Chapter 4
Captain Emotion, General Grievous, Number 1, Number 2 and several security droids arrived several hours later after imprisoning the clone spy in the OOSR. The captain pulled out one of his electro batons and typed the access code into the control panel. As the door opened the clone's body, with a strange creature on his face, fell backwards onto the floor. The creature had its long legs wrapped around the clone's head and its tail was wrapped around the clone's throat. Emotion, Grievous, 1 and 2 stood over the body looking at the strange creature.
"Captain?" asked Grievous.
"Yes," answered Emotion
"What is that thing on his face?" asked Grievous.
"Well" Emotion started."There are three things it could be."
"A it could be some sort of spider-like creature that hitched a ride on our ship, B it could be a parasitic creature that hatched from one of the eggs we've discovered and is impregnating the spy with an embryo, or C the clone spy could have been some sort of alien spy hired to well spy on us or it could be the fourth option I've considered which is that it's the clones actual face." Emotion answered as he poked the creature with his club.
Grievous looked at the captain before returning his gaze to the clone.
"Well since we're not going to be able to interrogate the spy now" Grievous said "You may proceed with killing the spy captain,"
"Really?" Emotion asked excitingly
"Yes," answered Grievous
Captain Emotion drew out his hand held zap cannon and pointed it at the clone's head.
"You may want to stand back a little." Emotion said as his zap canon charged up to full power.
"Wait, Captain, I think it moved!" Number 1 exclaimed as he pointed at the creature.
"What moved the thing or the clone?" Asked Emotion
"The spider thing," Number 1 answered
Number 1 was right for the spiders tail had began to uncoil from the clone's neck. They all stepped back as the creature began to lift itself off the clone's face. Number 1 was going to shot the creature but before he could it fell to the floor and its legs curled up as if it was dead. The captain grabbed the creature by its tail and held it up to his face to examine it.
"It's dead." Emotion said as he continued to examine the creature
"And the clone?" Asked Grievous
"Unconscious, probably," Answered Emotion.
"Then you can forget your new orders and move the clone to the interrogation room," Grievous ordered as he stepped away from the clone, putting his arms behind his back and walking away
"As you wish, my lord," Emotion said angrily, his head turning to anger, as he bowed.
"You two garb the clone and take him to the interrogation room," Ordered Number 2, as he pointed at two of the security droids.
"Rodger, Rodger," Answered the security droids as they grabbed the clone be his arms.
Captain Emotion followed the general as Number 1, 2 and the security droids followed him dragging the unconscious spy. As they walked down the hallway to the interrogation room the clone had regained consciousness.
"Ug" moaned the clone painfully
"Oh be quite you we haven't even started beating the information out of you yet, so there's no need to act like you're in pain. Unless you want me to cause you pain," Emotion said cheerfully
"The pain in my chest is unbearable. I'd be better off.." the clone began but was interrupted by a fit of painful coughs.
As the clone continued to cough Emotion noticed a little bit of blood come out of his mouth.
"Wait," Emotion sighed
"What is it Captain?" Grievous asked as he and the other droids stopped.
"We're not going to be able to any information out of him with him coughing like this. I need to check if there is anything wrong with his chest." Emotion answered as he bent down next to the clone.
Emotion put his hand on the clone's chest when he felt something verily faintly hit the chest armor and his hand followed by a faint cracking sound. Emotion's head switched to sad as leaned in close to hear if there was anything moving behind the clone's chest armor. There was another cracking sound this time much louder. The captain removed his hand to see a series of cracks and some blood flowing through the cracks. The captain stood up and backed away from the clone his head switching to fear. The cracking sounds began to get louder as the cracks in the clone's armor got bigger and the clone's cries of pain increased in volume. Then suddenly something burst through the clone's armor covered in his blood.
The creature stayed in the clone's chest, its head searching the room. The creature then suddenly screeched and slithered away. The captain was able to get a good enough glance to see that creature resembled some sort of snake-like creature. The clone's head hanged limp obviously dead. The general was the first speak.
"Well since we can no longer interrogate the spy. I want that creature found," Grievous ordered
"Right then, Number 1 I need you to go and get an organic creature cage, Number 2 I need you to go my quarters and get my stun gun from the bottom drawer of my desk and I am going to need the clone's armor." Emotion ordered agreeing with the general, as he began to remove the clone's armor.
"No! We're doing this my way. I want squads of four to search every room, hallway and air vent, I want this thing found and alive," Grievous ordered angrily.
General Grievous turned and left heading for the bridge. Once the general was gone, Emotion's head switched from happy to angry and continue to strip the clone of his armor.
"Um sir?" asked Number 1.
"The general has given us new orders shouldn't we obey them?" asked Number 2.
"Yes, but his plan is bound to fail," Emotion answered, a hint of irritation in his voice
"We have no idea how dangerous or intelligent this creature is," Emotion started
"And sending search parties to find this creature will only provoke it" Emotion continued "Since I have experience with hunting our galaxy most dangerous creatures my plan will most likely work, so continue with the orders I gave you and the orders the general has given,"
"Rodger, Rodger." 1 and 2 said together
"Wait, what are you going to do?" asked Number 2.
"Well I'm going to go change into character after all I'm the bait." Emotion said as he walked off with the clone's armor, his head back on happy.
"Wait! What do you want us to do with the body?" asked Number 1, shouting after the captain
"Just put it back in the OOSR or something I plan on using it to feed the creature when we capture it," Emotion shouted back.
Number 1 and 2 looked down at the now naked corpse of the spy. Number 2 shudder a bit at the sight of clone without his armor on, Number 2 nor his brother knew what the captain and the imposter droid Identity found so fascinating about the organic creatures.
"You two take the corpse back to the OOSR," ordered Number 1
The two security droids who were originally dragging the spy to the interrogation room nodded and grabbed the body heading in the direction they had originally came from.
Number 1 and 2 left to go get the things the captain had requested. As they walked down the hallway Number 2 pulled out his radio and told all battle droids to get in groups of four and search every room, hallway and air vent for the creature.
Four battle droids stepped out of the elevator into the engine room. The engine room was large with the ship's nuclear reactor in center of the room. There were also several cables running from the reactor to smaller generators that transferred the power to the rest of the ship. There were several tubes that lead from the nuclear reactor to the wall behind it into another room inside; this room was several tanks containing a coolant fluid. There was also a door to the side that led to the backup generator.
"Alright let's split up" said one battle droid. "You two search the coolant fluid room,"
"Rodger, Rodger," Said the other two battle droids
The two battle droids headed towards the coolant room while the other two went to search the room with the backup generator. As the two battle droids reached the door to the backup generator one noticed what appeared to be shredded skin, but ignored it and with the other droid to search the backup engine room.
Resting on the pipes leading to the coolant room was a creature hidden by the shadows. It raised its head at the sound of feet approaching. The creature watched as the two mechanical creatures approach the door to the coolant room.
"Stay here and guard the door while I search the room," Said one of the battle droids at it walked thought the door.
The other droid nodded and turned its back to the door.
The creature stood on the pipe on all fours and quietly made its way to the wall. It crawled on the wall until it was over the droid and it reached out and grabbed the droid, its sharp claws digging into its body. It then quickly pulled up the droid, dragging it to ceiling, as the battle droid shot several blaster bolts from its blaster rifle. The battle droid, who had heard the blaster fire, came running out of the coolant room. When the body of the droid dragged away by the creature dropped from the ceiling. Before the battle droid could shot or call for backup the creature appeared behind the droid and slashed the droid's head off with a swipe of its claws.
The other two battle droids that were searching the backup generator came running after hearing the gun fire and thud of the bodies. They approached the two destroyed battle droid body.
"Commander 1 and 2 we have two down battle droids require back up," Said one of the droids over the radio COM.
"Have you made contact with the creature?" asked number 2
"Affermit-." started the droid but before he could finish a tail with a sharp spike came out of the shadows and implied the droid.
The other battle droid fired at the shadows hoping to hit the creature but the creature was to fast and the tail had disappeared as fast as it had appeared.
"Battle droid 596 what is going on down there, do you read me?" Asked number 2 shouting thought his radio allowing his voice to be heard by the still active com link.
The reaming battle droid searched room the trying to find the strange attacker. The droid's feet where suddenly grabbed by the creature, which yanked him to the floor before finishing him, off by stabbing the droid with its tail. The creature then retreated into the shadow and crawled through an air vent in the ceiling.
General Grievous stood over the bodies of the four battle droids as Number 1, 2 and some other battle droids were searching the other rooms for the creature. He heard the sound of the elevator door opening followed by footstep but continued to examining the bodies. It was Captain Emotion who had arrived, wearing the clone spy's armor, his head now resembling a robotic human skull with one yellow eye, the other red and the spy's helmet tucked under is left arm.
"Well?" asked Grievous.
"Well a creature defiantly did this." answered Emotion.
"I figured but what kind of creature?" asked Grievous.
"Ether our little snake creature that burst from the spy's chest is stronger than we thought or we picked up more than just a clone spy." answered Emotion, while searching his data banks to match the claw marks on the droids to one of the many creatures he's seen and captured.
Number 1 came through the door that led from the coolant room.
"Nothing in the coolant room sirs." reported Number 1.
"And nothing in the engine room but I did find this." Number 2 reported as he approached, holding something in his hand.
"Hmm it appears to be a cocoon of some sort or shredded skin," Emotion told them with curiosity in his voice, as he took the object from Number 2's hand and examined it.
"Which means?" Asked Grievous
"Which means our little chestburster has grown into an adult." answered Emotion.
"Double the searches" Ordered Grievous "I want this thing found,"
"No mean to offend you general but simply doubling the searches will not catch us this creature. From what I can tell, just from this attack, is that this creature is very intelligent and stealthy so we move from plan A to plan B aka the plan we should have used as soon as the thing burst out of the spies' chest aka my plan-." Emotion stated as his emotions switch very quickly from happy to anger than back to happy before being cut off by the general.
"NO! Captain I will not let you order me around or let you tell me how intelligent a stupid animal is," Grievous said very angrily nearly take the head off of a nearby battle droid.
"Well since when did you become an expert on organic creatures? Last time I checked I was the only one qualified enough to handle this situation. In fact I'd say I'm more qualified then you general. If you weren't Dooku's little slave girl, you wouldn't even be needed here!" Emotion shouted angrily his red eye glowing an even darker red than usual.
"Watch your tongue, Emotion, as Supreme Commander of the Droid Army, I out rank and can have you offlined for good," Grievous told him, rising to his full height.
"Oh please, you were only given that position because I wasn't around then" Emotion told him, not backing down. "We both know I'm the better leader,"
"I should kill you right now, Emotion," Grievous told him, reaching for one of his lightsabers.
"Ha, you can't even beat Skywalker's little apprentice, how do you expect to beat me? You think you're so high and mighty because Dooku trained you how to use a lightsaber, but yet you can barely beat a youngling in a duel! I don't know who to be more disappointed in, Count Dooku or you, Qymaen jai Sheelal, a demigod among the Kaleesh, who can be defeated by a mere child," Emotion taunted.
Grievous glared down at, Emotion and was about to strike the emotional droid when he was interrupted by a loud beeping noise that began to come from the Capitan's armor. The captain opened the panel and female sounding voice began to come out from the panel.
"Captain?" Asked the female voice.
"What!?" Emotion asked, still angry.
"Your anger level is off the charts and if you counting with this anger you may have to use more of the Anger Emotion Fluid than usual until it is drained resulting in the inability to use the emotion anger and possibly resulting in an immediate shut down procedure until the AEF is refilled. Also an unknown organic reading has been detected in the OOSR," answered the voice.
"Oh well we wouldn't want that to happen and thank you for the location of the creature computer." Emotion said sadly, as his head switched to sad at the thought of shutting down.
"Your welcome, James," said the computer.
"Anyways as I was about to say the most logical way to capture this creature is to trick it, using its predator instincts to capture it. If this plan fails we'll go back to your plan general," Emotion said calmly as he closed the panel on his armor.
Grievous didn't answer, he wanted nothing more than to strike Emotion down for his insubordination, but since his masters still saw the droid as "useful" he would be punished severely for killing the emotional droid before he had used up his usefulness.
Finally Grievous answered "Very well captain, but what will we use as bait?"
"Well me of course." Emotion answered his voice sounding more like a clone's.
Emotion tuned on his heel, headed for the elevator and entered as it opened.
"Be ready with the trap, general, I'll report the position of the creature to you every time it moves." Emotion said his voice still sounding like the clones as he put on the helmet.