"Where's Redheart?" Tarkin asked. It was dark out while everybody was at the caves. Tarkin and Jaime had been out in the jungle and had found Jeela Brebtin. The Grand Moff was carrying her."We need the nurse."
Vanto woke up and saw them, as did Nurse Redheart.
"What happened?" Asked Tucker, who had also woken up and saw Jeela.
"Is she alive?" Asked Applejack.
"Is she alright?" Tucker asked worriedly.
Vanto then carried Jeela."Where did you find her?" Vanto asked Tarkin.
"About a mile north. We were looking for some boar." Tarkin said.
We're you? Vanto wondered but focused on Jeela."Was she conscious?"
"She collapsed in my arms." Tarkin told him.
"Did she say anything?" Asked Tucker.
"Is she injured?" Stuhlinger asked.
"Is she alright?" Asked Applebloom.
"Everybody needs to back off, okay? Just give her some air." Said Nurse Redheart, who went to check on Jeela."Jeela, can you hear me? Wake up now. Hey, Jeela, Jeela. Wake up now." Jeela opened her eyes."Hey." Nurse Redheart said to her.
Jeela stared at them and shock and screamed. The pregnant woman tried to run away.
"Jeela?" Said Vanto, confused."It's okay. It's okay."
"Jeela. You're safe." Tucker assured her.
"Who are you?!" Jeela screamed."Who are you?! Who are you people?!"
"And ponies." Said Applebloom, causing some people to glare at her for ruining a dramatic scene.
After she calmed down, Vanto, Tarkin, and Tucker talked to Jeela.
"I don't understand. I don't know any Ethan. I don't remember. I don't remember any of you. I don't remember any of this." Jeela said.
"What do you remember?" Tucker asked.
Jeela was silent for a moment as she tried to remember."Um, I was on a Star-Destroyer. I also remember seeing a bright light."
"Well, Jeela...we all saw a bright light and we woke up on this Island." Vanto said."That was almost a month ago."
Jeela was shocked by this."No, I'm-I'm due."
"Your baby's fine." Vanto assured her."He's kicking, everything's normal. Okay."
Jeela calmed down."Well, if it's been almost a month then why hasn't somebody come to get us?" She asked.
Vanto, Tarkin, and Tucker looked at each other, not knowing what to say to her.
Tarkin went away to think about Jeela."Do you think she escaped?" Jaime Lannister asked him.
"You were right beside me, Jaime. You know as much as I do." Tarkin said.
"Well, where did she come from? I mean, we were out pretty deep. Nothing's out there. She didn't say anything at all about Ethan?"
"Apparently, she doesn't even remember Ethan."
"The man pretends to be one of us, he drags her through the jungle for almost two weeks, and she doesn't remember him?" Jaime said, confused.
"Apparently." Tarkin said.
"You think he's around?" Jaime wondered.
"I hope not," Tarkin said.
"This is where you sleep," Tucker said to Jeela while they were at the caves. He hoped Jeela would remember her time on this Island soon."When Ethan took you away, he took me, too. The others came after us. They got me back, but you-you were gone."
"Who is Ethan?" Jeela asked.
"Ethan's the bad guy." Tucker explained.
"So, we were together when..."
Tucker nodded, knowing what she was talking about."Yeah."
"Why did he leave you?" Jeela asked him.
"Uh...I'll tell you in the morning."
"I won't be sleeping," Jeela said, still trying to process this.
"Well, I'll be with you," Tucker said.
"We're friends?" She asked, surprised.
"Yeah, we're friends," Tucker said.
In the morning, Vanto, Tarkin, Redheart, and Tucker told Zuud, who was still at the beach, about Jeela's return. The camp at the beach was still being made.
"The girl is pregnant. Very pregnant." Zuud said, suspicious about this."Are we supposed to believe that she escaped from him?"
"What do you mean?" Asked Tucker.
"Ethan infiltrated us. Whoever he is and wherever he comes from, he's intelligent. Who's to say he didn't even send Jeela?" Said Zuud.
"Are you fucking crazy, dude?!" Tucker exclaimed.
"Tucker, calm down," Vanto said. He then looked at Zuud."That's a stretch, Zuud."
"Then tell me," Zuud looked at Nurse Redheart."How many times have you diagnosed actual amnesia and such a selective brand of it?" She asked the mare.
"Well, it's rare." Redheart admitted."But she's been through major trauma. It is possible that her memory reset to when we woke up on the Island."
"And the chances of that memory returning?" Tarkin asked.
"I don't know." Said Redheart.
"I think I'm gonna go see Jeela." Tucker said, leaving them.
Tucker was walking in the jungle with Doctor Whooves, who was bringing some fish back to the caves."Why do you wear that armor?" Whooves asked.
"Oh, I'm a soldier." Tucker said.
Suddenly, they heard something behind them."What was that?" Tucker asked.
A rock then hit Whooves right on the head, knocking him out. Tucker quickly grabbed the hilt of his energy weapon sword but didn't activate it.
The armored soldier then saw him. Ethan.
"Tucker," Ethan said."I want her back."
"What? I-"
"I want you to bring her back."
Tucker was surprised by what he said."What did you do to her?!" He activated the energy weapon."What did you do?!"
Tucker attacked him with the sword but Ethan dodged the attack and grabbed Tucker by the neck and pushed him to a tree.
"You bring her here," Ethan said."If you don't, I'm going to kill one of them. And then, if you don't bring her back before sundown tomorrow, I'll kill another, and another, and another. One every day." He threatened."And Tucker. I'll kill you last."
Ethan then left.
Tucker went back to the beach, carrying Whooves, and told them about what Ethan said.
"What do we do?" Asked Redheart.
"What do we do?" Tucker asked when Redheart said that."We go out and we fucking kill him!"
"Calm down, Tucker." Said Tarkin."We don't want the others to get upset and-"
"Forget the others. He's out there right now, Tarkin." Tucker told him.
"I think he's right." Vanto agreed with Tucker."The man threatens to kill one of us unless we bring him Jeela, and what, we just wait for that to happen? We tracked him once before, we can track him again."
"You both seem to have forgotten how that turned out." Tarkin looked at Vanto."He bested you physically." He turned to Tucker."He hung you from a tree. Running into the jungle unarmed is not going to get the job done."
"So what does get it done?" Tucker asked him.
"We circle the wagons, tell a select few about the threat. We post some sentries here and back at the caves." Tarkin said.
"Tell a select few? He does what he says he's going to do and that blood's on our hands." Vanto said.
Tarkin stared at him, his face plain. He then nodded."Okay, Vanto, we tell everyone. But, you want to protect them, you need to start thinking defense."
"We move everybody off the beach, back up into the caves," Vanto said.
"What if Ethan isn't alone?" Tarkin asked."What if he delivered his threat so that we would gather like sheep to the slaughter in a confined space where they can roll in and take us all in one fell swoop."
Vanto thought about this. Maybe Tarkin's plan would work. Vanto also reminded himself that he was in the presence of a Grand Moff."Okay. You have a plan. What is it?"
"Are you okay?" Derpy asked Whooves, who was still healing from the rock that had been thrown at him.
"Yeah, I'll be alright," Whooves assured the mare.
"The others are avoiding me," Jeela said to Tucker when he had returned to the caves.
Tucker looked at her."What do you mean?"
"No one will talk to me. You know, It just feels like something is going on." Jeela said.
"Do you remember anything?"
Jeela shook her head."You're sure there's nothing going on?"
Tucker nodded."Absolutely."
"Okay." Said Jeela.
Vanto was sharpening a knife when he saw Luna come over to him. The Princess was using her magic to carry a piece of fruit."You look hungry." She said, giving him the fruit.
"Thanks." Vanto smiled at her.
"Tarkin told us what happened." Luna said."Why do you think he wants her back?"
Vanto shrugged."I don't know."
"Somnambula told me that the Weasel and Handsome have some guns," Luna told him. Vanto already knew this."I don't know how to use them but-"
The former Imperial quickly shook his head."No. I hand them out, someone hears something out in the jungle and gets scared, the chances of us shooting each other are much higher than of us shooting him."
"We're beyond sharpening knives here, Vanto." Luna said.
"I am not putting guns in untrained hands," Vanto told her.
"Trip it!" Tarkin ordered.
The Grand Moff, Jaime, and Zuud had been trying to make a trip wire in the jungle.
A bag of metal then quickly fell down.
"Very good, sir." Zuud said to Tarkin."I have some men for some sentry duty. They're not Stormtroopers..."
"But the Empire is not here, Lieutenant Zuud." Tarkin said."We will have to use what we have."
Vanto and Tucker were at the caves talking about Jeela.
"Maybe we should move her." Said Tucker.
"She's safer here." Said Vanto.
"What about the mountain? There could be another cave?" Tucker asked.
"She's safer here, Tucker."
"Nobody's safe!" Tucker yelled.
"Hey," Vanto said, trying to calm him down.
"It's my fault he took her. I was responsible." Tucker said."I should have taken care of her. I should..."
"Tucker, nothing's going to happen to her, okay?" Vanto said to him.
Tucker slowly nodded."Yeah, okay."
Tarkin, Zuud, and Jaime were on sentry duty. As Tarkin and Zuud looked around the jungle, Jaime was tired. Very tired.
He was about to fall asleep when he heard the garbage fall. Jaime quickly ran after it.
Jaime tripped and fell to the ground. He then saw who had triggered the trap. It was the dog, Winona.
Tarkin and Zuud ran over to him. They relaxed but then heard a scream from the beach. They ran to the beach and saw a body in the sand.
"What happened?" Jaime asked.
"Is he alive?" Zuud questioned, looking at the corpse."How did he get past us?"
Stuhlinger, Luna, and Tucker watched this."I thought those guys had a full-on perimeter set up?" Said Stuhlinger.
"Tarkin said it didn't matter. He came in from the water." Luna said.
"Are you sure it wasn't an accident? I mean, maybe the guy just drowned or something." Stuhlinger said.
"His neck was broken, both his arms, all the bones in his fingers," Luna said sadly.
"Oh..." The slightly overweight man said.
"So, Steve's dead." Said Valance.
"Uh, I think that was Scott." Stuhlinger said.
Later, they made a burial mound for Scott.
"Scott Jackson...well, I didn't really know him and know what world he came from...hopefully it wasn't a world full of zombies and ghosts." Stuhlinger said, remembering the undead and the ghosts in the old western town.
Everybody looked at him confused at what he meant.
Everybody at the caves was staring at Jeela Brebtin.
Jeela looked at a woman with blonde hair and green eyes. She walked over to her."Hi. Why is everyone staring at me?" She asked her.
"I'm not staring at you." The woman said.
"What's your name?" Jeela asked.
"Cersei."
"Cersei, you're staring."
"You mean nobody's told you?" Cersei asked, surprised.
"Told me what?"
Tucker was walking through the jungle when Jeela walked over to him."Why?" She asked angrily."Why did you lie to me?!"
"Okay, look..." Tucker tried to explain.
"Yeah, what else didn't you tell me?" Jeela questioned.
"I just thought with your memory, there wasn't anything you could do," Tucker said.
"Nothing I could do? Why would you keep me in the dark, Tucker?" She asked."I'm already in the dark."
"I'm sorry. I just wanted to take care of you." Said Tucker.
"I can take care of myself." Jeela said before she left him.
Tarkin, sharpening a spear with his knife, saw Vanto walking over to him.
"Hello, Vanto." Tarkin said.
"Hi. Do you want to take walk?" Vanto asked. Tarkin nodded and they walked."What do you think happens after the sun sets tonight?" Vanto asked.
"He'll come back and kill us one by one." Tarkin said."We are on Ethan's turf. To him, we are nothing. We have no advantage."
"What if I told you we did?" Vanto asked."The Weasel and Handsome have guns. Some pistols. We can use them against Ethan."
"Fine, you can take the guns." Billy Handsome said to Vanto after they talked to him."But I'm coming with you guys." He brought out his own M1911.
"I already have my own weapon." Zuud said, holding her blaster pistol.
Tarkin grabbed an M1911 pistol and so did Vanto.
"Can I have one?" Stuhlinger asked.
"Do you know how to use it?" Vanto asked him.
Stuhlinger grabbed the gun, released the magazine, put it back in, and cocked the pistol. Everyone stared at him, surprised.
"You...you know how to use guns?" Vanto asked, staring at him.
"Well, I don't have a license to use guns...which makes them even more fun to use them. But my buddy Russman worked for Broken Arrow. He taught me how to use guns." Stuhlinger said.
"What the fuck's Broken Arrow?" Handsome asked.
"What are you guys doing?" Tucker asked. Vanto explained their plan to stop Ethan."Are you insane?" Tucker asked when Vanto was done explaining.
"It's the best chance we have, Tucker." The former Imperial said.
"No way!"
"If you want to capture Ethan, we have to ensnare him. And the only way we do that is by giving him what he wants."
"You have no idea what you're talking about. This guy, he will kill all of you. You can't protect her..."
"I'll do it." Said Jeela, who walked over to them.
"They want to use you as bait," Tucker said to her.
"I don't remember Ethan. I don't remember what he did to me." She said."But if I can help stop him from hurting anyone else, I have to do that."
"I'm coming with you guys," Tucker said when he realized he couldn't convince her not to do this.
"We don't have another gun..."
Tucker then showed him his energy sword.
Valance had decided to help them. He had finally fixed his palm blaster. They were now going over the plan.
"He'll be surrounded at 5 points." Said Zuud."Everyone will be in visual contact with you. Make sure you stay in the area I've shown you. And remember, guns are a measure of the last resort. We want him alive."
It rained as they waited. Stuhlinger and Valance were together, watching Jeela.
Valance noticed Stuhlinger touch a tree next to them."Uh...what are you doing?" Valance asked as Stuhlinger rubbed the tree.
"Just...Just making sure this tree is real." Stuhlinger said, remembering the last tree he had touched turned into dust.
Jeela stood there, unsure about this.
She then saw him. She saw Ethan.
Jeela remembered Ethan a little now. She also remembered getting needles in her stomach.
She ran and Ethan followed.
Vanto quickly got out of his hiding place and ran after Ethan. After catching up, he tackled the man and punched him.
"Hold your fire!" Tarkin asked as he and the other ran over to them.
Vanto got off him."So, who the fuck is this guy?" Billy Handsome asked. Ethan got on his knees and looked at them in the rain.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Six bullets hit Ethan in the chest. He fell. Ethan was now dead.
Everybody turned to Tucker, who had taken Stuhlinger's pistol and shot Ethan.
I shot him. Tucker thought. It had stopped raining. He was now sitting on the sand at the beach.
Vanto walked over to the armored soldier."Why did you do it, Tucker?" Vanto asked.
He looked at the former Imperial."Because he deserved to die."
"But he could have told us where he came from, what he wanted with Jeela, why he-"
"Do you really think he would have told us anything, Vanto?" Tucker asked."I wasn't going to let that animal anywhere near her again. Ever."
Later, Tucker returned to the caves when it became night. He was alone when he saw Jeela walk over to him.
"I remember peanut butter." She said."Why do I remember peanut butter?"
"It was imaginary peanut butter, actually," Tucker said, glad her memory was coming back.
Jeela smiled but then frowned."I don't know what happened to me. I'm scared. I want to trust you." She said."Goodnight, Tucker."
Under his helmet, Tucker smiled."Goodnight, Jeela."
