One evening on Coruscant a shock trooper was heading to Commander Fox's office. He was on his way to put his massif up when he had been called and Commander Fox didn't sound happy. He entered his office.
"You wanted to see me" he said.
"Explain this to me" Fox showed him a holovideo of him releasing his massif in a public area and him pulling out his blaster in a crowded area.
"I was simply doing my job" he said.
"You know those actions you took are against the rules, you could have hurt an innocent civilian" Fox said.
"Yea, but I didn't" he said.
"Spicy, this is the third time this week I've had to reprimand you for reckless behavior, I'm afraid I'm going to have to suspend you for awhile" Fox said.
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"What! This is ridiculous, what am I supposed to do in the meantime?" Spicy argued.
"Well I spoke to the other commanders and Stone could use some help in the Diplomatic Service, so you'll be guarding senators until you can get your act straight" Fox said.
"Diplomatic Service!? No anything but that, I promise no more reckless behavior, heck I'll even take maintenance duty, please don't make me be around those snotty self righteous fools" Spicy begged.
"Too bad, maybe next time you'll consider minding the rules, now go" Fox said.
"Can I atleast take Nyla with me?" Spicy asked.
"Since you're on probation, you may only take Nyla with you for a limited amount of time" Fox said.
"But I'm the only one who can handle her, what is going to happen to her the times I can't take her with me? how will she get her exercise?" Spicy asked.
"Well I guess she will sit in her cage and wonder why her handler is so kriffing hard headed now won't she, now run along Stone is waiting for you" Fox waved his hand dismissively. Spicy muttered something under his breath.
"What was that trooper? Maybe you'd like to be in the Diplomatic Service for the rest of the year?" Fox glared at him.
"I said I'm on my way right now, wouldn't want to keep Commander Stone waiting" Spicy laughed nervously.
"That's what I thought" Fox went back to his holopad.
Spicy grumbled angrily the whole way to Commander Stone's office. He took a moment to get his attitude in check before entering Stone's office.
"Spicy reporting for duty" he said.
"Ah good, we have a new senator arriving today from Moonglen, you will be her guide for awhile" Stone said.
"Um, how long is awhile?"" he asked.
"Until Fox decides it's over and you can return to your normal duties" Stone said.
"Lucky me" he muttered.
"That attitude right there is why you are in trouble now" Stone reminded him sharply.
"Sorry…" he mumbled.
He was waiting in the spaceport for this senator, he was really ready to get this farce over with. He was wasting his time here when he could be patrolling the streets and reducing crime. Finally a ship landed and off walked a young woman dressed to the nines.
"Oh force why me" he rolled his eyes.
"Greetings, are you the guard I was told about?" she asked.
"Yes, my name is Spicy, not let's be on our way" he tapped his foot impatiently.
"Good to meet you Spicy, I'm Stella Moonsong" she dipped her head in a greeting.
"Ok first of all I didn't ask, second of all the less you talk the better let's just get you where you're going so I can go home" Spicy said coldly.
"Oh ok." she looked hurt and taken aback by his meanness. He rolled his eyes, typical senator nothing but a bunch of crybabies.
They walked in awkward silence to the senator tower. He showed her to her apartment.
"Uh..thanks for the escort, I'll uh see you tomorrow" Stella shifted her weight from one foot to the other uncomfortably.
"Yea, whatever" he left without another word. A while later he was ranting at his brothers at Seventy Nine's.
"I can't believe this, I just had the worst day imaginable, Commander Box is making me serve in the Diplomatic Service, I had to show a phony senator to her apartment like she's so stupid she can't find her way to the senator tower" Spicy ranted angrily before he took a sip of his drink. His brothers laughed at him.
"It's not that bad brother, you get to meet tons of new people" one of his brothers said.
"You are just saying that because you are assigned to the Diplomatic Service, well we do real work over at the military base" Spicy said.
"Hey, we do real work too!" his brother was very offended.
"Keep your armor on I was just joking" Spicy blew him off.
"Why are you such a kriffing jerk, it's not our fault that you misbehaved and got put on Diplomatic duties for awhile, also I'm telling Fox that you called him Box and you'll be in even more trouble" his brother glared at him.
"Ok brother I'm sorry, there's no need to bring this to Fox" Spicy said.
Later that night he was in the barracks getting ready for bed.
"Surely the Diplomatic service isn't that hard" his brother said.
"It's not that it's hard, it's just tedious and pointless, I mean doesn't the senator tower have their own security force, so why must we do it" Spicy ranted.
"Well with the war going on, they've had to ask us to help" his brother said.
"Well whatever the reason it's stupid" Spicy said as he laid on his bunk.
The next morning he was waiting outside Senator Moonsong's apartment getting angrier with each passing minute. He tapped his foot impatiently she was supposed be out already so he could take her to a stupid meeting with other stupid senators to talk about stupid things it was all so STUPID. Finally just when he was sure he would grow old and die she emerged from her apartment she was decked out, she had a fancy purple dress on with matching jewelry all of it moon themed. He rolled his eyes.
"(Who is she trying to impress)" he thought.
"Sorry I'm late! I got held up by a holocall from my homeworld" she apologized.
"Once again didn't ask, now let's go" he said. He walked her to the dinning hall where the meeting would be held.
"Don't worry this won't be long" she said before leaving.
He glared at her back. Maybe if senators focused on ending the war as much as they did looking pretty they might get somewhere. He leaned up against the wall and crossed his arms. He watched people come and go, he groaned, this job was insufferably boring. After a while she came out.
"It's about time, are you going home now?" Spicy sounded angry and impatient as usual. She decided she'd make him pay for his rude behavior
"Nope, actually I decided I want to do some shopping, there's this very important dinner coming up and I need to buy a new dress for it" she said.
"Are you serious!?" Spicy sounded very angry.
"Oh quite, you know since I don't know my way around Coruscant you'll have to show me around, yes that's a great idea you can show me around and I can do some shopping doesn't that sound perfect" she squealed excitedly.
"Oh it sounds awesome, I can't think of anything else I'd rather be doing" his voice was dripping with sarcasm.
"Great, let's go!" she said.
He begrudgingly took her to the shopping district. He was sitting on a bench outside the store while she was inside shopping. He noticed some ladies giggling and glancing at him. One of them, a cat-like lady, broke away from her friends and was heading towards him. She lifted her tail as she approached a clear sign that this wasn't going to be a friendly chat.
"Hey trooper, what brings you here" she said flirtatiously.
"It depends, who's asking?" he gave her a wink. This seemed to excite her as her tail quivered.
"Are you here with anyone?" she purred.
"Nobody important" he said. She sat next to him and curled her tail around his back.
"Well maybe we should get out of here, go somewhere else" she nuzzled him whilst purring like mad.
"Like where" he whispered in her fuzzy ear.
"Well that was fun" Stella came out with her hands full of shopping bags. She stopped in her tracts when she saw Spicy on the bench.
"Have you actually been watching? Or have you been busy flirting with her" she asked. A growl rose in her throat. She quickly slapped her hand over her mouth, she was redder than his armor.
"Um, did you just growl at me?" the cat lady asked.
"What! No of course not I just burped" Stella hastily answered. Then it happened again.
"Ok you're really starting to freak me out, why are you growling like that? You sound like an animal" Spicy asked.
"I-I'm sorry I can't make it stop I'm not meaning to, I don't know why it's happening" Stella looked mortified.
"You lied! You said you weren't with anyone but you are, ugh you men are all the same" cat lady stormed off.
"Wait! We're not together! I'm bound by duty to be with her, come back!, thanks a lot miss growly you scared her off" Spicy glared at her and huffed angrily.
"I'm sorry, it was unintentional" Stella looked ashamed as she played with the moon charms in her hair. He just walked off with her sulking behind him.
"Are you hungry? Do you maybe want to get something to eat?" Stella asked.
"Eat with you? Never, what are you going to growl at me too" He was clearly still salty about her chasing away his good time.
"You can take me home now" she decided to let him cool off.
He led her back to the senator tower. They parted ways without a word. He stomped angrily into the barracks and threw his armor off. His helmet narrowly missed his brother who was cleaning his blaster.
"Hey! Watch it!" he glared at him.
"Sorry brother it's that senator, she's driving me crazy!" Spicy flopped down on his bunk. Another one of his brothers came over.
"You know that senator sure does rile you up" he smirked at him.
"Oh no no no no no no, don't even think it, I will never have any feeling besides rage for that senator, like today while I was waiting for her to finish shopping there was this chick who was totally into me, until senator Moonsong came over growling, she literally growled! Who does that! I've never seen any human act that way! I'm telling you I can't take this anymore! Tomorrow I'm going to beg Commander Stone to assign someone else to her" Spicy raved angrily.
"I've never heard of growling humans before either" his brother said.
"Well hopefully she won't be my problem anymore come tomorrow" Spicy said.
