Jeela Brebtin opened her eyes when she heard a baby crying. It was night time and she had been sleeping in the caves. Jeela sat up and realized something. She wasn't pregnant. Her eyes widened in shock and confusion.
Brebtin heard the baby keep crying so she got up and walked to the jungle. She stopped walking when she saw Tarkin sitting at a table with a lamp.
"What's happening?" Jeela asked the Grand Moff.
"You know what's happening." The Grand Moff said, not looking at her.
"But I don't understand. Why-"
"He was your responsibility but you gave him away, Jeela. Everyone pays the price now." Tarkin looked at Jeela and she saw that one of his eyes were black while the other was white.
The baby kept crying. Jeela left Tarkin, following the sound of the baby. She saw a crib. Jeela looked at the crib and saw a bunch of blankets in there. Jeela digged through the blankets and saw a pool of blood at the bottom.
She started screaming.
She opened her eyes again and saw Tucker near her. Tucker was trying to calm her down.
"It's alright." Tucker said to her."Hey, hey, you're dreaming. You were sleep-walking, alright?" Tucker noticed her hands were bloody."Jeela, what happened?"
"That must have been a hell of a nightmare." Said Vanto as Nurse Redheart checked on Jeela.
"Who said it was a nightmare?" Jeela asked him.
"I'd say when someone makes their fist so tight, they dig their fingernails a quarter of an inch into their palm, they probably weren't having a good dream. Did you ever sleep-walk before?" Vanto questioned.
"No. I don't think so. How would I know?"
"It'll get back to you." Vanto said."I had a girlfriend once that told me I talked in my sleep."
"What did you say?" Jeela asked.
"I don't know. Whatever it was, she didn't like it. How was your doctor?"
"Good. She was good." Jeela said.
"Was she okay with you flying in a TIE Fighter?" Vanto asked, knowing Jeela was a TIE Fighter pilot since she had the suit on.
Jeela was silent for a moment.
Flashback.
When she learned that she was pregnant, Jeela hated the baby. The father of the child was Teso Broosh.
Jeela was in her room on the Star-Destroyer known as the Pursuer, thinking about the news. It was obvious that she would no longer be able to fly in her TIE Fighter any more thanks to her pregnancy. She didn't even want that child.
She was going to give the baby away when it was born.
On the Island.
Vanto was walking on the beach when he saw Princess Luna standing on the water."Well, this is a first." He said to her."You standing still, middle of the day, doing nothing. Amazing."
"I'm doing something." Said Luna.
"Yeah, what's that?"
"I'm sinking. Water goes out, takes the sand with it and you sink. I used to do it with my teacher, Star Swirl, when I was young." Luna smiled.
"Ah, new plan. You're going to just sink your way right off the Island. Zuud would be proud." Vanto said.
Luna then frowned."She's been gone for almost a week."
"Something tells me she'll be okay." Vanto said.
"So, what are you doing this far from the caves?" Luna asked.
"Bringing water down, bringing fish back. Jeela's going to have the baby soon."
Jeela Brebtin was sitting on a stump in the jungle when Tucker walked over to her."Hey, Jeela." He said."Do you want to talk about your nightmare?"
She looked at him."It wasn't a nightmare."
Jeela was sleeping when she felt a hand cover her mouth. Her eyes opened and she saw her shirt being pushed up her belly. She then saw a metal needle.
Vanto woke up when he heard screaming in the caves."Help me!" Screamed Jeela."Somebody's going to hurt me, please, help me."
"Someone attacked her." Tucker said to Vanto when he ran over to them.
"What?" Vanto said, confused and surprised.
"He held me down." Jeela cried.
"Which way did he go? How long ago?" Asked Applejack.
"I don't know. I couldn't see. Just now, just now, he just ran away." Jeela said.
"What's going on?" Asked Stuhlinger, who had ran over to them as well. Ethan was also there with them.
"We should find out, check the surrounding caves." Said Tucker.
"Hey, wait, wait, hold on, don't go-" Vanto tried to stop him.
"Stuhlinger, let's go." Tucker said before he and Stuhlinger then left.
Vanto looked at Jeela."C'mon, c'mon, let's sit down here, okay?" Vanto turned to Ethan."Go get her some water."
Ethan nodded."Yeah, sure."
"Jeela, look at me. It's okay. You're safe now." Vanto said.
"Did you get a look at him at all?" Applejack asked.
She shook her head."No, it was dark. I couldn't see."
"Where did this happen?" Vanto asked.
"It was here." She said."I-I sleeping and I woke up and he was trying to hurt my baby! He had this...this thing-like...like a needle. And he stabbed me with it." She looked at her belly but saw no mark."He was trying to hurt my baby."
"It's okay." Vanto said to her."It's okay."
A few minutes later, Vanto and Stuhlinger were walking around the jungle, using torches as light."We looked around the entire perimeter." Said Stuhlinger.
"Nobody saw or heard anything?" Vanto questioned.
"Nothing. Everyone was asleep." Stuhlinger said."So, I had an idea. I'm out here looking for some psycho with Scott and Steve, right? And I'm realizing who the hell are Scott and Steve?"
"I'm not following you?" Vanto said.
"Look, if I was a cop and some woman got attacked, we'd canvas, right? Knock on doors, find witnesses. But we don't even have doors."
"Stuhlinger, you're not helping me understand where you're-"
"Look, we don't know who's living here and who's still at the beach. I mean, we don't even know each other." Stuhlinger pointed out.
"Well, what did you do before you woke up here?" Vanto asked him.
"Well, I killed zombies, repaired windows, turn on the power, go across space and time to do stuff for Richtofen and all that," Stuhlinger said while Vanto stared at him confused.
"You...you killed zombies?" He said, not believing him."Also, who's Richtofen?" Vanto questioned, remembering how Stuhlinger had been yelling Richtofen on the day they had woken up on the Island.
"It doesn't matter. The point is, we've got to find out who everyone is."
"You want to start a census." Vanto realized what he was saying.
Stuhlinger nodded."Yeah, a registry, you know. Names, what people and ponies and other creatures look like, who's related to who. I mean, if we start laying down the law, maybe we'll stop attacking each other. It seems like someone's getting punched or stabbed or something every other day here. We've got to find out who did this to her."
Tucker brought a blanket over to Jeela."Are you alright?" He asked. She nodded."Don't worry. You can close your eyes. I'll be here all night. I won't let anyone get to you. I won't leave you, Jeela. I promise."
Jeela then thought of Teso Broosh. When Broosh had learned that he had gotten Jeela pregnant, he had wanted to raise the baby.
But Jeela wanted nothing to do with it.
When it was morning, Stuhlinger was asking questions to everybody."Tarkin, right? Wilhuff Tarkin?" Stuhlinger asked the Grand Moff. He was on the beach with him.
"Is this about your census?" Tarkin asked him.
Stuhlinger nodded."Yeah, you know, I thought It'd be a good idea, you know, to get everyone's name and where they were before they woke up on this Island."
"And who's checking on you?" Tarkin questioned.
"Uh, me?"
"It was a joke."
Stuhlinger nodded."Uh, good one."
"Yep. You already know my name. I was on the Death Star." Tarkin said.
"Death Star? What the hell is that?"
"It was a space station." Tarkin told him.
"A space station?! That's so fucking cool! Hey, if we get off this Island, can I go on it?" Stuhlinger asked.
"I don't think that will be possible." Tarkin shook his head.
"Did you see anyone leave the beach last night?" Tucker asked Luna as he, Luna, and Vanto were walking on the beach.
"People come and go, but I-I don't know." Vanto looked at Luna."What?" She asked.
"I'm not sure anything actually happened." Vanto said.
Tucker looked at him, surprised."Wait, what?"
"Jeela told Applejack and I that this attacker tried to inject her with something. But there was no mark on her stomach. She wakes up two nights in a row screaming. The first time she was sleep-walking." Vanto explained.
"You think she was making this up?" Tucker asked."She was terrified."
"Look, she said that the guy was trying to hurt her baby. Why would someone do that now with all of us sleeping 20 feet away?"
"So, you think she's lying?" Tucker asked him.
He shook his head."No. Pregnant women have extremely lucid-"
"Lucid, right." Tucker interrupted him.
"These are textbook anxiety nightmares," Vanto told him.
"You know everything that's going on with everyone?" Tucker asked.
"Hey." Luna said to Tucker to calm him down. The alicorn then looked at Vanto."So what do we do?"
"She's due in a little more than a week, maybe two, but if she stays stressed out like this or has another panic attack, it could trigger an early labor. And out here, with no instruments, no monitors, no anesthetic-that would not be good." Vanto said.
"It's not all in her head." Tucker said.
Ethan was getting a papaya fruit from a tree when Stuhlinger walked over to him.
"Hey, Lance." Stuhlinger said.
"Sorry?" Ethan looked at him, confused.
"Lance. Your name's Lance, right?"
"Ethan." He corrected.
"Dude, that's right. Lance is the little skinny guy with the glasses and the red hair."
"I can see how you'd confuse us." Ethan smiled.
"Sorry, dude. Lots of names and faces. It's pretty pathetic, huh? You'd think after a couple of weeks on the Island with the same people, we'd all know each other."
"Yeah, you're right. You would think so." Ethan agreed.
"So, we're this list, you know, survivors, names, home addresses, stuff like that." Stuhlinger said.
"Okay, well, you already have my name..."
"Not Lance." Said Stuhlinger.
Ethan nodded."Definitely not."
"Last name?"
"Rom."
"Rom. R-O-M?" Stuhlinger asked, trying to spell it on a piece of paper. He found the piece in one of the crates from the starship.
"That's right."
"Great, where are you from, Ethan Rom?"
"Ontario...that's in Canada, right?" Stuhlinger asked. Ethan nodded. Stuhlinger was going to ask him if he had come from his world when he looked at him for a second. He slowly realized that he had not seen this man on the beach on the first day they had woken up on the Island.
"Are you alright?" Ethan asked, noticing his silence.
"Uh...yeah." Stuhlinger nodded."Thanks for your time, dude"
"Hey, what's this for?" Ethan asked him.
"Oh, It's nothing. It's just, uh, you know, I thought I'd be a good idea." He said.
Vanto walked over to Jeela with a bottle of medication. The pregnant woman was sitting on a rock."Jeela?" He said.
Jeela looked at him."Did you find him?"
He shook his head."Um, no."
"Well, what if he comes back?" Jeela asked.
"Jeela, this situation we're in-the starship crashing, that no one's coming, this place-it-it can kind of mess with your head a little and maybe make you see things that aren't actually there. Now, I know it feels very real." Said Vanto.
"I-I don't understand..."
"Your baby's coming, soon. And I can't even imagine how scary that must be for you, but the more upset you are, the more dangerous it is for you and your baby. So, I want you to take these." He showed the bottle.
"What are they?"
"It's a sedative, very mild. Commonly used in situations like yours." Vanto said. He had learned this stuff in his time with the Chiss."It won't harm the baby, I promise."
"You don't believe me." Said Jeela
"Jeela." Vanto said.
"You think I'm making this up? I get attacked and you want to give me sleeping pills?" She said angrily.
"They're not sleeping p-look, It's a very mild sedative."
Jeela stood up."I'm leaving."
"What? No. Jeela. Jeela." Vanto tried to stop her as she grabbed her stuff.
"I was safer at the beach. It's not safer here."
"Don't do this, Jeela. You need to think about the baby." Vanto said.
"Don't talk to me about the baby." Jeela said.
Vanto grabbed her arm."Please."
"Let go me." She said, pulling her arm away from him.
Tucker was walking over to them."Are you okay?" He asked her before she left the caves. He looked at Vanto."What did you say to her?"
Jeela was walking through the jungle when she saw Tucker."Hi. Where are you going?" He asked.
"Back to the beach." She said.
"What happened? Did Vanto-"
"Vanto tried to dope me. He thinks I'm making all this up, that none of it really happened."
"Right. So, to prove your sanity, you go tromping through the jungle alone. Well done."
Jeela looked at him."I'm not crazy, Tucker."
Cersei Lannister looked at Stuhlinger, who had asked her a few questions. She was grabbing some stuff since she and her brother were going to the caves.
"I am Cersei of House Lannister. My father was Hand of the King. I was queen once." She said. She looked at her brother."And this is my brother, Jaime Lannister. He's a knight."
"Wait, you're a queen and you're a knight?" He looked at both of them. They nodded."This just keeps getting weirder and weirder." Stuhlinger muttered.
"Why are you asking us questions?" Jaime asked the slightly overweight man.
"You're like the 20th person to ask me that. Why is everyone so uptight about answering a few questions?" Said Stuhlinger.
"But why are you asking?" Jaime questioned.
"Well, we just had a little incident in the valley last night."
"An incident?" Cersei said.
"Yeah, Jeela, the pregnant girl, you know her, she, uh, kind of got attacked " Stuhlinger said.
"What?" Said Cersei.
"Is she okay?" Asked Jaime.
"Yeah, she's a little shook up, but-"
"I will not be moving to those rape caves!" Cersei said, dropping her stuff.
"Hey, on the day we woke up on this Island, do you guys remember seeing Ethan?" Stuhlinger asked.
Jaime thought for a moment."No. Perhaps he woke up in the jungle."
"Please let me carry your bag." Said Tucker.
"I'm fine." Said Jeela.
"I know you're fine, but I can still carry your bag."
"Why did you come after me?" Jeela asked.
"Well, it's probably because I like you." Jeela looked at him after he said that."What?"
"You don't like me, Tucker, okay? You just want to rescue me because-because of this." She referred to her belly."I'm fine, okay. I don't need rescuing. I don't need-"
Jeela stopped talking. She felt a contraction pain.
"Whoa, Jeela. What is it? What, Jeela, what-what is it?" Tucker asked.
"I'm having a contraction." She groaned. She sat down on a rock.
"Is that another one?" Tucker asked.
She nodded."Yeah."
"Okay, we need to time contractions...I think." Tucker said, unsure.
"Tucker." She said.
"You just need to calm down, alright. Big deep breaths." Tucker took a deep breath and got dizzy.
"Tucker, I need you to get Nurse Redheart." Jeela said.
"What?" Said Tucker.
"I'll be alright." She said.
"I'm not leaving you alone."
"Tucker, please just go."
"I can deliver a baby. I can do this. This must happen all the time." Said Tucker.
"Tucker, you don't know how to deliver a-"
"Just listen to me. I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I might not know what I'm doing but I'll figure it out. If I can kick drugs, I can deliver a baby." Jeela stared at him, surprised."Let me explain. I'm a drug addict. I was a drug addict. I'm clean now."
"Get Redheart!" She yelled.
Tucker nodded."Right." He then ran into the jungle.
Tucker stopped running when he saw someone getting firewood."What's your name?" He asked.
"Ethan." He said.
"Ethan..." Tucker tried to catch his breath.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"You need to go the caves. Get Redheart. Tell her that Jeela..."
"Jeela. Is she okay?" Ethan asked, concerned.
"She's having the baby. Go fast, okay? I'll be with her on the path over there." He pointed."Go." Tucker told Ethan before he ran back to Jeela."Jeela?"
"I'm here." She said.
"Jeela. Okay, Vanto's coming. How are you doing?" He asked.
"It hurts." She groaned.
"Okay, just take my hand. Squeeze. Okay, breathe. Inhale, exhale. Good, just breathe. Inhale, okay, good." Tucker said.
The two were there for minutes when Jeela started to calm down."Do you fee another one coming?" He asked.
"I think so." She said.
"Where the hell is Redheart?" Tucker wondered aloud.
Jeela slowly got up."You know, I think-I think I'm alright."
"The contractions?" Tucker asked.
"Maybe that was the last one? Please let that be the last one."
"Vanto said that stress can cause false labor. Are you sure you're alright?" He asked.
"No pain." She said.
"Good. I told you I'd take care of you." Tucker said.
Jeela smiled at him, grateful."Thanks, Tucker."
"You're welcome. Do you think you can make it back to the caves?" He asked her."I won't let anything happened to you."
"Okay, let's go."
Vanto was talking to Luna when he noticed a familiar face limping into the caves."Zuud?" He said, surprised.
"Listen to me." She said. She nearly fell down. Vanto went to help her and she laid Zuud on the ground."I found her, the French woman."
Vanto looked at Luna."I need some water." He looked back at Zuud."What happened?"
"The woman on the Island. I had to come back. I had to come back." Said Zuud. She looked at him."We're not alone."
As Jeela and Tucker were walking through the jungle, Jeela stopped and gasped.
"Are you okay?" Tucker asked.
She nodded."Yeah, yeah. Look, he just kicked. Here." She put Tucker's hand on her stomach.
Stuhlinger ran into the caves and ran to Vanto.
"Vanto. We got a problem. I asked some people and ponies and...I think Ethan was here before us." Stuhlinger told him.
"Hello there." Said Ethan. Tucker and Jeela turned to look at him.
"Ethan, where's Redheart?" Tucker asked him
Ethan just stared at them.