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Chapter 2 - The Agent ??

Wrecker was the first of his brothers to snap out of his stupor. "Uh, let me see if I understand this right." SAC-1 had to crane her neck when he stepped up, and even though she was confident in her ability to defend herself from the giant, she still found herself fighting a flinch when he confusedly pointed down at her. "You're a girl." He stated the obvious, as if actually saying it out loud would help Wrecker process this, or it'd be revealed this was all a weird joke.

Surprisingly, Crosshair gave no sarcastic remark to Wrecker's lack of brains, but that was probably because his own brain had stopped working.

Hiding her uneasiness perfectly, SAC-1 gave a short huff for a laugh and a nod of affirmation. "I am."

Wrecker scratched his head, still very much confused. "I've never seen a girl clone before."

"That's because I'm the first successful experiment." SAC-1 informed him matter-of-factly, hiding her distaste also very well, knowing what happened to the failed experiments.

Nodding slowly, Wrecker could only shrug in response, not knowing what else to say and stepped back in line with his uneasy brothers.

SAC-1's broad smile faltered, another awkward silence taking over again, so she cleared her throat and which caught Nala Se's attention and the female clone reminded her excitedly, "Um, I was promised a tour of Tipoca after my test."

Nala Se of course returned her enthusiasm with about as much energy as a corpse. "I have many things to attend to, but I trust your new squad can show you the city." Again, this was more of an order than a suggestion. "And tomorrow morning we will discuss the new arrangements for Clone Force 99."

SAC-1 was forced to promise they would all be there on the gaping squadrons behalf, and finally parted ways with Nala Se and Lama Su after four grueling years, left to trust that her new squad would help her become the great soldier she was meant to be.

Pure glee bubbling up within her body and feeling a hundred times lighter already, SAC-1 let it show through another wide grin and regarded the squad, who flinched when she whirled towards them. "So, where to first?"

Hunter's mind was still lagging, a dumb expression glued onto his face. "Uh -"

"Can I make a suggestion?" SAC-1 interrupted, not very well versed in human interaction. "I have a great desire to see the Ha Zurh Library and Records Office!"

Naturally, Tech perked right up. "The Library is the perfect place to start!" For not one of his brothers in Clone Force 99 ever wanted to go to the place of infinite knowledge.

He eagerly stepped up to SAC-1 and took the liberty of leading her in the right direction, and the rest of the Bad Batch had no choice but to look at each other uneasily and blindly follow.

With enthusiastic hand gestures Tech said as they walked, "They have an extraordinary scientific collection, and though the Kaminoans keep to themselves I'm told this library rivals the Jedi Archives, rumored to hold the sum total of all galactic knowledge - I'd give ANYTHING to see it in person and read every bit of information there. The Library has maps of the entire galaxy, in addition to scientific holobooks, mathematical and astronomical holobooks, engineering and technology documents, detailed geography and cultures of various planets and species across the galaxy, as well as their botany and zoology."

SAC-1 listened intently to Tech gushing about his favorite holobooks found in the library, though the rest of the squad's ears rung from their brothers babbling in addition to having raging lightheadedness from their entire lives being turned upside down.

They got a new squad member, which was enough in itself to deal with - it'd been the four of them their entire lives - but this new member had all their enhancements combined, and if that wasn't enough, the new member was a woman. This was a lot to take in, and then Nala Se mentioned even MORE changes would take place tomorrow.