Anakin settled the ship down just behind his retreating troopers opening the rear hatch to allow them in. This allowed Echo and Fives to jump out to cover there retreating brothers, blasting apart any droid that exited the tree line. For once the sightt of the enemy transport ship gave Rex hope him and his men were about to make it out without any casualties and minimal wounds. Noticing everyone was aboard Anakin ordered his men to hold on as he gave the repulsor lifts a little nudge. This caused the ship to rocket off into the sky, the doids on the ground firing into the air with a futile effort to bring it down the few lucky shots that landed fizzling harmlessly against the hull. "Now comes the fun part," Anakin mumbled giving the ships throttle everything its got. "The fun part sir," Fives asked, looking over at his General with apprehension. Not giving a reply Anakin steeled his nerves and began the deadly dance with lasers swinging the ship in intricate spins ducking and weaving between the enemy fire. "Sir, I should warn you we've got enemy fighters coming in." "Noted Captain," Was the only reply Anakin gave Rex keeping all his attention on keeping them alive, letting the force flow and guide him through the path of death. "Echo, I need you set up the hyperdrive coordinates," Anakin said, looking over at his current co-pilot, earning him an affirmative nod. Echo became a blur as he rapidly tried to type the complex array of coordinates that would bring home to the resolute feeling all eyes on him except the generals. A shudder ran through the ship as a blast glanced the outside hull, throwing the occupants before again steadying. "Sir, you are good to jump," Echo called out sighing in relief as the flash of hyperspace appeared.
A few hours later Alpha squad had joined back in the Barracks after washing off the grime of battle laughing and joking about the mission as if it wasn't war. "Come off it Crash you weren't tackled by a droid you tripped over a branch," Redeye said slugging Crash across the shoulder causing the rest of the occupants to burst out laughing. "Now now men im sure Crash was just dodging enemy fire," Rex said marching into the Barracks with a bucket of paint in his arms. Unfortunately, despite the Captains joke, everyone snapped to attention. "At ease soldiers." Rex replied to his men before looking at Echo and Fives throwing the bucket of paint "Generals orders he wants to see that armour nice and unique." Before leaving to continue his duties Rex gave his boys a respectful nod starting to smile as they tried to influence Echo and Fives decisions on their armour. In the end, Echo went with standard stripes down the arms along with a stripe down the outside of his left thigh with a domino painted on it. For his helmet Echo coloured the cheeks and antenna before adding two basic stripes down the front. Fives followed a similar concept to Echo, however choosing to paint a representation of a Rishi eel on his helmet along with moving the domino to his right shoulder pad. After finishing and a short dry Fives and Echo dawned there new armour before walking back into the barracks to show the boys earning them allowed cheer. "Welcome to the five hundred and first boys," Jesse shouted patting his newer comrades on the shoulder.
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