Fives, Kix and Jesse exchanged a confused look between them, wondering what kind of mission their General was going to give them.
"Along with Obi-Wan, Rex and Cody will try to find answers while the three of you watch over her." Anakin said, pointing to the child in her carrycot.
"General Skywalker, with all due respect, we were created to fight for the Republic and taking care of a baby isn't part of our abilities." Fives said and Kix and Jesse nod in agreement with his words.
"Why don't you take her with you ?" Jesse asked.
"She would be much safer with you, General." Kix added.
"I fully understand your point of view, but I need you to watch over her ! There is no baby seat. Besides, the last thing I need is for her to blow up the electricity in the Twilight, and I absolutely need R2 to stay out of danger."
Anakin, able to sense their nervousness and reluctance to take care of the child through the force, set his eyes on the child who was smiling at him before focusing his attention on his men, "Take good care of her, Boys, I'm sure she's in danger !" said Anakin.
"Don't worry, General Skywalker ! We will take good care of her !" said Fives.
With one last nod and one last look at the child, Anakin leaves the apartment with Obi-Wan, Rex and Cody hoping to find answers as to why or how someone would want to hurt this child.
"Here." said Fives, placing the basket on a bench in the garden. "No technology, electronics or electricity ! We will be safe here !"
"How do we take care of a baby, guys ?" Jesse asks.
"We have to stop her from crying and find a way to amuse her !" Kix said.
"How are we supposed to do this ?" Jesse asks.
"We can search the holonet !" said Fives.
"You think ?" Jesse asks.
He received a shrug of the shoulders in response. "Why not, nowadays, we find everything on the holonet, there must be some tips, ideas, to prevent her from crying !" replied Fives.
"You are right." Kix admitted. "Worth the try anyway."
While Fives kept an eye on the child, Jesse and Kix scoured the sites for ideas and things that a six-week-old infant would be likely to like, according to the different sites Babies loved the Songs, animals,
"No, don't cry ! Don't cry !" said Fives rocking the carrycot, "Any ideas ? Guys ?"
"Firstly, the first rule is not to scream and to stay calm !" Kix said.
"Most sites say babies like nursery rhymes, songs, lullabies !" Jesse said.
"Animals." Kix added.
The child begins to fidget, despite the rocking of her carrycot, she began to cry, "Shhhh ! Everything is fine !"
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are !
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are !"
The child stops crying and smiles at Fives under the tender eyes of his brothers.
"Looks like you've been doing this your whole life !" Jesse teased.
Fives looked up at his brother and rolled them ironically. "Ha Ha ! Very funny ! Thank you, vod* !"
"No, vod, that wasn't sarcastic or ironic at all !" Jesse assured him. "You are so natural with her ! How do you do that ?"
He received a shrug in response. "I try not to ask myself too many questions ! I act on instinct, I guess !" He focused his attention on the child who seemed so calm. "So, are you okay Sparky ?" he asks
The child began to smile at him in response.
Anakin away with Obi-Wan, Rex and Cody can't help but worry about the child. Who put it there and why? Who wants to hurt him? Who was he supposed to protect her from ?
"She will be fine, Anakin." Obi-Wan said, reading his mind. "She's with Fives, Kix and Jesse."
"I know and I trust them, but it can't help, but worry and I have ten billion questions ! Who ? Why ?" Anakin admits.
"We'll find a way to protect her, Anakin !" Obi-Wan said, putting a hand on his friend's shoulder.
"The child is safe, General ! I can assure you ! They will find ways of distracted her to keep her from crying and protect her with their life !" Rex assured him.
Anakin sighed, but nodded. "I know. You are right and I trust in your troops, Rex and their abilities ... "
"But ..."
"But I'm afraid that whatever we face it is not ordinary ! This child is special in more than one way ! In the wrong hands, she could ravage the Galaxy with such powers ! Where do they come from ? Who is after her ? Who wants to harm this innocent and helpless child ?" Anakin sighed.
"Anakin, it doesn't matter where she's from, who she is and who's after her ! We will find the answers to our questions."
Anakin nodded and set off again, before freezing in place, a disturbance in the Force ! Much to his horror, someone or something has entered and is heading for Coruscant ! Straight to the child ! And his men !
"Anakin, what's going on ?" Obi-Wan asks.
"I feel a disturbance in the Force ! A dark presence is heading towards Coruscant ! Straight on the child and our men !"
"We must contact them !" Cody said. "they must get her out of there !".
Rex did so, and activated his comlink to warn them, he tried all three communication frequencies of his three brothers and none answered.
"No answer !" Rex said.
Obi-Wan stroked his beard in a moment of thought. "Knowing what she does to anything electrical or electronic ! They must have taken him to the garden."
Anakin was freaked out at the thought, running a hand through his hair, nervously and dead worried about the child in danger, helpless with him in the distance, and something very dangerous came after her. "We have to go home ! We must prevent them !"
"Calm down, Anakin !" Obi-Wan said, trying to calm him down.
"That I calm down ? That I calm down ? Did you hear what I told you ? This child is in danger and something very dangerous is coming after her !" Anakin said, clenching his fist in anger and concern.
"She's not alone, Anakin, she's with Fives, Kix and Jesse." Obi-Wan reminded him. "Don't you trust your own troops ?"
"Of course I do, it has nothing to do with them ! I have full faith in them and in their abilities !" Anakin sighed, frustrated and indignant.
"So have faith in them." Obi-Wan prompted.
"I trust them !" Anakin sighed. "It's just that this dark presence is so powerful and I'm afraid they are no match for it! I just don't want them to get killed !"
His considerate and caring attitude towards himself and his brothers was one of the reasons that the 501st respected and admired Anakin, his big heart and sense of sacrifice was what made him a powerful leader as well as a tactician and an even gold fighter, they were one of the few people, Rex included, to know this secret and guarded side of their General.
On the planet Messaline, Miss Myers was still looking for the weapon, their Savior, her soldiers had searched every nook and cranny of the Galaxy and their world and still no trace of her anywhere, it put him in a mad rage, and in a black anger, especially since their employer was starting to lose patience !
"I take it you still haven't found it ?" the hologram asked.
"No, my Lord ! The weapon has vanished, it's as if it was no longer here, but in another world !" replied Miss Myers.
"Your dismal failure and incompetence are unforgivable ! Do I really have to do everything myself ?" he asked furiously. "However, you are right."
"What do you mean ?"
"The weapon is in my world on Coruscant, in the Outer Rim ! Because of your nameless and unspeakable incompetence, it has fallen into the hands of our enemies, the Jedi, bring it back to me ! Or you will regret it, bitterly ! You won't have to worry about your enemies finding you because I will take care of your case, personally ! You no longer have the right to make mistakes !" he threatened her before disappearing.
"Yes my Lord."
Miss Myers on his indications began to research Coruscant, this world was unknown to her, but it was there that the weapon, their Savior had been taken with one question that kept coming back: Why? Why have you kidnapped her and taken her away to compromise whatever she sacrificed and worked so hard to make sure to win, preserve, save and grow her kind.
She found coordinates both in space and time in the archives, her ancestors once lived in this other world populated by the unknown before coming to take refuge here, for their survival against their enemies ! That's what she's been working for all this time ! That's why she sacrificed everything to create the perfect weapon, their Savior with extraordinary powers that obviously had the scale and power of a sun, of an exploding supernova ! The Gods predicted that their Savior would save them all and bring peace and prosperity to their species ! And she wouldn't let anyone or anything stop her so close to her goal ! The weapon was his property and would fulfill his destiny !
A technician walks through the turbine room when static electricity begins to play on various metal surfaces. When suddenly a huge, circular, dark sphere of energy appears, like a time travel chronosphere,
"What is that ?" he exclaimed. "Oh no."
He is knocked down by the force of this energy, a blond woman, with cold, icy green eyes, dressed in dark clothes, haughty and cold, Miss Myers. She walks over and puts her stiletto heel boot on her chest.
"Are you of flesh ?" she asks rhetorically. "Good. Your name ?"
"Ca ... Caleb. Who ..., who are you ?" he stammered, frightened.
"My name is Miss Myers and you are going to help me find my child !" she said, hypnotizing her energy zapping her face and entering her eyes.
"Where are we, Caleb ?"
"Anaxes !"
"Take me to Coruscant !" she ordered. "Mom is coming, my darling !"
Unbeknownst to them, a presence moves in the garden and observes them, getting closer and closer.
"Say hello to Sid, the sleeve !" Fives said puppet with his sleeve, waving in front of her face, "Hello, Sparky. Hello, Sid. What do you call a man who wears paper trouser ? I don't know, Sid. Russell ! Yeah, do you understand ?" he asks. "Me neither, too complex, obviously."
The child gets agitated and starts to cry, "No no no. Don't cry, don't cry." said Fives, rocking her carrycot.
"Start singing again !" Jesse said.
"She seems to like your voice." Kix said.
Fives sighed and nodded.
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are !
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are !"
The child stops crying and remains calm and smiles, much to the relief of the Clone Brothers, the doors seem to open on their own.
"Did you hear anything ?" asks Fives.
"It was more like feeling something." Jesse added, wrapping his arms around him, "Like a shiver."
"Look !" Kix said pointing to the ground, his brothers follow his gaze and remain stunned to see footprints appear in a flower bed.
The Clone Brothers exchange worried and confused looks about this strange and mysterious fact.
"Oh, what did that ?" Jesse exclaimed.
Fives reaches out and hits something metal. "Oh, that's not good."
Before their eyes in an instant, a man made entirely of invisible metal had become visible. "Not good at all." Kix exclaimed, stepping back while Fives remained in front of the carrycot to protect the child, the being from elsewhere pulls out a pistol.
"Wow ! Wow ! We are going to talk about it !" Fives said, raising his hands in terms of surrender with the firm intention of not attacking. "What do you want ?"
The metal man didn't answer, but aimed his pistol at the carrycot and at that moment, they understand that this is the danger that the child is in !
"Hi, how are you ?" said Fives, raising his hand.
The metal man turned around. Fives closes the child's carrycot, grabs her, and runs away with his brothers, avoiding the flashes of energy.
"Come in, if you want the child to live !" Miss Myers said, inviting them aboard her ship.
"Who are you ?" asks Fives, septic.
"I am her mother." she replied, leading the three of them with the child on board. "Forward, Caleb." she ordered, heading for the cockpit for takeoff. The metal man shoots on the door's ship before becoming invisible again.
Fives settled down in a seat resting the carrycot on a table in front of him, opening it. "Are you okay, Sparky ?" he asks her.
Jesse and Kix sit next to him. "What the kriff hell did you get to get on that ship ?" Jesse asks.
"Jesse is right, vod, this woman does not inspire me confidence !" Kix said.
"Me neither, vod, but at least, if this woman is really who she claims to be, she won't harm the child !" said Fives.
"How can you be so sure ? What if it was her and the invisible metallic man she needed to be protected from ?" Jesse asked.
"I'm not," Fives sighed. "But that seemed like the best option so far ! This gives us time to find a solution, and to discover the motivations of this woman !"
"Therefore, we have to be careful !" Jesse said.
"Fives, Kix, Jesse ?" Anakin called into the apartment and then into the garden.
"They are not here." Rex said, looking around every room in the apartment.
"R2 ! R2 ! Come here, don't be afraid ! She is not there !" said Anakin.
R2 enters the room emitting happy beeps and at the same time excited about the return of his Master. "I'm glad to see you too, buddy ! I need your help ! The child, Fives, Kix and Jesse you know where are they ?"
"No."
"Connect with every CCTV every speed camera in Coruscant and near the planet, every place whatever it takes, just find them !"
"There are five hundred and twenty-one thousand three hundred and twenty-one CCTV cameras operating on Coruscant and beyond the planet, Anakin. It may, could take some time."
"Just do it."
After a few minutes of intense research, "They are at the nuclear power station on Anaxes !"
"Well, it didn't take long." Obi-Wan intervenes.
"I was lucky. It was only the ten thousand and fifty-second camera that I checked."
"Who is that woman ?" Anakin asks, looking at the screen.
"My name is Miss Myers." she replied through the screen, "Now give me my child."
"No no no." said Fives, backing up with the carrycot. "Answer us first. What was that thing there and why is it after the baby ? And what are we doing here ?"
"Let's go ! Thanks R2 !" Anakin said before leaving the room followed by Obi-Wan, Rex and Cody.
"My child has a destiny. A destiny to change worlds, and that some will do anything to destroy." explained Miss Myers.
"Oh, what, like The Metal Man over there ?" Jesse asked.
"Indeed, The Metalkind. The enemies of my kind. Of all flesh."
"But I don't get it. She's just a baby." said Fives.
"How could you even begin to understand ? You may be flesh humans, but you are stupid and ignorant earthly flesh beings. Now, give me my child !" she demanded, holding out her hand.
"I don't think so." Fives asserted, backing up with the carrycot before running away with his brothers.
"Catch them up !" she ordered.
The man chases Fives and his brothers through the turbine room and descends the stairs. Fives hides behind a pair of sleeping workers with his brothers as the man continues to run in the opposite direction still looking for them.
"Oh, how perfect. You see, a baby will always find her mother. Give her to me." said Miss Myers.
"No." Fives refused, backing up with the carrycot. "What are you going to do to her ?"
"Take her home, of course. She is the savior of my kind. It will be the stuff of legend. Now, give her to me !" she demanded.
"Fives, Kix, Jesse, run !" Anakin yelled as he arrived at the scene followed by Obi-Wan, Rex and Cody.
In front of their eyes, a man made entirely of metal appears. "Oh, Force." exclaimed Anakin.
"The little being of flesh must be destroyed." declared the metal man.
"No !" shouted Miss Myers.
"Stand back." Anakin ordered, activating his lightsaber while Obi-Wan did the same. "None of you will harm this child."
"She's no child. She's a weapon." declared the Metalkind.
"And she is unprimed. She isn't ready for it. You have doom us all !" Miss Myers accused them.
The child began to cry, an aura, blinding energy spread around her carrycot.
"What's going on ?" Jesse asked in shock.
"The energy, she seems flooding out off her, out off the child !" Obi-Wan explained.
"Yes, the weapon is priming itself. Your presence has activated it. The doom of the Metalkind is come !" said Miss Myers, raising her arms proud and victorious.
In front of everyone, amazed, the child turns into a young girl. "Snips ?" asks Anakin confused. She looks around confused and lost.
*vod: brother.