Star Wars: The Clone Wars fanfic1


An alternate ending of Episode 8, Brain Invaders, my favorite episode...


Worm Wars


The team of mercenary commandos, and Ahsoka, just met with Fitz's sly grin, almost shocked that he was still alive. "What? Ain't cha happy to see Fitz?"

"You crazy cowboy," Adams said, chuckling as he helped his friend to his feet, "You just have to wait until the right moment, don't you?"

"Rule one, Ricky-chet, it's no party with Fitzy."

While the two friends chuckled, the Sergeant was suspicious, he pulled his goggles over his eyes, cortex scanning Fitz in case he was infected. It was quite odd for one individual to suddenly appear out of nowhere in a ship infested with brain controlling parasites without infection, although, Doug, a handicap Ugnaught, managed so well without weapons or training. The cortex scan detailed that Fitz was clear from any infection whatsoever. Meanwhile, he Professor crawled to the corpse of the worm, examining it.

"What is it?" Boomer asked, as the young man knelt beside the dead creature.

"Intriguing, it's a well evolved worm-like predator," Doug said, "this must be the strange readings we picked up from the ship. I never thought how far this could go."

"Is this what we're here to clear out?" Ahsoka asked, bending down next to him.

"Apparently yes," the Sergeant answered, approaching the deceased creature, not lowering his guard. "This is one of the things that killed Shepherd."

"'One of them?' You mean there's more of this things?" Boomer asked, looking up to the Sergeant.

"Yeah, and we're stuck on this ship with 'em," he kicked the extraterrestrial in its half-blown away head, "Minus one."

"Actually, Fitz found another of 'em in the engine room," Fitz mentioned, "It's nothin' but worm guts in space, now."

"So that explosion was you?" Adams guessed, the cowboy smiled.

"Who else? Tinkerbell?"

"How many of these things are on the ship?" Doug asked, adjusting his glasses.

Boomer breathed in for a minute before explaining, "Ahsoka and I... when we went to meet up with Patterson, we found something on the way. Five dead clone bodies, and it looked as if something had burst straight from their chests. So, I guess five of them."

"I disagree," the Professor declined, looking up to the soldiers, "Cargo Transport Ship TB-73 has been sailing space for eight months, and we so happen to find not just zombie clone troopers, but also Geonosians, and even this thing. We might suspect five, but there's probably more, but something else worries me. If this ship returned to Geonosis, I suspect it might have picked up more terrifying things that we have not yet even seen."

"Then I suggest we find cover and find it fast instead of stand out into the opening," the Sergeant said, "and wait for more of these things to show up."


After the return of their lost comrade, along with the discovery and close details of the worm-predator, the six remaining members of the team sprinted down the hallway and slipped into the ray shield generator room. Choosing it has their current command post of TB-73, Adams hacked the system and shielded all of the doorways to the room, Ahsoka and Boomer aided Doug while Fitz and the Sergeant scanned the area for any hiding hostiles.

The Jedi Padawan and soldier of fortune-in-training sat the Professor against the wall, allowing him to position his legs in front of him. Doug looked at Ahsoka, "I thought Jedi could move things with their thoughts. That way, you could've just picked me up and set me down."

"It doesn't work that way, we need to call on and have permission from the Force," she explained. The Ugnaught snorted.

"The Force? That's just some bacteria living in your bloodstream," the Professor explained, "it's just a mutation that if you Jedi reproduced and provided the next generation, we would all be 'Force sensitive,' comprenday?"

Ahsoka's right brow rose, was everyone trying to educate her about something?

After securing the generator room, the Sergeant ushered Boomer over to speak with him. The first thing the boy noticed was that Wilson did not call over Ahsoka as well, which meant he was going to consult him about something that involved her.

"Yes sir?" Boomer said, standing out of hearing range.

"So... I guess you and Tano are getting along," the Sergeant said, folding his arms, an unamused look across his features.

"Uh, yes?" The boy replied, his features showing a confused look.

"And exactly how 'well' are you getting along, may I ask?" It seemed as if Wilson was making a point, "Because whenever I look at the two of you, she's a bit closer than I thought you should be. Along with the fact that she trusts you enough to let you hold on to her weapon for her."

The comment brought his hand to the hilt of the lightsaber, as he restrained his shock, "What do you mean?"

"If I didn't know any better, I'd suggest that you two were..." Wilson stuttered, looking for the right word, "'holding hands.'"

With that, Boomer blushed, when the Sergeant said "holding hands" he referred to a close relationship between a boy and a girl. Confusion struck him, How did he find out? He thought, and then remembered when Crowe, who was indeed a friend of Wilson, had witnessed their recent moment, due to the affects of wine. "Crowe told you?"

"No, youdid..." Wilson said, victoriously, "just now."


To Lefty Blondy: "Dig" is a small slang word for "Understand?"

To alienphantom: Are you sure? Doug managed so well, as was written earlier, and he's not even a mercenary.

To Evil Tree: Yeah, I'm good with suspense in stories, just look at some of my earlier work in the Kung Fu Panda and Sly Cooper category, you'll see a lot of suspense.

To Fran: Well, the brain worms could alter individuals' minds and make them think they want to follow the Queen's command, but I didn't do that with Ahsoka, Barriss, however, might be brainwashed to the full, sorry. Also, I'm not planning to kill Barris, one; because I kinda like the character, and two; there at least needs to be a happy ending to my first ST:CW fanfic, understand? Ahsoka was growing weaker too, and so the same thing with Barriss. Finally, thank you on approving the Ahsoka&Boomer pairing, I'm thinking of doing a couple more of those in future stories.

To narutolover: Of course, but she's still debating on that. After all, she did just go through an ordeal that semi-traumatized her.

Anyway, Review please. Any questions, comments, etc.?