🐺 ~PROJECT SAC-1~ ⚔️

Chapter 29 - Snarky Sniper Siblings? 😅

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Crosshair is in critical condition!

While they were separated from the infiltration team after the earthquake, Talla refused to leave Crosshair behind, even when she had the opportunity to, and tried to break open the mine shafts' emergency doors. She makes a life-threatening mistake, and upon a rock's impact against the metal door, her enhanced strength causes it to shatter and send sharp projectiles in all directions, with one lucky piece lodging itself into her breathing hose, giving toxic cortosis particles the ability to enter her system.

Crosshair saw this as his moment to show his remorse and his thanks for Talla not leaving him behind. Without knowing if the others would reach them in time, he attached one of his operational breathing tubes to Talla's breathing apparatus, allowing himself to succumb to more severe effects of cortosis poisoning as the minutes wore on.

While recovering at Kaliida Shoals, in a moment of weakness Talla admits to Hunter she does not agree with Crosshair's actions and feels survivors guilt and tried to push him away but failed because she was weakened by her mild cortosis poisoning. Crosshair is family, and she is not. Hunter tried to reassure her otherwise, nearly giving away that he harbored feelings for her that he'd never felt for any other, but there was nothing that could pry Talla from Crosshair's side, because she wasn't ungrateful for his sacrifice. In order to show her thanks, Talla made sure to be by his side when he did regain consciousness by having Tech hack into the hospital's network and forge a communication that looked like a direct order from the one and only Nala Se that CT-9904 from Experimental Unit Clone Force 99 would continue treatment and recovery in the very same room as SAC-1, so he'd be protected from fellow clones who had a tendency to torment him, which would only aggravate his condition, draw out his recovery, and waste valuable medical supplies...

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🎯 First Night as Roommates 🐺

(KALIIDA - DAY 38 w/ THE BAD BATCH - EARLY MORNING)

Have you ever slept in the same room as a person who snores?

Crosshair had loads of experience, having used to share barracks and a very tiny ship with Wrecker not that long ago, which is why he had originally adapted to the sound of sawing logs, which if you think about it was not a hard accomplishment considering his unusual capabilities of falling into a kriffing coma when choosing to get some rest. There were some good(ish) things about growing up on Kamino, he reluctantly supposed.

But he had had his own room for just over a month now. AND he was in a hospital now. He was in an unfamiliar yet nightmarishly familiar environment, surrounded by unfamiliar and filthy medical personal he hated, he was shot up full of unfamiliar medications that he would have fought till the death to refuse if need be.

But Hunter reminded Crosshair that he needed to get better, so there wouldn't be a reason given to Nala Se to decommission him. As much as they said they were eager to blow her off the face of the planet, neither Bad Batcher actually wanted the entire Republic gunning for them at present, not if it could be avoided. At least it was a sorta tolerable reg giving the meds, one who definitely didn't like Nala Se.