The Plague Ship
Chapter 11 Grief over fallen friends
Authors notes I don't own star wars George Lucas does. I want to thank my betas Half Jaw and LordRevanMandaloreofZutara for helping me write this fanfic.
This fanfic is AU after episode 3 so in this the original trilogy never happened and this fic is a sequel to my other Star Wars fic A Forbidden Love, if you havent read that fic read it now.
Chanso tram system
Quick and Shadow looked at the data pad Tech had gotten the surveillance data on before he died and both hoped this info was worth Tech's life.
Suddenly Quick said "You know Shadow I've been wondering, why didn't you take command of the squad when Razor died after Operation Knightfall? Why exactly did you let Viper take command of the unit?"
Shadow suddenly stopped his pacing of the tram and looked at Quick with what he guessed was a glare and knew that that subject wasn't one to talk about or go near.
The tram then stopped and both men left the tram and headed to the medical bay. When they got near the medical bay however they only saw ruins of the once med centre. Instantly they knew Zip had self destructed when Tech died.
Viper and Blaze suddenly appeared behind them and when they saw the ruins of the room they knew that Alpha Squad had a second man in less than 2 hours.
Viper looked at the ruins with anger and said "We've lost 2 team members. I really hope this info you got is worth it. If not I'll tear this ship apart."
He then put the datapad on a nearby computer terminal and started to look through the surveillance footage going back several weeks before Vader's arrival on the ship. From there he found footage of the drug being made by scientists and he saw doctor taking blood samples from the Felucians they found. He fast forwarded and saw the blood being used in the drug called compound 77, that at least proved some of the goings on this ship was connected. Now all they had to do was find out the rest of the info on this project then take down the threat.
Viper found no footage of the test subjects. It only said that footage was restricted to people tied to the experiment and something called Project Force. Viper then pulled the datapad off the computer terminal and told the squad what he found out.
Quick then said "Why is it that every time we get more info to help explain the cause of all this chaos, we lose a good man in the process?" Viper knew Quick had a good point but didn't have an answer for him. All he knew was that this information wasn't for Tech's life or the lives of any of his men for that matter.
He said "Ok men lets search these ruins for any documents that might give us anymore info on the experiments ran here." Shadow and Quick started to look around while Blaze noticed some cracks on another wall and on further investigation saw the wall was hallow and yelled out "Viper I found something here, help me peel this wall away."
Viper and Blaze soon found a safe was behind the wall, Viper then used a charge to blow the door open and the contents were revealed to be documents, another stinking holovid, and a sample of the infamous compound 77 drug.
Viper held the sample in his hand as Blaze read through the documents while Quick put the holovid of the nearby computer terminal and a hologram of doctor Shutu appeared and said "Well it is my personal hope that once we have finished our examinations of the test subjects once they have been fully infused with compound 77, that the emperor will allow us to give it to the clone army and volunteers to ensure the empires strength never wavers in the face of our enemies."
The hologram then shut off and the squad now knew another clue of this mystery but still a lot of questions remained to be answered. Viper then said "Ok men I say we head down to the main laboratory to analyse this compound and find exactly what is in this drug and how it might have caused all this mess."
The rest of the squad nodded in agreement and they then set off for the laboratory to finally solve this mystery and end this threat now.
Chanso bridge
The two men smiled and knew the squad now knew why they had been brought to the ship and only hoped they found out the entire truth of all this before they met the squad face to face.
Chanso hallway
The remaining members of Alpha Squad headed down to the elevator to get to the lab and as they got to the elevators they saw more of the creatures there waiting for them and the squad opened fire on the creature without any hesitation. After they killed them the squad entered the elevator and set the destination for the laboratory.
Authors notes well that's chapter 11 completed let me know what you think of it read and review no flames.