Star Wars: Guys Night Out Chapter 9

The droid returned with Wild Card's drinks and noticed Zataji at their table.
“I'll be eating with my friends here.” Zataji told the droid.
“Alright.” said the droid, then it pulled out the data pad again. “Are you boys ready to order?”
Jaster and his brothers nodded, then Joker started off. “I'll have the Zoq steak sandwich, with some vegetables on the side.”
“I'll have the gizka stew.” said Lucky.
“Is the nerf steak fresh?” asked Shiny.
“Yes indeed,” said the droid. “freshest on Coruscant.”
“Great, I'll have two of them.”
“I'll have the stew as well.” said Jaster.
Chatter would have said something, but he was too nervous due to Zataji being so clingy. Then Zataji looked at the droid and said “He'll have what I'm having.”
The droid typed the orders down on her data pad and gave them a nod. “Alright, your orders should be ready in no time. Until then, please let me know if you all need any refills.” and off she went.
“So,” said Zataji, in a flirtatious tone as she smiled at Chatter. “are you boys assigned to anyone right now~?”
Chatter tried to pull back as the jedi moved her head closer to his.
“Yeah, actually,” answered Lucky. “we're currently assigned to general Kahan and his fleet.”
Zataji looked at Lucky with a smile. “Really? I haven't seen him since Geonosis! How is he?”
“He's fine.” said Jaster. “at least as fine as anyone in a war would, I guess.”
Zataji's peppy personality shifted as she moved away from Chatter's arm and stared at the table for a moment. “Yeah...” she said. “this war has been taking it's toll on everyone...” she looked back at the boys with a slight smile. “Makes sense why you five wanted this, everyone one deserves a break from fighting once in a while.”
The five clones nodded and smiled at Zataji, they were happy to know that someone understood how they felt. After a bit of time, swapping war stories, the serving droid reappeared with a tray of food. The droid gave each person their food, then went off to the next table. Both Jaster and Lucky were enjoying their stew, Joker barely ate his food, he was too busy trying not to snicker as he watched Zataji occasionally tried to feed Chatter a piece of Zuurian pasta that she ordered for him, which just made Chatter even more nervous.
“So Zataji,” said Jaster, attempting to save his poor so that he may eat in peace. “have you gotten a padawan yet?”
Zataji ceased her flirting attempts to answer his question. “Yeah, an adorable little Wookiee named Nara!” she said as her face lit up. “She's such a little sweety! She gets so excited when I teach her force techniques, She's just so cute!”
The five were quite surprised by Zataji's behavior. Normally, the jedi they've met were always so calm and almost near emotion-less. But Zataji, she was acting more like a mother, talking about her child.

Outside the diner, Bonez and his unit watches them from the shadows.
“What are your orders sir?” asked one of the clones.
“I say we go in, drag them out and beat the force out of them!” said another trooper.
“No.” said Bonez, in a quiet, icy tone which made his team quickly clam up. “I've been studying these four for a long time... and I know if we do that, they'll snake out of our grip and run like they did with the others.” He looked at his men. “Here's what we need to do...”

Back in the diner, Wild Card and Zataji had finished their meals.
“Hehe, that sounds like Kahan.” giggled Zataji. “Cute guy, but a bit too laid-back for my taste.”
The squad chuckled as well with her. “Heh heh, yeah.” said Joker as the droid came back and gave them their bill. As he pulled out some creds, Zataji stood up and stretched.
“Well, I better be going.” said Zataji. I need to head back to the temple and get some rest. This was fun though, we should do this again sometime. By the way...” she reached into her tunic and pulled out a couple of credits and placed them on the table. “Dinner is on me.”
“Thanks Zataji.” said Jaster as he smiled at his jedi friend.
“No problem,” said Zataji, she then turned around and headed towards the door. But before she left, she looked back at Chatter and gave him a playful smile. “And Chatter~, give me a call sometime, ok~?” she then blew him a kiss and left.
With that, Joker let out a laugh as he wrapped an arm around Chatter's neck. “Well, look at you Mr. Stud! Capturing the heart of a jedi of all sentients!” His laughter slowly died as he saw his brothers looking out the window with concerned looks. “What?” Joker asked. He then looked out the window as well and saw two Pack clones heading towards their speeder. “Oh... um... we better get going.”
“Agreed.” said Jaster. “Out the back, we'll scatter then meet back at the speeder.”
The squad nodded then headed to the back exit. Jaster scanned the area outside, the motioned his brothers to follow. Once they were all out in the open, they started to head in different directions, but they were cut off by the other Pack clones that came out of the shadows, with Bonez being the last one to appear.
“Well, well, well.” said Bonez as he and his squad moved in, their blasters aimed at Wild Card, set to stun. “and here I thought tonight was going to be boring. But look at this, a little family reunion right here.”
Wild Card looked puzzled, they know these guys were troopers like them, but they don't recall ever meeting these guys-or even heard of the Pack until tonight. Bonez moved in closer and stopped in front of Chatter. He then removed his helmet and smirked at Chatter. “Hello Chatter,” he said, sounding a bit happy. “been a long time, brother.”
Chatter looked into the troopers eyes for a moment, then his eyes narrowed. “Bonez...” said Chatter with venom in his voice.
“Aww.” Bonez replied as he placed a hand over his chest in mock happiness. “you remember me. I'm touched.”
Shiny looked over at Chatter, looking really confused. “You know him?”
“Sure he does.” answered Bonez, without taking his eyes off Chatter. “We use to be in the same unit back in the day, remember Chatter?”
“Yeah, I remember.” said Chatter, still sounding angry. “I also remembered that you were a bully. Making everyone do your work.”
“And I was Garvo's favorite, back on Kamino.”
“Uhh... Garvo?” asked Joker.
“He was my old squad's trainer, and he was the worst of them all.” said Chatter as he clenched his fists. “He treated us like garbage, he said it would 'toughen us up'.”
“It worked for us,” said Bonez, looking smug. “Too bad all you ever did was gripe, complain, and defy every order he gave you.”
“Because he was a nut!” Barked Chatter. “every simulation, he would try and get us to sacrifice one of our squad mates for the sake of the mission! But I always made sure we came out with success, without sacrificing anyone!”
Wild Card looked at Chatter, completely surprised by how Chatter was acting, he's definitely not acting like the trembling, nervous Chatter that they've normally seen. Bonez also looked a little caught off guard by Chatter's behavior, then smiled sinisterly. “Well, looks like Garvo didn't fully beat that rebellious streak out of you... Good.” Bonez snapped his fingers, then one of the troopers pulled a metal case off his back and held it in front of his leader. Bonez opened the case and grabbed a pair of metal gloves and put them on. He then looked back at Chatter, still smiling. “You remember these?” he then connected his gloves together and activated them which caused electricity to run all over them. Chatter's eyes widened with fear as he stared at the gloves, remembering when Garvo used those on the poor clone whenever he wouldn't listen to his orders. He took one step back, like he really wanted to run. “Don't even think about it!” barked Bonez. “If you run, my boys shoot your squad, and I'll use these on their paralyzed bodies!”
Hearing that, Chatter stood at attention, not moving an inch as sweat started to form on his forehead.
“Good boy.” said Bonez as he cracked his knuckles. “Now stay there, and take your medicine. Like you use to.”