One in a Million

When it All Changed

Jaina's POV
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She gasped and her eyes snapped open. She was in a white room. It was bright and the light above her head was causing her to squint. She tried to move her head and her arms and her legs but she couldn't. She was strapped to something. A medical bed! How did she get here though? Last she remembered she was walking down the hall after her conversation with the Ghost Squad and KD. That was all she could recall though. From then to this point, all she could remember was black. Nothing. Nothing...she blacked out!

Jaina immediately went to the conclusion that she had a vision. It had to have been a strong one for she was strapped down to a medical bed. Though she was surprised to find herself not thrown into the ocean, but she was grateful all the same.

Jaina shouted, "Hey! Is anyone there? You can set me free now!" When no response came, she groaned and tried to feel with the force. She closed her eyes and concentrated on that bridge that lead to her power. She followed that bridge and came to the vast pool that was her affinity for the force. She dove into that pool and created several threads that fanned out to feel for any life-form. She found several life forms and they all felt the same. Scared and shocked. Jaina rolled her eyes. What a bunch of frightened tachs.

"Jaina Vaas, is it safe to enter?" Asked a voice over a com. The voice came from a speaker somewhere in the room but she couldn't find it. A big reason why she couldn't was because her head was strapped down to a bed!

"Only if you let me out now!" She demanded. There was some shuffling over the com then.

"I will send someone in," replied the voice then the speaker shut off. Jaina simply laid there, trying to calm herself. She was exhausted and a little shaken. She knew it would only take a few more minutes until she recalled what she had seen in her painful vision, for now she was starting to receive the emotions from it. It was all very taxing, this vision thing was. Part of Jaina wished someone else to have been cursed with her gift, but at the same time, she wouldn't wish this type and amount of pain on another.

She heard a door slide open and footsteps walk into the room. There were a couple figures, medical clones, that appeared in her vision. They were undoing the straps that trapped her.

Jaina sighed a sigh of relief as the straps came off. She sat up, her long and messed hair fell down her shoulders. It was now in a very lose pony tail, so the Jedi moved to fix it.

Once that was done, she kicked her legs off the bed and landed on the floor. Dizziness immediately took over and she nearly fell, but thankfully she caught herself. "I'm fine, I'm fine," she told the alarmed clones.

"How long was I out?" She inquired of them.

They exchanged nervous glances. It was the one to her right that answered, "Today is the day the clones will be shipped off to war general. You were out for sixteen hours. They are starting the ceremony now." The ceremony....the day....KD...the Ghost Squad....the star destroyer...

And that was when her memories began flooding back from her vision.

Something big was about to happen. Something very, very big and very, very bad. She turned, eyes blazing, and she put a firm hand on the clone's shoulder. "They are starting it now?"

He nodded.

Oh no, oh no, oh no... She pushed away from him.

"Get to your battle stations. Get to it now!"

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KD's POV

She stood in line with her squad and several others. Her badge of graduation was on her armored chest and her helmet by her side. This wasn't the training armor they normally wore though. No, this was real. Real armor for a real trooper.

There they stood, each and every one clone that graduated this year, adding up to hundred of thousands, all on the metal deck of Kamino. It was the largest platform they had at this base. The largest landing pad that is. The star ship had already arrived and stopped at the other side. It was huge! She had never seen one before in-person. It was a real star destroyer! A real one! And she would soon be on it , being transferred to her next one with her squad. Excited didn't even describe what she was feeling right then. Nothing could. She was head over heels beaming. She had to suppress tears.

Snipe stood on her right and Jax on her left. She was short compared to them, but felt tall. She felt invincible. Nothing could stop her now! Nothing! She thought back to all the mean teases and sneers she had received when she was younger. They never meant anything. All they did was make her stronger. Make her better. They had motivated her. And now, here she stood, among her brothers. Among her kin. The first female clone, graduated and ready to fight.

Her posture was straight and she stood tall and looking up. She looked up to where the platform Shaak Ti was on. KD was in the middle of the all the rows and lines and sections of troopers and had a decent view of the Togruta. She stood, with their teachers behind her, prepared to speak. When she did, her voice could be heard from space. KD's smile brightened, if that was even possible.

         "Today, is the day you go to war! Today, is the day you go to fight for the Republic! You will go fight against the Separatists and their droids and you will succeed. The grand army of the Republic is counting on you. You all have passed trails and the training required to go fight! You have succeeded, but this is not where your journey ends, for their is a long road ahead and that is the war!

"Congratulations! You are no longer cadets, you are troopers. May the force be with you!" She finished.

And just then, an ARC trooper stepped up beside her, fully geared, and called, "Attention!"

They put their hands to their heads in salute. "Helmets on!" They did.

And then the doors to the star destroyer opened....and that was when all hell broke loose.

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Jaina Vaas - Jay-na V-oss (Vahs)

KD/Kara - Kay-Dee, Car-a

Shaak Ti- Shok Tee