Okay Hear Me Out, But I Was Thinking About Something Cause They Referenced Fallen Order Again. I Was

Random clone wars thoughts

CLONES WITH NERF GUNS

I just know that Echos 501st ARC ass would have sat himself down on a rock and kicked his feet up the second that Hunter, Wrecker and Crosshair decided they want to fight Ventress.

He's like been there, done that. have fun getting your ass wooped.

to whoever first decided to connect pabu to scariff i hope you know i'm now living in constant fear because can you IMAGINE?

the batch finally living away from war, maybe echo's planning on going to join up with rex and ahsoka, see what he can offer in ways of intelligence before officially stepping away and retiring for good, maybe tech and phee have their own little house a little ways down from the rest of the batch, maybe crosshair and wrecker have traded their droid count competition for how much fish they can catch when they go out in the afternoons.

maybe omega's finally started calling hunter her buir (let's be honest, she started doing that years before), hunter's relaxing, just taking in the feeling of being surrounded by his family, not having to stress over keeping them all safe, and just having everyone he loves happy and healthy.

but then he feels it.

a tremor, not unlike the ones the batch has come to be used to in their home.

in the distance, it looks like a sunrise. which wouldn't be unusual, except for the fact that it's midday, and they've been feeling the sun's rays on their shoulders for the first half of their family day.

hunter knows something is wrong. feels it in his bones, especially as he watches the waves of water approaching the island. moving too quickly for it to be a sea surge.

briefly, each of the batch looks up, wondering if they can get to the now barely functioning Marauder in time.

but something whispers to them that it won't work, that it's time.

their luck has run out.

by some miracle, they're all together when it happens.

wrecker pulls omega into the center of their huddle. echo tucks crosshair between himself and hunter, and tech grabs onto wrecker's arm. huddled together as a team, a family, one final time, sharing meaningful glances filled with emotions that there isn't enough time to speak about.

they hold one another as the burning light encompasses their home, their paradise.

as the rebel alliance gets word that the plans for the death star have been successfully transferred, amongst the cheers and bittersweet celebrations, rex feels the pit in his stomach form. the familiar, horrible ache that he thought was finished for good.

ahsoka feels it too, feels one of the last bright spots of blue in the force flicker out, feels the life of one of her brothers disappear, and she can't do anything but reach out to rex as he falls to his knees, mourning the loss of his last boy in blue, the loss of his ey'ika, the loss of his brothers.

In season 7 there's a conversation between Tech and Wrecker when they're walking across that pipe that goes something like this:

W: Don't stop walking Tech! T: Fine. But if you fall, don't take me with you.

LOOK WHERE IT'S GOTTEN YOU, TECH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rex: *stares at fox blink twice then just turns around and walks out slowly *

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Rex:*knocking on a door* Wolf WOOOOLF please let me in , they ALL doing it again, i can't do it anymore

Wolf:*opens door tiredly* What is it vod?

Rex:They all being love sick puppis or even worse disgusting

Wolf:*roll his eyes and start closing the door*

Plo Koon:*from behind him* Wait son stop you cant shout him out like that if he is upset . Whats the problem Rex. Come in sit down and tell everything to me . Wolf our guest is upset make him some tea or other warm drink please .

rex, just escaped anakin reciting poems about padme: force give me strength i cant deal with lovesick puppy skywalker, you'd think after they married he'd get his shit together

cody: *stares at rex trying to warn him

rex, sitting down:

bly: ...

bly: and THEN ayala locked eyes with me and absolutely destroyed the clankers that grabbed me-

rex: for fucks sake cody are you hearing this

cody:let him be vod, its kinda funny after you filter out some-

obiwan, walking past them: hello my dear commander

cody:*chokes on his drink and falls off the bench

rex:...

rex, on the verge of tears: *runs off* fOOOOOX-

rex, in front of fox's room: fox they are being absolutely disgusting ALL OF THEM i miss ahsoka

fox, opening the door: what

rex: like i said- *looks at fox's ruffled hair, neck covered in hickeys and quinlan laughing in the room

rex:

A Letter to Dave, Jen, Brad, the Kiner Brothers and Dee Bradley Baker….

You’re all paying my therapist for the next year or so until season 3 drops. You know what you did and I’m not mad, just traumatized by what you did to me.

Please drop the date for season 3 by April 10 and tell us we’ll be fine.

I just rewatched The Crossing, and with the added context from s3, it’s honestly a wonder how the Batch got literally anything done during the Clone Wars before Echo and Omega joined them between Wrecker and Tech bickering over every little thing that goes wrong and Hunter and Crosshair beating each other up over snide comments lmao

loyalty means everything to the clones. But it’s not loyalty to the empire or republic

its loyalty to other clones. thats why wolffe lets them go

its loyalty to their morals. thats why howzer leaves

its loyalty to their ideals. It’s why Cody doesn’t kill the governor

it’s loyalty to those who proved themselves loyal to them. Its why Rex can’t pull the trigger