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Itâs Fox Day so have a fluffy lil Corrie Guard Talent Show story I wrote based on this post featuring a bunch of my talented writer friends OCâs and Fox trying so hard to develop better mental health patterns and so so many hugs đĽ°â¤ď¸đŚ
Ten Out Of Ten
7k words! Click the title for the AO3 link. @corrieweek TW: Suicidal thoughts mentioned, KMS joke and general implied past abuse and decom, but things are better and theyâre healing now â¤ď¸âđŠš
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âIâm going to fucking-â
Stitchâs eyes snapped to Foxâs face the moment he started mumbling those words under his breath, and he cut himself off. Kill myself, was what he wanted to say, but he wasnât supposed to make jokes like that was he? Theyâd talked about this at length after the war was over, after the Senate voted to declare clones were Sentient in an upset he still wasnât sure he believed really happened. Their newfound position was so fragile, even if the decom orders he shielded them from for years had been stopped. His vode werenât expendable anymore, there were consequences for abusing them now that Fox had the right to enforce, but the sense that all those protections could be ripped away had seeped deep into his bones. Fox hadnât been able to protect them before, his efforts hadnât been enough, he wasnât enough! Palpatine might be gone, but Fox couldnât shake the icy dread that he would see those leering yellow eyes around every corner, hear that cruel voice disguised with grandfatherly patience threatening his vode if Fox didnât comply, feel the sudden pang of lightning sear across his skin -
âFox,â Stitch said his name in a hard tone, snapping him out of the spiraling thoughts for a moment. âStop that.â
Right. Fox took a breath.
Stitch had a point, he knew he did, as much as he hated to admit it a couple of weeks ago when he made his last ill-timed joke passing by a familiar spire. Jokes like that only reinforce negative thought patterns, Stitch had snipped. Itâs not funny, itâs only making your damn mental health worse and itâs going to give me a fucking aneurysm one of these days if you donât knock it the hell off!Â
The reminder filled him with a new wave of guilt. His poor CMO could never trust Fox wasnât serious about those sort of things, and Fox honestly couldnât blame him, but Stitch already had to put up with so much. Now Fox was adding to it. Maybe it would be better if he just-
âIâm serious, Fox,â Stitch snarled. âWant to try that again?â
Fox scowled at the floor. He was trying to do better, he really was, he had to, for his brothers sake. Heâd promised them he would, even if he didnât understand why they still bothered, now that the primary threat to their existence was gone. But Stitch was still glowering at him expectantly. Thorn and Thire had gone quiet too, right in the middle of their own conversation. Great. Now they were all concerned again, just because of his bad coping skills. Fox looked up at the ceiling, trying to remember what Stitch had said to do with thoughts or jokes like that instead, even if it was just to appease them. Just say something different, right? Something positive or funny or ridiculous?Â
He let out an exasperated sigh and blurted out the first load of nonsense that popped into his head. âIâm - Iâm going to put on the best talent show Coruscant has ever seen,â Fox muttered, his voice thick with sarcasm.
There was a pause, and Fox felt a flush creep up his neck. Where the hell had that come from? It wasnât even really funny, it was just ridiculous, Thorn and Thire were bound to give him shit, and -
âWait seriously?â Thorn jumped up eagerly from his spot on the floor. âWe can do that?â
Thireâs eyebrows shot straight into his hair. âI ah. Think the Commander was joking, vod.â
âBut we could?â Thorn pressed, practically bouncing on the balls of his feet with a huge sparkling grin on his face.Â
Fox blinked a couple times at his vodâika with a pit in his stomach. Thorn had to be joking too, didnât he?Â
âCause I had this idea, thereâs this song I found that I want to make a routine with Lowkey to and -â
âIsnât that what the holonet is for?â Thire chuckled.
âTrust me, this would be so much better live! I could - No wait, canât say. That would be a huge spoiler!â
Both troopers looked excitedly at Fox, and his heart dropped. Kriff. This wasnât a complication he was prepared to deal with, not today.
âIâŚâ He gulped, trying to stall, trying to think of any way to tell them no, it wasnât possible, they didnât have the resources or the time⌠But it was useless. He couldnât stand to see their faces fall if he could help it, not after everything the Guard had been through for so long. If they wanted to do something like that so badly he would find a way, he⌠He could never say no to them. Not with enthusiasm like that, not when they were looking at him like that!
âSure,â He caved, cursing himself internally as he did. âWe can have a⌠A talent show.â
Thire gasped, Thorn let out a whooping cheer, and Fox had to grin in spite of himself, at least until Stitch snorted from behind him. Fox shot a tired glare back at his CMO, who didnât look sorry in the slightest, in fact he looked downright pleased. Stitch had to know exactly what just happened in Foxâs head, and this whole self-esteem issue he was constantly pestering Fox about had just taken a turn that his vodâika couldnât have planned better if he tried. It wasnât like Fox could really regret it, though. Thorn had already lit up like a life day tree, sending frantic comms to Lowkey with ideas for their next routine, and Thire wore a thoughtful little grin on his face that Fox could have melted at.
âWhat are you going to do for it, sir?â Thorn asked suddenly, looking up from the comm he had been typing out.
âIâm not competing,â Fox said automatically.
âWhaaat?â Thorn frowned.
âWhy not?â Thire said in bewilderment. âItâs your idea!â
âWhat would I even do?â Fox exhaled, shaking his head. âI donât have any special talents.â
âSure, vod. You just killed the Sith, ended the war and set us all free, that was a normal Benduday,â Thorn snarked.
âThat wasnât all me⌠And how exactly would I do any of that on stage?â Fox protested.
Thorn opened his mouth to offer up what was sure to be some sort of insane suggestion, but thankfully, Stitch came to Foxâs rescue.
âHe told you you could have the show, thatâs enough,â Stitch snapped. âI karking swear, if you try to hijack his sleep schedule just to make him prep for some damn act, youâll be seeing my special talents in the med bay first hand!â
That made the pair of them back off, but it didnât seem to damper their excitement for the thing, which was good. Fox let out a breath as they shrugged in acceptance and got back to their conversation from before, this time with giddy little grins on their faces.
This⌠This couldnât hurt, could it? If the idea was making Thorn and Thire this happy, it would probably be good for the rest of his men, too. Fox wasnât the only one who struggled, maybe they could all use the boost. He would still make sure it was closed to anyone but the Guard, to be safe, even if the galaxy was nominally safer for them already. Outsiders seeing his vode in the spotlight was still a risk he wasnât willing to take, but they could keep this small, just celebrate a few of his brothers who he loved so much and remind them of their worth. He could manage that.
Stitch slung an arm across Foxâs back as he started thinking it all through, and Fox automatically pulled him into a hug, letting out a deep sigh.
âItâs a good idea, vod,â Stitch told him softly. âIâm proud of you. You caught yourself, youâre forming better patterns already, thatâs progress. But this isnât going to fuck up your sleep.â
âSomeone has to plan all this,â Fox reminded him, but Stitch shook his head as he pulled back to look Fox in the eye.
âYeah. Someone. Not you,â His CMO told him pointedly, mouth twisting into a wicked smirk. âEither you let me handle this or you go down to one shift a day, donât try me. We have rights now, thanks to you, so you canât work more than your doubles or Iâll fucking report it.â
âThis wouldnât be work related-â
âIt could be,â Stitch threatened with glee, and Fox let out a half-hearted scoff. That wasnât even fair. His brothers needed those protections in place, but Fox hadnât considered how Stitch might use those new laws against him, too.
âFine,â He bit out. âIf youâre sure, but if you need anything, tell me. I should still be involved.â
âItâs your own damn show, youâll have a role,â Stitch shot back, but his eyes were soft, and Fox nodded. It was settled, then. For better or worse, Fox really was going to kill himself put on the best fucking talent show Coruscant had ever seen.
---
It might have been Foxâs half-baked, sarcastic suggestion to throw the talent show in the first place, but Stitch stayed true to his word and took charge of the whole production so Fox wouldnât work himself into the ground trying to do it all it himself. He still wasnât sure whether to be relieved or put off by the help. This really was something he could have handled on his own, he used to pull triple or quad shifts, the doubles were already a massive improvement and adding the show to his plate really wouldnât have been pushing himself more than he had before. Pointing that out Stitch again later that night, though, proved to be a mistake, as the CMO kindly offered to break his fucking legs and throw the bone knitter off the goddamn Rotundra if he tried to go back on their agreement nowâŚÂ So Fox let Stitch handle coordinating the thing, went to bed, and hardly slept, but at least he tried.Â
Fox had barely begun his first shift when it became clear word had spread and clones on and off duty all started acting strangely. He had only pictured a small gathering in his head, something held quietly in the barracks or the mess, far from prying eyes, but the more excited vode he encountered throughout the day the less that seemed like a viable option.Â
Thorn and Lowkey passed Fox as he left the barracks that morning, both of them soaking wet, squelching in their boots and giggling like kriffing cadets. They froze when they saw Fox and tripped all over their promises to clean up the mess before Fox let them go. Only a couple hours later, Leftyâs pet tooka somehow got stuck in a vent in the armory, and when he got her out, she was wearing a miniature version of shock trooper armor. The red paint hadnât dried yet and was smeared in places on the thin plastoid, but that, at least, was a cute problem. He gave a blushing Lefty a comforting hug once his pet was safe and gently scratched the little tookas head before moving on with his day.
The talent show was farther from Foxâs mind again by the time he was making rounds near the east wing of the building on his second shift. Suddenly he heard noises from a storage room that was supposed to be unoccupied, and panic flared in his gut. Heâd heard things like this before. Muffled voices echoed from inside, one of them shouting something indistinguishable, and they sounded like his vode!
All the worst possibilities raced through his head, but they had rights now, he could protect them if someone was trying to hurt them and he would! He would do anything to keep them safe, no matter the cost. Fox drew his twin blasters with his heart in his throat, raced right up to the door and -
The voices started to sing. Fox stopped dead in his tracks.
Theeeeere once was a man come from Sriluur, Say now did he really? A handsome pirate, thatâs for sure! All of thatâs a lie!
It⌠It was several voices, echoing loudly through the door now in the otherwise empty hall, all of them clones but⌠But nothing was wrong. Foxâs adrenaline fizzled at once and he let his hands with the blasters fall at his side. They were just practicing in there, a call and response song like some of them made up back on Kamino in training, nothing that was hurting them. There werenât even rules against that kind of thing, at least, not anymore.
Hondo Ohnaka, Hondo Ohnaka, Hondo Ohnaka! All of thatâs a lie!
Fox shook his head and closed his eyes for a few seconds, letting their little song remind him that they were okay. They did sound good, now that he knew no one was locked in there with a fucking Senator, and some of the lines they made up almost made him chuckle, lessening his nerves. If they had written it themselves, it was a very clever shanty. After a minute or so he trudged off to continue his rounds, but practicing vode continued to catch him off guard through the rest of that shift. By the time he made it back to the barracks he had ran into Pointe with wide eyes and his arms full of bright colored fabric and ribbon scraps, Tree practicing an attempt to make a strange plant disappear for Senator Chuchi, and Crow trying to smuggle no less than six mouse droids out of the Senate halls for who-the-hell-knows-why.
Fox was tired when he finally returned, but before he could make Stitchâs whole kriffing day by collapsing into bed at the end of it like he was supposed to, Thire burst in with a grin on his face that lit up the whole room.
âI found us a venue!â He announced, and Fox blinked at him in bleary-eyed confusion.
âA what?â
âYou know that old theater just down the street?â
âThe one you just issued eighteen building citations to last week?â Fox said with a raised eyebrow.
Thire rubbed awkwardly at the back of his neck. âYeeeah⌠I might have offered to waive those if they can get the violations fixed by Taungsday⌠And let us use the place that night.â
Foxâs face stayed impassive as he looked at his blushing vodâika. ââŚFor the talent show?â He asked at long last, and Thire nodded.
âI mean, where were we gonna have it? The mess?â
That had been what Fox was picturing, but⌠Well, it didnât really matter to him if the theater paid those fines, just that they fixed their shit, so if this was just as effective he didnât see a problem with it. Besides, Thire seemed proud, and after seeing so much more enthusiasm today than he expected, maybe being on a real stage would be good for his kihâvode too, at least if the event was still private. They deserved to feel special. They were special. Especially since so many of them really had cultivated great talents, even while stationed here, of all places, where stifling conformity was a matter of survival.
âGood work, vod,â Fox yawned, standing up again and crossing over to Thire over to give him an appreciative hug. âTheyâll love that.â
âYou think so?â Thire said, letting out a breath and straightening up a bit at the praise.
âOf course,â Fox assured him. He let him go with a pat on the shoulder and sank back down onto his bed. âYouâll have to tell Stitch, thoughâŚâ
âWill do, sir!â Thire beamed.
Fox smiled as he closed his eyes, even through his exhaustion. He hadnât expected all this, but it really did feel like the spectacle was needed, somehow. Maybe he should have known, with how long they had all had to keep their individuality hidden away, for safetyâs sake. But things were different now, they really were. Even if he was still having a hard time believing it.Â
Fox found it a little easier to drift off to sleep that night, even if he could have sworn someone was practicing an entire tap dance routine in a nearby room.Â
---
The day of the talent show came and the old theater was packed. Even knowing how excited his kihâvode were about this, Fox stared around in wide-eyed wonder at the number of them who showed up! Stitch had to half-drag him through the crowd of smiling, laughing Corries, most of them in armor but a few in military dress clothes or civvies or even full costumes that rivaled the worst dressed Senators, towards the judges booth in the center of the room. The rest of the panel, with Thire, Stone, Hound and Rosie, were already gathered there, chatting and laughing as they waited for everyone else to find their seats.Â
It was slow moving through the crowd though, even with Stitchâs intimidating scowl to cut them a path, since Foxâs kihâvode kept turning to smile at him, laugh, and hug him along the way.
âCommander!â A fresh faced shiny, Zed, grinned up at him with a a sharp salute. âThank you sir, I - I canât believe I get to show off my hoverboard tricks! I always saw the holos of the pros on Kamino but I never thoughtâŚâ
âYouâll do great tonight,â Fox reassured him, giving his shoulder a squeeze that made the kid swell with pride and bounce on his toes. They only made it a few more steps before another trooper tapped on his shoulder.Â
âI was hoping to catch you, Sir,â The trooper said softly, fidgeting with a piece of flimsi in his hands, and Fox recognized him as Penner. âI didnât sign up, I donât think this would be very exciting from the stage but⌠Iâve been learning origami to give me something to do with my hands when Iâm anxious and⌠I think Iâve gotten good at it,â He explained, blushing a little as he spoke. âI want you to have this oneâŚâ He held up the flimsi in his hand and Foxâs eyes widened. What was a flat and fragile sheet just a minute before was suddenly a perfect little Fox.
âThatâs incredible,â Fox breathed, and he meant it. He picked up the little fox as gently as he could, looking at the little details, the tiny folds that seemed to fit impossibly together in awe. It was so personal, so heartfelt... âThank you, Penâika,â Fox smiled. âIf you were competing Iâd give you ten out of ten.â
Penner looked like he was about to cry. âItâs nothing, you⌠You saved my life,â Penner whispered, his lower lip wobbling just a bit as he did. âI donât know if you remember but⌠But thank you, Commander.â
Fox felt like the air had been knocked clean from his lungs. He did remember, of course he did. Penner had been one of the first men he had been too late to protect⌠But he wrapped his arms around his brother, drawing him close and taking care to keep the oragami fox cupped protectively in his hand. When they pulled apart, both their eyes were misty, and Penner gave him a watery grin before turning away.
âI hope youâre paying attention,â Stitch said under his breath as he took Fox by the hand again. âSee what can happen when youâre not a fucking asshole to yourself?â
âThis was mostly your work,â Fox pointed out in a raw sounding voice, but Stitch shook his head.
âOnly because youâre still running yourself into the damn ground trying to keep us safe. This was your idea, its happening because you said so and you did it for their sake, donât you dare deny it!â
Fox didnât dare. He wasnât sure why he had said anything about a talent show in the first place, what possessed him to speak those words with hardly the thought in his mind or where they even came from, but he⌠He wasnât sorry. His vode needed this, maybe more than he even realized, or maybe he knew but just hadnât understood it yet.Â
âHow many of them do you thinkâŚâ Fox started, but trailed off.
âThink what?â Stitch pushed.
â⌠Need to know they⌠Matter,â Fox said quietly. âEven if theyâre not competing tonight.â
Stitch stopped in his tracks, turning back to him with a solemn, troubled look on his face. âAll of them,â He said, without a hint of bluster or sarcasm.
Fox nodded. Thatâs what he thought, too. âI wish I could tell them allâŚâ
âI know. They would say the same about you,â Stitch told him gently. âCome on.â
A few more hugs and encouraging words later, Thire, Stone, Hound and Rosie all turned to greet him and Stitch as they approached the judges booth. Thire waved him into the centermost seat that they had left open for him and immediately sank into the seat at his right. Stitch paused, giving Fox an odd look and whispering something to Rosie, who nodded her head.Â
Fox was finding it a little difficult to pay attention to the small talk the others were making. Instead, he traced the edges of the little origami Fox in his hands. After a moment Stitch leaned in to give his shoulder a final squeeze before heading backstage, and Thire scooted closer to Foxâs side, his presence cool and steady.Â
Something about this night that had started out as a bad cover for a worse joke already felt so important. Theyâd been wearing the same matching armor and using their numbers instead of names for years for their own protection. He had to make so many stifling rules to keep them safe, even if it wasnât enough. Everything that they did had been to blend in, to avoid drawing attention to themselves, to make themselves indistinguishable from the next clone so they couldnât be easy targets, but nowâŚ
Now the war was over. They were people. They could stand out, show off, shine⌠But even if so many of them werenât ready for that, they deserved to be celebrated, too.
Thire reached out, giving Foxâs hand a quiet squeeze, and he exhaled. He was already proud of them, so proud of every single one of his brothers, wherever they were at on their journey. Then the lights dimmed, the eager voices of his vode that filled the theater quieted in anticipation, and Thorn and Lowkey took the stage in the most ridiculous bright red bedazzled suits Fox had ever seen.
âOlarom, olarom, olarom!â Thorn shouted excitedly in Mandoâa to a loud set of cheers, spinning an umbrella around his arm for some reason. âWelcome to the first annual Coruscant Guard Talent Show, vode!â
Fox raised an eyebrow. He never said anything about this being annual.
âShiny or veteran, Grunt, ARF, Shock troop, Medic, Mechanic, Prison guard, Security, Massiff handlers, Massiffs themselves and anyone else, none of that matters tonight! So forget your test scores, fuck whatever the long-necks thought of you, nobodyâs perfect and tonight we get to see some of what youâre all really made of! The good stuff! Like⌠What do we have tonight, Lowkey?â
âWhat, besides us? In these gorgeous suits?â Lowkey said lightly, strutting across the stage in the glittery red thing and puffing out his umbrella behind him dramatically to the cheers and cat-calls of the men in the audience. âIâve got to give credit where credit is due though, our own Commander Fox picked these out special himself!â
That wasnât true.
âOh heâs got such great taste, vod, in anything but caf. Still wonât use the cream and sugar we have now, says itâs better black.â
âŚThat part was.
âBut actually, this whole night was Foxâs idea, if you havenât heard!â Thorn continued, and that⌠Was true too, somehow. Fox was still having trouble remembering he had actually started all this, him and his terrible joke had teamed up to make an event that the whole guard was more excited about than anything heâd seen since the end of the war. Their brothers clapped and hooted their approval of the idea, and Fox tried not to notice how many of them had turned to stare at him just now, but Lowkey chuckled into his mic and shut his umbrella with a crisp snap that got their attention again.
âWell, we better get on with it then, Thorn, or weâll keep the Commander up past his bedtime.â
âWhatâs wrong with that?â Thorn asked with feigned innocence.
âIâm afraid of Stitch,â Lowkey hissed under his breath, pointing behind his hand towards the curtains where Fox knew his CMO was standing just out of sight. A single gloved hand popped out from backstage to flip him off.
âOooh, good point. In that case, Taps! Get your ass out here quick!â Thorn cried, and the pair of them pranced back off the stage, blowing kisses to the crowd to laughter and cheers.
The ARF trooper Taps stepped gingerly out from behind the curtains with a nervous grin on his face. Fox wasnât sure what sort of act he would be performing, he wasnât wearing a costume and didnât seem to have any special gear, but the music picked up and Taps started tap dancing! The irony almost made Fox burst out laughing by mistake, because of course! The tap dancer who he heard the other night must have been Taps! He should have known. The clone wouldnât have lasted a kriffing day in the Rotundra, not with the nervous habit that earned him his name, so Fox put him on street patrols, which was a much better fit. But he had no idea his vod had turned all that energy into something so rhythmic and percussive and artistic! When the routine came to a close and Taps bowed with a flourish the whole theater broke into applause and Fox held his score card high, a perfect 10/10, smiling ear to ear.
Next up was Tree in a bright green cape he could have stolen off Bail Organa himself and⌠Likely had, given how the trooper seemed to trust more of the Senators than Fox really appreciated. He took the stage with several of his friends carrying exotic looking plants behind him in big silvery pots, but once the show began Fox was completely mesmerized! The disappearance act he saw him practicing the other night for Senator Chuchi had a Part Two that he hadnât seen, where the towering fern reappeared on the judges booth! Grizzer flew into a tizzy, barking like mad at the trick, and Fox shot his hand into the air with the 10/10 before the act even concluded.
Every other act was just as outstanding as the one before, from the squad who got the entire crowd to join them in singing the shanty about Hondo Ohnaka to the green-haired Pointe running his piebald massiff Bespin through a series of tricks with colorful ribbons and bows streaming behind her! Guts put on a gorgeous display of his automatons whizzing through the air to music that a music box he built himself played, Coro performed juggling routine that he claimed to have learned by literally jugging up to twelve medical charts at the same time (Fox wasnât sure if that was a joke, and no one else seemed to know either, but he didnât mistake Stitchâs barking laugh from behind the curtain when he said it), and Luckyâs graceful and risky sword dance captivated everyone except for the worried medics in the crowd, especially Rosie, who gasped loudly at Foxâs side every time he made a dangerous looking move. She still burst into applause with the rest of them once it was over, relief written all over her face.
Captain Taserâs speed painting was already a beautiful piece of artwork even before he spun the canvas rightside up to reveal he had been painting upside down the whole time , showing off a colorful Coruscant sunrise and adding the sparkle of morning stars with a last few taps of his brush. Later on the twins Kando and Siiâs four-armed General Grievous improv routine had the entire building bursting with laughter, then Zedâs hoverboard tricks sent Stitch rushing onto the stage for half a second before he twisted a miraculous third time in the air and landed his final combo. Leftyâs routine with his Coruscant Guard Shock Tooka melted about half the audience out of pure cuteness, then Xia performed a song in the voices of our judges, which was just their own voice the entire time, but they put on a long yellow wig for âThornâsâ part and dramatically held a Massiff plushie in the air for âHoundâsâ.Â
Fox was laughing so hard he could barely see by the end of it, so he gave them a 10/10. They all deserved 10/10, they all deserved the whole world, he didnât even care when Stone elbowed him hard and shook his head at his unchanged scorecard! He couldnât help it, and he didnât want to.Â
He did at least hesitate after the slicer Crowâs reprogrammed mouse droids were revealed to have stolen boots off no less than seventeen troopers in the audience AND Thire himself, apparently working unseen throughout the entire show to amass their collection undetected. Fox shook his head and let out a heavy sigh at that. He really had to keep an eye on Crow. The kind of shit he could get up to, with skills like that⌠It was concerning, but admittedly impressive. So. 10/10.
âAnother 10 out of 10 from our own 1010,â Thorn read off with a hearty laugh from the stage. âWhat does that make Crowâs total score there, Lowkey?â
âWith Thireâs whopping zero, heâs coming in at 21/50,â Lowkey announced, and Crow pouted at the other Commander, making a little heart with his hands and then breaking it, but his eyes still sparkled with the usual mischief.
âNeat trick, but you gotta pick your targets better there vod. Thire holds a grudge!â Thorn said, twirling that umbrella of his in the air with a teasing grin. âTry Fox next time, he wouldnât fault you tonight if you stole his whole kit right off his shebs!âÂ
A few heads turned his way with good natured chuckles, and Fox blushed a little, fixing Thorn with a glare that had no heat in it at all. It was true, but he didnât have to say it. Even if, judging by their reactions, everyone else seemed to already know.
âSpeaking of Fox,â Lowkey said slowly, and Thornâs grin widened in a very concerning way. âI thought I heard a little rumor about a last minute addition before the grand finale?â
âOh, right, we did hear that didnât we!â Thorn teased, turning his gaze directly on Fox.
Fox abruptly stood from his seat with alarm bells ringing in his head. No, they had talked about this, he wasn't performing! Whatever Thorn had planned wouldnât happen, he had nothing prepared, but before he could take a single step, Thire and Rosie had brought hands down on his shoulders.Â
âUsedii, vod,â Thire murmured to him. âThis wonât be bad, trust us.â
âI donât have any special talents,â Fox hissed back. âI already told Stitch-â
âHe thought of something, just before he left,â Rosie whispered. âBut donât worry. Itâs good, youâll like it.â
âCommander!â Thorn sang dramatically from the stage, his eyes somehow sparkling even more than that ridiculous suit he was wearing. âI had a whole speech planned about how youâve been holding out on us tonight, but you had to go and ruin it! With all those big scores you kept turning in and some of what I saw in the lobby before this even began -â
âIâm sorry,â Fox blurted out, absolutely crestfallen at the realization, but of course he had gone and managed to screw up such a wonderful night somehow. He had tried, but something had gone wrong, hadnât it? Was it because he gave everyone 10/10? Was he a useless judge? He should have just left this to Stitch, he shouldnât have gotten involved at all -Â
âOh my god, Fox,â Thire mumbled under his breath.
âNo,â Hound said firmly with a shake of his head.
Fox blinked back up at Thorn on the stage in confusion. His vodâika looked thoroughly unimpressed at his apology, with just a twinge of amusement tugging the corners of his mouth into a grin, and Lowkey scoffed at his side.
Suddenly, Fox became very aware of all the eyes pinned on him.
âTake a breath, Commander,â Thorn said a little softer than before. A few troopers in the seats began shuffling around in their seats, but Thorn ignored them and continued to talk. âPoint is, we know of something youâre better at than anyone else in the galaxy, even if you donât. So tonight weâre gonna prove it to you.â
Fox narrowed his eyes towards the last place he saw Stitch, that spot behind the curtains his CMO had disappeared to after Zedâs hoverboard act was over, since he was responsible for this, but before he could spot him there Thire reached out and wrapped Fox in a bone-crushing hug. Fox hadnât expected that but he returned the hug on pure instinct, pulling Thire in protectively and cradling the back of his head.Â
âWhat is it?â Fox asked urgently. âWhatâs wrong?âÂ
But Thire just chuckled affectionately into his neck. âNothingâs wrong, oriâvod. This is it. Your talent.â
Fox blinked a few times in confusion out at the crowd over his brothers shoulder. More of them were turning around in their seats now, understanding of some sort dawning on their faces and making them grin. Stitch stood at the far end of them all with a gloating glint in his eye.
âYouâre really good at loving us,â Thire said, pulling back to look him in the eyes. âAnd youâre really good at hugs.â
âŚOh.Â
Fox wasnât even sure how to respond to that. For a moment he just stared back at Thire, processing the words. Of course he loved them, they were his vode, they made it so easyâŚ
âMy turn,â Stone said simply, and Thire complied, stepping away so Stone could wrap his arms around Fox instead.
âThe war was hard on us all, Fox,â Stone said quietly into Foxâs ear. âBut youâve been our rock. Thank you.â
Fox nodded against his brothers neck, fighting back the lump in his throat. âI⌠I couldnât have survived it, without youâŚâ He said thickly.
âNeither could we. I think we all need this,â Stone replied, giving him an extra squeeze before letting go.Â
Hound stepped up next, whispering a reminder of how sending him to work with the massiffs had changed everything for him, made his life worth living, then ordered Grizzer to jump up and lick Fox straight across the face, making Fox laugh again so he felt a little less like he was on the verge of tears. Then Rosie stepped up, passing off her forearm crutches to Thire to hold as she threw herself into Foxâs arms with a bright, determined smile.
âThanks for taking me in, oriâvod,â She said jovially. âAnd for finally sticking to just the two shifts. Weâll keep working on that.âÂ
âStitch mentioned that to you?â Fox murmured, and Rosie flashed him a sharp look as she let go and Thire passed back the crutches.
âNo, thatâs common kriffing sense,â She said with a smirk.
Fox didnât know what to say to that, but before he could take a seat again two more of his kihâvode jostled their way onto the platform, the twin shinies Kando and Sii from the comedy act. Kando opened his arms with a sheepish little grin and Fox caved like wet flimsi, sweeping both of them up into a hug, too. One of them let out a little squeal, as if his heart wasnât enough of a puddle already. They were sweet kids. A couple seconds later he let go and scruffed both of their hair, but froze as he looked back over their heads and spotted the rest of the crowd.
Almost all of them were out of their seats. What started as a somewhat proper line of his fellow judges was now an amoeba-shaped pile of vode, with Stitch in his white medical officerâs uniform striding up the middle of them all with a face full of absolute triumph. Fox could hardly breathe as his CMO shouldered past the others and marched up the few stairs, clasping a hand on Foxâs shoulder and pausing.
âWhat are you waiting for?â He said with a wicked grin. âYou wanted this. Get loved, moron.âÂ
All Fox could do was nod, and the only way he could tell the next clone who hugged him was Tree was by the bright green cape billowing down his back that definitely belonged to Bail Organa. He didnât know how much time it took to hug the rest of his brothers and tell them they were loved, and he lost count of how many there were, but if there was anything he could do for them he would, of course he would, especially something so simple as this! The program stayed paused as they all filed through, and Fox put his whole heart into every embrace. Some of the men mumbled kind things to him, like Lefty, some stayed silent, like Guts, and some even managed to make him laugh through the tears, like Crow. He tried to apologize to the ones he knew he had let down before, even if not a single one of them would hear it he had to say it, but the message that came back to him was always the same. He was only one person, he had done his best. They never blamed him. He saved some of them, more than just Penner, and every time he heard that he held them tight for an extra couple seconds before letting them go. His kihâvode meant everything to him, and all he wanted was for them to know it.
Apparently, they did⌠And he meant everything to them, too.Â
By the time the last of his family had made their way back to their seats, he had a feeling they had overshot how long their production would take by a while, but it hardly seemed to matter. That was a problem for later on. Stitch brought up the very end of the line with an expression full of compassion and care that Fox still wasnât sure he deserved. Fox just shook his head in disbelief at his absolutely impossible CMO, and Stitch pulled Fox into the gentlest, warmest hug of the entire night.
They didnât need words, but Stitch provided them anyways.
âI fucking told you.â
Fox just nodded against his brotherâs neck. Stitch had been right about everything⌠Not that Fox would admit that just yet. If Stitch heard him say that it would go straight to his head and Fox would really would be forced down to just one shift a day. He couldnât risk that, but he made no move to let go of Stitch again either, even as Thorn and Lowkey finally retook the stage.
âHey Lieutenant! Something about this doesnât quite seem fair, does it?â Thorn said with a shit-eating grin, causing most of the vode to turn back to him at once.
âOh, definitely not. Fox is a judge, he canât vote for himself,â Lowkey sniggered. âBut we canât let that 40/50 stand, can we?â
40/50? Fox shot a confused glance back down the judges booth to Thire, Stone, Hound and Rosie, and had to stifle an exasperated sigh. He still hadnât thought they were taking this as a serious act, but all four of them had all gone off and awarded him a perfect 10/10.Â
âAlas, we cannot!â Thire declared with a sweeping gesture to the crowd. âLooks like we all have to help him out. What do you think? Whatâs his score?â
Fox could feel the blush rising up his neck and his cheeks as his brothers in the crowd sounded off with whistling and cheering and chants of TEN! TEN! TEN! all around. Really, the hugs were enough, he felt the love and now this was just getting excessive, but after a minute Thorn raised both hands and lowered them slowly to soothe the crowd.
âYou got all that, Lowkey?â He asked with feigned innocence. âWhatâs his final score?â
âTen thousand one hundred and ten!â Lowkey called out in dazzling confidence.
âMmm. Yep. Thatâll be a tough one to beat,â Thorn mused. âThink we can manage it, vod?â
âAbsolutely not!â
âAre we gonna try anyways?â
âHell yes!â
Music kicked on, both of their umbrellas opened with a snap and suddenly the glittering suits were gone! Instead, the pair of them posed for half a second in skimpy black leotards as their brothers gasped before diving whole-heartedly into the routine Thorn had been so excited about from the start.
When the sun shines, we'll shine together Told you be here forever Said I'll always be your friend Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end
Thorn and Lowkey were up there having the time of their life and Fox smiled so hard it hurt! The entire crowd cheered raucously for them, some even singing along with the words that they knew as the pair hit every move in tandem with huge perfect flourishes and over-the-top energy. Then Thire somersaulted off the stage and leap onto the judges booth with a bang in front of Fox! He lip-synced directly at him, holding his umbrella like a mic, dropping low and flipping around his hair with pure, unfiltered joy on his face.
Now that it's raining more than ever Know that we'll still have each other You can stand under my umbrella You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh
Even Stitch had doubled over at Foxâs side, and Fox laughed so hard at the antics it brought tears to his eyes, happy tears this time, seeing his brothers shine, so full of life and joy. When Thorn jumped back on stage a burst of water rained down on them from above and they danced and stomped in the puddles it made, sending sparkling water and mist into the air as the song hit its climax, then struck a dramatic pose with their umbrellas on the final note.Â
The theater went wild, Fox included, hollering their praises at the two of them! Thire and Rosie were on their feet, Grizzer spun in circles at Houndâs side, Stone was shouting for an encore and Stitch squeezed Foxâs arm with the hand still slung around his back.Â
It didnât matter who won, what everybody scored, or if they all wanted to throw the whole contest for the sake of his own self esteem. He had the best kihâvode in the GAR, with the biggest, most thoughtful hearts and the most incredible talents he could imagine, and he couldnât be prouder to be their commander. Everyone had needed this tonight, hadnât they?
Especially him.
Fox looked around the room at their faces with a heart that felt like it was seconds away from bursting. This night truly meant everything to him. He really had thrown the best fucking talent show Coruscant had ever seen, because he had the best family the galaxy could ever know, and he was so glad that he lived to see it.
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Credit and thanks for the following OCâs go to my talented pocket friends!!!!!!
Stitch - TooManyTeeth Tree - MagicalStardust Guts - ProwlingThunder Pointe & Bespin - Gracklewarp Rosie - Mira-Starfall Lefty & Lucky - John_in_Art and Wolviecat Kando & Sii - Dragomir and Star from discord! Crow, Penner & Lowkey - My own lil guys, Crow is from my The Lights You Make series, Penner from Brothers Gained Brothers Lost, and Lowkey from Dying Isn't Very Regulation!
Oh! And I HAD to make Thorn and Lowkey dance to Umbrella just like Tom Holland, it was WAY too perfect, and so was the Hondo Ohnaka shanty! Highly recommend checking both these out if you haven't seen them before, 10/10 no notes!
#fox needs hugs#and he gets them#Fox gets soooo many hugs#corrieweek#corrieweek2024#commander fox#coruscant guard#1010 day#its his day!#commander fox day#happy fox day#he loves his brothers so much#coruscant guard needs hugs#tooth rotting fluff#clone wars fanfiction#OC Corries#My friends are so talented I love them#get loved moron
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Fox: Um.. Whatcha got there?
Thorn: Rations
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Corrie shapeshifters:
Ever since the corries were used in a secret sith experiment theyâve been able to shapeshift into any animal theyâve seen.
Like imagine hound turning into a strill to play with grizzer. Fox turns into a tooka or fox for cat naps. Shinyâs having puppy piles in the barracks.
Of course CMO fracture has to be a nexu just to be able to hunt down all those medbay jumpers. Along with his fellow medics who also turn into different SW predators.
#corrie guard#commander fox#coruscant guard prompts#star wars#clone wars#sergeant hound#shapeshifters#oc alpha medic fracture
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â - but have you ever considered, I donât know, not sucking all the time? Just a thought.â
It takes the combined grips of Nuisance and Hound to keep the wriggling, snarling body beneath Fox from throwing him off its back. With three yearsâ practice of having to fix his own rickety desk chair over and over again, the movement merely ruffles the proverbial fringe on his helmet.
âAnd I donât mean that as an insult, necessarily. Well, I do a little bit. But also I have some amount of empathy for the no doubt immense amounts of trauma that had to go into the creation of something so dysfunctional as you, on a very personal level, so have you considered going to the root of that in a way thatâs like⌠useful? Instead of wasting it all on kriffing Kenobi, I mean. Look at the guy. All he does all day is drink tea and commit warcrimes. I bet he knits for fun. Bit of an embarrassing nemesis, donât you think?â
âIâ, says Kenobi, then pauses. The space between his eyebrows is creased with uncertainty, and he looks deeply torn between continuing rocking the shaking Duchess of Mandalore against his chest from his corner of the throne room and re-activating his lightsaber to continue losing his fight against the Darksider Fox is currently sitting on. âI feel like I should object to some part of that, but Iâm not entirely clear on what. Or how this happened, again. Isnât Mandalore a few star systems from your purview, Commander?â
âProbably the warcrimesâ, mutters Nuisance underneath his strained breath.
âAbout as far from my supposed assignment as yours, Generalâ, says Fox a little louder.
Kenobi twitches. Fox cannot claim to know which of them does it. Both, maybe. Probably.
âI will - taste - your - flesh!â, heaves out Darth Maul, snarling and hissing.
âOooh, kinky!â, calls Grids, from the corner where sheâs got her stun-setting aimed at the other Zabrak, currently passed out cold. Fox sighs deeply. He knew he shouldnât have taken those three - any combination of Grids, Hound and Nuisance in a room together usually spelled chaos.
Unfortunately, it also spelled competence. The Basic alphabet can be funny that way.
The point being: as of some months into the war, one of Foxâs assigned tasks is the surveillance of all GAR-wide communication. All command-class staff theoretically got that memo, but no one seems to have read the fine print where that includes both professional and personal communication, as well as any and all comm devices registered or suspected to be registered to that person. Especially not one Anakin Skywalker and PadmĂŠ Amidala.
The point further being, if that sounds both immensely impractical and sort of terrifying in a democratic supposedly non-surveillance state, youâd be bang on the credits, and to Foxâ eternal chagrin the singular person in this whole useless army whoâs spent the second of thinking necessary for that conclusion.
The final point being, when one frantic Generalâs mad dash across the Galaxy to rescue his teenage sweetheart from the spectre of his supposedly dead nemesis crosses his desk on its way to the Chancellorâs inbox, it doesnât take much time for him to block any and all trace of it across the digital space of the GAR commboard and take matters into his own hands.
â - which is why I told Thorn to suck it up and be in charge for a few days, and also why youâre still alive, your Highness, very welcome, was no trouble at allâ, he concludes, drily. The Duchess stares the wide-eyed look of someone attempting to reconcile clones with âsentienceâ or perhaps âpersonalityâ in her head, but wonât say it outright.
Or the look of someone whoâs just been violently overthrown and nearly murdered, perhaps, Fox allows.
âUm -â, Kenobi hedges, blinking rapidly.
âAnd the reason youâre still alive, probably. Youâre welcome for that too, by the wayâ, Grids calls from the back of the throne room, cheekily.
âAlrightâ, says Kenobi, loudly. Thereâs color back in his deathly-pale cheeks, Fox notes, even if that color is a lot of red. It doesnât fade very gracefully into his beard. âOpinions on whether or not I had everything under control notwithstanding -â
âYou really didnâtâ, Hound supplies helpfully.
â - opinions notwithstanding, I am admittedly still lost on why youâre now sitting on Darth Maul and attempting to, to - jeer at him, Marshall Commander!â
âWeâre not jeering, weâre trying to create a safe space and lay the groundwork for more open communicationâ, Fox says, primly.
Maul screams into the ground, attempting for the umpteenth time to rear up and visit great violence upon Fox, which admittedly has him rattling in his crosslegged seat atop his back.
Kenobi raises a perfectly plucked eyebrow. âSafe space?â
âHeâs restrained and not stabbing anyone, I personally feel much safer than beforeâ, Grids muses. âWatch the teeth though, Hound. Little biter.â
Indeed. Foxâs right greave will have to be replaced posthaste.
âAnd anyways, the point isnât to jeer at him, itâs to make clear that heâs focusing his energy in the wrong places and could be doing much better things with his admittedly not-great lifeâ, Fox adds, shifting to cast a pointed look down at Maul. The Sith is panting open-mouthed into the durasteel floor, sharp teeth gnashing wildly as his piercing yellow eyes shine with barely restrained rage. âIâm just saying - aim higher. You arenât seeing the forest for the Kenobis, Maul. Can I call you Maul?â
âI will feed you your own entrailsâ, yowls Maul.
âSee, thatâs exactly what Iâm talking about. Right now, Iâm an easy target to focus all that built-up rage on, but is killing me really going to help you achieve any of your goals? No! Think about it - when it all comes down to it, who sent you on that mission to Naboo in the first place? Who made sure the Jedi and, by extension, Kenobi would be there to kill you? Who used you as a dejarik piece and then cast you aside the second you outlived your usefulness?â
Beneath him, Maul slowly stills in his struggle, still panting heavily. Hound and Nuisance donât let it deter them in their vigilance, because theyâre damn good vodâe and possess an ounce of common sense.
âAnd, look, I get it. I could spend the rest of my life punching every civilian who spits on me in the streets and it would even be satisfying. I could hit back the Senators who think of clones as easy targets. Or - I can aim my sights at whoâs on top. And I think you know who I mean, because you know as well as I do the same damn man has ruined both our lives.â
Kenobi makes an alarmed noise, and Maul an interested one - not that Fox is going to let him walk out of this place awake. Still, he tilts his head in a way he hopes conveys his helmeted grin successfully to non-vod, as well as the bloodlust behind it. âYouâre also welcome for the fact that the Chancellor wonât have heard of your spontaneous resurrection yet, by the way. Youâll retain your element of surprise instead of gambling it away on petty revenge on Kenobi.â
âHe cut me in half!â
âHe killed my master!â
Fox waves their protests away.
âAlso, thatâs treason!â, Kenobi adds, sputtering. Fox grins. Kenobi purses his lips, and continues. petulantly, ââŚdo you have any proof?â
âSo. Much. Proofâ, says Nuisance, dreamily. âLike, do you want it alphabetically or by date?â
Which is when the Duchess, of all people, bursts out into barking, crazed laughter.
âYou - youâve certainly given yourself an edge in that fight, Marshall Commanderâ, she wheezes, brushing tears from her eyes. Fox raises his eyebrows at her, which she somehow seems to be able to tell, because she gestures at the clunky handle dangling from his belt.
âWhat, this old thing?â He unclasps the black rectangle from its hook, holding it up in the air. Maul stills strangely beneath him, and Kenobi goes ghostly pale again. Fox is starting to get a bad feeling.
âI took it off Viszla and beat him over the head with it. I figured heâd taken it off a Jedi cadet or something. What? Why are you looking at me like that?â
#sw tcw fic idea#commander fox#sergeant hound#obi wan kenobi#satine kryze#darth maul#savage oppress#corrie oc nuisance#corrie oc grids#corrie guard deserves better#darth maul deserves⌠murder?#fox does not find the revelation that he is technically mandâalor very funny. unfortunately everyone else does#sw equivalent of taking deadbeat relatives (mandalorians) to court (becoming their spiritual and somewhat legal sovereign) for child suppor#(recognizing their sentience)#oh the poetic irony of jango fettâs least willing and most feral clone succeeding him#the only person who hates it more than he would is fox#cody is on thin ice. why fox wants to bum it off on him? well heâd do an okay job probably and it would be funny#but back to darth maul yes iâm making fox collect all darksiders#seduced to the sort of light side by goverment coups and political assassination#they might even become âfriendsâ some day if friends means reluctant allies of convenience who sometimes try to tear eachothers throats out#maul may have a bit of a crush#so does savage#hey chat is tasing someone a good wooing tactic? asks grids#grids my love#one of these days i will write out a full introduction scene for my girl even though iâve spoiled her full name in tags#yeah iâm definitely messing up this cw arc but consider: i donât care#fs in the chat for obi wan kenobi whoâs having possibly the worst day of everyone in this#and heâs not even the one whose sister made him a political prisoner and then tried to kill him by association#will kal skirata be first in line to back fox for mandâalor? maybe. will the nulls bring him the separatist councils heads in bags?#duh
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Coruscant Pride Month
Thorn, slamming the door to the Guard Barracks wide open: OI! UP AND AT 'EM TROOPERS! Everyone, startling out of their bunks: SIR YES SIR!!! Thorn, marching in with a box in hand: Today marks the start of Pride Month! Veterans, you know what that means! Newbies, get in line to get your very own exclusive Coruscant Guard Pride Pin! Dogma, confused: A Pride Pin...? Isn't that breaking the dress code...? Hound, grinning: Nope! This month is the only month where the Guard are allowed to wear little pins to showcase Coruscant's "love" of inclusivity and diversity. We're actively encouraged to embrace the rainbow. Dogma, frowning: ...Why does this sound like some kind of disingenuous corporate PR plot to make the Senate look good? Olly, sighing: Because it is... Rhythm, rummaging through his trunk: On the bright side, we get to have colorful and pretty pins! Plus, because it's Pride Month, everyone currently on-planet is on their best behavior around us because they don't want to seem like bigoted assholes by attacking the Guard. Thorn, handing Dogma a pin: Here you go kid. Custom made just for you! Dogma, staring at the demisexual homoromantic pin he's just been handed: How did you...? I haven't really told anyone about this... Olly, wearing an asexual homoromantic pin: Thorn has his sources. It's a little scary, honestly... Slick, wearing a bisexual pin: And extremely invasive, if you ask me... Hound, wearing a 'still figuring it out but definitely not straight' pin: He's always just been good at figuring it out. In fact, he's sent pins to every single commander and literally made them realize some stuff about themselves they hadn't even considered. Fox, peeking his head into the barracks: Bastard lost me a ton of credits by clocking Cody in as Aroace before anyone else did. Thorn, snorting: You really shouldn't have bet on his tolerance of Kenobi as being attraction. Fox: Can you blame me? They both have the biggest slut energy...
#star wars#the clone wars#commander thorn#clone trooper dogma#sergeant hound#sergeant slick#commander fox#clone ocs#riot trooper olly olly oxenfree#communications corrie rhythm#coruscant guard dogma#coruscant guard slick
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Commander Fox is very good at lying. He has to be, to be able to get away with breaking the law and going against orders as often as he does. The unfortunate reality is that nearly all of his brothers are awful at lying. He does his best to teach them, they need to be able to do it well to get away with stealing money from senators to fund Foxâs war on organized crime after all.
Fox enlists the help of Padmeâs handmaidens after repeated failures. The women are baffled by how bad Foxâs brothers are when he is so good at it. It becomes so frustrating for them they promise to help Fox with whatever scam or con he wants to pull for the rest of eternity as long as he doesnât put them through that again.
The one exception is Havoc, who is actually very good at lying. The problem with Havic, however, is that they simply choose not to. Havoc knows how to lie bc they were trained as a medic and needed a good bedside manner, but is not allowed to help in the med bay because they like the sharp tools a little too much. Fox tried to cheer Havoc up by giving them a knife and it worked a little too well.
#star wars#commander fox#padme amidala#coruscant guard#corrie guard#clone oc#naboo handmaidens#Corrie shenanigans#tcw#the clone wars
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Commander Fox and Pod
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*releases a month old, scrapped wip into the wild*
Woe, Corrie!Dogma and some friends be upon you!
#clone trooper dogma#swtcw#tcw#star wars the clone wars#the clone wars#coruscant guard#corrie!dogma#<- love that AU so much#coradoodle#oc: lock#i originally wanted to add more guards like Hound and Thorn and my other two guard ocs but I lost motivation.
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clone art recolor dump <3
bottom left is Splice who belongs to @floundrickthewayfarer
bottom right is (part of) my character design for Gregor in the SICK au by me and @violentcheese
#arc trooper fives#arc trooper echo#fives#echo#domino twins#commander fox#commander thorn#corrie guard#coruscant guard#commander cody#splice#clone oc#captain gregor#clone commando gregor#clone art#clone wars art#clone trooper art#havocboydraws#my works
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Thire: Why is this one so fat?
Thorn: He's just well loved
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I didn't expect this when I started and yet here we are. Nor did I expect Kit to adopt Fox, but here we are
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"Easy, vod'ika." Fox catches the shiny as they fall through the wall, not quite used to phasing yet and getting caught by their pauldron. Any worry though is eased by the brilliant smile crossing the vod's face.
"But ori'vod, there's supplies!" Fox just chuckles as he's dragged through the wall on the other side of the hall to emerge in the loading bay, only to stop short by the amount of crates. The vod'ika, '57 he believes unless they got a name recently, is standing next to him and radiating smugness at the sheer amount of supplies in front of them.
Krate wanders over, a datapad clutched protectively in his hands. "Sir, this is a full supply drop. We actually have bacta". They hadn't had bacta since the 6th month of the war. Hadn't had a full drop in even longer.
Fox was good. He knew his smuggling ring worked as well as it could. It certainly wasn't a lot but it kept his vod'ike from starving and a bare minimum of medical supplies in the medbay. But this? Nothing had changed on his end to be able to bring in a drop like this and the shiny next to him was far to smug.
Glancing at the shiny practically vibrating next to him, Fox raises an eyebrow. "So '57-"
"It's Kit, actually!" Interrupting didn't seem to faze the kid at all. If anything, they even perked up a bit.
"Alright. Kit, did you have something to do with this?" Fox gestures to the room that now looks overflowing after seeing so little in the past year. "Not only are you too smug about this for my liking, but you somehow knew about the drop before I did. And Krate always tells me first."
Fox suddenly realized why his batchmates always said that his smile tended on the unnerving side when he was planning, and subconsciously summons the half-full caf cup from his desk. If he's right about this, he's never going to be able to tease Cody over Rex's adoption ever again.
"Because I did it, sir. Or at least me and my batchmates. Your smuggling rings have always been top of the line and we took over when you left Kamino. It just made sense to build on top of your existing one once we got deployed, and with two out of the four of them ending up under a quartermaster, it was a lot easier for me to help get supplies."
Fox just sighs with a small smile and downs the rest of his caf. "Alright, ad. I'm sure that this wasn't the last thing you or your batch has done. Why don't we head to my office and go over how you all have helped us, hmm?"
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Let me know what you guys think! This is my first time writing for Fox.
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#clone oc#corrie guard#coruscant guard#coruscant guard oc#star wars#star wars oc#clone troopers#the clone wars#oc#commander fox#cryptid corries#CorrieWeek#CorrieWeek2024#Fox and his Kit
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the thing about being the highest-ranked and most-decorated officer in any GAR/Guard capacity, fox thinks, is that unsurprisingly nobody could give less of a shit or listen to anything he says. itâs not like he earned those medals and recognitions and perfect test scores or anything, now is it, kote?
or, after the zillo beast disaster, the coruscant guard medbay just so happens to be much closer than the GAR one, and surprise surprise, senators donât want meatdroids to be treated in their facilities after theyâve just protected them with their lives. fox tries to reason against this. fox is unsuccessful, because no one listens to fox.
which is how he finds himself crammed into a corner along with cody, ponds, bly, rex and their jedi, looking out across a medbay which is quite frankly a goddamn disaster rivalling the fight with the zillo beast in proportions. skywalker tries to step out towards one of the medics, and has to be pulled back by the collar of his shirt by amidala, squawking loudly when heâs nearly rammed over by mauler, crucifix and a shrilly screaming crash cart.
itâs not like fox said this would be a bad idea or anything.
âum, vodâ, cody begins, unsure, âwhatâs - is that guy sewing wooley up with thread?!â
meathook, who is in fact sewing wooley up with thread, and looks about as happy about it as his patient, and who fox honestly thought was going to cry when he announced the influx of patients about to descend on them, snaps something about triage over his shoulder at hound, whose arm is decidedly bent in a way it shouldnât be, jerking his head to gesture at the rickety cot next to codyâs ARC. fox is pretty sure they salvaged the thing from a dumpster. he slaps a bandage on the stitches that fox fears might be from the same dumpster.
âputting those advanced reconnaissance training skills to use, koteâ, says fox, who invariably turns into the worst possible version of himself whenever cody opens his mouth within a klick of his vicinity.
skywalker harrumphs, evidently at the end of his impressive patience. âwell, why?! hey, trooper! these men need bacta!â
âdo they, now? iâm sorry, i hadnât noticedâ, a low voice hisses angrily behind them, and fox is the only one who doesnât jump on account of heâs too dead inside to be scared of his CMO anymore. a grave error, heâs sure. âi guess iâll just go pull some out of my ass along with a tank and painkillers, then! hadnât thought of that yet!â
warcrime, whose eye is twitching and who is holding a bloody saw in visible consideration of using it, pins skywalker with a look that has had shinies all over the guard peeing themselves. âwe donât have any fucking bacta, you absolute numbskull.â
âbut that canât be rightâ, cody pipes up again, next to a very troubled looking generals kenobi and windu. fox sympathises very much with the patented migraine-glare on winduâs face. âwhy do you not have any bacta?â
âbecause i like to smear meiloorun juice all over my patientâs stab wounds, commanderâ, warcrime says. âitâs a homeopathic medicine thing. because the chancellor refuses to give us any, genius.â
âwhat?!â skywalker says, bristling. âthat canât be true! he wouldnât -â heâs cut off by his comm pinging loudly over the moaning and crying in the medbay, and warcrime leaning close enough to be heard with a whisper.
âwell, he would, and if you donât believe me, thereâs a holorecording of him telling marshal commander fox why biological weapons on the homefront have lower priority and therefore half rations of everything. now get out of my medbay or find out why they named me warcrime, sir.â
amidala, the collective braincell holder for both her husband and the senate combined (on occasion), tugs him out of the way of warcrimeâs bonesaw and ire. fox, who very much enjoys not being the primary target of a medic for once, unfortunately also has to be the adult in the room. âsirs, a transfer to the GAR barracks medbay might be a preferable- AH, MOTHERFU-â
âget him, stabby!â, rabid whoops from where heâs resetting thireâs nose, who echoes a much more nasal and muffled, âgo, ftabby!â
âget kriffing FUCKED, stabby, you absolute-â, fox seethes, trying to swipe for the medicâs head and nearly planting one on cody instead by accident, who unfortunately manages to evade the swing fox is admittedly projecting very obviously on account of the sedation hypo jammed into his flank.
âmedbay rules, sirâ, stabby calls, dancing away towards mauler and his crash cart, while someone bumps something solid and flat against the backs of foxâs thighs that he canât help but tumble back on, already seeing two codys and blys dancing around his vision. âcommander fox protocol dictates he is to be helped to sleep as often as possible, sir.â
âa desperate but well-founded measure, iâm sureâ, kenobi of all people agrees, and fox waves an unsteady hand in what might be the generalâs direction to the sound of codyâs scandalized gasp. âas you were, officer⌠stabby.â
âtraitorsâ, fox slurs, just as his com-unit begins to ping with an urgent notification. before he can try and answer it, warcrime has ripped it off his arm and flung it somewhere out of his sight. eh, it probably wasnât anything THAT important, fox thinks. and if he wakes up two days later to a near-hysteric meathook kissing the glass casing of the guardâs brand new bacta tank over and over again, he decides to just roll over and go back to sleep.
#commander fox#corrie guard deserves better#oc corrie guard medics my beloved#the com was in fact an emergency alert that the zillo beast wasnât as dead as they thought it was and bit palpatineâs head off#âoh noâ says fox âhow horribleâ#â-anyways-â#jedi order absolutely horrified at the state of things immediately begin to occupy guard headquarters#mace gives himself force exhaustion trying to heal troopers#he is not in fact a healer#kix who is horrified to hear all about this immediately puts in a temporary transfer notice along with a small army of medics#they come bearing all kinds of contraband once they find out about the lack of adequate food as well#it turns out murder and insults do in fact solve all of foxâs problems#stabby has to admit to a very concerned kix that heâs not actually medically sedating fox every other day#âi only did that once out of desperation and ever since iâve made a point of sticking him with an empty needle every now and thenâ he sayd#âpoor thingâs so exhausted he keels over immediatelyâ#fox gets his monthly eight hours and stabby gets to earn his dues: win win#kix is reluctantly impressed
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And the last of my OCs for Art Fight this year are Corrie ARC Trooper Renard and his massiff partner, The Good Lady Margaret Crumb! I actually have a ton of trooper OCs, but I thought Renard was a good one to submit :) He's a fun lad.
reblogs are highly appreciated, and please do not repost my art
#star wars#star wars the clone wars#the clone wars#swtcw#tcw#coruscant guard#coruscant guard oc#corrie guard oc#corrie oc#massiff oc#arc trooper oc#character design#art fight#art fight 2024#oc#ocs#original character#art#illustration#beans art
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Pix: The salary of a clown is 51,000 credits.
Pix, gesturing to Thorn and Fox fighting: And yet these idiots do it daily, and for free!
#star wars#the clone wars#star wars oc#clone trooper oc#clone trooper#saving the light sh*tposting#commander fox#commander thorn#Corrie medic Pix
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I would first like to apologize for the short chapter 3 for my fic Incident Reports from the Coruscant Guard. I keep having ideas for much later chapters and feel the need to write them. Also I donât know how to write action. Pester me about it and I will feel guilty for not writing and may finish it sooner.
Anyway hereâs the chapter when the Corries got Fives. For context, just after the Guard faked Ashokas death (bc she was a wanted criminal anyway and now they can use her to con people) Fox decided to try and break into the evil looking building they sometimes see Palpatine go to bc heâs convinced itâs an evil fortress that could have valuable information about the war. He got electrocuted and yeeted out a 5 story window.
He squinted at the clone in the bed next to him. âDo I know you?â
He flinched at Foxâs raspy voice, and his hands fluttered nervously around the blankets as he avoided eye contact. âUh, no I donât think weâve met.â
âYou donât look like one of mine,â said Fox, wondering what he could have missed while he was out. He tried to sit up but was met with sharp pain in his chest. The hiss of pain summoned a vindictive medic like magic.
âElectrocution and nearly broken ribs. As a medical professional Iâd recommend not trying to break into an evil sith fortress again,â said Cherry smugly. Fox had always suspected his medics secretly fought over who got to deliver news like that to him.
Giving up, he flopped back down. âDid I miss anything big?â
âSome ARC figured out The Conspiracy but fumbled it so bad the long necks told the Jedi his âaggression inhibitor chipâ broke and they believed it,â Cherry rolled his eyes and used air quotes. âDogmaâs pretty psyched cause they knew each other before acquisitions, oh! And this is Tup, fresh out of a lab. Also one of Rexâs Idiots.â
Tup waved nervously. Fox tried to give an encouraging smile. âWeâre glad to have you, Tup.â
The words only seemed to make him feel guilty, as he turned away again.
âHis inhibitor chip went off and he killed a Jedi during a battle. Itâs been removed and we did some brain scans just in case. No further anomalies have been found, but weâre keeping him for observation just in case. For your mental state if nothing else,â Cherry directed the last part at Tup. âNo one here hates you for something out of your control.â
He looked back at Fox, âThorn has your armor and Vixen is directing offworld operations. Itâs been pretty calm so I wouldnât feel bad about sedating you if you try to escape. Follow instructions and itâll only be a day or two. Call if you need anything.â
Cherry swept out of the room before either of them could argue. Fox and Tup looked at each other with mutual understanding and contempt for medics.
The next few days had troopers coming in and out through the visiting hours. Dogma and some of the other Idiots came by several times in between missions to talk to Tup. The familiar faces went a long way to cheering him up. They dragged Fox into conversation as often as they could, possibly trying to acclimate Tup to the wildly different social structure that made up the Coruscant Guard.
The constant distractions helped time pass, despite being banned from caff and work. The medics seemed almost disappointed to clear Fox for light duties. Lucky came by to bring him his armor and laugh at how fast he got Tup to call him dad.
âIâll be your security today, Havoc got drafted into a drug bust,â said Lucky cheerfully.
âAnd you donât have anything better to do than follow around someone with a 50,000 credit bounty everyone is too afraid to touch?â Fox asked sarcastically.
âNope!â
âGreeeaaaaaat.â
Fox got about two minutes of silence, which only got them onto a train before Lucky started yapping about Separatist droid factories and how the different production methods could best be crippled. He even shows Fox the spreadsheet he was working on.
Fox gave some suggestions and critiques as the train slowed to a stop at their station. The mass of bodies flowed out onto the platform and the two soldiers were swept along, detangling themselves to push out onto the street.
Lucky finally looked up from the data pad. âThis isnât the way to the Barracks,â he said, frowning.
âI need to make sure Palpatine doesnât do anything rash after what happened with the ARC,â Fox explained. âAnd get some caff.â
âIâd be surprised if he doesnât,â Lucky muttered. âOh! I almost forgot! The date for Scipio was moved up to this Thursday, everything else is the same though.â
âThatâs perfect timing,â Fox sighed in relief. âOnce the system is lost and Palpatine takes control of the banks we wouldnât need to be so careful with illegal transactions. Has Slicer changed his passwords recently?â
âHe finally made a bot to do it every time his blood pressure gets too high,â Lucky laughed.
Fox burst out laughing as they rounded the corner and nearly ran face first into Captain Rex.
He was fully armored and tense but the sight of his little brother reassured Fox in a way he couldnât explain. He knew logically heâd still be mad about Ashoka but that didnât matter in the moment, Fox was just glad he was still alive.
Rex punched him in the face, knocking Fox off balance and he didnât bother trying to find his footing.
âYeah thatâs fair,â Fox muttered, taking the time to enjoy the ground.
âHi Captain,â said Lucky somewhere above him.
âDid you know about Fives?â Rex demanded.
Fox jumped up at that, âFives? What happened to Fives?!?â
Lucky failed too many tests on Kamino and was going to be decommed but another battalion happened to be there and smuggled him out as a shiny. Fox took him in bc Coruscant is a better place for him than an active battlefield. The Guard adopted him as their baby brother and all contributed to finishing his training. They got him when he was almost 17 but Fox didnât clear him for duty until he was 19 cause heâs protective like that. Bc everyone was so worried about Lucky, the kid got the most varied and in-depth training of any clone ever. He could thrive in any position, even a commander. He knows slicing, mechanics, field medicine, strategy, Quinlan Vos even helped teach him about undercover and investigation stuff. He all knows how to fight force users and carries a slug thrower.
I love Lucky dearly. Heâs o happy and cheerful your first impression of him is a little kitten, until he gets into a fight and then heâs a honey badger on crack.
#star wars#commander fox#the clone wars#tcw#sw fanfic#tcw fanfic#captain rex#clone oc#unhinged fox au#coruscant guard#Corrie shenanigans
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