Fives growled as he dipped underneath Rex's leg and swept out his leg to try and trip the captain only to be tackled by Rex. The ARC managed to flip them over and escape from Rex's grip.

"C'mon Rex! Take him down," Wolffe called out from the sidelines where he and Cody were watching them.

Fives snapped his head to Wolffe briefly as he took his stance again. The ARC cursed under his breathe quietly as Rex smirked over at Wolffe. The two had been sparring for nearly thirty minutes and neither had been able to pin the other. The ARC huffed as he circled to the left lightly as Rex did the same.

"C'mon Fives you can do better," Cody called out taunting the ARC lightly.

Fives turned his head to make a smart remark only to be tackled to the ground the second he did so. Rex managed to grab his arms, pin them to the side, and put a knee in his chest to keep him down. Fives struggled against the captain for a moment before letting his head fall back to the ground and letting out a huff of annoyance.

"You got distracted, vod'ika," Rex smirked lightly as Fives looked up at him.

"Yeah yeah. Let me up," Fives huffed lightly glaring childishly at Rex.

"Do you give up," Rex cocked an eyebrow glancing up at Cody and Wolffe.

"Never," Fives grinned as he took the advantage of Rex glancing up and kneed Rex in the back knocking him forward.

Rex fell forward with a yelp. Having to brace himself with his hands Rex let go of Fives allowing the ARC a chance to pin Rex to the ground. The ARC's small grin broke out into a huge smile when he heard Rex cursing at him quietly as he was smushed into the ground.

"You got distracted, ori'vod," Fives mocked lightly a warm laugh falling from his lips when Rex flipped him off.

/

"He smiled today. A real smile. Not the ones he's been giving us the past few months," Cody said fondly watching as Fives talked with Jesse across the way.

"He's recovering. Slowly. Did your men find the chip, Wolffe," Rex nodded as he took a sip of his water before turning to the Wolf Pack commander.

"Yeah. We found it. I told my General about it. He had us go through the procedure of removing the chips for the whole battalion. I didn't tell him how we found it or how we knew to look for it, but he was just as scared as us," Wolffe nodded his hand running up to the back of his head and rubbing at the place where the chip used to be.

"We need to be careful about who we trust this information with. We still don't know who exactly is plotting against the Republic, and if we tell the wrong person everything can go side ways really fast," Rex spoke quietly his hand ghosting over the same spot.

"What do you mean? He still hadn't told you everything," Wolffe asked standing up straighter looking the other two officers.

"We didn't want to push it. Plus he's been doing well with his recovery. He'll tell us more when he's ready," Cody said trying to be the voice of reason.

"Yeah, I guess that's understandable," Wolffe nodded dropping the subject.

/

Fives stretched his back out lightly as he cleaned his blaster blocking out the light debate that the three officers were having. He still bunked in Cody and Rex's room and with Wolffe on board that meant that there was four in the room. Fives shook his head lightly when the argument got heated trying to keep himself from snickering.

"Piss off Cody you couldn't win that fight even if you tried."

"Psh the 212th grossly outnumbers the 501st, Rex'ika."

"You two are immature. The 104th outnumbers both of your battalions."

"Shut up Wolffe no one asked you."

Fives placed a hand over his eyes as his shoulders started shaking lightly. The officers were making it very difficult to not laugh.

"The 501st outperforms both of your battalions plus we have an ARC and you don't."

Fives started shaking his head more widely and a few hiccups of laughter escaped him.

"Is he laughing? I will kick his shebs if he's laughing."

"Yes, Fives is laughing at the fact that you think your battalions can beat the 501st."

That sentence did it for him. The ARC fell backwards on to the bunk and out right laughed. Fives sat up still snickering lightly before speaking.

"The, uh, the 104th actually could beat the 501st due to their knowledge of the different terrains," Fives spoke a smile on his lips as Rex's jaw dropped in comical betrayal and Wolffe's smirk went smug.

"Told you," Wolffe shot at Rex.

"However, they would lose if you took some of my suggestions," Fives shrugged slightly getting back to work.

"Oh hell no. You cause me enough stress as it is. I don't need you taking very unnecessary risks," Rex shook his head pointing at the ARC.

"I'm just saying," Fives rose his hands in surrender.

"Risks? What risks," Cody asked going into full protective and possessive mode.

"Nothing," both Rex and Fives replied in unison.

"ARCs are crazy what do you expect, Cody? Plus he's 501st. He's extra crazy," Wolffe snorted lightly.

Fives gave a nervous laugh and shrugged lightly shifting uncomfortably underneath Cody's light glare. We'll talk about that later.

/

Rex was rubbing circles into the small of Fives' back as he hiccuped quietly. The quiet sobbing is what had woken Rex and Cody up. Wolffe had left earlier before lights out so it was just the three.

"What set him off," Cody asked as he sat on the bed a cup of water in his hands.

"I don't know. He kept repeating 'set to stun' and 'brothers'," Rex sighed he continued to rub Fives' back.

"Hells, Rex you don't think that—"

"I don't know Cody, but I'm willing to bet that whoever killed Fives was one of our own. I think he was shot by another clone."