A/N: alright here's my first Star Wars fanfic. Don't flame me!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Star Wars. Just my two OCs.
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The sky was dark as the rain came down with no sign of stopping anytime soon. Such was the scene outside the windows of the old hous that she called home. Not even her favorite show, The Lenged Of Korra could keep the worry from her thoughts of her best friend. She had looked paler and struggled to stay awake repeatedly throughout the day. Good thing I suggested that she sneak out come see me tonight. But where is she? She was supposed to be here an hour and a half ago. She thought puzzled.
A flash outside the window of fire and smoke caught her attention. Seems like it's about to get a lot more interesting. She thought with a wry smile. She watched whatever it was impact the ground about a mile away from the front of the home. But it continued to burn after impact.
Now that definitely caught her attention.
She frowned and grabbed an M-16 from 1980 that her Uncle had given her after her father and mother passed in a car crash just two years prior. He hadn't wanted her to still live there with some form of protection. He was gone now as well. The cancer he had finally claimed him.
She grabbed a rain coat and his old army helmet he had during the Vietnam War before grabbing a pair of keys to a Subaru Outback that was in the garage. Once inside the car she quickly turned it over and made it down to beaten path towards the things crash site before going off road the rest of the way there for about a quarter of a mile.
Once she was in 300 yards the woods were to thick and she went out on foot, but not before making sure the M-16 was cocked before exiting the car. She made the rest of the way towards whatever it was with caution. Once it was fifty yards away she crouched and approached as quietly as she could. The sight that meet her was not what she was expecting at all. Quite the opposite really.
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It had only been 4 standard days since General Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano has returned Jabba's kidnapped son to him. He sighed. Commander Cody looked over at Captain Rex when he heard the sigh escape him. He was like Skywalker in his opinion, he never was able to be still for long. But the were escorting some valuable medical supplies that Coric was in charge of that were aboard the frigate Cyclone.
The alarm that alerted them to the arrival of the rendezvous point with the Resolute caught their attention as Corric joined them on the bridge. The ship jolted as it emerged from hyperspace only to see the Resolute driving off a Separatist cruiser off.
Immediately after they emerged a wing of Vulture Droids swarmed the frigate rocking it with laser fire as the cruiser opened fire on them as well.
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On the bridge of the Resolute Anakin Skywalker watched as the batteries on the Venator class Star Destroyer ripped apart the Separatist ship. It blazed with several fires raging on it as smoke billowed from it. He glanced down to his side and saw his Padawan Ahsoka Tano was standing next to him, mirroring the way he stood.
Her baby blue eyes watched the battle with interest and curiosity. She was quickly absorbing everything around her as the battle that was raging drew closer to its close.
A single beeping alert caught Anakin's attention as he turned around to face the clone manning the station where the alert came from.
"Ship coming out of hyperspace, Sir. It's the Cyclone." The clone called out.
Anakin blinked at his words as the ship emerged from hyperspace. His eyes widened as the droids attacked it and the burning cruiser in front of them fired upon it as well. Seems like the droids are determined to at least take a few of us with them. Anakin thought with a grimace.
"Get some fighter cover over there, now! And tell them to dock immediately." Anakin quickly commanded.
"Sir, Yes Sir!" Came the quick response. He watched as a wing of republic fighters broke off and went after the Vulture Droids that were attacking the frigate.
"Master, what is abroad that frigate? It seems rather important." Ahsoka asked him, her head tilted slightly to the left.
"It has medical supplies and food onboard. Rex, Cody and Coric are also on that frigate Snips."
"Why?"
"Cody thought that it would be easier since to just come with Rex and Coric since Obi-Wan is already on the Resolute. Then once they dock we can start the debriefing." Anakin supplied to her.
Ahsoka nodded in response to what her Master had said. It did make sense after all. Her eyes widened as the frigate shook from a hard hit from the enemy cruiser.
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Back on the bridge of the Cyclone Rex watched as a hard hit from the droid cruiser rocked the entire ship. The droid starfighters continued to swarm the ship and one hit from the droids hit dangerously close the window surrounding the bridge. The following explosion knocked both pilots out and one of them fell foward onto the control panel causing the hyperdrive to activate.
"The hyperdrive is powering up!" Rex called from where he had braced himself on the right side of the bridge.
"Shut it down!" Cody called back his voice laced with worry and a bit of panic.
"I can't!" Rex shouted. Just after he said that another hard hit to the ship knocked Rex into the panel making him twist the ship a bit as the hyperdrive continued to power up. "Coric, contact the General and tell him what's happened before we go to light speed!"
Corric immediately turned to the communication panel and made contact with the Resolute. A hologram of General Skywalker with Ahsoka at his side. "Coric?"
"General, the ship took a hit and the hyperdrive got activated! We'll try to contact you when we can. We have no idea what else is damaged." He quickly rushed out and watched as the two Jedi's eyes widened. He glanced out the window as the stars began to streak by and he knew that now, now they were on their own.
"We should make sure that nothing else is damaged before we try to exit hyperspace and make contact with the republic." Rex said with air of finality. Cody and Coric both agreed with him.
Before he left Coric checked on the pilots and found that both of them had no pulse. Most likely blunt force trauma. He thought grimly. He then followed Cody and Rex to do an inspection of the ship.
As he caught up to them as they entered in the engine room. Rex grabbed a data pad and ran a diagnostic on the engine and control panels. Several errors came back and he let out a curse. "Blast it! The fuel for sunlight engines is leaking and we have little to no steering." Rex told the others as they both shared a glance with each other with Rex was sure mirrored his expression at the news. "Make sure that everything else is working right, then we'll figure what to do from there."
Cody and Coric both nodded before going to do exactly that. It didn't take them long. Life support was still working perfectly fine and the comms while damaged were still operational. They meet up with Rex who was going over everything in the bridge as he checked on things from there. "Shields are still fine but only from the front half of the ship. The rear shields are gone." Rex told them as he sat down in one of the pilots seats.
"Life support is still fully operational and the comms while damaged are still operational. Long range comms are a bit splotchy but are otherwise fine." Cody told him as Coric sat down in the seat behind Rex.
"Alright, let's figure out what the nearest inhabited planet is and go from there." Coric suggested to the other two who nodded their agreement. Rex turned around as Cody and Coric came up from behind him to look over his shoulder as he watched the charts before realizing that they had some how ended up in the unknown regions.
"Great" Coric said as he stretched out the word great "We have absolutely no idea where we are or headed." He stated with mock cheerfulness.
"Couldn't we set the scanner for life? That way we could find a planet that might be able to help." Cody suggested aloud.
"That could work." Rex said as he spun his chair back around to control panel. "Let's do it." He then set to setting the scanner to highest sensitivity to life. They all waited for the scanners to hopefully pick up on something.
8 hours later Rex checked the charts and saw that they were now deep into the Unknown Regions. He sighed and rubbed his face wearily. He nearly shot out of his chair when the scanner began beeping frantically. He whipped around to see what the scanner had picked up. They were still two hours out from the system where the scanner had picked up life and his eyes widened at that. The readings are massive! Rex thought.
He turned around and nudged Cody's shoulder and Coric came back into the bridge from using the refresher. He looked at the groggy Cody and then to the wide eyed Rex. "What happened?"
"The scanner found life! It picked it up from about two hours out from.." Rex stopped speaking as he turned around to a new scanner alert that caught everyone's attention.
"Radio Signals?" Cody question aloud.
"Yeah but they're barely noticeable. Really the only reason we picked them up is because all of the scanners picked it up is because they are all set to the highest sensitivity."
"So there's most likely intelligent life then. Do you think they'll be able to help us?" Coric mused aloud.
"That is the question isn't?" Cody replied rhetorically. Rex and Coric both nodded. Cody was right, that is the question. Can they help them get back to the Republic?
"Guess we have little choice but to find out don't we?" Rex responded wryly. The others nodded and sat down to prepare. "Put your helmets on just in case the landing gets rough." Rex told them as he put his back on and strapped himself in.
Two hours later they were preparing to come out of hyperspace. They reset the power manually and the ship emerged from hyperspace and not far from a pale moon that was orbiting a planted that reminded them of a lot of Naboo. But at the same time it was different because they could see a large stop of land that was mostly desert.
Rex used what little steering he had to maneuver the ship towards one of the forested lands. He sighed once he realized that he wasn't going to be able to avoid the storm in the atmosphere. He let out a curse as the ship suddenly rocked violently and it listed to the right. "Hold on! It's gonna be rough!" He shouted.
As the Cyclone entered the atmosphere it quickly began to heat up in the back where the shields were gone. It's creaked and groaned as the heat intensified until it eventually caught fire nears the engines which soon burst into flames themselves.
Inside the cockpit they all felt it shudder from the heat that ripped its way through the engine causing them to explode. "Put the deflector fields on double front!" Rex barked at Cody who scrambled to do so as the ride down got even rougher.
Just as he put the shields on, lightning struck the ship rocking it again causing its power to go it. "The power went out!" Coric called out with panic beginning to leap into his voice.
"We are going down, Brace for impact!" Rex shouted as the ship lurched and fell from the sky. They watched as the ship quickly approached a thick forest before it smashed into the trees and slammed into the ground. It grounded to a halt after 200 yards.
Once the ship stopped moving they all groaned and unbuckled themselves from their seats and began to move to get out of the now sparking ship. They exited the ship and into the rain as it continued to come down.
Coric went back into the ship and after a few minutes came back out. "Well the comms are down but I think we can fix them. The ship is obviously a goner but the meadical supplies and food are alright." He ignored the rain as it continued to come down, rapidly turning the dirt around the ship into mud.
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The last thing she was expecting was a spaceship that had crashed on her property.
Satellite? Yes. Spaceship? Definitely not.
She hear one of them saying "Well the comms are down but I think we can fix them. The ship is obviously a goner but the medical supplies and food are alright."
She decided that this would've her moment to make her move. They would be distracted by what that one said to them. She shot out from behind the trees and bushes with her assault rifle at the ready.
"FREEZE!" She shouted with the most authoritative voice that she could muster.
The three men whipped around to see a crouched figure just above them with a weapon pointed at them. The one with an odd piece of armor that stretched out to go past the left shoulder. The one of that man's left had a visor on his helmet while the third didn't have any extra pieces of armor on. The second one of closer inspection had what appeared to be a radio wire sticking out from his shoulder.
They all raised their hands carefully as the figure's vibrant amazon eyes stared at them with apprehension. "We could use some help. We need to be able to contact the Republic but not might have the tools necessary to repair our broken communications. You wouldn't know how to fix it would you?" Said the one with the odd armor.
"Shouldn't the first question be where are we?" Said the one with the plain armor.
"He's right Rex." The one with the radio attena said in agreement with the other one.
She could hear the one called Rex sigh as he looked at her. "Where are we?"
Before she could respond a flash of light illuminated the entire area followed shortly by a roll of thunder. She gritted her teeth before replying in a tone that left no room for argument. "Earth. We need to get out of this weather. Follow me." She went to turn around before she suddenly whipped back around. "Try anything and I'll shoot you." And with that she made her way back through the forest towards her car.
Her smooth voice had an accent they had never heard before. They all looked at each other before they followed her to wherever she was going. They continued further into the woods and after about 300 yards them came upon what to them appeared to be a strange looking speeder.
"That doesn't look like any speeder I've ever seen." Rex simply stated.
"Speeder? It's called a car now get in. I want to go home." She told them as she opened the door and climbed into the driver seat. They all looked at each other before getting into themselves. The next few minutes were quiet as she drove them back to her home. She turned back onto the road and drove back to the house rather fast. She was now very worried about her best friend who still hadn't shown up yet.
She pulled into the garage and turned off the car. She then made her way into the house with the strange men still following her. She hoped that her friend was alright. With her hist- "What's your name?"
The voice broke her out of her thoughts and she turned to see who had asked and it was the one they had called Rex. She could now see that his armor had blue paint on it while the guy with the radio attena had gold paint on his. The third one also had blue paint on his armor so she assumed they were from the same unit. "Skylar Watson."
"Nice to meet you. I'm Rex. This is Cody." He said whil he pointed to the gold painted armor. "And this is Coric." He said as he pointed to the other man. They all removed their helmets and she was suprised that they all had the same face. Rex had blonde hair. Cody had black hair and a scar by his left eye. Coric was bald and had a scar going over his left eye.
The girl in front of them had vibrant amazon green eyes with auburn hair that stopped at her shoulders and was dyed platinum at the ends. The dye ran up about an inch from the ends of her hair before her natural auburn hair began. She stood at 5,8 and had a toned arms from what they could see. She was wearing black pants made out of a material they had never seen before and a dark blue sleeveless shirt. Her arms were well toned as she crossed them before leveling them with a look that said they had some explaining to do.
"We were returning to the Resloute, which is General Skywalker's flagship, when we were attacked by enemy forces. Our hyperdrive was activated which caused us to go to light speed with out putting in any proper coordinates to jump to. The ship was badly damaged and our scanners picked up life here so we thought we would land here and try to repair the ship. But it was more badly damaged than we thought and a lightning strike disabled what was left of the ship and we crashed." Cody explained.
Skylar thought about before she let out a sigh. "You can stay here but I doubt that anyone here will be able to fix it. You best chance is to try to contact your people to come and get you. Are you guys brothers?"
Coric chuckled at the question as he answered it. "You could say that. We're clones mam."
"Just call me Skye please. That's different but you're from space so I guess it's possible." She said as she crossed her arms and leaned against the wall.
She moved into a large room that had a dark stained wood floor with a massive rug that had a small couch on it with a coffe tabled in front of the couch. In front of the coffee table was a large TV on a TV stand. To the left of the small couch was a large couch. On the right of the small couch was another large couch. In between the the couches were a recliner in each gap. "You sit where you like but the center one. That one isn't actually mine."
"Where's your family kid?" Cody asked.
"Dead. I inherited their fortune." Skye said bluntly.
"Oh. I'm sorry."
Skye waved off his apology with a lazy wave of her hand. "Don't worry about it. Thought I'd appreciate it if you would take off your armor. I'd rather not have to mop because you guys tracked mud everywhere. My Dad was about you guy's size so his clothes might fit. It's up the stairs." She pointed to a spiral staircase that could fit three people on it. "It's the hall on the left first door on the left."
They nodded and made their way over to the stairs with Cody leading the way. As soon as his foot hit the halfway mark on the stairs when four loud knocks sounded from the front door. Skye frowned when she heard the knocking and then turned back to the three clones and showed them up the stairs.
She made her way over to the double wood doors at the front of the house. She was rather curious as to who would have walked to the her home in this weather. She pulled the door open to reveal a shivering figure who's nearly luminescent turquoise eyes snapped open as soon as the door opened.
Skylar's eyes widened considerably when she saw the shivering form of her best friend. She quickly grabbed the girl's arms and dragged her inside with a startled and worried cry of "Sierra!"
Sierra nearly collapsed as she was pulled inside the home and into Skylar's arms. Skye caught her before she could collapse though. "S-s-sor-sorry I'm l-late." She winced as she tried to stand again and Skye noticed that she was favoring her right leg. Her face was sporting a nasty bruise on her left cheek and she had a black eye on her right side. Her lip was busted and had dried blood still on it. She had an arm wrapped around her middle as well.
Skye sighed and without warning picked up her bridal style causing Sierra to yelp in surprise as Skye carried her towards the room they shared when Sierra stayed over. She left set her down on the bed and made a beeline for the bathroom. Once inside she tossed a towel at Serria to dry herself off with a bit. While she was doing that Skye went to the closet and pulled out a pair of dark green cargo pants and a dark purple long sleeve shirt. She also grabbed her a pair underwear and a sports bra. She then brought them to Sierra before going back in the closet to find the leather long coat that Serria had accidentally left there from 4 days ago. By the time she found it and brought it out, Sierra had finished changing but her shivering hadn't changed at all.
Skye took in her friend's form and frowned. She was clearly in pain and most definitely injured. She could hardly stand as it was. She could tell she was absolutely exhausted.
"Sierra." The turquoise eyed girl looked up at her name being called. "He had some friends over didn't he?" It was more of a statement than a question. She watched as Skye walked over to her and sat down next to her on the bed before she pulled her into a strong hug. In the safety of Skye's arms she finally let the tears fall. She could here Skye whispering in her ear. "I'm here, I'm here Sierra. I've gotcha ya. I'll never let you go."
Skye listened to her friends nearly inaudible sobs as she held her close. She wanted to strangle that man and his friends. How dare they treat her like that? Like some sort of plaything? She was pulled out of her vengeful thoughts when she felt Serria shift and then hiss in pain. "Come on. Let's go back downstairs and I'll make you some peppermint hot chocolate, Okay?" Skye said as she cupped Sierra's face with her hand. Serria leaned into the touch and nodded.
Skye scooped her up bridal style and Sierra let out a small squeak. Serria leaned her head against Skye's shoulder as she carried her downt he stairs to where the smaller couch was at. She set her down on the couch before pulling the weighted blanket that was on top of the couch off. She then preceded to cover Sierra with it before she wandered off to the kitchen to make some peppermint hot chocolate.
When she came back to where she had left Sierra she set down the mug on the coffee table in front of her. "Don't leave." She froze at the request from Sierra. "Hold me?" That question caught her off guard because it was rare for Sierra to ask for that.
Skye nodded in response and gently helped Sierra sit up a bit and she slid in behind her on the couch. Once stretched out on the couch she pulled Sierra into her so her head was resting just under her chin before settling the blanket down on top of them. Skye left her arms wrapped around Sierra's midriff as the girl began to relax in her arms.
Skylar grabbed the remote to the TV from the coffee tablets glanced down at the turquoise eyed girl. Sierra was struggling to stay awake at the moment. "Watch what you want." Skye didn't reply but turned the TV back onto The Legend Of Korra which she had on demand. She could feel Sierra silently laugh as it began.
Cody followed by Rex then Coric came down the stairs at that moment which quickly caught Sierra's attention. Skye felt her tense up the moment she spotted them. "Who's that?" Rex asked causing the other two clones to look over at the couch.
"Relax. I believe we can trust them." Skye whispered into Sierra's ear. "This is my best friend." She answered simply.
They watched as her nearly luminescent turquoise eyes watched them warily. They glanced back at Skye who smiled before going back to them. Her smooth silk like voice cut across the room with an accent that reminded them of General Kenobi. "Sierra Fox."
"Nice to meet you, Sierra. I'm Rex, this is Cody and this is Coric." Rex told her as he pointed to the others.
"Where are you from?" She asked them.
Coric on the other hand was trying not to go into medic mode as he could see the girl's bruises. He could see that Skye was gently running a hand through the Sierra's dirty blonde hair which seemed to help calm her. "Kamino. But that's part of the Galactic Republic so I guess you could say the Republic."
They all watched as her eyes widened considerably before she looked up at Skye with a questioning look. "Their ship crashed on the property and I brought them back here since the ship is toast. You know more about mechanics than I do." She explained and Sierra quickly got the meaning of what she meant.
"Okay." Was Sierra said as she pulled out a pocket watch and checked the time.
"Don't worry about that since we don't have school tomorrow. You want to eat out or in?"
"Out." Was the quick response from Sierra.
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"Blast! Plot a course along their last known trajectory." Anakin quickly ordered as the droid cruiser in front of them broke apart in a firey mess. He watched from the bridge as the ventral hanger doors closed.
He turned when he heard the doors open to reveal his good friend Obi-Wan Kenobi. "I though that ship was supposed to have docked by now?" He asked as he entered the bridge.
"It was. But the hyperdrive got activated when the Separatists opened fire on it. Now we have no idea where they went."
"Well we can figure that out later. The Council want us back on Coruscant immediately. They want a full debrief with Senator Amidala too."
"We can't leave them behind and they need our help!"
"We won't and they will get it, but first we need to have a fully supplied ship and be back at fighting strength just in case. For now we need to rest Anakin." Obi-Wan gently told him with a hand on his former padawan.
Anakin let out a breath and nodded back. "Admiral, set course for Coruscant."
Admiral Yularen nodded in response and shortly afterwards the stars blurred together and the ship jumped to light speed with haste towards Coruscant.
It wasn't long til they were exiting hyperspace before descending into the planets upper atmosphere. They quickly took a shuttle to the Jedi Temple where they landed in its hanger. Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka made their way to one of the war rooms for a debriefing.
They came upon the room where the debriefing was taking place in and Obi-Wan opened the door. Inside was the entire council along with Senator Amidala who smiled as soon as she noticed Anakin. He gave her a soft smile as he noticed her smiling at him.
"Troubles you, something does." Master Yoda said as he gazed upon their faces.
"Yes Master Yoda. The frigate Cyclone emerged from hyperspace during a battle with a Separatist cruiser. During the battle the ship was badly damaged and the hyperdrive was activated by accident and they were unable to shut it down. That ship had valuable intel on like were the medical supplies were heading. We can't let the Separatists get their hands on that information." Anakin informed them. He watched as they all nodded in agreement.
"We need to find a way to find that ship." Master Windu said with his stern expression. Anakin walked up the the table and punched in a few commands. A hologram of the galaxy appeared in front of them.
"They were last seen heading in this direction." He said as he pointed to a pint on the map. "Unfortunately the Unknown Regions are also in that direction. To put it bluntly we have no ideas if they or us can contact them and no ideas where they might be." Anakin finished as he leaned with both hands on the table.
"Find them, we should." Master Yoda said with a thoughtful expression. The others all nodded in agreement. "Find them, we shall."