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senmut) wrote2026-01-09 10:56 pm
senmut) wrote2026-01-09 10:56 pm
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SW:TCW Abandoned Work
AO3 Link | Unfinished Citadel AU (510 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars [2008] - All Media Types
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: CT-7567 | Rex, CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo
Additional Tags: Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued
Summary:
"Promise me to get them out," she had said. "Something smells like a three day old rancor corpse."
What had his Commander seen? Rex nor his men had been able to recall anything that tripped their training, but General Kenobi had been caught unaware too.
Would he have pushed them to keep moving if General Skywalker hadn't been injured and unconscious from trying to save Ahsoka? It still felt wrong, no matter what the mission had been to not confirm the death. Echo still refused to talk about it, given he had nearly fallen with her.
"Should have been me, not the Jedi," Echo had said, once, on retrieval.
They all felt it. They were one of millions of clones and she had been who they were meant to protect.
Skywalker still wasn't talking to Kenobi. Rex didn't know how the Naboo Senator had headed off an outright mutiny. Fives thought she had promised to use her resources.
Rex still saw the flickers of destruction in his general's eyes, after, when he'd told the man.
"She commanded me to get you, all of us, out, minutes before we lost her and Tarkin."
If there was one fact of Rex's new life he hated, it was knowing that his general was barely holding onto sanity.
"What difference did the mission make? Dead brothers, both objectives dead, our Commander dead," Fives asked or maybe just rattled off to get it out of his head.
"Seppies didn't get the intel from either objective," Echo answered, weakly and by rote, as he'd been telling himself since they were retrieved.
Fives scowled. "Wish I knew what made her fall back."
Echo did too -- when he wasn't wondering why it had been her, not him, that fell.
"You need to worry about the General. Captain can't do it all, and he seems to like you."
Fives didn't answer that, because he was watching for Anakin Skywalker to lose his control, and hoping he was wrong.
Rex looked at Fives, then to Echo. "You both see it."
"Yes, we do," Echo answered for them.
"What do we do about it?" Fives asked.
"You stick to his six. He's taken to you well. Echo, I want you training with the slicers, give your brain a chance to do real intel."
"Seems odd, Captain, when we're talking about our General, sir," Echo told him.
Rex met his eyes. "Our unit keeps winding up in the deepest messes. That's half of why he's so volatile. You need to figure out the pattern, if there is one, so maybe we jump ahead of it."
"What's the other half?" Fives asked.
"If I knew, I might be the one who could actually head off the explosion," Rex admitted. "He came to us like that."
"Then maybe that's what I need to learn," Fives said softly.
"I think… I'm going to try and find what the Commander saw, that made her take Tarkin over the edge when she killed the Warden," Echo told them, and Rex nodded, thinking that was a good start.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars [2008] - All Media Types
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: CT-7567 | Rex, CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo
Additional Tags: Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued
Summary:
I had intended to write something for Rex/Fives/Echo. I got sideswiped by a set-up beginning at the Citadel. There is a character death mentioned, though it was going to prove not to have been one. However, the muses turned virulently against the entire concept. As always, feel free to run with it if you want.
Unfinished Citadel AU
"Promise me to get them out," she had said. "Something smells like a three day old rancor corpse."
What had his Commander seen? Rex nor his men had been able to recall anything that tripped their training, but General Kenobi had been caught unaware too.
Would he have pushed them to keep moving if General Skywalker hadn't been injured and unconscious from trying to save Ahsoka? It still felt wrong, no matter what the mission had been to not confirm the death. Echo still refused to talk about it, given he had nearly fallen with her.
"Should have been me, not the Jedi," Echo had said, once, on retrieval.
They all felt it. They were one of millions of clones and she had been who they were meant to protect.
Skywalker still wasn't talking to Kenobi. Rex didn't know how the Naboo Senator had headed off an outright mutiny. Fives thought she had promised to use her resources.
Rex still saw the flickers of destruction in his general's eyes, after, when he'd told the man.
"She commanded me to get you, all of us, out, minutes before we lost her and Tarkin."
If there was one fact of Rex's new life he hated, it was knowing that his general was barely holding onto sanity.
"What difference did the mission make? Dead brothers, both objectives dead, our Commander dead," Fives asked or maybe just rattled off to get it out of his head.
"Seppies didn't get the intel from either objective," Echo answered, weakly and by rote, as he'd been telling himself since they were retrieved.
Fives scowled. "Wish I knew what made her fall back."
Echo did too -- when he wasn't wondering why it had been her, not him, that fell.
"You need to worry about the General. Captain can't do it all, and he seems to like you."
Fives didn't answer that, because he was watching for Anakin Skywalker to lose his control, and hoping he was wrong.
Rex looked at Fives, then to Echo. "You both see it."
"Yes, we do," Echo answered for them.
"What do we do about it?" Fives asked.
"You stick to his six. He's taken to you well. Echo, I want you training with the slicers, give your brain a chance to do real intel."
"Seems odd, Captain, when we're talking about our General, sir," Echo told him.
Rex met his eyes. "Our unit keeps winding up in the deepest messes. That's half of why he's so volatile. You need to figure out the pattern, if there is one, so maybe we jump ahead of it."
"What's the other half?" Fives asked.
"If I knew, I might be the one who could actually head off the explosion," Rex admitted. "He came to us like that."
"Then maybe that's what I need to learn," Fives said softly.
"I think… I'm going to try and find what the Commander saw, that made her take Tarkin over the edge when she killed the Warden," Echo told them, and Rex nodded, thinking that was a good start.
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