The second attempt

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Oh yeah I forgot to say that in this, Echo has both hands, his legs, and his hair. The Techno Union Never got ahold of him, so he never met the Bad Batch.

Tw: Needles, violence, threats, anxiety, drugs (As in medication. No one takes any spice), slight language, death.


~Rex~

I turned the comm off and ended my conversation with Ahsoka. I sighed and turned to Echo with a grim smile.

"Still nothing?" Echo questioned.

"Still nothing," I confirmed.

Echo groaned and rubbed at his face. "I can't handle this. We don't know where she is, or what's happening to her."

"I know Echo!" I snapped before quickly backtracking. "I'm sorry, I'm just stressed. If we don't get her back soon, I hate to think what condition we'll find her in."

My comm buzzed and I checked it.

"It's Amita!" I told Echo. "I wonder what's happened now."

"Rex?" Amita weakly said.

"Amita?" I looked to Echo, worried.

"Hi Rex!" Amita giggled. "Heeeey Rex."

"Amita, are you okay?" I furrowed my brow.

"Yeah!" Amita giggled again. "Tech gave me a looooooot of meds."

"Tech?" Echo whispered to me. "Who's that?"

"One of her captors," I whispered back before addressing Amita again. "Amita, is someone drugging you?"

"Yup," Amita laughed hysterically. "He says I'm sick!"

"What?" I panicked. "You're sick?"

"Yeah!" Amita said. "But I feel fine!"

"That's the drugs Amita," Echo facepalmed.

Amita gasped dramatically. "I've been drugged?"

"We just discussed this!" I reminded her.

"No we didn't!" Amita argued. 

"Yes we did!" Echo backed me up.

Amita grunted angrily. "You're just as annoying as them! They even said I was bugging them and to comm you! They told me to bother you instead!"

"They told you to comm us?" My eyes widened.

"Yeah," Amita boredly said. "They're watching to make sure I don't say anything stupid."

"They're listening right now?" I asked.

"Mhm," Amita hummed. "They wanna make sure I don't tell you we're on Daros-"

I shuffling sound and low voices that we couldn't make out came from the comm. Echo and I shared a worried look.

"Amita?" Echo ran a hand through his hair. "Amita!"

The connection ended.

"What happened?" Echo looked up at me. 

"She accidentally told us they're on Daros, and they turned it off," I assumed. "We know where she is! Start the ship!"

Echo nodded and started up the engines. I sat in the seat next to him and had my helmet in my lap.

"We're really doing this?" Echo looked to me to confirm.

"What, you want to leave her there?" I raised my eyebrows. 

"No I'm just surprised you don't want backup," Echo flicked a switch.  "You're not even going to call Ahsoka?"

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