AN: Over 100 views! Thank you all for taking the time to read my story! It's support like this and feedback that encourages me to keep on going! I'm sorry if the first chapter (not the prologue) Seemed too much like a script. I promise that this chapter is going to be MUCH better! In this chapter we meet two new allies and I promise I'll give some back-story to these new characters! Also in this new chapter we try to learn what happened to Tup (like you don't already know :p) and finish off some droid fighters before we leave!

Disclaimer: Han Solo: Look kid, I'm just here to tell you that I don't own Star Wars Disney and any other respective owners. I also don't own any of it's properties, merchandise, or whatever. As soon as we get my ship back I'm out here.

Italics= thought.

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Chapter II: A Kidnapped Soldier.

[Twixst's POV]

"We've lost our momentum fall back!"

Anakin ordering the retreat is what finally snapped me back to reality. I was shell shocked at what I just saw: a soldier killing his general from behind. I started to deflect blaster fire from Red astronauts (That's what we call the B2-RP super battle droid rocket troopers) and droidekas. We then retreated to our seized command center (where Anakin issued the plan to take the bridge).

"Emerald, Let's go! Back into the bunker!" While she was rolling back I quickly ran over to Drago (our legion's commander).

"Get that Cip-cannon up (I know that's not what was really used but I can't remember what it's called (It's around 6:49 If you look at the right video))!"

"On it Twixst!" Drago responded while programming the cannon to auto-fire before hurrying back to the command center. "Sealing the door."

Me and my troopers stood by the door ready to defend ourselves if any droids got through.

"Door's Sealed." Drago reported.

"Great job!" I told him while heading over to Anakin.

"Why would he do this?" Tiplee asked. Tears in her eyes.

"We're about to find out." Anakin replied firmly.

"Anakin, remember we don't know if this is voluntary or not." I managed to say to him before he went to go talk to a nearby medic.

"Don't worry. We'll get to the bottom of this." Anakin told me before went to talk with Rex.

While he was with the other clones I went to tend to the wounded.

[Emerald's POV]

It's times like this that make me glad that Twixst gave me emotions, sentience, and the ability to talk; because I definitely need to be able to talk to someone right now. While I was rolling around (because walking with 3 legs is like having a tank pass me, which it can) I saw Tiplee sobbing by the west door, I knew that she needed help now.

"I'm so sorry that this had to happen to you." I gently told her while she was sobbing.

"Why? Why did this happen?" She asked through sobs, her head still in her arms.

"I'm not sure myself." I replied, choosing my words carefully. "But I'm sure that he didn't mean to do it."

"He walked up to her and aimed at the back of her head and shot her!" She shouted looking up at me.

"What I mean is, he looked like he wasn't acting like himself." I told her, looking over at her. "He was acting like he was entranced."

"You mean someone could have done this to him?!" She told me while she wiped her eyes.

"Like I said, he most likely didn't mean to kill your sister." I calmly told her.

"Thank you for helping me." She said while hugging me. I wrapped one of my arms around her (or at least I tried) when I noticed Anakin and Rex coming in with my green photo-receptors.

"Tiplar, are you alright?" Anakin asked her.

"I'm feeling better now thanks to emerald here!" She happily responded, looking over at me.

"That's great to hear." Anakin responded.

"General Skywalker." Rex called walking over to us, then he looked over at us and saw the dried up tears on Tiplee's face. "You okay Tiplar?"

"I'm fine now." Tiplar responded.

"What is it Rex?" Anakin asked.

"Oh, right! I asked Twixst about the wounded and he said that there are 11 and he also said that we lost Load." Rex reported sadly.

"That's sad to hear." Anakin said.

"But I got good news too!" Rex cheerfully reported. "Tup is awake now! Turns out slapping insane people really does work! Sadly he's still mumbling."

Anakin then noticed fives walking over. "Fives, you ready to come see Tup?"

"He's awake now?" Fives asked confused.

"Yup. The others are asking for you and Tiplar to come see him." R

"Okay I'm coming." Tiplar said getting up. "Emerald, could you please give us a moment?"

"No problem! Besides I need to go check in with Twixst anyways!" I said before folding into my wheel configuration and rolling off to join Twixst.

[Twixst's POV]:

While I was waiting for Anakin and the others to see what was up with Tup, I myself was trying to figure out why Tup would inexplicably shoot a Jedi master in the head. I wasn't able to come up with any theories.

"Twixst. How are you feeling?" I opened my eyes to see Emerald standing in front of me.

"Oh, hi Emerald! I'm doing alright, thanks for asking; but I'm really worried about Tup." I told her. "I just can't figure out why Tup would shoot Tiplar in the back of the head."

"I thought about this myself and I was thinking it could be the separatists or the Sith that could be doing this to Tup." Emerald said while she sat down next to me.

"I wonder how that would be possible..." I said thinking of ways that what Emerald said would be possible. "Maybe if it really was the Sith then they could be using the force to do this to Tup but I'm not sure how the separatists could be doing this."

"Well I hope that we figure this out soon, before Tup hurts anyone else." Emerald told me.

"Twixst." I heard a deep voice and looked up to see Iron, a commando droid in my unit that is an officer.

"What is it Iron?" I asked curiously.

"Tiplar and the others are taking Tup to the medical bay, we've been asked to come with them." Iron replied.

"What could they need us for?" Emerald asked folding into her wheel configuration.

"No idea." Iron said clueless.

"Well we better get moving." I said getting up.

[Medical bay (I have no idea what ship it's on)]

[Fives' POV]

"Fives what's going on? What's happening to me?" Tup asked me.

"You don't remember what happened?" I asked Tup even though I knew that he probably wouldn't remember what he did."

"No. What happened?" Tup asked me.

"I don't know how to say this..." I began. "But... you murdered General Tiplar."

"What! No I couldn't have done that. It's not possible! I wouldn't! I would never! I...I don't know how, Fives, what's happening to me? I don't understand!" Tup started to panic.

"Fives, you did." I gently told him.

"No. I... I... couldn't! I..." Tup panicked

"Tup." I tried to calm him down but to no avail.

A medical droid next to Tup saw that he was starting to panic and grabbed a sedative from a medical tray and inserted it into Tup and pushed the button to administer the sedative before pulling it out.

"Fives, what's happening... NO! No nngn..." Tup said before he went unconscious.

"Skywalker, what do you think happened to him?" Rex asked.

"I have no Idea," Anakin told Rex. "Kix did you check his medical scans?"

"Yes I did and guess what? They're all clear! As far as I know this kind of activity is derived from a kind of combat stress. From my results it seems that he's had some kind of breakdown or shell shock from the battle." Kix provided.

"Kix that can't be it." Rex said. "You should know better, we clones were designed to withstand and survive any level of stress."

"I agree with Rex, Kix." I stated. "We've been together for so long. Tup seems to have no memory of what happened out there on the battlefield. Could he be sick or poisoned?"

"It's possible." Kix told us.

"Let's head out into the hallway." Anakin suggested.

"Okay." I told him.

Once we were in the hallway and the doors closed we started theorizing how Tup could have been poisoned.

"What are you saying? That the enemy could have done this to Tup?" Anakin started talking.

"It could be possible," Tiplee continued. "There have been rumors that the separatists have been experimenting on creating anti-clone virus or disease, this would be biological warfare."

"Or it could be the Sith trying to take out the Jedi by causing the clones to turn on their Jedi Masters." Emerald suggested.

"How could they do that?" Iron asked.

"If the Sith are doing this, they could be using the force to do this to Tup without even having to be near him." Emerald answered.

"It's possible." Twixst said.

"Look, we can't handle this kind of stuff." Kix replied worriedly. "If it's a disease or a virus, then I doubt we can fight it off before this affects anyone else, and if it's the Sith using the force then I don't think that we will be able to resist that kind of stuff. The only way you will be able to get your answers is if you take Tup to the clone medical facility in Tipoca City on Kamino."

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[South Ring Hangar-Sector 3751 (I made that up)]

[Twixst's POV]

"Wait!" Fives called running over to the Nu-class attack Shuttle which Tup was being loaded onto.

"It's going to be alright Tup." Fives told Tup. "We'll take good care of you."

"Good soldiers follow orders, good soldiers follow orders." Tup repeated.

"You are a good soldier Tup, but really you're a great soldier. Get well soon." Fives calmly told Tup.

"I'm sorry Fives but it's time to go." Rom-a medic-told Fives.

"Okay" Fives said stepping away from Tup.

"Get well soon?" I asked.

"Well what else was I supposed to say 'Hope we find out why you murdered a Jedi general and prevent it from happening again.'?"

"Maybe." I replied humorously.

While Fives left to go check up with some other soldiers I walked over to Anakin.

"I should go with them." I told Anakin.

"I really appreciate that you'd be willing to do that, but I need you to do something else." Anakin said to me.

"What is it?" I asked.

"I need you to tell your soldiers and "Special fighters" To take out some separatists reinforcements coming in from the east." Anakin answered.

"Let me guess by "Special fighters" you mean Nova and Neo?" I asked, already knowing the answer but wanting to hear it.

"Yup." Anakin replied.

"Yes! They've been begging me for when they can go blow something up and now they finally can go and do it!" I excitedly told him.

"Better go tell them before they blow up from anticipation." Anakin said smugly but I was already on my way.

[Clone docks-South Ring-sector-4476 (I made that up too)]

I found Nova and Neo my two top fighters of their kind in the hangar flexing their wings as part of their self-maintenance while the other clones got ready to support them.

As I approached the brother and sister Vulture droid and Hyena bomber I began to remember when I had first rescued them on Naboo.

[Naboo- Northern plains-22BBY (I make up a lot of stuff)]

[Twixst POV]

I was on my way to investigate several Juicer sightings by the Naboo Security Guard. It had only been 3 months since I had joined the Grand Army Of The Republic As an enlisted Jedi General. It took a very long time to persuade the Jedi Counsel to allow me to join the Clone troopers On the front lines. When the counsel had heard of separatist Droch-Class Boarding Ships landing on Naboo from Captain Typho. When I met with the Captain he pointed me in the direction of the Northern Plains but suggested that I go in alone as he didn't want to let the separatists know that we knew that they were here. I wasn't worried about the separatist freighters as I knew that Admiral Yularen and Ahsoka could handle the Freighters that were Trying to force the Republic Cruisers away.

I began to move quietly, crawling through the hilly plains as I didn't want to alert any droids that would be guarding the landing craft.

However to my surprise there were no boarding ships but 2 droid star-fighters: a Vulture droid and a Hyena-bomber. Even more surprising was that the vulture droid despite missing a part of it's front left leg as it was in it's walker mode was trying to comfort the hyena-bomber who was missing an entire leg or the front half of it's right wing.

I never knew that droids linked to a central computer could show emotion. I thought to myself, but then I remembered Emerald a droideka that I had built, In fact my first, my parents really questioned me when I brought her home.

I knew that I couldn't just leave these two droids here to rust in the coming monsoon season (A/N I have no Idea if Naboo has one) so I began to walk over the top of the hill.

The Hyena-bomber saw me and quickly chirped to it's companion who-as quick as it could- turned around to fire it's blasters at me.

I quickly jumped to the right and raised my hands in innocence. I knew that these two droids saw me as a threat and as they were injured I couldn't blame them for seeing me as such.

I slowly bent down and set my Blaster-Light saber hybrids down on the ground as well as my wrist comm, which I had set to silent. This confused the two star fighters and the vulture droid deactivated it's lasers.

I then slowly approached the two with my hands still raised, however the vulture droid stepped in front of it's friend protectively.

"I'm not going to hurt you." I calmly told them. "But I can see that you're already hurt, I want to repair you two if that's okay with both of you."

The vulture droid still seemed hesitant to trust me but then we all saw lightning and then we heard thunder along with it. The Hyena-bomber then turned it's head to it's friend and chattered something to it's friend; I was still learning how to understand binary so I had no idea what the hyena was saying but the vulture droid turned to me and chattered happily (at least I think that's what happy in binary sounds like) and then nodded it's head, however this caused the vulture droid to lose it's balance and fell over. I quickly ran over to it and helped it stand up.

"Okay I'm going to get my ship over here." I told them while looking over at the coming storm.

I then ran over to get my comm and turned it on.

"Emerald, I need your help! I need you to bring The Star over to my position immediately!" I hastily called to Emerald.

"Do you need me to bring some reinforcements?" She called back.

"No but I need you to get the repair hangar online, we're going to need it."

"On my way." I heard her say before she hung up.

It wasn't until it was already raining that Emerald arrived with the Star. I in the meantime was using the force to keep the rain off of the star-fighter duo.

"I'm here." Emerald called from the opening hangar. Once she saw me using the force to try and keep the rain off of the star-fighters and trying to help keep them upright. She rolled to get the repair kits ready with Rin our medical droid assisting her. Once I got the two star-fighters inside I carefully lowered them onto the repair tables.

"So did you make some new friends?" Emerald asked me.

"Kind of." I answered. "I found them crashed and injured out on the Plains; I couldn't leave them there with the monsoon storm coming. As for them being my friends, I care for them and their well being but it's their choice on whether they want to stay."

I heard chatter coming from the vulture droid.

"She said that she's really grateful that your taking care of her and her brother." Emerald translated to me.

"She? Brother?" I asked my eyebrow raised.

"Yes the vulture droid is a she and the hyena-bomber is her brother. You know how fluent I am in binary." Emerald told me.

"How could I forget, you often talk in it when it's us just to confuse me." I said smiling.

I heard chuckling coming from behind me and spun around. "Hey! Stop laughing at me!" I told the two star-fighters, their chuckling didn't stop. "Oh, still laughing are you? How 'bout I confuse you? I like to repair droids!"

"They said they can understand you. They also said thanks." Emerald said, chuckling also.

"Well you two are welcome." I told the two star-fighters. "But I'm going to have to shut you two down while I repair you."

They chattered back to me.

"They said that's okay. They also said that you could give them vocabulators to make it easier for you to understand them."

"Okay." I told Emerald. "Oh could you ask them if it's okay if I give them ray shields, remove their thrust dampers, and change their power sources? I'd like for them to be able to operate for way longer 35 minutes."

"They said that you can give them whatever you feel like they need." Emerald told me. I then realized that I asked her to translate while the two star-fighters could still understand me.

"Okay, you two ready?" I asked the two star-fighters they nodded their heads to say yes. "Alright, sweet dreams."

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[The next morning]

"Pleasant dreams?" I asked the two star-fighters as I saw them powering up, Emerald by my side.

"You know we can't dream." the vulture droid said. "Wait you were watching us sleep?"

"No, I was asleep next to you. I went to sleep as soon as I was done repairing you two." I told them. "Well anyways, I think you should be able to dream, often times it's pretty nice and relaxing."

"Oh hey! We can talk in basic now!" The hyena-bomber pointed out.

"Hey you're right!" The vulture droid realized.

"Well now you two need names." I told them. "I don't feel like calling you by your model numbers or by what you two are, a vulture droid and a hyena-bomber. What would you like?"

"What do you think?" The hyena-bomber asked me.

"I can't answer that." I said shaking my head before looking up at them. "Your names, your choice."

"Nova." The vulture droid told me.

"Neo." The hyena-bomber said to me.

"Well, Nova, Neo." I said looking at each of them. "Welcome, to the 501st."

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[Clone docks-South Ring-sector-4476]

"Hey Nova, Neo!" I called over to them. "Guess what?"

"I get to blast some Sepi's?" Nova said excitedly.

"Gee you just can't wait to start shooting something can you?" Her brother asked walking over to us.

"Nope!" Nova answered.

"Well now's your chance. I need you to go and get our pilots and take them down." I requested.

"On it!" Nova and Neo said transforming into their fighter forms.

"By the way don't get hit!" I called to them as they went to the hanger where Tup was loaded onto that shuttle.

"We won't!" I heard them call through my wrist comm. Sometimes I think they'll act as "Flexible" as I am, and I'm proud of them for that. I then went to see how Rex was doing with the other clones.

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[Space above Ringo Vinda]

[Nova's POV]

"Got it!" I called to Fives as I shot down an enemy vulture droid.

"Thanks!" He called back.

I Then launched 2 discord missiles at a Separatist freighter, specifically at the engines and shields. I watched with glee as the freighter exploded, however I still felt sad at the loss of buzz droids despite them repeatedly telling me that as long as lives are saved they don't mind that they die.

"Hey sis! Watch This!" I heard Neo call to me with his radio. "WOO-HOO!"

I happily watched Neo destroy another freighter by bombing the bridge and launching proton torpedoes at the rear engines. Although I've seen him do it to at least 3 during this battle.

I was then shooting down a tri-fighter when I saw something that would've made me lose my lunch if I had a stomach.

"Neo. Get over here." I called to my brother.

"Coming." I heard him call. "What is i-."

"Rex." I called the clone captain.

"I read you nova." Rex picked up on his radio. "What is it?"

"Get me Twixst." I requested.

"Is something wrong?" Rex asked.

"Just get him on the comm." I said.

"Alright we're here." I heard Twixst on the radio. "What seems to be wrong?"

"Twixst." I said. "Tup's shuttle has been attacked."

I heard nothing but silence.

A/N: Whew! Finally! I've been working on this chapter for over 4 days and it's finally done! I'd have to say this is the longest chapter I've ever done! I really hope that you love it. It took me a long time to write the flashback for Nova and Neo and I know that you'll love that. I'm sorry that we didn't get to go to kamino today but we can't go without Tup as we still have to rescue him! Soon I'll get the next chapter out and we will rescue Tup and head to kamino! Review please as this really gives me support knowing that you all are taking the time to read my 1st story! Thank you and now it's time for me to got to bed! Peace out!