Chapter 3 WANTED

After Echo and Michelle left the shop it was already getting late, so they went back to the cabin. When they entered the door Maureen rushed over.

"I am so glad you guys are alright!" Maureen said

"Why? We were fine the whole time, Maureen." Echo said and Maureen walked out of the room. After a couple of minutes she came back with her datapad.

"Read the first paragraph, Echo." Maureen said handing Echo her datapad.

"What?! This can't happen, what would happen to you guys?" Echo asked

"I won't let that happen, Echo." Maureen said

"What?" Michelle asked and Echo handed Michelle the datapad. 'WANTED. Traitors are amongst us, clones from the Empire is now AWOL from their posts. One of them is an ARC Trooper named Echo.' Under his name was a bounty '120,000 credits, BRING HIM BACK ALIVE.' They named more clones, but Michelle only worried about Echo. "How do they know you went AWOL? There are so many of you."

"They just do, never underestimate them." Echo said "If they have an updated file of me, they will find you, hunt you down, and KILL you! What do I do?" Echo groaned

"You have to keep yourself hidden, keep your identity a secret." Maureen said and Echo nodded

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After Michelle went to bed, Echo got up from the couch. "Echo where are you going?" Maureen asked from the other couch.

"I have to go into town." Echo said

"At night? You're crazy, Echo." Maureen said

"The craziest ARC Trooper out there."

"Be careful, Echo, if we lose you Michelle will be heart broken. You are the only friend she has." Maureen said and Echo nodded

"I've been in this kind of situation before many times, more than I can count." Echo said putting his cloak on. "I'll be back soon." Echo then left the cabin

When Echo got to the town, he didn't see a lot of people out. 'It's not that late... weird.' Echo thought. Echo went to a couple of stores, and when he left the store, two people walked out of an alley. They were both wearing all black and they were starting to walk towards Echo. Echo dropped his bags and went into a defensive position. The first man made a move to punch Echo's face and Echo dodged his blow. Echo came back and punched the man's face. After a couple of minutes of fighting, everyone that was in the street ran away.

'Where did the second guy go?' Echo thought

Then all of a sudden Echo heard a bang and Echo fell to the floor. After everything came back to Echo his vision went black.

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Echo woke up in a room that felt unfamiliar.

"Who are you?" a stormtrooper asked harshly and then a woman entered the room.

"Leave him alone, he's injured, leave now!" she said and the stormtrooper left the room.

She scoffed as he left the room. "They think they are the most fiercest people in the whole galaxy." the woman said rolling her eyes. "Anyway, the doctor will be here in a couple minutes. He's been busy all day, worked really hard. Surprisingly, he's new and good at it too. It looks like he's been doing it for a while." she said leaving the room.

After a couple minutes a male figure walked into the room, and sat on the seat in front of Echo. His eyes were concentrated on his datapad when he said, "Hello, my name is..." he never got to finish his sentence when Echo interrupted

"Hello, Kix." Echo said and the man looked up from his datapad.

"What?" he asked

"You heard me, Kix." Echo said

"Who are you?"

"Evan."

"Never heard of him." he said and Echo rolled his eyes.

"ARC-27-0408."

"Hello, Echo." Kix finely said

"You knew who I was." Echo said

"Yes, but do you really think stormtroopers would go through trouble to look just like you?"

"We all look alike except for the recruits."

"Except for the recruits." Kix said

"Do you know where the Captain is?" Echo asked

"No."

"What do you mean 'no'?"

"We separated, try and keep the Empire off our shebs. So the Captain said we should split up, so that's what we did." Kix said

"Split up? So you have no contact with any brothers?" Echo asked

"I never said that." Kix said taking notes on his datapad.

"Meaning?"

"Meaning, we have a way of contact." Kix said looking up from his datapad. "Every couple months we will rendezvous to a back water planet far from our positions."

"Who do you mean by 'we'?" Echo asked

"Captain Rex, Jesse, Hardcase, Tup, Fives, Oddball, Hawk, Chopper, me, and you if you want." Kix said looking back at his datapad.

"I don't know, I watch a family. They need protection. A family far from this town."

"Well, you need to watch yourself,too. You are wanted by the Empire a lot of credits. Not surprised though, you're an ARC, a very good one too. Watch yourself hard, I heard a commander is on a post during the day in this town. He watches everyone, too."

Then all of a sudden a man walked in. "Good day, doctor." he said in a rough voice and Kix nodded

"What do you want, Malorum?" Kix asked

"Like I asked you before, 'Who is he?'." Malorum said

"Like I told you before, 'His name is Evan.'." Kix said

"Who is Evan?" Malorum asked

"Me." Echo said and Malorum walked closer to Echo.

"You look- just like the doctor here. Why is that, Evan?" Malorum asked

"He's my twin brother, we got separated during the war." Echo said

Then there was guns getting loaded outside the door.

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Author's Note: Hope to get new chapter done faster. Sorry about the wait.