A Christmas present for @painkiller80
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“Fives.”
The ARC didn’t even register that his name had been called.
“Fives!”
Blinking into his HUD to connect to the comm, Fives laughed. “Yes, Echo?”
“I really don’t know why I deploy with you...” His brother muttered before clearing his throat. “Standby to power cut.”
Fives rolled his shoulders and took a few deep breaths.
Go time.
The flood lights illuminating the courtyard shutoff with a clank, and Fives moved.
He shot forward with the speed of a blaster bolt, leaping off the roof and rolling as he landed in the courtyard and sprinting through the blast door into the building, instinctively sidestepping a camera and moving quickly along the hall.
“Two lefts and a right. Got it?”
Fives clicked his mic to indicate he copied, then slid into an open door to dodge a patrol of humans. “I’m not an idiot, Echo.”
“You don’t even remember the briefing do you?”
“Yes...?”
“One day I swear-“
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“Why are we doing this again, Sir?”
“I look like an officer to you, shiny?” Fives asked the young trooper as they hooked rappelling ropes to carabiners attached to their belts.
“Nosir!” The kid quickly replied.
“The don’t call me sir.”
The shiny tripped over himself moving to another area of the cliff to get away.
“Fives?”
“Yes Echo?”
“You didn’t need to scare the kid like that.”
“It was funny though.”
Besides, everyone knew Fives had a soft spot for shinies.
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“Incoming!”
Fives crouched behind the section of ruined wall he was hiding behind as a shell exploded overhead. This was taking too long, they were getting torn apart.
“Man down!”
Fives popped up and fired a barrage of blaster bolts from his DCs at a cluster of droids.
“Echo!”
“Send it!”
“We’re getting slaughtered, we have to push out of here!”
“You’re right. On you.”
With that, Fives vaulted his cover and gestured other troopers forward.
“Come on! Follow me!” Fives roared.
The sound of hundreds of troopers roaring battle cries spurred him onwards.
He sprinted forward, nailing two in the head with blaster bolts. Then he holstered both blasters and climbed aboard an AAT, tore the hatch open, and proceeded to throw a thermal detonator inside before leaping off as it exploded.
“Hell yeah!” A few troopers barked.
“Let’s go!”
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Ok so my original idea for this died because inspiration failed miserably, so I did this instead. Hope you like it.
It took an awful amount of time but here we are finally!
I have to say that it always amaze me how you write so well war scenes or just action, something i won’t be able to do ever.
“Fives?”
“Yes Echo?”
“You didn’t need to scare the kid like that.”
“It was funny though.”
All this part, it was so them..and so Fives.
“You don’t even remember the briefing do you?”
“Yes…?”
“One day I swear-“
This, i bet it happened all the time between them or...almost often. Echo would surely kill him one of these days.
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Thank you, truly...i love seeing my fave twins/brothers in action. This is so unexpected and i really don’t know what i did to earn this, but thank you