Mando enters the room and spots Cordelia tied to the table. He moves to her side and checks her wrist for a pulse. Once he finds it, he quickly cuts the restraints and gently shakes her. When he sees the deep cut across her cheek he grows even angrier at the Client and his stormtroopers.
"Cordelia? You need to wake up." He says as she starts to stir. She groans and opens her eyes.
"Mando?" She says. He nods.
"Can you walk? We need to go get the kid." He says. He helps her move to the edge of the table and stand. She stands for a moment on her own before she sways. He quickly catches her. "Hold on." He tells her.
"I like the new armor." She says, making him chuckle. He wraps an arm around her waist, putting her arm over his shoulder.
"Can you shoot?" He asks, holding out his blaster. She grabs it and moves her arm around.
"I think so." She says. He nods.
"Let's go." Mando says. They leave the room and move through the halls. Cordelia shoots the stormtrooper outside the door with the Child, then the keypad next to it. The door opens, revealing a stormtrooper. It fires and Mando turns his body to shield Cordelia so the laser hits his new armor instead of her. He moves to give her a clear shot and she shoots the stormtrooper. She aims it at the man from earlier.
"No, no, no, no, please. Please. No. No, no." The man says, raising a hand towards them. She moves and fires at the droid. It drops to the ground and she aims at the man again. "No, please. Please don't hurt him. It's just a child." He says. Mando moves them forward, towards the man. "Please. No. No! Please. No. No, no." Mando grabs the man and shoves him to the ground.
The two look down at the Child, asleep in whatever machine they put him in. Cordelia points the gun at the man again, glaring at him.
"What did you do to him?" She asks.
"What did you do?" Mando adds, louder and more aggressively after the man doesn't answer her.
"I protected him. I protected him. If it wasn't for me, he would already be dead! Please!" He says, whimpering and cowering away. Mando quickly frees the Child, giving him to Cordelia in exchange for the blaster. She holds the Child close to her chest, wanting to protect him from any possible danger.
They leave the room, Mando still holding up most of Cordelia's weight. He still moves quickly and silently, avoiding the stormtroopers in the room outside where the Child was. The next door they go through they are spotted by stormtroopers, who begin firing. Mando smashes the control panel and moves for cover.
He moves around and sets Cordelia down to take out one of the stormtroopers quickly. He takes out the other one as he moves to investigate, then grabs Cordelia again. Another one comes through the door and Mando shocks him.
They move through another room and a stormtrooper shoots at them. He misses and Mando spins to shoot him. When he turns, another fires, hitting his armor. He turns again, shooting flames at the stormtrooper.
Mando moves into the main area, where more stormtroopers enter from other doors. They give various orders as they surround the three, pointing their blasters at them.
"Wait. What I'm holding is very valuable. Here." Mando says, kneeling and setting his blaster down. He sets Cordelia down, the Child in her lap.
"Now turn and face me." A stormtrooper orders. Mando arms his whistling birds.
"Stand up!" Another orders. He fires and they take out the stormtroopers. He picks up Cordelia and his blaster, quickly leaving the building. He sheathes his blaster and walks into a nearby alley.
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The Mandalorian's Bounties | Din Djarin
FanfictionCordelia wakes up with no memories. She doesn't know who she is, let alone why she wakes up in a strange building with a Child at her side. The only thing she does know is that she must protect him at all costs. After spending months with her appare...
