I decided not to make journal entries, I may have to change the first chapter, or make a separate story for this. I also want to thank you all for getting this story up to 20+ favs and follows! Really appreciate it.
rmarcano321: Yeah, just wanted a little easter egg to it. I'm not really sure if I will have more female clones, but it's a possibility. Well, it's too early to tell what will happen to her in the rise of the empire.
eecobo: No he's part of the original Domino Squad.
The-Black-Baron-1943: A little to early for that.
Mogor: Yes she will.
Abcsilly: Well said.
Now, I just got back into classes so updates will depend, and I hope you all be patient.
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Rookies (1)
'Out of all the assignments I could've gotten, this is the worst.' Tessa thought, as she threw her Vibro-Blade, making it flip a couple of times, and catching it with ease.
It had been a month since earning her spot in the Army, she and the rest of Domino Squad were stationed at the Rishi Moon Outpost, which was the base that warned Kamino of anything. When Tessa first heard of the assignment, she was pretty honored and ecstatic, it would've been better to fight some droids, but she naively thought being at the base would be better.
But to her utter disappointment, it was the most boring thing she had done in her life so far.
Tessa jumped a little when the console near her started to beep. She tapped on the console in slight excitement, even though it was the Deck Officer reporting in. She was also the Deck Officer, due to how sharp her eyes were, but her shift had ended, and now she was the one who had to answer the reports.
"This is the Deck Officer checking in, nothing to report… as usual."
Tessa groaned slightly and she bumped her head on her console, and the sound of her head hitting the metal echoed through the area. And slightly pulled her hair.
Sometime after getting onto the ship, she had gotten a Pixie cut, and shaved the right side of her head. After that, she put red highlights in it. It was her own way to make her stand out, well stand out more due to obvious reasons, but not the point. She still haven't figured out a tattoo yet.
But, she did get a Vibro-Blade as a defense weapon. And she found herself playing with it when she got bored.
She didn't hear anyone ask if she was ok, she had done that before.
The only other sound that was sorta interesting was the broadcasts from the scanners.
"You're listening to the Grand Army of the Republic broadcast. The voice of the Outer Rim. This next one goes out to the mud jumpers of the 224th. Keep your heads down and your seals tight, boys."
She the swoosh of the doors and glanced down, and rolled her eyes. Echo had a datapad and reading the Regulation Manuals again.
"Hey brother, how's the wife treating you." She said.
Echo glared at her, mumbled something she couldn't hear, and went back to what he was doing.
Near him were the sounds of grunts coming from the Arm Wrestling match between Hevy and Cutup. She looked in time to see Hevy win and jump up with a shout of triumph.
'As if his ego couldn't be more high.' Tessa thought amusingly.
"Who's next? Fives?" Hevy said to Fives, who just rolled his eyes at him.
"Uh, shouldn't you be watching your scope, Hevy?" Echo said.
"Yeah, let's take a look!" Hevy sarcastically said with mock enthusiasm. After he was done he retorted. "Oh, what do you know? All clear! Just like the last hundred times I looked at it."
"Not even a Giant Eel?" Tessa asked.
She hadn't seen one yet, but she was sorta interested in seeing one.
"And what, you'll keep it as a pet?" Hevy joked and Tessa stuck her tongue out at him.
"Personally, I like the quiet out here. I catch up on the Reg manuals." Echo said as he tapped it.
"What a shocker." Tessa muttered softly.
"Echo, what's wrong with you?" Hevy snapped. "We should be out on the frontlines, blastin' droids! I mean Tess here agrees with me, right?"
Tessa shrugged and said," I don't know, in a way, this is sorta like a test or something. A level away from being able to fight."
"Well you're no help. You may not realize it yet, Fives. But you picked the most boring outpost in the Entire Outer Rim." Hevy said.
"And one of the most important." Sergeant O'Niner said.
Tessa got down to the lower level, while Echo turned off the sensors and said.
"Attention! Sergeant on deck!" He said and they all stood at attention.
"At ease. Even though you're all new here, I shouldn't have to remind you that this quadrant is key to the Outer Rim. If the droids can get passed this station, they can surprise attack the facilities where we were born, on our home world of Kamino."
Tessa felt a sense of dread, she knew how much pressure that was, and that was why she had taken her assignment very seriously.
"There's some officers on the way. So I want everything squared away for inspection." He said.
Everyone nodded, and Tessa felt a surge of energy take over her, and she didn't feel that bored.
Well, almost.
After a few minutes, the sirens started to go off, which meant a Meteor shower was coming.
"Sir, incoming Meteor Shower." Nub said.
"Raise the shields." Sarge said.
"You wanted excitement Hevy." Cutup said.
"Yeah right, ooo, Meteor Shower." He said sarcastically.
Tessa went to the second floor and looked out the window and said," Hey, it's better than nothing, brother. I rather enjoy watching them."
Tessa watched as the meteors impacted the shields, while some others impacted elsewhere. As soon as it was done, she went back to looking at the scopes. Once in a while, a couple would be disabled or destroyed if some meteor debris impacted nearby.
Nothing seemed out of place for a second, but she thought she saw something before it fizzled out. She frowned and tried to reboot it, but nothing happened.
"Hey sir, one of the scopes just turned off. And I thought I saw something." She said.
O'Niner nodded and tried to call the sentry who was outside.
"CT-327, report in." O'Niner said and only got static from his comlink. "Sentry, do you copy?" He tried again but still got static.
"I don't see him down there, Sarge." Fives said, as he looked at his scopes. "Tess, you got anything?"
"Still nothing. Maybe interference from the meteors?" Tessa suggested.
"You two, go find him." Sarge ordered Droidbait and Nub, who both went down to check.
"DROIDS!" Droidbait yelled a second later, and the sound of blaster fire was heard.
Tessa got down from her station, as the Sarge got his helmet and weapon, and ran down to stop the intruders.
"Sound the alarm!" He yelled.
Tessa was nearby, and tried to turn on the signal, but nothing happened.
"Nothing's happening! They disabled the beacon!" She yelled.
"Get a message out to the fleet! We have to warn-"
He didn't finish as a bolt go him in the leg, and fell. Before he could do anything, the Droids got to him and shot him.
"Sarge!" Tessa shouted.
Cutup slammed the door panel and it closed before the droids could get in. Tessa activated her blade and cut all the wires so the doors were jammed.
"That will slow them down, we gotta move!" She said.
She grabbed her helmet, went to the nearby ventilation shaft, and tore open the grate.
"C'mon, you guys!" She yelled.
Echo voiced his disapproval," No! We can-" he was cut off when the droids started to cut their way through the door.
"There's too many, c'mon!" Fives said.
Tessa ushered everyone in, she closed the grate, and crawled out with everyone, and she was the last one. It took a few minutes, but Fives kicked open the ventilation grate, and looked out. They were outside, and he then climbed out and landed on the ridge, and everyone followed suit. And then started to walk.
"What do we do without the Sarge?" Echo asked Fives.
"Do you guys think Droidbait is still alive? I mean, we don't know if they killed him or not." Tessa hopefully said.
Echo sighed and said," Tess, you saw how they gunned down the Sergeant. I hate to say this, but I think Droidbait is dead."
Tessa nodded, she felt a pang in her heart knowing that her brother, who she had known since she started her training was dead. But she also knew he wouldn't want them moping around, and would want them to keep fighting, and remember him.
She then tapped Hevy on the shoulder, and held out her hand.
"Mind if I hold that, I'm the better shot."
Hevy handed the pistol to her, and she scanned her surroundings and tuned out what the others were saying, until they heard a rumbling and hissing.
"What was that?" Cutup worriedly said.
"It doesn't sound like droids." Echo said.
Tessa would've heard what the others were saying, but she heard something close by, coming from behind. She turned around, and saw a creature coming out from a hole, behind Cutup.
Tessa jumped and screamed," Karabast! Watch out!"
Cutup looked behind him, screamed and jumped out of the way as Tessa shot the thing erratically. She would've done better, but she was scared.
The beast growled and slithered back down to another hole, as Tessa shot it a couple of more times.
"Huntress, stop! It's gone." Fives said as he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder as she shook.
"What the hell was that?!" Cutup yelled as he sat down in shock.
"Th-that was an eel. And that's why we're given the regulation not to go outside." Echo said.
"Well you saw an Eel, how was it?" Hevy said to Tessa, trying to lighten the mood.
Tessa's response was to hit him over the head with the pistol and walked over to help Cutup up. While Hevy groaned in slight pain.
"Brat." Hevy grumbled.
"Thanks, sister." Cutup gratefully said.
Tessa nodded, she was still a little scared of what happened earlier, but she knew they were in trouble, and they had to figure out a plan. As they walked, she was looking around when she heard the sound of a ship approaching.
"It's Commander Cody!" Fives said as he pointed at the sky, as a ship started to land.
"The inspection team… they don't know what their walking into." Tessa gravely said.
"I'll try with the comlink." Echo said and started to check the different comlink signals.
"No use. Their comms are on a different scramble system." Echo concluded.
"There has to be a way. They're walking into a trap!" Cutup said.
"Tess, try signaling them with a flare." Hevy said.
She nodded, and switched the cartridges.
"Here goes nothing." She muttered and fired into the air.
A few seconds after it went into the air, all hell broke loose on the upper deck. The fight lasted for only a minute, until she then heard someone shout, and there was a huge explosion from the platform.
"MOVE!" She yelled and they all ran from the incoming debris.
Tessa opened her eyes, and was relieved she wasn't dead. She then got up, and looked at the others.
"Well, that went well." She sarcastically said.
"Define well?" Fives muttered as he got up.
"C'mon, I think I saw a couple of cables. I think they survived." Echo said.
The five of them walked and heard voices. Once they got out of the smoke, they saw blasters pointed at them.
"Hands above your heads! Take those sun bonnets off!" The one in blue said.
All of them raised their hands, and Tessa was slightly fearful that they might shoot them. But she recognized them. Commander Cody and Captain Rex, who were under the command of Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, respectively. She had done some research on Officers and Jedi back on Kamino and during her free time.
"Uh sir?" Echo said.
"Take them off! Now!" Rex ordered.
All of them removed their helmets to prove they were clones. Both Officers lowered their weapons.
Tessa was relieved for a second, but she jumped when the same Eel that almost ate Cutup came back again.
Rex aimed, and was about to fire, when the eel got hit in the eye, and it went down, dead. Both him and Cody looked to see that one of the clones lowered… her weapon and smirked.
"You put us all to shame sometimes, sister." Fives joked.
Tessa grinned and said," Thanks!"
"The name's Rex. But you'll call me Captain, or sir." He said as he took off his helmet, and placed his hand on the eye of the Eel.
"Sir, yes sir!" Tessa and others said in unison, standing at attention.
"I'm Commander Cody, your new boss." Cody said and removed his helmet.
"My designation is Trooper 27-5555, sir!" Fives said.
"We call him Fives, sir. I'm Hevy, this is Echo, Cutup, and Huntress. But we call her Tess or Tessa." Hevy said.
"Huh, well what do you know, the first sister to be made. And she's shinie." Cody remarked, and Tess was confused.
"Shinies, sir?" Echo asked, as Rex approached him.
"That's right, your armor, it's shiny and new. Just like you." Rex said as he slapped his hand against Echo's chest, leaving a handprint of blood on it.
Cody looked at them and said," Where's your Sergeant?"
"Dead, sir, and a couple of others. We're all that's left." Tessa sadly said.
"Sir, me and my batches are trained and ready. We'll take back our base, shiny, or not!" Hevy said.
Rex looked at them and said," There's hope for you yet, rookie."
Tessa beamed as she realized what was going to happen. They were going to fight!
Time to prove her worth to a couple of veterans.
