A608 watched in horror as the large Ewok continued to eat the three dead Ewoks raw. Ripping them limb for limb, biting and chomping down on them. The sounds of huge teeth crushing through bones echoed into the small cave.
“Do you think he’s friendly?”
“He didn't attack us, but we shall see.”
J149 responded to the question as she worked on starting the fire again. Using the bow and stick to start some of the kindling on fire with the friction block she made.
“A608 you can cut some of the meat up for cooking.”
A608 used her rock knife and glided it through the deer meat on the 1 leg cutting small hefty chucks out for cooking. J149 looked around the cave while gliding the bow string along driving the stick into the twisting motion on the friction block. She spotted a large flat enough rock to cook on. She looked down when she noticed smoke lifting from the friction block. J149 took off her helmet, dropping it to her side by her black painted toes to start blowing on the friction block now in the fire hole. Her long black braid touched the dirt floor of the cave as she lowered her head to blow air to ignite the fire.
A608 was pleased to see the smoke turn the small fire pit back to flames while J149 added broken down sticks and wood chips. J149 stood up and walked to the flat rock she spotted earlier and picked it up along with three tiny rocks to form the makeshift outdoor oven.
J149 carefully placed all the rocks around the rim of the fire hole then the flat rock on top of the three small stones. She picked up some of the sliced meat, placing them on the flat rock above the fire hole. A608 was amazed to see J149 work her survival craft. The large Ewok laid down on the ground outside of the cave after its fill of Ewoks and started snoring.
“What are we going to do about him?”
A608 asked J149 who looked up from watching the meat cook.
“We keep our distance and if he shows aggression, blast him.”
A608 nodded to J149’s response. J149 continued to cook the meat in a crouched resting position beside the fire hole makeshift oven. A608 swatted at the Endor black flies flying around her dirty naked body then she asked J149.
“Do you think we're going to make it?”
“We're still here.”
“I mean make it off this planet?”
A608 then slid her knees and bare dirty feet in close, covering her cold breasts and exposed vagina before she asked.
“Are you ready to make a life here if we don’t?”
“It crossed my mind.”
A608 looked at J149 with concern.
“What's the plan if we have to live here?”
“Well, plans are we eat here, then we gather our things, and make our way back to Recon tower 12, See what the drugged out Ewoks left behind and make ourselves ready for extract, I don’t want to live here.”
J149 turned the meat and seared the other sides on the flat hot rock. A608 carefully stuck the last of the tiny broken down sticks into the fire hole and then sat back watching J149 observe the deer meat cooking on the surface of the hot rock. J149 stared into the fire before she spoke.
“On planet Hoth… after we took over Echo base. We had to wait for extraction, which couldn't come in for 5 five hours due to weather conditions.”
“What… nooo, what did you guys do?”
“The Echo base was destroyed so no power source was available to keep us warm, the men were starting to freeze to death. So Vader had us collect the dead Rebels. We searched through the blizzard finding bodies in the trenches and throughout the base and piled them inside while the Flame troopers lit the piles of bodies on fire to keep us all warm, that was the coldest I've ever been.”
A608 stared at J149 who crouched silently staring at the meat cooking on the rock.
“What an experience.”
A608 said after sometime of silence.
“ It was… But I wasn’t as scared then, as I am now. I had S267 and Vader and the full force of the Empire… together. Our hate for the rebels kept us alive.”
A608 watched J149 wipe the tears from her chin and side of her face before she continued.
“Only thing now, it’s my hate for the Rebels and Ewoks which is keeping me alive.”
“J149..”
“Yeah.”
“ The meat looks like it needs to be flipped.”
“Oh.”
J149 turned the meat over quickly and saw some of the chunks were burnt. But this didn't matter after the meat looked cooked enough. J149 used her rifle's buttstock to push the flat rock off the fire. They waited for a few moments before taking some of the hot rock fried meat.
The sun was still shining on Endor and the trees still moved in the wind. J149 picked up the burnt meat and chewed the charred piece. Which still tasted delicious to her. A608 ate her share of blue horn deer meat sitting by the fire. They both munched on the deer till they ate what was cooked. J149 stood up and gathered her things. She picked up her rifle and slung it around her back then picked up her scout helmet and stuffed her braid into the helmet before putting it on.
“Should we take the Ewok knives and axe?”
A608 asked J149 who looked down at the small Ewok knives and axe.
“I'm sure we will find better at the recon base. Let's just hope we can make it there..”
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A608 left the knives but kept her small Ewok axe, bow and poison arrows. They both walked slowly out of the cave. They very silently walked past the sleeping deformed Ewok.
The third eye of the Towering Ewok opened as they walked past. When they started to leave the area, J149 looked back to see the towering Ewok sitting up looking at them walking away. A608 was concerned so they started to walk a little faster.
“What do we do?”
“Nothing, just keep walking, don't run.”
The towering Ewok got up and started to walk behind them following them. J149 shook her head and said to A608.
“Just ignore it, who cares if it comes along.”
A608 looked back at the Towering Ewok noticing it gleefully smile back at them still following behind them.
“Yeah this isn't good.”
A608 said and continued the steady pace next to J149. A608 watched her bare dirt covered feet tread through the green ferns and stomp tiny Endor mushrooms. They both started to feel the incline of the hill as they walked up the mossy green hillside. J149 looked back at the Towering Ewok which still kept its distance following them up the hill. They stopped when they got to the top of the hill looking around to see their point of view. J149 saw the large swamp lake they walked around the night before.
“There's our swamp.”
“Yeah, can we not go into the waters this time.”
“Haha yeah, were staying out”
They both started to laugh then Immediately they went quiet when they noticed the Towering Ewok laughing with them. The towering Ewok stopped laughing and looked at them. J149 and A608 started to laugh again, this time at the Ewok laughing with them.
The towering Ewok just started up laughing with them again in the forest, holding its large belly.
After a while J149 caught her breath and wiped her tears of laughter and patted A608’s shoulder then said to her.
“Let’s go, it looks like we only got a few more hours of daylight.”
A608 felt better seeing the Towering three eyed Ewok laugh. She continued to follow J149 down the opposite side of the forested hill till they came upon the swamp lake. J149 walked along the swamp lakes shore till they found their tracks from the night before.
J149 saw her footprints in the mud and pointed to them.
“We’re on the right trail.”
By the time they were halfway around the swamp lake the sun started to go down. The Endor forest seemed colder than the night before. They got to the half eaten Ewok hanging from the swamp tree branch. J149 looked around at all the dead Endor gators with Ewok spears sticking out of them. The ground was littered with gator tracks, Ewok limbs and blood stains. She stepped around the blood and entrails of the hanging Ewok. The towering Ewok sniffed the ground then looked at the swamp lake and growled.
A608 followed behind J149 who walked towards the forest. The Sun was down by the time they reached the Empire’s cleared Endor forest pathway to recon tower 12. The darkness turned every plant shadow into an Ewok silhouette. J149 shook the images out of her head and kept walking.
They both kept to the side of the cutline keeping to the darkness of the Forest trees. The cutline was lit up by the nine moons which were shining brightly in the clear starry sky.
J149 noticed the moon lit recon base walls in the distance. There were still small square lights around the unbroken part of the Recon command center, shining brightly into the night.
“Powers still on?”
“You think anyone is in there?”
A608 responded to J149 who started to jog out into the clearing towards the base’s walls.
The towering Ewok picked up its walk to a faster paced walk and kept up to the Imperial ladies. As they ran J149 noticed the Ewok AT-AT walker tracks leaving the area the way it came in.
They all entered the base's courtyard and saw the carnage left behind by the drugged up Ewoks.
Large bonfire remains and damaged Stormtrooper armor laying on the ground everywhere in pools of blood. The special cargo was gone and the bodies of the troops with it. J149 examined the fallen tower and saw the tower was blasted by the Ewok AT-AT again after they left. Also the wall behind it was more blasted than before.
J149 walked up to the undamaged recon command center. J149 put her hand on the metal steps railing and looked up to see Q1045 holding the Death trooper heavy rotary blaster. Spooling the engine to fire.
“What's this I see… sided with the enemy now?”
Q1045 questioned aiming the heavy blaster at her.
“No the deformed thing was following us, he also protected us from them.”
J149 put her hands up in the air and slowly backed up. A608 did the same.
“ How do I know you 2 were not in some Rebel Ewok gang bang and now your handler is here to bring you back to take more cocaine from the Empire!”
“Your fucking crazy, Q1045 listen to yourself!”
A608 yelled to Q1045 on the metal staircase holding the heavy blaster aiming it at her now.
“Im the fucking crazy one? While I see you 2 running in with the Enemy.”
“Q1045 don't do this, this Ewok is a friend of the Empire!”
A608 said to Q1045 who looked at the snarling towering three eyed Ewok. He shook his death trooper mask in disapproval.
“No, now you're an Enemy to the Empire!”
A608 threw the Ewok axe at Q1045 which flew directly into his chest armor. The rotary heavy blaster opened fire and misdirected itself from the blow of the Ewok axe in his chest. The blaster shots missed and The towering Ewok charged in with two giant steps and it leaped high into the air and landed directly on Q1045. The towering Ewok started to smash him around on the metal staircase till he dropped the Heavy blaster from his broken arm.
A608 ran up the metal stairs and put her hands on the towering Ewok and he stopped beating down Q1045. J149 ran up the metal staircase to join them. She looked at the groaning and snoring death trooper laying mangled on the staircase.
“He's still alive, let's get him inside to the medi.”
J149 stopped talking half way through her sentence and put her hands up again. Seeing another stormtrooper walking out from the base. Aiming an E11 blaster at her.
“Stop right there!”
“Listen Q1045 lost his mind, we're bringing him into the medical room.”
Right as J149 finished her sentence. An arrow flew into the Stormtrooper’s neck. The trooper dropped the E11 and fell to the ground holding his blood spewing neck. J149 turned to see A608 with the bow in her hands.
A608 turned to the Giant Ewok who tilted his head looking back at A608 and J149.
“Yeah I couldn't let them kill him.”
J149 had a cold sinister precise movement to her when she nodded and unslung her rifle and pointed it at Q1045’s head and pulled the trigger. The Death trooper mask busted open, skull and blood splashed around from the plasma blast. J149 felt the hot blood rain on her body.
She stepped her blood covered feet over his dead body. On her way in she lowered her rifle to ground and shot the head off the choking Stormtrooper. She continued walking into the base and saw another Empire personnel sitting at the command center. He was dressed in a gray base uniform eating some Empire cookies when his shocked face turned to a bursting splash of plasma, brain and red blood mist. J149 walked up to the command center with her smoking sniper rifle and kicked his leaking dead body off the chair and sat down. A608 walked into the recon command center to see J149 sitting in the command chair amongst carnage. J149 Lifted up her helmet then reached over to pick up the blood covered cookie and started to eat it. When 2 more Empire troops walked out in fresh gray base uniforms.
J149 spun the command chair around and started to fire her sniper rifle at the troops down the hall. The blasts from her rifle sent the chair gliding back into the command desk. The troops ducked for cover but the plasma rounds ripped through the small trash cans they were hiding behind. A608 took cover and looked from behind the wall down the hall and saw the 2 troops dead on the floor covered in the trash.
“Clear!”
“So we think!”
J149 said kicking her bare blood covered feet up to stand up. She continued down the Recon bases hallway with her sniper rifle in her hands, A608 followed behind her. Another 3 Imperial Stormtroopers ran out from the end of the hall and were blasted dead to the ground by 3 single rapid fire blasts from J149’s DLT-19X sniper rifle. The rifle overheated and opened the exhaust port. The trooper's backup officer fired from behind the wall at the end of the hall. The blaster pistol fire sliced open A608s shoulder, knocking her to the side of the hall’s wall, leaving a long blood smear down to where she fell.
J149 crouched closing her exhaust port. She quickly aimed back down the hall as she waited for the perfect shot. The blaster pistol came around the hall's wall blind firing, missing the women on the ground and hitting the walls and roof top. J149 blasted the pistol and it exploded the trooper's hand. J149 heard him hit the ground screaming.
“You fucking bitch, you fucking bitch, you shot off my hand you fucking bitch!”
J149 stood up and ran to the end of the hall turning the corner to see the bleeding man scrambling down the hall trailing blood. She aimed and fired, missing and hitting the door frame the man entered to get away. A608 laid on the ground with her bow and arrows in pain holding on to her shot shoulder.
J149 ran towards the metal automatic sliding door and it opened. Flames burst out towards her. J149 jumped and rolled back. Dodging the flame thrower’s flames. J149 aimed her weapon and fired at the tank on the flammer. The sniper’s plasma round exploded the tank and set the wounded officer a fiery blaze. He dropped the flamethrower and walked five steps engulfed in flames before falling to the ground dead.
J149 watched the officer burn. Breathing heavy as her heart pounded. She turned and a knife was stabbed into her stomach. J149 looked into the scout helmet's black visor of the recon trooper. J149 grabbed the knife hand and held on while she put the barrel of her sniper rifle to the scout woman's arm pulling the trigger. The rifle's powerful kick broke J149’s fingers in the trigger guard and she dropped the sniper rifle. The blast delimbed the scout trooper's arm and she fell to the ground screaming in agony with blood spraying out from her arm. J149 held her broken right hand against her breasts in pain. J149 pulled out the recon knife with her left hand and walked up to the recon trooper. She crouched over the scout woman who reached up and ripped her Black imperial bra. J149 started stabbing the scout woman. J149 felt the knife travel through the neck of the woman 10 times before she felt herself trying to pass out. J149 left the recon knife stabbed in the dead woman's neck and stood up, fighting the pain.
J149 walked out of the recon’s armory. Bleeding and shaking from pain she walked to the medical room seeing the now empty Bacta tank. With her blood soaked left hand turned the Bacta tank on and set the setting to full healing process. She then took off her scout helmet dropping it to the ground, her long black sweaty braid rolled out on her back. Then she ripped the rest of her broken Imperial bra off with her left hand then she quickly dropped her black thong panties to the floor with her left hand. She stepped her dirty blood covered feet out of her underwear and started to climb up the ladder in pain. J149’s vision was blurring out when she got to the top of the Bacta tank. She lowered herself into the tank’s blue goo waters and put the rebreather mask on and the lid automatically closed. J149 felt herself drift away as the medical gas was inhaled.
End of Chapter 016 Long Dark Nights Of Endor Star- Wars fanfiction.23 written by Travis Willier