Dar'solus [Captain Rex x reader]

Chapter 37 - Dar'yaim II

"Well, what now? Why have we–" Tarkin's sentence went into a muffled hum as I clamped his mouth shut. He was livid. He tried to pry my hand off of him and ignored the fact that I was giving him a sign to be quiet. When he wouldn't stop struggling I yanked him forwards and whispered into his ear,

"If you don't shut up I will personally sew your lips together. Understood?" he nodded vigorously. I still kept my hand over his mouth and looked at Ahsoka, using a gesture to ask what was going on. She shrugged and the look in her eyes told me that they had felt something in the Force that was off. Looking around I couldn't see any droids. Only us. Fives, Echo and Rex stayed close to the clone officers as they were not fit for fighting. All was still as the trees before the hurricane. That's when I felt it, the hairs on my neck stood up as an unsettling feeling crawled up my back like a spider. Someone was here. I froze and slowly looked up to the ceiling, seeing two small eyes gleaming down at me.

"Look out!" barely having time to warn the others as it threw its long and lanky arms down in an attempt to capture someone's head. It was the prototype droid from before. Everyone ducked away from the hands reaching down. But one of the clone officers we had rescued was too slow. The hands wrapped around his entire head, only leaving two slits for the wide and terrified eyes, two of the disgustingly long fingers were quick to push down his throat and puncture his windpipe. All we heard was a strangling noise before the droid squeezed and cracked his skull. The sound was loud as thunder breaking through the heavy air. Anakin only a second later had jumped up and slashed the droid's head off. It clanked down to the ground next to the lifeless clone. But the body didn't follow. Everyone looked up to see that it was moving around, as if the head was attached still. Blaster fire broke out to try and shoot it down, but it was incredibly acrobatic and kept dodging out of the way. It was clever too, for it moved down between us like a snake so that we couldn't just fire directly at it without running the risk of shooting each other. Ahsoka was on its tail to try and get to it, but it would always snap away right at the last moment when she got too close. It was toying with her.

"Fives watch it!" Anakin jumped in front of him and tried slashing the droid.

"Admiral, move!" Echo pushed him out of the way and the droid scattered on around and in between, up the walls and back down. It was difficult to stay focused on it. It was too fast! When it flew past on the wall behind me, it made sure to kick out and knock me down on my feet. I hit the ground with a thud and the wind got knocked out of my lungs.

"(Y/N)!" Rex tried closing in to help me when the droid snatched him by the waist with one of its long arms, the other latching on to the ceiling again, scurrying off with him tightly gripped.

"Rex! No!" I hoisted myself up from the floor to follow it, but was stopped by Tarkin grabbing my arm.

"What do you think you're doing? Leave him! There is no time to save him."

I struggled against his grip as anger flared up inside me, "Let me go!".

"No, we must leave! He gave his life so we could get out of here, now we must honour it by–" finally I was able to yank my arm out and pulled my blaster in the process, pressing it against Tarkin's forehead.

"Captain Rex is not dead, he is still alive! Now you better watch your mouth or I will not hesitate to blow your brains onto the floor. You guys move on then if you're so concerned about it. But I am going after Rex." breathing heavily like a furious Rancor I saw Tarkin's face pale to a white colour. Almost as white as the sterile walls inside the medbay. Anakin was quick to step in and push down my arm from aiming at Tarkin.

"Woah, woah, calm down! Tarkin, with all due respect, you are not the one calling the shots here. You do not intervene like that again until we are all safely away from this place." Tarkin actually had half a brain to shrink down in very, very faint embarrassment. Anakin stared down at him before looking over to me "(Y/N), you know better than to pull a blaster on a commanding admiral like that,"