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The shackles around her legs and wrists jingled as she walked down the cold corridors of an Imperial Star Destroyer. The red lights of the detention block softly glowing around her as she was marched to back to an interrogation room. Her eyes glanced around her as she kept her head ducked down. She had to get out of here, she wasn't sure she would make it through anymore torture.

She knew that her ship was hiding on the planet below the Star Destroyer. That was the problem. She wasn't in the atmosphere. Her limp was real and her back screamed in agony but she would see this done.

She had been keeping track of where they had been taking her and where they had been passing by. So she waited. She waited until the were just down the hall from an equipment room. She then made her move.

She fake stumbled into one of the stormtroopers causing him to stumble. She then spun around and knocked the other stormtrooper's leg out from underneath him sending him crashing to the ground with a thud. Acting quick she turned around and wrapped her chained wrists around the others neck before pulling as hard as she could. The sound of the troopers neck breaking was heard and she stopped. She let him fall backwards and she quickly moved out of the way. She snatched his blaster from where the stormtrooper had dropped it. She then hit then slammed the butt of the blaster into the others helmet knocking him out.

She quickly grabbed the keys from the belt of the trooper whose neck she had broken. She immediately set herself free of her cuffs before grabbing the blaster and limping her way down the hall.

She paused in front of a door and opened it. Limping inside she realized that it wasn't an equipment room but an armory. She grinned to herself as she as spotted her gear in a corner. She dashed over to it and carefully put on her armor. It was a bunch of old armor but it was hers. She figured from the one time she broke into Kamino looking for anything and everything that it wouldn't hurt to put some of the old Phase 2 clone trooper armor to use. She had the greaves, gauntlets and a helmet with a range finder on it. The other pieces were made out the extra chest plate that ARC troopers had. She had heavily modified them. Then ran up from her abdomen in separate pieces in the shape of abs before running up to a total of four chest plates. It allowed her protection while not hindering her movement, something that she greatly appreciated.

She put her helmet on before searching for her pack. It didn't take her long. It was laying on top of some crates. She quickly check the false bottom in it. If they had found that and what was hidden in it, she would have been tortured to death for sure. If not out right executed. She opened it and sighed in relief. It was still there.

Shutting the hidden compartment she slung the bag over her shoulder. She paused before grabbing a few more ammo clips and a couple more of the E-11 blasters. She placed all of them inside her pack before deciding it would be easier on her wounds to just go down the halls to the hanger. She wasn't sure how bad they were but she did know that they were bad.

She began to creep back out of the armory and into the halls of the Star Destroyer. Her ship was on the planet surface and her ever loyal Astromech with it. She knew that her Co-Pilot was on board. She did know how she knew but she just did. She ran down the halls heading towards the hanger when she heard voices behind her. She glanced behind her just as a patrol came around the corner.

No one moved.

She reacted first.

She opened fire on them with her stolen blaster, killing two of the stormtroopers and got the third before he could get into cover. She didn't have time fight this out. She had to get to the hanger before they could lock down the ship.

So she sprinted around the corner and down the corridor. She ran as fast as she could through the ship. She reached the door leading to the hanger and opened it. As soon as it opened enough she ran through it just as the alarms began to blare. She spotted troopers in the hangar turn towards her in surprise just as she opened fire on them making them scatter for cover. But not before she killed at least five of them. She ran towards a shuttle sitting in the hanger. She continued to fire on the stormtroopers as made her way up the ramp. She turned around with our warning and blasted the door controls on the door that she came through before shooting at the troopers. She spotted a wounded stormtrooper on the ground and killed him before turning her aim back onto the troopers who had paused at what she had done. She killed them and shut the ramp of the shuttle before running up to the cockpit of the shuttle.

She set to starting it up and immediately flew it out of the hanger just as the blast door started to come down. She sighed in relief as she focused on flying down to the planet surface.

The shuttle suddenly rocked violently from a direct hit by the Star Destroyer. "Blast it!" She cursed as she scrambled to raise the shields on the shuttle. It rocked again as another hit slammed into it. This time alarms began to blare inside the shuttle as it began lose its shields. She cursed again and pushed the engines to their limits.

She ducked and weaved as she went before entering the atmosphere. It didn't take her long for her to fly to her ship and she landed 300 yards short of her ship. She exited the shuttle and ran to her ship as her wounds protested her movements.

The ramp on her ship opened as a single astromech came rolling down it. "Get back on the ship Fate!" She yelled at her droid. The droid turned around and zoomed back up the ship as she darted up the ramp of it. She sprinted up the stairs and into the cockpit before jumping into the Captain chair.

She immediately turned on the ship's engines and shut the ramp. The ship came to life and the engines gave their familiar hum. She wasted no time in taking off and speeding off into space.

The door leading into the cockpit opened and revealed her co-pilot. A Togruta by the name of Zosa Nakeen.

"Get on the top turret!"

Zosa took off out of the cockpit and shot up the ladder that led to the retractable turret of top of the ship. Her ice blue eyes watched as a squadron of TIE fighters came screaming towards them with a Star Destroyer looming behind them. "So is that what you've been up to for the past 10 rotations? Blowing up Imperials?"

"Shut up and blast them!" Came the annoyed shout from the bridge. Zosa just huffed and shot down two of the TIE's. The ship gave a roll before making a sharp turn. Zosa felt the ship the decelerate as it leveled out. She braced herself as the ship snapped in the other direction again as its engines slowed before they suddenly hit max power. Zosa relaxed as the she watched the laser cannons in the nose rip apart the remaining TIE fighters. Zosa sighed as she exited the turret and made sure it was retracted. She made her way back onto the bridge of the ship. She watched through the window as stars blurred together and the ship entered hyperspace.

Zosa's attention turned to the female human sitting in the pilot's chair. She watched as she pulled off her helmet to reveal her auburn hair. Zosa couldn't hold back to startled gasp that left her lips. Two mismatched eyes turned towards her. The left ice blue eye had a bruise underneath it while the right cyan eye was fine. Zosa continued her observation as spotted a black bruise on her right cheek and a busted lip.

The pilot got up only to begin to collapse with a pained groan as the adrenaline wore off. "Layla!" Was the last thing she heard as her world spun and the last thing she saw was the concerned face of her girlfriend before she passed out.

Zosa panicked as she caught Layla before she hit the floor. She pulled her into her arms and she felt something wet when her hand went onto Layla's back. She pulled one of her hands back and it was covered in blood when she looked at it. Her hand was covered in Layla's blood. She scooped her into her arms and ran to the med bay in the ship. She set to work peeling off the bloodied clothing and cleaning any wound she came across before turning her attention to the wounds on Layla's back. She knew what had cause those. She had seen them before, not only on Layla but on others before she meet her. She knew Layla had been whipped at some point before but Layla hated talking about her past and normally refused to do so.

She knew that Layla would be alright but that didn't mean it scared her. She placed a kiss on her forehead before heading to the bridge.

She sighed as she sat down in the co-pilots seat.

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The hot escape and subsequent recovery of Layla had happened just a little over a month and a half ago. Where the whip wounds were had now scarred over and Layla was back at a hundred percent.

Layla was now in her pilot's chair as the nav computer took them towards a Jedi temple on the planet Saren. It had come to her in a dream to head to the forest and marsh planet deep in the Outer Rim. She had heard about the Force and didn't know much about it. But she did know that the Jedi may not have been myth but were definitely extinct. The one holocron she did have contained instructions on how to do every single lightsaber style.

Layla suspected that the Force also had something to do with the feeling her Zosa shared. It didn't necessarily hurt to be away from each other but it was uncomfortable. She was drawn out of her thoughts as Zosa kissed her on the cheek before sitting down in the co-pilots seat.

Layla smiled at Zosa as she they pulled out of hyperspace. "Down there somewhere is whatever the Force wants us to find."

"And hopefully no Imperials." Zosa grumbled.

"Don't jinx us Zo." Layla said as she flew the ship down to the surface. She followed her feelings and they arrived rather quickly to the abandoned temple. She landed the ship close by before grabbing her gear and her blaster. She walked down the ramp after it opened. "Shut the ramp once I get off Zo."

"Will do but be careful."

'Come back to me'

'Always.'

Layla simply winked at her before putting on her helmet. She then made her way into the dilapidated temple. The walls were mostly intact but the inside was covered in dust. Enough to coat everything in a thick layer of dust.

She stopped and listened. Something whispered to her to go down the hall on her left. So she did.

She made her way down the hall til the feeling stopped. By the time that had happened the hall had turned into a cave. She looked around and saw nothing but a stranger rock at her feet.

A rock with a single rune on it.

She picked it up and her ears began to ring as her vision whirled before fading to white.

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Zosa's eyes widened as the entire ship began to glow white until she could see nothing but white as everything outside the ship blurred together. Somehow she knew that whatever Layla had done inside that temple had caused this.

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The battle raged hot around them as they pushed the droids back. Blue and red blaster bolts streaked across the battlefield. The clones hitting droids with precision and accuracy while the droids simply fired with a wide pattern. They were using more of a volley tactic then actual well aimed shots. In between to droids and the clones were two blazing blue lightsabers, dancing among the bolts.

CT-1868 or more commonly known by her name Flux was further away from the frontlines as the battle began to die down. She began to realize that the guys at the front of the charge hadn't realized a unit of battle droids had gotten separated and was now heading towards them. She had stayed behind to help Kix with the wounded when she had spotted them. She glanced around her and realized the droids far outnumbered them here. "Kix, Droids!" She shouted at the medic whose head snapped up the moment those words left her mouth. "DROIDS!" She shouted as loud as she could hoping that others had heard her. She then opened fire on the droids.

Flux fired shot after shot after shot at the droids but they just kept coming. The situation was getting worse when a bolt slammed into her causing her to yelp in pain. It penetrated the armor but fortunately for her it wasn't lethal. But it did knock her off her feet.

"Flux!"

"Im fine!" She shouted as she shot up and shot another droid using one hand. The other was cradling her abdomen were the shot had hit. That was when the situation went from bad to both bad and strange.

There was a flash of light causing both Clones and droids to stop and look. There was a single figure. What confused Flux more than the way the stranger arrived was the way they were dressed. They were wearing an ARC trooper helmet but had what was clearly clone armor on their forearms and had the same kind of greaves. They were wearing torso armor that was dark grey. It ran up from their abdomen up to the just below their collar bone but all in separate pieces. The armor was painted an ash gray with soft ice blue markings all over it.

The ice blue ran along the gauntlets in a soft spiral and the same on the boots. On the helmet it ran up over the crest in three lines meeting on the top of the helmet for a subtle line than ran down to the bottom of the helmet before following the bottom of the helmet. From there it ran just under the visor and followed it down to the bottom in a single line after intersecting each other.

The droids snapped out of there daze before firing on the newcomer who swore loudly and ducked behind a piece of rubble just a couple of feet from flux. She could hear the figure grumbling about droids and stormtroopers. She wondered what stormtroopers were before pooping out of cover to destroy a few more droids with well placed shots.

What Flux hadn't been expecting was for the stranger to notice the wound. She suddenly found herself shoved back into cover as they tore into the droids. "Stay down!" They shouted at her over the noise.

Kix was watching the whole thing with complete bewilderment. He watched the stranger who most likely wasn't a clone but had their armor fight the droids with them. He watched as they shoved Flux back into cover and shouted at them to stay down. His eyes widened as Flux once again stood beck up to fire on the droids. The stranger took them down with lethal precision and accuracy. The droids kept coming though.

There was a loud swear as another trooper went down. Kix knew that he was dead before he even hit the ground. He watched as they grabbed a blaster of a deceased clone before fiddling with it. He realized that they were overloading it. Then he watched as they threw it at the center of the droids. It hit one and exploded sending droid parts and shrapnel all over the place.

The figure shot up and darted forwards toward a wounded clone that was about to be killed. He watched as they landed shot after shot on droid after droid. They put away the rifle and switched to a carbine that could be used with one or two hands. They began to pull the trooper back to their lines before going back again and again. A total of twelve times this stranger did this. And each time they came back with another wounded trooper.

Kix got to work immediately on the wounded around them but kept an eye on the stranger as they continued to fight off the droids with Flux.

Flux watched the stranger dodge a bolt and kill the droid who fired it. But her eyes widened when they then dodged a bolt that was going to hit them with the same ease that the Jedi do as they shot the droid in a fraction of a second. If she had blinked all she would have seen was the aftermath of what had just happened.

The droids were now beginning to thin out after a few minutes of heated combat. The last of the droids were picked off by the stranger and Flux.

Flux finally got a better look at the strangers build and realized that they weren't that tall. She was considered short for a clone trooper at 5,10 and yet this stranger was a couple of inches shorter than her. She was brought out of her musings by a voice that she didn't know.

"Alright who was the one that activated the droids?" When no one answered them they gave an irritated huff. "Typical Imperials. Bunch of nerf herdering idiots."

Flux watched them stomp off to a nearby piece of rubble before fiddling with their blaster. She got up with a hand still over her abdomen were the bolt had hit her. She took a glance at her hand and saw that it had blood on it. She sighed but there were men who needed Kix more than her at the moment. Though that didn't stop Kix from staring at her for a few seconds before going back to the trooper he was helping.

She decided to contact her Captain about the situation. She pressed a button on her wrist com.

"Captain Rex here."

"Sir this is Flux. We have a bit of situation that we could use your and generals help with over here."

"Give me a sitrep."

"With all do respect Sir, this easier to explain face to-" She stopped speaking as she heard something. Something like clanking. If the way the others froze were to go by they had heard it too. "Sir get here quick, I don't-"

"Second wave incoming! They're super battle droids!"

"Trooper!"

"Marking position! Gotta go!" She shouted into her wrist com over the blaster fire. She turned around and got back to the small cluster of rubble they had been using to defend against the droids the first time. Fortunately it wasn't a lot of the B2 super battle droids but unfortunately they were B2's.

They put up a fight but the number of droids were beginning to overwhelm their small number.

A pained cry sounded off to her right and she turned just in time to see a brother fall. A burning hole in his chest plate. She would mourn later. The droids were finally beginning to thin out a few moments later. There had been about 40 Super Battle droids but now there was only ten. Flux watched the stranger once again grab a wounded trooper and drag them into cover as they shot a B2 in the face plate making it fall to the ground in a shower of sparks.

The last of the droids fell to Flux with a well placed shot and the battle ended. Together they sighed with collective relief. Before Flux could even open her mouth to ask the stranger their name the sound of boots echoed as the generals, Rex and Cody came running around a nearby corner. Flux watched as the stranger leaned up against the rubble they had been using for cover.

Kix made his way over to Flux and began to patch up her wound. He cleaned it quickly before putting a bacta patch on it. Flux tended to hide her gender from others until she trusted them but Kix was one of the few who knew that about her.

It was just a few seconds after Flux had gotten her armor back on is when the generals, Rex and Cody along with their men came running around the corner. They could see the aftermath of a desperate defense the wounded and dead lying about with Kix who was now joined by Coric as the went from injured to injured. Treating their wounds and sometime giving last rites as well.

"I see you got it handled." Rex said as he walked towards Flux.

"If there had been more of them Sir, you would either be joining a fire fight or marking us among the dead." Flux told him. "Though they helped a lot. That's why we have this many survivors."

"Where's the Sarge?"

"Dead sir. Droids got him in the first wave. They caught us by surprise." Flux told him. Her entire squad was gone. She was the only one alive.

"Rest we'll be heading back to the base later for a night op." Rex told her. Flux only nodded in response.

"And who is your friend over there?" General Kenobi asked.

"Um, that's the situation Sir." Flux glanced at Kix before rubbing the back of their neck. "We don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?" General Skywalker asked as he crossed his arms.

"They just appeared in a flash of light Sir. Kix saw it too." She added quickly.

"Anakin they could be the disturbance we sensed earlier." Obi-Wan Kenobi said before turning to the stranger. "And who might you be?" He asked Layla watched as them and listened to the Force whispering into her ear. It wanted her to trust them, to change. But change what?

Another whisper. The War, the Jedi. Change.

Suddenly it hit her. It wanted her to change to outcome of the Clone War. She realized with alarm that she now had no one but amused hint from the Force judging her about her wrist com had her doubting it just a little. She would check later. She pulled off her helmet and stared the men in the eyes as she said "My name is Layla Orsord and apparently I'm out of time. Literally. The force has sent back in time." She watched as the two men's eyebrows rose in front of her.

Anakin and Obi-Wan both shared a look. They could sense no lie in her words and the Force around her sang with truth. Her face betrayed nothing as she put her helmet under her arm. It was Obi-Wan who spoke first. "Well thank you for helping our men with the droids. Perhaps we should speak more about this at our base."

Layla only nodded before putting back on her helmet. She then hit a button on her wrist com and to her surprise the voice she was terrified on not being able to reach came through.

"Where the hell are you Orsord?! Do you have any idea how worried I've been?! Just where are we even?"

"Well, I'm going to mark my position for you but this looks like Christophsis. If your here, does that mean you still have the Kaiser?"

"Yes I still have the Kaiser, I'm still on it!"

Layla let out a breath of relief. "Good, that's good. Everything will be explained later. I just need you to fly here and land. I promise I will explain it the best I can."

There was a sigh on the other end. "Fine but you had better explain whatever is going on." That was followed by the sound of the com being hung up. Layla turned towards the two men and asked them their names.

"I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi and this is Commander Cody of the 212th." He said as he pointed to himself then the man in armor next to him.

"And I'm Anakin Skywalker and this is Captain Rex of the 501st." The man with a scar on his right eye said.

Layla's mind went blank. Oh she was in more a situation than she thought. They were Jedi. But the Jedi had died out, betrayed by the very Republic they helped and then wiped out of existence.

She decided they would add this to the inevitable talk was coming. "I can help transport your wounded back your base. I just need some one to guide me there once they are all on board. Not fly. No one fly's my ship but me, fate or Zosa."

"I will do it. They are my men so I will go with them." Anakin told her.

That was when the sound of a ship came through and her ship, her home came over head before touching down in a clearing large enough for the heavily modified freighter. It was an odd ship. One of a kind. The hull was similar to that of a J type 327 but had clear Corellian engineering involved. The engines were from sting with two a large outboard engine on each side of the hull at the rear. The rest of the engines were in between them with a total of four more sublight engines. The inboard sublight engines were stacked diagonally. In the center stacked vertically was two hyperdrive engines, taken from a Corellian corvette. The ships side cover were shut giving it a sleek and deadly appearance. That was because of the chin turret which had a cannon taken from an AT-TE in the center of it, the barrel extended a bit to give it more of punch. On each side of it was a single light cannon, each one also had an extended barrel. On the bottom of the nose were two proton torpedo tubes and a single heavy laser cannon between the torpedo tubes. It sat just ahead of it. The only thing hinting that they were there were the hole were they fired from. The main ramp on the ash grey and black ship lowered down.

A single orange and ice blue Astromech came rolling down the ramp with a Togruta. The Togruta had orange skin with light blue striped lekku and montrals. On each cheek were two white curving stripes as the curved up toward her forehead lazily. On her forehead starting right above the inside of her eyes were two curving lines as the went up to her head piece. And in the center of her forehead were two diamonds. "What is going on Layla?"

"Um the Force sent us back to the Clone Wars era? And I'll tell you more in private real quick." Zosa gave a frustrated growl but went back up the ramp with Layla following her.

Once they were on board Layla followed Zosa into their shared room, the Captains quarter's. As soon as the door shut Zosa rounded on her with her eyes blazing. "What were you thinking?! I told you to be careful! Then all of sudden we both are on a planet no where near Saren!" Zosa shouted. She had tears pricking her eyes and Layla felt guilt naw at her gut.

"I'm sorry Zosa. I didn't know it would do that when I picked it up but I think the Force sent us back in time. I mean they said their name's were ObI-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. You know the famous Jedi Generals."

"If your sure, I mean your instincts and listening to the Force has never lead you or us wrong. But for the record I don't like this."

"I don't like either Zo, but if we can stop the Empire from ever happening. Then I think it's worth it."

"But how do you stop something from happening when you have no idea what went wrong?"

"That is the problem isn't? We know the Jedi fell right? Well that takes planning and lots of work. There has to be some sort of trail we can follow. Someone big had to be pulling the strings. Like one of those dark Jedi."

"We will work on this but we have to be careful. We don't know who we can trust."

"By the way, we will be using our ship to transport their wounded back to their base so they can be treated. It's faster and can hold more people. Skywalker also wants to ride with us. I think they trust us about as much as we trust them."

Zosa stared at her before sighing. Layla may not remember her native language, or the ways of her people. But behind all those walls was her golden heart.

Zosa walked up and gently lifted the helmet off the smaller girl before placing a gentle kiss on her lips. "I love you Layla and I'm sorry. I panicked didn't know where you were and you wouldn't answer your com. I was scared. Scared that I had lost you." Zosa's voice cracked at the end.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry Zosa. I didn't mean to scare you like that. I will always come back to you, this ship maybe mine and where I have lived for years but you are what makes it home." She said as she gave Zosa a soft kiss as she embraced her. "I will come back to you, always."

They stayed in each other's arms for a few more seconds neither one wanting to let go. They sighed and separated. Layla took her helmet from Zosa before going out to where the wounded were while Zosa opened the cargo bay. Including the air drop cargo bay doors in the aft of the ship. Retracting the interior deck to half of its length before lowering would allow quicker loading of wounded troopers. Zosa exited the ship through one of two side door with a light cannon mount which was current stowed away. The light cannon were only out into their firing position if the actually needed them for covering an entry to the ship with actually landing. The door was wide enough for three clones to fit through with a little space between them.

Kix along with some of the 501st who weren't wounded helped carry them into the ship. Once the air drop bay was half full Zosa shut the doors and extended the floor back to its original position. By the time it was full of wounded ranging from stretchers to those who could walk but with assistance it had 35 troopers in it. The other cargo bay had another 20 in it.

Zosa made her way up to the bridge and began powering on the ship while leaving the engines off.

Layla looked at her droid and Anakin and gestured for him to follow her. She pointed as her droid who rolled up the main ramp in front of them. "That's R8-F8 or as Zo and I call him Fate."

Anakin looked around as they made their way to the bridge where Zosa was already waiting for them. "Everything is on except the engines. Save that one for you." Zosa told them as they entered the bridge. Layla pulled off her helmet as she sat down in the pilots seat.

"Thanks Zo. I'll make it up to you."

"Just give me a kiss."

Layla rolled her eyes but got up from her seat and gave her one anyway with a fond smile. Once she sat down again she powered up the engines. "All right er? Just what do I call you?" Layla asked as she looked at Anakin.

"Anakin is fine" he said with a wave of his hand.

"Alright Anakin just where is this base at?". She gently pulled the ship up and began to head towards the base with Anakin's instructions.

She saw an area where she could land close to the base while no in it. So she out the Kaiser down in that spot and immediately lowered the ramp as she shut down the ship's systems. The clones were taken to the medbay and Layla with Zosa right behind her followed Anakin who meet up with Obi-Wan to a conference room.

"Normally I would suggest alerting the council to something like this but we don't have time as we need to do this fast so we can prepare for the next mission in several hours." Obi-Wan told them.

"Why would the Force send you back in time? Is it that bad for the Republic?" Anakin asked them.

Zosa and Layla shared a look together. Layla set her helmet down on the holotable with a grimace. She looked the two Jedi in the eyes before she spoke.

"There is no Republic. Just the Empire."