Republic base of Christophisis, some time after the Jedi retreated to care for their wounded (General POV of the Galaxy Inhabitants)
Anakin woke with his whole body hurting and he felt like he was burned alive* (no future event reference) but his mind clicked and he remembered the droid and the battle!
"HEY HEY! stand down general!" Someone yelled at him while placing a hand on his shoulder, which hurt enough to make Anakin grunt in pain "sorry sir…"
Anakin opened his eyes and saw Patches, but what was he doing in the field? "Patches? What are you doing outside the base? I thought you were taking care of the wounded"
"Yes, general and you are one of them. Now you are at the base infirmary so take it easy and recover-"
"I'm back to base?!" Anakin asked, alarmed, trying to get up again, only for Patches to hold him again "urgh. Patches I have to get back to the field, the clones need my help, if I'm not there that droid-"
"Calm down Anakin" said a voice that stopped the Jedi knight "the droid hasn't done anything. In fact, thanks to a more peaceful approach it allowed us to gather you and the others to treat your injuries" Obi-wan continued and even chuckled a little
"...Master? but weren't you recovering?" Anakin asked as he turned to see his master, in a medbay bed resting
"I was, until I heard you and padawan Tano lost the mysterious droid, and knowing you Anakin, I knew it was only a question of time before you decided to negotiate with the droid using your lightsaber" Obi-wan said with a slight frown but soon turned his gaze to the door leading to another room "And good thing I followed you, or else Ahsoka's recover would be impossible right now"
This sent Anakin into a slight panic "What'd you mean?"
"I don't know the details sir, but… Commander Tano was… frozen by the droid" Patches explained a little confused himself
"... Frozen?" Anakin asked, puzzled "frozen how?"
Then the door opened and Captain Rex entered. He was carrying a holo-projector in his hand and probably heard his general's question "She was frozen sir… like this'' Rex pressed the button and a holographic projection started. "The boys and I tried to recreate the whole scene with the holo-projector and here is the result"
It showed Ahsoka fighting the Mysterious Droid and then showed the droid's blaster shot freezing Ahsoka like a statue. This really startled Anakin, as he tried to get out of bed but fell face first to the ground.
"General!" both clones shouted alarmed and grabbed each an arm to get Anakin back to the medbay bed
"You are still recovering general, don't do sudden moves" Patches lectured Anakin, as he was still recovering from his injuries sustained in his confrontation with the droid
"But Ahsoka- she's-"
"ANAKIN!" Obi-wan raised his voice then breathed out a little "Calm down… She's alright now; we got her to the medbay as soon as we arrived here and we placed several heaters and other machinery that could help the unfreezing process. She will be fine"
Hearing Obi-wan's words and sensing his apprentice's life force, Anakin finally relaxed and laid down and relax, but now he was feeling a pain in his head (both figuratively and literally), this might be his second day as a master and he managed to get his butt kicked by a droid and get his padawan frozen by the same droid. When did his luck turn so horribly?
Back with the droid (General POV of the Outsiders)
"Zero" the Red warrior opened his eyes and looked down to find little Alouette hugging her stuffed toy with a sad face "I'm hungry"
Zero smiled a little bit before handing her a small glass filled with a turquoise liquid, an E-Crystal energy tank "don't drink it too fast"
Alouette smiled, thanking him before going off to her corner, this allowed Zero to close his eyes again. For some reason he felt like there was something calling him in his memory banks, but they were damaged when he was forcibly awakened from his slumber… but it won't hurt to try accessing them now. …
"Can you hear me, Rouge? Ciel? Cerveau? anyone?" Jaune tried to contact the resistance members, but so far she only received static
'I guess it will have to wait' Zero thought as he opened his eyes and went to Jaune "no one's responding?"
Jaune saw Zero approaching her and bit her bottom lip out of frustration "No… I tried every radio channel of the resistance and even a few special channels Rouge and I designed, but…" she lowered her head… the anxiety and the fear were gripping her, making her tremble and sob, when a hand squeezed her shoulder
"Don't despair. we will find them" Colbor said with a smile "ain't that right, Mr Legend?"
Zero looked away from the young reploid, not because he didn't want to answer but because he didn't know how to respond. They were in a strange place, surrounded by strange people with even more strange technology. To say that their chances of getting home were slim would be an understatement, he should say this, although a certain blond in pink would probably try and boost their spirits instead.
"We'll figure something out" he said finally looking at both reploids with his stoic face, full of determination "in the meantime, take a power-down to save your energies. I'll keep watch for any more of those white soldiers"
both agreed with him; Jaune was exhausted from trying to contact the others for hours and Colbor despite wanting to help Zero, knew he would only get in the way, so he complied and gathered everyone to sleep.
Zero took his own words to the fullest and went outside the broken building they were now occupying to get a better lookout view of his surroundings.
"..." 'They are watching us…' Zero thought as he eyed a certain building in the distance
Planet Serenno, at the same time the resistance members awoke after the explosion (General POV of the Outsiders)
"Ugh" Pain… it was all over Ciel's body, just what happened? "!" The memories came back in a rush; Zero losing communication with the base, the dark elf's explosion, X and the Resistance!
Raising from the ground Ciel started calling out for her companions "Alouette! Rouge! Jaune! Zero!" Her voice echoes a bit as she finally takes in where she was, it looked like… a plain?
But there were no plains outside Neo Arcadia and she was at the Resistance base- unless she was kidnapped!
Looking everywhere Ciel tried to find Neo Arcadian soldiers or Mutos commanders, but there was nothing around her, nothing but green land, strange plants she never saw in any archives or ever in Neo Arcadia florestal regions. It was all… strange.
"Hey, Você!" Someone called Ciel from behind in a foreign language "vire-se"
Ciel not understanding a word but wary of not looking, turned around slowly, to see a strange skeleton like droid behind her
"Who...who are you?" She asked unsure if it was a friend or an enemy, but looking at the blaster at its hands, it sure was dangerous.
"Espera. Você não fala Básico?!" The droid asked incredulous "urgh… e agora o que eu faço?" Taking a circular object from what seems to be a backpack, the droid pressed a button on it and an 3D image flickered to life, it was a hologram, showing a elderly man "an… senhor, temos uma intrusa no quadrante 5"
"E eu suponho que você a tenha eliminado?" the man asked a bit irritated
"Bom… não, mas-"
"Então por quê me contatou?!" The man asked irked
"Ela… parece uma humana com… roupas estranhas.. e… Ela não fala Básico Galáctico"
The man raised one of his eyebrows unamused "E por quê isso deveria me interessar?"
"bom… o senhor disse pra procurar por coisas fora do comum… e essa humana bate os requisitos…" the droid tried to elaborate while placing its hand (the one holding the gun) behind its head
"Please, if you can understand me, tell me, where am I? Have you found anyone else like me?" Ciel asked, a little desperate, she was lost and confused, but her first priority would always be the reploids of the resistance, they were her family after all.
the man after hearing Ciel's words raised both his eyebrows "mostre-me ela" the droid approached Ciel with the strange hologram-projecting object and when the man turned to see her, his expression changed completely "Traga ela até mim"
"Positivo" The droid deactivated the hologram-projecting object and stored back in its backpack "Muito bem, você ouviu o Conde Dookan, você vem comigo" the droid said while pointing toward somewhere
Ciel wanted to run, but given that this strange skeleton like droid was armed and seemed to know people, she might be capable to make sense of this mess in the place where it wants her to go, so without much option she went with the droid
Count Dooku Residence, a short while later (Swapped G-POV to Galaxy Inhabitants)
(A/N: here's a detail I forgot to explain. in portuguese (my native language), part of count dooku's name can be translated as a swear word or literally as count of ass-, so in my country he is called Conde Dookan, as to not sound like a swear or as the other part which… I left it incomplete on purpose. that's all, thanks)
Count Dooku was … perplexed would suffice, but his surprise was palpable on his face; the Force screamed and sent a wave of pain and horror to all the galaxy and now an out worlder was inside his home speaking a language he couldn't even begin to make sense of.
"I hope you can understand what I am about to say to you, girl" Count dooku looked at the girl sitting in front of him "You are currently in one of many frontline against a cruel and corrupted dictatorial republic which has long made innocent people suffer and no doubt they will come looking for you, as your appearance coincides with this recent event of … a more supernatural origin" Count Dooku spoke while looking fixedly to the girl
"Nani o itte iru?" the girl spoke confused
This made the former Jedi rethink his approach, perhaps his protocol droids would have an easier time translating this language than he. "Bring me one of the protocol droids" his droids answered their usual 'roger, roger' salute before exiting the room. minutes later they were back with a silver colored droid that somewhat resembles a human, only it walked like it's entire body was constrained in certain joints and parts and had a very peculiar human like face
the girl eyed the droid with caution, and confusion from what the count could identify "Try to translate everything this girl say, whatever language she speaks"
"as you wish my lord" the droid answered with a slight bow before turning to the girl "Greetings, I am Protocol unit D4-2IL, you are in the presence of his grace and sovereignty Count Dooku; Now, please inform what planet have you come from and your intentions here on Count's planet" the protocol droid spoke in a different dialect
this protocol droid was created by his family generations ago and followed a very strict and obedient programmation that made the droid always refer to its owners with the most high and respectable degree as well as make the guest understood who they would be talking with
"Anata wa robotto desu ka?" the girl asked a little surprised and started touching the protocol droid "Neoarukadia no rekishi-teki ākaibu de anata no yōna moderu o mita koto ga arimasen"
"Young miss, I request you to unhandle me right at this instant" D4 tried a different dialect
"Un? Kore wa don'na kimyōna gengo desu ka?" the girl did not understood D4 and continued to touch it
the eccentric scene continued for some more time, with the girl trying to talk to the droid and even messing around its body frame looking for something, or maybe she was just messing with the droid
"haven't you found a dialect corresponding to that of the girl?" Count Dooku asked for the umpth time, already impatient
"forgive me my lord, but the dialect this girl speaks is not on my memory bank and I do not believe it is even a dialect that exist- Young miss refrain from touching me" D4 explained before trying yet another language with no success
"Oh! Mō shitte iru!" the girl exclaimed before pressing the hairband she was wearing, suddenly part of the hair band lowered itself and stood in front of the girl's eyes "hmm, Ima watashi ni mi sasete kudasai. Kono furui robotto ni setsuzoku suru ni wa dōsureba yoi desu ka?" then she pressed something on D4 and the droid shut down
Most of the count's personal guards raised their blaster, thinking this was a threat to their master, but the sith raised his hand making them lower their weapons. He wanted to see this…
The girl opened D4's control panel and started tinkering with the components before she pulled something from her pocket: what seemed to be… a connection port without a cable?
she plugged the object inside the protocol droid before closing the panel and reactivating the droid
"oh! what has happened?" D4 asked worried
"Kon'nichiwa, anata wa ima watashi o rikai dekimasu ka?" the girl asked, which made the droid turn fast to her
"Watashi wa ima anata o rikai dekimasu ka?!" D4 spoke surprised, before being startled again "Watashi wa anata no gengo o hanashimasu ka?!"
the guards were surprised by this, even the count was surprised, but mostly he was happy with this… development. taking a step forward the Count was going to get some long overdue answers and most certainly an interesting asset he could use in his favor throughout the war
I'll ask, probably a most dumb, question: does anyone wants to have the traslations of what the clones, galaxy outsiders and whatnot are saying?
again, a dumb question, but if nobody says anything about it, I'll just assume everyone is alright with this.
so, leave a answer in the comment section, if you prefer for a translation of the non-english phrases or if it doesn't bother you at all.
thanks for your time and for reaching the end of this chapter, This is FenixX13, the brazzilian fanfiction warrior and writer and I'm out