It has been forever and I am truly sorry, I have been extremely busy with midterms and all the drama at school so I'm sorry. Anyway, the next chapter was fun for me to type so I hope Y'all like it.
Chapter 5: Friendenemies
It was raining and thunder strikes, a squad of stormtroopers are in the EDS (Early Detection System) room.
"Man, does this rain ever fucking stop!" Said one of the troopers to the rest, they sat around a table and were playing poker.
"Oh shut it" the sergeant said to the trooper "this is better than the front line, Trust me". He pushes his pile of credits to the middle of the table, "All In".
"Na man, that's more than I make over an entire year" Said the third trooper.
"Ok, I'll bite" said the private, he pushes in his pile.
A beep comes from the computer, the fourth trooper folds. "I'll check it". He gets up and walks to the scanners, and a dot appears on the scanner. "Sergeant, come see this"
"Give me a sec, I need to place the private in his place" Said the sergeant. "Full house kid" He reaches for the credits.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, looks like I'll be taking that" Said the private, placing down a royal flush.
"Sergeant, I nee….." The trooper was cut off.
"What the Hell!" The sergeant yelled, the private pulled the credits to himself.
"SARG, GET IN HERE NOW!" the trooper yelled. The Sergeant gets up and walks to the scanner and flips the bird at the private.
"Sir, they came out of nowhere." The screen showed 14 dots with one heading into the planet's atmosphere "They aren't empire"
"Alert the Commander"
Landing Pad on Timira City
The Republic Gunship landed and was met by 5 squads of stormtroopers.
"Heh, damn fool never learns" Rex says to Ahsoka and Jesse. Ahsoka has no idea why they are there. The doors open the three walked out followed by two troopers as escorts. They stopped, and the silence was heavy, all you heard was the rain hitting the metallic floor and the plastoid armor. The stillness was sickening, nether moved of talked, just stood there, waiting. The rain brought about a cold and erie feel. The Commander walked up to them and as Rex stepped forward, it startled the group of stormtroopers.
"I want to talk to your commander" Rex said straightforward and in a commanding voice.
"I am the commander, and you are curr…" The commander was cut off by Rex.
"I said YOUR commander, the one in-charge of this facility dumbass" Rex sounded annoyed and shifted his stance to look intimidating. The commander talks through his helmet comms.
"He is not coming here to talk to you." The Commander said.
"Tell him to get his old, lazy ass down here or CT-7567 is coming up there" Rex said, almost yelling at him. The commander starts to talk through his comm again. Three seconds later, the commander stiffens up and salutes Rex. Ahsoka and Jesse look at each other with a confused look on their faces. Rex salutes back.
"Captain, the Commander is on his way" said the commander as he stepped back and formed his troopers to face each other. A couple minutes later, a man, about 6'1", walks through the doors with white stormtrooper armor on and a orange cap over his left arm. He was nearly running until he reached Rex. Rex took off his helmet and the man looked like a chill went up his spine. He took of his helmet and reviewed a face that has been an eternity since she has seen it.
"Cody, I don't know what pisses me off more, this sad excuse of an army, or you joining them" Rex said with the rain drenching his face. "You recognized me, how?" Rex asks, catching Cody off guard.
"Well, you were always the kind of person to noticed the little things" Cody chuckled. "Yes, I recognized you." Cody looks to his feet " I was the Lead Protection Officer at the facility" Cody looks at Rex. With his fists clench, Rex clips Cody across the face. Ahoska steps forward but Jesse grabs her.
Wiping the blood from his nose "Is that it" Cody says, Rex punches him square in the face. Cody falls to a kneel. The stormtroopers get defensive but Cody waves them to stand down.
"Yeah, that's it" Rex said.
"Yeah, well do you think your cryopod malfunctioned" Cody spits blood "Or that you had an army and a fleet of untraced cruisers just out of luck. No it didn't" Cody stands up.
"What are you saying" Rex asks.
"My chip says I have to support The Empire, but it doesn't say you can not save your brothers" Cody puts his hand on Rex's shoulder "And those operations don't exist, they are for Imperial Inspectors so they wouldn't shut off the power".
"Thanks" Rex looks at Cody "That's something I need to start using again".
He gets closer to Rex, "I can't join you cause of my chip, but enter 1517 into the main console on you flagship" Rex looks at Cody with the most confused look "Trust me".
"Ok" Rex then held his hand out to the air. The suspense was thick enough to cut through. Cody took his hand and shook it. The both turned 180 at the same time and started to head back to where they came from. Rex and the rest load up on the Gunship and Cody and the stormtroopers marched back into the facility. As the door closed on the Gunship, Rex turned to Ahsoka and Jesse.
"Thank you, both of you, for just being by my side, it's something I should have said before and much more often" Ahsoka jumps up and hugs Rex, causing the two to fall. Jesse half shakes his hand, half pulls him up.
Back on the Resurrected's bridge
The bridge all rises to attention as the crew joins Wolffe on the bridge.
"At ease men" Rex says to the men go back to their duties.
"Rex" Wolffe spoke to Rex "Ghost crew had their ship fixed and they left".
"No worries" Rex said, and it surprised the whole deck.
"Are you feeling ok Rex" Wolffe gives Rex a concerned look. Rex hasn't acted this relaxed since The Clone Wars.
"Yes, I'm good" Rex says to Wolffe as he walks to the main computer "Never felt better". He walks up to the computer and starts to type. Ahsoka, Jesse, and Wolffe walks up behind him and look at what he is doing. Rex enters a code, 1517, and the ship goes dark. The terminals that control the ship turn off and the engines cut out. A few moments later, everything turns back on as if a hard shutdown just happened. The main computer then starts to talk.
"Control Terminal-1409 is rebooting, Please Wait".
"My god" Rex muters out under his breath.
Again, sorry that this took FOREVER to finish. Hope you like the ending, I wonder what that means. Type in the comments what you think. Thank you all for your patience.
