Chapter 3: Unwelcome Host
The lost clone troopers eventually managed to setup camp within what appeared to be an abandon facility of some sort on the dark planet. While the clone troopers kept at least two members of the squad up in shifts to watch over, the Sith-infected spider was busy borrowing through the tunnels beneath the facility for which it had often used as a home, and a way to get out of the facility to begin with. The two clone troopers whom were ordered by the captain to keep watch were unaware of its presence as the rest of the squad was as well.
"So how the heck do you think we're going to get out of this one?" asked one of the clone troopers.
"Not sure" replied the second clone trooper, "I'm sure this abandon facility here has some communications we can fiddle with that'll help us contact any Republic forces."
"Well, I think we should wait until everyone's up and ready to search for such a thing here first" said the first clone trooper.
"Bah, I'm scouting up ahead in this abandon facility to see if there's such communications we can salvage from" replied the second trooper who then began to leave the scene.
"You get back here, you're disobeying orders!" cried the first clone trooper.
After a few minutes after the second clone trooper left the scene, the first one immediately went to the captain of the squad who was trying to get some sleep.
"Wake up" said the clone trooper as he tried to wake up the captain of the squad.
"What is it now?" asked the captain as he got up.
"We got trouble, my partner decided to try to see if this facility has any communications we can use to contact the Republic forces" replied the clone trooper.
"Is he insane, does he know what sort of creatures might be roaming about here?" replied the captain as his tone of voice started to wake up the rest of the squad.
"I'm sorry sir, but I guess he really wanted to see to find a way to contact the Republic" continued the clone trooper.
"Alright, everybody get up" said the captain as he started to bug the rest of the clone troopers whom were still fast asleep, "we got a rogue member of our squad we need to find. If he ends up making us run into trouble, and we survive he's sure going to get reprimanded for it."
Meanwhile while the rest of the squad were gearing up for a late night rescue mission to retrieve a rogue member of the squad. The lone clone trooper in question was already deep inside the facility in question. It was rather quite dark, even with the night vision on the helmet the clone trooper couldn't see clearly. But something else was following the lone clone trooper, as he turned a corner to head down a hallway of the abandon facility, the strange spider creature immediately appeared right where he once stood.
"There must be some sort of communications I can use in here" said the lone clone trooper as he then found what appeared to be an abandon computer room in the facility.
As the lone clone trooper went to work, the spider creature immediately managed to creep inside the room itself with the lone clone trooper not knowing its presence.
"Darn, these computers must be quite old" said the clone trooper as he couldn't even get the computers started up, "looks like I better head back to my squad or I'll get reprimanded for disobeying further orders."
Suddenly the clone trooper heard a loud noise, to which the spider creature accidentally tripped over a wire, pulling one of the abandon computers down. But the spider immediately went up right on the ceiling of the room to avoid being noticed.
"What the heck was that?!" cried the clone trooper as he turned toward what appeared to be an old computer which had recently crashed right on the ground, "It must be just my imagination, but I'm getting the feeling that I'm not alone."
As the clone trooper observed the computer that was quite damaged on the floor, the saliva of the spider then began to drip from the ceiling as the spider itself was in the mood for hunting some prey. The saliva dripped right down, and onto the damaged computer to which the clone trooper thought it was just a mere leak.
"It's probably just a leak, nothing to be concern about, this place is old anyway" said the clone trooper to himself trying to calm himself down.
But as the clone trooper looked up even with his night vision still active he suddenly saw two glowing red eyes to which spooked the clone trooper. The spider landed itself right on the ground, to which the clone trooper immediately took out his weapon and began to fire. This immediately got the attention of the captain of the squad.
"Come on, I think we found our missing squad member!" cried the captain as he and the other clone troopers rushed to the scene.
The lone clone trooper was doing his best to fire at the strange spider creature. But the spider creature was able to jump with quite such speed. It then spun a web, to which it then grabbed the weapon from the clone trooper and immediately ate the weapon. But before the spider creature could pounce on the clone trooper, the rest of his squad busted right into the room with their weapons drawn.
"What the heck is that thing?!" cried one of the clone troopers in the squad to the captain.
"I'm not sure, but fire at it!" replied the captain.
The clone troopers were a bit too much for the spider creature, and it managed to go right into a hole that was a former air vent in the facility to use as an escape path.
"What were you thinking!" cried the captain as he barked at the lone clone trooper who wondered off, "We don't even know what that thing was, and it could have used you as prey!"
"Sorry captain, I just wanted to find a way out of here" said the clone trooper.
"Well, I won't punish you since our lives depend on staying in numbers, but next time don't wonder off" replied the captain as he scolded at the clone trooper.
"Yes sir" replied the clone trooper.
Meanwhile back on the ship which Xavier was still being held captive, two battle droids were called in, with one of the battle droids purposely carrying the lightsaber of the lone Jedi.
"You think this plan of the General's will work in just simply allowing the Jedi to escape?" asked the first battle droid.
"I"m not sure this plan would be so full proof" replied the second one, "but if the Jedi does escape it'll give something for us to shoot at."
"Let's just hope the General's plan isn't so flawed" continued the first battle droid.