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🚫TRIGGER WARNINGS🚫 Some Gore

- Ella

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Redemption and repercussions!

In a noble effort to redeem The Bad Batch's perfect record, SAC-1 is aided by her new friend Commander Ahsoka Tano, and the squadron mate who never doubted her, Tech, to venture back into enemy territory and destroy the Separatist Base on Silva alone, so as not to risk anyone else's life if she fell victim to another faulty side effect of her enhancements. It was Tech who discovered that what she experienced on Silva was a sensory overload due to explosions and other various factors in battle not included in clones flash training or battle simulations - a recipe for disaster with her genetically modified enhanced senses.

The missions' failure was not her fault and Sergeant Hunter is wracked with guilt, and impressed with more displays of her potential if he had just shown some patience and an open mind. But before he got the chance to apologize and take it upon himself to train the Agent to adapt, her comm is cut, and they are met with static...

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A fraught silence took place after they failed to establish contact with SAC-1... because it only meant one thing.

Tech was having trouble comprehending the thought that SAC-1, someone he had already considered a comrade, who actually listened to him, wouldn't be returning. This reality shut down his mind, and he ended up swiftly leaving the bridge so he could try and process this successful but at the same time failed mission. And how he had failed her by supporting this thought to be brilliant plan that led to her demise.

Wrecker hung his head with a crestfallen frown. He tried to focus on the fact that she completed the mission and died a hero, but that honestly didn't help at all. He'd not gotten used to her yet, but heh, he might've liked to include her in the game of who destroyed the most clankers, thinking that she could've had the skill to knock Crosshair off his high bantha.

For Crosshair, well, the mission was completed, that was what was important and that was what he would choose to focus on. Sitting around crying wouldn't bring her back. Nothing would.

Ahsoka keenly felt the loss of her friend, even though they had only known each other for just over twenty-four hours. They had just clicked and while SAC-1 was very inexperienced about life in general despite being, in a way, several years older than her, she had the same liveliness as the young Jedi, something Ahsoka found refreshing after being surrounded by stiff Jedi Masters and troopers all day, every day.

Anakin sensed Ahsoka's heavy heart, and with a sad smile walked up to his young padawan, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. He felt terrible for thinking so badly of SAC-1 and was sorry to lose such a good soldier; Obi-Wan and Cody shared in this professional thought process.

But shockingly, it wasn't Tech or Ahsoka who felt the worst about SAC-1's demise. It was the man who had figuratively bitten her head off after the first failed mission attempt... Sergeant Hunter. Much like SAC-1 yesterday, Hunter was paralyzed in self-reproach over the situation, only his was actually deserved. 'I could've prevented this. I should have warned her about the bad side effects enhanced senses could have.'