Kanan came in to tell the two they had reached chopper base but when he came in he merely found Rex holding his younger brother in his arm in a protective pose. Kanan couldn't help but think 'I was wrong, they never did mean to hurt us. They were hurt just as much as we were.'

He hated to break up the moment, but cleared his throat, waking Rex up who suddenly had a blaster pointed at him his head. Kanan held his hands up saying "Wo wo! I come I peace."

Rex sighed as he said "Sorry. A bit jumpy." "I can see why, I don't think you ever expected to find another one of your own again."

"It not that he's one of my own Kanan, he's my brother." Kanan nodded and said "Your right, that would have been a better way to say it. I just came to tell you we're at the base."

Rex looked up, energy back in his body as he said "It's time then. Tell the doctors to get ready for the surgery. I'll get Echo ready." Kanan nodded and headed off as Rex looked down at Echo and called "Wake up vod. It's time."

Echo stirred and then asked "For what?" "Your freedom." At That Echo eyes opened up as Rex nodded. Echo nodded back with a determined look in his eye and the two got up.

Rex helping the younger get to the medical bay. What ever happened they were there for each other. And Rex would be there for him when he woke up.

The surgery had been a success. Echo had gone through the process without complications, but he was shaken up after since the effects of the chip removal made his mind a little clearer and a little jumbled as well.

In the medical wing of chopper base, Rex held his brother as hard as he could and told him encouraging words. All the while telling him of the brothers that had survived and the new friends he had made with the ghost crew.

Suddenly the door opened and another familiar face came through and said "Echo?" The said man looked up and his eyes widened as he said "Commander? You're all grown up."

Ahsoka smiled as she said "Had to happen at some point, and you don't have to call me that anymore you know." Echo swallowed as he said "Rex told me what happened. I'm so sorry…." She put a hand up and said "Don't. None of that was your fault. I should be apologizing. We should have gone back for you."

Echo frowned but said "There was no time commander." She glared and said "We should have made time." She walked up and held his arm as she said "How are you holding up? You know you look different without hair."

Echo blushed at that and said "I'm doing fine coman…." Ahsoka glared at him and he corrected himself saying "Ahsoka, and um yeah it feels weird." Rex then said "Don't' worry your hair will grow back, eventually."

Ahsoka frowned as she said "Speaking of growing. The ghost crew will be escorting you both to Seelos so you can get the cure for the rapid aging." At that Echo said "Should I really take the cure. If I do I'll out age all of you. I don't 'know if I can live with that."

Rex held him tighter as he said "Echo, if there's one thing I want for you is to try to have as normal a life as possible, try to have the life none of us had a chance at getting. Please. After everything you've been through, you at least deserve that much."

Ahsoka nodded and said "Rex is right. You lost out on allot and you deserve to have something, let yourself live a full life if you can Echo."

Echo looked down and thought it over 'Not much for me to be living for, except living long enough to help the rebellion. Don't know what I'll do after but maybe in a way I could honor my brothers by living the life none of them had the chance to have.'

Echo finally sighed and nodded, accepting the idea of using the cure. They both smiled at his answer and Rex got up and sat in a chair saying. "Get some sleep. We leave the next day. During the trip you can get to know the crew. You should get along well with them. Though I wonder why none of them has barged in yet. I thought for sure Ezra would try to sneak in."

Ahsoka smirked as she said "I threatened them to keep out. Let's just say Ezra knows not to push his limits with me." The two troopers couldn't help but laugh. Ahsoka had always been a force to be reckon with and they knew she could hold her own against almost anyone, even a stubborn padawan.

The next day and Echo and Rex where in the ghost's wreck room, going at hyperdrive on their way to Seelos. Rex looked over at Echo who seemed to be thinking hard. 'Of course he be, he just woke up after fifteen years and has heard allot of bad news.'

He sighed and said "Echo I know you may not want to talk about it but, I need to know. Do you know why you were in carbon freeze?"

Echo looked up a bit, surprised out of his thought but said "Not sure actually. After the explosion I only remember waking in a cell and allot of talking I couldn't understand. I kept coming in and out. When I was about to be put into carbon I did hear something. I heard 'payment' and 'techno union.'"

At that Rex hit the table as he roared "They sold you, like a piece of property?" Echo jumped at that and said, "Rex calm down I don't even now…"

"But that's what it had to be. They wouldn't risk shipping you out for nothing. That ship was also close to the old techno unions territory. If they went all already dead, I kill them!"

At that the crew of the ghost came in Kanan asking "What's going on?" Chopper beeped a bit as Zeb said "Yeah what this about killing, usually we don't hear you using that word."

Ezra then said "Or in that kind of tone." Rex took a breath as he replied "Your right. Sorry lost my temper there." Echo sighed as he said "Sorry that was my fault, it seems we figured out why I was in carbon."

They all stood about as if waiting to hear what had happened, Echo realized this and coughed as he said "Well it seemed the techno union payed for me, for some reason. Maybe to get intel or to experiment on me. I don't know. Guess it was a good thing the ship crashed before it could get to its destination."

Zeb shivered as he said "Your right, those where some nasty mad scientist. Used anyone or anything as a lab rat." Rex clenched his fist again and Kanan said "Let's talk about something else. We haven't introduced ourselves properly to Echo."

He came up and said with an arm out "I'm Kanan. I lead this crew along with Hear and I'm also a jedi." Echo almost saluted but sat back down remembering he was still week from his condition and said "Sorry sir I can't stand but it's nice to meat you."

Kanan raised a brow and said "A hand shake is fine." As they did just that Rex smiled as he said "The kids not into protocol so don't salute him. He hates it." Echo nodded as he took that in.

Zeb then said "Names Zeb. Muscle of this group. Rex talked highly of you. You mind swapping stories sometime?"

Echo was somewhat surprised at that but replied "Um sure, though I'm not sure how interesting they would be." "For an ARC you should have plenty of good ones." Echo looked back at Rex and sighed saying "You told them about that haven't you." Rex smirked as he just shrugged.

Hera came up next saying "My names Hera. I'm the ship's captain and like Kanan said I help keep this crew together." He shook hands with her and said "It's a pleasure to meet you miss. And if Rex flies with you then you already have my respect. Rex doesn't just let anyone pilot him around."

Rex then said "That's because I've flown with one of the best jedi pilots around." Ezra then said "You mean Skywalker. Oh uh hi, I'm Ezra. Also a jedi." Kanan interrupted with "Padawan." "Pew, same difference." "Very big difference."

Rex smirked as he said to Echo "You'll get used to this soon enough." Echo smiled remember how Ahsoka and the general use to be like, the relationship was the same but different. Either way it was nice to be around something somewhat familiar.

Chopper came up and beeped a bit as Hera said "That's Chopper my astromech." Rex then said "Watch out for him, little clanker likes to pulls pranks." Chopper brought out an electric buzz as Rex said "Ha, I dare you!"

But Hera said "Okay that's enough." Echo put his hands to his face at his captains behavior but soon looked up as someone said "Hey, names Sabine. The current explosive expert and artist around here."

Echo chuckled as he said "I knew a few brother that you would have gotten along with just fine. So your Mandalorian. I always like knowing a bit about our culture." Sabine smiled as she said "I'll tell you a bit more if you want. And maybe you can tell me how you designed that cool paint job."

Echo looked down at the handprint on his armor and said "Oh that, actually that was Rex. And the original mark was actually in eels blood." They all looked at them as Rex laughed and said "Okay it was like this." And so the two began to explain how Echo got his mark.

Echo so far had found the ghost crew to be an interesting bunch. He at first was confused at the way the jedi Kanana and the pilot Hera interacted but Rex said "Not like there's an order any more to tell them they can't be together. Personally, I thought that rule was kind of a bunch of nonsense."

Echo just shrugged, he wasn't sure what he thought about the rules of the jedi order. He knew clones weren't allowed to have families either, but he suppose that didn't apply now that they were no longer in the GAR.

He shook his head, his brothers where his family and maybe he could come to see the ghost crew as family as well. Rex had and he seemed happy with them. He watched as the lasat and the padawan where talking over some sort of food and the mandaolrian girl had gone off some time ago. Rex had told him she liked to paint and was most likely doing that.

Suddenly the little droid, Chopper, came up to them and started beeping. Echo looked down and said "Something the matter little guy." Chopper beeped some things and used his plier like hands to communicate something, but Echo couldn't seem to make it out.

Rex then said "Took me some time to figure him out as well, still trying to understand him fully." 'Buur.' Rex laughed at the disgruntled noise and then said to Echo "Basically he's asking how it's like to be reprogrammed." "What!" "Chopper!"

Hera stomped up angrily and said "Sorry about that he doesn't really have any manners." 'Boow!' "Well you didn't exactly display any right now. And he didn't get reprogrammed they just took a chip out and by the way that's not something you should be asking about."

'Boo boop bo.' The little mech just started strolling off as Hera sighed and said "I am so sorry about him." Echo replied with "It's okay, he probably didn't understand what we were doing." Hera rolled her eyes and said "Doubt it. Sometimes I think that mech has too much sass for his own good."

She then walked off to hunt down her mech. Rex and Kanan chuckled at that as he came to sit by them and said "Well as you can see Chopper doesn't respect anyone but Hera. Well he respects Sabine a little, but other than that no one else."

Echo blinked at that and nodded as he said "I guess I just wasn't expecting such a question." Ezra then said "How about a question like this. What exactly was an ARC trooper and what did you have to do to be one?" Rex and Echo both smiled at each other as they began to tell another long story and explanation. Zeb came up wanting to hear this as well.

It wasn't long till they reached Seelos. Echo felt a bit nervous as he looked at the white desolate planet. Rex could feel his discomfort and said "Hey, don't' worry. They'll be happy to see another brother."

"I didn't know Wolffe very well back then sir and I've never met Gregor." Rex shook his head and said "Gregor likes everyone, trust me you can't say anything wrong with him. Wolffe, well he's Wolffe. A little more on edge then before but you can understand why."

Echo nodded as Rex had already told him what happened to both Wolffe and Gregor. Basically Gregor had lost his memory and then had been trying to escape separatist space for a while but when he came back the clone wars had ended and Rex found him in time to get the chip out.

Wolffe had trusted Rex about the chips and got his out of course but he blamed himself or what happend to general Koon and as he saw what happened to his brothers, it was like losing his entire battalion again. The shock had caused to much emotional and mental damage for Wolffe and he was a bit unstable.

As they finally reached the planets surface Echo was surprised at what he saw, a massive four legged walker, how was it even standing? With some sort of creature slung over the side, and decorated with all sorts of strange artifacts and paintings.

As they were walking down the ramp Rex turned to the crew and said "I don't want to be rude but do you all think it be okay if Echo and I just go alone." Echo looked back confused but the crew seemed to smile and nod as Hera said "We understand. Take your time."

Kanan then said, "We'll be here when you're ready to go." Ezra then said, "Though I wouldn't; mind coming in later though, the first time was a blast." Zeb then said "Yeah and I wouldn't mind getting a taste of some joopa again."

And with they the door closed and Echo asked "Uh captain, what's a joopa?" Rex chuckled as he pointed at the large creature hanging from the walker "That there is a joopam one of the galaxies greatest delicacies."

Echo could only blink as he thought 'I don't think I even want to ask.' And with that they headed off.