@deltasquadweek - Day 02 - Scars
Find a way
Summary: Scorch survived the fall in Bad Batch season 3 finale and now he's going to find a way out of Mount Tantiss's planet. Warning: Someone dies, someone survives, a bit of blood, scar and bruises, a lot of luck, Boss and Fixer appearance, open and happy ending. Autor notes: You didn't expect it, didn't you? Me neither. I just thought it could fit. The idea come up to my mind and I just got a vision. Yep, I know, isn't that great but I wanted to give it a try. I added drawings to accompany the reading. Word count: 1.6k
The wind blow moves the treetops, heavy rain drops fall on the vegetation around, rumbling thunders in the distance, the storm is slowing getting away, suddenly a tricolored armored a body rise up from the vegetation in a sitting position, heavy breathing you can't hear but see by his body shaking fast, it's RC-1262 also known as Scorch, former member of Delta squad, he fell, he's alive.
Armor's life support kicks in, emergency diagnostic starts.
S/sscaa/nning … Scan//nningg …
Everything is glitching, there are damages.
Sc/ccanninng … Damma/ges ffoun//d, a/rrrmor s//tatuus;
Hhel//met: 1/00%
Cches/tplaate: 7//67% -Lee/ft legg: 34/7/%
Miss/sing paaa//rts: bac/kppack Arrmor ooper/atiivit/y: 5/89%
The body keep shaking, suddenly a blurry dark spot on his side peripheral vision attire his attention, It's a glitch? Scorch turn his head in that direction and what he sees is a body lying in the wet grass nearby, it's familiar, he gets on all fours and crawls closer, he gasp inside the helmet, it's Dr. Hemlock!
Is he dead?
Scorch extend a hand to the Doctor's neck and touches it, no pulsation, he's dead, helmet glitching show the same, no live signals in the surroundings, he sighs in relief, that monster couldn't do any other damages.
He sits on his heels and a painful pang hit his left leg, he twitches and look down, thigh plate is cracked, a fragment is missing, it's stuck in his upper thigh, it has pierced the body glove, it bleed and hurts, he need bacta spray, he extend his arms to reach his back, another pang hit on his chest, his visor display the chestplate damage, 7/78%.
That's concerning.
The only thing he remembers now is that two prisoners shoot him and he fell from the bridge.
They shoot to Hemlock too.
Scorch put both his hand on his chest and then looked at the palms, no blood, good, just armor scratch, he look around to search the backpack, his helmet's sensors indicates it is few meters distant, maybe the sensors are the only fully operational thing on his armor, he rises up on his good leg and started walking in the direction, north from the fallen position.
A big burned scrap doesn't go unnoticed, that's suppose to be CX2's ship, the escape vehicle for the Doc, Scorch and the little clone. the two prisoners got it first, hopefully the rain storm helped to put out the fire that could have become, now it's just smoking a bit.
Limping slowly in the vegetation, following an invisible path that keep appearing and disapearing on his helmet's visor, soon Scorch found his DC-17M, he don't hesitate to collect it, he quickly inspects the weapon, doesn't appear to have any damage, grabbed in his hand he kept walking, not much distant he can spot his tri colored backpack hidden in few plants, he closes to it and kneel on the good leg, he open the backpack and grab the bacta's spray, with one hand grab the splinter, hold a deep breath and pull it off with a painful yelp, at the same time he sprayed the medicine on the wound until it stopped bleeding, the hurting sensation vanished gradually, that may leave a scar on his upper thigh, not the main problem now, he put the spray in the backpack and the latter attached magnetically on his backplate, he look around, just plant, rain drops falling on leaves in a relaxing white noise, wind blowing and some last lightnings followed seconds later by thunders, he spot Hemlock body and aim his Deece to the Doc's head and shot, four times, just to be sure the weapon still work. It worked.
I have to leave the planet.
I need to find my brothers!
An idea has just formed in his brain, the second Mount Tantiss, stole a ship and get away, it's the base of a plan, he started walking in the direction, still have a slight limp walk but it's not stopping him from having a steady walk pace.
Following the path his visor's HUD is providing, he approaches the second Mountain, rain almost stopped, clouds are disappearing and it's getting lighter, some bird sing, some creature howls in the distance and from much far a deep roar echoes in the valley, Scorch is grateful that animal is nowhere near to him, it gives him the creeps.
He tries to sintonize on the Mountain communications, but he get only static sound, signal has been blocked? His helmet's headset is not working? Maybe both.
Scorch reached the Mountain base, he look up, that's a big climbing, it will take too time, if he know the imperials they will come for inspection the base after what happened, time is running out, he can't risk to be imprisoned.
suddenly a hisss sound came few meters distant to his side, sound like a door opening, as soon as he saw the white helmet Scorch flattered to the Mountain feet, it's a trooper, the white trooper heard something and turned the head to saw just plants, despite Scorch's armor isn't anything green he blend nicely in the thick vegetation, as the trooper turned his back Scorch shoot, the trooper fell on the wet ground from the recent rain.
He closes to the door trotting just in time before the door hissed closing behind him, he's inside, reached a lift and lifted to the hangar.
The lift stops at the floor, Scorch flattened to one side holding at his chest the Deece, the doors opened and he jumped in the middle of the opening, there were two troopers, even before the two guys realizes, they fall at the ground, '62 shoot at both, now's running at the nearest shuttle and get in.
Scorch's shuttle is ready for launch, a screen in the cockpit shows that another shuttle is leaving the planet, then jumped, he take off just in time to see tree Venator ships exit from hyperspace and approaching the planet, as he closed to the imperial's ship he noticed the middle one was bigger from the other two, he never seen a Venator that big before, he fly fast against them and jumped in hyperspace even before the Imperial Ties could shoot.
Now safe in the blue tube he digit a old code on the ship's keyboard, hoping the message can reach at least one of his old squad mate, Scorch didn't know if his brothers are together or alive, he just hope they are.
Scorch is chewing a ration while checking his new scar on his thigh,
didn't look that bad, it's neither big, it will be covered majority of the time, he could even forget about it, just hope his limp disappear sometime soon, he put back his body glove trousers and check again his chest, hopefully the chest armor absorbed the hit leaving just four holes in it, the blacks get scratched too, it's designed to absorb some hits, the armor did the bigger part, his skin is just a bit red, hurt at the touch, will turn in a purple bruise tomorrow, he got a little scar on his eyebrow, could heal completely, a litter bruise take it company, he check his whole body, beside some red bruises of different sizes and superficial scratches where the armor doesn't cover the blacks, he didn't get other scars from those he alredy have.
A trill resounded in the ship's cockpit when Scorch has just put his body glove shirt on, he closes to the console and pressed a button, a hologram appeared in the middle of the cockpit, showing a waist up figure, even before to realize a second figure appeared in the hologram field, it's them! His brothers! Boss and Fixer, their helmet under their arms, a smile formed on Scorch's lips, he was about or cry but there were only the tree of them.
Where's Sev? He's dead?
"He's still on Kashyyyyk?" Scorch asked worried
"For what we know, not more" Boss started "We got Intel report indicating he's somewhere else" he approached his free hand to the opposite arm to press some buttons on the forearm comlink, few seconds later a button blinked on Scorch's forearm piece he wasn't wearing
"This isn't a safe transmission, reach us at these coordinates, we will tell you more" Fixer concluded
"On my way" Scorch ended the conversation, the three of them looked in the eye before the hologram disappeared, Scorch stilled a moment looking where the hologram was, the cockpit looked more empty now, he make a breath, wiped the tears out of his eyes and turned to grab his forearm piece, and putted immediately the coordinates on the navicomputer, the ship left the hyperspace, resettled for the new coordinates and jumped in hyperspace again, just a matter of hours and he will be reunited with his brothers.
Additonal notes: Yeah those first pictures are so dark and the second should have less rain, I come with it later, the third shouldn't be so suggestive, but I bet you like it, taking a mental note to remember to equilibrate the drawings through the reading next time.
Dividers by: @/ star-n-spice @/ orangez3st
