Star Wars Clone Wars Stories

Headcannon

General Grievous
The Negotiations
Lifespan of younglings

All too short than you expected

...

Everyone's all mad that Echo hasn't asked about Fives yet but hear me out on this one.

Echo already knows Fives is dead, and the way he proved in this last episode of the Bad Batch Arc proves it.

The way Echo says, "Yeah, just like old times," at the end of the episode. The way he paused, the way he looked around, his eyes for if half-wide, confused, like he's realized something. He knows Fives wouldn't miss this for the world. He knows Fives would never, ever, miss reuniting with his long lost vod. If there was a shred of hope Echo was alive, Fives would be there. No questions asked.

So when Echo looks around, after he's finally safe, after he gets away, he's not looking relived, is he? He looks surprised, like he's remembered something, or someone, that's supposed to be there, but isn't.

His smile at the end isn't in relief. He's just bittersweet. He doesn't say, "Yeah, just like old times," because he's finally going home.

Echo doesn't ask because he already knows.

He already knows he's the final domino, and Fives won't be there when he comes home.

...

In a magical world where Fives didn't die and Echo didn't disappear before season 7 and they met the Bad Batch:

Cody: This is Sargent Hunter

Hunter: Sorry were late Commander, we had some unforeseen..... complications.

Wrecker: *laughs* You ever fought a Yabick before?

Fives: .........yes.

Echo: *wheezing because he remembered that specific mission where they tired to make Fives their Queen*

Hunter: *a little confused at why the ARC trooper with a handprint is laughing* Wrecker here cut of the stinger of the Queen, that's why all those males tried to eat us.

Tech: Actually they were—

Echo: They were trying to mate with you! *dying of laughter*

Tech: ......I like this Reg. Can we keep them?

Hunter and Rex: No.

Fives: .....oh no. Echo found a friend! Can we go now?

Echo: They tried to mate with Fives the time we met with a few!

Crosshairs: Poor little Reg.

Fives: You know I don't appreciate this. I get it. They tried to make me their new size Queen. Can we go now? It's not that funny.

Echo and Wrecker: Yes it is!

Rex: This is going to be a long retrieval mission.

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Ahsoka: We're gonna have to catch up another time.

*16 years later*

Vader: It was foretold you would be here. Our long awaited meeting as come at last.

Ahsoka: I'm glad I—

Vader: *already sitting beside a table* Now let's catch up.

Ahsoka: Catch up?! I'm sorry who's the one who murdered a bunch of people and wearing a goth hazmat suit right now?

Ezra: What is happening right now?

Vader: *pouring tea into two cups* Listen, it was a very complex situation. Obi Wan was being a jerk, I had to keep my wife a secret—

Ahsoka: keep your WHAT?!

Vader: Uh, yes, I married Padmé in secret, then I got her pregnant, you see—

Ahsoka: got her WHAT?!

Vader: *reaching for a biscuit and and seeming disappointed at the fact that he couldn't eat it with the mask on* Yeah I lightly choked her—

Ahsoka: you CHOKED HER?!

Vader: lightly choked her. And then Obi Wan chopped off my three favorite limbs. The ones that still have bones and stuff?

Ahsoka: All of that still really doesn't justify killing a bunch of kids???

Vader: No, he chopped them off after I killed the kids, try to keep up Ahsoka!

Ezra: *litter lay in tears* What the kriff is happening???

...

"Come on boss," Cody had said, smiling out of Jango Fett's face, "have I ever let you down?"

"Well—" Obi-Wan had said with a slim answering smile, "Cato Neimodidia, for starters..."

"That was Anakin's fault; he was the one that was late..."

"Oh? And who will you blame it on this time?" Obi-Wan had chuckled as he climbed into his starfighter's cockpit and strapped himself in. "Very well then, I will try not to destroy all the droids before you get here."

"I'm counting on you boss, don't let me down."

"Have I ever?"

"Well," Cody said with a broad grin, "there was Cato Neimoidia..."

...

Rey: Im Rey. Rey Skywalker.

Dwight: Identify theft is not a joke, Rey. Millions of families are affected each year.