Star Wars: Injustice/ Chapter 1: Recovery

Right out of the pits of Kamino, a fleet of the New Republic lay in orbit. Aboard an MC85 Star Cruiser, surviving members from the battle of Kamino wallowed their way to the main control room. Led by Princess Leia and Senior Commander Stone, Rahr and BARC Commander Colly rushed Ponds to medbay, who was constantly rubbing his temple, making that laceration of his bleed even more. Screaming, Ponds resisted the efforts given by the four others, trying to move him closer to medbay. Once they finally got to their room of destination, they strapped Ponds down on a bed with sheets on it. “This doesn’t make any sense. Why does he keep going on and off like this?” Leia questioned in despair.

“Not sure, Princess. We just have to stabilize him,” Stone replied, inserting a stabilizing needle into Ponds’ arm. “We don’t know if Ponds is a ticking time bomb and now that Leland is on another vessel, we have limited medical options, but we have to get whatever is controlling him out.”

Colly stepped forward, “Stone, I have some medical expertise. Allow me to oversee this operation.”

Stone nodded. He placed his hand on Ponds and said, “Don’t worry, old buddy. Everything is gonna be fine.” Stone nodded his head once more to the direction of Colly and Colly nodded back.

Rahr leapt in the air. “Oh, Colly. Let me watch!”

“Okie-doke, Rahr,” Colly complied.

Stone and Leia met with everyone else that dragged their defeated souls in the main control room. The first thoughts that popped into their mind were all but positive, as they saw that attribute reflect onto everyone else. It was nothing but sheer silence for twenty whole seconds as the two walked in. The control room consisted of silver plating on the floor, walls and ceiling. With computer booths from left to right of the room, some of which started to beep non-stop until Rex shut them off moments afterward. Still silent.

A Mandalorian named Six-Non threw his heavy gun onto the metal ground, forcing it to make a loud, obnoxious noise on impact. Resulting in startling a few of the troops, they looked their way over to Six-Non. “Well, this mission could not have gone any worse.”

Katan stepped in front of Six-Non and prevented him from taking a step towards anyone, “Okay, Six. You’ve made your point.”

“No. No, that’s not it. Not only a lot of us Death Watch died, but to form an alliance with the so-called ‘heroes’ is beyond me. Look where it got us,” Six-Non continued, pushing Katan out of his way.

Rex heard the sound of when Six-Non’s wrist made contact with Katan and he rushed over. “Easy there, trooper. You’re not in charge, understood?”

The Mandalorian turned to eye Rex, “You’re not either, clone. Are you?” He tapped on Rex’s white and blue torso armor with his pointer finger.

“Look, kid. This is bigger than all of us! We need all the help we can get,” Rex replied, swiping away Six’s finger.

“Help?! Did you just say help? Is that what you call dead soldiers? Just ‘help’?” Six-Non lunged at Rex while being held back by Stone and Katan.

Katan, who was four inches shorter than Six-Non, used all her might to push her third-in-command back from where Rex was by getting in between both of them. “Six-Non, that’s quite enough!”

Leia advanced to the middle of where everyone was standing after the tension between Six-Non and Rex finally simmered down. “Ladies, gentlemen! See where this is getting us? That’s right, nowhere. The main question still stands - what is going on with Ponds? Why did Aurra Sing plant that thing inside of him and what did the Yuuzhan Vong do with it?”

Silence snuck its way back into the room until Stone counteracted that silence by saying, “Better yet, what happened when the leader discovered the DNA chamber in Tipoca City? What does he want?” Stone turned to Katan. “You received a message from Scrape recording himself and the Vong leader, right? Didn’t the Vong say something about an order of theirs? What does that mean?”

Rex rubbed his white beard as if it itched. “Could mean a lot of things. We just gotta figure them out before they unfold.”

Commander Colly put Ponds into stasis by putting a gas mask on his face. He got out medical supplies that allowed him to open up Ponds’ head just a little to extract a microchip that was in him. Breathing noticeably heavy, Colly carefully removed the microchip and gently placed it inside a glass slide. He tapped Rahr on the back, who was sleeping while standing up. “Rahr? Rahr!”

“What? Uh, yes?”

“Watch Ponds please. I’ll be back.”

“Where are you goin’?” Rahr questioned, putting his fins on his hips.

“I just have to call Stone in here for a sec,” Colly replied.

“Oh, okay!”

Colly stepped out of the medical chamber that was filled with tools, hanging on the walls. He cautiously approached his quarters and pressed a button to open the sliding door. Entering, he activated his long-range transmitter and kneeled down once a shadowy figure on a hologram appeared. “My lord,” Colly began.

“Rise, Commander,” the figure said.

“There may be a slight setback in executing Protocol: Deadstorm. This device that I found inside the one known as Ponds is fresh. According to one called Wolffe, Bounty Hunter Aurra Sing implanted it a while ago but this is not the one he was talking about. The Vong must’ve put it in while they took him and took the other one out,” Colly informed, rising. "Then, the leader of the Vong traveled all the way to Kamino and collected our DNA code. Scrape must’ve let them in on Protocol: Deadstorm before they betrayed him.”

“Interesting. Continue your search, Commander,” the figure replied moderately in a deep sounding and devious voice. “I want no more setbacks.”

“Will do, my lord. Scrape had no idea what he was doing, leading the First Order.”

“Scrape was weak. I grow stronger every day,” the figure said, keeping the same tone of voice.