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Chapter 18 - Battle For Kamino 🌊⛈️🔫

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✍🏻 side note ✍🏻 In order for this chapter to happen, I took the episode ARC Troopers (Season 3, Episode 2) and put it into my own timeline, which is currently very early into 19 BBY, the last year of the Clone Wars. There were several people I wanted Talla to meet. But after this little hiccup in the timeline, it should be smooth sailing from here!

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A rocky start, but a promising future!

Due to a severe hangover, Wrecker was not short on embarrassment on his very first rendezvous with Skylar Tiima that consisted of perusing various food serving establishments and throwing up into their trash bins, but she was nothing short of gracious towards this and his social limitations due to his sheltered upbringing on Kamino, and assured him that she was not easily frightened off. 

Wrecker is very much smitten and wishes to know everything about his new lady, and Sergeant Hunter is failing to contain his bitterness at his brother's simpler relationship after yet another heart-to-heart conversation with his subordinate that is sending him further down the spiral of deciding whether or not the unspoken rule could be broken by himself as well one day, when Agent Talla had adjusted to life off of Kamino...

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(DAY 15 w/ THE BAD BATCH)

The comm on the console shrieked to life. Talla shot up from the floor and snapped into a ready fighting position as best she could with the blanket refusing to untangle itself from her body, and it took a few seconds for the haze in her mind and eyes to clear up and see that there were no incoming clankers. It was just an incoming call. She couldn't decide if in this instance, getting a comm at 3 in the morning Coruscant time was a blessing or a curse. On the one hand, she had been peacefully sleeping and that was a very rude awakening. On the other hand, her bed was a cold, hard, dirty durasteel floor. It gave her a crick in her neck, back, legs, basically everything.

Hunter didn't fare much better when the call came in either, but he made quick work of straightening his bandana and clothing when he saw the signal came from Kamino, Talla doing the same. The female clone decided to stand behind the male one's chair when he answered the comm with faux calmness. Inside, their hearts were pounding in an irregular, anxiety induced beat when Prime Minister Lama Su showed mild signs of irritation when he appeared on the holoprojector, the ominous blue figure lighting up the room.

"Prime Minister." Hunter greeted with forced respect as he and Talla curtly saluted, then he cleared his throat to get rid of the sleepy rasp. "Is there a problem?"

"You must return to Kamino immediately and aid in our defenses. We have learned of a Separatist plot to invade Tipoca City."

They both tensed. Kamino, or more specifically the Kaminoan labs and the species who ran them, were the very things of their nightmares. But it was still the only home they and all other clones had ever known.

Talla began firing up the ship at record speed. "We will leave immediately sir." Hunter swore.

"You will be protecting the Youngling Barracks, making sure that the Separatists do not kill the next generations of clone troopers." Lama Su flatly instructed. "Report there as soon as you arrive." He signed off.