War Against Us (A Captain Rex x Reader Story)

Zyemus Ausra

"Rise and shine everyone!" Anakin yelled as the sun started to go up. As you looked over you noticed Rex's armor was gone, as was he. The sun was shining into the cave, reflecting a shine off a rock next to your robe. Curious, you get up and check out the rock.  

"Zyemus ausra," it says. Smiling, you look out the cave and see Rex talking to Tup, though wishing he wasn't so you could let him know you saw the message that was obviously left by him. 

"(Y/N)! It's time to go!" Anakin shouted upon you exiting the cave. 

"I'm here, relax," you groaned, acknowledging the fact that Rishi was hotter than you expected. 

While removing your robe and tying it around your waist, you looked a Jesse, who was walking next to you. "How do you do it? It's so hot out and with all that armor?" You ask as sweat begins to form at your hair line. 

"It's all about experience General (Y/LN). We were engineered to adapt quickly. In my first battle with the 501st, we were on Tatooine, we heard there was some sepy intel there. We spent two days and nights in that dry land. I learned quickly," he laughed, "If it makes you feel any better, this heat is no where near the worst you'll see if you stay with us for a while."

"Great!" You rolled your eyes, "Can't wait."

(........................)

"Wait!" You commanded, making all the troopers stop. 

"What is it (Y/N)?" Anakin asked in a very annoyed tone.

 "Incoming, 5 o'clock," You blurted, almost instantly after Anakin was finished his sentence. 

"What are you talking about, it's so qui-" Anakin was cut off by a loud explosion from behind you. Droids appeared from the smoke. "

Must be close to the base, their numbers are quite large," Anakin yelled to you as you both continued to deflect blasts. The droids kept coming and coming. 

"I can't believe they got so many droids here, on a Republic planet!" You complained, slicing the last droid down.  "Let's keep going." You finished, turning off your lightsaber and clipping it on your belt. 

The troops continued toward the base, you stuck to the back, making sure there weren't anymore attacks from behind. 

"Good job out there," You heard a voice say. It didn't take much for you to figure out who it was without looking. Rex's voice sounded so different compared to the other clones, well in your opinion. 

"Thank You Captain," you replied, "Oh and I appreciate your little note this morning," you whispered. 

Rex laughed, "Thought you would. Now I'm going to go back up to the front, because I'm always upfront and," Hardcase and Jesse looked back at you two and laughed, "if the boys notice me back here with you, they might start to think we have something going on, if they haven't already." He laughed even more and you punched his shoulder as he ran up to the front. 

"I wouldn't mine," you whisper, watching him reunite with Anakin at the front. 

"Anakin, I see the entrance to the base!" You exclaimed, rushing to the front of the troops. The entrance was just below a cliff, which you and your men were on top of. "Sooo," you hummed, "All we have to do is get down? Right?" 

You look at Anakin. "Sounds good, and we made it here before Obi-Wan, so it would be nice to get it before him." Anakin responded, signaling the men over. Looking over the cliff, you noticed some droids protecting the base, but not many.

"Generals, I ran a scan of the base," Tup added to your conversation with Anakin. "There's only a few dozen droids in the base and only five in the command center of it." "Thank you Tup," Anakin answered, prepping to make his way down the cliff. "Let's go boys!" Anakin commanded, jumping off the cliff.  You were apprehensive and watched the troops all use their cables to scale the cliff. 

"General!" It was a heavenly voice, it was Rex. "Are you okay, sir?" He asked, before scaling the cliff. 

"Yes, I am," You lied, giving him a smile. He tossed you his second blaster. 

"You're lying use this," he laughed. You sighed and used his blaster to get down the cliff, thinking to yourself how embarrassed you are. Before everyone landed from the cliff, the droids were already firing. You turned on your lightsaber before you reached the bottom and started deflecting blasts. 

"Captain!" You yelled as your reached the bottom, Rex looked back at you as you tossed him his blaster. He nodded at you upon catching his blaster and started shooting droids. He was so good at fighting. You couldn't help but notice how well we fought with others too. Him and the other troopers were always watching each other's backs. Since there were only five droids outside, it didn't take long to get them all down. 

"(Y/N), Rex, Kix, secure the perimeter, the rest of us are going in!" Anakin screamed while running into the base. You made a complete 360 to see if there was anything odd. Nothing. Rex and Kix were standing together and talking about something but you couldn't hear. Out of the corner of you eye, you saw something. A droid. The droid shot a single shot. You quickly ignited your lightsaber and deflected the blast, barely an inch away from Rex's chest. The droid emerged from the bushes and you sliced it before looking back at Rex to see if he was okay.

He took off his helmet. "Thank you, sir," he winked at you.

Obi-Wan and the 212th shortly came out of the wilderness. "Obi-Wan! We have captured the base. Anakin is trying to figure out why the base is here," You informed Obi-Wan. 

"Nice Work, (Y/N). I will call for a rescue ship to pick us up." Obi-Wan then left to contact the Defender. Rex went over to a clone in the 212th and started talking. You approached them both.

"Captain, can you introduce me to your friend?", you ask, patting Rex on the back. 

"Of course General, this is my friend Commander Cody of the 212th and Cody, this is General (Y/LN)." Cody reached his hand out to shake yours.

"It's a pleasure, General (Y/LN)," Cody began, "You're going to love fighting along side the 501st. They are almost as good as the 212th!" He laughed, Rex playfully punched his chest.

"Well Commander, I am yet to see you and your men fight." You walked off, but you could still barely hear Cody and Rex talking. You sensed them both look towards you, but you shrugged it off and didn't think much of it, until you heard your name. Then you started thinking. 

(...............)

As you waited for the Defender to pick everyone up, you sat on a rock next to the now destroyed base. Rex and Cody were still talking and every now and then, Cody would look over at you. That followed a slap by Rex. Curious, you decided to focus on Rex. Emotion, Strong Emotion. That's all you could sense. 

You kept thinking about Rex. If you were to date him, you'd be breaking Jedi Code, which is something you're not sure you want to do. But you only knew Rex for a little longer than a day. What if you were paired with another clone in the caves? Maybe you would have had feelings for that clone instead. 

But then again, Rex, even though its been a bit more than a day, has seemed to always look out for you more than anyone else. He also made the most effort to talk to you. He even told you his deepest secret. He obviously trusted you, a lot. 

The Defender finally landed and both the 212th and 501st legion boarded, along with all the generals. You looked back at Rishi, and then the rock from the cave from Rex, that you decided to keep. 

With fear in your eyes, you looked up again, "Rex, Tu aras nulija," you whispered, "Itin ny mazo."