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They had about an hour until the general arrived. Acher was turning the thermostat for the General's quarters down; while he was doing this he randomly thought of the song, "I feel good" by James Brown. He finished doing that and headed out to help another brother fix her door so it would lock after she entered it. It'd be like walking into a freezer. Another brother was "Fixing" her piping so that when she turned on the water for the sink the pipes would burst. Another brother turned the hot water off for the shower. They left the room smirking and chuckling. This was all they could do until she actually got on the ship. They headed out for the training room and waited for her to get there. They didn't have to wait long. She came on board and walked straight to the training room (they had arranged to meet there).
"Hi; what are your names?"
"C7-29931."
"Your names, not numbers; I already know Commander Acher."
"This is: Marksman, Tiger, Grate, Exhaust, Alarm, Net, Base, Fisk, Malo, Breeze, Egare, Feo, Lang, Cato, Jek, Light, Sand, Merly, Sharp, Neon, Fly, Shot, Pin, Clip, Abre, Fletcher, Laurie, Flip, Fuz, Dick, Tre, Fla, Kerr, Topper, Trip, Zipline, Gun, Wooder, Danze, Quru, Ooze, Valve, Growl, Dark, Canto, Deeper, Canner, Bilt, Zeek, Didg, and Log."
"Nice to meet you all. I'm sure this will be the start of something good."
"Not for the reason you think," Ooze whispered to Canto, who almost lost it. The men managed to hold their laughter in until she left. Then they died of laughter.
"Come on guys," Merly said. "I want to see her find out about our little… project." They sneaked down the hall, a hard thing to do for clones wearing full body armor, and waited down a little further from her quarters. They heard the door shut and chuckled to themselves and listened closely.
"Oh, my word! Why is it like a freezer in here?" They heard her try the door, "Oh, great, the door is stuck shut." They heard some other noises and soon the swish of a door opening. Then they heard footsteps moving toward the room where they controlled the thermostat for each room.
"It's almost time to head to the mess. What do ya say we do something to her food?"
"None o' us know done know nothing about food, Fletcher. How we gonna do anything to 'er food?" asked Laurie.
"Flip does; I bet he could do anything to her food. Ain't that right Flip."
"Yeah, that's right. Let's head to the mess and see what we can cook up for our General." They all smiled and headed to the mess. A few minutes later Del walked in and got her food.
"General," Abre called (he's a ventriloquist). Del stood up and walked out, leaving her food there. Flip sneaked over and put some stuff on her food and sneaked back. Del walked back in looking puzzled. She ate her food without a word and walked back to her room. The troops followed a little behind her. When they got close to her quarters they could hear retching. The troops could barely contain their laughter. Things were going as planned. They heard the water for the sink turn on and the pipes burst. They decided to head back to the barracks before they started laughing to loud and the General figured out what was happening. Once in the safety of the barracks they laughed so hard they got tears in their eyes.
"Man that was AWESOME! Way to go Flip," Exhaust yelled.
"Yeah, I don't want to know what you put on her food, but that was amazing!" Dick said.
"Can't wait until she tries to take a shower," Acher said. "She'll freeze to death."
"Yeah; that'll be funny!" They spent most of the rest of that night talking about what they would do the next day. They eventually fell asleep of sheer exhaustion. However, Grate didn't sleep for long; he hadn't been able too since his first mission with General Katona. They were going on a suicide mission and Grate was almost killed. He only survived due to the fact that Flip and Dick drug him along. Almost every time he fell asleep fire and smoke would surround him and he would relive it. He woke at about 0500 and couldn't get back to sleep so he wondered around the ship. There was no noise except the humming of the engines. When he got close to the training room he began hearing humming noises that didn't sound like the normal hum of the engines. He sneaked up to the room quietly and peered in. There was the General fighting an imaginary enemy. Why is she up this early? he wondered. The other generals had never gotten up this early by choice. He walked in the room silently; noticing her eyes were closed. Watching her fight was like watching a dance. If you took away the lightsaber she could be a dancer at a cantina. All too soon the dance was over and she opened her eyes, looked straight at him, and smiled.
"Did you like it?" she asked.
"You knew I was here?" he asked feeling surprised.
"Yes, I sensed you come in."
"Begging your pardon, but why are you here? None of the other Generals got up this early."
"I couldn't sleep, so I figured I'd do something rather than lie there and hope to sleep. Why are you up this early?"
"I couldn't sleep either," he replied.
"Excited for the mission?"
"Yeah," he said, not telling the whole truth.
She smiled wanly, "I know what that's like. I'm going to spar some more. You can stay if you like."
"Might as well work out while I'm here; no sense in wasting time." He worked on his maneuvers until it was 0600.
"I should be going Grate. The rest of men should be getting up soon. I'll see you later." He was surprised she remembered his name.
"See you General; oh and yes." She looked at him quizzically. "You asked me if I liked your fighting." She smiled warmly in return and walked toward her room. He followed to hear if she could comment about the shower water. She turned on the water but didn't yell or do anything that would make him think she realized it was all cold. Odd, he thought, maybe she doesn't feel hot or cold. But then she wouldn't have realized her room was cold. He dismissed his thoughts and headed back to the barracks.