Bo didn't like his new General. Granted, he didn't really like Jedi in general, but he didn't think she was ready for this. She was a literal child and looked like she weighed less than his armor soaking wet. She could get easily trucked or killed by anything and everything. It was going to be near impossible to keep her alive! How he'd even survived this long was beyond him. She didn't look like a seasoned leader, she looked like she should be shelving data cards in the Jedi temple instead of on the front lines. He let out a low annoyed growl but then got an idea. Maybe she wasn't what she seemed, and he could figure out if he was right or not by asking her to spar!
"You are a genius Bo," he muttered to himself, and with that, he set off to find his General.
Jax thought this was a bad idea, he didn't know what Bo's problem was with their new General. Sure Bo had always had a problem with authority, but General Windcaster was nice and kind. Standing in a sea of 221st clones
But Jax had to hand it to her, she was kicking Bo's butt in this sparring match. Esinon slid underneath Bo's legs as he tried to swing at her, for whatever she wasn't using the force. Maybe to prove a point Jax was guessing, she jumped back to her feet, sending a kick straight into Bo's back sending him stumbling.
He charged her head-on, but as soon as he got close, she landed a well-placed punch to his gut, winding him and sending him crumpling to the floor. Bo quickly got up shoving her shoulders, putting her off-balance enough for him to land a kick in her stomach.
She grunted as she attempted to catch her breath, as she blocked Bo's rapid hits, he pushed her further and further towards the edge of the mats. For the most part, she had held her ground and taken all of Bo's hits until she changed her mind.
She sprinted towards the wall, rocketing up it and flipping behind Bo. She took advantage of Bo's confusion, to leap onto his back and bring him to the ground. She put him in a strong chokehold, as he attempted to wriggle away, but she held her ground.
"Yield," She growled, Bo finally conceded, tapping the mat. The Jedi rolled off of him, offering him her hand. General Windcaster heaved Bo to his feet, wiping sweat from her brow. "That was fun, thanks for challenging me." Bo nodded a little stunned, to be honest, Jax smiled, his new General was really something else. She called her lightsaber into her hand and replaced it on her belt, "Alright, I think some armor painting is in order," the sea of 221st clones parted for their tiny General as she walked among them. They all followed her down the hallway, back to the hanger. After a moment of searching, Esinon spotted the ship that would be holding their paint.
All of the troopers who needed new kits had received theirs and those who already had their armor simply needed to repaint. She pushed open the transport door and stared down at the cans of paint. Blue and yellow. Her new legion's colors were blue and yellow. This wasn't supposed to be her legion, it was supposed to be Ahsoka's.
Like in her vision. Her whole body went stiff, it felt like she couldn't breathe. She fell into flash time she took a few deep breaths, taking the slowed-down seconds to gather herself. "I need to be brave," she murmured to herself, she fell back into regular time. "Alright, everyone! Have at it, I'll be around if you need anything." she hurriedly exited the hanger while Bo and Jax helped hand out paint and brushes. She used her speed to disappear into her office and locked the door. She slid down against the wall, letting out a harsh breath. Why did she never listen to the force? It was trying to tell her something, it was trying to tell her that Ahsoka was going to leave.
Two weeks later…
Over the years Esinon had developed the skill of giving other people haircuts. Specifically, the clones. It had started with Waxer needing help to shave his head when Boil had been in the medbay and other troopers had started to come forward, asking for help. A few botched haircuts and shaved heads later she'd actually become pretty good at it. Now chasing down a shiny who needed a haircut but was refusing to get one was another thing.
"Racer! You better get back here right now!" Esinon shouted, skidding around another corner as Racer sprinted away from her.
"I'm in the growing stage! It's fine how it is!"
"No! You are not an eight-year-old little boy anymore and you can't look like a scruffy little hooligan!"
"I like being a hooligan!" Racer shouted, shoving past a few of his brothers trying to lose the Jedi. Esinon phased right through the troopers, clutching the razor tightly in her hand.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Jax shouted as she sprinted past, "General! You shouldn't be running with a razor in your hand!"
"I'm a Jedi! I'm fine!" she called back, using her speed to catch up with Racer and tackle him to the ground. "You are getting a haircut and that is final,"
"Come on brother it won't be that bad," Bev said, standing over the Jedi and trooper. Racer grumbled to himself as Esinon crossed her arms over her chest with a smug grin.
"Alright, come on," she said, pulling Racer to his feet and dragging Racer towards the fresher.
"Those two are such momma's boys," Bo murmured as Bev followed the Jedi and clone. Jax chuckled,
"I think she trained them," he said, Bo squinted at the trio,
"Maybe she knew them when they were young, either way, I don't really care," Bo said, Jax rolled his eyes. Even after two weeks, Bo refused to move much past 'sir' with their new General.
He didn't like her and Jax didn't know why, but Bo seemed distant and cold ever since they had gotten back together. Jax hadn't probed much about it, he was going to let Bo come to him. He knew his older brother would come to him eventually.
Esinon had now successfully dragged Racer back to the fresher and sat the grouchy shiny down on the stool. She grabbed the scissors off the counter,
"Don't worry, it'll be over before you know it," she said, Racer sighed and decided to hold still while Esinon worked and Bev kept a watchful eye. Soon she was finished and brushed off the remaining hair from Racer's blacks. "There you go, now you look like an adult," Racer studied his haircut in the mirror, Esinon had shaved down the sides and back down and left the top, floppy and long. She passed him a hair tie, "There, see that wasn't so bad?"
"Yeah, I guess not," he replied, tying the back of his hair up in a small ponytail. "I actually kinda like it, thank you, General,"
"You're welcome Racer," she said, she watched the pair walk away and Esinon was left to clean up the mess on the fresher floor. She called the broom into her hand and began sweeping up the shorn hair from the floor. She could still remember the two little boys that she had known on Kamino, and it was strange to see them grown up in just two years. But she guessed in a way she'd grown up a lot too in two years, she wished she hadn't had to grow up so fast. She still wished she could go back to being a kid, things were easier back then. She glanced up at the sound of boots entering the fresher, she smiled softly at the trooper, "Hello Dej, how are you?" She knew for whatever reason Dej was extremely strict with himself and very shy around her, but he seemed very sweet.
"I'm fine sir, thank you," he said, standing there awkwardly. Esinon studied his checkered pattern that drew from his left thigh up to his right shoulder plate, "Sir, Commander Bo wanted to see you. A new assignment came in,"
"Alright, thank you," she said with a small sigh, she used her speed to finish cleaning everything up before starting her walk with Dej to the command center. The blast slid open and Bo was standing there as stoically as ever, Esinon sighed. It really sucked having a Commander who hated you for what seemed like no reason, but she was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he lost someone and went cold, Esinon knew the feeling of slipping into darkness when someone is gone.
"General," Bo said with a nod, Esinon glanced around at the other men in the room, probably all here for the briefing. Bo passed her a datapad which she quickly scanned at superspeed,
"Ok, here's what we got," Esinon said, pulling up a map of her home Scipio, "My father, Senator Windcaster is heading back home to overview the final negotiations of tax raises between the Separatists and the Republic. Our job is simply to take a small squad down to the surface to protect him and make sure everything with the negotiations runs smoothly." Esinon looked out over the crowd of troopers. "Alright, all of Helix will be coming, Jeho, and Byte, plus Winter and Lake. The rest of you will stay here on standby in case anything goes wrong. Is that alright with you Bo?"
"Yes sir," he replied, walking off to go start preparing the ships. Esinon sighed,
'Just give it time,' she thought to herself, "Ok, I'm going to go dig out my parka and let my dad know that I'm coming to the surface. Probably best if Thea doesn't find out I'm there,"
"Sir," Jax began, "If you don't mind me asking, who's Thea?"
"Oh, she's my little sister, she's four now. She lives on Scipio with my cousin Elliot and his wife Piper." she replied, "I think it'll just be easier for her if she doesn't know I'm there," Jax nodded, Esinon walked off to find her coats and get ready for the mission.
A few hours later…
Esinon chuckled as Bo shuddered again,
"You a little cold there Commander?" she teased, Bo grumbled to himself,
"It's kriffin' cold on this planet," he growled, Esinon grinned,
"And it isn't even the cold season yet, technically this is Scipio's summer," Bo's eyes went wide under his helmet,
"I don't know why anyone would want to live here," he muttered,
"You'll grow to love it, promise." Both of them glanced up as Esinon's father came walking towards them.
"Hello Esinon, Commander," he greeted, Esinon smiled,
"Hi Dad, this is my Commander, Bo," she said, normally they would have hugged but Esinon could tell he was trying to keep it professional since she was a high ranking military officer and the Separatists were gonna be here soon. Bo gave her father a small salute,
"Sir,"
"It's very nice to meet you, Bo, I appreciate you all coming here to oversee the negotiations," her father said kindly, Bo nodded,
"Alright Bo, let's get the men into the position, the Separatists are gonna be here soon," she said, Bo nodded, before she could get a word out to her men Bo had already beat her to the punch.
"Let's go, men!" he called, Esinon sighed. Bo really did not trust her. That was going to be a problem when they were out on the field should he decide not to listen to her orders. Jax walked over to her as Bo kept ordering the men about,
"Are you alright General?" he asked, Esinon hadn't realized that a frustrated look had crept onto her face.
"Yes, yeah, I'm fine, just not the missions I'm used to. Master Obi-Wan was usually the one who handled the negotiations slash peace talks when I was a Commander."
"I'm sure we'll get some action eventually," he said happily, Esinon gave him a small smile. She liked Jax a lot, he was very sweet. She liked Glitch and Spitfire too, she wasn't sure about Dej yet. He was really quiet, so she didn't have much of an impression of him because she was pretty sure he avoided her when he could.
Now Bo on the other hand just seemed cold, cold towards Jedi at least. She'd met clones who didn't like Jedi, heck she didn't like the Jedi sometimes, but she knew Bo's whole personality wasn't cold because she had seen the way he was with his brothers. He was happy, and a big jokester, he also seemed very caring. Even if Bo never grew to like her, she was going to do her best to keep him alive.
She tore herself from her thoughts to follow after Jax towards the bank. They soon arrived where Bo stationed Winter and Lake at the doors of the bank, and the rest of them standing off to the side while Esinon stood with her father. She glanced over at the sound of snow crunching under boots to see Byte hurrying over,
"What is it Byte?" she muttered, hurrying to meet him.
"General, there is a massive blizzard coming," he said, showing her a weather doppler on his datapad. Esinon frown at the huge patches of red that covered the map,
"How long before it hits?"
"A couple of hours," he replied, Esinon fiddled with her coat sleeve, trying to think of what to do next.
"Tell Bo, hopefully, the negotiations will be over before that. If not we might just have to tough it out," she said, Byte nodded,
"Yes sir," he saluted her before walking back to tell Bo about the plan.
"Everything alright Esinon?" her father asked as soon as she returned,
"Yeah Dad, everything's fine. Just a storm that's coming, that's all." he nodded, and then they both went silent as the Separatist ship pulled down onto the surface. The representative walked out of the ship flanked by seven commando droids, she involuntarily tightened her stance. She was human, not very tall, and had her in an updo that reminded Esinon of how Senator Amidala did her hair.
"Senator Windcaster, General Windcaster," she greeted with a small dip of her head. "It's wonderful to meet you both, I am Senator Elrod,"
"Senator Elrod I'm so glad you could make it," her father replied, returning the gesture of the bow. Esinon didn't move, she heard the large iron doors to the bank slide open, and the muuns walked out. Esinon sensed her father's dissatisfaction towards the other species, Esinon knew that her father didn't have a problem with the muun people in general, but he just didn't like the ones who worked in the bank. He believed that the bank was to some extent corrupt and Esinon didn't necessarily disagree with him, she just believed there wasn't enough evidence to prove the theory.
"Senators, welcome, we are so glad you are here." The head muun greeted, "We can now enter the bank, but as you both know, your protectorates will need to remain outside." both Senators nodded,
"We'll be here if you need anything Senator Windcaster," Esinon said, her dad gave her a fond smile before heading into the bank with Senator Elrod and the muuns. "Now all we do is wait," she murmured to herself, she glanced up at Winter and Lake who were still positioned on either side of the doors. They were both ARC troopers, she wondered why they had been permanently transferred to the 221st. They weren't going to be running ARC missions anymore, Bo said they had 'retired' in a sense as he had.
He was a full-time Commander now instead of running willy nilly around the galaxy as an ARC trooper. Esinon bounced on her toes for a moment, trying to keep her body moving to try and stay warm.
She was bored, this was boring, she knew that the Republic was going to give her 'safer' missions for a time while she adjusted to being a General. Right now she felt like a delivery girl, cleaning loose ends around the galaxy from the war while the 'real' Generals fought on the front lines. They all waited for two hours while the negotiations went on inside until they were finally over and the doors opened once more, Esinon smiled as her father came out looking exhausted but satisfied, Senator Elrod followed next.
She let herself relax knowing that the negotiations had gone off without a hitch. ZING! A shot hit Senator Elrod straight in the shoulder, Esinon gasped as the Separatist senator collapsed to the ground. Her gaze instantly shot upward, behind her, to the cliffs above the bank to see a glimpse of Embo and his dog.
"Bo! Get Boomer down here for the Senator now! I'm going after Embo!" she took off at top speed, launching herself up the canyon and taking off after an escaping Embo. After a few seconds of running, Esinon was realizing how much the deep snow was actually slowing her down so she decided to try an old trick Master Kenobi had taught her.
Water bending.
She concentrated on the force as she sprinted and suddenly jumped up, she used the force to create a slick sheet of ice under her feet. She landed and used the force to continue the icy pathway and slide after Embo, quickly gaining speed and closing the distance between her and the bounty hunter.
While one hand was maintaining her transportation and steering, she used her opposite hand to throw a mountain of snow towards Embo, which he easily dodged. She growled to herself, flicking her wrist to create a snowdrift which she launched herself over to catch back up with Embo, she skated faster and faster as the cold wind whipped in her face.
She raised up a giant snowdrift in an attempt to gain more ground on Embo, but it backfired. She overshot the arc of the drift and instead of flipping over Embo as she had intended, she started a downward plunge but instead of hitting the ground like she had expected she heard the roar of a speeder and felt someone catch her.
"Hey General!" a friendly voice greeted, she opened her eyes to find Lake.
"Lake?" she asked, he chuckled,
"You've gotta watch where you're going," he said as Esinon patted his shoulder and he set her down. Winter was at the wheel, speeding after Embo on his helmet, Esinon ignited her lightsaber and jumped over the rim of the speeder, hanging on with one hand.
"Get me closer Winter!" she called, "I'm gonna make a jump for him!"
"Yes sir," He called, pushing the speeder faster towards the bounty hunter. Esinon leaned forward knowing Embo was almost within reach, she was about to jump for the bounty hunter when she spotted Embo darted into a cave. She let out a small growl as Winter had to put the speeder to a screeching halt, the cave was too small for the speeder to fit through.
"Come on, we've gotta get him," she said, jumping off the speeder and starting to run into the cave. Winter and Lake glanced at each other before deciding to follow after Esinon who was already chasing down Embo. After a few minutes of Esinon running through tunnels, attached only to Embo's faint force signature, she lost it. She skidded to a halt as she came to a fork in the cave. Lake and Winter stopped next to her,
"What now General?" Winter asked, Esinon glanced between the two pathways. She reached out through the force trying to latch onto Embo's force signature but she just couldn't.
"Um…" she murmured, she glanced at the right tunnel, "This way," she said confidently, the three of them took off down the tunnel, the only source of light was Esinon's emerald blades. They wove through the tunnel for almost ten minutes before Esinon realized that they weren't going to find Embo. "Change of plans, we should try and figure out how to get out here." Both ARCs nodded, and Esinon slowed their pace as they continued through the dark tunnel. Esinon stopped for a second, she could sense something… a strong force signature, it wasn't Embo's though. It didn't feel like a person, only a presence. She decided that whatever it was, it might be the force trying to guide her out.
She followed after the presence, the tunnel opened up into a bubble and in the middle was a giant glowing crystal. She cocked her head at the massive amount of force energy the crystal was radiating, both Winter and Lake kept a safe distance from the crystal as Esinon drew closer. Qui-Gon's crystal tugged out from underneath her tunic and began to glow, floating out in the direction of the massive crystal.
She reached out a hand, entranced by the glow and subtle thrumming of the force surrounding the mysterious object. Her fingertips grew closer and closer, almost brushing the smooth su-
BOOM!
An animal screeched as it burst from the side of the cave wall, Esinon fell to the ground at the sheer force of the giant caterpillar looking creature bursting from the walls.
She instantly drew her lightsaber as she came face to face with the creature. It had glowing blue eyes that matched the crystal and giant armored plates that covered its body.
She didn't breathe as the creature got within inches of her face and she could tell that it was strong with the force. She could feel it's gentle tendrils sensing her force signature. Suddenly it screeched and went to attack Esinon, but before it could land a blow, Winter fired a well-placed shot between the eyes. Unfortunately, it didn't do anything because of the tough armor plating where Winter had fired.
The creature's shriek was deafening as it charged towards Winter, Esinon yelped and rolled out of the way hoping not to get impaled by the creature's sharp-looking feet. Lake dove towards Winter, tackling the frozen ARC just in time and the creature rammed into the wall. Esinon jumped to her feet, snapping her wrist so that crackling whip of lightning appeared in her fingertips. She cracked the electricity, snapping it around a horn on the creature's head and with an impressive show of force strength, she wrenched the creature away from her troopers. The creature shrieked again and attempted to charge Esinon but she gracefully flipped over the creature,
"Stay here!" she shouted, as she started to sprint down an opposite hallway, "I'll draw it away and then find you!"
"General no!" Winter shouted,
"Do what I say!" she shouted back, disappearing into the darkness before Winter could protest any further. The creature continued to shriek as Esinon sped up and darted around another corner, unfortunately, she wasn't fast enough and the creature rammed into her. She was thrown into an opposite wall, crashing into the floor. She collapsed to the floor with a groan as the creature screeched again, she pushed herself to her feet, snapping another chord of lightning into her fingers.
She dodged as the creature tried to charge her again, she flipped up onto it's back and looped it around both of the creature's horns and tugged hard. The creature reared and bucked, screeching as Esinon attempted to tame it. After bucking for a few seconds the creature suddenly started burrowing into the cave wall.
Before Esinon could react she had once again been slammed into the wall, she attempted to make a graceful landing but the world was spinning and she landed at an awkward angle on her right foot, twisting her bad ankle. She yelped in pain, she didn't get up immediately, her body was aching and she was still trying to assess what just happened. "That was a big bug," she murmured, she finally pulled herself to her feet and slowly limped her way back to the room with the crystal. She could hear more voices in the room, she looked up to find Bo, Jax, Jeho, and Byte all in the room with Winter and Lake.
Bo was the first to spot her and for some reason, he came rushing over to her. She was so surprised by the action, she forgot her ankle was injured and almost fell to the ground. Bo grabbed her arm, looping an arm around her waist and placing her arm around his shoulders.
"Easy kid, can't have ya collapsing on us," he said, Esinon cocked her head and glanced up at him. Why did he like her all of a sudden? "Lake and Winter said a big bug attacked you guys?"
"I think it was trying to protect the crystal," she muttered, "Both of them were radiating some mad force energy,"
"Is it dead?" he asked, helping her walk towards a hole that the troopers had drilled into the ceiling, she shook her head.
"No, I tried to attack it and it eventually gave up and burrowed back into the cave walls. Either way, I think we should go. I don't want to disturb that crystal any longer," Bo nodded,
"By the way, Senator Elrod is gonna be alright. Boomer got there in time and she's gonna be in a hospital for a while but thankfully she doesn't blame us for what happened. She actually told me to tell you thank you for going after Embo, it was selfless," Esinon glanced up at him and for a second she swore she could sense a smile under his helmet. "Now, speaking of Boomer we better get you to a medic. You're just as reckless as Windu said you were gonna be," she chuckled,
"Well, has to be one of us," she joked,
"Oh trust me, General, he's far more reckless than you," Jax said, Bo glared at his brother before rolling his eyes. Esinon giggled,
"Alright, I want some pain meds, my head hurts,"
"Oh, so you want pain meds this time?" Bo asked, Esinon glared at him,
"I do now, my head is pounding, and I'm cold," she said grouchily,
"Alright Jeho, take her up," Bo said, Jeho nodded, a lavender arm extending up to the surface, the opposite mechanical arm wrapped around her waist and she and Jeho rose to the surface together.
"You have fun down there General?" Glitch asked sarcastically as Jeho loaded her into the speeder that Dej and Glitch were sitting in. She saw Dej shoot a dirty look in Glitch's direction,
"Always," She said jovially, despite the increase in pounding in her head. She was looking forward to sleeping and hopefully tuning out the long lecture Boomer was going to give to her. Maybe she'd get Heart this time instead, he was sweet, she liked him a lot. She rested her head on the back of the speeder but left her eyes open. If she had a concussion, she couldn't go to sleep now.
The ride back to the waiting transport was nice and quiet, she could hear Dej and Glitch going back and forth. It was nice that life was finally settling in to normality. It wasn't that much different if she thought about it, just a new job and new troops, it wasn't much different from the 212th or the 501st. It was mostly just her trying to compensate for her own anxious thoughts.
If she tried to make her new life feel like her old life she wouldn't have as much anxiety about change. She let out a small sigh as Glitch helped pull her up and helped her onto an awaiting transport, and to a waiting Boomer who immediately began to lecture her on her own recklessness. Well, if this was a new normal, it wasn't so bad.
"Did you get it?" Jeho asked as Byte pulled himself out of the hole in the ground. Byte glanced around to make sure that Bo was out of earshot before pulling out shards of the crystal from his belt.
"Yeah I got it, by my readings it's got some massive force energy radiating from it,"
"Maybe that's why the General was able to sense it,"
"Probably," Byte replied, retucking the glowing crystal shards into his belt. "We'll run more tests when we get back, this could supercharge our droids, it'll be great if it works,"
"Only if it works," Jeho replied, "Let's try not to blow up the Cortex thought, we don't have enough funds to replace everything if we destroy it like on Kamino,"
"You did that on purpose," Byte said as the pair walked towards the transport. Jeho shrugged,
"You didn't like it either," he replied, Byte sighed,
"No, I didn't, I like it here better,"
"Me too," Jeho said with a small smile, Byte wrapped an arm around his brother,
"Things are gonna be better now, promise,"
A few months later…
Dej was walking towards General Windcaster's office, hoping to not find her too busy so he could turn in his mission reports. He was embarrassed because he had fallen a little behind because of their constant missions.
The 221st certainly was busy, he was just relieved that he had finished them. Although he needed to get on Spitfire's back about how much he had been procrastinating on his reports, honestly he didn't know how Spitfire worked so well under pressure, it stressed Dej out. He drew closer and closer to General Windcaster's office, he could hear music playing.
Which wasn't out of the ordinary, she normally had music on while she worked but this time he could hear her singing. It was an old song with soft piano music, General Windcaster's soprano voice floated through the air completing the sweet melody.
"But if you feel like I feel," she sang, her voice drifting in a soft alto tone, Dej knew he wasn't supposed to invade the General's privacy like this but her voice was just so pretty and he didn't want her to stop singing so he paused and listened out of sight next to her door. "Please let me know that it's real, you're just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off of you," A bouncy trumpet and piano melody replaced the soft-spoken music of a few moments early. Now General Windcaster's voice matched the raw power she exhibited as a warrior. It was loud but composed, strong, and controlled. "I love you, baby! And if it's quite alright, I need you baby! To warm these lonely nights! I love you, baby! Trust me when I say!" Dej could imagine General Windcaster's bouncy dance moves around her office, the thought made him smile, she truly was a happy person.
It was refreshing really, her voice tapered off in a subtle hum as she most likely got distracted by a new task needing completion. Dej decided this was the perfect time to slip into her office, he nodded on the door frame,
"General?" she glanced up from her files that were littered across her desk and the floor. It really was a disaster in here,
"Oh hi Dej!" she greeted, a small bunny droid handed her a datapad, "Oh thank you, Judy," The bunny droid beeped happily as she began to collect papers off the ground. A new song started to play, Dej resisted the urge to hum along. He really liked this song,
"Hello General," he greeted, "I just came to turn in my mission report-"
"Hold that thought," she said, her eyes glued to a datapad, "I need to go talk to Bo while I'm still thinking about this," He nodded,
"Yes sir," she disappeared from her office, datapad in hand, leaving Dej alone with Judy. The bunny droid glanced up at him and cocked her head, "Do you want some help?" he asked, the droid nodded, and held up a stack of files towards him. Dej grabbed it out of her hands and started to help Judy clean General Windcaster's disaster of an office. He began to hum along to the song on the radio, "You're a carousel, you're a wishing well, and you light me up when you ring my bell," he sang quietly to himself, slowly getting louder.
Truth was Dej could sing, he just didn't do it in front of other people. "You're a mystery, you're from outer space, you're my every minute of every day," the song was building and the background and he finally became distracted from his task at hand and became fully invested in the song, "And I can't believe that I'm your man and I get to kiss you, baby, just because I can! Whatever comes our way, oh, we'll see it through, and you know that's what our love can do,"
"You have a really nice voice Dej," General Windcaster said, smiling fondly at him. He froze, he did not mean for that to happen. He could feel his face going beat red, and an uncomfortable pit settling into his stomach. He swallowed hard,
"Oh- uh, thank you sir," he said quickly, she smiled,
"Now, about those mission reports," she said, he silently passed them over to her and she read over them at superspeed, "Alright, you're all set, thank you Dej," he saluted,
"Sir," he said stiffly, she gave him that smile that he had begun to grow to love as he ducked out of the room. He let out a small breath, that was so embarrassing. And he was determined not to let any of his brothers find out about it because they would tease them relentlessly. Either way, it was time to put it behind him- a loud whining went off throughout the ship, a blaring alarm as red lights flashed overhead. Dej knew what that meant.
The Duchess had just gone on lockdown.
I'm very late, I know, but I just didn't have this chapter written on time. Life's chaotic right now, so sorry yall
Alrighty, next up on let's make this canon corner: Dej gets all of his cultural exposure from Glitch
The two songs are I love you baby, I listen to the Frank Sinatra version, and Everything by Micheal Buble
Ok I have another unrelated let's make this canon corner but it's for LOK: We all know and love the famous, 'yeah, but he's named after his father so we just call him junior' scene from ATLA. I thin that Zuko tried to get back at Iroh for that, one day Iroh II is meeting some people and Zuko goes "and this is Iroh, but he was named after my uncle, so we just call him junior"
Also, here's me talking about whatever I want: today I want to talk about LOK Bumi, I'm only on season two but I know he gets bending later. but I was watching the episode where he goes to talk to Aang's statue after Kya and Tenzin tease him for not having any bending. I feel like Bumi secretly always felt guilty that he wasn't an airbender while Aang was alive. He's the oldest so he somehow felt responsible to carry on Aang's legacy. Imagine being the son of the avatar and one of the most famous water benders ever and then thinking for the longest time you aren't a bender. I feel like Bumi thought he was a disappointment which is why he joined the army. he wanted to make something of himself instead of being known as the 'nonbending son of the avatar' I just think no one talks about Bumi's character enough, it's similar how to not a lot of people talk about Sokka's character development. Bumi and Sokka are seen as just comic relief only, and no one sees them as the well developed characters they are.
OK I'm done.
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