"…urgh…" Rex groaned as he as the throbbing in his shoulders and head became apparent. The light being far too bright for him to open his eyes. He shivered at the cold air his skin was being exposed to. His mind faintly realizing that he was cold because someone had stripped him of his armor, leaving him in the blacks that he wore under it.
"Finally woke up?" he scrunched up his eyebrows at the voice, the voice being familiar despite its gravely state.
"…General?" he finally opened his eyes, a headache already forming at the front of his head. He blinked in surprise when he realized that he was chained right across from a bed. Right where Anakin was chained down to the bed, restricting the movement of his arms and legs, complete with thick leather straps going across his upper thighs, arms, and chest, further holding him down. Anakin was facing him, a smile on his split lips and a blindfold over his eyes. He looked around the small cell. Noticing the door that was at the front of the room, the bed being the only sort of furniture in the room. That is, unless you counted the chains that were dangling the clone captain from the ceiling as furniture.
"In the flesh and blood." Rex stared at the way his general was restrained, a grimace on his face at the sight of it. It didn't look comfortable in the slightest, he could see dried blood around his flesh wrist, and the straps looked tight enough where the one on his chest was even restricting his breathing.
"…are you okay general?"
"Would you believe me if I said yes?" the smile that was on Anakin's face was disturbingly wide, not fitting the current situation at all. Rex was quick to give his answer.
"not at all."
"Good, you shouldn't, I'm kinda pumped full of drugs right now, not sure what exactly but we'll find out soon enough." Rex blinked in surprise at his generals' words. His face twisting in confusion once he completely processed what his general just said.
"Excuse me General, but did you just say that you're being drugged right now?"
"Yep!" well that would certainly explain the way he was acting. But he still had some questions.
"What did you mean" we'll find out soon"?" Anakin shrugged, or at least he tried too.
"They definitely gave me force blockers, so I can't use the force at the moment. But I don't know which force blocker they gave me. There only two that exist at the moment. One makes me get energized at first but then I feel like death, and the other also gets me energized but it doesn't last very long. Best case scenario, I'll be able to use the force in about ten minutes or so. "Rex pursed his lips at the news and was mildly disturbed at his general's lack of reaction at their current situation.
"And uh, worst-case scenario?"
"Oh, I'll just start coughing up blood and stuff. Oh, and I'll get a pretty nasty fever, can't forget about that one. "
"…shouldn't you be a little bit more worried?" he was seriously worried about his general at the moment. He just stared as Anakin smiled again, his lips cracking more and leaking blood.
"Oh yeah, if I wasn't full of drugs at the moment, I'm pretty sure I would be freaking out. Then again, I don't think I would freak out that much since I would be able to enter a healing trance to help my body process the drugs and stuff. But hey you never know."
"Ok…should I even ask what's going on with all of those…straps?"
"It's not meant to be kinky if that's what you're asking. "he wasn't asking that at all. Not in the slightest. Rex started to look around the room, trying to find a way to escape while maintaining his delightful conversation with his General.
"I was hoping for more of an explanation on why they tied you down like that?"
"Oh, they got mad after I headbutted one of them and spit in the other guy's face. Then I kept on moving around when they were trying to inject me and that really annoyed them so they just tied me down like this. "
"And um," he was really reconsidering his life choices and whether it was worth asking his next question, "What about the blindfold?"
"oh, I annoyed them pretty bad when I wouldn't stop glaring at them."
"…was that before or after they tied you down?"
"Before…oh hey Obi-wan." Rex stopped his struggling, his general catching his attention with their potential savior's name.
"oh, I'm good, drugged out of my mind but at least I can't feel my broken ribs. I'm like 90% sure they gave me the wrong force blocker…wrong way, you're supposed to turn left…don't ask me, I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to be able to do this either but here we are. "Rex just stared as his general started to have a conversation with himself, his face portraying his visible confusion with furrowed eyebrows and all.
"Uh, Sir?"
"Hang on Rex, I'm talking to Obi-wan."
"I see that," he continued watching as Anakin kept on talking to himself, having a one-sided conversation," but I'm a little bit more concerned on how…" Rex kept on trying to get out, stopping only when the door opened and an exasperated Jedi master walked through.
"Anakin, how you always get in these situations is beyond me."
"Listen Obi-wan, if I had the answer to that, this would have stopped a long time ago."
"Hey Rex," Ahsoka got his attention with her voice and made quick work out of the chains that were holding up the clone captain. He landed on his feet with a huge sigh of relief, rubbing at his shoulders with a grimace on his face.
"Thanks, commander, now let's get out of here."
"ehhhh, about that…" Rex saw the way Ahsoka ducked her head bashfully and after a few years of serving with the infamous Anakin Skywalker to know what happened.
"…please don't tell me that you crashed- "
"I crashed the ship." Rex sighed heavily at the news, already trying to plan so they could get a new ship to escape. And from the other side of the room, he heard a fake sniffle.
"she's growing up so fast. "
"Hush Anakin." Rex let his shoulders droop as he sighed again.
"Typical."
