Last chapter for the episode, and then we head into Tessa meeting Ahsoka and the remaining members of Domino Squad receive their Medals. I think I will also do another filler and then head into another episode. And since they gave us the chronological order of the Clone Wars on the Star Wars website, then the episode would be 'Downfall of a Droid' or another episode.

I also want to thank everyone for supporting this. It means a lot.

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Rookies (2)

For Tessa personally, she wasn't a fan of climbing during the climbing section of training on Kamino. There was a lot of scenarios where it could always go wrong, and they had dealt with all those scenarios and learned how to combat them.

From rocks falling, to droids firing down at you, and she had ended up breaking her leg during one simulation.

And those scenarios and memories were going through her head, when they were climbing up the cliff face. It wasn't that she was afraid, it was just she wasn't a fan.

The others knew that, except for the Captain and Commander. So she was the second to last person to be on the chain, while Echo was below her.

"Tess will you hurry up?" Echo grumbled.

"Hey, I'm just taking my time, better safe than sorry." She said.

"The others are already at the top. You did fine back at the Citadel challenge."

"I was working on adrenaline."

After another minute, the both of them made it to the top. The others were hiding behind some of the debris.

"You two took your time." Commander Cody said.

"Blame her." Echo grumbled, while Tessa glared him.

Captain Rex ignored them and said," Look sharp, rookies. As long as those tweezers command this post, our home planet of Kamino is at risk." He said and handed Tessa his blaster.

Tessa aimed it and looked at it. She preferred her Rifle, but this will do.

"But, there's so many." Cutup said as he was handed one of Rex's Pistols.

"Doesn't matter, kid. We have to retake this base. So we will retake this base."

"Just give me a clear line of sight, sir, and I got it." Tessa said, and smirked under her helmet.

"How do you propose we get through those blast doors, Rex, ol' boy?" Commander Cody mocked jokingly.

Rex looked at a certain direction and said," I have a few ideas."

Tessa didn't know what he meant by that, and she was confused until he picked up one of the destroyed droids and dragged it to the door.

She realized he was going to pretend to be a droid. She found the idea ridiculous, but he had a lot more experience and knew what he was doing. So she didn't question it aloud. She hid against the wall next to the Commander, while Rex started his plan.

He walked to the cam-scanner, and his movements become more droid like, and stiff.

"Unit 2-6, is that you?" The droid on the other side of the door said.

"Roger, Roger." Rex responded in a droid like manner, and voice.

"You sound strange. Is something wrong with your vocabulator?" It responded.

Rex put his hand to his throat, as if he was fixing it and repeated the words.

"Take off your helmet. Let me see your faceplate." The droid demanded.

Rex responded again, and kneeled to the blind spot of the camera, and held up the head of the droids to the camera's view. Tessa slightly snickered at the clear absurdity of it, but then got ready when the doors swooshed open.

"Clones!" The droid shouted.

"Roger. Roger." Rex mocked slowly in a droid like way, and shot it.

Raising her blaster, she got in front of the door and blasted the other guards, with her brothers doing the same.

"Right, let's move!" Rex said.

They all ran to the stairwell, and Tessa noticed the bodies of Droidbait and Nub, where there, including the Sarge's on the stairs.

"Don't worry guys, payback is coming to these bucket heads." Tessa thought darkly.

"Permission to take point, sir?" Hevy asked.

"I'm always first, kid." Rex said.

Cutup looked at Tessa, and she could feel the excitement off of him.

"This is it." He said, and she nodded at his enthusiasm.

Rex took the lead, and they ran to the main room. Rex shot a droid and Tessa and the others followed suit. She felt immense satisfaction when she headshot one. She heard someone groan in pain and looked at Fives, who got hit in the shoulder.

"Fives!" Cutup said, and was about to see if he was ok, but Commander Cody stopped him.

"He's ok, focus on the battle!" He said, speaking from experience.

Tessa had to fight the urge to check on him as well. Normally she would've, but she remembered talking to Master Ti about her selflessness, and that she couldn't help and save everyone. And Commander Cody knew that from experience.

The squad managed to get inside the control room, and junked another clanker as she saw Rex pull the head off of the leader.

After that, they had all destroyed the droids, and Tessa wouldn't lie that she was feeling giddy about her first battle.

"Not so tough now, are ya, Sparky?" Hevy remarked at the droid he destroyed.

Cutup looked proud and said," Just like we were bred for.

"Get to the window. It looks like we have more visitors." Cody ordered.

Tessa and others got to the window, and she took off her helmet. She wiped some sweat off of her forehead, and fixed her hair.

Echo put his helmet back on and lowered the visor, and zoomed above.

"It looks like a Separatist Fleet!" He said, stunned.

"Huh, you think we should bring out some refreshments, and food? We have to prepare for our visitors, right?" Tessa joked.

The joke didn't have the desired effect, everyone just gave her looks, while she shrunk a little.

"Just trying to lighten the mood." She muttered.

"So that's why they commandeered the outpost! They're planning a full scale invasion!" Cody stated.

"We have to warn command." Rex said.

Tessa knew that was the right call, but she then remembered that there was an additional problem.

"Uh sir, even if we do, we can't take on an entire fleet." She said.

She was feeling slightly scared, but she knew fear wasn't something that was needed on the battlefield. And freaking out wasn't going to help the situation.

Rex looked at Echo and said," Get to the console and signal a code red."

Echo responded by leaping over to the console, taking off his helmet, and started to mess with the controls.

Echo groaned in frustration, held up two wires and said," Those clankers sabotaged our transmitter, and hardwired the all-clear signal! It'll take some time to repair-"

Tessa gave her brother a look and said, "Echo, I hate to state the obvious, but we don't have time. We need some sort of plan… oh hells."

She only looked at the window for a brief moment, but she had to look again when she saw something. The others did as well, and saw that a ship had dislodged from a cruiser, and descending down to the surface.

"Well, buddy, you always said you wanted to be on the front lines." Fives mocked at Hevy, who didn't look at him.

Tessa gulped and was slightly shaking, but she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked at Cutup, who gave her a confident look. This meant they would think of something, and survive this, and she nodded her thanks.

The ship landed on the platform, and an entire platoon of droids soon left the ramp of the ship. And they stood parade style.

"We can't protect this outpost long against that army of clankers." Cody said.

"Then we'll destroy the outpost instead!" Rex said.

Everyone looked at him like he was insane. Tessa was slightly skeptical, but his previous plan worked, so she had to give him a chance.

"But, sir, our mission is to defend this outpost… at all costs!" Echo interjected.

"We have to worn the Republic about he invasion." Rex said as he looked at the troops outside. "They'll take notice when the all-clear signal stops."

"That's right… when they stop receiving our beacon, they'll get the message something's wrong!" Fives said.

"Uh, sir, there's a slight problem. We don't have the explosives to destroy this place. A couple of detonators won't do much." Tessa said.

"She's right, but what about the TB?" Echo said and everyone looked at him. "This moon freezes for over half a year. We use liquid Tibanna as fuel to heat the base!" He continued.

"Liquid Tibanna: Highly explosive." Cody summarized.

Tessa smirked when she saw the look Hevy had. This was a challenge he was interested and born to do.

"Good. Bring the tanks in, and prime the detonators."


Everyone got to work and got the tanks in record time. Tessa had almost dropped one, and was close to fainting when it had happened. She helped Hevy and Fives set them up in the main room.

"Y'know, once we survive all of this. There's a chance we could all be folded into the 212th or 501st. And I read that they have the best." Tessa said.

Both of her brothers smirked, while Fives teased," You just want to be with your boyfriend."

Tessa's mouth dropped and she felt a blush. She glared at him and said," All I said that General Skywalker looked cute, that's it."

To pass the time on the base, she had looked for updates on the war, and the people who were involved. Unfortunately, when she had gotten to the exploits of General Anakin Skywalker and the 501st, she had accidently told them that he looked cute. They had all teased her on it, and it didn't help that they kept on calling her 'little sister' or 'kid sister'. Sometimes she hated being the youngest in the squad.

"I hate you guys."

"No you don't." The both of them said in unisom.

After that Rex had them all gather around.

"All right, listen up! There's only one target of interest in this sector: Kamino. It's the closest thing we clones have to a home. Today, we fight for more than the Republic. Today, we fight for all our brothers back home. Understood?"

Sir, yes sir!" The shinies said, and reached for their helmets.

Tessa looked at her helmet, and took a deep breath. She then placed it on her head and ran after everyone to the armory.

The doors opened, and Hevy walked in first.

"I think we can even the odds a bit, Commander. Especially since they don't know we're here." Hevy said as he got his Machine Gun. "This one's mine."

"A big gun doesn't make a big man." Cody stated.

Tessa made a beeline for her personal Rifle. She felt the familiar weight, and smirked under her helmet.

"And this one's mine. Give me a target and their scrap metal." She said.

Fives chuckled and said to Cody," It's true, sir. She's the best shot out there."

Cody looked at her and said," Well, if you are, Rex and I will keep an eye on you, sister."

Tessa grinned under her helmet, knowing her superior recognized her as his sister. She, Cody, Fives, Cutup and Hevy ran to the entrance.

"Reinforcement reporting. Open up." A droid said on the other side.

Hevy was the one to open the door, and said, smirking under his helmet," Didn't say please."

He then opened fire, and Tessa crouched next to him, taking out targets. She heard Cody firing next to her, and Fives threw a detonator and it destroyed a couple of droids. In her eyes, the droids were coming out the fireball, and it looked like they were coming out of hell.

"We could use a Jedi about now!" Cody said.

Cutup smirked and said, "I don't think we do sir, I think we need more Tessa's or Hevy's."

Hevy snorted and said, "The galaxy better tremble in fear if there are more Tessa's."

"I hear that." Fives said.

Tessa would've given the three of them glares, but what Hevy said sound interesting. There could be a possibility of more female clones like her being produced. She didn't what it would take for that to happen, but it was an interesting idea, but she would think more about it after they survived this.

She took out a couple of more, but stopped when Fives closed the doors. To help them, Tessa blasted the controls so it was disabled. They ran closer to the main room, and waited for a moment.

They didn't have to wait that long, an explosion blew open the doors, and the droids poured in. Lucky for her, she had the grating to use as support, and she fired more rounds.

"Ahh!" Cutup yelled as he was hit in the shoulder, and had to hide behind some cover.

"Cutup!" She yelled.

"Fall back to the OP center! Huntress, take Cutup! We'll cover you!" Cody said.

Tessa got out of cover, and got Cutup.

"C'mon brother! We gotta move!"

The both of them sprinted as fast as they could, while she supported Cutup with his uninjured arm.

The both of them nearly tripped over Rex, who was busy with the detonator.

"The handset isn't linked up with the detonator!" Rex said frustrated. "Hevy!"

"Yes sir?" Hevy said as he ran in.

"The detonator isn't working." He said and handed him it.

Hevy nodded and said," I'll take care of it. it'll be fixed in no time, you guys get out here."

Rex nodded as he got to the grate and said," Just make it fast, those droids are getting closer." He as he and the others went into the pipeline.

Tessa was about to follow them, when she realized something.

"Got it fixed?"

"No it isn't working."

Tessa felt her blood run cold, when she realized what he would have to do.

"Hevy, c'mon we gotta go!"

Hevy shook his head and said," Nothing, you go, I'll figure something out."

Tessa felt tears starting form in her eyes. She then went over to him and hugged him.

"I don't want to see you go. Please don't." She said in a small voice, like a child.

Hevy hugged her back, looked at her and said," Huntress, your life is more with it. You need to survive, fight, and protect your brothers. I'm going to be ok. Just go."

Tessa let's go of him and said," I love you, ori'vod."

"Love you to, just go!"

Tessa ran to the duct, looked at her brother, one last time and crawled into the pipes. By that time, she already started to silently cry, but she had to keep moving, or else she was going to be taken out along with the base.

When she made it to the entrance, she fell out when her entire surroundings shook violently. She got up with a groan, and looked up see the base in flames, and debris everywhere.

"Tessa! Are you alright!?" Fives said, as he and the others ran to her.

"Yeah, looks like things went out with a bang." She said.

The others laughed, and Fives helped her up.

"Well good news, sister. We're getting off this crater." Rex said.

"And hopefully a doctor." Cutup muttered painfully, due to his injured shoulder.

Tessa gave her brother a supportive look, and then looked up to see Gunships descending and the Troopers who weren't injured waved at them to get them their attention. Once one landed, everyone got on board, and they were all checked.

She was ok, but the Medic said she had to go to Medical, just in case.

The fly up to the Cruiser was short, but it gave her a moment to relax. The events of the day came crashing down on her, losing two of her brother who cared for her and looked out for her. Once they landed, she walked out and was in awe of the place. The only other ship she had ever been in was a transport ship, but this one was a full blown Cruiser.

Everyone looked at them, and they all shouted out cheers. Which Tessa blushed a little under her helmet. She didn't feel like she needed it, but they did just stop an invasion of their home.

Her squad took off their helmets, and she saw all the surprised looks once they saw her.

"Attention!" Commander Cody ordered.

Everyone who was present stood at attention, and Cody looked at Rex, who nodded.

"Today, a possible invasion of our home planet was foiled. Yes, the Commander and I were present. But we had help from four brave shinies, who aren't shinies anymore. And I would like to introduce you to someone." Rex said, and nodded at Tessa.

Tessa walked next to him and rubbed her arm, she wasn't really used to all of this attention.

"This person here is CT-2008, otherwise known as Huntress, but her squadmates call her Tess or Tessa. She's the only sister we have, and she proved she's one of us down on the moon. She's earned mine and all of our respect. Huntress, we salute you."

Rex, Cody, the rest of her squad and everyone else saluted her. She felt a swell of pride, and belonging. Her other brothers didn't know her, but she could feel that they thought she was one of them, female or not.

"Alright, you and your squad deserve some rest. But, report to Medical first, that's an order." Rex said.

Later, all four of them were in the Medical Bay. She and Echo had only gotten a few bumps, bruises and scratches. While Fives, he had a bruise on his shoulder where he ha gotten hit, and all he had to do was get some salve and a Bacta rub on it. While for Cutup, he had to spend time in the Bacta Tank. His shoulder was slightly cracked from the impact of the blaster bolt, and there was a possibility of infection.

Cutup himself wasn't a fan of it, and he ended up complaining. She and the others had always teased him about it, in order for him to feel better.

But, she, Echo and Fives had decided to stay with him while he was in it, after they were done being treated first. She was fiddling with her fingers, when she heard the door open and footsteps.

Two men had walked in, and all three of them stood up and saluted them. Due to them recognizing them as Jedi.

"At ease. I'm pretty sure your all tired after what happened today." The one with sandy blonde hair said, who seemed familiar to Tessa.

All three of them sat back down.

"Good, so I take it your three are Huntress, Echo and Fives, right?" He said.

Fives nodded and said," Yes sir, Captain Rex said we'd be folded into General Anakin Skywalker's, who is in charge of the 501st."

"Who our sister here thinks is cute." Echo joked.

The Jedi with ginger hair chuckled, while the other looked surprised. Tessa blushed, and glared at the two, who basically looked at her innocently.

"Well, I'm flattered Trooper. But, I think it will be frowned upon if an Officer dates a soldier." Anakin said with smirk.

Tessa mouth dropped, and then she heard snickering behind her. She looked at Echo and Fives with a pissed off, embarrassed look.

"I am going to castrate and murder you two di'kut's!" She seethed.

She then looked at General Skywalker and said," I'm sorry sir… their just idiots."

Anakin chuckled and said," It's alright. But I would honored to fight with you and your squad mates on the frontlines. General Kenobi the same."

"Yes, and you will see me often as well. Anakin and I still go on missions together. And Cody has spoken highly of you all. Which is why when your comrade is better, you all will be getting medals." Obi-Wan said.

Tessa beamed, and she high-fived Echo and Fives.

"Thank you sir." Fives said.

"No problem. I would also suggest getting some rest once your done being checked on. You deserve it. And Tessa, my Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, wants to meet you sometime after you rest."

"Thank you, Generals. We appreciate all of this. We'll tell Cutup once he's out of the Bacta Tank." Echo said.

The Jedi bowed, while Tessa and the others stood up and saluted them, and they left.

"I can't believe it. After all of this, we get to fight on the frontlines, and with one of the most well known Jedi in the Republic." Fives excitedly said.

"Yeah, can you believe it Tess?" Echo said.

Tessa was giddy and happy about it. But, she had an issue to deal with, and she found the thing that would deal with it.

"Yeah, but first, who wants to go first?" She said, and help up her Vibro-Blade at them, and she had a glint in her eye.

Both Echo and Fives gulped.


Ouch, hate to be them.

And no, there will be nothing going on between Tessa and Anakin, it was just a funny joke I thought of.

Ori'vod- Big Brother