He woke up to the taste of dust on his tongue and the feeling of the dry, swollen flesh at the back of his throat stinging. Rex coughed, trying to get whatever was in his mouth out, groaning at the way he felt his ribs creak with each cough. He tried to sit up, only to wince as he his smacked his head on the roof of whatever he was in.

"Rex?" he stayed laying down, learning his lesson from moving earlier.

"Echo?" he didn't like how his voice echoed in the space, giving him the impression that he was in a very small space, "What happened?" he craned his head around, finally having the sense to turn on the flashlight that was on his helmet. He frowned at the sight of rocks and settling dust.

"The canyon collapsed on us, Fives is right next to me-"

"Hey,"

"-Is General Skywalker with you?" Rex looked around his small space, his eyes landing on the small exit that was next to his feet.

"Give me a second." Rex took a deep breath before he started to wiggle (painfully he might add) his way out of the space. His heart nearly lept out of his chest when the little space collapsed as soon as he was up and out of it.

"Rex?!"

"I'm fine! It didn't get me!" he sat up again, this time, there being enough space for him to do it, and looked around. The settling dust making it difficult to see. The section was definitely bigger than the part he was in, but he didn't feel any safer in it. Instead of seeing large boulders over him, he saw thousands of smaller rocks, all of them who seemed to be just floating there. Curious, he lifted up his hand, touching the surface of the rocks.

"…Don't…" he jumped out of his skin at the voice, frantically looking around to see who had said that.

"Hello?" he crawled through the small space, sweeping side to side as he tried to find the owner of the voice.

"General?" he found the Jedi in the corner of the space, kneeling with his hands held over his head, his faced scrunched up in concentration. Dust completely covered his body, making him look like he had just taken a dust bath. "Are you okay?" He ducked his head as the rocks above him rumbled, making more dust fall to the ground.

"…yes…" upon hearing a rumbling sound, he turned around just in time to see the section that he had just crawled out of to collapse slowly. Actually, very slowly, it looked like the rocks were falling in slow motion. He connected the dots when he heard a sigh of relief behind him. He got closer to the Jedi, the opening collapsing behind him until he was right next to the general. He didn't bother asking questions about the situation.

"Think you make an opening for Echo and Fives?" without a word, some of the rocks lifted, revealing two tired and dirty clones at the end.

"Run!" the clone captain didn't even give his men the chance to look relieved before shouting at them. The two of them jumping to their feet and doing an awkward crouch run. As soon as Echo's and Fives made it into their safe area, the rocks behind them collapsed, sending more dust into their air. Coughing, Rex waved around the air with his hand.

"is everyone ok?"

"I'm a little banged up on my shoulder, Fives is fine, what about you and the general?"

"I'm fine, General Skywalker," Rex motioned over to the Jedi's direction with his head," is over there, he's fine, but he's keeping everything from falling on top of us." The two clones looked over at the General, a look of surprise and worry appearing on their faces. The three clones exchanged looks, not letting a word leave their lips out of fear of breaking their Jedi's concentration.

They weren't sure how long they were down there. Between using silent gestures to work together on getting the communicator working and the nervous glances to their superior, it felt like hours had passed. But they knew that they were down there long enough for the General to be affected.

"Hey," Fives nudged Rex's shoulder with his own, jerking his head towards Anakin. Rex looked over his brothers' shoulder, his eyes zoning in the bright liquid that was dribbling down the Jedi's chin. Tearing a part of his blacks off, he leaned over and pressed it against Anakin's nose, grimacing when the Jedi twitched and caused a very concerning rumble above them.

"Sorry sir, I'm just wiping off the blood." If Anakin heard him, he didn't show it. As the clone pressed the cloth against the blood, he pretended that he didn't notice the way sweat dripped down the Jedi's face, or the way his shoulders shook. He didn't need to point it out and distract his general. He stayed there until the blood stopped, going back to helping the clones figure out the communicator. They all stopped as they heard rumbling above them, this time, lasting for almost half a minute. It didn't take a verbal cue for them to look at the general, cringing at what they saw. Rex tore off a larger piece of his sleeve, leaning over to try and stem the bleeding that was coming from both nostrils this time. Anakin was breathing heavily, opening his mouth to cough out the blood that had drained into the back of his throat. Everyone cringed again when they heard more rumbling overhead. Quickly breaking down into whispers as they collectively tried to fix the communicator. Rex was distracted, trying to help the others, when he felt the face that was under his hand disappear.

"General!?" he barely had time to catch Anakin before he collapsed, his eyes rolling into the back of his head as he flopped backwards. Realizing that death was next, he curled around Anakin's body, trying to protect him to the best of his ability. When the rocks didn't utterly destroy his body like he expected, he looked around curiously, his brothers doing the same.

"We're…still alive?"

"Why are you questioning it? Don't ask." They fell silent as they realized that Fives was right, Echo let Fives continue working on the communicator, leaning over to Rex to see how Anakin was doing.

"How is he?" Rex laid his general onto the ground, tilting him to his side to prevent him from choking on his own blood. Rex wiped off the blood to the best of his abilities before checking his pulse. It was fast, but it was starting to slow down.

"I'm not sure, but he seems to be getting better, still, we should take him to fix first chance we get." Echo nodded his head in agreement, only to cringe as the rumbling started again. Dust falling to the floor as sunlight and voices started to break through. They all cringed as the sunlight hit their eyes, the change making them look away. They blinked rapidly, trying to get their eyes to adjust.

"Master?!" their commanders voice made them look up, spotting her at the top of the canyon, leaning over the ledge to look down at them. The first thing they noticed would be the two Jedi masters leaning over the ledge with her, and the second thing they noticed would be the gigantic piles of rocks around them.

"We're okay commander! But General Skywalker passed out a few minutes ago!" Ahsoka and Obi-wan exchanged glances before jumping down to the ground floor, making the 50-foot drop look like nothing.

"How is he?" Anakin's lineage ran over to his prone body, Windu right behind them.

"We're not sure sir, he was holding up everything right until he passed out." Obi-wan pressed his fingertips to Anakin's temple, closing his eyes as he did so.

"He overtaxed himself and is exhausted, it might take him a while to recover. But that is to be expected, it took us a little over two hours to get here, he didn't stop until we took over for him." Rex let the Jedi fuss over his General as he realized something. He looked around again, eyeing the piles of rubble around them.

He knew that his General was an absolute monster when it came to his power in the force. But he didn't realize that he was able to hold up the rubble over them for two hours while it took two Jedi masters and a padawan to merely move the rubble.

"Sir, just out of curiosity," all three Jedi turned to look at him," how difficult would it be to do what General Skywalker did?" they all exchanged glances, Ahsoka was the one who answered first.

"I wouldn't have been able to do it, I would have died."

"I wouldn't have been able to save my men, and I wouldn't be able to hold it for more than ten minutes." Windu nodded in agreement with obi-wans statement. Rex blew air through his lips, puffing up his cheeks as he did so.

"it sounds like me and my men owe him a drink then." That made them crack a smile.

"I think he would appreciate that Captain."

"Just don't get him drunk again." Ahsoka and Rex cringed as soon as the words left Ahsoka's mouth.

"Don't get him what?!" Ahsoka ducked her head.

"oops?"