Chapter 3: The Traitor

"Princess! What are doing here?" Stone asked. Crane quickly removed his rifle, smiling at the princess.

"I have obtained valuable information that must be hand delivered by me. It's regarding our Rebellion- our new Republic," Princess Leia replied. A feeling of nostalgia raced through Stone's system. Our new Republic? Could this be like old times again? He forced himself to remove his helmet and smile.

"Why are YOU smilin'?" Crane teased.

"Not the same reason you are!" Stone replied. Leia's face turned red. "I'm smiling because there is a light of reason out there. A new hope, perhaps... please come inside, it's about to precipitate any nano-second."

While they got inside, Princess Leia was greeted by another clone trooper that shared the same fate as Stone (removing their chips) named Bly. He is not to be confused with Commander Bly who obeyed order 66, as this Bly is a shock trooper lieutenant. "Greetings, my lady. Shall I offer you some fine refreshments?" Bly asked. Her two body guards were around six foot four but extremely polite gentlemen: Coric and Hoode.

"No thank you, I'm good," Leia replied to Bly. Crane did an "ahem" which indicated Bly to leave and return to his designated post.

"Princess, at this very moment we have probe droids and security cameras on the verge on tracking down men from Outpost 12, and we've just uncovered new data that clearly explains that they are not at their assignment," Stone verified.

"Understood, Commander. But if I may show you my heavily vital data..."

Crane chimed in once more, "Please do!" He gave her a wink and then received a nudge by Stone. She went over to the holographic projection table, stuck in the data pieces and the hologram suddenly turned into a huge schematic system of an enormous base on Coruscant.

"This is our base on Coruscant. It is currently filled with hundreds of soldier occupants that were once citizens and soldiers getting ready to join the Republic right before the Jedi purge-" cutting her off were every single light going off at once. Everyone looked around and Leia's guards moved closer in on her just in case. All the ones with helmets on that consisted of lights flickered them on. Bly went over to the three.

"Should I go check out Generator 1A?" He asked.

"Yes, Lieutenant," Stone replied. The lieutenant hustled downstairs towards the warehouse part of their base. When he arrived he thought his eyes were deceiving him and his mouth dropped down to the floor- a resistance soldier has been nailed to the wall. "Oh my gosh," he said as he ran back until he bumped into someone he thought looked familiar. "What? You? Why?" And then it all went dark.