he was… larger than he is now, but because of the fact that a force sensitive person has a much faster metabolism than that of a non-force sensitive person, Chase has become much more… leaner than earlier." She said.
"That's awesome." Chase said. "I can eat so much food now and not even have to feel bad about it." He continued. "I love being a Jedi." Chase said as he continued walking.
"Wait, when did you become a Jedi?" Jo asked.
"Just a little while ago." Chase answered.
"Look at you living the high life." Jo said, feeling quite annoyed.
"I know, this is like the first time anything has gone my way." Chase said, breathing in in satisfaction.
Elena gave a worried look at Jo, who in reply just gave a shrug.
"Hey guys, look." Chase said, pointing out to the distance.
Elena and Jo looked over to where Chase was pointing out to, at the horizon and saw multiple dots that seemed to get bigger.
"You think that's the search party?" Chase asked, using his hands to block the sun, allowing him to see the dots better.
"Here let me try." Elena said, putting her wrist up to her mouth and turning on the communicator. "This is Jedi General Elena De'kern, calling on all frequencies, incoming forces identify yourself." Elena said into the device.
There was no reply back.
Elena squinted her eyes in worry while repeating her message. "This is Jedi General Elena De'kern please respond." She said.
"I got a bad feeling about this." Jo said, kind of scared.
"Either my communicator broke, or we are in a lot of trouble." Elena said, pulling out and igniting her lightsaber and getting into a combat stance.
A/N: Like I said, I know it took a while, but I have good reasoning. I got a bit distracted with a bunch of new games that came out and they have been taking alot of my time. But, I promise that there will be more frequent uploads.