After a day of fire fights Rex was back in the briefing room. Apparently they were heading to Jedha to help with the insurrection there. The 501st captain couldn't be happier. As the briefing went on Rex became very alert when they showed the insurrection leader. A male in black clone trooper armor was showed.

The armor was clone trooper armor, but the helmet was a phase II prototype helmet. Hell it looked like ARC trooper armor, but with no bulk to it and no kama. The male held a sniper in his arms and giving orders to someone off screen. From what Rex could tell the insurrection leader was human, but had cybernetic enhancements in the legs, in one arm, and possible in the spine. They apparently called the male The Reaper's Echo.

Rex stared at the hologram an uneasy feeling settling in his gut. This was the guy that Fives was tracking? Rex felt Cody nudge him slightly forcing the captain to look at the commander.

"You okay," Cody asked over their private comms.

"I'm fine. Just worried. Something tells me that this Reaper's Echo isn't all that he seems," Rex replied eyeing the hologram again.

"If you're worried about Fives I'm sure he's fine. He can handle a civilian insurrectionists," Cody nodded glancing at Rex.

"I don't think this guy is just a civilian. That's clone armor Codes. Customized clone armor he's killed clones before," Rex spoke pointing at the hologram.

/—/—/

After thanking the blind man and his partner, Fives was on the move again with his arm in a sling and his leg braced. Yay him. The ARC cursed silently as he ducked into an alley way to avoid a group of bounty hunters again. He had planned to wait for them to pass when an explosion went off down the street.

"Karking hells," Fives cursed quietly as he saw the fire and the smoke rise above the clay buildings in a large cloud.

The fire was reflecting in the ARC's eyes as he remembered the last time he had seem a fire like that. The last time he had seen something like that he had seen that type of fire Echo had… Echo had died. Fives snapped out of his daze as he heard screams coming from the street. Screams of terror and pain that bounced around the ARC. He could feel that. He wasn't a Jedi, but he could still feel that.

The ARC slammed back into the street of people trying to reach where the explosion had gone off. Those had been charges not some gas leak. Fives ignored the dull ache in his arm as people slammed into him while they ran the opposite direction of him. The brunette cursed when blaster fire sounded off and civilians were being dropped.

"Sniper! Get to cover! Move now," Fives yelled over the screams as he shoved people into stores.

Urban warfare. He hated urban warfare. It was perfect for a sniper or for someone who had a keen eye for detail. It was a nightmare for civilians and squads.

Fives dipped beneath a blaster shot as he ran for cover trying to get an eye on the sniper. The explosion sight could wait. The sniper couldn't. Three shots went off all of which were aimed at civilians that were around kyber crystal transports. Once Fives spotted where the sniper was he was forced to wait until the clip ran out.

"Four," a shot went off causing more screams of terror as people ran for cover.

"Three," a transporter was disabled forcing the kyber transport to come to a screeching halt.

"Two," a bounty hunter who tried to retaliate was killed leaving a group of civilians exposed.

"One," a civilian male was injured leaving a child to scream out for the man and grab at the dead body.

"Zero," Fives counted as the last bolt hit another bounty hunter allowing the ARC to bolt for the three story building the sniper had been in.

Fives ran as fast as he could up the stairs of the building telling civilians to get into their rooms as he went. By the time he reached the room the sniper had been in they were gone. The window of the room was opened and the curtains were flowing with the wind. The floor had a few blaster burns in it. Whoever this room had belonged to they had died before the explosion had gone off. The brunette cursed quietly, angry that he had lost his target, but he paused when he heard steps coming from behind him. The ARC whipped around as the sniper tried to slam the butt of his rifle into Fives head.

Fives knocked the rifle away with his good arm and tried to kick the sniper in the shins to knock him down. The sniper dropped his rifle to block the kick and then tackled Fives into the window. The blow knocked the air of out Fives' lungs causing Fives to bring his arm up to protect himself. The sniper brought an arm back to punch Fives when he was shot in the arm by the ARC causing the sniper to stumble backwards.

While the sniper had been going for the ARC's good arm he had used his bad arm to pull his blaster on the sniper. It wasn't blood or burned flesh that Fives saw. It was electricity sparks. The thing was a droid or a cyborg of some kind! The sniper seemed to be pissed at the damage to his arm because be charge after Fives again only to get shot in the face. It wasn't a head shot, but it was enough to damage to sniper's helmet and injure him. When the sniper turned his head to look at Fives a part of his face was showing.

"Eyayah," Fives whispered in shock and in fear.

It was Echo. He knew it was because he knew that face. He knew those eyes even though they were a sickly yellow not the golden amber he was used to. He knew that anger. It was Echo, but it wasn't. Echo pulled a blaster a shot Fives in the leg before bolting out of the room.

"Gah! Wait! Echo! Come back! Please," Fives yelled out as he hit the floor reaching out for the door that the sniper had run through.

The brunette clone didn't even realize that he was crying. Fives grabbed his bleeding leg and pulled himself to move over to the door way watching as civilians cowered in their rooms.

Echo had done this. Echo had killed civilians. Echo had blown up a civilian street. What have they done to you, Fives looked over to one of the open windows where he was sure his former brother-by-choice had jumped through.

/—/—/

The sniper turned his head in the direction of the building that he had exited. That clone had called him Echo. Memories of a past life flashed across the sniper's eyes. The Citadel. An explosion. Screaming pain of torture.

Right. Echo. His past. The sniper stared at the building for a moments more before he turned down the alley way coming for a pick up. Dooku was calling him apparently. Good. He had a nice report he could show for his progress since he was placed in charge of this insurrection. Echo was dead. Reaper was all that was left. And Reaper was in charge here. That clone would not change that.

/—/—/

So whoever guessed that the surprise was Echo you weren't wrong, but you weren't right either. I wanted to take my own spin on how Echo came back. For those of you who were hoping that the Bad Batch would show up don't worry I won't forget about them just not right now.

I've also been thinking about using Ahsoka in this story recently. I'm not a big Ahsoka fan, but she's kind of necessary since the Wrong Jedi hasn't happened yet. If anyone has suggestions or wants to see me use certain characters then comment.

Maybe commando squads? Idk man. Comment what you think!

Love you guys! Thanks for the support!

Glogirl out!