Star Wars: Revelations/ Chapter 8: Off to Kamino

Getting ready to pull the trigger, Katan jerked her finger utmost slowly until she stopped herself once a top henchman ran up to her. “Ma’am. You have to hear this!”

“What is it?”

“Listen,” he aimed his communications device near the ear of Katan. She attentively listened. There, a voice relevant to a clone trooper was speaking from an embedded transmission. Then, it quickly changed to Shimrra Jamaane. “Scrape? Why would he send a message of this type?”

“It’s not really him, silly!” Rahr said, thinking he was doing good with his input.

“No,” Ponds interjected, stepping forward, leaving indentations of his feet onto the snowy surface. “That’s him.”

Rahr, skeptical, put his fins on his shoulders, “But you all sound the same. What makes you think it’s him?”

“Sure, Rahr. We might sound the same to you. But we are all different in unique ways,” Ponds said, philosophically.

“Oh… I don’t get it,” Rahr replied as Ponds rolled his eyes.

Noticing that Bo Katan was about to tear some more, Cougar moved forward, gently took the gun away from her and wiped away her tears. Cougar let Katan speak, “I just don’t understand. An hour ago he was threatening us with the Vong. Now he sent this message for what? On accident?”

“Come to think of it, the Vong were doing most of the threatening,” a Death Watch member said.

“I honestly don’t think this was on accident, Katan. It makes sense on why he was acting strange aboard the flagship,” Ponds then heard the word “Kamino” while listening vaguely to the rest of the transmission. “Kamino? Trooper, rewind that right now!”

Ponds’ higher volume of his voice forced more Death Watch troopers react urgently. They all aimed their weapons, this time at Ponds. Ponds just watched them do their actions, not moving a muscle. A Death Watch member said, “we may be disbanded. But we are still one with pride. Never give us an order like that, clone.”

Katan, interjecting that trooper and Ponds, lowered the trooper’s weapon slowly. “Enough! Quin-Tuff, rewind that message please.”

That trooper who had the message on his comlink pressed several buttons to rewind it to Ponds’ liking. Ponds this time listened carefully by leaning his head closer to the comlink.

“Dammit! They’re going after my home-planet?! What even is Order 101?” Ponds’ laceration on his temple commenced to bleed once more. Rahr wiped some of the blood off as it continued to slowly drip as if it was a decontamination shower that just turned off but with water still dripping. Ponds jerked his head away.

Princess Leia comforted Ponds by putting her hand on his shoulder. She spoke elegantly, “Ponds, please listen to me.” Finally getting Ponds’ eye contact, she continued, “This is it. The big battle Patrick and I foresaw. We will defeat them. Scrape, believe it or not, just gave us an opportunity to.”

Ponds stood at attention, shaking off his distress and replied with a “yes, ma’am”. Leia turned towards Katan who was still confused and shaken up. “Bo-Katan, please. Aid us in this upcoming assault.”

Scratching her head, Katan sighed, “When Pre Vizsla died, I was not able to sleep a wink for two whole years. Same goes with when your rebel squadron slaughtered some of my men. I am still sometimes not sleeping at night, dreaming of that monster that attacked everyone. However, hopefully this’ll help - count me in, Princess.” “Yay!” Rahr clapped.

“Welcome aboard, ma’am!” Ponds welcomed with jolly.

Cougar formed a slight smile and nodded his head to Katan. Leia did the same and replied, “Bless you! You’re heroic actions will never go unnoticed.” The rest of the Death Watch finally lowered their weapons.

“Now, let us finish this!” Ponds yelled, pumping his fist in the air. He then looked up and softly spoke, “Windu, I’m going home.”