It didn't take long for the room to erupt in shock and rage.
"What!?" Cad Bane roared, standing to his seat, followed by just about everyone else at the table.
"How could they do this?" Padme asked in bewilderment.
"And I was just getting so cool!" Ahsoka reminded the air around her.
"I was working so hard on being hated!" Barris screeched.
"No way has our show gone all this way for nothing!" Tup included.
"Well it's about time…" Tarkin, the only one to remain in his seat, calmly stated while looking to his hand. Both the Chancellor and Rex turned to him,
"How could you say that? I was starting to show my true side!" Palpatine shot back.
"This show was everything to me!" Rex shouted, stabbing the armor on his chest.
Jar-Jar placed his hands on his head, "Meca wanted to be in six season!"
"It was just left in a cliffhanger? JUST LIKE THAT?" Ventress exclaimed to Fives, who shook his head in annoyance,
"Things were just getting good too!" He reminded her.
"And I had so many new outfits to wear!" Padme wined, and it was Anakin Skywalker to hear this and get ever so frustrated,
"Shut up Padme nobody likes you! This is all your fault!" He cried, pointing at her accusingly. She was taken aback.
"Meca like her!" Jar-Jar defended, "Meca think she-"
"-Shut up Jar-Jar nobody likes you either!" Hondo barked to his right. Obi-Wan just stood here next to Yoda silently, oblivious to everything they were saying. He stroked his beard, his heart pounding and his eyes darting around almost searching for an answer.
Master Yoda had calmly stood there while they vented, but found that things have gone much too far. He looked to Grievous on his left, who had been breathing deeply to control his anger. He looked up to meet the Jedi's gaze as he nodded. Grievous acknowledged as he snapped to the others.
"QUUUUUUUUIIIIIEEEEEETTTTTTT!" He roared, smashing his hand down on the glass in front of him, which shattered into pieces and the contents seeping around his robotic fists. Everyone stopped what they were doing. The mood of the atmosphere had shifted ever so dramatically as he spoke,
"Calm, we must be. Insult our friends, we should not!" The Jedi recollected himself, "Sit…. We all will….."
And at the wave of his cane everyone angrily obeyed, taking their seats, including Obi-Wan. The silence that followed stretched on and on. Hondo couldn't even bring himself to drink the cider he had bought in front of him. Cad bane removed his hat from his head and slowly placed it on the table. Ahsoka bowed her head in shame and disappointment as the clones remained quiet.
"So…. That's it?" Tup asked quietly, "It's just… over?"
"But the season six trailers have been released already," Jesse said, waving a hand to Fives and Tup, "They already filmed their scene with Tup killing the Jedi…"
"And it got a bunch of views!" Hondo replied.
"Season six was going to be our best; did we not get enough ratings?" Rex asked aloud. Another wave of murmurs swept around.
"I don't think views had anything to do with it." The Chancellor folded his hands on the table.
"So…. no second chances? No say in anything?" Barris whimpered, placing her hand on her forehead as the world around her spun.
"No one will ever know what happens to me." Ahsoka said to herself, "I just leave after five seasons and no one will ever know where I've gone…."
Obi-Wan looked to the Padawan, "I understand your frustration Ahsoka. So many things will be unanswered… it must be a burden to us all…" He looked at each and every one "… we had a long run…." More silence.
"I remember our first movie together," Count Dooku proclaimed, "Christophsis, Tatooine, Jabba the Hutts son kidnapped…"
Rex laughed softly, "I remember what you called the General Ahsoka," He looked to the padawan. Ahsoka though for a moment,
"Skyguy… I remember that…."
"I remember the droids… an annoying stupid pain!" Cody recalled, and the clones found themselves laughing.
Fives looked around, "I really loved destroying those things in the show," He told them.
"We had the assassination attempts," Padme added.
"-We've had battles and explosions," Ventress continued.
"-The betrayals," The clones said together.
Grievous leaned forward, "We had evil layers!"
"And action!"
"And adventure!"
"And comedy!"
"And love," Padme finished. Everyone let it sink in. Jar-Jar looked around nervously before putting on a big smile,
"Meca love you all!" And before they knew it they're anger slowly diminished, everyone apologizing to those they insulted, yet there was still that awkwardness lingering in the air. They had put on a face to remember the good times, but if what Disney had proclaimed was true, then to just keep pretending like it's ok…. Really wasn't ok at all.
Their family was breaking apart.
Obi-Wan rested his elbows on the table so his chin may lie on his fists. "I was very curious on what would happen to you Rex," he began in hope of shifting gears. Across the table Rex scoffed,
"Tell me about it! At first when Disney was giving me the cold shoulder, I thought they were planning to kill me off… guess I was wrong…." His voice died on his lips as he glanced off to gaze at hi bucket in his lap.
"None of us would have seen this coming," Tup continued, "I mean, we could never have prepared for this…. Maybe we can go on with… other goals and hobbies?"
"I'm not sure Tup, us clones never had much time to do other things…." Cody began to think, millions of clones were out of a job now. Both he and Rex dreaded to tell them all.
Tarkin sighed in utter annoyance and boredom. "Well while you get to that I'll just be taking my private Jet as far away from you all as humanly possible….." He stood up to leave.
"Remain in your seat Captain," Anakin growled, "the meeting's not over yet."
"Well apparently it is," The brown haired man turned with his hands behind his back, "It's over, and it's not like the show was meant to last in the first place. Your "career" and "family" is nothing anymore. Disney didn't think you guys would amount to anything and so that's why it's cancelled. There is nothing to discuss." He turned to face the door once more. His words cut through everyone like a knife; did they really not amount to anything?
As the door slid open no one noticed Captain Rex stand to his feet. Tarkin saw him out of the corner of his eye and faced him, "what now clone? Without that script you're nothing! No sly comments, no humorous remarks-"
"Now you be quiet Tarkin! Rex is funny and cool without the script!" The yellow painted soldier attempted to back up his brother.
"And Commander Cody, gosh with you not appearing at all this season, I almost forgot you even existed," Tarkin laughed as Cody shrank behind Rex; his face burning red with embarrassment.
"Yousa should calm down," Jar Jar Binks cut in, waving his hands about so wide that his hand knocked over his glass; Yoda closed his eyes to keep his cool.
"And you- well I think everyone in this room has a similar thing to say to the "loved" Jar-Jar Binks." Tarkin could feel himself smiling on the inside, how he could finally tell them how he's felt all these years. Everyone else just slowly began to hate him more than they already did. "Jar-Jar, it doesn't hurt me in any way to tell you that you are an abomination, you're annoying, reckless, and the acting of the characters dislike to you isn't really acting at all. I overheard Tup wishing you would just drop dead." Tarkin looked to his hand as he slowly degraded Binks. Tup felt his face turn red as he glanced to his left and right, but found that no one was looking at him, they were all looking to Jar-Jar, who for once in his life wasn't moving.
